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Louis Ng steps down as CEO of ACRES
The founder of a charity that campaigns to end the illegal wildlife trade will focus on his political career. Anbarasi Boopal and Kalai Vanan replace him as co-CEOs.
Louis Ng speaking in parliament in 2018. Ng, who founded ACRES in 2001, has campaigned for issues including curbs on single-use plastic use and mandatory paid home leave for domestic helpers. Image: Coconuts.sg
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By Robin Hicks
1 minute read Jan. 4, 2021
Louis Ng, the founder of Singapore animal welfare non-profit Animal Concerns Research & Education Society (ACRES), has stepped down as chief executive.
He will now focus on his duties as Member of Parliament.
Ng is Singapore's most prominent politician focused on sustainability issues. He has pushed for a reduction in single-use plastic consumption, mandatory paid home leave for domestic helpers, and greater protections for Singapore's wildlife since going into politics in 2015.
Taking his place as co-chief executives of ACRES are long-serving staffers Anbarasi Boopal and Kalai Vanan, who were both previously deputy CEOs. Boopal joined ACRES in 2007, Vanan in 2010.
ACRES campaigns for an end to the illegal wildlife trade, and has repatriated animals rescued from the trade in recent years, including Indian star tortoises and Malaysian giant turtles. The group is also pushing to stop the sale of live animals in wet markets and food stalls.
In March last year, an ACRES investigation of a live wet market in Singapore revealed the slaughter of live animals close to where meat was being sold to the public, which the group said poses a risk of disease transmission.
Boopal said in an interview in November that the stress animals experience when trafficked is more likely to lead to the expression of pathogens that cause diseases such as Covid-19.
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Q: Dynamic failureRedirect with passport.js This is my login function atm:
app.post("/login", passport.authenticate("local", {
    failureRedirect: "/login?error=1"
}), function (req, res) {
    res.redirect(req.body.url || "/");
});

I need to put the req.body.url inside the failureRedirect url, so it should looks like:
app.post("/login", passport.authenticate("local", {
    failureRedirect: "/login?error=1&url=" + (req.body.url || "/")
}), function (req, res) {
    res.redirect(req.body.url || "/");
});

It can't work because the req variable is inited only inside the callback of post... how can I do?

A: You can use Custom Callbacks to dynamically generate callbacks urls, as the req object is available inside them.

A: Perhaps there is cleaner way to do so, but this is any easy workaround:
app.post(
    "/login",
    function (req, res, next) {
        const callback = passport.authenticate("local", {failureRedirect: "/login?error=1&url=" + (req.body.url || "/"});
        return callback(req, res, next);
    },
    function (req, res) {
        res.redirect(req.body.url || "/");
    }
);

Instead of immediately using the middleware returned by the call to passport.authenticate(), you wrap it so that you can make use of req, res, next.

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GLAST launch: live blogging
Live blogging the GLAST launch (due from 11:45 a.m. EDT)
Photo of GLAST launch (right) courtesy of NASA TV.
There isn't a lot more for us to talk about right now so we'll leave you to explore GLAST science more. Here is a starting point.
1:40 p.m. Steve Ritz is talking on NASA TV now. Both solar arrays are out and operational. Now there will be two weeks of checking out the spacecraft, then the instruments turn on and get checked out and calibrated. Preliminary observations take place and then about 60 days from now, the first science observations begin.
GLAST is safely in orbit and the scientists' main work begins! We'll keep you updated in symmetry about what is happening throughout this process and let you know as soon as we can about science results and observations.
1:30 p.m. The first solar array has deployed and is receiving electrical current. Great news! The second array is deploying now.
1:28 p.m George Diller is commenting that the launch happened only just before weather conditions prevented the launch. The NASA commentators are now talking about the next NASA mission but those of us interested in GLAST just want to know what is going on with the solar panels!
1:23 p.m. In the NASA launch control room, people are looking a lot more relaxed, mingling and talking. Solar array deployment will start in a few minutes time to provide power for GLAST. At this point, the GLAST scientists are watching anxiously because getting the satellite up into orbit is just the first challenge!
1:22 p.m. The spacecraft is pulling away from the second stage.
1:20 p.m. NASA announces the separation indicator has come on. The deployment sequence continues.
1:20 p.m. The separation nuts are released and separation imminent.
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1:14 p.m. Ignition of second stage burn. A little over a one minute burn. Everything is going smoothly.
1:10 p.m. We are ten minutes away from spacecraft separation. There will be a two minute burn to get into the orbit prior to separation. After the burn, there will be a five minute coast period before GLAST separates from the Delta II rocket.
12:45 p.m. We'll take a break from live blogging for a few minutes as we wait for the next stage--the shift of GLAST from its parking orbit to its operation orbit and then deployment.
12:32 p.m. KIPAC people brought in a few bottles of soft drink for a toast (no alcohol allowed on site) and Jonathan Dorfan toasted the LAT team, mentioning Eliott Bloom in particular who was one of the people responsible for initiating GLAST about 16 years ago. (It's also Eliott's birthday today so this seems a great birthday present for him!)
12:20 p.m. With the NASA broadcast over, people are getting up to leave. SLAC Director Persis Drell, who has been sitting in the front row, stands up and says, "Before everyone disperses, I just want to congratulate the GLAST team. This is a tremendous achievement. The instrument is on its way into orbit, there are 10 years of science ahead of us--great job!" Persis has a special interest in this launch; not only is this one of the lab's major initiatives, but before she became director she had hoped to participate in the science.
She talked about GLAST in a recent interview with symmetry. You can see the article here and a transcript of the interview here.
You know, my greatest frustration with this job I have is that GLAST is going to launch soon, and there's a big piece of me invested in that instrument, and I'm not going to get to have fun with the first data. And whereas I'm not ever going to be a world-class gamma-ray astrophysicist – I wouldn't even dream of doing that – I also know that when you put up a detector that's orders of magnitude better than anybody has ever put up before, even the novice can have fun..... I have been assured that on a dark night we will be able to see GLAST with the naked eye. That's a milestone for me, to see GLAST in the night sky.
12:17 p.m. In response to a question from former SLAC director Jonathan Dorfan, Rob Cameron says the Large Area Telescope won't be turned on until 13 days into the mission, but we will be able to monitor the instrument's temperature via telemetry. In the next couple of hours, after the last stage of the rocket burns, the spacecraft has to deploy its solar panels; for now it's running on batteries that only have enough charge for a few hours. We should be getting status updates on the overall health and safety of GLAST in two or three hours, he says.
12:15 p.m. We're not the only ones blogging the launch; NASA has its own blog here.
12:12 p.m. The rocket is burning its second stage now and has accelerated to 14272 mph. We now have a video feed from collaborators at UC Santa Cruz.
12:09 p.m. Three minutes into the flight, velocity 9874 mph, and the rocket has disappeared from sight. "Everything holding rock-solid," the controller says.
12:05 p.m. Liftoff! Hearty applause and cheers, then silence. The solid fuel ignites; "Nice!" someone says.
12:04 p.m. Absolute silence here.
12:02 p.m. The hold has ended and we're back on track. T- two minutes 30 seconds.
12:00 p.m. Someone reports that there has been a red alarm -- something to do with momentarily exceeding tank pressure -- the resolution plan is to monitor the line pressure. the tank pressure alarm has been disabled, there is small probability that we could ..... at this point the narration goes dead! Nervous laughter all around.
11:55 a.m. Kyle Watters, one of Roger Romani's grad students, who is sitting behind me, fills me in on the live feeds we're seeing from various collaborators around the world. The darkened SLAC auditorium is in the upper left corner; top middle is from Pisa; bottom middle is from Paris; top right is Silvia Raino from INFN-BARI in Italy; bottom right is Tomi Ylinen in Stockholm.
11:54 a.m. We've just been told the launch is rescheduled for 12:05 p.m. The acceptable weather window for launch is expected to end in about 15 minutes, so things are tight.
11:47 a.m. The tracking station is back up!
11:46 a.m. We just learned the reason for the extension: The downrange tracking station at Antigua Island is down, and at this time they don't know when it will be back online.
11:41 a.m. The hold has been extended. We're waiting to find out the reason. This is not at all unusual for a NASA launch.
11:39 a.m. We're looking at the control room where the button will be pushed -- only in this case it's a mouse click -- to launch the Delta II. There is about a minute remaining in this hold.
11:32 a.m. Glennda Chui here, filling in for David. The countdown is on hold at T-4 minutes; this is built into the launch sequence so controllers can run through their final checks. Until now it was hard to hear the NASA chatter over the excited buzz from the darkened auditorium, which is nearly full now. But now, so close, there is a sudden hush. People are talking quietly and some are watching the preparations not only on the big screen but on their laptops.
11:05 a.m.: Launch control have announce T-30 minutes and everything is looking fine to proceed.
10:58 a.m.: The GLAST launch is due in about 45 minutes from now and many of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center scientists are gathering in the Kavli auditorium to watch the live broadcast of the launch from NASA. SLAC is responsible for the primary instrument on GLAST, the Large Area Telescope, or LAT. We'll be updating you with events from the SLAC site throughout the launch process.
Even though there are only about 25 people arrived in this room so far, there is a very festive happy atmosphere. It is obvious that most of these people have been anticipating the launch for a long time.
NASA is showing a mix of live footage and recorded video of preparatory events through the night including the rollback of the tower at 3:00 a.m.
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Gorgonidia is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1898.

Species
Gorgonidia buckleyi
Gorgonidia cubotaensis
Gorgonidia garleppi
Gorgonidia harterti
Gorgonidia helenae Vincent, 2012
Gorgonidia inversa
Gorgonidia maronensis
Gorgonidia vulcania
Gorgonidia withfordi

References

, 1987: Résultats d'une expédition entomologique privée en Guyane Française, 1986, et description de nouvelles espèces d'arctiides néotropicalis (22e note) (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Revue Française de Lépidoptérologie 9 (1): 25-41.
, 2012: A review of the genus Gorgonidia Dyar, 1898, with description of one new species (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Arctiini). The European Entomologist 4 (1): 33-54.

Phaegopterina
Moth genera

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\section{Introduction}
A renormalizable theory poses a computational problem for a
theoretical physicist: even if only a finite number of amplitudes
need renormalization, the quantum equations of motion -the
Dyson--Schwinger equations (DSE)- ensure that these amplitudes must
be calculated as iterated integrals based on a skeleton expansion
for the Green functions. There is an infinite series of skeletons,
of growing computational complexity, and thus a formidable challenge
at hand. Order is brought to this situation by the fact that the
skeletons can be organized in terms of the underlying Hochschild
cohomology of the Hopf algebra of a renormalizable theory, the
computational challenge remains though in the analytic determination
of the skeletons and their Mellin transforms \cite{tor,KY1,KY2}.
This approach, combining the analysis of the renormalization group
provided in \cite{RHII} with the analysis of the mathematical structure of DSE
provided in \cite{BroadhK,BergbK,tor}, has led to new methods in solving DSE beyond perturbation theory
\cite{BroadhK,KY1,KY2}.

A nice fact is that internal symmetries can be systematically
understood in terms of this Hochschild cohomology: Slavnov--Taylor
identities are equivalent to the demand that multiplicative renormalization is
compatible with the cohomology structure \cite{anatomy}, leading to
the identification of Hopf ideals generated by these very Ward and
Slavnov--Taylor identities \cite{walter}.

For a non-renormalizable theory the situation is worse: the
computational challenge for the theorist is repeated infinitely as
there is now an infinite number of amplitudes demanding
renormalization, each of them still based on an infinite number of
possible skeleton iterations.

But the interplay with Hochschild cohomology leads to surprising new
insights into this situation, which in this first paper we discuss
at an elementary level for the situation of pure gravity.
\subsection*{Acknowledgments}
It is a pleasure to thank David Broadhurst, John Gracey and Karen
Yeats for discussions.
\section{The structure of Dyson--Schwinger Equations}
To compare the situation for a renormalizable QFT with the situation for an
unrenormalizable one, we consider QED in four and six
dimensions of spacetime.
\subsection{QED${}_4$}
Let us consider as a typical example quantum electrodynamics in four
dimensions. The DSE involves a sum over superficially convergent
skeleton kernels which are in one-to-one correspondence with the
primitives of the Hopf algebra underlying perturbation theory. There
is an infinite number of primitive skeleton graphs, a finite
number of them at each loop order. Furthermore, there is a finite number of
monomials, tree-level amplitudes represented graphically as elements of a finite set $\mathcal R$
\begin{equation} {\mathcal R}=\left\{\;\raisebox{0mm}{\epsfxsize=5mm\epsfbox{photon.eps}}\;,{\;\raisebox{0mm}{\epsfxsize=5mm\epsfbox{fermion.eps}}\;\atop m},{\;\raisebox{0mm}{\epsfxsize=5mm\epsfbox{fermion.eps}}\;
\atop \partial},\;\raisebox{-1mm}{\epsfxsize=6mm\epsfbox{vertex.eps}}\;\right\}, \end{equation} $|{\mathcal R}|=4<\infty$. The
Lagrangian is \begin{equation} {\mathcal L}=\sum_{r\in{\mathcal
R}}\hat{\phi}(r)=-\bar{\psi}[\partial\!\!/+ieA\!\!/]\psi-m\bar{\psi}\psi-\frac{1}{4}F^2,\end{equation}
with coordinate space Feynman rules $\hat{\phi}$,
\begin{equation} \hat{\phi}(\;\raisebox{0mm}{\epsfxsize=5mm\epsfbox{photon.eps}}\;)=\frac{1}{4}F^2,\;\hat{\phi}({\;\raisebox{0mm}{\epsfxsize=5mm\epsfbox{fermion.eps}}\;\atop m})=m\bar{\psi}\psi,\;\hat{\phi}({\;\raisebox{0mm}{\epsfxsize=5mm\epsfbox{fermion.eps}}\;\atop \partial})=\bar{\psi}\partial\!\!/\psi,
\hat{\phi}(\;\raisebox{-1mm}{\epsfxsize=6mm\epsfbox{vertex.eps}}\;)=\bar{\psi}A\!\!/\psi.\end{equation} The Dyson--Schwinger equations take the corresponding form \cite{tor}
$\forall r\in{\mathcal R}$, \begin{equation} G^r(\alpha,L)=1\pm\sum_{k=1}^\infty
\alpha^k \phi_R\left(B_+^{r;k}(X^rQ^k)\right),\end{equation} with renormalized Feynman rules $\phi_R$ in momentum space
with subtractions at an Euclidean momentum $q^2=\mu^2$, $L=\ln q^2/\mu^2$, normalized to unity on tree-level terms $\in{\mathcal R}$.
We restrict to zero-momentum transfer in vertex functions such that Green functions $G^r(\alpha,L)$ are functions of the single kinematical variable
$L$ and projection onto form-factors is understood in accordance with the set ${\mathcal R}$.

The plus sign above is taken
for the vertex functions, and the minus sign for inverse
propagators. $X^r$ is a solution to the corresponding combinatorial
DSE in Hochschild cohomology, \begin{equation} X^r=\mathbb{I}\pm\sum_{k=1}^\infty \alpha^k
B_+^{r;k}(X^rQ^k),\end{equation} with $G_R(\alpha,L)=\phi_R(X^r)$ and \begin{equation}
Q_R(\alpha,L)=\phi_R(Q)=\frac{1}{\sqrt{\phi_R(X^{\;\raisebox{0mm}{\epsfxsize=5mm\epsfbox{photon.eps}}\;})(\alpha,L)}},\;Q=\frac{1}{\sqrt{X^{\;\raisebox{0mm}{\epsfxsize=5mm\epsfbox{photon.eps}}\;}}},\end{equation} defines the
invariant running charge $\alpha/Q_R$. We emphasize that the above are DSE for 1PI Green functions.

The primitives \begin{equation} B_+^{r;k}(\mathbb{I}), \; bB_+^{r;k}=0 \Leftrightarrow
\Delta B_+^{r;k} = B_+^{r;k} \otimes \mathbb{I}+({\rm id}\otimes
B_+^{r;k})\Delta,\end{equation} are such that upon application of the
renormalized Feynman rules, $\phi_R(B_+^{r;k})$, they give the Dyson kernels  for the
vertex $\;\raisebox{-1mm}{\epsfxsize=6mm\epsfbox{vertex.eps}}\;$, the quenched $\beta$ function and light-by-light
scattering amplitudes for the photon $\;\raisebox{0mm}{\epsfxsize=5mm\epsfbox{photon.eps}}\;$, suitable mass derivatives
for the fermion propagator ${\;\raisebox{0mm}{\epsfxsize=5mm\epsfbox{fermion.eps}}\;\atop m}$, while the kinetic part of the
fermion propagator ${\;\raisebox{0mm}{\epsfxsize=5mm\epsfbox{fermion.eps}}\;\atop \partial}$ is taken care off by the Ward identity. Here
are the primitives up to two loops: \begin{eqnarray} r=\;\raisebox{0mm}{\epsfxsize=5mm\epsfbox{photon.eps}}\;:  & & \;\raisebox{-7mm}{\epsfysize=16mm\epsfbox{photonk.eps}}\;,\nonumber\\
r=\;\raisebox{0mm}{\epsfxsize=5mm\epsfbox{fermion.eps}}\;:  & & \;\raisebox{-7mm}{\epsfysize=16mm\epsfbox{fermionk.eps}}\;,\label{2l}\\ r=\;\raisebox{-1mm}{\epsfxsize=6mm\epsfbox{vertex.eps}}\;:  & & \;\raisebox{-7mm}{\epsfysize=16mm\epsfbox{vertexk.eps}}\;.\nonumber\end{eqnarray}
Labeled dots indicate derivatives with respect to external momenta $q$ or fermion masses $m$, such as to render these integral kernels logarithmically
divergent.

In general,
\begin{equation} B_+^{r;k}=\sum_{|\gamma|=k,{\rm res}(\gamma)=r}B_+^\gamma,\end{equation}
where $B_+^\gamma$ is defined via pre-Lie insertion into the primitive $\gamma$ such that $B_+^{r;k}$ is Hochschild closed \cite{anatomy,tor}.
As a result  we
get a sub Hopf algebra which is generated by a single one-cocycle $B_+^{r;k}$ in each loop-degree $k$, \cite{KY2}.

The degree of divergence of a graph $\Gamma$ with $f$ external
fermion lines and $m$ external photon lines in $D$ dimensions is \begin{equation}
\omega_D(\Gamma)=\frac{3}{2}f+m-D-(D-4)(|\Gamma|-1)\Rightarrow
\omega_4(\Gamma)=\frac{3}{2}f+m-4.\end{equation} This is independent of the
loop number for QED${}_4$, $D=4$, and is a sole function of the
number and type of external legs. $\omega_D(\Gamma)$ determines the number of derivatives needed to render
a graph logarithmically divergent.

This finishes our summary of QED$_{4}$ as a typical renormalizable theory.

\subsection{QED${}_6$} Here, $|\{{\mathcal R}\}|=\infty$,
as each amplitude is superficially divergent in sufficiently high
loop number.

Searching for primitives, there is a maximal loop order for each amplitude after
which graphs contributing to any given amplitude have sub-divergences.
 We have $\omega_6(\Gamma)=\frac{3}{2}f+m-4-2|\Gamma|$,
and this is now a function of the number and type of external legs and
the number of loops.

For example, the Dyson kernels (the $e^+e^-\to e^+e^-$ scattering
graphs 2PI in the forward channel, \cite{BjDr}) have power-counting degree \begin{equation}
\omega(\Gamma)=2-2|\Gamma|,\end{equation} and one immediately proves that no
such graph is primitive beyond one loop.

But to set up our Dyson--Schwinger equations correctly, we need to
investigate the integral kernels obtained by taking a sufficient
number of derivatives, with respect to masses or external momenta,
so as to obtain log-divergent integral kernels. This can be
graphically indicated by (labeled) dots on the graph as in
\cite{BDK}, and as we did in (\ref{2l}) above already. One immediately proves that these top-degree
contributions provide an infinite number of skeleton kernels.  Upon taking such derivatives we create actually new integral kernels free of subdivergences. There are log-divergent kernels
for each amplitude, at each loop number.
\begin{cor}For each $r\in{\mathcal R}$ and each positive integer $k$, there exists non-trivial one-cocycles $B_+^{r;\gamma}$
with $|\gamma|=k$.\end{cor} Proof: It suffices to give, for each amplitude, a single series of dotted graphs $\Gamma$ with $\omega_6(\Gamma)$ dots each which has
a primitive member at each loop order. We do so for the example $e^+e^-\to e^+e^-$ by the following figure.  \begin{equation}\;\raisebox{-4mm}{\epsfysize=12mm\epsfbox{kernel.eps}}\;\end{equation} where dots represent derivatives wrt an external momentum.
For other amplitudes similar series are easily constructed.\hfill $\Box$\\[5mm]

Summarizing, the DSE take a form similar to QED${}_4$, \begin{eqnarray}
G^r(\alpha,L) & = & 1\pm\sum_{k=1}^\infty \alpha^k
\sum_{|\gamma|=k,{\rm res}(\gamma)=r}\phi_R\left(B_+^{\gamma}\left(X_\gamma\right)\right),\\
X_\gamma & = & \prod_{v\in\gamma^{[0]},e\in\gamma^{[1]}_{\rm int}}\frac{\Gamma^v}{\Gamma^e},\end{eqnarray} only that the number of amplitudes
needing renormalization, $|{\mathcal R}|$, is  infinite, and for each
amplitude we have an infinite number of kernels. Note that we can not write this in terms of $B_+^{r;k}$, as we are lacking
the crucial identity
\begin{equation} X_\gamma=X_{\gamma^\prime},\end{equation} for all primitive $\gamma,\gamma^\prime$ with the same loop number, and contributing to the same amplitude \cite{anatomy}.

Indeed, note that we obtain new primitives $\gamma$ as in the case of the initial photon vertex, which now has two one-loop kernels, one involving
a new Green function $G^{e^+e^-\to e^+e^-}$ contributing to $\mathcal R$, given here with their dressings:
\begin{equation}\;\raisebox{-15mm}{\epsfysize=40mm\epsfbox{vertexks.eps}}\;\end{equation}
We would hence need a relation like
\begin{equation} \frac{\left[\Gamma^{\;\raisebox{-1mm}{\epsfxsize=6mm\epsfbox{vertex.eps}}\;}\right]^3}{[\Gamma^{\;\raisebox{0mm}{\epsfxsize=5mm\epsfbox{fermion.eps}}\;}]^2\Gamma^{\;\raisebox{0mm}{\epsfxsize=5mm\epsfbox{photon.eps}}\;}}=\frac{\Gamma^{\;\raisebox{-1mm}{\epsfxsize=6mm\epsfbox{vertex.eps}}\;}\Gamma^{e^+e^-e^+e^-}}{[\Gamma^{\;\raisebox{0mm}{\epsfxsize=5mm\epsfbox{fermion.eps}}\;}]^2},\end{equation}
and infinitely many more of them, to render the theory renormalizable by renormalization of a single charge.

It is this double infinity which renders such a theory
non-predictive: there is an infinite amount of work for a theorist (work out the kernels) and an infinite amount of work for an experimentalist:
measure an infinite number of charges to render the theory predictive.
\section{Gravity}
We consider pure gravity understood as a theory based on a graviton propagator and $n$-graviton couplings as vertices.
A fuller discussion incorporating ghosts and matter fields is referred to future work.

An immediate observation concerns powercounting in such a theory. If we
work with Feynman rules as given in \cite{Bryce}, we see that each
$n$-graviton vertex is a quadric in momenta attached to the vertex.
This has an immediate consequence.
\begin{cor} Let $|\Gamma|=k$. Then $\omega(\Gamma)=-2(|\Gamma|+1)$.\end{cor}
Proof: A 1PI one-loop graph has as many internal edges as vertices.
Their contributions to the superficial degree of divergence hence cancel.
We conclude that one-loop graphs are quadratically divergent, in accordance with the corollary.
Increasing the loop order by one in a 1PI graph introduces one more propagator than vertices, the net gain in
powercounting is hence $-2$, $+2$ from counting
propagators and vertices, and $-4$ from counting loops. \hfill $\Box$\\
We have now a situation dual to a renormalizable theory: The
superficial degree of divergence depends on the loop number, but not
on the number and type of external legs. While in a renormalizable theory like massless QED${}_4$
we have a single amplitude which needs renormalization -thanks to the Ward identity-, and primitives at each loop order, we have found a nice loop-to-leg duality: we have primitives only at first loop order, but for any number of external legs.

Investigating further,  the crucial
result of this paper is that quantum gravity is sufficiently
non-renormalizable such that its skeletons are all one-loop.
\subsection{All skeletons are one-loop}
As powercounting is determined by the loop number instead of by the
external leg structure, there is only one two-loop graph, made of
three carrying edges. The notion of a carrying edge takes account of
the fact that the powercounting of edges and vertices cancels. We
hence ignore external edges and consider a string of edges, interrupted only by vertices with couplings to external legs, as a
single carrying edge. We extend this notion to subgraphs. External edges are not explicitly given from now on, as they play no role
for powercounting.

For a graph
$\Gamma$, we let $d_{\omega(\Gamma)}$ be the set of graphs obtained
by distributing $\omega(\Gamma)$ dots over $\Gamma$, indicating the
action of derivatives wrt to external momenta or masses. Derivatives on vertices will likewise
be indicated by dots on internal propagators in accordance with the leg which is involved.

Let us look at the the following two graphs.
\begin{equation} \;\raisebox{-8mm}{\epsfysize=24mm\epsfbox{gravcarry.eps}}\;.\end{equation}
For the two loop graph on the left, we can distribute six markings over its three internal edges $e_1,e_2,e_3$ to render it log-divergent.
We have to do so such that each of the one-loop subgraphs $\{(e_1,e_2)\}$, $\{(e_2,e_3)\}$, $\{(e_3,e_1)\}$ has five markings, as it has to be finite.
But there is no partition of six into three integers such that the sum of any two of those integers is greater than four.

So there is no primitive two-loop graph. The first integer which has such a partition is $8\to (3,3,2)$.
We hence have to require that at higher loop orders, every two-loop graph, which necessarily is based on three carrying edges, obtains eight dots.

Let us now look at a three loop graph $\Gamma$. We have $\omega(\Gamma)=-8$. So we have eight markings at our
disposal. We need to distribute them in a way such that each of its
two-loop subgraphs contains all of them, as we would have to render
all its two-loop subgraphs finite. This is impossible as two such
two-loop subgraphs will not share all carrying edges. In the figure,
we have six edges $e_1,\cdots,e_6$. Any five of those six edges form a two-loop subgraph on three carrying edges.
For example edges $e_1,e_2,e_3,e_4,e_5$ form a two-loop subgraph on the three carrying edges $\{(e_1,e_3),(e_4,e_5),e_2\}$.
Distributing $3+3+2$ dots in any way over these three carrying edges leaves for example the two-loop subgraphs like
$\{(e_1,e_3),(e_4,e_5),e_6\}$, containing $e_6$, divergent.

So there is no primitive three-loop kernel, and eleven or more
markings are needed to render the three-loop graphs finite. This
argument continues in a straightforward manner and hence we will not find a primitive in $d_{\omega(\Gamma)}$
for any graph $\Gamma$ beyond first loop order. We hence have proven for any graph $\Gamma$
\begin{thm} The set $d_{\omega(\Gamma)}$ contains no primitive element.\end{thm}
This is strikingly different in comparison to a generic non-renormalizable theory like QED$_{6}$
which we discussed in the previous section.

\subsection{Relations between Green functions}
The double infinity, in loops and legs, of a non-renormalizable theory has turned for
quantum gravity into a single infinity  parameterized by the
different number of external legs.
While for a renormalizable theory, the
degree of divergence is constant over the number of loops and varies
with the number of external legs, we have the dual situation for
gravity: it is constant over the number of external legs, but varies
with the loop number.

The question we ask is if there is a map which connects the two
situations of quantum gravity and a renormalizable field theory,
using the structure of their respective DSEs? Is quantum gravity,
by such a map,
non-pertubatively renormalizable whilst being perturbatively
non-renormalizable? This thought, actively pursued in the context of the Wilsonian renormalization group since several years
\cite{Martin}, indeed emerges also from our study of the DSE of quantum gravity.

We can work out how such a map should look. What we need is a map
which gives an infinite number of relations between the infinite
number of amplitudes needing renormalization such that only a finite
number of amplitudes remain indetermined, possibly on the expense of
increasing the number of primitives infinitely.

Our input is the structure of the DSE written in terms of their
Hochschild one-cocyles, combined with the request for multiplicative
renormalization. In \cite{anatomy}, in the context of a non-abelian gauge theory, it was shown how this request
leads to the Slavnov--Taylor identities for the couplings. There,
this request led, for such a gauge theory as a renormalizable theory with a a finite set
${\mathcal R}$, to a finite number of relations ensuring that there
is a unique renormalized coupling.

The request \cite{anatomy}
\begin{equation} X_\gamma=X_{\gamma^\prime}\end{equation}
leads to a Hopf ideal in the pure gluon sector given by \cite{anatomy}
\begin{equation} \frac{\Gamma^{gl_4}}{\Gamma^{gl_3}}=\frac{\Gamma^{gl_3}}{\Gamma^{gl_2}},\end{equation}
with
\begin{equation} X_\gamma=\frac{\prod_{v\in\gamma^{[0]}}\Gamma^v}{\prod_{e\in\gamma^{[1]}_{\rm int}}\Gamma^e},\end{equation}
where $\gamma^{[0]}$ is the set of vertices of $\gamma$ and $\gamma^{[1]}_{\rm int}$ the set of internal edges.
This simplifies in the pure gluon sector to a well-known Slavnov--Taylor identity for the renormalization of the two-, three- and four-point gluon amplitudes:
\begin{equation} \frac{Z^{gl_4}}{Z^{gl_3}}=\frac{Z^{gl_3}}{Z^{gl_2}}.\label{SlTay}\end{equation}
Here, the superscript ${}^{gl_n}$ indicates an $n$-gluon amplitude.
Note that this identity is also in accordance with unitarity and cutting symmetries, as it exhibits that the contributions
to any amputated 4-gluon amplitude renormalize consistently.

Correspondingly, we will denote by a superscript ${}^{gr_n}$ an $n$-graviton amplitude. These amplitudes span an infinite set ${\mathcal R}$.
In contrast to the situation in gauge theory, if we have any number of graviton self-couplings $gr_n$, we now need an infinite number
of renormalization constants $Z^{gr_n}$ if we are to maintain  our theory unitary.

The above Slavnov--Taylor identity was derived in \cite{anatomy} by the requirement that the sum of all graphs contributing to a given amplitude
at a fixed order of perturbation theory furnishes a generator of a sub-Hopf algebra. The same requirement
delivers now an infinite sequence of identities,
\begin{equation}
\frac{\Gamma^{gr_{n+1}}}{\Gamma^{gr_{n}}}=\frac{\Gamma^{gr_{n}}}{\Gamma^{gr_{n-1}}},\label{ids}\end{equation}
which is indeed an infinite number of identities leaving only
$\Gamma^{gr_{2}},\Gamma^{gr_{3}}$ undetermined. In the case of non-abelian gauge theory the corresponding ideal is respected by the counterterms
regarded as an element of ${\rm Spec}(G)$, which hence become an algebra map on the quotient of the Hopf algebra by this Hopf ideal.
This implies non-trivial relations between Hochschild one-cocycles beyond one loop, which iterate in the DSE to provide the desired identities for the counterterms.
In the gravity case, the situation is simpler from the viewpoint of absence of one-cocycles beyond one loop. This is compensated though by the necessity to construct elements in ${\rm Spec}(G)$ in accordance with the desired ideal.

To see this in some detail, we  identify a dressed primitive one-loop graph with $r$ external legs with an ordered
partition $\omega_r$ of an integer $r$ into integers $n_i>0$. We consider partitions up to cyclic permutations. Let
$\{\omega_r\}$ be the set of such partitions of $r$. For
$\omega\in\{\omega_r\}$ let $\|\omega\|$ be the size of the partition,
and let us consider partitions of size greater than one.
We write sometimes $r=|\omega|$.

The identification between such a partition
and a one-loop graph proceeds as follows.
A one loop graph provides say $m$ internal propagators $\phi_R([\Gamma^{gr_{2}}]^{-1})$, and $m$ internal vertices which are dressed by vertex functions $\phi_R(\Gamma^{gr_{s_i}})$, $s_i>2$.  We have $r=\sum_{i=1}^m (s_i-2)$, $n_i=s_i-2$ and identify such a graph with the partition
$\{s_1-2,s_2-2,\cdots,s_m-2\}$, as for example for $r=4=|\omega|$, $\omega=\{2,1,1\}$, $\|\omega\|=3$:
\begin{equation}\;\raisebox{-16mm}{\epsfysize=48mm\epsfbox{Qins.eps}}\; .\end{equation}
We write $\gamma(\omega)$ for a one-loop graph which as a dressed graph can be identified with the partition $\omega$ and we regard partitions up to cyclic permutations.
\begin{prop}
For all $\omega,\omega^\prime$ with $|\omega|=|\omega^\prime|$, the relations \begin{equation}
\prod_{j\in\omega}\Gamma^{j+2}/[\Gamma^2]^{\|\omega\|} =
\prod_{j\in\omega^\prime}\Gamma^{j+2}/[\Gamma^2]^{\|\omega^\prime\|}\end{equation}
define a sub-Hopf algebra with Hochschild closed one-cocycles
$B_+^{1,|\omega|}=\sum_{\omega\in\{\omega_{|\omega|}\}}B_+^{\gamma(\omega)}$.
\end{prop}
Proof: By construction, the above relations define invariant charges $\phi_R(Q)$
for the $|\omega|$-point scattering amplitudes, as
\begin{equation} X_\gamma=X_{\gamma^\prime}\Leftrightarrow \left(\frac{\prod_{v\in{\gamma^\prime}^{[0]}}\Gamma^v}{\prod_{e\in{\gamma^\prime}^{[1]}_{\rm int}}\Gamma^e}\right)
=\left(\frac{\prod_{v\in\gamma^{[0]}}\Gamma^v}{\prod_{e\in\gamma^{[1]}_{\rm int}}\Gamma^e}\right)\Leftrightarrow X_\gamma=\Gamma^{gr_{|\omega|}}Q^{2}
,\end{equation} for all $\gamma=\gamma(\omega)$, $\gamma^\prime=\gamma^\prime(\omega^\prime)$ and \begin{equation} Q=\frac{\Gamma^{gr_3}}{[\Gamma^{gr_2}]^{3/2}} =\frac{[\Gamma^{gr_4}]^{1/2}}{[\Gamma^{gr_2}]}=\cdots=\frac{[\Gamma^{gr_{n}}]^{1/n-2}}{[\Gamma^{gr_2}]^{n/(2n-4)}},\label{QQQ}\end{equation}
 by construction. Hence one-cocycles $B_+^\gamma$ lead
to sub-Hopf algebras as in \cite{anatomy}.
\hfill $\Box$\\[5mm]
To determine these Hopf algebras explicitly it suffices to give their linearized coproduct
\begin{equation} \Delta^\prime_{\rm lin}(c_m^{gr_n})=\sum_{j=1}^{m-1}c_j^{gr_n}\otimes c_{m-j}^{gr_n}+\sum_{j=1}^{m-1}2jc_{m-j}^Q\otimes c_j^{gr_n},\end{equation}
where $c_m^{gr_n}$ is the sum of all $m$-loop graphs with $n$ external legs, and $c_m^Q$ is the sum of all 1PI contributions to $Q$ in any of the representations (\ref{QQQ}) above.
\subsection{KLT relations}
What we expect from the above is the ability to define a sequence of renormalization conditions
on Green functions $G^{gr_n}$, $n>3$, such that suitably defined counterterms  give an element in ${\rm Spec}(G)$ in accordance
with the above identities.

This is comparable to the situation in non-abelian gauge theory, where the renormalization condition of the four-gluon vertex is determined by the renormalization
of the gluon propagator and three-gluon vertex such that the Slavnov Taylor identity holds \cite{Celmaster}. Note though that the residue of a one-loop amplitude is independent of the choice of renormalization scheme.

If we go back to a non-abelian gauge theory, the identity (\ref{SlTay}) leads then to identities between residues of one-loop graphs which are
straightforward to check in particular in a symmetric renormalization scheme, where $s,t,u$ channels renormalize in the same way, and kinematics becomes combinatorics.

Similarly, for gravity we need an identity which connects the residues of $(n+1)$-graviton amplitudes to the $n$- and $(n-1)$-graviton amplitudes.
It suffices to consider a new external leg at zero momentum transfer as we are only interested in the residue.

At zero momentum transfer, with $V(k)_{\mu_1\mu_2;\nu_1\nu_2;\rho_1\rho_2}\equiv V(k)_{ \underline{\mu\nu\rho}}$ the tree-level vertex for a zero-momentum graviton coupling to a free propagating graviton with momentum $k$, $\Pi(k)_{\alpha_1\alpha_2;\beta_1\beta_2}\equiv\Pi(k)_{\underline{\alpha\beta}}$
the comparison of the residue in a $n+1$ and $n$ graviton one-loop amplitude reduces to a comparison
\begin{equation} \Pi(k)_{\underline{\alpha\beta}}(k)\;\leftrightarrow\;\Pi(k)_{\underline{\alpha\mu}} V(k)_{\underline{\mu\nu\rho}}\Pi(k)_{\underline{\rho\beta}}.\end{equation}

In general, this has no particular structure which allows to proceed \cite{bern}. The situation improves considerably though when one uses Feynman rules as suggested by the KLT relations \cite{bern}, which were put to use profitably in recent years relating perturbative gravity to non-abelian gauge theory \cite{bern}. For our analysis of DSE they  lead to the identity
\begin{equation} \Pi(k)_{\underline{\alpha\mu}} V(k)_{\underline{\mu\nu\rho}}\Pi(k)_{\underline{\rho\beta}}
=\Pi(k)_{\underline{\alpha\beta}}\frac{k_{\nu_1}k_{\nu_2}}{k^2},\end{equation}
using that for KLT Feynman rules one has
\begin{eqnarray} k^2\Pi(k)_{\underline{\mu\alpha}}\Pi(k)_{\underline{\alpha\nu}} & = & \Pi_{\underline{\mu\nu}},\\
V(k)_{\underline{\mu\nu\rho}} & = & V(k)_{\mu_1\nu_1\rho_1}V(k)_{\mu_2\nu_2\rho_2}.\end{eqnarray}
One hence relates those residues by insertion of the scale-invariant tensor $\frac{k_{\nu_1}k_{\nu_2}}{k^2}$ into the $n$-graviton one-loop integral, which relates the residues, actually the full Mellin transforms, by contraction with a metric tensor. This immediately reduces relations between residues to combinatorics which determines the choice of a character on the Hopf algebra so that the relations (\ref{ids}) are fulfilled. The fact that there are no further primitives at higher loop order allows these relations to iterate
into the DSE. Explicit computations and an extension to ghost and matter fields is beyond the scope of this paper.

\section{Remarks and Conclusions}
We finish this short paper with a few remarks concerning the structure of theories with a power-counting as above such that propagators and vertices cancel in their contributions to the superficial degree of divergence. We  call theories with such a powercounting leg-renormalizable, to contrast them from the ordinary (loop)-renormalizable theories.
\subsection{Diffeomorphism invariance and residues}
We might accept that local geometry influences the renormalization conditions for Green functions, but the diffeomorphism invariance of residues
leaves their relation invariant in accordance with (\ref{ids}), and sits well with a the conceptual set-up of a gravity theory.
\subsection{Duality}
The loop-to-leg duality which we observe here deserves further investigation. Extending the first steps done here by incorporating matter and ghost fields, and hence combining the Hopf algebra structure above with the dual one of renormalizable fields hints towards a pairing between the loop- and leg-renormalizable theories which deserves clarification.
\subsection{Free Theory}
There is a natural resource to find other leg-renormalizable theories: start from a loop-renormalizable theory with coupling constant $g$ say and impose a non-linear field transformation. Even setting the coupling constant $g$ to zero after the transformation leaves us with an interacting theory
which indeed has vertices whose power-counting is inverse to the contributions of propagators, by construction. This should be a good starting point
to come to a better algebraic understanding of loop- and leg-renormalizable theories, and their interplay.

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Q: nginx + munin "internal redirection cycle" I have an SSL domain that runs nginx, and I want to be able to access my munin graphs/stats on that domain. So, in the domain's server block, I added this:
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Theoretically, I should be able to go to http://example.com/munin and be shown /var/cache/munin/www/index.html. However, I get a 500 error, and this message in error.log:

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I've tried a bunch of different things, but nothing seems to work. I'd be really grateful if somebody could shed some light on this situation, and maybe come up with a solution. Thanks! :)
Here is the full configuration for the domain, if it helps:
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A: Why are you using location =?  I'm fairly certain that isn't what you want.  On the other hand, that shouldn't be causing your redirect loop, as I understand it, but it certainly won't be helping you get what you want.  Enable nginx debugging (error_log ... debug or error_log ... debug_http if you've got an nginx built correctly) to see what nginx is doing to your request internally, and it should give you a clue as to how to fix it.


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Raul Torrez Might Just Have Found his MOJO at the AG's Office
By: ABQRAW contributor Dan Klein (Retired Police Sergeant) Small Business owner
Posted: 1/24/2023 @ 12:45PM
As Bernalillo County District Attorney Raul Torrez was in a tough spot. No matter what he tried, crime continued to spiral out of control in his jurisdiction. Some of that fell upon his shoulders, he was the chief law enforcement officer for the county, but a lot of it was out of his control. There was a lot of finger pointing and not a lot of success. Being DA is a tough job.
Now we welcome Raul Torrez as New Mexico Attorney General, or as I like to call him, Raul 2.0. It's only been a few weeks, but it seems that Raul Torrez has found his calling as the New Mexico Attorney General.
Raul Torrez has found his mojo as New Mexico Attorney General!
Raul has done three things already that has me very excited about his tenure as attorney general. First, he quashed having outside of New Mexico law firms handling cases. New Mexico has plenty of solid law firms to handle anything the attorney general might need. By using New Mexico firms, Raul is stating that he trusts his fellow New Mexicans to get the job done.
Second, Raul is suing a handful of New Mexico cities and counties that have recently passed ordinances to limit abortion, which limits a woman's right to freely access healthcare. He is alleging that the local jurisdictions are overstepping their authority and that the New Mexico constitution protects a woman's right to abortion and healthcare. It is refreshing to witness a public official who is willing to take on those who wish to deny New Mexico women their rights.
Third, Torrez is working with the New Mexico Legislature to create a special unit in the New Mexico Attorney General's Office to represent children who are either at risk or already in the system. This would provide a watchdog that would hopefully protect at risk New Mexico children from slipping through the cracks of a leaking system. It would also help to ensure those children in the criminal justice system get a fair chance at reforming themselves into good citizens.
With the failures of CYFD and the criminal justice system, when it comes to New Mexico children, this is a giant step in the right direction. By having this unit of attorneys working for the New Mexico Attorney General, they will have clout and the power to get things done.
These are just the honeymoon days for Raul Torrez, but if he keeps marching in this direction, the honeymoon as attorney general is going to last for a long time. That would be great for New Mexico.
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Anna's are so pretty, and you captured this little one perfectly. I never knew the history, thank you for sharing!
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From the VC's Desk: Update on Rhodes statue and occupation of Bremner Building
28 March 2015 | Story by Newsroom
Dear colleagues and students
Herewith an update on the matter of the Rhodes statue and the occupation of the Bremner building by protesting students.
Following my indication to the Student Representative Council earlier in the week that the Senior Leadership Group supported the removal of the statue and that we could bring the Council meeting forward by a week to 8 April, the SRC president indicated that the SRC have agreed to form part of the university process of engagement on the matter of the statue.
On Wednesday evening this week the university assembly saw Jameson Hall and Molly Blackburn Hall overflowing with staff and students. It was a powerful meeting with students and staff expressing opinions about the statue but also broader transformation issues. The overwhelming voice in the hall was certainly one of passionate demand for the removal of the statue.
On Thursday, 26 March, a meeting of the PASS Forum discussed the SLG's proposal that the Rhodes Statue be removed from its current location. Members also raised other issues related to transformation, which we will take further. They also asked that a special email address be established where they (all members of the PASS staff) would be able to register their views on the statue or any broader transformation issue. This e-mail is: passforumcomments@uct.ac.za and all PASS staff are invited to use this channel for their views and comment by 3 April.
On Friday, I tabled a motion to the Senate, on behalf of the SLG, to remove the Rhodes statue from its current position. An amendment was proposed by the SRC to remove the statue permanently from the campus. This amendment was supported as was a further amendment that while awaiting a final decision from the UCT Council and Heritage Western Cape, the statue should be boarded up. The final amended proposal was supported by 181 votes, with one against and three abstentions.
Also on Friday, the Academics Union released a statement confirming their members support for moving the statue. The University Convocation will meet on 7 April to express their view on the matter and Council will make the final decision at a specially called meeting on Wednesday, 8 April 2015.
I would like to remind you that all staff and students can still raise their views and opinions until 3 April at the email address: haveyoursay@uct.ac.za
It is three weeks since the protest action began and one week since the occupation of parts of the Bremner Building. A group of between 30 and up to 300 people gather from time to time on the steps, occupy various rooms in Bremner and protest by singing, drumming, and dancing at various times of the day. About a hundred students sleep overnight in the building. The students also engage in many educational activities and the Mafeje room is indeed a vibrant, argumentative space with lectures, films, plays, discussions, sharing experiences and strategy. Although most administrative sections in Bremner have continued to work, there has been considerable noise and disruption throughout the building and occasionally staff have been allowed to work from home or from offices in other buildings. This has undoubtedly inconvenienced them and people trying to contact the Bremner staff, but I particularly want to express my appreciation to the Bremner staff for their loyalty, patience, and assistance during this period.
Dr Max Price
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Fantasy Novel Review: The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
December 4, 2021 tarvolon
There may not be a book with more hype in my online circles this year than Tasha Suri's epic series-opener The Jasmine Throne. It promised pretty much everything I like in a book, with a character-focused slow build and layers of intrigue in a non-Western setting. The only question–depending mostly on my library–was whether I'd read it this year or wait until the inevitable Hugo nomination next spring. As it turns out, this year it was.
The Jasmine Throne centers two women living in a sort of exile following narrow escapes from fiery deaths. Malini has refused her emperor brother's command to purify herself in the ritual flames of the pyre, and has been sentenced to exile in an abandoned temple in a rebellious territory once feared for their plant magic. Caring for her is Priya, once a dedicant to that temple who escaped the purge of a burgeoning generation of mages and is hiding as an anonymous servant in the house of the territorial regent. But Priya's people have not given up on independence, nor has Malini's exile disabused her of the notion of revolution against her despotic brother. Isolated in the temple, Priya and Malini have only each other to love, to aid, and to use.
The Jasmine Throne is one of those books that leaves me wondering why I didn't like it more than I did. Vivid description, myriad characters with well-realized motivations, and a plot that pulls them all together in the only way that felt possible certainly seems like the sort of book I should adore. Instead? I appreciated it more than I really loved it. I could see the skill in the writing, and in the way the character actions all well into place, but I never maintained an emotional connection, and I'm not 100% sure why.
I'm not convinced the book was well-served by having quite as many point-of-view characters as it did, with two main characters, three secondary characters with significant page time, and four or five one-off perspectives. That's not unusual in epic fantasy, but a lot of the bigger names in the subgenre ease the reader into a smaller number of initial POVs before expanding as time goes on, and The Jasmine Throne seems to do the opposite. I also found one of the side characters—who made herself a leader despite gendered expectations of submission, balancing obligations to her people, her land, and her family, and not shying from hard decisions—to be more interesting than either of the leads, who felt more straightforwardly ruthless. There's nothing wrong with a darker lead, but I just wasn't grabbed to the same extent as I might've been had the story centered on a different character. And while the one-dimensional zealot of a villain is certainly dark enough to contrast with the not-totally-evil protagonists, his motivations are too flat to add a lot to the story.
These are not major complaints. There have been many excellent books with flat antagonists, and having a side character that could've been the lead is a pretty good problem, as problems go. And, while I didn't find myself loving Malini as a character, it's hard not to appreciate a climax that so perfectly encapsulated her development to that point. Both hers and Priya's endings closed significant plot arcs while leaving significant threads dangling for the sequel—the way an epic fantasy series-starter should go, but not always the way they do go.
All in all, there's a lot to like about The Jasmine Throne. I didn't connect to the leads well enough to really fall in love—and to rate highly on my personal scale—but it's absolutely worth a look for fans of epic fantasy, especially ones looking for non-Western settings.
Recommended if you like: morally ambiguous leads, political schemes, Indian-inspired settings, creepy trees.
Can I use it for Bingo? It's certainly hard mode for Found Family, Set in Asia, and Revenge-Seeking Character, and it's also a 2021 Release, a Book Club book, and 500+ Pages.
Overall rating: 14 of Tar Vol's 20. Four stars on Goodreads.
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Think you need 18 or more to pass the Test so she was really close on at least one occasion. My wife submitted her FLR yesterday. £993 pounds plus £500.00 Healthcare charges. We will begin preparing for this test quite soon. Although you don't of course need to pay the Heath care charges for ILR visa that visa is around £2,300 and will likely go up by quite a reasonable amount by the time we need to submit it. Cheers..
A couple of points to add to the discussion.. Ordinarily you would not be able to get a visa to the UK for your child in his Thai passport...this is because your child is British by descent and staff at the Embassy cannot limit your child's time in the UK to 6 months or less..however according to some reports some applications have been approved in the past..i also tried it myself when our son's UK passport was taking a very long time to be processed at Liverpool...we were advised to withdraw the application...at the time i thought it was worth the risk and only lost the £90 application fee.. I have been in the visa processing centre on two occasions with my wife recently when submitting visa applications...however we did have our baby with us..i did not take them to trendy for the passport application but i am sure that i could have.. Consider submitting some family pictures alongside the application...i was asked to submit these as additional evidence...make sure they are dated and the names of everyone is included on the back of the pictures.. My son's passport took 6 months to be issued...even once they had the additional evidence they requested it still took them 17 weeks to process the application... I was not married when our son was born..he kind of disrupted our plans by arriving 9 days early and made an appearance at our wedding at Bang Rak. After about 5 months or so when i was still ringing up the customer service line and continuing to mention about how long it was taking i was advised that i was one of the lucky ones as the passport office had not requested a DNA test!!!!! Cheers..
Think it is just that a decision has been made...normally you can go to VFS 2 working days after a decision has been made...or they will send it to your wife/gf if you have paid for a courier service....you will only find out the decision once you see the visa in her passport or get the refusal letter... Cheers..
Are UK Visa Applications Becoming More Difficult?
The new English Test ( Key English Test ) is harder than the Bulats Test that many Thai girls took so this will make it harder for some spouse visa applications( unless you can get them to do the trinity test over here)...understand what Matthew says about goalposts keep moving.... Cheers..
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From 22.8.14 any English language certificates from Bulats, ETS and Trinity Esol Skills for Life courses cannot be used in your wife's settlement application for entry to the UK. From 1.8.14 they cannot be used for FLR applications or ILR regardless of the length of time left on the certificate or whether they have expired. It appears that it was the providers not UKVI who requested this. It just gets harder and harder!!!! Get that new course booked for the missus. My wife has just put in her online application but we have had to cancel it and request a refund because of this little known change to the validity of English Language Certificates...her A1 Certificate from Vantage Siam ( which cost me £400 btw) with the prep course and hotel fees will not now be accepted for settlement applications.. Cheers...kind of!


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There are very few annuity type occupational pensions with this sort of inbuilt protection of value! Of course, it is a political commitment without any legislative substance and can be revoked without even approval from the House of Commons. However, it still is a critical hedge in preserving value.
The triple lock effectively protects the real value of the UK state pension relative to earnings and inflation…. a very valuable protection! This protective measure has seen the UK state pension benefitting from a cumulative 20% increase over the last 7 years. That is certainly more than can be said for earnings! All the more reason to contact us and see how the system may benefit you www.uspfinancial.ie
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At the end of 2007, the Zdubish album "Ethnomecanica" was released at "Sojuz" Record Label, in Russia. Before that, the album had been already released in Romania and Moldova.
On the 28th of March, 2008, the album release will take place in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, under the "Lawine Records", being distributed by "Sony BMG".
At the moment the band is getting ready for the tour supporting the European release. The first concert in the framework of this tour will be held in Moscow, on the 5th of April, in the club "B2".
Cities from Hungary, Austria, Germany and Denmark will follow. The Moldovan rockers are waited in Budapest, Vienna, Innsbruck, Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, K?ln, Dortmund, and Copenhagen.
The tour will end in Leipzig, on the 26th of April, in the club "Ut Сonnewitz".
In May the Zdubs will be working in the studio on their new material and, after this creative break, they will jump into the summer tour of festivals.
Detailed information on the band's concert can be found on the official website.


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The Australian Maritime Safety Agency (AMSA) strikes Port State Control (PSC) fear into the black hearts of shonky ship owners and so it should. The concept of PSC, as entitled by both UNCLOS and SOLAS, was galvanised into action 20 years ago as a means of bringing badly managed and even corrupt Flags of Convenience under control. Initially intended as a temporary measure, it has been a roaring success as the truly effective auditor of IMO convention compliance by FOC's and their ship owner customers. But PSC also has the authority to enforce the ILO's Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) and this is the key to this week's SeaBlog story.
On June 30, a complaint was made by the International Transport Federation (ITF, a global transport workers' union) to AMSA that crew wages on board the bulk carrier MV 'Rena' had not been paid for several months. When the Bahamas flagged 'Rena' arrived to load coal at Hay Point, in Queensland, AMSA descended onboard to conduct a PSC inspection. Their findings included defects relating to the IMO's SOLAS convention including a faulty emergency generator, faulty lifeboat engine starter and non-conformities in the ship's Safety Management System (SMS). Additionally – and this is the apparent game changer – the vessel and her owners were found to be in breach of the MLC in relation to the full payment of crew wages.
In consequence of the AMSA inspectors' findings, the vessel was detained pending rectification of the PSC listed defects as well as clear evidence that the crew had in fact been paid their wages in full. In the event, the SOLAS defects were rectified and the crew's wages were finally settled on 3 August 2017. The reported outstanding total wage amount was USD 53,000.00. Not a huge amount but critical if you are a 3rd world seafarer with a family whose lives depend on your cash remittances home.
The fact that AMSA detained the 'Rena' until a serious breach of the MLC was rectified is not novel as the recent 2016 annual reports from both the Paris MOU and Tokyo MOU showed this to be a not uncommon event. However, what appears to be novel is that the ITF's complaint instigated AMSA's PSC inspection. Further, that this PSC inspection was then utilised as a legitimate mechanism to force payment of outstanding crew wages.
On the face of it, the apparent co-operation between the ITF and AMSA and the application of the MLC negated any need by the crew to instruct solicitors to arrest the 'Rena' to obtain payment of wages, as entitled in Australia and many countries. It also negated the usual crew concerns as to the payment of a hefty deposit to solicitors to facilitate a ship arrest, along with the usual undertaking as to the obligation to pay all the court's costs of arrest and port costs during that period. Finally, and very importantly, there was no court ordered arrest warrant or writ in rem naming identifiable crew plaintiffs. As such the crew were seemingly protected from the usual employment blacklisting by crewing agents and ship owners that normally follow such events.
The 'Rena's' owners and their technical and crew managers got it very wrong. Australia, the European Union and the USA operate the most stringent PSC systems in the world. If your ship enters any ports in these places you must be prepared for close examination; as it should be. In short, not under the friendly gaze of a sometimes ineptly trained Flag State inspector seeking to keep your certificate revalidation business and annual tonnage tax payment on board his principal's ship register. Ignore this unfortunate reality at your peril, inclusive of incurring potentially huge costs in terms of port charges and lost charter hire.
All in all, a positive and just outcome for the ship's crew, the ITF, AMSA and the MLC and its application as the oft quoted "Seafarer's Bill of Rights". SeaProf is therefore quite certain that the ITF, with the ad hoc assistance of the regional PSC organisations around the world, will be extending the use of this very powerful MLC enforcement tactic to force resolution of both crew underpayment and other crew rights issues. As for ship owners, the warning is that the IMO and a significant number of their flag state members may tolerate substandard ships and management, but PSC – which operates independently of IMO control and politics – will not.
More about the fascinating concepts of Port State Control and Ship Registration strategy will be covered by SeaProf's Capt. Robert Gordon at the upcoming "Key Elements of Shipping" course scheduled for 10 – 12 October in Singapore. To facilitate more energised and focused case study engagement, KES places are now limited to a maximum of 20 participants and seats are filling quickly. Please take a look at the BI Norwegian Business School/SeaProf course brochure and our list of outstanding corporate and academic speakers. We suggest you book now to avoid disappointment.
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Q: Contour inegration involving a confluent hypergeometric function with a pole at zero I have the following integral
\begin{equation}
\int_0^1 t^{-5/4} {_1}F_1(-1/4;1/2;t) dt
\end{equation}
I know that it only has a pole at zero since the confluent hypergeometric function is analytic in the entire complex plane but I dont know what contour to use.

A: This integration does not have a convergent result.
$$
\int t^{-5/4} {_1}F_1(-1/4;1/2;t) dt
= \int t^{-5/4} \sum_{k = 0}^{+\infty} \frac{(-\frac{1}{4})_k}{(\frac{1}{2})_k} \frac{t^k}{\Gamma(k+1)} dt \\=\sum_{k = 0}^{+\infty} \frac{(-\frac{1}{4})_k}{(\frac{1}{2})_k} \frac{\int t^{k-\frac{5}{4}}dt}{\Gamma(k+1)} =\sum_{k = 0}^{+\infty} \frac{(-\frac{1}{4})_k}{(\frac{1}{2})_k (k-\frac{1}{4})}  \frac{t^{k-\frac{1}{4}}}{\Gamma(k+1)} $$
Since $k-\frac{1}{4} = \frac{3}{4}+k-1 = \frac{\Gamma(-\frac{1}{4})(\frac{3}{4})_k}{\Gamma(\frac{3}{4})(-\frac{1}{4})_k}$
$$=\sum_{k = 0}^{+\infty} \frac{(-\frac{1}{4})_k}{(\frac{1}{2})_k}\frac{\Gamma(-\frac{1}{4})(\frac{3}{4})_k}{\Gamma(\frac{3}{4})(-\frac{1}{4})_k}  \frac{t^{k-\frac{1}{4}}}{\Gamma(k+1)} =\frac{\Gamma(-\frac{1}{4})}{\Gamma(\frac{3}{4}) \sqrt[4]{t}} \sum_{k = 0}^{+\infty} \frac{(-\frac{1}{4})_k}{(\frac{1}{2})_k}\frac{(\frac{3}{4})_k}{(-\frac{1}{4})_k}  \frac{t^{k-\frac{1}{4}}}{\Gamma(k+1)} = \frac{\Gamma(-\frac{1}{4})}{\Gamma(\frac{3}{4}) \sqrt[4]{t}}  {_2}F_2(-\frac{1}{4},-\frac{1}{4};\frac{1}{2},\frac{3}{4};t)$$
When $t \to 1$, $\frac{\Gamma(-\frac{1}{4})}{\Gamma(\frac{3}{4}) \sqrt[4]{1}}  {_2}F_2(-\frac{1}{4},-\frac{1}{4};\frac{1}{2},\frac{3}{4};1) \approx -4.75045$ by wolframalpha.
When $t = 0$, ${_2}F_2(-\frac{1}{4},-\frac{1}{4};\frac{1}{2},\frac{3}{4};0)= 1$ and $\frac{\Gamma(-\frac{1}{4})}{\Gamma(\frac{3}{4})} =-4$. But on the denominator, the $\sqrt[4]{t} =0 $. So it becomes $\frac{-1}{0}$ form, which means the lower limit of integration doesnot exists.
So $\int_0^1 t^{-5/4} {_1}F_1(-1/4;1/2;t) dt$ does not converge.