In the movies, when you gather together a ragtag group of eager but untrained dreamers to win a little league game, or put on a show to save the orphanage, odds are good that in the end, they'll heroically surpass the expectations of even their most vocal detractors.
Although there were a number of founding members, the Portsmouth Sinfonia is often credited as the brainchild of Gavin Bryars, a composer and lecturer at England's Portsmouth School of Art. In May of 1970, Bryars put on a three-day talent contest at the school called "Opportunity Rocks," a play on the name of a popular British radio and television talent show. Like the TV show, Bryars' contest used a competition format, pitting all sort of acts, from comedians to ventriloquists, against one another. Bryars' own entry in the contest was the hastily named Portsmouth Sinfonia.
Eventually, the Portsmouth Sinfonia grew to include a rotating cast that numbered in the dozens, all doing their level best to blast out well-known compositions. Thanks to a base level of musical knowledge among some members of the orchestra, their attempts at songs were almost always recognizable, just cringe-inducingly bad, with plenty of off-notes and random blasts of noise coloring each performance. This gave the Sinfonia a comedic appeal, but also ended up producing a raw sort of sound that gave it a distinctly emotional and human feel. Eno himself described their music as a "very blurry version, a soft-focus version" of classical music.
With Eno's star on the rise, the Sinfonia signed its first record deal in 1973, and the next year their first album, Portsmouth Sinfonia Plays the Popular Classics, produced by Eno, was released. Ads for the album declared the Sinfonia as "Indisputably, the worst orchestra in the world," and despite being the exact opposite of what would traditionally be considered "good," the Sinfonia became a minor hit. On May 28, 1974, they played to a crowd of thousands at London's Royal Albert Hall. This performance was later released as a live album, Hallelujah: The Portsmouth Sinfonia at the Royal Albert Hall.
In the January 1975 issue of Rolling Stone, the magazine named Portsmouth Sinfonia Plays the Popular Classics their Comedy Album of the Year. Eventually, though, the goofy momentum they'd enjoyed earlier in the decade started to die down. Their last album, 20 Classic Rock Classics, in which the Sinfonia did their worst to arrangements of songs such as "Nights in White Satin" and "Bridge Over Troubled Waters," was released in 1980, and they played their last live show in October of 1979, at the famous Rainbow Theatre.
Apart from a minor resurgence in notoriety thanks to their version of "Also sprach Zarathustra" being shared in an uncredited YouTube video in 2009, simply titled, "Orchestra Fail," the Portsmouth Sinfonia has largely been forgotten. Their albums have remained out of print, never even making it to CD. But for a brief moment there, the Portsmouth Sinfonia successfully managed to untuck the stuffed shirts of the classical music scene, and create some surprising art in the process.
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SATURDAY MORNING SKILL CLASS 5(S1SC5): 10.30 AM - 12.00 PM
Bridging Existential Pain with Love in Schema Therapy:Expanding Young's Original Model with Existential Concepts
by Poul Perris
"Everybody wants development – nobody wants to change", is a quote by the Danish philosopher and father of religious existentialism S. Kierkegaard, (d. 1855). It captures the experience that many schema therapists have when treating clients with emotional problems. They seek our help, desperately wanting to feel well, yet reluctant to give up their dysfunctional coping strategies. Why is that? It's a question with many answers. The process of deep change involves a transition from something familiar into the unknown. It's existential and frightening, yet there is no escape. The transition has to be made. Love can be the confounded bridge breaking the fall. The German-Jewish philosopher Martin Buber said: "The human soul is always searching for a place, and that place is called belonging". Schema therapists can offer that place. In my clinical work I've learned that integrating existential aspects into the schema therapy facilitates change, when implemented with the genuine love of a true reparenting relationship.
The American Psychiatry Professor Irvin Yalom wrote his seminal book on Existential Psychotherapy in 1980. His concept of existential isolation is still highly relevant and has a lot to offer existentially interested schema therapists. Vital parts can be adapted and integrated into Schema Therapy in order to deepen and expand Young's original model.
Therapists treating long-standing emotional problems
This skills class has a three folded aim: (1) Introducing Yaloms concept of existential isolation; (2) Illustrate how Yaloms concept interface with the Schema Therapy model; (3) Outline an adapted and integrated model that can serve as a practical guide for how to deal with the existential implications involved in schema-mode and life area change.
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Intermediate (Participants have had basic ST training)
About the Presenter
Poul Perris:
Poul Perris, MD, is the Director of the Swedish Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Schema Therapy. He is trained in both individual and couples therapy. Poul is a certified in both Individual and Couples Therapy as a Schema Therapist, Supervisor, and Trainer. He has served on the Schema Couples Therapy Committee since 2014.
Poul is the Founding President of the International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST), and served on the ISST Executive Board from 2008 to 2010. He also served as President of the Swedish Association for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (SACBT), from 2010 to 2016. Poul has trained therapists nationally and internationally for over 10 years, and is the co-author of "Schematerapi en clinkers handbook & terapiberattelse," currently available in Swedish.

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In the pre-Disney era, I made a post about Gran Turismo 5, questioning how much of the game was being held back as DLC (for financial reasons). Several of you pointed out (quite correctly) that the "Prologue" (beta) version already sold a gajillion copies at $40,which means the final product should already be profitable.
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The momentous experience of The Eddie
WAIMEA BAY, Hawaii (KHON2) — Forty surfers, each taking their shot at immortality, conquering the massive surf at Waimea bay all in honor of Eddie Aikau.
"Conditions are epic. Wind conditions are exceptionally beautiful. Direction is wonderful, and size is all there. Eddie would be smiling and be very happy and proud," said Clyde Aikau.
In between the incredible elevator drops, wipeouts, hero-style rescues and female surfers making their long-awaited debut in the contest, were the crowds. An estimated 40,000 braved the heat and traffic to witness The Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational in person.
"Been out here all night, bro. We're excited for Eddie and ready to rumble," said Kailua resident, Kai Morgan.
"Hit the road, like, around 4:30 trying to beat the traffic, and it's just packed up all the way down," said Kailua resident, James Anschutz.
Parking was almost non existent; many were charging a premium for a spot.
"It's been the best experience. Woke up so early almost pulled an all nighter and here we are," said Honolulu resident, Alexis Ortiz.
Despite traffic and parking headaches, those who made it through the mayhem got quite a show.
"It is honestly just so surreal to see these types of waves out here. I have no words to describe it," added Ortiz.
Sets rolled in like moving, raging white foaming mountains, flipping, tossing, pounding surfers like ragdolls. Luckily no one was seriou
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Black River town, once an influential producer of black textile dye, is now a stop off point for tourists looking to take a boat safari on the Black River itself. At 44 miles (71km), this is Jamaica's longest river, and gets its name from the peat moss on the river floor which makes the crystal clear waters appear black.
90-minute boat tours take in the 125-square-mile (324 sq km) area of wetland known as the Great Morass, which is home to crocodiles and diverse birdlife. The excursion allows visitors to explore the wetlands and mangrove swamps along the river banks.
The crocodiles are the main attraction for most visitors. Many tours include a visit to the crocodile rehabilitation centre. However, the clear waters mean visitors are likely to get a good view of the crocs in their natural habitat.


Orthopedic global expert promotes PCHRD-supported technology "Axis Knee System" - Orthopaedic International, Inc.
CABUYAO, Laguna- Dr. Ramon Gustilo, a world renowned orthopedic surgeon and inventor, talked about his company, experiences, and the Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (PCHRD)-supported technology Axis Knee System in a meet-and-greet event with the press yesterday at the Orthopaedic International, Inc. (OII) Office.
The Axis Knee System is an affordable and innovative total knee replacement developed and manufactured in the ASEAN region. This total knee replacement was designed by an international team of surgeons and engineers headed by Dr. Gustilo through OII and the support from PCHRD.
The Axis Knee System is designed for Filipino and Asian knees and is registered with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Through its innovative instrumentation and surgical technique, more surgeons can also perform knee surgery without the need to undergo one year fellowship programs.
"It [Axis Knee System] is the best that we have, including the United States (US), in knee replacements," Dr. Gustilo cited.
Mr. Jude Sasing, OII President, also added that there are already more than 70 patients who benefitted from the technology. OII is also currently conducting training to surgeons so that they could provide knee replacement in the provinces, thus patients will no longer go to Manila for operations.
In his message, Dr. Jaime Montoya, PCHRD Executive Director, mentioned that the Council's partnership with OII is the first and only public-private partnership (PPP) of the government in the field of biomedical research.
"The importance of private sector investment in research cannot be overemphasized. With this mode of partnership, technology uptake by industry is faster and I hope that this will jumpstart more partnerships of this kind," Dr. Montoya said.
The meet-and-greet event is part of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST)'s Science Media Tour. For more information on the Axis Knee System, visit PCHRD and OII websites at www.pchrd.dost.gov.ph and www.oii.com respectively.


Mamaia near Constanţa (prounounced Constantza) is a coastal Black Sea town in southern Dobrogea, Romania, the second most important city in the country and, during summer, a beautiful touristic city. It is the capital of Constanta county and Romania's largest seaport, a great city to begin to explore the wonders of the sea.
You can get to Mamaia – Constanta by land, air, and water.
The most popular route is the Bucharest-Constanta A2 highway, which is quite new and in excellent condition. There is a tax of 11 lei (2.5 EUR) to cross the bridge system over the Danube.
Plenty of buses connect Constanta with the rest of the country. Throughout the day Bucharest bound buses leave Constanta every 45 minutes from the Railway Station (called Autogara) starting at 06.00. The trip takes about 3 hours thanks to the newly constructed A2 highway, also called "The Sun's Highway." Though buses are slightly slower than the train they are clean and comfortable and the newest ones have free WiFi which the train does not.
There are also several daily buses leaving from Constanta to Istanbul from the Railway Station (when you exit the train station turn left and walk 200m). The duration is less than 12 hours including time spent crossing borders.
Likewise, there are buses to Thessaloniki in Greece, Chisinau in Moldova and some buses to Varna in Bulgaria. One can also take a bus to Ostrov-Vama, which is a village near the border with Bulgaria, cross the border and you are in Silistra, a town in Bulgaria. From there there are several connections to other Bulgarian cities such as Ruse, Dobrich, Sofia etc.
Frequent maxitaxis leave to resorts south of Constanta from the Railway Station (when you walk out of the train station turn right and continue about 200m).
Constanţa's train station has connections with the rest of the country. There are five daily trains to/from Bucharest during off-season and more trains in summer and the trip takes between 2.5-3 hours depending on the type of train. Most of the train connections from Constanţa are to Bucharest, which acts as the main railway hub for the region.
Starting from Constanţa train station seven daily trains serve destinations south of Constanţa, going as far as Mangalia. The earliest train heading to Mangalia departs at 06:30 and the last one at 19:03. The trip takes about 1hr20min.
The airport is connected to the city by a special bus which operates 2 times per day. The bus stops near the Central Station (Gara CFR).
Constanta is one of the largest commercial ports in the Black Sea and the third largest in Europe. There were ships connecting Constanta with Varna and Odessa managed by Navlomar. This is probably not true anymore. There are said to be also routes to Istanbul, Turkey and Greece, but don't count on them.
Eurovelo route 6 from Germany through Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia and Romania arrives at Black Sea in Constanta.


Airport Noise Advisory Committee subcommittee members review FAA slides at the March 15 meeting.
The March 15 meeting of the San Diego Airport Noise Advisory Committee (ANAC) subcommittee was the first with a La Jolla representative seated at the table. As his first order of business, Chris McCann of La Jolla Shores Heights, requested that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) be asked if it agreed to influence air traffic patterns during the Farmers Insurance Open, which took place at Torrey Pines Golf Course, Jan. 28-31.
The ANAC subcommittee reports to ANAC. Its function is to host expert discussions about airport noise issues that, when relevant, transcend to the parent board. La Jolla residents obtained their first subcommittee representative after a member resigned and the ANAC board made a recommendation that a 92037 resident be added to address the community's growing concerns.
Since the announced FAA flight-path changes kicked in March 2, Bird Rock residents reported a "slight" and "circumstantial" decrease in airplane noise, but agreed that the problem is still there. "The perspective is that I'm going to be awakened by airplanes at 6:30 a.m. every single morning until I die," resident Gillian Ackland told the Light.
At the March meeting, FAA reps showed a series of case studies from the planes flying over different San Diego areas in December 2009, 2014 and 2016, and board members noticed a "shift to the right" over time in northbound departures, which could affect the perception of noise from Bird Rock.
Airport Planning & Noise Mitigation program manager Sjohnna Knack showed a case study of the northbound departures since the FAA changes were implemented where a slight shift of the flight paths further offshore could be appreciated.
ANAC subcommittee members next addressed community concerns that mappings of San Diego International Airport landings and arrivals don't coincide with people's experiences on the ground.
"I can't understand why there's a discrepancy between what you're showing us and what we're experiencing," said ANAC member Sandra Valone, referring to the slides FAA representative Rob Cook brought to the meeting.
McCann reported he had verified this scenario himself when he tried to find a Southwest plane a Bird Rock neighbor claimed had flown over her house. "I looked at Webtrack 20 minutes past and minus that time, and there was no data anywhere around that time. The odd thing was, if you watched, the noise sensors were getting illuminated as if a ghost airplane was flying out of the airport," he added.
Knack said the airport is trying to improve its tracking system, and explained that those "ghost airplanes," at times, are military operations whose information gets filtered out of the feed. "We are working to switch to System Wide Information Management . We're working to make improvements, but we are also hoping to make improvements on how we receive noise complaints," she said.
She explained the new noise complaint system will avoid the e-mail complaints and focus on a web-based system where citizens will have to include information such as whether the source of the noise is a landing or departure, a jet or propeller. "It's not a perfect science, we're cleaning our data, and the time we spend with the complaints doesn't leave us the time to do the analysis we want to do," she concluded.
Airplane noise complaints can be submitted via webtrak5.bksv.com/san, san.org/Airport-Noise/Flight-Tracking (click on 'Submit Noise Concern'), sending an e-mail to airnoise@san.org or calling (619) 400-2799 (English), (619) 400-2797 (Spanish).
In your e-mail or call, include the following information to maximize the complaint potential: Name and last name, address, disturbance time, aircraft type (jet, propeller or other), operation type (arrival or departure), flight number (if known), pictures (if taken).


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Mejreme Hajdaraj crowned Miss Grand Kosova 2021
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Mejreme Hajdaraj was crowned as Miss Grand Kosovo 2021 on 12th June 2021 and will be representing Kosovo at Miss Grand International 2021, later this year. She succeeds Miss Gradn Kosovo 2020 Frontina Gashi who represented Kosovo at Miss Grand International 2020 but unfortunately remained unplaced at the end of the event.
Mejreme is 21 years old, stands 170 cm tall and is currently working as Model in Pristina, Kosovo. She is also a well-known influencer in her country. Ever since her crowning the diva has been interacting with the media and attending interviews including, virtual as well as live. She assured her country folks to do her best to take the first ever placement for her country as she prepares for her international stint.
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She took to her social media to share her gratitude as she wrote, "After a long journey I was crowned and once, this time in addition to the coronation I feel honored to represent Kosovo in Miss Grand International. This crown goes to my family, to my friends, to my co-workers, to all those who have followed me over the years and rejoiced in my success. I cordially congratulate the competitors of the event."
She also acknowledged and appreciated the Miss Grand Kosovo organization for the opportunity given to her to represent Kosovo at the Grand stage. "For you producer: To appreciate you for the opportunity given, may it be a good step for us, to thank you and the jury for entrusting me with such an important title. Always honorable, my journey be proud of you," she added.
She is strong, confident and determined towards bringing home the first Miss Grand International title, since the country is yet to pioneer its win at the Grand stage. Mejreme Hajdaraj is definitely a strong and potential delegate of Kosovo for the 9th edition of one of the biggest beauty pageants in the world, Miss Grand International 2021.


Still unsure of which way to vote on June 8? Come along to the Gazette's hustings at St Mary's Church in Upper Street tomorrow to see all five candidates for Islington South grilled by editor Ramzy Alwakeel.
Readers have been sending their questions to the newsroom for weeks and all the major topics will be covered on the night.
The candidates are: Emily Thornberry (Labour), Jason Charalambous (Conservative), Alain Desmier (Lib Dem), Benali Hamdache (Green) and Pete Muswell (Ukip).
The event takes place from 7.30pm to 9pm at the 250 seater venue. Entry will be first come, first served but the event will also be streamed on our Facebook page.


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Sir Mark Elder
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Sir Mark Elder has been Music Director of the Hallé since September 2000. He was Music Director of English National Opera between 1979 and 1993, Principal Guest Conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra from 1992–1995, and Music Director of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in the USA from 1989–1994. He has also held positions as Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the London Mozart Players. He has worked with many of the world's leading symphony orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Paris, the Chicago Symphony, the Boston Symphony, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic and the London Symphony. In the UK he enjoys close associations with both the London Philharmonic and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Sir Mark Elder has appeared annually at the Proms in London for many years, including, in 1987 and 2006, the internationally televised Last Night of the Proms and from 2003 with the Hallé Orchestra. He works regularly in the most prominent international opera houses, including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera New York, the Opéra National de Paris, the Lyric Opera Chicago, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, and the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, and other guest engagements have taken him to the Bayreuth Festival (where he was the first English conductor to conduct a new production), Amsterdam, Zürich, Geneva, Berlin, and Sydney. Sir Mark Elder has made many recordings with orchestras including the Hallé, London Philharmonic, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, and the Rochester Philharmonic, as well as with English National Opera, in repertoire ranging from Verdi, Strauss and Wagner to contemporary music. Recordings for Opera Rara include Donizetti's Dom Sebastien (Opera Rara ORC33), Imelda de' Lambertazzi (ORC36), Linda di Chamounix (ORC43), Maria di Rohan (ORC44), Belisario (ORC49), Rita (ORC52), Le Duc d'Albe (ORC54) and Offenbach's Fantasio (ORC51).
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The United Nations has come under a lot of attack from all sides in recent years. From groups wanting it to be a world government to groups feeling that it accomplishes nothing. Does the United Nations fill a special need, what is it there for and is it worth America investing in?
The United nations was not formed to be a world government. It is there to serve as a method to get nations to work together and to ultimately as its goal is to bring world peace. Although the ultimate goal is not achievable in the current world, it is possible to make it a more peaceful world. The premise behind the United Nations is that countries can talk there, and that they can work together on common problems. It should never sponsor armies, but peacekeeping forces from its members.
Does the United Nations do its job? In my opinion, yes. Although spokespersons from various nations may speak on various sides of issues, allows them to. This has probably helped diffuse some situations. Remember the UN was created after World War II to prevent future World wars. In 55 + years it is successful. It has moved from just being membership basically of first world nations to basically all nations belonging. The powers of the world after World War II hold veto power in the Security Council. Those nations are the US, Russia, China, Britain and France. Ten other nations rotate on the Security Council but have no veto power. During the Cold War the USSR continuously used their veto to prevent UN from bothering communists. Generally the western countries held the majority as the other countries were Western Europe or recent colonies of West. So no veto needed. Until 1972, China was the government on Taiwan, so USSR was only communist nation. Now we all use vetoes occasionally. With the UN we basically passed through the Cold War with just regional scraps.
The UN is used many times to form Peacekeeping forces form many nations. They can work in areas where one nation would be considered trying to dominate. Afghanistan is a good example. Once bin Ladan is caught and Taliban overthrown, then the US needs to back out and send UN in. That way people will not see us as trying to run country.
The dues structure is not the best in my opinion. Many of the third world nations use the UN as a platform to attack injustices they perceive of the US, but we are expected to pay 25% of the dues. We also host the UN and provide much of manpower. As the world has changed since the 1940's I think our amount for dues should reduce. Yes, we are a major consuming country, but other nations have risen also. A method should be determined that re-determines the ratios each year.
The name has the sound of a central government, but it is only able to do things that nations allow it to. I personally have always believed the UN is good and has the capabilities to do wonderful things. I do not want it to be a world government, but a place nations can talk, and work together for mankind's improvement. As we have learned since September 11, we can not hide in the US, but are p[art of the world. I would suggest that the UN try to avoid taking positions that offend many people, such as developing radical environmental treaties, that are not workable, and meeting that promote one group over another as ways of correcting past wrongs, as they have done with racism conferences. It may be good to have these conferences, but ways must be better found to find balance in their outcome. We must learn ways to grow and to let certain things die. Through the work of WHO and other groups working with it, we have eradicated certain diseases. UNICEF has achieved ways of helping children, but then they sometimes forget their purpose.


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Asthma Cases in Children Fall in Wake of Smoke-Free Laws
A new study has shown that hospital admissions for childhood asthma have fallen significantly following the introduction of a smoke-free law in the U.K. The study, published today in the journal Pediatrics, showed a 12.3% fall in admissions for childhood asthma in the first year after the law was put in place.
A law banning smoking in enclosed public spaces and workplaces was implemented in the U.K in 2007. Before the law, hospital admissions were rising by 2.2% a year, and peaked at 26,969 in 2006/2007. After the law, the trend immediately reversed among all children, regardless of gender, socioeconomic status, or whether they lived in rural or urban areas.
"There is already evidence that eliminating smoking from public places has resulted in substantial population health benefits in England, and this study shows that those benefits extend to reducing hospital admissions for childhood asthma," said Dr. Christopher Millett, lead author of the study and a senior lecturer in the Imperial College London's School of Public Health. "Previous studies have also suggested that the smoke-free law changed people's attitudes about exposing others to second-hand smoke and led more people to abstain from smoking voluntarily at home and in cars. We think that exposing children to less second-hand smoke in these settings probably played in important role in reducing asthma attacks.
Researchers analyzed NHS (National Health Service) data from the first year following the passage of the anti-smoking law, and observed that asthma admissions continued to fall in subsequent years. According to the study, this corresponds to 6,802 fewer admissions in the first three years of the legislation.
"The findings are good news for England, and they should encourage countries where public smoking is permitted to consider introducing similar legislation," said Millett.
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\section{Introduction}
The asymptotic behavior of the ratio $R=F_2/F_1$ of Pauli and Dirac electromagnetic nucleon form factors (FFs) has recently arised much interest from experimental and theoretical point of view. The last experimental data in space-like (SL) region \cite{Jo00}, about the momentum transfer squared ($q^2=-Q^2) dependence$\footnote{In the following text we will use the notation $t=q^2$ in TL region} of the ratio of the Sachs electric and magnetic FFs, $\mu G_{Ep}(Q^2)/ G_{Mp}(Q^2)$ ($\mu$ is the proton magnetic moment), which has been measured with the polarization transfer method \cite{Re68},  changed the belief that the QCD asymptotic behavior of $F_2/F_1\simeq 1/Q^2$ \cite{Ma73} had already been reached  for $Q^2\ge 2$ GeV$^2$ \cite{Le80}.

The recent data suggested a different behavior of this ratio: $F_2/F_1\simeq 1/\sqrt{Q^2}$. Such dependence has been justified in framework of different theoretical approaches \cite{Ra03,Ra02,Mi02,Fr96,Ho96,Ca00,Wa01,Bo02}. Another approach, confirming the QCD $1/Q^2$ behavior, discovered the importance of logarithmic corrections,
$R\simeq ln^2(Q^2/\Lambda^2) /Q^2 $ \cite{Be02}, where $\Lambda$ is the soft scale related to the size of the nucleon. Note that the unexpected behavior of the ratio $\mu G_{Ep}(Q^2)/ G_{Mp}(Q^2)$ was predicted before the experiment took place, by a particular VDM model \cite{Ia73} and also in framework of a soliton model \cite{Ho96}.

The assumption of the analyticity of FFs \cite{Dr61} allows to connect the nucleon FFs in SL and time-like (TL) regions and to study the behavior of the ratio $F_2/F_1$ in TL region. The analyticity of FFs, which has been discussed  for example in Ref. \cite{Ga66}, allows to extend a parametrization of FFs available in one kinematical region to the other kinematical region.

Dispersion relation approaches \cite{Ho76,Du03,Ha04}, which are based essentially on the analytical properties of nucleon electromagnetic FFs, can be considered a powerful tool for the description of the $Q^2$ behavior of FFs in the entire kinematical region.

The VDM model \cite{Ia73}, after appropriate treatment of the $\rho$ contribution, can be also extrapolated from the SL region to the TL region \cite{Ia03,Ia04,Bi04}.

The quark-gluon string model \cite{Ka00}  allowed firstly to find the $Q^2$ dependence of the electromagnetic FFs in TL region, in a definite analytical form, which can be continued in the SL region.

One of the problems concerning FFs of pions and nucleons is the large difference in the absolute values in SL and TL regions. For example, at $q^2$=18 GeV$^2$,  the largest value at which proton TL FFs have been measured \cite{An03}, the corresponding values in TL and SL regions differ by a factor of two. The analyticity of FFs allows to apply the Phragm\`en-Lindel\"of
theorem \cite{Ti39} which gives a rigorous prescription for the asymptotic behavior of
analytical functions:
\begin{equation}
\lim_{t\to -\infty} F^{(SL)}(t) =\lim_{t\to \infty} F^{(TL)}(t).
\label{eq:eq1}
\end{equation}
This means that, asymptotically, FFs have the following constraints:
\begin{enumerate}
\item The imaginary part of FFs, in TL region, vanishes: $ Im F_i(t)\to 0,$ as $t\to \infty $;
\item The real part of FFs, in TL region, coincides with the
corresponding value in SL region: $ Re  F_i^{(TL)}(t) [t\to \infty ]= F_i^{(SL)}(t) [t\to -\infty ]$, because FFs are real functions in SL region, due to the hermiticity of the corresponding electromagnetic Hamiltonian.
\end{enumerate}
The existing experimental data violate the
Phragm\`en-Lindel\"of theorem, even at $t$ values as large as 18 GeV$^2$ \cite{ETG01}. In order to test the two requirements stated above, the knowledge of the differential cross section for $e^++e^-\leftrightarrow p+\bar{p}$ is not sufficient, and polarization phenomena have to be studied also. In this respect, T-odd polarization observables, which are determined by $Im F_1F_2^*$, are especially interesting. The simplest of these observables is the $P_y$ component of the proton polarization in $e^++e^-\to p+\bar{p}$ that in general does not vanish, even in collisions of unpolarized leptons \cite{Du96}, or the asymmetry of leptons produced in $p+\bar{p}\to e^++e^-$, in the collision of unpolarized antiprotons with a transversally polarized proton target (or in the collision of transversally polarized antiprotons on an unpolarized proton target) \cite{Bi93}.

These observables are especially sensitive to different possible parametrizations of the ratio $R$, suggested by QCD and VDM models. Calculations have been done up to $t\simeq $ 40 GeV$^2$ and show that the $P_y$ component remains large in absolute value \cite{Br04}. For example, QCD inspired parametrizations, which fit reasonably well the data in the SL region, predict $|P_y|\simeq$ 35\% up to $t\simeq $ 40 GeV$^2$. Such behavior has to be considered an indication that the corresponding asymptotics are very far, in agreement with the estimations of the quark-gluon string model \cite{Ka00} and VDM approach \cite{Ia03}.

Note another important property of QCD inspired predictions for nucleon FFs: the corresponding $Im F_i(t)$, $t\ge 4m^2$, $i=1,2$ ($m$ is the nucleon mass), either vanish or have a definite sign in the TL region. The previously quoted parametrizations can not apply in the whole TL region: the asymptotic pQCD behavior follows $F_1(t)\simeq t^{-2}$ and $F_2(t)\simeq t^{-3}$ at large $t$, according to the quark counting rules \cite{Ma73}. The superconvergent conditions:
\begin{equation}
\int_{t_0}^{\infty} Im F_i(t)dt=0,~i=1,2
\label{eq:eq2}
\end{equation}
has to be satisfied, where the lower limit corresponds to $t_0=4m_{\pi}^2$, for isovector FFs, and $t_0=9m_{\pi}^2$ for isoscalar FFs, where $m_{\pi}$ is the pion mass.

This implies that the nonzero QCD-contribution to Eq. (\ref{eq:eq2}) has to be compensated by the corresponding non-perturbative contribution of opposite sign. We can expect that such contribution mainly arises from the special region of $t$: $t_0\le t\le 4m^2$, which is unphysical for the process $e^+ + e^-\leftrightarrow p+\bar{p}$. The contribution from the different vector mesons (with different masses) is expected to be very important here. We can say that the superconvergent condition (\ref{eq:eq2}) can be interpreted as a manifestation of the special duality between pQCD, from one side, and the vector meson contribution, from another side \cite{Gr74}. In principle such duality is similar to the well known Gilman-Bloom duality \cite{Bl71}, concerning the electromagnetic properties of the nucleons in SL region, when the deep inelastic electron nucleon scattering is dual to the excitation of different nucleonic resonances in $e^-+N\to e^-+N^*$. Also one can mention the duality in hadron physics relating the high energy behavior of the amplitudes of hadron-hadron scattering, from one side, to the resonance physics, on the other side.

Returning to the unphysical region, $t_0\le t\le 4m^2$, we recall, for completeness, that another interesting physical effect has to be taken into account here: a specific $\bar{N}N$ bound states, or even gluon states with $J^{PC}=1^{--}$ quantum numbers. And, due to the analyticity of FFs, these effects should appear in the SL region of momentum transfer, and should be correlated with the asymptotic behavior of FFs.

Our main aim here is to discuss the asymptotic behavior of the existing parametrizations for $F_2/F_1$ in TL region, from the point of view of the Phragm\`en-Lindel\"of theorem. In particular we will analyze the behavior of $Im (F_2/F_1)$, its convergence to zero and study more particularly the asymptotic behavior  of the $P_y$-component of the proton polarization in $e^+ +e^-\to \bar{p} +p$, which contains equivalent information. For completeness we will also consider the behavior of the ratio ${\cal R}= |F_2/F_1|_{TL}/|F_2/F_1|_{SL}$
which should converge asymptotically to one, following the Phragm\`en-Lindel\"of theorem.

In order to have a quantitative estimation of the corresponding value of the relevant variable, we will use the following prescription, from Ref. \cite{Ia03}: {\it "A function  $f(z)$ is said to be x\% scaled when its value is x\% of the asymptotic value  $f_{as}(z)$. The value at which this condition is met is the solution of the equation $|f(z)|=x |f_{as}(z)|$ "}. For the cases considered here, this definition translates into the following three equations\footnote{When $f_{as}(z)=0$, we take $|f(z)|=x$.}:
\begin{eqnarray}
{\cal F}&=&|Im (F_2/F_1)|/|Re (F_2/F_1)|=\Delta \label{eq:eqf}\\
|P_y|&=&\Delta~ \label{eq:eqp}\\
{\cal R}&=&|F_2/F_1|_{TL}/|F_2/F_1|_{SL}=1+\Delta
\label{eq:eqr}
\end{eqnarray}
where we will take $\Delta=0.1$  and  $\Delta=0.05$ in order to characterize the deviations from the asymptotic predictions of the Phragm\`en-Lindel\"of theorem.

For this aim, we use the following three different parametrizations, which apply in the SL region:
\begin{equation}
\displaystyle\frac{F_2}{F_1}=\displaystyle\frac{a}{\sqrt{(-t)}},~a=1.25\mbox{~GeV}\mbox{~from~Ref.~\protect\cite{Br04}},
\label{eq:eq5}
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
\displaystyle\frac{F_2}{F_1}=0.17[\mbox{~GeV}^2] \displaystyle\frac{ln^2(-t/\Lambda^2)}{(-t)}\mbox{~with~} \Lambda=0.3\mbox{~GeV} \mbox{~from~Ref.~ \protect\cite{Be02}},
\label{eq:eq6}
\end{equation}
and the VDM inspired  parametrization from Ref. \protect\cite{Ia04}:
\begin{equation}
\displaystyle\frac{F_2}{F_1}=\displaystyle\frac{F_2^{(S)}+F_2^{(V)}}{F_1^{(S)}+F_1^{(V)}}
\label{eq:eq7}
\end{equation}
where
\begin{eqnarray*}
F_1^{(S)}(Q^2)&=&
\displaystyle\frac{g(Q^2)}{2}
\left[(1-\beta_\omega-\beta_\phi)+\beta_\omega\displaystyle\frac{\mu_\omega^2}{\mu_\omega^2+Q^2}+\beta_\phi
\displaystyle\frac{\mu_\phi^2}{\mu_\phi^2+Q^2}\right],\\
F_1^{(V)}(Q^2)&=&\displaystyle\frac{g(Q^2)}{2}
\left[(1-\beta_\rho)+\beta_\rho
\displaystyle\frac{\mu_\rho^2+8\Gamma_\rho\mu_\pi/\pi}
{(\mu_\rho^2+Q^2)+(4\mu_\pi^2+Q^2)\Gamma_\rho\alpha(Q^2)/\mu_\pi}\right],\\
F_2^{(S)}(Q^2)&=&
\displaystyle\frac{g(Q^2)}{2}
\left[(\mu_p+\mu_n-1-\alpha_\phi)
\displaystyle\frac{\mu_\omega^2}
{\mu_\omega^2+Q^2}+\alpha_\phi\displaystyle\frac{\mu_\phi^2}{\mu_\phi^2+Q^2}
\right],\\
F_2^{(V)}(Q^2)&=&\displaystyle\frac{g(Q^2)}{2}
\left[(\mu_p-\mu_n-1)
\displaystyle\frac{\mu_\rho^2+8\Gamma_\rho\mu_\pi/\pi}{(\mu_\rho^2+Q^2)+
(4\mu_\pi^2+Q^2)
\Gamma_\rho\alpha(Q^2)/\mu_\pi}\right],
\end{eqnarray*}
where $g(Q^2)=\displaystyle\frac{1}{(1+\gamma Q^2)^2}$
and $\alpha(Q^2)=\displaystyle\frac{2}{\pi}
\sqrt{\displaystyle\frac{Q^2+4\mu_\pi^2}{Q^2}}
ln\left[\displaystyle\frac{\sqrt{(Q^2+4\mu_\pi^2)}+\sqrt{Q^2}}{2\mu_\pi}\right]$,
 with the standard values of the masses $m=0.939$~GeV, $\mu_{\rho}=0.77$~GeV, $\mu_\omega=0.78$~GeV, $\mu_\phi=1.02$~GeV, $\mu_\pi=0.139$~GeV and the $\rho$ width $\Gamma_\rho=0.112$~GeV. $\mu_p$ and $\mu_n$ are the magnetic moments of proton and neutron, respectively, whereas $\gamma=0.25$ GeV$^{-2}$, $\beta_{\rho}=0.672$, $\beta_{\omega}=1.102$, $\beta_{\phi}=0.112$, and $\alpha_{\phi}=-0.052$ are parameters fitted on the data.

This paper is organized as follows. In Section II we analyze the $t$-behavior of the imaginary part of the $F_2/F_1$ ratio for different approaches, and estimate the corresponding value of $t$ for deviations of the order of  $\Delta$ from the expected asymptotic values. Then we give the expressions for the  polarization observables accessible through the reaction $e^++e^-\to p\overline p$ in terms of the ratio $F_2/F_1$ and analyze in particular the $P_y$ component of the proton polarization, which depends on the imaginary part of this ratio (Section III). In Section IV we study how the ratio ${\cal R}$ approaches to one, that is the expected value for the asymptotic regime.

\section{ Imaginary part of the nucleon electromagnetic form factors}

Let us recall here the definition of the Phragm\`en-Lindel\"of theorem, which will be the basis of the following discussion. Following \cite{Ti39}: {\it
if $f(z)\to a $ as $z\to \infty$ along a straight line, and $f(z)\to b$ as $z\to \infty$ along another straight line, and $f(z)$ is regular and bounded in the angle between, then $a=b$ and $f(z)\to a$ uniformly in the angle"}. For the problem considered here, we identify the variable $z$ with the momentum transfer squared $t$. So one of these straight lines can be chosen along the $x$-axis, in the positive direction (in the complex $z$-plane), i.e., for $t$ values corresponding to the TL region, and the other line with negative $x$ direction, with $t$ in the SL region. Assuming the analyticity of FFs, $F_i(t)$, $i=1,2$, in the upper part of the $z$-plane, we satisfy the necessary conditions for the application of the Phragm\`en-Lindel\"of theorem,  for all nucleon FFs, $F_{1,2}(t)$. More exactly, it holds also for the four independent FFs $F_{1,2}^{(S)}(t)$ and $F_{1,2}^{(V)}(t)$, where the upper indices $(S)$ or $(V)$ correspond to isoscalar or isovector electromagnetic FFs of the nucleon. Note that the analytical properties of $F_i(t)$, $i=1,2$, should be discussed namely for the isoscalar and the isovector FFs, and not for proton and neutron, because the unitarity conditions (which allow to calculate the imaginary part of FFs) have the simplest and most transparent form for the isotopic FFs. More exactly, isoscalar(isovector) FFs are determined by intermediate states with odd(even) number of pions.

So, finally, one can write the following four independent relations:
\begin{equation}
\lim_{t\to +\infty} F_{1,2}^{(S,V)}(t) =\lim_{t\to -\infty} F_{1,2}^{(S,V)}(t)
\label{eq:eq1a}
\end{equation}
as a consequence of the Phragm\`en-Lindel\"of theorem.

This theorem has other applications in particle physics, such as, for example, the well known theorem of Pomeranchuk \cite{Lo65}, concerning the asymptotic behavior of the total cross sections for $a+b$ and $\bar a +b$ collisions ($a$ and $b$ any hadrons): $\sigma_T(ab)=\sigma_T(\bar a b)$. However, to be rigorous, the applicability of this theorem to FFs, which seems evident, has not been proved up to now\footnote{In Ref. \protect\cite{Go94} one can read {\it "There is, a priori, no general constraint to ensure that the limit of some observable, such as a form factor, should be the same in every direction in the complex plane".}}.

Unfortunately, this theorem does not allow to indicate the physical value of $t$, starting from which it is working at some level of precision. For this aim one needs some additional dynamical information.

In our considerations about nucleon electromagnetic FFs, such information is contained in the parametrizations of FFs. More precisely, we discuss the ratio $F_2/F_1$ for the proton and use those parametrizations which work well in the SL region, where the available precise experimental data allow to constrain the necessary parameters. It is possible to continue analytically such parametrizations to the TL region, using the following prescription \cite{Br04}:
\begin{equation}
ln(-t)=ln(t)-i\pi,~t> 0.
\label{eq:eq4}
\end{equation}
Evidently, the choice of sign for the imaginary part\footnote{Note that in Ref. \protect\cite{Bi93} another sign has been taken: $ln(-t)=ln(t)+i\pi$, whereas in Ref. \protect\cite{Ba00} the formula $ln(-t)=ln(t)\pm i\pi$ has been applied for the analytical continuation from SL to TL region.}, in Eq. (\ref{eq:eq4}), results in strong physical consequences concerning the calculations of any T-odd polarization observable for $e^+ +e^-\leftrightarrow N+\bar N$.

Let us firstly discuss the $t$-behavior of $Im (F_2/F_1)$ in TL region, using the QCD inspired and VDM parametrizations. Following the Phragm\`en-Lindel\"of theorem, the ratio ${\cal F}=|Im(F_2/F_1)|/|Re(F_2/F_1)|$ should converge to zero as $t\to \infty$. And the value of $t$, corresponding to the solution of the equation: ${\cal F}=\Delta$, $\Delta\ll 1$ characterizes how ${\cal F}$ approaches to zero.

After analytical continuation in TL region, one can see that parametrization
(\ref{eq:eq5}) gives $R\to \infty$, because it reduces in TL region to:
\begin{equation}
\displaystyle\frac{F_2}{F_1}=i\displaystyle\frac{1.25\mbox{~GeV}}{\sqrt{t}},~t>0 ~ \mbox{\protect\cite{Br04}}.
\label{eq:eq8}
\end{equation}
Such parametrization definitely contradicts the Phragm\`en-Lindel\"of theorem because both form factors can not be real at the same time.

This situation is not changed, after a modification suggested to normalize FFs  at $t=0$ \cite{Br04}:
$$\displaystyle\frac{F_2}{F_1}\to\left [\displaystyle\frac{1}{\kappa_p^2} +\displaystyle\frac{t}{(1.25)^2\mbox{~GeV}^2}\right ]^{-1/2},
$$
where $\kappa_p$ is the proton anomalous magnetic moment.

Parametrization (\ref{eq:eq6}) results in the following formula for the relative size of the imaginary to the real part ${\cal F}$:
\begin{equation}
{\cal F}=\displaystyle\frac{2\pi~ln (t/\Lambda^2)}{ln^2 (t/\Lambda^2)-\pi^2},~t>0,
\label{eq:eq9}
\end{equation}
which implies ${\cal F}\to 0$, if $t\to \infty$, but very slowly. Quantitatively, the condition ${\cal F}=\Delta$ has two solutions:
\begin{equation}
x_{\pm}=ln\displaystyle\frac{t}{\Lambda^2}=
\displaystyle\frac{\pi}{\Delta}\left (1\pm\sqrt{1+\Delta^2}\right ).
\label{eq:eq10}
\end{equation}
For the $x_+$ solution, which should be considered as the physical solution for the TL region, we obtain:
$$\sqrt{t}\simeq 10^{13} \mbox{~GeV},\mbox{~for~} \Delta=0.1,$$
which represents a very large energy, not far from the Planck scale, $\sqrt{t}=10^{19}$ GeV. This last value corresponds to a deviation of  6.5\% from the expected asymptotical zero value.

In the model \cite{Ia73}, the isoscalar FFs, $F_{1,2}^{(S)}$, are real in all the kinematical range. Only the isovector FFs, $F_{1,2}^{(V)}$, have non vanishing imaginary part, induced by the $\rho$-meson contribution, which is, however,  one order of magnitude smaller than the real part. The individual FFs are shown in Fig. \ref{Fig:fig1}. A singularity appears in the TL region, for all FFs, due to the dipole term and in $F_1^{(S)}$, due to a compensation of the $\omega$ and $\phi$ contributions.

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=17cm]{fig1.eps}
\caption{\label{Fig:fig1} Isoscalar and isovector FFs in SL and TL regions.
(a) and (b): $F_1^{(S)}$ and $F_2^{(S)}$ in SL region (dashed line) and in TL region (solid  line), (c) and (d) $F_1^{(V)}$ and $F_2^{(V)}$ in SL region (dashed line) and in TL region: real part (solid line), imaginary part (dotted line) and absolute value (dash-dotted line) which overlaps almost everywhere with the real part.}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
Taking the parameters from Ref. \cite{Ia73}, one can find:
\begin{equation}
 {\cal F}=\displaystyle\frac{19.36}
{ [1+0.512 ln (\sqrt{t}/m_{\pi})]^2-12.3 ln (\sqrt{t}/m_{\pi})-23.5}
\label{eq:eq11}
\end{equation}
with a faster decreasing, proportional to $[ln(\sqrt{t}/m_{\pi})]^{-2}$, relatively to the previously considered  parametrizations. Such asymptotic behavior leads to $\Delta$=0.1(0.05) for $\sqrt{t}=10^{11}(10^{15})$ GeV, again very far from the region experimentally accessible. Note that the contribution which is linear in logarithm as well as the constant terms in the denominator are important, as they are responsible for the zero of $Re (F_2/F_1)$ at $ln(\sqrt{t}/ m_{\pi})\simeq 45$, which results in a number larger than the asymptotic value.

Recently, the model \cite{Ia73} has been modified with respect to a common factor for all FFs \cite{Ia03,Bi04}:
$$(1-\gamma t)^{-2}\to(1-\gamma e^{i\theta}t)^{-2},$$
where $\theta $ has been taken equal to 53$^0$ and $\gamma$=0.25 GeV$^{-2}$. This term moves the corresponding singularity $t=1/{\gamma}$ to $t= 1/\gamma e^{i\theta}\simeq 4e^{-i\theta}$ GeV$^2$ from the physical region of TL momentum transfer. Such  factor does not modify polarization phenomena as it cancels out. However, such substitution has some shortcomings as it violates the Schwartz reflection symmetry, in the following relation: $F^*(z)=F(z^*)$, and does not satisfy the Phragm\`en-Lindel\"of theorem, because this factor induces: $Im F(t)/Re F(t)\simeq -\tan 2\theta\simeq 3.5$, i.e., a nonzero value in the asymptotic region.

\section{Polarization observables and asymptotic behavior of the T-odd observable $P_y$}

Let us analyze the polarization observables related to the process $e^++e^-\to p+\bar{p}$ and their asymptotic behavior for the considered parametrizations of $F_2/F_1$. As the $\cos\theta$ dependence is not relevant for the following considerations, for the numerical calculations we take $\theta=45^o$. The $\cos\theta$ dependence is well known in framework of one photon exchange \cite{Du96}, therefore, its measurement can be useful to check the validity of this mechanism at large $Q^2$. It is straightforward to derive the expressions for the polarization observables in terms of $F_2/F_1$ following the formalism   derived in Ref. \cite{Du96}. The reference system is taken as follows: the $z$ axis along the direction of the colliding electron, the $y$ axis normal to the scattering plane, defined by the direction of the electron and of the outgoing proton, and the $x$ axis to form a left-handed coordinate system.

In case of unpolarized beam and target, only a single spin polarization observable does not vanish, the component of the polarization of the scattered proton which is normal to the scattering plane, $P_y$:
\begin{equation}
P_y=-\displaystyle\frac{\tau-1}{\sqrt{\tau}}\displaystyle\frac{Im F_2/F_1}{D},
\label{eq:py}\\
\end{equation}
where $\tau=t/(4m^2)$ and
$$
D=\displaystyle\frac{3}{2}\left | 1+\displaystyle\frac{F_2}{F_1}\right |^2+
\displaystyle\frac{1}{2\tau}
\left | 1+\tau\displaystyle\frac{F_2}{F_1}\right |^2=
\displaystyle\frac{1}{2}\left [3+8Re \displaystyle\frac{F_2}{F_1}
+\displaystyle\frac{1}{\tau}+(\tau+3)\left |\displaystyle\frac{F_2}{F_1}\right |^2\right ].$$
The double spin coefficients, which do not vanish due to parity and C conservations, are:
\begin{eqnarray}
A_{xx}&=&\displaystyle\frac{1}{2D}\left[1+\displaystyle\frac{1}{\tau}+4Re \displaystyle\frac{F_2}{F_1}+ (1+\tau) \left |\displaystyle\frac{F_2}{F_1}\right |^2\right ],
\label{eq:Axx}\\
A_{yy}&=&\displaystyle\frac{1-\tau}{2\tau D}\left[1-
\tau \left |\displaystyle\frac{F_2}{F_1}\right |^2\right ],
\label{eq:Ayy}\\
A_{xz}&=&\displaystyle\frac{1}{\sqrt{\tau}D}
\left[1+(1+\tau)Re \displaystyle\frac{F_2}{F_1} +\tau \left |\displaystyle\frac{F_2}{F_1}\right |^2\right ],
\label{eq:Axz}\\
A_{zz}&=&\displaystyle\frac{1}{2D}
\left[3-\displaystyle\frac{1}{\tau}+
4Re \displaystyle\frac{F_2}{F_1}
+(3-\tau )\left |\displaystyle\frac{F_2}{F_1}\right |^2\right ],
\label{eq:Azz}
\end{eqnarray}
and they depend on the real part and/or on the modulus of $F_2/F_1$.
The observable $P_y$, which contains the imaginary part of the FFs ratio, can bring information for the comparison of  SL and TL asymptotic behavior.

The following formula for $P_y$, at $\tau\gg 1$, holds for the parametrization (\ref{eq:eq5}):
$$P_y=-\displaystyle\frac{\left(1-\displaystyle\frac{1}{\tau}\right )
\displaystyle\frac{a}{m}}{3+\displaystyle\frac{1}{\tau}+\left (1+\displaystyle\frac{3}{\tau}\right ) \displaystyle\frac{a^2}{4m^2}}
\to P_{y,as}=-\displaystyle\frac{a/m}{3+a^2/(4m^2)}\simeq -0.387.
$$
This parametrization results in non vanishing (negative) asymptotics $P_y$, with large absolute value, in contradiction with the Phragm\`en-Lindel\"of theorem. The behavior of $P_y$ for $1/\tau\ll 1$ can be approximated by:
$$P_y=P_{y,as}\left (1-\displaystyle\frac{p}{\tau}\right ),~
p=1+\displaystyle\frac{3+4m^2/a^2}{1+12m^2/a^2}=1.67.$$
This implies that a 10\%(5\%) difference from asymptotics appears at $
t=58.8(117.6)\mbox{~GeV}^2.$

For the logarithmic parametrization (\ref{eq:eq6}), the asymptotic behavior of $P_y$ is described by:
$$P_y\to -0.19 \displaystyle\frac{ln(t/\Lambda^2)}{\sqrt{\tau}}.$$
One can see that the absolute value decreases with $t$, and one finds $P_y=-10$\%(-5)\% at $t\simeq 350(6000)$ GeV$^2$, still too large to be achieved by experiments.

Finally, the asymptotic behavior of the $P_y$ polarization in the model \cite{Ia73,Ia03} can be described by the following formula:
$$P_y\to \displaystyle\frac{3.5/\sqrt{\tau}}
{\left [1+0.51 ln  (\sqrt{t}/m_{\pi} )
\right ]^2}\to
\displaystyle\frac
{13.5}{\sqrt{\tau} ln^2  (\sqrt{t}/m_{\pi})} $$
with a faster decreasing with $t$. Note that this polarization is positive in TL region. Moreover the constant term in the denominator is important at large $t$, for example, a value of $P_y$=0.02 is reached at $t=2\cdot 10^6$ GeV$^2$, which corresponds to very far asymptotics.

For the cases discussed above, the large value of $|P_y|$ arises questions about the asymptotic trend of electromagnetic FFs. According to the prescriptions of Phragm\`en-Lindel\"of theorem, $P_y$ should vanish.

\section{Difference between the absolute values of $F_2/F_1$ in SL and TL regions}

We mentioned above that the measured values of the magnetic proton FFs are different in TL and SL regions of momentum transfer, up to $t=18$ GeV$^2$, where the TL values of $|G_{Mp}|^2$ exceed by a factor of two the corresponding values in SL region. These values should approach the same number at asymptotic values of $t$. But which number?

Let us analyze the behavior of $|F_2/F_1|$ in TL region, using, again, the considered parametrizations.
The parametrization (\ref{eq:eq5}) gives $|F_2/F_1|_{SL}=|F_2/F_1|_{TL}$, at any value of $t$. Furthermore, this parametrization gives a specific behavior of the ratio $|G_E|^2/|G_M|^2$ in TL region. One finds:
\begin{equation}
\displaystyle\frac{ |G_E|^2}{|G_M|^2}
=\displaystyle\frac{1+\tau\displaystyle\frac{a^2}{4m^2}}
{1+\displaystyle\frac{a^2}{4m^2\tau}}\to\tau \displaystyle\frac{a^2}{4m^2}=0.44\tau.
\label{eq:eqa}
\end{equation}
Note, in this respect, that up to now the separation of the electric and magnetic contributions to the differential cross section in the TL region has not been realized, yet. The analysis of the experimental data is currently based on two assumptions: either $G_E=0$ or $|G_M|=|G_E|$. The extracted values for $G_M$ according to these prescriptions differ at most by 20\%.

However, Eq. (\ref{eq:eqa}) suggests another possible relation between $G_E$ and $G_M$, that leads to comparable contributions of the electric and magnetic terms to the cross section, independently on the $t$-value. The resulting value for $G_M$ is 10\% lower than the value corresponding to $|G_M|=|G_E|$, and still does not compensate the observed difference of FFs in SL and TL regions.

The parametrization (\ref{eq:eq6}) gives the following relation:
$$
{\cal R}=\displaystyle\frac{|F_2/F_1|_{TL}}{|F_2/F_1|_{SL}}=1 +\displaystyle\frac{ \pi^2}{ln^2(t/\Lambda^2)}.
$$
A deviation of ${\cal R}$ from 1 by 10\%(5\%) is reached at $\sqrt{t}\simeq 43 (337)$ GeV.

\section{Conclusions}
We have analyzed the asymptotic behavior of recently suggested, pQCD inspired,  parametrizations of the ratio of the Dirac and Pauli FFs, $F_2/F_1$. We have based our study on the requirements given by Phragm\`en-Lindel\"of theorem, in particular the equality of FFs in SL and TL regions. As FFs are real in SL region and complex in TL region, this implies that the imaginary part of FFs in TL region vanishes, as well as the polarization of the emitted proton, in the annihilation reaction $e^++e^-\leftrightarrow p+\bar{p}$ (when the colliding particles are unpolarized).

We have shown that the considered parametrizations do not satisfy the asymptotic conditions suggested by the Phragm\`en-Lindel\"of theorem or they do so only for very large values of $Q^2$, well beyond the experimentally accessible range. In particular, the $1/\sqrt{Q^2}$ behavior of this ratio, which reproduces the recent measurements in the SL region, is certainly not compatible with an asymptotic regime, showing that the presently measurable data should be better interpreted in frame of classical nucleon degrees of freedom.

Concerning the double logarithmic parametrization, it has been pointed out long ago \cite{Mi82}, that a suppression to Sudakov type contributions could take place.

The dipole-like formulas for FFs do satisfy the Phragm\`en-Lindel\"of theorem. But such parametrization has the following evident problems:
\begin{itemize}
\item the threshold condition: $G_{EN}(4m^2)=G_{MN}(4m^2)$ is not satisfied,
\item the unitarity conditions for all nucleon FFs are strongly violated, as one should have a branching point at $t=4m_{\pi}^2$ for isovector FFs and  $t=9m_{\pi}^2$ for isoscalar FFs,
\item the prediction in TL region underestimates the experimental data.
\end{itemize}

The analytical continuation of nucleon electromagnetic FFs, presently used to describe the main properties of nucleon structure in SL region of momentum transfer squared (in some models), results as a rule, in an essential imaginary part in TL region. Moreover, the relative value (with respect to the real part) is a very slowly decreasing function of $t$. Such behavior, of course, is in agreement with the Phragm\`en-Lindel\"of theorem, but the corresponding asymptotic regime corresponds to very large values of $t$.

The asymptotic regime defined by the prescriptions of the considered models and the asymptotic properties derived from the analyticity of form factors act at a different level. Phragm\`en-Lindel\"of theorem defines the asymptotic conditions without direct connection with QCD. The most evident application of the  Phragm\`en-Lindel\"of theorem in physics is the Pomeranchuk theorem - which relates the asymptotic behavior of the total cross section for $NN$ and $N\bar N$ interaction. This is not QCD regime, because such theorem applies for $t=0$, i.e., to evidently non perturbative physics, despite the fact that the Mandelstam variable $s$ is very large.  So the connection between QCD asymptotics and asymptotics from Phragm\`en-Lindel\"of theorem, from the point of view of hadron FFs is non trivial, as this theorem seems to work for elastic $NN$ and $N\bar N$ amplitudes in the kinematical region where QCD does not apply.

We can consider the present results as an indirect indication of the importance of non perturbative contributions to the physics of the nucleon electromagnetic structure.
\section{Acknowledgments}

The authors acknowledge Prof. M. P. Rekalo for many interesting discussions and ideas, without which this paper would not have been realized in the present form. Thanks are due to Prof. E. Kuraev for his interest to this subject and to C. Duterte for contributing to the earlier stage of this work.

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Let the memory of Eric be with us forever.
Born on October 27, 1992 in Paterson,Nj, New Jersey, United States.
Passed away on March 28, 2015 in Paterson, New Jersey, United States.
This memorial website was created in memory of our loved one, Eric Somesla 22 years old , born on October 27, 1992 and passed away on March 28, 2015. We will remember him forever.


I was traveling through Kansas City, Missouri on a business trip from Carthage, Missouri and our gracious host (HE Williams) had set up a barbecue dinner at the famed Jack Stack Barbecue Freight House location.
We started the day with a tour of their impressive manufacturing facility, enlightened with all their new products and lines (especially the LED), won some prizes and got on the beer bus at 3 for dinner. Oh, and in the meantime, we ate lots of food for breakfast, lunch and in between. Hey-if you're looking for a career change, lighting may be the answer. Being the "Foodie" that I am, I looked up the restaurant before my trip and learned that it's the number one barbecue house in the country based on Zagat and was also featured on the Food Network for its delicious barbecue.
We arrived via our luxury motor coach, rolling deep with almost 30 people after a 3 hr beer filled bus ride from Carthage, Missouri.
The Jack Stack Barbecue Freight House location is set in the Cross Road Arts District in a historic converted Freight House with 25' ceilings.
We were sat in 2 long tables of 15 in the center of the restaurant. I was surprised that the restaurant was almost at full capacity on a Wednesday night at 5:00 PM.
As soon as we sat down, the servers brought over stacked racks of colossal size onion rings and fried mushroom. The Pitch Blog describes them as 'The Fattest, Sexiest Onion Rings"
Next appetizer course were the burnt ends. My whole office recommend the burnt ends and they all raved about it. Burnt ends are a traditional pat of Kansas City barbecue and are flavorful pieces of meat ends cut from smoked briskets. There were scrumptious pieces of pork and beef ends brought to our table to share.
We were already stuffed but it was time to order dinner. We were encouraged to try the platters and advised that the leftovers could be wrapped for us to take home on our flight the next day.
My coworker ordered the Signature Jack's best platter than included one Crown Prime Beef Rib, Baby Back Ribs, and beef burnt ends. It came with 2 large sides. The meal was colossal.
Since I already had some burnt ends as an appetizer, I opted for the Crown Prime Beef Ribs signature barbecue item. The menu description reads, "The ultimate barbecue experience featuring three well-marbled beef short ribs that will melt in your mouth."
The menu was right! The 3 ribs were colossal and each piece seem to have had about 6-8 ounces of meat on it. I could only get down 1/4 of one rib before I had to call it quits. Not to mention the 2 large sides that were included. The hickory pit beans had slow cooked beef in it and was out of this world! I tried the cheesy corn bake that was nothing like I've had before. It was heavy and flavorful but not too overwhelming.
My other friend got the 9 oz Top Sirloin dinner and she said it was so tasty and tender that it was almost like a filet without the price. It came with a ginormous baked potato loaded with cheddar, bacon and sour cream. She barely could finish 1/4 of the potato.
Just as I thought I couldn't get down anymore food or even breathe, the servers brought out Mom's carrot cake and Triple Chocolate brownie for the group to share. Everyone was stuffed but we were coerced to give it a try.
The Triple Chocolate brownie was rich and had a hot fudge sauce and creamy vanilla ice cream topping as the melted cream trickled down the side. You only needed once spoon and you were done.
My favorite was "Mom's Carrot Cake" that was served hot with a cream cheese frosting topped with walnuts. There were real pieces of carrots in the dessert and it was definitely worth the extra calories.
By far, it was the best barbecue that I've had in my life. I am so glad I got to experience authentic Kansas City style barbecue.
Can't get to Kansas Cit? The restaurant also ships its delicious meats nationwide at premium price on its Mail Order website.
Thanks to the team at HE Williams for a great meal and your warm hospitality!


This is a recipe based on one by the great Jamie Oliver and the original is available online at his site.
I love well cooked lamb, the way the juices flow from the intensely flavourful meat together with the texture with real bite, well roasted is simply the quintessential British dish. This is my idea of cooking on a Sunday; instead of sitting there basting meat, sweating over potatoes or cutting up veg, this dish is entirely prepared in advance and then just left in the oven for four hours. That's four hours down the pub, entertaining your guests or making love to your wife.
After which, you will be presented with a lamb dish fit for a king and tasting succulent enough to entice even the most ardent beef fanatic.
I have made this dish many many times and there is a knack to it and a few simple rules that can really help turn this into something special.
1 large high sided roasting dish.
Silver foil enough to cover the above twice.
Wine costs a finite amount to market, bottle, ship and tax. Say that out of the cost of your average bottle this amounts to £2. So if you pay £4 for the wine, half the money that has gone out of your pocket was not spent on the making of the wine. More often that than not, all things being equal, this will mean that the wine maker had less ability to make a good wine. If, however, you pay £6 for the wine, now as before £2 goes into the marketing etc, but now a whole £4 goes to the wine maker enabling him to make a better wine. So for only adding £2 to your wine choice you are gaining a £4 value in the potential quality of the wine.
Of course, there are exceptions in everything and super markets can reduce wines to clear, some areas can have a reduction for currency fluctuation and indeed some growers cant make a good wine with £20 in their pocket, but it is a rule of thumb that works and is used in he wine trade itself. I find it very accurate when buying wine made in Europe for example.
So which should you go for? Well, I think that heavy wines are out, they will overpower the meat. So no Pinot. Nothing with too much fruit, so no shiraz. You want something that add a velvety taste to the dish, but at the same time you want something that pleases the red wine drinkers with a hint of the most commonly drunk wine types. So, to that end I usually chose a Cabernet mixed with a Merlot.
Well, yes to the character in Sideways the Merlot is the worst of all wines, and the entire Merlot producing industry took a hit thanks to that idea presented as fact in that otherwise excellent film. The facts are these. Firstly, the worst wine in existence to the be found in the Carrefour shops at French ferry ports. It is the one in white 3lt drums with dubious label, "Red Wine" affixed on them. In wine terms they are the equivalent of the 3-minute-warning and contain nothing that is fit for drinking. I watched a documentary on the subject of this "wine" that would make your eyes water. Secondly, there are good wines in every possible variety and basing your drinking choices on the grape type only is going to lead you to the wrong way and straight into the arms of the ever so slightly unscrupulous major producers who are quite willing to rest very firmly on their laurels and produce wines that vary massively over two or three years.
This is that I bought for this dish, it cost £4 from M and S.
Firstly, preheat your oven to 200ºC/400ºF/gas 6. Do this first.
Lamb shoulder can sometimes be very very fatty. To combat this trim a little of the thickest positions. Sure this fat will melt and become taste, but there is a tipping point where the fat saturates the entire dish. So trim a little, but leave enough to roast with.
Rub the lamb with the Olive oil, some sea salt and freshly ground black pepper.
Cut small incisions all over the lamb and poke rosemary leaves and quartered cloves of garlic into each one.
Put the rest of the garlic cloves, onions, carrots, celery, leeks and tomatoes to the tray, then tuck the remaining herbs under the meat.
If you need to you can leave the dish at this point cover with cling film and it can sit for a few hours.
Cover the tray tightly with a double layer of foil. Make sure to tuck the foil tight against the rim of the tray, if possible you want to make any leaks unable to run down the side of the disk.
Put it into the oven. If you are at all worried about leaks of wine into the oven, put a silver foil sheet under the disk to catch the drips.
Turn down the oven temperature to 170ºC/325ºF/gas 3 and cook for 3½ to 4 hours. You are looking to make the lamb soft, the fat to have melted and the bone just able to pull out of the shoulder. Pull out the worst excesses of twig.
Season with salt and pepper if needed! Don't miss this step!
This is a big dish. The wine should have firmed up a little and be a sauce, the veg should have retained a little bite and the herbs should have added a great flavour.
I always heat my non-metallic plates in the microwave.
I take off the meat and cut the lamb like bread. I then lay the meat and spoon over the sauce and veg. You could do a little mash to go alongside, but believe me, you don't need to. Perhaps some bread to mop up, but again people are not going to be hungry after this.
Please feel free to add any comments you have about your experiences with the dish, so any thing you think I may have missed. Please do check out Jamie's website as well as original credit is his.


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'Hackathon' connects startup, arts communities
By: Kevin Eigelbach, WCPO Contributor
CINCINNATI -- What do arts organizations and the tech/startup community have in common?
More than you might think.
Both groups found that out last weekend at the ArtsWave Tidal Art x Tech Challenge, where about 150 members of the tech community put their heads together to solve specific problems of local arts organizations.
"There's a lot of synergy between the arts community and the tech community," said Wendy Lea, CEO of Cincinnati startup advocate Cintrifuse. "Both require large amounts of creativity, they create something from nothing and impact people's lives in profound ways. This weekend was about capitalizing on that synergy and locking a bunch of smart people in a building … to see if they can't find a way to make Cincinnati's arts community even better."
The hackathon was the brainchild of Chris Ostoich, a serial entrepreneur and member of the board of directors for ArtsWave, the nation's largest and oldest public arts fund, which helps fund more than 100 local arts organizations. Although he's a tech guy, Ostoich comes from an arts-loving family: His father plays oboe for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
He hit upon the hackathon as a way for ArtsWave to engage the hundreds of people employed by startups in Cincinnati.
Melinda Hershey laughs while talking with friends during the meet-and-greet session before the ArtsWave Tidal Art x Tech Challenge last weekend at Union Hall in Over-the-Rhine. Photo by Kevin Eigelbach
"I felt like we were flying over this audience," he said. "I thought it was really important to pull more of us into this arts culture."
The event came together at Union Hall in Over-the-Rhine, where Cintrifuse has its offices, with financial sponsorship and volunteer help from Fifth Third Bank. ArtsWave, which organized the event, contributed cash as well, president and CEO Alecia Kintner said. She wouldn't say exactly how much, but said it was less than $15,000.
The investment paid off in several ways, she said, among them creative solutions to the challenges posed by ArtsWave, the Contemporary Arts Center and others.
The winning team, whose members each received new iPad Pros, created an app called Wave that connects people through the arts and allows them to learn more, follow artists and venues and possibly buy tickets, said ArtsWave director of communications and marketing Hillary Copsey.
One hackathon participant created an app that could send museum visitors information about exhibits on their smartphones, using technology from Ostoich's company LISNR. That's something that Raphaela Platow, director of the Contemporary Arts Center, said she had been talking with Ostoich about for some time.
That app could cheaply revolutionize the museum experience, Platow said, because it would just require installing small speakers to project the sound waves LISNR uses to transmit information. She hopes to use it at the museum in a pilot exhibit this June.
The fact that so many good ideas were created at such a small cost really excited the arts professionals who attended the hackathon, Kintner said.
"(In the arts community) tech is usually thought of as so expensive and so beyond our reach that we are generally the last ones at the table with a tech solution," she said.
Over the next few weeks, ArtsWave and its sponsored organizations will figure out which solutions they want to advance and what they need to make that happen, Kinter said. ArtsWave asked all the hackathon participants to join a newly formed tech advisory council, she said, and about a dozen have expressed interest. She expected that group to start meeting in late May or early June.
ArtsWave also wants to create a fund to invest in ideas that come out of this and events like it, she said, but where that money will come from hasn't been decided yet. Ostoich first proposed such a fund to her three years ago when she joined ArtsWave, she said, but the timing wasn't right.
The hackathon results showed that the time is now, she said.
"We demonstrated to ourselves and others in the room that there are ideas we never would have thought of on our own that are worth investing in and that could be absolutely transformative for the Cincinnati arts sector," Kintner said.
Traditionally, a major source of arts funds comes through drives held at large workplaces. But today's workplaces are smaller and more fragmented, especially among young people, which makes it harder to reach them.
"We need strategies to reach donors in lots of different ways," she said, and the hackathon was one of them.
Some participants had never been to the Contemporary Arts Center, which hosted a party for them the first evening of the hackathon. One team took a field trip to the Taft Museum of Art, where some had never been either, Kintner said.
Jennifer Spriggs, one of the participants in the ArtsWave Tidal Art x Tech Challenge, pets George Michael, a dog owned by Laura Hughes, events and operations coordinator for Cintrifuse, during the meet-and-greet session before the event. Photo by Kevin Eigelbach
"For us to have engaged 150 people in the challenges and opportunities of arts organizations, that was one of the best outcomes," she said.
The idea of art hackathons really took off in 2013, and now there are such events in cities from New York to San Francisco to Berlin. That's the year that the Massachusetts Institute for Technology started its Hacking Arts event, said outgoing chair Natalie Pitcher.
Hacking Arts consists of a conference and a hackathon, she said, so that participants can learn about arts problems in depth and create solutions. Success is measured by the number of attendees and the diversity of their backgrounds.
It's about getting people together who normally wouldn't get together, she said.
"That's really powerful," Pitcher added. "In the technical industries, you need creative expertise to inform the technical expertise."


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How Leaky is Your Water Utility? Soon Californians Will Know
A new state law requires large California water utilities to begin reporting losses in their distribution systems, which are wasteful and expensive. Todd Thompson of the Department of Water Resources explains the process.
Written by Matt Weiser Published on  March 27, 2017 Read time Approx. 7 minutes
A Los Angeles fireman looks under a fire truck stuck in a sinkhole caused by a burst water main in the Valley Village neighborhood of Los Angeles on Sept. 8, 2009. California has introduced a requirement that large water utilities file audits of water loss. Nick Ut, Associated Press
California's drought has required water consumers to adopt a wide range of water efficiency practices, from taking shorter showers to installing water-sipping appliances. But what have water utilities been required to do?
It's long been known that water distribution systems have leaks, and most utilities work to correct those leaks aggressively, because they also represent lost revenue. But every leak also represents a cost to ratepayers, not to mention a wasted natural resource.
How much do water distribution systems leak? That's been a big unknown. Common estimates are around 10 percent, but some systems may leak as much as 45 percent.
Soon Californians will know exactly how much their water utilities are leaking. Senate Bill 555, a law passed by the state Legislature in 2015, requires large urban water utilities – those treating more than 3,000 acre-feet (3.7 million cubic meters) of water annually or with more than 3,000 connections – to file water loss audits starting in October. There are 410 utilities subject to the law.
To help understand the law, Water Deeply recently spoke with Todd Thompson, a senior engineer at the California Department of Water Resources, who is in charge of drafting the regulations.
Water Deeply: Is this completely new in California?
Todd Thompson, a senior engineer at the California Department of Water Resources, is in charge of drafting regulations for water suppliers to conduct water loss audits. (Photo Courtesy Todd Thompson)
Todd Thompson: The reporting requirement is completely new. But there are quite a few water suppliers conducting audits either on their own volition as a good practice, or as a part of being with the California Urban Water Conservation Council, which requires its members to estimate losses. I believe somewhere around 60 percent of the 410 large suppliers are already doing some form of water loss audit.
Water Deeply: Why is it important to create a formal process and make the results public?
Thompson: It's part of improving best management practices on the water supply side. And it is a first step in improving system operation and efficiency.
You conduct a water loss audit to get an estimate of where the water is going and how much is being lost as a result of either meter errors, water theft or actual leaks in the system. The water loss audit is the first step in making that determination. It's important in California, as it is everywhere, to make sure we use our resources as wisely as possible and as efficiently as possible. Water loss auditing is a step in that direction.
Water Deeply: How much do we know about water loss today?
Thompson: There have been estimations made. I'm reluctant to cite those because I really have never been able to put my finger on the data where those numbers came from. I'm not sure how accurate it is, so I really don't want to push numbers that may not have really any value to them. But the rule of thumb is around 10 percent. But it can be higher than that.
Water Deeply: But this is really about more than water losses, right?
Thompson: It definitely is. By being efficient with the water that's being treated and transmitted through distribution systems, a utility can definitely reduce its operations cost, because it's not losing water that they've put value into. In addition to that, it is a way to make sure, if there are any real losses happening that would impact the infrastructure in the area – such as roads and buildings – they can catch those before they become a real problem. There have been plenty of places where a leak has gotten bigger, to a point where it swallows cars or does significant damage to the roads.
In that regard, it's more than just being proactive toward water conservation. It actually makes good sense in terms of fiscal responsibility – and liability, to some degree – when you talk about damage to roads and existing infrastructure.
Water Deeply: What are other states doing about managing water loss?
Thompson: To the level that we are looking at for our requirements, the only state that has an equivalent program is the state of Georgia. That was also a result of a drought they went through. They are at least six years ahead of us. I think their law started in 2010. They've had good acceptance with it and actually we are using some of the info they've learned in our program. We have gained from their experience.
Water Deeply: Is tracking water loss difficult for water agencies?
Thompson: It's work, but I would say it's not difficult. They have the data and it's a matter of gathering the data and putting it into an audit format. There's some work required, but since they already have the data it's not extraordinarily difficult for them to do it. The validation step is something that isn't as widespread, so there will be a learning curve with that. But I don't think that will be very difficult either. Ultimately, it's not very hard.
Water Deeply: How does the validation work, and why is that important?
Thompson: Validation is basically looking at the data that's in the audit itself to make sure it accurately reflects the utility. The methodology that's being pursued is the American Water Works Association methodology. They basically give a scoring for each of the data fields. That is, how strong is that data itself? It looks at how many meters there are on the source putting water into the system, how often those meters are calibrated, and those factors produce a score to see how well it reflects the utility's practices in the water system. It's all intended to make sure the information is accurate.
Water Deeply: How often will water agencies be required to submit audits?
Thompson: They ultimately will be submitting them annually through our website. The first submittal date is Oct. 1, 2017, and annually thereafter. The period they can audit is either the calendar year or the fiscal year. We did that so municipalities can use auditing techniques that suit them best to serve their needs for their fiscal purposes and planning purposes.
Water Deeply: What's left to do to approve the regulations?
Thompson: We have a process to go through. We're in the midst of a 45-day public comment period now. Then we'll have a public hearing on it, respond to all the comments, make changes as appropriate, and either recirculate it or take it before the California Water Commission for adoption. The water commission has to approve them and I'm hoping to have it in front of them by May.
Water Deeply: Will the public have access to the water loss reports?
A woman leaps over water flooding a side street after a water main break sent churning, muddy water down Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, Calif., on Sept. 26, 2014. From October 2017 large water utilities in California will have to file audits of water loss in their distribution lines. (Nick Ut, AP)
Thompson: Yes. We already have a website for water loss audits, where all the documents will be posted.
All of the agencies subject to these regulations have gone through at least one water loss audit already, because that's required in their urban water management plans. Those are available on the website now. We've looked at that data and we've had experts look at it. And what they told us is that it's very hard to pull any conclusions from this data, because it's not validated.
Water Deeply: How will the data be used once the audits start piling up?
Thompson: There's going to be performance standards established that will require California water agencies to reduce their water losses. The State Water Resources Control Board will be setting those performance standards, but not until they have two years of validated data. The industry strongly pushed for that to make sure what comes forward as a result of this program is based in solid numbers.
I think you'll see a required minimum validation score, meaning they want strong data. And there could be a "percent of water supplied" number put forward as the performance criteria for losses, too. The state board will have a public process to establish that. The industry will get to weigh in, and it will be discussed at length. That was the idea of the statute: Something will be imposed to control water losses.
Water Deeply: What's the end game? Is it better water efficiency, more daylight on water losses?
Thompson: The end game will be on several fronts. Certainly water efficiency will go up as a result of the program on the water supply side. I think the public will be better served, because water agencies will be more aware of their water losses and therefore be more efficient with the water resources they're handling. It may not reduce their operating costs, but it could. It will certainly be more efficient in terms of their operations, which will benefit the consumer.
I think it will also reduce real losses, which could reduce infrastructure damage as a result of leaks down the road. And it's going to be validated data, so you have an idea how good the data is. But you'll also have an idea of how efficient they are being in terms of reducing their losses, which ultimately consumers are paying for.
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On the Front Lines of Sea-Level Rise, Sewage Treatment Plants Adapt
Some coastal sewage treatment plants are beginning to experience challenges from climate change, such as backflow from seawater and potential discharge problems. Two experts explain how facilities in the San Francisco Bay Area are addressing these risks. Feb. 26, 2018
Why Southern Nevada Is Fighting to Build a 250-Mile Water Pipeline
Big Rate Increases Ahead at Many Water Agencies as Financial Pressures Grow
One of the Largest Dam Removals in California History Inches Forward
How Water Became the New Focus of Corporate Sustainability
Matt Weiser
Contributing Editor, Water Deeply
Five Reasons Water Efficiency and Recycling Are a Perfect Match
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Bantry (ang. Bantry Bay, irl. Cuan Baoi/Inbhear na mBárc/Bádh Bheanntraighe) – zatoka w hrabstwie Cork, na południowym zachodzie Irlandii, na wyspie o tej samej nazwie. Część Oceanu Atlantyckiego. Ma 3 do 4 km szerokości w głębi, a 10 km u wejścia i długość ok. 35 km.

Nad zatoką leży miasto Bantry.

Od sąsiedniej, położonej bardziej na północ, zatoki Kenmare oddziela Bantry półwysep Beara. Od południa zatoka Bantry jest ograniczona półwyspem Sheep's Head, za którym leży zatoka Dunmanus.

W zatoce położone są wyspy, m.in. najważniejsze Bere i Whiddy.

W grudniu 1796 do zatoki wpłynęła francuska flota, zaś dwa lata później wybuchła nad zatoką rewolucja irlandzka.

Linki zewnętrzne
 Informacje o mieście i zatoce

Zatoki Irlandii
Zatoki Oceanu Atlantyckiego

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I'm student of Mechanical Engineeing of CV Raman college of engineering.
I have attended TVs motors online test.
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Few events in story take place at a distance from the goal. You could say--and sometimes do--that goal is the heartbeat of story. Are "they," the characters, nearing the goal? Will it have been worth the effort? Has, in fact, enough effort been expended to make the goal seem worthwhile? Was the goal worthwhile in the first place.
Depending on the story, you sometimes substitute your own goal for the one articulated in the narrative you are reading, and even though you have contrived a considerable goal for a story you have in progress, you often find yourself using the actor's trick of substituting one of your real life goals for the goal of the characters.
Goals may be achieved or not; they may, once reached, offer immense satisfaction or turn out to become an object of scorn. On rare occasion, goals are exactly what the seeker anticipates. Goals achieved seem more or less worthwhile but almost never are they on a par.
This alone is cause for the atmosphere of anticipation so necessary within a story. The reader wants to know if the effort, planning, potential suffering, and potential collateral loss were worth it.
At such moments of reckoning, irony may be tossed in from the writer through one or more characters, leading that individual to internal or external wondering about the cost for achieving the goal.
Thus anticipation: We anticipate some dramatic decision, some settling of the cosmic accounts. We also anticipate a reckoning in the assessment of worth. Was "it" worth the risk, worth the effort?
Was it worthwhile for the reader?
Was the risk and subsequent reward worthwhile for the writer?
One milestone you need to pass whether as a reader or attempted writer is the milestone of anticipation? Did your spine begin to tingle? Did you find yourself laughing out loud at the rampant mischief?
Quite often, you embark from home port without a destination, which is also to say a primary focus of your writing activities is the discovery of a goal. Your potential for finishing any given piece of work is predicated on the discovery of the goal. If, at length, the goal seems lackluster, you have the potential for changing it, tweaking your anticipation, making the entire process once again one of discovery.
Sometimes you are overcome with mischievousness, in which case the discovery turns on the seekers--information or tangible results they did not expect nor want.
Your characters embarked on a story, and all you got was this lousy goal.