The Nigerian-American Multicultural Council (NAMC), in partnership with other African communities in Houston, presents the 2016 Houston AfriFEST!
It's come around again, and what better time of year for festivals! This fall we will hold the 4th annual Houston AfriFEST dubbed as "the only one of its kind" by the Houston Chronicle. This is apparent by the festival's attendance, and this year we expect more than 2,000 guests from the Houston area alone.
We will take you on a cultural journey through Africa and celebrate the rich diversity in food, music, dance including family fun from African communities in the "most diverse city in the US."
Join us as we feature special live music and performances, food and exceptional ethnic cuisines of different African countries, cultural artwork, country displays, fashion shows, games, kids' activities, and more.
Step outside of our welcoming and comfortable community at Oaks of Westchase Apartments in Houston, Texas for the day! This event is coming to town on Friday, and it promises to be a wonderful time!


New post card and more coming!
I plan on working on a series of post cards and other print materials with my art.
I started with this one that you can use as an any occasion card.
Please email me if you if you are interested in purchasing any.
I remember a bunch of these, but had forgotten about many of them (Discworld among them)!
I use a dual display setup right now in Windows 10. I was using 3, but I had 2 die, and scavenged one, so I am back to 2 (or really about 1.5).
I am not aware of any way, without using a 3rd party tool (like DisplayFusion), to show the system clock on multiple displays in the start menu/dock in Windows 10, but I did find a simple and flexible clock for the Chrome toolbar.
This helps out when video is maximized on the display with the system tray clock.
Customize the clock in the toolbar.
Check out Clock for Google Chrome™.
THE BIGGEST GAME BOY EVER?
I am trying to take photos every day, but I already have only done so 50% of the days so far this year.
2 pics from downtown Berkeley.
I was trying to get the lights in the foreground, but it messed up the exposure.
If you ever wanted a mirror that displays info for the day, you are in luck.
There is a a relatively simple project for Raspberry Pi as well as another similar project for Android that make just such devices.
Thinking about doing one or both as I have an old Android Nexus 7 (gen1) tablet and 2 Raspberry Pi that are not being utilized right now.
Catching up on Serial Season 2.
Season 2 is a different story than season 1, so you don't need to listen to the first one before the second, but you can check out season one here.
Some older air travel pics from around this time of year.
For every new computer I buy or setup for someone else, I spend some time remembering all the software I regularly use in Windows. Here is a collection of my favorite programs. Most are completely free. Be aware when you install them, that it is common for software publishers to include other bundled software from which they earn some money. If you do not want to install these additional programs, make sure to pay attention to all the screens during the installation process.
First things first! Should I upgrade to Windows 10? Probably!
Microsoft released Windows 10 as a free upgrade for many Windows users in July 2015.
If you are running XP, Windows 7, or Windows 8 and your computer meets the minimum requirements, then Windows 10 is probably a great choice for you.
Hold off if you have older or weird devices as that is likely the last part to catch up (updated device drivers).
I have upgraded a netbook that originally had XP as well as a Windows 8.1 laptop that shipped with Windows 7 and a Windows 8.1 tablet. I have had no issues with any of these devices and pretty much any app or program that run in Windows 8.1 will run in Windows 10.
I am still waiting to update my machine that acts as a home server and my primary work computer (the one I am using now), but I am going to give it some time and will probably upgrade that machine as well.
If your machine doesn't include anti-malware or anti-virus software, or if it includes a demo version, a great first install is Windows Security Essentials. It is free and works for Windows Vista, Windows 7. Windows 8 and Windows 10 both include Microsoft Defender. Make sure to uninstall any anti-virus program before trying a new one.
CCleaner is a wonderful free program that I have installed on all my Windows machines. It works in all versions of Windows from XP to Windows 10 and there is also a version for OS X. It includes both a registry, and a file scanner that looks for things like local cache, temporary files, and registry settings that can be cleared. This can be especially useful if you install and uninstall software often.
Notepad++ is a multiple tab based text editor with options for programming. It is far more robust than the basic notepad included with Windows machines.
Windows includes a pretty good media player, Windows Media Player, but sometimes it doesn't play everything. VLC is a great program that pretty much plays all the video and audio formats you will encounter. There is also a "Metro" version for Windows 8 and 10.
Microsoft has made some massive improvements in Internet Explorer 9-11 (included with Windows 8), and Edge is a good option in Windows 10, but they still lack the plugin and extensions offered by Mozilla'sFirefox and Google's Chrome. It is also a good idea to have a spare browser on hand in case something goes wonky with your main browser. One nice feature is that both Chrome and Firefox offer Android versions of their browsers that can sync bookmarks, passwords, and other user data.
Windows 7, 8, and 10 all include theSnipping Tool application, but as anEvernote user, I have come to enjoy using Skitch. It offers a basic screen capture function and has additional annotation features. If you use Evernote, it allows you to sync those images to your account but you can also save them locally.
While the Pro and Ultimate versions of Windows do include a Remote Desktop protocol server, the less expensive versions do not and the price difference is pretty significant. TightVNC is a free option that is available for non-commercial use. It includes both a server and client version. The server allows you to connect to your PC from another computer, while the client allows your machine to connect to other PCs. There are client programs that allow you to connect to your computer not only from another Windows computer, but from pretty much any operating system including Android, iOS, Linux, and OS X. TeamViewer can also be a good option.
Winamp is no longer updated nor supported by AOL and you can probably find a way to playback most of your content using Windows Media Player (WMP), but it is reliable and doesn't use much system resources. So it can be helpful if you just want to listen to music and WMP or VLC are just not cutting it.
Plex media server is a good option as a home upnp server as well as a solution for streaming you home media to a mobile device on the go. The remote streaming requires the premium service, but the server itself is free and does a great job of finding useful metadata for your movies, TV, and music.
Paint.net is a pretty great and useful graphics editing program. It may not be as straighforward to user as Photoshop, for being free it really does most of the things I usually need a graphics program to do.
utorrent is a great BitTorrent client that is cross-platform. Whether you are downloading Linux distributions or some rare 1960 British TV show, it fits the bill. Make sure to read each install option or you might end up with bundled software installed.
Opera is a wonderful standards-compliant and cross-platform browser. Good to have in your browser toolbox for trouble shooting and a super option if you are on a slow network connection.
Filezilla is a utility for FTP, SFTP, and other file transfer. Use this to update your website via SFTP/FTP or to download content from FTP servers.
PuTTY is an Telnet/SSH client. Use it to connect to remote computers (Linux, FreeBSD, OS X, etc.).
Password are a problem for most people, but Lastpass will let you keep all of your passwords locked down, manages your passwords, can generate new ones, and provides a feature to audit your existing passwords as well. You will need to pay to use the mobile app, but the website service is free.
7-zip has more features than the compression included with Windows and has support for more archive types then native Windows as well as better handling of archive files.
Malware Bytes is a good tool to use to help track down potential malware on your computer. Good to use on a regular basis so the internet cruft doesn't accumulate!
I use a few programs for formatted document editing (anything not a plain text file).
Google Drive is great for collaboration and to backup your files and photos. There is a limit to the drive space for free accounts, but you can pay for more space.
Libre Office is based on Open Office and is a great alternative to Microsoft Office. It also has better chart and graphing functions than Google Drive and is cross-platform.
You can use the free version of Evernote to organize and tag your thoughts, projects, recipes, images, voice notes, hand written notes and more. It is actually a service that is hard to describe until you start using it. I love it and pay for the premium version which bypasses the monthly upload quota of the free plan.
I used a paid service for years to keep a journal. That site, ohlife.com closed in 2014 and I went a year without a good replacement. I recently found the app and service Journey and it meets my journal needs rather well and even ads some features that Ohlife lacked.
There is a web version, Chrome app, iOS, and Android versions and it used your Google Drive account to store the entries.
All trademarks, logos and copyrights in this Hub are the property of their respective owners.
All available on the Sploid Youtube channel.
I kept a digital journal for more than 4 years, but sadly the company (OhLife I miss you!) closed shop. I have not been as good about keeping a journal since, but heard good things about Journey and finally started using it.
So far I dig it. You can use it on pretty much any device and the interface is simple and automates recording some aspects of the day including location and weather.
It is free and available as a Chrome app, an Android app, and via the web.
So far I've just been using the Chrome app, but dig it. Give it a try if you are in need a a digital journal tool!


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HomeUnpremeditated Book Release Renews Focus on McAfee Cold Case
Unpremeditated Book Release Renews Focus on McAfee Cold Case
July 3, 2018 Minneapolis – 25 people attended the official book launch of Unpremeditated: A Murderous Caribbean Travelogue at Senser's Kitchen in Bloomington, Minnesota. The E-book is available for sale now through Amazon.
The book accurately reports the vivid sights and sounds of Belize in 2012: the world's best snorkeling; rain forest zip-lining; and white sand island cays where golf carts offer the primary form of transportation. Shortly after Prince Harry toured Belize, the next door neighbor of security pioneer John McAfee was murdered and now six years later, the case is as cold as the national beer- Belikin. The actual events surrounding the murder are unfolding in the background while the characters experiencing the drama and romance—are fictional.
"I was in Belize many times during that surreal and chaotic period. Like Prince Harry, I fell in love with the country. I think the novel is important because it captures the magic of that 2012 San Pedro, one that today is inexorably becoming bigger and more commercial. More importantly, it is very sad that Mr. Faull was a well- liked neighbor and friend who was gunned down- and there has not been justice for his family. It cannot hurt to keep this story alive and maintain a spot light on the case", said Tony Randgaard. He continued, "I would welcome the opportunity to speak to book clubs or literary groups about this cold case and the latest developments in Belize."
Retired after more than 20 years in marketing with United and Northwest Airlines, Tony has been published by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Star and Tribune, Minnesota Monthly, MinnPost, Minnesota Connected, Air Cargo News, The Forward, CNS Air Cargo Focus and the TC Daily Planet. As a result, he is a regular guest on the CBS-Entercom Radio 'Jordana Green Show' in the Midwest. He has won a Silver Addy award in Advertising and launched United Cargo's Friendly Skies ad campaign in 2014.
Introducing Miss Guatemala Hilary Castillo Cumings
Toucan Gift Shops Donate Motorcycle to San Pedro Police
Dogs Enjoy Halloween in San Pedro Too
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Former President Robert Mugabe is not feeling well and has been airlifted to Singapore to seek medical treatment President Emmerson Mnangagwa has revealed.
In an pre-Independence interview with State Broadcaster ZTV Mnangagwa said the former president is in Singapore where he is receiving medical attention.
Mnangagwa also took time to explain that he communicates with Mugabe at times on a daily basis and sometimes weekly and when he is unable to, a mechanism has been put in place to ensure sound relations.
He said Mugabe is the founding father of independent Zimbabwe and him and his predecessor together with his family enjoy cordial relations.
ZBC has announced that the full interview will be beamed on the eve of independence next Wednesday.


Last week, an outraged mom said she got a phone call from her daughter saying she was attacked by a teacher who was the acting principal at the time.
Mikiea Price went to the 11-year-old's school to see what was going on and found the girl crying and holding three braids that had been pulled from her head.
The young girl said the situation stemmed from getting in trouble for spraying fragrance in class — the teacher of the class was sensitive to the scent because of allergies.
The administrator was caught on security video pushing the student out of the class and threw the girl into a row of lockers — somehow he and the girl fell to the ground.
It's unclear how the girl's braids were pulled out, but she has two bald spots on her head.
"Just the whole experience is just traumatic and devastating and just confusing.
Price says that her daughter is afraid to go back to school.
The district is planning to release the video to the public once the police investigation is completed. In the meantime, the accused administrator won't return to the school.
Mueller-Owens did not respond to Madison365's request for comment.
If the girl did spray fragrance in the classroom and the teacher was allergic to it, then this something the girl needs to be made aware of and to apologize to the teacher. It is not professional what the principal did, but as a person who is deathly allergic to some airborne allergens and I always have to carry an inhaler, the students need to be made aware that not everyone likes the fragrance others are wearing and can be allergic to them so no students should be spraying fragrances in a classroom, hallway, bathroom, library, gym, locker room, etc. at a school.
Just "not professional" huh? If that were my kid, that teacher would be drinking the damn cologne. There is absolutely no excuse for treating a child like that.
The child shouldn't have had her hair ripped out or treatwd that way. That being said I doubt she is innocent and has probably been making trouble for some time.
She is 11 omg a bany a child that needs to be protected. Now she will always be afraid and uncomfortable.
What the principal is not ok but the child needs to know that if that teacher went to the hospital because of her spraying the fragrance than that teacher can press assault charges on her.
She has "probably been making trouble for some time"?? Based on what? Do you personally know this kid? How outrageous to judge her like that.
Alice how dense are you? How, where, when , why, what reasoning deduced you to make a blanket statement!? To what purpose? You made a baseless statement on someone you know nothing about? I bet your kids are trouble makers adn you defend their bad and inappropriate behavior?!
Actually LB the bathroom is the preferred place to make use of fragrances. Classrooms or hallways I agree off limits but there 100's of kids/staff/faculty with various allergies but you can't limit everyone on every little thing. Why should the allergy free suffer because of those with allergies? I have allergies but it is my responsibility to be cognizant of my environment.
hmmm, if a teacher is THAT allergic to that kind of stuff, then working in a class room full of kinds is the WRONG place to work.. second, pulling that child hair out is NOT acceptable of any adult no matter the profession, but as a teacher??? shame on you.
My biggest nightmare is walking through Macy's because I have to go through the fragrance department. The pounding headache that comes with it I wouldn't wish on anyone. With that said this is an 11 year old who was physically attacked by an adult.This acting principle probably shouldn't be working with children.
I think the teachable moment here would have been for the teacher to open the windows and talk about personal space, the use of perfumes in an enclosed area and how when you are wearing perfume/cologne it is not meant to be smelt by everyone in a 30 foot radius.


Yes, technically I am a liberal arts major, but I did study science along with writing, and xkcd makes me giggle often enough that I have the site bookmarked.
This recent strip on the Stingray Nebula, for example, is both profound and hilarious. BUT, I have a quibble.
And now, the quibble: In the next-to-last frame, if the Stingray Nebula he means is Hen-1357, there was no explosion.
This Stingray is what's called a planetary nebula, all that's left of a low- to medium-mass star that puffed up to become a red giant and then expelled its outer layers of gas.
He is right that an asymptotic giant branch, or AGB, star formed the Stingray—because AGBs represent a late stage in stellar evolution, when a red giant is very close to becoming a nebula.
A main sequence star is simply the term for a star that's still fusing hydrogen into helium in its core, and so is relatively stable. A red, yellow, or orange dwarf star would be on the low-mass end of the main sequence.
Really, main sequence stars (and dwarfs) can't be trusted either, because they will eventually evolve into red giants too or—if they are more than ten times the sun's mass—their cores will collapse, triggering supernovae or forming black holes.
I guess the difference is that you're not likely to see a main sequence star change much during a human lifetime, while the Stingray Nebula was initially classified as a star and was later found to be the youngest known planetary nebula, which has dropped in brightness since the 1980s.
Anyway, enough geeking out. The comic is still awesome, and the best part is the alt tag… true that.


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Home Headline Rich Got Way Richer: Mark Zuckerberg Raked in $11 Billion in 2014
Rich Got Way Richer: Mark Zuckerberg Raked in $11 Billion in 2014
Eli Horn
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg added $11 billion to his net worth this year, TV anchor Pimm Fox said during a discussion on Bloomberg's Taking Stock program, according to the Insider Monkey website.
The revelation about the Facebook co-founder and current top executive was made by Fox as he and colleagues Cory Johnson and Trish Regan were talking about the billionaire winners and losers this year, the report said.
Though the net worth of the rich Facebook boss soared to about $35.7 billion according to the Bloomberg billionaires list, it was not enough to land him the title of the biggest billionaire winner of 2014, which belongs to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's Jack Ma who made about $25.1 billion as his company went public in September, according to the report.
Johnson noted how Zuckerberg has stuck to long-sighted deals which add value to his company. The CEO, he said, is using his company's money to acquire business that makes Facebook more competitive, the report said.
"[WhatsApp is] possibly the fastest-growing messaging platform and the biggest one in the world. It's really eviscerating what's happening with the phone networks. He also continues to use the company's capital to make the acquisitions that will keep things competitive [and] things at bay, " he said.
Johnson gave as an example the $1 billion the company spent acquiring Instagram which seemed silly at the time the deal was announced. However, Johnson said that as a separate company, Wall Street is valuing Instagram at about $35 billion, Insider Monkey said.
The Bloomberg host said that while there is no penny pinching with Mark Zuckerberg, the capital the company spends appears to be going to good use, the report said.
Meanwhile, a report in the Standard Examiner said the richest people on Earth got richer in 2014, adding $92 billion to their collective fortune in the face of falling energy prices and geopolitical turmoil incited by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The net worth of the world's 400 wealthiest billionaires on Dec. 29 stood at $4.1 trillion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a daily ranking of the world's wealthiest people.
The report said one year's biggest gainers was Zuckerberg, the hoodie-wearing CEO of the world's largest social-networking company, who gained $10.6 billion as the Menlo Park, California-based business rose to a record on Dec. 22.
This year Facebook made headway in mobile, a business that has flourished as mobile advertising increased and marketing initiatives expanded with applications and video. Facebook's acquisition of Instagram in 2012 for $1 billion has also been paying off. A Citigroup analyst said on Dec. 19 the photo- sharing app is worth $35 billion, the report said.
Zuckerberg's company faced a challenge in Russia, where the blocking of a Facebook page promoting a Russian opposition rally highlighted the challenges the social network faces as Putin cracks down on the Internet amid a looming economic downturn.
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US Sponsored Islamist Insurgency in Xinjiang? China Jails CIA's Uighur Imams
Uighur Muslims were present at Osama bin Laden's CIA-ISI Afghan training camps
By Kurt Nimmo
Global Research, November 12, 2014
Theme: Intelligence
Image Credits: Uyghur American Association
China has imprisoned around two dozen Uighur Muslim leaders in the western region of Xinjiang for "illegal religious activities."
The convicted suspects were given prison terms ranging between five and 16 years, according the China's state-run news service.
Aljazeera reports China is concerned enemies of the state in Xinjiang may receive support from Islamists in nearby Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Left out of the Aljazeera report is the fact Uighur Muslims were present at Osama bin Laden's CIA-ISI and Saudi funded training camps in Afghanistan prior to 2001. According to journalist Eric Margolis, the CIA used third parties in the effort to train the Uighur.
"The CIA was going to use them in the event of a war with China, or just to raise hell there, and they were trained and supported out of Afghanistan, some of them with Osama bin Laden's collaboration. The Americans were up to their ears with this," Margolis told Scott Horton in 2008.
Details of the operation to destabilize China came to light during the immigration court case of a Turkish Islamic leader, Fethullah Gülen, in 2008.
During the court case prosecutors uncovered an illegal covert CIA operation to use Islamic radicalism to destabilize Central Asia, a plan that received its broad strokes from the work of arch globalist and former national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski and his book, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives.
Sibel Edmonds told the blogger Lurkey in 2008:
You've got to look at the big picture. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the super powers began to fight over control of Central Asia, particularly the oil and gas wealth, as well as the strategic value of the region.
Given the history, and the distrust of the West, the US realized that it couldn't get direct control, and therefore would need to use a proxy to gain control quickly and effectively. Turkey was the perfect proxy; a NATO ally and a puppet regime. Turkey shares the same heritage/race as the entire population of Central Asia, the same language (Turkic), the same religion (Sunni Islam), and of course, the strategic location and proximity.
This started more than a decade-long illegal, covert operation in Central Asia by a small group in the US intent on furthering the oil industry and the Military Industrial Complex, using Turkish operatives, Saudi partners and Pakistani allies, furthering this objective in the name of Islam.
This is why I have been saying repeatedly that these illegal covert operations by the Turks and certain US persons dates back to 1996, and involves terrorist activities, narcotics, weapons smuggling and money laundering, converging around the same operations and involving the same actors.
And I want to emphasize that this is "illegal" because most, if not all, of the funding for these operations is not congressionally approved funding, but it comes from illegal activities.
Graham Fuller, a former CIA station chief in Kabul and a senior political scientist for the Rand Corporation, added the required philosophical base for the effort by writing The Xinjiang Problem for the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, a diplomatic graduate school that has served as a base for Zbigniew Brzezinski and a number of neocons, including Eliot Cohen and Paul Wolfowitz.
Turkey has served as a proxy and facilitator for a number of terrorist projects, most recently supporting ISIS, now the Islamic State. It is also involved in the CIA's project to undermine China by supporting its Uighur separatist movement. As usual, the affair has the standard number of intelligence twists and turns.
According to TurkPulse:
One of the main tools Washington is using in this affair in order to get Turkey involved in the Xinjiang affair is some Turkish Americans, primarily the Fetullah Gulen team who are prosecuted in absentia in Turkey for trying to found a theocratic State order in this country because he runs his activities from the United States, his protégé. Another Turk used in this affair is Enver Yusuf Turani, who is the self styled Foreign and Prime Minister of the East Turkistan Government in exile. He has been an American citizen since 1998. Enver Yusuf is in close cooperation with Fetullah Gulen… Their activities for the government in exile are based on a report entitled "the Xinjiang Project" drafted by Graham Fuller in 1998 for the Rand Corporation and revised in 2003 under the title "the Xinjiang Problem." It emphasizes the importance of the Xinjiang Autonomous region in encircling China and provides a strategy for it.
More recently the CIA surrogate, the State Department's National Endowment for Democracy, has fanned the flames of unrest in China's Xinjiang where separatists are calling for a state they dub East Turkistan.
The original source of this article is Infowars
Copyright © Kurt Nimmo, Infowars, 2014
Articles by: Kurt Nimmo


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package global

import java.lang.reflect.Constructor

import controllers.CustomRoutesService
import models.{ PhysalisProfile, User }
import play.Play
import play.api.Logger
import play.api.Application
import play.api.data.Form
import play.api.i18n.Lang
import play.api.mvc.RequestHeader
import securesocial.views.html.Registration
import play.twirl.api.Html
import securesocial.controllers.{ ChangeInfo, RegistrationInfo, ViewTemplates }
import securesocial.core.RuntimeEnvironment
import securesocial.core.providers.GitHubProvider
import securesocial.core.services.UserService
import service.{ PhysalisBuildService, InMemoryUserService, SecureSocialEventListener }
import service.simpledb.{ UserService => SimpleDBUserService }

import scala.collection.immutable.ListMap

object Global extends play.api.GlobalSettings {

  val logger: Logger = Logger.apply(this.getClass)
  var application: Application = null

  def platforms: Option[List[String]] = {
    val platformsToBuildFor: Option[String] = application.configuration.getString("PLATFORMS_TO_BUILD_FOR")
    platformsToBuildFor.map(string => string.split(",").toList)
  }

  override def onStart(app: Application) = {
    application = app
    logger.info(s"Starting services. Configured build platforms ${platforms}")
    PhysalisBuildService.start(platforms)
  }

  override def onStop(app: Application) = {
    logger.info("stopping Physalis")
    PhysalisBuildService.stop()
  }

  /**
   * An implementation that checks if the controller expects a RuntimeEnvironment and
   * passes the instance to it if required.
   *
   * This can be replaced by any DI framework to inject it differently.
   *
   * @param controllerClass
   * @tparam A
   * @return
   */
  override def getControllerInstance[A](controllerClass: Class[A]): A = {
    val instance = controllerClass.getConstructors.find { c =>
      val params = c.getParameterTypes
      params.length == 1 && params(0) == classOf[RuntimeEnvironment[User]]
    }.map {
      _.asInstanceOf[Constructor[A]].newInstance(MyRuntimeEnvironment)
    }
    instance.getOrElse(super.getControllerInstance(controllerClass))
  }

  object MyViewTemplates {

    /**
     * The default views.
     */
    class Default(env: RuntimeEnvironment[_]) extends ViewTemplates {
      implicit val implicitEnv = env

      override def getLoginPage(form: Form[(String, String)],
                                msg: Option[String] = None)(implicit request: RequestHeader, lang: Lang): Html =
        views.html.login(None)

      override def getSignUpPage(form: Form[RegistrationInfo], token: String)(implicit request: RequestHeader, lang: Lang): Html =
        Registration.signUp(form, token)

      override def getStartSignUpPage(form: Form[String])(implicit request: RequestHeader, lang: Lang): Html =
        Registration.startSignUp(form)

      override def getStartResetPasswordPage(form: Form[String])(implicit request: RequestHeader, lang: Lang): Html =
        Registration.startResetPassword(form)

      override def getResetPasswordPage(form: Form[(String, String)], token: String)(implicit request: RequestHeader, lang: Lang): Html =
        Registration.resetPasswordPage(form, token)

      override def getPasswordChangePage(form: Form[ChangeInfo])(implicit request: RequestHeader, lang: Lang): Html =
        securesocial.views.html.passwordChange(form)

      def getNotAuthorizedPage(implicit request: RequestHeader, lang: Lang): Html =
        Html("no authorized")

    }

  }

  /**
   * 9
   * The runtime environment for this sample app.
   */
  object MyRuntimeEnvironment extends RuntimeEnvironment.Default[User] {
    override lazy val routes = new CustomRoutesService()
    override lazy val userService: UserService[User] = createUserService()
    override lazy val eventListeners = List(new SecureSocialEventListener())
    //    override lazy val viewTemplates: ViewTemplates = new ViewTemplates.Default(this)
    override lazy val viewTemplates: ViewTemplates = new MyViewTemplates.Default(this)
    override lazy val providers = ListMap(
      include(new GitHubProvider(routes, cacheService, oauth2ClientFor(GitHubProvider.GitHub))))
    //      ,include(new GoogleProvider(routes, cacheService, oauth2ClientFor(GoogleProvider.Google))),
    //      include(new UsernamePasswordProvider[DemoUser](userService, avatarService, viewTemplates, passwordHashers)))

    private def createUserService() = {
      val inMemoryDB: Boolean = Play.application.configuration.getBoolean("IN_MEMORY_DB", false)

      inMemoryDB match {
        case true  => new InMemoryUserService
        case false => new SimpleDBUserService
      }

    }

  }

}

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Highest-Ranking Saudi Royal Released from Detention After $1 Billion Settlement
AFP/File HASSAN AMMAR
Saudi Prince Miteb bin Abdullah, son of the late King Abdullah and the highest-ranking royal to be imprisoned during Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's corruption crackdown, was released on Tuesday after three weeks of detention.
Prince Miteb paid a huge financial settlement, reportedly in excess of one billion dollars, to resolve the corruption charges against him. The charges are said to have included "embezzlement, hiring ghost employees and awarding contracts to his own firms, including a deal for walkie talkies and bulletproof military gear."
CNN notes that Miteb was "seen as a hurdle in the meteoric rise of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who led the arrest sweep." Until he was removed from his position by royal decree in early November, he was the commander of the Saudi National Guard, a powerful military force with strong tribal ties kept separate from the ministries of interior and defense. The National Guard was, in other words, the most powerful element of the Saudi security apparatus that was not under Crown Prince Mohammed's control.
Miteb, who is 65, was also seen as a strong contender for the throne before the rise of the much younger MBS. He was the last member of the late King Abdullah's branch of the family to hold a top position in Saudi government.
Saudi government sources said most of the two hundred or so detainees held in the anti-corruption problem would be released soon, after making settlement arrangements. Crown Prince Mohammed recently stated that about "95 percent" of the accused have agreed to financial settlements. Details remain vague about the fate of arguably the richest and most internationally famous of the detainees, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.
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Watch Trivium's Matt Heafy cover Britney's ...Baby One More Time
It's Matty, bitch!
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Trivium man Matt Heafy has been at the livestream covers again, and this time he's taken on Britney Spears.
The vocalist/guitarist put his own spin on Britney's 1998 classic ...Baby One More Time, and it came out pretty good.
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With crush of downtown visitors, scooter etiquette goes out the window
John MacCormack and Bruce Selcraig Jan. 1, 2020
With crush of downtown visitors, scooter etiquette goes...
1of7Riders are blocked by a throng of pedectrians as rental scooters populate Alamo Plaza on Dec. 27, 2019.Photo: Tom Reel, San Antonio Express-News / Staff photographer
2of7A bike rider and scooter rider ride in Alamo Plaza, which is now against city ordinances, on Monday, Feb. 18, 2019.Photo: Bob Owen, Staff-photographer / San Antonio Express-News
3of7A rider cruises with a young boy also on baord as rental scooters populate Alamo Plaza on Dec. 27, 2019.Photo: Tom Reel, San Antonio Express-News / Staff photographer
4of7Various models are parked on a corner on the sidewalk as rental scooters populate Alamo Plaza on Dec. 27, 2019.Photo: Tom Reel, San Antonio Express-News / Staff photographer
5of7A family rides in tandem as they cross an intersection by Alamo Plaza in downtown San Antonio, Wednesday, March 13, 2019. The scooter rental comes with an 18,404 agreement that straightjackets the customer. The riders had agreed to never sue Lime, take responsibility for all accidents and damage, accept binding arbitration in lieu of any jury trial, limit Lime's liability in any event to only $100, waive all participation in class action lawsuits and, among a maze of other promises, affirm that they've not had any drug or alcohol "incidents" in the past seven years. They even agreed that Lime has never implied that its "equipment will be in good repair." Virtually every scooter company requires consent to a similar agreement before letting anyone activate one of the city's now-ubiquitous dockless vehicles.Photo: Jerry Lara / Staff Photographer
6of7Scooter riders use the sidewalk along Houston Street in downtown San Antonio, Wednesday, March 13, 2019. The scooter rental comes with an 18,404 agreement that straightjackets the customer. The riders had agreed to never sue Lime, take responsibility for all accidents and damage, accept binding arbitration in lieu of any jury trial, limit Lime's liability in any event to only $100, waive all participation in class action lawsuits and, among a maze of other promises, affirm that they've not had any drug or alcohol "incidents" in the past seven years. They even agreed that Lime has never implied that its "equipment will be in good repair." Virtually every scooter company requires consent to a similar agreement before letting anyone activate one of the city's now-ubiquitous dockless vehicles.Photo: Jerry Lara / Staff Photographer
7of7As the sun sets, scooters riders use the sidewalk of Alamo Plaza, Wednesday, March 13, 2019. The scooter rental comes with an 18,404 agreement that straightjackets the customer. The riders had agreed to never sue Lime, take responsibility for all accidents and damage, accept binding arbitration in lieu of any jury trial, limit Lime's liability in any event to only $100, waive all participation in class action lawsuits and, among a maze of other promises, affirm that they've not had any drug or alcohol "incidents" in the past seven years. They even agreed that Lime has never implied that its "equipment will be in good repair." Virtually every scooter company requires consent to a similar agreement before letting anyone activate one of the city's now-ubiquitous dockless vehicles.Photo: Jerry Lara / Staff Photographer
On a sunny Tuesday morning, with Alamo Plaza bustling with tourists and Utah football fans in bright red, a family group of seven attempted a motorized visit to the Shrine of Texas Liberty.
But with two of the younger ones piloting green Lime scooters, they were brought to a dead halt in the middle of Alamo Street by Carl Jackson of the San Antonio Park Police.
"How old are you? You've got to be 16 to ride one of those or you get a ticket. On the app it tells you all the rules," Jackson began, reminding them that scooters are forbidden in Alamo Plaza.
Chastened, the vacationers meekly parked the scooters and walked across Alamo Street, declining to comment to a reporter.
"Every day it's scooters. And it's always 'I didn't know,' " said Jackson, ever-watchful at curbside near the plaza Christmas tree.
A short while later, he intercepted Johanna Sanchez and her son Jeremy, 9, rolling north on Alamo Street, sharing a scooter.
Sanchez, who lives in San Antonio, said the only scooter rule she knew of was to stay off the sidewalks.
Jackson set her straight.
"A child cannot be on there. Only one person at a time can ride a scooter," he said, ordering them to park and walk.
More tolerance than tickets
Six months after San Antonio passed its first regulations for rental scooters, compliance is improving but still spotty. Some users are still unfamiliar with the rules of the road.
The basic restrictions are: No riding on sidewalks. No one under 16 on a scooter. Only one person per scooter, and no scooters in public areas including Alamo Plaza, the River Walk and city parks.
The city put up large signs in Alamo Plaza and also spent six months informing riders about the rules.
Scooters showed up in San Antonio unannounced in June 2018. At the height of the dockless vehicle craze, there were 7,600 scooters on the streets, operated by seven different companies. Now the city has tightened up, reducing the numbers to three permitted companies — Lime, Bird and Razor — and just 3,000 total vehicles.
Helmet use is officiallly encouraged by the city and all the companies, but it's voluntary. Two major health studies have shown that about 40 percent of serious scooter injuries involve trauma to the head, and brain injuries are believed to be the cause of every scooter fatality in the nation — at least 16 to date.
As of November, according to the Center City Development and Operations Department (CCDO), the city, in a one-year period, received 5,869 reports of scooter violations through its 311 phone line or 311 cell phone app. Most of the complaints were about scooters blocking sidewalks and curb ramps, but some involved fallen vehicles and scooters parked too close to bus stops.
In that same year, police issued just 87 tickets. The semi-official policy of the San Antonio Police Department and the CCDO has been to err on the side of tolerance and education, especially with tourists.
Into the river
But among pedestrians downtown there is still plenty of resentment toward the silent speedy playthings, and many want sidewalk violators ticketed on the first violation because of the damage a collision can inflict on the human body.
While scooter traffic in the Alamo Plaza is down significantly from the chaotic early days, according to people who work there, scooters are a nuisance in other tourist areas.
"We still have a lot of them on the River Walk, and the homeless people will throw them into the river," said Jackson.
As was quickly apparent Tuesday morning in Alamo Plaza, not everyone knows the rules, some of which are printed in small decals on the scooters. Others are included in the user agreement to which users consent when they rent scooters using smartphone apps.
Visiting with his family and in-laws from Houston, Aaron Little, 31, paused next to a Lime scooter across from the Alamo to study his phone.
He was thinking about taking a spin, after doing a little research. But he hadn't figured certain things out, including where to ride legally.
"I have been looking to see if people are riding on the roads, but all of them are on the sidewalks, so I assume you ride on the sidewalk," he said in response to a reporter's question.
A little later, Angie Hanson, 45, a football fan from Utah, was getting ready to launch on a red Razor scooter, but again, with no clue about the local regulations.
"I don't know the rules, but I think you can't go into the plaza and you can't take a kid with you. It's just common sense," she said, adding, "I'm going to ride on the side of the street, not on the sidewalk."
'I'll do what I want'
For downtown workers who spend a lot of time on the street, scooters remain a daily annoyance.
Michael Orozco, 21, a valet supervisor for the Home2 Suites on Navarro, said they regularly zip past him at his post on the sidewalk.
"We tell them, 'No riding on the sidewalk," but they usually get pretty angry, and say, 'Other people are doing it,' and 'I'll do what I want,'" he said.
"I see it every day, and almost every day I see a parent riding with a kid," he added.
A few blocks away, at the Towneplace Suites at the corner of East Houston and Broadway, Matthew Rivera, 26, also a valet supervisor, told a similar story.
"I"ve seen them run into our valet parking guys. Sometimes I tell them to ride in the street, but it depends on who it is. You don't want to get into a fight," he said.
Rivera said he regularly sees police ticketing people operating scooters illegally.
"A couple of times, I've heard them complaining about the fine. It's $50 or something," he said.
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Follow-up of the Finnish Asthma Programme 2000–2010: reduction of hospital burden needs risk group rethinking
Paula Kauppi1,
Miika Linna2,
Jaana Martikainen3,
Mika J Mäkelä1,
Tari Haahtela1
1Department of Allergy, Skin and Allergy Hospital, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
2Centre for Health and Social Economics, Institute of Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
3Research Department, Social Insurance Institution, Helsinki, Finland
Correspondence to Dr Paula Kauppi, Department of Allergy, Skin and Allergy Hospital, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Meilahdentie 2, PO Box 160, FI-00029 HUS, Helsinki, Finland; paula.kauppi{at}hus.fi
The Finnish Asthma Programme 1994–2004 focused on early intervention and disease control, thereby resulting in a significant reduction of asthma morbidity. During the follow-up period from 2000 to 2010, the number of hospital days continued to fall by 54%. Patients ≥65 years, especially women, accounted for 39% of the hospital days, and they need attention if the hospital burden is to be reduced further.
hospitalised patients
allergic lung disease
asthma epidemiology
asthma genetics
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-201028
In Finland, which has a total population of 5.4 million, 191 000 asthma patients in 2000 and 233 000 (4% of the population) in 2010 (a 22% increase) were entitled to a special reimbursement of drug costs, according to the Social Insurance Institution (figure 1A). In adults, after hypertension, asthma was the second most common chronic disorder in the reimbursement register, indicating the need for regular medication. In children ≤15 years, asthma was the most frequently compensated chronic disorder. In Helsinki, the prevalence of self-reported physician-diagnosed asthma in adults has increased from 6.8% in 1996 to 9.4% in 2007.1
(A) Increase in the number of patients with asthma entitled to special reimbursement for their drug costs and decrease in hospital days due to asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Numbers are relative changes after 2000 (index, 2000=100). Changes in the number hospital days and in the number of asthma patients aged ≥65 years (B) and ≤5 years (C) during the period 2000–2010. (D) Trend for hospital days due to asthma by different age groups in 2010. This figure is only reproduced in colour in the online version.
The improved care provided by the Finnish Asthma Programme 1994–2004 resulted in a reduction of the disease burden; for example, the yearly total costs for asthma were reduced by one-third.2 Similarly, the Finnish Allergy Programme 2008–2018 aimed to reduce emergency visits due to asthma by 40%.3 In this study, we report the temporal trends of hospital use for asthma in the 11-year period from 2000 to 2010.
The patient numbers and hospital days were derived from the Finnish Hospital Discharge Register by the National Institute for Health and Welfare (ICD-10 J45–J46). The data for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD; ICD-10 J44) were compared for reference. The 2010 data for asthma were analysed by age groups.
In 2000, 5894 patients diagnosed with asthma used 32 000 hospital days compared with 2938 patients using 15 000 hospital days in 2010 (an absolute decrease of 54%; 65% taking into account the number of patients with asthma in the reimbursement register (figure 1A)). The average stay in hospital was reduced from 4.3 days to 4.2 days. For patients diagnosed with COPD, the hospital days were reduced from 44 000 to 23 000 (an absolute decrease of 46%; figure 1A). In 2010, 39% of the hospital days were due to asthma and 61% were due to COPD. During the study period, any diagnostic transfer between asthma and COPD is unlikely as the hospital days decreased at a similar rate and diagnostic practices did not change.
In 2010, 39% of the hospital days for asthma were used by patients ≥65 years old (figure 1B), 15% by patients ≤15 years old and 12% by children ≤5 years old (figure 1C). However, in the case of older patients, the number of hospital days decreased by 60% during the study period. Older patients with asthma, especially women, needed attention, since the majority of the hospitalisations involved women ≥65 years old (figure 1D). Co-morbidities of asthma, such as COPD and cardiovascular diseases, may complicate treatment in older patients.4 ,5 The other group that needs attention is infants/toddlers who experience wheezing attacks during viral respiratory infections.
The decrease in the hospital days for asthma probably indicates early detection, more effective treatment, and actively implemented guided self-management to prevent exacerbations. In our experience, the latter is the key as it provides simple tools for patients (and parents) to stop asthma attacks proactively.3
To conclude, the burden of asthma has continued to decrease in Finland during the last decade as the costs attributed to asthma (including disability, medication, hospital care, outpatient visits) decreased considerably during the period 1994–2004,2 and this trend has continued. In older patients, memory impairment and co-morbidities remain as challenges. The Global Initiative for Asthma launched the Asthma Control Challenge in May 2010 with the aim of reducing hospitalisations due to asthma by 50% over the next 5 years,6 and based on the trends observed in our study this seems to be an achievable goal.7
Pallasaho P,
Juusela M,
Lindqvist A,
. Allergic rhinoconjunctivitis doubles the risk for incident asthma—results from a population study in Helsinki, Finland. Respir Med 2011;105:1449–56.
Haahtela T,
Tuomisto LE,
Pietinalho A,
. A 10 year asthma programme in Finland: a major change for the better. Thorax 2006;61:663–70.
von Hertzen L,
Mäkelä M,
. Allergy programme Working Group. Finnish Allergy programme 2008-2018—time to act and change the course. Allergy 2008;63:634–45.
Kauppi P,
Kupiainen H,
. Overlap syndrome of asthma and COPD predicts low quality of life. J Asthma 2011;48:279–85.
Gershon AS,
Guan J,
. Burden of comorbidity in individuals with asthma. Thorax 2010;65:612–18.
FitzGerald JM,
Bateman E,
Hurd S,
. The Global Initiative in Asthma (GINA) five year asthma challenge: reducing asthma hospitalizations. Eur Respir J 2011;38:997–8.
Kupczyk M,
Cruz AA,
. Reduction of asthma burden is possible through National Asthma Plans. Allergy 2010;65:415–19.
Funding This study was supported by the Finnish Allergy Programme of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health.
Ethics approval This study was approved by the ethical committee of the Helsinki and Uusimaa Hospital District.


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Pimple patches have been around for a few years, but the novelty clearly hasn't worn off yet. For example, when Peace Out launched its Acne Dots at Sephora, there was practically a run on them, perhaps because, in addition to the hydrocolloid technology featured in so many other acne patches, Peace Out upped the ingenuity by including salicylic acid. And now, the brand is getting even more innovative with its latest little face stickers, Peace Out Dark Spots.
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\section{Introduction}

As is well known, Lorentz invariance is a fundamental ingredient of quantum field theory, which is an exact symmetry carried out by the Standard Model (SM) \cite{Kostelecky} of the interactions among the smallest building blocks of matter. This theory relies on Lorentz symmetry and provides a remarkably successful description of nowadays known phenomena. Interestingly enough, despite its experimental success, the observation of Lorentz symmetry violation (LSV) would indicate the existence of a new physics. In this form, the possibility that Lorentz and CPT symmetries be spontaneously broken at very fundamental scale, such as in string theories, has motivated a very intensive research activity. More precisely, the necessity of a new scenario has been proposed to overcome theoretical difficulties in the quantum gravity framework \cite{Amelino, Alfaro,Piran,Liberati}. It is worth recalling that theories with LSV are to be considered as effective theories and the analysis of its physical consequences at low energies may provide information and impose constraints on a more fundamental theory. It is to be specially noted that a suitable framework for testing the low-energy manifestations of LSV is the effective approach referred to as the Standard Model Extension (SME), where it is possible to realize spontaneous LSV.

On the other hand, quantum vacuum nonlinearities and its physical consequences such as vacuum birefringence and vacuum dichroism have been of great interest since its earliest days \cite{Euler,Adler,Tollis,Biswas, Seco, Michinel}. The work due to Euler and Heisenberg \cite{Euler} is the key example, who computed an effective nonlinear electromagnetic theory in vacuum emerging from the interaction of photons with virtual electron-positron pairs. Nevertheless, this amazing quantum characteristics of light has generated a growing interest on the experimental side \cite{Bamber,Burke,Pike}. For example, the PVLAS collaboration \cite{Valle}, and more recently the ATLAS collaboration has reported on the direct detection of the light-by-light scattering in LHC Pb-Pb collisions \cite{Aaboud, Enterria}. The advent of laser facilities has given rise to various proposals to probe quantum vacuum nonlinearities \cite{Battesti,Ataman}.

We would like to point out that the work of Ref. \cite{Ferrari} sets out an interesting discussion that relates LSV and non-linear electromagnetic effects. In their paper, LSV is present at the tree-level action in a term that non-minimally couples the photon to charged fermions. The latter are integrated out and thereby an effective action is attained with higher derivative operators. Our present case calls into question a different path: a non-linear action is present from the very onset and a LSV term (actually, CFJ) as well. We then work out the photonic dispersion relations to get how the parameters associated to the non-linearity interfere with the CFJ external vector in the expressions for the refractive indices and the group velocity. The fourth-degree polynomial in the frequency can be shown to split into four categories: a purely Maxwellian term, a piece exclusively given by the non-linearity, a third part isolating the CFJ parameter and, finally, the desired contribution that couples LSV with the CFJ external vector. From this fourth-degree equation in the frequency, one can attain the expressions for the refractive indices and group velocity, from which we are able to read off the explicit form of the terms that couple the non-linearity to the LSV parameters.

Also, from the preceding considerations, and given the ongoing experiments related to photon-photon interaction physics, we are encouraged to further examine how nonlinear electromagnetic effects couple to the parameters that signal LSV. Specifically, we are concerned with birefringence, as well as the static potential along the lines \cite{inverse,GaeteHel}.

\section{Model under consideration}

We start off our considerations with a brief description of the model under consideration.The model is described by the following Lagrangian density:
\begin{equation}
{\cal L} = {{\cal L}_{NL}}\left( {{\cal F};{\cal G}} \right) + {{\cal L}_{CFJ}},
 \label{NLCFJ05}
 \end{equation}
 where ${\cal F} \equiv  - \frac{1}{4}{F_{\mu \nu }}{F^{\mu \nu }} = \frac{1}{2}\left( {\frac{{{{\bf E}^2}}}{{{c^2}}} - {{\bf B}^2}} \right)$, ${\cal G} \equiv  - \frac{1}{4}{F_{\mu \nu }}{\tilde F^{\mu \nu }} = \frac{{\bf E}}{c} \cdot {\bf B}$ and ${{\cal L}_{NL}}$ describes the nonlinear part, whereas the term ${{\cal L}_{CFJ}}$ (CFJ denotes Carroll, Field, Jackiw), is given by
 \begin{equation}
{\cal L}_{CFJ} = \frac{1}{4}{\varepsilon ^{\mu \nu \kappa \lambda }}{v_\mu }{A_\nu }{F_{\kappa \lambda }}.  \label{NLCFJ10}
 \end{equation}

Next, after splitting ${{\cal L}_{NL}}\left( {{\cal F};{\cal G}} \right)$ around a constant and homogeneous electromagnetic background, ${{\bf E}_B}( {{\bf B}_B} )$, and a small fluctuation
${\bf e}( {\bf b})$,
 (${\bf E} = {{\bf E}_B} + {\bf e}, {\bf B} = {{\bf B}_B} + {\bf b}$), the corresponding equations of motion up to quadratic terms read
\begin{eqnarray}
\nabla  \cdot {\bf d} - {\bf v} \cdot {\bf b} = 0, \nonumber\\
\nabla  \times {\bf e} =  - \frac{{\partial {\bf b}}}{{\partial t}}, \nonumber\\
\nabla  \cdot {\bf b} = 0, \nonumber\\
\nabla  \times {\bf h} - {v^0}\, {\bf b} + {\bf v} \times {\bf e} = \frac{{\partial {\bf e}}}{{\partial t}},  \label{NLCFJ15}
\end{eqnarray}
where the ${\bf d}$ and ${\bf h}$ fields are given by
\begin{equation}
 {\bf d} = \mathord{\buildrel{\lower3pt\hbox{$\scriptscriptstyle\leftrightarrow$}}
\over \varepsilon }  \cdot {\bf e} + \mathord{\buildrel{\lower3pt\hbox{$\scriptscriptstyle\leftrightarrow$}}
\over \zeta }  \cdot {\bf b}, \label{NLCFJ20}
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
{\bf h} = {\mathord{\buildrel{\lower3pt\hbox{$\scriptscriptstyle\leftrightarrow$}}
\over \mu } ^{ - 1}} \cdot {\bf b} + \mathord{\buildrel{\lower3pt\hbox{$\scriptscriptstyle\leftrightarrow$}}
\over \eta }  \cdot {\bf e}. \label{NLCFJ25}
\end{equation}
It should be emphasized again that the vacuum electromagnetic properties are characterized by the following expressions for the vacuum permittivity and the vacuum permeability:
\begin{equation}
{\varepsilon _{ij}} \equiv {\delta _{ij}} + {\alpha _i}{E_j} + {\beta _i}{B_j},  \label{NLCFJ30}
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
{\mu ^{ - 1}}_{ij} \equiv {\delta _{ij}} - {B_i}{\gamma _j} - {E_i}{\Delta _j}.  \label{NLCFJ35}
\end{equation}
Here we have simplified our notation by writing
\begin{equation}
\boldsymbol {\alpha}  \equiv \frac{1}{{{C_1}}}\left( {{D_1}\,{\bf E} + {D_3}\,{\bf B}} \right), \ \ \ \boldsymbol {\beta}  \equiv \frac{1}{{{C_1}}}\left( {{D_2}\, {\bf B} + {D_3} \,{\bf E}} \right),  \label{NLCFJ40}
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
\boldsymbol {\gamma}  \equiv \frac{1}{{{C_1}}}\left( {{D_1}\, {\bf B} - {D_3} \,{\bf E}} \right), \ \ \ \boldsymbol {\Delta}  \equiv \frac{1}{{{C_1}}}\left( { - {D_3}\, {\bf B} + {D_2} \,{\bf E}} \right), \label{NLCFJ45}
\end{equation}
where
\begin{equation}
{C_1} \equiv \frac{{\partial {{\cal L}_{NL}}}}{{\partial {\cal F}}}, \ \ \ {D_1} \equiv \frac{{{\partial ^2}{{\cal L}_{NL}}}}{{\partial {{\cal F}^2}}}, \ \ \ {D_2} \equiv \frac{{{\partial ^2}{{\cal L}_{NL}}}}{{\partial {{\cal G}^2}}}, \ \ {D_3} \equiv \frac{{{\partial ^2}{{\cal L}_{NL}}}}{{\partial {\cal F}\partial {\cal G}}}. \label{NLCFJ50}
\end{equation}

Mention should be made, at this point, to a further aspect related to vacuum electromagnetic properties. More specifically, we refer to:
 How do the parameters and external fields coming from the nonlinear (NL) sector couple to LSV parameters ($v^{\mu}$ for CFJ)? In what follows we will examine this question.

\section{Dispersion relations}

In order to adequately deal with this issue, one must inspect the dispersion relations (DRs) for an electromagnetic wave propagating in the external electromagnetic background; for the model under consideration, the matrix yielding the DRs reads as follows below:
\begin{equation}
\det {M_{ij}}\left( {w,{\bf k}; {\bf E}, {\bf B};{v^\mu }} \right) = 0, \label{NLCFJ55}
\end{equation}
where the $M$-matrix has the form
\begin{eqnarray}
{M_{ij}} &\equiv& {w^2}{\varepsilon _{ij}} + w{\zeta _{im}}{\varepsilon _{mnj}}{k_n} + {\varepsilon _{imn}}{\varepsilon _{klj}}{\mu ^{ - 1}}_{nk}{k_m}{k_l} \nonumber\\
 &+& w{\varepsilon _{imn}}{\eta _{nj}}{k_m} + i{v^0}{\varepsilon _{imj}}{k_m} - iw{\varepsilon _{imj}}{v_m}. \label{NLCFJ60}
 \end{eqnarray}

Next, we shall focus here on a single situation for the different nonlinear (NL) models:
${\bf E_{B}}= 0, {\bf B_{B}} \ne 0$. This decouples the coefficient $D_{3}$ from the problem and the $M$-matrix becomes:
\begin{eqnarray}
{M_{ij}} &=& \left[ {\left( {{w^2} - {{\bf k}^2}} \right) + \frac{{{D_1}}}{{{C_1}}}\left( {{\bf B}_B^2\,
{{\bf k}^2} - {{\left( {{{\bf B}_B} \cdot {\bf k}} \right)}^2}} \right)} \right]{\delta _{ij}} \nonumber\\
 &+&\left( {\frac{{{D_2}}}{{{C_1}}}{w^2} - \frac{{{D_1}}}{{{C_1}}}{{\bf k}^2}} \right){B_{Bi}}{B_{Bj}} + \left( {1 - \frac{{{D_1}}}{{{C_1}}}{\bf B}_B^2} \right){k_i}{k_j} \nonumber\\
 &+& \frac{{{D_1}}}{{{C_1}}}\left( {{\bf B}_{B} \cdot {\bf k}} \right)\left( {{k_i}{B_{Bj}} + {k_j}{B_{Bi}}} \right) \nonumber\\
&+& i{\varepsilon _{imj}}\left( {{v^0}{k_m} - w{v_m}} \right).  \label{NLCFJ65}
\end{eqnarray}

Interestingly, the matrix from which the dispersion relations (DRs) follow can then be split into $4$ pieces:
\begin{equation}
DR= Max +NL+LS+ NL/LSV=0,   \label{NLCFJ70}
\end{equation}
where Max, NL, LSV and NL/LSV denote Maxwell, Nonlinear, Lorentz symmetry violation and the coupling between nonlinear and LSV, respectively.
These terms are given by:
\begin{equation}
Max = \left( {{w^2} - {{\bf k}^2}} \right)^{2},  \label{NLCFJ70a}
\end{equation}
\begin{eqnarray}
NL &=& \frac{{{D_2}}}{{{C_1}}}{{\bf B}_{B}^2}\,{w^4} - \frac{{{D_1}}}{{{C_1}}}{{\bf B}_{B}^2}\,{{\bf k}^4} \nonumber\\
&+& \left( {\frac{{{D_1}}}{{{C_1}}} - \frac{{{D_2}}}{{{C_1}}} + \frac{{{D_1}{D_2}}}{{C_1^2}}{{\bf B}_{B}^2}} \right){{\bf B}_{B}^2}\,{{\bf k}^2}\,{w^2},  \label{NLCFJ70b}
\end{eqnarray}
\begin{equation}
LSV =  - {\bf v^2}{w^2} + {{\bf v}^2}{{\bf k}^2} - {\left( {{\bf v} \cdot {\bf k}} \right)^2}. \label{NLCFJ70c}
\end{equation}

The coupled NL/LSV effects we are pursuing are cast in what follows:
\begin{eqnarray}
NL/LSV &\equiv&  - \frac{{{D_2}}}{{{C_1}}}{\left( {{{\bf B}_B} \cdot {\bf v}} \right)^2}{w^2} + \frac{{{D_1}}}{{{C_1}}}{\left( {{{\bf B}_B} \cdot {\bf v}} \right)^2}{\bf k^2} \nonumber\\
&-&\frac{{{D_1}}}{{{C_1}}}{\bf B}^2_{B}\left( {{{\bf v}^2}{{\bf k}^2} - {{\left( {{\bf v} \cdot {\bf k}} \right)}^2}} \right). \label{NLCFJ75}
\end{eqnarray}

It is worthy recalling, at this stage, that the coefficients $C_{1}$, $D_{1}$, $D_{2}$ specify the particular nonlinear electrodynamic model under consideration; where ${C_1}=\frac{{\partial {{\cal L}_{NL}}}}{{\partial {\cal F}}}$, ${D_1}=\frac{{{\partial ^2}{{\cal L}_{NL}}}}{{\partial {{\cal F}^2}}}$, ${D_2} = \frac{{{\partial ^2}{{\cal L}_{NL}}}}{{\partial {{\cal G}^2}}}$ and $D_{3}$ does not contribute whenever either ${\bf E}_{B}$ or ${\bf B}_{B}$ vanishes.

In this way, one encounters
\begin{equation}
m_\gamma ^2 = \frac{{{{\bf v}^2} - \frac{{{D_2}}}{{{C_1}}}{{\left( {{{\bf B}_B} \cdot {\bf v}} \right)}^2}}}{{1 + \frac{{{D_2}}}{{{C_1}}}{\bf B}_B^2}}.  \label{NLCFJ80}
\end{equation}
which represents, in the particle picture of the propagating mode, the photon (inertial) mass, which now depends on both sets of non-linear and LSV parameters and also on the direction of the external magnetic field relative to the external CFJ space vector.
Proceeding further, the group velocity can be shown to result from the composition between the wave vector and the external CFJ space vector as written in the expression below:
\begin{equation}
{{\bf v}_g} = \frac{{\bf k}}{w}\,\frac{P}{Q} + \frac{{\bf v}}{w}\,\frac{R}{Q}.  \label{NLCFJ85}
\end{equation}
To get the last line we used
\begin{eqnarray}
P &\equiv&{w^2} - {{\bf k}^2} - \frac{1}{2}\left( {\frac{{{D_1}}}{{{C_1}}} - \frac{{{D_2}}}{{{C_1}}} + \frac{{{D_1}{D_2}}}{{C_1^2}}} \right){\bf B}_B^2\,{w^2} \nonumber\\
 &+& \frac{{{D_1}}}{{{C_1}}}{\bf B}_B^2\,{{\bf k}^2} - \frac{1}{2}{{\bf v}^2} + \frac{1}{2}\frac{{{D_1}}}{{{C_1}}}{\left( {{{\bf B}_B} \cdot {\bf v}} \right)^2} - \frac{1}{2}\frac{{{D_1}}}{{{C_1}}}{\bf B}_B^2\,{{\bf v}^2}, \label{NLCFJ90}
\end{eqnarray}
\begin{eqnarray}
Q &\equiv& {w^2} - {{\bf k}^2} + \frac{1}{2}\left( {\frac{{{D_1}}}{{{C_1}}} - \frac{{{D_2}}}{{{C_1}}} + \frac{{{D_1}{D_2}}}{{C_1^2}}{\bf B}_B^2} \right){\bf B}_B^2\,{{\bf k}^2} \nonumber\\
&+&\frac{{{D_2}}}{{{C_1}}}{\bf B}_B^2\,{w^2} - \frac{1}{2}{{\bf v}^2} - \frac{1}{2}\frac{{{D_2}}}{{{C_1}}}{\left( {{{\bf B}_B} \cdot {\bf v}} \right)^2},  \label{NLCFJ95}
\end{eqnarray}
\begin{equation}
R \equiv \frac{1}{2}{\bf v} \cdot {\bf k} - \frac{1}{2}\frac{{{D_1}}}{{{C_1}}}{\bf B}_B^2\left( {{\bf v} \cdot {\bf k}} \right).  \label{NLCFJ100}
\end{equation}

The refractive indices, ${n_\bot}$ and ${n_\parallel}$, can also be found with the help of our DRs, given by det M = 0. This is not presented here, but we shall work them out for the Born-Infeld, Euler-Heisenberg, Hoffmann-Infeld, Logarithmic and the ModMax models in the extended version of this contribution, to be submitted elsewhere in a near future.

\section{Final remarks}

In summary, in this presentation we have reported on the results that take into account how the (meta)material constitutive properties of the vacuum are affected by the parameters that measure LSV.
 Finally, we have calculated interaction potential for logarithmic electrodynamics with a term CFJ. Our calculations show that the interaction energy, at leading order in $\beta ^{2}$, is similar to our previous calculation \cite{GaeteHel}:
\begin{equation}
V =  - \frac{{{q^2}}}{{4\pi }}\frac{1}{\eta }\frac{1}{r} + \frac{{{q^2}}}{{4\pi }}\frac{{{\mu ^2}{{\bf v}^2}}}{{16\eta }}z\ln \left( {\frac{{z + r}}{{2z}}} \right),  \label{NLCFJ105}
\end{equation}
where $r = \sqrt {{{\bf x}^2} + {{\bf y}^2}}$. In this case, ${\bf E_{B}}=0$, ${\bf B_{B}} = B {\hat {\bf z}}$ and ${\bf v} = v {\hat {\bf z}}$. Whereas $\mu$ and $\frac{1}{\eta }$ are given by
\begin{equation}
\mu  = \sqrt {\frac{{1 + {\raise0.7ex\hbox{${{{\bf B}^2}}$} \!\mathord{\left/
 {\vphantom {{{{\bf B}^2}} {{\beta ^2}}}}\right.\kern-\nulldelimiterspace}
\!\lower0.7ex\hbox{${{\beta ^2}}$}}}}{{1 - {\raise0.7ex\hbox{${{{\bf B}^2}}$} \!\mathord{\left/
 {\vphantom {{{{\bf B}^2}} {{\beta ^2}}}}\right.\kern-\nulldelimiterspace}
\!\lower0.7ex\hbox{${{\beta ^2}}$}}}}} \left( {1 + {\raise0.7ex\hbox{${{{\bf B}^2}}$} \!\mathord{\left/
 {\vphantom {{{{\bf B}^2}} {2{\beta ^2}}}}\right.\kern-\nulldelimiterspace}
\!\lower0.7ex\hbox{${2{\beta ^2}}$}}} \right), \label{NLCFJ110}
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
\frac{1}{\eta } = \frac{{\left( {1 + {\raise0.7ex\hbox{${{{\bf B}^2}}$} \!\mathord{\left/
 {\vphantom {{{{\bf B}^2}} {2{\beta ^2}}}}\right.\kern-\nulldelimiterspace}
\!\lower0.7ex\hbox{${2{\beta ^2}}$}}} \right)}}{{\left( {1 - {\raise0.7ex\hbox{${{{\bf B}^2}}$} \!\mathord{\left/
 {\vphantom {{{{\bf B}^2}} {{\beta ^2}}}}\right.\kern-\nulldelimiterspace}
\!\lower0.7ex\hbox{${{\beta ^2}}$}}} \right)}}. \label{NLCFJ115}
\end{equation}
In an extended paper that we shall submit elsewhere \cite{GaeteHel2}, we are pursuing the investigation of other LSV photonic operators  (here, we have restricted ourselves to the CFJ case) to inspect how they couple to the parameters of the non-linear electromagnetic sector in the presence of an electric/magnetic background to estimate how a very strong background may enhance the tiny interference terms. We expect that our efforts in this endeavor might allow us to get bounds on the model parameters by consulting results from the experiments carried out with the existing super-intense LASERs based on chirped pulse amplification.

\section*{Acknowledgments}
One of us (P.G.) was partially supported by ANID PIA / APOYO AFB180002.

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Love is a pop art image by American artist Robert Indiana. It consists of the letters L and O over the letters V and E in bold Didone type; the O is slanted sideways so that its oblong negative space creates a line leading to the V.

The image LOVE was first created in 1964 in the form of a card which he sent to several friends and acquaintances in the art world. In 1965, Robert Indiana was invited to propose an artwork to be featured on the Museum of Modern Art's annual Christmas card. Indiana submitted several 12" square oil on canvas variations based on his LOVE image. The museum selected the most intense color combination in red, blue, and green. It became one of the most popular cards the museum has ever offered. Indiana continued to develop his LOVE series, and in 1966, worked with Marian Goodman of Multiples, Inc. to make his first LOVE sculpture in aluminum. In 1970, Indiana completed his first monumental LOVE sculpture in Cor-Ten steel which is in the collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

Significance

Original inspirations

MoMA historian Deborah Wye describes Indiana's image as "full of erotic, religious, autobiographical, and political underpinnings" that make it "both accessible and complex in meaning."

The iconography first appeared in a series of poems originally written in 1958, in which Indiana stacked LO and VE on top of one another. The first paintings addressing the subject of love were 4-Star Love (1961) and Love Is God (1964).

The art historian Susan Elizabeth Ryan wrote that in 1964 LOVE had been a "more explicit four-letter word—beginning with F, and with a second letter, a U, intriguingly tilted to the right." Indiana and Ellsworth Kelly had been in a rocky relationship and Indiana had been working on word paintings. She adds "The two men were in the habit of exchanging postcard-size sketches, with Mr. Kelly laying down fields of color and Mr. Indiana adding large words atop the abstractions."

Indiana's red, blue, and green LOVE painting was then selected to appear on the Museum of Modern Art's annual Christmas card in 1965. In an interview Robert Indiana said "It was the most profitable Christmas card the museum ever published."

Indiana said he was inspired to use these colors because his father used to work at a Phillips 66 gas station whose colors were green and red. Robert Indiana described the original colors as "the red and green of that sign against the blue Hoosier sky". Still it is believed the colors were inspired also by the painting Red Blue Green (1963) of Ellsworth Kelly, his former partner.

Indiana said, "Ellsworth Kelly introduced me to Hard-Edge and was a great influence on my work, and is responsible for my being here".

The first serigraph/silk screen of LOVE was printed as part of an exhibition poster for Stable Gallery in 1966 on the occasion of Indiana's show dedicated to his LOVE series.

In 1973, the United States Postal Service commissioned a stamp design by Indiana and released the eight-cent LOVE stamp in advance of Valentine's Day. Unveiled in a ceremony at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the stamp became so popular that 425 million were printed over the next two years.

Versions

Hebrew version
In 1977, he created a Hebrew LOVE with the four-letter word Ahava (אהבה "love" in Hebrew) using Cor-Ten steel, for the Israel Museum Art Garden in Jerusalem.

Variation for Google
For Valentine's Day 2011, Google paid homage to Indiana's LOVE, which was displayed in place of the search engine site's normal logo.

References

image
pop culture
1965 paintings

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Kidnapped girls 'doing fine' after rescue
By Michael Muskal, Los Angeles Times –
LOS ANGELES — Two kidnapped Tennessee girls were released from a Memphis hospital Friday morning, apparently safe and healthy after a two-week ordeal that left their mother and a sister dead and prompted an intense manhunt for the suspect. That suspect, Adam Mayes, killed himself Thursday as authorities closed in on the area around a rural Mississippi church where he had sought sanctuary.
"They're doing fine," Sara Burnett, a spokeswoman for Le Bonheur Children's Hospital in Memphis, said in a telephone interview. The girls, Alexandria Bain, 12, and Kyliyah Bain, 8, were evaluated overnight and released to their family in good condition. "This is wonderful news," Burnett said.
The sisters apparently were the objects of an obsession by Mayes, 35, who thought he was their father, according to his former in-laws. After two weeks on the run, Mayes ended his life with a pistol shot to the head in an area about a mile from his mother's Guntown, Miss., house.
The bodies of Jo Ann Bain, 31, and her eldest daughter, Adreienne, 14, had been found at the home days before; they were killed April 27 in their Tennessee home, some 80 miles away, authorities said.
"We are very relieved at this event tonight," Aaron T. Ford, special agent in charge of the FBI's Memphis, Tenn., office., told reporters at an early Friday news conference. "We have two little girls that we can return to Tennessee to their family."
Even with Mayes dead, state and federal authorities will continue to investigate the incident, FBI spokesman Joe Siskovic said in a telephone interview with the Los Angeles Times. Still to be decided is who will receive the $171,000 in reward money offered for the capture of Mayes, who was briefly on the agency's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list.
There are also questions about whether Mayes had help staying away from authorities and surviving in the outdoors, he said.
The odyssey began in rural western Tennessee, in Hardeman County, where the Bain family lived. Mayes was a close family friend, one who told people he was actually more — the father of some of the children.
Mayes' former mother-in-law, Josie Tate, had told reporters that Mayes thought he was the father and that it caused problems with his marriage to Teresa Mayes. Speaking Friday on NBC's "Today" show, Tate said she did not think the girls were actually Adam Mayes' daughters. She called him a "control freak" and said she fears for her daughter, now facing felony charges in Tennessee.
"I'm scared about what will happen to my daughter, that she will have to take the brunt of the punishment," Tate said. "If she participated in any way, it was because she was too scared to stand up to Adam or she was brainwashed."
Whether Adam Mayes was the father of any of the Bain children will likely be a matter of speculation, but most people agree he was obsessed with the younger girls and wanted them to live with him.
According to Mayes' ex-wife, Teresa, Mayes killed Jo Ann Bain, the mother, after fighting with her about the children, then killed the eldest daughter. Teresa Mayes, who faces murder and kidnapping charges, told investigators she helped transport the corpses and the two surviving girls back to Guntown, Miss. There, the bodies were buried in a shallow grave in the backyard of the house of Mary Mayes, Adam Mayes' mother.
Mary Mayes is also in jail, charged with conspiracy to commit kidnapping.
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Tahina spectabilis – gatunek rośliny z rodziny arekowatych (popularnie nazywanych palmami), żyjący na Madagaskarze.
Palma została odkryta w 2007 roku przez Xaviera Metza, właściciela plantacji w północnym Madagaskarze. Osiąga ok. 18 m wysokości i posiada 5-metrowe liście. Jest hapaksantem – zakwita raz po ok. 50 latach rozwoju, a następnie obumiera.

Populacja tego gatunku w 2008 roku składała się z 91 drzew i siewek.

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Bibliografia
 Dransfield, J., Rakotoarinivo, M., Baker, W.J., Bayton, R.P., Fisher, J.B., Horn, J.W., Leroy, B., Metz, X. (2008). "A new Coryphoid palm genus from Madagascar". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 156(1), 79-91.

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Beautiful New Brighton real estate can be found in the southeast corner of Calgary, and features easy access to both the Calgary downtown area and the Calgary International Airport. A master planned community, New Brighton is known for its sprawling parks and 12 acre pond. At its heart is the popular New Brighton Club, a private residents association and modern recreational facility.
New Brighton Market Snapshot, Last Updated: April 26th 2019 . In the New Brighton real estate market, there are currently 53 active listings. The average price of a home for sale in New Brighton is $434,113 , with a lowest priced listing of $200,000 and a highest priced listing of $749,900 .
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There are endless top-notch amenities in this community as well as prime New Brighton real estate. The boulevards in New Brighton are lined with trees and lilac bushes. There is a beautiful pond and central park, including various gardens, tot lots for all New Brighton residents. For private residents there is an association facility called the New Brighton Club. This club holds a family orientated fun with a water park, tennis courts and volleyball courts in the summer, and a hockey rink and skating pond in the winter. New Brighton hosts an active online forum for residents and a website that lists the neighborhood program activities.
New Brighton real estate is minutes away from schools, shopping, grocery stores, restaurants, coffee shops and retail stores. There are also day cares, places of worship, movie outlets, drug stores, book stores recreation facilities and fitness studios close by.
The New Brighton community resembles an English countryside. The New Brighton real estate has single family and multi-family homes. Most of these homes have beautiful masonry work as well as detailed lattice, dormer windows, decorative shutters, ornamental door handles and hinges. It is all about the fine details that make each home in New Brighton so special. New Brighton has a small town country feel and is a family orientated place to live.
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Every three years – since 2006 – we here at Bootie Mashup have been releasing Christmas holiday-themed mashup albums to liven up your own parties this season, to give you a break from all the standard holiday music you've probably been hearing since mid-November. We've put out five A Very Bootie Christmas albums so far — each one with a cover that cheekily references the Keith Haring design of the original "A Very Special Christmas" album series from the late '80s and '90s.
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Message #1 Posted by David H Thompson on 19 June 2002, 8:51 p.m.
I've just read on the Samson Cables site that all HP calculators have been discontinued with the exception of the HP10BII, HP12C, and the HP30S. Is their information difinitive?
Re: High-end HP calcs discontinued?
There doesn't seem to be anything about that on the HP site, and all of their current machines are available through their on-line store except the 17BII, 38G, and 48G+.
It would be a tragedy, if true... But not entirely surprising.
If you go to Hp's web site, you will see the Hp19, Hp39G and the Hp20s on clearence (at tremendous savings, not really). Clearance means that Hp is not going to continue manufacturing those items (according to Hp PR something better is in the pipeline, but more likely we'll just get the Pipe).
Sure enough, they're listed on the close-out page. Hmmm.
And the last ever non graphing, pocket sized, <$100 calculator bites the dust.
I can see it now ... "we consulted with educators and our new calculators conform with the latest NCTM standards"
NCTM = "National Council of Teachers of Mathematics" (just learned that on AltaVista).
FWIW, the used-electronics reseller from whom I bought a 34C and 41CV has told me how some unnamed high school math teacher's methods. (S)he instructs about graphing by listing the sequence of keystrokes to obtain specified plots, specific to a given type of graphing calculator (probably a TI). The propietor wonders aloud what is being taught in today's schools. Is this an isolated example, or standard practice?


As 2019 begins, child development charity Compassion UK is urging Christians to make the time to think and pray about what they can do to enhance their faith and touch the lives of the world's most vulnerable children – and then set some resolutions for the year.
Goals could be to regularly lend a hand at church, or to support more missional work, or they might include more personal challenges such as spend more time reading the Bible and in prayer. Many resolutions fizzle out before people even reach Easter, and often a bigger goal can help people stay committed.
So, if 2019 is the year you would like to consider taking on a big goal, it's not too late to sign up for the Compassion Muskathlon, which takes place during a week-long trip to Rwanda, East Africa, in June this year. It is an opportunity to get involved in mission work and grow in faith.
The Muskathlon is hosted by 4M UK and Compassion UK and aims to encourage those who take part to find sponsors for children who are living in extreme poverty, or raise funds to support basic needs and local initiatives such as building classrooms and toilets.
It is an opportunity to get involved in mission work and grow in faith.
Participants get to choose from a half, full or ultra-marathon or 120km cycle, or a 42km or 63km walk through the communities for which they are raising vital funds. Last year 56 people from across the UK took part in the week-long, life-changing adventure challenge in Kenya, which also included spending time with children in Compassion's Child Sponsorship programme.
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AECOM is a design juggernaut, and consistently ranks as one of the top architecture firms in the world by size and revenue. Recent AECOM projects include construction management for the new World Trade Center in New York. AECOM has approximately 95,000 employees, and is number 156 on the 2016 Fortune 500 list.


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