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Ten F*cked Up Things That Happen on Spartacus (Starz) – NSFW – Disturbing Content Warning!
SPARTACUS IS A HISTORICAL PORTRAYAL OF ANCIENT ROMAN SOCIETY THAT CONTAINS GRAPHIC VIOLENCE and adult content. Viewer Discretion is advised.
The above disclaimer (or attention-magnet) is shown along with the usual MA – LSV rating before each episode of Spartacus on Starz. Fans don't just watch the show for the blood, sex, guts, and sex, but also for the well-written characters and their story arcs, as well as plot twists and reveals that have stunned even some of the more cynical reviewers.
What's an article on Starz's epic series Spartacus doing up on here? Well, it's in the new issue of Fangoria, for one (even though they didn't focus on the gore, sadly), and every episode has been brought to you by (among others) Raimi/Tapert/Donen Productions. Yeah, THAT Raimi. Some gladiators look like actual monsters; some characters are beautiful outside and monsters inside.
Just another day at the office for the House of Batiatus…
I've tried to keep these vague as far as characters involved, but several of these could be considered spoilers. If you plan on watching Spartacus: Gods of the Arena (prequel 6-episode miniseries) Spartacus: Blood and Sand (Season One) and Spartacus: Vengeance (Season 2) and want to go in completely 100% clean, maybe you should just skim it.*
If you're considering watching the show but are unsure if it might be too graphic, violent, and disturbing for you, then this is a great way to find out what you're in for. Hint: if you're worried it might be too sick for your personal tastes, there's a 99% chance you are, in fact, correct.
These aren't the most fucked-up things, or all the fucked-up things, they're just some memorable highlights. I'm not kidding, this list almost wrote itself, I sure didn't need to stretch to think of ten bloodcurdling events. If I included every messed-up thing that happened, the list would easily go into triple-digits (and there's still one season left as of this writing).
1. An especially disgusting character gets interrupted while raping a screaming female slave. When he stands up and faces away from her to turn and confront the interlopers, the woman grabs his sword and rams it all the way up his ass with such force that the tip pokes through his stomach from before she yanks it back out. So there.
2. Soon after, a male character gets information out of that pig by pulling some of his guts out of the aforementioned wound (with his bare hands) and promising him a fast death if he tells him what he wants to know right away (it works).
3. A gladiator kills his opponent by shoving a spear through his opponent's mouth, out the side of his face, then twisting it until the man's jaw is literally hanging by a few threads (shown in slow motion, with shots of even the most jaded spectators looking horrified). Extra points to the make-up/FX team for using prosthetics.
4. In one of the most disturbing scenes of the entire goddamned series (which is saying quite a bit), a noblewoman snaps, attacking her (former) friend, and kills her in an enraged frenzy by savagely smashing her skull down against the marble floor countless times. She literally bashes her head in, we're talking bits of skull and brain within a radius of at least a yard, her eyeball is popped out of the socket, her face caves in, blood everywhere, before someone can intervene and pull her away.
5 .Two gladiators are brought out to fight a giant fat rival gladiator (who may remind viewers a little of Ancient Rome's Tor Johnson). They win by working as a team, wrapping a chain around his neck and then using all their combined weight to pull the chain from opposite sides until the fat gladiator's head pops off like a champagne cork.
6. In an underground fighting area, simple referred to as "The Pit", unofficial fights to the death take place. Fighting dirty is encouraged, bets are placed, and the crowd mostly consists of criminals, compulsive gamblers, etc. Many dead bodies get dragged up and hung upside-down on meat-hooks. One 'champion' celebrates every victory by slicing off the skin of his dead of opponent's faces and wearing it on his own. He doesn't bother fashioning it into a mask like Leatherface does, he just slices 'em off with a hooked blade and then slaps that shit right on his face.The skinned faces look really horrifying, and brought the gore-extravaganza also known as the 2010 Piranha* remake to mind for me. Check it out below (sorry, I couldn't find one without the editorial comments stuck in the action):
7. A noblewoman decides to "sponsor" a new gladiator-in-training and picks the one whose main character trait is that he's more well-endowed than Dirk Diggler from Boogie Nights. They must have used a prosthetic, otherwise the actor playing him would have been a porn superstar and made enough to retire by now. Later, after he betrays someone, his endowment in chopped off (we don't see that part, but we see his bloody junk in the sand) then they crucify him in the training square, we see the wound bleeding down his legs (it'll look familiar if you've seen the Italian cannibal flick Make Them Die Slowly )
8. At a party of the city's richest and most important men and their wives, a captured fighter in the slave rebellion is unlucky enough to be picked to be hog-tied and hung up from the ceiling like a human piñata . Instead of getting hit with sticks, though, people draw numbers to determine which guest gets to step right up to cut off a piece of him first. If that's not fucked-up enough…
9. This gets worse as the guest who gets first, er, stab at him cuts out his tongue with a sword. Either the sword is about as sharp as a butter knife or the guy who did it was really, really bad with his weapon, as the poor rebel's tongue is not so much cut out as slowly sawed off. The host jovially tells the second guest not to cut too deeply, "to not deprive others of their turn". Again, the wealthy party guests (plenty are politicians, with their wives) are drawing numbers out of a goddamned bowl so everyone gets a turn. At one point, you can see a line of smiling guests forming. People eat snacks, chat happily, etc. while watching and waiting for their turn.
10. A man's face is suddenly chopped off during a fight with an uppercut of a sword starting under his jaw (possibly the most shockingly gory thing I've seen in the history of the series, which is no small feat). One second it's there, the next second CHOP. Not just his face gets liberated from his head, but the whole front of his skull. As he falls forward, dead, his brain slowly slides out of his brain-pan like a gory loaf of bread . Think I'm exagerrating?
Even two of the toughest, most seen-and done-it-all former gladiators who see it are visibly stunned …as you can see if you have the stomach to watch the actual clip below:
The final season of Spartacus, titled Spartacus: War of The Damned premieres tonight, January 25th, on Starz. Find out more here – including the fact that the premiere is online, streaming, for free …now!
The term "blood bath" on Spartacus is often literal.
*Though I am putting a more spoiler-y version later (don't worry, you will be warned well in advance if you want to avoid spoilers)
**Mainly brought to you by the genius of Greg Nicotero, in some of the best work I've ever seen from him and Nicotero-Berger. I still cannot believe that movie got away with an R-Rating, but that's a piece for another time.
Dedication: This piece goes out to Pete, Cindy, Norm, and all my other friends at Get Glue who asked me to tell them when I wrote it–thanks, you guys. Seriously.
The Women of Spartacus: War of the Damned (wired.com)
Starz wraps up legend of Spartacus (bizjournals.com)
Why The Bloody, Sex-Soaked 'Spartacus' Is The Most Progressive Show You're Not Watching (thinkprogress.org)
'Spartacus: War Of The Damned' Premieres This Friday On Starz (pinkbananaworld.com)
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Q: Assign value to list First and foremost. I'm totally new to "programming" in Excel.
I'm trying to make a price calculator, that calculates the price when I use my printer.
The sheet contains list, so I don't need to type in numbers but can choose between some options.
I would like options within the list to have a value.
My sheet contains theese information.
Description, Amount, Single/duplex, Format, Printing price, Paper price, Total price.
Description: Could be "Printing an invitation for my brother"
Amount: Amount printet
Single/Duplex: A list containing "Single" and "Duplex"
Format: A list containing "A4", "SRA3" and "SRA3 HiGloss"
Printing price: The total price
This is how it's calculated:
'Format' + ('Amount' x 'Single/duplex') = 'Printing price'

I would like to assign theese values to the list options:
Single/Duplex
  Per page (singlex): 0,6
Per page (duplex): 1,2
Format:
  A4. paper: 0,2
  SRA3 High Gloss: 1,25
  SRA3: 1
Example
Description Amount      Single/Duplex       Format          Printing price
Invitations 30          Duplex              SRA3 HiGloss    61,25

The calculation for this example looks like this:'Format' + ('Amount' x 'Single/duplex') = 'Printing price'1,25+(30*2)
Does anyone know about this???

A: I would make a price lookup sheet and have the prices laid out in table form i.e.
A          B

Single  0.6

Duplex  1.3

A4      0.2

And so on…
You can then use the vlookup function to turn the options given into their value counterpart
=VLOOKUP(B3,Price_lookup!A1:B20,2,FALSE)
You can then use this as the basis for building your formula
EDIT:
Ok here is a very rough example in excel but it works. You can unhide the columns to show how it works
http://www.easy-share.com/1910066813/Stack_example.xls

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Shorter Senior Receives Atlanta Steinway Society Scholarship – Shorter University
Shorter Senior Receives Atlanta Steinway Society Scholarship
Rome, Ga. — Shorter University senior Becky Fowler has been selected as a recipient of this year's Atlanta Steinway Society Scholarship.
Fowler will be featured in a performance hosted by the society on Sept. 23 at Peachtree Presbyterian Church's Kellet Chapel in Atlanta. In addition to her performance, she will discuss her musical aspirations.
The Atlanta Steinway Society presents three scholarships annually to piano majors who are skilled and sophisticated performers. An accomplished pianist, Fowler has also won the piano division of Shorter's 2018 William and Mary Ann Knight Performers Scholarship Competition.
"It was an easy choice to nominate Becky for a scholarship from the Atlanta Steinway Society," said Dr. Jerico Vasquez, artist in residence and professor of music at Shorter, who coordinates the keyboard studies program. "She is quite a gifted musician, endowed with maturity, sensitivity, and intelligence. She has also proven herself a wonderful and confident performer having won the Bill and Mary Ann Knight Competition last spring. I am very proud of her!"
Fowler is a native of Carrollton, Ga.
Founded in 1873, Shorter University is a Christ-centered, four-year liberal arts university committed to excellence in education. U.S. News & World Report and The Princeton Review annually include Shorter on their lists of best Southeastern Colleges. The university offers traditional bachelor's degrees in 40 areas of study, online courses and degree programs, undergraduate programs for working adults, associate's and master's programs. Learn more about Shorter at www.shorter.edu.
Dawn Tolbert
Shorter Celebrates International Education Week
U.S. News ranks Shorter among South's Best, Best for Veterans

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import logging
from pyvisdk.exceptions import InvalidArgumentError

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log = logging.getLogger(__name__)

def GlobalMessageChangedEvent(vim, *args, **kwargs):
    '''This event records a change to the global message.'''

    obj = vim.client.factory.create('ns0:GlobalMessageChangedEvent')

    # do some validation checking...
    if (len(args) + len(kwargs)) < 5:
        raise IndexError('Expected at least 6 arguments got: %d' % len(args))

    required = [ 'message', 'chainId', 'createdTime', 'key', 'userName' ]
    optional = [ 'changeTag', 'computeResource', 'datacenter', 'ds', 'dvs',
        'fullFormattedMessage', 'host', 'net', 'vm', 'dynamicProperty', 'dynamicType' ]

    for name, arg in zip(required+optional, args):
        setattr(obj, name, arg)

    for name, value in kwargs.items():
        if name in required + optional:
            setattr(obj, name, value)
        else:
            raise InvalidArgumentError("Invalid argument: %s.  Expected one of %s" % (name, ", ".join(required + optional)))

    return obj

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Samantha Hegseth
Samantha Hegseth is the second wife to Pete Hegseth and they got married in the year 2010. This was after he got a divorce from his first wife called Meredith Schwartz who was also his high school girlfriend. She has given birth to three children. The first child was born before their marriage.
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When it comes to the biography of Samantha Hegseth, there is not much information available online. This may be because she is not a public figure or a celebrity. This is one of the reasons why the family was able to stay together for long. She was born in the year 1980, in the city of Minneapolis in Minnesota. Her husband is a former executive director for Vets for Freedom and she was a senior counterinsurgency instructor.
He works on Fox News Channel and he had worked here since 2014. He provides the analysis and commentary on primetime and daytime programming of the station.
Pete is among the well known and also most admired people that you can find in News Industry. He is a famous person from the time he started to work at Fox News and has authored a book called In The Arena. He had worked for the country in Afghanistan and Iraq in the army.
The two met because of mutual friends and they fall in love with one another. It was a life at their first meeting. It was when Pete had divorced his wife and it was hard for him. The wedding with Samantha took place at St John's Episcopal Church of Washington D.C and this is where they vowed to live together. Their three sons are Rex, Boone and Gunner. They go to Eagle Brook Church and they do their studies at Liberty Classical Academy.
Pete is now the host on different channels. He is with Abby Huntsman at Fox news channel, with Jim Acosta at CNN and with Katy Tur at MSNBC. He is also working as a term member for Council on Foreign Relations and he is the author of many editorials in different journals like The Wall Street, New York Post and The Washington Post Journals.
Pete was already married to his first love whom he married after finishing Princeton University for his Bachelor of Arts. They got married in the year 2004 but they divorced in the year 2009. They had no children together.
Pete served first at Infantry platoon leader while at Guantanamo Bay. Afterwards, he went in Samara and Baghdad where he was infantry platoon leader. For his work, he has been awarded Army Commendation medal, Combat Infantryman Badge, Bronze Star Medal and Army Commendation Medal. Pete has an estimated net worth of 3 million and he makes up to 250 thousand per year at Fox News. Only few journalists can make this much at Fox News.


Ball 3: FOUR! Gopal does it in the end, as Rajasthan win by four wickets to collect their second win of the tournament! RR 188/6, win by four wickets!
Behrendorff returns to the attack in the 10th over. Samson goes for a lofted drive over cover off the first delivery, giving the Kerala batsman his first boundary. Two dots and a wide follow, before Samson sets off for a single off the fourth delivery. Four leg byes signalled in the fifth delivery after the ball brushes past Buttler's pad and runs away to the fine leg fence. Buttler collects a single off the last ball to bring up his fifty off just 29 balls! 11 off the over. Rajasthan breach the 100-run barrier at the halfway stage in their innings, and appear well-set to chase 188 down.
RR need 188 to win!
Rahane (C), Buttler, Samson (W), Smith, Tripathi, Livingstone, Gowtham, Archer, Gopal, Unadkat, Kulkarni.
RR win toss: Ajinkya Rahane makes the right call and Rajasthan Royals elect to bowl first against Rohit Sharma's side.
That brings us to the end of the first match of the Saturday double-header, with Rajasthan Royals pulling off a four-wicket win over Mumbai Indians to collect their second victory of IPL 2019, a result that should revive their campaign. Despite the late flurry of wickets, the equation was never out of Rajasthan's grasp, thanks to some vicious hitting by Jos Buttler (89 off 43), who had earlier smashed Alzarri Joseph out of the park with 28 runs off the 13th over.
Time to shift our attention to the second game of the evening, with RCB winning the toss and opting to field against hosts KXIP. Follow live updates on the natch here.
RR chased a target of 188 successfully today - the second highest against MI at Wankhede in IPL. This is RR's third consecutive victory against MI in IPL.
Shreyas once again showing that he is more than a bowler. First he came through with an economical spell in a high scoring game, and now a match winning cameo, albeit lucky. Rajasthan finally have a big win to their name, only their second, and they will be grateful to the brilliance of Buttler for that.
What seemed facile after Buttler's dismissal has found choppy waters, and that can happen when a team is losing. Winning is a habit, but so is losing. It seemed that Buttler had taken Bumrah out of the equation with his blitz, but Bumrah had other ideas.
Hardik Pandya bowls the final over, which lasts just three balls as Gopal hits the winning boundary off the third delivery. Earlier, Gopal had mishit down the ground, with two fielders converging at long off and making a mess of the chance. Rajasthan Royals suffer a major scare with the sudden collapse, but somehow make it past the finish line in the end to collect their second win in seven games.
Rajasthan mucking it up even more outrageously!
Hardik Pandya to bowl the final over, which we will be presenting to you ball-by-ball!
Bumrah starts off the penultimate over by getting Smith caught behind for 12, with Rajasthan suddenly finding two new batsmen at the crease. Bumrah appeals unsuccessfully for lbw against Gowtham off the second, and Mumbai waste the review with the ball going a long way down leg. Joseph appears to have hurt himself while saving a couple of runs at long off in the third delivery, needing immediate attention from the physio. Appeal for caught-behind turned down in the fourth delivery. Gopal collects a boundary off the fifth ball, and is dropped by keeper Kishan off the last ball. RR need 6 to win off the last over!
Tripathi's dismissed off the first delivery, slog-sweeping straight to Hardik at deep midwicket, as Krunal collects a wicket off the first ball of his final over. Three singles collected off the next four deliveries, before Krunal castles Livingstone off the last ball. RR need 14 to win off 12 balls.
Bumrah returns to the attack. Samson and Smith collect a single each off the first four deliveries, before the former is dismissed lbw for 31 off the penultimate delivery. Tripathi walks to the crease, and is off the mark right away with a single. RR need 17 to win off 18 balls.
Hardik's brother Krunal bowls from the other end. Smith collects a boundary off the first ball, getting a top-edge that sends the ball running away to third man. Samson collects one for himself four deliveries later, paddling the ball towards fine leg. 10 off the over. Timeout signalled by the umpire. RR need 20 to win off 24 balls.
Hardik Pandya brought into the attack for the first time in this innings. Single collected off each delivery of the over barring the last. With just 35 needed to win off 36 balls, with eight wickets in hand, Rajasthan can get the job done with the ones and twos, and the occasional four or six.
Samson gets a thick leading-edge, with the fielder diving at cover in vain. Buttler miscues while attempting a big hit off the following delivery, and ends up offering Suryakumar a simple catch at long off. Double collected off each of the next two balls by Samson, followed by a quick single off the fifth. Single to Smith off the last delivery. Seven runs and a wicket off the over. Less than run-a-ball now, as RR need 35 to win off 36 balls.
He's killed the chase in one over! Brought it down to a run a ball. Almost as if Buttler is saying, I've had enough of these West Indians redefining chasing, I'll show that I can do it too! Sensational hitting. What stands out is that he's able to hit even good balls, near perfect yorkers, for four!
Alzarri Joseph may have suffered his first major jolt in the IPL after a couple of winning efforts in the previous games, as Buttler smashes him for two sixes and four fours to collect 28 runs off the 13th over! It's Rajasthan's game to lose now. RR need 42 to win off 42 balls.
Chahar returns to the attack, with Buttler hitting the first ball of the over towards long on for another maximum — the fifth of his innings so far. Samson collects a six for himself three deliveries later, going for an inside-out loft over long off. 15 off the over. Rajasthan Royals are running away with the game right now. They need 70 to win off 48 balls.
Bumrah returns to the attack, with Mumbai desperate for a wicket right now, preferrably that of Buttler, who drives towards sweeper cover for a brace off the second ball before handing the strike to Samson after a single off the fourth delivery. Good over from Bumrah though, with just three coming off his second. RR need 85 to win off 54.
They've stayed with the pace by attacking even the spinners, and critically, Buttler is still there with another half century. You might say that Rahane got out at just the right time, before the slowdown that he sometimes had against spin. There isn't enough time for anyone else to play an anchor innings though, Samson, Smith and Co will need to keep an eye on the RRR.
Krunal continues from the other end. Buttler continues to make merry against the spinners, hitting two maximums in the over — both over long on. 16 runs leaked by Krunal in the over.
Rahane has now scored 30-plus runs in each of his last six innings at Wankhede in IPL.
Chahar returns from the other end, as Rohit goes for spin from both sides post-powerplay. Buttler smashes the ball over long on for a maximum off the third delivery, and pulls towards deep midwicket for a single two deliveries later. Nine runs collected off Chahar's second over of the innings.
IPL 12 Match 27 MI vs RR at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai: Bumrah starts off the penultimate over by getting Smith caught behind for 12, with Rajasthan suddenly finding two new batsmen at the crease. Bumrah appeals unsuccessfully for lbw against Gowtham off the second, and Mumbai waste the review with the ball going a long way down leg. Joseph appears to have hurt himself while saving a couple of runs at long off in the third delivery, needing immediate attention from the physio. Appeal for caught-behind turned down in the fourth delivery. Gopal collects a boundary off the fifth ball, and is dropped by keeper Kishan off the last ball. RR need 6 to win off the last over!
IPL 2019, MI vs RR, Today's Match Preview: Buoyed by a fantastic win against Kings XI Punjab, Mumbai Indian will look to maintain their winning momentum against struggling Rajasthan Royals at the Wankhede Stadium.
In their previous match against the Punjab side, stand-in-captain Kieron Pollard played a sensational knock of 83 in 31 just balls, helping his team chase down 198 in 20 overs. Rohit Sharma, who missed the last match due to an injury looks all set to lead the team on Saturday, as confirmed by team director Zaheer Khan. With three consecutive wins in as many matches, Mumbai are going through a good run as they find themselves third on the points table.
Bowling has been some sort of concern for Mumbai especially the form of Hardik Pandya with the ball. Hardik has been leaking way too many runs and which puts pressure on the batsmen.
Ajinkya Rahane-led Rajasthan Royals have won only once in this season and they would know that time's running out for them. They are just above Royal Challengers Bangalore on the points table, having lost five matches.
Some of their key players like Rahane himself, all-rounder Ben Stokes and former Australia captain Steve Smith have struggled to get going. Even Jos Buttler is finding it hard to maintain the consistency. They desperately in need of some inspiration from somewhere.
Mumbai Indians Team 2019 Players list: Rohit Sharma (C), Quinton de Kock (WK), Suryakumar Yadav, Yuvraj Singh, Kieron Pollard, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, Mitchell McClenaghan, Jason Behrendorff, Mayank Markande, Rahul Chahar, Jasprit Bumrah, Alzarri Joseph, Anmolpreet Singh, Siddhesh Lad, Ankul Roy, Evin Lewis, Pankaj Jaiswal, Ben Cutting, Ishan Kishan (wk), Aditya Tare, Rasikh Salam, Barinder Sran, Jayant Yadav.
Rajasthan Royals Team 2019 Players list: Steve Smith, Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer, Jos Buttler, Ashton Turner, Ish Sodhi, Oshane Thomas, Liam Livingstone, Ajinkya Rahane (C), Sanju Samson (WK), Shubham Ranjane, Stuart Binny, Shreyas Gopal, Sudhesan Midhun, Jaydev Unadkat, Prashant Chopra, Mahipal Lomror, Aryaman Birla, Riyan Parag, Dhawal Kulkarni, Krishnappa Gowtham, Varun Aaron, Shashank Singh, Manan Vohra, Rahul Tripathi.


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Q: How to solve Real Analysis Find the Fouries series of the function given below
$$
f(x) = \lvert\cos t\rvert \quad\hbox{for all $t$}.
$$
What does it means for all $x$? Can someone show me some  work done so that I can understand better?

A: We treat the function $f$ as a $2\pi$-periodic function, so that we can apply the most basic formulae for the Fourier coefficients. The function $f$ is even; whence all sine coefficients $b_k$ are $=0$, and
$$a_k={1\over\pi}\int_{-\pi}^\pi f(x)\ \cos(k x)\ dx={2\over\pi}\int_0^\pi f(x)\ \cos(k x)\ dx\qquad(k\geq0)\ .$$
In addition, $f$ is even with respect to the point $x={\pi\over2}$, and this implies that $a_k$ is $=0$ for odd $k$ (to see this draw the graphs of $f$ and of $x\mapsto\cos\bigl((2j+1)x\bigr)$ in the same figure). In the interval $\bigl[0,{\pi\over2}\bigr]$ our function is just $x\mapsto\cos x$. Therefore we get
$$\eqalign{a_{2j}&={4\over\pi}\int_0^{\pi/2}\cos x\cos(2j x)\ dx={2\over\pi}\int_0^{\pi/2}\bigl(\cos((2j+1)x)+\cos((2j-1))x\bigr)\ dx\cr
&={2\over\pi}\left.\biggl({1\over2j+1}\sin((2j+1)x)+{1\over2j-1}\sin((2j-1)x)\biggr)\right|_0^{\pi/2} \cr
&={2\over\pi}\biggl({(-1)^j\over 2j+1} -{(-1)^j\over 2j-1}\biggr)={4\over\pi}{(-1)^{j-1}\over 4j^2-1}\ .\cr}$$
In particular $a_0={4\over\pi}$. All in all we obtain
$$|\cos x|={a_0\over2}+\sum_{j=1}^\infty a_{2j}\cos(2j x)={2\over\pi}-{4\over\pi}\sum_{j=1}^\infty{(-1)^j\over 4j^2-1}\cos(2jx)\ ,$$
and the resulting series is uniformly convergent on ${\mathbb R}$.

A: The Fourier series of a function $f(x)$ is a series on the form
$${1\over 2}a_0 +\sum_{n=1}^\infty \bigl(a_n \cos(nx) + b_n \sin(nx)\bigr)$$
where the coefficients $a_n$ and $b_n$ are given by the formulas $$a_n ={1\over\pi}\int_{-\pi}^{\pi}f(x)\cos(nx)\,{\rm d}x\qquad n=0,1,2,\dots$$ $$b_n ={1\over\pi}\int_{-\pi}^\pi f(x)\sin(nx)\,{\rm d}x\qquad n=1,2,\dots$$
Since your function $f(x)=|\cos(x)|$ is an even function, all $b_n=0$. (You are integrating an odd function over a symmetric interval about 0.)
For the same reason, you get that
$$a_n ={2\over\pi}\int_0^\pi f(x)\cos(nx)\,{\rm d}x$$
Your function $f(x)$ is defined by $f(x)=\cos(x)$ for $0\leq x\leq {\pi\over 2}$, and by $f(x)=-\cos(x)$ for ${\pi\over 2}\leq x\leq \pi$, so it might be wise to divide this integral in two parts when computing it.
When you have computed the Fourier coefficients, try to plot $f(x)$ and the series you get by using the first few terms of the Fourier series. You should get two reasonably similar-looking graphs.

A: Note that the Fourier coefficients of a function $f(x)$ are given by
$$c_n=\frac{1}{2\pi}\int_0^{2\pi}e^{-inx}f(x)dx.$$
For $f(x)=|\cos x|$ we have
$$\begin{align}
c_n &=\frac{1}{2\pi}\int_0^{2\pi}e^{-inx}|\cos x|dx\\
&=\frac{1}{2\pi}\int_0^{\pi}e^{-inx}|\cos x|dx+\frac{1}{2\pi}\int_{\pi}^{2\pi}e^{-inx}|\cos x|dx\\
\end{align}$$
and if $n$ is odd we have $e^{-in(x+\pi)}=-e^{-inx}$ so the two integrals cancel. If $n$ is even then $e^{-in(x+\pi)}=e^{-inx}$ so both integrals agree and
$$\begin{align}
c_n&=\frac{1}{\pi}\int_0^{\pi}e^{-inx}|\cos x|dx\\
&=\frac{1}{\pi}\int_0^{\pi/2}e^{-inx}\cos xdx+\frac{1}{\pi}\int_{\pi/2}^{\pi}e^{-inx}\cos xdx\\
\end{align}$$
and if $\frac{n}{2}$ is odd we have $e^{-in(x+\pi/2)}=e^{-inx+(n/2)\pi}=-e^{-inx}$ so the integrals again cancel. Thus if $n\neq 4m$ the Fourier coefficient $c_n$ is $0$. If $n=4m$ then we have $e^{-in(x+\pi/2)}=e^{-inx}$ so both integrals agree and
$$\begin{align}
c_n&=\frac{2}{\pi}\int_0^{\pi/2}e^{-inx}\cos xdx\\
&=\frac{2}{\pi}\int_0^{\pi/2}\cos nx\cos xdx+\frac{2i}{\pi}\int_0^{\pi/2}\sin nx\cos xdx\\
\end{align}$$
and both of these integrals can be found in many tables, or on Wolfram|Alpha.

A: One can use Fourier series on a general interval $[a, a + L]$,
$$ \sum _{n=-\infty }^{\infty }{\it c\_n}\,{{\rm e}^{{\frac {2\,inx\pi }{
L}}}} \,,$$
where $c_n$ are given by,
$$ c_n = \int _{a}^{a+L}\!f \left( x \right) {{\rm e}^{{\frac {-2\,in\pi \,x}{L
}}}}{dx}$$
Applying this to our problem, first we note that |cos(x)| is a periodic function of period $\pi$ and $\cos(x)$ is positive on the interval $[-\frac{\pi}{2},\frac{\pi}{2}]$,
$$ c_n = \int _{-\frac{\pi}{2}}^{-\frac{\pi}{2}+\pi} \cos(x) {{\rm e}^{{\frac {-2\,in\pi \,x}{L
}}}}{dx} = 2\,{\frac { \left( -1 \right) ^{1+n}}{\pi \, \left( 4\,{n}^{2}-1
 \right) }}
\,.$$
Then the Fourier series of $|\cos(x)|$ is given by,
$$ |\cos(x)| =  \sum _{n=-\infty }^{\infty }2\,{\frac { \left( -1 \right) ^{1+n}}{\pi \, \left( 4\,{n}^{2}-1\right) }}\,{{\rm e}^{{\frac {2\,inx\pi }{L}}}}\,. $$
Writing the sum as,
$$ |\cos(x)| =  2\,{\pi }^{-1}+\sum _{n=1}^{\infty}2\,{\frac { \left( -1 \right) ^{1+n}
 \left( {{\rm e}^{2\,inx}}+{{\rm e}^{-2\,inx}} \right) }{\pi \,
 \left( 4\,{n}^{2}-1 \right) }}
= 2\,{\pi }^{-1}+\sum _{n=1}^{\infty}4\,{\frac { \left( -1 \right) ^{1+n}
\cos \left( 2\,nx \right) }{\pi \, \left( 4\,{n}^{2}-1 \right) }}
\,, $$
which gives the desired result.


The little village of Sant'Agata sui Due Golfi is located on a ridge above the Bay of Naples and the Gulf of Salerno. The locals love this place, because you can enjoy a wonderful view of the surrounding hill and of the sea. Its position is strategic: the village is situated between the Sorrento Coast and the Amalfi Coast.
Since the 19th century, tourists come to Sant'Agata from all over the word, for its beautiful landscape, its healthy climate and for the hospitality of the locals. Its strategic position permits to do trips and hikes into the wonderful and scenic surroundings. For example, Sorrento is reachable on foot in about half an hour by several different beautiful trails, and Positano and Amalfi are not so far away.
At only five minute far by car, the typical small fishing village of Nerano offers a good opportunity to taste fresh fish dishes, go to the beaches and the lidos and rent a boat. Not far you can find the fishing village of Massa Lubrense with its small harbor.
In the little village is worth a visit the Benedictine Monastery of San Paolo al Deserto, where you can see a great view of the Gulf of Naples and Salerno. Visit the inside, you can find wonderful majolica tiled rooms.
Sant'Agata sui due Golfi is especially well-known for the gourmet restaurant Don Alfonso 1890, situated at the Piazza. It is the twelve Italy's most famous restaurants. The cuisine is based on fresh South-Italian products, that the chefs are in parts for their own garden. Tourists can also find accommodation for all budget and all need.


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Fatoumata Ba ou Bâ est un nom notamment porté par :

 Fatoumata Ba (1978-), une universitaire et psychiatre sénégalaise ;
 Fatoumata Bâ (1986-), une entrepreneuse sénégalaise.

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CFD or Computational Fluid Dynamics is a technology that enables us to study the dynamics of things that flow. Using CFD, we can build a computational model that represents a system or device that we want to study, in this case Aussie Invader 5R.
CFD software gives us the power to simulate flows of gases, liquids, heat and mass transfer through computer modelling. Using CFD software, we can build a 'virtual prototype' of Aussie Invader 5R and then apply real-world physics to the model, and the software will provide us with images and data, which predict the performance of that design.
The Aussie Invader team has assembled a crack team of Mechanical Engineers from Curtin Universities Fluid Dynamics Research Group (FDRG) and iVec to assist us with some of the major hotspot areas on our racer that need some serious design and CFD calculations.
Certain features of our car have been set in concrete from the time of her inception, for example, centre of gravity, centre of area, front area profile, windscreen angle and location for rocket motor hardware and plumbing.
The areas that are now being seriously investigated include nose and front wheel fairing, fin and tailplane angle, section and surface area, reflected shock wave from tailplane and "V" underbelly, variable pitch and down force adjustment front and rear, tailplane adjustment, canards (wings) for the front of the car and rear axle fairing options, just to mention a few. These unknowns all present engineering opportunities our new found friends to study and make recommendations on.
CFD For The Nose Design
Dan McKeon, worked for the Jordan Formula One team for several years. Dan was an early part of the team and was tasked with running assessing nose designs for Aussie Invader 5R as this is one of the most critical parts of the car.
The airflow over the whole car is dictated by what happens at the nose. Dan ran tests on different nose designs and the CFD results helped in the final selection of the nose design. Click here to read Dan's full report.
Pressure Contour
Early development of Aussie Invader 5R's CFD was also undertaken by Soto Engineering and these images are courtesy of them and the work they initially undertook. The following selection of early CFD images has helped us to develop Aussie Invader 5R and refine many aspects on the initial design. The images on the left show a pressure plot through the length of the model, showing relatively high pressure acting upon the nose, front wheels and bottom and rear end of the car.
Mach Number
These images depict the changing Mach number generated by the cars shape. The contour lines illustrate where the mach number is changing in relation to the fluids velocity. As can be seen, there is a build up around the front and rear wheel. These areas show where strong shocks will form when the vehicle goes supersonic.
The following images depict the velocity of the fluid stream around the vehicle. As can be seen, there is a high velocity produced by protruding geometries such as wheels and air foils. The rear of the vehicle produces a considerable wake as does the rear wheels. Areas in red show where the fluid stream is moving quickly and thus creating pressure drag on the vehicles surfaces.
These images are from work conducted in the early stages to allow us to understand the areas of car that needed our attention. We will never be able to make this car completely aerodynamic, but we can reduce the drag as much as possible and try to make Aussie Invader 5R as safe and predictable as possible in this hostile and constantly changing environment.


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Galatea Resurrects #19 (A Poetry Engagement)
FOUR PAINTINGS BY GUY BEINING
TOM HIBBARD Reviews
Four Paintings by Poet Guy Beining
THE RAIN ON FOREGROUND-BACKGROUND STREET:
GUY BEINING REMEMBERS THE MISTAKES OF DEATH
"Evening colors linger on the mountain path"
-Tu Fu
The ideas of "perspective" and "dimension" in art are points of embarkation of the modern tradition. During the Renaissance, paintings of objects were done in a new mathematical way in which the artist was able to divest the mind of an ingrained image and portray that object as it appeared in common observation. Though the artist—and everyone—knew that two sides of a street were in fact long and at every point parallel, the artist portrayed them with converging foreshortened lines, capturing the visual impression of looking at a real street as it vanished into the distance. In this way, painting advanced into three dimensions—a momentous breakthrough in humanity's understanding of itself.
Perspective, dimension might be called the birth of realism. These are notions that continue to evolve. Perspective surely must have something to do with the style of painting called "trompe l'oeil" (fool the eye). Perspective is an expedition into terrains of visibility. It is the guiding principle along the labyrinthine corridors of impracticality and deception. In one early 1900s painting, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner painted a portrait in which the face was viewed in profile with colors and features similar to Egyptian painting. In doing so Kirchner probably was criticizing the world in which he lived as incapable of modern compassion and understanding.
A 20th Century experimental painter such as Henri Matisse might paint a street differently and more fancifully than the streets and squares and churches of the Renaissance. The lines of the depiction might be naively curved and nonmechanical. The lines of each side of a street might get farther apart as they vanish into the distance rather than closer together. The colors might be whimsically altered and stars might appear all around the object depicted. In this way, Matisse and many other painters place their artworks in no "naturalistic" but rather a quantum or a timeless abstract, imaginative realm in which the barriers between the mechanical and the poetic have disappeared.
The Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko's paintings invariably consist of two panels with a horizontal line between. Viewing them in series, one realizes that each painting is a version of an archetypal setting of foreground and background. Rothko's repetition of the image leads the way in showing us that this foreground and background might be considered symbolic. The pictures waver between the flatness of the canvass and the three dimensionality of landscape. Rothko's artworks become a model of our ability to view and estimate the problems of society, our need to distinguish symptom from cause, to place a specific action or event in the larger context from which it takes its true meaning and effect—in short, to distinguish for ourselves a variety of degrees of realism. Andy Warhol's paintings are similarly about perspective in that the shocking "unnaturally" colored iconography is a foreground without a background—devoid of perspective.
The advance into abstract painting brings into art and literature a new "dimension" that is as significant and notable a breakthrough as the advance into three-dimensions made during the Renaissance. This new dimension is the inexhaustible virtual and conceptual dimension of thought and mind, so that the visible and the literal are no longer the exclusive purveyors of "realism." A definition of the word "perspective" is wisdom. The scene of modern or, perhaps, Post-modern artworks is the discourse of visibility. It is a fourth dimension of permanence, knowledge and measurement. This new perspective and dimension comprises a collage of qualitatively diverse components—photographic images, mathematical symbols, verbal fragments, visual fragments, actual objects, blank space, historic evidence, naturalistic representations, mass media data, scientific diagrams, stream of consciousness, text, types of fabric. Most importantly the "objects" in these types of paintings are presented, via a deconstructive aesthetic of freedom, in their meaningful substantiveness rather than their superficial physical impenetrability. The resulting works are a conceptual ensemble that presents a credible, transcendent type of reality—a psychic representation with a more varied, insightful, moral, reliable, far-reaching and creative "perspective."
It's been quite a while since I first viewed the work of artist and poet Guy Beining in such neo-Dadaist Xerox 'zines as PhotoStatic and Raunch-O-Rama. Perhaps the centerpiece of his new work is a four-by-six pamphlet Out of the Woods into the Sun from Kamini Press, Stockholm, Sweden/Hydra, Greece. The book has a small rudimentary color artwork on the cover—similar to the cover artwork of Jack Kerouac's Poems All Sizes—a color thumbnail painting of the author by Henry Denander and orange endpapers. The contents are reproductions of fifteen of Beining's color artworks, each of them, imbued in surreal and symbolic color, depicting suggestively but attentively—gently with quiet understanding—what might sarcastically be called the actual human form, in extreme philosophical nakedness. Forbidden to add on anything outside the empirical, the line drawings and water colored spaces contain flabby protoplasmic bodies of indistinguishable gender, nudity deformed from the inaccurate yellow of adamant lipstick, garbled foreground-background both producing and inhibiting formal development, geometric spaces between people, confusingly extra-complicated polluted freedom, the seductiveness of the intentional.
These fifteen small works convey what occurs as the arbitrary mythical justification of Mankind's Ptolemaic self-conception endures the unavoidable disasters of infinite foreground-background. These are the instances that require humanity to search for more well-founded explanations of itself. Science with its uniquely impartial methodology is invented. Metaphysical events begin to take shape, such as life's origins. Reasons have to be found for every occurrence and every law. The problematic of pleasure—of what is acceptable behavior and what is "sin"—arises. Essentially the word "sin" is thrown out as arbitrary. The language of individuals begins to carefully avoid presumption and exaggeration. Objects begin to be scrutinized and questioned in systematic detail. A marvelous picture, based solely on unbiased truth, of humanity and the physical setting in which it dwells, comes into being.
Beining's pictures are of humanity from an anthropological perspective, without predisposition toward humanity's value or worthlessness. In many ways, Beining's portraiture of human reality is similar to German Expressionism. In content more than form, Max Beckmann's famous painting The Night, with its cluttered pastiche of abuse and criminality, has the same philosophical resonance as Beining's amorphous, indeterminate blobs. The theme of Beckmann's paintings is inner structure in transition from the the religious to the philosophical. Though they patently don't appear so, the people in Beckmann's The Night are as unformed as those in Beining's paintings. Much of German art at the beginning of the 20th Century is similar. In Brecht's slapstick morality play, Threepenny Opera, the underworld characters sing such lines as, "Or is it only those that have the money/Can enter in the land of milk and honey?" And "So gentlemen do not be taken in/ Men live exclusively by mortal sin."
The world is poor and men are bad
There is of course no more to add
What Brecht is asserting is that the iron-clad ideals surrounding good and evil have been replaced by a more ambiguous and lenient, less arbitrary standard for judging human actions. Depicting what is hidden, the mistakes and failures, the baseness of humanity—rather than those times that it achieves the impossible and conforms perfectly to inhuman expectations—increases self-knowledge and realism. Rather than excusing crime Brecht is laying the foundation for its elimination. A pre-determined imposed iconic visibility is replaced by a subjective style of virtue; unquestioned formal behavior is replaced by the unaided, intense "technologies of the self."
The title Out of the Woods and into the Sun indicates this transformation—parallel with the shift in Christianity from the repetitious sacrifice of Mosaic Law to the solitary suffering of individuals. In Beckmann's paintings, in Beining's paintings, without referencing anonymous structure of pre-established authority, the raison d'etre of the artwork has to find a derivation in new, less arbitrary, more vigilantly grasped sources. It has to apply its discoveries and insights. It has to observe and rely upon other support for human action—curiosity, imagination, utility, application, thought, living together. It has to answer difficult questions. In saying that "Man is nothing other than what he makes of himself," Sartre emphasizes absolute freedom, but he acknowledges in this freedom the possibility of a deeper sense of the divine. The only axiomatic ground rules are "death and taxes." Everything else has to be mined from beneath the windswept surface. In some ways, initially art produced in this manner is "slower" and more clumsy, less precise and focused than the arbitrarily justified work—which is what Beining's artworks in this chapbook especially portray. But eventually the new work demonstrates a deeper and more immense, a more powerful and persuasive efficacy. Donald Kuspit, in his article on Beckmann's "Psychotic Realism," writes that "Modern means to strip away superficial social appearances to reveal existential reality." The whole of the 20th Century was permeated with this desire for greater perception and involvement, more penetrating and generative understanding. Karl Jaspers writes of the artists of his time:
They wanted to take themselves seriously; they searched for the hidden reality; they wanted to know what was knowable; and they thought that by understanding themselves they could arrive at the foundation of their being.
The removal of unquestioned, unquestionable support in humanity's conception of existence—such factors as predisposition toward moral precepts—gave rise to the movement of the Modern aesthetic endeavor of revealing in comprehensive terms the circumstances surrounding human existence. It has made our species into voyagers in the dimensions of our own understanding, the discoverers and inventors of our own spiritual purpose. What's interesting about Beining's paintings is that he seems to depict this endeavor as in its early stages.
Tom Hibbard has had recent work published in the Australian issue of Jacket, and the current issue of Moria. He also has a new collection of poetry, Sacred River of Consciousness, from Moon Willow press. He is currently involved in the political struggles in the U.S. and world against mindless far-right extremism.
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Presenting engagements (including reviews) of poetry books & projects. Some issues also offer Featured Poets, a "The Critic Writes Poems" series, and/or Feature Articles.
Editor: Eileen Tabios
Guide to Other Issues
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Garrett J. Brown
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j/j hastain
Jaime Townsend
Jean Vengua
Jeannine Hall Gailey
Jeff Harrison
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jim mccrary
John Bloomberg-Rissman
John Herbert Cunningham
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Lucy Biederman
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Issue No. 19 TABLE OF CONTENTS
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
FOUR BOOKS by CLARICE LISPECTOR
WILLIAM BRONK: BURSTS OF LIGHT: THE COLLECTED LATE...
THE COLLECTED POEMS OF LUCILLE CLIFTON 1965-2010
FAULT TREE by KATHRYN L. PRINGLE
STILL: OF THE EARTH AS THE ARK WHICH DOES NOT MOV...
UNCERTAIN TIME by RICHARD CADDEL
LETTERS TO MADELEINE: TENDER AS MEMORY by GUILLAUM...
MAYBE A PAINTER by CHRISTINA FISHER
RING OF BONE: LEW WELCH COLLECTED POEMS
DIVINE MADNESS by PAUL PINES
RE- by KRISTI MAXWELL
MAY APPLE DEEP by MICHAEL SIKKEMA
CAPTAIN POETRY'S SUCKER PUNCH... by KENNETH WARREN...
NEGRO LEAGUE BASEBALL by HARMONY HOLIDAY
MAP OF THE HYDROGEN WORLD by STEVE HALLE
HART ISLAND by STACY SZYMASZEK
BODY OF WATER by ERIN M. BERTRAM
ANGLES OF INCIDENTS by JON CURLEY
DECK OF DEEDS by RODRIGO TOSCANO
IT CAN BE SOLVED BY WALKING by JENNIFER WALLACE
BEYOND THE CHAMELEON'S SKILL by DARIUS COOPER
BENDING AT THE ELBOW by MATYEI YANKELEVICH
EVERY DRESS A DECISION by ELIZABETH AUSTEN
PUBLICATIONS edited/by BRIAN ANG, RAE ARMANTROUT, ...
ABSOLUTE ELSEWHERE by JAMES DAVIES and SIMON TAYLO...
FOR THE CITY THAT NEARLY BROKE ME by BARBARA JANE ...
THE SILVER BOOK by JEN BERVIN
COMMON TIME by CHRIS PUSATERI
PORTRAIT AND DREAM: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by BILL...
RUST OR GO MISSING by LILY BROWN
ARDOR: POEMS OF LIFE by JANINE CANAN
PHYLA OF JOY by KAREN AN-HWEI LEE
SLEEPING WITH YOU AND OTHER NIGHT-TIME ADVENTURES ...
ISLANDS IN THE BLOOD by GEOFF STEVENS
A Poem From THE FEELING IS ACTUAL by PAOLO JAVIER
CLOUDFANG :: CAKEDIRT by DANIELA OLSZEWSKA
BAN by BHANU KAPIL
USELYSSES by NOEL BLACK
THE SHEPHERD'S ELEGY by JOHN C. GOODMAN
ON A PLANET WITHOUT VISA: SELECTED POEMS AND OTHER...
AS LONG AS TREES LAST by HOA NGUYEN
A PARTIAL VIEW TOWARD NAZARETH by KATHRYN RANTALA
THUNDERBIRD by DOROTHEA LASKY
THE WHITE CALF KICKS by DEBORAH SLICER
APPROXIMATING DIAPASON by J/J HASTAIN and TOD THIL...
CUTTING TIME WITH A KNIFE by MICHAEL LEONG
PUBLICATIONS by SHIRLETTE AMMONS, MICHELLE DETORIE...
EARTHQUAKE CAME TO HARLEM by JACKIE SHEELER and GL...
PARTYKNIFE by DAN MAGERS and AUTOPSY TURVY by THOM...
Essay: "REMEMBERING PAUL BLACKBURN" by jim mccrary...
ESSAY ON VISUAL WRITING by TOM HIBBARD
Essay: "ENGAGING MY TRANS" by j/j hastain
FEATURED POET: MICAH CAVALERI
THE CRITIC WRITES POEMS


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If the Planning Commission votes to approve the zoning, the applicant will move forward in the process to the next two public hearing by the full County Commission (August 17 and October 26).
If the Planning Commission votes against the proposal, the developer is likely to withdraw the application as was done the last two attempts. Seldom will the County Commission approve zoning changes that are not approved by the Planning Commission. This is why letters, emails and appearances at the Planning Commission is so important.
The Developers meeting on July 18is not an official meeting or requirement of the rezoning process. Input and discussing is not on record. The developer will host the meeting with refreshments and attempt to sell the project. The developer can not be held accountable for what may be promised unless it is in the application or they go on record with the promise at the public hearing which is recorded and transcribed.
That is the 4 dates of importance for this process. Hopefully it will end with the Planning Commission vote.
Please email the planning commission and plan on attending the public hearing on July 24th at 5:30pm, County Center. No action has been taken at this time. Next step will be public notice, signs posted at property, public hearing and the vote. Then we get 31 homes or 131 homes. Contactdavidboyett@aol.com for questions or discussion.
A rezoning request has been filed by the property owners, Pinecrest Land Company of Mokena, IL, to build 164 homes adjacent to FHT from the property lines behind Keeler Oak St, Mission Oak Dr. and Burnt Oak Ln. The development will have a single entry/exit on Lithia Pinecrest Rd. The land is currently zoned Agricultural Rural and restricted to 32 homes on 5 acre lots.
This is the third attempt by the owners to rezone the property to Residential so they can build more homes. Community protest has been instrumental in keeping the property rural. Concerns have been mailed, emailed and presented in person at the past two hearings. The most recent hearing was in 2013. Most concerns focused on urban sprawl, traffic, schools, public safety, water resources and habitat.
Telephone: (813) 272-5940 Address: 601 E Kennedy Blvd, 18th floor, Tampa, FL, 33602.
Monday,July 24,2017 at 5:30 p.m.
Where: Planning Commission Board Room,18th Floor of the County Center Building located at 601 E.Kennedy Boulevard, Tampa,Florida 33602.
The proposed amendment is intended to change the land use on 164± acres from Agricultural Rural- 1/5 (AR-1/5) to Residential-1(RES-1). The AR-1/5 category permits a maximum density of one (1) dwelling unit (du) per five (5) acres and a 0.25 FAR or a maximum of 40,000 square feet (sq. ft.) of non-residential uses. The Residential-1 category permits a maximum of one (1) dwelling unit (du) per acre and a 0.25 FAR or maximum of 30,000 square feet (sq. ft.) of non-residential uses. Currently, up to 32 units can be built on the site under the (AR-1/5) category. The proposed amendment would allow an additional 132 dwelling units for a total of 164 dwelling units on the subject property and a reduction of 10,000 square feet of non-residential uses, subject to Locational Criteria.


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\section{Motivation}

Mueller-Navelet jets \cite{mnjets} in hadron-hadron scattering are two jets produced in each of the forward directions. In standard perturbative QCD calculations, the partonic cross section is computed at fixed order with respect to the strong coupling $\alpha_s,$ while the large logarithms coming from the strong ordering between the hadronic scales and the jets transverse momenta are resummed using the DGLAP evolution equation for the parton densities. In the high-energy regime, in which the jets are separated by a large rapidity interval, other large logarithms arise in the hard cross section itself, due to the strong ordering between the total energy and the hard scales. These can be resummed using the BFKL equation, up to next-leading (NLL) logarithmic accuracy \cite{nllbfkl}.

Although the NLL corrections are accompanied by spurious singularities due to the truncation of the BFKL expansion at a fixed order, it was realised that renormalisation-group constrained regularisations can cure the problem and lead to reasonable NLL-BFKL kernels. While phenomenological studies still require approximations, strong hints of NLL-BFKL effects have been observed in forward-jet production in lepton-hadron collisions \cite{nllfj}.
The present study is devoted to the correlation in azimuthal angle between Mueller-Navelet jets in hadron-hadron collisions. The goal is to motivate this feasible measurement at the Tevatron (Run 2) and at the LHC.

\section{The azimuthal correlation between Mueller-Navelet jets}

We denote $\sqrt{s}$ the total energy of the collision, $k_1$ and $k_2$ the transverse momenta of the two forward jets and $y_1\!>\!0$ and $y_2\!<\!0$ their rapidities. $\Delta\Phi\!=\!\pi\!-\!\phi_1\!+\!\phi_2$ measures the relative azimuthal angle between the two jets, as $\phi_1$ and
$\phi_2$ are the jets angles in the plane transerve to the collision axis. We shall work with the following kinematic variables:
\begin{equation}
\Delta\eta\!=\!y_1\!-\!y_2\ ,\hspace{0.5cm}y\!=\!\frac{y_1\!+\!y_2}2\ ,\hspace{0.5cm}
Q\!=\!\sqrt{k_1k_2}\ ,\hspace{0.5cm}\hspace{0.5cm}\!R=\!\frac{k_2}{k_1}\ .
\end{equation}

We are interested in an observable that is suitable to study the azimuthal decorrelation of the jets as a function of their rapidity separation $\Delta\eta$ and of the ratio of their transverse momenta $R:$
\begin{equation}
2\pi\left.\frac{d\sigma}{d\Delta\eta dR d\Delta\Phi}\right/\frac{d\sigma}{d\Delta\eta dR}=
1+\frac{2}{\sigma_0(\Delta\eta,R)}\sum_{p=1}^\infty \sigma_p(\Delta\eta,R)
\cos(p\Delta\Phi)\ .\label{obs}
\end{equation}
We have expressed the normalized cross-section (\ref{obs}) in terms of the Fourier coefficients
$\sigma_p(\Delta\eta,R)$ given by
\begin{eqnarray}
\sigma_p(\Delta\eta,R)=\int_{E_T}^\infty \frac{dQ}{Q^3}
\left\{\int_{y_<}^{y_>} dy\ x_1f_{eff}(x_1,Q^2/R)x_2f_{eff}(x_2,Q^2R)\right\}
\nonumber\\\alpha_s(Q^2/R)\alpha_s(Q^2R)G(Q,R,Y)
\label{coeff}\end{eqnarray}
where $x_1$ and $x_2$ denote the longitudinal fraction of momentum of the jets with respect to the incident hadrons. In the high-energy regime in which the rapidity interval between the two jets is assumed to be very large, they are given by $x_1\!=\!k_1e^{y_1}/\sqrt{s}$ and $x_2=k_2e^{-y_2}/\sqrt{s}.$

The effective parton distribution $f_{eff}(x,k^2)$ resums the large logarithms
$\log(k^2/\Lambda_{QCD}^2).$ It is given by $f_{eff}\!=\!g\!+\!C_F(q\!+\!\bar{q})/N_c$ in terms of $g$ (resp. $q$, $\bar{q}$), the gluon (resp. quark, antiquark) distribution in the incident hadron. Since the Mueller-Navelet jet measurement involves perturbative values of $k_1$ and $k_2$ and moderate values of $x_1$ and $x_2,$ the cross-section features the collinear factorization of
$f_{eff},$ with $k_1^2$ and $k_2^2$ chosen as factorization scales.

In (\ref{coeff}), we choose to apply the rapidity cuts $y_>\!=\!-y_<\!=\!0.5$ to enforce the symmetric situation $y_2\!\sim\!-y_1.$ For the transverse momentum cut $E_T,$ we will consider two options: $E_T\!=\!20\ \mbox{GeV}$ for the Tevatron (Run 2) and $E_T\!=\!50\ \mbox{GeV}$ for the LHC. We recall that the respective center-of-mass energies are $\sqrt{s}\!=\!1960\ \mbox{GeV}$ and
$\sqrt{s}\!=\!14\ \mbox{TeV}.$

The BFKL Green function $G(Q,R,Y)$ is the main object of the study, it resums the large logarithms $\log(s/Q^2).$ At NLL accuracy, there is an ambiguity corresponding to the specific regularisation procedure. The results displayed in the following are obtained with the S4 scheme of \cite{salam}.

\section{The BFKL Green function at NLL accuracy}

There are many complications when performing a full NLL calculation in the BFKL framework.
In fact, in formula (\ref{coeff}), we have already made the approximation to use leading-order impact factors. Dealing with next-to-leading order impact factors is possible, but goes beyond the scope of our study. The NLL-BFKL Green function is given by
\begin{equation}
G(Q,R,\Delta\eta)=
\int_{1/2-\infty}^{1/2+\infty}\frac{d\gamma}{2i\pi}R^{-2\gamma}
\ e^{\bar\alpha(Q^2)\chi_{eff}[p,\gamma,\bar\alpha(Q^2)]\Delta\eta}
\end{equation}
with the QCD running coupling $\bar\alpha(k^2)\!=\!\alpha_s(k^2)N_c/\pi
\!=\!\left[b\log\left(k^2/\Lambda_{QCD}^2\right)\right]^{-1}$ where $b=11/12\!-\!N_f/6N_c.$

The NLL-BFKL effects are phenomenologically taken into account by the
effective kernel $\chi_{eff}(p,\gamma,\bar\alpha).$ For each value of $p,$ the
NLL-BFKL kernels provided by the regularisation procedure $\chi_{NLL}(p,\gamma,\omega)$
depend on $\gamma,$ the Mellin variable conjugate to $R^2$ and $\omega,$ the
Mellin variable conjugate to $s/Q^2.$ In each case, the NLL kernels obey a consistency condition \cite{salam} which allows to reformulate the problem in terms of the effective kernel $\chi_{eff}(p,\gamma,\bar\alpha):$ it is obtained from the NLL kernel $\chi_{NLL}(p,\gamma,\omega)$ by solving the implicit equation
\begin{equation}
\chi_{eff}=\chi_{NLL}\left(p,\gamma,\bar\alpha\ \chi_{eff}\right)\ .
\end{equation}
The NLL-BFKL kernel $\chi_{NLL}(p,\gamma,\omega)$ is given in \cite{nllmnj} (see also
\cite{sabsch}), where the regularisation procedure of \cite{salam} is extended to nonzero conformal spins $p.$ Finally, we point out that our NLL-BFKL predictions are parameter free.

\section{Results for Mueller-Navelet jet $\Delta\Phi$ distributions}

\begin{figure}[t]
\begin{center}
\epsfig{file=Figa.eps,width=4.5cm}
\hspace{1cm}
\epsfig{file=Figb.eps,width=4.5cm}
\caption{Left plots: the Mueller-Navelet jet $\Delta\Phi$ spectrum (\ref{obs}) for Tevatron (top) and LHC (bottom) kinematics in the NLL-BFKL framework; the renormalization scale uncertainty is indicated. Right plot: prediction for CDF (miniplugs) kinematics.}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

In general, the $\Delta\Phi$ distribution (\ref{obs}) is peaked around $\Delta\Phi\!=\!0,$ which is indicative of jet emissions occuring back-to-back. In addition the $\Delta\Phi$ distribution flattens with increasing $\Delta\eta$ or with $R$ deviating from 1. In the left part of Fig.1, we display the observable (\ref{obs}) as a function of $\Delta\Phi$, for Tevatron (top) and LHC (bottom) kinematics respectively, and we test the sensitivity of our results when using
$Q^2/2,\ Q^2$ or $2Q^2$ as the renormalization scale. The scale dependence turns out to be quite small, of about 5 percent, except for $\Delta\Phi$ close to 0, in which case the uncertainty reaches 20 percent.

On the right plot, predictions for the $\Delta\Phi$ distribution with CDF kinematics are presented. Due to miniplug detectors in the forward and backward regions which allow to increase the acceptance in rapidity and transverse momentum to measure very forward jets, it will indeed be possible to measure jets separated in rapidity by more than 10 units and with transverse momenta as low as $5\ \mbox{GeV}.$ With such low values of transverse momenta and large values of rapidity interval between the two jets, it is also likely that saturation effects could play an important role. First estimations \cite{mnjsat} (with less favorable kinematics) indicate so when considering saturation effets damping the LL-BFKL exponential growth. The implementation of saturation effects with the NLL-BFKL growth certainly deserves to be studied.

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No lame duck FCC decisions, says Wheeler
18 November 2016	by	Steve Blum
broadband, fcc, middle mile, public policy, wheeler
Or better yet, dead stop.
Tom Wheeler is leaving any significant decisions on telecommunications policy to the incoming Trump administration and the new republican majority that will follow on the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC chairman spoke after a very brief open meeting yesterday, saying he has not spoken with anyone from the incoming Trump administration, but he is bowing to pressure from republicans in congress, who want him to walk away from the table now. Wheeler's answer was okey-dokey and, according to a story in FierceWireless by Colin Gibbs, told reporters that his decision to yank nearly everything off of the FCC's agenda…
…was obviously a consequence of the requests to avoid action on issues that were deemed controversial during this transition between administrations. Certain of my colleagues identified the items on today's proposed agenda as controversial and asked they not be considered today. I hope that this doesn't mean that these issues won't be quickly addressed after the transfer of leadership from this agency.
In other words, it'll be up to the next FCC chairman and his or her majority to decide if wholesale broadband facilities and services will be regulated and how rural mobile subsidies will be structured – those were the two biggest issues that were put on hold yesterday. Don't expect new open access requirements for set top boxes, either. Even the privacy rules adopted last month might yet be withdrawn.
He blamed the controversy on big telecoms companies, saying "all of these matters are so-called controversial, because they are opposed principally by the largest incumbent firms in the sector".
Wheeler's surrender might have been coordinated with the lame duck Obama administration, but it was so sudden and so complete that you have wonder if there isn't a different motive behind it. He's a successful lobbyist and power broker who operated over the decades with equal skill in republican and democratic administrations. If his goal is to continue that career, then he might have reckoned that he'll be better positioned if he doesn't piss off the new boss.
Wheeler surrenders to republicans, cancels today's FCC agenda
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An empty line ending with a ";"
Does this mean something ? or it's just a typing error ?
It is perfectly valid. It will just be treated as an empty line/statement and nothing will happen. But it does not mean anything special that you need to worry about if you were to remove it.
As to why it's in your code I don't know. If it was just a single instance I would go with a typo, but multiple instances I would say either on purpose, or a result of some code generation perhaps (and it could be a typo in that), or some other reason - we cannot know without finding the person who made the decision to include it.
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Heathrow will start using thermal cameras to carry out temperature checks on passengers within the next fortnight, as it called for common health screening standards around the world for air travellers.
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John Holland-Kaye, the Heathrow chief executive, told MPs on the transport select committee that a common international standard for health screening in aviation was crucial to restoring confidence and encouraging people to return to flying.
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"This standard is key to minimising transmission of Covid-19 across borders, and the technology we are trialling at Heathrow could be part of the solution."
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This salad is sweet, crunchy, salty, and creamy all at once. Thrown together in less than ten minutes, it's a perfect dish for hot summer days and nights. The key is all in the ingredients. Use the best you can find.
In a bowl, combine the champagne vinegar, olive oil, and a little drizzle of honey. Whisk until emulsified. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Toss the onions into the dressing and set aside.
On a large platter or cutting board, arrange the watermelon chunks. Drizzle a little bit of the champagne vinaigrette and onions on top of the watermelon. Sprinkle a little Maldon salt directly on the watermelon.
Next, start to generously crumble the feta on top.
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Finish with a generous pinch of Maldon salt and freshly cracked black pepper. If you are doing several layers of watermelon, then make sure to repeat the above for each layer.


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PlayStation Gameplay Chart: Single-player games return over Christmas and New Year break
By Kes Eylers-Stephenson, 04 Jan 2022
There are big risers up the chart: the Christmas and New Year break certainly does strange things to game-playing habits. This is our top 40 PlayStation Gameplay Chart for the week ending January 2nd, 2022.
Position Game Publisher Last week
1 Fortnite Epic Games 1
2 Grand Theft Auto V Rockstar Games 2
3 FIFA 22 Electronic Arts 4
4 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Activision 3
5 Call of Duty: Vanguard Activision 5
6 Rocket League Psyonix 6
7 Apex Legends Electronic Arts 7
8 Minecraft Mojang Studios 8
9 Genshin Impact miHoYo 10
10 Destiny 2 Activision 9
11 Battlefield 2042 Electronic Arts 11
12 Marvel's Spider-Man Sony Interactive Entertainment 12
13 Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales Sony Interactive Entertainment 14
14 Overwatch: Origins Edition Blizzard Entertainment 16
15 Assassin's Creed Valhalla Ubisoft 15
16 Red Dead Redemption 2 Rockstar Games 17
17 Ghost of Tsushima Sony Interactive Entertainment 24
18 Far Cry 6 Ubisoft 23
19 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege Ubisoft 18
20 LEGO DC Super-Villains Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment 13
21 Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Activision 20
22 Dead by Daylight 1/2 505 Games 19
23 Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout Devolver Digital 25
24 NBA 2K22 2K Sports 26
25 Among Us Maximum Games 21
26 Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Square Enix 30
27 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt CD Projekt 29
28 Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Square Enix 27
29 It Takes Two Electronic Arts 35
30 Final Fantasy VII Remake Square Enix 22
31 Astro's Playroom Sony Interactive Entertainment 32
32 Horizon Zero Dawn Sony Interactive Entertainment 39
33 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Bethesda Softworks 33
34 Godfall Gearbox Publishing 28
35 Madden NFL 22 Electronic Arts 38
36 Warframe Digital Extremes 34
37 Kena: Bridge of Spirits Ember Lab RE
38 The Last of Us Part II Sony Interactive Entertainment RE
39 FIFA 21 Electronic Arts 36
40 Call of Duty: Black Ops III Activision RE
Chart compiled using gameplay data from over 813,000 active PlayStation accounts. Chart information is copyright TrueGaming Network.
Christmas and New Year have yielded the exact same number one, only now it is more dominant than ever! That game is, of course, Fortnite. With the children off school (and the child-like adults off work), it's clear that the free-to-play battle royale title has mopped up the rest of the competition. The numbers reveal an order of magnitude in difference, as Fortnite was played by 45% more gamers in the break than the next best on the list: Grand Theft Auto V (don't forget to grab your free dollars!). FIFA 22 and Modern Warfare's Warzone mode are not that far behind, but the step down from Modern Warfare to Vanguard is a substantial 25% drop. The rest of the top ten is occupied by the same batch of games as always: Rocket League, Apex Legends, Minecraft, Genshin Impact, and Destiny 2. Perhaps most interestingly of all is the absence of Battlefield 2042, which is struggling to maintain a player base as successfully as the other titles at the top of the chart — EA's FPS has around 50% of the player count of Call of Duty.
If there was any doubt about what game and character is a system seller on PS5 titles, look no further than Spider-Man and Miles Morales at 12 and 13, respectively. The PS5 launch title is rocking better PS5 numbers than PS4, while Spider-Man has fantastic numbers for the PS5 remastered version. Miles Morales has really been the guiding star of the opening year of the PS5, and this re-rise to 13th only confirms that. Ghost of Tsushima in 17th absolutely deserves a mention too, with its fairly even PS5 and PS4 player split. It seems fans have flocked straight back as soon as they had the time to complete Sucker Punch's samurai action-adventure, suggesting that Spider-Man isn't the only IP from PlayStation's catalogue of exclusives that can hold its own.
Slightly further down the list, we see big single-player titles with returning players make a push. In particular, here, we are looking at Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy (26), The Witcher 3 (27), It Takes Two (29), and Horizon (32). All three have become must-plays, either in recent years or more recently, and it seems that players have been happy to pick them back up as time frees up and families draw closer. Of these, we would note that It Takes Two might have expected a higher position on the list given that the game won GOTY at TGAs this year — but with eight weeks spent in the chart since release and three in consecutive order, it's not a bad rebound at all. Shout out to both Kena: Bridge of Spirits and the Last of Us: Part II, as well. Both have re-entered the chart after a little while out of the game, and Kena is dominating on PS5.
That's your lot for this week! Anything you have noticed? Any big surprises? Please drop all enquiries and observations in the comments, and we will endeavour to answer them all.
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Q: Properties of groups of order $p^3$ For non-abelian groups $G$ such that $|G|=p^3$ one can show that
$(1)$ $Z=Z(G)\cong C_p$
$(2)$ $G'=Z$
Now want to show that $G/Z \cong C_p \times C_p$. So,
If $G/Z \cong C_{p^2}$, take its generator, say $\overline{g}$. Then $G=\langle z, \overline{g}\rangle$ which would mean that $G$ is abelian.
Now for $g \in Z$, we have $C(g)= \{g\}$. This would be the same in any group.

Apparently for $g \not\in Z$ we have that $C(g)=\{e,g,gz,gz^2,\dots,gz^{p-1} \}$

I cannot see why the highlighted region holds.

A: Take an element $g\in G$ which is not in the center $Z$.
The centralizer of $g$ is the set of $h\in G$ such that $hg=gh$. Obviously this is a subgroup of $G$ which contains $Z$.
By Lagrange, its cardinal is either $1,p,p^2,p^3$.
Because $g\notin Z$ the cardinal of its centralizer cannot be $p^3$. Furthermore it contains $Z$ and $g$ hence its cardinal is $>p$ hence the cardinal of the centralizer of any non-central element is $p^2$.
Finally I claim that $C(g)$ the centralizer of $g$ will be $C(g)=<g,Z>$ which is what is highlighted.
However $C(g)=G$ for $g\in G$ and this is the conjugacy class of $g\in Z$ which is equal to $\{g\}$.


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Q: Docker socket.io I am trying to run the client from docker so that it connects to my server that is outside the containers but does not connect to me, it only works if I run it locally or if I pass the --netork host parameter, the latter is not valid since I have what to launch multiple containers
This is my code
var client = require('socket.io-client');
var options = {
    secure:true,
    reconnect: true,
    rejectUnauthorized : false,
    forceNew : true
    };
var socket = client.connect('wss://192.168.1.15:8443',options);

var channel = process.env.SESSION;
var canal_1 = channel+'-1';
var canal_2 = channel+'-2';

socket.on('connect', function(){});
socket.on(canal_1, function(data){

    console.log(data)
});
socket.on(canal_2, function(data){

    console.log(data)
});

socket.on('disconnect', function(){});

And this is my docker
FROM node:12.13-alpine

RUN apk update && apk add --update alpine-sdk wget libxtst-dev libpng-dev python2 xorg-server-dev

RUN mkdir -p /home/node/app/node_modules && chown -R node:node /home/node/app

WORKDIR /home/node/app

COPY package*.json ./

RUN npm install robotjs

USER node

RUN npm install

COPY --chown=node:node . .

ENTRYPOINT [ "node"]

And this my package.json
{
  "name": "nodejs-socket",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "nodejs socket",
  "author": "Ricardo Jimenez Hurtado <jimenezhurtadoricardo@gmail.com>",
  "license": "MIT",
  "main": "server.js",
  "keywords": [
    "nodejs",
    "express",
    "socket"
  ],
  "dependencies": {
    "express": "^4.16.4",
    "fs": "0.0.1-security",
    "https": "^1.0.0",
    "socket.io-client": "^2.3.0"
  }
}

And this is my run code for docker
docker run -ti -e SESSION=1 node_server client_socket.js

Thanks for all
Best regards

A: You can achieve what you want here in a number of ways.
The best of which would be to also run your server node in a docker container, and use docker networks to enable communication between the server and clients.

A: I solve this problem with two steps, first I develop a better code with socket.io and socket.io-client for that the client join to a room and sendo step I revise all my network configuration for that my servername can be find for all my networks device
thanks for all


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Fri 24 – Sat 25 May 2019
The final London performances of the critically acclaimed This Heat iteration.
Although widely considered to be Post-Punk's finest, This Heat actually began performing their music in the early days of London's punk era. Within their two albums and EP they perfected a strange and volatile new strain of avant-garde rock that time has proved to be massively influential, a blueprint for much that would follow: post-rock, math rock, homemade musique concrète, experimental electronica…
Exactly 40 years to the day of their first gig in 1976 the two surviving members (Hayward and Bullen) of the original three came together, with a large group of collaborators, to perform expanded versions of the recordings. Conceived solely as a two night residency at Café Oto, under the project title of THIS IS NOT THIS HEAT, it sold out in a matter of hours with fans travelling from as far as Japan. An invitation from the Barbican followed along with countless offers from around the world. A touring band distilled in early 2017 leading to selective performances at major festivals and venues in the UK, Europe, USA and Japan with unfaltering acclaim from critics and audiences alike.
Ahead of their time, This Heat's music sounds as startlingly original and relevant, live and on record, as the day it was created, but Charles Hayward says of the decision to end this iteration of the band, "moving forward has always been deep inside the music and we need to resolve that contradiction. Now." and that "to play our final London gigs at the Albany feels right, This Heat played Rock Against Racism gigs at the old building and we look forward to returning to South London and a vibrant community of resistance and creativity".
19:00: Venue Doors
19:30: Theatre Doors
20:00-20:30: Harmergeddon
21:00/21:15: This Is Not This Heat
22:30/22:45: Set Finished
It does feel like we've been witness to something special. A fine body of work has been brought to life with energy and vitality that seems improbable nearly 40 years after the fact.
This doesn't feel like nostalgia but a new beginning.
It was plain to see that This Is Not This Heat is just as much a living, breathing collective as it is an homage to one of Britain's most eclectic and innovative experimental rock groups.
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Bowie and I hit it off insanely and talked about Mishima and This Heat and all sorts of stuff.
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I get asked to play more music like This Heat, but to my knowledge there is no other music like This Heat.
John Peel
A New Home for New Music in South London
As I travel down to Cardiff for the PRS Foundation's Talent Development Conference it feels like a great time to share the story of how we are developing talent in New Music at the Albany in Deptford and working to make us the home for New Music in South London.
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Victoria's Port Fairy plans to become a Smart Energy Precinct
August 3, 2018 By Editor
Port Fairy plans to fight rising power bills by becoming the site of south-west Victoria's first Smart Energy Precinct.
Located 300 km west of Melbourne on the Great Ocean Road, the town's local businesses and organisations are now discussing their future energy options.
Potential sites and energy sources include wind, solar, biogas, geothermal and wave energy generation. Also in the mix are smart energy contracts, microgrids and energy storage.
Local businesses discuss clean energy options
The Port Fairy Smart Energy Precinct is a partnership between Bamstone, Southern Ocean Mariculture, Sun Pharma, Moyne Health Services and Wannon Water.
There is also additional support from Deakin University and South West Community Energy.
Project partner Bamstone supplies bluestone products to commercial and domestic markets. Approximately 40 per cent of Bamstone's Port Fairy factory runs on clean energy. The company installed over 100 kW of solar panels at the factory earlier this year.
Managing director Mike Steel said the multi-million dollar precinct was "a powerful example of how local leadership can demonstrate solutions for regional development whilst tackling climate change".
"On a per-capita basis, Port Fairy is a high-energy user in comparison with other towns its size in Victoria. This is driven by the large manufacturing sector that is a significant local employer for the region."
Smart Energy Precinct to attract business
Reducing energy costs by up to 50 per cent will support local businesses and industries to remain competitive. This will also help retain industries, organisations and jobs within the region.
Steel said Port Fairy was also facing challenges from climate change. "The project will identify how we can reduce Port Fairy's greenhouse gas emissions and costs to the community."
He said by showing leadership, the groups was tackling climate change while supporting the local community.
Port Fairy has already embraced clean energy in the form of wave power. The Port Fairy Wave Energy Project involved the installation and testing of a 250 kW bioWAVE pilot demonstration unit.
Smart Energy Precinct partner Deakin University is already actively pursuing solar energy generation in the area.
Late last year, the university announced its decision to build a $30 million industrial-scale solar microgrid at its Waurn Ponds Campus in Geelong.
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John Isner Captures Fourth Newport Title
John Isner became the first player to win four titles in Newport on Sunday as he captured his first ATP title of the year and his first since becoming a father. It was only his second tournament back from a broken left foot, an injury he sustained during the 2018 Miami Open final.
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