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Baltimore Orioles Hit the Road to Take on Phillies in a Three-Game Series
Posted by Stacy Podelski on August 10, 2020 in Baltimore Orioles, Maryland Sports, MLB
On Sunday the Baltimore Orioles (7-7) were in the middle of completing a three-game series with the Washington Nationals (4-7). The O's had a 5-2 lead with one out going into the Top of the Sixth Inning when some bad weather entered into the Washington D.C. area and delayed the game.
The weather was so bad that it made the field of play at Nationals Park unplayable and the two teams decided to reschedule the game to this Friday, August 14 at Orioles Park at Camden Yards. The Orioles and the Nationals will have a series with one another during that time so it will be a double header with the the suspended game and the regularly-scheduled game will be 9.0-inning regulation games. The regularly-scheduled game will begin 45 minutes after the completion of the suspended game.
Baltimore bats continue to impress as they used a five run rally in the fifth inning to get them on the scoreboard. The Birds were able to see consecutive RBI hits from Bryan Holaday, Hanser Alberto and Anthony Santander to back what was an impressive pitching performance from starter Asher Wojciechowski, who went 3 2/3 innings striking out four batters.
The Orioles will have a day off today before starting a three-game series against the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park. The pitching rotation for O's Manager Brandon Hyde shouldn't change too much as it is projected that Alex Cobb and Wade LeBlanc are set to start the first two games of that series. Baltimore also has José Iglesias, Chris Davis and Pedro Severino (left hand contusion) back in the lineup for Tuesday's series opener.
Baltimore continues to make some key moves for this 2020 season, as prior to the finale against the Nationals the team announced that they acquired pitcher Jorge López off waivers from the Kansas City Royals, adding the right-hander to the 60-man player pool.
López is hoping to make an immediate impact with the O's as he is a MLB veteran with five MLB seasons with the Royals and the Milwaukee Brewers. The righty holds a 6.33 ERA in 123 2/3 innings with 39 appearances in 2019.
A former second-round Draft pick of the Brewers in 2011, López was a part of Milwaukee's '18 trade with Kansas City for Mike Moustakas. He nearly threw a perfect game that September, but he struggled to find results over parts of the next three seasons with Kansas City.
It will be interesting to see what Hyde will do with the newest addition to the team and how López can help the club as the season progresses.
Expected to take the mound for the Birds in Game 1 against the Phillies will be righty Alex Cobb (1-1, 2.51 ERA) who is set to take on Zack Wheeler (2-0, 2.08 ERA) in a game that is set to start at 7:05 p.m.
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Reviews for Cloud Cuckoo Land
by Anthony Doerr
Pulitzer winner Doerr (All the Light We Cannot See) returns with a deeply affecting epic of a long-lost book from ancient Greece. In the mid-22nd century, Konstance, 14, copies an English translation of Cloud Cuckoo Land by Antonius Diogenes with her food printer's Nourish powder while aboard the Argos, an ark-like spaceship destined for a habitable planet. She found the book in the Argos's library, and was already familiar with Diogenes's story of a shepherd named Aethon and his search for a book that told of all the world's unknown lands, because her father told it to her while they tended the Argos's farm. Her father's connection to the Diogenes book is gradually revealed, but first Doerr takes the reader farther back in time. In chapters set in and around Constantinople leading up to the 1453 siege, two 13-year-old children, Anna and Omeir, converge while fleeing the city, and Omeir helps Anna protect a codex of Cloud Cuckoo Land she discovered in a monastery. Then, in 2020 Lakeport, Idaho, translator Zeno Ninis collaborates with a group of young children on a stage production of Cloud Cuckoo Land at the library, where a teenage ecoterrorist has planted a bomb meant to target the neighboring real estate office. Doerr seamlessly shuffles each of these narratives in vignettes that keep the action in full flow and the reader turning the pages. The descriptions of Constantinople, Idaho, and the Argos are each distinct and fully realized, and the protagonists of each are united by a determination to survive and a hunger for stories, which in Doerr's universe provide the greatest nourishment. This is a marvel. (Sept.)
Doerr's first book since his Pulitzer Prize-winning All the Light We Cannot See, and even grander in conception and delivery, takes its name from an imagined realm referenced in Aristophanes's play The Birds. In present-day Idaho, Korean War veteran Zeno directs five energetic fifth graders in the production of a play called Cloud Cuckoo Land, which he reconstructed from an ancient Greek novel that he'd translated, even as activist teenager Seymour plans an attack centered on the public library where they rehearse. The play is connected to a young orphan named Anna dwelling in Constantinople as it falls to the Ottomans; a Balkans village boy named Omeir who supports the sultan's attack with his team of oxen; and Konstance, who decades in the future travels on an interstellar spacecraft headed for exoplanet Beta Oph2. Decidedly outsiders and mostly young people (even Zeno's plot is partly backstory of his difficult early years), these characters are deftly maneuvered by the capable Doerr. What results is a glorious golden mesh of stories that limns the transformative power of literature and our need both to dream big and to arrive back home in a world that will eventually flow on without us. VERDICT Highly recommended.—Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal
Doerr, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for All the Light We Cannot See (2014), returns with this masterful novel that spans centuries as it brilliantly examines the lives of five young people. Though seemingly disparate, their lives prove to have in common the mysterious presence of a comic novel from classical antiquity telling of a simpleminded shepherd, Aethon, who embarks on a quest to find Cloud Cuckoo Land, a fabled city in the clouds. As for the five children, who all come of age over the course of the novel, they are Anna and Omeir, who live in the fifteenth century during the siege of Constantinople; Zeno and Seymour, both outsiders, who live in Lakeport, Idaho, in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; and Konstance, who lives aboard an interstellar spaceship sometime in the distant future. Doerr demonstrates a singular gift for bringing these complex, fully realized characters to empathetic life in this brilliantly imagined story, which moves backward and forward in time. Interspersed among the five children's evolving stories is the saga of Aethon's quest. One of the joys of reading Cloud Cuckoo Land is discovering the threads that link the five characters' lives, which ultimately cohere in ways that are simply unforgettable, as is this amazing gift of a novel.HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Doerr's many ardent fans cannot wait to immerse themselves in his newest imaginative tale.
An ancient Greek manuscript connects humanity's past, present, and future.Stranger, whoever you are, open this to learn what will amaze you wrote Antonius Diogenes at the end of the first century C.E.and millennia later, Pulitzer Prize winner Doerr is his fitting heir. Around Diogenes' manuscript, "Cloud Cuckoo Land"the author did exist, but the text is inventedDoerr builds a community of readers and nature lovers that transcends the boundaries of time and space. The protagonist of the original story is Aethon, a shepherd whose dream of escaping to a paradise in the sky leads to a wild series of adventures in the bodies of beast, fish, and fowl. Aethon's story is first found by Anna in 15th-century Constantinople; though a failure as an apprentice seamstress, she's learned ancient Greek from an elderly scholar. Omeir, a country boy of the same period, is rejected by the world for his cleft lipbut forms the deepest of connections with his beautiful oxen, Moonlight and Tree. In the 1950s, Zeno Ninis, a troubled exGI in Lakeport, Idaho, finds peace in working on a translation of Diogenes' recently recovered manuscript. In 2020, 86-year-old Zeno helps a group of youngsters put the story on as a play at the Lakeport Public Libraryunaware that an eco-terrorist is planting a bomb in the building during dress rehearsal. (This happens in the first pages of the book and continues ticking away throughout.) On a spaceship called the Argos bound for Beta Oph2 in Mission Year 65, a teenage girl named Konstance is sequestered in a sealed room with a computer named Sybil. How could she possibly encounter Zeno's translation? This is just one of the many narrative miracles worked by the author as he brings a first-century story to its conclusion in 2146.As the pieces of this magical literary puzzle snap together, a flicker of hope is sparked for our benighted world. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
An ancient Greek manuscript connects humanity's past, present, and future. "Stranger, whoever you are, open this to learn what will amaze you" wrote Antonius Diogenes at the end of the first century C.E.—and millennia later, Pulitzer Prize winner Doerr is his fitting heir. Around Diogenes' manuscript, "Cloud Cuckoo Land"—the author did exist, but the text is invented—Doerr builds a community of readers and nature lovers that transcends the boundaries of time and space. The protagonist of the original story is Aethon, a shepherd whose dream of escaping to a paradise in the sky leads to a wild series of adventures in the bodies of beast, fish, and fowl. Aethon's story is first found by Anna in 15th-century Constantinople; though a failure as an apprentice seamstress, she's learned ancient Greek from an elderly scholar. Omeir, a country boy of the same period, is rejected by the world for his cleft lip—but forms the deepest of connections with his beautiful oxen, Moonlight and Tree. In the 1950s, Zeno Ninis, a troubled ex–GI in Lakeport, Idaho, finds peace in working on a translation of Diogenes' recently recovered manuscript. In 2020, 86-year-old Zeno helps a group of youngsters put the story on as a play at the Lakeport Public Library—unaware that an eco-terrorist is planting a bomb in the building during dress rehearsal. (This happens in the first pages of the book and continues ticking away throughout.) On a spaceship called the Argos bound for Beta Oph2 in Mission Year 65, a teenage girl named Konstance is sequestered in a sealed room with a computer named Sybil. How could she possibly encounter Zeno's translation? This is just one of the many narrative miracles worked by the author as he brings a first-century story to its conclusion in 2146. As the pieces of this magical literary puzzle snap together, a flicker of hope is sparked for our benighted world. Copyright © Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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Q: ionic serve on iOS 14 device. Error "Invalid Service" After upgrading an iPhone6s to iOS 14 and Xcode to the latest version, I am unable to serve the app.
The error stack is as following
Error: InvalidService
    at LockdownProtocolReader.parseBody (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/native-run/node_modules/node-ioslib/dist/protocol/lockdown.js:35:19)
    at LockdownProtocolReader.onData (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/native-run/node_modules/node-ioslib/dist/protocol/protocol.js:52:40)
    at TLSSocket.emit (events.js:315:20)
    at addChunk (_stream_readable.js:295:12)
    at readableAddChunk (_stream_readable.js:271:9)
    at TLSSocket.Readable.push (_stream_readable.js:212:10)
    at TLSWrap.onStreamRead (internal/stream_base_commons.js:186:23)

running with --verbose shows the origin of the error
client:lockdownd startService: com.apple.debugserver +898ms
  protocol:lockdown socket write: {"Request":"StartService","Service":"com.apple.debugserver"} +206ms
  protocol:lockdown Response: {"Error":"InvalidService","Request":"StartService","Service":"com.apple.debugserver"} +6ms
  native-run Caught fatal error: Error: InvalidService

my serve script is
ionic cordova run iOS --l --debug --device --address=0.0.0.0 --sourceMap=true

Ionic info:
Ionic:

   Ionic CLI                     : 6.11.8 (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@ionic/cli)
   Ionic Framework               : @ionic/angular 5.2.2
   @angular-devkit/build-angular : 0.900.7
   @angular-devkit/schematics    : 9.1.4
   @angular/cli                  : 9.1.4
   @ionic/angular-toolkit        : 2.2.0

Cordova:

   Cordova CLI       : 9.0.0 (cordova-lib@9.0.1)
   Cordova Platforms : ios 5.1.1
   Cordova Plugins   : cordova-plugin-ionic-keyboard 2.2.0, cordova-plugin-ionic-webview 4.2.1, (and 20 other plugins)

Utility:

   cordova-res                          : not installed
   native-run (update available: 1.1.0) : 1.0.0

System:

   ios-deploy : 1.10.0
   ios-sim    : 8.0.2
   NodeJS     : v12.18.0 (/usr/local/bin/node)
   npm        : 6.14.5
   OS         : macOS Catalina
   Xcode      : Xcode 12.0 Build version 12A7209

what I have tried so far.

*

*reboot Mac

*reboot iPhone

*make sure latest iOS/Mac/Xcode version is installed

*clean build

running on emulator is working fine btw.
I can also perform ionic build and run via Xcode on the device.

A: Try commenting
     if (isLockdownErrorResponse(resp)) {
         throw new Error(resp.Error);
     }

inside the file

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/native-run/node_modules/node-ioslib/dist/lockdown.js

It worked for me

A: Got the same error while i was using native-run.
So i tried to run it without native-run and used cordova instead with the flag --no-native-run.
The command that worked for me:
ionic cordova run ios -l --address=0.0.0.0 --no-native-run

A: So native-run seems buggy.
But in fact in ionic-cli, you can pass a param to use cordova instead of native-run and it's work :
ionic cordova run ios --no-native-run

My personal command :
ionic cordova run ios --livereload --consolelogs --buildFlag='-UseModernBuildSystem=0'  --external --no-native-run

A: I solved it by updating native-run to 1.2.1 (see https://github.com/ionic-team/native-run/issues/60, support for iOS 14 has been added in 1.2.0 on 2020-09-28):
npm i -g native-run@latest

A: I am having the same problem. According to this post https://github.com/ios-control/ios-deploy/issues/469 an update to ios-deploy 1.11.2 should solve the problem. I've tried it, multiple times + reinstalling Xcode and other options but nothing works. I am curious if an update to ios-deploy will work for you, so let me know please!

A: you need to build it with Xcode and then try running ionic cli again
For some reason that fixes it for me

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COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) Taulia Tagovailoa announced Wednesday he is returning to Maryland to play next season.
Tagovailoa, who holds a slew of school passing records, will try to help the Terrapins continue their recent rise under coach Michael Locksley. Maryland has won bowl games each of the past two seasons after finishing below .500 in the previous six.
"My goal when coming to Maryland was to help Coach Locksley turn this program around," Tagovailoa said. "After winning back-to-back bowl games, I believe we have things going in the right direction. But we're not done yet. I'm not done yet."
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Points per game: 28.2 (70)
Yards per game: 401.2 (58)
Touchdowns: 44 (58)
Field Goals: 19 (24)
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Field Goals: 22 (133)


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Brottet II (originaltitel: Forbrydelsen II) är en dansk TV-serie i 10 avsnitt från 2009. Uppföljare till Brottet från 2007. Manuset skrevs av Søren Sveistrup, Michael W. Horsten och Torleif Hoppe och regisserades av Kristoffer Nyholm. Serien sändes i Sverige under hösten 2010 på SVT.

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Serien utspelar sig två år efter första serien. Advokaten Anne Dragsholm hittas misshandlad och mördad men polisens utredning kör fast direkt. Efter 10 dagar utan genombrott bestämmer sig spaningsledaren Lennart Brix i ren desperation för att plocka in den före detta vice kriminalkommissarien Sarah Lund, som förlorat jobbet, flyttat från Köpenhamn och nu arbetar vid gränskontrollen i Gedser, för att leda utredningen. Lund är inte intresserad, i alla fall inte till en början, men till slut tackar hon ja.

Det visar sig snart att advokat Dragsholm har kommit en mycket otäck historia på spåren om en pluton danska soldater som tjänstgjort i Afghanistan. Någon har mördat Dragsholm för att hon var på väg att avslöja något som inte fick avslöjas. Spåren leder Lund upp i maktens korridorer och sanningen visar sig vara långt mer makaber än vad någon kunnat föreställa sig. Men kommer sanningen verkligen att komma i dagen?

Roller (urval)
Sofie Gråbøl - Sarah Lund
Mikael Birkkjær - Ulrik Strange
Morten Suurballe - Lennart Brix
Ken Vedsegaard - Jens Peter Raben
Nicolas Bro - Thomas Buch
Finn Nielsen - Arild
Søren Pilmark - Erik Köning
Kurt Ravn - Gert Rue Eriksen
Janus Nabil Bakrawi - Khan

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Interplay between topological and thermodynamic stability in a metastable magnetic skyrmion lattice
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Bowen Zhao, Phillip Weinberg & Anders W. Sandvik
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Yasujiro Taguchi1,
Masashi Kawasaki1,2,
Yoshinori Tokura1,2 &
Fumitaka Kagawa ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-1763-67991,3
Nature Physics volume 12, pages 62–66 (2016)Cite this article
Magnetic properties and materials
Phase transitions and critical phenomena
A Corrigendum to this article was published on 03 May 2016
This article has been updated
Topologically stable matter can have a long lifetime, even if thermodynamically costly, when the thermal agitation is sufficiently low1,2. A magnetic skyrmion lattice (SkL) represents a unique form of long-range magnetic order that is topologically stable3,4,5,6,7,8,9, such that a long-lived, metastable SkL can form. Experimental observations of the SkL in bulk crystals, however, have mostly been limited to a finite and narrow temperature region in which the SkL is thermodynamically stable5,7,10,11,12,13,14; thus, the benefits of the topological stability remain unclear. Here, we report a metastable SkL created by quenching a thermodynamically stable SkL. Hall-resistivity measurements of MnSi reveal that, although the metastable SkL is short-lived at high temperatures, the lifetime becomes prolonged (≫1 week) at low temperatures. The manipulation of a delicate balance between thermal agitation and the topological stability enables a deterministic creation/annihilation of the metastable SkL by exploiting electric heating and subsequent rapid cooling, thus establishing a facile method to control the formation of a SkL.
The perspective of topology provides useful insights into the lifetime of a many-body system that is not in the most thermodynamically stable form. In an aggregate of carbon atoms, for instance, whereas the most thermodynamically stable form at standard temperatures and pressures is graphite, other forms, such as diamond and fullerene-molecule crystals, also have long lifetimes, despite a thermodynamic free-energy penalty15. From a topological perspective16, the carbon networks of the crystalline allotropes are topologically distinct from each other. Therefore, diamond and fullerene-molecule crystals are unable to transform into graphite unless thermal agitation enables the breaking and reformation of the carbon networks. States with this absence of continuity in topology are often termed topologically protected, or topologically stable, and this condition guarantees a finite lifetime for the thermodynamically less stable states of matter, thereby qualitatively accounting for their metastable nature.
Despite the many examples of topologically distinct crystals16, only recently has a topologically stable long-range magnetic order been identified experimentally in the form of a magnetic SkL, which is a hexagonal arrangement of magnetic vortex lines5,6,7,8,9 (for the schematic spin configuration, see Fig. 1a). Because of its topology, the SkL is topologically protected from other competing non-topological spin configurations, such as ferromagnetic and spin-conical orders (Fig. 1a), thus providing a unique platform to observe how long a topologically stable long-range ordering of spins can persist beyond its thermodynamic stability. To address this issue, the lifetime of a metastable SkL requires investigation. In reality, however, unless randomly positioned dopant atoms6 or pressure inhomogeneities17 are introduced, the SkL in various chiral magnets is readily annihilated when the SkL becomes thermodynamically costly by passing through the SkL-to-conical transition line5,7,10,11,12,13,14 (for a typical phase diagram, see Fig. 2a). Thus, the intrinsic lifetime of the metastable SkL remains unknown.
Figure 1: Metastable skyrmion lattice stabilized under rapid cooling.
a, Schematic of the cooling-rate-dependent bifurcation of an equilibrium skyrmion lattice (SkL). Whereas the equilibrium SkL changes into the thermodynamically stable conical phase under slow cooling, rapid cooling causes kinetic avoidance of the SkL-to-conical transition, resulting in a quenched metastable SkL. Under an intermediate cooling rate, a mixture of the two phases is expected. b, Magnetic field dependence of the Hall resistivity, ρyx, measured before and after quenching at 0.22 T. By applying a current pulse to the equilibrium state under a magnetic field of 0.22 T (the cross), the ρyx value changes to an enhanced value (the open circle). c, Cooling-rate dependence of ρyx measured at 10 K and 0.22 T after quenching is complete. d, Contour plot of ρyx measured at 10 K post-quenching using various current densities under selected magnetic fields. The deduced sample temperature during the electric current application is also indicated on the upper horizontal axis (see also Supplementary Fig. 1). Contour plots measured at 5 and 23 K are shown in Supplementary Fig. 2.
Figure 2: Magnetic state diagrams of MnSi under equilibrium and quenched conditions.
a, Phase diagram under thermodynamic equilibrium. b, Magnetic state diagram including the metastable SkL created by quenching under a magnetic field. Red symbols in b were determined from the data shown in Fig. 1b and Supplementary Fig. 2. Whereas the boundaries of the equilibrium SkL were determined from the ρxx data, the ferromagnetic transition line was determined from the ρyx data (see Supplementary Figs 3 and 4).
In pursuing a metastable SkL that should potentially form even in a disorder-free system, we noted that, in the creation process of natural diamonds, thermodynamically stable diamonds grown in the mantle are quenched when they move to the surface of the Earth and, hence, the diamond-to-graphite transition is kinetically avoided. On the basis of this realization, we envisaged that the SkL-to-conical transition, which normally occurs during cooling, can also be kinetically avoided if the cooling rate is sufficiently high (Fig. 1a). To test this working hypothesis, we chose nominally dopant-free MnSi as an archetypal system of a skyrmion-hosting material and exploited rapid cooling following electric-pulse heating applied to the sample. For instance, when a rectangular current pulse of 3.1 × 106 A m−2 with a duration of 100 ms is applied to the sample at 10 K, the sample temperature is observed to quickly increase and reach a quasi-steady state with a temperature of approximately 33–34 K. After the pulse ceases, the sample is rapidly cooled to the environmental temperature at a cooling rate of approximately 700 K s−1 (for the estimation of the time-varying sample temperature and the cooling rate, see Supplementary Information and Supplementary Fig. 1). Using the quenching technique described, the impact of quenching on the magnetic structure can be explored beyond the normally used cooling rate, 10−2–100 K s−1. To this end, we focused on the Hall resistivity, ρyx, as a sensitive probe for SkL formation, particularly in MnSi (refs 18, 19), and found that −ρyx at 10 K under a magnetic field of 0.22 T indeed changes from −2 to 32 nΩ cm after applying the current pulse described. Whereas the enhanced ρyx value remains constant as a function of time (verified up to one week), it exhibits transition-like behaviour in response to a slow magnetic field sweep (5.0 × 10−4 T s−1) and then decreases to the values corresponding to the equilibrium state (Fig. 1b). These observations are reasonably understood by considering that a long-lived metastable magnetic structure is formed as a result of heating and subsequent rapid cooling.
To elucidate the origin of the metastable state, we first examined whether it is actually a quenched state. We tailored the cooling rate with ramp pulses (for details, see Supplementary Information and Supplementary Fig. 1) and observed how the ρyx value changes. Figure 1c summarizes the ρyx values measured after applying various cooling rates; remarkably, sharp crossover behaviour is observed from the slowly cooled to the rapidly cooled regimes, thus verifying that the enhanced ρyx value of approximately 32 nΩ cm is indeed a consequence of the quenching. Because neither the ordinary Hall nor the anomalous Hall resistivities can explain such a greatly enhanced value of ρyx (Fig. 1b), it is important to consider the contributions of the topological Hall resistivity, which is known to arise in the presence of the SkL because of its real-space Berry phase associated with the non-zero topological winding number18,19,20,21. In fact, the magnitude of the enhancement, Δρyx ≈ 31–34 nΩ cm, is similar to the reported value, 35–37 nΩ cm, observed when the metastable SkL persists at 10 K in MnSi under the influence of pressure inhomogeneity17. Given that the low-temperature value of the topological Hall resistivity depends only weakly on pressure and sample quality as long as the metastable SkL is realized17, the good agreement between the present and reported values indicates that the SkL is the most likely candidate for the present quenched state. This scenario is further supported by the observation of an enhanced ρyx value under various magnetic field/current density conditions. The contour plot of ρyx measured after the application of a pulse with a given current density is shown in Fig. 1d; here, we find that the enhancement of ρyx is limited to a magnetic field range of 0.17–0.26 T, which is in good agreement with that of the equilibrium SkL phase in our sample, 0.14–0.27 T (Fig. 2a). Furthermore, the enhancement of ρyx becomes appreciable only if the deduced sample temperature during the pulse application (see the upper horizontal axis of Fig. 1d) reaches or exceeds the temperatures of the equilibrium SkL (27.0–28.8 K). These findings lead us to conclude that the quenched magnetic state is a metastable SkL caused by the kinetic avoidance of the SkL-to-conical transition. Unexpectedly to us, the metastable SkL is formed even when the sample is quenched from the paramagnetic regime (>28.8 K), indicating that the paramagnetic-to-SkL transition has faster kinetics than the SkL-to-conical transition and, therefore, cannot kinetically be avoided, at least at the present cooling rate, 700 K s−1.
Having established a method to create a metastable SkL in a nominally clean sample, we can now address the issue of the stability beyond the equilibrium phase diagram. We found that the long-lived metastable SkL can be created at any temperature between 5 and 23 K using the same quenching method (see Supplementary Figs 2 and 3); accordingly, we could further examine the stability of the metastable SkL against a magnetic field sweep at each temperature and construct a magnetic state diagram that includes the quenched SkL, as shown in Fig. 2b. Here, two important aspects can be highlighted. First, the temperature/magnetic-field region in which the quenched SkL can persist is significantly extended compared to that of the equilibrium SkL phase, which exemplifies the remarkable stability of the metastable SkL. Second, there is a temperature gap (∼24–27 K) in which neither the equilibrium SkL nor the metastable SkL can persist, implying that the metastable SkL is short-lived in this temperature range.
Such a short-lived metastable SkL can be substantiated by the time decay of the enhanced ρyx value, as shown in Fig. 3a. The relaxation of ρyx to the equilibrium value can clearly be seen, in accord with the expectation that the metastable SkL is short-lived in this temperature range. The behaviour is characterized well by the standard relaxation equation (denoted by the broken lines in Fig. 3a):
where ρyx, 0 and ρyx, ∞ denote the initial and fully relaxed (or equilibrium) values of ρyx, respectively, and τ represents the relaxation time (or, equivalently, the lifetime of the metastable SkL). Figure 3b summarizes the τ values derived for various temperatures. Note that as the temperature approaches the SkL transition temperature of 27 K, the relaxation time decreases markedly and will probably decrease to less than 10 s. This behaviour reasonably accounts for why the SkL is readily annihilated during cooling in nominally clean systems, even though it is topologically stable5,7,10,11,12,13,14. Nevertheless, after quickly passing through the high-temperature region in which the metastable SkL is short-lived, the lifetime becomes unmeasurably long towards low temperatures. Consequently, the quenched SkL is stabilized practically. The significant increase in τ invokes the thermal activation process and suggests that the SkL-to-conical topology change proceeds via an intermediate spin configuration with a creation energy, Eg. In estimating the order of magnitude of Eg, we tentatively assume that Eg is dependent on temperature and proportional to the square of the local magnetic moment, m. Then, if we adopt a simplified m–temperature profile, m ∼ (Tc–T)0.5, with Tc ≈ 29 K (the SkL-paramagnetic transition temperature), Eg at zero temperature is estimated to be ∼2 × 103 K (for details, see Supplementary Fig. 5). Although the intermediate spin configurations cannot be clearly described from the ρyx data, the 'emergent magnetic monopoles' discussed in the literature22 may be relevant.
Figure 3: Lifetime of the metastable skyrmion lattice.
a, Time evolution of ρyx at selected temperatures after quenching at 0.22 T. The broken red lines are fits to the standard relaxation equation (1). b, Temperature dependence of the lifetime of the metastable SkL at 0.22 T. The lifetimes are obtained from the fitting results in a.
Finally, on the basis of the present findings, we demonstrate reversible and deterministic switching between the topologically distinct spin configurations. Figure 4a shows phenomenological free-energy landscapes of the relevant spin configurations, illustrating the working principles of the switching. In the 'SET process', as has been discussed in Fig. 1b–d, the application of a current pulse to the conical state results in the metastable SkL through the kinetic avoidance of the SkL-to-conical transition. In the 'RESET' process, a relatively long current pulse (10 s) with a moderate intensity (1.7 × 106 A m−2) was applied to the quenched SkL to heat the sample to 25–27 K, at which temperature the metastable SkL is short-lived (<10 s; see Fig. 3b) and can therefore relax into the conical state within the pulse duration. The reversible electric switching of the topological/non-topological magnetic structure is thus feasible, as manifested in the switching of ρyx (Fig. 4b, c). The switching exhibits good repeatability (Fig. 4d), highlighting the deterministic nature of the working principle; that is, whereas thermal agitation at high temperatures allows the system to relax into the most thermodynamically stable state within a relatively short time, such relaxation is almost unexpected at low temperatures because the topological stability surpasses the thermal agitation. Whereas such a deterministic switching using heat pulses and quenching has often been demonstrated in glass-forming systems23,24,25, the switching between distinct long-range magnetic orders has, to the best of our knowledge, never been reported.
Figure 4: Creation and annihilation of the metastable skyrmion lattice through thermal control.
a, Scheme for repeatable switching between the SkL and the conical phase in terms of a schematic free-energy landscape in a multidimensional spin-configuration space. Note that, whereas the SkL is thermodynamically stable in the red-hatched temperature region (27–29 K), the conical state is thermodynamically stable in the blue-hatched temperature region (<27 K). b,c, Single-cycle operation of the switching under the application of rectangular current pulses. The time profiles of ρyx and the current density are shown in b and c, respectively. d, Repetitive switching between the metastable SkL and equilibrium conical phases.
Our observations clearly establish that a metastable SkL hidden behind non-topological magnetic ordering can be accessed by applying sufficiently high cooling rates. Because the local moments generally develop as the temperature decreases, SkL-derived physical properties become more accessible in the quenched SkL, facilitating experimental studies (for instance, the topological Hall resistivity is markedly enhanced at low temperatures; see Supplementary Fig. 6 and ref. 17). In the context of the possible application of skyrmions, in which the manipulation of a single skyrmion is ultimately considered26,27,28,29,30, we conjecture that a similar creation/annihilation method is also applicable to the case of a small number of skyrmions because the working principle demonstrated above is predicated on manipulating the delicate balance among the topological stability, the thermodynamic stability, and the thermal agitation, properties that remain well defined in a finite-size system. We have also shown that the topological stability is undermined at high temperatures, suggesting that the operating temperature of skyrmion devices must be chosen in the context of a competition between the topological stability and the thermal agitation.
Sample preparation.
A single crystal of MnSi was grown by the Czochralski method. The sample was oriented by Laue X-ray diffraction, cut with a wire saw, and polished to a size of 2.5 × 0.95 × 0.1 mm3, with the largest surface normal to the 〈100〉 axis. The residual resistivity ratio of the sample used in this study was approximately 55. Cu current leads of 0.43 mm diameter were attached to the sample and fixed with silver paste. Au wires for the voltage probe were soldered to the sample with indium. At 10 K, the sum of the contact resistances of the two current electrodes is approximately 615 mΩ, whereas the resistance of the whole sample is only approximately 1.6 mΩ. Hence, the Joule heating during the current-pulse application occurs mainly at the contacts. For details on the estimation of the Joule heating and the subsequent heating and cooling rates, see Supplementary Information.
Transport measurements.
The Hall resistivity ρyx was measured at a current excitation of 33 Hz with the five-probe method under a magnetic field parallel to the 〈100〉 axis using a lock-in amplifier (Signal Recovery, 7270 DSP) equipped with a transformer preamplifier (Stanford Research Systems, SR554). The current density of the a.c. excitation was set to less than 1.4 × 105 A m−2. We confirmed that the a.c. current caused no appreciable increase in the sample temperature. The pulse currents used for the sample heating were generated by a function generator (NF Corporation, WF1947) connected to a bipolar amplifier (NF Corporation, HSA4014). The voltage drop between the voltage probes attached to the sample was amplified with a low-noise preamplifier (NF Corporation, LI-75A) and was monitored as a function of time using a data logger (Data Translation, DT8824), so that we could derive the time-varying sample temperature (see Supplementary Information). During the time-varying Hall-resistivity measurements, we monitored the digital-to-analog converter output of the lock-in amplifier using the data logger.
In the version of this Letter originally published the pulse heights in the pulse sequence in Figure 4c were incorrect. This has now been corrected in the online versions of the Letter.
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RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS), Wako 351-0198, Japan
Hiroshi Oike, Akiko Kikkawa, Yasujiro Taguchi, Masashi Kawasaki, Yoshinori Tokura & Fumitaka Kagawa
Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
Naoya Kanazawa, Masashi Kawasaki & Yoshinori Tokura
CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Tokyo 102-0076, Japan
Fumitaka Kagawa
Hiroshi Oike
Akiko Kikkawa
Naoya Kanazawa
Yasujiro Taguchi
Masashi Kawasaki
Yoshinori Tokura
H.O. conducted all experiments and analysed the data. A.K. grew the single crystals used for the study. F.K. planned and supervised the project. H.O. and F.K. wrote the letter. All authors discussed the results and commented on the manuscript.
Correspondence to Fumitaka Kagawa.
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Oike, H., Kikkawa, A., Kanazawa, N. et al. Interplay between topological and thermodynamic stability in a metastable magnetic skyrmion lattice. Nature Phys 12, 62–66 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3506
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3506
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Russian punk band TARAKANY! presented an anti-war video for their new single 'What can I change?'
by John B. / Jan 18, 2016
"This is a song about those who, in our opinion, make profit on all wars in the world. It's about those who, for the sake of their dirty, cruel intentions, are ready to bang peoples' and nations' heads and who never stops on this terrible way ", - says Dmitry Spirin, the frontman of Tarakany!
"We do not live in a vacuum, so it often happens the topics for our songs come from the environment. "What can I change?" is not an exception. This is our response and our position to the war in Ukraine (in particular) and any other wars on the planet Earth."
Only in the Russian-speaking countries the video has assembled over 200 000 views on YouTube for the first month. Right after the premiere it was supported by the leading liberal media of the CIS. The song is in Russian but the clip on YouTube has English subtitles as well.
Both the song and the video were included in a new hits compilation "Best of the Best: 25 years" (mastered for iTunes) dedicated to the anniversary of the band.
TARAKANY! is a Russian punk rock band existing since 1991. 13 LPs, first positions in national radio charts, tours around CIS, Europe and Japan. In 2005, the band toured with the drummer of the legendary Ramones under the guise of "Marky Ramone and Tarakany!".
In 2014, the band released their first US edition "Russian Democrazy" which included songs featuring Anti-Flag, Useless ID and Frank Turner.
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Despite The Chaos, Analysts Cheered Loudly For Valeant
Publicado: Mar 23, 2016 | Publicado en: Blog
An investor complaint in 2002 against a Merrill Lynch internet analyst shined a spotlight on the lucrative relationships between analysts at Wall Street banks and their executive counterparts in investment banking.
The complaint highlighted how analysts, who typically sounded like independent voices dispensing wisdom on the prospects of high risk internet start-up companies, were actually in cahoots with investment bankers. Analysts gave favorable opinions of companies that investment bankers wanted to do business with; the bankers in turn generated millions of dollars in fees. That complaint was the spark that eventually led to a $1.4 billion global Wall Street research settlement.
The decline of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. illustrates that the cozy relationship between Wall Street analysts, bankers and the high-flying companies they underwrite is alive and well.
After the so-called Global Settlement, Wall Street's research practices were supposedly overhauled to eliminate biased research and conflicts of interest between the research analysts and the investment bankers on the other side of the house.
Unfortunately, the analyst coverage on Valeant shows that despite the global settlement and promises for a Chinese Wall, Wall Street is at it again.
A darling of Wall Street for years, Valeant's stock price has collapsed, falling from a high of $263.81 last summer to $31.91 on Tuesday. For the last 12 months, Valeant shares are down 84.4%; billions of dollars of investor equity has been lost. The reason? Valeant's strategy of buying other pharmaceutical companies, slashing costs and sharply raising prices on undervalued drugs has faced sharp criticism.
Berkshire Hathaway vice chairman Charlie Munger said Valeant's businesses practices were "deeply immoral" and "similar to the worst abuses in for-profit education."
Bill Gross of Janus Capital tweeted that Valeant, "was based on leverage and financial engineering".
The situation at Valeant is so dire that on Monday, it said its CEO would step down. The company also said it would restate some of its earnings and ask a board member, who was also a former chief financial officer, to resign, accusing him of "improper conduct."
Despite the months of chaos at Valeant, Wall Street remained in love with the company. Twenty-one of twenty-three Wall Street analysts who cover Valeant had buy or hold ratings on the stock before a massive sell-off earlier this month saw shares fall to $33 from $69 a day earlier this month, according to a recent Financial Times article titled "Investment bank analysts stayed bullish as Valeant struggled."
Caused by the specter of a default on its $30 billion in debt and the bungling of its earnings forecast, the massive sell-off fueled "new doubts over whether the research produced by investment banks is too bullish about the companies they cover," according to the FT. "Since last summer, the company has lurched from crisis to crisis."
Valeant has been attacked by politicians who claim it is fleecing consumers with high prices and securities regulators have the company under investigation. Not to mention we are still waiting for audited 2015 financial results.
In the face of the chaos at Valeant, only two of the 23 analysts who cover the company recently had a sell rating on the company, according to the FT, citing data by Bloomberg.
For example, UBS had a "buy" recommendation and a 12-month $213 price target on Valeant as it cratered on March 15 to $33 per share. Barclays had a more modest but equally dubious price target of $135.
"Wall Street's unflinching enthusiasm for Valeant deals a fresh blow to the credibility of 'sell side' research, which also came in for heavy criticism after the 2000 dotcom crash," according to the FT.
Could the millions of dollars in investment banking fees paid by Valeant in the last two years have influenced these "buy" recommendations?
"There is an overall pressure on analysts … to wear smiley faces when they look at companies," a source told the FT. "The analysts who are positive get better access to management."
That research settlement of yesteryear, obviously, isn't worth much.
Will Wall Street 'Sell Side' research teams ever learn that such conflicts of interest alienate retail investors who view the stock market as rigged against them and favoring the big players?
With Valeant as the most recent example, it would seem that Wall Street's banks have yet to understand that lesson.


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Christmas message: Let's eschew blind partisanship—Clergyman
Web DeskPosted on December 25, 2021 December 26, 2021
The Right Reverend Dr Hilliard K.Dela Dogbe, the Presiding Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, has admonished Ghanaians to eschew blind partisanship, self-centredness and all divisive tendencies during the festive season.
Rev Dogbe urged all to strive for open and honest engagement, tolerance, social cohesion, appreciation of and respect for diversity, excellence and a growing love for the nation.
The Clergyman said this in his Christmas message copied to the Ghana News Agency on the theme: "The Freedom Church: Serving our Flock."
"As we prepare to cross over to the new year 2022, it is my prayer that each of us will pay heed to this call and actively engage in building bridges and fostering an environment of peaceful coexistence even as we pursue excellence at all times," he said.
Rev Dogbe said the unfortunate development, which was witnessed in Parliament recently was a wakeup call to all, particularly those in positions of leadership across the nation to engage more.
He noted that notwithstanding the huge economic challenges confronting the country and the wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, Ghana remained an oasis of peace and prosperity in the turbulent sub-region.
"We must do more to preserve this peace and grow the economy. God will not do for us that, which He has equipped and resourced us to accomplish," he said.
He urged all to commit to peaceful coexistence and uphold the virtues of hard work, honesty, patriotism, excellence and unity in the year 2022.
"On behalf of the leadership and membership of the Church I wish His Excellency Nana Addo Danquah Akufo Addo and the good people of Ghana a merry Christmas and a very prosperous new year," Rev Dogbe said.
Source: Modern Ghana
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A garden skyscraper. A sidewalk library. A floating pool. A DIY bike park. These are some of the finalists in the Place By Design competition announced today by SXSW Eco, a new sustainability conference by the organizers of SXSW. Which one makes the greatest impact on a city?
Finalists for the competition were selected across three categories—Transformative Design, Community Impact and Global Potential—by a panel of judges from around the world. Keep in mind these are all in varying stages of development; some are finished, while others are still a glimmer in an architect's eye. There are lots of Austin entries (which makes sense because SXSW takes place in Austin) and plenty of familiar faces like +Pool and the Lowline. But the diversity of projects, from complex to low-budget, ambitious to simple, is inspiring. These projects prove cities can implement change on a block-by-block basis. Here are 11 of the finalists; the winner will be announced as part of SXSW Eco in October.
An urban creek in Austin suffered from years of neglect until a revitalization project was conceived by landscape architects at Michael van Valkenburgh Associates with architecture firm Thomas Phifer and Partners. The creek itself serves as the heart of five park districts which will run the length of the banks and provide new recreational and development opportunities for the city.
A Gizmodo regular, the +Pool is planned to float off a Brooklyn pier with filtered water from the East River and a large deck for lounging. It's also sparked similar projects across the country, as cities try to reclaim their urban rivers and bring residents back to the water.
Dellavalle Designs was behind the conversion of this abandoned lot in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn into a progressive bike park. It's not just a place to ride bikes, however, it's a place that can be sculpted by the community, its paths transformed into trails that improve health and provide entertainment. The park also reintroduces greenery and a home for wildlife to the block.
As part of a redesigned Houston street—one of the city's first Greenroads—Design Workshop created a series of infographics inserted among the sidewalks, planters and bike racks to help explain the new benefits to users. The signage includes data about stormwater collection, sustainable materials, and shade all of which help to enforce the value of the improvements, especially after a long construction process.
Proposed for downtown Seoul by designers at Aprilli, this vertical farm prototype is right next to the Cheonggyecheon Creek, which was famously daylighted after a freeway was removed. meant to evoke giant trees, the Urban Skyfarm provides a community garden space in an urban environment while also improving air and water quality.
This "paint park" in Austin took advantage of another abandoned lot, turning it into a gathering spot for artists who could express themselves here instead of on private property. Currently it is recognized as one of the top tourist destinations in Austin and certainly one of the most Instagrammed.
A new placemaking app by Gensler hopes to gather digital "seeds": recording thoughts and memories about individual spaces around the city. This database goes beyond location-based searches like Yelp, for example, allowing users to search for parts of the city that match their current emotions or feelings.
This streetside book exchange found throughout Dallas pairs neighborhood residents with local designers to build outdoor reading rooms on corners that need better public space resources. So far 15 teams have built 10 libraries across the city. Libros Libres is organized through a collaborative partnership between Big Thought (an arts-based youth education provider), bcWORKSHOP (a non-profit community design center), and the Dallas Public Library.
This system of pavers, or outdoor flooring tiles, gathers kinetic energy from human footfalls to power just about anything. When people walk on the tiles, the tiny movement of the tile—only about 5 millimeters—generates about eight watts of power per footstep, which can be stored in batteries.
This skate park doubles as a drainage ditch, allowing floodwater management on this Danish plain without taking away recreational space. The canals and pools provide ways to divert water when it's raining, then skaters can take advantage of the same spaces—which just happen to be perfect for skating—when it's dry. This is such a smart way to add much-needed multi-use infrastructure to a city.


Additional guests will be announced in the coming weeks. Open to both Canadian and international filmmakers, Talent Lab is designed to connect homegrown filmmakers with emerging talent from other countries at a time when the film industry is becoming increasingly international. Talent Lab runs from September 8 to 12, 2015.
Now in its 16th year, Telefilm Canada PITCH THIS! provides six teams with six minutes each to pitch their dramatic or documentary feature film idea to a jury of experts in front of a live audience of over 250 industry professionals, in the hopes of winning a coveted $15,000 development award for their project.
Wim Wenders came to international prominence as one of the pioneers of the New German Cinema in the 1970s and is one of the most important figures in contemporary German film. In addition to his many prize-winning feature films, his work as a scriptwriter, director, producer, photographer and author also encompasses an abundance of innovative documentary films, international photo exhibitions and numerous monographs, film books and prose collections. He lives and works in Berlin, together with his wife Donata Wenders.
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Telefilm Canada's PITCH THIS! challenge takes place on Sunday, September 13 at 4:30 p.m. and is open to all Festival Industry and Press delegates.
It's 2048 in the Burn. Toronto has been abandoned by the wealthy, and the poor have been walled in and left to fend for themselves. This coming-of-age story focuses on young Ti-Jeanne who rebels against her grandmother's Caribbean mystical teachings to run off with Tony. When a tragedy strikes Ti-Jeanne's guardian spirit demands she obey or someone will die.
Ralph's 31st birthday has turned into 24 hours of devilishly orchestrated sexual blackmail that calls into question his grasp of morality, fidelity and the actual age of his coquettish aggressor.
A couple go on a prescribed weekend getaway to figure out their relationship but instead they are forced to face off against demons and each other when they discover a woman frozen in the woods.
While attempting to cure his infertility, a rogue scientist discovers a new facet of procreation, the ability to encode his memories into the DNA of his offspring, causing a kind of pseudo-reincarnation. He succeeds in conceiving a female child who has his memories and consciousness, creating the most unusual father/daughter relationship in history.
A neurotic celebrity chef disappears while filming a cooking show in Morocco. When presented with the opportunity to take over the shoot and advance their own careers, his embattled crew struggles to continue the search for their acerbic host.
A family reunion goes haywire over the course of a long, wine-soaked night, as dark secrets from the past come bubbling to the surface.
The Toronto International Film Festival® today revealed the four actors selected to participate in the 2015 TIFF Rising Stars programme: Deragh Campbell, Stephan James, Aliocha Schneider, and Karelle Tremblay. Now in its fifth year, the intensive professional development programme immerses participants in a series of public events and industry meetings during the Festival.
"TIFF is dedicated to shining a spotlight on Canadian talent, and we're thrilled to offer Deragh, Stephan, Aliocha, and Karelle — the 2015 TIFF Rising Stars — a global stage during the Festival," said Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film Festival.
The four Rising Stars will take part in a series of specialized programming organized by the TIFF Industry Office that includes seminars with international casting directors, media training, one-on-one meetings with filmmakers, as well as a series of unique networking opportunities.
Though a relative newcomer, Deragh Campbell has already made a name for herself as an accomplished actor and writer. The Toronto-based artist established herself as a promising new talent with her starring role as a teenage runaway in Matthew Potterfield's I Used to Be Darker, which premiered at Sundance and made The New Yorker's list of Top 25 Films of 2013. Deragh went on to star in Dustin Guy Defa's acclaimed short film Person to Person, which won the DAAD Short Film Prize at the 2014 Berlinale. She took on the largely improvised role of Lucy in Nathan Silver's 2015 black comedy Stinking Heaven, for which she shares a writing credit. A versatile talent, Deragh has recently been awarded a prestigious MacDowell Fellowship to create her first feature with co-writer Alexandra Napier. She next stars in Alexander Carson's directorial debut, O Brazen Age, Sofia Bohdanowicz's Never Eat Alone and Julian Radlmaier's The Pursuit of Happiness, and has a supporting role opposite Tatiana Maslany in Joey Klein's The Other Half.
Just 21 years old, Stephan James has already landed significant supporting roles in Ava DuVernay's Oscar winner Selma and the CBC miniseries The Book of Negroes, as well as a starring role in the forthcoming Universal/Focus Features biopic Race, playing Olympic gold medalist Jesse Owens. Born and raised in Toronto, Stephan began his professional career in the Emmy-nominated series Degrassi: The Next Generation, playing the role of Julian for three seasons. He later guest-starred in the series The Listener, The L.A. Complex, and Cracked. His major break came in 2012 with a leading role in the Toronto International Film Festival selection Home Again: Stephen received tremendous critical acclaim and a Canadian Screen Award nomination for his performance as Everton St. Clair, a British teenager deported to Jamaica for drug possession. He followed this with a supporting role in the Miramax sports drama When the Game Stands Tall. Stephan's impressive resume has not gone unnoticed; The Globe and Mail profiled the rising actor as one to watch for in 2015. It's no wonder that shortly after moving to Los Angeles this year, he was cast as a series regular in NBC's upcoming drama, Unveiled, produced by Mark Burnett and Roma Downey, as well as a leading role in Director X's Undone.
Born in Paris and raised in Quebec, Aliocha Schneider spent his adolescence training to be a performer. A gifted actor and singer, he began his career on the stage at Montreal's Théâtre du Rideau Vert, where he played the role of Momo in the stage adaptation of La Vie devant soi. Television proved a natural fit for the versatile young actor. From 2009 to 2013, he starred as Carl Bresson in the Télé-Québec dramatic series Tactik, and has since made appearances on Vrak's Horrorarium, TVA's Les Jeunes loups and Yamaska, and Radio-Canada's Belle-Baie and Les Parent, starring Anne Dorval. He made his big-screen debut in Erik Canuel's box-office hit Bon Cop, Bad Cop before playing opposite some of the biggest names in Quebec cinema in Lea Pool's Ma mère est chez le coiffeur and La dernière fugue, Christian Laurence's Le journal d'Aurélie Laflamme and Robert Morin's Les 4 soldats. Fluent in both English and French, Aliocha made his English-language debut in the 2013 comedy Three Night Stand, playing the "ultrasmooth and boyishly handsome art-house movie actor Anatolii" (Toronto Star). Other recent credits include a supporting role in Elodie Namar's chessdrama The Tournament. Watch for him this year in the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival features Closet Monster, which stars Rising Stars alumnus Connor Jessup and Isabella Rossellini, and Guy Édoin's Ville-Marie, opposite Monica Bellucci.
Montreal-born Karelle Tremblay has been acting since she was 12, when she was cast as a series regular in Radio-Canada's Le Club des doigts croisés. Since then, she has developed an impressive and fast-growing roster of television credits, guest starring in TVA's Toute la vérité and Yamaska, and Radio-Canada's hit Montreal police drama 19-2. In 2015, she was nominated for a Prix Gémeaux for Best Actress in a Web Series for her starring role as Elizabeth in Vrak's Les Stagiaires. Karelle transitioned to film with supporting roles in Stephan Miljevic's Amsterdam and Podz's Miraculum, starring Xavier Dolan. Her first major film break came when she was cast as the radical young activist Julie in Mathieu Denis' FLQ drama Corbo, an Official Selection of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival and Canada's Top Ten Film Festival. She can next be seen in Podz's urban crime drama King Dave and in the titular role in Vrak's Jérémie, premiering this fall. Watch for her at this year's Festival in Les êtres chers, from acclaimed director Anne Émond (Nuit #1).
Rising Stars alumni include household names like Sarah Gadon (Maps to the Stars, Belle and the upcoming The 9th Life of Louis Drax), Tatiana Maslany (two-time Critic's Choice Award-winner for Best Actress in a Drama Series for Orphan Black), Cara Gee (Strange Empire), Julia Sarah Stone (Every Thing Will Be Fine), and Shannon Kook (Dark Places).
The 2015 jury who helped select the 2015 Rising Stars include filmmakers Ingrid Veninger and Clement Virgo; filmmaker, journalist and author Peter Knegt; casting director Deirdre Bowen; and Larissa Giroux, Executive in Charge of Acting & Music Programs, CFC ACTORS & MUSIC.


Agree with key decision makers on the objectives of the project and how you'll be able to tell when those objectives have been met.
Align everyone with how you're going to achieve the objectives.
Advance the project forward, while maintaining Agreement and Alignment.
I can't tell you how many projects – including improvement initiatives – I've seen fail to achieve what they should due to lack of ongoing agreement and alignment. That's why these three steps are a cornerstone to our ProChain Operating System and to our associated critical chain implementation processes.
In order to help describe our operating system, we've made the as-yet-unpublished ProChain Video Series available to you on our Manifesto Resources page, along with a summary document that contains links to each of the videos. The videos are my attempt to explain how the Agree, Align, and Advance steps work and why they're important. Have I succeeded? I'd be interested in your feedback; please feel free to post comments here, or on YouTube with the videos.
Please stay tuned for more on this important topic.