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New HUD rule repeals Obama-era Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing ruleAlerts
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New HUD rule repeals Obama-era Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule
By Harry Kelly
HUD's new "Preserving Community and Neighborhood Choice" rule repeals the 2015 "Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing" rule. We discuss what owners and managers of affordable housing properties need to know about these changes.
On Friday, August 7, HUD announced its new "Preserving Community and Neighborhood Choice" rule (85 Fed. Reg. 47899) (the "Choice Rule"), effectively repealing the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule announced by the Obama administration in 2015. The subject of much controversy, the 2015 AFFH rule imposed rigorous obligations on state and local recipients of HUD funds to identify obstacles to fair housing in their jurisdictions and to take active steps to eliminate them. The new Choice Rule effectively eliminates those obligations, setting an extremely low bar about what HUD grantees must do to meet their affirmative fair housing duties. While all regulations inevitably have some political edge, the new Choice Rule appears to be an attempt to use the Fair Housing Act (FHAct) to draw political lines in ways that have not been seen before at the national level.
Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, then and now
Although not necessarily at the top of the national dialogue, the topic of affirmatively furthering fair housing has been one of the most politically charged issues addressed by HUD in recent decades. Beginning in the mid-1990s, when the duty to affirmatively further fair housing was first imposed on HUD grantees, including state and local governments and agencies, HUD insisted that grantees provided an "analysis of impediments" to fair housing in their jurisdictions and certified that they were taking steps to affirmatively further fair housing. Commentators complained that this requirement did not go far enough, imposing no measured, specific duty to take action to halt discriminatory practices, like exclusionary zoning. Litigation arose, including False Claims Act litigation against Westchester County in New York State, charging that grantees were making their certifications—and receiving federal funds—without taking any actual steps to promote fair housing goals.
During the Obama administration, HUD adopted a more aggressive posture, publishing its AFFH rule in 2015. Essentially, the AFFH rule required HUD grantees to take a harder look at the legal, demographic, and socio-economic issues in their jurisdictions that made achieving fair housing difficult and to propose steps that they would take—including measures of their success or failure—to overcome those obstacles. HUD offered "assessment tools" and deep databases of socio-economic and demographic data to help local jurisdictions prepare their "assessments of fair housing." The threat existed that if a grantee did not take effective measures to overcome those challenges, HUD would restrict or even eliminate funding.
The AFFH rule had implementation issues relating to complexity and the volume of information needed for completing the assessments. Although a few jurisdictions managed to submit their assessments of fair housing, delays by the Office of Management and Budget in approving the multiple versions of the assessment tool developed by HUD for different types of grantees meant that few jurisdictions really started the new AFFH process. Criticisms were leveled that, in addition to the time and cost involved in preparing assessments of fair housing, the AFFH rule required local grantees to assess issues—such as the availability of education and health care resources—that were outside their jurisdictional authority and areas of professional competence.
In 2018, the Trump administration suspended the duty to file assessments of fair housing for most grantees until 2020 or later. Then, earlier this year, HUD announced an overhaul of the AFFH rule. While the proposed rule retained the model of state and local assessment of fair housing issues, it identified a list of sixteen obstacles to fair housing and directed grantees to identify three goals to overcome those obstacles. Some of the obstacles listed by HUD—such as source of income laws, rent control, and energy and water efficiency standards—were themselves politically charged. HUD retained the right to review submissions and to take action regarding grantees depending on their success. In most respects, the proposed rule was a scaled-back version of the 2015 AFFH rule.
The Choice Rule
According to the announcement, earlier this year, President Trump "expressed concern that the HUD approach [in the proposed rule] did not go far enough" to lessen the burden on local grantees and directed HUD to revise the rule "to empower local communities and to reduce the regulatory burden" on local grantees. 85 Fed. Reg. at 47901. Essentially, HUD's approach is to start again from scratch. HUD declares that "affirmatively furthering fair housing" is "a vague, undefined term that could be open to several different plausible meanings." Id. Announcing that "HUD's interpretation will be entitled to deference as long as it is reasonable," HUD adopts the so-called "Ordinary-Meaning Canon" and walks through dictionary definitions of "affirm" and "further" to develop new interpretations of grantees' duties. Id. at 47901, 02.
In the end, the Choice Rule removes the prior AFFH rule (24 CFR §§ 5.150-.168) and replaces it with three short provisions:
A new section 5.150(a) that defines "fair housing" as "housing that, among other attributes, is affordable, safe, decent, free of unlawful discrimination, and accessible as required under civil rights laws." Id. at 47905.
A new section 5.150(b) that defines "affirmatively further" to mean "to take any action that is rationally related to promoting any attribute or attributes of fair housing as defined in the previous subsection." Id.
A new section 5.151 that states that a grantee's certification "that it will affirmatively further fair housing is sufficient if the participant takes, in the relevant period, any action that is rationally related to promoting one or more attributes of fair housing as defined in section 5.150(a). Id. (emphasis added).
In effect, a grantee can meet its AFFH obligation by certifying it has taken "any action" to promote the "attributes" of "fair housing" in the new § 5.150(a). That sets a pretty minimal level of obligation: for example, by promoting a single "attribute" of the new definition of "fair housing"—such as "safe" housing—a grantee arguably would meet its AFFH requirement, even if there was no express anti-discrimination component to its action.
Given the intense history of this AFFH Rule over the past half-dozen years, we probably haven't heard the final word on affirmatively furthering fair housing.
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St. Petersburg is a city with a ton of beautiful rivers and canals. With bodies of water come bridges. Spring in St. Petersburg means that the bridges of the city will be up until the month of October. Also, another great sight to see in St. Petersburg is the "White Nights period." The sun goes down around 12 am but it is not completely dark until around 3 or 4 am. This tour allows you to see the amazing scenes of the bridges at night, standing up with their beautiful lighting.
The town of Peterhof is famous for its Grand Palace and beautiful Fountain Park. The Fountain Park and Grand Palace is a perfect place to take tons of pictures of the beauty of the environment or just with your friends and family. During the tour, you will be able to see the most important and beautiful parts of Peterhof.
The Hermitage and Winter Palace are two iconic symbols of St. Petersburg. This tour gives you access to both places and you will be amazed as to how the Emperors and Empresses of Russia used to live. Along with this, art and other great areas of the museums will also be available to see.
This is perhaps the best tour that is available of St. Petersburg. Along with tons of great places to take photos, you will be able to see the historical center of St. Petersburg and the great Peter and Paul Fortress and Cathedral. This landmark is perhaps the most popular in St. Petersburg as its walls are a symbol of the wartime beginnings of St. Petersburg. The guide will explain everything there needs to be known about the fortress and the city of St. Petersburg itself.


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2 Tone 7-inch Treasures vinyl box set
by Modculture 29 August, 2019
It has been 40 years since the launch of the 2 Tone label and to celebrate, the 2 Tone 7-inch Treasures vinyl box set is hitting the shelves.
Landing on 15th November 2019, the 2 Tone 7-inch Treasures vinyl box set has been produced in 'artistic consultation' with label founder Jerry Dammers, part of a larger series of releases which will include rare and unreleased material, much of which has not been available for several decades, or in some cases never before.
2 Tone was, of course, conceived by The Specials' founder, main songwriter and keyboardist Jerry Dammers, who's vision for the label took its blueprint from such disparate elements as Jamaican ska labels, Berry Gordy's Motown label, and the Buzzcocks' independently pressed Spiral Scratch EP.
The initial calling card was its striking visual aesthetic, based on a chessboard logo, and incorporating a cartoon mascot, loosely based on an image of Peter Tosh from the 'Wailing Wailers' album sleeve, and christened Walt Jabsco after a vintage bowling shirt.
No one could have suspected just how big it would become – and how long its legacy would last.
Debut singles by The Specials, Selecter, Madness and The Beat, as well as the first album (Specials) all reached the UK Top 10. That's followed by further success by fellow Coventry ska band The Selecter 's first album release, and further hit singles on the label from both these bands, as well as from all-girl London ska band, The Bodysnatchers.
There were two more albums from The Specials/Special AKA on 2 Tone, but it was a short-lived movement and label, even if the people within it went on to have long-term success.
What you have with the 2 Tone 7-inch Treasures vinyl box set is a 'chronological compendium' bringing together 12 vital singles and their respective b-sides.
Spanning five years, the collection kicks-off with four of the most important debut singles of the era, all released in 1979: The Specials' Gangsters and The Selecter's eponymous instrumental, split over one single, Madness' tribute to Ska's legendary Prince Buster The Prince and The Beat's ingenious ska reworking of Smokey Robinson's Tears Of A Clown.
It then journeys through additional vital recordings by The Selecter and The Specials, two of whose singles were UK number ones – the live version of Too Much Too Young, and the groundbreaking Ghost Town, which captured the mood of the time in a way which very few chart-topping records have ever done.
The Beat's Ranking Full Stop, performed by the sadly departed Ranking Roger, as well as The Bodysnatchers' Let's Do Rocksteady are also included, as is a 7'' recorded by the late Jamaican trombonist and original ska legend Rico (Rodriguez)'s Sea Cruise and Carolina. (Free) Nelson Mandela from The Special AKA was the label's final top twenty hit and is also featured here.
All of that is housed in a 1960s-style carry case and all tracks have been re-cut from the original masters. The first edition of box sets will contain a card personally signed by Jerry Dammers limited to 2500 copies.
You can pre-order the box now, which retails for £101.99.
Find out more about the 2 Tone 7-inch Treasures vinyl box set at Amazon
Special edition half-speed master of the album Specials
You can pre-order another of the new reissues. On 11th October a special edition half-speed master of the album Specials will be released. Mastered at Abbey Road Studios by Miles Showell, this special edition of one of the most important British debut albums of all time is a straight half-speed vinyl cut from the original master tapes, split over two 45RPM 12-inch vinyl discs and housed in wide spine LP. It will be released almost 40 years to the day from its original release.
You can pre-order that one at Amazon now for £24.99.
The full tracklisting for the box set is below.
THE SPECIAL A.K.A Vs. THE SELECTER: A. Gangsters / AA. The Selecter
MADNESS: A. The Prince / B. Madness
THE SELECTER: A. On My Radio / B. Too Much Pressure
THE SPECIALS: A. A Message To You Rudy / AA. Nite Klub
THE BEAT: A. Tears of A Clown / AA. Ranking Full Stop
THE SPECIAL A.K.A.: A. Too Much Too Young [Live] / B. Guns of Navarone [Live] / B. Skinhead Symphony (Long Shot Kick The Bucket/Liquidator/Skinhead Moonstomp
THE SELECTER: A. Three Minute Hero / B. James Bond
THE BODYSNATCHERS: A. Let's Do Rocksteady / AA. Ruder Than You
THE SPECIALS: A. Stereotype / B. International Jet Set
RICO: A. Sea Cruise / B. Carolina
THE SPECIALS: A. Ghost Town / AA. Why?/AA. Friday Night, Saturday Morning
THE SPECIAL AKA: A. Nelson Mandela / AA. Break Down The Door
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Campbell Block
The Campbell Block is a two-storey, red-brick building prominently situated on two and a half lots in Lacombe's historic downtown. The building features a wide front facade accommodating two storefronts, eight large wood-framed windows on the second floor, and a bracketed cornice surmounted by a simple brick parapet.
The heritage value of the Campbell Block lies in its excellent representation of 1920s commercial architecture in Alberta.
The Campbell Block was erected in 1920 in the heart of downtown Lacombe and initially served the community as a department store. Hailed by the local newspaper as a "modern" business block which would greatly enhance the aesthetics of Lacombe's main street, the building featured robust red-brick construction, large second-storey "Chicago" windows, and decorative elements like a bracketed cornice and bold sign band. The Campbell Block's design echoed that of commercial buildings erected during the pre-First World War boom years in Lacombe and elsewhere, but was set apart by its scale, its modest detailing, and its distinctive upper windows. The solidity and elegant simplicity of the building also embodied the entrepreneurial optimism and civic prominence of its owner, A. M. (Sandy) Campbell, a leading merchant and political figure in early twentieth-century Lacombe. Prominently situated on two and a half lots in downtown Lacombe, the Campbell Building is one of the finest extant examples of 1920s commercial architecture and contributes to the physical and visual continuity of one Alberta's best-preserved historic streetscapes.
Source: Alberta Culture and Community Spirit, Historic Resources Management Branch (File: Des. 2251).
The character-defining elements of the Campbell Block include such features as:
- prominent location in Lacombe's historic downtown on the north-east corner of 50 Avenue and 50 Street;
- elements of the building that express its identity as an excellent representative of 1920s commercial architecture in Alberta, including its red-brick construction, piers, sign band, two storefronts with large display windows, bulkheads, large second-storey wood-framed windows, bracketed cornice, brick parapet, open interior with mezzanine, historic wooden railings, historic staircase, and tin ceiling.
Street Address: 4922 and 4918 - 50 Avenue
Community: Lacombe
Boundaries: Lots 1, 2 and a Portion of Lot 2, Block 3, Plan RN1
Built: 1920 to 1920
Theme(s) Expressing Intellectual and Cultural Life : Architecture and Design
Historic Function(s): Commerce / Commercial Services : Shop or Wholesale Establishment
Current Function(s): Commerce / Commercial Services : Shop or Wholesale Establishment


As Live at Leeds slowly approaches, it means another year to discover a few more bands to fall in love with. We have chosen 5 upcoming bands/ and acts which have had rising success since last years Live at Leeds. The playlist includes a mixture of music that you will find yourself dancing to and music that you will find yourself chilling out to. It's always nice to see a band/artist before they hit it big time isn't it?
If you're heading to Live at Leeds this year then follow our recommendations and you won't go wrong.
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Both men and women use wet and dry shavers for removing unwanted hair from all areas of their body. Men focus primarily on facial hair around the chin and neck regions. This clean shaver provides top of the line brand mixed with quality manufacturing to release an amazing product to end consumers. Introducing to you all, the Braun Series 3 380S-4. It's like the sports version of best electric shavers for men! This shaver reduces skin irritation up to 30% upon each use. The more you use the shaver, the less your skin will be irritated. It is 100% water resistant; however, it can be washed in water when it needs to be cleaned. Unlike other competitor shavers, the Braun Series 3 380S-4 has an LED screen which displays low power rates as well as monitor the battery levels of the shaver. Speaking of power, the battery is a Ni-MH battery which is a powerful battery providing lasting shaves.The triple action cutting system with the new SensoFoil provides a more efficient and close shave. The optimized foil cuts hair more easily while also being simultaneously smooth to the skin. The Triple Action FreeFloat system is composed of three independently moving cutting elements which adapts to every facial element during the shaving process and cuts both long and short hairs with every stroke. What's really nice is that if you don't like this shaver, you can return it with an easy return policy. There's also a 2 year warranty from Braun if any of the moving parts malfunction or break during ownership. Here are a couple tips for the best shave. First, shave before you wash your face. Second, at all times hold the shaver at a right angle (90 degrees) to your skin. Finally, stretch your skin and shave against the grain of your beard growth. Also comes with a smart plug and a travel pouch. How cool!
Affordable price point on Amazon!
The Panasonic family of best mens electric shavers is quite a big family. One of the highest rated shavers in that category is the Panasonic ES8243A Arc4 as it has a loyal following and many features to follow.The wet and dry feature allows efficient use of the tool which allows you to shave quickly over the sink or longer in the shower where water is present. The Nanotech blades use some of the sharpest blades in the industry at a 30 degree angle. This is the industry standard angle for shaving devices which provides stunning shaving performance. This particular shaver has 4 inner blades and 2 outer blades hence the "Arc 4" brand name. Further, the stainless steel foil is strongly constructed to allow the shaver to produce circular motions while shaving in order to provide maximum close shave. We recommend replacing this foil once per year in order to maintain the sharpness of the blade and to continue the closeness of the shave. What sets this shaver apart is that the ergonomic study completed during the design phase of this shaver very extensive in order to insure the comfortable use of this shaver. The LCD display screen provides reminders of battery status and age of the blade freshness. You always want a fresh blade in your shaver.
Perhaps one of the features we like about Wahl electric shavers is the secondary shaver that usually comes along in the package. If you are looking for a deluxe shaving experience, then check out this Wahl electric shaver. The system comes with multiple heads to provide a close and custom shave for your every day and night needs. This provides unmatched performance with sharp blades and best of the line technology. The main four features for the Wahl Electric Shaver 7367-500 Multi-Head is the MicroCut Cutting System, Multiple Shaving Heads, Dual-Head Trimmer and Additional Pop-Up Trimmer. For the MicroCut cutting system, this is an exclusive technology only for Walh shavers that rotates the precision honed-blades which removes not just the hair from above the razor, but also from the sides of the cutting head and below the razor line which gives both an accurate and efficient shave. Along with the multiple shaving heads, the three different options allow for shaving customizability for sensitive, close, and super close shaves. For ingrown hairs, this is a perfect solution as the super close setting will lift up those hairs and cut them close especially if you have sensitive skin. The Dual-Head Trimmer feature provides flexible dual foil heads for your shaving needs which allow flexible movements around the contours of your face. However, these are not as flexible as a 3 or 4 foil system. The mobility of the dual head however helps prevent cuts and causes of injury. Finally the pop-up trimmer allows you to cut your sideburns and additional mustache detailing. What's awesome about this additional trimmer is that it cuts nose hairs, eyebrows, and sideburns. Not many shavers have this additional option!
The Remington MS2-390 comes with 2 titanium microscreens with ComforTech contour technology which allows it to perform flawlessly. Consumer magazine rated this review as one of their "Best Buys" of the season. The battery memory continues to improve after the first 2 or 3 charging cycles which is definitely a nice to have. The rechargeable battery comes with a charging indicator that will light up once the product has been completely recharged. The 1 Hour Quick Charge is a nice feature that quickly super charges the battery for dire situations when you need to quickly charge the battery. A full charge produces a solid 60 minute shave time. If each shave takes 3-5 minutes, you have between 15 and 20 uses on one battery charge, which is pretty reliable for the average shaver. It also utilizes a CleanShave washable design with easy grip surface which allows ease of use. This comes in handy especially when shaving in the shower and water might cause the surface to be slippery and wet. Remember that the Remington MS2-390 was made simply to shave beards and whiskers, not hair and sideburns. It comes with a deluxe travel pouch and a cleaning brush; both are a nice touch for the travelling man who is always on the go. The pop up trimmer is especially convenient as it slides right into place when ready to shave longer hairs. Perhaps some of the best reviews come from the pop up trimmer functionality. Here's some of the best features we liked on this electric razor and some of the things we would improve if we could!
When it comes to arc 4 shavers, there are a couple different options, especially when you look specifically at Panasonic shavers. The ES-LF51-A makes #6 right below the ES-LA93-K because of a couple of key features which set it apart. The first is the ultra-thin vibrating outer foil. The extra vibrations help the shaver make a smoother shave on dry skin and this is something we have noticed for all dry shavers. If the foil has an extra vibrating edge, typically the shave picks up more hairs and thus provides a closer shave. Another thing we noticed that was different is that although both shavers have cleaning systems, the ES-LF51 does not have a cleaning indicator, which is okay but pulls this shaver down the totem pole just a little bit. The acute 30 degree angles of the nanotech blades enable closer shaving of whiskers which leads to reduced shaving time and closer coverage. Further, the shaver glides smoothly across facial skin and cheeks adding to the unique shave. Something we really like about this shaver is that the trimmer is a bit more robust and easier to use in either direction, which hasn't always been the case for all of our shavers. One great recommendation is to replace the outer foil and inner blade at least once per year to maintain the cutting edge on your razor.
This world class shaver comes to you in the form of a 4 blade cutting system packed full of features that can be used in a variety of ways. Whether it be wet shaving, dry shave, or a lubricated shave, the Panasonic ES-LA93-K might be just the shaver you are looking for. In terms of value, the shaver provides tremendous value as it rounds out the top 5 rated shavers for men. One of the highlights of the 4 blade shaver is the extremely thin foils that slightly lift facial hair to provide a very close shave.The four different blades independently float so that they contour the shape of a man's face. The head also pivots back and forth from between 20 to 25 degrees for additional flexibility in the moving motion of the head. It is also a very light shaving device resting at 7 ounces and it would be convenient for me to carry. This shaver allows you to keep the closely trimmed look as well as maintain a full beard if that is in your practice. Something we also liked was the low cost of replacement units in case you need to replace the unit or the blades become dull. However, properly maintaining your shaver will greatly reduce the need to purchase more replacement blades. This also happens to be a rechargeable electric shaver and as a result, has many loyal product reviews.
As a fully loaded and viable wet and dry shaving option, the Panasonic ES-LV61 is one of the best electric shavers for men. The smart and innovative features locked within make it competitive with some of the best electric shavers on the market. That is why this shaving device comes in as one of the top five shavers for men. The shaver comes with a 5 blade setup for a clean shaving experience with a 10 stage LCD readout as well as a lock button! Perhaps you may not have known this, but it features the worlds fastest blade revolutions with the 14,000 rpms which is faster than competitors. The lift-tech foil features edges that enable cutting and trimming of beard hair that lie flatter than usual allowing for a closer shave. The stainless steel foil are hypoallergenic and reduce chances of skin irritation for all levels of skin toughness. For men who like the scruffy overgrown look and only shave every 3-4 days, the results are astounding. With this shaver, you will be able to quickly shave down a beard to the skin. Even if you prefer dry shaving versus wet shaving, both will feel flawless with the Panasonic ES-LV61-A.
When it comes to foil shaving, one of the best foil shavers for men is the Braun Series 7 shaver. What's really nice about this shaver is it gets a lot of awesome Amazon reviews, over 2,150 reviews to be exact. It consistently receives a 4.4 out of 5 stars which is incredible! Compared to other shavers, the Braun Series 7 shaver stands out for its personalized settings.The first setting is an easy sensitive mode which provides a light and easy shave for men with sensitive skin. The second mode is the normal mode for the average consumer needing a good shave. And finally, the intensive mode will help support bushy beards, coarse skin, and the toughest of shaves. Out of all the foil based shavers, the Braun Series 7-790cc is the only shaver that has these three modes. It is also super easy to hold and grip even while wet in the shower! One of the biggest benefits and strengths of this shavers is the close shave! The reason why we like this shaver and so many men like it as well is because of the close shave. It boosts an innovative pulsonic technology with over 10,000 micro vibrations per minute to help capture more hair. On top of that, there's an optifoil system which assists to achieve Braun's closest shave ever. One concern is that sometimes the pulsing can be a little loud which might scare away your cat or dog. Also, after 3-4 years the battery starts to wear a little, so you might have to replace it!
When you wake up early in the morning, you probably are not super excited about shaving especially if your facial hair grows super fast. Well the shaver that made #2 on the top shavers list is the Panasonic ES-LV81-K electric wet/dry shaver. Perhaps the Panasonic ES-LV81 is designed for the most sophisticated man. If you are looking who wants a good review and doesn't mind the expensive price tag, than this is the best shaver for you! However, let us tell you why this made the top 5 electric shavers list on TopRatedShavers.com!
What makes the Panasonic ES-LV810K Arc5 so unique? I'm glad you asked what makes this one of the top rated men's shavers! This is the world's first 5 blade electric shaver! That means more coverage and smoother shave. These blades are ultra-thin vibrating foil cutting blades which are called "nano blades" and provide a super clean shaving experience. In addition, there's a built-in pop-up trimmer for your trimming and grooming needs. One of the raving reviews for the Panasonic ES-LV81-K is that it offers the closest shave possible and primarily recommended for men with sensitive skin. This shaver is easier on skin and has proven very minimal skin irritations. However, because of the big head, this shaver has trouble reaching tighter areas especially around the chin and neck line. On the up side, this is one of the most advanced men's shaving razors on the market and certainly top of the line. Incredibly, the shaver runs at 14,000 revolutions per minute (RPMs) which means that it has very quick and clean shave. Even more, it maintains a consistent battery power level all the way until the end of the battery charge. I noticed that even as the battery was very low and almost dying, the battery power remained constant. This is one of the best features of the ES-LV81-K! However, one of the biggest drawbacks is that the blade does not reach into tight areas especially around the chin and ears.
Extremely pricey, although we have a coupon code!
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If you are looking for the best electric shavers built to perform, look no further than the best foil shaver on the market: the Norelco 1280x SensoTouch 3D. Looking for the most advanced technology from Braun providing a complete and comfortable shave for men? These foil razors come with a rotary shaver. This provides a 3D motion that allows you to shave along the natural contours of your body. The three dynamic parts move independently by flexing outward. They also move through pivoting and tilting to give you the smoothest shave possible. The blades move in a circular fashion and are known for quiet operations. The shaving head catches both long hairs and short for either a wet shave or a dry shave whichever you prefer. The dual blade system can cut hairs comfortably below the skin level without leaving any single hair uncut. The tremendous charging power in the lithium ion battery pack can be charged in 1 hour will then provide over 60 minutes of shaving time. Because the 1280X SensoTouch is so efficiently smooth, this allows for a maximum of 20 days worth shaving time. If you have very sensitive skin while shaving, you may want to use this best selling electric razor from Philips while taking a steamy hot shower as well as while using shaving cream, shaving foam, or shaving gel. We recommend lathering up your face and then using the Philips Norelco 1280X in a circular fashion. It may take some time for the skin to adjust to the rotary system, but once adjusted, the reliable Jet Clean System will handle the rest. This system lubricates, cleans, and charges the razor with three settings: an automatic setting for normal use, an Eco setting for 40% less energy consumption, and an intense setting for thorough cleansing. With one of the sexiest designs in shaving technology, the combination of the UltraTrack Head and SkinGlide technologies, you will have a successful shave with this Philips Electric Shaver! The product team recently upgraded the packing to the Series 8000, Shaver 8900 which proudly boasts all the new features as one of the best electric shavers!
Update: Philips just updated the packaging to Series 8000. Read more about the product packaging here!
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4x4 Safari in Kaudulla National Park
by Picker's Pocket
Sri Lanka has over 26 national wildlife parks and going on an off road safari is a popular activity for all ages. These wildlife areas are an ethical and responsible way to see the incredible wildlife in this island paradise. Interestingly, Sri Lanka has the largest elephant density in Asia.
Kaudulla national park has to be one of my favourite parks, if not my favourite in Sri Lanka. It's off the beaten path, located in the ancient city of Polonnaruwa in the cultural triangle. It is easily accessed if you are staying in Sigiriya, Dambulla, Polonnaruwa or the Habarana areas.
Apart from the varied scenery which is pretty incredible, you are always pretty much guaranteed to see the biggest land mammals, the elephants! There are a lot fewer 4WD jeeps than in the better known parks such as Yala & Udawalawe located further south.
For spotting elephants in their natural environment Kaudulla National Park is one of the best national parks in Sri Lanka. It is home to 200 plus elephants, many monkeys & crocodiles, an abundance of birdlife & it can be visited all year round. Minneriya National Park is the other national park in the area. Elephants are free to roam around and travel via the elephant corridor into either Minneriya or Kaudulla.
The small trails are a great adventure through bushland, breaking out into fields of wild grass and the water tank. Take water, sunscreen and wear clothes that can be covered in dust. This is an adventure you will never forget.
The Elephants are often spotted gathering by the water, a stunning place for relaxing & watching these amazing animals. The water with its dead trees still standing is co-incidentally the perfect backdrop for photographing.
Old tusker males, females with their families & the small calves all gather together & entertain the human visitors just by their presence. They can be photographed with large bunches of grass in their trunks or throwing up dust onto their backs. Of course the little ones throwing dust and rumbling with each other has to be a highlight. Naturally these giants are herd animals & this is the way they roam around.
As we all know, elephants have in the past been hunted for ivory. Unfortunately this practise still happens on occasion. An awesome bunch of rangers do their best to protect these friendly grey mammals. At the moment the average of tuskers is only around 7% of the total elephant population in Sri Lanka.
Other wildlife is also roaming around freely. Sri Lankan Sambar deer, Sri Lankan Axis deer, wild boar, buffalo, Sri Lankan Leopard, (although rarely seen) and sloth bears are other mammals found in Kaudulla National Park, along with 160 species of bird.
Apart from land animals, crocodiles can be spotted & large water birds such as spot billed-pelicans visit the Kaudulla water tank. Jungle fowl, peacocks and plenty of small birds, all brightly coloured keep the jungle song humming. Keep your eyes out for eagles searching for prey & nesting in the woody trees.
Safaris in Kaudulla can be done in the morning or afternoon. The afternoon safaris are less busy and possibly better to spot the majestic elephants. The safari experience takes about 3 to 5 hours, includes a private 4wd jeep, park entrance fee, pick-up and drop-off at your hotel in Dambulla or Sigiriya.
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Soldiers and police clash with protesters in Harare
Soldiers have joined police in running clashes with hundreds of protesters in Harare, Zimbabwe who say the country's presidential election is being rigged.
Police fired water cannon and tear gas to disperse protesters as military helicopters flew overhead.
Three people have been killed in Harare, Zimbabwe as soldiers and police fought running battles with hundreds of protesters, firing live ammunition, tear gas and water cannon amid rising tension following the presidential elections.
Some of the clashes took place outside the headquarters of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) in Harare, which opposition supporters say is biased.
There has been growing impatience at delays in releasing the results of, the first since Robert Mugabe was ousted after four decades in charge.
"We support [opposition leader Nelson] Chamisa and we want him to be our president. The electoral commission is not fair. Our election is being stolen," said a 19-year-old student among the protesters.
Heavily armed soldiers jumped out of armoured vehicles in Harare city centre and spread through narrow streets after initial clashes between police and protesters.
Rocks flew through the air and terrified commuters scrambled for cover.
"This is all the government's fault," said Abigail Nganlo, a 29-year-old nurse from Harare. "We are on our knees with the economic situation.
People are so angry. The [election] figures they are producing are fake. Where there are 500 people at a polling station, they are saying 5,000."
Soldiers were seen beating people with sticks as much of the centre of Harare– an opposition stronghold – was shut down during the afternoon.
Alex Kamasa, 30, an unemployed graduate, said: "They are desperate.
They have rigged the election. It is a big robbery."
On Wednesday morning election monitors called for votes to be counted in an open and timely way, as the opposition stepped up complaints that it would be denied victory by fraud.
Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party has already won the majority of seats in parliament after sweeping rural constituencies by significant margins, official results show.
The parliamentary outcome does not necessarily indicate voters' choice of president.
The result in the presidential vote – contested by the Zanu-PF president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, and Chamisa of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change – is due by 4 August, but expected sooner.
Monitors have been warning of possible violence if the results are contested. Elmar Brok, the head of the first EU monitors to be allowed into Harare, Zimbabwe for 16 years, said the elections were a critical test of the country's ability to reform.
Brok praised an "opening up of political space" but said the government had failed to ensure a level playing field, accusing the ZEC of being biased.
He called on the ZEC to make detailed results public to ensure the credibility of the election given earlier shortcomings. Other monitors also expressed concerns as the count went into the third day.
"Election day is only a snapshot of a long electoral process," said the US congresswoman Karen Bass, one of the monitors deployed jointly by the US International Republican Institute and National Democratic Institute.
"It is vital to see the electoral process to its conclusion, and it is still too early to make an assessment on the nature of these elections."
The latest results announced by the ZEC in Harare showed Zanu-PF had won a two-thirds majority in the 210-seat lower house, which would allow it to change the constitution at will.
Chamisa's MDC won 60 seats. Analysts blamed divisions within the opposition for the low tally.
Chamisa said in a tweet on Wednesday morning that the ZEC "seeks to release results to buy time & reverse the people's presidential election victory".
He added: "The strategy is meant to prepare [Zimbabwe] mentally to accept fake presidential results. We've more votes than ED [Mnangagwa]. We won the popular vote & will defend it!"
The election pitted Chamisa, 40, a lawyer and pastor whose only experience of power was a stint as a minister in a coalition government several years ago, against Mnangagwa, 75, a longtime Mugabe aide.
Chamisa said on Tuesday that he was "winning resoundingly", a claim repeated by senior officials over the course of the day.
The interior minister, Obert Mpofu, said the government was concerned by "high levels of incitement to violence by certain individuals and some political leaders who have declared themselves winners".
If no candidate wins more than half of the votes in the presidential election, there will be a runoff in five weeks. Negotiations to form a coalition government are another possibility.
The two presidential candidates represent dramatically different ideologies and political styles, as well as generations. Pre-election opinion polls gave Mnangagwa, a dour former spy chief known as "the Crocodile" due to his reputation for ruthless cunning, a slim lead over Chamisa, a brilliant if sometimes wayward orator.
Support for Zanu-PF has historically been deepest in rural areas, particularly the party's Mashonaland heartland, where more than two-thirds of Zimbabwe's 17 million people live.
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Zimbabwe's rulers know, however, that a fraudulent election would block the country's reintegration into the international community and deny it the huge bailout package needed to avoid economic meltdown.
Almost four decades of rule by Mugabe has left Zimbabwe with a shattered economy, soaring unemployment and crumbling infrastructure.
Supporters said the president had won "a landslide victory".
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Q: "down" used as a verb? The excerpt that follows comes from the article The Honest Man by Peter Lyon from the American Heritage magazine.

He (Peter Cooper) received only one per cent of the vote. Yet time has treated his ideas most kindly. For in retrospect the impression will not down that, so far from being ludicrous, those ideas were sane, intelligent, liberal, and practical.

I'm flummoxed by the use of "down" here. Could it mean something like "deny"? (I cannot find an apt meaning in the dictionary...)

A: According to the OED it is a US sense, which I (a British person) had never before encountered.
It is sense 2b, of verb2 of "down", meaning "to die down". Only one example is given.

2b. To die down. U.S.
1924   W. M. Raine Troubled Waters xvii. 180   The rumour would not
  down that one of the prisoners had turned State's evidence.

verb1 - down has to do with the application of "down", meaning feathers.
verb2 - down relates to various verbal senses to do with a downward direction.

A: Having worked in computers for many years, the term "down the interface", which means to put into an offline state making unavailable for use but not necessarily to power the entire machine down.
For example, when performing an upgrade it is sometimes required to down the interface, which means to take the network interface from being online and available to being offline and unavailable, preventing connections to the machine from being established until the software upgrade is complete. In this example, if you were to look at the interface, it would very literally display "down" as a status.
"We need to down the interface on Saturday. Please let everyone know."
You can also use it to indicate shutting something off, such as down the server or down the lights. In any case, this would be a common usage of down as a verb as opposed to any dictionary defined usage.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enter%20common%20usage
In your American Heritage example, the use of the term down as a verb means that it persists. I cannot find any usages of down as a verb in any modern context except as shorthand for a more complete phrase such as "turn down the volume", where if you said "Hey, down the volume" people might know what you mean, but it would not be a proper usage.
There is a phrase "down the hatch" but the meaning is not the same, even if the structure is. There is no hatch to put in a down position, rather it refers to taking a drink until it is finished.
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/down_the_hatch
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To be able to automate CUTS on a non-ultimation system does one need to have any cables connected to the "CUTS" IDC connectors right next to each FADER connector on the SL691 Computer? Or are these signals are already on the FADER IDC cables?
If yes, where are this connectors located on the console? Can someone share a photo of the panel under the console?
If no, what does the CUTS connectors on the SL691 computer serve for?
NO, there is no "CUTS"-ribbon cable going between console and computer!! Sorry for the confusion!!
7.5 and above, is a cut, as you can cascade cut voltage via the VCA groups, making the cut light illuminate without a button press.
Thanks for the help. That exact issue appeared on today's conf call.
So you're saying that actually the CUTS IDC connectors aren't used and instead the >7.5v reference is used to detect if a CUT button was pressed? So you currently don't have any CUTS cable connectors and you can record CUTS automation?
This would actually make sense. On the Ultimation system the CUT is represented by a bit ON in the S14 cable, so it's natural that on these console's there weren't any CUTs cables connected. But that raises a question, if the CUTs are identified through the VCA voltages on non-utlimation systems, what the hell server the CUTS IDC connectors for?
By the way, can I ask you to take a picture of the connector panel under the console and post it here please?
Marc, please let me know also about your setup.
Well but that would ease up our task and minimize space since we don't need to fit an extra IDC connector per bay. No such good news for the 5000 users, that would need a different I/O card.
path automation system (fitted to SL4000/SL6000/SL8000 Series consoles).
special fader look-up tables because the cuts are treated separately from the faders.
Select the correct console number accordingly.
The CUTS are for the SL 5000.
Also it seems although the SSL Computer seems to deal with the SL 5000 moving faders, these are very different from all the other systems. What would led me to believe they would need a different I/O card to be able to drive them.
I will declare this issue CLOSED.


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\section{Introduction}

The classical art gallery illumination problem consists on finding the minimum number of light
sources needed to illuminate a simple polygon.
There exist several variations on this problem; one
such variation was introduced in \cite{monotone}, it is known as the $k$-modem illumination
problem.
For a non-negative number $\ensuremath{k}$, a $\emph{\ensuremath{k}-modem}$ is a wireless device
that can penetrate $\ensuremath{k}$ ``walls''. Let $\ensuremath{\mathcal{L}}$ be a set of
$\ensuremath{n}$ line segments (or lines) in the plane. A $\ensuremath{k}$-modem
$\emph{illuminates}$ all points $\ensuremath{p}$ of the plane such that the interior of the line
segment joining $\ensuremath{p}$ and the $\ensuremath{k}$-modem intersects at most $\ensuremath{k}$
elements of $\ensuremath{\mathcal{L}}$. In general, $\ensuremath{k}$-modem illumination problems
consist on finding the minimum number of $\ensuremath{k}$-modems necessary to illuminate a certain
subset of the plane, for a given $\ensuremath{\mathcal{L}}$. Classical illumination
\cite{sack1999handbook,o1987art} is just the case when $\ensuremath{k=0}$.

Several upper bounds have been obtained for various classes of $\mathcal{L}$. In \cite{monotone}
the authors studied the case when $\ensuremath{\mathcal{L}}$ is the set of edges of a monotone
polygon with $n$ vertices; they showed that the interior of the polygon can be illuminated with
at most
$\left \lceil\frac{n}{2k}\right \rceil$ $k$-modems ($\left \lceil\frac{n}{k+4}\right \rceil$ if
$k=1,2,3)$, and if the polygon
is orthogonal it can be illuminated with $\left \lceil \frac{n-2}{2k+4}\right \rceil $
$k$-modems. In
\cite{ktransmiters} the authors studied the case when $\mathcal{L}$ is a set of $n$ disjoint
orthogonal line segments; they showed that $\left \lceil
\frac{n+1}{2(k+1)^{0.264}}\right \rceil $
$k$-modems are sufficient to illuminate the plane.
In \cite{fabila2009modem} the authors studied the problem of illuminating the plane with few modems
of
high power; they showed that when $\mathcal{L}$ is an arrangement of lines, one
$\left \lceil\frac{3n}{2}\right \rceil$-modem is sufficient, when $\mathcal{L}$ is the set of edges
of an
orthogonal polygon, one $\left \lceil\frac{n}{3}\right \rceil$-modem is sufficient and when
$\mathcal{L}$ is the
set of edges of a simple polygon, one $\left \lceil\frac{2n+1}{3}\right \rceil$-modem is
sufficient.
It is worth
noting that there are no published bounds for general polygons.

There are also algorithmic results regarding simple polygons. In \cite{metaheuristic} the authors
presented a hybrid metaheuristic strategy to find few $k$-modems that illuminate a simple polygon.
In
this case the $k$-modems are required to be placed at vertices of the polygon. They applied the
hybrid metaheuristic to random sets of simple, monotone, orthogonal and grid monotone orthogonal
polygons. Each set consisted of 40 polygons of 30, 50, 70, 100, 110, 130, 150 and 200 vertices.
The average numbers of $k$-modems used by their strategy are shown in Table \ref{table:averages}.

\begin{table}[h]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{ c c c c c }
	\toprule
	 & Simple & Monotone & Orthogonal & Grid Monotone Orthogonal \\
	\midrule
	$k=2$ & $\left \lceil \frac{n}{26} \right \rceil$ & $\left \lceil \frac{n}{15} \right
\rceil$ &
$\left \lceil \frac{n}{27} \right \rceil$ & $\left \lceil \frac{n}{18} \right \rceil$ \\
& & & & \\
	$k=4$ & $\left \lceil \frac{n}{52} \right \rceil$ & $\left \lceil \frac{n}{26} \right
\rceil$ &
$\left \lceil \frac{n}{57} \right \rceil$ & $\left \lceil \frac{n}{35} \right \rceil$ \\
	\bottomrule
\end{tabular}

\begin{centering}
\protect\caption{Averages on the number of $k$-modems obtained by the strategy presented in
\cite{metaheuristic}. }
\label{table:averages}
\par\end{centering}

\end{table}

It is known that the problem of finding the minimum number of 0-modems to illuminate a simple
polygon is NP-hard \cite{Aggarwal:1984:AGT:911725}. It was recently proved that the same problem is
also NP-hard for $k$-modems {[}reference to the paper of Christiane{]}.

This paper is organized as follows. In Section \ref{SeccKmodemCutting} we present a new bound of
$O(n/k)$ for the $k$-modem illumination problem through a variation of the Cutting Lemma.
In Section \ref{sec:Orthogonal} we present a simple $O(n\log n)$ time algorithm that illuminates a
set of $n$ disjoint orthogonal segments with at most $6\frac{n}{k}+1$ $k$-modems. This
algorithm can be easily modified to obtain the same bound for orthogonal polygons.

\section{\label{SeccKmodemCutting}Upper Bounds Using the Cutting Lemma}

A generalized triangle is the intersection of three half planes. Note that a generalized triangle
can be a point, a line, a bounded or an unbounded region. Given a set $\mathcal{L}$ of $n$ lines in
the plane and $r>0$, a $\frac{1}{r} $-cutting is a partition of the plane into
generalized triangles with
disjoint interiors, such that each generalized triangle is intersected by at most $n/r$ lines. The
Cutting Lemma gives an upper bound on the size of such a cutting.

\begin{thm}[Cutting Lemma]
 Let $\mathcal{L}$ be a set of $n$ lines in the plane and $r>0$. Then there exists a
$\frac{1}{r}$-cutting of
size $O(r^{2})$.
\end{thm}

The Cutting Lemma was first proved in \cite{cuttingLemma1} and independently in
\cite{CuttingLemma2}. It has become a classical tool in Computational Geometry used mainly in
divide-and-conquer algorithms. It can be used to obtain an upper bound on the number of $k$-modems
necessary to illuminate the plane in the presence of $n$ lines.

\begin{thm}\label{thm:Lines-Mdems-Required}
 Let $\mathcal{L}$ be a set   of $n$ lines in the plane. The number   of $k$-modems required to
 illuminate the plane in the presence of $\mathcal{L}$ is $O(n^2/k^2)$.
\end{thm}

\begin{proof}
  By the Cutting Lemma, there exists a $\frac{1}{(n/k)}$-cutting for $\mathcal{L}$ of size
$O(n^2/k^2)$. Note that each triangle can be illuminated with one $k$-modem. Thus the number of
$k$-modems required to illuminate the plane is $O(n^2/k^2)$.
\end{proof}

Given a polygon $\mathcal{P}$ we can obtain the same
bound on the number of $k$-modems needed to illuminate it. We first  extend its edges to straight
lines and then apply Theorem \ref{thm:Lines-Mdems-Required}.
We can achieve a  better upper bound  of $O(n/k)$ by making use of a line segment version of the
Cutting
Lemma given in \cite{berg1995cuttings}. In that paper the authors consider cuttings in a more
general setting: they define a cutting as a subdivision of the plane in \emph{boxes}. A \emph{box}
is a closed subset of the plane which has constant description (that is, it can be represented in a
computer with $O(1)$ space, and it can be checked in constant time whether a point lies in a box or
whether an object intersects (the interior of) a box).

\begin{thm} \label{thm:CuttingLemmaSegments} \cite{berg1995cuttings}
Let $\mathcal{L}$ be a set of $n$ line segments in the plane with a total of $A$ intersections and
$r>0$. Then there exists a $\frac{1}{r}$-cutting for $\mathcal{L}$ of size $O\left(r +A
\left(\frac{r}{n}\right)^2\right)$.
\end{thm}

If we consider a polygon as a set of $n$ line segments that intersect only at their endpoints,
Theorem
\ref{thm:CuttingLemmaSegments} gives us a $\frac{1}{(n/k)}$-cutting of size
$O\left(\frac{n}{k}+n\left(\frac{n^2}{k^2}\frac{1}{n^2}\right)\right)=O\left(\frac{n}{k}\right)$.
Taking into account that the boxes
used in the proof of Theorem \ref{thm:CuttingLemmaSegments} are generalized trapezoids (that is,
intersections of four half planes), and that it is possible to illuminate each trapezoid with a
$k$-modem, we obtain Theorem \ref{thm:CuttingLemmaPolygons}. Note that the same reasoning applies to
sets of segments in the plane, which gives a bound of $O(n/k +A/k^2)$ for that case.

\begin{thm}\label{thm:CuttingLemmaPolygons}
Let $\mathcal{P}$ be a polygon with $n$ vertices. The number of $k$-modems needed to illuminate
$\mathcal{P}$ is at most $O\left(n/k\right)$.
\end{thm}

\section{\label{sec:Orthogonal}An Algorithm for Orthogonal Line Segments Illumination}

In this section we present an $O(n \log n)$ time algorithm  to illuminate the plane
with
$k$-modems in the presence of a set $\mathcal{L}$ of $n$  disjoint orthogonal segments. The
number of $k$-modems used by our algorithm is at most $6\frac{n}{k}+1$.

We assume that $\mathcal{L}$ is contained in a rectangle $R$. Our objective is to partition $R$
into a certain kind of polygons called staircases, in a similar fashion to the cuttings introduced
in Section
\ref{SeccKmodemCutting}. We do this in such a way so that each staircase is illuminable with one
$k$-modem.
A \emph{staircase} is an orthogonal polygon $P$ such that: $P$ is bounded from below by a single
horizontal segment \emph{Floor(P)}; $P$ is bounded from the right by a single
vertical segment \emph{Rise(P)}; the left endpoint of $Floor(P)$ and the upper endpoint of
$Rise(P)$ are joined by a monotone polygonal chain \emph{Steps(P)}. See Figure
\ref{fig:staircase}. In what follows
let $P$ be a
staircase

\begin{figure}[ht]
	\centering
	\includegraphics[scale=.34]{imagenes/staircase.pdf}
	\caption{An example of a staircase.}
	\label{fig:staircase}
\end{figure}

Note that an axis parallel line intersecting the interior of $P$ splits it into two parts which are
also staircases. Let $l$ be a horizontal line that intersects the interior of $P$ in a segment $s$.
We denote by $Above(P,l)$ the staircase formed by $s$ and the part of $P$ above $s$, and denote
by $Below(P,l)$ the staircase formed by $s$ and the part of $P$ below $s$.
Likewise, let $l'$ be a vertical line that intersects the interior of $P$ in a segment $s$.
We denote by $Left(P,l')$ the staircase formed by $s$ and the part of $P$ to the left of $s$, and
denote by
$Right(P,l')$ the
staircase formed by $s$ and the part of $P$ to the right of $s$. See Figure \ref{fig:splits}.

\begin{figure}[ht]
	\centering
	\includegraphics[scale=.55]{imagenes/4.pdf}
	\caption{An example of $Above(P,l)$, $Below(P,l)$, $Left(P,l')$ and $Right(P,l')$.}
	\label{fig:splits}
\end{figure}

\subsection{\label{sub:Partition-scheme-pseudocode}Illumination Algorithm}

Let $\mathcal{P}$ be the set of endpoints of the segments in $\mathcal{L}$, excepting the
rightmost points of the horizontal segments. The algorithm
\emph{StaircasePartition($\mathcal{L})$} finds a rectangle $R$ that contains $\mathcal{L}$
and produces as output a partition of $R$ into staircases.
Initially, $R$ is the only staircase in the
partition, we use a horizontal sweep line $l$ starting at the top of $R$ that stops at each point
of
$\mathcal{P}$ and checks whether it is necessary to refine the partition.

Throughout the algorithm, the staircases that are not intersected by the sweep
line need no further processing.
The staircases that are intersected by the sweep line might be splitted later.
There are two reasons to split a staircase: the
number of segments of $\mathcal{L}$ that intersect it might be too high, or a horizontal segment of
$\mathcal{L}$ might cross the staircase completely. These two cases are handled by procedures
called \emph{OverflowCut} and \emph{CrossingCut} respectively. \emph{OverflowCut} ensures that no
staircase is intersected by more than $k$ segments; \emph{CrossingCut} ensures that no horizontal
segment in $\mathcal{L}$ crosses completely a staircase.

\emph{OverflowCut} is called whenever $k$ segments intersect the interior of a staircase $P$.
\emph{OverflowCut} starts by replacing $P$ by $Above(P,l)$. If at most $\left \lfloor
\frac{k}{2}\right \rfloor$ segments intersect both $P$ and $l$,
$Below(P,l)$ is added to the partition. If more than $\left \lfloor
\frac{k}{2}\right \rfloor$ segments intersect both $P$ and $l$, we search for a vertical line $l'$
that
leaves at
most $\left \lfloor
\frac{k}{2}\right \rfloor$ of those segments to each side. The staircases
$Left(Below(P,l), l')$ and $Right(Below(P,l),l')$ are added to the partition. See Figure
\ref{fig:Overflow}.

\begin{figure}[ht]
	\centering
	\includegraphics[scale=.45]{imagenes/OverFlow.pdf}
	\caption{The two cases for an OverflowCut on a staircase with $k=18$.}
	\label{fig:Overflow}
\end{figure}

\emph{CrossingCut} is called whenever a horizontal segment $s$ of $\mathcal{L}$ intersects at least
three staircases of the partition. Let $P_1, \ldots , P_m$ be these staircases ordered from left to
right. \emph{CrossingCut} replaces each $P_i$ by $Above(P_i, l)$ for $2 \leq i \leq  m-1$, and
merges $Below(P_i,l)$ with $P_m$. Note that the number of staircases in the partition does not
grow. See Figure \ref{fig:Crossing}.

\begin{figure}[ht]
	\centering
	\includegraphics[scale=.35]{imagenes/Crossing.pdf}
	\caption{A CrossingCut.}
	\label{fig:Crossing}
\end{figure}

The algorithm begins by sorting the points in $\mathcal{P}$ by $y$ coordinate, which will be the
stop points for the sweep line. After initializing the partition with $R$, the stop
points are processed according to three cases. (As part of the steps taken in each case, we
maintain the
set of segments that intersect each staircase in the partition sorted from left to right, making a
distinction of the
ones that also intersect $l$.)

\begin{itemize}

\item The sweep line stops at an upper endpoint. This means we have found a new vertical segment
that
intersects a staircase $P$. That staircase may now be intersected by $k$ segments, if this happens
we make an \emph{OverflowCut}.

\item The sweep line stops at a lower endpoint. This means we have
found the end of a segment that intersects $P$. In this case we only update the set of $P$.

\item The sweep line stops at a left endpoint $p$ of a segment $s$. If the number
of staircases that
$s$ intersects is at least three, we perform a \emph{CrossingCut} on them.
If necessary, an \emph{OverflowCut} is made on the staircases that contain the
endpoints of $s$.

\end{itemize}

\begin{comment}

\end{comment}

At the end of the algorithm, the interior of each staircase $P$ in the partition
is intersected by at most $k$ segments. Thus, a $k$-modem
placed in the intersection between \emph{Floor(P)} and \emph{Rise(P)} is enough to illuminate it.

\begin{lem} \label{lem:num-modems}
  Let $\mathcal{L}$ be a set of $n$ disjoint orthogonal segments. Let $\mathcal{P}'$ be the set of
endpoints of the segments in $\mathcal{L}$, excepting the
lower endpoints of the vertical segments. Then, the total number of calls
to \textbf{OverflowCut} made by \textbf{StaircasePartition($\mathcal{L}$)} is at most
$|\mathcal{P}'|/ \left \lceil k/2 \right \rceil$.
\end{lem}
\begin{proof}
Let $P$ be a staircase in the partition that \emph{StaircasePartition($\mathcal{L})$} returns.
$P$ was created after executing an \emph{OverflowCut}, so $Steps(P)$ was initially intersected by
at most
$\left \lfloor k/2 \right \rfloor$ vertical segments. Further modifications to $P$ are done
by \emph{CrossingCuts}, which add edges to $Steps(P)$. The
horizontal edges added to $Steps(P)$ are part of segments in $\mathcal{L}$, so they can't be
intersected by any other segment. Thus, at most $\left \lfloor k/2 \right \rfloor$ vertical
segments of
$\mathcal{L}$ cross completely $P$.

If \emph{OverflowCut} is called on $P$, $Above(P,l)$ becomes a staircase of
the partition and won't be modified anymore. \emph{OverflowCut} was called because $k$ segments
from $\mathcal{L}$ intersected $P$. These same segments intersect also
$Above(P,l)$; of these at most $\left \lfloor k/2 \right \rfloor$ cross it completely. Therefore,
at least $\left \lceil k/2
\right \rceil$ points of $\mathcal{P}'$ are contained in $Above(P,l)$. Thus, the total number of
\emph{OverflowCut} calls is at most $|\mathcal{P}'|/ \left \lceil k/2 \right \rceil$.

\end{proof}

\begin{thm}
 Let $\mathcal{L}$ be a set of $n$ orthogonal disjoint segments. Then the number of $k$-modems
needed to illuminate the plane in the presence of $\mathcal{L}$ is at most $6\frac{n}{k}+1$. The
locations for
those modems can be found in $O(n \log n)$ time.
\end{thm}

\begin{proof}
 We can assume that the number of vertical segments in
$\mathcal{L}$ is at least $n/2$, otherwise we can rotate the plane. Let $\mathcal{P}'$
be the set of
endpoints of the segments in $\mathcal{L}$, excepting the
lower endpoints of the vertical segments. Therefore, $|\mathcal{P}'| \le 3n/2$.
\emph{StaircasePartition($\mathcal{L}$)} adds staircases to the partition
only when it makes a call to \emph{OverflowCut}. The staircases added are at most two. Using Lemma
\ref{lem:num-modems}, we obtain
that there are at most $2|\mathcal{P}'|/ \left \lceil k/2 \right \rceil + 1 \le 6\frac{n}{k}+1$
staircases in the partition. Since each staircase is illuminable with one $k$-modem, the bound
follows.

It remains to prove the $O(n \log n)$ bound on the time to find the locations of the $k$-modems.

For each staircase
$P$ in the partition,  we maintain the horizontal segments of $Steps(P)$ sorted  from
left to right and the vertical segments of $Steps(P)$ sorted from bottom to top.
Thus it is possible to find $Above(P,l)$ and $Below(P,l)$ in $O(\log n)$ time; the same happens
with
$Left(P,l')$ and $Right(P,l')$. An \emph{OverflowCut} call makes at most two splittings, so it
takes at most $O(\log n)$ time.
Since the number of \emph{OverflowCut} calls is $O(n/k)$, the total time required by them is
$O(\frac{n}{k} \log n)$.

Given $m$ staircases $P_1, \ldots , P_m$ intersected by a segment $s$, the splits and merges done
by a \emph{CrossingCut} can be achieved in $(m-2)O(\log n)$ time. The $m-2$ upper parts of the
staircases splitted horizontally become staircases that won't be modified again. Since there
are at most $O(n/k)$ staircases, at
most $O(n/k)$ splits and merges from \emph{CrossingCut} are done throughout the algorithm. Since
each pair of split and
merge operations takes $O(\log n)$ time, the total
time required by the \emph{CrossingCut} calls is $O(\frac{n}{k} \log n)$.

Besides the cost of the calls to \emph{OverflowCut} and \emph{CrossingCut}, at every stop point,
we must determine the staircase where it is located. This can be done in $O(\log n)$ time by
maintaining the order from left to right in which the sweep line intersects the
staircases. Thus,
the running time for
the algorithm is $O(n \log n + \frac{n}{k} \log n)$.
\end{proof}

\section{Aknowledgements}
We would like to thank Ruy Fabila-Monroy for introducing us to the $k$-modem problem
and for his invaluable help in the development of this paper.

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oefsh. >> we begin with details on the lock doup at the mercer county correction center in hopewell. the lockdown has since been lifted. nora muchanic is live with the details. >> reporter: hi there sara, some tension hours overnight when a prisoner who had recently been in liberia started showing what some feared were possible eastbound symptoms, it looks like that is not the case but they responded with caution. the mercy medical center was on lockdown overnight, after a prisoner was picked up from a warrant, and that prisoner was in liberia recently and broke out in a fever, he returned
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police are looking for the people responsible for the home invasion and robbery in the city's lawn crest section. according to authorities, a woman entering her home through the back door when two men pushed her inside at gun point that is when her 76-year-old mother came to investigate a noise and they were both attacked by the suspects. >> they were both forced to the floor in the kitchen and guns were put to both of their heads and they were asking where the money is, and if they didn't cooperate they would kill them both. >> the man ransacked the home and ran out the door, family members think that the suspects are the men that robbed the home several days ago, both women are hurt but expected to recover. >> a county lerk in kentucky that repeatedly refused to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples is in court this afternoon. kim davis faces steep fines and
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park. firefighters had to douse several pieces of playground equipment. to accuweather now, another hot and humid day on tap and it looks like our heat wave is coming to an end however briefly, sky looking live at penn's landing and it's hot and hazy there and cooler temperatures are on the horizon, lets get the latest from meteorologist, david murphy, on the terrace. welcome back by the way. >> thank you, good to be back. a breezy afternoon building in the region and if you stay in the shade it doesn't feel that bad, satellite shows you there is not a whole lot of pronounced cloud cover, have you to go to scranton and williamstown to find that. haze in the air and cumulous in the air, basically hazy sunshine and partly sunny skies, temperatures up and down the mid-atlantic region are on the warm side, 89's from
philadelphia to richmond, and when you factor in the humidity, a lot of mid-60s around philadelphia, upper 60s starting in dover and cape may all the way down to washington, that is border lino pressive humidity, the farther south the more oppressive it feels. 92 by 2:00 and 4:00 that is your high, 95, feeling like 100 or worse, by 6:0092 and by 8:00, mid 8:00, a pop-up thunderstorm west and north of philadelphia but most of us stay dry. we could could use rain our lawns look brown, but maybe a spotty shower or thunderstorm tomorrow, but nothing over the weekend what is good, but that is the holiday weekend, it's nice for picnics and football games, and it's good to have dry
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the search for three suspects continue in illinois
when -- this woman they say kristin kiefer said that to men approached her vehicle and tried to get out of the area, she stuck to her story and then admitted she was lying. parents in one texas town was outraged after her children road to school with three allegedly drunk women, they were shown boarding the bus last week, they took two seats in the back and one sat down next to a middle school boy for the 30 minute ride. >> difficult during the beginning of school as there are new faces, regardless this was a huge mistake and that is why the bus driver no longer works for the district. the three women were charged with criminal trespassing and one was cited for possessing
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our brilliant team of photographers making it look so nice out, you want to be near water when it's feeling sticky and humid, 89 in philadelphia, not overly sticky but 65 is a fairly humid number and as we look at satellite, not a lot of pronounced cloud cover and showers popping out near pittsburgh, some areas could get a shower or thunderstorm but most stay dry and the hazy sunshine say part of things for the rest of the afternoon. it started sunday with heat wave number five and yesterday 93 and today we'll repeat that many a four day heat wave officially right now, and a couple of degrees added to the temperature we'll be in heat wave number five-day five. 92 in trenton and reading and
down the shore not quite so hot, upper 80s but as you take a closer look there is an afternoon sea breeze and the water is warm and the numbers are a bit better, you go south toward ocean city and sea isle city and cape may the humidity is higher, your temperatures may not be quite as bad, it still feels up comfortable with the higher dew points. 94 by 5:00 and the high of 95 comes in at 4:00, and 7:00 upper 80s and 74 for an overnight low and still humid overnight. we have a back door front, they don't come from the west but drop down from new england, notice how the winds tomorrow will be from the northeast, not as hot. we'll lower that number to 87, the problem is the front won't come through fast enough to
lower the humidity so sticky and not as hot and the front sliding to the south for the weekend, and a thunderstorm or shower popping from philadelphia north and west but it doesn't look like most of you will see that. some of your lawns probably want it. hot and humid today and 95 and 87 tomorrow and sticky but not as hot, a spotty storm here or there. and then the front is down to the south in time for the holiday weekend and it gets good on saturday. sunny and warmer and 84 degrees and and if you have tickets to temple and penn state, are you looking good. i'll go 88 on sunday and some think we may hit 90. still sunny and nice though. and by labor day we expect the low 90s and sunny and hot and pretty decent for a holiday weekend and more humid and hotter as we head into tuesday and wednesday. >> thank you david. on our people scene, rockers
avril leavine and chad kroger ae calling it quits. levine married the nickel back front man in july of 2013. here at the big board now, a heads up for parents that use those internet connected baby monitors that live stream video to your tablet and cell phone, a company called rapid 7 find that some of the major brands have major security flaws that leave the door wide open to hackers, they put nine of them to the test giving almost all of them failing grades, they warn that hackers can access your personal information from your wifi network or give them real time control of your device. >> i heard a voice screaming at my daughter wake up baby. >> the makers tell abc news, if
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