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package org.broadinstitute.dsde.firecloud.page.workspaces.notebooks

import com.typesafe.scalalogging.LazyLogging
import org.broadinstitute.dsde.firecloud.{FireCloudConfig, FireCloudView}
import org.broadinstitute.dsde.firecloud.component.Component._
import org.broadinstitute.dsde.firecloud.component._
import org.broadinstitute.dsde.firecloud.page.PageUtil
import org.broadinstitute.dsde.firecloud.page.workspaces.WorkspacePage
import org.broadinstitute.dsde.workbench.model.google.GcsPath
import org.broadinstitute.dsde.workbench.service.test.WebBrowserUtil
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver
import org.scalatest.selenium.WebBrowser

class WorkspaceNotebooksPage(namespace: String, name: String)(implicit webDriver: WebDriver)
  extends WorkspacePage(namespace, name) with PageUtil[WorkspaceNotebooksPage] with LazyLogging {

  override def awaitReady(): Unit = clustersTable.awaitReady()

  lazy override val url: String = s"${FireCloudConfig.FireCloud.baseUrl}#workspaces/$namespace/$name/notebooks"

  private val clustersTable = Table("spark-clusters-table")
  private val openCreateClusterModalButton: Button = Button("create-modal-button")
  val noClustersMessage = "There are no clusters to display."
  def clusterStatusId(clusterName: String) = clusterName + "-status"

  // Goes to a Jupyter page. Currently doesn't return a page object
  // because Jupyter functionality is tested in leo automated tests.
  // Just check that it loads
  def openJupyterPage(clusterName: String): JupyterPage = {
    val initialWindowHandles = windowHandles

    val clusterLink = Link(clusterName + "-link")
    clusterLink.doClick()

    await condition (windowHandles.size > 1)
    val jupyterWindowHandle = (windowHandles -- initialWindowHandles).head

    switch to window(jupyterWindowHandle)
    new JupyterPage().awaitLoaded()
  }

  def waitUntilClusterIsRunning(clusterName: String) = {
    await condition (getClusterStatus(clusterName) == "Running", 900)
  }

  def waitUntilClusterIsDeleted(clusterName: String) = {
    await notVisible (testId(clusterStatusId(clusterName)), 900)
  }

  def openCreateClusterModal(): CreateClusterModal = {
    openCreateClusterModalButton.doClick()
    await ready new CreateClusterModal
  }

  def openDeleteClusterModal(clusterName: String): DeleteClusterModal = {
    val openDeleteClusterModalButton: Button = Button(clusterName + "-delete-button")

    openDeleteClusterModalButton.doClick()
    await ready new DeleteClusterModal(clusterName)
  }

  def getClusterStatus(clusterName: String): String = {
    val clusterStatus = Label(clusterStatusId(clusterName))
    await ready clusterStatus
    clusterStatus.getText
  }

  def getClusters() = {
    clustersTable.getData
  }
}

class CreateClusterModal(implicit webDriver: WebDriver) extends OKCancelModal("create-cluster-modal") {

  // ids for all inputs and labels (test ids for labels should increment
  private val clusterNameField = TextField("cluster-name-input" inside this)

  private val optionalSettingsArea = Collapse("optional-settings", new FireCloudView {
    override def awaitReady(): Unit = masterMachineTypeSelect.awaitVisible()

    val masterMachineTypeSelect = Select("master-machine-type-select")
    val masterDiskSizeField = NumberField("master-disk-size-input")
    val workerField = NumberField("workers-input")
    val workerMachineTypeSelect = Select("worker-machine-type-select")
    val workerDiskSizeField = NumberField("worker-disk-size-input")
    val workerLocalSSDsField = NumberField("worker-local-ssds-input")
    val localPreemptibleWorkersField = NumberField("preemptible-workers-input")
    val extensionURIField = TextField("extension-uri-input")
    val customScriptURIField = TextField("custom-script-uri-input")
    val addLabelButton = Button("add-label-button")

  })

  import scala.language.reflectiveCalls

  def createCluster(clusterName: String,
                    masterMachineType: String = "n1-standard-4",
                    masterDiskSize: Int = 500,
                    workers: Int = 0,
                    workerMachineType: String = "n1-standard-4",
                    workerDiskSize: Int = 500,
                    workerLocalSSDs: Int = 0,
                    preemptibleWorkers: Int = 0,
                    extensionURI: Option[GcsPath] = None,
                    customScriptURI: Option[GcsPath] = None,
                    labels: Map[String, String] = Map()) = {

    clusterNameField.setText(clusterName)
    optionalSettingsArea.toggle

    optionalSettingsArea.getInner.masterMachineTypeSelect.select(masterMachineType)
    optionalSettingsArea.getInner.masterDiskSizeField.setText(masterDiskSize.toString)

    optionalSettingsArea.getInner.workerField.setText(workers.toString)
    optionalSettingsArea.getInner.workerMachineTypeSelect.select(workerMachineType)
    optionalSettingsArea.getInner.workerDiskSizeField.setText(workerDiskSize.toString)

    optionalSettingsArea.getInner.workerLocalSSDsField.setText(workerLocalSSDs.toString)
    optionalSettingsArea.getInner.localPreemptibleWorkersField.setText(preemptibleWorkers.toString)

    extensionURI    foreach {path => optionalSettingsArea.getInner.extensionURIField.setText(path.toUri) }
    customScriptURI foreach {path => optionalSettingsArea.getInner.customScriptURIField.setText(path.toUri) }

    addLabels(labels)
    clickOk()
  }

  def addLabels(labels: Map[String, String]) = {
    optionalSettingsArea.ensureExpanded()
    var labelIndex = 0
    labels.foreach{ label =>
      optionalSettingsArea.getInner.addLabelButton.doClick()
      val keyField = TextField("key-" + labelIndex + "-input")
      val valueField = TextField("value-" + labelIndex + "-input")

      keyField.awaitVisible()
      valueField.awaitVisible()

      keyField.setText(label._1)
      valueField.setText(label._2)

      labelIndex+=1
    }
  }

}

class DeleteClusterModal(clusterName: String)(implicit webDriver: WebDriver) extends OKCancelModal("delete-cluster-modal") {
  def deleteCluster() = {
    submit()
  }
}

class JupyterPage(implicit webDriver: WebDriver) extends WebBrowser with WebBrowserUtil {

  def awaitLoaded(): JupyterPage = {
    await text "Select items to perform actions on them."
    this
  }

  /**
    * Assumes we only have the notebooks list page and the jupyter page open
    */
  def returnToNotebooksList() = {
    switch to window((windowHandles - windowHandle).head)
  }
}


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Khalifa Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Aerosp Engn, Abu Dhabi, U Arab Emirates.;Univ Southern Queensland, Ctr Future Mat, Toowoomba, Qld, Australia..
Khalifa Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Aerosp Engn, Abu Dhabi, U Arab Emirates..
Tokyo Univ Sci, Dept Mech Engn, Tokyo, Japan..
Four all-composite lattice designs were produced using a lost-mould procedure that involved inserting carbon fibre tows through holes in a core. Following resin infusion and curing, samples were heated to melt the core, leaving well-defined lattice structures based on what are termed BCC, BCCz, FCC and F2BCC designs. Analytical and numerical models for predicting the mechanical properties of the four designs are presented and these results are compared with the experimental data from the quasi-static compression tests. Compression tests on the four lattice structures indicated that the F2BCC lattice offered the highest compression strength, although when normalized by relative density, the BCCz lattice structure out-performed other structures. Similarly, the specific compression strengths were found to be superior to those of more traditional core materials. A number of failure mechanisms were also highlighted, including strut buckling, fracture at the strut-skin joints and debonding of reinforcing members at the central nodes. Finally, it is believed that the properties of these lattices can be further increased using higher fibre volume fractions.


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Q: Openstack Grizzly Fails to Provision New VMs I'm running Openstack Grizzly on CentOS installed by Mirantis Fuel.
[root@controller-20 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 6.4 (Final)

[root@controller-20 ~]# rpm -qa | grep -i openstack-nova
openstack-nova-console-2013.1.1.fuel3.0-mira.2.noarch
openstack-nova-common-2013.1.1.fuel3.0-mira.2.noarch
openstack-nova-scheduler-2013.1.1.fuel3.0-mira.2.noarch
openstack-nova-conductor-2013.1.1.fuel3.0-mira.2.noarch
openstack-nova-objectstore-2013.1.1.fuel3.0-mira.2.noarch
openstack-nova-novncproxy-0.4-8.el6.noarch
openstack-nova-cert-2013.1.1.fuel3.0-mira.2.noarch
openstack-nova-api-2013.1.1.fuel3.0-mira.2.noarch

The topology is currently one controller node and three compute nodes, all running on modern Dell rackmount hardware. I've provisioned roughly 25 VMs today before the issues started.
For some reason, while creating/deleting VMs, a fixed IP got stuck in some indeterminate state.  Now, I'm having trouble creating new VMs.  Openstack tries to use IPs that it thinks are still part of an old VM and fails to build the VM.
My fixed network is 10.129.0.0/24.
Here's a list of the problem IPs from the nova-manage command line:
# nova-manage fixed list | grep -E 'network|WARNING' -A 1

network             IP address      hostname        host
10.129.0.0/24       10.129.0.0      None            None
--
WARNING: fixed ip 10.129.0.20 allocated to missing instance
10.129.0.0/24       10.129.0.20     None            None
--
WARNING: fixed ip 10.129.0.23 allocated to missing instance
10.129.0.0/24       10.129.0.23     None            None
--
WARNING: fixed ip 10.129.0.25 allocated to missing instance
10.129.0.0/24       10.129.0.25     None            None
WARNING: fixed ip 10.129.0.26 allocated to missing instance
10.129.0.0/24       10.129.0.26     None            None
WARNING: fixed ip 10.129.0.27 allocated to missing instance
10.129.0.0/24       10.129.0.27     None            None
--
WARNING: fixed ip 10.129.0.30 allocated to missing instance
10.129.0.0/24       10.129.0.30     None            None
WARNING: fixed ip 10.129.0.31 allocated to missing instance
10.129.0.0/24       10.129.0.31     None            None
WARNING: fixed ip 10.129.0.32 allocated to missing instance
10.129.0.0/24       10.129.0.32     None            None
WARNING: fixed ip 10.129.0.33 allocated to missing instance
10.129.0.0/24       10.129.0.33     None            None
WARNING: fixed ip 10.129.0.34 allocated to missing instance
10.129.0.0/24       10.129.0.34     None            None
WARNING: fixed ip 10.129.0.35 allocated to missing instance
10.129.0.0/24       10.129.0.35     None            None
WARNING: fixed ip 10.129.0.36 allocated to missing instance
10.129.0.0/24       10.129.0.36     None            None
WARNING: fixed ip 10.129.0.37 allocated to missing instance
10.129.0.0/24       10.129.0.37     None            None
WARNING: fixed ip 10.129.0.38 allocated to missing instance
10.129.0.0/24       10.129.0.38     None            None
WARNING: fixed ip 10.129.0.39 allocated to missing instance
10.129.0.0/24       10.129.0.39     None            None
WARNING: fixed ip 10.129.0.40 allocated to missing instance
10.129.0.0/24       10.129.0.40     None            None
WARNING: fixed ip 10.129.0.41 allocated to missing instance
10.129.0.0/24       10.129.0.41     None            None
WARNING: fixed ip 10.129.0.42 allocated to missing instance
10.129.0.0/24       10.129.0.42     None            None
WARNING: fixed ip 10.129.0.43 allocated to missing instance
10.129.0.0/24       10.129.0.43     None            None
WARNING: fixed ip 10.129.0.44 allocated to missing instance
10.129.0.0/24       10.129.0.44     None            None
WARNING: fixed ip 10.129.0.45 allocated to missing instance
10.129.0.0/24       10.129.0.45     None            None
WARNING: fixed ip 10.129.0.46 allocated to missing instance
10.129.0.0/24       10.129.0.46     None            None
--
WARNING: fixed ip 10.129.0.48 allocated to missing instance
10.129.0.0/24       10.129.0.48     None            None
WARNING: fixed ip 10.129.0.49 allocated to missing instance
10.129.0.0/24       10.129.0.49     None            None
WARNING: fixed ip 10.129.0.50 allocated to missing instance
10.129.0.0/24       10.129.0.50     None            None
--
WARNING: fixed ip 10.129.0.52 allocated to missing instance
10.129.0.0/24       10.129.0.52     None            None
WARNING: fixed ip 10.129.0.53 allocated to missing instance
10.129.0.0/24       10.129.0.53     None            None
--
WARNING: fixed ip 10.129.0.55 allocated to missing instance
10.129.0.0/24       10.129.0.55     None            None
WARNING: fixed ip 10.129.0.56 allocated to missing instance
10.129.0.0/24       10.129.0.56     None            None
WARNING: fixed ip 10.129.0.57 allocated to missing instance
10.129.0.0/24       10.129.0.57     None            None
--
WARNING: fixed ip 10.129.0.59 allocated to missing instance
10.129.0.0/24       10.129.0.59     None            None
WARNING: fixed ip 10.129.0.60 allocated to missing instance
10.129.0.0/24       10.129.0.60     None            None
WARNING: fixed ip 10.129.0.61 allocated to missing instance
10.129.0.0/24       10.129.0.61     None            None

I know that the 10.129.0.20 IP marks the VM instantiation that started the problems.  The issue manifests itself in a failure to provision new VMs.
[root@controller-20 ~]# nova --os-username demetri --os-tenant-name admin --os-auth-url http://localhost:5000/v2.0/ fixed-ip-get 10.129.0.20
OS Password:
+-------------+---------------+----------+-----------------------+
| address     | cidr          | hostname | host                  |
+-------------+---------------+----------+-----------------------+
| 10.129.0.20 | 10.129.0.0/24 | devdbl9  | compute-21.domain.tld |
+-------------+---------------+----------+-----------------------+

The nova-manage commands don't seem to offer any tool to reclaim these IPs.  I've tried reserve/unreserve but that doesn't do the trick.  Also, these IPs are represented in a nova mysql table called fixed_ips.  Example:
+---------------------+---------------------+------------+-----+--------------+------------+-----------+--------+----------+----------------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------------+---------+
| created_at          | updated_at          | deleted_at | id  | address      | network_id | allocated | leased | reserved | virtual_interface_id | host                  | instance_uuid                        | deleted |
+---------------------+---------------------+------------+-----+--------------+------------+-----------+--------+----------+----------------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------------+---------+

| 2013-08-05 11:10:19 | 2013-10-16 11:32:20 | NULL       |  21 | 10.129.0.20  |          1 |         0 |      0 |        0 |                 NULL | NULL                  | df2e9214-78cf-49d3-b256-e35d48818f29 |       0 |

To further confirm the problem relates to the fixed ip networking, the UI reflects an incrementing IP address for the VM say starting at .21, going to .22, going to .23 before ultimately failing with state "ERROR".
All this by way of saying, since this started happening, most but not all attempts to invoke a new VM fail.  How can I troubleshoot this further and ultimately how can I return to smoothly provisioning new VMs?
Thanks.

A: I was able to track this down to a buggy/faulty install of rabbitmq.  The rabbitmq logs started to show errors like:

=ERROR REPORT==== 30-Oct-2013::16:28:11 === connection <0.3821.221>, channel 1 - error: {amqp_error,not_found,
              "no exchange '75232ec16a7846f1979a93e9371040d0' in vhost '/'",
              'basic.publish'}

I upgraded from the installed package,  rabbitmq-server-2.8.7-2.el6.noarch.rpm, to the package hosted on the rabbitmq site, rabbitmq-server-3.2.0-1.noarch.rpm.  Now I can successfully provision nodes!

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Home | International | Do we Remember the Holocaust?
Do we Remember the Holocaust?
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March 19, 2019 March 19, 2019 Surbhi Jain1400Leave a Comment on Do we Remember the Holocaust?
Ghosts of the Holocaust Live on.
By Surbhi Jain
Bengaluru, March 19, 2019
A poll link was conducted in April by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, which revealed that even today, 20 percent of people between the ages of 18 to 34 have never heard of the Holocaust.
A Camp at Auschwitz
Debkonya Ghosh, a 22 year-old Masters student in English Literature from Calcutta University mentioned, "The way the Jews were massively killed with Hitler being in power during that time changed the global scenario as far as the international political front is concerned. This was Hitler's ideology of building a superior race."
Somesh Chowdary, a Bachelor in commerce graduate from Calcutta University said, "The Holocaust was a genocide in the second World War where over six million European Jews were killed."
He also added, "Although it is not happening today, the ghosts of it still linger. This cannot be expected to fade away that easily even if decades have passed."
Dr Samuel Kassow, a Charles Northam Professor at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut was born in a displaced camp in Germany because his mother survived, hiding in a cave underneath the barn on his family's farm.
The World Jewish Congress has also launched a global campaign encouraging millions of people to speak out on social media to raise awareness about the Holocaust. The campaign focuses on calling people from different parts of the world to sign up saying "We Remember" ,and has asked people to post it on social media using the hashtag #WeRemember. The campaign reached more than 650 million people worldwide in 2018.
A Global Solidarity Campaign
The campaign also focuses on making people aware of how the largest concentration camp complex in Europe, Auschwitz Birkenau has been preserved as a memorial site for the people who were persecuted by the Nazis. It has been preserved because it portrays the signification of the historical disaster of the largest killing centre that was built to implement the Jewish genocide.
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Song premiere: Shannon McNally revisits a Waylon Jennings/Willie Nelson classic
Shannon McNally isn't an Austinite, but the singer-songwriter who currently calls Nashville home has ties to the Live Music Capital. She's spent much of the past few years singing Texas songwriter Terry Allen's band alongside prominent Austin musicians such as Lloyd Maines and Charlie Sexton. And South Austin venue Sam's Town Point has became a local home base of sorts for McNally, a place for her to work out new material with her band in an intimate setting.
On May 28, Compass Records will release "The Waylon Sessions," an album of songs popularized by the late Waylon Jennings. The record features guest appearances by Jennings' widow, Jessi Colter, as well as Rodney Crowell, Buddy Miller and Lukas Nelson.
RELATED:Terry Allen hits a late-career peak with 'Just Like Moby Dick
Lukas's father, Austin icon Willie Nelson, gets a tip of the hat, too, via McNally's rendition of "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys." Written in the mid-1970s by Ed Bruce and Patsy Bruce, it topped the charts in 1987 when Nelson and Jennings recorded it for their "Willie & Waylon" album.
PHOTOS: A Waylon Jennings gallery
We're premiering the track on Austin360 today. Here's what McNally had to say about her personal connection to the song:
"I've always heard 'Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys' as women's lament. The original version, which was a gigantic era-defining hit for Willie and Waylon, was generally perceived as a rowdy cowboy call to arms, but I don't hear it that way. To me it feels achy and lonely for the man you love, the same way it must feel being in love with a musician who is drawn to the road. It makes everyone miserable eventually. And boy, does it all double down when you start adding babies to the mix.
"When I stood up to the mic to record the song in the studio, I was a little surprised that it immediately brought tears to my eyes and a lump to my throat. All the missing that I've done and all the loving that I've ever left suddenly merged into one lonely super feeling. I missed my mom and was sad thinking about all the rambling I'd done when she was alive, and how sad and proud it made her.
MORE SONG PREMIERES: Austin's Ray Prim dives into the blues with new track
"My own daughter is just now hitting the ground and coming into herself, and it sends shivers down my spine thinking how soon she's going to leave me on her own wanderlust mission, and what a tough little show-no-pain wildly independent cowboy she is already at 12. I raised her that way, like my mother raised me. I'm sure I'm as proud of my daughter as my mother was of me, but it sure is hard when they start to ride away."


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Austrocylindropuntia cylindrica (Salm-Dyck) F.Ritter es una especie de plantas fanerógamas de la familia Cactaceae.

Descripción
Es un cactus arbustivo o arbolado, de hasta 4.2 m de altura con segmentos de tallo de hasta 25 cm de largo y 6 cm de diámetro; las hojas tienen forma de punzón y tienen hasta el 1 cm de largo con  2 al 8 de espinas. Las flores son rojas de 7 cm de ancho.

Distribución y hábitat
Nativa de Ecuador en las provincias de Pichincha, Chimborazo  y en Perú donde se encuentra en el Departamento de Piura en alturas de 2400 a 3000  pero se distribuye por todo el mundo como planta ornamental.

Taxonomía
Austrocylindropuntia cylindrica fue descrita por (Lam.) Backeb. y publicado en Die Cactaceae 2: 12. 1941.

Etimología
Austrocylindropuntia: nombre genérico con el prefijo australis = "sur" y el nombre del género Cylindropuntia con lo que alude a que es la "Cylindropuntia del Sur".

cylindrica: epíteto derivado del griego cylindrus, κυλινδροϛ que significa "cilíndrico".
Sinonimia
Cactus cylindricus
Cereus cylindricus
Opuntia cylindrica
Cylindropuntia cylindrica
Maihueniopsis cylindrica
Austrocylindropuntia intermedia
Cylindropuntia intermedia
Opuntia bradleyi

Referencias

Enlaces externos
http://cactiguide.com/cactus/?genus=Austrocylindropuntia&species=cylindrica

cylindrica
Flora de Sudamérica occidental
Flora de América del Sur continental
Cactus y suculentas
Plantas descritas en 1941
Plantas descritas por Lamarck
Taxones descritos por Curt Backeberg

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import { expect } from 'earljs';
import { createField } from '../lib/helpers.js';

describe ('helpers', function () {
  it ('all defaults', () => {
    const t = createField ('name');
    expect (t.name).toEqual ('name');
    expect (t.initial).toEqual ('');
    expect (t.required).toEqual (false);
    expect (t.validators).toEqual ([]);
    expect (t.formatOut).toEqual (undefined);
    expect (t.value).toEqual ('');
    expect (t.touched).toEqual (false);
    expect (t.error).toEqual (null);
  });

  it ('no defaults', () => {
    const noop = () => null;
    const t = createField ('name', 'in', true, [noop, noop], noop);
    expect (t.name).toEqual ('name');
    expect (t.initial).toEqual ('in');
    expect (t.required).toEqual (true);
    expect (t.validators).toBeAnArrayOfLength (2);
    expect (t.validators[0]).toEqual (noop);
    expect (t.validators[1]).toEqual (noop);
    expect (t.formatOut).toEqual (noop);
    expect (t.value).toEqual ('in');
    expect (t.touched).toEqual (false);
    expect (t.error).toEqual (null);
  });
});

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import java.util.*;

public class JSDL
{
	// Main TAG - First Level

	public static String	jobDefinition									= "jsdl:JobDefinition";

	public static String	jobDescription								= "jsdl:JobDescription";

	// JobDescription TAGS - Second Level

	public static String	jobIdentificationJD							= "jsdl:JobIdentification";

	public static String	applicationJD									= "jsdl:Application";

	public static String	resourcesJD									= "jsdl:Resources";

	public static String	dataStagingJD								= "jsdl:DataStaging";

	// JobIdentification TAGS - Third Level

	public static String 	jobNameJIJD									= "jsdl:JobName";

	public static String 	descriptionJIJD								= "jsdl:Description";

	public static String 	jobAnnotationJIJD							= "jsdl:JobAnnotation";

	public static String 	jobProjectJIJD									= "jsdl:JobProject";

	// Application TAGS - Third Level

	public static String 	applicationNameAJD						= "jsdl:ApplicationName";

	public static String 	applicationVersionAJD						= "jsdl:ApplicationVersion";

	public static String 	descriptionAJD								= "jsdl:Description";

	public static String 	applicationPOSIXAJD						= "jsdl-posix:POSIXApplication";

	public static String	applicationHPCPAJD						= "jsdl-hpcpa:HPCProfileApplication";

	// Resources TAGS - Third Level

	public static String 	candidateHostsRJD							= "jsdl:CandidateHost";

	public static String 	fileSystemRJD									= "jsdl:FileSystem";

	public static String 	exclusiveExecutionRJD					= "jsdl:ExclusiveExecution";

	public static String 	operatingSystemRJD						= "jsdl:OperatingSystem";

	public static String 	cpuArchitectureRJD							= "jsdl:CPUArchitecture";

	public static String 	individualCPUSpeedRJD					= "jsdl:IndividualCPUSpeed";

	public static String 	individualCPUTimeRJD						= "jsdl:IndividualCPUTime";

	public static String 	individualCPUCountRJD					= "jsdl:IndividualCPUCount";

	public static String 	individualNetworkBandwidthRJD		= "jsdl:IndividualNetworkBandwidth";

	public static String 	individualPhysicalMemoryRJD			= "jsdl:IndividualPhysicalMemory";

	public static String 	individualVirtualMemoryRJD				= "jsdl:IndividualVirtualMemory";

	public static String 	individualDiskSpaceRJD					= "jsdl:IndividualDiskSpace";

	public static String 	totalCPUTimeRJD							= "jsdl:TotalCPUTime";

	public static String 	totalCPUCountRJD							= "jsdl:TotalCPUCount";

	public static String 	totalPhysicalMemoryRJD					= "jsdl:TotalPhysicalMemory";

	public static String 	totalVirtualMemoryRJD					= "jsdl:TotalVirtualMemory";

	public static String 	totalDiskSpaceRJD							= "jsdl:TotalDiskSpace";

	public static String 	totalResourceCountRJD					= "jsdl:TotalResourceCount";

	// DataStaging TAGS - Third Level

	public static String 	fileNameDSJD									= "jsdl:FileName";

	public static String 	fileSystemNameDSJD						= "jsdl:FileSystemName";

	public static String 	creationFlagDSJD							= "jsdl:CreationFlag";

	public static String 	deleteOnTerminationDSJD				= "jsdl:DeleteOnTermination";

	public static String 	sourceDSJD									= "jsdl:Source";

	public static String 	targetDSJD										= "jsdl:Target";

	// POSIXApplication TAGS - Fourth Level

	public static String 	executablePAAJD							= "jsdl-posix:Executable";

	public static String 	argumentPAAJD								= "jsdl-posix:Argument";

	public static String 	inputPAAJD									= "jsdl-posix:Input";

	public static String 	outputPAAJD									= "jsdl-posix:Output";

	public static String 	errorPAAJD										= "jsdl-posix:Error";

	public static String 	workingDirectoryPAAJD					= "jsdl-posix:WorkingDirectory";

	public static String 	environmentPAAJD							= "jsdl-posix:Environment";

	public static String 	wallTimeLimitPAAJD						= "jsdl-posix:WallTimeLimit";

	public static String 	fileSizeLimitPAAJD							= "jsdl-posix:FileSizeLimit";

	public static String 	coreDumpLimitPAAJD						= "jsdl-posix:coreDumpLimit";

	public static String 	dataSegmentLimitPAAJD					= "jsdl-posix:DataSegmentLimit";

	public static String 	lockedMemoryLimitPAAJD				= "jsdl-posix:LockedMemoryLimit";

	public static String 	memoryLimitPAAJD							= "jsdl-posix:MemoryLimit";

	public static String 	openDescriptorsLimitPAAJD				= "jsdl-posix:OpenDescriptorsLimit";

	public static String 	pipeSizeLimitPAAJD							= "jsdl-posix:PipeSizeLimit";

	public static String 	stackSizeLimitPAAJD						= "jsdl-posix:StackSizeLimit";

	public static String 	cpuTimeLimitPAAJD						= "jsdl-posix:CPUTimeLimit";

	public static String 	processCountLimitPAAJD					= "jsdl-posix:ProcessCountLimit";

	public static String 	virtualMemoryLimitPAAJD				= "jsdl-posix:VirtualMemoryLimit";

	public static String 	threadCountLimitPAAJD					= "jsdl-posix:ThreadCountLimit";

	public static String 	userNamePAAJD								= "jsdl-posix:UserName";

	public static String 	groupNamePAAJD							= "jsdl-posix:GroupName";

	// HPCProfileApplication TAGS - Fourth Level

	public static String 	executableHPCPAJD						= "jsdl-hpcpa:Executable";

	public static String 	argumentHPCPAJD							= "jsdl-hpcpa:Argument";

	public static String 	inputHPCPAJD								= "jsdl-hpcpa:Input";

	public static String 	outputHPCPAJD								= "jsdl-hpcpa:Output";

	public static String 	errorHPCPAJD									= "jsdl-hpcpa:Error";

	public static String 	workingDirectoryHPCPAJD				= "jsdl-hpcpa:WorkingDirectory";

	public static String 	environmentHPCPAJD						= "jsdl-hpcpa:Environment";

	public static String 	userNameHPCPAJD							= "jsdl-hpcpa:UserName";

	// CandidateHosts TAGS - Fourth Level

	public static String 	hostNameCHRJD								= "jsdl:HostName";

	// FileSystem TAGS - Fourth Level

	public static String 	descriptionFSRJD							= "jsdl:Description";

	public static String 	mountPointFSRJD							= "jsdl:MountPoint";

	public static String 	mountSourceFSRJD							= "jsdl:MountSource";

	public static String 	diskSpaceFSRJD								= "jsdl:DiskSpace";

	public static String 	fileSystemTypeFSRJD						= "jsdl:FileSystemType";

	// OperatingSystem TAGS - Fourth Level

	public static String 	operatingSystemTypeOSRJD				= "jsdl:OperatingSystemType";

	public static String 	operatingSystemVersionOSRJD			= "jsdl:OperatingSystemVersion";

	public static String 	descriptionOSRJD							= "jsdl:Description";

	// CPUArchitecture TAGS - Fourth Level

	public static String 	cpuArchitectureNameCARJD			= "jsdl:CPUArchitectureName";

	// OperatingSystemType TAGS - Fifth Level

	public static String 	operatingSystemNameOSTOSRJD		= "jsdl:OperatingSystemName";

	// Other TAGS - NonDefined Level

	public static String	lowerBoundedRange						= "jsdl:LowerBoundedRange";

	public static String	upperBoundedRange						= "jsdl:UpperBoundedRange";
	public static String	upperBound									= "jsdl:UpperBound";
	public static String	range											= "jsdl:Range";

	public static String	exact												= "jsdl:Exact";

	//	Range TAGS
	public static String	lowerBoundR									= "jsdl:LowerBound";

	public static String	upperBoundR									= "jsdl:UpperBound";

	// Attributes TAGS

	public static String	nameEnvironment							= "name";

	// Special TAGS
	public static String	noInputOutputFiles							= "NO_INPUT_OUTPUT_FILES";

	// Private attributes

	private String			nameJSDLFile;

	private JSDLReader	jsdlReader;

	private Vector			jsdlElements;

	// Methods

	public JSDL(String nameJSDLFile) throws Exception
	{
		this.nameJSDLFile = nameJSDLFile;
		this.jsdlReader = new JSDLReader(this.nameJSDLFile);
		this.jsdlElements = this.jsdlReader.getJSDLElements();
	}

	public Vector getJSDLElements()
	{
		return this.jsdlElements;
	}

}


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Mass. fire station projected to cost $3M more than expected
By Jim Sullivan
The Daily News of Newburyport
NEWBURYPORT, Mass. — Construction of the new West End fire station has yet to begin but it will need roughly another $3 million to bring it to life, according to city officials.
The City Council in 2021 unanimously approved a $5.9 million bond order to bankroll the design and construction of a new, roughly 6,800-square-foot emergency services facility to replace the aging John F. Cutter Jr. Fire Station on Storey Avenue. It has also authorized spending $400,000 to acquire the adjacent 1 Lieutenant Leary Drive to assist the fire station project.
The project is expected to go out to bid in March but Mayor Sean Reardon told The Daily News this week that a recent cost analysis has shown that it will need millions of dollars more to get the job done.
"We got a new cost estimate and it's a $3 million increase. Unfortunately, it is what it is right now. It's very expensive to do any of these projects. So we have submitted an order to the City Council to adjust that bond," he said.
Finance Director/City Auditor Ethan Manning said the initial $5.9 million bond order would need to be rescinded and a new, $9.19 million bond order would take its place.
"This is not unprecedented. We have done it with larger projects like the wastewater treatment plant upgrade in the past. This particular project started pre-pandemic and has had to endure a huge inflationary environment, so it is not a shock to me that we are at where we are today," he said.
Reardon said he expects the new bond request to receive a first reading from the City Council on Monday before being referred to the Budget and Finance Subcommittee.
"This will give the council time to vet the information and it could come back to it in late January or February, so the administration can continue to go out to bid and see what we get back, in terms of pricing," Manning said.
The 2,258-square-foot John F. Cutter Jr. Fire Station has been in use since the early 1970s and in recent years has seen its roof decaying. It no longer meets current fire codes and the planned new structure, a one-story, net-zero energy consumption building, would almost be three times as big.
Senior Project Manager Geordie Vining has been managing the project, along with Acting Fire Chief Steve Bradbury and Salem-based Winter Street Architects.
Reardon said the City Council would need to approve the new bond order by a two-thirds super majority.
"It's disappointing that there's such a large gap that we have to make up. But I do think it's an important project. My grandfather was a fire chief when the fire station was opened. So it is long overdue," he said.
Council President Heather Shand said she was looking forward to discussing the issue further but added, "we need to fund the fire station."
"We have been waiting too long to get this built. We all knew we were going into tough times with inflation but we definitely need this fire station built," she said.
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Callitriche truncata subsp. occidentalis é uma subespécie de planta com flor pertencente à família Callitrichaceae.

A autoridade científica da subespécie é (Rouy) Schotsman, tendo sido publicada em Lagascalia 14: 153. 1986.

Portugal

Trata-se de uma subespécie presente no território português, nomeadamente em Portugal Continental.

Em termos de naturalidade é nativa da região atrás indicada.

Protecção

Não se encontra protegida por legislação portuguesa ou da Comunidade Europeia.

Bibliografia

 Sequeira M, Espírito-Santo D, Aguiar C, Capelo J & Honrado J (Coord.) (2010). Checklist da Flora de Portugal (Continental, Açores e Madeira). Associação Lusitana de Fitossociologia (ALFA).
 Checklist da Flora do Arquipélago da Madeira (Madeira, Porto Santo, Desertas e Selvagens) - Grupo de Botânica da Madeira
 Callitriche truncata - Portal da Biodiversidade dos Açores
 Callitriche truncata subsp. occidentalis - The Plant List (2010). Version 1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (consultado em 26 de novembro de 2014).
 Callitriche truncata - International Plant Names Index

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 Callitriche truncata - Flora Digital de Portugal. jb.utad.pt/flora.
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While we have all probably encountered the over-zealous student who accepts their offer on the spot, this is not always the norm. Students often want some time before making a decision. In many cases, schools mandate offers remain open until a certain date to allow students time to finish interviewing with other companies, consider all their options, and talk with career services, advisors, friends, and family to help them decide which opportunity is best for them.
So aside from reverting to voodoo and black magic, how can you increase the odds of students accepting your offer over other offers that may include office foosball tables and free lunch every day? Okay, we admit, it's hard to compete with free lunch. However, you have worked really hard up until this point, so don't leave things to chance now. Below are a few suggestions on how to put your best foot forward to help increase your acceptance rate and close your top candidates.
Closing Teams: Assigning a closing team to each offeree is a great way to stay in contact with a candidate and gather important intel about major decision factors the student may be considering. We recommend assigning a two person team to each candidate: one senior-level employee to offer-up the "wow" factor, and one junior-level person (ideally within two years of graduation) who recently went through a similar decision making process. When assigning closing teams, look for things in common between the candidate and the closing team members (i.e. same school, played the same sport, club affiliations, professional interests) to help break the ice.
Gather Candidate Intel: Leveraging your closing teams (see above) and other interactions with offerees, gather as much information about competing offers and other decision factors important to the student. For example, the type of work each position offers, compensation, geography, other attributes of the intern program, likelihood to lead to full-time employment, etc. The more you know, the more you can try to sell them on your offer. If you are unable to answer a student's question, find someone in the company who can and make an introduction.
Employ Program Ambassadors: Former interns are a great recruiting tool. Recruiters can talk until we are blue in the face but when one student tells another student about the great experience they had working at your company; all of a sudden it resonates. Don't be afraid to ask former interns to touch base with classmates and offer to answer questions and share their experience. Hint: if you do this, it's nice to offer up a small token of appreciation to these program ambassadors.
Offer Gifts: By this point in time, students have so many water bottles, t-shirts, pens, and other tchotchkes emblazoned with company logos, the thought of sending more may be a real turn-off. However, if you have "bigger, nicer" gifts that you reserve for top candidates, this is the time to put those to use. Consider something like a signed copy of a book authored by a person at your company or a goody box of things from the city where your company is located. Or when all else fails, send cookies with a nice note congratulating the student on their offer.
Office Visits/Sell Event: Expectations for the amount of wooing required to close a candidate can vary greatly between industries. The norm for one industry may not even be a factor for students considering opportunities in another industry. For example, it's not unusual for students pursuing opportunities with banks, large consulting firms, and law firms to be invited to events where they are "wined and dined" by company executives and participate in programs designed to convince them to accept one offer over another (we won't even mention the ski weekends and trips to tropical locations). However, these types of events may not be the norm for students who want to work at smaller companies or in other industries such as technology, engineering, communications, and marketing. Planning a dinner for all of your offerees to meet each other and members of your leadership team, or inviting them to your office for a half-day of programming may be a way to differentiate yourself from the competition.
Incentivizing Early Accepts: Incentivizing students to accept sooner rather than later (i.e. exploding offers and diminishing signing bonuses) can be a touchy subject. Some schools have strict policies against it. Our advice is to do your due diligence and be aware that some companies employ this tactic.
We hope you find these suggestions helpful; good luck getting that acceptance rate up!


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\section{Introduction}
 \input{introduction}

\section{Related work}
\label{sec:related-work}
\input{background}

\section{System and Adversary model}
\label{sec:system-attacker-model}
\input{system-adversary.tex}

\section{Proposed approach}
\label{sec:proposed-approach}
\input{proposed-approach.tex}

\section{Implementation and experimental setup}
\label{sec:implementation-experimental}
\input{experimental_setup}

\section{Evaluation}
\label{sec:evaluation}
\input{evaluation}

\section{Conclusion}
\label{sec:conclusion}
\input{conclusions}

\section*{acknowledgements}
This work was supported in part by the SSF SURPRISE cybersecurity project and the Security Link strategic research center.

\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}

\subsection{Attack Detection}
\input{detection.tex}
\subsection{GNSS basics}

GNSS systems rely on difference of time of arrival to estimate the position of the receiving antenna relative to a constellation of satellites. The receiver uses a local oscillator to measure the satellite-receiver GNSS signal propagation time, which corresponds, essentially, to a satellite-receiver distance estimate termed pseudorange. Given a vector of pesudoranges, $\rho$, a satellite observation matrix, $H$, and a vector of noise processes, $W$, the position and time offset solution ($s = [x(t), y(t), z(t), \delta_t(t)]$) \footnote{Velocity is obtained by combination of the calculated Dopper shift of the satellite signals and receiver motion} is obtained at the GNSS receiver by solving for $s$ the following linear system:
 \begin{equation}
     \rho = H*s + W
 \end{equation}

While atomic clocks on board the satellites are kept synchronized by a complex ground control infrastructure, the receivers typically rely on a cost-effective crystal oscillator. As errors in the receiver clock synchronization cause loss of accuracy for the PVT solution, constant tuning is needed due to poor stability characteristics of the receiver's clock. Thus, the GNSS receiver estimates the local clock bias alongside with its location coordinates; at least four satellites are required at any time to provide a valid PVT solution.

Using the time offset correction, $\delta_t$, obtained from the constellation, a GNSS receiver can constantly correct the local time to the one provided by the GNSS constellation:
\begin{equation}
    t_{corrected} = t_{local} + \delta_t
\end{equation}
Practically, the achievable timescale accuracy at the receiver depends on the receiver type and the surrounding environment (i.e., static or dynamic receiver, number of satellites in view). Typically, in a benign setting an accuracy of \SI{30}{\nano\second} or better can be achieved with commercial grade GNSS receivers \cite{USNOAccuracy, ESAAccuracy}.

\subsection{Clock model}
\input{system-model.tex}

\subsection{Attacker model}
\input{adversary.tex}
\subsubsection{Realization of hardware clock ensembles}
Clock ensembles are an option to achieve extended stability: the intuition behind clock ensembles is that multiple oscillators can be combined to improve over their stability, compensating for errors. This approach relies on considering each clock as a stochastic process characterized by a state vector, $x(t)$,  and an estimator tracking individual clocks and estimating corrections \cite{JonesTryonTimeSeries}.

Specifically, we rely on the methods presented in \cite{Brown1991b, Greenhall2006}, using a Kalman filter to estimate the differential states of the clocks and produce corrections for the individual members of the ensemble. Given the state vector $x(t)$, the clock is modeled with the following stochastic differential equation, with step $\tau$:
\begin{equation}
    \begin{cases}
    \frac{d\theta}{d\tau} = \gamma + w_1 \\
    \frac{d\gamma}{d\tau} = D + w_2 \\
    \frac{dD}{d\tau} = w_3
    \end{cases}
    \label{eq:clock-model-diff}
\end{equation}
where $w_1, w_2, w_3$ represents the zero-mean Gaussian noise associated with each process characterized by spectral densities $q_1,q_2,q_3$, obtained from the Hadamard variance \cite{JonesTryonTimeSeries}.
Figure \ref{fig:hadamard-independent} shows the Hadamard variance for three independent clocks that are used in our system. The Hadamard variance is calculated as:

\begin{equation}
    \sigma_H^2(\tau) = \frac{1}{6(M-2)}\sum_{i=1}^{M-2}[y_{i+2} - 2y_{i+1} + y_i]^2
\end{equation}

where $y_i$ is the i-th of M fractional frequency values at averaging time $\tau$. The Hadamard variances are measured over a period of \SI{1e4}{\second} using an Agilent 53131A universal counter at a sampling rate of \SI{1}{\hertz}.

Tracking the state of multiple clocks in an ensemble poses various challenges. Each clock model is defined with respect to an \textit{ideal} clock: for this reason we cannot directly measure the clock states, as ideal time sources are, as a matter of fact, unavailable.
Instead, we measure the differences between each clock and one clock within the ensemble that shows the best stability (master clock relativization \cite{Brown1991b}). In benign conditions (absence of attackers), the GNSS-derived clock achieves the best stability, thus it is regarded as master clock. Because we can only measure clock differences, the system is not fully observable: this causes the covariance estimation for the promoted master clock to grow unbounded \cite{Brown1991b}. While this is not problematic for the Kalman filter itself, it could cause numerical instability and overflow issues. This issue can be solve with the techniques described in \cite{Brown1991b} and \cite{Greenhall2011b}.

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  \caption{Nominal Hadamard variance of three independent OCXO conditioned using a Phase Locked Loop (PLL)}
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Experts predict more trauma disorders after collective suffering of coronavirus pandemic
By: Newsy Staff
The coronavirus pandemic's not fully over, and already it has taken so much from so many; time, jobs, livelihoods, loved ones, the tremendous impact it's had on our lives. The way we function is something experts say we can heal from.
"I really do feel like we're going to see a lot more trauma disorders that come out of this," Dr. Eric French, Medical Director of Adult Psychiatry, Medical Center of Aurora, said.
"In a pandemic, we're exposed to stress or maybe more likely to develop a mental health issue," Flavia Desouza, Board Certified Psychiatrist and Assistant Professor at Howard University, said.
Collective Suffering, Mass Trauma, Pandemic PTSD, whatever you call it, a shared terrible event can leave people feeling powerless. Don't ignore that, so you can heal, experts say.
"Broadly put, trauma is something that overwhelms our ability to cope. It overwhelms our senses and leaves us feeling helpless and unsafe," Sana Powel, LCP, The Curly Therapist, said.
Nothing replaces getting an individual medical opinion, but sometimes getting to that step may require help, especially if you notice it in someone else close to you.
"Approach the subject in a way that you can have an open dialogue about mental health and maybe you connect it to something that you've seen on the news. And you can phrase it in a way like, you know, 'I saw this on television and it's a lot of people that are experiencing difficulties right now because of the pandemic, you know. Have you thought about that?'" Dr. Erlanger Turner, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Pepperdine University and Author of Mental Health Among African Americans: Innovations in Research and Practice, said.
"Regardless of what your experience is, regardless of what your identities are, I encourage you to honor them, make space for them and practice self care," Powell added.
The insight here isn't meant to substitute medical advice.
If you're looking for free and low-cost care near you, maybe start at findahealthcenter.HRSA.gov or by calling (800) 662-HELP.
This story originally reported by Lindsey Theis on Newsy.com.
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Discovering Archaeology Day April 14th!
Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum invites you to celebrate Discovering Archaeology Day 2012 on April 14th from 10am – 5pm. There will be lots of activities for you to enjoy. We'll be offering guided tours of the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory and demonstrations in the Indian Village. Be sure to visit JPPM's 18th-century tobacco plantation site where you can see the ongoing excavation and talk to museum archaeologists. If you own something that you think is historical, but you're not really sure, bring it with you and we'll identify it for you. You will also have the opportunity to meet professional archaeologists from around the region, ask them questions, and enjoy their exhibits and displays. There's something for everyone at JPPM and Discovering Archaeology Day!
Every year, summer campers from all over Maryland come to Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum to experience history and archaeology first-hand. Whether they are participants in our own JPPM camps or they are visiting the Park and Museum with other summer programs like The Center for Talented Youth or an outdoor adventure camp, they are treated to all that JPPM has to offer. Learning excavation techniques at the Smith's St. Leonard archaeology site, experimenting with native skills in the Indian Village, and working with conservators to preserve artifacts in the MAC Lab are only a few of the activities. This year, JPPM Dirt Alert campers not only used their green thumbs in our native garden, but they also surveyed an archaeological site. And JPPM's Colonial Survival campers learned all about building fires and cast iron cooking as they prepared a colonial feast for their families!
Electrolytic reduction activity at the MAC Lab.
Having lots of summer fun!
*And don't forget to stop by Discovering Archaeology Day this Saturday, April 16th, between 10am and 5pm. The Smith's St. Leonard archaeology site will be open and you can get a sneak preview!
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Q: The mathematics of anyons I've recently learnt about particles called anyons which exist within a two dimensional framework. Which I find quite strange since we, well live in a three dimensional world. I've also found out that these particles can have an angular momentum  equal to any real number. Normally, in quantum physics in a three dimensional space angular momentum can only take values equal to $j(j+1)$ where $j\in\mathbb{N}$. I've asked around and the I believe this answer probably gives the best reason why this is true:

Starting in a 3 dimensional space, any path where one particle traces
  a closed loop around another can be trivially contracted to a point
  where no motion occurred.  This then means that the wavefunction
  before and after the motion must be the same and so the wavefunction
  can only be multiplied by a phase of $e^{i2\pi n}$ where $n$ is an
  integer.  In 2 dimensions, however, the closed path around another
  particle cannot be contracted to a point.  Thus, the wavefunction does
  not need to return to its original form and may be multiplied by a
  phase of the form $e^{i\theta}$ where $\theta$ is a real number.

Now, I come from a pure math background and I've only recently begin to do research in physics. What are the topological 'reasons' for why this is true? Why is this not possible in a 2 dimensional space

A: This is not an answer, but rather a rather long comment which I hope is helpful.
I think you have three distinct inquiries. 1) We live in a 3+1 (space+time) dimensional world, how come there are particles called anyons which appear only in two dimensional framework? 2) Why do these particles can have any angular momentum, and not just the discrete values as in regular quantum mechanics? 3) In usual QM we have only two statistics, namely Bose-Einstein or Fermi-Dirac, the so called Spin-Statistics theorem, but anyons violate this theorem and possess different statistics. Why so?
1)Although we live in 3+1 there are experiments where one of the spatial dimensions is heavily constrained, be it by layers of materials or by strong external fields. Physics works differently if you start with only 2 dimensions, but to the extent of my knowledge there is not a complete theoretical argument explaining how confining one dimension leads to the appearance of anyons. On the other hand physicists have the advantage of being able to perform experiments. The fractional quantum Hall effect seems to be an instance of appearance of anyons, so we can assume that by constraining we do indeed have two dimensional physics.
Altland and Simons is a good reference for fractional quantum Hall effect and its relation to topology.
2)The angular momentum is easier to explain. The fact that usual quantum mechanics only admits $j(j+1)$ values is tied to the representation theory of $SO(3)$ (or $SU(2)$ in more generality), where $j$ is the weight of different representations. In two dimensions in order to find the allowed values of angular momentum one has to look instead at the representation theory of $SO(2)$ (respectively $U(1)$), and the abelian nature of this group accounts for the difference.
I've found this notes a good place to start with.
3)Historically the spin-statistics theorem is stated in the framework of quantum field theory. The classical book of Wightman and Streater "PCT, Spin and Statistics, and All That" is a typical reference, but the demonstration goes along other lines. The argument you're referring to, the topological one, I think is from a work of Leinas and Myrheim. The volume 1 of Weinberg's Quantum Field Theory reproduces the argument in relativistic setting. I'm not sure if I understand how it goes, so I'll refrain from commenting, though the references should be a start.


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After shining in the rain and taking over first place during the wet opening laps, Ford Chip Ganassi Racing was almost able to never look back until a late race incident dropped the No. 67 Ford GT out of contention for the win with just five minutes remaining in IMSA's 12 Hours of Sebring.
Richard Westbrook started the No. 67 Ford GT in fourth place, and wasted no time moving up to first in the race's opening laps. He, along with teammates Ryan Briscoe and Scott Dixon, maintained a consistent lead through 11 of the race's 12 hours. The No. 66 Ford GT entry of Joey Hand, Dirk Mueller and Sebastien Bourdais also challenged for the win until the race was complete, working their way back from an eighth-place start to a second-place finish, just seconds behind the class winner.
The No. 66 Ford GT's podium was the second of the weekend for Ford Chip Ganassi Racing, after the team's FIA World Endurance Championship No. 67 Ford GT scored a third-place finish in the 1000 Miles of Sebring Friday night at the historic track.
"That's a tough finish for the IMSA team after being strong all day, but we have to be pleased at how well the Ford GTs ran today in tough conditions," said Mark Rushbrook, global director, Ford Performance Motorsports. "The 67 GT car ran a fantastic race for most of the day leading most of the laps, and the 66 GT car battled from behind to get a podium. Clearly, we had the speed to win, but maybe not the racing fortune we needed today.
"Overall, we took podiums in both the WEC and IMSA races this weekend, and we're proud our teams battled strong in some very tough weather and track conditions."
"I think at the start we really didn't know what to expect with the track conditions as bad as they were," said Hand. "We were back there just single file waiting for the track to dry out enough to go green. After that we got settled in and the car was pretty good. We were able to move up the first few hours and were running one-two behind the No. 67. I think when we made the move to the harder tire, we seemed to struggle and lost a few spots.
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"The No. 67 guys were just a bit faster and had it figured out. It's always a total team effort here at Ford Chip Ganassi Racing. Our car was just taking a few laps to get going in the end, especially on restarts, and we were losing time and just couldn't get it made back up. We battled back to P2 and it just goes to show no one in this group quits."
A late-race caution saw Briscoe restarting second in class, with a GTD contender separating him from the GTLM leader. While fighting to break through traffic with just minutes remaining, he caught a kerb and spun off course, allowing the GTLM leader to pull out of reach.
"I was happy with the start and how we handled the challenging conditions," said Westbrook. "We had great pace in the car and both Ford GTs just really came to life in the first half of the race. We just got into a really good rhythm and just continued to build the gap and build the gap. It also helped there was a very limited amount of yellows up to that point. We lost the big gap we had, but that's the GTLM class.
"You always end up having a fight on your hands until the very end. Ryan and Scott did an amazing job. It looked like it was going to come down to fuel mileage at the end until about 15 minutes to go. Ryan was trying to hang on and get around lapped traffic, fighting all the way to the end. I'm proud of the team and the effort overall and look forward to Long Beach."
Next up on IMSA's schedule is the Long Beach Grand Prix in southern California on Saturday, April 13.
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Active Interest Media Names New Marine Group President
As part of several organizational changes within North America's leading participant media company, Active Interest Media announced the promotion of Gary DeSanctis to president of the Marine Group.
"Gary continues to innovate, with nonstop new products and services," said AIM CEO Andy Clurman, who called the structural changes the "next step in accelerating our already-successful evolution of the publishing model."
Soundings Trade Only is owned by AIM.
The brands within the AIM Marine Group are Power & Motoryacht, Sail, Yachts International, Anglers Journal, Soundings, PassageMaker, Outboard, Soundings Trade Only and Anglers Journal TV.
"I'm gratified by the talent and depth of the people we've assembled within the Marine Group," said DeSanctis, a marine publishing veteran who previously held the title of general manager. "Our editorial and sales teams have expertise in print, digital, TV, events and more. With all the changes taking place, it's an exciting time to be in media and the boating business."
DeSanctis has been instrumental in Marine Group acquisitions and startups, including Anglers Journal and Outboard brands.
Respected in the industry for its deeply passionate audiences, diverse platform mix and constant innovation, AIM will now be organized around four distinct market categories.
"By combining seven operating groups into four, and by elevating proven leaders to roles of greater authority," Clurman said, "we will streamline our product development cadence and ensure a disciplined focus on our key initiatives — consumer and marketing memberships, event growth, marketing services and video."
AIM's four groups are the Active Living Group, Home Group, Marine Group, and Equine Group.
Avalon and Tahoe Appoints President
Duane Dinninger, who has been with the pontoon builder since 2006, steps into the leadership role.


Yesterday we finally had our first frost. Along with that, came our first snowfall. We have been having unusually warm weather for autumn, but yesterday, we woke up to a very thin layer on our wall and the roofs of the houses in the neighborhood. My children were delighted!
We have been going on a walk almost every day, and it has been wonderful to see the pretty fall trees and get some fresh air and exercise.
I am very glad that the weather has finally turned cooler, as I do not do well in hot weather. Unfortunately, when I went to turn on my room heater, I found out that it has somehow broken between this year and last. My bedroom and bathroom are the coldest rooms in the house in the winter. I do not know why it is like that, but it is. I went to look at the heaters at Walmart, but they cost more than I can afford right now. Money is tight as I try to feed a houseful of growing children who almost always want seconds, thirds, and fourths!
Over the last couple of months, we have also experienced a broken toaster, bread machine, and part of our blender. The toaster doesn't matter much to me--we can always toast bread in the oven, since we usually make it for the whole family when we eat toast. The blender can still be used, but it has to be held onto while it's running (which can be time-consuming when you use it for grinding grains for blender-batter baked goods). And then the bread machine is a really difficult thing--I just don't have the time to hand-knead bread. My eldest has made a few batches of bread (hand-kneaded), when she has had time, and they turned out just lovely, as you can see. My eldest had also made sourdough, but our starter went bad, and all kinds of flour was wasted. I do think we need to keep our starter in the refrigerator after it is caught, but we hardly ever have room in our refrigerator for a big bowl of starter. When I have time, I need to look into a different recipe and method, but my daughter has been the one to manage it and keeps having difficulties.
All this to say, as I write this now, I hear some of my daughters singing hymns in the other room. Our little, temporary troubles mean so little. How joyous to hear songs of praise to God come from our children's lips! As we go about our lives day to day, we must keep eternity always in mind so that we will rightly react to our little trials and temptations in life. God is so very good and gracious to us.
I must get on with our day now, and I hope you have a wonderful, productive day.


A modern haven designed with fun concepts and a modern outlook in mind, the Centra by Centara Maris Resort Jomtien serves as a family-friendly getaway that brings together the beauty and splendour of Thailand's resort town of Pattaya and the comforts and conveniences each and every guest needs for an unforgettable holiday experience. Boasting a number of in-house dining venues, a wide array of soothing and recreational facilities and a whole host of stylish accommodations to choose from, guests can expect nothing less than excellence when staying at this cheerful resort, and with something to appeal to visitors of all ages, this is the perfect setting when considering a visit to Pattaya no matter who you are.
Nestled in the resort town of Pattaya, the warm and welcoming Centra by Centara Maris Resort Jomtien invites family adventurers, romantic couples and business travellers to indulge in the soothing ambiance that permeates throughout this fun and friendly resort. Housing numerous relaxing facilities, several in-house dining options and a variety of accommodations to suit your needs, this resort is fully equipped to ensure each and every guests experiences a memorable occasion during their stay in this Thai haven.
The Centra Superior Room offers guests 35sqm of accommodation space elegantly designed with modern amenities complimented by a minimalist sense of decor. The room features a private balcony overlooking the garden area and grants easy access to the pool area.
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A design concept realised at the Leverkusen Hospital was inspired by its surrounding parkland. It captures various sensory elements from nature in its interior design so that, instead of a hospital atmosphere, a sense of wellbeing develops.
It's not for nothing that the Leverkusen Hospital is also known as the Health Park. The hospital facilities are located in the middle of a green area and the individual buildings are linked to each other through lushly planted parkland. "We saw how well the patients – as well as the visitors and employees – felt during the time they spent in the park, so we came up with the idea of bringing the park into the interior of the hospital", explained Dorothee Vorschütz, head interior designer at HDR GmbH, that specialises in building for health, research and teaching. The focus was specifically on 'Haus 1Y'. This four-storey building was to be extended by three whole additional floors as well as a building services floor and a partial extension in the basement, while still operational. In order for the people in the hospital to be able to recreate a sense of the park in the interior of the building, a design concept was drawn up with as many elements as possible that could be felt through the senses. "It was of course easiest to address people's eyes as an organ of perception. Inspired by trees, flowerbeds, spaces, blooms and meadows we set out our world of colour, but we also reconstructed the effects and penetration of natural light. The reverberations in the rooms were removed by means of acoustically effective ceiling materials. And also the feel of the products played a big role in addressing patients' and visitors' sense of touch: "That's why we used many products with textures close to nature", explained Ms Vorschütz. The team was even able to capture people's sense of smell with certain 'organoid' materials. This material reminds us of compacted hay. A very subtle and agreeable scent diffuses through extremely fine lavender threads that are worked into this material. This material was incorporated as a specially-designed wall cladding applied at central points within the hallways.
The design concept developed by HDR was used on all floors of the building. In this way, a new physiotherapy facility was built in the basement, a neurology ward with 32 beds on the third floor, a general internal medical ward with 31 beds on the fourth floor and an area for outpatient surgery with three operating rooms and a clinical doctor's service on the fifth floor and, finally, the sixth floor was used for the building services plant and machinery.


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My Friend Celia
We met in 1980, in Santa Fe, and shortly after, moved together to a commune between Santa Fe and Taos, in a canyon leading up to the Truchas peaks, surrounded by magical pink hills dotted with Juniper. I took care of the pigs, goats and chickens, and Celia watered and looked after the Jerusalem artichokes we grew. When we parted ways we stayed in touch, mostly due to Celia's devoted diligence to correspondence. Later she would write to me from Mexico where she and a couple of friends lived in caves among the Tarahumara. She eventually settled on the east-side slope of the Chiricuahua mountains near the town of Rodeo, about the same time I settled in Tucson.
First she built a classic pit house, which was eventually abandoned to the rattlesnakes.Then she built her own straw bale adobe house, as much as she could by her own hand. And she painted, always on small canvases. Her inspiration was in the land around her. It was a stark lifestyle, hauling water, heating with wood, no cooling during blazingly hot summers, very little electricity. Emphatically this was her choice, a primitive lifestyle in the Sonoran desert as a painter.
There she remained for the last 35 years. She does not own a computer or a cell phone. She harvests rainwater, a life depending on conservation. She made her peace with the rattlesnakes that invade every spring. She thrived on the drama of weather that unfolded around her, and relished her view of Pelloncillos peaks across the valley.
This show is her farewell now to her desert home, as she plans to return to her native England later this year. At 71, she will enjoy her sisters whom she has missed for many years, and perhaps get to know the generation of nephews and nieces who have grown up while she was away.
Each of these paintings are a reverential goodbye to the corners of her home, to the metates filled with rain water, to the transcendentalist dreams she puzzled out. These paintings are the footprints of 35 years spent in the desert.


I am in the process of editing a story called The Walrus and The Cricket. It is a chapter book for pre-teens. A few years ago I went to see Edgar Meyer and Chis Thile play. Edgar was a bear of a man holding the double bass. Chris jumped and hopped as he played the mandolin. I leaned over to my wife and I wanted to reference an animal more mysterious than a bear, so I said, "They look like the walrus and the snippety cricket up there."
They had a whimsical stage presence that made you wonder how the two of them had met so I began to imagine a world where a walrus and a cricket could be friends. A walrus is not a flattering thing to call someone so, of course, Edgar is a skinny walrus who is always too cold. Below is the opening scene in the story.
Edgar always complained about the cold. It was a funny thing for a Walrus to do. He did not understand how the others could stay in the water so long, how they could bare the icy shore. Pulling the mass of his body onto the frosty sand he laid there hoping the sun would warm him. The sun shone off his pinken'd leathery skin but did not make him any warmer. How he longed to be by the fires that men built, to take the chill out of his bones.
"A pup? Is that what they are calling me? I take good enough care of myself," Edgar reminded him.
"I am just saying, we had moved south to warmer waters for you, so that you could be warmer. And I admit warmer water is nice," his shoulders slumped and he looked at the ground, he tried to muster up a smile, "but that shore is not home," he said shaking his head. "It is no home for us Walrus." At that moment Simon's friends tromped onto the shore.
"Stop feeding the little guy and get back in the water," James hollered.
"Yeah quit feeding the locals," Frederick said in a scratchy voice that trailed off into laughter. Simon was holding back.
"Leave the little Shore-Pony alone to play in the tide pools." Isaac shouted and all four of them burst into laughter. Simon couldn't contain himself. He boomed with laughter causing his whole body to shake. He dropped all of the clams and shrimp he was holding. One of the shrimp scurried towards the water.
"Watch out for the orca and the Yuit." Simon hollered as he tromped back into the water.
"They don't hunt pony." Isaac said as he dove in.
"Only if they want a light snack." Frederick gargled with laughter.
The four of them entered the water laughing and spitting. Edgar picked up one of the clams his cousin left on the shore and skimmed it across the water at them. It missed Isaac, Frederick, and James completely, on the third skip it smacked into the back of Simon's head. It silenced their laughter, but Simon looked back and shook his head at Edgar. Looking down at his flipper, Edgar shrugged. He did not say a word.
Simon dipped his head into the water and then all four of them were gone as if the sea had swallowed them.
With his hind flippers Edgar kicked up the sand. His stomach growled again. Knowing that he was just south of Hazen Bay, a little into the Baird Inlet, he did not feel like swimming home. Home was a little over a half days swim 55 miles south. So he picked up the rest of the clams his cousin had left for him and ate them quietly. A sickle moon hung low like a glowing Walrus tusk coming out of the distant mountains. Sucking out the last clam from its shell, Edgar watched the light fade from the sky. The ocean ahead of him lapped softly. Its surface looked like glass reflecting thousands of stars. There were no clouds that night, and the sky changed colors with flashes like twirling ribbon, purple and a chilling blue. Edgar liked it when the sky did this. He imagined that it was the sky and the sea coming together and that he could swim up and warm himself by the warmth of the stars. He called it the horizon-bloom.
Pulling at the stiff bristles above his tusks Edgar turned to look behind him. He heard shouts in the distance, a song, the soft pounding of drums; the night air chilled his weather-beaten skin. He did not want to crawl back into the ocean. He shuddered and his bones ached just thinking about the cold water. Everything was calm.
As Edgar's eyes adjusted to the night, the snow and ice along the shore started to glow. It reflected the colorful flashes from the sky. In the distance he saw what he longed for.
There was a fire no bigger than a match flick. It leapt and tickled the air. It trembled like the reflection of the stars on the water. Just the thought of being next to the fire sent a shiver of joy up Edgar's spine. Edgar had been close to a fire only once when hunters came with torches in the middle of the night and surprised them while they slept. One of the torches fell next to Edgar as one of the men tried to strike Edgar with a spear. Edgar was warmed by the fire for only a second, his cousin pulled him quickly into the freezing water away from danger.
Thinking about the warmth of the flame made the air feel even colder. His whole body shook from his head down to his hind flippers and back up again. All of his bristles danced in the tranquil night air as if they were dancing to the distant drums. "Shore-pony." Edgar said to himself. Most Walrus' do not venture onto the land farther than the shore. Edgar knew this, but he was enticed by the fire. He walked towards it, towards the people that hunted and killed Walrus.