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Scientists finally find superconductivity in exactly the place they've been looking for decades
The Hubbard model, used to understand electron behavior in numerous quantum materials, now shows us its stripes, and superconductivity too, in simulations for cuprate superconductors.
By Glennda Chui
Researchers at Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory say they have found the first, long-sought proof that a decades-old scientific model of material behavior can be used to simulate and understand high-temperature superconductivity – an important step toward producing and controlling this puzzling phenomenon at will.
The simulations they ran, published in Science today, suggest that researchers might be able to toggle superconductivity on and off in copper-based materials called cuprates by tweaking their chemistry so electrons hop from atom to atom in a particular pattern – as if hopping to the atom diagonally across the street rather than to the one next door.
"The big thing you want to know is how to make superconductors operate at higher temperatures and how to make superconductivity more robust," said study co-author Thomas Devereaux, director of the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES) at SLAC. "It's about finding the knobs you can turn to tip the balance in your favor."
The biggest obstacle to doing that, he said, has been the lack of a model – a mathematical representation of how a system behaves – that describes this type of superconductivity, whose discovery in 1986 raised hopes that electricity might someday be transmitted with no loss for perfectly efficient power lines and maglev trains.
While scientists thought the Hubbard model, used for decades to represent electron behavior in numerous materials, might apply to cuprate high-temperature superconductors, until now they had no proof, said Hong-Chen Jiang, a SIMES staff scientist and co-author of the report.
"This has been a major unsolved problem in the field – does the Hubbard model describe high-temperature superconductivity in the cuprates, or is it missing some key ingredient?" he said. "Because there are a number of competing states in these materials, we have to rely on unbiased simulations to answer these questions, but the computational problems are very difficult, and so progress has been slow."
The many faces of quantum materials
Why so difficult?
While many materials behave in very predictable ways – copper is always a metal, and when you bust up a magnet the bits are still magnetic – high-temperature superconductors are quantum materials, where electrons cooperate to produce unexpected properties. In this case, they pair up to conduct electricity with no resistance or loss at much higher temperatures than established theories of superconductivity can explain.
Unlike everyday materials, quantum materials can host a number of phases, or states of matter, at once, Devereaux said. For instance, a quantum material might be metallic under one set of conditions, but insulating under slightly different conditions. Scientists can tip the balance between phases by tinkering with the material's chemistry or the way its electrons move around, for instance, and the goal is to do this in a deliberate way to create new materials with useful properties.
One of the most powerful algorithms for modeling situations like this is known as density matrix renormalization group, or DMRG. But because these coexisting phases are so complex, using the DMRG to simulate them requires a lot of computation time and memory and typically takes quite a while, Jiang said.
To reduce the computing time and reach a deeper level of analysis than would have been practical before, Jiang looked for ways to optimize the details of the simulation. "We have to carefully streamline each step," he said, "making it as efficient as possible and even finding ways to do two separate things at once." These efficiencies allowed the team to run DMRG simulations of the Hubbard model significantly faster than before, with about a year of computing time at Stanford's Sherlock computing cluster and other facilities on the SLAC campus.
Hopping electron neighbors
This study focused on the delicate interplay between two phases that are known to exist in cuprates – high-temperature superconductivity and charge stripes, which are like a wave pattern of higher and lower electron density in the material. The relationship between these states is not clear, with some studies suggesting that charge stripes promote superconductivity and others suggesting they compete with it.
For their analysis, Jiang and Devereaux created a virtual version of a cuprate on a square lattice, like a wire fence with square holes. The copper and oxygen atoms are confined to planes in the real material, but in the virtual version they become single, virtual atoms that sit at each of the intersections where wires meet. Each of these virtual atoms can accommodate at most two electrons that are free to jump or hop – either to their immediate neighbors on the square lattice or diagonally across each square.
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Computer simulations at SLAC and Stanford suggest a way to turn superconductivity on and off in copper-based materials called cuprates: Tweak the chemistry of the materials so electrons hop from atom to atom in a particular pattern – as if hopping to the atom diagonally across the street rather than to the one next door. This grid of simulated atoms illustrates the idea. Copper atoms are in orange, oxygen atoms are in red and electrons are in blue. (Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
When the researchers used DMRG to simulate the Hubbard model as applied to this system, they discovered that changes in the electrons' hopping patterns had a noticeable effect on the relationship between charge stripes and superconductivity.
When electrons hopped only to their immediate neighbors on the square lattice, the pattern of charge stripes got stronger and the superconducting state never appeared. When electrons were allowed to hop diagonally, charge stripes eventually weakened, but did not go away, and the superconducting state finally emerged.
"Until now we could not push far enough in our modeling to see if charge stripes and superconductivity can coexist when this material is in its lowest energy state. Now we know they do, at least for systems of this size," Devereaux said.
It's still an open question whether the Hubbard model describes all of the incredibly complex behavior of real cuprates, he added. Even a small increase in the complexity of the system would require a huge leap in the power of the algorithm used to model it. "The time it takes to do your simulation goes up exponentially fast with the width of the system you want to study," Devereaux said. "It's exponentially more complicated and demanding."
But with these results, he said, "We now have a fully interacting model that describes high temperature superconductivity, at least for systems at the sizes we can study, and that's a big step forward."
Funding for the study came from the DOE Office of Science.
Citation: H.-C. Jiang et al., Science, 27 September 2019 (10.1126/science.aal5304)
SLAC is operated by Stanford University for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. The Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, visit energy.gov/science.
Scientific TopicsCondensed-Matter PhysicsMaterials ScienceSuperconductivityEnergy Sciences DirectorateStanford Institute for Materials & Energy Sciences (SIMES)Lab AdministrationSLAC+Stanford


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What's the best gig you've been to this year? NME needs you.
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The summer festivals were hailed by NME readers as some of the best ever, while from sweaty little clubs to giant football stadiums, bands have been packing them in.
Now we want to hear from you. What have been the best gigs you've seen this year?
Did the giants like Coldplay at Glastonbury, Green Day at Milton Keynes or Oasis in Manchester move you? Or perhaps you preferred the indoors, with the likes of the Arctic Monkeys, Kaiser Chiefs and Babyshambles among others mounting blistering tours across the country all year.
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Practical Guide to Code Clones (Part 1)
One well known principle in software engineering states don't repeat yourself, also known as the DRY principle. A very obvious violation of DRY is the application of copy/paste to create duplicates of large portions of source code within the same code base. These duplicate pieces of code, also known as code clones, have been subject to lots of research in the last two decades. In this two-part post I want to summarize those parts of the current knowledge that I find most relevant to the practitioner, especially the impact of clones on software development and how to deal with them in terms of tools and processes.
Scientific disclaimer
Most of what I write here is not new, but scattered over many publications. If you want to check the primary sources, you can find a great overview in Robert Tairas' collection of Code Clones Literature. The best starting points are probably the well known surveys by Koschke and Roy/Cordy. I will also try to point you to research papers for further reading where applicable.
What is a clone?
A clone is a fragment of source code that appears at least twice in a system. Typically, we also allow code snippets that are not exactly the same, but have been modified slightly, for example different formatting, variations in comments, renaming of variables, and so on. Additionally, we require a certain minimal length to exclude very short fragments that are similar only because of certain common patterns (e.g., loop constructs). Often used values are 7 or 10 statements. You can see an example for a clone from the Jenkins source code in the following image (click for full size). The highlighted differences in the clone include different comments, variable renaming, fully qualified access of a field, and the usage of a method instead of a field in one place.
Probably, it would be possible to extract a common method for both of these fragments. But even if this is not possible, it is still very likely that any changes to one of the two pieces of code should also be applied to the other one. So the developers should at least be aware of this duplication.
The definition of a clone used here is purely syntactical, and thus only captures code created via copy/paste/modify. Code that solves the same problem but looks completely different can not be found in general.
Type-X Clones
Scientific literature often differentiates between different types of clones:
Type 1: Exact copy, only differences in white space and comments.
Type 2: Same as type 1, but also variable renaming.
Type 3: Same as type 2, but also changing or adding few statements.
Type 4: Semantically identical, but not necessarily same syntax.
While this classification can be useful when performing research, there is no simple mapping from clone detection tools to these classes. Most tools available are somewhere between type 2 and 3, that is allowing more than just identifier differences but not allowing completely arbitrary statement changes. Full type 3 detection is often not desirable, as depending on the number of differences allowed, this would result in many false positives. So in practice, instead of talking about type-X clones, you should check individual features (does the tool find clones with differences in literals, does it find clones with differences in identifiers, etc.).
Copy/paste: Who would do that?
When discussing cloning with developers, there are typically two reactions. Either they are convinced that in their team nobody would do something as bad as copy/paste, or they are sure that theirs is the system with the most clones ever. The truth is typically somewhere in-between. One way to determine the amount of cloning, is the clone coverage.
Clone Coverage
Clone coverage is the fraction of statements that is part of at least one clone (as clones can overlap, a statement might be covered by multiple clones). For example, assume there is a system with exactly 5 files (all of same length) and two files are completely identical and there are no other clones besides this. Then the two files would be covered by the clones, the others would not, resulting in a clone coverage of 40% (2 out of 5). The higher the clone coverage, the more copy/paste programming is going on.
A nice interpretation of the clone coverage is as follows. Assume that you pick a single statement of your code base at random. The clone coverage then is the probability that the statement is contained in a clone and so, when changing the statement, you might have to change this statement elsewhere to remain consistent.
Obviously, clone coverage strongly depends on the amount of clones found, and hence on the clone detection tool and parameters used. Thus, it is not a good idea to compare clone coverage values between systems, unless you used the same tool and configuration for both.
Using clone coverage, we can capture the extent of cloning in a single system. Typical values using our own detector are in the range between 5% and 15% (with minimal clone length of 10 statements), although we have seen systems with 50% clone coverage and more. Some clone coverage values for Open Source systems are shown in the following chart. Note that values below 5% clone coverage are very rare. As you can see from the low values for our own tool ConQAT, we eat our own dog food.
Cloning considered harmful?
Using suitable tools, we can easily determine that clones can be found in nearly every non-trivial piece of software. Our measurements of clone coverage also suggest that most systems have not only a few clones, but lots of them. But are clones actually a problem?
Cloning considered harmful considered harmful
In science, answers are never simple. Kapser/Godfrey, for example, state that cloning actually helps to create new features quickly and reduces the risk of changing existing functionality. Krinke finds cloned code to be changed less frequently than non-cloned code; while he concludes that this indicates that maintenance of this code then is cheaper, it could also indicate that developers try to avoid changing cloned code if possible. Rahman/Bird/Devanbu find cloned code to be less error-prone than non-cloned code. Our own study, however, found that for cases where a developer changed one part of a clone without being aware of the duplicate, every second of these inconsistent changes caused a bug in the system. There are many more studies, but the main issue is that they all have a different idea, what is meant by the term problem.
In practice, the answer is very simple: It depends. When building a prototype, which will be thrown away soon, you should actually use lots of copy/paste, as this will help you to implement features faster. The same holds, if your employer pays you by lines of code. When your focus is long-term maintenance of your code-base, clones will be a problem if you are not aware of them. Changing cloned code in a non-consistent way often leads to bugs. But to prevent this, you might not have to eliminate all clones. It might be sufficient to have a tool that keeps you aware of clones in code you are changing.
Personally, I find it tiresome to work with code in many clones. Having lots of déjà vu moments during development, because the code looks the same everywhere, does not fit with my image of being a software professional. While surely there are cases, where elimination of a clone is too complicated, I try to keep my code as clone-free as possible. What about you? I would be happy to hear about your opinion in the comments.
This concludes the first part of our mini series. I hope you got an idea what code clones are about and whether they are interesting for your own development work. In the next part we show you, which tools you can use for detecting clones in your code base and how to deal with clones in the long term.

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"Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy. "- Frank Sinatra.
The friends at work were asking for a boozy cake for long and eager as I am when it comes to baking new things, I wanted to try my hand at it. A quick search and chose this simple one from Pastry Affair. The cake is simple to put together , needs only one bowl ( which i love !) and is gluten free to boot. The texture like other flour less cakes is uber velvety , almost fudge like.
To say this cake was a hit, would be an understatement! Although that could be more due to the rum, than the actual cake itself! I didn't taste it myself. But I was told that it tasted GOOD. The deep dark chocolatiness went well with the kick of the liquor . I am paraphrasing here obviously. Because all I managed to get out of those gobbling down the cake at record speed was "Its damn good! You should get this everyday." Again, it could be the booze talking!
Now if you don't drink(or would rather have it straight from the glass than mixed with chocolate!), you can replace the rum here with water or coffee. Planning to try that soon and will keep you posted. If you do drink , but are worried about how boozy this cake actually is , its just enough to make you feel "warm and tingly inside" without getting you tipsy.
Update (1.12.2016): I have tried this cake umpteen number of times since (so easy) and tasted it too (so good!) , and it works well with coffee , water, dark or white rum!
Preheat your oven to 180 C / 350 F. Grease and flour a 7 inch round tin . Line the bottom with parchment (optional).
Chop the chocolate and butter into small pieces. In the microwave or on stove top , melt together until smooth.
Whisk in the sugar .
Pour into pan and bake for 28- 30 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out with few moist crumbs.
Cool in pan for 10 minutes , unmould carefully and cool completely on a wire rack.
This can be stored in an airtight container for 3 days at room temperature and upto a week in the fridge.
You can replace the rum with 1/3 cup water or 1/3 coffee (1 tsp coffee powder dissolved in 1/3 cup water).
The cake will bubble and rise while in oven and settle down once cooled.
You can bake the same batter in a 6 inch pan at 160 C / 325 F for 45- 50 minutes.
Like most flourless cake, it looks unapologetically rustic and uneven. You can have slices as is – not too delicate or crumbly which makes it travell-able (that should be a word) . Or you could serve it at a sit down dinner with a scoop of ice cream by the side or some whipped cream on top. Do try this for your chocolate kick and some more !
When was the rum used. I dont find it in the method portion. Surely gonna taste nice.
I had missed it out in the instructions Tina ! Updated it now :-)..And it is really nice!
Looks yum. Which brand of rum was used?
Hi ishita… I have used Old Monk here … But have made it earlier using Bacardi as well !
Will try it with water and rum essence (instead of actual rum and vanilla extract) and let you know the result. I assume using semi-sweet chocolate chips should be fine instead of the dark chocolate.
Please give us eggless option also.


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The well-cared-for property is decorated in neutral colours throughout and includes, easy-to-maintain gardens and a single, detached garage.
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A decorative wrought-iron gate opens onto the private, enclosed, paved rear garden ideal for outside entertaining in the summer months. Surrounded by established, flowering shrubs and plants, the garden includes an outdoor tap and some security lighting.
The front door opens onto a reception hall with stairs ahead rising to the first floor and an internal door to the left opening onto the lounge.
Here, light from the bay window overlooking the front of the house shows off a polished wood effect floor, contrasting tastefully with neutral décor, including a dado rail and decorative ceiling coving and light fittings. However, the eye is drawn to the feature fireplace with a white mantle framing a marble surround and inset with a living-flame gas fire atop a stone-effect hearth. The room includes brass-effect light switches, a TV point and wall-mounted radiator while an open arch leads through to the dining room with matching decor. Recently fitted double patio doors open from here onto the rear garden, adding to the sense of space in the summer months.
An internal door leads from the dining room to the kitchen, fitted with white cupboards and drawers above and below rolled worktops. Mediterranean blue and white ceramic splashback tiles with blue, diamond-shaped accents have been fitted above all the cooking and preparation areas, including the four-ring hob and electric oven which sit beneath a concealed extractor. A stainless steel sink is located beneath the window overlooking the rear garden while the design includes space and plumbing for a washer-drier and a dishwasher. The kitchen also includes an under-stairs storage cupboard as well as an external door which opens onto the drive to the side of the property.
The stairs to the first floor lead to a landing with internal doors opening onto two double and one single bedroom, all fitted with carpets and wall-mounted radiators. The master bedroom also includes floor-to-ceiling mirrored wardrobes along one wall and fixtures and fittings for a wall-mounted television.
The fully-tiled house bathroom is also located on the first floor and includes a panel bath with recently installed shower over, a pedestal sink with chrome mixer tap and a WC with dual flush.
The property is double glazed and equipped with a programmable, gas-fired central heating system with separate thermostat.


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Magali Franka, née le  à Lyon (France), est une athlète congolaise spécialisée dans les courses de sprint.

Biographie

Magali défend les couleurs de la RDC aux Jeux olympiques Pékin 2008, a l'épreuve du 100m  sprint où elle sera classée 8 (100m à un temps de 12,57') sans passer au second tour.

En 2005, elle a courru le 100m à 12,30' et le 200m à 25,30'.

Récompenses et distinctions

Notes et références

Liens externes

Naissance en janvier 1990
Naissance à Lyon
Athlète congolais (RDC)
Athlète (femme) aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 2008
Coureur de 100 mètres

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Theater Design
David received the 2011 Drama Desk Award for Best Lighting Design for Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo by Rajiv Joseph, directed by Moisés Kaufman, starring Robin Williams. He was also nominated for the American Theatre Wing's Tony Award and Outer Critics Circle Award.
David received a 2009 Tony Award Nomination for Best Lighting Design for 33 Variations, written and directed by Moisés Kaufman, starring Jane Fonda at the Eugene O'Neil Theatre.
Recent Broadway productions: Torch Song by Harvey Fierstein with Michael Urie and Mercedes Rhuel directed by Moisés Kaufman
– The Flood, Opera Columbus, composer Korine Fujiwara and librettist/director Stephen Wadsworth
– The Lightning Thief, The Percy Jackson Musical National Tour
–Torch Song by Harvey Fierstein at The Hayes Theatre, with Michael Urie and Mercedes Rhuel directed by Moisés Kaufman
-Hippolyte et Aricie by Rameau at Juilliard Opera
–The Cake at The Alley Theatre
–Mughal-E-Azam: Delhi, Mumbai, Singapore, Dubai
–Wakey Wakey written and directed by Will Eno featuring Michael Emerson, Signature Theater NYC
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"David Lander's lighting and Christine Jones' design clue us to the inevitable changing realities: a suggestion of a tasteful institutional setting, packing boxes and piles of clothing indicating material things that aren't that important any longer, and a door just off to the side waiting to be opened."
–The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams directed by Michael Wilson, A.R.T Boston
http://www.capecodtimes.com/entertainment/20170225/arts-iguana-captures-despair-uncertainty-in-williams-revival
"Then David Lander's lighting turns this one night in Mexico into a series of paintings. And the closing scene of Act 1 becomes an awe-inspiring theatrical effect."
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"All that said, a first-rate, terrifying, act-ending thunderstorm executed by McLane and lighting designer David Lander takes us into a wholly energized second half. "
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"The sky, gorgeously then forebodingly lit by David Lander, is a show in itself."
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"Most infallible, though, is David Lander's subtly magnificent lighting…"
Past Productions:
-Torch Song by Harvey Fierstein with Michael Urie and Mercedes Rhuel directed by Moisés Kaufman at Second Stage Theatre
–The Mad Ones by Brian Lowdermilk and Kait Kerrigan at 59E59
–The Lightning Thief, The Percy Jackson Musical TheaterworksUSA at the Lucille Lortel Theater
–Love Love Love by Mike Bartlett, directed by Michael Mayer, Roundabout Theater Company Laura Pels Theater
–This Day Forward by Nicky Silver, directed by Mark Brokaw, Vineyard Theater
–The Tempest and Cymbeline at The Delecorte Theatre, New York Shakespeare Festival
–The Music Man at The Guthrie Theatre
–I Am Ann Hutchinson , I Am Harvey Milk an Oratorio, by Andrew Lippa with Andrew Lippa and Kristin Chenoweth.
-The Library directed by Steven Soderbergh with Chloë Moretz, at the Public Theatre
Lander has collaborated with many directors including:
Christopher Ashley, Stephen Brackett, Jo Bonney, Gregory Boyd, Stephen Brackett, Mark Brokaw, Marc Bruni, Oliver Butler, Frank Dunlop, Scott Elliott, Terry Kinney, Michael Greif, Doug Hughes, Moisés Kaufman, Dan Knechtges, James Lapine, Arthur Laurents, Noah Himmelstein, Pam MacKinnon, Michael Mayer, Maria Mileaf, Larry Moss, Lindasy Posner, David Saint, Giovanna Sardelli, Scott Schwartz, Steven Soderbergh, Jonathan Silverstein, John Miller-Stephany, Daniel Sullivan, Steven Wadsworth, Michael Wilson, Henry Wishcamper.
And Actors including:
Elisabeth Ashley, Jane Atkinson, Tom Aldrich, William Atherton, Craig Bierko, Jason Biggs, Stephen Bogardus, Larry Bryggman, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Chenoweth, Kieran Culkin, Jim Dale, Tyne Daly, Olympia Dukakis, Deanna Dunigan, Richard Easton, Jennifer Ehle, Michael Emerson, Mia Farrow, Jane Fonda, Penny Fuller, Boyd Gains, Malcolm Gets, John Glover, Zach Grenier, George Grizzard, Dee Hoty, Judith Ivey, James Earl Jones, Eartha Kitt, Kevin Klein, Frank Langella, Linda Lavin, Hamish Linklater, Andrew Lippa, Logan Marshall-Green, Maureen McGovern, Rita Moreno, Chloë Moretz, Michael Nouri, Ana Paquin, Steven Pasquale, Mary Beth Piel, Amanda Plummer, Lily Rabe, Molly Ringwald, Chita Rivera, Mercedes Ruehl, Michael Rupert, Liev Schreiber, Douglas Sills, Jean Smart, Dan Stevens, David Strathairn, Richard Thomas, Michael Urie, Sam Waterston, Robin Williams, Karen Ziemba, Louis Zorich.
Architecture / Themed Attractions / Public Art
David designed the lighting and lighting system for Busch Gardens Tampa "Opening Night Critters." His completed projects include "Invitation," a light-art installation for the Sam Hotel in Houston. "Luca et Vita Universae" with artist Lori Nozic, for Art-in-Public-Places, a sculpture and star field installation for Public School 58, Staten Island, NY. Sea World of Florida's "Sea Port" waterfront, 3 themed restaurants, 4 retail shops and exterior waterfront, as old European Sea Port. Sea World of Florida and San Diego's "Wild Arctic," a themed arctic walk-through aquarium exhibit. Denver International Airport- Leni Schwendinger's "Deep Time/Deep Space – a Subterranean Journey," a light and sculpture installation in a one mile-long automated shuttle train tunnel. Pittsburgh Light Projects- Pittsburgh, PA. Lighting consultant to interpret and execute Robert Wilson's public art light projects.
MFA in Design, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts
BFA in Design, The Ohio State University


Bertie & Bella Patches are ready for the games to begin! They have been swimming since they were just pups, and now the time has come to show just how strong swimmers they have become. Bertie & Bella come wearing their swimming costumes and the set also includes goggles, towels, flip-flops, 2 medals and a stop watch. Let the games commence!
Includes ivory dog brother & sister Bertie & Bella Patches.
Swimming pool set/scenery not included.


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A Juxtaposition of Business and Family: A Profile of State Assembly District 66
Your neighbors are artists and students, and with immigrant residents and business owners, the generations of lifelong residents in downtown NYC are the backbone of the city.
But the neighborhood's popularity means more chain stores and less small businesses and you worry about the increased homeless population and declining quality of public housing. State Assembly District 66 needs an advocate for all who will protect the community from climate change, make space in overcrowded schools, and preserve the landmarks that make the city unique. What are the issues in this District that its leader will need to address?
Issue #1: Preserving Old New York
The qualities that have made New York unique are disappearing to make room for high rises, skyscrapers and chain stores catering to new New Yorkers without much consideration for lifelong residents who have contributed to the vibrancy of this city for generations. While community members and preservation organizations are fighting on behalf of vanishing landmarks and green spaces, District 2 needs a leader to stand up for old New York and safeguard the history of this city.
Issue #2: Protecting Marginalized Populations From Oppression
District 66 is known for its Puerto Rican, Italian and Jewish populations that have contributed to the neighborhood's cultural fingerprint for decades. Also home to a sizable LGBTQ population, a district leader is needed to fight against rising homophobia and bigotry against perceived Others who have made their homes here. Being a cultural melting pot has always been one of NYC's best characteristics, and a neighborhood representative needs to assert the importance of every resident and fight for the needs of the most marginalized.
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This neighborhood finds a bustling financial district alongside an area with a growing population of families, and sometimes these two groups don't always mesh. How can this district find the balance between building its economy, but providing affordable housing while rents rise and adequate space for kids to play?
Will State Assembly District 66's representative take these problems head on? Learn more about State Assembly District 66 Democrat candidate Deborah Glick and get informed about 2018's New York State elections at racetorepresent.com.
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La festa federale di ringraziamento, chiamata anche digiuno federale o, in modo più esteso, festa federale di ringraziamento, pentimento e preghiera (in tedesco Eidgenössischer Dank-, Buss- und Bettag, in francese jeûne fédéral) è una festività religiosa e civile interconfessionale svizzera. La si festeggia annualmente la terza domenica di settembre, in tutta la Confederazione, ad eccezione del cantone di Ginevra, dove viene celebrata il giovedì seguente la prima domenica del mese

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La prima fonte scritta di questa celebrazione risale al 1517. Ma la tradizione era molto più antica. In seguito i cantoni riformati stabilirono giornate, settimane o addirittura mesi di penitenza e digiuno in caso di peste o di carestie come a Basilea nel 1541, Zurigo nel 1571 e Berna nel 1577. Nel 1619 tutti i cantoni riformati celebrarono la prima festa di ringraziamento collettiva. Durante la Guerra dei trent'anni la Dieta dei cantoni riformati decise di rendere annuale questa festa. In questi anni anche nei cantoni cattolici si introdusse questa usanza. Nel 1796 su proposta del canton Berna la Dieta federale congiunta dichiarò l'8 settembre di quell'anno la prima festa federale di preghiera.

Questa usanza si mantenne nel tempo anche se fino al 1832 veniva celebrata in tempi diversi, nei singoli cantoni per i riformati e nelle singole diocesi per i cattolici. Nella Dieta federale di quell'anno Argovia propose di fissarla in tutti cantoni alla terza domenica di settembre. Da quell'anno in tutti i cantoni la ricorrenza venne festeggiata in quella data, tranne nel cantone dei Grigioni che, fino al 1848, mantenne la data della seconda domenica di novembre. Nel 1886, i vescovi cattolici stesero un regolamento della festività valido per tutto il territorio svizzero. Con il Concilio Vaticano II questa ricorrenza divenne ecumenica. Da allora i vescovi svizzeri inviano a tutte le parrocchie una lettera pastorale per questa festa.

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Q: How do I acess Node Attribute and Node values in XML using C# I have a XML file and it goes as below and trying to bring out the Node Attribute value from Node Value
How to use XML Deserializer to access the nodes and its values
<Roots>
    <Root id="XYZ">

        <Select val = "SELECT0">
            <Pin val = "00"> A </Pin>
            <Pin val = "01"> B </Pin>
            <Pin val = "02"> C </Pin>
            <Pin val = "03"> D </Pin>

        </Select>

        <Select val = "SELECT1">
            <Pin val = "00"> E </Pin>
            <Pin val = "01"> F </Pin>
            <Pin val = "02"> G </Pin>
            <Pin val = "03"> H </Pin>

        </Select>
    </Root>
</Roots>

A: I think your Xml file content is not correct, eg
        <Select val = "SELECT0">
        <Pin> val = 00> value0 </Pin>

what is following?

val = 00> value0

You can try serialize/deserialize your xml file to POCO classes by some framework, eg visit : https://github.com/ExtendedXmlSerializer/home
Following are some advises:

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*Create a Roots class which only contain a Root class as a property.

*The Root class should has:

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*a property id, which should mapping to the xml attribute id.

*a property of Selector class.

*a collection property of Select class, eg. List<Select>;

*The Selector class should has a collection property List<Register>, and class Register should has properties mapping to attribute name and value;

*The Select class should has a property mapping to attribute val, and a collection property List<Pin>.

*The Pin class should has a property mapping to attribute val, and another property mapping to value.

Here is some POCO codes:
    public class Roots
    {
        public Root root { get; set; }
    }

    public class Root
    {
        public Selector selector { get; set; }
        public List<Select> selects { get; set; }
    }

    public class Selector
    {
        public List<Register> Registers { get; set; }
    }

    public class Register
    {
        public string name { get; set; }
        public string value { get; set; }
    }

    public class Select
    {
        public string val { get; set; }
        public List<Pin> Pins { get; set; }
    }

    public class Pin
    {
        public string val { get; set; }
        public string value { get; set; }
    }

Highly recommend using good naming, maybe this help : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/design-guidelines/naming-guidelines

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SD HC1028 N/A Celebrating and commemorating the commissioning of the USS South Dakota.
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SD HC1013 N/A Honoring and commending Dr. David E. Peterson for his outstanding service in the field of dentistry to patients in South Dakota.
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SD HC1008 N/A Recognizing February as Black History Month and South Dakota's rich history of African American achievements.
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Iain Glen a commencé au théâtre, dans des pièces classiques de Shakespeare, puis a joué pour la télévision et le cinéma.
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Gorillas in the Mist
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Black Beauty (2020)
Genres Drama
Actors Kate Winslet, Mackenzie Foy, Claire Forlani, Iain Glen, Hakeem Kae-Kazim
Roles John Manly
Rating65%
Le film suit les aventures d'une Mustang sauvage de l'Ouest des États-Unis. Un jour, capturée et enlevée à sa famille, celle-ci se retrouve bientôt aux écuries Birtwick où elle va nouer une relation empreinte d'amour, de respect et de soutien mutuel avec Jo Green, une jeune fille de 17 ans qui elle aussi affronte le deuil de ses parents. Au fil des semaines, ce lien indéfectible va aider Black Beauty à garder espoir à travers les différentes étapes, épreuves et aventures de sa vie.
My Cousin Rachel (2017)
Directed by Roger Michell
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Rachel Weisz, Sam Claflin, Iain Glen, Holliday Grainger, Pierfrancesco Favino, Andrew Knott
Roles Kendall
Lorsque son cousin Ambroise décède dans de mystérieuses circonstances, Philip cherche à piéger sa veuve Rachel, qu'il soupçonne de l'avoir tué pour son héritage. Pourtant, tout se complique lorsqu'il tombe amoureux de cette femme troublante et vénéneuse...
Eye in the Sky (2016)
Directed by Gavin Hood
Genres Drama, War, Thriller
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Aviation films, Robot films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Colin Firth, Alan Rickman, Barkhad Abdi, Iain Glen
Roles James Willett
Colonel Katherine Powell (Mirren) leads a secret drone mission to capture a terrorist group living in a safehouse in Nairobi, Kenya. When Powell learns that the group plans to carry out a suicide attack, her objective is changed to kill the terrorists. Drone pilot Steve Watts (Paul) targets the safehouse for destruction but reports a nine-year-old girl entering the kill zone. Powell contacts politicians and lawyers to determine whether or not to take action.
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)
Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson
Origin German
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Clonage, Films about computing, Jeu, Medical-themed films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films set in the future, Zombie films, Films about video games, Films about viral outbreaks, Political films, Dystopian films, Films based on video games, Disaster films
Actors Milla Jovovich, Wentworth Miller, Ali Larter, Sienna Guillory, Iain Glen, Li Bingbing (李冰冰)
Roles Dr. Isaacs
Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, humanity is on its last legs after Alice is betrayed by Wesker in Washington D.C. As the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity's final stand against the undead hordes, Alice returns to where the nightmare began, Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse. In a race against time, Alice joins forces with old friends, and an unlikely ally, in a battle with undead hordes and new mutant monsters. Between losing her superhuman abilities and Umbrella's impending attack, this will be Alice's most difficult adventure as she fights to save humanity.
The Bad Education Movie (2015)
Directed by Elliot Hegarty
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Jack Whitehall, Mathew Horne, Sarah Solemani, Harry Enfield, Joanna Scanlan, Nikki Runeckles
Roles Pasco Trevelyan
Alfie Wickers (Jack Whitehall) has taken Class Form K on a school trip to Amsterdam. Unbeknownst to him, Mitchell (Charlie Wernham) had spiked his Crepe with magic mushrooms, causing Alfie to hallucinate, thinking Jing was a panda and was convinced that the Anne Frank dummy was alive, causing him to steal it from the museum (parodying ET) and ends up in a canal.
Kick-Ass 2 (2013)
Directed by Jeff Wadlow
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films about animals, Mafia films, Films about sharks, Superhero films, Super-héros inspiré de comics, Gangster films
Actors Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jim Carrey, Nicolas Cage, Donald Faison
Roles Uncle Ralph
Dave Lizewski (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), bored after having retired from fighting crime as Kick-Ass, begins training with Hit-Girl Mindy Macready (Chloë Grace Moretz) to become a proper hero. After accidentally killing his mother, Chris D'Amico (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) is now in control of his father's criminal empire and reinvents himself as supervillain The Motherfucker, swearing vengeance on Kick-Ass.
Elephants Can Remember (2013)
Directed by John Strickland
Genres Crime
Actors David Suchet, Greta Scacchi, Zoë Wanamaker, Iain Glen, Adrian Lukis, Annabel Mullion
Roles Doctor Willoughby
Les Ravenscroft sont retrouvés tous les deux morts d'une balle dans la tête. La police conclut alors à un double suicide sans trop y croire, le couple étant connu pour filer le parfait amour.
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Horror, Crime
Themes Clonage, La fin du monde, Films about computing, Jeu, Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Transport films, Films set in the future, Zombie films, Films about video games, Films about viral outbreaks, Catastrophe épidémiologique, Films about disabilities, Political films, Dystopian films, Films based on video games, Disaster films, Personne sourde ou muette
Actors Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodríguez, Kevin Durand, Sienna Guillory, Shawn Roberts, Aryana Engineer
Roles Dr. Isaacs (archive footage)
Alice (Milla Jovovich) and the others on the Umbrella Corporation freighter Arcadia face an attack by a fleet of tiltrotors led by Alice's former ally, Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory), who is being mind controlled by Umbrella through a scarab device attached to her chest. Alice causes a tiltrotor to crash into Arcadia, resulting in an explosion that knocks her out and into the water. The fates of Chris Redfield, Claire Redfield and K-Mart are ambiguous.
Henry IV, Part I and Part II (TV films) (2012)
Directed by Richard Eyre
Genres Historical
Themes Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Films about royalty
Actors Jeremy Irons, Simon Russell Beale, Tom Hiddleston, Julie Walters, Alun Armstrong, Joe Armstrong
Roles Earl of Warwick (Part 2)
The Iron Lady (2011)
Directed by Phyllida Lloyd
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Political films
Actors Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Anthony Head, Alexandra Roach, Richard E. Grant, Iain Glen
Roles Alfred Roberts
The film begins in September 2008 (opening against the backdrop of news of the Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing) with an elderly Lady Thatcher buying milk unrecognized by other customers and walking back from the shop alone. Over the course of three days, we see her struggle with dementia and with the lack of power that comes with old age, while looking back on defining moments of her personal and professional life, on which she reminisces with her (now-dead) husband, Denis Thatcher, whose death she is unable to fully accept. She is shown as having difficulty distinguishing between the past and present. A theme throughout the film is the personal price that Thatcher has paid for power. Denis is portrayed as somewhat ambivalent about his wife's rise to power, her son Mark lives in South Africa and is shown as having little contact with his mother, and Thatcher's relationship with her daughter Carol is at times strained.
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Clonage, La fin du monde, Films about computing, Jeu, Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Transport films, Films set in the future, Zombie films, Films about video games, Films about viral outbreaks, Catastrophe épidémiologique, Political films, Dystopian films, Films based on video games, Disaster films
Actors Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Kim Coates, Shawn Roberts, Spencer Locke, Sienna Guillory
A year after the events of Extinction, the Alice clones (Milla Jovovich) attempt to kill Albert Wesker (Shawn Roberts) at the current Umbrella Headquarters, Tokyo. The clones manage to kill the entire branch, but Wesker makes his way to his private charter tiltrotor plane and escapes before activating a bomb, leaving a massive sinkhole. However, the real Alice boarded his aircraft beforehand. As she pulls a gun on him, Wesker injects her with Anti-Virus before the lack of a pilot makes the aircraft crash in the mountains outside Tokyo. Only Alice emerges from the crash alive.
Harry Brown (2009)
Directed by Daniel Barber
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Gangster films, Auto-justice
Actors Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Plan B, Charlie Creed-Miles, David Bradley, Iain Glen
Roles S.I. Childs
Harry Brown (Michael Caine), an elderly man who was once a decorated senior NCO in the Royal Marines and a veteran of Northern Ireland, currently lives on a London council estate ruled by violent gangs and spends most of his time playing chess in the local pub with his best friend, Len Attwell (David Bradley). Drugs are dealt openly in the pub. When the hospital phones to tell him that his wife, Kath, is dying, Harry is too late to see her one last time because he is too scared to take the quicker underpass route, where a gang holds court. His wife is laid to rest next to the grave of their thirteen-year-old daughter, Rachel, who died in 1973.
The Case of Unfaithful Klara (2009)
Directed by Roberto Faenza
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Actors Claudio Santamaria, Laura Chiatti, Zuzana Fialová, Kierston Wareing, Sabina Beganović, Pavlína Němcová
Roles Denis
Pope Joan (2009)
Directed by Sönke Wortmann
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Transport films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Films set in the Viking Age, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Suzanne Bertish, Johanna Wokalek, David Wenham, John Goodman, Anatole Taubman, Alexander Held
Roles Village Priest
Shortly after the death of Charlemagne, a woman called Joan is born in Ingelheim am Rhein. She is the daughter of a village priest (Iain Glen). He also rules his wife (Jördis Triebel) and family with a rod of iron, though his Saxon wife still secretly worships the pagan god Wotan. Even so, Joan grows up to be an articulate girl, who intensively studies the Bible, unbeknownst to her father. After her eldest brother's sudden death, their father wants to send his second son John to the cathedral school in Dorestad, but when the teacher Aesculapius (Edward Petherbridge) visits them in Ingelheim, Joan proves to be far more capable of dealing with the Scriptures than John. Against her father's wishes, Joan is taught by Aesculapius, who introduces her to literary works such as Homer's Odyssey.
Into the Storm (2009)
Directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Themes Political films
Actors Brendan Gleeson, Iain Glen, Janet McTeer, James D'Arcy, Patrick Malahide, Robert Pugh
Roles King George VI
The Second World War has recently ended in Europe, and the people of the United Kingdom are awaiting the results of the 1945 general election. During this time, Winston Churchill goes to France for a holiday with his wife Clemmie. Through a series of flashbacks, Churchill recalls some of his most glorious moments during the war, and the effect it had on their marriage.


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Fay Weldon Books In Order
Publication Order of She Devil Books
The Life and Loves of a She Devil (1983) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Death of a She Devil (2018) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Publication Order of Love & Inheritance Trilogy Books
Habits of the House (2012) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Long Live the King (2013) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
The New Countess (2013) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Publication Order of Spoils of War Books
Before the War (2016) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
After the Peace (2018) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
The Fat Woman's Joke (1967) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Down Among Women (1971) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Female Friends (1974) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Remember Me (1976) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Little Sisters / Words of Advice (1977) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Praxis (1978) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Puffball (1980) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
The President's Child (1982) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
The Shrapnel Academy (1986) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
The Heart Of The Country (1986) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
The Hearts and Lives of Men (1987) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Leader of the Band (1988) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
The Cloning of Joanna May (1989) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Darcy's Utopia (1990) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Growing Rich (1992) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Life Force (1992) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
A Question of Timing (1992) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Affliction (1993) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Splitting (1995) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Worst Fears (1996) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Big Women (1999) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Rhode Island Blues (2000) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
The Bulgari Connection (2000) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Mantrapped (2004) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
She May Not Leave (2006) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
The Spa (2007) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
The Stepmother's Diary (2008) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Chalcot Crescent (2009) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Kehua! (2010) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
The Ted Dreams (2014) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Watching Me, Watching You (1981) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Polaris and Other Stories (1985) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Moon over Minneapolis (1991) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Angel, All Innocence, And Other Stories (1995) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Wicked Women (1996) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
A Hard Time To Be A Father (1998) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Nothing to Wear and Nowhere to Hide (2003) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Mischief (2015) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Publication Order of Chapbooks
The Rules of Life (1987) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Wolf the Mechanical Dog (1988) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Party Puddle (1989) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Publication Order of Plays
Action Replay : A Play (1980) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
I Love My Love (1984) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
The Reading Group (1999) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Flood Warning - A Play (2003) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Letters to Alice (1984) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Rebecca West (1986) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Sacred Cows (1989) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Godless in Eden (1999) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Auto da Fay (2001) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
What Makes Women Happy (2006) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Why Will No-One Publish My Novel? (2019) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Crossing the Border: Tales of Erotic Ambiguity (1998) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Fay Weldon is a prominent English author, playwright, and essayist, who is known for her work based on feminism. She is famous for writing women's fiction, contemporary, and literature & fiction stories and is particularly well known for creating the Love & Inheritance series, Spoils of War series, and the She Devil series. Additionally, Weldon has written numerous standalone books, essay and short story collections, novellas, and nonfiction books in her career. She has collaborated with many other authors, including Amanda Craig, Deborah Moggach, Rose Tremain, John Updike, Amy Bloom, Lesley Pearse, John Cheever, Andrea Lee, Isabel Wolff, etc. Usually, Weldon's works portray contemporary women who are caught in oppressive situations because of the British Society's patriarchal structure.
Author Weldon was born as Franklin Birkinshaw on September 22, 1931, in Birmingham, England. Her family was full of novelists and so, she had a literary environment while growing up. Weldon was brought up in Christchurch, New Zealand as her father was employed there as a doctor. Following the divorce of her parents when she was six years old, she and her sister lived with her father in Coromandel and Auckland. Weldon studied at the Girls' High School in Christchurch for a couple of years. At the age of 15, she moved back to England to live with her mother. Weldon says that she had no intention of becoming a writer at that time as her mind mostly occupied by the idea of getting married and having babies. While in England, she won a scholarship to study at the South Hampstead School. Later, Weldon studied at St Andrews University in Scotland and obtained a degree in psychology.
In 1952, Weldon finished her masters and returned to London. Thereafter, she worked at the Foreign Office on the post of a clerk for some time. Before that, she had worked temporarily as a hospital ward and a waitress. Weldon had to quit her clerical job due to her pregnancy. Following the birth of her son Nicolas, she joined the Crawford's Advertising Agency and worked alongside author Elizabeth Smart. Weldon started writing for TV and radio in 1963. Her first novel came out in 1967. Weldon thought that her novel was accepted by the publisher because of her excellent writing, but the real reason was that Weldon had learned to not have her work turned down. Subsequently, Weldon went on to have a prolific and successful writing career, publishing more than 30 novels, several collections of short stories, articles for magazines and newspapers, TV films, etc. She even succeeded in becoming a popular voice and face on the BBC.
In 1971, Weldon won a Writers Guild award for writing the first episode of the famous TV series called Upstairs, Downstairs. Afterward, she collaborated with several noteworthy directors and producers of TV and films. In 1966, Weldon served as a member of the Berlin International Film Festival. She was included as a judge for the Booker Prize in 1983. In 2006, Brunel University appointed her as a Creative Writing professor to provide an opportunity for its students to learn from the great writer. Bath Spa University also appointed her on the same post in 2012, where she shared an office with Maggie Gee. Weldon likes to describe herself as a self-declared feminist. Her works often feature women who are overlooked by society and the media. Weldon has given many reasons to side with feminism, including the lack of equal chances for women and the belief that women could not thrive on their own without the support of their male relatives. In 1953, Weldon had become pregnant out of an affair with a musician while working for Foreign Office. She wanted to keep the child, but not the father.
After four years of struggling as a single mom, she married a headmaster named Ronald Bateman, who was 25 years elder to her. They resided for a couple of years in Acton, London before their marriage came to an end. In 1961, Weldon came across a jazz musician Ron Weldon and got married to him in 1963 after becoming pregnant. Ron and Weldon became parents of 2 more sons before going for their separation. Currently, Weldon is happily married to her third husband Nick Fox. They live in Dorset. The highlight of her career is when she was bestowed with the CBE and FRSL as well as made a Church of England member in the early 2000s.
A popular series written by author Fay Weldon is known as the Love & Inheritance Trilogy series. It was started in 2012 and its last book was published in 2013. The debut book of this series is entitled 'Habits of the House'. It was released by St Martin's Press in 2012. Weldon has depicted the main characters in this novel in the roles of Minnie O'Brien, Robert Hedleigh, Anthony Robin, Isobel Hedleigh, Arthur, Earl of Dilberne, etc. The book opens by depicting that the year 1899 is about to come to an end and Dilberne's Earl has landed in serious financial trouble. This problem begins to affect all the members of the household. Among those most affected include Lord Robert, Arthur, Rosina, Isobel, and Grace. As no financial relief seems to be coming their way, Lord Robert shifts his focus towards finding a suitable wife with a huge dowry for his son. Subsequently, Minnie O'Brien arrives in London from Chicago and brings relief to all the problems of Lord Robert's household. She not only proves to be a good daughter-in-law and wife, but also brings a lot of wealth along with her with which all the mortgages of the household get paid off.
The second book of this series is called 'Long Live the King'. It was also published by St Martin publication in 2013. The central characters depicted in this book other than those mentioned in the previous book include King Edward VII, Adela Hedleigh, Consuelo Vanderbilt, Frank Overshaw, Eric Baum, Naomi Baum, etc. This novel begins at the end of the year 1901 and shows that the Dilberne household has had a great year. Their fortune got restored, Dilberne Court got saved, Arthur found a perfect partner in the form of a Chicago heiress Minnie O'Brien, and Minnie has become pregnant. As Lady Isobel and Lord Robert become busy with the preparations of Edward VII's coronation, they have a long discussion on the future of Adela, their recently orphaned niece. Minnie and Isobel want to keep her with them, but Arthur and Robert do not want that. As all four of them argue over this matter, Adela decides to run away and join a spiritualist group only to be found and saved by the king.
Book Series In Order » Authors » Fay Weldon
Greg Iles spent several years as a guitarist, singer, and songwriter in the band Frankly Scarlet. He quit the band after he was married and began working on his first novel, Spandau Phoenix, a thriller about Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess.


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Pacific Region
Conservation and sustainable fisheries
Pacific marine mammals and sharks
2022 management measures to protect Southern Resident killer whales
Earlier monitoring start date for salmon fisheries closures protocol in the Gulf Islands based on Southern Resident Killer Whale presence
Release date: May 2022
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Description: Earlier monitoring start date for salmon fisheries closures protocol in the Gulf Islands based on Southern Resident Killer Whale presence
As part of the Government of Canada's 2022 suite of management measures to protect Southern Resident Killer Whales, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) is continuing the fishing closure protocol for the southern Gulf Islands recreational and commercial salmon fisheries. Fishery closures will be triggered to close based on the first confirmed presence of Southern Resident Killer Whale(s) in the area.
Monitoring for Southern Resident Killer Whales begins onMay 5, 2022 – one month earlier than was done in 2021. DFO's Whale Tracking Network and the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority Enhancing Cetacean and Observation (ECHO) Program, working closely with its local partners, will conduct visual and acoustic monitoring in the area. Once Southern Resident Killer Whales are confirmed to be present, the fishery closures will be triggered to close and will remain in place until October 31, 2022.
This closure protocol is applicable to recreational and commercial salmon fishing closures in Subarea 18-9 and portions of Subareas 18-2, 18-4 and 18-5 in the southern Gulf Islands.
Reduced prey availability (primarily Chinook salmon) is one of the primary threats to the recovery of Southern Resident Killer Whales. This protocol allows the areas to stay open to commercial and recreational salmon fisheries until Southern Resident Killer Whales have returned for the summer season to this key foraging area.
If you have any questions about the Southern Resident Killer Whale management measures, please contact DFO.SRKW-ERS.MPO@dfo-mpo.gc.ca.
2022 Gulf Islands management measures
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Trincomali Channel
Active Pass
South Pender Island
Boundary Pass
Haro Strait
Moresby Island
North Pender Island
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No recreational and commercial salmon fishing from first confirmed Southern Resident Killer Whale detection to october 31, 2022. Monitoring for Southern Resident Killer Whales in the Gulf Islands will begin May 5.
Interim Sanctuary Zones: No fishing or boating (with exceptions) in effect from June 1 - November 30, 2022
Traffic separation schemes
Pacific fishery management subareas
For illustrative purposes only. Please note, map does not include all fisheries closures in effect.


Osteopaths are hands on practitioners who believe that for your body to work well, its structure of bones, joints and muscles must also be balanced and work well. Osteopaths use physical manipulation, stretching and massage to increase the mobility of joints and to relieve muscle tension. Osteopath treatment aims to enhance the blood and nerve supply to tissues, and to help stimulate your body's own healing mechanisms. Osteopaths use a range of techniques and treatment methods but do not use drugs or surgery.
Osteopathy is a complementary or alternative medicine (CAM) and was founded by an American physician called Andrew Taylor Still in the late 19th century. By 1911, the British Society of Osteopaths was formed and is now known as the British Osteopathic Association (BOA). The British School of Osteopathy is the oldest and largest osteopathic school in the UK with over 4,620 registered osteopaths.
Osteopaths work to restore your body to a state of balance. One element of treatment is mobilizing and loosening the joints and their connecting ligaments through manipulation. Manipulation is when a practitioner uses their hands to place a gentle force through a joint. There are numerous manipulation techniques used by an osteopath the most common forms include cranial sacral and high velocity-low amplitude - thrusts. Muscle work is just as important and osteopaths will use massage along with muscle energy, stretching and myofascial release techniques to relax overstressed and tight muscles to ensure muscles & joints function smoothly together. During treatment an osteopath will not focus solely on your symptoms but will also identify and treat the parts of the body that have caused the symptoms. Most people who see an osteopath do so for help with back or neck pain, however osteopaths are also proficient in treating problems related to the muscles and joints in the extremities. As well as hands on treatment osteopaths will also provide advice on posture and exercise to aid recovery, promote health and prevent symptoms recurring. Osteopaths assess and treat people of any age from the elderly to the new-born and from pregnant women to sports people.
Just before your first appointment you will be asked by the receptionist to fill out a form listing your details including your current complaint and your medical history. To help your osteopath and to get the most from your treatment it is important that you answer as much as you can. Taking a list of all your prescription medication along with the dosage quantities and frequency will be very helpful for your osteopath.
Once your appointment has started your osteopath will take time to listen to you and ask questions to make sure they understand your medical history and your day-to-day routine. They will ask you about things like diet, exercise and what is happening in your life, as these may give clues to help their diagnosis. They will also ask you detailed questions about your complaint including the type of pain you are experiencing, when the pain happens and what aggravates or relieves the pain. Thorough questioning not only allows the osteopath to formulate an examination plan but it also provides an opportunity for them to triage your case and make sure that you don't need medical attention.
The next part of your appointment will be a full orthopaedic and numerological examination which means an examination of how well your bones/joints and nerves are functioning. You will probably need to remove some clothing from the area being examined and will normally be provided with a gown to wear. Your osteopath will start by examining your posture as this can be thereason of or the stressor of your complaint. They will also want to assess the movements of the joints and will do so by gentle pushing and feeling around the joint line to see what hurts, where and when. Using touch, they will also try to find the muscle areas which are sensitive, weak or tight as this will help in identifying what's going on. Specific joint tests and nerve tests including checking your reflexeswill be carried out. Your osteopath may also feel your pulse and take your blood pressure. The purpose of the examination is normally to recreate the pain from your complaint, this enables your osteopath to pin point what exactly is causing your pain and form a diagnosis. If they are unable to identify what is causing your pain they may refer you for clinical tests, such as x-rays.Sometimes if they feel that osteopathy is not appropriate for you and your complaint they will refer you to your GP or another specialist such as an orthopaedic surgeon who will investigate your condition further.
Once your osteopath has diagnosed your condition they will formulate a treatment plan, working out what type of treatment to use and estimating how long your treatment plan will be. Before they start to treat you, they will sit down with you and discuss exactly what the examination revealed, your diagnosis and what they think your treatment plan will involve.
Your diagnosis, age and fitness will dictate what type of treatment your osteopath will choose to use.This means treatment is different for every patient but may include techniques such as different types of soft tissue massage and gentle manipulation to release tension, stretch muscles, help relieve pain, improve movement and encourage blood flow. Sometimes, when they manipulate your joints you may hear a 'click'. This is just like the click people get when they crack their knuckles and is a by-product of the treatment. Some soft tissue treatment may cause discomfort, your osteopath will tell you what to expect, and will want you to let them know if you are in pain. You may feel a little stiff or sore after treatment. This is a normal, healthy response to the treatment. Your osteopath will be able to advise you on whether to use ice or heat to limit post treatment soreness.They may also discuss exercises that you can do to improve your posture in your workplace and everyday life to help speed up your recovery and prevent symptoms recurring.
How do I get osteopathic treatment?
You don't always have to see your doctor before visiting an osteopath especially if you are paying for your own treatment, which most people opt to do. However, more and more health insurances are starting to cover complimentary therapies and some companies require you to attend your doctor first, so double check your policy before booking. Osteopathy is not widely available on the NHS but is in some areas, your GP or primary care trust will be able to tell you whether it is available in your area. Certain councils also run contributory funds to help out with a percentage of the cost. It is important that you attend a reputable Osteopath so check through the Clinic HQ directory to find your local recommended osteopath.
How much does osteopathic treatment cost and how long are appointments?
The costs of treatment vary from practice to practice and across the country so make sure you check before booking. In general, the first appointment lasts about 40 -50 minutes and the typical price range is from £35 to £50. Subsequent treatments last around 20 -30 minutes and will cost anything from £20 - £35 but again this varies across the country.
The treatment course will depend on the severity of your condition but your osteopath will aim to keep your appointments to a minimum. In the case of lower back pain, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) recommends that treatment should include up to nine sessions over 12 weeks. Treatments will typically be closer together to begin with whilst your pain levels are high and will space out as you recover. In some cases where you have a chronic long standing condition your osteopath may recommend that you attend for regular check-ups just as you would with the dentist.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) recommends osteopathy as a treatment for persistent lower back pain. There is also some evidence that it is effective in helping recovery after hip or knee operations. However there is no good evidence that osteopathy is effective as a treatment for any other health conditions. Serious side effects or complications are rare.
To qualify, an osteopath must study for four to five years for an undergraduate degree. This is similar to a medical degree, with more emphasis on anatomy and musculoskeletal medicine and includes more than 1,000 hours of training in osteopathic techniques. There are currently two osteopathic education institutes in the UK: The British School of Osteopathy in London and the European School of Osteopathy in Kent. All osteopaths in the UK are by law registered with and regulated by the General Osteopathic Council (GOsC). Osteopaths are required to renew their registration each year to obtain an annual license to practice. As part of this process, the GOsC checks that osteopaths have current professional indemnity insurance, are fit to practice, and ensure that each individual has met mandatory continuing professional development requirements. It is an offence for anyone to call themselves an osteopath if they are not registered. You can check whether your osteopath is on the register on the GosC website.


If you are new to Eiffel and are interested in learning the technology, you might consider some of the following resources. Remember that Eiffel, unlike other programming languages, is not just a programming language. Instead, it is a full life-cycle framework for software development. As a consequence, learning Eiffel implies learning the Eiffel Method and the Eiffel programming Language. Additionally, the Eiffel development environment EiffelStudio is specifically designed to support the method and language. So having an understanding of the method and language helps you to appreciate the capabilities and behavior of EiffelStudio.
Your first stop in getting acquainted with Eiffel might be the collection of online presentations on the eiffel.com website. These presentations each usually take less than an hour to view, and give an introduction to Eiffel concepts including Design by Contract, the EiffelStudio development environment, and includes several presentations that describe selected Eiffel features in relation to those of other other development tools.
The docs.eiffel.com site contains the online documentation for the Eiffel method, tools, and language. Within the documentation set are tutorials to help you learn about the Eiffel programming language and tools.
A tutorial that covers the Eiffel Method and much of the Eiffel programming language.
This Introducing EiffelStudio page is good way to get a feel for what EiffelStudio can do.
Many colleges and universities use Eiffel to teach "best practices" in software engineering. Often the materials used in courses are available on the worldwide web. For example, the teaching materials for courses at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich are available at this web address (warning: old content).
If you search the web, you can find similar materials at other academic institutions.
To find information about the most up-to-date books about Eiffel, look here.
Throughout the documentation site, there are many code snippets designed to illustrate certain language features or design principles. For example, the code snippet here shows the mechanics of redefining an inherited feature.
In the EiffelStudio distribution you will find a subdirectory "examples" which contains many examples of using Eiffel, primarily with the Eiffel class libraries.
A third source of examples is the Examples book in the documentation pages.
The documentation site includes a summary of the syntax of Eiffel the language. This summary is intended to reflect the state of the current official ISO/ECMA Eiffel standard document.
However, usually you will find that there are differences in the syntax supported by EiffelStudio's compiler and that defined in the current standard. The differences between the standard and the EiffelStudio implementation are summarized in the EiffelStudio release notes and in a documentation page that is specific to that purpose.


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What Columbia Student Workers Are Asking For
Labor Organizing
Labor strikes
The university has finally agreed to respond to striking workers' proposals. Here's what's at stake.
By R.H. Lossin
In early November, student workers at Columbia University in New York City went on strike in response to the university administration's continued failure to bargain over the workers' contract in good faith. Student Workers of Columbia–United Auto Workers (SWC-UAW, of which I was a member until June 2020) represents over 3,000 graduate and undergraduate student workers. SWU-UAW has been asking the university to make meaningful concessions in the areas of compensation, health care, child care and parental leave, nondiscrimination, and union security. As the strike enters its eighth week, the union has presented a new package of proposals to a university administration that has repeatedly met the bargaining committee's efforts with the same, unrevised contract that was voted down by the unit this past April.
Graduate workers at Columbia—who perform essential labor such as teaching, grading, and research—make just above New York City's minimum wage (around $33,000 annually) if they are fully funded. They often live in housing that is owned by the university and is therefore pegged to their enrollment. The university's functionally nonexistent policy on family leave and child care means active enrollment must be maintained in order to keep healthcare and housing through pregnancy. Child care subsidies are miniscule. Health benefits are altered by the university at will and inordinately expensive for those with dependents. Columbia is the second-largest real estate owner in New York City. According to its financial report, the university produced a 32.3 percent return on endowment investments for fiscal year 2021.
How the Largest Union Fight of 2021 Was Won
Jess Banks and Ahmed Akhtar
The university has spilled a lot of ink on the topic of reducing stress for students and faculty during the pandemic, but, as Columbia history professor Elizabeth Blackmar pointed out, they have failed to address the problem in a meaningful way by "settling for a fair contract that acknowledges the cost of living in New York City." Blackmar, who has held classes on Zoom in acknowledgement of the picket line, describes the situation at Columbia as "exhausting" and says that the "university's behavior has been unconscionable." The administration's failure to compromise means that students' education has been disrupted by the lack of discussion sections for large seminars and, where graduate workers are the instructors of record (which is often the case for languages and core classes), students have simply not had class. Many students will not receive grades if the strike continues into the next semester. Neither the provost nor the office of the dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences replied to requests for comments.
Graduate students at Columbia voted to unionize in 2014. The university declined to voluntarily recognize the union, and when the National Labor Relations Board affirmed that graduate students at private universities were, in fact, workers in 2016, the university filed objections. The administration then refused to actually begin bargaining. Columbia, like any large employer, would prefer that its students, faculty, and the public believe the strike is ongoing as a result of graduate student intransigence and unreasonable demands, but the record shows a university administration that has expended enormous amounts of energy, not to mention money, actively refusing to compromise or even communicate.
The duration of the strike is due to GSOC's adoption of more-democratic decision-making processes. Whereas the April strike was "paused" by the bargaining committee, the current strike is authorized through weekly polling of the rank and file. Every week for eight weeks, a majority of those withholding labor have voted to continue the strike despite pressure from the university and certain UAW officials. Furthermore, this strike is pegged to contract demands. Rather than being a largely symbolic demonstration of member support and willingness to strike, the past eight weeks have shown what it means to leverage labor power in bargaining. And it has been effective: On December 23, finally, Columbia has agreed to respond to the latest package proposal in writing.
How the Taxi Workers Won
Molly Crabapple
Publicly, the university has been calling for mediation—essentially claiming that the strike is gratuitously disruptive and an agreement can be reached by civilized discussion. At the same time, it has made several legally questionable retaliatory moves. In August, it announced a dramatic change to stipend disbursement that would make it easier to withhold larger portions of graduate students' already meager stipends during a strike. Until this fall, workers received two-thirds of their annual salary in two lump sums at the start of each semester. The other third was disbursed biweekly. In August, Columbia announced that stipends would be paid monthly, starting in October for the month of September. Employers are not legally required to pay striking workers, but what Columbia did was clearly aimed at preventing a strike by threatening the livelihoods of union members. Furthermore, workers, many of whom had not been paid over the summer, were suddenly without an expected $8,000 check. So, while millions of dollars accrued interest in the university's accounts, graduate workers were buying groceries with credit cards. Compounding this already aggressive financial harassment is Columbia's dubious practice of collecting the entire semester's rent from workers living in student housing up front in September. These are not dormitories but rent-stabilized apartments that make up a small fraction of the university's massive real estate portfolio.
More recently, the university threatened striking workers with a lockout, stating that teaching appointments may not be available to those who remain on strike past December 10. It is illegal to replace workers who are on strike for unfair labor practices. Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and professor of history Mae Ngai says that many faculty members support the workers' right to organize and to strike, and calls the university's recent threat of a lockout "reprehensible."
Columbia has claimed, from the beginning, that academic labor is special labor and that student workers are not primarily workers but students and are therefore benefiting from education rather than contributing value to the university. This logic ignores the reality of a normal career trajectory, during which an employee gains knowledge and skills in one job and then moves on to a better-paying one. Whatever intellectual or experiential benefit an employee gains from holding a job for a period of time cannot be logically separated from their profitable labor. The university had to officially abandon its long-standing line that a union would disrupt the "special" relationships that students form with their advisers after multiple NLRB decisions made it clear that, legally speaking, graduate student workers are workers. But, according to members of the bargaining unit, it has continued to hide behind this false distinction during bargaining sessions, repeatedly labeling certain activities as "academic" and therefore appropriate not topics for bargaining.
Do We Really Need a 24-Hour Economy?
Rebecca Gordon
To be clear, no one is asking that things like grades become subject to grievance procedures. But particularly in the case of harassment and discrimination, it is precisely because of the entanglement of education and labor that protections are needed. Graduate students depend on the patronage of a few professors for their work appointments, and those same people determine whether they will advance as students. The average PhD in the humanities and social sciences takes between five and seven years. One can only imagine the power held by someone who decides whether someone works and whether the past five years of her scholarly labor will be acknowledged. The potential for retaliation in the case of harassment is immense.
One of the major sticking points in the contract is the union's demand that in the case of discrimination or harassment, students be given five months of transitional funding and placed by the university with another supervisor. This is particularly important for those working in labs. Unlike students in the humanities and social sciences, they cannot, in the case of a hostile work environment, take their work to a different supervisor. The university is willing to move on transitional funding, but claims that it cannot guarantee appointment in another lab. The union has made it clear that this would place the burden of altering their entire academic trajectory on the student worker: Without the guarantee of placement in another lab, the student's choice is between tolerating harassment and dropping out of the program. Given the hard sciences' record for sexual harassment, the university's position is actively discriminatory. Special workplace, indeed.
Despite insisting, over and over again, that the benefits that accrue to graduate students are exceptional and that treating their activities as labor would undermine this education, the university's behavior has been that of an unexceptional employer at every step. And this includes its repeated claims that graduate student workers enjoy special benefits that would be disrupted by union intervention. But once in a while it shows its hand. The lockout is a prime example: The students who are accused of simply taking from the university, it turns out, are doing work that is essential for the university to continue functioning.
R.H. LossinR.H. Lossin writes about labor, libraries, technology, contemporary art, and American radicalism. Her work has appeared in New Left Review, Salvage, Boston Review, Jacobin, Art Agenda, The Brooklyn Rail, and The New York Review of Books. She holds a PhD in communications from Columbia University and teaches at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.