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19 April 2019 Dominique-Smith case report, courts, Damages, judges, personal injury, SA Health and Safety (0)
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"Safe sex" – Part 3
31 October 2013 Simon-Readhead-QC case report, Damages, employers liability, LP duty of care, LP Liability, personal injury, SA Employers Liability, SA Health and Safety, workplace claims (0)
Sex activity is "in every sense a personal choice". Ordinarily this truism might not find its way into legal submissions and certainly not submissions by the Solicitor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia. However, ordinarily injuries at work do not arise from a "vigorous" sex session in a motel bedroom. Regular readers will recall the story so far in relation to this unfortunate "on the job" injury which raises important questions for personal injury and employment lawyers in the UK about the types of activities which can properly be said to arise out of or in the course of employment. The respondent, a female public servant sued the Australian federal government after being injured while having sex on a work trip in a motel bedroom. The respondent's partner's evidence was that they were "going hard" when a glass light fitting came away from the wall above the bed striking her in the face and causing both physical and psychological injuries. The appellant claimed compensation because her injuries were caused "during the course of her employment" as she had been instructed to travel to and spend the night in a motel in a small town in New South Wales ahead of a departmental meeting early the next day. The respondent, Comcare, the Australian government's workplace safety body, rejected the claim on the grounds that sexual activity "was not an ordinary incident of an overnight stay like showering, sleeping or eating". That decision was upheld by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. Nicholas J. allowed the appellant's appeal - see PVYW v Comcare (No 2) [2012] FCA 395. Comcare appealed to the full court of the Federal Court of Australia (FCA) which dismissed its appeal – see Comcare v PVYW [2012] FCAFC 181. In particular, the FCA rejected Comcare's submission that an injured employee must show both that the injury occurred at a place where he or she was induced or encouraged by the employer to be and that the activity from which the injury arose was induced or encouraged by the employer or was implicitly accepted. It held that the potential conditions for liability were not conjunctive in the sense that an activity test should be super-imposed on a place test. There was no combined or two-stage test. There was a single test which may be satisfied in either one of two ways. Comcare appealed to the High Court of Australia which on 30 October 2013 by a majority of 4-2 allowed the appeal and rejected the respondent's claim for compensation – see Comcare v PVYW [2013] HCA 41. The judgment of the majority was given by Chief Justice French AC. The essential enquiry in each case was "how was the injury brought about?" Sometimes the injury will have occurred at and by reference to the place where the employee was. Usually, however, it will have occurred while the employee was engaged in an activity. The majority held at [38] that "when an activity was engaged in at the time of injury, the question is: did the employer induce or encourage the employee to engage in that activity? When injury occurs at and by reference to a place, the question is: did the employer induce or encourage the employee to be there? If the answer to the relevant question is affirmative, then the injury will have occurred in the course of employment". It follows that where an activity was engaged in at the time of the injury, the relevant question is not whether the employer induced or encouraged the employee to be at the place where the injury ocurred because such inducement or encouragement is not relevant to the circumstances of the injury. Put another way, an employer is not liable for an injury which occurs when an employee undertakes a particular activity if the employer has not in any way encouraged the employee to undertake that activity but has merely required the employee to be present at the place where the activity is undertaken. Two justices dissented. Bell J. held at [106] that "consideration of the connection between the circumstances of the injury and the employment relation would be to add complexity at the cost of certainty and consistency". Gageler J. agreed holding at [159] that "The particular activity in which the respondent was engaged at the time she was injured does not enter into the analysis". The High Court's decision means that in Australia an employer will not become, in reality, an insurer for an employee in respect of any activity carried out at a place which the employee has been induced or encouraged by the employer to be. It also provides useful guidance to UK lawyers who may be called upon to deal with unusual work place related injuries. The decision also restores certainty and structure to the law of employers' liability in Australia – something which was sadly lacking in the motel light fitting in question!
19 December 2012 Simon-Readhead-QC case report, LP damages, LP duty of care, LP Liability, personal injury, public policy, SA Employers Liability, SA Health and Safety, workplace claims (0)
Regular readers will recall the story so far in relation to this unfortunate "on the job" injury which raises important questions about activities which can properly be said to arise out of or occur in the course of employment. The appellant, a female public servant, sued the Australian federal government after being injured while having sex on a work trip in a motel bedroom. A glass light fitting came away from the wall above the bed as she was having sex striking her in the face and causing injuries to her nose, mouth and a tooth as well as "a consequent psychiatric injury" described as an adjustment disorder. The appellant's partner's evidence was that they were "going hard" and that he did not know "if we bumped the light or it just fell off". He added, not unreasonably, that he was "not paying attention because we were rolling around". The appellant claimed compensation because her injuries were caused "during the course of her employment" as she had been instructed to travel to and spend the night in the motel in a small town in New South Wales ahead of a departmental meeting early the next day. The respondent, Comcare, the Australian government's workplace safety body, rejected the claim on the grounds that sexual activity "was not an ordinary incident of an overnight stay like showering, sleeping or eating". That decision was upheld by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. However, on appeal to the Federal Court of Australia (FCA), the appellant's counsel submitted that the accident was in truth "no different than slipping over in the shower". In addition, "lawful sexual activity" should now be considered reasonable behaviour in a hotel room by an employee as "it's not the 1920s". Counsel for ComCare responded that people need to eat, sleep and attend to their personal hygiene but "you don't need to have sex". The judge, Nicholas J., allowed the appellant's appeal - see PVYW v Comcare (No 2) [2012] FCA 395. The judge held that "While it is true that in determining whether an injury occurred in the course of employment, regard must always be had to the general nature, terms and circumstances of the applicant's employment, there was nothing of that description in the present case which could justify a finding that the interval or interlude was interrupted by the applicant's lawful sexual activity" – see [54] of the judgment. Comcare appealed to the full court of the FCA which on 13 December 2012 dismissed its appeal – see Comcare v PVYW [2012] FCAFC 181. In a carefully reasoned judgment the full court, presided over by Keane CJ., rejected Comcare's essential submission that "an injured employee who claims to have been injured during an interval or interlude between periods of actual work must show both that the injury occurred at a place he or she was induced or encouraged by the employer to be and that the activity from which the injury arose was induced or encouraged by the employer, or was implicitly accepted". The court held that that the potential conditions for liability were not conjunctive in the sense that an activity test should be super-imposed on a place test. There was no combined or two-stage test. There was a single test which may be satisfied in either one of two ways. Further, the concept of, here, "a frolic of her own" was one which applies to wrongful acts. The court also made clear that "the views of the respondent's employer about the respondent's (lawful) activities were irrelevant, whether or not those views (if sought) may have reflected disapproval or indifference" – see [50] – [55] of the judgment. This must be right. Why should being injured whilst having sex be any different to the claimant being injured whilst working out on one of the exercise bicycles or cross trainers in the motel's gym provided that the injury occurred within an overall period or episode of work and negligence can be shown. Further, why should the employer approve when and how an employee has sex any more than where she chooses to have her breakfast? Comcare is considering an appeal to the High Court, Australia's highest legal tribunal. In the meantime, common sense has prevailed, the judgment provides useful guidance on the scope of workplace injuries and I, for one, will in future double check the structural integrity of motel light fittings.
Strict liability in workplace claims - the end of the line?
10 September 2012 Andrew-Spencer LP Liability, SA Health and Safety (0)
The Government announced today that it will be introducing legislation before Parliament as early as next month amending the Health and Safety at Work Act to abolish strict liability for breaches of Health and Safety regulations. If the legislation is passed, employers will only be liable where fault is proved. By way of example, this would mean that in future there may be no strict liability for defective work equipment under Regulation 5 of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998; or for exposure to dangerous substances under Regulation 7(1) of the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002. This stems from recommendations to abolish strict liability in last year's Löfstedt review of Health and Safety legislation. This specifically criticised the result in Stark v Post Office [2000] ICR 1013, as well as Allison v London Underground [2008] EWCA Civ 71 and Dugmore v Swansea NHS Trust [2002] EWCAA Civl 1689. Strict liability has been part of the employers' liability landscape since the Factories Acts – see for example Galashiels Gas Co Ltd v Millar [1949] AC 275 HL (cited in Stark v Post Office). If passed, this will really be a sea-change in employer's liability law, so keep watching this space for further updates…


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Bitcoin SV was created in November 2018 after an acrimonious hard-fork of Bitcoin Cash and has always had a tumultuous run thanks to its most outspoken advocate, Craig Wright.
However, it appears Wright went a step too far. Today, Binance announced that it will delist Bitcoin SV, immediately causing the cryptocurrency to plunge by 10%.
Furthermore Wright last week issued legal notices to several of his critics, including host of the crypto podcast What Bitcoin Did, Peter McCormack, who has publicly asserted that Wright is not the inventor of Bitcoin. McCormack was threatened with a lawsuit for libel on this basis.
Binance is a huge influencer in the cryptocurrency market, and the immediate aftermath of the announcement saw Bitcoin SV plunging by 10%.
Bitcoin Cash, which will potentially benefit from Bitcoin SV's demise, was the complete opposite with an 11% rally in price.


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Feminists and Disarming the Victim and a Modest Proposal
I have just been flabbergasted at the feminist reaction against efforts to teach women to be more difficult targets for sexual predators (e.g. communicating the dangers of binge drinking, nail polish that detects date rape drugs, etc). Nobody thinks that encouraging people to buy burglar alarms or lock their doors is somehow shifting blame for robbery to the victim. But that is exactly the argument feminists are making vis a vis sexual assault on campus. They argue that any effort to teach victims to be a tougher target is an insult to women and must be avoided.
This is just stupid. So stupid that I wonder if there is an ulterior motive. There is no way you ever are going to get rid of bad people doing bad things. Our historic messaging on things like date rape may have been confused or insufficiently pointed, but we have always been clear on, say, murder and there is still plenty of that which goes on. I almost wonder if feminists want women to continue to be victims so they can continue to be relevant and have influence. It's a sick thought but what other explanation can there be for purposely disarming victims?
So I was jogging the other night through a university (Vanderbilt) and saw all those little blue light emergency phones that are so prevalent on campus. In most cases, the ubiquity of those emergency phones is a result of the growing female population on campus and are there primarily to make women (and perhaps more importantly, their parents who write the checks) be safer feel more comfortable. Women's groups were big supporters of these investments. But why? Isn't that inconsistent? Shouldn't we consider investment in such emergency devices as wrong-headed attempts to avoid fixing the root cause, which is some inherent flaw in males?
If you say no, that it would be dumb to rip out the emergency phones, then why is it dumb to teach Freshman women some basic safety skills that may prevent them from being victims? I have taken numerous campus tours with my kids and in almost every one they point out the blue light phones and in almost every case say, "I have never heard of these being used, but they are there." I guarantee 30 minutes helping women understand how to avoid particularly risky situations would have a higher return than the phones.
I say this with some experience. I was in a business for a while that required international travel and in which there was some history of executives getting attacked or kidnapped in foreign cities. The company gave us a one-day risk-identification as well as beginner escape and evasion course. It was some of the most useful training I have ever had. And not for a single second did I think anyone was trying to blame me for street crime in foreign cities.
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Another_Brian:
It's pretty much a slogan at this point, "Instead of teaching women to protect themselves, teach men to not rape." And every time I see it, I respond exactly as you have, "Instead of teaching people to protect their possessions, teach thieves to not steal." While I don't think it's a conscious decision on behalf of Feminism&reg, I think the willingness of so many to repeat this without thinking critically about it demonstrates that the outcomes they're seeking don't necessarily line up with the words they're speaking. As long as your goal is a victimless society, you'll always have constituents because you'll always have victims.
It's the same sort of thought process that fuels the War on (Some) Drugs. When a certain drug becomes illegal and much more difficult to acquire, people find alternatives. So they make the alternatives illegal, and onward it goes, forever and ever, until some magic point in the future where people don't want to feel the effects of mind altering substances. Which anyone who's paying attention already recognizes is extremely improbable, but none the less the war continues. We have always been at war with marijuana; we have always been at peace with prozac.
Matthew Slyfield:
"So stupid that I wonder if there is an ulterior motive."
"I almost wonder if feminists want women to continue to be victims so they can continue to be relevant and have influence."
There is definitely an ulterior motive, but I disagree with what you think the ulterior motive is.
A significant number of the hard core, inner circle of the feminist movement believe that all heterosexual sex is inherently rape, that consent for such sex is impossible even in the context of marriage. The real ulterior motive is that they want any male->female intimate contact to be considered proof or rape on the male's part regardless of the circumstances. Once you understand this, the difference in their view of the emergency phones vs rape avoidance devices/training is entirely consistent.
Daublin:
Regarding motives, it's a sufficient explanation that the people making these loud declarations are mainly engaging in culture wars, rather than trying to, say, actually help women.
If you spend your days making loud proclamations about feminism, it means you have plenty of disposable income and plenty of free time. It also shows that you Care (TM).
jimbeaux:
I agree - they have an ulterior motive, just as they do in completely overstating the risks. The number that feminists (and President Obama and VP Biden) bandy about is this: one in five women will be sexually assaulted while on campus.
Go to any campus crime statistics page and check the stats yourself. For the university where I live, over a four year period there should be nearly 12,000 rapes. How many rapes were reported in the past four years? 48. Of those, seven were dismissed outright. Only a handful resulted in a conviction of the accused rapist.
But of course, if feminists were to start saying, "Rape on campus is a serious crime! 0.3% of women will be sexually assaulted while in college!" - how much press would that get, how much funding, and how much blame would men receive for being such heinous creatures?
mogden:
The statistics include women who had sex while under the influence of alcohol, so that number is both absurdly misleading and wildly understated.
HCE:
curious about the math. 12,000 rapes over a four year period would represent 60,000 women that go through the school in that period. where do you go to school? I wish I went there. maybe not, I wouldn't get much studying done.
While I tend to agree that the 1 in 5 seems high with the crime stats available, you must consider the unreported (at least unreported to police/school) assaults. Either by self blaming, fear, denial, etc. many incidents go unreported. additionally, unless a formal prosecution goes forward, do the universities have a vested interest in compiling/reporting suspected or not prosecuted (either by university kanagroo court or real court matters not) assaults? Would daddy drop off his little girl at school X that reports 900 suspected assaults a year? So while I believe that 1 in 5 highly suspect, I certainly wouldn't proclaim that since only (insert your number here) cases were convicted in court, therefore only that many women were assaulted...is equally suspect as well.
Shane:
These are the same people that think that "the pill" should not be made OTC.
They get around this by saying "sexual assault" which is more than just rape. Depending on who you're talking to, looking at someone in a way that makes them uncomfortable is considered sexual assault.
I know! If feminists really cared about women they'd tell
the dumb sluts that if they had any self respect they'd stay indoors unless
accompanied by a male chaperone. Obviously they also shouldn't wear provocative
clothing or drink. Having beer while wearing tight clothing is clearly
consenting to sex. It's really kind of silly to try and focus the conversation
around men only having sex with women who really want to have sex with them.
MNHawk:
I knew there was an ulterior motive when Democrat women gave Bill Clinton a pass, from everything to unwanted groping up to and including credible rape accusations.
Rick C:
Of course--if it were, insurance companies would stop paying for it, and the Sandra Flukes of the world wouldn't get it for "free."
mesocyclone:
Of course they have an ulterior motive. Progressives live their lives seeking causes that they can get angry about. It defines their self worth. Feminist progressives are among the worst in that regard. Add to that their fundamental ideology that the government is responsible for all ills and should solve all problems, and you get the current insanity.
Gil G:
Certainly insurance companies believe in blaming the victim if they feel as though the victim gave an easement, even accidently, to make him more likely to be a victim. Not to mention it tends to be older Conservatives who say something along the lines of "I shouldn't have to lock up my house and car because everyone should respect others' personal property." I'm sure the police hear nothing but moans and groans when they say to do things that don't make you more of an ideal victim to potential perpetrators.
Joze:
Guy gets too drunk at a party and they draw on his face with a sharpie. Girl get's too drunk at a party and they strip her naked, drag her all over town and molest the hell out of her (Steubenville). In both cases there are a lot of people that think the assailants didn't really do anything that bad. You really think the problem here is that women should drink less? The change you want to make in the world is that Women change what they do?
It's obvious that women need to be careful so that men don't sexually assault them. Women know this. Focusing on that fact changes nothing and improves the world not at all.
It's also obvious that this is a tragedy.
marque2:
Hmm - isn't that a straw man. How often do women who get drunk at parties have even one article of clothe ripped off? Its is pretty rare indeed, but when my daughters go to college I will warn them not to get rip roaring drunk.
By the way, your straw man, though rare happens to men as well. Men have been raped at parties when drunk - and didn't just have the face painted. I think cases of male rape are much less reported then the claimObama makes for women.
It also includes "unwanted touching" which could even be a handshake. I firmly believe many of the women who take those surveys aren't even aware of the sexual assault until they read the overly permissive definition.
Actually the rules are good for both men and women. Have a few drinks - but don't get wildly drunk. Don't look vulnerable is unfamiliar situations. Don't hang out in strange allies in the middle of the night behind the bars ... While men won't get raped quite as often in these situations, they are likely to get beaten up and robbed.
Don't see how this is a gender thing except to try to perpetuate feminist negative stereotypes of women.
Rkeva:
"They argue that any effort to teach victims to be a tougher target is an insult to women and must be avoided." One idea is the avoidance of liability. If an institution provides instruction on the avoidance of high risk situations then the implication is that such high risk areas exist. In a lawsuit it would be argued that reasonable steps should have been taken to remove the high risk area and self-protection instructions do not address its removal. Basically, don't talk about the elephant in the room or you'll be responsible for it.
Ann_In_Illinois:
This is especially true when protesting the nail polish that identifies date rape drugs. Anyone that tries to give a woman (or a man) such a drug deserves to be caught and prosecuted, in my opinion, and if there were some highly publicized convictions thanks to this nail polish, then people might be deterred from trying it. Who could be against that, other than the attempted rapists themselves?
I didn't think that my opinion of women's studies could go any lower, but then I heard about their reaction to the possibility of Ayaan Hirsi Ali speaking on campus, first at Brandeis and more recently at Yale. What feminist would want to block this woman from speaking?
Most rapes aren't committed with violence in back alleys.
Most are committed by people within the victim's social circle. It's not "Don't
pass out in dark alleys. It's Don't get drunk and let your 'friend' john share
a cab / walk you home."
Jimbeux:
I live near the University of Georgia, with approximately 15,000 women students each year (http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg01_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=975). And while I understand that there are very likely unreported sexual assaults, using the available statistics that only 40% +/- of rapes are reported, there were approximately 100 rapes in the past four years at UGA. That makes the one in five claim of 12,000 assaults patently absurd. Again, based on the stats, less than 0.4% of female UGA students will be raped - a far cry from the claim of 20%. That number is still atrocious, and of course I too find rape to be a heinous crime, but politicians and feminists are not doing themselves a favor by fictionalizing the problem.
ben:
"If you say no, that it would be dumb to rip out the emergency phones,
then why is it dumb to teach Freshman women some basic safety skills
that may prevent them from being victims?"
Because the phones are a credible and public symbol of the feminist movement's political influence. Spontaneous arrangement of classes are not, and if anything amount to competition for the feminists' solution set, and so it will be resisted for reasons that appear necessarily absurd, since the true reason, unrelated to womens' welfare, cannot be revealed.
Natalie Ryan:
Women are not objects, or possessions. We are people with feelings and ideas just like you :) While everyone should know ways that will reduce the risk of rape, no one should ever be told that they "should have done this", or that "they were asking for it". There is an administrator at my school who was talking about how she could have prevented a situation, and that is what the problem is. Society tends to make women blame themselves, when it is 100% not her fault. The victims blame themselves while many rapists don't even know that they raped someone.
It's quite easy to not get angry about something that you don't have to live through :)

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We started Loving Lion Books to address the lack of diversity in children's literature. For us, the lack of diversity was deeply personal. As parents and citizens of the world, we were dismayed to see how few books feature people of color doing everyday wonderful things. We knew, instinctively, that representation matters, but we did a lot of research to best understand the problem and help create a solution.
Formation of personal racial identity that is full and real and healthy requires exposure to healthy and beautiful people who look like you and your parents and the people you love.
White children are saturated with this exposure - in advertisements, catalogs, dolls, movies, television, in art work, and in books.
Children of color do not have nearly enough of this exposure. In fact, many of the images we all see of people of color are negative.
White race formation is about seeing people who don't look like you doing healthy, beautiful things so that your white identity becomes aware of the absence of these positive images and this reality. You can then be a white ally and help change the reality.
The more people of all shades and ethnicities are exposed to images of people of all shades and ethnicities doing beautiful things the more we will see the beauty in ourselves and in others.
There needs to be more venues for lovingly and naturally creating these exposures for all kids, and books are a critical way to do just that.
The most recent US Census showed that more and more children born in the U.S. are people of color. In fact, over half (50.4%) of children under 1 in the US are people of color.
We also learned that the percentage of people of color being featured in children's books has remained stubbornly unchanged. The Cooperative Children's Book Center, from the University of Wisconsin, has been tracing data about diversity in children's literature since 1985. In each of the 31 years, their annual statistics have shown nearly the same level of gross underrepresentation of characters of color in literature.
People of all shades should have always been represented in books and in all media, and we should not wait any longer. We created Loving Lion Books to address the problem head on - by creating books that feature and celebrate kids and families of all shades.
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Q: Finite Power of Operator Norm I know that for any bounded operator A on a normed space, we have
$||A^n||$ $\leq$ $||A||^n$.
I am wondering when the equal sign would be achieved.

A: A  sufficient condition (if the space is complete) is that $\|A\|$ is the absolute value of a member of the spectrum of $A$.  In particular, this is true for normal operators on a Hilbert space.
EDIT:
In a non-complete normed space, $A$ extends by continuity to a bounded linear operator $\overline{A}$ on the completion of the space, which is a Banach space: $\overline{A}^n$ has the same norm as $A^n$.  Then the above condition can be applied to $\overline{A}$.
For $\|A^n\| = \|A\|^n$  to hold for all $n$, this condition is necessary as well as sufficient.

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Although Dr. Peter Bell has been toiling away at the Sharbot Lake Medical Centre for 34 years, this year has been a special one.
In early April it was announced that the Sharbot Lake Medical Centre would be among the first wave of medical facilities that will designated as Family Health Teams, which will allow the Centre to expand its services for the surrounding communities. Planning for the expansion is ongoing, but more mental health services, diabetes-related services and others should be available in the next year or so, and the Medical Centre might see some physical expansion as well.
Around the same time as the Family Health Team Announcement was made, Dr. Bell was also informed that the Ontario College of Family Physicians had named him as the recipient of their Family Physician of the Year Award for the Eastern Region.
He received the award formally on September 30 in a presentation that was attended by Ms. Jan Kasperski, the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the College, and Dr. Walter Rossier, the Department chair of the Family Medicine Faculty at Queen's University.
When informed about the award, Dr. Bell responded to the College in writing. He talked of coming to Sharbot Lake from London 34 years ago, opening a modest clinic in a trailer, and beginning his rural practice. Initially he was seen as a transplant, both by himself and the community.
Another aspect of Dr. Bell's practice that was recognised both in the award and in the family health team designation has been its collaborative nature.
Saying he hoped the award is partly in recognition of the strong team approach in Sharbot Lake, Dr. Bell made note not only of the doctors and nurse practitioner in Sharbot Lake, but the family medicine residents he works with as well. He also mentioned "very strong links to a huge network of other community-based providers and services" that have developed over the past 34 years.
Comparing running a family practice to running a marathon, he talked of the time in a marathon when the runner hits the wall and pushing through and getting second wind.
There have been many changes in family medicine and in rural medicine over the past 34 years, and the Sharbot Lake Medical Centre has been part of those developments.


This will be a complete walkthrough guide with help, hints, tips, tricks, answers and solutions for the iOS and Android puzzle game, SnakekanS, by Yuansheng Xu. Feel free to ask for extra help in the comments section.
Mice — these just make your snake longer.
Frogs — These change the snake's color and reverse his position.
Mantises — These will attack your snake if he touches their head.
Elephants — They make you keep growing!
Turtles — They hide in their shells as you get close to them, so you have to go through their shell to eat them. This means that your tail will get stuck if the last segment hits the turtle.


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Quantum wells enable record-efficiency two-junction solar cell
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the University of New South Wales have achieved a new world-record efficiency for two-junction solar cells, creating a cell with two light-absorbing layers that converts 32.9 per cent of sunlight into electricity.
Central to the cell's design is a series of more than 150 ultrathin layers of alternating semiconductors that create quantum wells in the cell's bottom absorber, allowing it to capture energy from a key range of the solar spectrum.
While the new record only improves modestly on the previous 32.8 per cent efficiency record, it is the first record-efficiency multijunction solar cell to use a strain-balanced structure – a design that holds promise for further improvements.
The new cell is described in an article in the journal Advanced Energy Materials titled "High Efficiency Inverted GaAs and GaInP/GaAs Solar Cells With Strain-Balanced GaInAs/GaAsP Quantum Wells."
The cells have a gallium indium phosphide (GaInP) layer for their top junction and a bottom junction of gallium arsenide (GaAs) striated with 80 stacked layers of quantum wells.
A quantum well is created when a thin layer of semiconductor material is sandwiched between two layers of material with a wider bandgap, confining charge carriers to the central layer.
This diagram illustrates the many layers found in both the single-junction (left) and two-junction (right) versions of the new solar cell. The cells were grown in a highly controlled reactor on the NREL campus. Image credit: The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Quantum wells offer possibilities
According to NREL, the inclusion of so many quantum wells in the bottom junction lowers that junction's effective bandgap, increasing the wavelength of light it can absorb.
The researchers explain that capturing longer wavelengths enables the tandem cell to nab more energy from the solar spectrum, making the cell more efficient at converting light to electricity.
They detail that traditionally, quantum wells have primarily been used in lasers, LEDs, and electronics for telecommunications.
As part of the development process, the NREL team produced a single-junction cell that demonstrated a very high external radiative efficiency (more than 40 per cent) – the efficiency with which the cell converts electricity to light when run in reverse.
While the team was not trying to build an LED device, their high-quality quantum wells demonstrated some potential in this area, too.
Strain balancing unlocks new record
Previous work has attempted to use quantum wells to adjust the bandgap of solar cell junctions, but it has not produced any record-efficiency cells, in part because it is difficult to grow many, many layers of high-quality quantum well material. If the layers become too thick or the mechanical strain within the crystal lattice is not properly balanced, the cell develops defects.
For their world-record cell, the team alternated layers of gallium indium arsenide – in compression – and gallium arsenide phosphide – under tension.
According to NREL, by carefully controlling the thickness of these layers, the strain of the compressive and tensile forces balances between layers.
An array of lasers was used to measure the curvature of the wafer throughout the growth process, allowing the researchers to detect and adjust for strain in the crystal lattice.
Myles Steiner, a senior scientist on the NREL team, commented that this work will lead to higher-efficiency solar cells for one-sun applications, which could be a significant driver of the widespread adoption of these cells.
"Now, a key challenge ahead is to learn how to manufacture these cells in a cost-competitive manner," he said.
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The development of the cell design grew out of a close collaboration between part of the High-Efficiency Crystalline Photovoltaics research group at NREL and a team at the University of New South Wales (UNSW).
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Q: joining two tables in SQL based on one common value I have two tables in my SQL database. I need to create a report that would show me the strStoredAcctID based on lngItemID that I enter. When the search is performed I only know the 41139320 number. I don't know how to combine the two queries based on the information I have.  Here's the query I used.
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Instead of running two, I would like to be able to type in the lngItemID = 41139320 only and receive the strStoredAcctID. Any help is greatly appreciated.

A: This should do the trick JOIN
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A: Try this, it uses the result set of the first query to filter the data of the referencing query, this is called a subquery - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/performance/subqueries?view=sql-server-ver15
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A: Try this:
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Secrets of the Masters - "Looks That Kill" by Mötley Crüe
Chris Baseford
Dissecting the foundations of Mötley Crüe''s sound
The sound engineers at OEM Inc. have spent thousands of hours with the original masters of the most famous songs ever recorded. They use them to create products like Jammit, an iPhone app that allows you to remix and play along with those original tracks. There are many, many things to learn from those original tracks. Through a partnership with Gearhead Communications, OEM Inc. engineers are sharing their discoveries exclusively with Premier Guitar readers in what we like to call Secrets of the Masters
"Looks That Kill" by Mötley Crüe
From the album Shout at the Devil (1983 Elektra)
Produced by: Tom Werman
Engineered/Mixed by: Geoff Workman
Recorded at: Cherokee Studios in Hollywood, California
Available in the JAMMIT "Mötley Crüe, Vol.1" application
Mötley Crüe has always been known for their wild antics and endless debauchery, but listening back to their earlier albums, it's apparent they are much more than womanizing, drug-dazed party animals. Their second album, Shout at the Devil, launched the band into mainstream notoriety, and it would be looked on as one of their strongest albums musically. Released well before the swarms of wannabe '80s rock bands, "Looks That Kill" was quintessential Mötley and it cemented the band's rightful place in music history, influencing the next generation of rock 'n' roll in the process. While we were mixing several songs from Shout at the Devil for Jammit's Mötley Crüe bundle, "Looks That Kill" was the standout track when it came to dissecting the tracks and recreating the original mix. Let's dig in and I'll tell you why.
The original LP cover of Shout at the Devil.
Recorded in the band's adopted hometown of Hollywood, California, Shout at the Devil was definitely a step in the right direction both musically and sonically. Having garnered some success with their first album, Too Fast For Love, and having secured a big record deal with Elektra, the Mötley boys had the resources to get into a world-class recording facility where they could spend the time necessary to carve out their signature sound. Dubbed one of the best recording studios in America, Cherokee Studios would play host to the recording sessions that would ultimately lead to a bigger and better Mötley Crüe sound. Recording aficionados may recognize Cherokee as the home to one of only a few Trident A Range consoles, which even today are renowned for their amazing sound and which most certainly left a sonic imprint on "Looks That Kill."
Larger-Than-Life Foundations
Any Tommy Lee fan most likely knows, and hears, the influence that Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham had on him. And listening to the isolated drum multi-tracks shows an intentional lean toward a more open and lively Bonham-type sound. The drum tracks consisted of two kicks (one for each drum in Lee's double-bass setup), a snare, stereo tom tracks (several toms bounced down to a left and right pair), a hi-hat, an overall stereo kit track, and a mono ambient track. I always loved the wide-open kick sound on this album, which was a welcome departure from the tight, dry, overly muffled drum sounds of the late '70s. The cracky, bright snare complemented the kick drum nicely, and when mixed in with an abundance of the overall kit and room microphones, it made for what would eventually become a Tommy Lee signature: larger-than-life drum sounds. Having worked extensively with Tommy in the studio, I can attest to the amount of time that would've been spent tweaking and experimenting with the drums and the microphones to make sure everything sounded big and bombastic. Tommy would repeat this concept again on "Girls, Girls, Girls," on which he experimented with drum triggers, and then again on the album Dr. Feelgood, creating one of the best drum recordings known to rock 'n' roll.
The album was reissued in 2003 with added bonus tracks on the Crüe's own label, Mötley Records.
As soon as I deciphered the track arrangement for "Looks that Kill," it was apparent that songwriter and bassist Nikki Sixx wanted to expand on his sound as well. There were three tracks for bass: a DI track and two amp tracks. Most recordings from this era typically only have a direct track or an amped track, but the fact that three separate bass sounds were recorded was evidence of the attention placed on the overall sound of the rhythm section. The amp sounds like a slightly overdriven Ampeg SVT, with one track having a lot of midrange bite and the other providing a substantial amount of low end. All three sounds were combined in relatively equal levels to provide the complete sound. The sound of Nikki's bass and amp in this song lends itself well to the solid pedaling of Tommy's drums and Mick's guitar. I couldn't detect any drums leaking into the bass tracks, which leads me to believe that they were overdubbed after the drum tracks were complete.
Wide-But-Tight Guitars
The guitar tracks in this song provided the biggest surprise. Being a fan of Mick Mars and his love of gear, I figured most Mötley albums were tracked with many tracks of layered guitars using different amps, pickups, etc. But for "Looks That Kill" there was only one performance of the rhythm guitar track, but two separate tracks. One track was panned left and consisted of a microphone that was quite close to the cabinet. The other track was of the same guitar signal and performance, but it was a distant room mic that, when panned hard right, combined with the close mic to create an awesomely wide but tight stereo field. The same technique was used for the solo overdub. I know Mick has always used a combination of amps mixed together, so I'm not going to speculate about which amps were used for this song. All I can say is that the thick, nasal distortion found on almost all Mötley albums is instantly recognizable, and when it's combined with Mick's unique style it creates a sound that blends well with the rest of the band's instrumentation.
Mötley Crüe's Mick Mars. Photo by Ken Settle
Sparse Vocals
Like most early-era hard rock songs, Vince Neil's vocal tracks in this song are relatively sparse, production-wise. There is a single lead vocal throughout the song, with a double in the chorus. Unlike some of the other songs from Shout At The Devil, I can't hear too many punch-ins, which leads me to believe that Vince's performance in this song was lightly comp'd (most likely in whole sections) from a few different takes. In the mix, a slight slap delay and reverb was applied to give it some of the space that Tommy's live drums and Mick's distant amp mics created. Additional production in the song included a synth drone in the chorus that followed the implied chord changes of the guitar, as well as some background and gang vocal tracks. I can imagine it now, the Mötley boys surrounding a single vocal mic chanting, "She's got the looks that kill!" Classic.
Sonic Magic
Throughout Mötley Crüe's storied past, there have been many accounts of recording sessions that consisted more of girls, drugs, and parties than actual recording. And although the Crüe most likely wouldn't deny that fact, they'd also be the first to relive some of the musical and sonic magic that was captured during those times. "Looks That Kill" and Shout at the Devil were the foundation that the next 25 years of Mötley Crüe would be built on. It was the first time—but certainly not the last—that they really found their own sound, and today it continues to stand the test of time.
Chris Baseford is a Canadian-born recording engineer/ mixer/producer who has worked with some of the top names in the rock music world. Having spent many years mixing on large format analog consoles, Chris has made the transition to mixing "in-the-box" and continues to push the boundaries of what is possible in the all-digital domain of music production.
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While Monolord has no shortage of the dark and heavy, guitarist and vocalist Thomas V Jäger comes at it from a perspective more common to pop songsmiths.
Photo by Chad Kelco
Melodies, hooks, clean tones, and no guitar solos. Are we sure this Elliott Smith fan fronts a doom-metal band? (We're sure!)
Legend has it the name Monolord refers to a friend of the band with the same moniker who lost hearing in his left ear, and later said it didn't matter if the band recorded anything in stereo, because he could not hear it anyway. It's a funny, though slightly tragic, bit of backstory, but that handle is befitting in yet another, perhaps even more profound, way. Doom and stoner metal are arguably the torch-bearing subgenres for hard rock guitar players, and if any band seems to hold the keys to the castle at this moment, it's Monolord.
The reason is simple: Thomas V Jäger's guitar riffs—the raison d'être of Monolord's songcraft—are relentlessly catchy and infused with immense groove and swagger. When asked how he vets potential riffs for Monolord songs, Jäger, who is also the band's singer and main songwriter, offers this: "The core of it is some kind of hook that makes it stand out just a little bit—that's what I'm looking for. It's really hard to pinpoint exactly what it is. We still want real heavy records, but at the same time you need hooks, you need something that people will remember."
MONOLORD - The Weary (Official Music Video)
Hooks may be more commonly associated with pop than metal songwriting, but Monolord's latest magnum opus, Your Time to Shine, is rife with them. From the opening salvo of "The Weary," Jäger's guitar playing conjures majestic tones, conveying the zeitgeist of our time with equal parts bombast and melancholy. His playing on songs like "To Each Their Own" and "Your Time to Shine," fueled by indelible grooves that ebb and flow (the band foregoes click tracks), carries an emotional heft that "soundtracks the ruined world," as Consequence so aptly described it. And his layered approach to recording guitars infuses the band's heavy backbone with a sublime melodic sensibility.
While Monolord is an indisputable riff-rock juggernaut, only one of the five cuts on Your Time to Shine, "The Siren of Yersinia," has a bonafide guitar solo on it. "You could probably arrange the songs so there's a guitar solo on every track, but that's not really what we're looking for," explains Jäger, who ascribes to a less-is-more ethos. "Of course, there are lead guitar parts here and there, in every song, but they're mostly written, not improvised. It's like another melody." Such embellishments function as additional riffs or motifs within the jigsaw puzzle of Monolord's sound, in service to the melodic framework of songs rather than as obligatory showcases of technical prowess. And when that one solo does finally appear in the album's final track, "it's better," says Jäger, "because there are not any other solos on the record."
TIDBIT: The band's new album clocks in at 39 minutes and features five songs—only one with a guitar solo, but all packed with a plethora of licks, melodies, and melodic fills.
"When you're playing slower, you have to be more precise, because it's not as forgiving as if you're playing punk rock or death metal or whatever."
Monolord formed in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2013, out of Marulk, a boogie-rock band that included Jäger and drummer and mixing engineer Esben Willems. They needed an outlet to indulge their heavier affinities, and so, after hooking up with bassist Mika Häkki, they transformed. Their 2014 debut, Empress Rising, is an exercise in musical restraint, showcasing the trio's ability to riff on and develop a single motif. Vænir followed in 2015, followed by Rust (2017) and No Comfort(2019)—each one further cementing Monolord as a major name in the doom genre. Aside from his guitar playing, Jäger's ghostly, Ozzy-esque vocals (think "Planet Caravan" by Black Sabbath) add yet another distinctive melodic element to the band's bone-crushing, heavy-yet-droning riffs.
Jäger says that when the band began, songwriting was more like "loose ideas just thrown all over the place." Now, however, he has his own home studio, so it's like doing pre-production. "Except I don't play drums. I program those most of the time, so that when Mika and Esben hear the song, they can get the vibe. I try to make [a demo] as complete as possible." His studio consists of an old PC running Windows XP with Pro Tools 8 and a Digidesign 002 interface. "It's a really old setup," he admits, "but I just love having a room crammed with stuff where I can turn around, pick up a cowbell, and just start playing and recording."
Thomas V Jäger's Gear
The Monolords, from left to right: drummer Esben Willems, guitarist and frontman Thomas V Jäger, and bassist Mika Häkki.
Two 1981 Greco V-types
Gibson SG-1
(Jäger's guitars have Lace Finger Burners humbuckers.)
Orange Dual Dark 50
Two Orange PPC412C 4x12s with Celestion Vintage 30s
Orange OR100
Orange PPC412HP8 high-powered 4x12 with Celestion G12K-100 speakers
Boss BF-2 Flanger
Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal
Boss RE-20 Space Echo
Carl Martin Octa-Switch MK3
Death Knob HM-2 EQ Blender
Dunlop JHM9 Jimi Hendrix Cry Baby Mini Wah
Electro-Harmonix Nano Small Stone
Hiero Effects Phatoum Fuzz/Churchburner
Laney Black Country Customs Tony Iommi Signature TI-Boost
Orange Amp Detonator Buffered A/B/Y Switcher
Strings and Picks
D'Addario NYXL1156 (.011–.056)
Dunlop Ultex 1.14 mm
Jäger has been doing the bulk of his songwriting lately not on a cowbell but on an acoustic guitar tuned to standard, which adds another twist to Monolord's sound, since he and Häkki tune down to B-standard on their electrics. "If I play an E on the acoustic guitar, that [position] is B on the electric guitar that's down-tuned," he explains. "Sometimes I switch it, so the chord starts in the E [5th] position on the down-tuned guitar, but in 'The 'Weary,' for example, the verse is in B, simply because I wrote it in E on the acoustic guitar." Mostly his actual writing process is pretty straightforward. "I sit on my couch, take a cup of coffee, I have my notebook, and I just start to check ideas. Then, if I get the vibe, [with] more than one riff, I go upstairs, turn on the computer and record a demo."
Because Monolord is only a three-piece, Jäger admits it's hard to recreate his layered recording approach while playing live. "It works as long as there's not a third guitar harmony," he explains. "So, with the bass and just one guitar, it doesn't feel like we need a second guitar for most of the parts with the harmonies. I don't know if it has something to do with tuning down. If we have a chord progression, and there's a lead guitar over that enhancing stuff, it's hard to do both. So, on some songs I go with the chords, and some songs I go with a lead. It's just what suits the songs best." He adds that during some solos, Häkki will play chords live, instead of just single-string notes.
"There are lead guitar parts here and there, in every song, but they're mostly written, not improvised. It's like another melody."
Lately, Jäger has been experimenting with his guitar tone by going with less distortion and adjusting his EQ settings. "I cut a lot of bass on my guitar sound these days," he says. "I didn't do that from the beginning, because we wanted this massive wall. But now I try to get as close to Malcolm Young as I can. So when you strike an E chord, you feel the bass response and the mid response, but not too bright—you get this low-mid and high-mid kind of 'swoosh' or 'whoosh.' It's a good crunchy darker version of Malcolm Young's rhythm guitar sound. The first thing I check when I turn on the amps onstage is the clean sound, and then I can do some adjustments, and when that sounds great, the fuzz sounds great, too."
Speaking of fuzz, Jäger relies primarily on a Hiero Effects Phatoum Fuzz/Churchburner, a Boss FZ-2 Hyper Fuzz clone built "by a guy in Russia." For leads, he uses the Laney Black Country Customs Tony Iommi Signature TI-Boost. "I run that together with a [Death Knob] HM-2 EQ Blender that you can blend into the signal," he explains. "I read that David Gilmour used the Boss HM-2 for leads at some point in his career. So, I took out my old HM-2 and tried it, and I immediately knew what he was talking about. You get this tone that just cuts through everything. It's got all these mids and aggressive highs, but it's a bit too noisy, and I got a lot of feedback because I wanted to push it to the max. I tried the low-gain TI-Boost together with the HM-2 Blender EQ and I can get really creamy mids, but it doesn't feedback as bad as the HM-2."
Jäger's fleet of Orange amps give him plenty of juice for Monolord's sweet-and-heavy sound. He plugs in with one of his Goya V-type guitars or a Gibson SG-1.
Photo by Josefine Larsson
Aside from the obvious aforementioned influences, Jäger says he's most inspired by guitarists who are also great songwriters. "Most of the time I'm listening to old '70s rock, like MC5, with Wayne Kramer and Fred Smith—they are amazing," he says. "And also Nicke Andersson of Entombed and the Hellacopters, among other bands—he's been an inspiration." Surprisingly, American singer/songwriter Elliott Smith is also among his favorites. "He's not really this awesome guitar player, but if you like low-key singer/songwriter stuff, his record Either/Or is amazing. It's not really a guitar record at all. It's just low-key strumming and good chord progressions."
Jäger says he's truly inspired by guitarists "that can play more than one instrument and create a lot of good music." And he cites Cathedral's Garry "Gaz" Jennings as another influence. "When he starts to play guitar, I can hear it's him right away. And if you can hear that from someone, I think you have done a rather good job being this guitarist that doesn't sound like everybody else. No matter what setting, you can still hear that sound."
"I try to get as close to Malcolm Young as I can. So when you strike an E chord, you feel the bass response and the mid response, but not too bright."
When it comes to the matter of spearheading a musical movement, Jäger offers the following assessment: "Even though it's called doom, the foundation is rock 'n' roll. Of course we want to make heavy songs, but not ridiculously heavy. We also need some clarity and some tone. So, I'm not sure if I call our music doom. It's more doom-rock."
Other signatures of Monolord's songs are length and tempo, hence the five-song track list on the 39-minute Your Time to Shine. And Monolord's tempos are usually, in classical terms, lentissimo, which presents particular performance-related challenges. "When you write shorter songs, you can bang out the chords and you are done," explains Jäger. "But when you're playing slower, you have to be more precise, because it's not as forgiving as playing punk rock or death metal or whatever. Of course, you've got to be tight when playing death metal, too, but being a bit late or a bit early is not as visible as if you're playing slow. 'I'll Be Damned' was really hard to keep down because we all wanted to play faster. It feels good to play a bit faster sometimes."
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Monolord perform a set at the Freak Valley Festival in Netphen, Germany, with Thomas V Jäger plying his blend of clean and fuzzy tones, and using wide-ranging dynamics, on his Greco V-type.
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The Flash is set to return to television screens next month for its sixth season and Vibe/Cisco Ramon actor Carlos Valdes recently talked about what fans can expect in the new season. Speaking at FanX Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah, Valdes said that the series will feel more grown up going into next season. Having been on the air for over half a decade, Valdes says The Flash will be maturing in season six just as its audience has grown up as well. Among the new signs of growth in the show will be more elaborate storylines and more complex characters. Nevertheless, Valdes says that the series will still embrace its characteristic tone of light-heartedness and optimism, balancing it with its more mature themes. A particularly heavy burden Team Flash faces is the loss of Nora West-Allen, Barry and Iris's daughter, who disappeared in last season's finale.
One of the biggest shocks the characters on The Flash will get is the fact that the crisis teased in the show's pilot episode in 2014 is happening five years earlier. The first episode of the series showed a news article from 2024 saying that the Flash had disappeared in a crisis, which will be explored this December in the crossover event "Crisis on Infinite Earths." Showrunner Eric Wallace says that the crisis starting this season will be like a landmine for the characters as they struggle to come to terms with the future coming sooner than originally anticipated. Todd Helbing, who served as the series' showrunner last season, says that the writing team originally intended "Crisis on Infinite Earths" to be the series finale of The Flash. Looking forward, Helbing says that the event storyline will breathe new life into the series and allow for the show to go in interesting directions.
Everything won't be complete doom and gloom this season, however. Valdes teases that when the season starts, Cisco will be as happy as ever. Continuing his discussion at FanX, Valdes says that Cisco will be getting along great with his new girlfriend, Camila, and will have an immense burden taken off shoulders since he took the metahuman cure last season. Valdes also says that the series will introduce spectacular new costumes next season. While the actor didn't elaborate, many say that his comments reference the Flash's new suit, which appears to be homage to the New 52 era of comics.
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Robert Walsh Birge (1924-2010)
Robert Walsh (Bob) Birge died on August 16, 2010 at the age of 86, after a short battle with brain cancer. Birge was born on January 30, 1924 in Berkeley, California, to Raymond T. and Irene Birge. He attended University High School, then the University of California at Berkeley, where he majored in physics. While still an undergraduate student, he worked as a maintenance technician at the Crocker Laboratory on the Berkeley campus, which housed Ernest Lawrence's 60-inch cyclotron. When the army called to draft him, Lawrence convinced them that Birge's talents would best be utilized in the top-secret Manhattan Project underway at Los Alamos, New Mexico. After the war, Birge attended graduate school at Harvard, where he met his first wife, Elizabeth Ann Chamberlain. After receiving their Ph.D.'s in physics in 1950, the couple moved back to California, first to Lafayette and then to Berkeley, where they built a house only a few blocks from where Bob was raised.
Birge started working at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (now called the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) as a post-doc, then became a regular staff member, then a co-leader of the Powell-Birge group, and finally the leader of the Birge group after Wilson Powell's retirement. The research focus of the group was on the use of visual techniques, initially photographic emulsion, and subsequently various bubble chambers, to obtain important results on antiproton annihilation, kaon decay, K0 regeneration, and pion-nucleon interactions.
In 1973 Birge moved into administration as head of the Physics Division and associate director of the Laboratory. He was most proud of his support of the many talented young physicists vying for laboratory resources to try out their exciting new ideas. One of the notable events during Birge's directorship was the invention and development of the Time Projection Chamber (TPC) by David Nygren. TPCs have been major elements of many subsequently-built detectors. Birge stepped down from his leadership position at the end of 1981, but stayed on to assist his successors until 1994 when he officially retired.
Pier Oddone, former deputy director of Berkeley Lab and presently Fermilab Director, has this to say about Birge: "Bob was a wonderful physicist, but above all he was a wonderful human being. His broad intellect, warmth and generosity were a gift to all of us around him--not to mention the thrill of being invited to dinner at his home, always a masterwork of culinary art. He supported young scientists, and I was fortunate to be one of them when I first joined Berkeley in 1972. He gave me opportunities as a young postdoc that were far beyond my station and have shaped the rest of my career. I learned from him to place big bets on young scientists. I will miss Bob dearly."
In retirement, Birge devoted much time to his hobbies of cooking and traveling. After his wife, Ann, died suddenly in 1994, he was fortunate to find a new partner who shared his avocations. He married Elizabeth Cawdry Thomas in 1999, and with her he continued to travel extensively and prepare fine food for his family and friends. After Elizabeth died of cancer in 2007, Bob got lucky again, meeting Barbara Borowiak, who had also outlived two spouses. Birge and Barbara traveled to Germany as recently as June of this year, although by then he was already suffering symptoms of his undiscovered brain tumor.
Birge is survived by his children, Margit, Bettine, Norman, and step-son Julian; grandchildren, Ben and Alex Holme of Oakland, Henry Birge-Lee of Los Angeles, Julian and Adrian Birge of East Lansing, Michigan, and step-grandchildren Alex and Ashley Thomas of Orinda, CA.
A memorial service will be held on Sunday, November 21, at 3 p.m. at the Faculty Club on the University of California campus in Berkeley.
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Dr. Egan receives $1.47 million grant for lung transplant research
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has awarded Dr. Thomas M. Egan, a professor of surgery at the University of North Carolina, a $1.47 million, two-year grant for research on perfusion and ventilation of lungs outside the body before transplant. The research could lead to a significant increase in the number of lungs available for transplant.
Dr. Egan, a surgeon in the UNC Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, is internationally known for his research on lung transplantation, which has been under way since he came to UNC in 1989 to start its lung transplant program.
His new grant was awarded under the NHLBI's Translational Research Implementation Program (TRIP), a two-stage program designed to translate fundamental research ideas into proof-of-concept efficacy testing in patients. This Stage 1 grant is supported by the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Grand Opportunities (GO) grants program, for large-scale research projects that the National Institutes of Health says have "a high likelihood of enabling growth and investment in biomedical research and development, public health, and health care delivery." NHLBI is part of the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Egan's project will perfect a technique to perfuse and ventilate human lungs outside the body (ex vivo) to determine if they are suitable for transplant, and will demonstrate safety of transplanting human lungs after ex-vivo perfusion in a pilot clinical study.
Dr. Egan's research has focused on use of lungs from non-heart-beating donors (patients who have died of sudden cardiac arrest outside the hospital or in the emergency room) for lung transplantation. Using animal models, Dr. Egan was the first scientist to show that lungs could be retrieved from non-heart-beating donors after death and safely transplanted. His research has shown that lungs are viable after circulation stops, because lung cells do not rely on perfusion (circulation of blood or other fluids) for cellular respiration.
A conventional transplant uses an organ from a donor who has been declared brain dead and has been kept on mechanical ventilation until circulation is stopped just before organs are donated. During transplant, the stopping and restarting of circulation to the lungs can cause ischemia-reperfusion injury, which damages cells in the lung and leads to problems with lung function after transplant. Dr. Egan has designed an ex-vivo perfusion and ventilation circuit in which lungs are placed for evaluation and possible treatment before transplant.
Dr. Egan's project will also plan a large multi-center clinical trial to use the ex-vivo lung perfusion/ventilation system to evaluate human lungs retrieved after death from non-heart- beating donors. Widespread use of lungs retrieved from non-heart-beating donors followed by ex-vivo assessment could provide much larger numbers of human lungs for transplant that may function better and last longer than lungs currently being transplanted from conventional brain-dead organ donors.
Investigators for his project, entitled "Ex-vivo perfusion and ventilation of lungs to assess transplant suitability," are:
Thomas M. Egan, M.D., M.Sc., Professor, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, UNC Department of Surgery (Principal Investigator), UNC School of Medicine
Peadar G. Noone, M.D., Associate Professor, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, UNC Department of Medicine, UNC School of Medicine
Paul Stewart, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Eileen Burker, Ph.D., CRC, Associate Professor, Division of Rehabilitation Counseling and Psychology, Department of Allied Health Sciences, and Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UNC School of Medicine
Benjamin E. Haithcock, M.D., Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, UNC Department of Surgery, UNC School of Medicine
William K. Funkhouser, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine, UNC School of Medicine
Katherine Birchard, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, UNC School of Medicine
R. Duane Davis, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine
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By Tanveer Jafri : Reports such as blowing up of school buildings and torturing school going children by the Taliban are common in Afghanistan and Af-Pak border region. They are particularly opposed to the education of girls. According to an estimate, the Taliban have attacked and destroyed more than 500 educational institutions in the last five years. On 13 September this year, they attacked a school van carrying students. Five innocent kids were killed by these cruel Taliban in that terror attack. Similarly, last month they blew up a school, just 75-kms from Pakistani capital Islamabad. Notably, the Taliban takes responsibility for all these strikes and also warns of such attacks on education in future. Certainly, their main objective is to keep the Muslims, especially girls, bereft of modern education.
Does the Islam, the holy Quran or the holy Hadith (set of instructions) of the Prophet suggest any opposition to education? Or rather this kind of deplorable and inhuman act on the part of the Taliban is due to their own version of Islam? The Prophet said that those who have a daughter should respect her and treat her no less than a son. Female education in Islam is stressed upon because an according to the Islamic beliefs, educated woman is an integral part of a happy home and a developed society. No society can expect to be developed unless its women are educated. True Islam not only endorses women education; it also spreads the message of peace and wellness for all. Education is important for the progress of Islam itself.
It is ironical that the terrorists who themselves are engaged in illegal drug trade, buying weapons from money earned by that trade and spread terror using those weapons, are killing the school going children and blowing up school buildings. How can the Islam, which considers murder of a person as the murder of mankind, be responsible for such shameful acts of these terrorists? It was the high character of the Prophet and his message of love and brotherhood that helped the spread of Islam in the world, not the horrendous acts of the Taliban. But in order to pursue their petty interests, the self-appointed guardians of Islam have started presenting it in such a distorted form that Islam today is becoming synonymous with terrorism and violence.
While education is being obscenely opposed by the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan; on the contrary in India, the fatwa (decrees) are being issued by the clergy to make girl education mandatory. Referring to the holy Quran and Hadith, the Muslim community is being made aware of the pros of modern education. It is said in such fatwas, "a human's duty is to spread the light of knowledge in the world." The established view in Islam is that an educated woman can educate the entire society. The Prophet has said that people who make their daughters well educated and get them married in a better way, are entitled to the Jannat (heaven). Islam not only provided for education for one's children, but also for the education of serfs & slaves prevalent during ancient times.
The question is when Islam is a religion spread across the world and its teachings apply equally to the entire Muslim world, then why is there a sea of difference in the fatwas of Indian Muslim clergy and the violent opposition to education by the Taliban? At present, along with the religious education, the modern and vocational educational is being imparted in the Indian Madrasas. Every year, while there is news of many Muslim students passing the most reputed Civil Services Exam of India. This year this exam was cleared by a student of Deoband Islamic Seminary. Last year, Shah Faisal, a Muslim student from the restive state of Jammu and Kashmir made Indian Muslims proud, when he topped this exam. Interestingly, Faisal's background is intriguing. His father was killed by militants in Kashmir. Defying all odds, his mother educated Faisal and inspired him to compete in this biggest exam of the country. Her efforts ultimately paid off, when her son topped the exam.
But the kind of cruelty and brutality witnessed in Afghanistan and Waziristan area of Pakistan since last two decades is a blot not only on Islam but the entire human civilisation. These terrorists themselves survive on illegal drug trafficking, which is completely anti-Islamic in the first place. Their daily acts include insulting, torturing, killing women, making human bombs and using them to kill innocent people. The fact is that these forces are not able to call Muslims but the biggest enemy of Islam and the mankind.
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A Dissenter's Tale of South Carolina's Nuclear Project Fiasco
Former Vice President Testifies That Utility Forced Her Out Over Project Cost Estimates
Carlette Walker testified that she was forced out of her job when she argued that the nuclear project would be much more costly.
PHOTO: SOUTH CAROLINA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION VIDEO
Richard Korman
KEYWORDS Carlette Walker / Dominion Energy / nuclear construction / Shaw Group / South Carolina Electric & Gas / V.C. Summer / Westinghouse
When it voted Dec. 14 to permit South Carolina Electric & Gas to merge with Dominion Energy, the South Carolina Public Service Commission sought to tie up the loose ends of the now abandoned V.C. Summer nuclear power plant expansion in Jenkinsville, S.C. The commissioners at the same time ruled that SCE&G had not deceived regulators in 2015 about the true costs to finish the project—a charge made by the state utilities watchdog, the Office of Regulatory Staff. SCE&G had made a concession to the regulatory staff office a few days earlier when it reached a settlement with the state in which the utility had to return to ratepayers $2 billion wasted on the construction project.
The dramatic high point of the commission's public sessions came from Carlette L. Walker, SCE&G's former vice president of nuclear finance administration. An accountant who had several times testified before the commission on behalf of her employer, she returned to the state capital in Columbia—but this time as the star witness against the utility in the commission's weeks-long hearing over the deception complaint. It was not a warm reunion or a happy story.
Walker revealed the dissent outside the executive suite around the contracting consortium's pledges to complete the project.
Beyond the ratepayers lawsuit, the hearing testimony opened a new window onto one of the more spectacularly wasteful construction projects in recent years and the corporate groupthink or self-interest that may have prolonged it. For the first time, Walker revealed the dissent outside the executive suite around the contracting consortium's pledges to complete the project. She swore under oath that she signed off on testimony about the estimated costs that was not true. She portrayed her former mentors and colleagues of 30 years as ethically challenged managers who sought to justify future bonuses while ratepayers coughed up higher payments for years of mismanaged construction while, from 2013 to 2017, the overall cost to finish the Summer plant rose to over $13 billion from $9.8 billion.
Walker laced her deposition prior to testifying with bitterness and sarcasm, especially for Kevin Marsh, SCE&G's CEO—who, along with COO Stephen Byrne—was ousted by the company board in late 2017. She described Marsh as a "worthless liar, because he was only seeking a way to silence me." Walker said Marsh led four other senior executives in a conspiracy to force her out.
What Walker claimed may be of interest to state and federal investigators and plaintiffs in civil lawsuits accusing SCE&G directors of falling down on the job. The issues come down to what the utility executives knew of the project's true status, whether they reported accurately to the commission and stockholders and whether the utility was too generous with contractors at the expense of ratepayers and investors.
The project—plus another in Georgia, Plant Vogtle, which is also using Westinghouse's new AP1000 nuclear reactors—was supposed to have created the first new U.S. nuclear reactors in 30 years. Trouble engulfed the work before construction in Jenkinsville started in 2013, with Westinghouse Electric Co. never finishing design and Shaw Group's Lake Charles, La., modular plant unprepared for the task.
Ousted CEO Kevin Marsh claimed in deposition that SCE&G released to state regulators the best information available at the time.
Breaking with plans, Shaw shipped critical modules to South Carolina only partially built. SCE&G made numerous complaints to Westinghouse about design assemblies that were "not buildable" and numerous pleas to the contracting consortium about cost and schedule that were met with empty promises to do better. By 2015, Westinghouse had allowed Chicago Bridge & Iron to buy out Shaw Group's contracts, but the contracting consortium remained unreliable. SCE&G and its project co-owner, utility Santee Cooper, sought to switch the mostly cost-plus contract to a completely fixed-price one. Westinghouse planned to buy out contracts held by CB&I, which was bleeding cash, and installed Fluor Corp., but it took no risk.
Under the new arrangement, SCE&G would pay Westinghouse $100 million to $130 million a month from January to May 2016, with adjustments to be made later in a "true-up." Kenneth Browne, an SCE&G project nuclear engineer, testified that "to the best of my knowledge" the true-up based on the actual, lower costs expended by the contractor never was done. As the plan for the fixed-price contract approached and SCE&G applied for another rate increase to pay for it, Walker had a small team spend several weeks researching Westinghouse's latest cost-to-complete estimates. Based on what she learned, she didn't believe the estimated fixed-price cost to complete of $698 million; she believed $1.2 billion was nearer the truth.
The performance factor supporting the cost to complete was another puzzle to Walker, she said. That figure—based on how much time contractors took to complete a task versus the original time estimate—was used to determine progress and predict future patterns. A rate of 1.0 would reflect a perfect performance against the estimate, while a higher number would reflect negative performance.
The V.C. Summer expansion project in Jenkinsville, S.C., prior to abandonment last year.
In 2015, the consortium promised to get its performance factor to 1.15, but Walker's study team determined that this was not achievable because the historical performance factor had been 1.4. In that case, she believed "you've got a major problem," as she said in her deposition. Browne said the study team received no communication about it from senior management and the contractors' project performance worsened in later months.
As supervisors barraged her with criticism for her doubts in the middle to late months of 2015, her husband suddenly suffered a serious kidney disorder, forcing her to stay home to attend to his care. While she was out, other SCE&G staff drafted Walker's written testimony to be delivered in the fall endorsing the $698-million completion estimate. Anxious to retain the executives' support, her high-paying job and health insurance, Walker said she signed off on what essentially was a lie. When she returned to her regular duties on the project, the pressure of her doubts about the project's costs troubled her so much that Walker's weight dropped by 70 lb, she testified. At some point in late 2015 or early 2016, Walker said in her deposition, she told current CEO Jimmy Addison, then chief financial officer and Walker's supervisor, "that I was not going to lie for the company." As a certified public accountant, she said she felt an obligation to the public. Six weeks later in 2016, she said, the utility company put her on a special medical leave.
Walker didn't remain completely passive, however. In a phone message left in early 2016 to Marion Cherry of Santee Cooper, Walker declared that her lawyer said the company executives broke numerous laws and that Santee Cooper should drop out. "Don't sign any change orders," she advised. Santee Cooper's withdrawal, together with Westinghouse's March 2017 bankruptcy, finally forced SCE&G to stop work.
Addison told the commissioners that he never coerced Walker to sign off on false testimony. Former COO Byrne, who also testified in person, and Marsh, who provided a deposition, claimed the company made reasonable estimates in a difficult situation where prime contractor Westinghouse, Shaw Group and CB&I never shaped up. Even so, Byrne testified, but for the Westinghouse bankruptcy, "We would still be building."
Credibility Questioned
At the recent hearings, SCE&G's Atlanta-based outside attorney, David Balser, sought to undermine Walker's credibility. He displayed emails sent by Walker to suggest that she did participate in the preparation of her submitted testimony and the company's $698-million estimate. In the emails, Walker apologizes to Addison and others for her over-the-top, self-righteous behaviors. In sometimes testy responses to Balser, Walker called the offered apologies "creative writing" intended to protect her job.
"I felt very threatened," she had said in her deposition about the prospect of being fired. Walker eventually retained a lawyer to negotiate a severance package. Her testimony showed not only how the mismanaged project undermined public trust but also how it harmed long-term relationships, careers and her health—and cut short the U.S. nuclear renaissance.
This story was updated Dec. 19 to reflect Kenneth Browne's correct first name and that Carlette Walker's 2015 written testimony was prepared by others while she was out caring for her husband. It was updated Dec. 20 again to show that Walker testified in her deposition that she wasn't put on special medical leave until 2016.
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Deputy Editor Richard Korman, who has edited ENR's Risk Review newsletter since 2012, helps run ENR's business coverage, selects ENR's commentary and op-ed viewpoint submissions and oversees editorial content on ENR.com. He recently completed a fellowship on drone safety with the McGraw Center for Business Journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. In 2015 he won the Timothy White Award from American Business Media for investigations of individual surety fraud and workplace bullying. Richard's freelance writing has appeared in the Seattle Times, the New York Times, Business Week and the websites of The Atlantic and Salon.com. He admires construction projects that finish on time and budget, pay before the earth completes its annual orbit of the sun, record zero injuries and assign risk to parties who control an activity or willingly finance the risk.
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import com.ctrip.xpipe.api.email.EmailResponse;
import com.ctrip.xpipe.api.server.Server;
import com.ctrip.xpipe.redis.checker.alert.AlertMessageEntity;
import com.ctrip.xpipe.redis.checker.healthcheck.RedisHealthCheckInstance;

import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;

public interface PersistenceCache {
    boolean isClusterOnMigration(String clusterId);

    void updateRedisRole(RedisHealthCheckInstance instance, Server.SERVER_ROLE role);

    Set<String> sentinelCheckWhiteList();

    Set<String> clusterAlertWhiteList();

    Set<String> migratingClusterList();

    boolean isSentinelAutoProcess();

    boolean isAlertSystemOn();

    Date getClusterCreateTime(String clusterId);

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Far Rockaway, NY is located in Queens, on the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough. It is said the name "Rockaway" may have meant "place of sands" named by the Native Americans. Far Rockaway is commutable by public transportation by taking the "A,C,E" line.
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Ніколь Еванджелін Ліллі (;  3 серпня 1979, Альберта) — канадська акторка. Відома виконанням ролі Кейт Остін у драмі «Загублені», за яку була номінована на премію «Золотий глобус».

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Народилася в Форт-Саскачевані (провінція Альберта, Канада). Її батько — викладач економіки, мати — косметичний консультант. Також у Еванджелін є дві молодші сестри.

Перед тим, як покинути Форт-Саскачеван у віці 10 років, Еванджелін встигла змінити три школи. З 14 років вона була волонтером в організаціях, що допомагають дітям; в 18 відправилася в філіпінські джунглі у складі місіонерської групи, жила там в трав'яній хатині, побувала в чотирнадцятьох країнах світу. Ліллі — колишня стюардеса компанії «Royal Aviation», в результаті чого дуже добре володіє французькою мовою.
Захоплюється катанням на ковзанах, каное, сноубордом та скелелазанням. Займається доброчинністю, частину своїх гонорарів перераховує на рахунки доброчинних фондів. Бере участь у соціальній шкільній програмі по захисту від насильників Just Yell Fire.

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 Еванджелін Ліллі  — IMDB

Акторки Канади
Кіноактори XXI століття

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The Humble Capcom Bundle features a slew of games from the Japanese developers at essentially whatever price you'd like to pay. As is normal for Humble Bundle, you'll be treated to more bonus games if you reach certain thresholds. Here's the breakdown of what's available at each price point.
More games to be announced. The average donation/payment amount at the time of writing it $7.94.
Just like any other Humble Bundle, the proceeds from your Humble Capcom Bundle purchase will be doled out to the developers and charities however you choose to split it up. Will you be picking up the Humble Capcom Bundle? What are you most looking forward to playing? Let us know in the comments.


The wide variety of acronyms found in the world of edtech can be confusing. There is also quite a bit of overlap — as well as misuse — of terms that can make navigating the literature on the subject of edtech unhelpful. We hope to give you a relatively simple roadmap to help navigate the thickets of education technology buzzwords and phrases that tend to appear in discussions and debates as well as a few education-based phrases that are often conflated or interchanged leading to a lack of clarity.
This is a digital overlay onto reality. So when viewing "reality" through the camera or mobile screen, digital tools augment or add to what you see.
Where AR is an overlay of digital graphic and other sensory layers, Virtual Reality is the full immersion into an interactive digital world, that stimulates 100% of the visual and auditory senses.
Sometimes referred to as Hybrid Reality, the term refers in essence to the next iteration of Augmented Reality.
A really common error that is made quite often is people using these two terms interchangeably.
Where machine learning is a part of the broader umbrella of artificial intelligence, deep learning is in turn a function or derivative of machine learning.
The Deep(er) Learning concept is a reaction to the pressure and consequences of tandardized testing.
This way of learning (and teaching) acknowledges that everyone learns differently.
Individualized learning is a tool within the Differentiated learning toolbox. However, definitions are not agreed upon. Most online references hold that individualized learning refers exclusively to the pace of instruction.
Probably the most commonly used term, it is most often used as an umbrella phrase that encompasses instruction that is individualized and differentiated.
Visit the NEO Blog for insightful posts on edtech for K-12 and Higher Ed.