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The Dialogue in the Name of the Future is opening in Moscow
On December 2, the 8th Dialogue in the Name of the Future – a large-scale research and educational program with the participation of young experts from different countries – is opening in Moscow. In addition to discussions of top international problems, one of the main topics of the event will be dedicated to influence of innovation technologies on the system of international relations.
International relations have always been and remain at the intersection of different areas, which allows them adopting and using achievements of both humanities scholars and people of technical thinking. More and more attention is given to social media, which has suddenly revealed itself in big-league politics; active discussions about the role of artificial intelligence in making decisions on an intergovernmental level take place and much more.
The Dialogue in the Name of the Future will unite experts in foreign affairs and modern technologies and will provide the participants and the audience with an opportunity to discuss a wide spectrum of issues and deepen their knowledge in various fields of science about international relations.
The main part of the program will be a traditional meeting between the participants of the project and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov.
The event will last till December 8. Among the participants are representatives of different countries: Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Armenia, Belarus, Serbia, Azerbaijan Moldova, USA, Montenegro, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, France, Germany and others.
The Dialogue in the Name of the Future will be the first part of the large-scale International Educational Project "Synthesis of Public Diplomacy and Modern Technologies as a New Trend in International Relations", which has been sponsored by the Presidential Grants Foundation. The main organizer of the project is the Primakov Center for Foreign Policy Cooperation. The Alexander Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund and the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations RAS (IMEMO RAS) have become partners of the event.
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Amazon may offer to buy India's Flipkart: report
Apr 5, 2018 | Daily Updates | 0 |
Amazon.com Inc may make a rival offer to buy Indian e-commerce firm Flipkart, which is in tie-up talks with Walmart Inc, local media reported, as the two U.S. retail giants jostle for dominance in India's booming online industry.
Amazon held early exploratory talks to buy control of Indian rival Flipkart but a deal with Walmart is more likely, daily newspaper Mint said on Wednesday, citing people with knowledge of the matter.
One person familiar with the matter told Reuters that the probability of a deal with Amazon was low, and that any such deal could spark monopoly concerns as Flipkart and Amazon dominate India's e-commerce market. The person declined to be identified as discussions were private.
Amazon declined to comment when contacted by Reuters. Flipkart and Walmart did not respond to requests for comment.
Walmart is in talks to buy over 40 percent of Flipkart in potentially one of its biggest overseas deals, Reuters reported in February. A deal would give the world's largest brick-and-mortar retailer access to an e-commerce market that Morgan Stanley estimated to be worth $200 billion in a decade's time.
The deal would also represent a direct challenge to Amazon in Asia's third-largest economy. Amazon has committed to investing $5 billion in India as it expands into online grocery delivery.
Walmart will buy a majority stake in Flipkart through a mix of primary and secondary share purchases in a deal that could value the Indian firm at $21 billion, Mint reported.
Flipkart, founded by former Amazon employees Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal in 2007, controls nearly 40 percent of India's online retail market, ahead of Amazon, showed estimates by researcher Forrester.
Like Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the pair began by selling books and diversified rapidly, including by selling smartphones through exclusive flash sales. Flipkart now competes with Amazon on almost all product categories.
Flipkart's success has attracted a bevy of deep-pocketed and tech-savvy investors including U.S. hedge fund Tiger Global Management LLC, online marketplace eBay Inc and software maker Microsoft Corp, as well as Chinese technology firm Tencent Holdings Ltd.
It was valued at around $12 billion when Japan's SoftBank Group Corp's Vision Fund bought roughly a fifth of the firm last year for $2.5 billion.
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ROSSIYSKAYA GAZETA publishes an opinion article by journalist Vitaly Dymarsky who writes that the latest quotes from major national leaders suggest that, in the face of the global financial crisis, everyone is criticising the faults of liberal (American) capitalism and turning to tight government economic control, if not to socialism. The author believes that the speeches and actions of Sarkozy in France, Berlusconi in Italy and others suggest just that. In the U.S., he writes, George Bush keeps hailing the 'eternal values of economic liberalism' while his administration is conducting the quiet nationalisation of a good chunk of the financial sector.
The writer says excessive use of government control, especially in the U.S., where the administration is helping out those who suffered because of their own greed, is like putting out fire with kerosene. In Russia, he says, government assistance to businesses is justified, especially in the case of businesses partly belonging to the state. However, he says, Russia has to make sure that after the crisis business will again be running in accordance with the laws of economics.
IZVESTIA has an article by veteran Russian journalist and commentator Malor Sturua who now lives in the U.S. Sturua writes that public opinion surveys outside the United States show a 4 to 1 preference for Obama over McCain as the next U.S. president. That, he argues, has nothing to do with the Democratic candidate's personal charisma and everything with the world's expectations: the world wants America to change.
The author writes that the world is stuck with the U.S. as one Siamese twin with the other. They say that when America has a runny nose, the whole world sneezes. The world, he continues, is uncomfortable with today's America. It hates America, but it also loves America and wishes it good. That is why Obama's main slogan, 'Change', is so dear to the hearts of the world community, and that's why a great majority of non-Americans want Obama to win.
VREMYA NOVOSTEI writes that control over nuclear arsenals may become the factor that could help repair Russia-U.S. relations, which at the moment are stuck at their lowest point in decades. The paper quotes a recent speech by the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, who suggested a new round of bilateral negotiations on nuclear arms reduction is a necessity for both nations and for the world. Gates announced that if asked to, he would advise the next U.S. president not to procrastinate on the issue, as the treaty that currently regulates Russia-U.S. nuclear arms reductions expires in 2009. Gates also concentrated on the issue of the safety and security of existing American and Russian nuclear weapons storages.
The paper quotes Aleksandr Pikayev, the Head of Disarmament and Conflict Management of the Institute of the World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences who says the concern over the state of security of the U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals expressed by the head of the Pentagon is understandable: both Russia and the U.S. agree that if there is even a tenth of a per cent chance of a nuclear weapon falling in the hands of terrorists, it may have irreparable consequences for both nations – loss of life and destruction on a grand scale.
NEZAVISIMAYA GAZETA publishes an article by Ekaterina Kuznetsova who writes that the crisis is threatening Russia's status as an energy superpower. She writes the falling oil prices may damage the real economy as the state budget was calculated with high oil prices in mind, and gas importers are showing signals of a preference for liquid petroleum gas (LPG) delivered by tankers over natural gas delivered by pipelines. The writer says the financial crisis sets a new agenda for Russia's energy sector, and failure to acknowledge that and take necessary steps may prove fatal for the industry's role as the main hard currency earner.
KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA has an exclusive interview with the well-known U.S. senior statesman, Zbigniew Brzezinski, who is now Barack Obama's advisor on foreign policy. 'The Best Enemy of the USSR' as the paper calls him, Brzezinski now says that he has nothing against Russia, but he also has a piece of advice for Russia: 'to forget imperial ambitions' and decentralise government in such a way that would allow independent centres of power and capital growth in Moscow, Siberia and the Far East. He says it wouldn't bring any danger of the disintegration of the country. It doesn't in America where there are such different but equally strong centres as, for instance, New York and Los Angeles.


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Mrs. Beatrice Wade Moore
Sister Beatrice Wade-Moore, Miss Bee as she was fondly called, was born September 1, 1919, to the union of the late Rev. Alonzo "A.L." Wade and Mrs. Commie Williams-Wade in Gibson County, Fruitland, TN. Beatrice was the third child born to this union. Two brothers preceded her in death. Mrs. Wade-Moore came to Christ in 1926 under the pastorate of Rev. R.O. Lankford, and united with Lane Chapel C.M.E. Church. Since her father was a C.M.E. Minister, she spent most of her time going to many of the churches in West TN. She attended the Annual Conference, Union City District, Brownsville District, Dyersburg District, Memphis, TN, Jackson, TN where she dedicated, devoted and faithful. She attended both District and Annual Conferences. Her parents were sharecroppers, she grew up on a farm, and participated in a lot of farm work. Her parents wanted her to have a good education; they relocated to Humboldt, TN. Miss Bee attended Stigall Elementary School in Humboldt, TN, however she graduated from Rosenwald High School in Trenton, TN in 1940 where she was an excellent student. Miss Bee earned a BA degree in 1944 from Lane College in Jackson, TN graduating with honors. Later she attended Tennessee State University where she received her master's degree in Education and Administration, focusing on a PHD. She walked and drove in rain and snow to do the job she loved the most. Miss Bee's teaching career was in West Tennessee, Middle Tennessee, and the State of Illinois doing what she was called to do with love, pride, and joy. She retired after forty years of service, from Gibson County School District where she received many honors and certificates of distinction from various counties. She continued to teach basic education to adults after retirement. There were many lay persons, ministers, Bishops, and friends that helped her along the way. She touched many lives of all ethnicity, who have moved on to become very successful, "doctors, policeman, lawyers, teachers, pastors, and some who served in the United States Military. Her motto was "come to learn and not to play." Wherever she went she was loved and respected by all. Her adult affiliation included the District, Local Connection, and General Conference. She was a delegate for both District and Annual Conference. On many occasions she was asked several times to be the speaker. The positions she held were President of the Stewardess Board, Treasure of the Stewardess Board, Secretary of the Sunday School, Sunday School teachers, District Assistance, and Lay Leader. Miss Bee was a member of the Order of Eastern Star, Sun Rise Chapter No.24 of the Jurisdiction of Tennessee. She served as Ruth of the Star. She had a great love for traveling to the Grand Session and met many people who became life-long acquaintances. In addition to being encouraged by her parents, there were others such as school instructor in North Jackson District of the C.M.E. Church, the late Myrtle Lowery, late Mary B. Barnett, late Gussie Adams, late Juanita Morris, Gorgia wisdom, Minnie Hill, Vivian Hawkins-Robinson, Winnie L. Foster, late Addie Roe, late Neida F. Williams, Pandora Flake, and the late Myrtle House. Mrs. Beatrice married the late Mr. H.L. Moore, and no children were born to that union. He was a loving husband and father to her only son James Edward Wade. Mr. Moore was a Sergeant in the Army and received a Purple Heart. Mr. Moore preceded her death. Miss Bee has been a classmate and served with many bishops, presiding elders, pastors, and general officers, who spoke very highly of her. The community, church, and city will remember her for the spirit of love, understanding, and learning that she has shared with others in her life and will truly be missed. The church was her true love. Mrs. Beatrice Wade-Moore was a strong woman, a devoted wife and mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, aunt, and friend. She tried to instill a sense of independence, and self-worth to her devoted son James Edward Wade. She leaves to mourn her passing, her son, James Edward Wade (Joyce) of Daly City, CA. Grandchildren Sonji D. Wade of Antioch, CA, Christian D. Wade of Stockton, CA, Craig L. Snelling Esq. (Anakarita) of Oakland, CA. Great-grandchildren Marquez and William Thompson, and Miko Fox of Antioch, CA., and Christian James Wade of Stockton, CA. Late sisters-in-law Shirley (Eugene) Williams, Marie Moore Jones, brother-in-law Thomas Earl Moore. Former daughter-in-law Annie Loris Wade of Stockton, CA. A host of cousins and friends in Georgia, Michigan, Illinois, and Hawaii. Memorial Celebration will be scheduled for a later date.
Sister Beatrice Wade-Moore, Miss Bee as she was fondly called, was born September 1, 1919, to the union of the late Rev. Alonzo "A.L." Wade and Mrs. Commie Williams-Wade in Gibson County, Fruitland, TN. Beatrice was the third child... View Obituary & Service Information
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Free legal help hotline available for Nebraskans affected by COVID-19
by Sam | Mar 25, 2020 | Blog | 8 comments
COVID-19/Disaster Relief Hotline: 1-844-268-5627
Nebraskans who have questions or are experiencing legal problems due to the coronavirus/COVID-19 public health emergency now have an easy way to get legal advice and help.
The free COVID-19 Disaster Relief Hotline is available to Nebraskans affected by COVID-19 and in need of legal assistance. Hosted by Legal Aid of Nebraska, working closely with the Nebraska State Bar Association's Volunteer Lawyers Project (VLP), this Hotline aims to make key legal assistance easy and accessible.
If you are a Nebraskan facing legal issues related to the virus, or the owner of a small, locally owned business (defined by less than 50 employees, not a franchise) that is currently closed, in risk of permanent closure due to the virus, and where the payment of fees would significantly deplete your resources, the Hotline may be reached at 1-844-268-5627.
After calling 1-844-268-5627, callers will be connected to the Hotline voicemail. Callers should leave their name, phone number, brief details of the problem and the assistance needed, and in what county they are located. Callers will receive a call back from experienced Legal Aid staff. Individuals and businesses that do not qualify for Legal Aid's free services will be directly referred to the VLP. VLP will then work to place cases with Nebraska volunteer lawyers who will also provide free legal assistance.
The types of legal issues associated with COVID-19, and focused on by the Hotline, include:
Tenants with rent issues, including those facing eviction;
Debt problems, including debtors with garnishments or ordered to appear at a debtor's exam;
Mortgage foreclosures, including advising on options for delinquent payments;
Unemployment insurance denials;
Employee rights, including sick leave and wage payments;
Government benefits available to low-income persons such as ADC, SNAP, AABD, and SSI;
Medicaid and medical insurance claims;
Drafting wills, health care power of attorney, and transfer on death deeds;
Domestic abuse and safety issues;
Elder abuse and exploitation;
Access to education; and,
Helping small, locally owned businesses with business and employment related matters, including human relations issues, unemployment benefits, and contracts.
More information on these legal issues, including ways you can directly help yourself, are available at www.legalaidofnebraska.org.
If you are a lawyer interested in volunteering your valuable time and expertise to provide legal help during this crucial time, please contact Laurie Heer Dale, Director of the Volunteer Lawyers Project, at vlp@nevlp.org.
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Brandy Moore	on April 13, 2020 at 1:00 pm
I am looking for information regarding child visitation after a Covid 19 Quarantine. Specifically the right to make up time with the child. If our current court order does not have a clause regarding this issue, what can be done to regain some parenting time that was missed.
Sam	on April 13, 2020 at 1:10 pm
Legal Aid has opened its Disaster Relief Hotline for those with legal questions or legal issues related to COVID-19/Coronavirus. You can call the COVID-19 Disaster Relief Hotline at 1-844-268-5627.
Gareth Schultz	on June 28, 2020 at 2:02 pm
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Sam	on June 29, 2020 at 10:48 am
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Please call our ACCESSLINE® AT 1-877-250-2016.
Loretta Moyers/ Michael Huddleston	on July 11, 2020 at 7:40 pm
We need help, I'm on SS and my son is on disability. He recently went to the hospital in Scottsbluff to be Baker Acted. He was drunk and very stressed. We do not know why, but instead of giving him help with his mental issue the police took him to jail and charged him with a felony as a terrorist. His disability is for mental health issues. Is this something you can help us with.
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Blog Net Promoter Score (NPS): Would You Promote It?
Net Promoter Score (NPS): Would You Recommend It?
The net promoter score is based on the idea that one simple question (How likely is it that you would recommend this company to a friend or colleague?) can be used to divide customers into the three categories that most impact company growth: detractors, passives and promoters.
Detractors are unhappy customers who can damage your brand and impede growth. Passives are satisfied but unenthusiastic customers. Promoters are loyal customers who will keep buying, referring others and fuelling growth.
The percentage of promoters versus detractors is used to calculate an NPS ranging from -100 (all of your customers are detractors) to +100 (all of your customers are promoters).
The NPS was first introduced in Frederick F. Reichheld's 2003 HRB article, The One Number You Need to Grow.
Reichheld and his team tested a range of loyalty questions and found that the "would recommend" question was the best predictor of repurchases, referrals and other actions that contributed to growth in 11 of the 14 industry case studies they investigated. In those industries, the NPS also accounted for 20-60% of the variation in organic growth rates among competitors.
Reichheld proposed that businesses scrap their lengthy customer satisfaction surveys and complex loyalty algorithms in favor of one simple number: the NPS.
The core strength of the NPS is its simplicity. Replacing a lengthy customer satisfaction survey with a single question increases the likelihood that your customers will actually provide feedback. The "would recommend" question and resulting metric are also easily digestible, and so are more likely to be closely monitored by management and widely shared among employees.
One thing to note is that the NPS alone isn't specific enough to drive action. In fact, the NPS often raises more questions than it answers: Why are 20% of your customers detractors? Why are 30% of your customers passives? What's the relative importance of features or issues that led to a particular score? Are these the same issues your competitors are facing? What should you do to convert detractors/passives to promoters?
The only way to get more information is to include more questions in the original survey (sacrificing simplicity) or to commission a follow-up survey (inflates scores by pressuring consumers).
When should you skip it?
The NPS works best for benchmarking loyalty towards a single product, service or business location across time.
The fixed scores that define promoters, passives and detractors are insensitive to cultural differences in a person's likelihood to recommend a product or service, making it difficult to compare the NPS for the same product or service across different locations.
There are also a whole host of product lines, ranging from the embarrassing (adult diapers anyone?) to the downright dull (toilet cleaner, floss, sellotape), that the average person will never recommend to a friend or colleague. Does that make those people unhappy customers who can damage your brand and impede growth? No. Should you devote valuable resources to the task of switching these "detractors" to "promoters"? Probably not.
Alternatively, it may be possible to skip the loyalty question altogether. The explosion in online shopping, customer engagement programs and offline tracking technologies during the years since the introduction of the NPS means that it's now possible to track repurchases, shares and referrals, and relate them back to a specific customer lifecycle. This provides a direct measure of the actions that lead to growth and the context around those actions without relying on customer feedback.
How likely is it that you would recommend the Net Promoter Score to a friend or colleague?
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The time for thinkers has come. Truth, independent of doctrines and time-honored systems, knocks at the portal of humanity. Contentment with the past and the cold conventionality of materialism are crumbling away. Ignorance of God is no longer the stepping-stone to faith. The only guarantee of obedience is a right apprehension of Him whom to know aright is Life eternal. Though empires fall, "the Lord shall reign forever."
Since the author's discovery of the might of Truth in the treatment of disease as well as of sin, her system has been fully tested and has not been found wanting; but to reach the heights of Christian Science, man must live in obedience to its divine Principle. To develop the full might of this Science, the discords of corporeal sense must yield to the harmony of spiritual sense, even as the science of music corrects false tones and gives sweet concord to sound.
opposite. The question, What is Truth, is answered by demonstration, - by healing both disease and sin; and this demonstration shows that Christian healing confers the most health and makes the best men. On this basis Christian Science will have a fair fight. Sickness has been combated for centuries by doctors using material remedies; but the question arises, Is there less sickness because of these practitioners? A vigorous "No" is the response deducible from two connate facts, - the reputed longevity of the Antediluvians, and the rapid multiplication and increased violence of diseases since the flood.
She also began to jot down her thoughts on the main subject, but these jottings were only infantile lispings of Truth. A child drinks in the outward world through the eyes and rejoices in the draught. He is as sure of the world's existence as he is of his own; yet he cannot describe the world. He finds a few words, and with these he stammeringly attempts to convey his feeling. Later, the tongue voices the more definite thought, though still imperfectly.
So was it with the author. As a certain poet says of himself, she "lisped in numbers, for the numbers came." Certain essays written at that early date are still in circulation among her first pupils; but they are feeble attempts to state the Principle and practice of Christian healing, and are not complete nor satisfactory expositions of Truth. To-day, though rejoicing in some progress, she still finds herself a willing disciple at the heavenly gate, waiting for the Mind of Christ.
Her first pamphlet on Christian Science was copyrighted in 1870; but it did not appear in print until 1876, as she had learned that this Science must be demonstrated by healing, before a work on the subject could be profitably studied. From 1867 until 1875, copies were, however, in friendly circulation.
Before writing this work, SCIENCE AND HEALTH, she made copious notes of Scriptural exposition, which have never been published. This was during the years 1867 and 1868. These efforts show her comparative ignorance of the stupendous Life-problem up to that time, and the degrees by which she came at length to its solution; but she values them as a parent may treasure the memorials of a child's growth, and she would not have them changed.
Many imagine that the phenomena of physical healing in Christian Science present only a phase of the action of the human mind, which action in some unexplained way results in the cure of disease. On the contrary, Christian Science rationally explains that all other pathological methods are the fruits of human faith in matter, - faith in the workings, not of Spirit, but of the fleshly mind which must yield to Science.
The first school of Christian Science Mind-healing was started by the author with only one student in Lynn, Massachusetts, about the year 1867. In 1881, she opened the Massachusetts Metaphysical College in Boston, under the seal of the Commonwealth, a law relative to colleges having been passed, which enabled her to get this institution chartered for medical purposes. No charters were granted to Christian Scientists for such institutions after 1883, and up to that date, hers was the only College of this character which had been established in the United States, where Christian Science was first introduced.
In the spirit of Christ's charity, - as one who "hopeth all things, endureth all things," and is joyful to bear consolation to the sorrowing and healing to the sick, - she commits these pages to honest seekers for Truth.


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Time for the Curtain Call
Valentine's Day is typically a time for romance between lovers, but the prime minister had different ideas. Prayut chose to release a new pop single, 'Diamond Heart', a song ostensibly about how two lovers must remain steadfast together despite the challenges they face. "Make your heart a real diamond, unrelenting/Side by side today together, obstacles mean nothing/The lessons we learn are new everyday/We have to build our hearts' dream together so it's resilient", an army officer sings.
Cheesy words to say to your loved one, perhaps, but when interpreted as a metaphor for Prayut's relationship with the Thai people, not so much. Corruption scandals. Low marks for economic performance. Political protests. The first two months of 2018 has not been kind to the military government. Since coming to power, the Prayut administration has never seemed so besieged. And as a reflection of this relationship, the responses to his song were cynical. "Instead of a diamond heart, why not write a song about diamond rings and watches borrowed from friends?", asked some on social media. Others noted that new songs from the prime minister aren't needed, but new elections are.
I want to say that I've long been supportive of Prayut. Was the 2014 military coup necessary, given the political situation? Yes. Was it important for the government to maintain control while a new constitution was drafted and the royal succession seen through? Indeed it was. Has the government accomplished some successful policy objectives? I would agree. But does it have a rationale for continuing to be in power? It does not. And it seemed that the government realised that its time was up and accordingly announced an election would happen in November this year; sure, there were some issues with its timeline for lifting the ban on political activity, but at the very least Prayut seemed to be ready to return democracy to Thailand.
That changed when it was announced that elections would once again be delayed; there is now only a vague promise that a new election date would be set in June. Immediately, this sparked protests in Bangkok, a visible sign of frustration. They alone are not dangerous, for any protests would be limited and only a few would participate. But when combined with other signs of frustration, it is clear that the Prayut government is not sustainable.
What are the sources of frustration? There are many, but there is no example better than corruption. Prawit's luxury watch scandal has entirely discredited the government. His 25 (yes, 25!) watches are now a symbol of the corruption and hypocrisy of the regime and a display of how the generals have failed entirely in their self-imposed quest to wipe out corruption from Thai politics; they also personally damaging to Prayut, who has failed to sack his 'big brother'. The subsequent scandal involving Education Minister Teerakiat Jareonsettasin has only weakned the government further. As Professor Thitinan Pongsudhirak wrote in the Bangkok Post, "the Prayut government is now morally bankrupt". Prayut could perhaps right this wrong by taking belated action regarding his deputy, but clearly he does not have the personal will to do so.
So how can the government remain in power? Simply put: it is difficult. It is not only unpopular, but also unneeded. There is simply no reasoning that the government can use to rationalise continued military rule. Security fears are bogus. By the end of 2018, Prayut will have been in power longer than most elected prime ministers, and voters become weary of even once-popular elected premiers. The prime minister has served the country well, but he has to hear the music: it is the time for the curtain call on his unelected government.
If Prayut is wary of giving up power, then he must also know that it is perfectly possible for him to return to power after the election. Many would be happy for him to be prime minister again, if he were to win a democratic election, if it truly were the will of the Thai people. And there is nothing to say that it is not impossible; a recent Economist article revealed shifting loyalties in Isaan, once a Thaksinite heartland. But although not impossible, that does not mean there will be no difficulties; Thai history has proven that generals have never been very adept at running in elections, the prime minister is doing his popularity no favours by failing to combat corruption in his government.
Of course, as Professor Thitinan also remarked on in his article, "no one should be under the illusion that democracy will automatically manifest itself" after the return to elections. Greater accountability, stronger institutions, better checks and balances, respect for parliamentary democracy: all of these are as necessary as elections. But these things cannot develop while Thailand remains under an unelected military government.
Some are fearful: would Thailand not simply return to its pre-junta divisions? What if Thaksin's party returns to power? I dislike the idea of a return to street fights, and I would not vote for any party aligned with Thaksin. But in the end, we must remember two things. First, the new constitution makes it more difficult for an outright Pheu Thai win. Secondly, we all need to grow up. Two coups had already been launched against Thaksin's parties, and there is not much more than Prayut can do to de-root Thaksinite influence. In the end, if Pheu Thai really returns to power, then resistance needs to be led in a constitutional way. The Democrats need to learn how to either win elections or use parliamentary means to fight policies. For democracy to develop, Thailand needs to stop ripping apart its constitutions.
'Diamond Heart' may not be a song anywhere near as popular as Prayut's first hit 'Returning Happiness to the People'. But if he truly has a diamond heart, then he will take the most courageous path: to freely relinquish power and return democracy to the people.
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Finding The relationship between safety climate and awareness level of the HSE management system; also the relationship between safety climate and perception of risk was also getting significant. However, the relationship between perception of risk and awareness level of the HSE management system was not significant.
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One of my favorite composers!
SAme here; is the latest score he released "THE BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY"?
I think so, unless you count "Silence, Night & Dreams" which technically isn't a score but it might as well be. And utterly gorgeous.
There are some good moments in it but the vocals are TOO much for me.
Not even "released" with the known places?
You mean unofficially? I don't know for most of them. There's always an oppertuniy to make a nice dvd rip.
Well sometimes it's just the end titles that can be ripped without any sfx, but it's something at least.
P.S.: This CD comes in a Super-Jewelcase with rounded corners.
Yeah, the samples are just beautiful. I am trying to locate some extra money for it It's been long since i last heard Preisner in such an emotional musical trip, especially after the not-to-my-tastes-at-all Silence, Night and Dreams.
BIG LETTERS for the composer title thread please!
Kackzmerek was originally on that score, as I recall.
Has the score released in the US?
Can't wait to listen to the full score!
I have Bleu, and Blanc will be in my upcoming CD order. Those are the only two Preisner scores on my plate at the moment. I'd like to explore more of him.
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Q: SSRS reports - functionality reuse Every month there is a bunch of new reports delivered to customer.
And I am really starting to be pissed up and I am thinking about buying long whip on developers. The first problem is: I am quite newbie in SSRS, BIDS. I have OOP paradigm experience.
The second problem is: There is some functionality, that is always the same in every report. Like calculating YTD, YTD for current period (you are right, it is wrong we do not have this in OLAP, but with present state of project it is more realistic to win jackpot than do this change), exporting reports etc. And every second report has this wrong.
So, with my optimistic view, there could be some approach to solve it in the OOP like aproach. Like do some report from which all reports will inherite or something like this.
Any suggestions?

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\section{Introduction}
The study of impurities immersed in liquids and
solids has a long history. In 1933, Landau
predicted, using quantum mechanical arguments, that
the localization of electron impurities
in a crystal
could be used to probe the activation energy of solids~\cite{land33}.
Electron impurities have also played a key role
in the study of liquids, in particular liquid $^4$He~\cite{eHereview}.
More recently, the study of doped mesoscopic helium clusters
has attracted much attention~\cite{toen01,call01}.
Some atom impurities reside on the cluster
surface while others migrate to the center of the helium cluster.
Spectroscopic measurements of molecules located at the
center of the cluster have, e.g., shown unambiguously
that $^4$He clusters with about 60 atoms are superfluid~\cite{greb98}.

Recently, the study of impurities immersed in a gaseous, coherent atom
background has become possible~\cite{chik00,ciam02}.
Theoretical studies on, e.g., ion impurities in a condensate have been
initiated~\cite{cote02,mass05}, raising questions about the
appropriate treatment of systems with long-range
interactions
(unlike short-ranged atom-atom potentials, which behave as $1/r^6$
for large interparticle distances, atom-ion potentials fall off as $1/r^4$).
Here, we consider a neutral impurity in an inhomogeneous Bose
gas, assuming contact atom-impurity interactions~\cite{cucc}.
Treatments for more complicated
atom-impurity interactions exist~\cite{capu00,nave99,chin00}; the results may,
however, be model-dependent.
Our self-consistent mean-field
treatment provides a first step towards a systematic understanding of
impurities in a Bose condensate.  We also discuss a simple
variational treatment which reproduces the key features
of the self-consistent results.  We point towards possible experimental
signatures of our predictions, which will be aided by the possibility of tuning
the atom-atom and atom-impurity interactions in the vicinity of a Feshbach resonance
by application of an external magnetic field~\cite{inou98,corn00}.
This tunability is unique to gaseous condensate-impurity systems; it does not,
for example, exist in helium where the interaction strength is set by nature.

\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[scale=0.53]{Figure1.eps}
\caption{\label{phase}
Phase diagram for trapped Bose gas with a single impurity,
which feels no confining potential,
as a function of the number of atoms $N$ and the atom-impurity
scattering length $a_{ai}$ for equal atom and impurity mass, i.e.,
$m_i=m_a$.  The phase diagram
contains three regions: in region (A) the impurity
is unbound; in region (B) the impurity is localized
(the localization is ``weak'' for comparitively small $|a_{ai}|$
and ``strong'' for comparatively large $|a_{ai}|$, see Sec.~\ref{meanfield}
for details); and in region (C) short-ranged
physics becomes relevant.  Regions (A) and (B) are separated by a critical
value $a_{ai,c1}$
(upper bold solid line), which is approximately independent of $a_{aa}$.
Regions (B) and (C) are separated by a critical value $a_{ai,c2}$,
which is shown for $a_{aa}=0.005a_{ho}$ (lower bold
solid line), $a_{aa}=0$ (dotted line), and $a_{aa}=0.05a_{ho}$ (dashed line).}
\end{figure}

We consider a weakly-interacting Bose condensate in a harmonic trap,
doped with a single impurity.
For now, we assume that the impurity feels no external trapping
potential; later, we discuss how the presence of an impurity
trapping potential modifies the results.
Figure 1 shows the equilibrium ``phase diagram''~\cite{footnote_phase}
determined within mean-field theory as a function of the
number of atoms $N$ and the atom-impurity scattering length $a_{ai}$.
The phase diagram separates into three distinct regions:
(A) For $a_{ai}>a_{ai,c1}$, the impurity is unbound and can move away
from the trapped atom cloud.
(B) For $a_{ai,c1}>a_{ai}>a_{ai,c2}$, the impurity is
localized, i.e., bound to the atom cloud~\cite{footnote_chem}.
(C) For $a_{ai}<a_{ai,c2}$, short-range physics, which cannot
be described within mean-field theory, becomes relevant.
Regions (A) and (B) are separated by a $N$-dependent
critical value $a_{ai,c1}$ (upper solid bold line in Fig.~1), which is
approximately independent of
the atom-atom scattering length $a_{aa}$.
Since the impurity feels no trapping potential, interaction-induced localization of the impurity
occurs only if $a_{ai}$ is more attractive
than $a_{ai,c1}$.
Regions (B) and (C) are separated by a $N$-dependent
critical value $a_{ai,c2}$, which also depends on the atom-atom
scattering length $a_{aa}$.
The lower bold solid line in Fig.~1 shows
$a_{ai,c2}$ for $a_{aa}=0.005 a_{ho}$,
the dotted line that for $a_{aa}=0$,
and the dashed line that for $a_{aa}=0.05a_{ho}$.
If $a_{ai}$ is more negative than $a_{ai,c2}$,
the attractive atom-impurity interactions can ``collapse'' the condensate,
pulling atoms into a short-ranged state about the impurity.

The next section outlines the self-consistent mean-field treatment
used to calculate the phase diagram shown in Fig.~1.
Section~\ref{variational}
develops a simple variational framework, which reproduces
the key features of the full self-consistent mean-field
treatment.
Finally, Sec.~\ref{conclusion}
discusses possible experimental realizations of the systems under
study and concludes.

\section{Self-consistent mean-field treatment}
\label{meanfield}

We describe $N$ atoms
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{Figure2.eps}
\caption{\label{Attr_fig}
(color online)
Self-consistent mean-field results obtained for attractive
atom-impurity interactions, $N=10^4$, $a_{aa}=0.005a_{ho}$, and $m_i=m_a$.
Panel (a) shows the chemical potentials $\epsilon_i$ and $\epsilon_a$
as a function of $a_{ai}$.
Solid lines in panels~(b) and (c) show the effective potentials
$V_{eff,i}(r)$ and $V_{eff,a}(r)$, respectively, for a few selected
atom-impurity scattering lengths (see legend).
Dashed lines show the corresponding chemical potentials
[note that the change of $\epsilon_a$ is not visible on the scale
chosen in panel~(c)].
The insets of panels (b) and (c) show the corresponding impurity wave function
$\psi_i(r)$ and atom density $|\psi_a(r)|^2$, respectively.
The critical values $a_{ai,c1}$ and $a_{ai,c2}$ of this system
are $\approx -4 \times 10^{-5} a_{ho}$ and $-0.062 a_{ho}$, respectively.  }
\end{figure}
of mass $m_a$ in the presence of a harmonic trapping potential
with angular frequency $\omega_{ho}$ and a single
impurity of mass $m_i$, which feels
no external potential, within mean-field theory.  Assuming that the atom-atom and atom-impurity interactions
can be described by contact potentials, the many-body Hamiltonian reads
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{Hmanybody}
H &=&\sum_{j=1}^{N} \left[-\frac{\hbar^2}{2m_a}\nabla_j^2+\frac{1}{2}m_a\omega_{ho}^2 \vec{x}_j^2 \right]
-\frac{\hbar^2}{2m_i}\nabla_i^2 \nonumber\\
& &+ U_{aa}\sum_{j<k}^{N} \delta(\vec{x}_j-\vec{x}_k) + U_{ai}\sum_{j=1}^{N} \delta(\vec{x}_j-\vec{x}_i),
\end{eqnarray}
where $U_{qp}=2\pi\hbar^2 a_{qp}/m_{qp}$, $m_{qp}=m_q m_p / (m_q + m_p)$,
and $(q,p)=(a,a)$ or $(a,i)$.
In Eq.~(\ref{Hmanybody}), $\vec{x}_j$ and $\vec{x}_i$ denote
the position vectors
of the $j$th atom and the impurity, respectively.
We approximate the
ground state wave function $\Phi$ as
a product of single-particle wavefunctions,
\begin{equation}
\label{ansatz}
\Phi(\vec{x}_1,\vec{x}_2,\cdots,\vec{x}_N;\vec{x}_i) =
\left[\prod_{j=1}^N \psi_a(\vec{x}_j)\right]
 \psi_i(\vec{x}_i),
\end{equation}
and derive a set of coupled Hartree-Fock equations,
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{HFa}
 \Large[-\frac{1}{2}\frac{\partial^2}{\partial r^2}+ \frac{1}{2}r^2 + (N-1)\frac{a_{aa}}{a_{ho}}
 \frac{|\chi_a(r)|^2}{r^2}+ \nonumber \\
\frac{a_{ai}}{a_{ho}}\frac{m_a}{2m_{ai}}
\frac{|\chi_i(r)|^2}{r^2} \Large]\chi_a(r)
 =
\epsilon_a \chi_a(r)
\end{eqnarray}
and
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{HFi}
 \left[-\frac{1}{2}\frac{m_a}{m_i}\frac{\partial^2}{\partial r^2} + N\frac{a_{ai}}{a_{ho}}
 \frac{m_a}{2m_{ai}} \frac{|\chi_a(r)|^2}{r^2} \right]\chi_i(r)=
\epsilon_i \chi_i(r).
\end{eqnarray}
Here,
$a_{ho}$ denotes the oscillator length ($a_{ho}=\sqrt{\hbar/m_a \omega_{ho}}$
and $\vec{r}=a_{ho}\vec{x}$),
and $\epsilon_a$ and $\epsilon_i$
the chemical potentials (or ``orbital energies'')
of the atoms and the impurity.
The coupled mean-field equations are equivalent to
those for a two-component condensate~\cite{TBEC} if one replaces
one of the two components
by a single impurity.
In writing Eqs.~(\ref{HFa}) and (\ref{HFi}), we
have implied spherical symmetry,
$\psi_{a,i}(\vec{r})=\psi_{a,i}(r)=\frac{\chi_{a,i}(r)}{\sqrt{4\pi}r}$
with $\int_{0}^{\infty} |\chi_{a,i}(r)|^2dr =1$.
For repulsive atom-impurity interactions, not considered here,
symmetry-breaking states can exist~\cite{SSB}.

The impurity feels an effective potential $V_{eff,i}$
[defined as the second term in square brackets on the left hand side (LHS)
of Eq.~(\ref{HFi})], which is created by
the atom density $|\psi_a|^2$.
The impurity density $|\psi_i|^2$ enters Eq.~(\ref{HFa}) and creates,
together with the trapping potential and the atom density itself, an
effective
potential $V_{eff,a}$ [defined as the last three terms in square
brackets on the LHS of Eq.~(\ref{HFa})].
For weak atom-impurity interactions, the condensate atoms act
to a good approximation as a static
background with which the impurity interacts.
However, as the strength of the atom-impurity
interactions increases the full coupled nature of Eqs.~(\ref{HFa})
and (\ref{HFi}) becomes important.

We discuss the self-consistent solutions to Eqs.~(\ref{HFa})
and (\ref{HFi}), obtained by numerical means, for a specific set of parameters.
The behavior is qualititatively similar for other parameters.
Figure~\ref{Attr_fig}(a) shows the chemical potentials
$\epsilon_i$ and $\epsilon_a$ as a function of $a_{ai}$
for $N=10^4$ and $a_{aa}=0.005a_{ho}$, and $m_i=m_a$.
Equal atom and impurity masses can be realized experimentally by,
e.g., promoting a single condensate atom to a different hyperfine state~\cite{chik00}.
Figure~\ref{Attr_fig}(a) shows that the chemical potentials
$\epsilon_i$ and $\epsilon_a$ change
approximately linearly with the atom-impurity scattering length for
$-0.005\gtrsim a_{ai}/a_{ho} \gtrsim -0.05$.
This linear behavior is what one would expect from a perturbative treatment.
To visualize the system's behavior,
Figs.~\ref{Attr_fig}(b) and (c) show the effective potentials
$V_{eff,i}(r)$ and $V_{eff,a}(r)$ for a few selected atom-impurity scattering lengths.
Figure~2(b) shows that $V_{eff,i}$ becomes deeper as $a_{ai}/a_{ho}$
goes from $-0.01$ to $-0.03$ to $-0.05$.  Accordingly,
the impurity wave functions $\psi_i$, shown
in the inset of Fig.~2(b), become more localized as $|a_{ai}|$
increases.  Although $|\psi_i|^2$ changes significantly as $a_{ai}/a_{ho}$ goes from
$-0.01$ to $-0.05$, $V_{eff,a}$
and $|\psi_a|^2$ change only slightly [see Fig.~\ref{Attr_fig}(c)].

For $a_{ai}/a_{ho}\lesssim -0.05$,
the impurity chemical potential $\epsilon_i$ (and, to a lesser degree,
the atom chemical potential $\epsilon_a$) changes in a non-linear,
i.e., non-perturbative, fashion.  For the parameters at play here,
this defines the regime of strong atom-impurity coupling.
To highlight the dramatic changes of the system in this strongly-coupled regime,
Figs.~2(b) and (c) show self-consistent effective potentials
for three nearly identical atom-impurity scattering lengths,
i.e., $a_{ai}/a_{ho}=-0.06,-0.061,-0.0615$.
The peak impurity density grows with increasing $|a_{ai}|$
and creates a ``hole'' at the center of $V_{eff,a}$, which in turn causes
the atom density to grow a ``bump'' at the trap center
[see inset of Fig.~2(c)]
with a length scale of roughly the condensate healing length $\xi$.
The healing length is given by the competition
between the kinetic energy and the condensate's mean-field energy,
$\xi=1/\sqrt{8\pi\rho_a a_{aa}}$ \cite{dalf99},
where $\rho_a$ denotes the peak density of the atoms,
$\rho_a=N|\psi_a(r=0)|^2$.  For the parameters of Fig.~\ref{Attr_fig},
$\xi\approx0.26a_{ho}$.  Since the healing length $\xi$
is the scale over which the condensate ``reacts''
to spatial perturbations, it is natural that the
atom density develops a variation near the trap center of size $\xi$.

The inset of Fig.~\ref{Attr_fig}(c) illustrates the peak atom density
growth with increasing $|a_{ai}|$. To quantify this growth,
we calculate the excess number of atoms $\Delta N$ associated with the
bump of the atom density.
In analogy to a homogeneous system~\cite{mass05},
we define $\Delta N$ as
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{eq_excdef}
\Delta N = 4 \pi N \int_{0}^{r_c}
[ |\psi_a^{a_{ai} \ne 0}(r )|^2- |\psi_a^{a_{ai}=0}(r)|^2] r^2 dr,
\end{eqnarray}
where the atom wave function $\psi_a^{a_{ai} \ne 0}(r)$ is
calculated self-consistently for a Bose gas with finite atom-impurity
scattering length and
$\psi_a^{a_{ai}=0}(r)$ for a Bose gas with vanishing atom-impurity
scattering length (for the same $N$ and $m_a$).
When evaluating Eq.~(\ref{eq_excdef}) for a specific system,
we choose the cutoff radius $r_c$ to roughly coincide with the $r$-value
at which the bump of the atom density starts growing.
Triangles in Fig.~\ref{fig_excess}
show the resulting number of excess atoms $\Delta N$ for
$N=10^4$, $m_i=m_a$, $a_{aa}=0.005a_{ho}$ (the same parameters
as in Fig.~\ref{Attr_fig}) and $r_c=1 a_{ho}$ for different
values of the atom-impurity scattering length $a_{ai}$.
The number of excess atoms increases roughly
linearly with increasing $|a_{ai}|$.
Just before the onset of instability at $a_{ai,c2}\approx -0.062a_{ho}$,
the number of excess atoms $\Delta N$ reaches 12,
which corresponds to 0.12~\% of the total number of atoms.
For comparison, a dashed line in Fig.~\ref{fig_excess} shows
an estimate for the number of excess atoms
derived for a weakly-interacting impurity-doped
homogeneous Bose gas~\cite{mass05},
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{eq_excess}
\Delta N = - \frac{m_{aa}}{m_{ai}} \frac{a_{ai}}{a_{aa}}.
\end{eqnarray}
Figure~\ref{fig_excess} shows good agreement between
the number of excess atoms $\Delta N$ calculated for
the inhomogeneous impurity-doped condensate (triangles) and the
analytical expression, Eq.~(\ref{eq_excess}).
This suggests that Eq.~(\ref{eq_excess}) describes
the number of excess atoms for large enough, weakly-interacting
inhomogeneous condensates quite accurately.

\begin{figure}
\hspace{-0.3in}
\includegraphics[scale=0.25]{Figure3.eps}
\caption{\label{fig_excess}
Triangles show the number of excess atoms $\Delta N$ calculated from
Eq.~(\protect\ref{eq_excdef}) using the self-consistent
mean-field solutions for
$N=10^4$, $a_{aa}=0.005a_{ho}$ and $m_a=m_i$ (the same parameters as
in Fig.~2),
as a function of the atom-impurity scattering length $a_{ai}$.
For comparison, a dashed line shows the analytical
estimate, Eq.~(\protect\ref{eq_excess}).}
\end{figure}

Finally, if $a_{ai}$ becomes more negative than a critical value of
$a_{ai,c2} \approx -0.062 a_{ho}$,
we no longer find a self-consistent solution to
Eqs.~(\ref{HFa}) and (\ref{HFi}).
This implies that the condensate collapses,
i.e., atoms are drawn into a short-ranged state about the impurity.
It appears likely that this collapse involves only a fraction
of the condensate atoms, but a definite answer lies
beyond the scope of the present work.
Just as in the case of pure atomic condensates with
negative atom-atom scattering length,
mean-field theory predicts the onset of collapse for our coupled
equations but cannot describe
the system's behavior in the regime dominated by
short-range physics.

We now estimate the critical value $a_{ai,c1}$, which
separates the unbound impurity phase from the localized impurity
phase for $m_i=m_a$ (see upper bold solid line in Fig.~1).
The impurity feels a strictly short-ranged potential, i.e., $V_{eff,i}(r)$
falls off faster than a power-law of $r$.
Since the impurity equation, Eq.~(\ref{HFi}), is linear,
we can compare the volume-integrated strength of $V_{eff,i}$
with the corresponding critical value,
$-\frac{\pi^3}{6}\frac{\hbar^2 b}{m_i}$~\cite{Landau},
for forming a bound state in three dimensions in a potential of
range $b$.  If we identify the range $b$ with $a_{ho}$,
we find that the critical value of $a_{ai}$
scales as $1/N$, i.e., $a_{ai,c1}(N)/a_{ho}=
-\frac{\pi^2}{24 N}\approx -\frac{0.411}{N}$.
For positive $a_{aa}$, the
atom cloud is somewhat larger, and our estimate will be off
by a numerical factor of order $1$.
The upper bold solid line in Fig.~\ref{phase} shows our analytical estimate.
The results of our numerical calculations are consistent with this analytical estimate.
The critical value $a_{ai,c1}$ might be difficult to observe
experimentally since the transition from region (A) to region (B)
involves a diverging length scale.
Furthermore, it might be difficult to experimentally realize a
trapping setup with tunable atom-impurity scattering length
$a_{ai}$ for which the impurity feels no confining potential
(see also Sec.~\ref{conclusion}).

The behavior of the impurity-doped condensate was illustrated in Fig.~2
for $N=10^4$ atoms.  We find similar qualitative features for a smaller
number of atoms, including the
disappearance of the mean-field solutions.  The critical values
$a_{ai,c1}$ and $a_{ai,c2}$ vary with $N$ as shown in Fig.~1.  We note
that the notion of a condensate healing length, and thus
the discussion of the disappearance of the mean-field solution at the point when
the impurity becomes more tightly localized than this scale,
becomes less meaningful for small enough number of atoms.
It will be interesting to further investigate the properties of an impurity immersed
in a small condensate since such systems can be realized experimentally
with the aid of optical lattices.

\section{Variational treatment}
\label{variational}
To further illustrate how
the neutral impurity
alters the atom cloud,
we minimize the total energy variationally
for the Hamiltonian given in
Eq.~(\ref{Hmanybody}) and the wave function
given in Eq.~(\ref{ansatz}) with
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{psivar}
\psi_i \propto  e^{-p_i r^2}, \hspace{0.18in}\text{and}\hspace{0.18in}
\psi_a \propto  (e^{-p_a r^2}+ c\hspace{0.03in}e^{-p_b r^2}).
\end{eqnarray}
The variational parameters $p_i$ and $p_a$ determine respectively the width
of the impurity and of the atom wave function.
To be able to describe the growth of the atom peak density
in the strongly-interacting regime
and
the collapse of the condensate,
$\psi_a$ contains an additional gaussian with two more variational parameters,
the relative amplitude $c$ and parameter $p_b$.  We restrict $p_b$ to be
greater than $p_a$ to separate the background condensate cloud from
the more localized condensate bump.

Figure~\ref{fig4} shows the results of our variational calculations
for $N=10^4$, $a_{aa}=0$, and $m_i=m_a$ as a function of $a_{ai}$.
To reduce the parameter space we set $p_a=0.5a_{ho}^{-2}$;
we checked that allowing $p_a$ to vary changes its value only little.
The optimal values of the remaining three variational
parameters $p_i$, $p_b$ and $c$
are shown in panels (c) and (d) of Fig.~4 by triangles,
and the corresponding chemical potentials of the impurity
and atom, respectively, are shown in panels (a) and (b) by triangles.
The variational analysis
predicts a critical value of $a_{ai,c2} \approx-0.020 a_{ho}$; at this
critical value $a_{ai,c2}$, the local minimum in the variational energy
disappears as the variational energy becomes unbounded from below.
For comparison, our self-consistent solutions
to Eqs.~(\ref{HFa}) and (\ref{HFi}),
which are shown in panels (a) and (b) by circles for comparison,
predict a somewhat less attractive critical value, i.e.,
$a_{ai,c2}\approx -0.016a_{ho}$.
This is to be expected since the self-consistent total energy (not shown)
provides a better lower bound than the variational energy.
The variational parameters $p_i$, $p_b$ and $c$
shown in panels (c) and (d) of Fig.~4 nicely illustrate
the degree of impurity localization. For small
$|a_{ai}|$, the amplitude $c$ is negligible,
indicating that the presence of the impurity barely affects the condensate.
As $|a_{ai}|$ increases,
the impurity becomes more tightly localized, i.e., $p_i$ increases
(note that the width of the impurity density scales as $1/\sqrt{p_i}$), which
in turn drives the growth and localization
of the condensate bump, i.e., $c$ and $p_b$ also increase.
Since $p_i$ drives the increase of $p_b$,
$p_b$ necessarily increases slower than
$p_i$ with increasing $|a_{ai}|$.

\begin{figure}
\hspace{-0.3in}
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{Figure4.eps}
\caption{\label{fig4}
(color online)
Triangles show the chemical potentials $\epsilon_i$
and $\epsilon_a$ [panels (a) and (b)],
and the parameters $p_b$, $p_i$ and $c$ [panels (c) and (d)]
for $N=10^4$, $a_{aa}=0$ and $m_i=m_a$ as a function of
$a_{ai}$, obtained from the variational treatment.
For comparison, circles in panels (a) and (b) show $\epsilon_i$ and $\epsilon_a$,
and those in panel~(d) the parameter $c$ obtained by fitting
the self-consistent solutions of Eqs.~(\protect\ref{HFa}) and (\protect\ref{HFi}) (see text).}
\end{figure}

To connect our results for the variational parameter $c$ with the
full self-consistent solutions, we fit our solutions to Eqs.~(\ref{HFa}) and (\ref{HFi})
to the wavefunctions of Eq.~(\ref{psivar}) with the proper normalization, treating
$p_i$, $p_b$, and $c$ as fitting parameters.  The circles plotted in Fig.~4(d) show the
resulting values of $c$ extracted from the self-consistent solution.
To a very good approximation, $c^2$ describes the percentage change in the
peak condensate density for the system with non-vanishing $a_{ai}$ as compared
to the system with vanishing
$a_{ai}$ (assuming we keep $a_{aa}$ and the number of atoms $N$ fixed).
Figure~4(d) shows that, just before collapse at $a_{ai,c2}$,
$c \approx 0.53$ for the full self-consistent solution to Eqs.~(\ref{HFa}) and (\ref{HFi})
and $c \approx 0.68$ for the variational solution.
These values of $c$ correspond to changes in the peak condensate density,
as compared to the condensate without impurity, of greater than 25\%.
We note that a similar growth of the peak condensate density is seen in the inset of Fig.~2(c) for the
same number of atoms, i.e., $N=10^4$, but non-vanishing
atom-atom interactions, i.e., $a_{aa}=0.05a_{ho}$.

The variational wavefunction given in Eq.~(\ref{psivar})
is best-suited to describe the case of $a_{aa}=0$.  For ${a_{aa}\neq}0$ the atom cloud
deviates from a gaussian, and for strong enough interactions a gaussian form
for the atom cloud is a poor approximation.
Consequently,
as the atom-atom interactions increase, we find that the simplistic variational wave function
given in Eq.~(\ref{psivar}) cannot describe the tightly-localized
impurity at the trap center prior to the onset of collapse.
Nonetheless, for the case $a_{aa}=0$ discussed above, the variational treatment
reproduces the key features of the full self-consistent solution and provides
us with further insights.  In particular, the form of the variational wavefunction,
Eq.~(\ref{psivar}), is useful in visualizing how the condensate develops features characterized
by a length scale much smaller than the oscillator length.
Furthermore, the disappearance of the local minimum as the variational energy becomes
unbounded from below is another indication, along with the disappearance
of the self-consistent solutions, of the collapse of the condensate.

\section{Discussion and conclusion}
\label{conclusion}
Sections~\ref{meanfield} and \ref{variational}
discuss the behaviors of a single neutral impurity, which feels no
external confining potential, immersed in a trapped condensate.
If the impurity feels an external trapping potential with angular frequency $\omega_i$,
which might be the case in an experiment (see below),
region (A) in Fig.~1 is absent, i.e., the impurity is always
localized due to the presence of the external potential.
Assuming that the impurity trapping potential has a characteristic length
which is larger than roughly the condensate healing length (for large
enough number of atoms), the comparatively strong impurity localization prior
to collapse and the crossover from region (B) to region (C) in Fig.~1 are, however,
nearly unaltered.  For example, for $N=10^4$, $a_{aa}=0.005a_{ho}$, $m_i=m_a$
and $\omega_a=\omega_i$, the onset of collapse occurs at the
same critical value of $a_{ai,c2}\approx-0.062a_{ho}$ that we find without impurity trap.

Impurity-doped condensates can be realized experimentally
with present-day technology~\cite{chik00}.
If one considers a magnetically trapped condensate,
an impurity can, e.g., be created by promoting one of the condensate atoms
to a different hyperfine state. The promoted atom may or may not feel
the magnetic confinement. Alternatively, one could
implant a different atom, magnetic or non-magnetic, into the cloud.
Such systems have the disadvantage that the atom-impurity
interactions cannot be tuned via a magnetic Feshbach resonance.
To take advantage of the tunability of interspecies scattering
lengths~\cite{jin},
one can consider
an optical potential red-detuned with respect to the atoms and the impurity.
In such an experimental realization both the atom and the impurity
would feel trapping potentials.

As the atom-impurity interactions are tuned closer
to $a_{ai,c2}$, the growth of the peak atom density at the center
of the trap can potentially be monitored experimentally in
expansion experiments. Since the condensate bump at the trap center
involves only a few atoms, direct detection of the changes in the peak density
may, however, be non-trivial.  We suggest that the impurity-doped condensate
could alternatively be probed in a bosenova-type experiment which applies a
sequence of time-dependent magnetic field ramps~\cite{bosenova}.
By tuning the atom-impurity scattering length to a large negative
value, one could experimentally induce collapse and consequently
density oscillations, which might involve a significant fraction
of the condensate atoms.

A key result of our study is that the degree of localization
of the impurity at the trap center in region (B) of the phase diagram
(see Figs.~\ref{phase} and \ref{Attr_fig})
can be controlled by varying the atom-impurity scattering length, i.e.,
the width of the impurity wave function for a system with
$m_a=m_i$ can be varied from a size much greater than the oscillator length $a_{ho}$
to a size significantly smaller than $a_{ho}$.
In addition to changing the atom-impurity scattering length,
one can consider unequal atom and impurity masses, e.g., a Cs
atom immersed in a Na condensate.
Not surprisingly, as the impurity mass increases,
the degree of impurity localization also increases.
The localized impurity itself may present the possibility
for forming interesting single-atom devices, perhaps using the impurity's
spin degrees of freedom.  The favorable coherence properties of Bose condensates
may make the localized impurity states viable for quantum computing schemes.
Furthermore, extensions to two or more impurities will
allow one to consider the role of condensate-mediated interactions between impurities.

Finally, we return to our finding
that a single neutral impurity can deform the condensate sufficiently
to induce a collapse which may only involve a fraction of the condensate atoms.
The resulting collapsed state may be related
to the mesoscopic droplets that have been predicted
to form about an ion immersed in a condensate~\cite{cote02}.
More work is needed to fully understand these ion states, the collapsed states
predicted in the present work, and possible connections between
the two.

We gratefully acknowledge fruitful discussions with
A. Bulgac, M. Davis, P. Engels, B. Esry and, E. Timmermans,
hospitality of the Institute for Nuclear Theory
at the University of Washington,
and support by the NSF, grant PHY-0331529.

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Go through crab meat and pick out any bits of shell or cartilage, leaving lumps intact as much as possible. Place picked crab in a large bowl.
Add green onions, parsley, cilantro, jalapeno, Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice, Old Bay, and mustard to bowl. Carefully fold in without breaking up the lumps of crab meat.
Beat egg in a second bowl; add mayonnaise and mix well. Gently fold into crab mixture and place in a strainer. Set strainer over a large bowl. Cover strainer and bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate for several hours or overnight.
Discard liquid and shape mixture into 6 cakes. They should be about 3 inches in diameter and about 1/2-inch thick. Cover and refrigerate until ready to cook.
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Heat half the oil in a large skillet over medium heat until it shimmers in the pan. Place half the crab cakes in the skillet and cook without moving for 3 minutes or until the bottoms are well browned. Turn them over with a wide spatula. Cook for another 3 minutes until second side is brown. Transfer to heated baking sheet and put in oven to keep warm until the remaining cakes are cooked.
Wipe out skillet and add the rest of the oil. Heat oil as before and repeat the cooking process. Serve warm.
Many stores sell fresh crab in 1-pound cans that can be stored in the refrigerator for quite a long time. I'm not sure I want to know how they do that, but it is very good, with large, meaty chunks of crab, and it is also relatively inexpensive compared to the fresh crab at the fish counter.
Be sure to get "real" mayonnaise. It will have real eggs and no sugar. Better yet, make your own fresh mayonnaise. (Dr. Mary Dan Eades's wonderful recipe is in Nourished.) The nutrition data shown is for purchased real mayonnaise, such as Hellman's, Best Food's, or Duke's.
Some of the fat used for frying will be left in the pan. The amount left in the crab cakes is estimated in the nutrition data.
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Thanks for the comment and the kind words! I appreciate them.
Why real mayo and not fat free?
Anonymous: natural fat, like eggs and olive oil, are not the enemy. Fat doesn't make you fat and natural fat doesn't cause heart disease. It keeps you full longer so you spontaneously eat less.
Another problem with low-fat products is that they always have more carbs and sugar, which make you hungry so you eat more. Excess sugar and starch do much more damage to the body and wreak your metabolism. Another issue is that most store-bought mayonnaise is made with nasty, processed, pro-inflammatory oils like soy or canola. I recommend that you read Nina Techolz's book "The Big Fat Surprise" or Gary Tuabes's "Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It."
can salmon be a substitute?
Connie: Sure, that would be tasty!


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The outputs of the project will be embodied in a first-of-its-kind tool for automated process improvement discovery, which will lift the focus in the field of process mining from analyzing as-is processes to designing to-be processes.


God is so good. While doing the last lesson in the I AM Bible study, I was looking over past blog posts. I saw my struggles & prayers in waiting on God's timing for the next leg of the journey in His will for me, which reminded me of how He has come through thus far & how great & faithful our God truly is!
Combined with worship this morning & evening as well as fellowship during lunch, it's been a wonderful & impacting day! My faith has grown tonight & I trust that God is growing my passion for Him again as well. Praise God! He has been answering prayers & speaking to me & renewing me this week in so many ways, & today was a great continuation of that!
Past blog posts can serve as "Ebenezer stones" (great reminders). They surely remind me of the times when God has come through & that He is faithful in EVERY promise He makes!
This entry was posted in From the Heart and tagged 1 Samuel, 1-2 Samuel, Building Faith, Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing, Ebenezer, Ebenezer stone, Encouragement, God's faithfulness, God's help, God's Word, hymn, memory, reminders, Samuel on 07/06/2008 by Amanda.
I am so glad to hear that God is at work in your life. I am loving following you on twitter and just getting a glimpse into your life. I pray you will be ALIVE to our Savior! I know He has great plans and purposes for you.