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Shear instabilities in the dust layer of the solar nebula I. The linear analysis of a non-gravitating one-fluid model without the Coriolis and the solar tidal forces
Minoru Sekiya1 &
Naoki Ishitsu2
As dust aggregates settled toward the midplane of the solar nebula, a thin dust layer was formed. The rotational velocity was a function of the distance from the midplane in this layer, and the shear induced turbulence might occur, which prevented the dust aggregates from settling further toward the midplane. Thus, it was difficult for the dust density on the midplane to exceed the critical density of the gravitational stability. In this paper, the linear analysis of the shear instability is made under the following assumptions: The self-gravity, the solar tidal force (thus the Keplerian shear), and the Coriolis force are neglected; the unperturbed state has a constant Richardson's number in the dust layer; further we restrict ourselves to the case where dust aggregates are small enough, and a mixture of dust and gas is treated as one fluid. Numerical results show that the growth rate of the most unstable mode is much less than the Keplerian angular frequency, as long as the Richardson number is larger than 0.1.
Champney, J. M., A. R. Dobrovolskis, and J. N. Cuzzi, A numerical turbulence model for multiphase flows in the protoplanetary nebula, Phys. Fluids, 7, 1703–1711, 1995.
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Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, Kyushu University, 6-10-1 Hakozaki, Fukuoka, 812-8581, Japan
Minoru Sekiya
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Graduate School of Sciences, Kyushu University, 6-10-1 Hakozaki, Fukuoka, 812-8581, Japan
Naoki Ishitsu
Correspondence to Minoru Sekiya.
Sekiya, M., Ishitsu, N. Shear instabilities in the dust layer of the solar nebula I. The linear analysis of a non-gravitating one-fluid model without the Coriolis and the solar tidal forces. Earth Planet Sp 52, 517–526 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1186/BF03351656
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Covid sparks surge in innovation with 5,070 new patent applications: Juliet Redhouse comments
5,070 global patent applications* relating to Covid-19 have been published since the start of the pandemic, shows a new analysis by leading intellectual property law firm Mathys & Squire.
The most common type of patent application relates to Covid testing and diagnosis, accounting for 1,668 patents (33% of the total). 325 patents related to face masks (6%), while just 55 related to sanitizer and 38 to ventilators/respirators.
Mathys & Squire says a key reason why testing is the most common subcategory of Covid patents is the growing acceptance that the virus has become endemic and societies will have to learn to live with it. As a result, Covid testing has become a viable long-term business model.
The law firm says many more Covid patent applications can be expected this year, as it can take up to 18 months for the patent publication process to be completed.
So far, China accounts for the highest proportion of Covid patents by some margin, with 2,652 covid patent applications, 52% of the total number. Indian-registered patents were the second-most common, with 388, and the US was in third place with 383 (7.7% and 7.6%, respectively).
Mathys & Squire say China's dominance so far is partly due the size and global importance of the country's manufacturing sector. However, other countries are expected to narrow the gap as patent applications continue to be filed.
Juliet Redhouse, Partner at Mathys & Squire, says: "Covid has sparked an unprecedented wave of innovation in the healthcare sector within a very short timeframe."
"Pharmaceutical companies and scientific researchers worldwide have done remarkable work in identifying diagnostic and therapeutic solutions to the virus. If businesses are going to continue to invest in R&D in the healthcare sector, they need to be able to protect their Intellectual Property."
"We are likely to see even more patent applications as society finds innovative ways to adapt to the presence of the virus. This is likely to include more innovation in testing and treatments."
*Source: World Intellectual Property Office
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14 November 2012 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke by telephone on Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi about the escalating violence in Gaza and southern Israel, while the Security Council met in a closed, late-night session on the situation.
According to a readout from the Secretary-General's spokesperson, Mr. Ban expressed his concern to Mr. Netanyahu about the deteriorating situation in southern Israel and Gaza, which includes an alarming escalation of indiscriminate rocket fire from Gaza into Israel and the targeted killing by Israel of a Hamas military operative in Gaza.
Ahmed Said Khalil al-Jabari, the head of the military wing of the Palestinian group Hamas that controls Gaza, was killed when his car was reportedly targeted during Israeli air strikes on the territory that followed a wave of rocket attacks against Israel from Gaza.
The Secretary-General reiterated his strong condemnation of rocket fire out of Gaza and noted his expectation that Israeli reactions are measured so as not to provoke a new cycle of bloodshed that could cause additional civilian casualties and have dangerous spillover effects in the region.
He also called for the parties to exercise the utmost restraint and to respect international humanitarian law.
The 15-member Council met Wednesday night behind closed doors, with the participation of the two parties, and heard a briefing on the situation from Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman.
In his conversation with Mr. Morsi, the Secretary-General stated the need to prevent any further deterioration of the situation, and expressed strong support for the leadership being exercised by Egypt to restore calm in the region.


Plato (ca. 427-347 B.C.) - Socrates' greatest student and a giant in his own right in the discipline of philosophy, Plato distinguished himself from his mentor, by writing...a lot. His works include the Socratic dialogues (which were likely his own dialogues that he attributes to Socrates), the Apology of Socrates, and his most famous work, the Republic. He also founded the Academy around 387 B.C., probably the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. It lasted until 83 B.C when it closed with the death of its final teacher, Philo of Larissa.
Because of his writing, somewhat more is known about Plato than most of the other famous Greeks from this period. The exact year of his birth is not certain, but it was near the beginning of the Peloponnesian War. He came from an influential aristocratic family of moderate wealth. Sometime at a young age he came under the tutelage of Socrates and quickly displayed his own talent. After Socrates' trial and execution, Plato left Greece and traveled abroad, having visited Egypt, and the Greek colonies in Cyrene and Magna Graecia. It may have been during his travels to Egypt that he came across the story of Atlantis, which he records in the dialogues of Timaeus & Critias. This is the only surviving account of Atlantis and the source from which the legend derives.
In the dialogues, Plato recounts the story of Solon "the lawgiver" (see Solon), who himself traveled to Egypt around 590 B.C.. Plato was a descendant of Solon through his mother. On his trip, Solon meets a priest of Sais who tells him the tale of the "Lost Continent of Atlantis". Although events have surely become exaggerated with time (or may be a composite of events), the origin of the Atlantis story if likely the volcanic eruption of Thera roughly a thousand years before the time of Plato (see Thera earlier on the Greek timeline). Jusr as the great philosopher Socrates was mentor to the great philosopher Plato, so also was Plato mentor to the great philosopher, Aristotle.


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It's a shame that most city residents never look up, because their skyline might be forming a badass bat signal right above their unsuspecting heads.
The first official poster for "The Dark Knight Rises" is out, and it's a beauty. Keeping with Christopher Nolan's minimalist teaser campaign (remember "Brooding Batman" and "Why So Serious"?), it shows you just a hint of the thematic weight of the movie (a city in crisis) without tipping its hand too much.
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"If I abandon this project, I would be a man without dreams, and I don't want to live like that." -Werner Herzog
I use the phrase "Conqueror of the Useless" in my bios and descriptions. If you've never heard of Werner Herzog, I'm terribly sorry. But please, do yourself a favor and listen to the German filmmaker's musings on the harmony of nature's "overwhelming and collective murder." Then we'll have a starting point.
Herzog referred to himself, and the protagonist of his film Fitzcarraldo, as a "conquistador of the useless" in the documentary film Burden of Dreams (1982, Les Blank) that records the excruciating making-off process of the film. If you have ever wanted to watch a filmmaker dragging a steamship over mountains in the Amazon to make a film about a ne'er do well Irishman and opera-lover (played with manic genius by Klaus Kinksi) who must drag a steamship over a mountain to harvest the rubber he intends to use to finance an opera house in the jungle, here's your shot.
Over the course of the shooting of the film, Herzog dealt with some unfriendly indigenous people, and some who offered to murder his infamously insane star Kinski for him. He was forced to recast the film after both DiNero and Mick Jagger had to abandon the project due to delays in production and funding difficulties. And, of course, Herzog faced the very real challenge of actually dragging the steamship over a mountain in the Amazon in a fashion that he could film to look as though it were being done with native labor in the 19th century.
Both the movie and the documentary explore the muddy, dirty, up-hill battle facing the brave human soul who searches for beauty and art in a jungle of murderous intention towards human aspiration. That is "conquering the useless." Beauty and art may not feed the belly or pay the bills, but I wouldn't call this living without those things.
At the very least, he had Claudia Cardinale co-starring. That's beauty I'm certain lightened his load. And both films do end happily. Herzog pulled off an "unfilmable" film, and well, I'll let you see how Fitzcarraldo fares for yourself. But you'll smile.
What mud will you crawl through to find one thing of beauty to hold to in your life? What burdens do your dreams bring? How do you face the daily, up-hill slog? Good luck. It's a jungle out there, and it wants you dead. Vae victus!
Both Fitzcarraldo and Burden of Dreams are available streaming on Amazon (well of course!). For a $2.99 rental, you could do a lot worse.
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How cycling saved my life: Lee Stephenson Q&A and podcast
After two decades in the police as a firearms officer, Lee Stephenson suffered terrible mental health issues. In today's episode, he speaks to Joe and James on how cycling – and talking – helped to get his life back.
For more on the issues discussed in today's episode, visit www.mind.org.uk/
Words James Spender Photography Lisa Stonehouse
Cyclist: Lee, you're a keen cyclist, but cycling to you means more than just fitness and miles. Can you explain why?
Lee Stephenson: I've been a police officer for nearly 22 years and was recently diagnosed with complex PTSD, OCD, depression and anxiety. This is why I want to talk about it now, because cycling has helped me so much. I'm hoping that people can relate to or take something from my story.
Cyc: Where does the story begin?
LS: I was five years on the beat from 2001, then I progressed to the specialist ops – the firearms department, which deals with the more violent incidents, not just gun crime. One minute you could be dealing with somebody for speeding, the next you've received a call that somebody's brandishing a firearm, a crossbow. Then we also deal with people who want to self-harm, with road traffic fatalities, suicides and so on.
It was 2015 and I was called to an incident of a suicide involving a female. We recovered the firearm for forensics and everything's done properly – it's horrendous of course but it's no worse than usual.
But as the months went on, nightmares started, graphic nightmares. I knew I was changing; I became less tolerant. I'd take it out on my family, my kids, overreacting and shouting because they'd knocked over a glass of water.
I'd go to the garage and cry because I knew my kids were scared of me. I was exhausted, going to work pretending everything was OK because I had this fear of losing something I'd worked so hard for. One day I was sitting in the toilet at the nick and I thought to myself, 'I'm carrying a sidearm here with rounds in it. I'm struggling big style and I could quite easily sort this out.'
I gave up drinking, but that meant binge eating and I put weight on. I'd always kept myself fit, but I started feeling lethargic so I went to the doctors – I wasn't going to tell him anything, just the physical side. He did tests and it came back I was at risk of type 2 diabetes, which was a massive shock. Then the doctor rang me a few days later and said he had a feeling I wasn't OK. That's when I coughed everything up, and he got me emergency assistance.
My close colleague and best mate Mick said to me, 'Shall we get some counselling sorted? You've changed.' Mick helped me get counselling through the Police Firearms Officers Association, this unbelievable charity organisation set up by a great guy, Mark Williams, an ex-firearms officer with the Met. I was embarrassed, but I did attend.
Cyc: That might sound strange to some people, feeling so low but also feeling embarrassed and unable to ask for help. Can you explain a little more?
LS: It's the risk of losing the job, the firearms licence, getting chucked into some other role. The stigma of it. It's a male-dominated environment and not coping – asking for help – is weakness.
Cyc: But you did ask for help…
LS: That was the biggest step for me, seeking that help. I went through emergency interim counselling and then occupational health from the police, where my therapist, Karen, was unbelievable.
She got me to talk about things I'd never spoken about; it was like the floodgates opening. Everything came out, how I was feeling. Then I had a session with a psychiatrist and he diagnosed me with complex PTSD, anxiety, OCD and some depression. Now I'm on medication.
Obviously I had the scare about diabetes too. I've always known I was a little OCD – it's a running joke with the kids and the missus – so you know what happened as well? I got back into cycling.
I bought myself a turbo trainer and because it was winter I became obsessed. I was thinking I don't want type 2 diabetes, not on top of my mental health problems. So I was hammering cycling, and things changed.
I lost two stone in three months – that's how obsessed I was. At first it was more about medication than enjoyment, but now I've reached the stage where cycling is the time I can go out and not think about anything. I'm probably covering 300km a week. As well as the tablets, cycling is my medication.
Cyc: Do you always ride alone?
LS: Not always. Back in 2018 we lost a colleague who took his own life as a result of work-related mental health issues, and there's now a cycling group for him called the Tour de Acky – Mick Atkinson was his name, a fantastic bloke. We meet up and once a year we do 106.6 miles because that was his badge number: 1066. And we talk.
I keep going on about talking, but it's massive. The Acky rides are great as I know I can talk to people without any stigma, and it's impossible to come back from a ride and not feel upbeat when your daughters have drawn a big banner with 'We love you Daddy' in the window. Those are the points that pick me up.
The advice I'd always give is talk to somebody, whether that's your partner, your doctor or a mate. Tell someone how you're feeling. It's nothing to be ashamed about. This macho thing we carry around with us, it should have gone in the Dark Ages.
The pressures are different now too; it's not just if you're in the police, it's running a family, having a job – they're all relative to you as an individual.
Cyc: So what's next for you?
LS: It's unlikely I'll return to being a police officer, but things are getting a lot better. I'd like to crack on, do something different, tinker with bikes, do a Cytech mechanics course. I'd like to look at setting up groups around the country, like the Tour de Acky, where anyone can ride and if they need to, have a chat. Without being dramatic, cycling is one of the reasons I'm still here.


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Q: Fail to call ones or eye function when using RcppArmadillo I want to use one or eye function in Armadillo to construct matrices or vectors. However, it does not allow me to do so. Here is a sample code:
#include <RcppArmadillo.h>

// [[Rcpp::depends(RcppArmadillo)]]
using namespace Rcpp;
// [[Rcpp::export]]
SEXP Generate(arma::mat Mat){
arma::mat Mat_2 = ones<mat>(5,6);
}

error message reminds me of use of undeclared idenfier of 'mat'.  When I remove <mat>, another massage says use of undeclared idenfier of 'ones'.
I looked up the Armadillo tutorial which includes the ones function. I wonder why my code fails to call it. Did I miss something?

A: There are a few problems in your code:

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*Why return SEXP? Use types to your advantage

*Why pass Mat in if you do not use it?

*No return statement

*Somewhat loose use of namespaces.

A cleaned up version follows:
#include <RcppArmadillo.h>

// [[Rcpp::depends(RcppArmadillo)]]

// [[Rcpp::export]]
arma::mat Generate(int n=5, int k=6){
    arma::mat m = arma::ones<arma::mat>(n,k);
    return m;
}

/*** R
Generate()
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Bored one night last week, I picked up a copy of The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman from my parents' book shelf. The tag line for this bestseller was "How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to your Mate."
Self-help and psychology-based books always have a way of roping me in.
The Five Love Languages argues that every person "speaks" a primary language of love that often differs from the language of their partner.
The key to success is recognizing which of these means the most to your partner, and which one means the most to you.
"Long-range studies on the 'in love' phenomenon have concluded that the average life span of romantic love is two years."
Brian and I have been dating just shy of two years.
"When the 'in love' phase ends, we become keenly aware of our partner's flaws. We recognize that many of their traits are irritating. The hurt, anger, harsh words, and criticisms skyrocket."
Our "in love" phase must have been extremely short lived. I recognized that Brian was flawed ages ago.
My advice: If you and your partner are hoping to speed up this "in love" phase and demolish any semblance of romance, I strongly suggest that one of you be in charge of driving while the other be in charge of using the GPS.
If you put Brian and I in a car with a TomTom, my GPS incompetence suddenly becomes my biggest flaw. Trying to type in a street name on that keyboard is close to impossible, and when you need to delete a letter and hit "BACK," suddenly your BACK to square one and it's asking you to select a State/Country. Regardless that we may have 100 miles to go before our next turn, suddenly it is of dire urgency to Brian that I enter the address into the TomTom at lightening speed. Brian becomes frustrated at my inabilities and therefore I become infuriated.
Often when driving, Brian seems to be more angry at me for not knowing when to turn than at the fact that the GPS is saying "In 200 yards, turn right." How am I supposed to know how far 200 yards is?! In my opinion, the GPS is the one of the world's best romance quenchers.
"Many people get married because they feel 'in love.' When the feelings fade (which they will), people often begin to harbor resentment towards their spouse and live miserable lives, or they chose a 'better' option: divorce."
40% of first marriages end in divorce.
75% of third marriages end in divorce.
The prospect of a happier marriage the second and third time around is not substantial. It's against the odds.
You may not choose to fall in love, but you must choose to stay in love.
Love involves "an act of the will and requires discipline." True love is making the choice to expend energy in an effort to benefit the other person. It does not require the euphoria of "love" and, in fact, it does not begin until the "in love" experience has run its course.
Perhaps there is some truth in the argument that relationships will benefit by learning your partner's love language and trying to speak their language when demonstrating your love towards them.
But either way, it's a good read and I would recommend this book for anyone. Although, I pretty much just summed the whole thing up.
Personally, I would argue that the high rate of failed marriages has a lot to do with the fact that people often get married with unrealistic expectations. Also, more importantly, society has completely abandoned the biblical standards for what a marriage should look like.
Maybe I'll write my own book about marriage and relationships.
I swear, you'd think I could solve all the world's problems.


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ISPs: Blocking The Pirate Bay is Dangerous Censorship
December 11, 2016 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Two major Swedish ISPs are warning that a possible court-ordered Pirate Bay blockade will introduce a dangerous and unwarranted form of censorship. Instead, they encourage copyright holders to collaborate with them to find better solutions to the piracy problem.
The Pirate Bay is without doubt the most censored website on the Internet.
Countries all around the world have ordered Internet providers to block subscriber access to the torrent site, with Europe being at the forefront.
This week copyright holders and ISPs went to court in Sweden, as part of a prolonged legal battle to have the site blocked on its home turf.
Two years ago Universal Music, Sony Music, Warner Music, Nordisk Film and the Swedish Film Industry filed a lawsuit to force Swedish ISP Bredbandsbolaget to block access to The Pirate Bay and Swefilmer.
The rightsholders argued that the ISP is liable for the copyright infringements of its customers if it fails to implement a blockade. However, the Stockholm District Court disagreed and sided with the Internet provider in its ruling late last year.
Now, both parties have argued their case before the Appeals Court. A final decision will be issued at a later date, but Bredbandsbolaget and fellow ISP Telenor warn that a blocking requirement will have serious implications.
"It is a dangerous path to go down, which forces Internet providers to monitor and evaluate content on the Internet and block websites with illegal content in order to avoid becoming accomplices," the companies write in a joint statement.
Copyright holders have pointed out that similar orders were issued in neighboring countries, but the ISPs stress that a mandatory block will be an unprecedented form of censorship under Swedish law.
"The copyright holders argue that the blockades they request are similar to those in neighboring Nordic countries. But with the legislation we have in Sweden, it means rightsholders' demands require a form of censorship that has no equivalent in any other EU country."
The ISPs hope that the Court of Appeal will come to the same conclusion as the District Court; that ISPs which merely provide access to the Internet are not complicit in crimes that are committed by their customers.
While Bredbandsbolaget and Telenor don't expect that the case will go to the Supreme Court, they believe that the rightsholders will try to convince lawmakers to make blocking requests easier. This is not the right way to go, they say.
"We don't think that tougher legislation and blocking requirements are an effective way to stop the illegal distribution of copyrighted works on the Internet," the ISPs note.
Instead, they urge media companies and Internet providers to start collaborating to come to effective and mutually agreeable solutions. Thus far, they have shown little interest in doing that, the ISPs note.
"We hope that the rightholders will be more open to dialogue when this lawsuit is over," they conclude.
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Pirate IPTV Subscription Seller Sentenced to Six Months in Prison
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The Literature of the South Slavs
Subject(s): Bosnian Literature, Croatian Literature, Serbian Literature, South Slavic Languages
Summary/Abstract: Among the peoples of Yugoslavia geography has been a prime factor in shaping the course of history, and history has shaped the course of literature. Leaving out of account, for the moment, the literature of the Slovenes and oral folk literature, there have been at least four distinct written literatures among speakers of the Serbo-Croatian language: the medieval literature of the Serbs, the Renaissance literature of Dubrovnik and other Dalmatian cities, and the modern literatures of the Serbs and of the Croatians. What small literary unity has existed among the different Serbo-Croatian groups has depended on the oral folk literature and on a certain number of modern authors, beginning with the last quarter of the eighteenth century. Among the Serbo-Croatian and Slovene writers few have won international fame. A brief sketch like the present can do no more than define the general characteristics of the different branches of South Slavic literature and mention some of the most important authors.
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NSW Police have confirmed they are investigating a sexual assault at a gig where US rapper Tyler, the Creator was performing.
A NSW Police spokesman confirmed it was investigating a sexual assault report made by a woman during a concert at the Enmore Theatre on Thursday night. He said no formal statement had been taken yet.
Police are also investigating a tirade against blogger and campaigner Talitha Stone at the Sydney concert and a Twitter campaign against Ms Stone through Tyler's 1.7 million followers.
Ms Stone, 24, of Sydney, told Fairfax Media that when she made her complaint to Newtown police on Friday, she was told police were already investigating a ''sexual assault'' of a woman at the same concert.
Robert Comiskey, part-owner Eatons Hill Hotel, told Fairfax Media he met with Collective Shout representatives and told them he could not cancel the gig.
''I informed them we are a venue for hire and that the Frontier Touring Company had hired the venue,'' Mr Comiskey said.
He said Frontier Touring hired the venue regularly and it was not informed which act would perform.
''We don't have anything to do with the artists, we just hire it out. I don't really get to pay any mind to the artists,'' he said.


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After several weeks of physical therapy in Bethesda, Md., Lance Cpl. Michael Boucher, an Oconee County native, walked on his new legs a couple of weeks ago, metal prostheses that can take much longer to master.
Boucher, 22, lost both legs below the knees in June when an IED exploded near him in Afghanistan.
Since then, Boucher's Oconee County family and his Marine family have rallied around the young man, providing encouragement and financial support.
Boucher's first steps were cheered on by family members helping care for him at the Bethesda Naval Hospital as well as Oconee County residents keeping up with his progress through the website www.caringbridge.org/visit/lcplmichaelboucher.
"It was like seeing him walk for the first time when he was a young child," Kim Boucher, Michael's mother, posted on the website.
"Of course, I was very tearful, but very proud of him all at the same time. I still get teary eyed and chills when I think about him walking again. It won't be long before he will not be holding on to anything and walking free and even running around this place like the rest of the guys we see around here."
Michael's kept an upbeat attitude about his physical therapy — an outlook that will help him overcome physical difficulties, said his father, Jim Boucher.
"I'm thinking Michael's going to progress as far as you can progress," Jim Boucher said.
Michael Boucher graduated from North Oconee High School and joined the Marines in 2008. He was deployed to Marjah, Afghanistan, in December 2009 and returned to Oconee County in July 2010.
Boucher lost his legs on his second deployment in Afghanistan's Helmund Province.
The injury hasn't decreased his son's love of the Marines, Jim Boucher said.
"(Michael) would deploy if he was able," Jim said. "That's what he does."
"That's what they're trained for," said family friend Julia Crew.
Michael's goal now is to work with his new metal legs, graduating step by step to a fitted, final pair.
"He was 6-2 prior to his accident and now he's 48 inches tall," Jim Boucher said.
Military doctors often let double amputees choose how tall they'd like to be standing in their new legs, he said.
"Michael says, 'I want to be 6'1" ... because being 6'2" didn't work out for me'," Jim Boucher chuckled.
Amputees have all kinds of options when it comes to legs, he said.
Doctors design pairs for running, walking, hiking and other activities.
"Michael says he's going to need a closet in his house for all of his legs," Jim Boucher said. "He says, 'You know how women collect shoes? I'm going to collect legs.' "
Friends are helping collect money for the Michael Boucher Fund at Oconee State Bank through fundraisers including a motorcycle ride, golf tournament and softball tournament during the next two months.
The family will use the funds to visit Michael Boucher in Maryland and renovate their Oconee County home to fit his wheelchair.
"He can't get into any of the places because the doors are too narrow for a wheelchair," Jim Boucher said.
The military community as well as their Oconee County family and neighbors truly have helped, Jim Boucher said.
"The care and concern we felt has just been overwhelming," Jim said.
People interested in the Sept. 24 motorcycle ride through downtown Watkinsville, the Sept. 26 golf tournament or the Oct. 8 softball tournament to raise money for the Michael Boucher Fund should email Gina Taylor at gmtaylor64@gmail.com for more information.


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The £1 Million Investigation
by Katherine Graham
CMP Resolution Blog by Lesley Allport and Katherine Graham.
A lack of attention to investigating an accusation of assault has cost King's College NHS Foundation Trust a reported £1 million payout.
Instead of careful consideration of the evidence, there was racial discrimination and unconscious bias – in other words, the investigators assumed the member of staff involved was more likely to be guilty of the accusations because he was of African Caribbean origin.
There had been an ugly scene with a visiting van driver in a car park, tempers had boiled over and hard words exchanged. But opportunities to gather further evidence that might support the employee's case weren't followed up. The employee "was assumed to be the aggressor. The white witnesses were accepted to be the victims," concluded the tribunal judge.
It's not enough for a formal investigation to have taken place. It has to be watertight in terms of processes and the spirit behind it or tribunals will see through to the holes. Issues of unconscious bias, in particular, heighten the level of scrutiny.
From our 25 years' experience of carrying out investigations for large employers, these are the main reasons that tribunals find fault.
– overconfidence: inexperienced managers can already feel they know and understand the people involved in the dispute will leap to conclusions about what's been happening: they judge people and not the evidence. They may not have a full awareness of the skills necessary for investigation, what's going to be involved and the time commitment required.
– skipping evidence: a common problem is when the appointed investigator carries out the first interview with whoever's made the complaint or the target of the complaint and become convinced by their argument. On this basis of belief, they stop looking for more information – thinking there's no need because they know the truth. The manager will unconsciously filter information which backs up their judgment, and filter out information which contradicts it.
– there's always potential for a negative cycle of poor rapport and confrontation. An investigator who, perhaps unconsciously, has concluded the respondent is guilty of the allegations, may go on to ask leading questions and interrupt their pleas for mitigation. The respondent, in turn, gets angry and challenging, perhaps causing the investigator to react defensively to the frustration.
– in-house investigators will tend to make judgements and provide conclusions in a way that avoids upsetting any of the employees involved. They're very conscious of future working relationships and opening up any new causes for conflict – they're rushing as quickly as possible to a comfortable outcome.
What's needed is professional training, support and time to establish a core of internal staff able to deal with grievance, disciplinary and harassment cases – as well as involving independent investigators at the right times as a means of reducing risks from extended use of management time and mishandled situations and cases. Offering as high a level of impartiality and objectivity as possible is critical for the long-term of employee relations, increasing levels of trust and willingness to be involved in reaching fair resolutions. And ultimately, employers also need to look at the true picture of the savings from better management of grievance, disciplinary and harassment cases – rather than being 'hidden' in the use of management time and internal resources.
Katherine Graham has worked in the field of dispute resolution for over 15 years' as a mediator and trainer. She has mediated on the BBC Learning Zone and has given keynote speeches on conflict management and mediation for The MOD's Equal Opportunities Conference, Women in Business Annual conference and "Getting Beyond Conflict", a national conference on workplace dispute resolution. Katherine joined CMP Resolutions (formerly Conflict Management Plus) in 1992. She was made a director of the company in 1998 and became Managing Director in May 2009. Prior to this she managed teams in publishing and communications departments for major national charities including The Work Foundation, the RNID and the King's Fund. She was the inaugural Chair of the Institute of Conflict Management.
Author of The Directory of Mediation Services for Social Landlords (National Housing Federation)
Editor, "Equilibrium" – a quarterly journal of dispute resolution
Co-author Mediation for Managers (NB Books 2002)
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The following article was written by our guest author Insider Moneky. Carl Icahn may have lifted the company's market cap by $20 billion in less than two days of trading last month, but Apple [s:AAPL] isn't his best stock pick. There are four positions in the multi-billionaire's equity portfolio that are worth looking at before Cupertino. We'll show you which ones and explain why.
At the end of last quarter, Carl Icahn's hedge fund held long positions in 19 different companies totaling a market value of $21.5 billion. With Icahn's pedigree as an elite activist investor, it's not surprising that he'd have that much money in U.S. equities, but it is a bit intriguing that four of his eleven largest picks are small-caps.
According to our research at Insider Monkey, hedge funds' small-cap picks have the highest potential to outperform the market over a sustained period of time. Our premium newsletter, which employs this strategy, beat the S&P 500 by nearly 30 percentage points in its first year (discover how we did this here).
With that in mind, let's run through the four largest small-cap investments in Icahn's equity portfolio. Each stock had a market cap between $1 billion and $5 billion at the end of the last 13F-filing period.
CVR Energy [CVI] is Icahn's largest small-cap holding, and his stake comprises more than four-fifths of its outstanding shares. After grabbing exposure in CVR Energy last year, Icahn's initial goal was to push for a sale of the company to a larger buyer. Once this move failed, he then guided CVR to spin off its refining subsidiary in January. In his last filing, Icahn held $3.6 billion in CVR Energy stock and $138 million in the spinoff, CVR Refining [CVRR].
The latter has returned just 0.2% post-IPO, but CVR Energy shares are up almost 70% since Icahn first established his stake in early 2012. The bet has been very profitable for Icahn, and with gushing refining margins in its last few earnings reports, there may be more appreciation on the horizon for CVR Energy.
Federal Mogul [FDML], meanwhile, is another high-flier in Icahn's equity portfolio. The hedge fund manager's second largest small-cap holding has been a key investment since 2011. In the summer of that year, Icahn established his original position in the auto part maker, and he has held a controlling interest ever since. Shares of Federal Mogul are up a whopping 177% in the past six months on the back of a massive earnings beat last quarter and a fairly extensive restructuring program.
Herbalife [HLF] needs no introduction, and is the next largest-small cap in Icahn's portfolio. The multi-level marketer had a market cap below $5 billion at the end of last quarter, but its value has since risen by about 50%. Over the longer term, Herbalife shares have more than doubled since the start of 2013, and the market hasn't been convinced by Bill Ackman's "pyramid scheme" accusations (see his full presentation here).
Icahn has shown no hesitation to call out Pershing Square's manager for being "totally wrong" and "ridiculous" in his words, but Ackman hasn't shown any signs of closing his short position in Herbalife. As for Icahn, he thinks the stock is still cheap at current levels.
Hain Celestial Group [HAIN] is the next largest small-cap in the activist's equity portfolio, and surprise, surprise, this stock is having a good 2013 too. Shares of the organic food and personal care product company are up 37% this year, and Icahn closed out his $470 million position a little over two weeks ago. Since he established his Hain stake in early 2010, the stock's price has risen from around $22 per share to the upper $70 range.
As CEO Irwin Simon explains in a recent interview with CNBC, "Hain today is positioned better than it was when Carl got in … because of the awareness of healthy eating." In other words, it's the secular tailwinds—not just Icahn's influence on a couple M&A moves—that have driven Hain's appreciation. The organic boom doesn't look like it will end any time soon according to the USDA, so we still like Hain Celestial post-Icahn.


It's all too common we come across difficult stories concerning children in our community. But what makes us human is what makes us strong - we fight and fight and fight and the last thing we'd do is give up. For inspiration, just see how Harker Heights has rallied around Knights' baseball coach with #TeamKye. Sadly, there is more hurt in the Harker Heights community, but again, the community and positivity from mother Claudia Bernier bodes well for their beloved 9-month-old daughter, Emerson.
Emerson was born at Scott & White in January of 2016 and was immediately flown to Texas Children's Hospital in Houston where she was soon diagnosed with a highly complex congenital heart defect. Not too long ago, these conditions were rare in children, but there has been an alarming upward trend of CHD with 1 out of 100 children at risk. 90% of those kids born with a heart defect will need surgery within the first year of their lives.
Emerson received her first open heart surgery when she was just two weeks old. Her family will be traveling to Lucile Packard Children's Hospital in Palo Alto, California as Emerson is scheduled to undergo her second heart surgery in November. While Claudia is aware her daughter will need interventions for the rest of her life, she believes raising awareness and supporting CHD foundations will advance technology, which will continue to enable their beautiful daughter to grow up and tell her story.
That's why this Sunday, October 16 Killeen will be home to the Hopeful Hearts 5k from 9 am to 2 pm. The event is being held in honor of Emerson as it will help her family with the costly procedures to help ensure she gets the best care possible and raise awareness about CHD in children, as it is not as uncommon as many think.
You can find the 5K information here and register the day of the event this Sunday. You can find directions below.


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Africa > Lake Tanganyika
Lake Tanganyika is one of the Great Lakes of Africa. It is estimated to be the second largest freshwater lake in the world by volume, and the second deepest, in both cases, after only Lake Baikal in Siberia; it is also the world's longest freshwater lake.
Map of Lake Tanganyika
Fishermen on the lake
The lake is long (676 km, over 400 miles), narrow, and oriented approximately north-south. It borders four countries; most of the east coast is in Tanzania, but Burundi has a bit on the northeast while most of the west coast is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but Zambia has a bit on the southwest.
Towns on the lake include:
-3.382529.36111 Bujumbura — capital and largest city of Burundi, up near the northern tip of the lake
-4.883329.63332 Kigoma — northern terminus of the MV Liemba ferry route, on the east in Tanzania
-5.933329.23 Kalemie — on the west side, in the DR Congo
-5.975629.85524 Lagosa — only a village but on the ferry route and starting point for journeys inland to Mahale
-8.77531.11675 Mpulungu — southern terminus of the MV Liemba ferry, in Zambia
It is possible to reach the lake via any of the neighbouring countries. Kigoma and Kalemie both have small airports and both are connected to their countries' rail networks. However the whole region has some safety risks and the DR Congo, especially the Kivu region where Kigoma is located, is particularly dangerous. See the country and region articles for details.
The nearest airport with a good selection of international flights is Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, and a common route to the lake is to fly there then take either plane or train to Kigoma. Alternately, Bujumbura has some international flights.
Other rail lines — from Bujumbura north to Kenya and Uganda, and from Mpulungu south to Lusaka — are being planned, but are not in service as of early 2015.
For the Tanzanian and Zambian part of the lake the best way of getting around is on the 100-year-old German-built ferry MV Liemba. The ship has become a legend among East and Central Africa travellers; some come to the lake mainly to sail on her. The ferry leaves Kigoma on Wednesday afternoons and arrives in Mpulungu in Zambia on Sunday. Another ferry connects Kigoma and Bujumbura.
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Happy Thursday everyone! Last weekend, I snagged this Lush dress for $10 on sale, shopping at my local mall. I was able to find my dress to link for you guys, still on sale, just not quite as low as $10 unfortunately. Nevertheless, still a snag for such a staple dress to have in your closet. The pattern on my dress isn't available online, however, there are plenty of cute pattern options, in addition to solid colors. I will link them all below, be sure to click through to see them all! This will be a fun dress to transition into spring, ditching the high knee boots as the temperatures start to warm up.
The purse I'm wearing in the pictures above was sent to me from the new Vera Bradley spring collection. I can't say enough about this purse! I love it. The navy detail on the white leather is such a nice touch and the amount of pockets are to die for! So many useful little storage spots. I've linked my exact purse below. Simply click on the picture to shop it.
I hope everyone had a great Valentine's Day and enjoys the long weekend ahead!


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Q: Svelte store - all submitted array values get updated instead of one value I am struggling to get my head around how to use stores, I am using a svelte store to create a simple todo array with prepopulated dummy data. I then want to use the store within the todo component displaying the dummy data and then updating when the user submits new data.
Now i can update the svelte store array, but when the user then adds another todo item it also updates the previously submitted value.
I have an interface entity called todo.ts which is implemented in the todo-store.ts i then access the store within the +page.svelte and create a todo object to the hold the form data called todoItem i then pass this to the store when the submit button is pressed
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export interface ITodoItem {
    id: string;
    text: string;
    completed: boolean;
}

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import { writable } from 'svelte/store';
import type { ITodoItem } from '../../entities/todo';

const todos: ITodoItem[] = [
    { id: '1', text: 'Todo 1', completed: true },
    { id: '2', text: 'Todo 2', completed: false },
    { id: '3', text: 'Todo 3', completed: false },
    { id: '4', text: 'Todo 4', completed: false },
  ]

export const todoList = writable<ITodoItem[]>(todos);

+page.svelte

Todo List

<form on:submit|preventDefault={addToList}>

        Id:<input type="text" id="id" bind:value={todoItem.id} />

        Todo:<input type="text" id="name" bind:value={todoItem.text} />

        <button>Submit</button>

</form>

{#each $todoList as item}

            {item.text}

{/each}

A: The problem is, that you add a reference to the item to the list, so whenever you add an item, you actually add the same item over and over.
The fix is to copy the item when adding it, here a shallow copy is enough, which can be done by spreading the properties:
const addToList = () => {
    const newItem = { ...todoItem };
    $todoList = [...$todoList, newItem];
};

If you need a deep copy, you might want to use something like structuredClone.


Very troubling words if you're banged up in jail, but very enjoyable if you hear them sung by a great band to a tuneful melody.
We recently heard about The British Invasion after they were scheduled to perform at Taste of the Kingsway last month.
It's always good to be able to listen to some music from the time when you could take your gal to the local hop, grab a pie and beer, a film and late-night kebab and still have change from a fiver. Good times.
We read on your website the band was formed in 2011 with a former classmate — how did you guys decide Josh and Alex were the right fit?
Not a former classmate, but with a friend who went to a different school at which a mutual friend introduced us. Thus started the musical relationship.
My last tribute band to the UK '60s disbanded in 2010 (no name). Soon after, my father was diagnosed with brain cancer and I dropped out of the music scene altogether to help take care of him. I then decided that staying away from music was actually counter-productive.
So in March of 2011, I put an ad in Kijiji asking for a "Harrison" and "Ringo" type of players to join this project (now The British Invasion). I had several other people contact me and Jerry and I auditioned all of them.
The e-mail I received from Alex was an interesting one. Here's what he wrote: "I'm English, I eat Indian food, and I play guitar." I later called him and we spoke about a drummer friend of his whom Alex said we would be impressed with.
So in April of 2011 we set up an audition with Alex and Josh. Little did we know, they were auditioning us as much as we were them. We originally asked them to learn 12 tunes.
The day before, Alex e-mailed me and asked if we could do six because they had another appointment (not so). We found out later after an hour audition/rehearsal that both had been to many other auditions in which they were teaching the band members the songs they had learned for those auditions.
That first meeting proved to be the recipe to the creation of The British Invasion.
Your website lists some of the bands you cover — how do you decide which ones (or songs) to add?
We are constantly changing songs and attempt to balance them out in order to appeal to the crowd's tastes. Also, if they sound good and we like them, we believe the crowd will like them as well.
How do you do promotions/publicity and get your gigs?
Lots of telephone, e-mails, and letters!!! At this point, a lot of our gigs come through word of mouth and also people approaching us to book us while we're at our gigs. No shortage of work for The British Invasion!
Do you still find time to practise or have it down pat now?
We are constantly practising, mostly on our own first for new songs and then adding group practices. However, any of the songs we have worked on these past four years, we pretty much have them down.
Any funny gig stories to share about life on the road?
Well, from time to time people do act silly when they have had too much to drink. A couple of us have had bras thrown at us — a result of drinking too much — not us, them!
Any and all that invite us to perform!
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Coming into the EA conference this year, I had some questions on my mind. Not about what would be announced, that was pretty much all leaked a week ago, but about how they would present a view of the future. The fact that they put out a game that got governments looking at how video games are making money had them in a weird spot. So what did they do? Well, they played it kind of safe, and kind of boring.
Battlefield V is going to have a Battle Royale type mode! If I cared much about the big military shooters of the year this might mean something to me. What I can say is that this mode, at least in my mind, makes more sense in a Battlefield game than it ever would in Call of Duty. They were always about bigger maps, and vehicles, and mayhem in a way that CoD wasn't. I think the way that destructibility works in Battlefield seems like it could make for a neat 100 people on an island scenario.
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The big highlight was Sea of Solitude. This really won't be a shocker to those who have paid attention to my reactions to EA in the last few years. They are really good at finding a passionate indie developer and giving them a stage to open up to the world and show us something cool. I found the raw emotion of the developer on stage to be entrancing, and the look of that game was striking too. A flooded world where loneliness turns people into monsters. Monsters that kind of reminded me of the wormy-corrupted animals in Princess Mononoke. It was light on the details of what the actual gameplay is, but damn I am interested to see more. Unfortunately my track-record is pretty crap with actually getting to those games.


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Ceredigion Youth Service awarded Gold Quality Mark Award
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(1st left) Chairman of Ceredigion County Council, Councillor Hag Harries with Ceredigion Youth Service Team; (3rd from right) Elen James, Corporate Lead Officer for Lifelong Learning and Culture; (2nd from right) Leader of Ceredigion County Council, Councillor Ellen Ap Gwynn; (3rd from left ) Cabinet Member for Learning Service, Councillor Catrin Miles and (1st from right) Eifion Evans, Chief Executive, Ceredigion County Council.
Ceredigion Youth Service has achieved the prestigious Gold Quality Mark for Youth Work in Wales. The Gold Quality Mark of Youth Work in Wales has only been achieved by two other Local Authority Youth Services to date.
In 2017, Ceredigion Youth Service was awarded the Bronze Award. At the beginning of 2019, the Service progressed in achieving the Silver Quality Mark. Soon after, the Service was assessed again and awarded the Gold Award.
Lead Assessor and Director of Atkin Associates, Louise Atkin, said how she was "particularly impressed with the way in which the Youth Service has grown and developed since achieving the Bronze Award in 2017."
The final report identified that Ceredigion Youth Service offered a high quality youth work offer covering 16 core areas including; Recognising Young People's Achievement and Progress, Management Information and Partnership and Resources.
The report also highlighted that the 'determination and creativity of the Ceredigion Youth Service team puts young people at the centre of what is a vibrant and creative youth service, valued by young people who are supported and challenged to be positive and move forward in their lives.'
The report noted that there is 'very good leadership and management within the service and that partnerships are a particular strength, with assessors experiencing the largest support across Wales from partner services and organisations during their visit meetings. The assessors felt that there is a strong culture of celebrating young people's achievements in all aspects of the service.'
Ceredigion County Council's Corporate Lead Officer for Lifelong Learning and Culture, Elen James said, "To have been awarded the Bronze, Silver and Gold Quality Marks for Youth Work in Wales is a tremendous achievement for the Service. It's great recognition for the commitment and hard work of the team in supporting and providing opportunities for young people across the county, well done to all of the team. This award shows that Ceredigion Youth Service continues to deliver an outstanding service to young people every year."
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The Welsh Government launched the Quality Mark for Youth Work in Wales in October 2015 to provide a robust, independent, external assessment of the quality and performance of organisations that deliver Youth Work in Wales.
On 28 June 2019, both the Silver and Gold Quality Mark Awards will be presented to Ceredigion Youth Service by Kirsty Williams, Minster for Education at the National Youth Excellence Awards.
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So far, for her assignments, she's written about karate and cartoons — two subjects she knows very well. LOL! Her assignment this week has been to write a description 5 paragraph essay. She was showing it to me last night — she wrote about dogs. She mentioned that her teacher encouraged her to write about something else (as the majority of the class wrote about animals!), and she was stumped and out of ideas.
I named off several things that she knows well: her various video games (UT!!), Harry Potter, Webkinz (too much like animals she said), Neopets, … she rejected them all and I was running out of ideas. Looking over across the den, we have a box of wedding stuff waiting to go into storage. I suggest writing about her part in the wedding. No dice. My next suggestion: How about the honeymoon?
She scrapped the paper she had previously written and started at once writing a new one. She let me read it just before bedtime last night and she wrote more about the hotel cafeteria and pool than the Disney World park itself. LOL!
Good thing we went there instead of the royal caribbean cruise I had been eying, hehe.
So my little budding writer was all happy and giddy when I left for work this morning. She was still talking about the paper she wrote last night and can't wait for her teacher to read it.
that's the crunchy part. Muhahaha! Muhahaha!
Inspiration strikes in the unlikeliest of places sometimes, huh?
Do you still write? I wish I did. There is just no time, and not enough people into what I write, who also have time, to help me properly critique it. Like every other project I try, I have such a hard time getting started to begin with…then finishing.