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The Blog > Business > Finding YOUR People
Finding YOUR People
Picture this: you have a full-time job, but you've got an idea brewing—an idea for a business that interests you. And you can't stop thinking about it.
Poking around online, you find a few articles about how you might begin your own thing. You start chugging away on nights and weekends and maybe even sneak in a little bit of grind time during work hours (we won't tell your boss).
As the idea gets going, you realize that other people think your idea is "cute" or "interesting" or "cool." But one-word people never use is "serious."
Nevertheless, you keep moving forward making things happen. You read more articles and find some videos about entrepreneurship. You're hungry for information, and the internet doesn't disappoint.
Based on your online viewing habits, you start getting ads on Facebook and Instagram about "building a passion project" or "earning six figures" or "marketing your new business." Lots of thought leaders begin to show up offering information.
But one thing is missing…
… actual, real humans who are dealing with the same struggle you are.
You realize that at your full-time job, you had peers and coworkers. People you could talk to about work. But now you have "new" work. And while these people might be fans, supporters, and encouragers—they are not peers.
You feel a twinge of loneliness.
Not the kind of loneliness where you have no one to talk to—but the kind where you have nobody to talk to about the thing that you care about the most.
Family and friends say things like "How will you get insurance?" or "How much money can you make?" or "I have a cousin who has their own business."
We've been there. And we've watched hundreds of our clients deal with this exact problem.
The symptoms can present themselves in a number of different ways:
Maybe you try to incorporate a friend into the business. Maybe you try to find a partner. Maybe you fantasize about hiring another person just so you have someone to share with.
As a new, small business, you're building an audience—a customer base. But you also need to build an advisory board.
This works well for two reasons:
1. The human animal builds strong connections around struggle.
SURE, you might be seeing a lot of people who are "CRUSHING IT" and you might want to BE LIKE THEM, but you won't feel very close to them. You can learn from them, listen to them, and follow their advice. But buddies and relationships built around shared struggle are STRONG! Talk to anyone who has been a part of a recovery program or Alcoholics Anonymous. Those connections are CRITICAL in sticking with it.
2. Others who are on a similar trajectory with you are learning things that you're learning.
Your insight will help them, their insights will help you. And when you're progressing together, the feeling of "I CAN DO THIS" will turn into the persistence needed to be successful in doing your thing.
Look for a diverse group of voices. Look for people who are great at finances. Look for people who are wizards of marketing. Look for people who are dang good at their craft. Surround yourself with them, ask them questions, share your struggles, and listen to their thoughts.
Corporate environments, educational institutions, and teams have this structure built in, but if you're doing your own thing, then you're going to have to build your own.
But you're building your own business, so you've got the chops to do the hard work and build your own tribe.


Outside is a weather app that displays the correct weather information right when you need it the most. It uses the location of your Mac to pinpoint the exact weather forecast for your area.
This update adds support for macOS 10.14 Mojave.
It works on Sierra on my MacBook Pro with touch bar, but I would really like an option to have the app show in the notifications area so I can swipe left to view it and swipe right to dismiss it.
An hourly forecast is **essential** for me in a weather app, so I would love to see it here.
I live in a very hot climate and planning outdoor activities involves planning around the heat. I want hourly updates or even 15-minute updates on heat index, temp, etc. Very important to me.
Please add notifications — if there is an extreme weather event in my area, such as a tropical storm or tornado — or if I want to be notified if it is going to start raining, even -- that would be great.
4. Has preferences settings, but no preferences can be set.
Needs major work for adaptability and usability.
Hi there -- I am happy to inform you that most of the issues outlined in your review are now implemented as part of Outside 2. Outside 2 brings the ability to run on Ethernet as use more than one location. It adds a few more Settings toggles as well. In a future update, OpenWeatherMap functionality will be added so you can choose the weather data source depending on what works best in your area. I really appreciate your initial feedback and hope you'll try out Outside 2! Thank you again!
1. Outside only running on Wi-Fi is a restriction placed on developers by Apple - I can't do anything about this without rewriting a major portion of the app. Other weather apps can operate on Ethernet but they don't use Apple's built-in Location Services/CoreLocation (which is usually more accurate than other services). I apologize about this.
2. This is a valid concern, and I will consider adding functionality for more than one city in the near future.
3. In order to change this, Outside would need to be completely rewritten. Dark Sky is generally very accurate for most users, and I apologize that it doesn't work as well for you.
4. There are preferences that can be set in the Preferences window. In future updates, more settings will be added.
I apologize about the crash you're experiencing -- it should be fixed in the latest update. If you have any other questions, please contact support@insleep.tech.


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Q: shared preference concept login page from server validation in android i am validation of login page is done by server side.i create one checkbox for remember username and password.if check box is checked it remembers the username and password.But the problem is even if check box unchecked also it finds stored username and password. now i want if checkbox is unchecked means it cannot remember username and password
 i try this code
   public class Login extends Activity {
  SharedPreferences app_preferences ;
CheckBox check;

private static final String UPDATE_URL = "serverurl";

public ProgressDialog progressDialog;

private EditText UserEditText;

private EditText PassEditText;

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    setContentView(R.layout.main);

    app_preferences = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);
    progressDialog = new ProgressDialog(this);

    progressDialog.setMessage("Please wait...");

    progressDialog.setIndeterminate(true);

    progressDialog.setCancelable(false);

    UserEditText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.username);

    PassEditText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.password);
    check=(CheckBox) findViewById(R.id.checkbox);
    String Str_user = app_preferences.getString("username","0" );
    String Str_pass = app_preferences.getString("password", "0");
    String Str_check = app_preferences.getString("checked", "no");
    if(Str_check.equals("yes"))
    {
            UserEditText.setText(Str_user);
           PassEditText.setText(Str_pass);
            check.setChecked(true);
    }
    Button button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.okbutton);

    button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

        public void onClick(View v) {

            int usersize = UserEditText.getText().length();

            int passsize = PassEditText.getText().length();

            if(usersize > 0 && passsize > 0) {

                progressDialog.show();

                String user = UserEditText.getText().toString();

                String pass = PassEditText.getText().toString();
                String Str_check2 = app_preferences.getString("checked", "no");
                if(Str_check2.equals("yes"))
                {
                    SharedPreferences.Editor editor = app_preferences.edit();
                    editor.putString("username", user);
                    editor.putString("password", pass);
                     editor.commit();
                }

                doLogin(user, pass);

            } else createDialog("Error","Please enter Username and Password");

        }

    });

   check box
    check.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener()
        {
            public void onClick(View v)
            {
                // Perform action on clicks, depending on whether it's now checked
                SharedPreferences.Editor editor = app_preferences.edit();
                if (((CheckBox) v).isChecked())
                {

                     editor.putString("checked", "yes");
                     editor.commit();
                }
                else
                {
                     editor.putString("checked", "no");
                     editor.commit();
                }
            }
        });

A: try
 String Str_check = app_preferences.getString("checked", "no");
    if(Str_check.equals("yes"))
    {
String Str_user = app_preferences.getString("username","0" );
    String Str_pass = app_preferences.getString("password", "0");

            UserEditText.setText(Str_user);
           PassEditText.setText(Str_pass);
            check.setChecked(true);
    }
else{
   SharedPreferences.Editor editor = app_preferences.edit();
                    editor.putString("username", "");
                    editor.putString("password", "");
                     editor.commit();
}

A: When the user is unchecking the checkbox, you should remove the stored details. Here you are keeping the value stored even the user has unchecked the checkbox.
 check box
        check.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener()
            {
                public void onClick(View v)
                {
                    // Perform action on clicks, depending on whether it's now checked
                    SharedPreferences.Editor editor = app_preferences.edit();
                    if (((CheckBox) v).isChecked())
                    {

editor.putString("username", user);
                    editor.putString("password", pass);
                         editor.putString("checked", "yes");
                         editor.commit();
                    }
                    else
                    {

editor.putString("username", "");
                    editor.putString("password", "");
editor.putString("checked", "no");
                         editor.commit();
                    }
                }
            });

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President and Mrs. Bush Saddened by Death of Ed Bradley
Laura and I are deeply saddened by the death of Ed Bradley. For over forty years, the American people have turned to Ed as a trusted source of information about events that have shaped our Nation. From serving as a White House Correspondent to his many years as a journalist for a television newsmagazine, he produced distinctive investigative reports that inspired action and cemented his reputation as one of the most accomplished journalists of our time.
Today, our thoughts and prayers are with Mr. Bradley's family and colleagues.
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SHOWstudio presents an exclusive behind-the-scenes film of Harri Peccinotti at work photographing the extraordinary exhibits in 'White Dunk: Evolution of an Icon', a Palais de Tokyo hosted exhibition of specially commissioned work by 25 Japanese artists, launched during this year's Paris Fashion Week. The artists include animators, illustrators, toy-makers, graphic designers, model-makers, and comic writers. Each were given the brief to respond to a fashion classic, the Nike 'Dunk' basketball trainer (in white). In American basketball towards the end of the 1970s a technique had emerged on the court popularly known as a 'slam dunk' - a spectacle of athleticism and showmanship. Trainer manufacturers and megabrand Nike began designing sports shoes they hoped would become synonymous with this phenomenon.
Inspired by their already successful 'Air Jordan' and 'Air Force', Nike debuted the 'Dunk' in 1985. The Palais de Tokyo exhibition caught the imagination of fashion editor Susy Menkes who noted in her show report: 'Of all the many shoe presentations, nothing could quite beat Nike's exhibition of art installations by 25 Japanese creative talents challenged to use the iconic all-white Dunk sneaker as inspiration... that was proof that sneakers are now part of fashion's religion.' (IHT, 11/10/03). In this film and image project Peccinotti sets about shooting these artworks on dark backgrounds (in opposition to the white of the gallery walls) to bring a new contrast and animation to the myriad interpretations.
Thanks: NIKE, the 25 contributing artists, Karla Otto and Karen Maher at Karla Otto, Catherine at Katy Barker Agency.


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Minneapolis City SC
2020 NPSL SEASON CANCELLED
News NPSL
March 26 June 26
Today, the NPSL announced that the official national league season will not happen this year because of COVID-19.
We are disappointed. And we are disappointed that the decision was made this early, before any other league made a decision. But we remain, as ever, undefeated.
Rest assured that we *will* play in 2020 assuming we kick COVID-19 and get back to normal life.
"We won't play if it's unsafe, and we will follow the directives from the CDC and USASA, but we will do everything we can to play this summer. We can't help it–we're a soccer club. It's what we do." – Dan Hoedeman
We will not play a game if there is risk to supporters, players, or staff from playing it. If there is a way to safely play games this summer, however, we will. We are still in the U.S. Open Cup. Premier teams, including pro teams, have reached out about games. We may even play other NPSL teams.
From the league's announcement:
Earlier this week, USASA has extended its ban on soccer activity until April 30, and the CDC last week has recommended there be no group activities for eight weeks, which coordinates with May 10.
Given these circumstances, the 2020 NPSL summer season, under its current competition structure, has been cancelled. This decision was made unanimously by our Board of Directors.
For teams that remain open to playing some form of soccer in 2020, the league is here to accommodate you if the environment and USASA permits it. We do not know what a new competition structure may look like; it depends on how quickly the CDC advises that it is safe to return to normal activity. If things should resume with the opportunity to play in the summer, we will work with interested teams to formulate a customized competition structure that can get interested teams back on the field and working towards rebuilding their connection to their communities.
The club front office will work over the coming weeks to build a competitive schedule of home and away games this summer and will communicate that information out to Members and supporters once plans start to solidify. Until then, stay safe, stay inside, and go City!
← WE ARE LOOKING FOR SUMMER INTERNS
VIDEO: Garcia Tallies First Win in eCup →
2020 MPLS City Kits
CITY on YOUTUBE
WHERE THE CROWS FLOCK
Our home stadium is Edor Nelson Field at Augsburg University.
The stadium is an atmospheric 1,500 seater in the heart of Cedar-Riverside: 2324 Butler Pl S, Minneapolis, MN 55454.
The official club shop of Minneapolis City SC is located in South Minneapolis at 2818 E 38th Street, Minneapolis, MN 55406.
It's just a block from the 38th Street Blue Line LRT station.
We're on a mission
We exist to provide local players and coaches a high-profile, high-performance environment to elevate their game and get noticed, all while staying active with youth, clubs, and other organizations that get kids active and do good in our community. Everything this all-volunteer club does is to that end, including selling merchandise and tickets to fund the club.
© 2021 Minneapolis City SC


loved reading your knitting thoughts and reflections :) Cute!
I hope you do cast on Leaves of Grass, it's a great pattern, I am knitting it in worsted weight, as a blanket.
Yes, blogging most certainly counts as a craft!
This was a fun post to read and to check out the links. I'd like to knit the scarf, too, but have other projects in the works.


At first glance, it might seem like Japanese society has unanimously decided that anything goes as far as content in animated television content. After all, this is the country where a currently airing anime series promoted itself with standees of its cast with free-to-touch-3-D-breasts.
In actuality, though, even parents in Japan periodically voice their dissatisfaction with anime, citing the medium as a potentially bad influence on children's behavior. For example, Twitter user @yuh_rasia, mother of a four-year-old boy, recently called out the Shinkalion franchise.
However, Shinkalion, a series in which Japan's Shinkansen bullet trains transform into giant robots, is devoid of sexually suggestively content, and while there're plenty of laser beams and explosions, the fighting action is all cartoony spectacle, without any actual bloodshed or death. It turns out, though, that @yuh_rasia's concern isn't related to that to anything shown in the series, but rather stems from something Shinkalion doesn't show.
It's worth pointing out that the extremely respectful tone of @yuh_rasia's tweet, coupled with the fact that in her very own Twitter profile she describes herself as an otaku, suggests that she's not genuinely angry at the Shinkalion staff for poisoning her child's mind.
Still, young kids with too much confidence in their bladders who end up peeing their pants while they're out is a legitimate problem for parents with young kids, and something has to be done to keep @yuh_rasia's son's pants dry. Luckily, the otaku mom was able to channel her son's admiration of Tsuranuki in a positive direction.
And as further proof that @yuh_rasia's not mad about her son's love of anime and trains, she even made him a Shinkansen cake for his birthday party.
Though it looks like they still chose to have the party at home, where the bathroom is just a short dash away.
Follow Casey on Twitter, where he's glad to see parents fostering a love of transforming mecha during their formative years.


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Osama Bin Laden facemask selfie worker unfairly dismissed, Employment Tribunal rules
By Redmans Employment Team On January 29, 2015 · Add Comment · In news
A dairy worker who was sacked after he wore an Osama bin Laden facemask to work and took a 'selfie' of this was unfairly dismissed, an employment tribunal has ruled.
Robert Mazur worked as a lab technician for Crediton Dairy Limited at its dairy plant in Crediton, Devon, for seven years testing samples of milk, water and chemicals in a sealed room at the plant. On one working day he brought an Osama bin Laden mask into the laboratory and took a photograph of himself with the mask on in the lab, subsequently posting this photo on Facebook. However, the photo that Mr Mazur had taken of himself (commonly known as a 'selfie') also showed a fragment of his employer's logo. The management at the firm subsequently viewed the photo on Facebook and disciplinary proceedings were commenced. This resulted in Mr Mazur being dismissed for gross misconduct on the basis that he had brought his employer into disrepute.
After being dismissed from his employment Mr Mazur made a claim for unfair dismissal to the Employment Tribunal. Mr Mazur also claimed that he had been a victim of bullying and that the diary had escalated a minor issue to gross misconduct after one of his bosses had branded him as "rude and difficult".
Mr Mazur's claim came to the Employment Tribunal earlier this year, with the Employment Tribunal ruling in February 2015 that he had been unfairly dismissed. However, the Employment Tribunal also ruled that Mr Mazur was 60% at fault for his dismissal and any award made by the Employment Tribunal will therefore be cut proportionately.
Mr Mazur stated after the judgment of the Employment Tribunal was released: "It has been a very long and exhausting case. Everything was new for me as I have never had to fight for justice in front of court. Bearing in mind I suffered severe depression and am not fully recovered yet. Thankfully I got a lot of support from my friends even those currently employed by Crediton Dairy."
Chris Hadrill, a specialist employment solicitor at Redmans, commented on the case: "Businesses must take decisions to dismiss employees that are reasonable in the circumstances and must also carry out a fair procedure in dismissing employees. If a business fails to take these steps then they could be opening themselves up to litigation in the employment tribunal."
A remedy hearing will be held at a later date to determine compensation in Mr Mazur's case.
Tagged with → employment law • Employment Tribunal • social media • unfair dismissal


Truly one of the great philosophers of our time, and a really fantastic human being as well.
And the two do not always go together. . .
I was going to add a teaser trailer to an interview with him, but I can't figure out how to upload it from my Google drive.
1. Crash course on personal identity.
2. Oxford Union Address. Here.
And this one is interesting: go here.


Dr. Jordache A. Ellapen's journey to academia began in South Africa where he went to high school.
Each professor at UTM has a unique background that inspires them to dedicate their career of research and teaching to a specific area. This week, The Medium sat down with Dr. Jordache A. Ellapen, an Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies in Culture and Media at UTM to discuss his journey to academia, his research, and his past projects.
A visual artist himself, Ellapen has completed two main projects—a short film and a photographic showcase. The short film "dealt with the Indian diaspora in South Africa in the context of xenophobic attacks that were happening in 2008." The photographic project "drew on the family album and focused on the relationship between memory, diaspora, race, and sexuality." Ellapen draws inspiration from his personal experience and identity of being Indian South African and how that identity develops in a multicultural community.
Ellapen's hobbies include gardening, going to the cinema, and touring galleries. He admits that since he's "still pretty new, he is currently taking time to settle in and get comfortable living in a new place." Ellapen moved to Toronto in August last year and has been enjoying living in the city. He enjoys the various museums, cinemas, and the cultural events Toronto has to offer.
One of the two courses Ellapen currently teaches is Theories in Women and Gender Studies, (WGS200Y), a requirement for those completing a major or minor in Women and Gender Studies. The other course is WGS434H5S, Special Topics in Women & Gender Studies: Queer Africa.


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Q: Form Response with multiple values in a single cell Many forms that have multiple choice questions. Many form apps (definitely Google Forms and JotForm) (when integrated with sheets) put them all in one cell sometimes delimited with a , , ; or with a new line.
This makes it very hard to analyze the data, since it is treated as the one answer.
Here is a sample of a form with it's responses:
Form, Responses.
The goal is to separate each entry by name and date. (See "Desired output" tab in responses). It should be a solution in sheets, since editing the form is not always an option (I have come across this issue with many form's data).
It has to be dynamic (as the responses come in) and support an indefinite amount of entries. Also preferably not use a custom function.
Responses:

Desired Output:

I posted my answer with its shortcomings.

A: Here is what I came up with, it is not really good because it uses a custom function (I am having trouble using it the data it outputs with another sheet using import range). I also feel like it is really long way to do something that should be simpler to achieve.
=ARRAYFORMULA(Split(QUERY(joinSplit(ARRAYFORMULA(SUBSTITUTE(FILTER({","&{'Form Responses 1'!C2:C}},{'Form Responses 1'!C2:C}<>""),",",Filter({""&{'Form Responses 1'!B2:B}&""&{'Form Responses 1'!A2:A}&""},{'Form Responses 1'!C2:C}<>""))), ""),"Select Col1 where Col1 is not null"),""))

Here is the custom function "joinSplit" code (I got it from somewhere but I cant remember where):
`function joinSplit(column, delim)
{
  var result = [];
  var row = [];
  for (var i = 0, l = column.length; i < l; i++)
  {
    row = column[i].join(delim).split(delim);
    row.forEach( function(elt) { result.push([elt]); } );
  }
  return result;
}`

If anyone wants, here is a ready to use version, make a copy and change the appropriate fields.

A: Can you not change question in the form? like earlier it was (as an example I am using Google Forms)
Old Version of Question
but now can you change it to:
New version of Question with Multiple Choice grid
This way, your responses when collected in the sheet will have a simple Yes/No for each fruit which can be easily analysed without asking users to answer more questions.
Later you can have a dynamic list of users who prefer a particular fruit with date shown using a Filter() function.

A: Here is a solution I found on web apps SE, to a very similar question.
It uses a custom function though.
function result(range) {
  delimiter = ", "
  targetColumn = 2

  var output2 = [];
  for(var i=0, iLen=range.length; i<iLen; i++) {
    var s = range[i][targetColumn].split(delimiter);
    for(var j=0, jLen=s.length; j<jLen; j++) {
      var output1 = [];
      for(var k=0, kLen=range[0].length; k<kLen; k++) {
        if(k == targetColumn) {
          output1.push(s[j]);
        } else {
          output1.push(range[i][k]);
        }
      }
      output2.push(output1);
    }
  }
  return output2;
}


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Rockets fired from Syria, Lebanon strike northern Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Rockets fired from Syria and Lebanon struck northern Israel.
At least five rockets fired from Syria landed in areas across the Golan Heights early Sunday morning, the Israel Defense Forces confirmed.
No one was injured in the rocket attack from Syria, which occurred at about 1:30 a.m. Sunday amid a series of Code Red rocket alerts.
Late on Saturday night, a rocket fired from Lebanon landed on an empty house in the upper Galilee region of northern Israel; Israeli media reported that two children were injured.
Israel did not return fire but lodged a protest with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon.
'Quite simply a mensch': Meet Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, freed after hostage crisis at his synagogue
Family of Texas synagogue attacker says he released hostages before the shootout


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In mathematics, a -space is a topological space that satisfies a certain a basic selection principle.
An infinite cover of a topological space is an -cover if every finite subset of this space is contained in some member of the cover, and the whole space is not a member the cover. A cover of a topological space is a -cover if every point of this space belongs to all but finitely many members of this cover.
A -space is a space in which every open -cover contains a -cover.

History
Gerlits and Nagy introduced the notion of γ-spaces. They listed some topological properties and enumerated them by Greek letters. The above property was the third one on this list, and therefore it is called the γ-property.

Characterizations

Combinatorial characterization
Let  be the set of all infinite subsets of the set of natural numbers. A set is centered if the intersection of finitely many elements of  is infinite. Every set we identify with its increasing enumeration, and thus the set  we can treat as a member of the Baire space . Therefore, is a topological space as a subspace of the Baire space . A zero-dimensional separable metric space is a γ-space if and only if every continuous image of that space into the space that is centered has a pseudointersection.

Topological game characterization
Let  be a topological space. The -has a pseudo intersection if there is a set game played on  is a game with two players Alice and Bob.

1st round: Alice chooses an open -cover  of . Bob chooses a set .

2nd round: Alice chooses an open -cover  of . Bob chooses a set .

etc.

If  is a -cover of the space , then Bob wins the game. Otherwise, Alice wins.

A player has a winning strategy if he knows how to play in order to win the game (formally, a winning strategy is a function).

A topological space is a -space iff Alice has no winning strategy in the -game played on this space.

Properties
 A topological space is a γ-space if and only if it satisfies  selection principle.
 Every Lindelöf space of cardinality less than the pseudointersection number  is a -space.
 Every -space is a Rothberger space,  and thus it has strong measure zero.

 Let  be a  Tychonoff space, and  be  the space of continuous functions  with pointwise convergence topology. The space  is a -space if and only if  is Fréchet–Urysohn  if and only if  is strong Fréchet–Urysohn.
 Let  be a  subset of the real line, and  be a meager subset of the real line. Then the set  is meager.

References

General topology

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M & H: Aridio Garcia.
Hey Everyone, I wanted to share with you my most recent fashion work, styling Top Model Latina Winner Germania Martinez for an Editorial for LatinGlam Magazine titled How far can you do?
On why there's nothing cooler than being Latina.
Germania Martinez was born and raised in the Dominican Republic. A girl from the town Azúa who dreamed of fulfilling her dreams of being a model. She moved to the United States at the age of 11, in hopes of better opportunities. She started her modeling career at the age of 17.
In 2017 won the modeling competition Top Model Latina through her hard work, perseverance, and of course tremendous talent.
"People always have a stereotype about what Dominican women or latinas look like and I love that I'm able to break those barriers"
"Being a Latina in a City like New York where diversity is one of its main beauties, allows me to show the uniqueness of my culture.
"Being a Latina with curves in the modeling industry is not really accepted, But I know that by making sure I stay true to my self and knocking on doors will bring some light that you don't have to be slim to be a good model"
To all the designers I got to use to create my styling magic. Thank you so much.
Fashion Stylish by yours Truly Martha Luna.


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The Scottish budget: at a glance
14th December 2018 | Research and policy
Caroline Colliston, member of our Tax Law Sub-Committee and LBTT working group, summarises the Scottish Government's spending and tax plans for 2018/19.
Scottish Finance Secretary Derek Mackay has set out the Scottish Government's plans for tax and spending for the year ahead at Holyrood. The Scottish budget covers a variety of matters, including the devolved taxes such as income tax, land and buildings transaction tax (LBTT), non-domestic rates and Scottish landfill tax.
However, none of the announced measures are guaranteed, and to pass the budget the government will be looking for support from the other parties. A final vote on the budget is expected to take place in February 2019. In the meantime, the government has reserved their position to revisit the terms of this budget in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
So, what was announced?
A reduction in the lower rate of non-residential LBTT from 3% to 1%, an increase in the upper rate from 4.5% to 5%, and a reduction in the starting threshold of the upper rate from £350,000 to £250,000. Taken together, the government claims that non-residential LBTT rates and bands are the most competitive in the UK for all non-residential transactions.
An increase in the LBTT additional dwelling supplement from 3% to 4%.
The introduction of two new LBTT reliefs over the course of 2019: a relief for the 'seeding' (initial transfer) of properties into a Property Authorised Investment Fund (PAIF) or Co-owned Authorised Contractual Scheme (CoACS); and a relief for when units in CoACS are exchanged.
Despite both reliefs being present in the Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) legislation in some guise or another, it has taken much lobbying to convince the government that these measures will encourage investment in Scotland and provide a level playing field across the UK.
In addition, the following was announced:
Income tax threshold changes, but no introduction of the £50,000 higher rate threshold to benefit taxpayers in the rest of the UK as a result of the autumn UK budget statement. This has given rise to opposition complaints that middle management public sector workers, such as senior nurses and police officers, will be some of the worst affected by these changes.
The out-of-town levy, giving councils the ability to charge higher rates for out-of-town businesses, will not be introduced. This decision has been welcomed by the Scottish Chamber of Commerce and CBI Scotland among others, but many small businesses were keen that this was backed to regenerate the high street.
Economic growth in Scotland has been revised upwards and is forecast higher than the UK as a whole. There will also be a continued focus on the delivery of Fair Work and inclusive growth.
An increase in capital investment by £1.56bn by the end of the next parliament. This will include: £50m capital fund to support town centres diversity; and more than more than £180 million towards city and region deals.
Providing initial funding of £130m to support the establishment of the Scottish National Investment Bank.
Doubling Scottish Development International's presence in Europe and a £5m investment this year as part of a three year, £20 million plan to support more companies to export.
Support for women returners and parents in very low-income work.
No change to the total amount of the legal aid budget. We are pleased to see the government's commitment to a 3% increase across all legal aid fees.
And what does this mean for Scottish solicitors?
The reforms and changes announced in relation to LBTT and ADS will be closely monitored and scrutinised by our Tax Law Sub-Committee and LBTT working group. We will continue to press for consistency and clarity in the interpretation of the LBTT and ADS legislation by Revenue Scotland. In addition, we will continue to lobby to ensure that the distinction between what is regarded as 'residential' and 'non-residential' property for the purposes of the LBTT legislation is clear and transparent for practitioners and taxpayers alike.
The new measures indicate that there will continue to be some 'ironing out' of anomalies and complexities arising from the introduction of both LBTT and ADS.
We look forward to continuing to work with government and Revenue Scotland as the devolved tax regime develops, to highlight areas where the law does not achieve its underlying purpose or does not fit with commercial reality. We shall await the proposed draft legislation and consultations and if any members would like to discuss the proposed changes then please get in touch with our Policy team at policy@lawscot.org.uk
Caroline Colliston is a Director at DWF and is an experienced commercial tax solicitor and chartered tax adviser. Further information on the work of our Tax Law Sub-Committee can be found here.
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package containerregistryapi

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import (
	"context"
	"github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/services/preview/containerregistry/mgmt/2018-02-01/containerregistry"
)

// RegistriesClientAPI contains the set of methods on the RegistriesClient type.
type RegistriesClientAPI interface {
	CheckNameAvailability(ctx context.Context, registryNameCheckRequest containerregistry.RegistryNameCheckRequest) (result containerregistry.RegistryNameStatus, err error)
	Create(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string, registry containerregistry.Registry) (result containerregistry.RegistriesCreateFuture, err error)
	Delete(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string) (result containerregistry.RegistriesDeleteFuture, err error)
	Get(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string) (result containerregistry.Registry, err error)
	GetBuildSourceUploadURL(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string) (result containerregistry.SourceUploadDefinition, err error)
	ImportImage(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string, parameters containerregistry.ImportImageParameters) (result containerregistry.RegistriesImportImageFuture, err error)
	List(ctx context.Context) (result containerregistry.RegistryListResultPage, err error)
	ListByResourceGroup(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string) (result containerregistry.RegistryListResultPage, err error)
	ListCredentials(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string) (result containerregistry.RegistryListCredentialsResult, err error)
	ListPolicies(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string) (result containerregistry.RegistryPolicies, err error)
	ListUsages(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string) (result containerregistry.RegistryUsageListResult, err error)
	QueueBuild(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string, buildRequest containerregistry.BasicQueueBuildRequest) (result containerregistry.RegistriesQueueBuildFuture, err error)
	RegenerateCredential(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string, regenerateCredentialParameters containerregistry.RegenerateCredentialParameters) (result containerregistry.RegistryListCredentialsResult, err error)
	Update(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string, registryUpdateParameters containerregistry.RegistryUpdateParameters) (result containerregistry.RegistriesUpdateFuture, err error)
	UpdatePolicies(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string, registryPoliciesUpdateParameters containerregistry.RegistryPolicies) (result containerregistry.RegistriesUpdatePoliciesFuture, err error)
}

var _ RegistriesClientAPI = (*containerregistry.RegistriesClient)(nil)

// OperationsClientAPI contains the set of methods on the OperationsClient type.
type OperationsClientAPI interface {
	List(ctx context.Context) (result containerregistry.OperationListResultPage, err error)
}

var _ OperationsClientAPI = (*containerregistry.OperationsClient)(nil)

// ReplicationsClientAPI contains the set of methods on the ReplicationsClient type.
type ReplicationsClientAPI interface {
	Create(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string, replicationName string, replication containerregistry.Replication) (result containerregistry.ReplicationsCreateFuture, err error)
	Delete(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string, replicationName string) (result containerregistry.ReplicationsDeleteFuture, err error)
	Get(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string, replicationName string) (result containerregistry.Replication, err error)
	List(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string) (result containerregistry.ReplicationListResultPage, err error)
	Update(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string, replicationName string, replicationUpdateParameters containerregistry.ReplicationUpdateParameters) (result containerregistry.ReplicationsUpdateFuture, err error)
}

var _ ReplicationsClientAPI = (*containerregistry.ReplicationsClient)(nil)

// WebhooksClientAPI contains the set of methods on the WebhooksClient type.
type WebhooksClientAPI interface {
	Create(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string, webhookName string, webhookCreateParameters containerregistry.WebhookCreateParameters) (result containerregistry.WebhooksCreateFuture, err error)
	Delete(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string, webhookName string) (result containerregistry.WebhooksDeleteFuture, err error)
	Get(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string, webhookName string) (result containerregistry.Webhook, err error)
	GetCallbackConfig(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string, webhookName string) (result containerregistry.CallbackConfig, err error)
	List(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string) (result containerregistry.WebhookListResultPage, err error)
	ListEvents(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string, webhookName string) (result containerregistry.EventListResultPage, err error)
	Ping(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string, webhookName string) (result containerregistry.EventInfo, err error)
	Update(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string, webhookName string, webhookUpdateParameters containerregistry.WebhookUpdateParameters) (result containerregistry.WebhooksUpdateFuture, err error)
}

var _ WebhooksClientAPI = (*containerregistry.WebhooksClient)(nil)

// BuildsClientAPI contains the set of methods on the BuildsClient type.
type BuildsClientAPI interface {
	Cancel(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string, buildID string) (result containerregistry.BuildsCancelFuture, err error)
	Get(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string, buildID string) (result containerregistry.Build, err error)
	GetLogLink(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string, buildID string) (result containerregistry.BuildGetLogResult, err error)
	List(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string, filter string, top *int32, skipToken string) (result containerregistry.BuildListResultPage, err error)
	Update(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string, buildID string, buildUpdateParameters containerregistry.BuildUpdateParameters) (result containerregistry.BuildsUpdateFuture, err error)
}

var _ BuildsClientAPI = (*containerregistry.BuildsClient)(nil)

// BuildStepsClientAPI contains the set of methods on the BuildStepsClient type.
type BuildStepsClientAPI interface {
	Create(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string, buildTaskName string, stepName string, buildStepCreateParameters containerregistry.BuildStep) (result containerregistry.BuildStepsCreateFuture, err error)
	Delete(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string, buildTaskName string, stepName string) (result containerregistry.BuildStepsDeleteFuture, err error)
	Get(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string, buildTaskName string, stepName string) (result containerregistry.BuildStep, err error)
	List(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string, buildTaskName string) (result containerregistry.BuildStepListPage, err error)
	ListBuildArguments(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string, buildTaskName string, stepName string) (result containerregistry.BuildArgumentListPage, err error)
	Update(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string, buildTaskName string, stepName string, buildStepUpdateParameters containerregistry.BuildStepUpdateParameters) (result containerregistry.BuildStepsUpdateFuture, err error)
}

var _ BuildStepsClientAPI = (*containerregistry.BuildStepsClient)(nil)

// BuildTasksClientAPI contains the set of methods on the BuildTasksClient type.
type BuildTasksClientAPI interface {
	Create(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string, buildTaskName string, buildTaskCreateParameters containerregistry.BuildTask) (result containerregistry.BuildTasksCreateFuture, err error)
	Delete(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string, buildTaskName string) (result containerregistry.BuildTasksDeleteFuture, err error)
	Get(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string, buildTaskName string) (result containerregistry.BuildTask, err error)
	List(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string, filter string, skipToken string) (result containerregistry.BuildTaskListResultPage, err error)
	ListSourceRepositoryProperties(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string, buildTaskName string) (result containerregistry.SourceRepositoryProperties, err error)
	Update(ctx context.Context, resourceGroupName string, registryName string, buildTaskName string, buildTaskUpdateParameters containerregistry.BuildTaskUpdateParameters) (result containerregistry.BuildTasksUpdateFuture, err error)
}

var _ BuildTasksClientAPI = (*containerregistry.BuildTasksClient)(nil)

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text:
Avalanche kan syfta på:

 Operation Avalanche – det engelska namnet på slaget vid Salerno
 Avalanche (datorspel) – ett datorspel
 Avalanche (seriefigur) – en seriefigur
 AVALANCHE – en organisation i spelet Final Fantasy VII
 Avalanche Crest – en plats i Kanada
 Avalanchediod
 Avalanche Photo Diode
 Avalanche Rocks – en plats i Antarktis
 Avalanche Software – ett spelföretag
 Avalanche Studios – ett spelföretag


text:
<?php

namespace BungieNetPlatform\Exceptions\Platform;

use BungieNetPlatform\Exceptions\PlatformException;

/**
 * GroupUnknownErrorUndeletingGroup
 */
class GroupUnknownErrorUndeletingGroupException extends PlatformException {

	public function __construct($message, $code = 620, \Exception $previous = null) {
		parent::__construct($message, $code, $previous);
	}

}


Today's comic trick comes from Chris Ware and Quimby the Mouse, his contemporary take on George Herriman's Krazy Kat theme. Ware, a master of design and using typography, uses words so that they're actually a part of the picture!
Note how the text reads "I'm a very generous person, but I can't stand being around you anymore." But he uses the same "you" to start a new sentence, "You make me happy." He also uses the same "I can't stand" to start a sentence that reads downward: "I just can't stand being alone." The entire composition of the page is built on the words! You don't see that every day.
You can see this and many other cool tricks in Quimby the Mouse!


text:
An Ancient Disease Is Making A Comeback In Parts Of The USA
When you hear scurvy, you might think of pirates with rotting teeth, singing songs aboard a sailing ship at sea.
Scurvy was a fairly common disease among sailors and explorers, and back then it was very mysterious to medical science.
Today, we know that the cause behind scurvy is a vitamin C deficiency.
And although it's far from a common condition now, it is – for some reason – making a bit of a comeback in recent times.
The good news is that it's not too difficult to treat once you develop symptoms.
All you have to do is start incorporating more vitamin C into your daily diet, and you can find plenty of it in vegetables and fruits.
The first record of scurvy dates back to 1550 BCE in ancient Egypt, but it became much more known in the 1700s thanks to the effects it had on mariners.
Those who spent long periods of time at sea would not have access to vegetables or fruit.
This would lead to severe scurvy which only became progressively worse.
The epidemic was so bad that sailors with the British Royal Navy were more likely to die from scurvy and other diseases than in combat.
As a matter of fact, scurvy is thought to be one of the leading causes of deaths happening at sea – meaning it outranks shark attacks, storms, shipwrecks, and even different diseases!
In modern times today, scurvy typically happens in parts of the world where malnutrition is more common, but for some reason, there have been more cases popping up in developed countries that don't have issues with food accessibility.
According to a documentary entitled Vitamania, there have been plenty occurring right in America itself.
The documentary features doctor Eric Churchill and his team, who are a practicing medical team in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Over the past six years, there are between 20 and 30 new documented cases of scurvy that their team has attended to alone – so you can only imagine how many there are around the whole country.
According to Churchill, this is because those with limited food budgets search for filling foods that are inexpensive and will keep them sated longer.
This typically involves foods high in fat and calories and don't usually include and vegetables or fruits.
This means those earning lower incomes even in wealthy countries are becoming affected by this age old disease.
Since humans cannot naturally produce vitamin C, this problem is a very important one to address, especially since Churchill says a disease like this shouldn't even be happening in developed countries.
It should also be noted that the overcooking of vegetables can destroy their vitamin C content, so you have to cook them properly, too.
Some of the early symptoms of scurvy include joint pains, fatigue, and vomiting, but these will eventually develop into more severe symptoms like severe bruising, swollen gums, bleeding of the muscles and joints, and hair damage.
For children, scurvy can completely stunt growth due to its effect on the bones.
If untreated and never resolved, scurvy can lead to further complications such as internal hemorrhaging and can prove fatal.
Vitamin C is a crucial part of the diet, so make sure to add some into your meal plans.
Some of the best vitamin C sources are oranges, lemons, guavas, tomatoes, strawberries, peppers, and coriander.


Nobody likes seeing bad guys on the streets, but it's the price we pay when we try to circumvent personal liberties for the sake of security. I've been critical of the secrecy surrounding police "StingRay" technology, and now it landed a guy the "deal of the century."
It's incredible what the government will do to protect its privacy. Even if that means letting would-be criminals back on the streets. But that's exactly what happened in the case of four men, two guns, a bag of marijuana and a government secret.
StingRay technology, for those of you just hearing about it for the first time, is a kind of surveillance tech that is being fiercely guarded by the government.
StingRays, and other similar devices under different names, act like cell towers to collect highly identifiable data from cellphones that connect to them. Law enforcement is able to pinpoint with accuracy every user of a phone on the StingRay's network. And thanks to police use of a StingRay, an armed gunman only spent six months on probation.
Next page: This story will blow you away.


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Paris exhibition features Viet Nam's 54 ethnic groups
More than 100 photos featuring the life and culture of 54 ethnic groups of Viet Nam are on display at the Luxembourg gardens of the French Senate in an exhibition themed "Viet Nam - Unity in diversity – 54 faces and costumes of Viet Nam's ethnic groups".
The black-and-white and colour photos were taken by French photographer Sebastien Laval and his Vietnamese colleague Le Vuong.
Laval, who arrived in Viet Nam for the first time in 1995, quickly fell in love with Viet Nam. He has spent nearly 20 years of his life capturing the beauty of landscapes and people from ethnic groups in the most remote areas across the country. The photos that he brought to the event were taken from 1997-2014.
Meanwhile, 95-year-old veteran photographer Le Vuong has devoted his whole life to the art of photography. He has won a number of world prestigious awards.
Addressing the opening ceremony on June 26, Jean-Pierre Bel, Speaker of the French Senate, said the Senate is honoured to host the event which he described as a meaningful activity to promote the friendship of people of both countries.
The photo vividly featured portraits of the people, their daily lives, costumes and religious rituals, which have become part of the world's memory and cultural heritage that need restoring and preserving, he said.
Ambassador Duong Van Quang, Head of Viet Nam's Mission to UNESCO, said there is no big or small cultures, just cultures and their diversity, adding that Viet Nam and France are joining hands in safeguarding these cultural values, not only in the framework of bilateral cooperation but also at international forums, especially the UNESCO.
The exhibition, jointly organised by the France-Viet Nam Friendship Association, the Vietnamese Association in France and the French Institute, will stay opened until July 6.
On the occasion, a collection of traditional costumes of 20 Viet Nam's ethnic groups by Alain Dussarps, Vice Chairman of the France-Viet Nam Friendship Association, is also on display.


Sexual Abuse and its Relation to Chronic Pain among Women from a Methadone Maintenance Clinic versus a Sexual Abuse Treatment Center.
Peles E, Seligman Z, Bloch M, Potik D, Sason A, Schreiber S, Adelson M.
J Psychoactive Drugs. 2016 Sep-Oct;48(4):279-87. doi: 10.1080/02791072.2016.1205763. Epub 2016 Jul 18.
Psychiatric comorbidity differences between women with history of childhood sexual abuse who are methadone-maintained former opiate addicts and non-addicts.
Peles E, Adelson M, Seligman Z, Bloch M, Potik D, Schreiber S.
Psychiatry Res. 2014 Sep 30;219(1):191-7. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2014.05.003. Epub 2014 May 11.
Psychiatric comorbidity of patients on methadone maintenance treatment with a history of sexual abuse.
Peles E, Potik D, Schreiber S, Bloch M, Adelson M.
Eur Neuropsychopharmacol. 2012 Dec;22(12):883-91. doi: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2012.04.002. Epub 2012 May 5.


Beautiful macro with lovely flameing colour,good clarity and tones.This plant is also known as Callistemon and is an indoor plant.Congrats!!
So beautiful... I love it!!!!
Perfectly composed and good color.
Hey Mike ! fantastic capture .


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\section{Introduction}

Analog-to-digital conversion is inherently lossy. It typically consists of two stages, sampling and quantization, where the sampling stage produces a stream of scalar samples and the quantization stage replaces each sample with an element of a discrete set, called the quantization alphabet. Ideally the sampling stage is lossless (or the distortion is negligible) so that the distortion is only (or primarily) caused by quantization.

The naive method of quantization is to round each scalar measurement to the nearest available level in the quantization alphabet; this is known as memoryless scalar quantization (MSQ). While MSQ has many advantages in hardware implementation (e.g. simplicity and robustness), its rate-distortion performance is highly suboptimal when the sampling map is redundant, meaning it collects more measurements than the minimal number needed for perfect reconstruction. This is due to the fact that a redundant sampling system increases the ambient dimension of the measurement vectors but not the intrinsic dimension of the manifold on which these vectors lie, and therefore, memoryless scalar quantized vectors, lying in a small neighborhood of this manifold, occupy only an asymptotically vanishing portion of the rectangular lattice of available quantization vectors. More efficient quantization methods achieve improved rate-distortion performance by utilizing some (or all) of the remaining quantization vectors as well. Noise-shaping quantizers (such as $\Sigma\Delta$ modulators) fall into this category.

This paper provides a new approach of quantizing non-harmonic Fourier measurements for the spectral super-resolution problem. Super-resolution has received considerable attention in the past several years (e.g. \cite{candes2013super,candes2014towards}).
The goal is to accurately estimate an unknown discrete measure
\begin{equation}
 \label{eq:mu}
\mu=\sum_{j=1}^S a_j\delta_{t_j}
\end{equation}
defined on $\mathbb{T}:=[0,1)$, from its noisy samples
$$\tilde y_k = y_k + z_k, \qquad k=0,\dots,M-1,$$
where
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:hatmu}
y_k := \hat\mu(k)
:=\int_0^1 e^{-2\pi ik t}\ d\mu(t)
=\sum_{j=1}^S a_j e^{2\pi i k t_j}
\end{equation}
is the $k$-th Fourier coefficient of $\mu$ and the unknown noise vector $z:=(z_k)_0^{M-1}$ satisfies $\|z\|_2\leq \epsilon$ for some known $\epsilon > 0$.
We emphasize that the total number of spikes $S$, the amplitudes $a\in\mathbb{C}^S$, and the support set $T=\{t_j\}_{j=1}^S$ are unknown.

This problem is ill-conditioned if there are points in $T$ that are too close to one another (e.g. \cite{donoho1992superresolution,demanet2015recoverability,li2017stable}). However, assuming a lower bound to their minimum separation, it has been shown that $\mu$ can be recovered from its measurements in a robust way when $M$ is sufficiently large, meaning that the reconstruction error, when measured in a suitable metric, is controlled by the noise energy in a graceful manner, and typically linearly (e.g. \cite{fernandez2013support}).

Since no structure is assumed on the noise, robustness also becomes the key property that allows for quantization. In particular, it guarantees that sufficiently high-resolution quantizers will always produce sufficiently high quality approximations. However, the question of achievable limits of quantization accuracy is open. The answer depends on the interplay between the given (fixed) parameters, such as the number of measurements, the number of quantization levels per measurement, and the minimum separation distance of the measures of interest, as well as the quantization method which itself is a design parameter.

For simplicity, we will assume in this paper that quantization is the only source of perturbation. Other (generally uncontrolled) sources of perturbations can be incorporated into quantization as well; any such perturbations typically provide a noise floor. We assume that the real and imaginary parts of each Fourier measurement is replaced by an element of a (signal-independent) quantization alphabet $\mathcal{A}$ with $K$ levels.

The linear dependence of the reconstruction error on the noise energy implies that with simple rounding, i.e. MSQ, it is straightforward to achieve reconstruction accuracy of order $O(K^{-1})$. However, since the noise energy is measured in $\ell_2$, its bound $\epsilon$ grows with the number of measurements, and therefore it is not even clear if there is any advantage of using any additional measurements. For example, the popular reconstruction method total-variation minimization (TV-min, see Section \ref{sec:quan}) appears to be indifferent to oversampling in practice.

Our main result in this paper is that there is an alternative quantization method, called the distributed noise-shaping $\beta$-encoder (or $\beta$-quantization in short) which, together with an accompanying alternative recovery method derived from TV-min, is able to exploit any available redundancy. More precisely,
if the (integer) oversampling ratio $\lambda$ is such that $\lfloor M/\lambda\rfloor - 1\geq 4/\Delta$, where $M$ denotes the number of Fourier measurements and $\Delta$ is the minimum separation distance associated with $\mu$, then for any number $K$ of quantization levels, our quantization method guarantees reconstruction accuracy of order $O(\lambda^{3/2} K^{-\lambda/2})$, up to constants which are independent of $K$ and $\lambda$. In principle our method can work with other robust recovery methods, too.

The paper is organized as follows. Section \ref{sec:TV} reviews the TV-min method and discusses MSQ for spectral super-resolution. In Section \ref{sec:TV}, we introduce the proposed quantization method and the main ingredients needed for its error performance analysis for spectral super-resolution, which is done in Section \ref{sec:SR}. Finally, we provide a sample numerical experiment to demonstrate the practical performance of our proposed quantization method in Section \ref{sec:num}.

\section{A review of TV-min for super-resolution and MSQ}
\label{sec:TV}

There are a number of robust recovery algorithms for super-resolution. For convenience and concreteness, we will focus on TV-min, also known under the name BLASSO (Beurling Lasso).

Let us denote by $\mathcal{F}_M$ the operator which maps the measure $\mu$ to $(\hat \mu(k))_0^{M-1}$, i.e. with our notation of \eqref{eq:hatmu}, we have $y=\mathcal{F}_M\mu$, where $y:=(y_k)_0^{M-1}$. Given noisy data $\tilde y\in\mathbb{C}^{M}$ and a bound $\epsilon > 0$ on the noise, the TV-min algorithm outputs an estimate $\tilde \mu$ of $\mu$ given by
\begin{equation} \label{eq:TV-min}
\tilde\mu
:=\argmin\{\|\nu \|_{TV}\colon
\|\mathcal{F}_M \nu-\tilde y\|_2 \leq \epsilon\}.
\end{equation}
This is a convex program whose feasibility is guaranteed by the assumption $\|y - \tilde y\|_2 \leq \epsilon$. The solution may not be unique, but it is known that there is at least one minimizer which is a discrete measure which we will identify with $\tilde \mu$.
(See \cite{candes2014towards,candes2013super,duval2015exact,benedetto2018super} for this and other results.)

The performance of TV-min depends on the minimum separation of the measure, defined as
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:minsep}
\Delta(\mu)
:=\min_{s\not=t, s,t\in\text{supp}(\mu)} |s-t|_\mathbb{T}.
\end{equation}
Here, $|s-t|_\mathbb{T}:=\min_{n \in \mathbb{Z}}~|s-t-n|$ is the ``wrap-around'' metric on $\mathbb{T}$. If the number of samples $M$ is sufficiently large so that
\begin{equation}
\Delta(\mu)\geq \frac{4}{M-1},
\end{equation}
then $\tilde \mu$
provides an accurate estimate of $\mu$ in the following sense: any spurious spikes in $\tilde \mu$ are smaller than $O(\epsilon)$, the remaining spikes in $\tilde\mu$ are within $O(1/M)$ of the true spikes, and the recovered amplitudes are within $O(\epsilon)$ of the true ones. More precisely, given the representation
\begin{equation}\label{eq:tildemu}
\tilde \mu=\sum_{k=1}^{\tilde S} \tilde a_k \delta_{\tilde t_k},
\end{equation}
along with the ``neighborhood'' index sets
\begin{equation}\label{eq:Ij}
\mathcal{I}^M_j:=\big \{k: |\tilde t_k-t_j|_\mathbb{T} \leq 2\cdot 0.1649\,(M-1)^{-1} \big \},~~ j=1,\dots,S,
\end{equation}
and the residual index set
\begin{equation}\label{eq:I0}
\mathcal{I}^M_0 := \{1,\dots,\tilde S\}\setminus \bigcup_{j=1}^S \mathcal{I}^M_j,
\end{equation}
the following bounds are guaranteed:
\begin{eqnarray}
 \big| a_j -\sum_{k \in \mathcal{I}^M_j} \tilde a_k \big| & \leq & C_1 \epsilon,~~~j=1,\dots,S, \label{eq:rec1} \\
 \sum_{k \in \mathcal{I}^M_j} |\tilde a_k|\,|t_j - \tilde t_k|_\mathbb{T}^2 & \leq & C_2 M^{-2}\epsilon, ~~~j=1,\dots,S,  \label{eq:rec2} \\
 \sum_{k \in \mathcal{I}^M_0} |\tilde a_k | & \leq & C_3 \epsilon \label{eq:rec3}.
\end{eqnarray}
Additional details can be found in \cite[Theorem 1.2]{fernandez2013support}; see also \cite[Theorems 2.1 and 2.2]{azais2015spike} for related results.

This result provides an immediate error bound for MSQ. For each integer $K \geq 2$, let $\mathcal{Z}_K$ denote the $K$-term origin-symmetric arithmetic progression of integers with spacing $2$ and $\mathcal{A}_K:= K^{-1}\mathcal{Z}_K \subset (-1,1)$. It is then clear that for all $u \in [-1,1]$ there exists $q \in \mathcal{A}_K$ such that $|u - q| \leq 1/K$. Assuming that $\|\mu\|_{TV}\leq 1$ so that $\|y\|_\infty \leq 1$, it follows that for each complex measurement $y_k$, there is an element $q_k \in \mathcal{A}_K + i \mathcal{A}_K$ (found by separately rounding the real and the imaginary parts of $y_k$ to elements of $\mathcal{A}_K$) such that $|y_k - q_k| \leq \sqrt{2}/K$.
Consequently, we have $\|y - q\|_2 \leq \sqrt{2M}/K$. Setting $\tilde y = q$ and $\epsilon=\sqrt{2M}/K$ in \eqref{eq:TV-min} guarantees, in view of \eqref{eq:rec1}-\eqref{eq:rec3}, an overall reconstruction accuracy of $O(\sqrt{M}/K)$.

We can produce a lower bound on the worst-signal reconstruction error of MSQ as follows: Even if we knew the support $T$ of $\mu$, where $|T| = S$, memoryless scalar quantization of the $M$ linear measurements of all possible coefficient vectors $a \in \mathbb{C}^S$ chosen from any fixed ball results in a partition of this ball using at most $O(MK)$ hyperplanes, and therefore into at most $(cMK/S)^{2S}$ cells. (Here $c$ is an absolute constant.) Consequently, there will always be a cell of diameter at least $O(S/MK)$ whose elements are all mapped to the same quantized vector.

Therefore, suppressing the dependence on $M$, it follows that MSQ cannot offer error performance better than $O(K^{-1})$.

\section{Proposed quantization method}
\label{sec:quan}

Our proposed quantization approach in this paper is based on the general framework of distributed noise-shaping $\beta$-encoding developed in \cite{chou2016distributed}, \cite{chou2017distributed} (see also \cite{chou2013beta} and \cite{chou2015noise} for prior versions). However, the specialization for the spectral super-resolution problem requires some new choices and adaptations.

Let $\lambda \geq 1$ be an integer which should be thought of as a lower bound on the oversampling ratio. For the simplicity of discussion, we assume $M$ is divisible by $\lambda$ and set $m := M/\lambda$. Let $\beta>1$ be a parameter which shall be chosen later, and consider the $m\times M$ matrix $V:=V_{\beta}$
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:V}
V:=
\begin{bmatrix}
I_m &\beta^{-1}I_m &\cdots &\beta^{-\lambda+1} I_m
\end{bmatrix},
\end{equation}
where $I_m$ denotes the $m\times m$ identity matrix. Observe that
\[
(Vy)_\ell
=\sum_{k=0}^{\lambda-1} \beta^{-k} y_{mk+\ell}
=\sum_{j=1}^S a_j w_j e^{-2\pi i \ell t_j}
\]
for $\ell=1,\dots,m$, where
\begin{equation}\label{eq:w}
w_j:=
\frac{1-\beta^{-\lambda}e^{-2\pi i m\lambda t_j}}{1-\beta^{-1}e^{-2\pi i mt_j}}, ~~j=1,\dots,S.
\end{equation}
In other words, we have the relation $Vy = \mathcal{F}_m \mu_V$ where
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:muV}
\mu_V:=\sum_{j=1}^S b_j \delta_{t_j}
\quad\text{and}\quad b_j := a_j w_j.
\end{equation}
Observe that $\mu$ and $\mu_V$ have identical supports, but different amplitudes. However, the weights $w_j$ satisfy
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:weights}
\frac{1}{c_\beta}
\leq |w_j|
\leq c_\beta
\quad\text{where}\quad
c_\beta := \frac{1+\beta^{-1}}{1-\beta^{-1}}.
\end{equation}

Let us define $H:=H_\beta$ to be the $M\times M$ matrix where
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:H}
H_{j,k}:=
\begin{cases}
1, & \mbox{if }j=k, \\
-\beta, & \mbox{if }j = k{+}m \mbox{ and } 1 \leq k \leq M{-}m.
\end{cases}
\end{equation}

The following is a special case of \cite[Lemma 2]{chou2017distributed}:

\begin{lemma}
	Let $K\geq 2$ be an integer, and suppose the parameters $\alpha,\beta,\delta>0$ satisfy the inequality
	\begin{equation}
	\label{eq:parameter}
	\beta + \alpha\delta^{-1} \leq K,
	\end{equation}
	and consider the quantization alphabet $\mathcal{A} := \delta (\mathcal{Z}_K+i\mathcal{Z}_K)$. Then,
	for any $y\in\mathbb{C}^M$ with $\|y\|_\infty\leq\alpha$, there exists $q\in\mathcal{A}^M$ and $u\in\mathbb{C}^M$ with $\|u\|_\infty\leq \sqrt{2} \delta$ satisfying the relationship
	\begin{equation}\label{eq:yqHu}
	y-q=H u.
	\end{equation}
\end{lemma}

The mapping $y \mapsto q$ implied by the above lemma can be implemented by means of a simple recursive algorithm. We omit the details and refer to \cite{chou2016distributed, chou2017distributed}.

The significance of $V$ and $H$ is that $VH$ is very small when $\beta$ or $\lambda$ is large. Indeed, as shown in \cite{chou2016distributed}, we have
$\|VH\|_{\infty\to 2} = \sqrt{m} \beta^{-\lambda+1}$. The immediate consequence is that
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:Verror}
\|Vy-Vq\|_2
\leq \|VH\|_{\infty\to 2}\|u\|_\infty
\leq \sqrt{2m}\ \beta^{-\lambda+1} \delta.
\end{equation}

The above findings provide the core strategy of our proposed quantization and recovery method. First, we
note that for any $1< \beta < K$ and any $0 \leq \alpha < \infty$, there exists $\delta > 0$ such that the condition \eqref{eq:parameter} is satisfied. Hence the existence of the mapping $y \mapsto q$ (with a fixed quantization alphabet $\mathcal{A}$) is guaranteed over any bounded set of inputs $y$. Next,
recall that with $y = \mathcal{F}_M \mu$, we have $Vy = \mathcal{F}_m \mu_V$. Since $Vq$ is now a small perturbation of $Vy$, we can obtain a close approximation $\tilde \mu_V$ of $\mu_V$ by means of any robust super-resolution recovery method, such as the TV-min algorithm. Then, since $\mu$ and $\mu_V$ have identical supports, we can define an approximate recovery $\tilde \mu$ by means of approximate weights $\tilde w_j$ derived from the approximate support $\tilde T$ of $\tilde \mu_V$.

Let us summarize the proposed quantization method.

\par \noindent {\bf System parameters and assumptions:}
\begin{itemize}
 \item $M$ (number of Fourier measurements),
 \item $\alpha$ (upper bound on TV-norm of the input measures),
 \item $\Delta$ (lower bound on minimum separation distance),
 \item $M=\lambda m$, $\lambda \geq 1$, $m-1\geq 4/\Delta$,
 \item $K$ (number of quantization levels),
 \item $\beta$ and $\delta$ such that \eqref{eq:parameter} holds.
\end{itemize}

\par \noindent {\bf Encoding (quantization) stage:}
\begin{itemize}
 \item Input to quantizer: $y$ such that $\|y\|_\infty \leq \alpha$,
 \item $V$ and $H$ defined via \eqref{eq:V} and \eqref{eq:H},
 \item Quantization alphabet: $\mathcal{A}:= \delta(\mathcal{Z}_K + i \mathcal{Z}_K)$,
 \item Output of quantizer: $q\in \mathcal{A}^M$ such that $\|Vy - Vq\|_2 \leq  \sqrt{2m}\ \beta^{-\lambda+1} \delta$.
\end{itemize}

\par \noindent {\bf Decoding (recovery) stage:}
\begin{itemize}
 \item Input to decoder: $q$,
 \item Compute a minimum TV-norm measure $\tilde\mu_V$ of the form $\sum_{k=1}^{\tilde S} \tilde b_k \delta_{\tilde t_k}$ satisying $\|\mathcal{F}_m \tilde\mu_V-Vq\|_2 \leq \epsilon_V$ where
 $$\epsilon_V:=\sqrt{2m}\ \beta^{-\lambda+1} \delta;$$
 abort if it cannot be found (e.g. invalid measurements),
 \item Set $$\tilde w_k = \frac{1-\beta^{-\lambda}e^{-2\pi i m\lambda \tilde t_k}}{1-\beta^{-1}e^{-2\pi i m \tilde t_k}},~~k=1,\cdots,\tilde S,$$
 \item Output of decoder: $\tilde \mu = \sum_{k=1}^{\tilde S} \tilde a_k \delta_{\tilde t_k}$ with $\tilde a_k:= \tilde b_k/\tilde w_k$.
\end{itemize}

\section{Error analysis}
\label{sec:SR}

Let us start by noting that when the input to the quantizer $y$ equals
$\mathcal{F}_M\mu$ for some $\mu$ of the form \eqref{eq:mu} with $\Delta(\mu) \geq \Delta$ and $\|\mu\|_{TV} \leq \alpha$, then the decoder will always output a measure $\tilde \mu$, thanks to the fact that $Vy = \mathcal{F}_m \mu_V$ where $\mu_V$ is defined by \eqref{eq:muV} which guarantees that $\mu_V$ is a feasible measure for the TV-min program.

Let us now proceed to find an error bound for $\tilde \mu$. We start by comparing $\tilde \mu_V$ to $\mu_V$.
With the error bounds of the general TV-min method reviewed in Section \ref{sec:TV}, we have
\begin{eqnarray}
 \big| b_j -\sum_{k \in \mathcal{I}^m_j} \tilde b_k \big| & \leq & C_1 \epsilon_V,~~~j=1,\dots,S, \label{eq:brec1} \\
 \sum_{k \in \mathcal{I}^m_j} |\tilde b_k|\,|t_j - \tilde t_k|_\mathbb{T}^2 & \leq & C_2 m^{-2}\epsilon_V, ~~~j=1,\dots,S,  \label{eq:brec2} \\
 \sum_{k \in \mathcal{I}^m_0} |\tilde b_k | & \leq & C_3 \epsilon_V \label{eq:brec3}.
\end{eqnarray}
where the index sets $\mathcal{I}^m_j$, $j=0,\dots,S$ are as in \eqref{eq:Ij} and \eqref{eq:I0}, only for $m$ measurements. Note that for all $j \in \{1,\dots,S\}$,
\begin{equation}\label{eq:step1}
\Big| a_j{-}\sum_{k \in \mathcal{I}^m_j} \tilde a_k \Big|
\leq \frac{1}{|w_j|}\Big| b_j{-}\sum_{k \in \mathcal{I}^m_j} \tilde b_k \Big| {+}  \sum_{k \in \mathcal{I}^m_j} |\tilde b_k|\Big| \frac{1}{w_j} -\frac{1}{\tilde w_k}  \Big|.
\end{equation}
With \eqref{eq:weights} and \eqref{eq:brec1}, the first term is bounded by $c_\beta C_1 \epsilon_V$. For the second term, we note that
\begin{equation}\label{eq:boundinvw}
 	\Big| w_j^{-1} -\tilde w_k^{-1}  \Big| \leq m\, C_{\beta, \lambda}\, |t_j-\tilde t_k|_\mathbb{T}
\end{equation}
where $C_{\beta,\lambda}$ stands for the Lipschitz constant of the map
$$t \mapsto \frac{1-\beta^{-1}e^{-2\pi i t}}{1-\beta^{-\lambda}e^{-2\pi i \lambda t}}, ~~~t \in \mathbb{T}.$$ It can be shown $C_{\beta,\lambda} \leq 4\pi \lambda \beta (\beta-1)^{-2}$.

Using \eqref{eq:boundinvw} and Cauchy-Schwarz, we see that the second term in \eqref{eq:step1} is bounded by
$$
m\,C_{\beta,\lambda} \Big (\sum_{k \in \mathcal{I}^m_j}|\tilde b_k|\ |t_j-\tilde t_k|^2_\mathbb{T} \Big)^{1/2}
\Big(\sum_{k \in \mathcal{I}^m_j} |\tilde b_k|\Big)^{1/2}
$$
Note that $\|\tilde b\|_1\leq c_\beta \alpha$ since $\|\tilde b\|_1=\|\tilde \mu_V\|_{TV}$ and
\[
\|\tilde \mu_V\|_{TV} \leq
\|\mu_V\|_{TV}
	\leq \|w\|_\infty \|a\|_1
	\leq c_\beta \|\mu\|_{TV}
	\leq c_\beta \alpha.
\]
Hence, with \eqref{eq:brec2} we deduce
\begin{equation}
  \label{eq:term2}
  \sum_{k \in \mathcal{I}^m_j} |\tilde b_k|\ \Big| \frac{1}{w_j} -\frac{1}{\tilde w_k}  \Big|
  \leq C_{\beta,\lambda} \sqrt{c_\beta \alpha} \sqrt{C_2 \epsilon_V}.
\end{equation}
Injecting \eqref{eq:term2} into \eqref{eq:step1} we have
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:amplitudes}
\Big| a_j-\sum_{k \in \mathcal{I}^m_j} \tilde a_k \Big|
\leq c_\beta C_1 \epsilon_V + C_{\beta,\lambda} \sqrt{c_\beta \alpha} \sqrt{C_2 \epsilon_V}.
\end{equation}
Finally, we also have
\begin{eqnarray}
 \sum_{k \in \mathcal{I}^m_j} |\tilde a_k|\,|t_j - \tilde t_k|_\mathbb{T}^2 & \leq & c_\beta C_2 m^{-2}\epsilon_V,  \label{eq:arec2} \\
 \sum_{k \in \mathcal{I}^m_0} |\tilde a_k | & \leq & c_\beta C_3 \epsilon_V \label{eq:arec3}.
\end{eqnarray}
which follow readily from \eqref{eq:weights}, \eqref{eq:brec2} and  \eqref{eq:brec3}.

At this point, we note the following elementary fact: For any $K\geq 2$, setting $\beta:= K(\lambda+1)/(\lambda+2)$ and $\delta:=(\lambda+2)\alpha/K$ results in $\beta + \alpha\delta^{-1} = K$ and $\delta \beta^{-\lambda+1} < \mathrm{e} \alpha (\lambda+1) K^{-\lambda}$.
(See, e.g. \cite[Lemma 3.2]{chou2016distributed} and \cite[Lemma 1]{chou2017distributed}.)
This choice of parameters results in
$\epsilon_V \leq \mathrm{e}\alpha\sqrt{2m}(\lambda+1) K^{-\lambda}$.
Furthermore it is readily seen that $\beta \geq 4/3$, $c_\beta \leq 7$ and $C_{\beta,\lambda} \leq 12\pi \lambda$.
Hence it follows from \eqref{eq:amplitudes}, \eqref{eq:arec2} and \eqref{eq:arec3} that $\mu$ is approximated by $\tilde \mu$ up to resolution $O(\sqrt{M} \lambda^{3/2} K^{-\lambda/2})$.
\section{Numerical results}
\label{sec:num}

We compare the reconstruction error, quantified by the term on the left hand side of \eqref{eq:amplitudes}, when the Fourier samples are quantized using our proposed beta-quantization versus MSQ. More specifically, we set $\Delta=1/10$ and we randomly select a measure $\mu$ such that $\Delta(\mu)\geq \Delta$; the amplitudes are chosen uniformly at random and normalized to have unit $\ell^1$ norm. For various choices of $\lambda$ and $K$, we quantize the Fourier measurements using both MSQ and $\beta$-quantization. Figure \ref{fig:experiment} displays the reconstruction error as a function of $\lambda$, averaged over 110 trials. The experiment validates our theoretical results and also shows that performance of MSQ is suboptimal in the over-sampling regime.

\begin{figure}
	\caption{Average reconstruction error of MSQ and $\beta$-quantization. \label{fig:experiment}}
	\centering
	\includegraphics[width=0.48\textwidth]{figure_alt}
\end{figure}

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War of the Rebellion: Serial 012 Page 0205 Chapter XXIII. GENERAL REPORTS.
up by the rebels, and in hospital tents. The medical officers attached are Brigade Surg. W. H. White, Volunteers; Drs. F. J. Ainsworth Joel Seaverns, W. Lamb, Beurine Carpenter, F. A. Howe, Jonathan Brown, Henry H. Fuller, A. J. Cummings, J. H. Morse, G. S. Hitchcock, and J. Q. A. McAllister-all from Massachusetts on contract. This hospital has been organized by one of my assistants, Dr. C. R. Greenleaf, U. S. Army, and until yesterday was officered by regimental medical officers left behind with their sick. After I had made the contracts with the Massachusetts gentlemen I sent eleven of them to relieve the commissioned officers, and ordered the latter to their regiments.
II. At White House, Va. This hospital consists of 105 hospital tents at present-all I have been able to command. It will probably be extended when more are received. One-half of these tents have been furnished with plank banquettes. The remainder will be similarly furnished when the lumber can be procured. Brigade Surg. J. H. Baxter, Volunteer service, is at present in charge. He is to be relieved by Brigade Surg. A. T. Watson in a few days. Drs. Alexander Bicker, of New York; W. K. Fletcher, L. D. Seymour, Benj. Campbell, of Massachusetts; A. E. Stocker, Asa Millett, Joseph Underwood, Francis C. Greene, and F. Leb. Monroe are the surgeons in attendance. When this hospital was organized, the medical service was performed gratuitously by Drs. Cogswell, Swinburne, Lansing, Willard, and Kneeland of New York, and Drs. Page and Hall, of Massachusetts. They were relieved on the 26th by the contract physicians above mentioned.
Surgeon-General U. S. Army, Washington, D. C.
Medical Director's Office, June 22, 1862.
GENERAL: I have the honor to report that in obedience to your instructions I proceeded to White House on Friday afternoon (20), and returned yesterday, I called upon Colonel Ingalls, and in company with him examined the house know as the White House, as well as the outbuildings, grounds, and spring. The house is two stories in height, with two small rooms on each floor, a cellar under the main building, and with no attic. The four rooms in the main building can each accommodate 5 patients. One of the wings can accommodate 3 or perhaps 4 patients; the other is a sort of pantry, and has on one side the opening for the stairway to descend into the cellar. This room is unfit for any other purpose than a dispensary or kitchen. The cellar is dark, damp, and foul, and, in my opinion, should of itself forbid the occupation of the house as a hospital. The greatest number of sick the house can accommodate is, then 24, leaving no room for the nurses. The outbuildings are entirely unfit for hospital purposes.
The grounds consist of a law, shaded by locust trees, and a kitchen garden. The lawn affords room for about 25 hospital tents. The kitchen garden is of loose soil, parts of it rather low, and in wet weather would be muddy and uncomfortable. By ditching it might be drained. The spring is at the foot of the bank, near the dairy-house.


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In early Southwick deeds, the main street was often spoken of as the Simsbury Road – or the road from Simsbury to Westfield. Sometimes it was called the "Turnpike." Today Southwick has as good a road system as any town of its size in the vicinity. The main highway from north to south is called the "College Highway" – so named because there is a college at each end. There is Smith College in Northampton, Mass. and Yale in New Haven, Conn. Construction for this highway began about 1920.
To reach Westfield after the days of fording the Westfield River were past, the Coles covered bridge was built and still was in use in 1890. To reach Springfield also a covered bridge over the Connecticut River was constructed. When discussion arose pertaining to the first bridge over the Connecticut at Springfield, a prominent citizen said, "Only a fool would even make a suggestion for a bridge at this point!" Isaac Damon built the bridge in 1820 and according to records of 1861 the old toll bridge at Springfield was charging twelve cents for toll. Both of these bridges were historic landmarks as long a they could stand the elements. There were built for protection from the weather from beast and man and were the scene of many "spooning" parties. In the early 1900's both bridges were replaced by modern bridges.
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Han tog OS-guld i C-1 500 meter och OS-silver i C-1 1000 meter i samband med de olympiska kanottävlingarna 1984 i Los Angeles.

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I'm pretty sure that you need at least a Facebook account before you can use Facebook Messenger. That probably includes a minimal profile, but that doesn't require you to post anything.
If you are using a tablet or phone, you can use the Facebook Messenger app without having the Facebook app installed (I do this on an Android tablet). I use my Facebook account for the Messenger sign-in.
There are other apps for texting and video messaging if that is all you want to do (when I was deployed with the National Guard in 2016 I used Google Hangouts almost exclusively to communicate with family members).
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Policies &
Academic Integrity &
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Student Conduct Records
The Office of Student Rights & Responsibilities will be responsible for maintaining all official University records related to Student Rights & Responsibilities. A Student Rights & Responsibilities record will include copies of all Cases in which a Student is found responsible for violating at least one Student Rights & Responsibilities policy, as well as copies of all relevant correspondence and other documentation related to the Case.
The policies regarding the retention of Student Rights & Responsibilities records are as follows:
The University will maintain Student Rights & Responsibilities files for a period of no less than seven (7) years following the most recent finding of violation and completion of all Outcomes, consistent with the University's obligations under the Clery Act.
The University will maintain Student Rights & Responsibilities files of Students who have been dismissed from the University indefinitely.
institutional action letter request
To submit a request for an Institutional Action Letter, please use this form.
Please note: this form will require you to login using your University of Denver ID number and PioneerWeb password. If you have forgotten your DU ID number (87*******) or password, please contact the Office of the Registrar at 303-871-4095. Student Rights & Responsibilities staff cannot help to lookup user names or passwords.
Student Rights & Responsibilities records and Parental notification policies
Members of the University faculty and staff who receive requests from Students or former Students to complete a request for information about Student Rights & Responsibilities records should direct all inquiries to the Office of the Registrar. Purposes for such requests can include undergraduate transfer to another institution; graduate/professional/law school admission; admission to the Bar (by state); and security clearances for employment.
When a Student requests and authorizes the release of information through the online "Institutional Action Letter Request Form", the University will provide a brief statement with an overview of the Student's conduct history. The information released will include the findings, Outcomes, and will indicate whether or not a Student is in good conduct standing.
Pursuant to University Policy, and consistent with FERPA, Students may review their Student Rights & Responsibilities Record in person by making an appointment with the Office of the Registrar or, for a summary, they can complete the online request "Institutional Action Letter Request Form".
The Office of Student Rights & Responsibilities does not release records for alternative resolution processes, such as Medical Amnesty, which are considered internal records for University purposes, through the release of records process unless required by law.
Parental Notification Policy
The University considers Student Rights & Responsibilities records to be part of a Student's educational record. Accordingly, the University complies with all applicable statues and regulations, including but not limited to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).
The University recognizes that parents or guardians maintain an interest in their Student's behavior and conduct while at the University, and that parents or guardians can play a positive role in addressing these issues. Therefore, the University may notify the parents or guardians of any Student under the age of twenty-one (21) whose current enrollment ends due to suspension or dismissal. The University also reserves the right to notify the parents or guardians of any dependent Student under the age of twenty-one (21) who has been found responsible for violating any drug or alcohol polices. The Director of Student Rights & Responsibilities has the discretion to decline notification under certain circumstances.
This notification is intended as a means to encourage communication between Students and their parents or guardians to provide the greatest level of support for the Student. Nevertheless, the University's primary relationship is with its Students, rather than with their parents or guardians, and the University's priority and obligation is to correspond and otherwise conduct business directly with Students, and not through parents, guardians, or any other third party.
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