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Matt Nakoa grew up on a small goat farm in Smyrna, NY and began composing music as a teenager. Following a formative stint as a classical pianist, Matt won scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston. There he studied alongside soon-to-be Grammy winners St. Vincent and Esperanza Spaulding among others. After college, Matt toured with his band, The Fens, and eventually landed in New York City's vibrant piano bar scene. Matt quickly became a star performer at Manhattan's Brandy's Piano Bar, with lines outside the door each Saturday night.
Matt's first solo album, Light In The Dark (2012), is an eclectic pop opus. In contrast, A Dozen Other Loves (2014), explores a simple acoustic palette. This intimate collection has earned many songwriting awards, including a win at Kerrville Folk Festival's prestigious New Folk Competition. Additionally, Matt's piano music has received favorable reviews in publications including The New York Times, and his film scoring has been featured by Disney. Matt now tours internationally, recently performing at The White House, throughout India, and regularly with folk music icon Tom Rush.
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I received the article below yesterday from Southbank Investment. It was published by Nick O'Connor and I feel it is something that needs to be shared with you.
HMRC have won a battle to tax 40% of a now dead woman's estate, simply because she transferred her money from one pension fund to another as part of her divorce.
Why were they able to do this? Because the woman in question was terminally ill. In fact, she died a few weeks later, and her presumably grieving sons then had to fight a few years' worth of court battles.
It's worth mentioning, of course, that the amount of money didn't change. Nor did she gain any additional bonuses as a result of the transfer.
She simply wanted to move the money so her husband – whom she was divorcing – couldn't access it.
And the taxman leapt at the chance to take 40%, which says a lot.
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Before we start, let's take a look at the complexity of the automatic enrolment process.
Automatic enrolment is here. By now, the majority of companies will have passed their staging date and for the rest, it will be fast approaching. By the end of 2018, all UK employers will be automatically enrolled.
For many, this is a leap into the unknown and the administrative burden is too much to cope with. It is estimated that the administration involved is as much as up to 80% of a full time employee's workload.
For small businesses like yours, the cost of this may not be viable.
The day to day legislation requires great detail and gets much more complicated the more employees you have. For companies with staff whose pay fluctuates on a monthly basis or who work part-time, ensuring full compliance with the scheme could be a potential nightmare!
The fines for non-compliance can be huge and hence avoiding these is a must.
We are helping all of our clients through the automatic enrolment process by ensuring they are fully compliant before their staging date. We answer any questions our clients have and correspond with the Pensions' Regulator with any changes in circumstances on their behald.
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Almost every business owner we know despairs at the sheer number of demands on their time. They complain about the lack of hours in the day; time simply slipping through their grasp. So why would any business owner in their right-mind waste 80% of their working week, generating just 20% of their profits?
One of the main themes of the Chancellor's March 2016 Budget was to ensure that the next generation inherits a strong economy, is better educated, and grow up fit and healthy. Find out whether you got a sweet-deal, or are the cracks in the sugar-coated economy beginning to show.
Stop treating goal setting as just another annual planning exercise, start using stretch goals; to stretch your people, to stretch your creativity and do it regularly.
HMRC are out of control.
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The Spirits of Mexico Festival Celebrates 10 Years in San Diego
Aug 30, 2013 1:00am
The Spirits of Mexico Festival will celebrate its 10-year anniversary this fall when it returns to San Diego Sept. 17 to 21. The annual festival, a five-day celebration of all things agave, has several new events this year in honor of the anniversary.
The 2013 Spirits of Mexico Festival schedule includes:
Sept. 17 – New! Contemporary Cocktails / Ancient Cuisine – The 2013 festival opener will boast an evening of Aztec cuisine and the hottest new cocktail sensations. Guests will experience, firsthand, how the Spanish influenced Mexico's ancient culinary landscape at the Blind Burro in downtown San Diego. Guests will also vote for their favorite cocktails entered into the Festival's cocktail challenge. Top mixologists will include Dale DeGroff's Pimento Aromatic Bitters and Junior Merino's Dainzu Syrups and Rimmers as key ingredients in each recipe entered, to compete for the 2013 Spirits of Mexico Festival cocktail of 2013.
Sept. 18 to 21 – The Art of Tequila Exhibition – Free and open to the public, a four-day art exhibition on Juan Street in Old Town will feature a selection of rare collectable Tequila bottles on loan from El Agave Restaurant owner Juan Carlos's extensive private collection. The exhibition will also feature emerging Latin artists from Centro Cultural de la Raza and take place from noon to 6 p.m. daily.
Sept. 19 – Tequila Trail – Agave enthusiasts will sample selections of tequila, mezcal, bacanora and other Mexican spirits as well as signature dishes at more than a dozen Old Town eateries from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The event continues at Café Coyote with an Olmeca Altos Tequila-sponsored after party starting at 9 p.m.
Sept. 20 – Awards Dinner and Live Auction–Milagro Tequila welcomes our guests with a cocktail uniquely created for this evening, and a spirits-infused tasting reception and dinner with specialty cuisine prepared by Barra Barra Saloon Chef Jose Pulido from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. An awards ceremony announcing the winners of the 2013 Tasting Competition, which takes place earlier in the week, will follow, along with a Celebrity-hosted live-auction featuring one-of-a-kind rare bottling as donated by our sponsors. The auction benefits the Sky Ranch Foundation, which, for 54 years has been helping troubled youth. This event sells out every year!
Sept. 21 – Main Tasting Event – Guests will join master distillers, industry experts, authors, and ambassadors at the festival's grand finale in Old Town San Diego State Historic Park from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The finale will include seminars, a silent auction and entertainment as well as cuisine from Fiesta de Reyes. From 9pm on, join Olmeca Altos Tequila at the After Party at Fiesta de Reyes.
The Spirits of Mexico Festival is presented by the IWSC Group, a leader in organizing wine and spirit competitions and events around the globe. For more information about the Spirits of Mexico Festival visit www.thespiritsofmexico.com.

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Embossing in the transparent window area of polymer banknotes, such as those seen on the Australian, New Zealand and Romanian currencies, have enormous potential for the development of novel optical security devices. The intaglio printing process can provide an efficient means for embossing of optical security structures such as micro lenses. Embossed micro lens arrays in the transparent window of a polymer banknote can be folded over a corresponding printed image array elsewhere on the note to reveal a series of moire magnified images. Analysis of samples of embossed micro lenses showed that the engraving side and impression side had a similar embossed profile. The embossed micro lens profiles were modelled using Optalix-LX commercial optical ray tracing software in order to determine the focal length of the lenses and compare with the focal length of desired embossed lenses. A fundamental understanding of how the polymer deforms during the embossing process is critical towards developing a micro lens embossing tool which can achieve the desired embossed micro lenses. This work also looks at extending the early research of the Intaglio Research Group (IRG) to better understand the embossibility of polymer substrates such as biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP).


In 2015, at a Pennsylvania girls basketball playoff game, Mercer Mustangs player Kelsey Swartz accomplished the backboard-breaking feat with nothing more than a high-arching free throw.
From the way the rim snapped, you would think Swartz had heaved up bowling ball painted to look like a basketball. Whatever the cause of the broken backboard, it's fortunate for those gathered that the mishap occurred with everyone arrayed outside the broken-glass drop zone.
Basketball is not normally considered a dangerous sport, especially when compared to football or hockey, but when the hoop apparatus is deficient the result can be downright scary.


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Be a helper, not a pitcher. You have to understand customer pain points and qualify their needs. By doing this, you not only make sure that you sell them what they need, but also make them feel understood and build a reliable relationship. Give prospects all reasons why your product or service is the right choice for them.
Create a sense of urgency. Make an offer that indicates a special benefit and require immediate purchase. Whether it is a discount, attached deadline or something free, it will create the sense of urgency and will help overcome doubts.
Be ready for objections. While preparing for sale presentations, try to think about all the objections that may occur. By having an outline of anticipated problems and a thoughtful analysis of the risks, you can reduce the resistance.
Know your competitors. It is all about preparation. Study the market and learn more about your competitors. Do research and find out what the main benefits of your product or service are and how it differs from the others. Knowing the areas where you are more competitive, can lead to a quick close.
Stay confident. Don't react nervously or show anxiety because it will influence the tonality of your voice and your customer can sense it even over the phone. Believe in your product and keep your goal in mind. Remember the more confident you are, the easier it will be to close a deal.
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Closing deals is the last and, probably, the most essential stage in selling process. As it is so important, it requires not only lots of practice and preparation, but also the use of certain techniques. Take the above-mentioned tips and be sure you will get top results in closing sales.


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Tate Forcier Terrelle Pryor
Getting More Attention
Much of how you can tell if you're once powerful program is on the mend, at least in the eye of the mass media, is if they do feature articles about your team's players mid-week leading up to a less-than-exciting game against a completely inferior MAC school. Well, that seems to be what is happening. Let's take a look.
ESPN.com:
Article about Brandon Minor
Story about Michigan back in top 25...and ND out
CNN/SI:
Tate Forcier on the cover of SI (Link from MVictors)
Story about Forcier vs. Pryor
Story about Michigan back in top 25
Bleacher Report:
Tate is the new face of Michigan football
Also, just for fun, The Detroit News takes a look at EMU head coach Ron English's trip back into the Big House just two years removed from being our defensive coordinator. We here at MBN really liked English when he was coaching here, and of course we wish him all the luck in the world at EMU...just not this weekend.
"The Big House is a special place and anytime you can coach in that stadium it's special, and I don't care what side you're on," English said. "It's one of the top venues in the country. Our team has to make sure they don't get caught up in the pageantry of it all. There are issues, like 'will the guys focus' or 'will they be distracted.'
"Michigan's a different animal. There's one way to go in the stadium and one way out and there's a sea of people. The environment will be different (than when I was there). It will be louder with the boxes (new suites)."
SoCal Rick 3:32 PM
I really hope Forcier can sustain his success.
The whole country seems to love talking about this kid.
I'm just crossing my fingers that he can remain level headed and get through the season without any major bumps in the road.
It's hard not to get excited about his prospects.


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U.S. Diplomat Murdered by Pakistani al Qaeda Suicide Bomber
By Bill Roggio | March 2, 2006 | [email protected] | @billroggio
Attack occurred in Karachi just prior to President Bush's visit; Pakistan releases details on new al Qaeda leader plotting attacks on U.S.
al Qaeda has mastered the art of dramatic and devastating propaganda operations. Today, al Qaeda has struck in Pakistan, just in time for President Bush's visit to the country. A U.S Diplomat and three others were killed, and fifty-two others were wounded after a vehicle-borne suicide bomber drove into the diplomatic convoy near the U.S. Consulate in Karachi. The Associated Press describes the carnage: "The blast near the U.S. Consulate and the Marriott Hotel propelled cars into the air and flung charred wreckage as far as 200 yards. It shattered windows at the consulate and on all 10 floors of the hotel, and damaged a nearby naval hospital."
The U.S. Consulate and the Marriott hotel are side by side, with the Consulate being the northern building. The suicide bomber waited in the back alley for about a half hour, and struck the SUV as it was entering the compound at the security checkpoint on the street between the hotel and the Consulate. The blast was massive, and is said to have left a six foot crater in the street, and hurled the three-ton armored SUV carrying the U.S. diplomat over a ten foot concrete barrier into the parking lot of the hotel. [Post updated with correct map.]
The strike comes directly on the heels of news that a Pakistani al Qaeda operative named Matiur Rehman is planning "an attack against the United States." Alexis Debat, a counterterrorism analyst and consult, describes Rehman as "Pakistan's most wanted right now… He is extremely dangerous because of his role as the crucial interface between the brains of al Qaeda and its muscle, which is mainly composed these days of Pakistani militants." While Pakistan did not indicate if the attacks were to be conducted against U.S. soil or interests overseas, there is a high likelihood Rehman is connected to today's suicide bombing.
The deadly attack occurs as Pakistan is conducting an offensive in Waziristan against "foreign miscreants". The Pakistani Army reports up to forty-five foreign fighters have been killed during the assault, and Dan Darling believes the Chechen al Qaeda leader cryptically referred to "Imam" is actually "Daniar, a Chechen rebel leader allied with al Qaeda who commanded the group's forces in their largely successful battle against the Pakistani military in 2004."
GK says:
Here is an article on how events in the last 12 hours exemplify the divergence of India and Pakistan in world affairs.
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That's not the consulate in karachi. If you can tell me how to send you a google satellite photo of the area, I'll do it.


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Freaks and Repeats
Grade: C –
Director: Steven Brill
Starring: Owen Wilson, Leslie Mann, Nate Hartley, Troy Gentile, David Dorfman, and Alex Frost
Running Time: 1 hour, 42 minutes
Ok, we get it – the teenage years were tough ones for Judd Apatow and the rest of his filmmaking cadre. As producer of Drillbit Taylor, Apatow works off an off-beat script cowritten by Seth Rogan and his Undeclared cohort Kristofor Brown to regurgitate their now-formulaic freaks & geeks coterie of a nebbish weakling (Nate Hartley), a McLovin-esque hyperdork (David Dorfman), and a rotund, foul-mouthed pal (Troy Gentile) who actually resembles a prepubescent Jonah Hill.
For a moment, set aside the rambling, rather inconsequential plot about a trio of hapless high school misfits who hire the titular homeless, Army deserter-cum-conman (Owen Wilson) as bodyguard to protect them against schoolyard bullies (led by Alex Frost) so merciless you begin to question the mental make-up of school administrators who allow the torment to continue unabated. The result is still a superbad, hit-or-miss mess that is only somewhat salvaged by Wilson's trademark loopy adlibbing.
The rest of the would-be guffaws foisted by director Stephen Brill are endless, uninspired sight gags and high school freshmen who somehow reference 8 Mile and Blade Runner with equal aplomb. The female love interests range from Asian stereotypes (Valerie Tian, sporting the same specs from Juno) to oversexed loser-magnets (Apatow's wife Leslie Mann, Knocked Up). Meanwhile, the rest of the women wandering through this comedic chasm are the perfunctory clueless moms and bleached-blond sun-worshipers whose only function is to pose for topless cell-phone pics with our preteens.
So bewildering is the story that by film's end, destitute vets are fashioned into thieving villains and the presumptive crowd-pleasing climax is watching a thirty-something adult pummel an eighteen-year-old high schooler. Moreover, the vacuum at the film's core is that its eponymous protagonist never rises above the level of an unabashed phony, fronting one false backstory after another. We never know who Drillbit Taylor really is – other than his Christian name is Bob – and as such never see the movie as anything other than another of Apatow and Co.'s cinematic exorcisms of adolescent angst.
Rarely has a movie's advertising tagline been more apt: "You get what you pay for."
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Kirsten wouldn't let that happen.
Sanford put the map on the table.
Evelyn didn't take any pictures.
Ray knew he could count on Betty.
Woody and Gunter had a Celtic wedding.
Keith didn't go because Narendra told him not to.
Jim left through the back door.
Mysore looked after my dog while I was away.
Laurel liked to watch horrifying videos of children being raped.
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You shouldn't just assume Presley is guilty.
Ofer didn't reply to any of Jose's letter.
Laurie helped the police catch the thief.
I don't want to hurt you, Courtney.
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BJP demands action against parties boycotting Jammu and Kashmir local body polls
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Jammu: The BJP's Jammu and Kashmir unit on Saturday demanded de-recognition and withdrawal of symbol of the parties which have announced that they will boycott the upcoming urban local bodies (ULB) and panchayat polls in the state.
ULB elections are scheduled to take place in four phases beginning October 8 and the panchayat polls will be held in November-December in nine phases.
Four parties — National Conference (NC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Bahujan Samaj Party — have announced that they will be boycotting the polls.
"The BJP urges state chief electoral officer to de-recognise those political parties which have announced (their decision to) boycott ULB and panchayat polls," the party's state spokesperson Anil Gupta told reporters here.
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"Elections are the core of the democratic process and afford people an opportunity to express their will. By boycotting the elections, these political parties have not only betrayed the people of the state but also disrespected the Constitution which they had pledged to safeguard while applying for recognition of their respective political parties," he added.
Gupta said, "Suppression of the democratic process by these parties also amounts to gross violation of human rights".
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He added he has already filed a petition in this regard.
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Q: Angular - components inside form - formControlName must be used with a parent I wanted to reuse a single component to dynamically generate form input fields and came up with this code
form-field.component.html
{{formLabel}}
<input
        type="text"
        class="form-control"
        [formControlName]="formFieldName"
        [ngClass]="{
              'is-invalid': formField.dirty && formField.errors
            }"
        [placeholder]="placeholder"
/>

    {{requiredMessage}}

        {{message}}

form-field.component.ts
  @Input() formField: AbstractControl;
  @Input() patternErrorMessages: string[];
  @Input() formLabel: string;
  @Input() formFieldName: string;
  @Input() placeholder: string;
  @Input() form: FormGroup;

  requiredMessage = FORM_REQUIRED;

  constructor() { }

  ngOnInit(): void {
    this.patternErrorMessages = this.patternErrorMessages.length === 0 ? ['Pattern Mismatch'] : this.patternErrorMessages;
  }

parent-component.html
<form (ngSubmit)="validSubmit(myFormGroup)" [formGroup]="myFormGroup">

          <app-form-field
                  [formField]="myFormGroup.controls.name"
                  [patternErrorMessages]="['Only Alphabets and Numbers are allowed.']"
                  [formLabel]="'Name'"
                  [placeholder]="'Enter Name'"
                  [form]="myFormGroup"
          >
          </app-form-field>

</form>

And I'm getting this error while calling it.
ERROR Error: formControlName must be used with a parent formGroup directive.  You'll want to add a formGroup
           directive and pass it an existing FormGroup instance (you can create one in your class).

A: I think you forgot to add formGroup in form-field.component.html.
Wrap your form-field in:

 ...

A: If you want to have custom form controls, make them implement ControlValueAccessor from @angular/forms.
export interface ControlValueAccessor {
  writeValue(obj: any) : void;
  registerOnChange(fn: any) : void;
  registerOnTouched(fn: any) : void;
}

Then register the components to the NG_VALUE_ACCESSOR token:
  providers: [
    {
      provide: NG_VALUE_ACCESSOR,
      useExisting: forwardRef(() => MyAwesomeComponent(),
      multi: true
    }
  ]

Rant:
Take a step back and look at what you are doing. You are trying to build a unifying layer above form controls.
Do you want to repeat this for textareas, number inputs, email inputs...? How many validation error messages do you plan to add? What about their i18n? And the list goes on...
Your code will be no less complex than what you are trying to replace.
Do yourself a favor, abandon that ship.

A: Use a formControl="YourFormControlName" instead of formControlName for single control. For grouped controls, you always need a formGroup parent. And, when using formControl, you have to add a name and id attribute.

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"""Python utility functions for JAX which contains minimal TF lingvo deps."""

import dataclasses
import functools
from typing import Any

from absl import logging
import flax
import jax
from jax.experimental import global_device_array as gda_lib
from jax.experimental import maps
from jax.experimental import multihost_utils
from jax.experimental import pjit
import jax.numpy as jnp
from lingvo.core import cluster
from lingvo.core import hyperparams
from lingvo.core import py_utils
import numpy as np

infeed_context_scope = cluster.InfeedContextScope
# No more symbols from lingvo cluster should be accessed by JAX library.

WeightInit = py_utils.WeightInit
weight_params = py_utils.WeightParams
is_default_param_init = py_utils.IsDefaultParamInit
default_param_init = py_utils.DefaultParamInit
flatten = py_utils.Flatten
NestedMap = py_utils.NestedMap
ThreadLocalDict = py_utils.ThreadLocalDict
ThreadLocalStack = py_utils.ThreadLocalStack
AuxLossContext = py_utils.AuxLossContext
fprop_dtype = py_utils.FPropDtype
sharded_file_pattern_to_glob = py_utils.ShardedFilePatternToGlob
# No more symbols from lingvo py_utils should be accessed by JAX library.
del py_utils

InstantiableParams = hyperparams.InstantiableParams
Params = hyperparams.Params
# No more symbols from lingvo hyperparams should be accessed by JAX library.
del hyperparams

# No more imports from lingvo should be accessed by core JAX library.

# A utility function to flatten copied from third_party/py/jax/_src/util.py
def _unzip2(xys):
  xs = []
  ys = []
  for x, y in xys:
    xs.append(x)
    ys.append(y)
  return tuple(xs), tuple(ys)

jax.tree_util.register_pytree_node(NestedMap,
                                   lambda xs: _unzip2(sorted(xs.items()))[::-1],
                                   lambda keys, xs: NestedMap(zip(keys, xs)))

@functools.partial(functools.partial, jax.tree_map)
def assert_same_shape_and_dtype(x, y):
  assert x.shape == y.shape and x.dtype == y.dtype

def reshard(array: jnp.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
  """Reshards an input tensor according to the number of local devices."""
  num_devices = jax.local_device_count()
  batch_size = array.shape[0]
  return np.reshape(array,
                    (num_devices, batch_size // num_devices) + array.shape[1:])

def unshard(array: jnp.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
  """Undo the resharding to reshape away the local device count leading dim."""
  return np.reshape(array, (-1,) + array.shape[2:])

def maybe_unreplicate_gda(data):
  """Returns the first local shard in `data` if it is a GDA.

  Args:
    data: A Pytree of fully replicated GlobalDeviceArray or other arrays.
  Returns: A Pytree of DeviceArray or the original input.
  """
  return jax.tree_map(
      lambda x: x.addressable_data(0)  # pylint: disable=g-long-lambda
      if isinstance(x, gda_lib.GlobalDeviceArray) else x,
      data)

def extract_keys(n, p, key_separator, left_separator, right_separator):
  """Alias long function call with fixed separators."""
  return extract_prefixed_keys_from_nested_map(
      n,
      p,
      key_separator=key_separator,
      left_separator=left_separator,
      right_separator=right_separator)

def _handle_dict(
    node,
    prefix,
    key_separator,
    left_separator,
    right_separator,
    node_type=None,
):
  """Handles dictionaries."""
  result = {}
  for key, value in node.items():
    if prefix:
      path = f'{prefix}{key_separator}{key}'
    else:
      path = key
    result[key] = extract_keys(value, path, key_separator, left_separator,
                               right_separator)
  if node_type is not None:
    return node_type(**result)
  else:
    return type(node)(result)

def extract_prefixed_keys_from_nested_map(node: Any,
                                          prefix: str = '',
                                          key_separator: str = '/',
                                          left_separator: str = '[',
                                          right_separator: str = ']') -> Any:
  """Extracts a NestedMap with the nested prefix keys from its NestedMap node."""
  if isinstance(node, dict):  # NestedMap inherits from dict.
    return _handle_dict(node, prefix, key_separator, left_separator,
                        right_separator)
  # PartitionSpec is subclass of tuple.
  elif isinstance(node, pjit.PartitionSpec):
    return prefix
  elif isinstance(node, (list, tuple)):
    # Check if it is a NamedTuple.
    if hasattr(node, '_fields'):
      if prefix:
        prefix += f'{key_separator}'
      return type(node)(**{
          field: extract_keys(
              getattr(node, field), f'{prefix}{field}', key_separator,
              left_separator, right_separator) for field in node._fields
      })
    # Convert back to list or tuple.
    return type(node)(
        extract_keys(v, f'{prefix}{left_separator}{i}{right_separator}',
                     key_separator, left_separator, right_separator)
        for i, v in enumerate(node))
  elif (dataclasses.is_dataclass(node) and
        node.__class__ in flax.serialization._STATE_DICT_REGISTRY):  # pylint: disable=protected-access
    if hasattr(node, '__dict__'):
      node_dict = node.__dict__
    else:
      node_dict = flax.serialization.to_state_dict(node)
    return _handle_dict(
        node_dict,
        prefix,
        key_separator,
        left_separator,
        right_separator,
        node_type=type(node),
    )
  if not prefix:
    return None
  return prefix

def sync_global_devices(name: str) -> None:
  """Sync across all hosts/devices."""
  global_device_count = jax.device_count()
  logging.info('Starting sync_global_devices %s across %s devices globally',
               name, global_device_count)
  multihost_utils.sync_global_devices(name)
  logging.info('Finished sync_global_devices %s across %s devices globally',
               name, global_device_count)

def create_gda(host_arrays: np.ndarray, global_shapes: jax.ShapeDtypeStruct,
               global_mesh: maps.Mesh,
               pspecs: Any) -> gda_lib.GlobalDeviceArray:
  """Create GDA from host array.

  Evenly partitioning x along axis 0 and device_put shards to local devices.

  Args:
    host_arrays: host-local arrays.
    global_shapes: global shapes of the resultant GDA.
    global_mesh: global mesh of the resultant GDA.
    pspecs: partition specs of the resultant GDA.

  Returns:
    A GDA with x as the host-local data.
  """

  local_devices = global_mesh.local_devices
  local_device_count = jax.local_device_count()

  def _put_to_devices(x):
    per_device_arrays = np.split(x, local_device_count, axis=0)
    device_buffers = [
        jax.device_put(arr, d)
        for arr, d in zip(per_device_arrays, local_devices)
    ]
    return device_buffers

  device_buffers = jax.tree_map(_put_to_devices, host_arrays)

  def _gda(global_shape, pspec, dbs):
    return gda_lib.GlobalDeviceArray(global_shape.shape, global_mesh, pspec,
                                     dbs)

  return jax.tree_map(_gda, global_shapes, pspecs, device_buffers)

def get_global_input_shape_dtype(x: jnp.ndarray) -> jax.ShapeDtypeStruct:
  """Get global input shape/dtype assuming fully sharded batch dim."""
  assert len(x.shape) >= 1
  # Assume fully sharded batch dim.
  x_shape = (x.shape[0] * jax.process_count(),) + x.shape[1:]
  return jax.ShapeDtypeStruct(x_shape, x.dtype)

def set_globally_use_rbg_prng_key() -> None:
  """Must call this before any JAX computation to set RBG PRNGKey globally."""
  jax.config.update('jax_default_prng_impl', 'rbg')

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Yet Rubio's demands may be well beyond the reach of a Congress that has spent months debating a bill cutting non- defense domestic discretionary spending that accounts for just 12 percent of the federal budget. Lawmakers haven't addressed a tax overhaul in a generation.
Democrats, who control the 100-seat Senate with 53 votes, probably won't need Rubio's support to raise the debt ceiling, though Senator Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican, is threatening a filibuster of any measure unless lawmakers accept a balanced-budget amendment.
That could give Republicans leverage to demand big changes, though it would force at least seven to eventually vote for a debt increase, with 60 votes needed to act. Many of those most likely to side with Democrats, such as Indiana's Richard Lugar, face primary challenges in next year's elections.
Any increase will face tougher challenges in the House, where Tea Party freshmen have their own lists of demands. Representative Allen West, a Florida Republican, wants the corporate tax rate halved, total government spending capped and a ban on funding for the administration's health-care overhaul.
A fellow freshman representative, Rich Nugent, also from Florida, said, "I don't see myself voting for the debt limit" without "huge" concessions from the administration.
It's traditionally been up to each chamber's majority party to produce the votes needed to raise the debt limit, Bixby said. "The minority can always take advantage of not being in power to make rhetoric points," he said.
Budget experts agree lawmakers will have to address the issues raised by Rubio, even if they are unlikely to settle them by June. Medicare and Social Security are projected to consume a steadily increasing share of the government's resources as the Baby Boom generation nears retirement and health-care costs continue to spiral.
The numbers are so enormous that even deficit hawks say it will be decades before the government is able to balance its books. A proposal last year by the heads of President Barack Obama's debt commission to cut the budget by $4 trillion wouldn't erase the deficit for more than 25 years.
Even so, Rubio says lawmakers ought to tackle the issue with the debt-limit vote.
With that debt-ceiling vote approaching, Alex Burgos, a Rubio spokesman, said there is time to debate his demands.
"He believes it's possible if people in Washington get serious about these issues, focus on them with the sense of urgency they deserve and abandon the politics-first mindset that has brought us to this point of a record $14 trillion debt," Burgos said.
The stakes in the debt-limit debate are higher and the politics tougher than in the current dispute over funding levels for the remainder of the government's fiscal year. While the government has been shut down in the past, lawmakers have never allowed the government to hit the debt limit, which could rattle financial markets around the world.
Meeting the Republicans' demands could also cause market turmoil. Experts such as Congressional Budget Office Director Doug Elmendorf have said a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution would worsen economic recessions because it would prevent automatic increases in federal spending on unemployment benefits, Medicaid and other government programs during downturns that help support consumer spending.
Still, a number of Republicans downplay the significance of hitting the debt limit, saying the government could pay off its creditors with tax revenue, which would still leave enough money for many though not all government functions.
--Editor: Mark Silva, Max Berley.


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Chompy Chomp Chomp Party jumps from Wii U to Switch on Nov. 17th, 2022
Feeling hungry?
If you remember the name Chompy Chomp Chomp Party, then you were probably a Wii U owner, because that's where the game first launched back in 2016. Now the game will have a chance at finding a much larger audience, as Chompy Chomp Chomp Party is coming to Switch on November 17th, 2022.
Invite your friends and family to join you for a Chompy Chomp Chomp Party. A chaotic and fun local multiplayer game for up to 8 players that will bring joyful memories, laughter and connection.
With 6 game modes as default and more purchasable via DLC. Play the game however you want, and tailor it to who you are playing with. Customisable down to the finest detail, a variety of novel and exciting game modes with infinite levels, so no two games are ever the same.
There is now no end to the level layouts you can play with and several themes to keep the colorful chaos going. You do not have to "earn" any in-game content, as it's all available straight from the start.
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Mourning in America: Whitney Houston and the Social Speed of Grief
In England in the late 19th century, death was a highly ritualized affair. Wives were expected to wear special dresses -- black, conservative, often accessorized with "weeping veils" -- for up to four years following the death of their husbands; if you'd lost a sister or brother, six months of mourning garb was the norm. "Full mourning" (lasting for a year and a day after the death), "second mourning" (the nine months after that), and "half mourning" (the three-six months after that) weren't suggestions or ironies; they were phases to be followed, and strictly.
To modern sensibilities, the whole idea of mourning suits and widows' weeds seems extremely quaint and ridiculously confining and, overall, just what it is: Victorian. But the clothes and the strict guidelines for donning and doffing them were part of a larger purpose, which was to create a framework, an agreed-upon system of customs and rituals, that people could turn to amid the chaos of a death. The formal observance of a loss -- whether for seven days or four years -- carved a space for mourning that fit, by communal fiat, into the life of the community in question. By giving people an agreed-upon period of bereavement, the rituals also gave them, implicitly, an agreed-upon time to move on.
Mourning is murkier now. It is less regulated, less public, less prescribed. The 20th century brought a reshaping of grieving as an institution, Meghan O'Rourke argues, transforming it from a public ritual to a private burden and reframing it as something that could be kept, anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer had it, "under complete control by strength of will and character, so that it need be given no public expression." Or, more specifically, no time for public expression. At the turn of the century, the historian Philippe Ariès says, "the death of a man still solemnly altered the space and time of a social group that could be extended to include the entire community." Today, though, the time we allow it to do the altering is contracting, and quickly. Ever the optimists, we emphasize moving on; how we do that, though, is no longer laid out for us in neat phases and frames.
I mention all this because of Whitney Houston. Who is not our mother or our sister or even our friend, but who nonetheless -- particularly for the generation whose coming of age coincided with the height of her fame -- carried with her the strange intimacy of celebrity. Houston died late Saturday afternoon, Pacific time; the news of it first broke -- on Twitter -- just over an hour later. By Saturday evening, media of all kinds were bursting with obits and tributes and heartfelt tweets and makeshift memorials. The remembrances continued, though at a much less frenetic pace, into Sunday, until, last night, at the Grammys, Jennifer Hudson sang "I Will Always Love You" in tribute to that song's most famous singer, bringing conclusion to a weekend that nobody saw coming.
Between the news of Houston's death and the performed commemoration of it, in other words, less than two full days have passed. And yet the time for mourning -- a mourning not necessarily of grief, but of communal nostalgia, the kind we reserve for a Jobs or a Jackson -- is fading. Instead of four years or seven days, we're giving ourselves a moment, a burst, to commiserate and commemorate before we shed our widows' weeds and move on.
The overall trends reflect what I've seen, in miniature, in my own Twitter feed: an initial spike in reaction to the news, followed by a steady decline in the discussion as the hours clicked by. Yesterday, already, with the exception of the Hudson performance, it was a little bit awkward still to be talking about Whitney. Today, even more so. It's just so ... Saturday night. While there are, at the moment, still articles being written about Whitney and her legacy, and while it's inevitable that the discussion would peter off, the time to talk about her on Twitter -- turn, turn, turn -- is dissolving, rapidly. The window is closing, quickly. We've had our allotted phase for re-watching the national anthem video and remembering that scene from The Bodyguard and reminiscing about our first cassette singles of "So Emotional" -- but that phase has been quick, and the quickness has been carved not by cultural agreement, but by our abbreviated attention spans. We talk a lot about the sped-up news cycle -- the new news, with its new metabolism -- and its effect on the way we relate to information. What we talk less about is how the new speed of the news cycle is changing the way we relate to each other, culturally. Impatience is becoming the dominant emotion of the discursive Internet. We want our conversation fodder fresh, exciting, and yesterday.
And on Twitter, our remembrances of the dead, too, are fodder. They are content. And content can be many things, but really, if at all possible, it should avoid being stale. So we move quickly to say our peace and move on, lest the window of relevance close on our tributes. Public remembrance still divides itself into full and half phases; the difference now is that the phases play out not over months and years, but over minutes and hours. And so grieving and grief, the institution and the emotion, disentangle from each other, until collective memory -- collective memorial -- takes the guise of a trending topic.
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Moxxi's Heartbreaker is a unique Hyperion shotgun received at the end of the Safe and Sound mission if you choose to turn in the quest to Moxxi and not Marcus. This weapon, along with every other Moxxi gun will give the player regenerating health when the gun causes elemental damage.
This fire weapon deals a 50% critical hit damage and is effective vs. flesh.
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Q: How do i include precompiled C library in c++ I am fairly new to C++ and i am trying to use a precompiled C library (with .a file format) in my code.
I have a simple CMake project setup and a .a library written in C.
How do i correctly include it and add it to my CMake file?


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When you make more storage sheds and fewer crab puffs, you will see the opportunity cost of storage sheds. Production possibility curve shows the menu of choice along which a society can choose to substitute one good for another, assuming a given state of technology and given total resources. Why is the production possibility frontier concave? What Russia is lacking are entrepreneurs. Though losses would be high, the bombing objectives would be met. On our graph this would be represented by moving from point D to a point on the curve: A, B, or C. The production capacity of an grows overtime through increase in resource supplies and improvement of technology. We shall discuss below some of its popular uses.
The opportunity cost of additional 20,000 gallons of milk is 1,000 cars. However, the cost of producing successive units of butter will increase as resources that are more and more specialized in gun production are moved into the butter industry. This scarcity limits the amount of total production. You are forced to make a decision on how to allocate the scarce resource of time. Entrepreneurial Ability The entrepreneur is a very important type of resource. This means increasing output per person.
The ratio of gains to losses is determined by the marginal rate of transformation. It's the same word, essentially. In contrast, if the economy is operating below the curve, it is said to be operating inefficiently because it could reallocate resources in order to produce more of both goods or some resources such as labor or capital are sitting idle and could be fully employed to produce more of both goods. But you could spend 7 hours and a minute, or 7 hours and a second. As the figure shows, by moving production from point A to B, the economy must decrease wine production by a small amount in comparison to the increase in cotton output. Which point on the graph below, A, B, or C, would give this economy the greatest potential most economic growth in the future? Full employment: When production is at its maximum, it will be producing on the actual curve found on a production possibilities graph. Opportunity cost is measured in the number of units of the second good forgone for one or more units of the first good.
We can obtain a production possibility curve by drawing production possibilities schedule graphically. Given our assumptions, this economy cannot produce at point A. Likewise, if we move from point B to point A, we are giving up 1 leather jacket, and getting 2 more computers, so the opportunity cost of 2 computers is. For example, If Mythica produces 3m computers; the opportunity cost is 5m textbooks. So this axis, I will call this my rabbit axis, rabbits.
Microeconomics: What is a production possibilities frontier?
Maybe somehow I'm not using my resources optimally to do this type of thing, when I'm over here. When we decide to produce the first Robot, we take the best engineers from the wheat fields and put them in the robot factory. Any point that lies either on the production possibilities curve or to the left of it is said to be an attainable point: it can be produced with currently available resources. Naturally, each member of the team has different abilities in performing either task. If some of these assumptions changes or neglected, then it affects the nature of production possibility curve. This is an important concept; even though our scarce resource is time, we can measure the cost of a good, in this case, pineapples, in terms of the foregone good, in this cases crabs. Since along with making posters you will still need to enter data, you may want to look for the scenario in which each poster produced costs you the least in terms of data entries forgone.
If it now wishes to increase output of cameras by a further 10m to 30m it must sacrifice 2m phones, rather than 1m, and it moves to point C; hence, opportunity cost increases the more a good is produced. How many entries will be made in a day? Model of Production If you were stranded on an island with only pineapples and crabs, how much of each would you produce? Production possibility frontier is not about producing two different goods, it is about producting one good, with two different resources, typically labour and capital. Would this change depending on how difficult each one was to harvest? The law of increasing cost is true because resources not not all the same. Or I could get more rabbits. Point B , we are not fully using our resources. Draw a sketch of your team's production possibility frontier, placing the number of numerical entries on the vertical axis and the number of posters on the horizontal axis. The explanation and analysis of production possibility curve is based upon certain assumptions, some of them are following i The time period does not change.
And when we're talking about gathering, the only thing you can gather are some type of berries. Points outside the production possibility e. So if there is maximum production of cars and houses using all of the available resources and technology, production will create a curve. Which point produces the most capital resources? If we are producing 4R and 10 W, all of our best farmers are in the wheat fields. A team consisting of three people is working on a big project, which involves manual entry of data in a computer, with subsequent processing of these data and making a poster presentation.
Let me connect them in a color that I haven't used it. In between these two extreme possibilities exist. If the economy produces more cars, then there are fewer houses produced. With increasing production of butter, workers from the gun industry will move to it. What is the opportunity cost to the U. That increase is shown by a shift of the production-possibility frontier to the right. However, most economic contractions reflect not that less can be produced but that the economy has started operating below the frontier, as typically, both labor and physical capital are underemployed, remaining therefore idle.
We discussed allocative efficiency in our. So Wheat production goes down more than when we produced the first Robot. So this would be 250, so 240 is a little bit lower than that. In our example, while we would love to produce 50 pineapples and 50 crabs, this is out of our realm of possible production. It means that when we produce more of a given good, we have to give up production of another good.


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Q: The ideal in the ring of germs of smooth functions at 0 is not finitely generated Let $R=\dfrac{C^{\infty}(\mathbb{R}^{n})}{I}$ the ring of germs of functions at $0$, where $I$ is the ideal of smooth functions that vanishes in a neighborhood of $0$.
Defining the avaliation homomorphism $a: R \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ by $$\bar{f} \rightarrow a(f)=f(0),$$ and using the Taylor formula in $0$ follows from Isomorphism theorem that $\ker a=(\bar{X_1}, \ldots, \bar{X_n})$ is the only maximal ideal of $R$.
My problem is

How can I show that $$\bigcap_{k=0}^{\infty}(\ker a)^{k} \ne (0)$$ is not finitely generated?

Thank you in advanced.


Supernova (def.): Explosive death of a star, caused by the sudden onset of nuclear burning in a white dwarf star, or gravitational collapse of the core of massive star followed by a shock wave that disrupts the star.
When a star blows apart in a supernova, the explosion creates a remnant of multi-million degree gas that shines brightly in X-rays for thousands of years.
Every 50 years or so, a massive star in our galaxy blows itself apart in a supernova.
Explore the approximate positions and names of historical supernovas in the Milky Way in this simple Flash map.
This interactive guide illustrates the ongoing drama of stellar evolution, and how the rate of evolution and the ultimate fate of a star depends on its mass.
A Flash piece looking at some of our favorite Chandra images of supernova remnants.


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HUMANITARIAN AID DELIVERY FOR TYPHOON HAIYAN VICTIMS IN PHILIPPINES
On 15 November 2013, Brunei has rendered further aid to the Philippines by sending its first relief team of personnel to typhoon-ravaged Tacloban to provide assistance at the ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on Disaster Management (AHA) in distributing food and water to disaster victims.
This mission comprised of the delivery of humanitarian aid in the form of basic essential items such as bottled mineral water, dry food, canned food, rice, infant formula, medical equipment, medicines, clothing, blankets and towels which were donated by a combination of effort from the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, Ministry of Health, Royal Brunei Armed Forces, National Disaster Management Centre (NDMC), the public, private sector and non-governmental bodies.
The relief team left the country onboard Royal Brunei Armed Forces' aircraft, CN235 and will remain in the affected area for a week.
A communications officer at the ASEAN Humanitarian Assistance (AHA) Centre lauded Brunei's swift response in sending relief goods and supporting ASEAN operations. In fact, among the very first ASEAN responders to the affected area were two members from the ASEAN Emergency Rapid Assessment Team in Brunei.
The relief team will assist in facilitating the distribution of aid from Brunei to the Philippines. Further updates will be monitored from time to time through the AHA Centre and the Brunei Embassy in Manila.
Royal Brunei Armed Forces sent relief aid from Brunei to affected areas in the Philippines by air and sea cargo. The first two batches of relief was delivered by the Royal Brunei Armed Forces' military transport aircraft and the royal Brunei Navy ship, respectively on 15 November 2013. Brunei Darussalam continues its batch of humanitarian aids by air until 25 November 2013 and by sea until 09 December 2013.


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Posted on May 27, 2014 By Hilltown Families
Home Sweet Home: Open House Day at The Trustees of Reservations Historic Homes
From early 1700's missionaries to mid-20th century architecture, The Trustees of Reservations' Home Sweet Home: Open House Day offers families a chance to learn about lots of fascinating history. Opening the doors of historic homes across Massachusetts all day long on Saturday, May 31st, the Home Sweet Home event will allow visitors to certain Trustees properties access to spaces not often open to the public – this opportunity is not to be missed!
Locally, families in western Massachusetts can choose from five different properties to visit. Each historic home is related to both local and national history, and has its own unique story to tell. The tale of each place uses architecture, landscape, material culture, and the stories of the people who inhabited it in order to put historical eras and events into context for visitors. Covering everything from the Mohican Indians and abolition to to The New York Evening Post, visits to western Massachusetts' historic homes are a fantastic way for families with children of all ages to learn and explore together.
While the majority of the local homes included in the event are in the Berkshires, the William Cullen Bryant Homestead is located in Cummington, right in the center of the Hilltowns. A sprawling Victorian-era home, the Bryant Homestead was the boyhood home and late-in-life summer residence of William Cullent Bryant, poet and editor of The New York Evening Post. A visit to the property can include a study of Victorian architecture, or an exploration of the homes grounds – which include trails, old growth forest, and maple trees that have been tapped for over 200 years.
Opportunities for exploration abound in the Berkshires, where four different historic homes will be open to visitors. The Folly at Field Farm, located in Williamstown, offers a chance to explore post-World War II architecture and its place amongst the picturesque 300-acre grounds of the former farm. One of two similarly designed homes on the land, The Folly is not what most would imagine when thinking of a historic New England home. Built in the mid-1900's, the house includes lots of glass and curves, and is filled with period art and furniture. A visit to the home can provide students with a look into the history of architecture and design, and will teach lots about 50's style! Additionally, Field Farm's four miles worth of trails open up endless possibilities for outdoor exploration – and there are even some caves to be found!
Visitors to Stockbridge can see both Naumkeag and Mission House, historic homes that tell very different stories within the town's history. Mission House, constructed in 1742, was the home of missionary John Sergeant, who came to western Massachusetts to live amongst the Mohican indians. Originally located on Stockbridge's Prospect Hill, the home was moved to Main Street in the 1930's, and now is accompanied by Colonial-era gardens and a small cobbler's shop. A visit to Mission House can teach families about the demise of the Mohican tribe, and the history of New England before the American Revolution.
Naumkeag, located nearby on Prospect Hill Road, was the summer home of three generations of the Choate family. Gifted to the Trustees in 1958, the home served as a "cottage" for the family, and is surrounded by extensive and beautifully designed gardens. Families can explore the property by going on a self-guided audio tour through the home's gardens, which include deep fountain pools, four flights of stairs, a birch grove, and extensive beautiful landscaping. Designed in the Gilded Age, Naumkeag offers a look into the era's unique style in architecture and design, and provides visitors with a look straight into the Choate family's life in the home, as it includes all of its original contents. While you visit, don't forget to consider why it was that families from away wanted summer homes in the Berkshires in the first place!
The southernmost Berkshire home included in the event is Ashley House. Located in Sheffield, the home is the place in which famous former slave Elizabeth "Mum Bett" Freeman was enslaved until she sued Colonel John Ashley for her freedom. Her case set a precedent for the abolition of slavery in Massachusetts, and makes the home an important local landmark. Built in 1735, Ashley House includes traditional early New England architecture and reflects what life was like during the 18th century. Filled with collections of centuries-old tools, furniture, and other items, Ashley House provides a lesson not only in American history, but in the changes in technology and goods that have taken place throughout the last few hundred years.
Admission to each of the historic homes included in Home Sweet Home: Open House Day is free for all, and the homes will be open between 10am and 2pm. Families interested in doing a day trip can choose from four other locations across the state, including Castle Hill at the Crane Estate in Ipswich and The Old Manse in Concord. For more information about the event, contact lmarshall@ttor.org or call 978-356-4351 ex. 4049.
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a volcano devastates north america -- 1/22/16
Today's selection -- from The Horse by Wendy Williams. 12 million years ago, the Brunei-Jarbridge volcanic eruption devastated North America. The corpses of many of animals that died in that eruption were preserved by the debris and can be studied today:
"On the day of the North American disaster, which occurred about 12 million years ago, horses of several different species were grazing a grass-covered plain in what's now Nebraska. Perhaps a few of the horses sheltered themselves from the sun under the walnut and hackberry trees that then dotted the landscape. Perhaps a few nibbled at leaves on shrubs. But most were probably busy eating the grasses that had replaced the Eocene wetlands. Accompanying the horses were hump-free camels, saber-toothed deer, strange rhinoceroses, several species of dogs, elegant cranes, and long-tailed secretary birds.
"While the horses grazed, a thousand miles to the northwest a supervolcano exploded. ... The Bruneau-Jarbidge eruption was deadly. Its ash spread across hundreds of thousands of square miles, including the plain where the horses grazed. Tiny bubbles of silica -- like soap bubbles but much, much smaller -- emerged from the volcano and then shattered, creating a multitude of glassy, curved microscopic shards that wafted, like parachutes, a thousand miles distant on the winds that blew to the east. When they finally landed on the grass, the horses and other grazers breathed these shards into their lungs while they ate. Imagine taking several glass Christmas tree ornaments and pulverizing them with a hammer, then spreading those sharp-edged infinitesimals out over a field of grass. That's what the animals inadvertently ingested.
Ash Fossil Beds
"Paleontologists have worked out the order in which the animals died. First, tiny birds fell out of the sky. Their lungs were the smallest and the most easily damaged. Then the smaller land animals succumbed. Then slowly, the larger animals, including the horses, died, their lungs destroyed by the glass-like micron-size silica that entered with every inhalation. The last to die were the largest animals with the largest lungs, the rhinos.
"It was a slow, agonizing death. It must have hurt the horses to breathe, but of course they had no choice. In their misery, many of the animals sought out a local water hole, no more than a slight indentation in the plain that filled when the rains came. There wouldn't have been a lot of water, but apparently even this tiny oasis offered some kind of solace. Perhaps the horses wanted to drink, or perhaps they were just seeking wet mud to cool their terrible fevers. Their slow suffocation caused bone decay, lung damage, swelling of body organs -- damage that's still visible even today on the many skeletons that have been left in situ for visitors to see.
"After they died, the prairie wind continued to blow. The light ash covering the plain drifted over the cadavers, entombing them. ... The animals were preserved in three dimensions, similar to Vesuvius victims. The same tiny glass shards that killed the animals also preserved them."
The Horse: The Epic History of Our Noble Companion
Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Copyright 2015 by Wendy Williams
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