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using BL;
using Common;
using DAL;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using Tests.DAL;

namespace Tests.BL
{
    [TestClass]
    public class BLTests
    {
        private static RecordOperations _recordOperations;
        private int _userId = 1;
        private static IRepository<Record> _recordRepo;

        [ClassInitialize]
        public static void ClassInit(TestContext context)
        {
            ILoggerFactory factory = new LoggerFactory().AddDebug();
            DataServiceMock dataService = new DataServiceMock();
            _recordRepo = dataService.GetRepository<Record>();
            _recordOperations = new RecordOperations(
                dataService,
                new RecordFetchProvider(),
                new Logger<RecordOperations>(factory));
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void BLRecordAddTest()
        {
            int count = _recordRepo.GetAll().Result.Data.Count();
            Result result = _recordOperations.Save(new RecordModel(), _userId).Result;
            Assert.IsTrue(result.IsSuccess);
            Assert.AreEqual(count + 1, _recordRepo.GetAll().Result.Data.Count());
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void BLRecordAddFailTest()
        {
            int count = _recordRepo.GetAll().Result.Data.Count();
            Result result = _recordOperations.Save(new RecordModel() { Id = 5 }, _userId).Result;
            Assert.IsFalse(result.IsSuccess);
            Assert.AreEqual(count, _recordRepo.GetAll().Result.Data.Count());
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void BLRecordUpdateTest()
        {
            int count = _recordRepo.GetAll().Result.Data.Count();
            var record = _recordOperations.Get(1, _userId).Result;
            int id = record.Data.Id;
            var recordResult = _recordOperations.Update(new RecordModel() { Id = id, Info = "test" }, _userId).Result;
            Assert.IsTrue(recordResult.IsSuccess);
            var recordResultTest = _recordOperations.Get(1, _userId).Result;
            var recordModel = (RecordModel)recordResultTest.Data;
            Assert.AreEqual("test", recordModel.Info);
        }
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
Co-founder and CEO Joel Bar-El to assume position of Executive Chairman to lead efforts on corporate strategy, long-term vision and innovation and shareholder value creation.
Dror Feldheim, Co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer, to be appointed President to lead new growth initiatives, global partnerships / alliances and M&A.
Justin Behar, Chief Corporate Development Officer, to be promoted to CEO to lead the company forward to its next level of growth.
Singapore / U.S., 20 January 2021 – Trax Ltd, a leading global provider of computer vision and analytics solutions for retail today announced key changes to its senior management as part of the company's 2025 growth vision to drive the company's long-term growth strategy and cement its global leadership position.
Joel Bar-El, Co-founder of the company who has served as CEO for the past eight years, bringing the company to its current Unicorn status, will assume the position of Executive Chairman, reporting directly to the board of directors. This will enable Bar-El to focus on long-term corporate strategy and vision, including innovation and increasing shareholder value creation as well as investor relations.
Dror Feldheim, Co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer, who has been an instrumental part of the company's success and its current commercial stature, will be appointed President. This will enable Feldheim to focus on broader strategic initiatives, expanding Trax's global partnerships and capitalizing on additional inorganic growth and acquisition opportunities.
Joel Bar-El and Dror Feldheim will continue to serve as directors on the company's board of directors.
Justin Behar, who previously served as Chief Corporate Development Officer, will be promoted to the role of Chief Executive Officer and will join Trax's board of directors. In his new position, Behar will report directly to the company's board. Behar joined Trax in 2018 as part of Trax's acquisition of Quri, where he was a founder and CEO. Over the past three years with Trax, Behar has played an instrumental part in Trax's strong growth, leading the planning and execution of five additional strategic acquisitions for the company. In addition, Behar leads the company's strategic development and execution of its on-demand workforce solutions, such as Dynamic Merchandising and Flexforce.
Joel Bar-El commented: "The COVID-19 pandemic has been a huge catalyst for the need to bring forward transformational innovation for the retail industry. After a period of 8 years as Trax's CEO, I recognize how important it is for Trax to maintain its position as the technology innovation leader for the digital retail industry. I will therefore focus on our long-term strategy to deliver the critical solutions that retailers and manufacturers need to succeed in the post COVID-19 environment. As I take on this new role, I have full confidence in Justin, Dror and the entire senior management team to help drive the day-to-day management of the business. Justin Behar is the right person to continue to lead Trax towards new heights."
Dror Feldheim added: "As we prepare to bring Trax to the next stage, it is important for us to keep our entrepreneurial growth mindset and market focus, which has been a cornerstone of our success. I commend Justin Behar's appointment to the role of CEO and believe he has both the growth mindset and rigor to lead Trax to the next level. I am excited to continue working closely with Joel and Justin to focus on future growth opportunities."
Justin Behar, newly appointed CEO concluded: "In 2018 I was afforded the opportunity to join Trax, via its acquisition of Quri, which I founded. During my time at Trax, I have had the privilege to serve on the company's executive team and lead significant strategic acquisitions that created substantial value for the company. I am grateful to the Founders and the board of directors for their trust and for this opportunity to serve as CEO. I firmly believe in Trax's ambitious vision, unique product and value proposition and look forward to driving the next phase of growth while maintaining the Founder's legacy of a value-driven, can-do entrepreneurial culture."
Trax is a leading provider of computer vision solutions and analytics for retail. Our proprietary computer vision, machine learning, and Internet-of-Things-powered platform turns everyday shelf images into real-time, actionable insights that our customers leverage to optimize their in-store execution strategy and product availability. Simply put, we digitize the physical world of retail. Many of the world's top CPG companies and retailers use our dynamic merchandising, in-store execution, market measurement, analytics, and shelf monitoring solutions at scale to drive positive shopper experiences and unlock revenue opportunities at all points of sale. We began as pioneers in the retail computer vision space and we continue to lead the industry with innovation and excellence through our development of new advanced technologies and autonomous data collection methods. Trax is headquartered in Singapore and provides solutions to its customers in over 90 countries worldwide. To learn more, visit www.traxretail.com.
Trax Press Contact
Fei Fei Ho
EVP, Corporate Marketing & Communications
feifei@traxretail.com
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redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


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OpinionLaw
Back to basics on rights and freedoms
Marcel Berlins
Mon 11 Feb 2008 07.40 EST
The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Monday February 18 2008
The American bill of rights, not the constitution as we said in the article below, became law in 1791 and was referred to by supreme court justice Antonin Scalia in his recent speech in London.
Antonin Scalia is the supreme court judge American liberals love to hate. Last week he was in London trying his best to acquire the same reputation here. His lecture in honour of the late high court judge Dame Ann Ebsworth, delivered with wit and charm, teemed with provocative arguments calculated to excite and enrage our comfortable legal establishment.
His target, in particular, is the way judges interpret constitutions and bills of rights. Not for him the fashion for treating such documents as "living organisms", taking into account contemporary values, mores and attitudes. He believes passionately that the American constitution means today what it meant when it was written in 1791. How would the people at that time - not the judges today - have understood it?
The idea that judges should now be entitled to interpret it to fit in with the views and realities of modern society is anathema to him. Scalia was tactful enough not to criticise directly our own Human Rights Act, but it was clear he had little time for a law which contained so many vague definitions of rights and freedoms and left it to the judges to interpret them freely, deciding cases according to their own views and how they perceived the views of the public.
He would regard that as judges inventing new laws, something which they are not entitled to do. Constitutions and bills of rights should introduce "rigidity, not flexibility". This is not the fashion of the moment.
Coincidentally, I had just finished reading a recent book on the Supreme Court judges: The Nine, by Jeffrey Toobin. What struck me first was how impossible it would be to have such a book here. In the US the nine judges of the highest court are national news: here their equivalent, the 12 law lords, are virtually unknown outside the legal world. A book on them, destined for the popular market, would not sell many copies. Toobin's book is subtitled Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court. He has interviewed, at some length, former justice Sandra Day O'Connor, and a countless number of law clerks, young, clever lawyers who spend a year with a justice and are then in a position to recount - serious stuff as well as gossip - what went on during their stint.
Some of the chapters are quite boring, and he gave me more than I wanted to know about the judges' lives away from the court, but one segment stands out.
Toobin looks behind the scenes of the court's decision - by a majority of 5-4 - to hand the US presidency to Bush in 2000, following the Florida voting fiasco. His account does not enhance the court's reputation. Reading it made me feel even more strongly than I had before that the case was decided by the majority on primarily political, not legal grounds.
Clarence Thomas, generally regarded as the weakest of the judges, recently published his autobiography, My Grandfather's Son, describing his upbringing as a black child in a poor family in the racist south. It should be an inspiring story. He spoils it by his bitterness, anger, egotism, and the burden of many chips on his shoulders.


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RELEASE BLITZ Title: Wicked Nights Series: Steele Security #3Author: A.D. Justice Genre: Romantic Suspense Release Date: September 7, 2015
First comes love. Then comes marriage. Then comes a shiny new baby carriage.
But is life ever really that simple?
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These were NYC libraries' top checkouts of 2021
Nigel December 27, 2021 Posted in Arts
New York City's libraries are giving insight into what books New Yorkers read in 2021.
The New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library and Queens Public Library all released their top checkouts for the year, revealing that The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, A Promised Land by Barack Obama, and The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah were three of the most popular books in NYC.
The Vanishing Half, by the same author of The Mothers, is a novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.
A Promised Land by Barack Obama is the first volume of Obama's presidential memoirs, featuring his journey from a young man searching for his identity to the leader of the free world.
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah, by the same author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, is an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras—the Great Depression.
"It's interesting that so many of the top titles were featured as part of book clubs—the WNYC book club and others—showing that New Yorkers are certainly craving a sense of togetherness through reading following a period of unprecedented isolation," said Lynn Lobash, NYPL's Assistant Director of Reader Services. "Other popular books received praise and accolades over the past year and readers want to join the conversation. But, at their very core, the top checkouts were a universal joy to read, demonstrating that while New York's bibliophiles are a diverse group, they share a deep love and appreciation of reading."
The top titles included all formats—e-books, audiobooks, and physical books—and while print circulation was impacted by the pandemic the systems saw increases late in the year, especially following the October announcement of the elimination of late fines, the libraries say. The New York Public Library system, for example, saw a 10% increase in circulation in the weeks following that announcement.
RECOMMENDED: These are the best books of 2021 according to the New York Public Library
Below were NYC libraries' top checkouts of 2021:
1. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
2. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
3. A Promised Land by Barack Obama
4. The Guest List by Lucy Foley
5. Caste: the Origins of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
6. Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hing
7. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
8. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
9. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
10. Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
5. The Guest List: A Novel by Lucy Foley
8. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
9. Anxious People: A Novel by Fredrik Backman translated by Neil Smith
10. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
Systemwide:
1. The Vanishing Half: A Novel by Brit Bennett
2. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3. Klara and the Sun: A Novel by Kazuo Ishiguro
8. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our
Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb
9. The Other Black Girl: A Novel by Zakiya Dalila Harris
10. Malibu Rising: A Novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Bronx:
3. 21st Birthday by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
4. A Gambling Man by David Baldacci
6. The Russian by James Patterson and James O. Born
7. The Affair: A Novel by Danielle Steel
8. The Red Book by James Patterson and David Ellis
9. Win by Harlan Coben
10. Neighbors: A Novel by Danielle Steel
5. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
7. Such A Fun Age: A Novel by Kiley Reid
10. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Staten Island:
3. Neighbors: A Novel by Danielle Steel
4. Legacy by Nora Roberts
6. Deadly Cross by James Patterson
7. Eternal by Lisa Scottoline
10. The Affair: A Novel by Danielle Steel
They also released the top checkouts for young adults, which contained quite a few series, from Twilight to Shadow and Bone:
Brooklyn Public Library Top 10 Checkouts for Young Adults
1. One of Us Is Lying by Karen M McManus
2. Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto
3. A Court of Thorns and Roses: Book 1 by Sarah J Maas
4. Shadow and Bone: The Grisha Trilogy, Book 1 by Leigh Bardugo
5. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes: The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins
6. Midnight Sun: Twilight Series, Book 5 by Stephanie Meyer
7. We Were Liars by E Lockhart
8. Bleach by Tite Kubo
9. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
10. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
NYPL Top 10 Checkouts for Young Adults
4. One of Us Is Lying: Book 1 by Karen M.
5. Siege and Storm: The Grisha Trilogy, Book 2 by Leigh Bardugo
6. Crooked Kingdom: Dregs Series, Book 2 by Leigh Bardugo
7. The Cruel Prince: Folk of the Air Series, Book 1 by Holly Black
8. Five Total Strangers by Natalie D. Richards
10. One of Us Is Next: The Sequel to One of Us Is Lying by Karen M.
Queens Public Library Top 10 Checkouts for Young Adults
2. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
5. They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
6. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
8. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series,
Book 1 by Sarah J Maas
10. The Fault in our Stars by John Green
You can find out which books were the top checked out by children at nypl.org, bklynlib.org or queenslibrary.org.
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Broome County Man Accused of Murdering Girlfriend's Brother in Chenango Bridge
Broome County Sheriff's officials say a man is accused of fatally stabbing his girlfriend's brother after an earlier argument with the woman.
Delaware County Man Accused of Threatening Deputies With Weapon
A Delaware County man is accused of threatening Deputies with a knife as they attempted to arrest him on a Warrant.
Man Charged in Motel Machete Attack in Oneonta
An Oneonta-area man is in custody following an assault that sent the victim to the hospital.
Attempted Murder in Chenango County
New York State Police say a Chenango County man is facing several felony charges including Attempted Murder.
Three Men Charged After Endicott Woman is Hit By Pellet
Endicott police say three people face felony assault charges following an incident on the village's North Side.
Walton Woman Charged With Felonies in Thanksgiving Fight
A Delaware County woman is facing felony charges following an altercation early in the morning of Thanksgiving Day.
Deposit Man On Trial for Shooting New York State Trooper
The trial is underway for a Broome County man charged with attempted first degree murder in the shooting of a New York State Trooper.
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The Deposit man accused of shooting and wounding a New York State Trooper in June has a date in Broome County Court scheduled for October 21.
Man Charged in Police Pursuit Crash that Hurt 90-Year-Old Woman
A 20-year-old Endwell man faces felony assault and reckless endangerment charges after a stolen pickup truck crashed into a car, seriously injuring a woman.
Man Guilty of Attempted Murder, Assault in Broome County Attacks
A man who was a fugitive from Pennsylvania has pleaded guilty to attempted murder in an incident in which a 71-year-old town of Barker resident was stabbed several times. 30-year-old Matthew Bonser of Nanticoke, Pennsylvania had been accused of breaking into an Ellerson Road home and attacking a man on April 17...
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Binghamton Man Sentenced for Repeatedly Stabbing Infant, Girlfriend
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A new mechanism to detect latent HIV
Added January 12th 2020, 6:57 AM
Ever since antiretroviral treatments against HIV infection were introduced in 1996, scientists have eagerly been hunting for a cure for the disease.
Although drugs can allow people infected with HIV to live normal, healthy lives, people infected by HIV have to take antiretroviral treatments for as long as they live. Little bits of virus can lie dormant in immune cells for years, so that if patients stop taking the drugs, the dormant virus can come out of hiding and re-infect the patient
And now, as the first people to start taking this treatment are entering middle or old age, doctors are seeing side effects from inflammation that are caused by having even tiny amounts of HIV in your blood. That's yet another reason for developing a cure for the disease.
Now, researchers have uncovered a previously unknown way in which the body's immune system can detect and respond to HIV infection -- which could help improve the chances of developing a cure.
Their results have been published in Nature Communications.
To understand exactly what the researchers did requires a refresher course in how HIV actually works inside the body and how the body responds.
When the virus gets into the body, it infects the very cells that the body would use to combat it -- these are called CD4 T helper cells, or CD4 T cells.
Once the T cells are infected, they can't do their part in helping protect the body from other diseases or infections. That's why the illness that people get from HIV infection is called Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS.
Someone with full-blown AIDS would have almost no T cells, and they could die of any number of different infections or diseases that wouldn't normally afflict someone with a healthy immune system.
"Today we have treatments that can stop HIV from replicating itself, and the T helper cells can come back," said a co-first author of the article. "You can live a perfectly healthy life, but you have to take medicine your whole life, because the day you stop treating it, the virus will come back."
The virus comes back if antiretroviral therapy is stopped because HIV hides its genetic material inside T cells that are dormant. That means there's always the potential for more virus to appear and wreak havoc.
These reservoirs of virus have spurred a worldwide hunt for ways to shock, or kick the virus out of the cells where it lies dormant.
If the virus that lies dormant in cells could be smoked out into the open, the formally dormant virus could then be killed by the body's immune system or drugs, and that would leave the patient HIV free, and cured, the author said.
"We need to activate the virus so it can start replicating, and that will make the cell visible to the immune system," the author said. "That is the current idea for a cure. We just need to activate cells that are hiding away so we can kill them, while we give medicine that protects cells from infection, because there will be more virus produced."
One such clinical trial in the UK, called the RIVER study, tried this approach but reported last year that the trial did not succeed, the author said.
HIV comes in different varieties, and not all varieties are equally able to infect all T helper cells. To infect a cell, the virus has to have a specific ligand, which functions like a key, that has to match up on the target cell with the right kind of receptor, or keyhole.
When a T helper cell doesn't have the receptor that matches the ligand on the HIV virus trying to infect the cell, that means the virus can't actively infect that T cell. Instead, the virus can get trapped in a vesicle in the cell called an endosome.
The researchers decided to look at what happened with uninfected T helper cells that had trapped HIV in endosomes. The uninfected cell responds to the HIV in the endosome by destroying the contents of the endosome, the author said.
What the researchers found was when the endosome destroys the HIV, some of the genetic material is exposed to the T cell, which in turn activates a type of molecule called TLR8. This in turn results in the production of substances called cytokines, which cause inflammation in the body.
One reason this is surprising is that T cells are part of our immune system called the "adaptive" immune system, which responds to specific infectious substances over time.
Our immune system also has an "innate" part, which we are born with, and which provides more general immune protection by recognizing and responding to bits of viruses or bacteria that are common across many different viruses or bacteria.
TLR8 is a part of the body's innate immune system. T cells are part of the adaptive immune system. Generally, it has been thought that these two systems were separate, independent branches.
"In this study we show that a receptor associated with the innate system actually exists and functions in the adaptive immune system," the author said.
he inflammation caused by the cytokines helps to wake up T cells that had formally been dormant and that contain HIV genetic material, said the other co-first author of the study.
"The T cell detects the virus and produces cytokines, and these cytokines act on cells that are properly infected with HIV and makes them produce more virus. The dormant T helper cells produce virus, and the T cells that were actively producing virus will produce more of it," the author said.
In other words, the TLR8 signal and cytokine-induced inflammation shock the HIV out of the dormant cells -- where it can be destroyed.
The destruction of HIV by endosomes and the associated inflammation may also be one reason why patients who have been on antiretroviral treatments for decades are now beginning to develop inflammatory diseases more commonly associated with people decades older.
These include dementia, cardiovascular diseases, metabolic syndrome and cancers that aren't related to HIV.
The author said that the mechanism where endosomes destroy HIV might release enough genetic material to trigger the T cell's innate immune receptors to cause inflammation.
"Today we have very efficient drugs for suppressing HIV. However, we are not able to eradicate the virus and just weeks after patients stop medication the virus will reappear from virus reservoirs. Researchers and scientists believe that we can find a cure for HIV if we are able to eradicate these reservoirs," another author said.
https://norwegianscitechnews.com/2020/01/new-mechanism-allows-the-immune-system-to-detect-and-respond-to-hiv/
http://sciencemission.com/site/index.php?page=news&type=view&id=publications%2Fsensing-of-hiv-1-by&filter=22


A cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas has been reached, according to Egypt's foreign minister announced Wednesday at a news conference.
The cease-fire is scheduled to take effect at 9:00PM local time (2:00PM ET), Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr said.
On Tuesday, Hamas, through Egypt, proposed a ceasefire deal which included their terms: stop assassinations; stop rocket fire from Gaza; ease border crossings (not open totally); the guarantor of ceasefire is the Egyptian government.
Israel claimed the demands asked too much of Israel, and the truce deal languished. Today, while Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in Israel with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the ceasefire was reportedly agreed to, although the exact and final terms have not been publicized.
According to Al Jazeera, Israel agreed to the ceasefire, but refused to lift or even ease the economic blockade on Gaza, which is causing severe poverty and suffering.


my problem is the following: my mined Monero have been withdrawn to an address that I never put into.
I don't know who put that address in the system. I didn't, for sure.
Anyone else has had the same problem?
It has been over a week and half and the transaction STILL has not processed.
Does anyone at MinerGate care about customer service?
mine took 4 days to process. Thankfully I still got paid.
Admin please get in touch with me, i have sent emails to support@changelly.com, no response after 72 hours. Still no bitcoin received either.
If this is what is going to happen without response from Minergate and changely I can only think that it is being run by kids without any sense of responsibility. I am out of here. Bad Karma.
I have the same problem as the previous post.
Tried withdrawing 0.3 XMR to BTC (coinbase wallet) via changelly. Changelly created minergate invoice and I paid minergate invoice from my minergate account. But the withdrawl shows up as Pending in Minergate and there is no transaction hash generated.
Admin, can you please check the status and revert back.
So far I have had at least four transaction stuck on pending. The transaction hash does not link to a valid transaction in the block chain.
If you cannot get the withdrawal feature to work, without issues +90% of the time, disable it until you can. This is BEYOND ridiculous!!!!


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(Office of the NY Governor via AP)ALBANY, N.Y. – New York's attorney general has promised a thorough investigation of allegations that Gov. Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins said Wednesday that if the investigation shows something inappropriate did happen, Cuomo should resign. If Cuomo refused to go, one option could be impeachment. No lawmakers have expressed public support for censuring Cuomo amid the investigation, and there's no indication it's being floated as an option down the road. It's also possible that a prosecutor could bring criminal penalties based on the attorney general's report, according to Rifkin.


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Generalized linear sampling method for elastic-wave sensing of heterogeneous fractures
Fatemeh Pourahmadian, Bojan B. Guzina, Houssem Haddar
Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
A theoretical foundation is developed for the active seismic reconstruction of fractures endowed with spatially varying interfacial conditions (e.g. partially closed fractures, hydraulic fractures). The proposed indicator functional carries a superior localization property with no significant sensitivity to the fracture's contact condition, measurement errors, or illumination frequency. This is accomplished through the paradigm of the Fω-factorization technique and the recently developed generalized linear sampling method (GLSM) applied to elastodynamics. The direct scattering problem is formulated in the frequency domain where the fracture surface is illuminated by a set of incident plane waves, while monitoring the induced scattered field in the form of (elastic) farfield patterns. The analysis of the well-posedness of the forward problem leads to an admissibility condition on the fracture's (linearized) contact parameters. This in turn contributes to the establishment of the applicability of the Fω-factorization method, and consequently aids the formulation of a convex GLSM cost functional whose minimizer can be computed without iterations. Such a minimizer is then used to construct a robust fracture indicator function, whose performance is illustrated through a set of numerical experiments. For completeness, the results of the GLSM reconstruction are compared to those obtained by the classical linear sampling method (LSM).
Inverse Problems
https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6420/33/5/055007
The second author kindly acknowledges the support provided by the National Science Foundation (grant #1536110) and the University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute.
elastic waves
hydraulic fractures
inverse scattering
linear sampling method
seismic imaging
specific stiffness
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GRIPPED WITH FEAR
BBC faked a pandemic like coronavirus in Surrey two years ago — now it's close to reality
Grant Rollings
Patrick Gysin
Mar 2 2020, 19:39 ET
Updated: Mar 3 2020, 4:00 ET
IT was meant to be a groundbreaking experiment — a hypothetical "shock horror" glimpse into an apocalyptic future.
Set in Haslemere, Surrey, 2018 BBC show Contagion! set out to portray what would happen if a deadly disease gripped Britain.
TV mathematician Doctor Hannah Fry played 'Patient Zero' in the 2018 showCredit: BBC Press Handout
A grim notice was put up in Haslemere after a local man became the first to contract coronavirus in BritainCredit: Facebook
TV mathematician Doctor Hannah Fry played "Patient Zero", a woman infected with a deadly virus who unwittingly becomes a super-spreader as she visits the pub, does some yoga and shops.
Within three days, 86 per cent of the people taking part in the trial had "caught" the disease in the Surrey town.
Fast-forward two years and, in a disturbing coincidence, Haslemere finds itself at the centre of a frantic search for a real-life Patient Zero who has spread the deadly coronavirus.
Visitors to the town yesterday spotted a homemade sign pinned to an electricity box by a local wit who, referencing the virus's epicentre in China, has written: "Haslemere — twinned with Wuhan."
But today, few are laughing in the prosperous commuter town of 10,000 people.
Last night the streets were eerily quiet as locals were gripped with fear of contracting the respiratory disease that has so far killed more than 3,000 people worldwide.
Residents have deserted the High Street and some of those who have braved the outside world are wearing masks.
The Surrey town is now a zone of national concern as it is home to the first person in Britain known to have contracted the flu-like virus without having travelled abroad to a hotspot such as Italy, Iran or China.
Haslemere's first confirmed case of coronavirus created a "family cluster" of three more people who have tested positive — one in Surrey and two in neighbouring West Sussex.
But while the identity of the man — who had presented himself at the Haslemere Health Centre GP surgery — is known to medics, the burning questions are: Who gave him the disease? Who is Patient X? And are they a super-spreader?
WHO IS PATIENT X?
Locals and officials are desperate for answers, with some people frustrated at the lack of information released about who is ill.
Resident Angela Turner, 39, said: "If we know who it is, we can avoid their home. If we know their identity, it will stop all the speculation on social media.
"It can't be pleasant for them but at least they are isolated from everyone."
Tracy Daring, 62, added that rumours are rife that Patient X is a commuter: "The real worry is if the person is going back and forth to London every day.
"The train takes just under an hour and they could be infecting a lot of people, depending on what time they travel — the trains of a morning are usually packed in rush hour."
Kevin Carthy, 44, who commutes from the affluent market town into London, said: "The place is a lot quieter than usual and people are worried — even more so because we don't know who the person is with the virus and where they have been."
Meanwhile, the town is doing everything it can to minimise the risk, while still allowing regular life to carry on.
Haslemere's Camelsdale Primary School has told parents that a family linked to the school will remain in self- isolation until Friday after members spent time with one of the town's confirmed cases last month.
But head teacher Sarah Palmer said the school, which has 215 pupils aged four to 11, would stay open based on the Health Secretary's advice.
The Prince Of Wales pub has a sign outside telling customers it is closed until further notice as someone who visited it has tested positive for coronavirus.
Haslemere Health Centre has now reopened having been shut for a deep clean. The Royal British Legion Club in the nearby village of Hindhead has also been temporarily closed for a deep clean after one of Surrey's confirmed cases of coronavirus visited.
A member of staff there said the move came on the advice of Public Health England, which had been in touch after tracing known contacts of the Surrey man who first tested positive.
Panic buying has seen anti-bacterial handwash and hand gel sell out in the town's Boots and Lloyds Pharmacy.
Mayor John Robini urged people to stay calm, follow the health advice and continue to support local businesses.
With its links to the outside world, Haslemere is exactly the kind of place that would be on the front line when a virus sweeps in from abroad.
The BBC's Contagion! suggested that illness might start in Asia, which it did, and that it would spread remarkably quickly. In the groundbreaking TV experiment, 30,000 volunteers across Britain downloaded an app which registered whenever they came within 20 metres of the phone of an "infected" participant.
In the show, a team of scientists assessed the data and predicted that such a pandemic would hit 43million people across the UK, leading to 900,000 deaths.
At the time Dr Fry, an associate professor at University College London, wrote: "At some point in the future — possibly the very near future — Britain will be hit by a deadly pandemic, and its impact could be utterly devastating."
She can only hope her words do not come back to haunt her.
sign at Haslemere Health Centre in Surrey, which has closed temporarily for cleaningCredit: PA:Press Association
Coronavirus cases 'will surge in their thousands by NEXT WEEK' and three 'critical' weeks were lost in containing the spread because CDC tests failed


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TUCSON -- The first day of the rest of the winding and unlikely cycling life of Floyd Landis dawns at an equally unlikely landmark: a huddle of crumbling concrete structures that sit on open desert just off Interstate 8 between Phoenix and Tucson.
Built in the early '80s and abandoned by an electronics company that went belly-up, The Domes, as they're known, were coated with spray foam whose skin has peeled away over time to reveal a deep honeycomb hue beneath. Multicolored graffiti is slathered inside and out. Charred wood and telltale odors bear witness to other recent visitors. It has the feel of an outdated sci-fi movie set.
Barbed wire separating the odd venue from the road has been bent by past pilgrims until it almost touches the ground. Landis easily steps over it to join the dozen riders under contract with Floyd's Pro Cycling for the 2019 season as they pose at the mouth of one flying-saucer-shaped edifice in bright teal kits that pop against the darkness behind them.
Exercising his prerogative as team owner, Landis has eschewed Spandex for jeans and a T-shirt emblazoned with the logo for the Floyd's of Leadville brand, which markets hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD) products. He stands among the riders at first and then is asked to move into the foreground. "I don't know what to do with my hands,'' he says, laughing. He finally slips them into his front pockets and adopts a pleasantly stoic expression.
Not so long ago, this scene would have seemed an implausible sequel to what came before. Landis broke into the sport as a fallen-away Mennonite mountain biker, switched to road racing and became a domestique for the dynastic U.S. Postal Service squad. That was followed in quick succession by stints as Phonak team leader, short-lived Tour de France title holder, bunkered-in doping defendant, swindler of aggrieved supporters and, in an explosive denouement, angry subversive whose confessions triggered the slow-moving tsunami that eventually swept away the myth of Lance Armstrong.
Landis -- later backed by the U.S. Department of Justice -- sued Armstrong and his business partners in federal court, claiming they had defrauded the Postal Service. As the case dawdled through eight years of legal maneuvering, Landis retreated from the public eye, wrestled with depression, then emerged on more solid ground with a committed relationship, a young daughter and a new venture in the burgeoning cannabis industry.
His bond with bike racing remained fraught. Most of his better-known contemporaries survived their own doping revelations and found niches in the sport. But Landis didn't contemplate clipping back into that world until last summer, after a settlement in the federal suit left him with roughly $1 million, before taxes and legal fees, for his role as whistleblower.
Last year was a deflating one for North American riders, as several established domestic teams teetered economically. Silber Pro Cycling, a Canadian developmental team directed by respected former pro Gord Fraser, entered its fifth and final year of existence without any successor sponsor in the wings.
The idea of rescuing the team appealed to Landis for several reasons, not least of which was that Silber's management company was licensed in Canada and thus a step removed from his contentious history with USA Cycling. He pledged about half of the settlement toward the sponsorship, which was announced in October. The team eventually took the name "Floyd's Pro Cycling'' rather than referencing the Leadville brand because of Canadian regulations regarding promotion of CBD products.
Call it paying things forward. Call it paid advertising. Call it a thumb in the eye of those who would prefer he stay out of cycling. Call it all of the above. There's no blood test for sincerity, but Landis says he hopes people will recognize his motivation to help. Younger riders, he says, remind him of a time when riding his bike was an uncomplicated endeavor.
After Friday's photo shoot and training ride, Travis McCabe stretches on the floor of a high-ceilinged living room in the house rented for the team's preseason camp. The breathtaking, green-and-gold landscape of Saguaro National Park glows beyond the picture windows. Fittingly for a team that will race on varied surfaces -- McCabe is stoked to ride his hometown "Whiskey 50" mountain bike event next month in Prescott, Arizona -- the house is on an unpaved road.
This isn't where McCabe might have pictured himself in August 2018, when he was scoring stage wins in the Colorado Classic and the Tour of Utah yet faced an uncertain future. United Healthcare, one of the longest-running and most stable sponsors in the domestic peloton, was bowing out, and the gifted sprinter was looking for a new ride in a tight market that saw several other teams struggling and downsizing.
McCabe, 29, was well-acquainted with Fraser, a longtime Tucson resident, and listened intently when Fraser said he'd landed a then-unnamed but intriguing backer. The rider had no second thoughts when he found out who it was.
"Honestly, I've gotten a lot more positive comments than negative,'' says McCabe, who also considered joining the team sponsored by George Hincapie, a stalwart on several teams, including the Armstrong-led Postal.
Landis' saga isn't exactly ancient history to McCabe and his teammates, but enough time has elapsed that it isn't a deal-breaker, and they appear to regard him as a benign benefactor. It was Fraser's role as hands-on director that was key for most of the riders, who range from age 19 to 34 and represent the usual mix of youth and experience that characterizes a Continental-level team, the third tier of elite competition.
The roster includes six Canadians, one apiece from Australia and Romania, and four U.S. riders. Noah Granigan, 23, is wrapping up an engineering degree at the University of Colorado, where he was part of a national collegiate championship, and 29-year-old Jake Sitler, whose wife is expecting their first child, works for Floyd's of Leadville in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where Landis grew up. The company will open a combination bike shop-café in downtown Lancaster this spring and, thanks to recent changes in state agricultural law, is currently in talks with local farmers about growing hemp from proprietary seed.
Then Landis is asked to make a few opening remarks.
Another Leadville staffer tells the team to be informed and ready if fans or media ask about CBD products, which are marketed as remedies for pain, inflammation, anxiety and sleep disorders, but feel no pressure to use them. Some CBD products have trace amounts of THC, whose psychoactive effects produce a high, and others are processed to eliminate it. The World Anti-Doping Agency prohibits cannabis in-competition only, but the riders are advised to steer clear of usage habits that could trigger an adverse test result.
That night, the team gathers for its first public appearance, a party in the back room of a restaurant called Culinary Dropout. Veteran race announcer Dave Towle serves as master of ceremonies and introduces each rider with his customary booming voice and unrestrained enthusiasm. In a side conversation, Towle says he came out of loyalty to Landis, who showed up and offered support when he was hospitalized with a life-threatening case of acute pancreatitis in 2017 -- even though Towle had distanced himself from Landis for a time during the height of the Armstrong drama.
Some people clap and turn their heads, searching for Landis, but he's mingling out of the spotlight, and the moment of acknowledgment passes. That's OK with him. Being there is enough.


Our daughters turned 18 and 20 this past week. The youngest technically becoming an adult (according to the state of Minnesota) and the oldest leaving the teen years behind. It is somewhat startling to look back and realize how quickly those years went by. And somewhat confusing as we move forward trying to "parent" our adult children and face an empty nest in the fall.
I have mentioned in a previous blog that I was never planning to get married and if I got married I was never planning to have children. Fortunately, God had different plans for my life that included a husband and children.
Over the years my husband and I received plenty of parenting advice from other parents, Bible studies, and books that helped us through various ages, stages and bumps in the road. But somehow, we missed how hard it was going to be to have the girls leave home. And they must have offered the "Parenting Your Adult Children 101" class when we were out of town.
When our first daughter moved way to college we decided we did not like the phrase "letting go." But instead prefer the phrase "stretching the umbilical cord." We wanted her to clearly understand that we would always be there for her when needed and that we would always be connected.
As I look ahead to the fall with both daughters in college I also think back to the verses we prayed over them as infants. Verses that ring especially true for our girls as they have moved and will move away from home.
On the morning our oldest turned 20, I woke up missing her so much that I cleared my schedule, hopped in the car, and drove 7 hours to spend part of her birthday with her. As she ran out of the dorm - huge smile on her face - and flung herself into my arms for the longest, tightest hug imaginable I could barely squeeze the words "I love you" past my constricted throat.
Thank you, Lord Jesus, for daughters who know and love you. May they keep you at the center of their lives. May they make the choices they face prayerfully. May they seek your guidance and your wisdom daily. Amen.