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Publication Briefing Economy Environment Centre for Economic Justice IPPR
George Dibb
Carsten Jung
Mathew Lawrence
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Taking a stake: Public equity for economic recovery and industrial strategy
IPPR and Common Wealth
Corporate financial health has been hit hard by the pandemic. The Spending Review presented a chance to lay out a plan on how to help firms cope, but this opportunity was missed. So far, the UK government response has mainly focused on encouraging firms take up more debt and providing small grants to help small businesses stay afloat.
In order to restart business and the economy, much more needs to be done to help businesses struggling with large amounts of debt. Indeed, some firms have already reached the maximum borrowing limits under the schemes. For many firms, currently the only answer could be going into bankruptcy and ultimately liquidation – like Debenhams has – with large costs to employment and chances of an economic bounce-back.
Policy measures should seek to prevent the closure of firms that would be viable once restrictions lift and aggregate demand returns. One means to address this is through the bankruptcy regime. However, some firms will need further support. For many UK firms, in addition to debt restructuring, injections of equity could play a hugely important role. Contrary to debt, equity can better absorb losses, reduce leverage and in turn give other investors certainty around the long-term viability of a firm.
In this briefing paper we argue that public equity injections should play a key role in supporting businesses through the pandemic. The state, with its strong balance sheet, will be able to provide equity in ways that the market alone will under-provide . During the 2008 financial crisis, the state acted as the stabilising debt and equity investor, assuring markets, and boosting the economy. While initially incurring large costs many rescue operations did make a financial return, for instance, the shares of Lloyds Banking Group were ultimately sold at a profit. The same is likely true this time. A concerted and targeted injection of equity could help save hundreds of thousands of jobs in sectors where firms are currently at risk and the associated income in firms currently at risk.
This brieifng is jointly published by the IPPR Centre for Economic Justice and Common Wealth, an independent progressive think tank that designs ownership models for a democratic and sustainable economy. www.common-wealth.co.uk
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We're delighted to be returning to run G-Books at Greenbelt this year, and to enjoy the brilliant line-up joining us for Acts of the Imagination.
Vicky Beeching has been telling her story and speaking out against conversion 'therapy' everywhere from the BBC to the Daily Mail since the publication of her book, Undivided. The bestselling book charts the devastating impact coming out had on her music career and health, and her vital LGBT campaigning since. An important book for now, this memoir shows us the 'stained glass ceiling' – and how we can find a way forward.
Carol Ann Duffy is a trailblazer: the first female, Scottish, openly gay, Poet Laureate. Her work has a wide reach, featuring on syllabuses and stages. She doesn't shy away from difficult themes, but 'like[s] to use simple words… in a complicated way'. Get to grips with her poetry with this collection.
We've all heard of six degrees of separation – June Sarpong says what we need in six degrees of integration. Armed with data from Oxford University researchers, she champions the moral, social and economic imperatives for us to diversify now.
Get thinking about the revolutionary power of collective joy before you come and meet the Greenbelters this year. Lynne Segal's book is the perfect way into thinking about how communities bring about change, and joy.
One for the young activist (to be) in your life. This quirkily illustrated book gives young teens the information and inspiration they need to make a difference. With a fake news avoidance toolkit, debating tips and insights into our political system and its parties, this book equips young people to go out and change the world.
This is My Body is a memoir from Jennie Hogan: an Anglican priest with a history of brain injury and illness going back to childhood. Her experience, as someone who has lived with uncertainty and become reconciled with a new identity, is a perspective we need to listen to – addressing our relationships with our bodies in an age obsessed with physical perfection.


Keith Elam, known as the Guru, is best known as the rapping half of the hip-hop duo Gang Starr alongside producer DJ Premier. His name is a backronym which stands for Gifted Unlimited Rhymes Universal, a reference to The Nation of Gods and Earths (Five Percent Nation) and the Supreme Alphabet.
Guru hails from Boston but settled in Brooklyn, New York, where he and Texas-born DJ Premier set the foundation for Gang Starr. The duo released six albums together between 1989 and 2003. The monotone MC also released solo albums during and after his run with Gang Starr, most notably the four volumes of his Jazzmatazz series, featuring live jazz musicians on a number of the songs.
On April 19, 2010, Guru died from cancer after having been in a coma for almost two months. He was 48 years old.


On June 24th, don't miss our international day dedicated to changemakers!
On June 24th, 50 of the world's largest media will come together for Impact Journalism Day. It's not only a day dedicated to celebrating solutions to global issues, but also a committed movement around our #StoryOfChange manifesto and an invitation to join us at the GoodPlanet Foundation.
This year, for the 5th edition of Impact Journalism Day, Sparknews unites the world's leading media, engaged public figures, international institutions and citizens to awaken creativity, optimism and drive action to address future environmental and societal challenges.
You're also part of the movement!
This Manifesto #StoryOfChange invites everyone to share a message of optimism and to highlight initiatives that build a better world, restore their confidence and rekindle their desire to act collectively.
Many citizens, institutions, companies, media, and artists have already signed this manifesto. Such as Muhammad Yunus, Mary Robinson, Yann-Arthus Bertrand, Arianna Huffington, Anne Hidalgo, Nicolas Hulot and many others, you too can make this movement grow!
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Come and celebrate Impact Journalism Day with us!
Come with family and friends, get a real insight into this event and meet engaged and inspiring public figures at the GoodPlanet Foundation.
- Starting at 11am, come and re-energize yourself with inspiring testimonials from major ambassadors supporting the Sparknews manifesto (Reza, Yann Arthus-Bertrand and Elyx by YAK, Global Goals Ambassador for the UN and a journalist from a media partner of Impact Journalism Day).
- From 1:30 pm: educational workshop for both the young and the old to discover the Sustainable Development Goals by the UN, demos from innovative and positive projects in the fields of environment, food, energy and mobility.
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How Realistic Are International Loans From U.S. Lenders/Investors?
Most lenders here in the USA that make international loans really want loans of $10 million and up. $1 million is the absolute minimum they will consider and most will not even want to work with this amount. There reason is that there is just as much work, time and effort in making a smaller loan as it is to make a larger one. The larger loan is obviously more profitable for the lender/investor.
Business Money Source is not a direct lender. Business Money Source is a financial intermediary that works with you, the client, to assist you in acquiring the business funding that you are seeking. Business Money Source will work to present you with realistic expectations for success in acquiring a business loan outside of the U.S.
There are many factors that will impact whether or not a loan request is granted. The lender/investor will want to know if you are committed to your project and how much of your own money you have invested or will invest in it. Lenders usually want to see that anywhere from 10 -25% cost of the project is covered by your own capital.
They also want to know that you are willing and able to pay due diligence fees that will incur during the funding process for the loan. Most loan applicants will say they will pay due diligence fees at the close of the loan. Paying due diligence at the time of funding is not acceptable to the lender/investor. You will not get the loan because the lender/investor is not going to pay third parties for the costs of evaluating your loan!
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Lenders will usually not make loans in global regions where there is economic or political strife.


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Caritas supports compromise over anti-violence bill
Caritas has come out in support of a 'third way' amendment to a controversial parliamentary bill on physical punishment of children that seeks to outlaw most cases of spanking. Scoop reports that Caritas CEO Michael Smith said the Catholic social justice agency was satisfied that the compromise found through cross-party discussion and negotiation met concerns raised by their submission to Parliament.
Caritas has come out in support of a 'third way' amendment to a controversial parliamentary bill on physical punishment of children that seeks to outlaw most cases of spanking.
Scoop reports that Caritas CEO Michael Smith said the Catholic social justice agency was satisfied that the compromise found through cross-party discussion and negotiation met concerns raised by their submission to Parliament.
'While the media coverage has focused on polarised positions in the debate, Caritas has been among those seeking common ground which both provided more protection for children, and greater clarification for parents,' Michael Smith said.
'In our submission, we favoured an amendment to define unreasonable force, but feel that the wording concerning 'inconsequential' offending is satisfactory.'
Caritas and the Catholic Church have received some criticism about 'fence sitting' on the issue, but Michael Smith said the outcome shows that there was always a third way possible through a debate dominated by two positions.
Catholic social teaching recognises the human dignity of children, and the need to provide special protection for children as among society's most vulnerable members.
It also recognises the subsidiarity of families, which says that governments should not interfere unnecessarily with decisions that families are able to make for themselves, unless the children's safety is at risk.
'In the context of New Zealand's high rates of violence against children, we did not believe the legal status quo adequately protected children, and we were not satisfied that decisions about the threshold for prosecution should be left entirely to police discretion,' Michael Smith said.
The New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference recent statement on the so-called 'Section 59' debate reached a similar position, asking families, communities, and politicians to consider how both the safety of children and family subsidiarity could be protected and valued.
Caritas Support For Section 59 Amendment (Scoop, 3/5/07)

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The living Church as it communicates the conviction that "there are different gifts but the same Spirit" (1 Corinthians 12:4), directs the laity to reflect on individual paths to commit and evaluate their collaboration and participation , to render their Christian existence more significant by living the FAITH of baptism.
Some, driven by the Holy Spirit, feel attracted to the figure of Mother Elena Bettini and and are called to live while in the world, the same charism of the Congregation of the Daughters of Divine Providence. Thus, they render themselves available to accept the challenge of Christianity that communicates the gospel message of abandonment in Divine Providence and to search for the priority of the Reign of God, (Matthew 6:25-34), with a special characteristic: faithful abandonment to the Father and His Providence.
A charism is a free gift of the Spirit, a gift always new, creative, that transcends, challenges the time, and does not require essential elements of religious consecration. The congregation is open to share their charismatic identity with all who travel a different path.
The participation in the life and apostolate with the Daughters of Divine Providence is a gift of faith that invites every lay person who wants to commit and collaborate in our mission that favors the poor and abandoned. To this gift is joined a prophetic sign in the life itself of the Congregation and its future in the welcoming of the laity, thus changing the thinking of today's society that emphasized consumerism over the priority of the person and fraternity.


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We use the word "universe" to describe everything that we know to exist – all of time, energy, and matter. With our current technology, we are unable to observe beyond our universe. But what if a "beyond" exists which has other universes besides our own? In recent years it has become recognized that many problems faced by astronomers and physicists might be solved if there were not just one universe, but multiple (and perhaps an infinite number of) other universes. The concept of a multiverse however, isn't recent at all and has been discussed by scientists for centuries. We talked to Tom Siegfried, science journalist and author of The Number of the Heavens, a book which explores and examines how multiverse theory has evolved.
What is a common misunderstanding about multiverse theory?
The most common misunderstanding is that the multiverse is a theory that cannot be tested. In fact, the multiverse is not a theory itself, but a prediction of other theories that can be tested. One such theory is called inflation, which suggests that there was a rapid burst of expansion right after the birth of the universe. If this theory is correct, it is likely that there were many big bangs that would have produced sibling universes to our own. Inflation theory has passed many tests, although not yet enough to be definitively established.
The most common misunderstanding is that the multiverse is a theory that cannot be tested. In fact, the multiverse is not a theory itself, but a prediction of other theories that can be tested. Click To Tweet
What are some of the major schools of thought with regard to multiverse theory?
In addition to the idea of inflation producing many universes, superstring theory also suggests that there could be many possible universes with differing physical properties. (It's possible that inflation is the mechanism for producing those different possible universes). Another idea is that there are extra dimensions of space beyond the three dimensions we can see, so that our universe might be like a soap bubble floating in those higher dimensions. If so, other such bubbles might also be floating in those dimensions. Since a soap bubble is like a membrane, these other universes are sometimes called brane worlds. Finally, quantum physics suggests the possibility that many possible different realities are created as observations or measurements are made. These different branches of reality are sometimes called a multiverse, but they are (if they exist) quite different from the cosmic bubbles like the one we live in.
Why did you decide to write a book about multiverse theory?
I had long been interested in the issue of whether there are multiple universes and had written many times about the current debates. My interest in writing a book was sparked when I read about the edict of the Bishop of Paris in the year 1277, condemning scholars who taught that there could be only one universe. (The Bishop said that they were denying the power of God to make as many universes as he wanted to.) The Bishop's edict revived a debate that had begun in ancient Greece, when philosophers who believed in atoms argued for an infinity of universes, whereas Aristotle said there could be only one. After 1277, the debate persisted for centuries, and is still going on today, so I thought a book could tell the story of how arguments against the multiverse in the past had invariably turned out to be wrong.
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Integrate-and-Fire Neurons
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Encoding with Integrate-and-Fire (IAF) Neurons
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.. index:: iaf_encode.m

* **IAF Encoding** (``iaf_encode.m``) |lazar_perfect_2004|_ |lazar_reconstruction_2009|_:

  Encodes a time-varying signal using an IAF neuron. Leaky and ideal
  neuron models are supported. In addition, IAF neuron with random
  (Gaussian) thresholds is also supported. A signal can be encoded by
  a single IAF encoder (Single-Input Single-Output Encoding), as shown
  in the figure below, or it can be encoded by a population of IAF
  neurons (Single-Input Multi-Output Encoding).

   .. image:: images/tem-iaf-rt.png
      :scale: 60
      :align: center

.. index:: iaf_encode_on_off.m

* **ON-OFF IAF Encoding** (``iaf_encode_ideal_on_off.m``) |lazar_consistent_2009|_:

  Encodes a time-varying signal using an ON-OFF IAF neuron pair. Only
  ideal IAF neuron models are supported.

   .. image:: images/tem-iaf-coupled.png
      :scale: 60
      :align: center

Decoding for Signal Encoded with Single-Input Single-Output IAF neuron
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.. index:: iaf_decode.m

* **Decoding** (``iaf_decode.m``) |lazar_time_2004|_:

  Reconstructs a bandlimited signal encoded by an IAF neuron using
  sinc kernels.

   .. image:: images/tdm-sinc.png
      :scale: 60
      :align: center

.. index:: iaf_decode_fast.m

* **Decoding using Fast Approximation Method** (``iaf_decode_fast.m``) |lazar_fast_2005|_:

  Reconstructs a bandlimited signal encoded by an IAF neuron using a
  fast approximation method.

   .. image:: images/tdm-fast.png
      :scale: 60
      :align: center

.. index:: consistent_decoding_LIF.m

* **Decoding using Spline Interpolation** (``consistent_decoding_LIF.m``) |lazar_consistent_2009|_:

  Reconstructs a finite-energy signal encoded by an
  Leaky-Integrate-and-Fire (LIF) neuron. It uses spline interpolation
  algorithm.

   .. image:: images/tdm-spline.png
      :scale: 60
      :align: center

.. index:: LIF_decode_S1.m, LIF_decode_S2.m

* **Decoding using Smoothing Spline** (``LIF_decode_S1.m``, ``LIF_decode_S2.m``) |lazar_reconstruction_2009|_:

  Reconstructs a signal in Sobolev space :math:`S_1` or :math:`S_2`
  encoded by a LIF neuron using smoothing splines. Signals encoded by
  a LIF with random threshold should be decoded using this function.

   .. image:: images/tdm-spline-smoothing.png
      :scale: 60
      :align: center

Decoding for Signal Encoded with Single-Input Multiple-Output IAF neurons
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.. index:: consistent_decoding_IF_ONOFF.m

* **Decoding for ON-OFF IAF** (``consistent_decoding_IF_ONOFF.m``) |lazar_consistent_2009|_:

  Reconstructs a finite energy signal encoded by ON-OFF IAF neuron
  pair. The reconstruction is performed using spline interpolation
  method.

   .. image:: images/tdm-spline-mimo.png
      :scale: 60
      :align: center

.. index:: iaf_decode_pop.m

* **Population Decoding** (``iaf_decode_pop.m``) |lazar_information_2007|_:

  Reconstructs a bandlimited signal encoded by an ensemble of IAF neurons using sinc kernels.

   .. image:: images/tdm-sinc-miso.png
      :scale: 60
      :align: center

.. index:: LIF_pop_decode_S1.m, LIF_pop_decode_S2.m

* **Population Decoding using Smoothing Splines**
  (``LIF_pop_decode_S1.m``, ``LIF_pop_decode_S2.m``) |lazar_reconstruction_2009|_:

  Reconstructs a signal in Sobolev Space :math:`S_1` or :math:`S_2`
  encoded by a population of LIF neurons. The reconstruction uses
  smoothing spline method in the RKHS. Signals encoded by population
  of LIF with random threshold should be decoded using this function.

   .. image:: images/tdm-spline-smoothing-mimo.png
      :scale: 60
      :align: center

Decoding for Signals Encoded with Multiple-Input Multiple-Output IAF neurons
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.. index:: consistent_decoding_IF_MIMO.m

* **Population Decoding using Spline Interpolation** (``consistent_decoding_IF_MIMO.m``) |lazar_consistent_2009|_:

  Reconstructs multiple finite energy signals encoded by a population
  of ideal IAF neurons in Multiple-Input Multiple Output setting. The
  reconstruction uses spline interpolation method.

   .. image:: images/tdm-spline-mimo.png
      :scale: 60
      :align: center

.. include:: bibliography.rst

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NASA's $1 Billion Jupiter Probe Just Sent Back Photos Of The Beautiful Gas Planet
There's a lot to love about Jupiter — especially now that NASA's $1 billion probe has sent back new images of the planet.
In August 2011, the Juno Spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems, launched into space. On July 4, 2016, it finally entered Jupiter's orbit. Every 54 days, the probe's elliptical orbit places it close to the planet and for a time, it is the fastest man-made object in the solar system.
Though the probe's primary scientific mission is to study Jupiter's magnetic field, composition and gravity field, the probe also has a camera (known as JunoCam) that allows for close-up photographs to be taken.
On October 24, the probe made its eighth fly-by (or perijove) of Jupiter. Traveling roughly 130,000 miles per hour, it snapped some compelling photographs of the planet's atmosphere (which is a turbulent mess of hydrogen and helium gases). On October 31, 2017, the photos were finally received by NASA. Because the images were raw and grainy, the space agency commissioned outsiders to do some touch-ups and add more color.
"Brand new Jupiter pics from @NASAJuno Perijove 09! What a blimmin' gorgeous/diabolical planet," Seán Doran, a UK-based graphic artist who regularly processes NASA images, tweeted on Tuesday.
The finished result is dreamy
Following are new photographs of Jupiter:
We'll just enjoy these captivating photos of the planet, which has an average temperature of -148 °C
As Sci-Tech Universe reports, the spacecraft will continue to document Jupiter for as long as possible. But not forever.
Electrons Have Been Recorded Whistling In Space Here Is How They Sound
Sources: Fortune
Sci-tech Universe
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Description: Duke Kayo Organa was a human male member of the House of Organa. In 9 BBY, he and his family—his wife Celly and son Niano—traveled to the planet Alderaan to visit Celly's sister, Breha Organa, and her family. While on Alderaan, Kayo enjoyed the food at the Royal Palace and conversed with Breha's husband, Bail.
Duke Kayo Organa was a human male of the House of Organa who was married to Celly Organa. The two had a child named Niano. At some point, he confided in his son that his niece, Princess Leia Organa, was adopted—and therefore, in his eyes, not a "real" Organa. He also claimed that she was kept a secret by her always staying on her homeworld of Alderaan. In 9 BBY, Kayo and his family visited the family of Celly's sister and his sister-in-law, Queen Breha Organa of the planet Alderaan. Arriving via starship, Kayo, Celly, and Niano greeted Breha's family at a dock and then made their way to the Royal Palace of Alderaan.
While at the palace, Kayo talked with Breha and her husband, Senator Bail Organa, regarding pros and cons of the Galactic Empire versus the Galactic Republic. Kayo was happy that his profits were good, but Bail was more concerned with slave labor and unjust taxation in the Outer Rim Territories; Kayo, on the other hand, was more interested in Bail's food than slaves. Also at the party, Niano restated the claims that his father had made to Leia, who shot back that Niano only repeated his father's words in an effort to gain his respect even if he did not fully understand them. She further explained that Niano did this out of an attempt to make others scared of him, although in reality, he was really scared of others more.
Kayo Organa was more interested in enjoying the profits that the Empire granted him than discussing the issues of the galaxy, encouraging his senator brother-in-law to save such debate for the Imperial Senate. He had black hair, brown eyes, and tan skin.


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"My topics are exile, memory and the imagination, and I plan to approach them through a story which has been haunting me. It is an old one about a mermaid: one of those mythic creatures dreamed up by lonely sailors and fishermen who fancied that they had seen beautiful naked women sitting on rocks among the waves. Possibly what they really saw were albino seals gleaming in the moonlight. Maybe the sailors were dazzled, misled by wishful thinking – or had had too much to drink. In the story I am thinking of a fisherman has children by a mermaid, and fearing lest she leave him and go back to the sea, removes and hides her tail. The story has variants but in the end she always finds the tail and goes. I think of the story as being about exile and the way exogamous marriage can separate women from their kin. I fancy, too, that the tail figures a submerged, faintly monstrous part of us: ancient amphibian memories and, possibly too, more recent tribal impulses which do not fit the way we want to live now."
- Julia O'Faolain, in interview
This is the memoir of the writer Julia O'Faolain, who was born in London in 1932. She is the author of seven novels, four collections of short stories, and with her husband edited the study Not in God's Image: Women in History from the Greeks to the Victorians (1973).
Excerpt, published in the Dublin Review of Books
Excerpt, published in The Irish Times
Interview with Julia O'Faolain, The Scotsman
Interview with Julia O'Faolain, The Irish Examiner
Julia O'Faolain, Interview with Myself, London Review of Books
Frieda Klotz, The Irish Independent
Natasha Tripney, The Observer
Patricia Craig, The Independent
Victoria Glendinning, The Spectator
Naomi Frisby, Bookmunch
Review, wn.com
BBC Radio 3: Night Waves: Julia O'Faolain discusses Trespassers
BBC Radio: Front Row: Julia O'Faolain talks about her memoir
Julia O'Faolain, Étonnants Voyageurs 1996
Connie Martinson interview with Julia O'Faolain, 1986
Biography of Julia O'Faolain, Irish Writers Online
Biography and critical resources for Julia O'Faolain
Profile of Julia O'Faolain, The Independent
Julia O'Faolain's "The Religious Wars of 1944," The New Yorker
Julia O'Faolain's "Under the Rose," The New Yorker
Julia O'Faolain's "Love in the Marble Foot," The New Yorker


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If you walked into my house, you'd know I was a bookish person. Books in shelves on the walls, books on tables, books stacked, alas and inevitably, on the floor. It's hard to believe I could ever need another book.
My husband and I even have a little exchange we use when one of us is sorely tempted by something.
"Where are you going to put it?" the (temporarily) sane one asks. "Under the bed?" Then we laugh, because at our house "under the bed" is filled with boxes of books for which our little house doesn't have shelf space. All right, I exaggerate—it's not completely filled with boxes of books. My husband's bagpipes are under there, too. But I digress. We were talking about how I could never need another book, or at least, so it would appear.
Last weekend, however, I found in a secondhand store (what used to be called "a junk shop") a book that, as soon as I saw it, I knew I had to have it. It's a pop-up book for farmers.
All right, I exaggerate. It's a 1903 reprint of an 1899 handbook called The Successful Stockman and Manual of Husbandry, so old that they weren't using ISBN numbers. I guess there were few enough books that publishers could keep track of them all without numbers.
It's in pretty rough shape—a lot of the pages are loose, and the binding has been repaired with electrical tape, so long ago that the tape has lost its stickum and is peeling off. Also, the whole thing is thick as a brick and weighs about the same. Why do I need this?
I'll tell you exactly. I opened it up and there, right at the front was a heavier page that announced "This MANIKIN is prepared by Andrew A. Gardenier, Ph.D., expressly for THE SUCCESSFUL STOCKMAN and Manual of Husbandry."
What's a manikin? I wondered, and turned the page. What to my wondering eyes should appear but a cut-out of a horse, bound in, but loose on the page. When I lifted it, I saw another cut-out underneath it—the same horse, sans skin but showing all the muscles. Under that again was a horse with his circulatory system showing, and under that was the skeleton, with all the bones numbered in case you ever needed to assemble a horse yourself from scratch.
The final horse was labeled "digestive apparatus". This one had no fewer than eight flaps—the lungs, heart in two pieces (so you could see the inside), stomach, intestines (in three pieces) and a uterus with an embryonic foal. Underneath all this was a diagram of the inside of the abdominal wall, and a drawing of the bladder and the male reproductive organs. Yes, this was a hermaphroditic horse!
Now, tell me who wouldn't want something as cool as this? Breathes there a book-lover with soul so dead that never to herself has said, "You know, I could really use a big old manual of animal husbandry with a manikin of a hermaphroditic horse"?
I thought not. Of course I bought it. Now I have to read it, because what I really want to know is, do you need a second horse to get the hermaphroditic one pregnant?
Or can he do it all by herself?
Books mentioned in this column:
The Successful Stockman and Manual of Husbandry by Andrew A. Gardenier, Ph.D., Editor in Chief (The King-Richardson Co., 1903) "Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington"
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Today Aston Martin DB9, even after the change of the company's flagship, is considered the most reasonable choice among all the Aston Martin models. Because its form of beauty and style are the most balanced with the rest of the consumer qualities: dynamism, comfort and practicality. It is worth noting that its pricing policy makes Aston Martin DB9 the most attractive offer of all cars of British brand.
Aston Martin DB9 is structurally different from all previous Aston Martin models, it is enough to look in the section of the central tunnel: there is a link between the rear axle and engine - carbon driveshaft, which weighs considerably lighter than steel and has a lower moment of inertia. Developers actively fought over weight of the vehicle: with the exception of the frame, the bonnet, roof and rear wings are made of aluminum. The front fenders and trunk lid are made of composite materials. All together has produced a small gain in weight, compared to Aston Martin's previous model DB7, doubling the stiffness of the body and richer equipped car.
In 2008, Aston Martin carried out restyling of the coupe and cabriolet of DB9. The most significant changes were in the interior and powertrain. The engine boosted to 470 hp, while the torque was increased to 600 Nm. Acceleration to 100 km / h in the updated version of Aston Martin DB9 takes 4.6 seconds. Maximum speed increased from 299 to 306 km / h. A restyled version received a new grille with five horizontal slats instead of seven.
In mid-2010 Aston Martin DB9 went again easy restyling that undoubtedly added "fresh blood" to one of the veteran of the company. It should be noted that the vehicle including adaptive chassis equipped as in older DBS. The price for Aston Martin DB9 Coupe starts from $183,700, while for its Convertible version the price is around $198,700.
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La Kamenka (en ) est une rivière de Russie qui coule en Sibérie dans le krai de Krasnoïarsk. C'est un affluent de l'Angara en rive droite, donc un sous-affluent de l'Ienisseï.

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Le bassin de la Kamenka a une superficie de  (surface de taille plus ou moins équivalente à celle de la région française d'Île-de-France).
Sa longueur est de 313 kilomètres.
Son débit moyen à la confluence est de .

La Kamenka naît sur le vaste plateau de Sibérie centrale, dans les hauteurs situées au nord du cours de l'Angara, dans la partie centrale du krai de Krasnoïarsk, entre les bassins du Bolchoï Pit à l'ouest et de la Toungouska pierreuse à l'est. La rivière coule d'une manière générale en direction du sud dans une région de moyenne montagne couverte de forêts et très peu peuplée. Son parcours est très sinueux et comporte de nombreux méandres.
Après un parcours de 313 kilomètres, la Kamenka finit par se jeter dans l'Angara en rive droite, une centaine de kilomètres en aval de Bogoutchany.

La Kamenka est habituellement prise par les glaces depuis la deuxième quinzaine d'octobre ou la première quinzaine de novembre, jusqu'à la fin du mois d'avril ou au début du mois de mai.

Hydrométrie - Les débits à Kamenka

Le débit de la Kamenka a été observé pendant 10 ans (durant la période 1976-1985) à Kamenka, localité située au niveau de son confluent avec l'Angara.

Le débit inter annuel moyen ou module observé à Kamenka durant cette période était de  pour une surface prise en compte de , soit la totalité du bassin versant de la rivière.
La lame d'eau écoulée dans ce bassin atteint ainsi le chiffre de 206 millimètres par an, ce qui peut être considéré comme assez élevé, du moins dans le contexte de la Sibérie, caractérisée par un écoulement assez modéré.

Rivière alimentée en grande partie par la fonte des neiges, mais aussi par les pluies de l'été, la Kamenka est un cours d'eau de régime nivo-pluvial.

La Kamenka présente des fluctuations saisonnières de débit élevées. Les crues se déroulent au printemps, en mai et en juin (avec un maximum en mai) et résultent de la fonte des neiges. En juillet, le débit s'effondre puis se stabilise pour se maintenir à un niveau assez consistant tout au long du reste de l'été et au début de l'automne, sous l'effet des précipitations sous forme de pluie. En novembre survient une nouvelle chute de débit, ce qui mène à la période des basses eaux. Celles-ci sont liées à l'hiver russe et à ses importantes gelées ; la rivière atteint alors son minimum, ou étiage, période allant de novembre à avril inclus.

Le débit moyen mensuel observé en janvier (minimum d'étiage) est de , soit environ 2 % du débit moyen du mois de mai (), ce qui souligne l'amplitude extrêmement importante des variations saisonnières. Sur la durée d'observation de 10 ans, le débit mensuel minimal a été de  (), tandis que le débit mensuel maximal s'élevait à  en .

En ce qui concerne la période estivale, libre de glaces (de mai à septembre inclus), le débit mensuel minimum observé a été de  en , ce qui restait encore assez confortable.

Notes et références

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Articles connexes
 Le bassin de l'Ienisseï
 Le plateau de Sibérie centrale
 La Sibérie
 L'Angara
 La liste des cours d'eau de Russie

Liens externes
  La Kamenka dans la Grande Encyclopédie soviétique
  Arcticnet - La Kamenka à Kamenka

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Red Hot exhibition of beautiful redheaded men (PHOTOS)
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Knights is 'rebranding the ginger male stereotype,' one gorgeous redhead at a time.Thomas Knights
London photographer Thomas Knights has taken the world by storm since launching 'Red Hot' – a collection of portraits of stunningly gorgeous, redheaded men.
Knights's collection, his first solo exhibition, is comprised of images of 40 of beautiful American gingers. He also recently launched a new book, "Red Hot 100," featuring the 100 hottest redheaded men in the world.
His objective here is to "rebrand the ginger male stereotype" – he wants to see redheaded men perceived as sexy, confident and heroic, instead of as the subject of mockery, however light.
"Red headed actors are portrayed as undesirable, angry, and weak characters – or the bad guy," said the 31-year-old photographer. "They are never the heartthrob, the hero or the action star, and it has created this notion that all ginger men are ugly and weak. I want to show that they're not."
"If we can get a ginger actor to play James Bond, it would have a significant impact on ginger kids growing up – and would go a long way to stop kids being bullied at school for being redheads," he said.
Hundreds of 2014 calendars with the portraits have been sold, raising thousands of dollars for anti-bullying charities. Though it seems strange and unfortunate that being a redhead and being bullied go hand in hand, Knights, a redhead himself, has collected quite a few stories of childhood trauma from his models over the years.
"We have been conditioned to think something by a group of people, and now, it has gone so far that actually people's innate sexual desires have been manipulated so much that they do not find redheaded men attractive," he said.
But his beautiful gingers against an iconic bright blue backdrop (accentuating their fiery locks) have caused quite a stir. It's a Red Hot revolution – and Knights has reported many people approaching him since his launch three years ago to say that gingers are their "new thing."
The exhibition which is continuing to tour the world celebrates the beauty of the redheaded man, and features stunning gingers from around the world including actors, Olympic gold medalists and top models.
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Q: como puedo bloquear la pantalla debajo de un FAB en flutter? Tengo el siguiente menú en un Floating Action Button
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HER NAME WAS PANDY. She had lost a good deal of her hair, one of her arms was missing, and, generally speaking, she'd had the stuffing knocked out of her. She was my sister Barbie's favorite doll.
She hadn't always looked like this. She had been a personally selected Christmas gift by a cherished aunt who had traveled to a great department store in faraway Chicago to find her. Her face and hands were made of some kind of rubber or plastic so that they looked real, but her body was stuffed with rags to feel soft and squeezable, like a real baby. When my aunt looked in the display window at Marshall Fields and found Pandy, she knew she had found something very good.
When Pandy was young and a looker, Barbie loved her. She loved her with a love that was too strong for Pandy's own good. When Barbie went to bed at night, Pandy lay next to her. When Barbie had lunch, Pandy ate beside her at the table. When Barbie could get away with it, Pandy took a bath with her. Barbie's love for that doll was, from Pandy's point of view, pretty nearly a fatal attraction.
By the time I knew Pandy, she was not a particularly attractive doll. In fact, to tell the truth she was a mess. She was no longer a very valuable doll; I'm not sure we could have given her away.
But for reasons that no one could ever quite figure out, in the way that kids sometimes do, my sister Barbie loved that little rag doll still. She loved her as strongly in the days of Pandy's raggedness as she ever had in her days of great beauty.
Other dolls came and went. Pandy was family. Love Barbie, love her rag doll. It was a package deal.
Once we took a vacation from our home in Rockford, Illinois, to Canada. We had returned almost all the way home when we realized at the Illinois border that Pandy had not come back with us. She had remained behind at the hotel in Canada.
No other option was thinkable. My father turned the car around and we drove from Illinois all the way back to Canada. We were a devoted family. Not a particularly bright family, perhaps, but devoted.
We rushed into the hotel and checked with the desk clerk in the lobby—no Pandy. We ran back up to our room—no Pandy. We ran downstairs and found the laundry room—Pandy was there, wrapped up in the sheets, about to be washed to death.
The measure of my sister's love for that doll was that she would travel all the way to a distant country to save her.
The years passed, and my sister grew up. She outgrew Pandy. She traded her in for a boyfriend named Andy (w
ho, oddly enough,was even less attractive than the doll Pandy).
Pandy had not been much of a bargain for a long while, and by now the only logical thing left to do was to toss her out. But this my mother could not bring herself to do. She held Pandy one last time, wrapped her with exquisite care in some tissue, placed her in a box, and stored her in the attic for twenty years.
When I was growing up I had all kinds of casual playthings and stuffed animals. My mother didn't save any of them. But she saved Pandy. Want to guess why? (When I was younger I thought it was perhaps because my mother loved my bratty little sister more than she loved me.)
The nature of my sister's love is what made Pandy so valuable. Barbie loved that little doll with the kind of love that made the doll precious to anyone who loved Barbie. All those tears and hugs and secrets got mixed in with the rags somehow. If you loved Barbie, you just naturally loved Pandy too.
More years passed. My sister got married (not to Andy) and moved far away. She had three children, the last of whom was a little girl named Courtney, who soon reached the age where she wanted a doll.
No other option was thinkable. Barbie went back to Rockford, back to the attic, and dragged out the box. By this time, though, Pandy was more rag than doll.
So my sister took her to a doll hospital in California (there really is such a place) and had her go through reconstr
uctive surgery. Pandy was given a facelift or liposuction or whatever it is that they do for dolls, until after thirty years Pandy became once ag
ain as beautiful on the outside as she had always been in the eyes of the one who loved her. I'm not sure she looked any better to Barbie, but now it was possible for others to view what Barbie had always seen in her.
When Pandy was young, Barbie loved her. She celebrated her beauty. When Pandy was old and ragged, Barbie loved her still. Now she did not simply love Pandy because Pandy was beautiful, she loved her with a kind of love that made Pandy beautiful.
More years passed. My sister's nest will soon be emptied. Courtney is a teenager now, preparing for young womanhood; Andy Jr. is already on the phone.
And Pandy? Pandy's getting ready for another box.
TWO TRUTHS
THERE ARE TWO TRUTHS about human beings that matter deeply. We are all of us rag dolls. Flawed and wounded, broken and bent. Ever since the Fall, every member of the human race has lived on the ragged edge. Partly our raggedness is something that happens to us. Our genes may set us up for certain weaknesses. Our parents may let us down when we need them most. But that's not the whole story. We each make our own deposits into the ragged account of the human race. We choose to deceive when the truth begs to be spoken. We grumble when a little generous praise is called for. We deliberately betray when we're bound by oaths of loyalty.
Like a splash of ink in a glass of water, this raggedness permeates our whole being. Our words and thoughts are never entirely free of it. We are rag dolls, all right.
But we are God's rag dolls. He knows all about our raggedness, and he loves us anyhow. Our raggedness is no longer the most important thing about us.
John Ortberg, Love beyond Reason: Moving God's Love from Your Head to Your Heart (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2010).
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2017 Day Trip: Oregon, Illinois / The Seven Muses – by Students of Lorado Taft
The Seven Muses – by Students of Lorado Taft.
The sculpture is also known as the Funeral Procession.
Location: Eagle's Nest Art Colony.
The Eagle's Nest Art Colony is now Lorado Taft Field Campus, a part of the Northern Illinois University [NIU].
The sculpture was designed and executed by students of Lorado Taft in 1902.
The students used themselves as models for the figure and the faces are actual life masks.
The Seven Muses [1902] – by Students of Lorado Taft / In the image: Mike Baur, Steve Mueller, Terry Schuster, Melanie Costello and Mari Baur.
The sculpture "The Funeral Procession" also known as "The Seven Muses" was designed and executed by students of Lorado Taft in 1902. The piece was the collaborative work of six of Taft's students who had taken up residence at the colony for the summer. The assignment required each student to create a human figure but left the subject of the sculpture to their collective choice. The end result is a piece with six human figures carrying a casket on their shoulders. The students used themselves as models for the figure and the faces are actual life masks.
Campus lore has it that Taft did not like this sculpture. But he had to see it everyday, as it is close to his studio. Image below shows the sculpture with Taft Studio in the background.
The Seven Muses [1902] – by Students of Lorado Taft
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Hendrix football player gets national honor
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Shannon recorded two interceptions, eight tackles and a pair of pass breakups in Saturday's 30-17 win over Berry. Shannon, from The Woodlands, Texas, returned his first interception 13 yards to the Vikings' 9, setting up the Warriors' first touchdown of the game in the second quarter. His second interception came in the endzone during the third quarter, leading to a Hendrix touchdown on their ensuing drive.
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Completed Factory Cart #1: The deck was replaced with worm-scarred Maple to maintain the antique look.
The before view of factory cart #1. This cart needed a full deck replacement along with some frame repair, cleaning, refinishing and ant relocation.
Factory Cart # 1 with it's new Worm-Scarred Maple top. No finish yet.
Factory Cart #2 with it's old deck removed and a good cleaning and refinishing.
Laser Engraved Cypress and Hand Painted with One-Shot sign paints.
The Toy chest is made of red oak, and has an ambrosia maple nameplate on top. The nameplate and the sides of the chest are laser-engraved. The chest is dovetailed. There is a removable till that slides from side to side inside the chest. Because this chest was used as a toy chest for a young boy, torsional hinges were used so the lid of the chest is self-supporting when opened.
Various laser engraved and painted house signs. These signs are all made of wood.
This is the biggest freestanding sign I have made to date.
The design as submitted to the Friends of Squaw Mountain.
Layout of the laser cut templates on the workbench.
The squaw letters getting painted.
The letters applied to the sign board.
Beginning to make the arrows.
The first of 4 completed arrows.
Ready for transport to Maine.
Installing the sign boards. This nice gentleman named Leanard Dow showed up out of nowhere to help.
The end of the first day signs completely installed.
Overnight it snowed! The message boards were installed and everything was ready just in time for Ski Season!
There is no greater honor than making an Urn for a great person. I have been able to honor a few fallen friends by creating these boxes for them. I try to do as much hand work as possible on these. I also try to use high-character woods. Sometimes, as shown here, the family will supply an item to enlay on the box. These are a great alternative to the slew of mass-produced items on the market today.
I have made quite a few custom equipment cabinets for special purposes. Shown here are pictures of equipment cabinets made for a recording studio and an anemometer cabinet made for a collector of antique air traffic control equipment.
I have made several of these display cases with various specifications. They all have dovetail corners. The new one's all have through-tenon doors which can be disassembled if the glass is broken. These cases can be customized in many ways. Most of the cases I have made are used to display train models. For these track grooves are cut into the shelving to keep the display pieces secure and in-line.


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"We have implemented a deep integration between our payment system and UPI. This will not only help customers add money into their Paytm Wallets, but also act as a strong foundation for our upcoming Payments Bank." said Nitin Misra, Senior Vice President - Paytm. "Going forward, we will continue to leverage various India Stack features to bring innovative and cost-effective services to our fellow Indians."
Last month, Alibaba-backed Paytm had stated plans of having a deep integration with India Stack to leverage the platform's open-stack technology for its upcoming payments bank.
The company had implemented India Stack components like eSign and eKYC to ensure scalability for its mobile payments and commerce solutions. Going forward, all merchants in the Paytm ecosystem can also accept payments from other UPI apps, it added.
"We will leverage the power of India Stack starting from Aadhaar to UPI to DigiLocker in our upcoming Payments Bank. This will allow us to offer cost-effective services to Indians and bring us closer to our goal of bringing half a billion Indians to the mainstream economy," said Paytm founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma.
Apart from this, Paytm has recently introduced several new features like App Password on Android for additional safety, a toll-free number for non-smartphone and non-internet users to pay or receive money using Paytm and support for 10 regional languages including Hindi.


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Так, реакция  описывается следующим кинетическим уравнением:
 , где:
  — скорость химической реакции, равная ,
  — константа скорости реакции,
  …  — концентрации реагентов  — ,
  …  — порядки реакции по соответствующим реагентам (сумма этих коэффициентов - порядок реакции). Они определяются экспериментально и не всегда совпадают со стехиометрическими коэффициентами в уравнении реакции.

Из этого виден физический смысл константы скорости реакции: она численно равна скорости реакции при концентрации каждого из реагирующих веществ, равной 1 моль/л или в случае порядков реакции по каждому реагенту, равных 0.

Константа скорости реакции зависит от температуры (уравнение Аррениуса), от природы реагирующих веществ, от катализатора, но не зависит от их концентрации.

Для реакции вида  скорость образования продуктов реакции и скорость расходования реагентов могут быть представлены как:
 .
Таким образом, чтобы избежать использования нескольких форм записи скорости для одной и той же реакции используют химическую переменную, которая определяет степень протекания реакции и не зависит от стехиометрических коэффициентов:
 ,
где  — стехиометрический коэффициент.
Тогда скорость реакции:
 ,
где  — объём системы.

Размерность
Размерность константы скорости реакции зависит от порядка реакции. Если концентрация реагирующих веществ измерена в моль/л (M):
 Для реакции первого порядка k имеет размерность 1/с;
 Для реакции второго порядка k имеет размерность л/(моль·с) или 1/(M·с);
 Для реакции третьего порядка k имеет размерность л2/(моль2·с) или 1/(M2·с).

См. также
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Dietary migration of Impala rivals the geographical migration of Serengeti wildebeest
Seasonal dietary changes increase the abundances of savanna herbivore species
Credit: Gareth Hempson/Wits University
African savannas are renowned for their huge diversity of wildlife, yet some animal species are much more abundant than others. What causes these differences?
For herbivore species – plant-eating animals like antelope, zebra and elephants – the challenge lies in both obtaining enough food to eat throughout the year, while also avoiding predation by carnivores.
One way to obtain enough food – and which works extremely well in places like the Serengeti – is to migrate over long distances and track the areas where the best food is available through the seasonal cycle. This works best for grass eating or 'grazer' species such as wildebeest and zebra.
On the other hand, being extremely large like an elephant greatly reduces predation risk, with their big bodies also meaning that they can eat whatever they like, because there is lots of time to digest foods as they move through their long gut system.
So why then are impala by far the most abundant herbivore in a place like the Kruger Park? These are animals that do not migrate, and they are also only medium-sized at best.
Recent research published in Science Advances by Professor Carla Staver from Yale University and Dr Gareth Hempson from University of the Witwatersrand has shed new light on this question.
"The key insight emerging from our research is that species like impala do actually migrate, although not in the sense you would expect," says Dr Hempson. "For impala, the migration they undertake is a 'dietary migration', where they switch from eating mostly grass in the wet season, to eating more tree leaves or 'browse' during the dry season. This 'mixed feeding' strategy makes a huge amount of sense, because grasses tend to be higher quality and more abundant food in the wet season, but trees tend to stay greener much longer into the dry season and become the better food source then."
Theoretical models show that for this 'mixed feeding' strategy to work, the costs of switching between food sources must not be too high. For example, the mouth shape of a hippo is excellent for consuming lots of grass quickly, but terrible for picking green leaves out of a thorn tree. Similarly, giraffe are better off sticking to browsing from the treetops. The models also suggest that for the mixed feeding strategy to be advantageous, the 'best' food type must change from season to season. This is typically the case for grass versus browse in savannas.
Animal census data from 18 protected areas in East and southern Africa show that being a mixed feeder does indeed have a strong positive effect on species abundances in savannas, regardless of body size. In fact, the abundance of mixed feeders is rivalled only by migratory grazers, suggesting that switching your diet from season to season – either in terms of what you eat, or where you eat – is fundamental to achieving high population sizes.
But what of the benefits of being large-bodied like an elephant? This research suggests that part of the reason why elephants can become abundant is in fact due to their broad, mixed diets, but the anti-predation benefits of being large almost certainly still stand. However, outsized human poaching effort on very large species such as rhino and elephant mean that we have little idea of just how abundant they really can be.
The findings of this research have important implications for the management and conservation of increasingly threatened herbivore populations, and for our understanding of the ecology of savannas more broadly. For example, land use change and the shrinking space available for animal movement means that mixed feeders – who can switch their diet in situ – are likely to fare better in future than species that historically would have moved long distances to obtain different food sources. Mixed feeders may also come to play an increasingly important role in mitigating woody encroachment – the rapid increase in tree density in many savannas linked to rising carbon dioxide levels – thus maintaining more open, grassy spaces to the benefit of grazing species.
"So, next time you're in the Kruger Park and becoming bored of seeing only impala, take a moment to reflect that you are witnessing the outcome of a migration that rivals that of the Serengeti wildebeest – an extraordinary seasonal dietary migration from grass to browse," says Dr Hempson.
The research is published in Science Advances, with the title "Seasonal dietary changes increase the abundances of savanna herbivore species".
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async def on_message(message):
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If I want this line of code to run ONLY to one person at a time (that is, if someone else is using the bot other people will not be able to use the bot), how should I code this?
I'm using discord.Client() instead of discord.Bot(), and I intend to keep it that way.

A: If you want to make that only 1 person can use it at a time so you can add an if statement as I have added below:
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async def on_message(message):
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