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AE 436 – Expression: Pack a Punch
Peter Smissen	April 28, 2018
Learn Australian English in this expression episode of The Aussie English Podcast where I teach you how to use the English expression PACK A PUNCH like a native speaker.
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Well, we're not sure what's gone on here, but the roo has the dog, not the other way around. Max calmly waits for his owner to come and help. The roo sees the odds stacking against him and tries to gut the dog with his claws one last time. His powerful arms anchor the dog by the breast plate as Max doubles his efforts to escape. Finally, the roo switches his attention to Tongs and sizes up the human to be his next victim. Tongs gives the kangaroo his space, but the cranky buck comes forward ready to attack. To save himself, he launches a right hand to the kangaroo's snout.
G'day, you mob! How is it going? And welcome to this episode of Aussie English.
So, it's been an interesting week. As you will have seen, I smashed my phone, or at least Leo the dog smashed my phone, and you can see that He Destroyed My Phone vlog video or podcast episode. You probably saw that. So, I had to fork out a bit of money and get that repaired this week, which wasn't amazing. And then, also ended up having to get some new shoes. So, I had somehow gotten a hole in the back of one of my shoes, and I had recently bought these shoes, I think over Christmas, and had to go and get some new shoes, because these ones were starting to rub the back of my foot. Very, very uncomfortable.
Anyway, so we go to Athlete's Foot, a store in one of the malls here. It's a very common store in Australia, Athlete's Foot, though, it's funny, because athlete's foot is the… I think, it's tinea, the fungi that you get in your foot. We call that 'athlete's foot' as well. So, it's always funny that there's a store called Athlete's Foot.
Anyway, I go get these new shoes, right? So, they test your feet. They get you to stand on this machine. You walk on the machine so that they can see where the pressure is moving through your feet as you walk. So, they can give you better shoes, I guess, for your feet. And so, we do that. She brings out a few different pairs of shoes. I try them on. I pick the best one, well, the best pair, rather. And then all of a sudden, when I got to pay for it, it was like $240, guys, $240. Jesus!
So, a lot of money. Yeah, I'd forgotten just how much proper running shoes in Australia can cost. So, nearly $250 bucks. So, that was a treat, I guess, but you've got to take care of your feet, right? If you're doing a lot of walking you're doing a lot of vlogging and podcasting whilst on the move, you need to take care of your feet.
Anyway, so that's been my week. I also have my birthday, and thanks for everyone who is wishing me happy birthday after the vlog that came out with Leo, He Destroyed My Phone. That actually happened on my birthday. So, that was interesting.
Intro Scene:
Anyway, the movie scene at the start today, guys, that was audio from a ViralHog video on YouTube. So, this is a YouTube channel that gets these viral videos and licenses them. It's… definitely recommend that you go and watch this video on ViralHog's YouTube channel. It is an absolute classic. It is very Australian.
So, effectively what's happening there is that it's a dangerous situation where a pig dog, a dog that's been trained to hunt pigs, has been grabbed by a powerful male buck kangaroo, and he could be disemboweled by this kangaroo. So, kangaroos have these claws on their back legs, they kick, and they can actually kill dogs by disemboweling them, scratching them to death, if you're not careful.
So, the guy who's the pig dog owner jumps off the car, runs over to try and save the dog, the dog gets away from the kangaroo, and the kangaroo tries to stand up and face this guy like he was going to kick him, and the guy punches the kangaroo in the face. Anyway, it's a pretty funny strange video. I recommend you go check it out on ViralHog's YouTube channel.
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Aussie Joke:
Anyway, guys, today's Aussie joke. So, today's Aussie expression is related to punching, it's related to boxing, and so I thought it was only appropriate to have an Aussie joke, or a joke, just to joke in general, doesn't to be Australian, related to boxing, related to punching. So, here's the joke.
What is a box's favourite part of a joke? What is a boxer's favourite part of a joke? The punchline! Do you get it? The punchline.
So, 'the punchline' is that final line that makes the joke, right? And in this case the punchline is literally when I said, "the punchline". What's a boxer's favorite part of a joke? The punchline.
So, it's a pun, it's a play on words, with the word 'punch'. Okay? And the punchline packs a bit of a punch for jokes, usually.
So, today's expression comes from Gilson who follows me on Instagram and he sent me a message asking about this expression, and I said, "You know what? I'll make this an episode for the podcast this week.". So, big thanks to Gilson for this awesome suggestion. And remember guys, if you want to follow me on Instagram it's just Aussie English, just do a search for that.
So, let's go through the definitions of the words in today's expression to pack a punch, to pack a punch. So, this is pretty simple. We've only really got two things here.
'To pack'. 'To pack' can usually be to feel something, you know, like a suitcase or a bag, with your clothes or other items that you need in order to travel. So, before you go on a holiday, you have to pack. You have to pack your things. But in this case, it's more to comprise something to be made of something. So, if something packs something, it's usually that it has that with in it. Right? So, for instance, an explosion packs… or an explosive packs a big explosion. There is a big explosion within, comprised, inside of this explosive, and so when it goes off, it packs a big explosion.
'A punch'. 'A punch' is the act of hitting someone or striking someone with a closed fist, with a closed hand. So, that's usually what a boxer does, right? If a boxer's fighting someone, he's punching them. But in this case, it's more that a punch is the power to impress or attract attention. So, it has to have significant impact, to have a lot of impact. It has a lot of punch, right. So, that explosive, if it packs a really big explosion, it packs quite a big punch. It has a lot of impact, right?
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Expression Definition:
So, let's define the expression 'to pack a punch'. So, 'to pack a punch', literally, is to be capable of striking someone powerfully. You know, you might have a boxer who packs quite a punch, he packs a punch. He's very good at punching. He has a strong powerful punch. He packs a punch.
But then by extension, to be capable of having a powerful or swift effect or impact is the figurative version of this expression, 'to pack a punch'. So, that's more like the explosive that we were talking about going off. If it packs a punch, it's not that it literally hits someone, it's that it has a powerful or swift effect or impact. Okay?
So, let's go through three examples of how I would use the expression 'to pack a punch'.
Alright, so first… first example. Imagine that you are a marketer working for some kind of company. So, you market their products. You create ads. Okay? Publications, advertisements. That's your job. You want to create an ad that stands out and gets the message across to consumers, people buying your product. So, you create this ad and you publish it, and it ends up being perfect. It gets across the message that you're trying to convey and your boss is very, very happy. He might come into the office, after you've created this ad and published it, and he wants to congratulate you, and he might say that advert, that ad, is so perfect it packs a punch, it packs the perfect punch. It's a really effective. It has a lot of impact. It's brilliant. It packs a great punch.
Example number two. Imagine you go to a nice restaurant. Maybe you want to have some spicy food. So, you go to a Mexican restaurant maybe you go to a Thai restaurant, and you love spicy food, which is sort of like me. And your friend doesn't, okay? That could be my girlfriend. She hates spicy food. So, I imagine we've both gone to a Mexican or Thai restaurant, we're sitting down, and as a joke I tell Quel, "Oh, order the enchiladas here. They're great and they're not really that spicy. They're fine. You'll be fine.". When the food comes, she might eat it and realize that in fact the enchilada here is very spicy, and she might say, "You liar! It's spicy as and it really packs a punch. You know that I don't like spicy food, and this enchilada, oh my gosh, the spice in it packs a punch!". It's very strong. The impact is significant.
Example number three. Okay, guys. You're a small kid at school on your first day at school, and you bump into a big kid, and he bullies you. You know, maybe he pushes you to the ground and you need to defend yourself, you need to fight back against this big kid who is bullying you. And when he tries to punch or kick you maybe you dodge it and you end up pushing him to the ground. And he realises, even though you're so much smaller than him, you're incredibly strong, and he might say, "For such a scrawny kid, you really can pack a punch! Even though you're so small, you sure can pack a punch. You're incredibly effective, you have a lot of impact, you're strong, and I didn't think that at first. You really pack a punch!".
All right, guys. So, I hope you understand now the expression 'to pack a punch'. Remember, literally, it can be capable of striking someone powerfully like a boxer. Or figuratively, it can be that you are capable, or something is capable, of having a powerful or swift effect or impact.
So, let's go through a listen and repeat exercise, guys. We always have this in these episodes to work on your pronunciation to give you something to practice saying aloud right now to work on your English pronunciation. So, you can copy me if you would like to sound like an Australian. Otherwise, practice whatever English accent you have and just say these words after me. Okay? So, let's go. Listen and repeat after me, guys.
Listen & Repeat:
To pack
To pack a
To pack a punch x 5
I really pack a punch
You really pack a punch
He really packs a punch
She really packs a punch
We really pack a punch
They really pack a punch
It really packs a punch
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Aussie Fact:
So, before we finish up, let's go through the Aussie English fact for today, guys. So, today we had in the… at the very beginning of this episode, we had a kangaroo that was effectively trying to box with a man, and the man ends up punching the kangaroo in the face to try and defend himself and the dogs.
So, where does this thing come from? Why are kangaroos synonymous with boxing? Why is this something that we see quite a lot in Australian culture?
So, the boxing kangaroo is a national symbol of Australia and it's used all the time in popular culture. It's often seen as a flag with a yellow kangaroo and red boxing gloves on a green background, and you're likely to see this really distinctive flag featured at sporting events all around Australia as well as overseas. So, it'll usually be a symbol that Aussies will use, Aussie spectators, at these sporting events, things like cricket, tennis, basketball, or soccer, when they're international sports. When it's Australia vs. another country, as opposed to say, teams that are both from Australia. So, things like the Commonwealth Games and the Olympic Games. You'll often see the boxing kangaroo flag.
So, a little bit about the history of this the idea of the boxing Kangaroo originates from a natural behavior of male kangaroos who are often referred to as 'bucks'. And FYI, for your information, females are referred to as 'does', and young kangaroos are called 'joeys'. Okay?
So, kangaroos have really interesting breeding behaviour and social structures. Large groups of kangaroos are referred to as 'mobs', and this is why Aussies often call a large group of people 'a mob'. You might say, 'hey, you mob!'. And these mobs can range from a handful of members of these kangaroos up to a hundred or more kangaroos. So, the mobs can get quite large.
Kangaroo bucks box in order to establish dominance as the most dominant male leads the mob and often has exclusive access to females for mating. So, he's the one who gets to father all the joeys, at least theoretically. Given the chance, subordinate males, the ones who aren't dominant, will often mate with receptive females pulling a fast one on the dominant males who are probably pretty busy mating with the numerous other females in their mob. So, it's not always that effective being the dominant male.
When boxing male kangaroos use their smaller four legs, so their arms, to hold onto the attacker's head and neck whilst they use the claws on their larger more powerful hind legs to kick, slash, or even disembowel their opponent whilst supporting themselves on their thick muscular tail. So, they actually use that tail to support themselves and hold themselves off the ground in order to kick.
So, the stance resembles that of a boxer when they're doing this, and you can see this on YouTube in this video, right? When they're fighting they actually look like a human boxer.
So, if you watch any kangaroo doco, you'll probably see joeys start boxing from a really young age, and they tend to do this in order to develop their fighting skills and give them the best chance at one day being a dominant male, at least for a short period of time, and passing on their genes to the next generation.
So, what about people boxing kangaroos? Have you guys seen this? This was actually a thing in the past. This used to happen. And it seems like it only took colonists a little over a hundred years from when they colonised Australia in 1788 to realise that kangaroos could be trained to box humans, to fight humans, and that this could be used as a source of entertainment for Outback travelling shows, and this started occurring in the late 1800s, so in the 19th century.
In 1895, a German silent film was actually made about fighting kangaroos and this was made by Max Skladanowski, and was called Das Boxende Känguruh. Christine, you'll have to let me know if I have pronounced that correctly in German. And an English silent film by Bert Acres was made the following year.
So, since these first silent film era movies were made, at least four other movies have been made as well about humans boxing kangaroos, and this symbol has only continued to become more prominent since that period of time.
During the World War Two, boxing kangaroos were stenciled onto Australian fighter aircraft and navy ships. And in 1983, the characteristic green, red, and yellow flag that I mentioned earlier was created by a sailing team on the Australia II yacht in the America's Cup, and this flag has since skyrocketed into common use by rabid Aussie sporting fans all over the world.
Anyway guys, I hope you enjoy that episode. I hope that teaches you a bit about biology of kangaroos, a bit about Australian history, a bit about the crazy practice of boxing with kangaroos in the past. That's absolutely insane. And yeah, I hope that you check this episode out in the Aussie English Classroom, guys. I think there'll be a lot of awesome bonus content to help you skyrocket your English.
Anyway, thanks for hanging around today, guys. I hope you have an amazing weekend and I'll chat to you soon.
Peace out, guys.
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Друга битва при Брайтенфельді, також відома як Перша битва при Лейпцизі — битва, що відбулася 23 жовтня 1642 року під Брайтенфельдом (7,5 км на північний схід від Лейпцига, нині район Лейпцига), в ході Тридцятирічної війни, через 11 років після першого бою під Брайтенфельдом.

У 1642 році шведський полководець Леннарт Торстенссон після спустошливої кампанії в Моравії і Сілезії, прийняв рішення йти на Лейпциг. Його план полягав у тому, щоб захопити склади продовольства в місті, накласти на нього контрибуцію і таким чином забезпечити свою армію грішми та харчами для продовження війни. Воєначальники Священної Римської імперії Герцог Леопольд і Пікколоміні попрямували на виручку Лейпцигу. Щоб не бути затиснутим між ворожою армією і містом, Торстенссон виступив їм назустріч.

Битва почалася артилерійським обстрілом імперцями шведських позицій. Під прикриттям цього вогню імперська кіннота почала розгортатися в бойовий порядок на флангах. Шведи, не чекаючи закінчення цих перебудов, атакували обидва ворожі фланги. Лівий фланг імперців не витримав, прийшов в замішання, і звернувся у втечу майже відразу. Праве крило імперської армії встояло, і було підтримано піхотою. Торстенссон розвернув своїх досягнувших успіхів кавалеристів правого крила на допомогу шведській піхоті, що зазнала серйозного тиску в центрі позиції. Ця нова атака шведської кінноти привела до успіху: піхота імперців була відкинута фланговим ударом, кавалерія імперського правого флангу залишилася без підтримки, і зазнавши атаки з усіх боків, почала втікати. Вся артилерія переможених у 46 гармат, і обоз армії дісталися шведам. Оскільки армія Торстенссона зазнала значних втрат і була серйозно виснажена, переслідування не велося.

Залишки імперської армії пішли в Богемію, де були знову зібрані. Герцог Леопольд дав вихід люті, піддавши тяжкого покарання перший кавалерійський полк, який втік з поля бою. Полк був прилюдно оголошений безчесним, його відзнаки відібрані, прапори знищені, частина офіцерів і солдатів страчена.

Через три тижні шведи зайняли Лейпциг. Місто не було пограбовано, але змушене було виплатити значну контрибуцію (по Шиллеру, три бочки золота) і обмундирувать за свій рахунок шведську армію. Торстенссон отримав можливість успішно продовжувати війну.

Література

 Шиллер В. К. Історія Тридцятилітньої війни. Собр. соч. в 8 тт. М., 1957, т. 5.

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Santa Cruz Warriors to pick 15th in 2013 NBA D-League Draft
The Santa Cruz Warriors will have 10 picks in the eight-round 2013 NBA D-League Draft.
By Nate P.@NateP_SBN Oct 25, 2013, 1:30pm PDT
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Orion Outerbridge is one 2013 D-League Draft prospect who impressed at the league's national tryout in June, according to Ridiculous Upside.
Photo by Bob DeChiara.
The 2013 NBA D-League Draft is set to occur on Friday, November 1 beginning at 4 p.m., as first announced this week by SB Nation's Ridiculous Upside.
Coming off a successful inaugural season in which they made it to the D-League Finals, the Santa Cruz Warriors will have the 15th pick in the first round of the draft and have 10 total picks in the eight-round draft.
Round Pick
2 3 (from Springfield Armor)
3 4 (from Idaho Stampede)
3 13 (from Fort Wayne Mad Ands)
3 16 (from Rio Grande Valley Vipers)
5 15 (from Springfield Armor)
7* 15
Santa Cruz Warriors selections in the 2013 D-League Draft.
* = optional
Rounds seven and eight are not mandatory, as described in a Warriors release.
The Santa Cruz Warriors have ten picks in the 2013 NBA D-League Draft, including the fifteenth selection in the first round, the third selection in the second round, four picks in the third round, and then one each in rounds five through eight. This year, the first six rounds of the Draft are mandatory, while teams may opt not to select players in the seventh and eighth rounds.
Last season, the Warriors were able to pick up Travis Leslie with the 13th pick overall, which worked out pretty well if you recall. And Keith Schlosser of Ridiculous Upside has more about the type of talent that can be found throughout the draft, which could help an organization at both the D-League and NBA levels - as one example, he pointed out that 2012 fourth round pick Arinze Onuaku (Reno Bighorns) managed to parlay a strong summer league performance into a training camp invite.
For far more on the upcoming draft, check out Ridiculous Upside's storystream which includes a look at what prospects might be available in this year's draft.
For more on the Santa Cruz Warriors, check out our Santa Cruz Warriors section.
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Project acronym GUDHI
Project Algorithmic Foundations of Geometry Understanding in Higher Dimensions
Researcher (PI) Jean-Daniel Boissonnat
Summary "The central goal of this proposal is to settle the algorithmic foundations of geometry understanding in dimensions higher than 3. We coin the term geometry understanding to encompass a collection of tasks including the computer representation and the approximation of geometric structures, and the inference of geometric or topological properties of sampled shapes. The need to understand geometric structures is ubiquitous in science and has become an essential part of scientific computing and data analysis. Geometry understanding is by no means limited to three dimensions. Many applications in physics, biology, and engineering require a keen understanding of the geometry of a variety of higher dimensional spaces to capture concise information from the underlying often highly nonlinear structure of data. Our approach is complementary to manifold learning techniques and aims at developing an effective theory for geometric and topological data analysis. To reach these objectives, the guiding principle will be to foster a symbiotic relationship between theory and practice, and to address fundamental research issues along three parallel advancing fronts. We will simultaneously develop mathematical approaches providing theoretical guarantees, effective algorithms that are amenable to theoretical analysis and rigorous experimental validation, and perennial software development. We will undertake the development of a high-quality open source software platform to implement the most important geometric data structures and algorithms at the heart of geometry understanding in higher dimensions. The platform will be a unique vehicle towards researchers from other fields and will serve as a basis for groundbreaking advances in scientific computing and data analysis."
"The central goal of this proposal is to settle the algorithmic foundations of geometry understanding in dimensions higher than 3. We coin the term geometry understanding to encompass a collection of tasks including the computer representation and the approximation of geometric structures, and the inference of geometric or topological properties of sampled shapes. The need to understand geometric structures is ubiquitous in science and has become an essential part of scientific computing and data analysis. Geometry understanding is by no means limited to three dimensions. Many applications in physics, biology, and engineering require a keen understanding of the geometry of a variety of higher dimensional spaces to capture concise information from the underlying often highly nonlinear structure of data. Our approach is complementary to manifold learning techniques and aims at developing an effective theory for geometric and topological data analysis. To reach these objectives, the guiding principle will be to foster a symbiotic relationship between theory and practice, and to address fundamental research issues along three parallel advancing fronts. We will simultaneously develop mathematical approaches providing theoretical guarantees, effective algorithms that are amenable to theoretical analysis and rigorous experimental validation, and perennial software development. We will undertake the development of a high-quality open source software platform to implement the most important geometric data structures and algorithms at the heart of geometry understanding in higher dimensions. The platform will be a unique vehicle towards researchers from other fields and will serve as a basis for groundbreaking advances in scientific computing and data analysis."
Project acronym HEATTRONICS
Project Mesoscopic heattronics: thermal and nonequilibrium effects and fluctuations in nanoelectronics
Researcher (PI) Tero Tapio Heikkilä
Host Institution (HI) JYVASKYLAN YLIOPISTO
Summary Few systems in nature are entirely in equilibrium. Out of equilibrium, there are heat currents, and different degrees of freedom or parts of studied systems may be described by entirely different temperatures if the concept of temperature is at all well defined. In this project we will study the emergence of the subsystem temperatures in different types of small electronic systems, and the physical phenomena associated with those temperatures. Our emphasis is on the mesoscopic effects, residing between the microscopic world of individual atoms and electrons, and the macroscopic everyday world. In particular, we will research thermometry methods, different types of relaxation, magnitudes of fluctuations and effects at high frequencies. We will explore these effects in a wide variety of systems: normal metals and superconductors, carbon nanostructures, nanoelectromechanical and spintronic systems. Besides contributing to the understanding of the fundamental properties of electronic systems, our studies are directly relevant for the development of thermal sensors and electron refrigerators. The improved understanding of the thermal phenomena will also benefit the study of almost any type of a nonlinear phenomenon in electronics, for example the research of solid-state realizations of quantum computing or the race towards quantum limited mass and force detection.
Few systems in nature are entirely in equilibrium. Out of equilibrium, there are heat currents, and different degrees of freedom or parts of studied systems may be described by entirely different temperatures if the concept of temperature is at all well defined. In this project we will study the emergence of the subsystem temperatures in different types of small electronic systems, and the physical phenomena associated with those temperatures. Our emphasis is on the mesoscopic effects, residing between the microscopic world of individual atoms and electrons, and the macroscopic everyday world. In particular, we will research thermometry methods, different types of relaxation, magnitudes of fluctuations and effects at high frequencies. We will explore these effects in a wide variety of systems: normal metals and superconductors, carbon nanostructures, nanoelectromechanical and spintronic systems. Besides contributing to the understanding of the fundamental properties of electronic systems, our studies are directly relevant for the development of thermal sensors and electron refrigerators. The improved understanding of the thermal phenomena will also benefit the study of almost any type of a nonlinear phenomenon in electronics, for example the research of solid-state realizations of quantum computing or the race towards quantum limited mass and force detection.
Project acronym HIGHTEICH
Project Higher Teichmüller-Thurston Theory: Representations of Surface Groups in PSL(n,R)
Researcher (PI) François Pierre Calixte Labourie
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITE DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS
Summary Higher Teichmüller-Thurston theory is the study of a specific component of representations of a surface group of genus g in PSL(n,R). Teichmüller theory depends on a parameter: the genus g of the surface. Higher Teichmüller-Thurston introduces a new paramater n so that classical theory corresponds to n=2. Teichmüller theory is a crossroad between dynamics, complex analysis, spectral theory, geometry and integrable systems. It has started with the study of Kleinian groups and have received strong impulses from many fields throughout last century. To quote but a few: arithmetic (through the study of automorphic forms), geometry (Thurston's theory of hyperbolic structures), dynamics (the ergodic properties of the geodesic flow) and physics (conformal field theory and representations of the Virasoro algebra). The main objective of the proposal is to develop new connections between dynamics, complex analysis, integrable systems beyond classical Teichmüller Theory in the context of higher Teichmüller-Thurston theory. Among the very concrete and challenging goals of this proposal, we have: A Riemann uniformisation theorem for the Hitchin component, the construction and quantisation of a universal algebra for all Hitchin components, computations of volumes and characteristic numbers of (Higher) Riemann moduli spaces, Higher Laminations. The resources will be essentially used for the hiring of post-doc, graduate students, pre-doc students, visiting scientists, international conferences and summer schools. It will take place at University Paris Sud XI.
Higher Teichmüller-Thurston theory is the study of a specific component of representations of a surface group of genus g in PSL(n,R). Teichmüller theory depends on a parameter: the genus g of the surface. Higher Teichmüller-Thurston introduces a new paramater n so that classical theory corresponds to n=2. Teichmüller theory is a crossroad between dynamics, complex analysis, spectral theory, geometry and integrable systems. It has started with the study of Kleinian groups and have received strong impulses from many fields throughout last century. To quote but a few: arithmetic (through the study of automorphic forms), geometry (Thurston's theory of hyperbolic structures), dynamics (the ergodic properties of the geodesic flow) and physics (conformal field theory and representations of the Virasoro algebra). The main objective of the proposal is to develop new connections between dynamics, complex analysis, integrable systems beyond classical Teichmüller Theory in the context of higher Teichmüller-Thurston theory. Among the very concrete and challenging goals of this proposal, we have: A Riemann uniformisation theorem for the Hitchin component, the construction and quantisation of a universal algebra for all Hitchin components, computations of volumes and characteristic numbers of (Higher) Riemann moduli spaces, Higher Laminations. The resources will be essentially used for the hiring of post-doc, graduate students, pre-doc students, visiting scientists, international conferences and summer schools. It will take place at University Paris Sud XI.
Project acronym HONEYPOL
Project Polariton networks: from honeycomb lattices to artificial gauge fields
Researcher (PI) Alberto Amo Garcia
Summary Boson gases confined in lattices present fundamental properties which strongly depart from their 3D counterparts. A notorious example is the honeycomb lattice, whose geometry results in massless Dirac-like states. By engineering the phase picked by the particles when tunneling from site to site, lattices also allow for the generation of artificial gauge fields. They result in very strong effective magnetic fields, opening the way to the observation of new quantum Hall regimes in neutral particles. In this context, polaritons appear as an excellent platform for the study of boson fluid effects in confined geometries. Polaritons are two-dimensional half-light/half-matter quasi-particles arising from the strong coupling between quantum well excitons and photons confined in a semiconductor microcavity. They are fully accessible by optical means and present strong non-linear properties. In this project, I will fabricate polariton microsstructures to study mesoscopic physics in 2D lattics. I will start by studying the non-linear Josephson dynamics in coupled micropillars, and engineer a double tunneling structure showing single polariton blockade. I will then fabricate a graphene-like honeycomb lattice, where I will study transport phenomena such as anomalous (Klein) tunneling and antilocalisation in the presence of disorder, phenomena originating from the Dirac-cone characteristic of honeycomb lattices. In the high density regime, I will investigate non-linear effects, and address the question of superfluidity of massless Dirac particles. Finally, I will undertake the realization of artificial gauge fields for polaritons. I will adapt to the polariton case a recent theoretical proposal to create artificial gauges in photons using coupled microdisks. Our results will have strong impact on current studies on the transport properties of graphene, of boson gases in atomic condensates, and also on the design of photonic systems with topological protection from disorder.
Boson gases confined in lattices present fundamental properties which strongly depart from their 3D counterparts. A notorious example is the honeycomb lattice, whose geometry results in massless Dirac-like states. By engineering the phase picked by the particles when tunneling from site to site, lattices also allow for the generation of artificial gauge fields. They result in very strong effective magnetic fields, opening the way to the observation of new quantum Hall regimes in neutral particles. In this context, polaritons appear as an excellent platform for the study of boson fluid effects in confined geometries. Polaritons are two-dimensional half-light/half-matter quasi-particles arising from the strong coupling between quantum well excitons and photons confined in a semiconductor microcavity. They are fully accessible by optical means and present strong non-linear properties. In this project, I will fabricate polariton microsstructures to study mesoscopic physics in 2D lattics. I will start by studying the non-linear Josephson dynamics in coupled micropillars, and engineer a double tunneling structure showing single polariton blockade. I will then fabricate a graphene-like honeycomb lattice, where I will study transport phenomena such as anomalous (Klein) tunneling and antilocalisation in the presence of disorder, phenomena originating from the Dirac-cone characteristic of honeycomb lattices. In the high density regime, I will investigate non-linear effects, and address the question of superfluidity of massless Dirac particles. Finally, I will undertake the realization of artificial gauge fields for polaritons. I will adapt to the polariton case a recent theoretical proposal to create artificial gauges in photons using coupled microdisks. Our results will have strong impact on current studies on the transport properties of graphene, of boson gases in atomic condensates, and also on the design of photonic systems with topological protection from disorder.
Project acronym HUMAN SEA
Project The development of human activities at sea - What legal framework? "For a new Maritime Law"
Researcher (PI) Patrick, Andre, Albert Chaumette
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITE DE NANTES
Summary """Making the sea more human."" The project focuses on rebuilding the concepts of maritime and ocean law, given the expansion of human activities at sea. The sea is one of our new frontiers. The development of human activities at sea has led to a transformation of the Law of the Sea and Maritime Law. The main purpose of law is to civilize the new activities opened up by technological innovations. But maritime law remains centred on the concept of the ship, and does not take into account the new marine vessels and their workers. The development of illegal activities at sea questions the competence of States and their cooperation. The HUMAN SEA project will provide critical assessment and perspectives on legal framework related to merchant navy globalisation, illegal activities at sea, and offshore activities. It will summarize the current law concerning international maritime labour in the merchant navy; then consider how the fight against illegal activities led to monitoring of marine areas, thanks to new technologies and through the cooperation of states; then bring the look on ways of managing oil and gas offshore platforms and large liners. Future activities, such as living on the sea, will be considered. Technical innovations predict the development of such use, but the legal framework remains to conceive. The final, overarching task, of the project consists in a conceptual synthesis to define the common principles to be applied for a new maritime law that takes into account activities at sea in their human, environmental, economical and technological dimensions. Such an ambitious project calls for expertise in various domains of law, i.e. Social Law, Economic Law and Environmental Law. The development of human activities at sea requires rethinking concepts rooted in the history of maritime navigation and the very notion of ship and sea, for example. How should we view the twenty-first century civilization through the laws of these new activities at sea?"
"""Making the sea more human."" The project focuses on rebuilding the concepts of maritime and ocean law, given the expansion of human activities at sea. The sea is one of our new frontiers. The development of human activities at sea has led to a transformation of the Law of the Sea and Maritime Law. The main purpose of law is to civilize the new activities opened up by technological innovations. But maritime law remains centred on the concept of the ship, and does not take into account the new marine vessels and their workers. The development of illegal activities at sea questions the competence of States and their cooperation. The HUMAN SEA project will provide critical assessment and perspectives on legal framework related to merchant navy globalisation, illegal activities at sea, and offshore activities. It will summarize the current law concerning international maritime labour in the merchant navy; then consider how the fight against illegal activities led to monitoring of marine areas, thanks to new technologies and through the cooperation of states; then bring the look on ways of managing oil and gas offshore platforms and large liners. Future activities, such as living on the sea, will be considered. Technical innovations predict the development of such use, but the legal framework remains to conceive. The final, overarching task, of the project consists in a conceptual synthesis to define the common principles to be applied for a new maritime law that takes into account activities at sea in their human, environmental, economical and technological dimensions. Such an ambitious project calls for expertise in various domains of law, i.e. Social Law, Economic Law and Environmental Law. The development of human activities at sea requires rethinking concepts rooted in the history of maritime navigation and the very notion of ship and sea, for example. How should we view the twenty-first century civilization through the laws of these new activities at sea?"
Project acronym HYMAGINE
Project Hybrid CMOS/Magnetic components and systems for energy efficient, non-volatile, reprogrammable integrated electronics
Researcher (PI) Bernard Dieny
Summary Spinelectronics merges magnetism and electronics (Nobel Prize 2007). Besides its fundamental interest, it has found applications in hard disk drives (1998) and in non-volatile standalone memories (MRAM, on market since 2006). MRAMs integrate CMOS components with magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ). The PI and his team are convinced that besides MRAMs, this hybrid CMOS/MTJ technology can yield a totally new approach in the way electronic devices are designed. Most CMOS devices such as microprocessors are based on Von Neumann architecture in which logic and memories are separate components. The unique set of characteristics combined within MTJs: cyclability, switching speed, scalability, makes it possible to conceive novel electronic systems in which logic and memory are intimately combined in non-volatile logic components (non-volatile CPU). Such systems would have outstanding advantages in terms of energy savings, logic-memory communication speed, ultrafast reprogrammability, compactness, design simplicity. The objective of this project is to lay the fundation of this novel approach, which requires addressing both fundamental and more applied issues. The basic issues concern the improvement and reliability of spintronic materials, mastering the speed and coherence of magnetization switching, developing tools for the quantitative interpretation of MTJ properties and for designing hybrid CMOS/MTJ devices. The applied goals are the conception, building and testing of a few illustrative devices demonstrating the outstanding advantages of this technology. A further one is to establish an internationally recognized roadmap for this non-volatile logic. If successful, its impact on European microelectronics and magnetism industry could be huge.
Spinelectronics merges magnetism and electronics (Nobel Prize 2007). Besides its fundamental interest, it has found applications in hard disk drives (1998) and in non-volatile standalone memories (MRAM, on market since 2006). MRAMs integrate CMOS components with magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ). The PI and his team are convinced that besides MRAMs, this hybrid CMOS/MTJ technology can yield a totally new approach in the way electronic devices are designed. Most CMOS devices such as microprocessors are based on Von Neumann architecture in which logic and memories are separate components. The unique set of characteristics combined within MTJs: cyclability, switching speed, scalability, makes it possible to conceive novel electronic systems in which logic and memory are intimately combined in non-volatile logic components (non-volatile CPU). Such systems would have outstanding advantages in terms of energy savings, logic-memory communication speed, ultrafast reprogrammability, compactness, design simplicity. The objective of this project is to lay the fundation of this novel approach, which requires addressing both fundamental and more applied issues. The basic issues concern the improvement and reliability of spintronic materials, mastering the speed and coherence of magnetization switching, developing tools for the quantitative interpretation of MTJ properties and for designing hybrid CMOS/MTJ devices. The applied goals are the conception, building and testing of a few illustrative devices demonstrating the outstanding advantages of this technology. A further one is to establish an internationally recognized roadmap for this non-volatile logic. If successful, its impact on European microelectronics and magnetism industry could be huge.
Project acronym INCLUSIVE
Project Inclusive rights: A new model to organise legal relations to shared resources in tangible property and intellectual property
Researcher (PI) Séverine Dusollier
Host Institution (HI) FONDATION NATIONALE DES SCIENCES POLITIQUES
Summary "The INCLUSIVE project aims at challenging our very perspective of property by adding an innovative notion, the 'inclusive right', in the toolbox of legal and economic theory. Whereas exclusivity is conventionally considered as the core element and purpose of property right, sharing and collectively using resources, either tangible or intellectual, is an increasing practice and a new field of research in the legal, sociological, cultural and economic academy. From public domain in copyright, the open access or copyleft licensing to the multiple and complex authorship resulting from online wiki creation and new forms of cohousing based on common spaces and property, all rely on the lack or limitation of exclusive rights and the accommodation of symmetric entitlements of other individuals. All share a sense of 'inclusivity' that can be defined by (1) the absence of a power to exclude others, which leads to inclusion of others in the use and (2) the collectiveness and interdependency of privileges to use a resource. Yet, no legal tool is available to comprehend such inclusivity, but the notion of 'commons' devoid of any normative content. The INCLUSIVE project will study allocation of resources grounded on inclusivity and the issues raised by such legal vacuum or inadequate application of exclusivity-based rules. INCLUSIVE will elaborate a legal model of 'inclusive right' allowing for organised collectiveness, enforceability and sustainability and assess its applicability in selected fields. Instead of forcing exclusive rights on situations organised around inclusivity, the project radically innovates by rethinking the categories of legal interests, with new conceptual and methodological frameworks and adapted normative criteria. This legal concept could have discrete applications and play a role in two major challenges of our times: the sustainability of natural or informational resources and the connected agency of individuals in the digital environment."
"The INCLUSIVE project aims at challenging our very perspective of property by adding an innovative notion, the 'inclusive right', in the toolbox of legal and economic theory. Whereas exclusivity is conventionally considered as the core element and purpose of property right, sharing and collectively using resources, either tangible or intellectual, is an increasing practice and a new field of research in the legal, sociological, cultural and economic academy. From public domain in copyright, the open access or copyleft licensing to the multiple and complex authorship resulting from online wiki creation and new forms of cohousing based on common spaces and property, all rely on the lack or limitation of exclusive rights and the accommodation of symmetric entitlements of other individuals. All share a sense of 'inclusivity' that can be defined by (1) the absence of a power to exclude others, which leads to inclusion of others in the use and (2) the collectiveness and interdependency of privileges to use a resource. Yet, no legal tool is available to comprehend such inclusivity, but the notion of 'commons' devoid of any normative content. The INCLUSIVE project will study allocation of resources grounded on inclusivity and the issues raised by such legal vacuum or inadequate application of exclusivity-based rules. INCLUSIVE will elaborate a legal model of 'inclusive right' allowing for organised collectiveness, enforceability and sustainability and assess its applicability in selected fields. Instead of forcing exclusive rights on situations organised around inclusivity, the project radically innovates by rethinking the categories of legal interests, with new conceptual and methodological frameworks and adapted normative criteria. This legal concept could have discrete applications and play a role in two major challenges of our times: the sustainability of natural or informational resources and the connected agency of individuals in the digital environment."
Project acronym INDIRECT
Project Intergenerational Cumulative Disadvantage and Resource Compensation
Researcher (PI) Jani Petteri Erola
Summary "The previous literature has not been able to successfully explain why the loss of the certain family resources does not show as a weaker attainment. Neither the country differences in socioeconomic inheritance seem to reflect the institutional differences between them. We argue that these problems have followed from ignoring resource compensation. The lost capital (economic, human/cultural or social) may be replaced with the other types or with the resources of someone else (the new or extended family members or neighbors). European and other developed societies can be distinguished by their abilities to influence the compensation of the loss of the parental resources rather than by their direct impact on inheritance. We study compensation in three analytic contexts: 1) Life-course changes followed by the loss of parental resources. The specific events to be considered are parental bereavement, separation, unemployment and geographical mobility. 2) Period changes in society reducing resources in many families approximately at the same time. The examples to be analyzed are economic recession, the inflation of educational credentials due to increasing overall level of education and changing family structures and family formation processes. 3) Structural disadvantage associated with lower level of parental resources. The forms of inequality to be analyzed include the number of siblings sharing the parental resources and childhood neighborhood and the compensation of low resources with the resources of the parents of the spouse. We use high level Finnish register panel data to analyze the loss compensation after specific life course events. The results are compared to those acquired from German SOEP data and US-based PSID data. Multiple country comparisons are conducted using ESS. The project combines three novel analytic approaches: sibling correlation methods, conditional multinomial (event history) models and sequence analysis."
"The previous literature has not been able to successfully explain why the loss of the certain family resources does not show as a weaker attainment. Neither the country differences in socioeconomic inheritance seem to reflect the institutional differences between them. We argue that these problems have followed from ignoring resource compensation. The lost capital (economic, human/cultural or social) may be replaced with the other types or with the resources of someone else (the new or extended family members or neighbors). European and other developed societies can be distinguished by their abilities to influence the compensation of the loss of the parental resources rather than by their direct impact on inheritance. We study compensation in three analytic contexts: 1) Life-course changes followed by the loss of parental resources. The specific events to be considered are parental bereavement, separation, unemployment and geographical mobility. 2) Period changes in society reducing resources in many families approximately at the same time. The examples to be analyzed are economic recession, the inflation of educational credentials due to increasing overall level of education and changing family structures and family formation processes. 3) Structural disadvantage associated with lower level of parental resources. The forms of inequality to be analyzed include the number of siblings sharing the parental resources and childhood neighborhood and the compensation of low resources with the resources of the parents of the spouse. We use high level Finnish register panel data to analyze the loss compensation after specific life course events. The results are compared to those acquired from German SOEP data and US-based PSID data. Multiple country comparisons are conducted using ESS. The project combines three novel analytic approaches: sibling correlation methods, conditional multinomial (event history) models and sequence analysis."
Project acronym IOWAGA
Project Interdisciplinary Ocean Wave for Geophysical and other applications
Researcher (PI) Fabrice Ardhuin
Host Institution (HI) INSTITUT FRANCAIS DE RECHERCHE POUR L'EXPLOITATION DE LA MER
Summary Ocean waves are the essential gearbox between the atmosphere and ocean and also consitute a very peculiar prism through which most satellite sensors see the ocean. IOWAGA proposes a systemic investigation of ocean waves for improving the ocean surface wave compartment of Earth system models. The project will integrate in a coherent manner exisiting and new wave-related observations from multiple sources, including remote sensing, seismic records, and in situ measurements, from climate and global scales to coastal scales and single events. Going through several cycles from observations to numerical modelling via theory and parameterizations, a consistent numerical model will be refined. This modelling tool will be exploited for multi-scale hindcasts and analyses of wave related parameters, with applications to geophysics at large, in particular remote sensing, air-sea interactions, coastal hydrodynamics and seismic studies, and practical applications with associated societal benefits (ocean energy planning and management, marine safety, pollution mitigation &). The consistency between the various wave observations and the numerical modelling efforts is essential to constrain and advance better understandings of wave-related processes, to improve the accuracy of the wave-related parameters to be estimated, but also to help instrumental designs and future ocean surface remote sensing space observations. IOWAGA will be a focal point for ocean wave research, with close connection to other efforts in Europe that are focused on other compartments of the Earth system models.
Ocean waves are the essential gearbox between the atmosphere and ocean and also consitute a very peculiar prism through which most satellite sensors see the ocean. IOWAGA proposes a systemic investigation of ocean waves for improving the ocean surface wave compartment of Earth system models. The project will integrate in a coherent manner exisiting and new wave-related observations from multiple sources, including remote sensing, seismic records, and in situ measurements, from climate and global scales to coastal scales and single events. Going through several cycles from observations to numerical modelling via theory and parameterizations, a consistent numerical model will be refined. This modelling tool will be exploited for multi-scale hindcasts and analyses of wave related parameters, with applications to geophysics at large, in particular remote sensing, air-sea interactions, coastal hydrodynamics and seismic studies, and practical applications with associated societal benefits (ocean energy planning and management, marine safety, pollution mitigation &). The consistency between the various wave observations and the numerical modelling efforts is essential to constrain and advance better understandings of wave-related processes, to improve the accuracy of the wave-related parameters to be estimated, but also to help instrumental designs and future ocean surface remote sensing space observations. IOWAGA will be a focal point for ocean wave research, with close connection to other efforts in Europe that are focused on other compartments of the Earth system models.
Project acronym LattAC
Project Lattices: algorithms and cryptography
Researcher (PI) Damien, Noel Stehle
Host Institution (HI) ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE DE LYON
Summary Contemporary cryptography, with security relying on the factorisation and discrete logarithm problems, is ill-prepared for the future: It will collapse with the rise of quantum computers, its costly algorithms require growing resources, and it is utterly ill-fitted for the fast-developing trend of externalising computations to the cloud. The emerging field of *lattice-based cryptography* (LBC) addresses these concerns: it resists would-be quantum computers, trades memory for drastic run-time savings, and enables computations on encrypted data, leading to the prospect of a privacy-preserving cloud economy. LBC could supersede contemporary cryptography within a decade. A major goal of this project is to enable this technology switch. I will strengthen the security foundations, improve its performance, and extend the range of its functionalities. A lattice is the set of integer linear combinations of linearly independent real vectors, called lattice basis. The core computational problem on lattices is the Shortest Vector Problem (SVP): Given a basis, find a shortest non-zero point in the spanned lattice. The hardness of SVP is the security foundation of LBC. In fact, SVP and its variants arise in a great variety of areas, including computer algebra, communications (coding and cryptography), computer arithmetic and algorithmic number theory, further motivating the study of lattice algorithms. In the matter of *algorithm design*, the community is quickly nearing the limits of the classical paradigms. The usual approach, lattice reduction, consists in representing a lattice by a basis and steadily improving its quality. I will assess the full potential of this framework and, in the longer term, develop alternative approaches to go beyond the current limitations. This project aims at studying all computational aspects of lattices, with cryptography as the driving motive. The strength of LattAC lies in its theory-to-practice and interdisciplinary methodological approach
Contemporary cryptography, with security relying on the factorisation and discrete logarithm problems, is ill-prepared for the future: It will collapse with the rise of quantum computers, its costly algorithms require growing resources, and it is utterly ill-fitted for the fast-developing trend of externalising computations to the cloud. The emerging field of *lattice-based cryptography* (LBC) addresses these concerns: it resists would-be quantum computers, trades memory for drastic run-time savings, and enables computations on encrypted data, leading to the prospect of a privacy-preserving cloud economy. LBC could supersede contemporary cryptography within a decade. A major goal of this project is to enable this technology switch. I will strengthen the security foundations, improve its performance, and extend the range of its functionalities. A lattice is the set of integer linear combinations of linearly independent real vectors, called lattice basis. The core computational problem on lattices is the Shortest Vector Problem (SVP): Given a basis, find a shortest non-zero point in the spanned lattice. The hardness of SVP is the security foundation of LBC. In fact, SVP and its variants arise in a great variety of areas, including computer algebra, communications (coding and cryptography), computer arithmetic and algorithmic number theory, further motivating the study of lattice algorithms. In the matter of *algorithm design*, the community is quickly nearing the limits of the classical paradigms. The usual approach, lattice reduction, consists in representing a lattice by a basis and steadily improving its quality. I will assess the full potential of this framework and, in the longer term, develop alternative approaches to go beyond the current limitations. This project aims at studying all computational aspects of lattices, with cryptography as the driving motive. The strength of LattAC lies in its theory-to-practice and interdisciplinary methodological approach


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Sahyadri is a mountain range along the western side of India. It may also refer to:

 DD Sahyadri, an Indian television network
 INS Sahyadri (F49), a Shivalik class frigate
 Sahyadri School, a school in Rajgurunagar


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MainAll NewsMiddle EastOfficials: Iran attempted missile launch from submarine
Officials: Iran attempted missile launch from submarine
U.S. officials say Iran attempted to launch a cruise missile from a submarine in the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran attempted to launch a cruise missile from a submarine in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday but the test failed, two U.S. officials told Fox News on Wednesday.
The missile launch was reportedly conducted by an Iranian Yono-class "midget" submarine conducted. North Korea and Iran are the only two countries in the world that operate this type of submarine, noted Fox News.
In February, Iran claimed to have successfully tested a submarine-launched missile. It was not immediately clear if Tuesday's test was the first time Iran had attempted to launch a missile underwater from a submarine.
The incident is the latest in a series of provocations by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz.
In March, the U.S. aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush confronted two sets of Iranian Navy fast-attack boats that had approached a U.S.-led, five-vessel flotilla as it entered the Strait.
Earlier that month, Iranian military vessels had a close encounter with a U.S. surveillance ship in the Strait of Hormuz. The incident was described by American officials as an "unsafe" and "unprofessional" maneuver by the Iranians.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards in turn accused the United States of provoking tensions which led to the incident.
In January, a U.S. Navy ship fired warning shots at Iranian boats near the Strait of Hormuz, after five Iranian vessels approached the USS Mahan and two other American ships that were entering the strait.
In September, the Navy said that Iran had threatened two American maritime patrol aircraft flying over the Strait of Hormuz.
A week prior to that incident, a U.S. Navy patrol ship was forced to change course after a fast attack craft from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps came within 91 meters of it in the central Persian Gulf.
Tags:Iran, Strait of Hormuz, IDF Naval Forces, missile test


Vehicle sales appear to be plateauing near their highs. Data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shows that vehicle sale volumes are down slightly over the past few months, however they are up 7.6% year on year.
A major contributing factor to the strength in car sales is affordability. It turns out that automobiles are at their most affordable levels in 35 years. Partly this is on account of the strong exchange rate, which if the Australian dollar keeps falling, could possibly become an issue and is one factor to keep an eye on for investors in this sector.
Buoyant sales certainly bode well for the major car retailers. Automotive Holdings Group (ASX: AHE) has 85 passenger vehicle, truck and bus dealerships across Australia and New Zealand and is achieving record sales. Fellow retailer AP Eagers (ASX: APE) sells nearly 4% of all new cars sold in Australia through 97 dealerships. AP Eagers also owns strategic investments in MTAI Insurance, carsguide.com.au and Automotive Holdings Group. Also of note, AP Eagers has paid a dividend every year since listing on the ASX in 1957. Meanwhile four-wheel-drive manufacturer and distributor ARB Corporation (ASX: ARP) is trading near record highs as it continues to benefit from its off-shoring strategy and entry into new markets.
Car retailing and car parts wouldn't probably be the first place investors would look for investment opportunities. However it turns out that certain businesses have managed to carve out profitable niches for themselves. As the chart below shows, shareholders have certainly benefited from these niche players with all three companies significantly outperforming the S&P/ASX 200 Index (Index: ^AXJO) (ASX: XJO) over the past 5 years.
There's a lesson in the outstanding shareholder returns of these three businesses for investors. Firstly, buying companies with conservative balance sheets that pay dividends and grow their profits in a reasonably predictable way is a tried and true way to grow your wealth. Secondly, these companies are quietly buzzing along in relative obscurity, highlighting the potentially rewarding hunting ground of small and mid-cap stocks.


City Life by Tonelli Design, design Francesca Righi.
A mirror with a decorative frame as well as a spiral motive. Perfect for hiding all your defects.
Madison by B&B Italia, design Monica Armani.
Soft lines and silky curves, a mirror for real divas inspired by the fifties: love at first sight!
Inspired by a natural lake, two overlapping mirrors that create a game of waves and shadows. For vain people.
Waku by Cappellini, design Nendo.
With shelves and clothes hangers, a mirror that combines sharp lines and poetry. For the entrance hall, perfect for one last look before going out.
Little Big by Magis, design BIG-GAME.
When people say "magical mirror": concave or convex, it reflects warped images, great for kids (fun for the grownups too).
Mir by Desalto, design Marco Acerbis.
Celeste by Glass Italia, design Piero Lissoni.
Lightweight crystal with three magnifying lenses (each one with a different level of intensity): per people who never compromise on perfection.
Dorian by Arketipo, design Gino Carolla.
Hang it either vertically or horizontally, for your very own "mirror on the wall".
Mask by Petit Friture, design Federico Floriani.
Botero by Porada, design Tarciso Colzani.
A protruding frame in Canaletto walnut doubles as a practical clothes hanger.
Winderly by Tonin Casa, deisgn Davide Bozzini.
A fan with a tassel for a true Oriental princess.
Portrait with Birdie by Ghidini 1961, design Elisa Giovannoni.
Here, a renaissance-inspired single-lancet window becomes an ironic window sill that you can look out from in the company of a little bird.
Redor by Nilufar, design Studio Zanellato/Bortotto.
Inspired by the city of Venice, this version with decorative Murano glass. Haughty!
Risvolti by Secondome, design Vito Nesta.
Simple yet with a vintage touch: a flap decorated in seventies-style. As if to say: let's turn a new page.
Piega by Classicon, design Willmotte Victoria.
Asymmetric, dynamic and three-dimensional: perfect for metropolitan princesses.


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The revised guide to application of the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC
The revised guide for the application of the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EG has been published in July 2017. This revised version contains an update of the second edition, which was published in June 2010, in which the following modifications in relation to the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC have been taken into account:
The modifications in 2009/127/EC concerning pesticide equipment, and
Regulation No 167/2013 concerning the approval of and the market supervision of agricultural and forestry vehicles.
The explanations of the following items are expanded:
assemblies,
partly completed machinery,
safety components ,
new and used machinery,
ICSMS, and
the marking of machinery.
Expanded explanations
The explanations of assemblies, partly completed machinery, interchangeable equipment, safety components, new and used machinery and the marking of machinery are extended in the revised guide for the application of the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC. It has been set that an industrial plant will not be classified as an assembly, unless the industrial plant forms a single integrated line. When an industrial plant contains a single integrated line, it needs to be classified as an assembly and therefore need to comply with the requirements of the Machinery Directive concerning assemblies.
Safety components
The explanation for safety components states that these components serve to prevent or reduce a risk. Also a indicative list is provided, which can be used as guideline to determine if a product is safety component. Please note, this list is not exhaustive, which makes it possible that unregistered products still have to be classified as a safety component.
How to deal with partly completed machinery
A partly completed machine cannot be seen as interchangeable equipment, as interchangeable equipment changes the function of the machine to which it is assembled. A partly completed machine is not subject to the CE marking under the Machine Directive. However, when a partly completed machine can be put under other Directives, the CE marking should be affixed based on the applicable Directives.
ICSMS
The Information and Communication System for Market Surveillance (ICSMS) has been set up to guarantee the safety of products. The base of ICSMS lies in Regulation No 765/2008 concerning market supervision.
The ICSMS is an addition in the revised guide for the application of the Machine Directive 2006/42/EC.
The system contains a database which is a tool for national authorities. The ICSMS ensures a quick and efficient way to exchange information between Member States, when a product is being investigated or when cooperation is needed to put a product in conformity with the applicable Directives. To prevent that an investigation will be duplicated, the ICSMS has to be filled in at the beginning of the investigation.
New and used machines
In accordance with Annex I of the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC, a machine should bear the correct marking. The explanation in the revised guide for the application of the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC is complemented with requirements for the date of conformity for used machinery, which have not been placed on the European Market before. The date of conformity which is required for this type of machinery, is the same date as the date of importation of the machine to the European Union.


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Who is EPRINC?
The Energy Policy Research Foundation, Inc. (EPRINC) was founded in 1944 and is a not-for-profit organization that studies energy economics and policy issues with special emphasis on oil, natural gas, and petroleum product markets. It is known internationally for providing objective and technical analysis on a wide range of energy issues. EPRINC is funded by a variety of donors including foundations, the private sector, and the U.S. government. EPRINC publications on developments in U.S. and international petroleum are made available on our website: www.eprinc.org.
EPRINC's research is routinely presented at conferences and forums, including educational institutions. EPRINC has been a source of expertise for numerous government studies and its chairman and president have served on virtually every National Petroleum Council study of oil and gas issues. EPRINC routinely testifies before Congress and is now engaged on a long-term assessment of the economic and strategic implications of the North American petroleum renaissance.


Mike's Paddle Shop has had an amazing season and it is thanks to all of you for coming out and paddling with us! We want to let you know how much we appreciate you being a part of our community by throwing a customer appreciation paddle and party! Invite your friends, family and dogs for this awesome event!
Social Paddle: Lets all go paddle together and BRING YOUR DOG (or just look at all the other cute dogs). Everyone is welcome to join, kids and adults! it's free if you have a Mike's Paddle membership or your own board. $25 to rent a board for this event.
Party: We will be hosting lunch in the courtyard in front of the Mikes Paddle Shop. This is a great time for our paddling community to hang out and get to know each other better. We will have food, drinks and games!
Used Gear Sale: As the winter is upon us we understand the seasonal gear shuffle. So, no better place to sell your outdoor adventure gear then surrounded by outdoor adventurers! Clean out that garage or closet and get rid of your extra gear during our party in the courtyard.
Feel free to email Victoria@mikespaddle.com with any questions.
Looking froward to seeing you all soon!
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Research shows that the quality of a nonprofit or ministry board is crucial to the ongoing success and sustainability of an organization's mission. As a sixteen-year-old nonprofit ministry, Alliance for Greater Works™ knows the importance and results of strong board leadership in realizing our strategic goals and ultimately our mission of strengthening and positioning leaders and organizations to transform under-resourced communities.
We are delighted to announce the appointment of our new chairman and two new members to our board of directors in 2017. Board member, Alphonso Jackson, has been named chairman of the board, replacing retiring board member Nike Ladapo. Thanks Nike for your strategic leadership in guiding Alliance over the past three years! We are deeply grateful to you and your contributions in fulfilling our mission!
In addition, Fran Dillard and Zarin Gracey have been appointed as new members to Alliance board of directors.
Join me in welcoming our 2017 board leadership!
Alphonso Jackson has more than 30 years of accounting and finance experience serving in leadership roles for public and private businesses, as well as higher education.
He is currently employed at Atmos and serves as a Regional Controller for the company's Information Technology Outsourcing Operations. Prior to joining Xerox, he held management positions at ExxonMobil, Glazer's Wholesale Distributors and Paul Quinn College.
Alphonso is a licensed CPA in Texas and is married to his best friend, Sybil and has one son, Alyn.
As Texas Instrument's Director of Diversity and Inclusion, Fran Dillard leads and oversees the diversity and inclusion strategy and global programs.
Fran joined Texas Instruments in 2008 as a human resources leader in the technology and manufacturing organization in Dallas. Since that time, she has held HR business leader roles across several TI lines of business including Analog, Embedded Processing and Power. In 2014, Fran took on the global role of Diversity and Inclusion director with responsibility for the strategy, global programs, and employee resource groups. Prior to joining Texas Instruments, Fran held HR leader roles with American Airlines and Flowserve Corporation.
Fran sits on the Conference Board's Global Executive Diversity and Inclusion council and is also an active member with the Texas Diversity council. Her passion for the community is noted in her involvement with teens and recent induction as executive board member and vice president of the North Texas chapter of Jack and Jill of America.
As Executive Manager, Zarin Gracey manages three divisions within the Business Development and Procurement Services Department with the City of Dallas (Contract Compliance, Resource Link Team, and Administrative Staff). He is responsible for establishing and maintaining relationships with the vending community, various chambers and advocacy groups to ensure they are informed and equipped to do business with the City of Dallas. He also prepares and presents various training and informational presentations to the vending community.
Zarin helps Small/Minority/Women/Disadvantaged Businesses build capacity through various trainings and connecting them to existing resources. Zarin administers a $2.3M budget for the department by monitoring expenditures to ensure operating expenses remain within established parameters.


Tinkerbelle is hysterical! She may not be able to fly around like Tinkerbelle can but she certainly is adorable! She looks like this big huge dog with this big deep bark…then she stands up and you see her tiny little legs. She is only about a foot and a half tall!
She has the funniest personality to go along with her funny looks. She likes to play in the dog park and run and chase her friends.The problem is, she can't keep up with her short legs. She doesn't let it bother her though, she just stands there and talks to them all. Her bark sounds like she is really big and mean but she is the sweetest dog ever.
With her personality and stylish looks, she is sure to be the hit at any dog park!
Age: 13 years old on paperwork however based on personality and activity level would guess younger.
Good with Cats: Passed initial cat test. This means she may do well with cats with proper introductions.


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Arthur Sullivan
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"W. S. Gilbert once described Arthur Sullivan (13 May 1842 - 22 November 1900) as "incomparably the greatest English musician of the age." Besides contributing witty operatic parodies and a string of effervescent melodies to the Savoy operas, he wrote, amongst other works, cantatas, oratorios, concert overtures, incidental music to plays, numerous songs and a grand opera. He was the conductor of the Leeds Festival for almost twenty years, a friend of Royalty and a keen follower of the turf. He was knighted in 1883."
I have not heard a note of Sullivan's music, but know enough about music history to deem that he was an important operatic figure of the 19th century (and that he deserves a thread).
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Sullivan will always be associated with the Savoy operas he composed with W.S. Gilbert, for the good reason that the stage and comedy brought out the best in him. If you don't know any of the operas a good place to start would be 'The Mikado', an absurdist Japanese frolic that is full of cracking tunes. Incidentally, Stravinsky was reputed to be a G & S fan!
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C-Notes: Scene's Music Blog
The Great Metallica Debate — Round Four
by Michael Gallucci
On Saturday, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum welcomes Metallica to the ranks of popular music's all-time greats. The band did as much as any group to establish and define thrash metal, then gradually slowed down and became one of the world's biggest rock bands.
To celebrate the Frisco phenoms' hard-won recognition, Scene presents The Great Metallica Debate. D.X. Ferris, the paper's designated metalhead, is moderating. He'll introduce topics, which will be answered by Chris Akin, Classic Metal Show host and webmaster of Pitriff.com, and Matt Wardlaw, former Metal Show host, Radio 92.3 Inner Sanctum host, and proprietor of music blog AddictedToVinyl.com.
After the band broke through to the masses with 1988's jamming power ballad "One," the group truly exploded into popular culture with 1991's polarizing Metallica ("The Black Album"), which cracked the Billboard Top 10 and eventually sold more than 15 million copies in the US alone.
After that unexpected smash, Metallica hit a rough patch. Over the following decade, the former thrash champions released a series of different and experimental albums, including the rocky Load double-shot, the symphony-backed S&M and the oddly mixed St. Anger. Producer Rick Rubin helped the band return to its metal roots with 2008's Death Magnetic, which is generally accepted as a satisfying return to form.
Which leads us to today's topic: What's the best Metallica album between the Black Album and Death Magnetic?
Wardlaw:
Load takes home the prize on this one. The album tracks from this one sounded really good on the radio — "Poor Twisted Me," "Ain't My Bitch" and "Wasting My Hate." "King Nothing" was my favorite of the radio singles, and the Coffee Break Concert live version of this one from the Odeon (R.I.P.) owns — see Hetfield's "Where the fuck's your crrr-ooown!" At the radio station, "Bleeding Me" was always the perfect time-waster for a bathroom break. If I was re-sequencing this album, I would throw on "Fuel" and "Devil's Dance" from Re-Load and ditch "Ronnie" and "Mama Said."
Ferris:
St. Anger. It's a mixed bag. Very mixed. Sounds like demos for a pretty good proper Metallica record.
Akin:
Reload. I just like the whole laid back feel to it. Some of the songs are just cool, like "Devil's Dance," "Bad Seed," "Fixxxer" and "Better Than You." "Fuel" was fun in a "let's write a radio hit" way, and overall it just seems like they weren't as frustrated with the writing process with it like they seemed to be with Load. I know a lot of this all came from the same sessions, but there's just a whole different vibe to it. So much of Load just felt forced. "Ain't My Bitch" and "2x4" both just feel like Bob Rock was forcing a bad idea down their throats. St. Anger could have been in my Top 5 albums from them with standard Metallica production. There's a lot of powerful stuff there masked by Lars' dismal sound and performance. —D.X. Ferris


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