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Q: Filter in Sitecore Children in Sitecore I have this tree structure:
Page1
  PageA
    PageX
    PageY
  PageB
Page2

I want Page1 and Page2 as well as all child pages. I have created two classes. In one class using sitecore query
[SitecoreQuery("../*[@@templateid={GUID}]", IsRelative = true)]
public virtual IEnumerable<ItemModel> Links { get; set; }

In other ItemModel class getting child pages
public class ItemModel
{
    [SitecoreId]
    public Guid Id { get; set; }

    [SitecoreChildren]
    public IEnumerable<SideMenuModel> Children { get; set; }
}

This is working fine but now I want to get only those child pages who have some specific template. Please provide me some solution.

A: It looks like you have most of the code correct but you need to also apply restrictions to the Children property on the ItemModel class.
You can use a SitecoreQuery on the like you have on the parent model:
public class ItemModel
{
    [SitecoreId]
    public Guid Id { get; set; }

    [SitecoreQuery("./*[@@templateid={SideMenuModel-GUID}]", IsRelative = true)]
    public virtual IEnumerable<SideMenuModel> ChildItems { get; set; }
}

Or you can use the EnforceTemplate attribute on your SideMenuModel class:
[SitecoreType(TemplateId = "GUID", EnforceTemplate = SitecoreEnforceTemplate.Template)]
public class SideMenuModel
{
    [SitecoreId]
    public Guid Id { get; set; }
}

public class ItemModel
{
    [SitecoreId]
    public Guid Id { get; set; }

    [SitecoreChildren]
    public virtual IEnumerable<SideMenuModel> ChildItems { get; set; }
}

Since you have set EnforceTemplate then using the [SitecoreChildren] attribute means that only items matching the template id will be returned, otherwise they will be skipped.
If you need children of children mapped then you should add [SitecoreChildren] property on your SideMenuModel class as well (or refactor your code so the class references itself) or you could use a "get all descendants query (.//*[@@templateid={SideMenuModel-GUID}]) although I would recommend that you ur he Content Search API at this point instead.
You can read more in the blog post about Getting child items with Glass.


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How 100-Year-Old Companies Survive
How I Love the Smell of Pickles in the Morning!
Holland, Michigan is the home of one of the oldest Heinz factories in the country. 115 years ago, Heinz made agreements with area farmers and the city of Holland that resulted in the building of a pickle factory that has been a fixture in the city ever since. Every summer, the unmistakable aroma of vinegar wafts through the air - not every day and not overpowering. That smell on my walk to campus in the morning reminded me of one of the "survival" behaviors of long-lived companies: the development of long-term relationships - with employees, customers, suppliers and communities. In 2008, when Heinz built a public waterfront walkway in front of their plant for the enjoyment of community residents, they posted a bronze plaque telling the story of the company's relationship with the Holland community. In part, this plaque reads:
In December 1896, Heinz committed to building a pickle factory in Holland if local farmers would pledge 300 acres of cucumbers for Heinz and if the city of Holland would donate a building site with water shipping access and a rail siding. Local citizens and farmers pledged more than 500 acres of cucumbers, and the City of Holland purchased two acres of land for $800 on the present day site. Today, the Heinz facility includes 17 buildings covering 29 acres. The passion and dedication of past and present Heinz employees along with the spirit of cooperation between the City of Holland and the H.J. Heinz Company has allowed Heinz to grow and prosper in Holland, MI.
The City of Holland donated two acres of land to Heinz 111 years ago to build a pickle factory. Today, Heinz is honored to be able to give back to the City of Holland and its citizens, access of more than 1,800 feet of Lake Macatawa shoreline via the Heinz Walkway.
Long-lived companies understand they are part of an ecosystem that depends on all parts working together and supporting each other.
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Professor of Management at Hope College in Holland, Michigan since 2000; Ruch Director of the Baker Scholars Program; 2007/08 Fulbright Scholar at the Krakow University of Economics in Poland. 25 years of business experience including positions as VP of Marketing, General Manager of Herman Miller for the Home, and EVP of Strategy with Herman Miller, Inc., and in Human Resource Management with General Electric. Served on the boards of Resthaven Care Community, Hope College and Tulip City Airport, and was honored as a Distinguished Alumni and Executive in Residence at Grand Valley State University. Publications include articles in the areas of leadership, corporate longevity, global business and entrepreneurship.

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Vinification: Early harvest, pre-fermentation cold extraction of three hours, no pressing. Fermentation in stainless steel, at 14-16 celsius, and three months of maturation in stainless steel with its fine lees.
Notes: Bright pomegranate color, cherry and pomegranate notes on the nose, with a juicy and fruity palate, with vibrant acidity.


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24. ceremonia wręczenia Europejskich Nagród Filmowych miała miejsce 3 grudnia 2011 r. w Berlinie. Ogłoszenie nominacji do nagród nastąpiło 5 listopada 2011 r., podczas Europejskiego Festiwalu Filmowego w Sewilli.

Galę nagród, która odbyła się w Tempodromie poprowadziła po raz trzeci Anke Engelke. Same nagrody wręczali m.in. Moritz Bleibtreu, Nina Hoss, Sibel Kekilli, Irène Jacob, Ludivine Sagnier, Maciej Stuhr i Sylvie Testud.

Najwięcej nominacji otrzymał obraz Melancholia w reżyserii Larsa von Triera. Film otrzymał łącznie osiem nominacji, jednak jego autorzy mogli liczyć jedynie na siedem statuetek, gdyż aktorki Kirsten Dunst i Charlotte Gainsbourg − odtwórczynie głównych ról − nominowane zostały w tej samej kategorii. Po pięć nominacji otrzymały dwa filmy: Jak zostać królem w reżyserii Toma Hoopera oraz W lepszym świecie Susanne Bier. Obydwa filmy otrzymały podczas ostatniej ceremonii wręczenia Oscarów nagrody dla najlepszego filmu oraz najlepszego filmu nieanglojęzycznego. Cztery nominacje przyznano trzem filmom: Człowiek z Hawru w reżyserii Akiego Kaurismäki, Chłopiec na rowerze braci Dardenne oraz Artysta w reżyserii Michela Hazanaviciusa. Wszystkie wyżej wymienione filmy nominowane zostały w kategorii Najlepszy Europejski Film.

Lars von Trier, bracia Dardenne oraz Aki Kaurismäki otrzymali po trzy nominacje: za najlepszy europejski film, dla najlepszego europejskiego reżysera i dla najlepszego europejskiego scenarzysty.

W kategorii Najlepsza Europejska Aktorka nominowane zostały: Amerykanka Kirsten Dunst (możliwość taka zaistniała, gdyż Dunst wystąpiła w produkcji europejskiej − Melancholii; Dunst za rolę w tym filmie otrzymała podczas 64. MFF w Cannes Złotą Palmę dla najlepszej aktorki), Francuzka Charlotte Gainsbourg, również za rolę w Melancholii, Brytyjka Tilda Swinton, która wystąpiła w filmie Musimy porozmawiać o Kevinie, Belgijka Cécile de France za rolę w obrazie Chłopiec na rowerze oraz rosyjska aktorka Nadieżda Markina za grę w filmie Elena.

Szansę na nagrodę dla najlepszego aktora otrzymali: Brytyjczyk Colin Firth za rolę w filmie Jak zostać królem (za tę samą rolę aktor dostał wcześniej Oscara), Francuz Jean Dujardin za kreację w obrazie Artysta (aktor nagrodzony został za tę rolę podczas 64. MFF w Cannes), Szwed Mikael Persbrandt za film W lepszym świecie, francuski aktor Michel Piccoli za rolę w filmie Habemus Papam: mamy papieża oraz André Wilms za film Człowiek z Hawru.

W kategorii Najlepszy Europejski Operator nominację otrzymał Adam Sikora, za zdjęcia do filmu Essential Killing.

Również dwa polskie filmy krótkometrażowe otrzymały nominację − Paparazzi Piotra Bernasia oraz Opowieści z chłodni Grzegorza Jaroszuka.

Najwięcej nagród − po trzy − otrzymały dwa filmy: Melancholia Larsa von Triera, nagrodzony w kategorii Najlepszy Film Europejski, oraz W lepszym świecie Susanne Bier, która otrzymała nagrodę dla Najlepszego Europejskiego Reżysera. Nagrodę za najlepszy scenariusz odebrali bracia Dardenne za film Chłopiec na rowerze.

Nagrodę dla Najlepszego Europejskiego Aktora odebrał Colin Firth, za rolę w filmie Jak zostać królem. Najlepszą aktorką okazała się Tilda Swinton i jej rola w filmie Musimy porozmawiać o Kevinie.

Adam Sikora ani żaden polski film krótkometrażowy, nagród nie otrzymali.

Laureaci i nominowani
 Laureaci nagród wyróżnieni są wytłuszczeniem

Najlepszy Europejski Film
 /// Melancholia, reż. Lars von Trier  Artysta, reż. Michel Hazanavicius
  W lepszym świecie, reż. Susanne Bier
  Jak zostać królem, reż. Tom Hooper
 // Chłopiec na rowerze, reż. Jean-Pierre i Luc Dardenne
 // Człowiek z Hawru, reż. Aki Kaurismäki

 Najlepszy Europejski Reżyser
  Susanne Bier − W lepszym świecie
  Jean-Pierre i Luc Dardenne − Chłopiec na rowerze
  Aki Kaurismäki − Człowiek z Hawru
  Béla Tarr − Koń turyński
  Lars von Trier − Melancholia

Najlepsza Europejska Aktorka
  Tilda Swinton − Musimy porozmawiać o Kevinie
  Kirsten Dunst − Melancholia
  Cécile de France − Chłopiec na rowerze
  Charlotte Gainsbourg − Melancholia
  Nadieżda Markina − Elena

Najlepszy Europejski Aktor
  Colin Firth − Jak zostać królem
  Jean Dujardin − Artysta
  Mikael Persbrandt − W lepszym świecie
  Michel Piccoli − Habemus Papam: mamy papieża
  André Wilms − Człowiek z Hawru

Najlepszy Europejski Scenarzysta
  Jean-Pierre i Luc Dardenne − Chłopiec na rowerze
  Anders Thomas Jensen − W lepszym świecie
  Aki Kaurismäki − Człowiek z Hawru
  Lars von Trier − Melancholia

Najlepszy Europejski Operator
(Nagroda imienia Carlo Di Palma)
  Manuel Alberto Claro − Melancholia
  Fred Kelemen − Koń turyński
  Guillaume Schiffman − Artysta
  Adam Sikora − Essential Killing

Najlepszy Europejski Kompozytor
  Ludovic Bource − Artysta
  Alexandre Desplat − Jak zostać królem
  Alberto Iglesias − Skóra, w której żyję
  Mihály Vig − Koń turyński

Najlepszy Europejski Scenograf
  Jette Lehmann − Melancholia
  Paola Bizzarri − Habemus Papam: mamy papieża
  Antxón Gómez − Skóra, w której żyję

Najlepszy Europejski Montażysta
  Tariq Anwar − Jak zostać królem
  Mathilde Bonnefoy − Trzy
  Molly Malene Stensgaard − Melancholia

Najlepszy Europejski Film Animowany
 / Chico i Rita, reż. Javier Mariscal, Fernando Trueba i Tono Errando
  Kot rabina, reż. Joann Sfar i Antoine Delesvaux
 /// Kot w Paryżu, reż. Jean-Loup Felicioli i Alain Gagnol

Najlepszy Europejski Film Dokumentalny - Prix ARTE
  Pina − Wim Wenders  Miejsce wśród gwiazd − Leonard Retel Helmrich
  Niech żyją antypody! − Wiktor Kossakowski

 Najlepszy Europejski Film Krótkometrażowy - Prix UIPu
 Prix UIP Drama:  Świetna Rodzina − Terry Gilliam Prix UIP Brystol:  Derby − Paul Negoescu
 Prix UIP Grimstad:  Wielki wyścig − Kote Camacho
 Prix UIP Kraków:  Paparazzi − Piotr Bernaś
 Prix UIP Berlin:  Återfödelsen − Hugo Lilja
 Prix UIP Wenecja:  Hypercrisis − Josef Dabernig
 Prix UIP Valladolid:  Małe dzieci, wielkie słowa − Lisa James-Larsson
 Prix UIP Angers:  Jessi − Mariejosephin Schneider
 Prix UIP Tampere: / Rzeka − Anca Miruna Lăzărescu
 Prix UIP Vila do Conde:  Dimanches − Valéry Rosier
 Prix UIP Sarajewo:  Precz − Roee Rosen
 Prix UIP Cork:  Incydent w banku − Ruben Östlund
 Prix UIP Ghent:  Berik − Daniel Joseph Borgman
 Prix UIP Locarno:  Opowieści z chłodni − Grzegorz Jaroszuk
 Prix UIP Rotterdam: / I Lupi − Alberto de Michele

 Europejskie Odkrycie Roku
 / Adem − Hans Van Nuffel  Oddech − Karl Markovics
  Michael − Markus Schleinzer
  Nie ma tego złego − Mikkel Munch-Fals
  Tilva Roš − Nikola Ležaić

 Nagroda Publiczności (People's Choice Award)
  Jak zostać królem'', reż. Tom Hooper
  Niewinne kłamstewka, reż. Guillaume Canet
  Nawet deszcz, reż. Icíar Bollaín
  Żona doskonała, reż. François Ozon
  Tożsamość, reż. Jaume Collet-Serra
  Safari 3D, reż. Reinhard Klooss
  W lepszym świecie, reż. Susanne Bier
  Witaj na południu'', reż. Luca Miniero

Europejska Nagroda Filmowa za Całokształt Twórczości
  Stephen Frears

Nagroda za Osiągnięcia w Światowej Kinematografii - Prix Screen International
  Mads Mikkelsen

Nagroda dla koproducentów - Prix EUROIMAGE
  Mariela Besuievsky (Tornasol Films, Hiszpania)

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne
 European Film Award
 Filmweb

Europejskie Nagrody Filmowe
2011 w filmie
Kultura w Berlinie
2011 w Niemczech
Kinematografia w Niemczech

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LIZ: Max, it's okay! You're the only one talking!
MAX: (*throws hands over his ears and yells*) No! Shut up, shut up! You're throwing me off! I've completely lost my train of thought now! La la la la la! (*Max composes himself and remembers his important speech*) Okay, I re-read Romeo and Juliet last night, and somehow it convinced me that I want to have se- I mean, make love to you.
LIZ: Thanks. What I meant was: I'm sorry, Max, but I'm not ready to make love to anyone at this particular stage of my life.
MAX: Oh come on, I forgave you for so many things! You know, like sleeping with Kyle... while we were broken up. And like kissing Sean... while we were broken up. And having an opinion on, like, anything.
LIZ: You see, Max? You don't want to admit why we're not together. Because the reason is YOU! ARE! RESPONSIBLE!
MAX: (*evil glare. creepy intonation.*) Well, then I guess our friendship is over.


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WoW's Cross-Faction Play and What it Means for the Future of the Video Game
For over 17 years of video game existence, the struggle between the two sides has been the cornerstone of the entire gameplay. However, in 2022, everything will change when the cross-faction play appears, which will be a new milestone in the history of this video game. All these years the players were divided into two parts. Some joined the Horde, where the Orks, along with other allied races, tried to destroy the human race, while humans, with their allies, defended themselves in an attempt to fight off the enemy. The bloody battles did not subside for a minute, but everything will change soon. The two enemies will be allowed to start interacting with each other to try and end this war.
Starting to play, everyone makes a choice, which side to join and which race to choose. When wishing to enter the Alliance, players can choose to play as a Human, Dwarf, or Night Elf. If someone is leaning towards the Horde, then you can choose either an Orc, Troll, or Tauren. At first glance, this may seem like an easy choice, however, by choosing one of the factions, you become completely isolated from the other side. You get access to one type of content and your encounters with enemies take place only in battles or in neutral territories. For many, this meant that they were losing the opportunity to play alongside their friends who belonged to another party. Those who did not like this situation had to either start playing again, choose a different race, or pay to switch sides.
The other faction is your enemy. That is, you cannot interact or even understand each other in any way since you communicate in different languages. The upcoming change means that this barrier will finally fall, and therefore at the moment, it is difficult to understand how much everything will change and how the game will look further. However, there is some information available that lifts the veil of secrecy a little.
How will things work?
At the moment, it is known that as soon as a new expansion of the game is released, a big change will affect how the search for participants for the team will take place. If before, you could only see those players who belong to the same side as you, then soon, you will have more options, since now members of the other faction will also be displayed. However, whether your enemies will be part of your team depends only on you. The advantage is that the search for players will be much faster than before and you will spend less time trying to find a worthy participant.
The change will affect most of the game's content. However, faction-specific content will remain unchanged, so don't expect that there would be no confrontation. You will still need to work for the good of your faction and improve your character in every possible way.
Many people try to find the worthiest participants to complete raids and dungeons to pass even the most difficult levels as quickly and smoothly as possible. However, in addition to finding experienced players from the two factions, you can also use Mythic Boost, which will make your task much easier, and you can also get valuable rewards such as achievements, mounts, equipment, weapons, and much more.
Why is there a need for change?
It's no secret that the last years for WoW were not the easiest. Restrictions related to the impossibility of playing with friends from other factions, boring and incomprehensible content, a mandatory surcharge for choosing a different race, and other negative aspects had a bad effect on the number of players. The company does not provide any information about the number of active participants, but it can be assumed that such events had a negative impact on the number of users playing.
In this regard, it became clear that a big change was needed, which would become a new milestone in the game. Being able to interact with members of another faction not only means you can play with your friends without any restrictions, but it also means that the future of the game will change with the appearance of new exciting content, where the Alliance and the Horde will stand side by side, fighting even bigger evil.
This was already in the game, but the truce did not last long. As soon as the common enemy was defeated, the confrontation between the factions returned. However, now this is a thaw in relations for a longer period.
How does this change affect the future of WoW?
There has always been war, but there have been brief lulls. These lulls still ended with the fact that everything still returned to normal and the two rivals were ready to cut each other's throats. However, the Battle for Azeroth changed that.
Ultimately, both factions were led by councils made up of leaders from all races. If the Alliance quickly came to this, then the Horde had a sad history, but it all ended with a truce. Even though such a thaw in relations is unlikely to affect legacy content, it means that a new future lies ahead of us.
The most important thing is that no one is forced to declare peace. If you want to play by the traditional design, then this is your right. You are not required to play with members of another race. However, those who have been dreaming about it for years, trying to reach developers, will finally get this opportunity. It can be expected that those who have stopped playing will return, and those who have never played before will want to become a part of this gaming universe with great desire.
One can only guess what awaits the players with the release of the new expansion. However, details like this mean the game is about to change. The World of Warcraft will sparkle with new colors, giving players more options and choices, without being forced to do what they need. Players will be able to choose how they want to play. Such a positive change will arouse genuine interest among both experienced players and new ones.
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Continuing in the same format as the acclaimed titles covering the British Railway's Standard locomotive fleet we turn our attention towards visiting all of the London Midland Region's engine sheds during the period 1948 to 1968. We have chosen the finest unpublished views possible to include as wide a range of locomotive classes on shed as we could find during the last ten years. The selections have been made on the basis of both high quality images but also they have been chosen to bring back the real life of visiting the sheds during the last twenty years of British Railways steam.
Within this volume we visit 8A to 12E based upon the 1948 - 1950 shed codes:
These engine sheds are all to be seen within: Edge Hill, Warrington Dallam, Warrington Arpley, Speke Junction, Widnes, Brunswick, Longsight, Stockport Edgeley, Macclesfield, Buxton, Trafford Park, Heaton Mersey, Northwich, Wigan Springs Branch, Preston, Patricroft, Plodder Lane, Sutton Oak, Wigan Lower Ince, Carnforth, Barrow, Oxenholme, Tebay, Carlisle Upperby, Carlisle Canal, Penrith, Workington, and Moor Row.
Each volume is 128 pages with a superb selection of high quality black & white photographs depicting these locations as we remember them. The print runs are limited to just 1000 copies, therefore to avoid disappointment we advise you place your order straightaway.
Future volumes will cover all of the regions in similar detail and will provide a wonderful record of the era.
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Dry Zone Botanic Gardens in Mirijjawila — one of the six botanical gardens in Sri Lanka. Other botanical gardens — Peradeniya Royal Botanical Gardens, Hakgala Botanical Garden, Agro-Technology Park and Botanical Garden in Bata Atha , Henarathgoda Botanical Garden and Sithawaka Botanical Garden.
Mirijjawila Dry Zone Botanic Gardens is located on the main road Colombo — Kataragama, about 6 km. from Hambantota. It lies between Mattala International Airport to the left of it and the Hambantota Bay — to the right of it.
A lot of flora of semi-dry and dry zones are grown in the garden. Lush green carpets of grass, towering trees and exotic flowers welcome you in the botanical garden of Mirijjawila. Located in Hambantota area, the park extends over 300 acres of land. The main goal of the creation of this botanical garden was to preserve the decreasing number of trees characteristic of drylands and plants of medicinal significance.
The first botanical garden of the dry zone in Sri Lanka in Mirijjawila — Hambantota has gained wide popularity among ecologists, botanists, researchers from among schoolchildren, students, researchers and tourists from around the world.
Construction works in the Botanical Garden of the dry zone began on July 20, 2006. This land was covered with thorny bushes and abandoned chen lands at a time when it was allocated for this purpose in 2006. Three reservoirs of Kohombagas Wewa, Malittangas Wewa and Demataththa Wewa are organized in the garden in order to preserve the moisture of the land. The total area of the botanical garden is about 300 acres.
500 million rupees were allocated for the development of the dry zone botanical garden. The first stage of construction work was completed on November 14, 2013 and was open to visitors. About eighty percent of the construction work for the second stage is completed, and construction work will culminate in 2020.
The Mirijjawila Botanical Garden consists of plants, trees and herbaceous plants that are grown in dry zones of the Earth. Here are introduced seedlings of garden plants, flowers and ornamental bushes.
In Sri Lanka, three botanical gardens that are creations of the British, but the dry-zone botanical garden is the only garden created by local people using local technologies and experience.
Now in the garden you can see quite clearly the scale and open spaces. In the vast areas are planted unique group collections of hibiscus, crotons, acalifs, pseudoeranthemums, orchids, bougainvilleas and semi succulents. Many of these plants are not endemic to dry areas, however, experiments have shown how superbly they are adapted here, evolving into delightful specimens!
Mirijjawila Botanical Gardens cooperate with the leading gardens of the world due to the increased interest of foreign botanists to the phenomenally successful Sri Lankan agronomists and scientists. In this regard, the collections of the Mirjjawila experimental site are continuously replenished with green specimens from almost all points on the planet where, in one way or another, the arid climate prevails.
Being less than 30 kilometers from Bata Atha Botanical Garden, Mirijjawila strikingly contrasts by the name of the collection of plant specimens. And if you aim to visit both the botanical gardens because of their proximity to each other, you can easily see with your own eyes this difference, which shakes the imagination, which emphasizes the uniqueness of Sri Lanka as a whole, like islands where on relatively short distances and lands one can see natural landscapes and experience yourself climate zones of tropical, subtropical, equatorial, savannah, semi-desert and desert natural world!
Lankarus will gladly organize an excursion to the Botanical Garden for guests who have rest in the home zone of our company. At your request, a one-day combined visit to the gardens of Bata Atha and Mirijjawila is possible. Please, contact for advice on the organization of your trip to your Lankarus manager.
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These tiny rooms bare the stories of centuries in their walls. Being our favourite ones they have got their special names: Room Lavendel and Room Mandel. They are located in the peaceful attic of the building.
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B R I Q U E V I L L E: Atmospheric Metal Collective To Release Quelle Full-Length October 2nd Via Pelagic Records; New Track Streaming + Preorders Available
Mysterious atmospheric metal collective B R I Q U E V I L L E will release their latest full-length, Quelle, October 2nd via Pelagic Records.
The contemporary Belgian heavy music scene continues to spawn some truly enigmatic bands, and B R I Q U E V I L L E – the spaces between the letters are indeed part of their moniker – are among the most intriguing and compelling of them all. The meditative heaviness of their sound and the careful engineering of the visual aspects of their mesmerizing live performance rituals are awe-inspiring and challenging in equal measure.
Following 2017's dazzling instrumental opus II, the Flemish five-piece finally return with their third studio album, Quelle, one of the first real pandemic-albums to be released on Pelagic. The band members had to finish the album in separation, which worked out better than they had initially expected: the forced distance allowed them to take distance not only from each other, but also towards their own song material. Some pieces grew larger than originally intended, others were stripped down to the essentials and reinvented. The end result is a staggering album that is sophisticated and smothering at the same time, made up of altogether shorter songs as compared to the previous release, and there is a more prominent focus on those tasty electronics, which have always been an integral part of B R I Q U E V I L L E 's sound.
The album is also the first one with an album title: "Quelle" means "source" in German and "which" in French. Issues the band, "We strongly feel that this record keeps all the ingredients of previous records and explores them further than we ever did before. The theme of a 'source' and the 'which' linking it reflexively to our previous album artwork gave us the feeling that we stayed true to our original concept, music, artwork and clips; water and sand as a source of life and death; how an isolated soul deals with these elements."
Quelle shows that B R I Q U E V I L L E individually and collectively have a big heart for the gritty, dark, psychedelic, heavy, and other-worldly, as much as a love for beauty and melody. It's a soundtrack to the pandemic, written and recorded not before, but during isolation – and a testimony that isolation can spawn the greatest creativity. In advance of its Fall release, the band is pleased to unveil first single, "Akte XIII," for public hypnosis.
Stream B R I Q U E V I L L E 's "Akte XIII" at THIS LOCATION.
Quelle will be released on CD, vinyl, and digital formats. For preorders go to THIS LOCATION. Fans of Goat, Oranssi Pazuzu, Sleep, Bong, Isis, Pelican, Mogwai, Sunn O))), Godspeed You Black! Emperor, Amenra, Breach, and the like, pay heed.
Quelle Track Listing:
1. Akte VIII
2. Akte IX
3. Akte X
4. Akte XI
5. Akte XII
6. Akte XIII
7. Akte XIV
8. Akte XV
B R I Q U E V I L L E is a band shrouded in mystery. The black Nazgûl-robes and golden masks that all members wear on stage give their presence the air of an occult ritual, but the band is not chasing (a) Ghost; in fact they've been masked for over a decade and even do so during rehearsals. The anonymity is meant to create equality and prevents a cult of personality.
Active in various other bands from the local jazz, electro, and metal scenes, the members of B R I Q U E V I L L E united in a school building, with the ambition to improvise around one single note. "In order to do this anonymously and have the audience concentrate on the music, we decided to play with masks," one band member explains. When they left the building after that session, they ran into an old man who told them a story of a son murdering his father right at the entrance of that school, many years ago. He pulled out a newspaper article to legitimize his story, before he disappeared.
"That story stuck with us. We kept asking ourselves why someone would keep an article recounting a patricide in their wallets for seventy years. We couldn't help but conclude this man we'd met must have been the son. Maybe our imagination was just doing overtime, but the grandparents of one of our band members confirmed the murder had happened… however, we were unable to trace the old man." This ludicrous story has ever since served as inspiration for the band's pounding sound.
B R I Q U E V I L L E released their self-titled debut in 2014: four tracks that all conclude around the ten-minute mark. Upon release, the band buried twenty copies at various locations across the country, and gradually released the coordinates on their Facebook page, animating fans to dig them up from the soil. The idea was met with great enthusiasm among their quickly growing fanbase, and was revisited and extended for the release of B R I Q U E V I L L E's mesmerizing second album, aptly titled II, when members of various Pelagic artists buried vinyl records between Vancouver, Canada and Sao Paulo, Brazil. All of them were found by happy vinyl fan diggers.
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To commemorate the 350th birth anniversary of Gurū Gobind Singh, The Anād Foundation—in collaboration with the Government of Bihar—curated Gurū Gaurav, a six-day showcase of musical, dance and literary excellence with a particular focus on the expressive traditions of Bihar and Punjab. Conceived and realized by Bhai Baldeep Singh, Chairman of The Anād Foundation, Gurū Gaurav was designed to pay homage to the legacy of the tenth Sikh gurū, Sirī Guru Gobind Singh, whose contributions toward the preservation of religious and cultural diversity are unparalleled. Artists and scholars from across India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, North America, and Europe converged at Patna's Shri Krishna Memorial Auditorium for the festival, which began with an all-night program, the Rain Subāī, on the 31st of December, 2016 and included performances by 50 artists and their accompanists through the 5th of January. Singhs and Kaurs, Khans, Pandits and others shared the stage to honor Gurū Gobind Singh's message of religious harmony and celebration of human diversity, demonstrating our shared capacity to bring great beauty to the world when we all work, sing, and dance in concert with one another.
The festival was a unique addition to the Sikh music being offered throughout Patna during this 350th celebration. It was a feast of excellence and diversity, bringing the highest quality artists and students, male, female, transgendered, young and elderly, from a variety of disciplines, genres, and regions together, including dhrupad, khayal, thumri, gurbani kirtan, folk and instrumental music as well as dance, poetry, and theater from Afghanistan, Rajasthan, Punjab, Karnataka, Chennai, Bengal, Maharashtra and Bihar as well as the United States and Europe. The atmosphere of camaraderie and respect among the various artists throughout the Gurū Gaurav festival, which local scholars including top musicologist Professor Gajendra Narayan Singh called the most diverse and biggest-ever music festival at least since India's independence, gave the experience of an artist-mēlā. The performers enjoyed listening to each other and many of the soloists also sat as accompanists for their peers. Every night familiar faces could be seen in the front row of the auditorium, which was occupied by attentive artists and enthusiasts who came each night to share in the experience alongside appreciative listeners who enjoyed the aesthetic quality and musical diversity of the event that represented the whole of Bharat's diversity, which Gurū Gobind Singh fought so tirelessly to preserve.
The inaugural Rain Subāi opened with alāpa and dhrupad sung by Bihar elder, Pandit Raghuvir Mallick, of the Dumraon-Darbhanga gharana. Sixteen additional performances throughout the evening and into the morning included dhrupad vocalists Pandit Ram Kumar Mallick, Sri Jagat Narain Pathak and Pandit Indra Kishore Misra. Gurbani kirtan featuring bani of Sahib Sirī Gurū Teg Bahadur and Sahib Sirī Gurū Gobind Singh was offered by Bibi Ashupreet Kaur, Dr. Alankar Singh, and Bhai Balbir Singh Ragi, one of the last remaining links to the original Gurbani Kirtan Parampara of the Golden Temple in Amritsar. The festival's director, Bhai Baldeep Singh, is also an accomplished musician and demonstrated great skill on the jori in a lively solo performance. His student, Nihal Singh, traveled from the United States to participate in the festival and performed an adept solo on the tabla. Four additional percussion performances included pakhawaj solos by Sangeet Pathak, Ashutosh Upadhyay, Sri Mohan Shyam Sharma, and Dr. Anil Chaudhary. Mohan Shyam Sharma's solo was notable for the deliberate inclusion of many fixed percussive compositions that do not typically characterize his playing. Pandit Rajendra Gangani, Delhi's Kathak phenomenon, offered a scintillating performance by way of tribute to the great Gurū. Pandit Yashpaul, the senior-most living exponent of the Agra school of khayal presented a solemn recital in raga nat bhairav early in the morning of January 1. Vidushi Jyoti Ganapati Hegde traveled from Karnataka to share the wonders of rudra vina, immersing listeners in waves of resonance from deep in the bass register to melodious taans from the higher strings.
The next night, on the evening of January 1, the program opened to a full house of 2000 listeners. Bhai Baldeep Singh gave a warm welcome and introduced the conceptual framing for the event, which was to honor Gurū Gobind Singh and his efforts to protect the cultural richness of the world. He explained that the program as well as the stage itself reflected this theme with a visually stunning backdrop of a blue and gold bamboo grid decorated with twelve canvas prints of artist Sidharth's Bara-Maha. The stage design by Bhai Baldeep Singh and Italian conservation architect Micaela Petricca (Santsubhag Kaur) represented both the timeliness and timelessness of Gurū Gobind Singh's message. The images indicated that over the next twelve months events will be organized at thematic locations across India and all over the world to honor the importance of preserving India's rich and diverse cultural heritages past this six-day historical event.
During the first musical performance of the evening, pakhawaj soloist Ravi Shankar Upadhyay delivered a spectacle to the delight of the anticipating crowd. Dr. Ajit Pradhan of Patna, in his raga katha, dwelled on the musical legacy of Gurū Gobind Singh as he spoke on ragas included in one of Gurū Gobind Singh's Raga-guldasta, "Baajat basant ar bhairav hindol raga". He was followed by Dr. Nirinjan Kaur Khalsa, Ph.D. from Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, who spoke movingly about Gurū Gobind Singh's call to stand for equality and justice for all and Dr. Kulwant Singh Grewal who recited Punjabi poetry. Ustad Aashish Khan's dynamic sarod performance was received enthusiastically by all who attended, including Chief Minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar, who himself received admiring applause and a warm welcome from the audience. Bhai Baljit Singh Namdhari and his brother Gurmeet Singh Namdhari closed the evening with a meditative performance of gurbani sangeet which showcased their decades of classical training under the tutelage of some of India's great maestros.
The program on the 2nd of January was a creative blend of art forms. Singers included Punjab's top Dhādi exponent, Desh Raj Lachkani, who recited ballads on the life and contribution of Gurū Gobind Singh. Pandit Prem Kumar Mallick from Bihar's Darbhanga tradition sang alāpa and dhrupad including brilliantly rendered compositions of Sahib Sirī Gurū Teg Bahadur and Sahib Sirī Gurū Gobind Singh. Jaswant Singh Zafar read Punjabi poetry and Pandit Manu Seen delighted everyone with his joyful sitar performance. Parminder Singh Bhamra of the Amritsari Bāj demonstrated an extensive repertoire in panjtaal-di-sawari, a fifteen beat rhythmic cycle through a skillful pakhawaj solo performance. For many, the highlight of the evening came when the stage was cleared and reset for a moving theatre presentation on Bhagat Kabir composed and performed by Sri Shekhar Sen. In this mono-act, Mr. Sen in long hair, beard and robes, brought the voice of Bhagat Kabir to life through his inspiring monologue and original songs.
The fourth program in the series was presented on the evening of January 3. After a reading of Urdu poetry by Nashir Naqvi, Pandit Uday Kumar Mallick sang dhrupad, followed by Bahauddin Dagar on the rudra vina. Dagar was accompanied by Bhai Baldeep Singh on jori and together they painted a sonic landscape of poetic beauty and stillness. Vidushi Gopika Varma reached deep into the hearts of the audience through Mohiniattam dance portraying deep-felt emotions of love, life, and loss. The evening ended on a high with Pandit Vinod Pathak's ferocious display of tabla prowess and Jasbir Jassi's rendition of traditional folk poems from the Punjab, one ghazal of Bhai Nand Lal Goya and the famous "Mitar pyare nu" by Sahib Sirī Gurū Gobind Singh with his band accompanying him on electric keyboard, bass guitar, drums and Parminder Singh Bhamra joining on pakhawaj. After completing their program, this popular band gave multiple encores via requests shouted from the audience until the wee hours of the morning.
On the evening of January 4 those in attendance were treated again to a night of poetry and music. The musical presentations included a variety of traditions, each with its own unique instruments including tabla, harmonium, sarangi, kamaicha, dholak, khartal, pakhawaj, rudra vina, guitar, banjo and sarod. The program opened with the sweet notes of thumri compositions performed by Pandit Ram Prakash Misra, followed by an energetic concert of the Manganiars from West Rajasthan. This group led by vocalists Kachra Khan and Lakha Khan, who also played the Sindhi sarangi, and Ghewar Khan on kamaicha, presented a selected repertoire of ragas common to both the Gurbani and Rajasthani traditions, with outstanding solos that set the audience on fire. The atmosphere was refreshed by a presentation of three poems on Gurū Gobind Singh, written by Rabindranath Tagore and recited in Bengali in the traditional style by Samiran Sanyal. Sukhwinder Amrit also recited original Punjabi poems, and Gurinder Harnam Singh gave a khayal interpretation of dasam bani shabads. Suvir Misra treated the audience to the meditative resonance of the rudra vina. Although it is rare to hear rudra vina performed, this was the third time this magical instrument made an appearance at the festival. The evening ended with Dr. Madan Gopal Singh and his group Chaar Yaar's performance of Sufi songs in a modern arrangement, with the beautiful accompaniment of Deepak Castelino on the Spanish guitar.
The auditorium was fully packed on the last day of the Gurū Gaurav festival, reinforcing the success of the event among the local and international communities. Punjabi Giddha with Soniya Duggal and her Jaggo Tareenjan Group, a transgender troupe, who opened the program to a welcoming crowd. Their colorful performance was a brilliant reminder of the rainbow of hues in our human family. They were followed by artist performances from Italy, Afghanistan, the United States and several Indian states who added their own splashes of color to the evening. Dr. Francesca Cassio's singing set the tone for classical renditions of Gurbani compositions. Dr. Cassio, the Sardarni Harbans Kaur Chair in Sikh Musicology at Hofstra University New York, performed traditional dhur-pade from Sirī Gurū Gobind Singh and Sirī Gurū Teg Bahadur. Echoes of Gurū Gobind Singh's rabab were heard in the playing of Afghani musician Daud Khan Sadozai, who mesmerized the audience with the voice of his instrument, the Afghani robab, accompanied on tabla by Sri Madan Mohan Upadhyay. "Songs of the Khalsa" were presented by a group of American members of Sikh Dharma International, directed by SS Harbhajan Kaur Khalsa, accompanied on guitar by Nanak Nihal Singh, on tabla by Nihal Singh and on pakhawaj by Nirinjan Kaur. Sung in harmony, these English language ballads told stories of Sirī Gurū Gobind Singh and the Khalsa, inspiring a series of "Bole So Nihal, Sat Sri Akal!" from the appreciative audience. The evening continued with Professor Ritwik Sanyal's spellbinding dhrupad concert. The Bengali musician and musicologist from the prestigious Banaras Hindu University performed a full alāpa in raga multani followed by two famous verses written by Sirī Gurū Gobind Singh set to his own musical compositions in chārtaal and sultaal . After a masterful solo performance on mridangam by notable exponent Dr. Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman from Chennai, which enthralled the audience, and a poetry reading by Dr. Surjit Patar, Bhai Baldeep Singh concluded the six-day-festival with a presentation of gurbani kirtan, accompanied by Ustad Roshan Ali Khan on sarangi and Parminder Singh Bhamra and Ashutosh Upadhyay on pakhawaj. During his finale, Bhai Baldeep Singh sang remarkable samples of the repertoire handed down from the ten Sikh gurūs and the pirs, bhagats and saints whose compositions are included in Sirī Gurū Granth Sahib, reminding all of us of the legacy of excellence and unity that we celebrate as we honor this 350th birthday of Sri Gurū Gobind Singh.


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Jonathan Wilson Brings Style to Brighton Music Hall
March 4, 2019 · by Alex Friedman	· in Reviews.	·
Jonathan Wilson's recorded music carries a certain intrigue and vintage feel to it, seemingly created through a combination of his mysterious voice and tendency to utilize vintage-style instruments and effects in his songs' production. His most popular song, Desert Raven, begins with a mess of analog synthesizer noise before breaking into the i7 to IV jam (excuse the music theory), reminiscent of classics like Carlos Santana's Oye Como Va and Pink Floyd's Breathe (In the Air). These guitar-jamming influences are consistently apparent throughout Wilson's 2011 LP Gentle Spirit. By the time Rare Birds arrived in 2018, with songs like Trafalgar Square, Wilson's sound had taken on a more technological edge, utilizing further saturated drums in conjunction with classic rock-era fuzz and phasing guitar effects and synthesizer sounds. These developments, combined with elements of his earlier desert acoustic sound come together to create something very special.
Opener Michael Nau
However, none of this layering in production was what I encountered in February at Wilson's solo acoustic performance in Brighton Music Hall. Before the show began, an audience mainly comprised of couples in their twenties and thirties bought drinks and chose seats as pleased them. Already the atmosphere carried a mature, respectful environment. Wilson's opener, Michael Nau, began the night's music in an authentic, albeit curious manner. His songs were of the intimate quality that one might expect from a solo acoustic singer/songwriter, the catch being that his acoustic guitar was overdriven throughout his set. The tension that this created between Nau's stripped-feeling vocals and harmonically full guitar tone is what I felt constituted his sound as an artist.
By the time Jonathan Wilson took the stage, the audience had already been well-warmed up to receive the good vibes to come. As an acoustic performer, of course, Wilson comes off as a natural. His feel for blending melodic lines in between luscious open chords (often supplemented by subtle harmonic tensions) creates a feeling of constant flow in his songs. This playing style combines with his haunting voice and floating melodies to result in an excellent performance. As a point of criticism, I would offer that the set lost a bit of its momentum and sense of consistent atmosphere when Wilson switched over to accompany himself on keys, but the overall performance quality didn't dip much as a result.
Wilson, front and center
I also felt that the space between each song elevated Wilson's set in an unexpected way. His between-songs monologues were ridden with stories of his past, coming of age, and clear breadth of life experiences on the road. He mentioned past visits to Walden pond, complete with a reflection on the writings of Thoreau and other Transcendentalists, as well as one recounting from earlier in that day in which he mentioned a southwestern piece from a Goodwill thrift store that he found "too appropriative to wear." He then put on a British accent to joke that "It's stagewear, mate," pointing to the extravagant outfits often worn by classic British rock acts in the 60's and 70's. I feel that these stories, as well as Wilson's openness about his struggles and journey as an upcoming artist and touring musician, make his music accessible so that listeners can see a part of themselves within it.
While I can't say that this type of performance is meant for any concert-goer looking for a ~wild~ time, I can offer that anyone who attends an acoustic Jonathan Wilson concert will certainly leave with a heightened understanding of themselves along with a great appreciation for his art.
Wilson bringing emotion into his guitar-playing
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\section{Introduction}

Studies of the arising of persistent currents have attracted a great deal of attention in recent decades \cite{new2}. Persistent currents have been studied for spinless quantum particles confined to a quantum ring \cite{by}, two-dimensional quantum rings and quantum dots \cite{tan2} due to the presence of the Aharonov-Bohm quantum flux. In the presence of a disclination, the confinement of a spinless quantum particle to a two-dimensional quantum dot has been discussed in \cite{fur4}, where it has been shown that the presence of a topological defect changes the periodicity of the persistent currents. Persistent currents have also been studied from the dependence of the energy levels on the Berry phase \cite{ring2}, the Aharonov-Anandan quantum phase \cite{ring3}, and the Aharonov-Casher geometric phase \cite{ring1,ring4}. In particular, the Aharonov-Casher geometric phase \cite{ac} arises from the interaction between the permanent magnetic dipole moment of a neutral particle with an external electric field, therefore, persistent currents associated with the dependence of the energy levels on the Aharonov-Casher geometric phase \cite{ac} are called persistent spin currents \cite{ring1}.

In recent years, studies of torsion effects on quantum systems have shown the coupling between spin and torsion \cite{shap,shap2}, an analogue effect of the Aharonov-Casher effect \cite{bf2}, and mathematical models for implementing one-qubit quantum gates for neutral particles have been proposed in \cite{bf7}. In crystalline solids, a torsion field is described by the Volterra process \cite{kleinert} which consists in describing a topological defect in a solid by the process of ``cut'' and ``glue'' of an elastic medium. In the continuum picture of defects, a torsion field corresponds to the strain and stress induced by a defect in an elastic medium. Examples of torsion in an elastic medium described by the Volterra process are the screw dislocation and the edge dislocation \cite{moraesG2}. An interesting study based on the continuum picture of defects in solids was proposed by Katanaev and Volovich \cite{kat} by using the differential geometry. In this approach, a linear topological defect in a solid, such as a screw dislocation, is described by the spatial part of a line element which corresponds to one particular solution of Einstein's equations in general relativity \cite{moraesG2,tt7}. Thereby, based on the Katanaev-Volovich approach \cite{kat}, studies of the influence of torsion on quantum systems have been made in the motion of an electron in a crystal \cite{aur,new}, quantum scattering \cite{tt11}, Landau levels for a nonrelativistic scalar particle \cite{tt13} and a spin-half neutral particle \cite{bf5}, Berry's phase \cite{tt10} and a two-dimensional quantum ring \cite{ani}. It is worth mentioning other studies of torsion in the classical point of view such as geodesics around a dislocation \cite{moraesG} and torsion effects on electromagnetic fields \cite{moraesG3}.

In this paper, we consider a neutral particle with a permanent magnetic dipole moment in an elastic medium containing a uniform distribution of screw dislocations \cite{f4}. This neutral particle interacts with an electric field produced by a linear distribution of electric charges on the symmetry axis of one screw dislocation placed at the center of the area containing the distribution of screw dislocations. The origin of this electric field can be explained by the presence of a charged dislocation. During the formation of a topological defect in a crystal, chemical bonds are broke and reconstructed. This process of breaking and reconstructing chemical bonds can produce some bonds which remain broken at the core of the defect, which are called dangling bonds. This process is the main reason for the electrical activity of dislocations in semiconductors. The existence of dangling bonds along the defect produces an electric field, therefore the dislocation acquires an electric charge density, which in turn, produces a electric field in the surrounding medium. In general, this electric charge density is screened by a cylindrical space charge of opposite sign, which is formed by ionized donors or acceptors. In this paper, we consider an electric field generated by a linear distribution of electric charges on the axis of the dislocation. This configuration is known as the Read cylinder \citep{read}. Recently, the Read cylinder has been considered in the study of the quantum scattering of a neutral particle by a charged screw dislocation in Ref. \cite{carlos}. It worth mentioning that Figielski {\it et al} \cite{figie1,figie2} found the solid state analogue of the Aharonov-Bohm effect \cite{ab}. We show that bound states can be achieved in the Aharonov-Casher system \cite{ac} where the uniform distribution of dislocations plays the role of an effective uniform magnetic field, and the spectrum of energy depends on the Aharonov-Casher geometric phase \cite{ac}. In this way, from the dependence of energy levels on the Aharonov-Casher geometric phase \cite{ac}, we calculate the persistent spin currents \cite{ring1} in this elastic Landau system.

This paper is organized as follows: in section II, we study the behaviour of a neutral particle with a permanent magnetic dipole moment interacting with an external electric field in an elastic Landau system. We obtain the energy levels for bound states and the persistent spin currents which arise from the dependence of the spectrum of energy on the Aharonov-Casher geometric phase \cite{ac}; in section III, we consider the presence of a hard-wall confining potential in the elastic Landau system, and obtain the energy levels for bound states analogous to confining a neutral particle to a quantum dot with a hard-wall confining potential \cite{dot,bf20}. We also calculate the persistent spin currents that arises from the dependence of the spectrum of energy on the Aharonov-Casher geometric phase \cite{ac}; in section IV, we present our conclusions.

\section{the Aharonov-Casher effect in an elastic Landau system}

In this section, we wish to study the behaviour of a neutral particle with a permanent magnetic dipole moment in an elastic Landau system when the magnetic dipole moment of the neutral particle interacts with an external electric field. Our goal is to obtain the energy levels for bound states in an elastic medium with the presence of a uniform distribution of screw dislocations, and show the dependence of the energy levels on the Aharonov-Casher geometric phase \cite{ac} which gives rise to the arising of persistent currents \cite{by}. First of all, let us consider an elastic medium in the absence of topological defects. The quantum dynamics of the neutral particle is described by the the following Schr\"odinger-Pauli equation \cite{ac,anan,anan2}
\begin{eqnarray}
i\frac{\partial\psi}{\partial t}=\frac{1}{2m}\,\vec{\sigma}\cdot\left[\vec{p}-i\mu\vec{E}\right]\,\vec{\sigma}\cdot\left[\vec{p}+i\mu\vec{E}\right]\psi,
\label{1.1}
\end{eqnarray}
where we consider the units $\hbar=c=1$ from now on. We have in (\ref{1.1}) that $\mu$ corresponds to the permanent magnetic dipole moment of the neutral particle, $m$ is the mass of the neutral particle and the matrices $\sigma^{i}$ correspond to the Pauli matrices. The Pauli matrices satisfy the relation $\left(\sigma^{i}\,\sigma^{j}+\sigma^{j}\,\sigma^{i}\right)=2\,\eta^{ij}$, where $\eta^{ij}=\mathrm{diag}(+ + +)$. An interesting quantum effect arises from the interaction between the magnetic dipole moment of the neutral particle and an electric field yielding the appearance of a geometric phase in the wave function of the neutral particle. Now, we consider the Aharonov-Casher effect generated by a neutral particle in the presence of a charged screw dislocation. This system consists in considering the magnetic dipole moment of the neutral particle being aligned to the $z$-axis, and an external electric field produced by a linear distribution of electric charges along the dislocation located in the $z$-axis. The electric field produced by a charged screw dislocation \cite{read,carlos,figie1,figie2} is given by $\vec{E}=\frac{\lambda}{\rho}\,\hat{\rho}$ (where $\rho=\sqrt{x^{2}+y^{2}}$, $\lambda$ is the linear charge distribution along the $z$-axis, and $\hat{\rho}$ is a unit vector on the radial direction). Thereby, we have that the interaction between the magnetic dipole moment and the radial electric field produced by a charged screw dislocation gives rise to a geometric phase given by
\begin{eqnarray}
\phi_{\mathrm{AC}}=\oint\left(\vec{\mu}\times\vec{E}\right)_{k}\,dx^{k}=\pm2\pi\,\mu\lambda.
\label{1.2}
\end{eqnarray}
The quantum effect related to the geometric phase (\ref{1.2}) is called the Aharonov-Casher effect \cite{ac} \footnote{Note, by restoring $\hbar$ and $c$, we have $\phi_{\mathrm{AC}}=\frac{1}{\hbar c}\oint\left(\vec{\mu}\times\vec{E}\right)_{k}\,dx^{k}=\pm2\pi\frac{\mu\lambda}{\hbar c}$.}.

Now, let us introduce the geometric description of an elastic medium with the presence of a uniform distribution of screw dislocations. The geometric description of defects in solids was proposed by Katanaev and Volovich \cite{kat}. In the Katanaev-Volovich approach \cite{kat}, linear topological defects are described by the spatial part of the line element of a general relativity scenario. For instance, disclinations in solids correspond to the spatial part of the line element of the cosmic string spacetime \cite{kat,moraesG2}. Recently, by using the geometric theory of defects in solids, one-qubits quantum gates have been proposed in \cite{bf7}. In this work, we consider a uniform distribution of parallel screw dislocations in an elastic medium which is described by the line element \cite{f4}
\begin{eqnarray}
ds^{2}=d\rho^{2}+\rho^{2}d\varphi^{2}+\left(dz+\Omega\rho^{2}d\varphi\right)^{2}
\label{1.3}
\end{eqnarray}
where $\Omega=b_{i}\,\frac{A}{2}$, with $A$ being the area density of dislocations and $b_ {i}$ is the Burgers vector. In recent years, the influence of the classical background described by (\ref{1.3}) on the quantum dynamics of a spinless particle has yielded bound states corresponding to the elastic Landau levels \cite{f4}. Moreover, bound states have been obtained by a spin-half neutral particle both under the influence of a constant force field \cite{b6} and in the presence of a repulsive Coulomb-like potential \cite{bm}, due to the presence of a uniform distribution of parallel screw dislocations.

By observing the symmetry involving the classical background given in (\ref{1.3}), we can work the Schr\"odinger-Pauli equation (\ref{1.1}) by using the mathematical formulation of the spinor theory in curved spacetime \cite{weinberg}. Spinors in curved spacetime are defined locally and obey the local Lorentz transformations. In this way, the procedure of defining spinors in curved spacetime consists in building a local reference frame via a noncoordinate basis $\hat{\theta}^{a}=e^{a}_{\,\,\,\mu}\left(x\right)\,dx^{\mu}$, whose components $e^{a}_{\,\,\,\mu}\left(x\right)$ are called triads \cite{weinberg,naka,kleinert}.
Triads satisfy the relation $g_{\mu\nu}=e^{i}_{\,\,\,\mu}\left(x\right)e^{j}_{\,\,\,\nu}\left(x\right)\,\eta_{ij}$, where $\eta_{ij}=\mathrm{diag}\left(+++\right)$. In this work, we denote the cylindrical coordinates (related to the topological defect) by Greek indices, and the local reference frame of the observers (related to the flat space or absence of defects) by Latin indices. Furthermore, triads have an inverse given by $dx^{\mu}=e^{\mu}_{\,\,\,a}\left(x\right)\,\hat{\theta}^{a}$, where we have the relations:  $e^{a}_{\,\,\,\mu}\left(x\right)\,e^{\mu}_{\,\,\,b}\left(x\right)=\delta^{a}_{\,\,\,b}$ and $e^{\mu}_{\,\,\,a}\left(x\right)\,e^{a}_{\,\,\,\nu}\left(x\right)=\delta^{\mu}_{\,\,\,\nu}$. Here, we choose the following triad field:
\begin{eqnarray}
\hat{\theta}^{1}=d\rho;\,\,\,\hat{\theta}^{2}=\rho\, d\varphi;\,\,\,\hat{\theta}^{3}=dz+\Omega\rho^{2} d\varphi.
\label{1.4}
\end{eqnarray}

Returning to the geometric theory of defects in solids, screw dislocations are linear topological defects related to the presence of torsion in an elastic medium \cite{kleinert}. Due to the presence of torsion and curvilinear coordinates, the partial derivative $\partial_{\mu}$ given in the Schr\"odinger-Pauli equation (\ref{1.1}) becomes the covariant derivative of a spinor $\nabla_{\mu}=\partial_{\mu}+\Gamma_{\mu}\left(x\right)$ \cite{shap}, where $\Gamma_{\mu}\left(x\right)=\frac{i}{4}\,\left[\omega_{\mu ab}\left(x\right)+K_{\mu ab}\left(x\right)\right]\,\Sigma^{ab}$ is called the spinorial connection. For two-spinors, we have that $\Sigma^{ab}$ is defined in the form $\Sigma^{ab}=\frac{i}{2}\left[\sigma^{a},\sigma^{b}\right]$, where we define the matrix $\sigma^{0}=I$ being the $2\times2$ identity matrix and $\sigma^{i}$ being the usual Pauli matrices. Further, the connection 1-form $K_{\mu ab}\left(x\right)$ is related to the contortion tensor via the expression \cite{shap}:
\begin{eqnarray}
K_{\mu ab}\left(x\right)=K_{\beta\nu\mu}\left(x\right)\left[e^{\nu}_{\,\,\,a}\left(x\right)\,e^{\beta}_{\,\,\,b}\left(x\right)-e^{\nu}_{\,\,\,b}\left(x\right)\,e^{\beta}_{\,\,\,a}\left(x\right)\right].
\label{1.5}
\end{eqnarray}
Moreover, the contortion tensor is related with the torsion tensor via $K^{\beta}_{\,\,\,\nu\mu}=\frac{1}{2}\left(T^{\beta}_{\,\,\,\nu\mu}-T_{\nu\,\,\,\,\mu}^{\,\,\,\beta}-T^{\,\,\,\beta}_{\mu\,\,\,\,\nu}\right)$. Note that the torsion tensor is antisymmetric in the last two indices, while the contortion tensor is antisymmetric in the first two indices. Following these definitions, we can represent the torsion tensor in terms of three irreducible components \cite{shap}: the trace 4-vector $T_{\mu}=T^{\beta}_{\,\,\,\mu\beta}$, the axial 4-vector $S^{\alpha}=\epsilon^{\alpha\beta\nu\mu}\,T_{\beta\nu\mu}$, and the tensor $q_{\beta\nu\mu}$ which satisfy the conditions: $q^{\beta}_{\,\,\mu\beta}=0$ and $\epsilon^{\alpha\beta\nu\mu}\,q_{\beta\nu\mu}=0$. In this way, the torsion tensor becomes $T_{\beta\nu\mu}=\frac{1}{3}\left(T_{\nu}\,g_{\beta\mu}-T_{\mu}\,g_{\beta\nu}\right)-\frac{1}{6}\,\epsilon_{\beta\nu\mu\gamma}\,S^{\gamma}+q_{\beta\nu\mu}
$, and we can rewrite the connection 1-form (\ref{1.5}) in terms of these irreducible components \cite{shap}. We also have in the expression of the spinorial connection the presence of the connection 1-form $\omega_{\mu\,\,\,\,b}^{\,\,\,a}\left(x\right)$ which is, in general, related to the curvature in an elastic medium. Both connections 1-form $\omega_{\mu ab}\left(x\right)$ and $K_{\mu ab}\left(x\right)$ can be obtained by solving the Cartan structure equations $T^{a}=d\hat{\theta}^{a}+\omega^{a}_{\,\,\,b}\wedge\hat{\theta}^{b}$ \cite{naka}, where the operator $d$ corresponds to the exterior derivative, the symbol $\wedge$ means the wedge product, $\omega^{a}_{\,\,\,b}=\omega_{\mu\,\,\,\,b}^{\,\,\,a}\left(x\right)\,dx^{\mu}$, and $T^{a}=\frac{1}{2}\,T_{\,\,\mu\nu}^{a}\,dx^{\mu}\wedge dx^{\nu}$ is the torsion $2$-form. For instance, by solving the Cartan structure equations for the triads (\ref{1.4}), we obtain \cite{b6}
\begin{eqnarray}
\omega_{\varphi\,\,\,2}^{\,\,\,1}\left(x\right)&=&-\omega_{\varphi\,\,\,1}^{\,\,\,\,2}\left(x\right)=-1;\nonumber\\
[-2mm]\label{1.6}\\[-2mm]
T^{3}&=&2\Omega\rho\,\,d\rho\wedge d\varphi.\nonumber
\end{eqnarray}
From the component of the torsion $2$-form given in (\ref{1.6}), we obtain one non-null component of the axial $4$-vector $S^{0}=-4\Omega$ \cite{b6}.

In this way, by changing the partial derivative for the covariant derivative of a spinor into the Dirac equation, and applying the Foldy-Wouthuysen approximation \cite{fw} in order to obtain the nonrelativistic limit of the Dirac equation, it has been shown in \cite{bf2} that the general expression for the Schr\"ondiger-Pauli equation (\ref{1.1}) involving torsion in curvilinear coordinates is given by ($\hbar=c=1$)
\begin{eqnarray}
i\frac{\partial\psi}{\partial t}&=&\frac{1}{2m}\left[\vec{p}+\vec{\Xi}\right]^{2}\psi-\frac{\mu^{2}E^{2}}{2m}\,\psi+\frac{\mu}{2m}\left(\vec{\nabla}\cdot\vec{E}\right)\psi\nonumber\\
[-2mm]\label{1.7}\\[-2mm]
&+&\mu\,\vec{\sigma}\cdot\vec{B}\,\psi+\frac{1}{8}\,\vec{\sigma}\cdot\vec{S}\,\psi,\nonumber
\end{eqnarray}
where the vector $\vec{\Xi}$ is defined in such a way that its components are given in the local reference frame (\ref{1.4}) by $\Xi_{k}=\mu\left(\vec{\sigma}\times\vec{E}\right)_{k}+\frac{1}{2}\,\sigma^{3}\,e^{\varphi}_{\,\,\,k}\left(x\right)-\frac{1}{8}\,S^{0}\,\sigma_{k}$. Note that the terms $\frac{1}{2}\,\sigma^{3}\,e^{\varphi}_{\,\,\,k}\left(x\right)$ and $-\frac{1}{8}\,S^{0}\,\sigma_{k}$ comes from the contribution of the spinorial connection, and $\vec{\Xi}$ plays the role of an effective potential vector. Moreover, in the absence of defects, we have that the term $\left(\vec{\sigma}\times\vec{E}\right)$ plays the role of the Aharonov-Casher potential vector \cite{ac}. As discussed in Refs. \cite{shap,shap2}, the components of the vector $\vec{\sigma}$ can be considered as internal degrees of freedom, that is, we can consider the components of $\vec{\sigma}$ corresponding to the spin of the neutral particle. In this way, we can see in Eq. (\ref{1.7}) that the axial 4-vector $S^{\mu}$ couples to spinors, while the trace 4-vector $T^{\mu}$ and the tensor $q_{\beta\nu\mu}$ decouple. The spin-torsion coupling is given by the last term of (\ref{1.7}).

In the Aharonov-Casher system \cite{ac}, the magnetic dipole moment of the neutral particle is considered to be aligned to the $z$-axis, then, by taking the electric field $\vec{E}=\frac{\lambda}{\rho}\,\hat{\rho}$ (produced by a linear distribution of electric charges on the symmetry axis of one screw dislocation, which can be considered to be placed at the center of the area $A$), we have from (\ref{1.2}) that $\mu\left(\vec{\sigma}\times\vec{E}\right)=\pm\frac{\phi_{\mathrm{AC}}}{2\pi}\,\hat{\varphi}$. Further, for the neutral particle moving in a region $\rho\neq0$, we have that the term $\vec{\nabla}\cdot\vec{E}$ of Eq. (\ref{1.7}) is null if we assume that the wave function of the neutral particle is well-behaved at the origin. In this way, the Schr\"odinger-Pauli equation (\ref{1.7}) becomes
\begin{eqnarray}
i\frac{\partial\psi}{\partial t}&=&-\frac{1}{2m}\left[\frac{\partial^{2}}{\partial\rho^{2}}+\frac{1}{\rho}\frac{\partial}{\partial\rho}+\frac{1}{\rho^{2}}\frac{\partial^{2}}{\partial\varphi^{2}}-2\Omega\,\frac{\partial^{2}}{\partial z\partial\varphi}\right]\psi\nonumber\\
&-&\frac{1}{2m}\,\left(1+\Omega^{2}\rho^{2}\right)\frac{\partial^{2}\psi}{\partial z^{2}}+\frac{1}{2m}\frac{i\sigma^{3}}{\rho^{2}}\frac{\partial\psi}{\partial\varphi}+\frac{1}{8m\rho^{2}}\,\psi\nonumber\\
[-2mm]\label{3.5}\\[-2mm]
&-&\frac{i\sigma^{3}}{m}\frac{\phi_{\mathrm{AC}}}{2\pi\rho^{2}}\,\frac{\partial\psi}{\partial\varphi}+\frac{i\sigma^{3}}{m}\,\frac{\phi_{\mathrm{AC}}}{2\pi}\Omega\frac{\partial\psi}{\partial z}-\frac{i\sigma^{3}}{2m}\,\Omega\frac{\partial\psi}{\partial z}\nonumber\\
&-&\frac{1}{2m}\frac{\phi_{\mathrm{AC}}}{2\pi\rho^{2}}\,\psi-\frac{i\sigma^{3}\Omega}{2m}\frac{\partial\psi}{\partial z}+\frac{\Omega^{2}}{8m}\,\psi+\frac{1}{2m}\left(\frac{\phi_{\mathrm{AC}}}{2\pi\rho}\right)^{2}\psi.\nonumber
\end{eqnarray}

We can see that $\psi$ is an eigenfunction of $\sigma^{3}$, whose eigenvalues are $s=\pm1$ and the Hamiltonian of the equation (\ref{3.5}) commutes with the operators $\hat{J}_{z}=-i\partial_{\varphi}$ \footnote{It has been shown in Ref. \cite{schu} that the $z$-component of the total angular momentum operator in cylindrical coordinates is given by $\hat{J}_{z}=-i\partial_{\varphi}$, whose eigenvalues are $j=l+\frac{1}{2}=\pm\frac{1}{2},\pm\frac{3}{2},\ldots$.} and $\hat{p}_{z}=-i\partial_{z}$. Therefore, we can write the solution of the Schr\"odinger-Pauli equation (\ref{3.5}) in terms of the eigenfunctions of the operators $\hat{J}_{z}$ and $\hat{p}_{z}$ \cite{schu}, that is, $\psi_{s}=e^{-i\mathcal{E}t}\,e^{i\left(l+\frac{1}{2}\right)\varphi}\,e^{ikz}\,R_{s}\left(\rho\right)$, where $l=0,\pm1,\pm2,\ldots$ and $k$ is a constant (we consider $k>0$ as discussed in \cite{bm}). Substituting this general solution into the second order differential equation (\ref{3.5}), we obtain
\begin{eqnarray}
\mathcal{E}R_{s}&=&-\frac{1}{2m}\left[\frac{d^{2}R_{s}}{d\rho^{2}}+\frac{1}{\rho}\frac{dR_{s}}{d\rho}\right]+\frac{1}{2m}\frac{\gamma_{s}^{2}}{\rho^{2}}R_{s}-\frac{\Omega k}{m}\gamma_{s}\,R_{s}\nonumber\\
[-2mm]\label{3.6}\\[-2mm]
&+&\frac{1}{2m}\left(k+s\frac{\Omega}{2}\right)^{2}\,R_{s}+\Omega^{2}k^{2}\rho^{2}\,R_{s},\nonumber
\end{eqnarray}
where we have defined the following parameter in the equation (\ref{3.6}):
\begin{eqnarray}
\gamma_{s}=l+\frac{1}{2}\left(1-s\right)+s\frac{\phi_{\mathrm{AC}}}{\phi_{0}},
\label{3.6a}
\end{eqnarray}
where $\phi_{0}=2\pi$ \footnote{Note, by restoring $\hbar$ and $c$, we have $\phi_{0}=2\pi/\hbar\,c$ as in Ref. \cite{ring1}.}. Note that, the presence of a uniform distribution of screw dislocation yields no new term in the expression of the angular momentum (\ref{3.6a}) in contrast to the cases where there exist the presence of only one screw dislocation as pointed out in \cite{fm,az,f2,f3,ani} for a spinless quantum particle and in \cite{bf5} for a spin-half neutral particle. In the present case, the presence of the uniform distribution of screw dislocations provides the spin-torsion coupling as pointed out in \cite{shap}, and a term proportional to $\rho^{2}$ in Eq. (\ref{3.6}) which is analogous to a harmonic oscillator potential.

Next, we make the change of variables $\xi=\Omega k \rho^{2}$, then, the equation (\ref{3.6}) becomes
\begin{eqnarray}
\xi\,\frac{d^{2}R_{s}}{d\xi^{2}}+\frac{dR_{s}}{d\xi}-\frac{\gamma^{2}_{s}}{4\xi}\,R_{s}-\frac{\xi}{4}\,R_{s}+\frac{\beta_{s}}{4\Omega k}\,R_{s}=0,
\label{3.7}
\end{eqnarray}
where $\beta_{s}=2m\mathcal{E}+2\Omega k\gamma_{s}-\left(k+s\frac{\Omega}{2}\right)^{2}$. Now, we consider the wave function of the neutral particle is well-behaved at the origin, thus, the solution for the equation (\ref{3.7}) can be written as
\begin{eqnarray}
R_{s}\left(\xi\right)=e^{-\frac{\xi}{2}}\,\xi^{\frac{\left|\gamma_{s}\right|}{2}}\,M_{s}\left(\xi\right).
\label{3.8}
\end{eqnarray}
Substituting the solution (\ref{3.8}) into (\ref{3.7}), we obtain a second order differential equation given by
\begin{eqnarray}
\xi\,M_{s}''+\left[\left|\gamma_{s}\right|+1-\xi\right]\,M_{s}'+\left[\frac{\beta_{s}}{4\Omega k}-\frac{\left|\gamma_{s}\right|}{2}-\frac{1}{2}\right]\,M_{s}=0,
\label{3.9}
\end{eqnarray}
which is the Kummer equation or the confluent hypergeometric function \cite{abra}. In order to obtain a solution for the equation (\ref{3.9}) regular at the origin, we consider only the Kummer function of first kind given by $M_{s}\left(\xi\right)=M\left(\frac{\left|\gamma_{s}\right|}{2}+\frac{1}{2}-\frac{\beta_{s}}{4\Omega k},\left|\gamma_{s}\right|+1,\xi=\Omega k \rho^{2}\right)$ \cite{abra}. Therefore, a normalized radial wave function can be obtained if we impose that the hypergeometric series becomes a polynomial of degree $n$. This makes the radial wave function finite everywhere \cite{landau}. This can be achieved when the parameter $\frac{\left|\gamma_{s}\right|}{2}+\frac{1}{2}-\frac{\beta_{s}}{4\Omega k}$ is equal to a non-positive integer number, that is, when $\frac{\left|\gamma_{s}\right|}{2}+\frac{1}{2}-\frac{\beta_{s}}{4\Omega k}=-n$ (with $n=0,1,2,\ldots$). With this condition, the energy levels of the bound states are
\begin{eqnarray}
\mathcal{E}_{n,\,l}=\frac{2\Omega k}{m}\left[n+\frac{\left|\gamma_{s}\right|}{2}-\frac{\gamma_{s}}{2}+\frac{1}{2}\right]+\frac{1}{2m}\left(k+s\frac{\Omega}{2}\right)^{2}.
\label{3.10}
\end{eqnarray}

The expression (\ref{3.10}) corresponds to the energy levels for a neutral particle with a permanent magnetic dipole moment interacting with an external electric field in an elastic Landau system. This elastic Landau system is obtained due to the presence of the topological defect, where the uniform distribution of dislocations in the elastic medium plays the role of a uniform magnetic field.

From (\ref{3.6a}), we can see that the energy levels (\ref{3.10}) depends on the Aharonov-Casher geometric phase \cite{ac} whose periodicity is $\phi_{0}=2\pi$, that is, $\mathcal{E}_{n,\,l}\left(\phi_{\mathrm{AC}}+\phi_{0}\right)=\mathcal{E}_{n,\,l+1}\left(\phi_{\mathrm{AC}}\right)$.  Observing the harmonic-type confinement in (\ref{3.6}) due to the presence of a density of screw dislocations, we have an effective magnetic confinement analogous to a quantum dot \cite{tan2}. Thereby, we can calculate persistent spin currents \cite{ring1,ring4} in analogous way to the persistent currents observed in a quantum dot \cite{tan2}. Hence, from the dependence of the energy levels on the Aharonov-Casher geometric phase, there exists the arising of persistent spin currents in this system given by \cite{by,ring1,ring4}
\begin{eqnarray}
\mathcal{I}=-\sum_{n,\,l}\frac{\partial\mathcal{E}_{n,\,l}}{\partial\phi_{\mathrm{AC}}}=-\sum_{n,\,l}\frac{s}{2\pi}\frac{\Omega k}{m}\left[\frac{\gamma_{s}}{\left|\gamma_{s}\right|}-1\right].
\label{3.11}
\end{eqnarray}

Note that the appearance of the persistent spin currents (\ref{3.11}) in the Aharonov-Casher system comes from the presence of the uniform distribution of screw dislocation along the path of the neutral particle. Without this uniform distribution of screw dislocation, a discrete spectrum of energy would be impossible in the Aharonov-Casher system because the neutral particle would be a free particle. We also have that the presence of topological defects in this system does not change the periodicity of the persistent spin currents as pointed out in \cite{fur4} for a spinless quantum particle without torsion). The persistent spin currents (\ref{3.11}) is a periodic function of the Aharonov-Casher geometric phase $\phi_{\mathrm{AC}}$, whose periodicity is $\phi_{0}=2\pi$.

\section{hard-wall confining potential}

In this section, we consider the presence of a hard-wall confining potential in the elastic Landau system discussed in the previous section. This confining potential used here aims to describe a more realistic geometry of a quantum dot in the presence of a uniform screw dislocation density. In the following, we consider the wave function of the neutral particle being well-behaved at the origin, and vanishing at a a fixed radius $\rho_{B}$. As we have obtained in the previous section, the radial solutions (\ref{3.8}) are given by
\begin{eqnarray}
R_{s}\left(\xi\right)=e^{-\frac{\xi}{2}}\,\xi^{\frac{\left|\gamma_{s}\right|}{2}}\,M\left( \frac{\left|\gamma_{s}\right|}{2}+\frac{1}{2}-\frac{\beta_{s}}{4\Omega k},\left|\gamma_{s}\right|+1,\xi=\Omega k \rho^{2}\right).
\label{4.1}
\end{eqnarray}

In order to obtain a normalized solution inside the range $0\,<\rho\,<\,\rho_{B}$, we consider $\Omega k$ being quite small. In this way, by taking a fixed value for the parameter $b=\left|\gamma_{s}\right|+1$ of the Kummer function, we can consider the parameter of the Kummer function $a=\frac{\left|\gamma_{s}\right|}{2}+\frac{1}{2}-\frac{\beta_{s}}{4\Omega  k}$ being large due to $\Omega k$ to be small. Thus, by considering a fixed radius $\rho_{B}$, we can write the Kummer function in (\ref{4.1}) as follows \cite{abra,b10}:
\begin{eqnarray}
M\left(a,b,\xi_{0}=\Omega k\,\rho^{2}_{B}\right)&\approx&\frac{\Gamma\left(b\right)}{\sqrt{\pi}}\,e^{\frac{\xi_{0}}{2}}\left(\frac{b\xi_{0}}{2}-a\xi_{0}\right)^{\frac{1-b}{2}}\times\nonumber\\
[-2mm]\label{4.2}\\[-2mm]
&\times&\cos\left(\sqrt{2b\xi_{0}-4a\xi_{0}}-\frac{b\pi}{2}+\frac{\pi}{4}\right),\nonumber
\end{eqnarray}
where $\Gamma\left(b\right)$ is the gamma function. Next, by applying the boundary condition $R_{s}\left(\rho_{B}\right)=0$, we obtain the following expression for the energy levels:
\begin{eqnarray}
\mathcal{E}_{n,\,l}\approx\frac{1}{2m\rho_{B}^{2}}\left[n\pi+\frac{\left|\gamma_{s}\right|}{2}\pi+\frac{3\pi}{4}\right]^{2}-\frac{\Omega k}{m}\,\gamma_{s}+\frac{1}{2m}\left(k+s\frac{\Omega}{2}\right)^{2}.
\label{4.4}
\end{eqnarray}

The energy levels (\ref{4.4}) correspond to having the neutral particle interacting with a radial electric field in a elastic medium confined to a hard-wall confining potential. Despite the uniform distribution of screw dislocation plays the role of a uniform magnetic field yielding the arising of an analogue of the Landau quantization \cite{landau}, we have in this case a confinement of a neutral particle to a quantum dot with a hard-wall confining potential \cite{dot,bf20,b10}. The presence of the topological defects on this system yields two new contributions to the spectrum of energy given by the two last terms of (\ref{4.4}) in contrast to the results obtained in Ref. \cite{bf20} in the absence of defects. Moreover, we can recover the results obtained in Ref. \cite{bf20} for a neutral particle confined to a quantum dot with a hard-wall confining potential by taking the limit $\Omega\rightarrow0$. Although there exists the influence of topological defects on this system, the degeneracy of the energy levels is not broken due to the presence of defects as it has been shown in studies involving quantum rings \cite{ani}, quantum dots \cite{fur4} (without torsion), and a confinement of a neutral particle to a quantum dot induced by noninertial effects \cite{b2}. Following the discussion of Ref. \cite{ani}, the presence of torsion associated with the uniform distribution of screw dislocations introduces a spiral structure in the medium.

Furthermore, we can see that the energy levels (\ref{4.4}) depend on the Aharonov-Casher geometric phase $\phi_{\mathrm{AC}}$ \cite{ac}, with a periodicity $\phi_{0}=2\pi$. From this dependence on the geometric phase, persistent currents arise inside the quantum dot. By using the Byers-Yang relation \cite{by}, the persistent spin currents are given by
\begin{eqnarray}
\mathcal{I}&=&-\sum_{n,\,l}\frac{\partial\mathcal{E}_{n,\,l}}{\partial\phi_{\mathrm{AC}}}\nonumber\\
&=&-\sum_{n,\,l}\frac{s}{4m\rho_{B}^{2}} \left[n\pi+\frac{\left|\gamma_{s}\right|}{2}\pi+\frac{3\pi}{4}\right]\frac{\gamma_{s}}{\left|\gamma_{s}\right|}+\frac{s}{2\pi}\frac{\Omega k}{m}.
\label{4.5}
\end{eqnarray}

Note that the expression of the persistent currents (\ref{4.5}) is a periodic function of the Aharonov-Casher geometric phase $\phi_{\mathrm{AC}}$, whose periodicity is $\phi_{0}=2\pi$. We can see that the presence of topological defects does not change the periodicity of the persistent currents as pointed out in Ref. \cite{fur4} in the absence of torsion. The influence of torsion on the persistent currents inside the quantum dot is given by adding a new term: $\frac{s}{2\pi}\frac{\Omega k}{m}$.  By taking the limit  $\Omega\rightarrow0$, we recover the same expression for the persistent currents obtained in Ref. \cite{bf20}.

\section{conclusions}

In this work, we have shown that the influence of a classical background made by a uniform distribution of screw dislocation on the Aharonov-Casher system \cite{ac} gives rise to bound states analogous to the Landau quantization having a dependence on the Aharonov-Casher geometric phase. In this case, the Aharonov-Casher geometric phase arises from the interaction between the permanent magnetic dipole moment of a neutral particle and an electric field produced by a charged screw dislocation placed at the center of the area $A$ that contains a uniform distribution of screw dislocations. Besides, we have seen that the uniform distribution of screw dislocation plays the role of a uniform magnetic field which gives rise to the elastic Landau system \cite{f4}. From the dependence of the energy levels on the Aharonov-Casher geometric phase, we have obtained that the energy levels are a periodic function of the geometric phase, and yields the arising of persistent currents in the elastic Landau system.

We have also discussed the confinement of a neutral particle with a permanent magnetic dipole moment to a hard-wall confining potential in the presence of an electric field. We have shown that by imposing a condition on the parameter related to the uniform distribution of defects that we can obtain bound states analogous to having a neutral particle confined to a quantum dot in the asymptotic limit. Furthermore, we have seen that the presence of topological defects does not break the degeneracy of the energy levels in contrast to previous studies of the influence of topological defects on quantum dots \cite{fur4,b2}. We also have seen that the energy levels depend on the Aharonov-Casher geometric phase, and obtained the persistent currents from this dependence on the geometric phase. Moreover, we have shown that the presence of topological defects does not change the periodicity of the persistent currents as pointed out in Ref. \cite{fur4} in the absence of torsion, but yields a new term in the expression of the persistent currents.  Note that the existence of this new contribution to the persistent current in (\ref{4.5}), which arises from the presence of torsion in a quantum dot, can be investigated in semiconductors quantum dots possessing a density of screw dislocations, since persistent spin currents can be measured in these systems.

\acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank CNPq, CAPES/NANOBIOTEC, CNPQ/PNPD, CNPQ/Universal for financial support.

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Last October, four U.S. soldiers -- including two commandos -- were killed in an ambush in Niger. Since then, talk of U.S. special operations in Africa has centered on missions being curtailed and troop levels cut.
According to figures provided to The Interceptby U.S. Special Operations Command, 16.5 percent of commandos overseas are deployed in Africa. This is about the same percentage of special operators sent to the continent in 2017 and represents a major increase over deployments during the first decade of the post-9/11 war on terror. In 2006, for example, just 1 percent of all U.S. commandos deployed overseas were in Africa -- fewer than in the Middle East, the Pacific, Europe, or Latin America. By 2010, the number had risen only slightly, to 3 percent.


User can click an account name and the location columns will sort by that value to easily which locations have highest or lowest sales, costs, etc.
Bank Rules can now be setup to match on name or comment (previously only name) and you can specify 2 matching conditions (previously just 1).
System setting added to preferences to set whether employee full names are stored as "Last Name, First Name" or "First Name Last Name"


This icon gives me the giddies. HEEEEEEEEEEEE! *spins* Oh, show. How art thou so awesome? Dost it hurt thee to be made of so much awesome? HOLYCRAPIWANNASEEITNOW!!!
Also, I've been watching Hancock every chance I get. Why? I dunno. *iz a dork* It made The Old Man cry tho... huh.
i can answer your question... seeing as how i know what it feels like to be made of awesome, the answer is sometimes.


In this economic climate gold has become a popular investment strategy for those who are able to purchase it for safe keeping. I wish I had a few bars of it myself to bury in the backyard, don't you?
Today I want to talk about another kind of gold. Something more than a few agencies have told us since the beginning of HAMO: diapers are like gold. In low income neighborhoods, food deserts, and across the social service sector – diapering "gold" is a hot commodity. It's something so basic that many of us don't think much about, yet mothers across the country spend a considerable amount of time worrying about and trying to procure.
Much gratitude to Alma, Nakisha, and Elisafor taking the time to share their work with HAMO.
And THANK YOU to all our friends who are creating a safety net for families in need.
Inspired to act? You can help us continue our diaper program by making a monetary donation here, or if you prefer, ship diapers directly to us through our wishlist, or drop 'em off in person.


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A 2018-as WTA Elite Trophy a WTA által évente megrendezésre kerülő esemény 2018. évi tornája, amelyen a világranglistán elért helyezése alapján a 2018-as WTA Finals tornára kvalifikációt szerzett versenyzőket követő 11 játékos és egy további, a rendezők szabadkártyáját kapó versenyző indulhat. Sérülés vagy egyéb lemondás miatt a távol maradó helyett a ranglista következő helyén álló versenyző vehet részt a tornán. Párosban a WTA Finals tornán szereplő párosokat a világranglistán követő négy páros indulhat a versenyen, a rendezők két további párosnak adnak szabadkártyát.

A címvédő egyesben a német Julia Görges, illetve a kínai Tuan Jing-jing és Han Hszin-jün párosa volt. Julia Görges ebben az évben is az indulók között volt, a kínai páros egyik tagja sem vett részt a tornán.

A győzelmet egyéniben az ausztrál Ashleigh Barty szerezte meg, miután a döntőben 6–3, 6–4 arányban nyert a kínai Vang Csiang ellen. Párosban az ukrán testvérpár Ljudmila Kicsenok és Nagyija Kicsenok nyerte a tornát, a döntőben 6–4, 3–6, [10–7] arányú győzelmet aratva a japán Aojama Súko és a fehérorosz Lidzija Marozava párosa ellen.

A verseny
A negyedik WTA Elite Trophy versenyt 2018. október 30. − november 4. között rendezték, a helyszíne a Hengqin International Tennis Center volt a kínai Csuhajban. A torna díjalapja 2018-ban  amerikai dollár.

A ranglistapontok és a díjazás
Az első helyezett 700 ranglistapontot szerezhetett. A párosok ezen a versenyen nem kaptak ranglistapontot.

1 KM − a körmérkőzéses szakaszban szerzett pénzdíjak és pontok.
² A körmérkőzéses szakaszban a szabadkártyával induló 80 pontot kap egy győzelemért és 0 pontot a vereségért.

A lebonyolítás formája
A versenyen részt vevő 12 játékost négy háromfős csoportba sorsolták, és a négy csoportgyőztes alkotta az elődöntő mezőnyét. Az elődöntő hagyományos kieséses formában zajlott.

A párosoknál a hat csapat két háromfős csoportban versenyzett, és a két csoportgyőztes mérkőzött a bajnoki címért.

A helyezések eldöntése a körmérkőzéses szakaszban
A helyezések az alábbiak figyelembe vételével dőltek el:
1. A győzelmek száma
2. Ha a győzelmek száma egyenlő volt, akkor a mérkőzéseken nyert játszmák száma döntött
3. Ha ez is egyenlő volt, akkor két játékos holtversenye esetén az egymás elleni eredményt, ha három játékos között volt holtverseny, akkor elsőként a játszmaarányt, másodikként a játékarányt vették figyelembe.

Az egyéni versenyen kvalifikációt szerzett versenyzők
A 2018. évi versenyre az alábbi táblázatban szereplő versenyzők szereztek kvalifikációt:

A versenyen a kétszeres Grand Slam-tornagyőztes (Garbiñe Muguruza) mellett a 2017-es US Open döntőse Madison Keys), valamint a címvédő Julia Görges is elindult. Sérülés miatt lemondta a részvételt az ugyancsak kvalifikációt szerzett Serena Williams, és a 2017-es Roland Garros-győztes Jeļena Ostapenko. A verseny résztvevői 2018-ban összesen 14 WTA-tornagyőzelmet szereztek.

Az egymás elleni eredmények a torna előtt

A verseny eredményei

Egyéni
A versenyen részt vevő 12 játékost négy háromfős csoportba sorsolták.

A csoportmérkőzések
Azalea csoport
A csoportot Madison Keys nyerte, de az elődöntő előtt sérülése miatt visszalépett, így helyette a csoport 2. helyezettje, Vang Csiang jutott tovább.

Camellia csoport

Orchid csoport

Rose csoport

Döntők

Páros
A versenyen az alábbi párosok indultak el:

Az indulókat két háromfős csoportba sorsolták, amelyek első helyezettjei kerültek a döntőbe, és mérkőztek meg a tornagyőzelemért.

A párosok csoportmérkőzései
A (Lily) csoport

B (Bougainvillea) csoport

A páros döntő

Kapcsolódó szócikkek
2018-as WTA-szezon

Jegyzetek

Források
A WTA 2017-es hivatalos szabálykönyve
Hivatalos honlap
A torna WTA adatlapja
A kvalifikációt szerzett játékosok listája

Tenisztornák
WTA Elite
Kína sportélete


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import { Component, OnInit, Input } from '@angular/core';
import { AlertService, AuthenticationService } from '../../services';

@Component({
    selector: 'skills-component',
    template: require('./skills.component.html')
})
export class SkillsComponent {
    constructor(private authService: AuthenticationService,
        private alertService: AlertService)
    {

    }

}

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By dstar002, April 22, 2008 in Gaming
dstar002 10
Junior Apprentice
I cant wait any longer for Diablo 3.... Is there anyone who knoes when it will be actually released?
forever young 10
Re: DIABLO 3
It will released on 09/30/2009
TaLamia 11
I am being queen of the wastelands in fallout 3 hehehe
bogdan 10
There has been no confirmed date. It will probably be released end of next year.
bidorbuy staff
From the Diablo 3 Official website :
When will Diablo III be released?
It's too early to estimate Diablo III's release date. As with all Blizzard Entertainment games, our goal is to create a game that is as fun, balanced, and polished as possible. We intend to take as much time developing Diablo III as is necessary to ensure the game meets our own high expectations and those of our players. We're aiming to release Diablo III on both Mac and Windows simultaneously in as many regions as possible, and to localize the game in several languages. We'll have more details to share about countries, languages, and specific dates as we get closer to release.