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Energy security and investment in New York state.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has set out an ambitious agenda for energy in New York state and he needs to.Extreme weather events such as Superstorm Sandy have exposed the fragility of the state's aging energy grid, new EPA regulations on greenhouse gases are driving fast-track conversions of former coal-fired plants, over 40 percent of New York's power stations are more than four decades old and the Governor is caught in a major political vice over fracking.Cuomo's 2013-14 budget proposal also outlines some major investments in the renewable energy sector.The Innovation Trail has focused its reporting on the state's energy planning and investment.
Will hydropower from Quebec supply New York City?
WXXI News | By Sarah Harris
Published March 21, 2013 at 6:30 AM EDT
Photo courtesy of Hydro-Québec
In Québec, electricity is cheap. Hydro-Québec, a state-owned utility, has over 60 generating stations that use the province's rivers to produce power. One of them is Beauharnois, southwest of Montreal on the St. Lawrence River.
It's a long brick building. Men in jump suits and hard hats work on giant rumbling machines that generate power.
But hundreds of miles south in New York City, power is really expensive. A lot of demand, plus congestion on the state's grid, means that the rate payers' electricity bills are through the roof.
So what if you could funnel the cheap power from Québec into the New York city market?
Donald Jessome is president and CEO of Transmission Developers, Incorporated. His company plans to do exactly that.
"We're connecting one of the strongest systems in North America in Québec, to the other strongest system in America which is New York," Jessome said.
TDI's project is called Champlain Hudson Power Express. They want to a run an underground HVDC transmission line from the Canadian border, under Lake Champlain, under the Hudson River, the East River, and the Harlem River and into New York City.
The line would deliver 1000 megawatts of power – and cost at least $2.2 billion.
The plan's currently before New York state's Public Service Commission.
Exporting Power
Canadian power producers often look south, across the border, for business.
But Hydro-Québec only has one transmission line into the US: from James Bay, in far northwestern Quebec, to Boston.
So the Champlain Hudson Power Express is a big opportunity.
Credit Photo courtesy of Hydro-Québec
Power generation at Beauharnois
Maxime Lonctôt is director of wholesale markets at Hydro-Québec. He says the company works to keep prices low in the province and makes their money from the energy they export.
"That's going to be a really important project for us because it gives us access to a new market. We cannot physically sell to New York city right now," Lanctôt explained.
"This project is basically an electrical extension cord from Canada just flooding the marketplace in New York," said Gavin Donohue, head Independent Power Producers of New York, a trade association.
He says that the Champlain Hudson Power Express puts New York state's power producers at a disadvantage.
"And you do have struggling areas in upstate New York where smaller power plants are trying to make a go of it and this project will certainly take away huge ability of them to prosper in an economic development way."
And Donohue says the capacity that the CHPE line will supply already exists in New York state.
"We have across the state in upstate New York probably 3000 megawatts in New York state just sitting there every day. So when you come down to does the marketplace need this power? To us it's obvious that it does not."
Then there's the economics. Donohue believes that the $2.2 billion price tag on the transmission line is a low-ball estimate.
And Jean-Thomas Bernard, a professor of electricity economics at Québec's Laval University and the University of Ottawa, says that hydropower is going to face tough competition from natural gas in the marketplace.
"Hydro-Québec, 5 or 6 years ago, was netting about 8 or 9 cents per kilowatt hour on the export market. Nowadays they have difficulty getting 3-4 cents per kilowatt hour due to the huge plunge of the natural gas price. So I am rather pessimistic about this development," Bernard explained.
TDI says customers in New York City will see lower power bills but won't have to assume any of the cost.
It's not clear yet clear what impact the project would have on electricity customers in other regions.
TDI estimates communities along the route will see around 1200 induced jobs during the line's construction.
The company reached an agreement with unions along the route earlier this month.
Right now, they're working with Blackstone Group, a major private equity firm, to finance the project.
The draft environmental impact statement for the project will be published this spring.
TDI hopes to have their permits in place by the end of the year.
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One of the great rewards of being an MPA Director is the opportunity to review applications of new students who have chosen to pursue a career in public service. Each applicant is required to submit a "Statement of Purpose," outlining why they are interested in an MPA degree and how it fits with their career plans. As academics and practitioners of public administration, it is worthwhile to take pause and reflect on their words — it provides a source of inspiration for us in a world that desperately needs professionals who are dedicated to improving the quality of life for all citizens; indeed, it reminds us of the difference between a job and a true vocation or calling to public service. The following is a sampling of the words of these students.
Whether you are an academic preparing students in the classroom or a practitioner in a government or nonprofit agency mentoring new employees, we have no greater obligation than to keep these public service fires burning!


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A warrior with inner demons falls for a woman who could save his soul in this seductive novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling Black Dagger Brotherhood series. Within the Black Dagger Brotherhood, Rhage is the warrior vampire with the strongest appetites. He's the deadliest fighter, the most voracious lover, the quickest to act on his impulses. He's also been cursed with two hundred years of hell. Possessed by a beast, he lives in fear of the times when his inner dragon comes out and he's a danger to everyone around him. Mary Luce has unwittingly found herself in the vampire world, and under Rhage's protection. With her own life-threatening curse to bear, she's not looking for love. Besides, she's stopped believing in saving grace and miracles long ago. But when Rhage's intense sexual attraction turns into emotional bonding, he knows he must have her for his mate. As their enemies close in, Mary finds herself praying for something she fears she'll never have: life eternal with the one she loves.
Lover Eternal by J. R. Ward
Fierce warrior and legendary lover, Rhage, a vampire cursed by the Scribe Virgin and owned by the dark side, finds salvation in Mary Luce, the innocent young beauty he has sworn to protect.
Category : Black Dagger Brotherhood (Fictitious characters)
In this follow-up to "Dark Lover," Rhage is the vampire with the strongest appetite--he's the best fighter and the most voracious lover, for inside him burns a ferocious curse cast by the Scribe Virgin. When Mary Luce is thrown into the vampire world, Rhage knows he must make her his own. Original.
Dark Lover Wal Mart Edition by J. R. Ward
Publisher : Signet
Eternal Lover by Jackie Kessler
Publisher : Kensington Books
A quartet of supernaturally seductive stories featuring vampires, succubi, demons, and more—proving that when it comes to romance, passion is immortal . . . Ancient desires and forbidden pleasures; unnatural hungers and irresistible attractions; limitless lust and undying needs. Even creatures of the night and of the darkest dreams can't help but give in to the power of seduction. Enter a dark world of paranormal pleasure with these four tantalizing tales . . . "The Yearning" by Hannah Howell Alpin has spent centuries searching for something that will satisfy his unquenchable lust—something more than mere physical pleasure. Then he meets Sophie, whose own search for eternal love binds them together in a shimmering sensuality too strong to be ignored . . . "Bitten" by Lynsay Sands The life of a vampire is one of solitude, devoid of passion or companionship. Or so Keeran thinks, until a chance encounter brings Emily into his afterlife—and sets his soul aflame with an ardor unlike any he's known in all his many years . . . "A Hell of a Time" by Jackie Kessler Jesse has spent an eternity stealing the souls of men with her power as a succubus. Now that she's human—and free to satisfy her own needs—she's ready to see how powerful her non-magical powers of seduction are . . . "City of Demons" by Richelle Mead After what feels like an eternity, Georgina Kincaid has finally found the man of her dreams. But when she discovers that their lust could be deadly, she'll do whatever it takes to make sure she doesn't lose him . . .
Lover Revealed by J.R. Ward
#1 New York Times bestselling author J. R. Ward's "instantly addictive"* novels of the Black Dagger Brotherhood continue as an ally of the Brotherhood must face his own dark desires.... Butch O'Neal is a fighter by nature. A hard-living ex–homicide cop, he's the only human ever to be allowed in the inner circle of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. And he wants to go even deeper into the vampire world. He's got nothing to lose. His heart belongs to a female vampire, an aristocratic beauty who's way out of his league. If he can't have Marissa, then at least he can fight side by side with the Brothers. Fate curses him with the very thing he wants. When Butch sacrifices himself to save a civilian vampire from the slayers, he falls prey to the darkest force in the war. Left for dead, he's found by a miracle, and the Brotherhood calls on Marissa to bring him back. But even her love may not be enough to save him. *Lynn Viehl
Private Demon by Lynn Viehl
Night after night, Jema Shaw's dreams have become a haven for Thierry Durand. But his nocturnal visits have placed her in danger and brought her between two ancient enemies: the Brethren and the Darkyn.
Lover Enshrined by J.R. Ward
In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there's a deadly war raging between vampires and their slayers. And there exists a secret band of brothers like no other—six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. And now, a dutiful twin must choose between two lives... Fiercely loyal to the Black Dagger Brotherhood, Phury has sacrificed himself for the good of the race, becoming the male responsible for keeping the Brotherhood's bloodlines alive. As Primale of the Chosen, he is to father the sons and daughters who will ensure that the traditions of the race survive and that there are warriors to fight those who want all vampires extinguished. As his first mate, the Chosen Cormia wants to win not only his body but his heart for herself- she sees the emotionally scarred male behind all his noble responsibility. But while the war with the Lessening Society grows more grim, and tragedy looms over the Brotherhood's mansion, Phury must decide between duty and love.
Father Mine Zsadist And Bella S Story by J.R. Ward
Ever since the birth of his daughter, Nalla, Zsadist has been regressing further and further into the life he led before he met Bella, his beautiful shellan. He has been waking up in cold sweats due to nightmares from his past, hasn't made love to his wife, and won't hold his baby girl, for fear that he might hurt her. While Nalla's presence had consisted of only joy and excitement in first couple months of her life, now it seems to be driving the couple apart. Bella is afraid that she and Nalla just may need to leave her hellren. But then Zsadist gets injured on a mission to fight the lessers and because he hasn't been feeding from Bella, almost loses his life. Could this near-death experience create the motivation to pull this couple back together? Or has the gap between them spanned too far for redemption?
Kiss Of Crimson by Lara Adrian
Publisher : Dell
He comes to her more dead than alive, a towering black-clad stranger riddled with bullets and rapidly losing blood. As she struggles to save him, veterinarian Tess Culver is unaware that the man calling himself Dante is no man at all, but one of the Breed, vampire warriors engaged in a desperate battle. In a single erotically charged moment Tess is plunged into his world—a shifting, shadowed place where bands of Rogue vampires stalk the night, cutting a swath of terror. Haunted by visions of a dark future, Dante lives and fights like there is no tomorrow. Tess is a complication he does not need—but now, with his brethren under attack, he must shield Tess from a growing threat that includes Dante himself. For with one reckless, irresistible kiss, she has become an inextricable part of his underworld realm…and his touch awakens her to hidden gifts, desires, and hungers she never knew she possessed. Bonded by blood, Dante and Tess must work together to thwart deadly enemies, even as they discover a passion that transcends the boundaries of life itself….

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After about 11 days off, I finally got back to yoga.
I really hadn't meant to be away for so long –and I started feeling it.
It wasn't that I felt my joints stiffening up or that I started feeling weaker. I felt anxious, agitated.
One of the things I got out of yoga in March was an hour several times a week where I was forced to get out of my head, forced to step away from the job.
I am not complaining about what I do. I like what I do, but sometimes there's a lot to get done, a lot of different people trying to get my attention, and a lot of things to cover –and I have a real problem with editing my day. Sometimes, every story feels too good to pass up, and I will bite off more than I can chew.
The best part about the yoga was it's really hard to think about community theater, handguns, distilleries, or "Mountain Stage" when you're going through a series of sun salutations and just trying to keep up with the teachers instructions.
And afterwards, I felt great, I felt refreshed –though, occasionally, a little sore in weird places.
So, I took a Yin Express class, taught by Traci Levine, a gentler class than I thought I wanted, but it was the only class I could fit into my week.With the gun series moving forward, it's been kind of a monster.
It was more restorative than challenging –restorative tends to indicate meditative or slower paced, but it turned out that it gave me exactly what I needed.
So, I'm back on the mat, interested to see where it takes me, and looking for different kinds of classes to try.
Send me invites, and I'll try to fit it in.
Also, I'll take some pictures. Even I'm getting tired of the gnome.


- LED time display.- 12/24 hour format selectable.- Support alarm & snooze function.- Temperature function. - Three level of luminance setting.- Night mode function, it means the LED auto lower the luminance during night time.- Rotating Knob function button (MODE, UP, DOWN).
Note : 1.If using AAA batteries, you can touch any key of MODE, UP, DOWN to turn on the backlight for 5 seconds. 2.AAA batteries just used for time memory, it means if using batteries, once you power off, and turn on the clock again, the clock will still work for time.


Paul Axton preaches: In the 1960's and into the 70's – with the Vietnam War, the sexual revolution, women's liberation, the rise of the drug culture – what we call the cultural revolution – a phenomena called the Jesus People came about. Youth Culture meets the Church. We are not at the end of this cultural clash but can assess it through Corinthians.


This month, I was honored as a recipient of an Influential Women in Business for Volusia and Flagler County. My background is in radio and getting interviewed without it being a email question and answer format makes me physically sick.
Why you ask? Bet you never volunteered to fill out a police report for a stolen Spring Break Promotional Item and was in the same said paper the very next day with the title "Girl Reports 25 Foot Condom Stolen". This was a shining day in my daddy's eyes. Let me tell you. So, to say I have been grossly misinterpreted is an understatement.
Last year, I was nominated as well , but the picture looked like I had JAUNDICE, my name and business were MISSPELLED throughout and although I was honored, I just chalked it up to another the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away episode in my life.
So when the lovely Daytona Beach News Journal reporter Fatima called, I was sweating. She actually did a great, accurate job! Besides a little hard on myself cringing moments, and a don't print that declarations-I think I sound like an alright chick!
I posted the article below from my business website with some sprinkles of bolded footnotes to set the record a little straighter, off the record-of course.
FIRST JOB: Fashion buyer for Belk department store, age 15 JUNIOR DEPARTMENT fashion buyer, big difference but it makes me feel like a teenage Anna Wintour so there is that!
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: President-elect, Junior League of Daytona Beach, a couple of other wonderful things and organizations I contribute to but this is my focus this year, and no one likes a bragger of a girl who has absolutely no idea how to sit on her hands.
FAMILY: Husband, Steve Tacinelli My husband thanked me for not including the cats, although they were omitted in the part of the interview when I claimed that they worked with me in the accounting department.
What started as a hobby eventually became a full-time job for Darlynn Tacinelli. Tacinelli, who owns and operates Little Blog Dress Media, started the Ormond Beach company as a blog for female NASCAR race fans who weren't "conventional" race fans. This means that our friends work in the sport, we love it and own a bra and have a dentist. I asked her not to print that and she complied.
"It really just started for fun between my girlfriends and I ," Tacinelli said. "But we began to think about how we could make money off of the website," adding that the concept of building a social media management business was born. Yes, Yes all factual.
Little Blog Dress provides social media setup and management services for companies, as well as creating blogs and websites. "It really started at the right time because social media management wasn't really popular at the time," Tacinelli said. Correct, check.
A lifelong Ormond Beach resident, Tacinelli said Little Blog Dress is modeled after the black dress Audrey Hepburn wore in the 1961 film, "Breakfast at Tiffany's." Ooof the word logo could have helped this makes me sound a wee bit better. My logo was modeled after the movie, not my business.
Little Blog Dress has been featured on national websites such as MSN Living and Jayski, an ESPN partner site, dedicated to NASCAR coverage. This makes me sound way more cooler than I am, I submit and they have picked me up about a dozen times. Still true tho!
"I can't believe this is my life. I'm so, so lucky," she said. I must have uttered this at some point, because it is so very very true.
Thanks Fatima, call me anytime you made me sound like a rockstar!


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#include <arch.h>
#include <arch_helpers.h>
#include <assert.h>
#include <bl31.h>
#include <bl_common.h>
#include <console.h>
#include <cortex_a57.h>
#include <cortex_a53.h>
#include <debug.h>
#include <denver.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <memctrl.h>
#include <mmio.h>
#include <platform.h>
#include <platform_def.h>
#include <stddef.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <tegra_def.h>
#include <tegra_private.h>

extern void zeromem16(void *mem, unsigned int length);

/*******************************************************************************
 * Declarations of linker defined symbols which will help us find the layout
 * of trusted SRAM
 ******************************************************************************/
extern unsigned long __TEXT_START__;
extern unsigned long __TEXT_END__;
extern unsigned long __RW_START__;
extern unsigned long __RW_END__;
extern unsigned long __RODATA_START__;
extern unsigned long __RODATA_END__;
extern unsigned long __BL31_END__;

extern uint64_t tegra_bl31_phys_base;
extern uint64_t tegra_console_base;

/*
 * The next 3 constants identify the extents of the code, RO data region and the
 * limit of the BL3-1 image.  These addresses are used by the MMU setup code and
 * therefore they must be page-aligned.  It is the responsibility of the linker
 * script to ensure that __RO_START__, __RO_END__ & __BL31_END__ linker symbols
 * refer to page-aligned addresses.
 */
#define BL31_RW_START (unsigned long)(&__RW_START__)
#define BL31_RW_END (unsigned long)(&__RW_END__)
#define BL31_RODATA_BASE (unsigned long)(&__RODATA_START__)
#define BL31_RODATA_END (unsigned long)(&__RODATA_END__)
#define BL31_END (unsigned long)(&__BL31_END__)

static entry_point_info_t bl33_image_ep_info, bl32_image_ep_info;
static plat_params_from_bl2_t plat_bl31_params_from_bl2 = {
	.tzdram_size = (uint64_t)TZDRAM_SIZE
};

/*******************************************************************************
 * This variable holds the non-secure image entry address
 ******************************************************************************/
extern uint64_t ns_image_entrypoint;

/*******************************************************************************
 * The following platform setup functions are weakly defined. They
 * provide typical implementations that will be overridden by a SoC.
 ******************************************************************************/
#pragma weak plat_early_platform_setup
#pragma weak plat_get_bl31_params
#pragma weak plat_get_bl31_plat_params

void plat_early_platform_setup(void)
{
	; /* do nothing */
}

bl31_params_t *plat_get_bl31_params(void)
{
	return NULL;
}

plat_params_from_bl2_t *plat_get_bl31_plat_params(void)
{
	return NULL;
}

/*******************************************************************************
 * Return a pointer to the 'entry_point_info' structure of the next image for
 * security state specified. BL33 corresponds to the non-secure image type
 * while BL32 corresponds to the secure image type.
 ******************************************************************************/
entry_point_info_t *bl31_plat_get_next_image_ep_info(uint32_t type)
{
	if (type == NON_SECURE)
		return &bl33_image_ep_info;

	/* return BL32 entry point info if it is valid */
	if (type == SECURE && bl32_image_ep_info.pc)
		return &bl32_image_ep_info;

	return NULL;
}

/*******************************************************************************
 * Return a pointer to the 'plat_params_from_bl2_t' structure. The BL2 image
 * passes this platform specific information.
 ******************************************************************************/
plat_params_from_bl2_t *bl31_get_plat_params(void)
{
	return &plat_bl31_params_from_bl2;
}

/*******************************************************************************
 * Perform any BL31 specific platform actions. Populate the BL33 and BL32 image
 * info.
 ******************************************************************************/
void bl31_early_platform_setup(bl31_params_t *from_bl2,
				void *plat_params_from_bl2)
{
	plat_params_from_bl2_t *plat_params =
		(plat_params_from_bl2_t *)plat_params_from_bl2;
#if DEBUG
	int impl = (read_midr() >> MIDR_IMPL_SHIFT) & MIDR_IMPL_MASK;
#endif
	image_info_t bl32_img_info = { {0} };
	uint64_t tzdram_start, tzdram_end, bl32_start, bl32_end;

	/*
	 * For RESET_TO_BL31 systems, BL31 is the first bootloader to run so
	 * there's no argument to relay from a previous bootloader. Platforms
	 * might use custom ways to get arguments, so provide handlers which
	 * they can override.
	 */
	if (from_bl2 == NULL)
		from_bl2 = plat_get_bl31_params();
	if (plat_params == NULL)
		plat_params = plat_get_bl31_plat_params();

	/*
	 * Copy BL3-3, BL3-2 entry point information.
	 * They are stored in Secure RAM, in BL2's address space.
	 */
	assert(from_bl2);
	assert(from_bl2->bl33_ep_info);
	bl33_image_ep_info = *from_bl2->bl33_ep_info;

	if (from_bl2->bl32_ep_info)
		bl32_image_ep_info = *from_bl2->bl32_ep_info;

	/*
	 * Parse platform specific parameters - TZDRAM aperture base and size
	 */
	assert(plat_params);
	plat_bl31_params_from_bl2.tzdram_base = plat_params->tzdram_base;
	plat_bl31_params_from_bl2.tzdram_size = plat_params->tzdram_size;
	plat_bl31_params_from_bl2.uart_id = plat_params->uart_id;

	/*
	 * It is very important that we run either from TZDRAM or TZSRAM base.
	 * Add an explicit check here.
	 */
	if ((plat_bl31_params_from_bl2.tzdram_base != BL31_BASE) &&
	    (TEGRA_TZRAM_BASE != BL31_BASE))
		panic();

	/*
	 * Get the base address of the UART controller to be used for the
	 * console
	 */
	tegra_console_base = plat_get_console_from_id(plat_params->uart_id);

	if (tegra_console_base != (uint64_t)0) {
		/*
		 * Configure the UART port to be used as the console
		 */
		console_init(tegra_console_base, TEGRA_BOOT_UART_CLK_IN_HZ,
			TEGRA_CONSOLE_BAUDRATE);

		/* Initialise crash console */
		plat_crash_console_init();
	}

	/*
	 * Do initial security configuration to allow DRAM/device access.
	 */
	tegra_memctrl_tzdram_setup(plat_bl31_params_from_bl2.tzdram_base,
			plat_bl31_params_from_bl2.tzdram_size);

	/*
	 * The previous bootloader might not have placed the BL32 image
	 * inside the TZDRAM. We check the BL32 image info to find out
	 * the base/PC values and relocate the image if necessary.
	 */
	if (from_bl2->bl32_image_info) {

		bl32_img_info = *from_bl2->bl32_image_info;

		/* Relocate BL32 if it resides outside of the TZDRAM */
		tzdram_start = plat_bl31_params_from_bl2.tzdram_base;
		tzdram_end = plat_bl31_params_from_bl2.tzdram_base +
				plat_bl31_params_from_bl2.tzdram_size;
		bl32_start = bl32_img_info.image_base;
		bl32_end = bl32_img_info.image_base + bl32_img_info.image_size;

		assert(tzdram_end > tzdram_start);
		assert(bl32_end > bl32_start);
		assert(bl32_image_ep_info.pc > tzdram_start);
		assert(bl32_image_ep_info.pc < tzdram_end);

		/* relocate BL32 */
		if (bl32_start >= tzdram_end || bl32_end <= tzdram_start) {

			INFO("Relocate BL32 to TZDRAM\n");

			memcpy16((void *)(uintptr_t)bl32_image_ep_info.pc,
				 (void *)(uintptr_t)bl32_start,
				 bl32_img_info.image_size);

			/* clean up non-secure intermediate buffer */
			zeromem16((void *)(uintptr_t)bl32_start,
				bl32_img_info.image_size);
		}
	}

	/* Early platform setup for Tegra SoCs */
	plat_early_platform_setup();

	INFO("BL3-1: Boot CPU: %s Processor [%lx]\n", (impl == DENVER_IMPL) ?
		"Denver" : "ARM", read_mpidr());
}

/*******************************************************************************
 * Initialize the gic, configure the SCR.
 ******************************************************************************/
void bl31_platform_setup(void)
{
	uint32_t tmp_reg;

	/* Initialize the gic cpu and distributor interfaces */
	plat_gic_setup();

	/*
	 * Initialize delay timer
	 */
	tegra_delay_timer_init();

	/*
	 * Setup secondary CPU POR infrastructure.
	 */
	plat_secondary_setup();

	/*
	 * Initial Memory Controller configuration.
	 */
	tegra_memctrl_setup();

	/*
	 * Set up the TZRAM memory aperture to allow only secure world
	 * access
	 */
	tegra_memctrl_tzram_setup(TEGRA_TZRAM_BASE, TEGRA_TZRAM_SIZE);

	/* Set the next EL to be AArch64 */
	tmp_reg = SCR_RES1_BITS | SCR_RW_BIT;
	write_scr(tmp_reg);

	INFO("BL3-1: Tegra platform setup complete\n");
}

/*******************************************************************************
 * Perform any BL3-1 platform runtime setup prior to BL3-1 cold boot exit
 ******************************************************************************/
void bl31_plat_runtime_setup(void)
{
	; /* do nothing */
}

/*******************************************************************************
 * Perform the very early platform specific architectural setup here. At the
 * moment this only intializes the mmu in a quick and dirty way.
 ******************************************************************************/
void bl31_plat_arch_setup(void)
{
	unsigned long rw_start = BL31_RW_START;
	unsigned long rw_size = BL31_RW_END - BL31_RW_START;
	unsigned long rodata_start = BL31_RODATA_BASE;
	unsigned long rodata_size = BL31_RODATA_END - BL31_RODATA_BASE;
	unsigned long code_base = (unsigned long)(&__TEXT_START__);
	unsigned long code_size = (unsigned long)(&__TEXT_END__) - code_base;
	const mmap_region_t *plat_mmio_map = NULL;
#if USE_COHERENT_MEM
	unsigned long coh_start, coh_size;
#endif
	plat_params_from_bl2_t *params_from_bl2 = bl31_get_plat_params();

	/* add memory regions */
	mmap_add_region(rw_start, rw_start,
			rw_size,
			MT_MEMORY | MT_RW | MT_SECURE);
	mmap_add_region(rodata_start, rodata_start,
			rodata_size,
			MT_RO_DATA | MT_SECURE);
	mmap_add_region(code_base, code_base,
			code_size,
			MT_CODE | MT_SECURE);

	/* map TZDRAM used by BL31 as coherent memory */
	if (TEGRA_TZRAM_BASE == tegra_bl31_phys_base) {
		mmap_add_region(params_from_bl2->tzdram_base,
				params_from_bl2->tzdram_base,
				BL31_SIZE,
				MT_DEVICE | MT_RW | MT_SECURE);
	}

#if USE_COHERENT_MEM
	coh_start = total_base + (BL_COHERENT_RAM_BASE - BL31_RO_BASE);
	coh_size = BL_COHERENT_RAM_END - BL_COHERENT_RAM_BASE;

	mmap_add_region(coh_start, coh_start,
			coh_size,
			MT_DEVICE | MT_RW | MT_SECURE);
#endif

	/* add MMIO space */
	plat_mmio_map = plat_get_mmio_map();
	if (plat_mmio_map)
		mmap_add(plat_mmio_map);
	else
		WARN("MMIO map not available\n");

	/* set up translation tables */
	init_xlat_tables();

	/* enable the MMU */
	enable_mmu_el3(0);

	INFO("BL3-1: Tegra: MMU enabled\n");
}

/*******************************************************************************
 * Check if the given NS DRAM range is valid
 ******************************************************************************/
int bl31_check_ns_address(uint64_t base, uint64_t size_in_bytes)
{
	uint64_t end = base + size_in_bytes - 1;

	/*
	 * Check if the NS DRAM address is valid
	 */
	if ((base < TEGRA_DRAM_BASE) || (end > TEGRA_DRAM_END) ||
	    (base >= end)) {
		ERROR("NS address is out-of-bounds!\n");
		return -EFAULT;
	}

	/*
	 * TZDRAM aperture contains the BL31 and BL32 images, so we need
	 * to check if the NS DRAM range overlaps the TZDRAM aperture.
	 */
	if ((base < TZDRAM_END) && (end > tegra_bl31_phys_base)) {
		ERROR("NS address overlaps TZDRAM!\n");
		return -ENOTSUP;
	}

	/* valid NS address */
	return 0;
}

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Pronunciation /ˈluːi/
nounplural noun louis/ˈluːɪz/
(also louis d'or)
1A gold coin issued in France between 1640 and 1793.
'He did borrow it, getting a thousand from one man, five hundred from another, five louis here, three louis there.'
More example sentences
'When the inventory of the works of art in the Pasquier collection was produced, Colin and Remy each received a louis d' or - the equivalent of twenty-four livres - for their two sessions.'
'He flicked a louis d' or into the pot with confident fingers'
'The curtains were said to have cost 5000 louis, or guineas.'
'Your father already offered me five thousand louis.'
another term for napoleon (sense 1)
From Louis.
1The name of eighteen kings of France.
1.1Louis I (778–840), son of Charlemagne, king of the West Franks and Holy Roman Emperor 814–40.
1.2Louis II (846–79), reigned 877–9.
1.3Louis III (863–82), son of Louis II, reigned 879–82.
1.4Louis IV (921–54), reigned 936–54.
1.5Louis V (967–87), reigned 979–87.
1.6Louis VI (1081–1137), reigned 1108–37.
1.7Louis VII (1120–80), reigned 1137–80.
1.8Louis VIII (1187–1226), reigned 1223–6.
1.9Louis IX (1214–70), son of Louis VIII, reigned 1226–70; canonized as St Louis. He conducted two unsuccessful crusades, dying of plague in Tunis during the second. Feast day, 25 August.
1.10Louis X (1289–1316), reigned 1314–16.
1.11Louis XI (1423–83), son of Charles VII, reigned 1461–83. He continued his father's work in laying the foundations of a united France ruled by an absolute monarchy.
1.12Louis XII (1462–1515), reigned 1498–1515.
1.13Louis XIII (1601–43), son of Henry IV of France, reigned 1610–43. During his minority the country was ruled by his mother Marie de Médicis. From 1624 he was heavily influenced in policy-making by his chief minister Cardinal Richelieu.
1.14Louis XIV (1638–1715), son of Louis XIII, reigned 1643–1715; known as the Sun King. His reign represented the high point of the Bourbon dynasty and of French power in Europe, and in this period French art and literature flourished. His almost constant wars of expansion united Europe against him, however, and gravely weakened France's financial position.
1.15Louis XV (1710–74), great-grandson and successor of Louis XIV, reigned 1715–74. He led France into the Seven Years War (1756–63).
1.16Louis XVI (1754–93), grandson and successor of Louis XV, reigned 1774–92. His minor concessions and reforms in the face of the emerging French Revolution proved disastrous. As the Revolution became more extreme, he was executed with his wife, Marie Antoinette, and the monarchy was abolished.
1.17Louis XVII (1785–95), son of Louis XVI, titular king who died in prison during the Revolution.
1.18Louis XVIII (1755–1824), brother of Louis XVI, reigned 1814–24. After his nephew Louis XVII's death he became titular king in exile until the fall of Napoleon in 1814, when he returned to Paris on the summons of Talleyrand and was officially restored to the throne.
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Q: Shift operator on the set of function $X = \{f:\mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}\}$ Let the linear space be $X = \{f:\mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}\}$, and define the shift operator $T$, such that $Tf(t) = f(t+h)$ for $h>0$. How do we show that $T \in L(X,X)$ (a mapping from $X$ into itself)?

A: Clearly by addition of functions the operator $T$ is linear.
Now note that $G(t)=t+h$ is a function defined on $\Bbb{R}$ and $G(\Bbb{R})=\Bbb{R}$
So $T(f):=f(G(t))=f(t+h)$ is a function defined on $\Bbb{R}$

A: We first need to show that $Tf\in X$. This is quite obvious because $t+h\in \Bbb{R}$
Than we need to show that $T(f+g)=Tf+Tg$. This is true because $\forall x\in \Bbb{R}$ one has
$$T(f+g)(x)=(f+g)(x+h)=f(x+h)+g(x+h)=Tf(x)+Tg(x)$$
Similarly we have $\forall\lambda\in\Bbb{R}$
$$T(\lambda f)(x)=(\lambda f)(x+h)=\lambda f(x+h)=\lambda Tf(x)$$

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Luminara Unduli was a Mirialan female Jedi Master during the final days of the Jedi Order. She was a valued adviser to the Jedi Council, the Chancellor, and the Galactic Senate. She commanded the 41st Elite Corps of the Grand Army of the Republic as a General, and was the master of Barriss Offee, whom she fought with in numerous battles of the Clone Wars before Offee turned against the Jedi Order. Nearing the end of the war, Unduli fought in the Battle on Kashyyyk. She was killed along with many other Jedi as part of Order 66, put into place by Sheev Palpatine to destroy the Order. After her death, the Galactic Empire would later use her bones as part of a trap to lure surviving Jedi to their deaths, but two Jedi who were able to escape spread the word to dispell the ruse.
1.1 Jedi Master of the Order
1.1.1 Before the Clone Wars
1.1.2 Dawn of the Clone Wars
1.1.3 Conflicts in the Clone Wars
1.1.4 Death and Usage of a Corpse
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Jedi Master of the Order
Before the Clone Wars
Luminara Unduli was born on Mirial, and in her youth she was found to have a connection to the Force. After she was discovered, Unduli was taken into the Jedi Order, to the temple on Coruscant, where she was given training in the ways of the Force, honing her skill with a green-bladed Lightsaber and grew strong in the Force. She wore makeup and dressed in traditional Mirialan robes, and was skilled in diplomacy and a respected adviser to high profile Senators in the Senate. Eventually, she became a Jedi Master prior to the Invasion of Naboo. When the time came to select a Jedi Padawan, Unduli chose Barriss Offee as an apprentice, continuing the tradition of Mirialans teaching Mirialans.
Dawn of the Clone Wars
Following an assassination attempt on Naboo Senator Padmé Amidala, she attended a meeting between the Jedi Council and Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine about the possibility of war between the Republic and the Separatists under Count Dooku. When it became apparent that a full-fledged military conflict between the Galactic Republic and the Separatist Alliance would occur, Obi-Wan Kenobi was captured by the Confederacy on Geonosis, and Unduli and her Padawan joined Master Mace Windu's quickly launched rescue mission. Housed within the packed arena were Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, and Senator Padmé Amidala, who were to be tried and executed by the Confederacy leaders assembled on the world. As over two hundred Jedi crept into the arena, they ignited their lightsabers in challenge to Count Dooku, the leader of the Confederacy, who was personally overseeing the planned execution. A heated but short battle followed; over half of the assembled Jedi Knights fell in battle before the arrival of Grand Master Yoda, accompanied by the newly-created Grand Army of the Republic in several gunships. By this time, Master Unduli and several other survivors had made their way to the center of the circle and were easily able to board a gunship out of the arena.
Conflicts in the Clone Wars
Early into the war, Luminara joined with Ahsoka Tano, along with a number of Senate Commandos under Captain Faro Argyus, aboard the Tranquility. It was used to transport Nute Gunray from Rodia to Coruscant so he could have a trial for his war crimes. Knowing of Gunray's importance to the Separatists, Dooku dispatched his assassin, Asajj Ventress, to rescue him. The two Jedi interrogated the Viceroy, but got nowhere because he refused to answer their questions. Tano got angry and threatened the Neimoidian, but was stopped by Luminara, who chastised Ahsoka. Unfortunately, a swarm of Vulture Droids escorting three Separatist boarding ships attack the Tranquility. Super battle droids assaulted the cruiser to hold off the clones, allowing Ventress to slip inside undetected. Commander Gree, a squad of Green Company, and Luminara went off to deal with the droids, leaving Ahsoka to guard Gunray. While the others were distracted, Ventress set and detonated some charges, rocking the ship, before fleeing down the elevator shaft. Luminara went after Ventress, confident that she could defeat the assassin, leaving Ahsoka again.
In the generator room, Ventress and Luminara dueled and Luminara was swiftly outmatched by Ventress, who was outraged at Luminara's taunts. She claimed that Ventress' fighting style was a sloppy and amateurish; an imitation of Dooku's. She overpowered Luminara and traped her under a number of collapsed pipes. Just before attempting to kill her, Ahsoka arrived and saved her, causing Ventress to flee. They raced back to the brig, only to find that Argyus had betrayed the clones and helped rescue the Viceroy. The two Jedi reported to Yoda and Anakin Skywalker about their loss. Luminara was later sent to Geonosis to help Masters Ki-Adi-Mundi and Obi-Wan Kenobi destroy Poggle the Lesser's new droid foundry there. Along with her Padawan, Barriss Offee, she joined Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano in the storming of the droid factory. While she and Skywalker acted as diversions, the Padawans Offee and Tano made their way through the vast underground catacombs to destroy the factory, not before Ahsoka contacted them explaining that they wouldn't be able to make it shortly before destroying the generator. After learning that the two Padawans were still alive stuck under a the rubble, Unduli and Skywalker used the force to lift the rubble.
Following this, Unduli went in search of Poggle the Lesser, who had retreated into the catacombs of an ancient temple. While she and a trooper searched the temple, a sandstorm prohibited reinforcements from reaching their positions. While communicating with Masters Kenobi and Mundi via hologram, Unduli's trooper was killed by the undead hordes of the mysterious Hive Queen Karina the Great. Having been knocked unconscious and caught, the Jedi Master was taken before Karina. Jedi Kenobi and Skywalker came to her rescue; they were not far off when Luminara regained consciousness and wrestled her way out of the zombies' reach. Realizing what they were up against, she contacted Kenobi to warn him not to come after her, but was cut off as the zombies overwhelmed her. The Jedi disregarded her warnings and continued their search until they came upon Karina's abode, where they found Luminara in an energy trap for her to be infested with brain worms. With Kenobi and Commander Cody delaying the zombies and the Queen, Skywalker freed Unduli and the two captured Poggle. Cody and his troops shot down the cave support, burying the Queen and taking Poggle prisoner.
Death and Usage of a Corpse
By the end of the war, Unduli served alongside Yoda, Republic forces, and Wookiee warriors during a battle on the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk. During the battle, Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine issued Order 66, a command ordering all clone troopers to kill their Jedi commanders. Unduli evaded the fate that many of her fellow Jedi had, though for years it was believed she had been shot down by her troops on Kashyyyk. In actuality, Unduli had been taken into custody by the Empire. The Jedi were destroyed, and Palpatine declared himself Emperor and transformed the Republic into the Galactic Empire. After a short time in the prison known as the Spire on Stygeon Prime, she was executed in her cell in the presence of the Grand Inquisitor, who then held her remains for future purposes for the Empire. After her death, rumors began to spread that Unduli had survived the Clone Wars and was still alive, with those rumors existing as late as fourteen years after the war ended. In reality, the Empire used Unduli's remains to lure Jedi survivors into traps so they could be killed. One such trap was laid by the Inquisitor fourteen years after the war, with Unduli's remains still held in the Spire. Jedi who managed to survive the trap, spread the truth about her death.
The Force: Trained as a Guardian, Luminara Unduli possessed power that very few Jedi were able to overcome. Though Unduli focused mainly on her dueling skills, she was by no means lacking in strength with the Force. She was a master of using the Force to augment her bodies physical capabilities; being able to perform impressive acrobatics, leap huge heights and distances and run with incredible agility. Unduli's danger sense was also quite powerful, as she demonstrated aboard the Tranquility. During her duel with Ventress, Luminara demonstrated skill with telekinesis, using the Force to hurl debris at her enemy often. Indeed, Unduli's control of the Force pushability proved the equal of Ventress' as neither was able to overpower the other while simultaneously using the power. In addition, she was known to strike an opponent with the blunt pommel of her Lightsaber. Unfortunately, despite her undoubted skill and abilities, she was unable to escape the execution of Order 66 and was murdered by Commander Faie before she could defend herself.
Lightsaber Skills: She had amazing Lightsaber skills, as she was a master of Form III and had some skill in Form V, both of which were very difficult to breach. Not only were her Lightsaber skills superb, but she had also trained herself to become so incredibly flexible that she could easily twist to evade almost any attack that she did not block with her green Lightsaber. These skills were often flawlessly used in tandem with her apprentice, Offee, who had long studied at her side. Master Unduli proved capable of holding her own in a duel against famed Dark Jedi Asajj Ventress, even with impaired eyesight; an impressive feat, considering Ventress was known for defeating and killing several uninjured Jedi. Unduli also proved to be a very skilled unarmed combatant as she defended herself against the undead Geonosians. When she lost her saber, she punched, kicked, and impaled them, all while handcuffed. She was also skilled enough to recognize Form II when it was applied against her by Ventress. Unduli was also familiar with Dun Moch, shown when she taunted Ventress by insulting her version of Makashi as lacking refinement, though this nearly resulted in her death when an enraged Ventress attacked her.
Luminara's Lightsaber: This Lightsaber was the weapon carried by Jedi Master Luminara Unduli. Trained as a Jedi, Unduli's weapon produced a green blade when ignited. Like other Padawan learners in the Jedi Order, she made her Lightsaber based off of records from the Jedi Archives. Unduli wielded her green-bladed weapon before and during the Clone Wars.The Lightsaber would see action against the acolyte Asajj Ventress, and she was soon backed up by Tano, who helped to fend off Ventress, but the latter escaped and freed the Trade Federation Viceroy Nute Gunray. She later wielded it during the Second Battle of Geonosis, during which she tracked Separatist leader Poggle the Lesser to an ancient temple. Unduli continued to brandish her green Lightsaber in combat, in battles on such as the Battle of Kashyyyk. On Kashyyyk, Unduli fought with the Wookiee population in defending their home.
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An evil ex-copper brutally killed his loving wife just seconds after she asked if he still loved her.
Retried police inspector Keith Farquharson, 60, savagely choked wife Alice at their Aberdeen home before trying to dupe detectives.
He devised an elaborate story that Alice, 56, had banged her head in the bedroom while he was in the shower.
But yesterday, a jury at the High Court in Glasgow rejected his lies and found the love cheat dad-of-three guilty of murder.
The couple's children, chemical engineer Joanna, teacher Sarah and son Kerr, who is in the RAF, were in court for the verdict.
Minutes later, they said: "At times since our mum's death and as we spoke about what lay ahead of us, we would catch ourselves and ask, 'can you believe that this has happened?'
"Our family will never be the same again and we cannot begin to describe the devastating impact this tragedy has had on us."
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Detective Inspector Gary Winter said: "On the day of Alice's death, Farquharson deceived paramedics, police officers, his friends and, above all, his own family."
The major crime investigator added, of Alice's children: "Although the verdict can't change what happened, I hope the outcome gives them some sense of justice for their mum."
Farquharson was dogged by string of sex scandals at the former Grampian Police force and eventually quit in disgrace 10 years ago.
Alice, an adored primary school teaching assistant, stood by her husband during his lengthy suspension from duty.
He started his own taxi business using his silver Mercedes with personalised number plate. But last summer, on August 29, their 33-year marriage ended in Alice's murder.
Alice had suspicions Farquharson was seeing another woman again.
Giving evidence in his defence, Farquharson told jurors he had a number of affairs.
He had a relationship with another woman, which ended in 2008 when Alice and his family found out.
The trial heard how Alice texted her husband in 2016 saying: "I love you. Just want you to love me too."
But he had flings with two women in 2018 and "sexually explicit" messages were discovered on his phone.
He told how the affair with a previous girlfriend was rekindled last year – a woman Alice was found to have made internet searches for.
On the morning of the murder, Farquharson got up to start his shift as a school bus driver. As she lay in bed, Alice asked him: "Do you love me?"
Farquharson "groaned" before claiming his wife slapped him.
The ex-traffic officer then claimed a struggle ensured and he put his hand over Alice's mouth to stop her screaming.
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Farquharson claimed: "It was as if she started to choke. When I let go, she just rolled off the bed."
He made a panicked 999 call but medics were unable to save Alice who had suffered "mechanical asphyxia".
Farquharson then spun a web of lies to relatives claiming he had discovered Alice stricken in the bedroom.
But at his trial, he confessed: "I continued with the lie because I was in a state of shock. I felt guilty and did not want my family to know."
Detectives initially treated the death as "non-suspicious". But Inspector Christopher Kerr, one of the first officers on the scene, pushed for further inquiries.
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Farquharson repeatedly sobbed in the witness box, insisting he did not mean to kill Alice. But a pathologist concluded Alice's neck had been compressed and that bruises on her face were consistent with gripping.
The court heard Alice must have been "fighting for her life".
Farquharson – whose guilty plea to the lesser charge of culpable homicide had earlier been rejected – faces a life sentence when he returns to the dock next month.
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Jay L. Johnson is an experienced attorney, having nineteen years of experience in practice before Courts and administrative agencies throughout the State of Tennessee and the Commonwealth of Kentucky. He represents a wide variety of clients, from parties as small as individuals to international businesses listed as some of the largest in the world.
Jay's law practice covers a wide variety of client legal needs, including workers' compensation, personal injury, real estate disputes, contracts, and other civil litigation matters. He also handles transactional matters regarding business formation and operation and real estate transactions. He also assists clients in establishing estate planning documents such as wills, powers of attorney, and living trusts.
Jay provides full service real estate closing services for residential and commercial property. A full range of settlement services is available, including title examinations, mortgage closings, and cash transactions. He is also an Authorized Policy Issuing Agent for Old Republic Title Insurance Company.
He also has a significant practice focus on Firearms Law and Second Amendment Rights issues, including assisting clients with National Firearms Act Gun Trusts. Jay is a Benefactor Life Member of the National Rifle Association.
He additionally works in alternative dispute resolution through mediation, and is a Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 31 Listed General Civil Mediator.
Prior to opening Johnson Law Firm in October 2013, Jay was an associate attorney for a large, Southeast regional law firm, in-house legal counsel for an international insurance carrier, and a Workers' Compensation Specialist for the State of Tennessee Department of Labor & Workforce Development.
Jay is a graduate of The University of Memphis, with bachelor's degrees in English and political science, and earned his law degree from The University of Tennessee College of Law in Knoxville. He is licensed to practice law in both Tennessee and Kentucky.
Jay has been married to his lovely wife Ashley since 2001, and they have a beautiful daughter, Temple, born in 2013.


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On the Campus Student and Alumni Group Urges University to Divest From Fossil-Fuel Companies
By Carlett Spike
Published online October 24, 2019
This is an updated version of a story posted online Oct. 23, 2019.
A group of students and alumni have called for the withholding of donations to Princeton until the University divests its endowment holdings in fossil-fuel companies.
The group, which calls itself Divest Princeton, cited "the devastating effects of rapid climate change" in an open letter to President Eisgruber '83 posted online to Medium Oct. 21. "Princeton admonishes its students to work 'in the nation's service, and in the service of humanity,' " the letter said. "We look to the University to embody the same ideal. Profiting from fossil fuels, at this point, is incompatible with acting in the nation's service or the service of humanity."
The group added that "by continuing to finance, and to profit from, fossil-fuel companies, Princeton's investments undermine the crucial work done by students and faculty in laboratories and centers across campus."
The University takes a different position.
"Because the University seeks to provide an open and unbiased forum for discussing and exploring the key issues of the day, Princeton maintains a general presumption against taking stands on political issues as an institution," said Princeton spokesman Ben Chang.
Divest Princeton countered that "given what is now known about the active disinformation campaigns and political obstruction from fossil-fuel companies, to continue to provide financing to such companies is a political action."
Princeton's divestment policy includes a provision that requires "disassociation" from any company or group of companies whose policies or practices are so abhorrent to the community that a decision is made to divest, Chang said.
Eisgruber wrote in 2015, "If we believe that we should not be associated with a company or activity as a matter of our investment policy, then so too we ought to disassociate from it in all other aspects of our operations – we ought not to purchase products or accept gifts from it, nor should we form partnerships with it or facilitate its recruitment activities."
Chang cited a number of connections between Princeton and energy companies. "The University purchases products from energy companies. Our scientists partner with them. Our students seek jobs with them, and we welcome their recruitment. We seek their advice on issues of sustainability. For this reason, energy companies do not meet the disassociation standard."
Across the country, other colleges and universities have faced calls to divest from fossil-fuel companies. The University of California, Smith College, and Georgetown University are among the schools that have committed to divest.
The Resources Committee of the Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC) considers issues related to the endowment and concerns about socially responsible investing. Anna Liebowitz '09, one of the organizers of Princeton Divest, said the group decided to release the letter to gather support before deciding on future actions.
The Resources Committee last addressed a proposal to divest endowment investments from fossil-fuel companies in 2014-15, when it determined that the proponents had not met the necessary criteria.
Divest Princeton also said in the letter that its members stand in solidarity with "other movements to hold the University accountable, including the movement to withhold donations until the University implements Title IX reform."
As of Oct. 23, 251 people had added their signatures to the letter online.
For the record: In an earlier version of this story, Brown University was incorrectly listed among the institutions that have committed to divest from fossil-fuel companies.
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Peebles *62, Princeton's Newest Laureate, Reflects on his Path to a Nobel
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Национальный музей Равенны () — государственный музей с артефактами разных эпох, главным образом, из истории Равенны. Расположен в здании бывшего бенедиктинского монастыря на Via San Vitale, рядом с базиликой Сан-Витале.

Открыт в 1804 г. под названием Museo Classense Municipale; современное название с 1885 г. Основу коллекций музея составили церковная утварь и артефакты из равеннских монастырей, распущенных при «наполеоновской» секуляризации в конце XVIII и начале XIX вв., в том числе камальдулийского в Классе (ныне пригород Равенны) и францисканского монастырей и монастыря клариссинок.

Содержит собрание римских монет, позднеантичной (V в.) резьбы по слоновой кости. Один из знаменитых экспонатов музея — ковчежец середины V в. с резьбой на популярный тогда сюжет Traditio legis.

Из живописи эпохи Средневековья большую ценность представляет цикл из 8 фресок выполненных Пьетро да Римини, выполненных художником в 1320—40 гг.; фрески сняты из бывшей равеннской церкви св. Клары.

Среди прочего в Национальном музее хранится также коллекция тканей и живописи XVII—XVIII веков. Внутренний двор музея украшен древнеримской и ранехристианской скульптурой: каменные кресты IV—V веков, саркофаги.

При раскопках на территории церкви св. Франциска, которые проводились в 1879 г., был найден украшенный золотом позднеантичный мраморный саркофаг. Золотое убранство саркофага было выставлено в музее. Там же был выставлен так называемый Панцирь Теодориха, найденный близ его мавзолея. Золото из базилики и панцирь были украдены. Современное местонахождение этих уникальных артефактов неизвестно.

Примечания

Ссылки
 Веб-сайт музея

 Буклет музея (с иллюстрациями из коллекций)

Литература
 Iannucci A.M., Martini L. Museo nazionale, Ravenna. Roma: Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, 1993. ISBN 978-8824004275.
 Martini L. Cinquanta capolavori nel Museo nazionale di Ravenna. Ravenna: Angelo Longo Editore, 1998. ISBN 978-8880631903.

Музеи Равенны
Национальные музеи Италии

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These airlines usually offer the cheapest flights from London Heathrow to Ballina.
These airlines fly from London Heathrow to Ballina, but you'll have at least one layover.
This is the shortest flight time from London Heathrow to Ballina.
At the moment, there are two airlines flying to Ballina. Go through the results to find the right flights for you – you can adjust the filters to see find even more flights to Ballina.
The most popular airlines offering flights to Ballina are British Airways and Qantas. British Airways is the most popular one, but that doesn't mean their flights will be the cheapest. If you can't find a flight time that suits you, why not look at flying out from a different airport?
The distance between to Ballina is 16716 km. Normally, it takes about 27 hrs to fly, and you can definitely expect the journey to be at least 26 hrs 30 mins. You can see the various flight times in the results.


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MainAll NewsHaredi Community Watch: Haredim in US celebrate completion of Talmud with haredi IDF soldiers
Watch: Haredim in US celebrate completion of Talmud with haredi IDF soldiers
Soldiers in IDF's Netzach Yehuda Battlion celebrate completion of daily Talmud cycle, together with American haredim.
Dancing at the Siyum Hashas
Netzah Yehuda Association
The "Siyum Hashas" (completion of the Babylonian Talmud) for the "Daf Yomi" endeavour in which Jews across the globe to simultaneously study the same gemara (Talmud) page daily for 7.5 years was recently celebrated by hundreds of thousands all over the Jewish world.
The largest of these events was held in New York's MetLife Stadium, sponsored by "Agudat Yisrael" in America. Approximately 90,000 people gathered for the completion of the 13th cycle of Daf Yomi, screened to additional events around the world, where they chose to focus on the haredi soldiers in the IDF.
New Jersey "Siyum Hashas" attendees represented a wide range of Jewish communities in the United States, Mexico, Europe, and even Israel. Working haredim, yeshivish, modern Orthodox, recently religious Jews, Sephardim, and Ashkenazim all chose to highlight the haredi soldiers' Siyum Hashas in Israel.
The Agudah in America is a part of the Worldwide Agudat Yisrael organization, but in the US, the movement is not political, but social. It cares for the needs of the haredi Jewish community in matters such as education, acts of kindness, and social needs. Although the American organization is an ideological partner for the haredi parties in Israel, it speaks in a different, non-political language, which may explain the presence of the haredi IDF soldiers at such a significant event, while in Israel the haredi parties and events would never showcase them at a Siyum Hashas.
In the current learning cycle, the soldiers of the Netzach Yehuda Battalion celebrated their siyum. Their siyum was attended by Rabbis David Fox and Yehoshua Gerstein of Netzach Yehuda and Rabbi Lieutenant Moshe Mizrahi. The event was also attended by Brigadier General of the Kfir unit, Brigadier General Eran Oliel and all of the battalion's officers.
In recent years, close to 150 soldiers from the Netzach Yehuda Battalion studied Daf Yomi during their military service. On the fourth candle of Hanukkah, they made a siyum, at the same time, on the tractates Brachot and Sukkah.
"Learning the Daf Yomi among my daily tasks gives me a significant boost during my military service," said Dubi Lichter, who celebrated the siyum with his friends. "For me, learning is the highlight of the day, and this is a feeling shared by many of the battalion soldiers. We are proud to do our military service along with the values we got at home. "
Rabbi Yehoshua Gerstein, who coordinates the spiritual activity in the 97th Battalion of Netzach Yehuda, sought to emphasize the uniqueness of the soldiers who learn and serve at the same time, "There is a well-known story of the Ba'al Hatanya and the Tzemach Tzedek who both sat and studied Torah side by side. At one point, a baby's cry broke the silence. The Ba'al Hatanya closed his book, went to comfort him, and only when the baby was calm did he return to his learning. He then told the Tzemach Tzedek that Torah must be taught along with listening to the needs and hardships of the people of Israel."
Rabbi Gerstein told the soldiers who were studying: "Every person must see how he can contribute to public needs near him. May you succeed in both studying Torah and being attentive to the needs of the people of Israel and caring for them. "
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The advantages of solar energy for your home are countless. You can look at scientific findings from any number of sites and get differing messages. The oil industry will try to downplay the advantages for solar energy, claiming that oil is just an overall better resource. While companies trying to get you to buy their solar panel systems for your home will tout the advantages until they are blue in the face.
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The baby boomer generation is one of the largest and wealthiest in U.S. history. Currently, 12.9 percent of the American population is older, and by 2030, one in five Americans will be over 65. This generation is the wealthiest in American history, having collectively earned $3.7 trillion. This combination of numbers and wealth has led to the status of baby boomers as the nation's biggest spenders. They make up more than half of all consumer spending in the U.S. As this generation enters senior citizen territory, it is essential that senior living options rise to the challenge of accommodating such a large and influential community.


In general, the flow field near the ground surface is variably saturated and transient, and the direction of flow could be laterally downslope, laterally upslope, or vertically downward. This paper presents a review of real and ideal case histories regarding the numerical analysis of natural and artificial slopes subjected to different types of climatic perturbations. As these forces are very low in sand, regardless of the degree of saturation, the compressibility of sand is not significantly influenced by the degree of saturation, an observation supported by Cho and Santamarina 2001 for spherical glass beads. These parameters hydraulic conductivity, specific storage, angle of internal friction for effective stress, cohesion for effective stress are systematically sampled and calibrated for a landslide-triggering rainfall event in August 2005. This study aims to bring together different techniques to develop a methodology that connects electrical measurements and shear strength. Proc R Soc A: Math Phys Eng Sci 455 1990 : 3789—3805, 1999 and Laio et al.
Alternatively, in other regions initiation thresholds are found for intensities far below the peak intensity of rain storms, however, these are for landslides initiated in post-fire conditions Staley et al. This dynamic water-table behavior can be simulated by a one-dimensional, numerical mathematical model involving transient flow through an integrated saturated-unsaturated system. The charts indicate that reinforcement may significantly increase the stability of a wall or slope depending on the geotextile's tensile strength, the soil's strength properties, and the inclination of the structure face. So, human life will be harmonious and full of peace. Comparisons between observed results and mathematical groundwater simulations suggests that the concepts of rigorous boundary conditions and single-valued parameters are not met, and that hence groundwater theory can, at best, provide insight into behaviour but cannot simulate outflows. Habitat differences in terms of species richness and composition were a direct consequence of the slope self-regulation.
The model is derived by apply ing Darcy's law and was developed based on two main assumptions: 1 the soil suction head at the wetting front is constant, and 2 the volu metric water content and the coefficient of hydraulic conductivity are also constant, moreover the coefficient of hydraulic conductivity equal to saturated hydraulic conductivity. Under the long-slope assumption, the downslope flow is the immediate consequence of the downslope component of gravity. Tree spacing is important for the location of weak zones but tree location on the slope with respect to where a crack opens is as important. We found elevation-dependent patterns in probability of landslide initiation that showed the stabilizing effects of forests at low elevations, an increased landslide probability with forest decline at mid-elevations 1400 to 2400 m , and soil limitation and steep topographic controls at high alpine elevations and in post-glacial landscapes. In some places, pressures in unsaturated materials rapidly 'flashed' from zero to elevated positive values.
To improve understanding of this hydrological process, soil water dynamics have been monitored at three adjacent hillslopes with different vegetation covers deciduous tree cover, coniferous tree cover, and grass cover , for nine months from December 2014 to September 2015. The results indicate that the distance to streams, distance to faults and lithology are the most dominant causal factors associated with landslides. The granites and volcanic rocks are weathered to considerable depths, the surface residual soil often being overlain by a mantle of colluvium. The development of early warning systems for landslide hazards has long been a challenge because the accuracy of such systems is limited by both the complicated underlying mechanisms of landslides and the lack of in situ data. One of online books that will benice for you is book entitled Hillslope Hydrology and Stability By Professor Ning Lu, Jonathan W. Rainfall changes the drying to wetting or vice versa for evapotranspiration , and the timing and.
This book presents a cutting-edge quantitative approach to understanding hydro-mechanical processes across variably saturated hillslope environments and to the study and prediction of rainfall-induced landslides. The objective of the present study is to detect traits of shallow landslide-triggered ecosystem evolution, self-regulation and biophysical diversity in a small-scale landslide-prone slope in Northeast Scotland. Both climate and vegetation influence slope stability, but their relative significance depends on the stage of soil development. Godt of the book itself. Small perturbations of wetting and drying tip the balance of an equi- librium stress state in hillslope soils and greatly influence the initiation and extent of slope movement Iverson and George, 2017.
In-situ soil systems are partially saturated and exhibit fluctuations in matric suction water potential , which is the difference between the pore air pressure and the porewater pressure i. The results related to different inventories were compared. In the present study a dynamic, physically based, coupled hydrological—geomechanical slope stability model is calibrated based on a limited number of laboratory tests and a detailed multitemporal shallow landslide inventory covering two landslide-triggering rainfall events in the Laternser valley, Vorarlberg Austria. Matric suction and effective stress are often reduced when rainfall increases Godt et al. Clearly, runoff and saturated groundwater flow are dominated by gravity and, ultimately, by topography. Exercises and homework problems are provided for students to engage with the theory in practice.
However, despite the rainfall thresholds, the hydrological parameters of rainfall induced mass re-mobilization in natural environment of Wenchuan earthquake regions is not well understood and widely used for disaster early warning. This paper examines the influence of each of these three types of hysteresis on slope stability using an infinite slope stability analysis under steady infiltration conditions. Topics covered include historic synthesis of hillslope geomorphology and hydrology, total and effective stress distributions, critical reviews of shear strength of hillslope materials and different bases for stability analysis. The scheme will be of use to engineers designing remedial bioengineering solutions to offset shallow, infiltration-induced landslides in the tropics. Especially, this paper focused on the evaluation of the landslide susceptibility using probabilistic approach and physically based method, runout evaluation using volume based model and dynamic model, in situ ground based monitoring techniques, remote sensing techniques for landslide monitoring, and landslide early warning using rainfall and physical thresholds. .
Do you search to download Hillslope Hydrology and Stability book? Exercises and homework problems are provided for students to engage with the theory in practice. A representative case study of application of the methodology is discussed. The analytical method used is based on a limiting-equilibrium approach combined with variational extremization, and it satisfies all equilibrium requirements. The limits and benefits of the different numerical approaches adopted are discussed and some general modelling recommendations are addressed. What has been overlooked, however, is that lateral downslope flow in unlayered soils is largely a drainage phenomenon driven by the changing character of the boundary condition at the soil surface.


Why do English drivers still drive on the left side while in most modern countries they drive on the right side? I think they neglect it just because it was introduced by the French.
Well, yeah, I was thinking more language rather than English backwardness... anyway, the whole driving thing is a horse thing (getting on the horse from the left side while on the left side of the road, knights and swords etc.). In Sweden they drove on the left side until 1967, they still do in Japan, SA, Australia, ... (any others? sure but I can't remember -- clearly had too much Norwegian booze). So it was a left side thing at the beginning and I'm sure it was the Frenchies who were the weird ones and refused to do what us sensible Brits were doing. The Chinese decided to return to left side driving during the Cultural Revolution as they saw it as more "leftist" and also decided that the red of traffic lights meant a triumphant GO! and they ended up in total chaoes immediately. The logic just didn't sink in with all drivers at the same time.


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State Roundup, December 22, 2016
by Cynthia Prairie | Dec 22, 2016 | State Roundup | 0 |
STATE CENTER PLAN NIXED FOR NEW ARENA: Gov. Larry Hogan pledged Wednesday to work with city officials to craft a new plan for the State Center after canceling a $1.5 billion redevelopment that was expected to revitalize midtown Baltimore. The Board of Public Works voted unanimously Wednesday to void the leases that underpinned the state's agreement with the developer of the 28-acre site near North Eutaw Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard, Michael Dresser reports for the Sun.
A long-anticipated $1.5 billion plan to redevelop an aging Baltimore state government office complex will be nixed in favor of a proposal that could bring a new sports arena to the city, writes Bryan Sears in the Daily Record. Gov. Larry Hogan said he was directing the Maryland Stadium Authority to fast-track a study that would include a potential new arena. The Hogan-led Board of Public Works then unanimously voted to rescind more than a half-dozen lease agreements with State Center LLC, effectively killing the mixed-use office complex development.
Maryland's stadium authority will explore the possibility of building a professional sports arena at the site of a long-stalled redevelopment project in Baltimore after the state canceled its lease agreements for that project on Wednesday, Josh Hicks reports in the Post.
Del. Will Smith is sworn is as a state senator by Senate President Mike Miller, replacing U.S. Rep.-elect Jamie Raskin. Facebook photo
Del. Barbara Robinson, standing here with Senate Majority Leader Doug Peters, was also sworn as a new senator, replacing now Mayor Catherine Pugh. Facebook photo
KAMENETZ URGES BPW TO OK HORSE CENTER: Pamela Wood of the Sun is reporting that Baltimore County officials are urging the state's Board of Public Works to rethink a decision to delay approval for a proposed equestrian center in Cockeysville. County Executive Kevin Kamenetz wants to build the $3 million facility at the Baltimore County Center for Maryland Agriculture and Farm Park. About $2.3 million of the cost would come from Program Open Space money, which requires the state board's approval.
KAMENETZ WARNS HOGAN ON BELTWAY FUNDING: The political fighting over funding for transportation projects continued Wednesday, with Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz warning that Gov. Larry Hogan will face blowback if he cancels Baltimore Beltway projects, Pamela Wood of the Sun reports. "I challenge the governor to try and not fund the Beltway expansion projects that have already been placed in the six-year master plan for funding," Kamenetz said. "I'm sure he'll hear from frustrated drivers."
DRIVERLESS CARS ON I-95? Scott Dance of the Sun reports that Interstate 95 and other major arteries around the Baltimore region could become a testing ground for driverless cars starting in 2018 under a proposal Gov. Larry Hogan's administration announced Wednesday. The state has applied for a U.S. Department of Transportation program that aims to work out the kinks in "autonomous vehicle" technology, speed its arrival on roadways across the country and help grow companies that are developing it.
FRACKING BAN DEBATE: The debate over a ban on fracking in Maryland moves to the 2017 General Assembly session even as a legislative committee debates delaying proposed regulations for the controversial gas extraction process. Members of the joint Administrative, Executive and Legislative Review Committee are faced with whether to accept proposed regulations that would govern the industry as early as October. The panel cannot, however, ban the activity — something environmental advocates and other fracking opponents say is the safer option, reports Bryan Sears for the Daily Record.
PG LAWMAKERS GO AFTER BAKER's SCHOOL CHANGES: Two state lawmakers from Prince George's County are trying to scale back or eliminate many of the school system's changes that County Executive Rushern Baker championed early in his administration. In response to public concern over allegations of abuse involving school staff and volunteers, Del. Carolyn Howard and Sen. Anthony Muse want to repeal major portions of the 2013 state law that was intended to counteract years of school board dysfunction and ensure accountability, writes Arelis Hernandez in the Post..
POETIC JUSTICE? It's getting hot in Whoville as the war of words between Del. Herb McMillan and House Speaker Michael Busch takes a poetic turn with a letter from McMillan, published in the Annapolis Capital, that is a takeoff on the Dr. Seuss Christmas classic How The Grinch Stole Christmas.
NEW MO CO JUDGES: Gov. Larry Hogan on Wednesday filled three judicial vacancies in Montgomery County District Court. Hogan picked prosecutor Sherri D. Koch, administrative law judge Marina L. Sabett and solo practitioner Rand L. Gelber for the open positions, Bethany Rodgers reports for Bethesda Beat.
DATA BREACHES IN FREDERICK SCHOOLS: Brandi Bottalico of the Frederick News-Post is covering the data breach that has occurred in Frederick County Public Schools. She has two stories:
A state legislator said he has been "stonewalled" in getting information about the data breach affecting about 1,000 former Frederick County students and will introduce legislation addressing what went wrong. "If I, as a member of the Maryland General Assembly, cannot get answers, then I cannot imagine how the young adults facing a life of looking over their shoulders must feel," Del. David E. Vogt III wrote in a statement his office sent to the paper on Wednesday.
And last year, a glitch in Frederick County Public Schools' information system allowed more than 8,500 W-2 tax form recipients' private information to be accessed by other employees, Bottalico reports. The school system — currently investigating a separate breach affecting about 1,000 students — said last year's glitch prompted it to pay a security consultant to help handle the repercussions.
BRYAN MCINTIRE, 86: Former Carroll County State's Attorney T. Bryan McIntire died Friday at the age of 86 in his Baltimore County home. His wife, Doris Poehler, said he died after a struggle with health issues that included heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. McIntire served two terms as the Carroll County state's attorney from 1962 to 1970, writes Jacob DeNobel in the Carroll County Times.
MATCHING GRANT FOR MARYLAND REPORTER: MarylandReporter.com is one of 57 nonprofit news organizations from around the country that will receive matching grants for any donations received over the next month until Jan. 19. Any donation of any size up to $1,000 will be matched dollar for dollar by the Knight Foundation, a major funder of nonprofit journalism.
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The Old World babblers or Timaliidae are a family of mostly Old World passerine birds. They are rather diverse in size and coloration, but are characterised by soft fluffy plumage. These are birds of tropical areas, with the greatest variety in Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent.   The timaliids are one of two unrelated groups of birds known as babblers, the other being the Australasian babblers of the family Pomatostomidae (also known as pseudo-babblers).

Morphological diversity is rather high; most species resemble "warblers", jays or thrushes. This group is among those Old World bird families with the highest number of species still being discovered.

Characteristics

Timaliids are small to medium birds. They have strong legs, and many are quite terrestrial. They typically have generalised bills, similar to those of a thrush or warbler, except for the scimitar babblers which, as their name implies, have strongly decurved bills. Most have predominantly brown plumage, with minimal difference between the sexes, but many more brightly coloured species also exist.

This group is not strongly migratory, and most species have short rounded wings, and a weak flight. They live in lightly wooded or scrubland environments, ranging from swamp to near-desert. They are primarily insectivorous, although many will also take berries, and the larger species will even eat small lizards and other vertebrates.

Typical babblers live in communities of around a dozen birds, jointly defending a territory. Many even breed communally, with a dominant pair building a nest, and the remainder helping to defend and rear their young. Young males remain with the group, while females move away to find a new group, and thus avoid inbreeding. They make nests from twigs, and hide them in dense vegetation.

Taxonomy and systematics
The systematics of Old World babblers have long been contested. During much of the 20th century, the family was used as a "wastebin taxon" for numerous hard-to-place Old World songbirds (such as Picathartidae and Pnoepygidae, as well as the New World species the wrentit). The German ornithologist Ernst Hartert summarized this attitude with the statement that, in the passerines: "Was man nicht unterbringen kann, sieht man als Timalien an." (What one can't place systematically is considered an Old World babbler).

The most obviously misplaced taxa were removed piecemeal towards the end of the last century. Since then, with the aid of DNA sequence data, it has been confirmed that even the remaining group is not monophyletic. Analysis of mtDNA cytochrome b and 12S/16S rRNA data (Cibois 2003a) spread the Timaliidae that were studied across what essentially was a badly resolved polytomy with Old World warblers and white-eyes. As the typical warblers (genus Sylvia) grouped with some presumed timaliids (such as the fulvettas), it was suggested that some Sylviidae should be moved to the Timaliidae.

The phylogenetic relationships between Timaliidae and other families was determined in a molecular phylogenetic study by Tianlong Cai and collaborators that was published in 2019. It is shown in the cladogram below:

The cladogram below shows the relationships between the genera. These were determined in the same study by Cai and collaborators.

List of genera
The family as currently constituted includes 58 species divided into the following ten genera:

References

External links

Babbler videos on the Internet Bird Collection

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Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors


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Jens-Oliver Niklasch (* 25. September 1968) ist ein deutscher Schachspieler.

Leben

Niklasch promovierte 2001 an der Universität Trier in Volkswirtschaft bei Wolfgang Filc und Hellmuth Milde zum Thema Kriterien zur Zinsbeurteilung. Er arbeitet in der Research-Abteilung der Landesbank Baden-Württemberg.

Erfolge

Er wurde im August 2005 zum Internationalen Meister ernannt. Die dafür erforderlichen Normen erzielte er im Juli 1998 beim internationalen Schachfestival in Biel, bei dem er unter anderem die Großmeister Gerardo Barbero und Lajos Portisch besiegen konnte, mit Übererfüllung, im April 2003 beim Neckar-Open in Deizisau sowie im Oktober 2004 beim European Club Cup in Çeşme, ebenfalls mit Übererfüllung. Vor der Titelverleihung gelang ihm im November 2004 beim 5. Internationalen Rhön-Schachfestival in Bad Bocklet eine weitere Norm.

In den deutschen Schachligen spielte Niklasch für den SK Bremen-Nord, für den SV Andernach, für die Stuttgarter Schachfreunde (in der Saison 2001/02 in der 1. Bundesliga), die SG Turm Trier und seit der Saison 2006/07 für den SK Schmiden/Cannstatt, mit dem er in der Oberliga Württemberg und in der 2. Bundesliga spielte. Zwischen 1997 und 2007 war er auch unregelmäßig in der luxemburgischen 1. Liga bei CE Dudelange aktiv und gewann diese 2004 und 2007.

In den Jahren 2004 (in Çeşme, Türkei) und 2006 (in Fügen, Österreich) nahm er für das luxemburgische Team CE Dudelange am European Club Cup teil.

Seine Elo-Zahl beträgt 2293 (Stand: Februar 2022), seine bisher höchste lag bei 2419 von April bis Dezember 2006.

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Einzelnachweise

Schachspieler (Deutschland)
Schachspieler (Stuttgarter Schachfreunde 1879)
Schachspieler (SG Trier)
Schachspieler
Deutscher
Geboren 1968
Mann


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Die Algorithmische Spieltheorie ist eine Wissenschaft an der Schnittstelle zwischen Informatik, Spieltheorie und Volkswirtschaftslehre. Sie befasst sich sowohl mit dem Entwurf effizienter Algorithmen zum Auffinden von Gewinnstrategien als auch der Analyse der Komplexität von Spielen.

Die grundlegenden Arbeiten zur Algorithmischen Spieltheorie stammen aus dem Jahr 1999.

Literatur

 Noam Nisan, Tim Roughgarden, Eva Tardos, Vijay Vazirani: Algorithmic Game Theory. Cambridge University Press, 2007, ISBN 9780521872829 (Online: )
 Jürgen Steimle: Algorithmic Mechanism Design: Eine Einführung. Springer, 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-76401-4

Spieltheorie