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Will there ever be a contactless debit card from Ulster Bank?
If you bank with AIB, KBC or the Bank of Ireland you'll have been able to use their contactless debit cards for the last couple of years.
However Ulster Bank in the Republic of Ireland do not offer a contactless debit card. They have contactless on their ROI credit card, and they have it on their Northern Ireland debit card, but the bank have given no indication when it will be available on ROI debit cards.
It's annoying for Ulster Bank customers, who can't take advantage of the convenience of contactless payments.
They seem fairly on the ball with other tech, Touch ID to open their iPhone app and Apple pay in the UK. There has to be a reason but they'll loose customers.
Still no sign of a contactless debit card!
Yeah, my wife got one in the post today as well.
AIB and KBC have both launched Android Pay – contactless for your smartphone. I suppose it's a bit of stretch to expect Ulster Bank to launch this too!
The availability of contactless payment on Ulster Bank cards seems to depend upon the type of card you have. The bank issues two different but very similar types of card – a service card, and a debit card. The service card is the only one that has contactless enabled. Their debit card doesn't support it. And I'm not sure what the criteria is for issuing a service or debit card to customers. I have two current accounts, and have a service card for one account, and a debit card for the other.


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No Matter Who Wins in November, the Jews Have Already Lost
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No longer at home in either the Democratic or Republican parties, it's time to acknowledge the end of an era
Liel Leibovitz
Let's get real: No matter what happens in November, America will survive. True, we've every right to feel incensed that the choice we now face is between a thoroughly corrupt cynic and a reprehensibly deranged manchild, but we've soldiered through worse, and we must believe that for every Millard Fillmore—the artful dealmaker who held on to power by signing the Fugitive Slave Act that mandated the return of escaped men and women to their masters down south—there's a Lincoln waiting in the wings, trembling with rage and ready to rise. America, as the poet Langston Hughes put it so well, will be America again.
But not for the Jews.
For those of us whose names are now encased in multiple parentheses, the nation will transform this fall, come what may. Clinton or Trump, stinging defeat or close call, divided house or clean partisan sweep—politics will change in ways we cannot even begin to comprehend but it will spell, in nontrivial ways, the end of a more than half-a-century-long American Jewish bloom.
Portents are everywhere. Even Steven Spielberg, the wide-eyed bard of America's perpetual optimism, recently admitted he was wrong to believe anti-Semitism was fading. "The world," said the father of Jaws, "is full of monsters." But the twilight of the Jewish American dream is not a horror movie; it will not come about by the bloody hands of maniacs. Instead, it creeps up on us in a column of a thousand tiny statistics, each easy enough to explain away on its own but none advisable to ignore. The end of Jewish America is everywhere you look.
Look rightward, and you'll see the Republican leadership trying to rationalize away what, for Jews, ought to be the non-negotiable fact that bigotry must never be tolerated, no matter its targets and no matter the circumstances. Sure, there's a good case to be made for why the party's smarting elite is right to have fallen in line with Trump. And sure, it's silly to expect any political party to pay for its principles with its life. But having chosen to embrace their man, the Republicans must stop equivocating and realize that they've no choice but to embrace his throngs as well. With Trump at its helm, the GOP will no longer be the Party of Lincoln or of Reagan. It will be the party of those who think that keeping the Muslims out is fine, of those who cheer on calls to disqualify a judge because of his Mexican heritage, of those who gleefully tweet illustrations of gas chambers and quips about ovens. It will be a party of Huns led by a hardhead. No decent person should join such a party, but Jews have particularly resonant reasons for staying the hell away.
Look leftward, and things are hardly better. There it's the Rise of the Planet of the Progressives. Look at the college educated, and you'll see that whereas only 12 percent identified as consistently liberal in 1994, today 47 percent do, which, perhaps, helps explain why two-thirds of Democrats 18 to 34 support Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and only a third prefer former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Younger Americans, as surveys and studies unfailingly tell us, are slouching toward a more perfect progressive dogma, and the political constellations they're likely to form will almost certainly not be hospitable to Jews.
This should come as no surprise. Progressivism may be one of most mutable terms in American politics—just what exactly it means changes depending on who's speaking, when, and to whom. But it's not much of an injustice to say that progressivism, to borrow a useful insight from the brilliant Yuval Levin, is powered by the twin, and seemingly contradictory, engines of consolidation on the one hand and diffusion on the other: Economically, its supporters champion the regulatory powers of the federal government, while culturally they advocate increased deference to the sensitivities of marginalized individuals. For at least six decades, if not longer, American Jews have traveled more or less in the opposite direction, championing a culture of consolidation that is a necessary backdrop for blending in while supporting moderately liberal economic policies that focused on individuals, not collectives. It's not a coincidence that the president who enjoyed the greatest support of American Jews in modern history—LBJ, with a whopping 90 percent of the Jewish vote—breathed life into Medicare and Medicaid but also passed a vigorous tax cut for individuals and corporations, believing there were few better ways to encourage spending and stimulate the economy. American Jews, having begun the second half of the 20th century driven by anxiety that the goyim will spot and mock their provincial ways—see under "Eli, the Fanatic" or any other early Philip Roth—ended it so thoroughly and comfortably assimilated as to have successfully infused many of their idiosyncrasies into the culture at large. This instinct, this genius for assimilation, this affirmation of an all-American identity that trumps the rougher, tribal one is precisely what progressivism now heatedly rejects.
You can see this ideological scuffle, strangely, in the brewing fight over Israel in the upcoming Democratic National Convention. By appointing pollster James Zogby and Professor Cornel West to the party's platform-drafting committee, Sanders—who earlier this week said he saw no real difference between Clinton's foreign policy and Trump's—is not signaling a commitment to a concrete agenda but an allegiance to a political mood, one that singles Israel out for calumny because of how maddeningly ill-suited it is to the progressive gospel. Consider, for example, West's 2014 Facebook rant, in which he called Israeli strikes on Gaza a "massacre of innocent Palestinians" and "a crime against humanity" while condemning Hamas' rocket attacks as merely "politically ineffective." You could, of course, chalk the professor's comments up to anti-Semitism, but progressivism offers a more compelling explanation: Follow contemporary progressivism to its rational conclusion, as West often does in his writing, and there's no reason why you wouldn't come to see the cohesive nation-state exercising its right for self-defense as inherently evil and the terrorist group as a band of righteous if misinformed disenfranchised brothers. Even if Clinton is triumphant, Jews should expect this convoluted and toxic logic to grow ever more prominent among Democrats, as it has among the Labourites in Britain. The Democratic Party, too, can no longer be our home.
Which, really, is good news.
Clowns to the left of us, and racists to the right, we American Jews may finally awaken from our 30-year nap and learn again how to be a community that grapples fiercely with big ideas. We can build new institutions that do more than fret about continuity without questioning what, exactly, it is that we should wish to continue. We can set aside the increasingly inane quibbling over minor differences and instead focus on imagining a shared future animated by more audacious common goals. We can, in short, regain the spirit that has propelled us through history—and then grew dormant as we became comfortable in the American mainstream. Let's face it: We Jews are outsiders. Herein our sorrow, herein our greatness. Imagine what we can do if moved not by the soft tremors of party politics but by the big jolt of feeling, after all these years, politically homeless.
There's no point in waiting until November. No matter who wins, the Jews have already lost. It's time now to do what we do best: Shake off the ashes, say a prayer, and rebuild.
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There are 199.03 miles from Suffield to Bentley in northwest direction and 263 miles (423.26 kilometers) by car, following the 1 W route.
Suffield and Bentley are 4 hours 5 mins far apart, if you drive non-stop.
This is the fastest route from Suffield, AB to Bentley, AB. The halfway point is Strathmore, AB.
Suffield, AB and Bentley, AB are in the same time zone (MDT). Current time in both locations is 2:07 pm.
If you want to meet halfway between Suffield, AB and Bentley, AB or just make a stop in the middle of your trip, the exact coordinates of the halfway point of this route are 51.036518 and -113.296151, or 51º 2' 11.4648" N, 113º 17' 46.1436" W. This location is 131.68 miles away from Suffield, AB and Bentley, AB and it would take approximately 2 hours 2 mins to reach the halfway point from both locations.
The closest town to the halfway point is Strathmore, AB, situated 125.26 miles from Suffield, AB and 138.26 miles from Bentley, AB. It would take 1 hour 53 mins to go from Suffield to Strathmore and 2 hours 12 mins to go from Bentley to Strathmore.
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When KONE was asked to create elevators to the architect's vision in Helsinki's new Amos Rex art museum, the challenge was to make 21st Century technology blend in with the 1930s aesthetics of this heritage building.
In 1936 the residents of Helsinki, Finland, were wowed by a new building in the heart of the city. Dubbed Lasipalatsi, Finnish for "glass palace", the clean, minimalist structure has hosted restaurants, exhibition halls, offices of the public broadcaster, and the 550-seat Bio Rex theatre, known for showing art films.
Eighty years later, the old gem needed a refit to save its historic charm and make it relevant for the 21st Century. Following thorough restoration and vast underground expansion, it is now the home of Amos Rex, a private art museum that has been integrated seamlessly into the restored old building, including the reopened Bio Rex cinema and event venue. The restoration brought back the original colors, designs and materials of the interior that had been lost in previous renovations over the years, and a new, subterranean space was built under Lasipalatsi to house the museum. KONE was asked to supply exceptional elevators to this exceptional environment.
"It is a unique building," says Timo Tiainen, concepts and design director at KONE. "The architecture is a combination of old and new construction. The elevators are part of the architecture and the visual image of the building, so they are designed to fit into that environment."
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Amos Rex has a functionalist background, and this continues with its new life as an art museum. Not only is it a building that serves visitors and the neighboring community, it is also a work of art.
"The flowing roof structures are sculptures," Jaaksi explains. "The ceiling of the main lobby is part of the architecture, but it is also a work of art made of light."
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Amos Rex is not a static building but a home of art, digital exhibitions and events. The building also extends to the square outside it, which has been transformed from a former bus station into a thriving city space that attracts residents and visitors alike. The venue needed elevators designed to complement and serve the multiple uses and users of the environment that changes with each exhibition and event.
"The elevators themselves are adaptable," Tiainen explains. "The walls of the elevators display programmable lights and animations, which are also integrated with speakers to add an auditory element."
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"Many different people come to Amos Rex," Tiainen says. "People come to eat at the restaurants, to see a movie, to go to a company meeting or to attend an art exhibition. The elevators need to be versatile and accessible for everyone. First, we start with the foundation of safety, comfort and utility. Then we think about how we can contribute to the experience and bring joy to people."
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Of the other defendants, several are sports coaches or administrators at the University of Southern California, UCLA and Yale and Wake Forest universities. The indictment accuses defendants of committing crimes between 2011 and 2019.


Looking for things to do in the neighborhood this weekend? Here are two events taking place this Saturday, May 2nd.
The first is a Woman's Expo happening at Restoration Plaza. I love the concept behind this: "to celebrate women, lift the spirits of those who have survived domestic violence and spread domestic violence awareness. This event is being given by men to let women know we care." Admission is free, although there will be nominal fees for services like make-up, nails, facials, waxing and messages. There will be local vendors selling gifts for Mother's Day as well as education, survivor testimonials, inspirational words, artistic performances and raffles. See the Facebook event here.
Also this Saturday, Kemistry Bar is opening a backyard beer garden called the LAB. Kemistry will serve $5 wine and beer all day, and also offer free arts and crafts for kids from 10am to 1pm.
If you'd like to see your event up on the blog, just email me details at thebedstuyblog@gmail.com.


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Sterling has been rising steadily against the dollar half way into the European trading session as Bernanke's speech is drawing closer and investors are adjusting positions in preparation for the event scheduled for later today.
Cable was little changed after the release of the second estimate of GDP for the U.K. in the second quarter which was in line with expectations. The Office for National Statistics reported that UK growth was 0.2 percent as predicted.
Markets quickly shifted their focus back to Jackson Hole, Wyoming where U.S. Fed Chairman is due to speak at 1400 GMT. At the beginning of the week there was speculation that Bernanke will signal further quantitative easing to revive the ailing U.S. economy. However, there have been mixed views now and some believe this will be unlikely.
Many market players are looking at Bernanke's speech as a policy announcement although it is not. But if he mentions something relative to saying that the Fed is ready to do what is necessary to stimulate the economy then this will be interpreted as quantitative easing and there will be a dollar sell off.
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Hicky, the latest online dating app, that promises safety thanks to the blockchain, is launching its initial coin offering (ICO), quite appropriately, on St. Valentine's Day.
Hicky promises to be a "service with a perfect system" that makes all mismatches, fakes, and lags impossible. The main principles of Hicky are fairness, security, and democracy, thanks to biometric verification, using voice recognition and face scan technology. The data is then stored on the decentralized ledger of the blockchain, preventing misuse and changes.
"Due to Hicky's user verification, women are more inclined to join the app as they can be sure that the person they are speaking to is not some sort of creep", the platform promises. The Hicky token will be used as an incentive. The conflict resolution between the users will be rewarded by Hicky tokens (HKY) for those who have participated in the process, while the offenders will have to pay, also in Hicky tokens. This would ensure that all parties will behave well on the platform.
The creators of Hicky also hope that the verification mechanisms and the underlying token economy will prevent the creation of fake accounts or spam as the cost of these activities outweigh the potential benefits.
At the time of writing this article, just a few hours after the launch of the presale, Hicky has raised 2313.78 ETH and was fast approaching the soft cap target of 3000 ETH. One Ether equals 7.500 HKY and there are a total of 481 500 000 HKY.
It is expected that the actual dating app will launch for iOS and Android devices by the end of Q1 2018.


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De geelbuikrosella (Platycercus caledonicus) is een vogel uit de familie Psittaculidae (papegaaien van de Oude Wereld).

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Deze soort is endemisch in Tasmanië en telt 2 ondersoorten:
 Platycercus caledonicus caledonicus: Tasmanië en Flinderseiland.
 Platycercus caledonicus brownii: Kingeiland (Straat Bass).

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Q: Cufflinks shows blank I tried importing the financial data and use the following code.
It runs fine but plotly just show blank canvas.
I narrowed down and found out that the problem is cufflink because iplot alone (not using with dataframe still work fine)
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import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import datetime
%matplotlib inline
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sns
sns.set_style('whitegrid')
%matplotlib inline

start = datetime.datetime(2006, 1, 1)
end = datetime.datetime(2016, 1, 1)
# Bank of America
BAC = data.DataReader("BAC", 'yahoo', start, end)

# CitiGroup
C = data.DataReader("C", 'yahoo', start, end)

# Goldman Sachs
GS = data.DataReader("GS", 'yahoo', start, end)

# JPMorgan Chase
JPM = data.DataReader("JPM", 'yahoo', start, end)

# Morgan Stanley
MS = data.DataReader("MS", 'yahoo', start, end)

# Wells Fargo
WFC = data.DataReader("WFC", 'yahoo', start, end)

df = data.DataReader(['BAC', 'C', 'GS', 'JPM', 'MS', 'WFC'],'yahoo', start, end)

tickers = ['BAC', 'C', 'GS', 'JPM', 'MS', 'WFC']

bank_stocks = pd.concat([BAC, C, GS, JPM, MS, WFC],axis=1,keys=tickers)

# Optional Plotly Method Imports
import plotly
import cufflinks as cf
cf.go_offline()

bank_stocks.xs(key='Close',axis=1,level='Stock Info').iplot()

A: I think the graph did not show up because the name of the multi-index was missing. Please add the following code before the code to draw the graph.
bank_stocks.columns.names = ['Bank Ticker','Stock Info']

Also, it is possible to add the following code as the cause of the missing display. This function needs to be called before executing iplot().See also this.
def enable_plotly_in_cell():
    import IPython
    from plotly.offline import init_notebook_mode
    display(IPython.core.display.HTML('''
            <script src="/static/components/requirejs/require.js"></script>
    '''))
    init_notebook_mode( connected=False )

import plotly
import cufflinks as cf
cf.go_offline()
enable_plotly_in_cell()

bank_stocks.xs(key='Close', axis=1, level='Stock Info').iplot()

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Electoral College is 'vestige' of slavery, say some Constitutional scholars
Politics Nov 6, 2016 3:57 PM EDT
When the founders of the U.S. Constitution in 1787 considered whether America should let the people elect their president through a popular vote, James Madison said that "Negroes" in the South presented a "difficulty … of a serious nature."
During that same speech on Thursday, July 19, Madison instead proposed a prototype for the same Electoral College system the country uses today. Each state has a number of electoral votes roughly proportioned to population and the candidate who wins the majority of votes wins the election.
Since then, the Electoral College system has cost four candidates the race after they received the popular vote — most recently in 2000, when Al Gore lost to George W. Bush. Such anomalies and other criticisms have pushed 10 Democratic states to enroll in a popular vote system. And while there are many grievances about the Electoral College, one that's rarely addressed is one dug up by an academic of the Constitution: that it was created to protect slavery, planting the roots of a system that's still oppressive today.
"It's embarrassing," said Paul Finkelman, visiting law professor at University of Saskatchewan in Canada. "I think if most Americans knew what the origins of the Electoral College is, they would be disgusted."
Madison, now known as the "Father of the Constitution," was a slave-owner in Virginia, which at the time was the most populous of the 13 states if the count included slaves, who comprised about 40 percent of its population.
During that key speech at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Madison said that with a popular vote, the Southern states, "could have no influence in the election on the score of Negroes."
Madison knew that the North would outnumber the South, despite there being more than half a million slaves in the South who were their economic vitality, but could not vote. His proposition for the Electoral College included the "three-fifths compromise," where black people could be counted as three-fifths of a person, instead of a whole. This clause garnered the state 12 out of 91 electoral votes, more than a quarter of what a president needed to win.
"None of this is about slaves voting," said Finkelman, who wrote a paper on the origins of the Electoral College for a symposium after Gore lost. "The debates are in part about political power and also the fundamental immorality of counting slaves for the purpose of giving political power to the master class."
He said the Electoral College's three-fifths clause enabled Thomas Jefferson, who owned more than a hundred slaves, to beat out in 1800 John Adams, who was opposed to slavery, since the South had a stronghold.
While slavery was abolished, and the Civil War led to citizenship and voting rights for black people, the Electoral College remained intact. Another law professor, who has also written that the Constitution is pro-slavery, argues that it gave states the autonomy to introduce discriminatory voting laws, despite the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that was built to prevent it.
In 2013, the Supreme Court freed nine states, mostly in the South, from the stipulation in the Voting Rights Act that said they could only change voter laws with the approval of the federal government.
"A more conservative Supreme Court has been unwinding what the [other] court did," said Juan Perea, a law Professor of Loyola University Chicago. "State by state, that lack of supervision and lack of uniformity operates to preserve a lot of inequality."
In July, a federal appeals court struck down a voter ID law in Texas, ruling that it discriminated against black and Latino voters by making it harder for them to access ballots. Two weeks later, another federal appeals court ruled that North Carolina, a key swing state, had imposed voting provisions that "target African Americans with almost surgical precision."
And for this presidential election, 15 states will have new voting restrictions, such as ones that require government-issued photo identification at the polls or reduce the number of hours the polls are open.
"The ability of states to make voting more difficult is directly tied to the legacy of slavery," Perea said. "And that ability to make voting more difficult is usually used to disenfranchise people of color."
The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact has gained traction, but for reasons more related to the anomaly of the Gore-Bush election. Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz championed legislation in New York that brought the state into the compact and was asked by the NewsHour Weekend why the movement is important.
"We are the greatest democracy on the planet, and it seems to me that in the greatest democracy, the person who gets the most votes should win the election," said Dinowitz. "We're one country, North, South, East and West. One country. The votes of every single person in the country should be equal. And right now, the votes are not equal. Some states your vote is more important than in other states."
New York overwhelmingly agreed on his bill in 2014, joining nine other states and Washington, D.C. Together, they have 165 electoral votes. If they gain a total of 270 — the majority needed to elect a president — the nation will move to a popular vote.
Not all academics agree that slavery was the driving force behind the Electoral College, though most agree there's a connection. And both Perea and Finkelman say they know it is not the most prominent argument for the push toward a popular vote.
"But it is a vestige that has never been addressed," Perea said.
This article has been updated to reflect the fact that Jefferson won the presidency in 1800.
Left: The Federal Convention convened in the State House (Independence Hall) in Philadelphia on May 14, 1787, to revise the Articles of Confederation. Photo by Library of Congress
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Kamala Kelkar works on investigative projects at PBS NewsHour Weekend. She has been a journalist for a decade, reporting from Oakland, India, Alaska and now New York.
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With about 600,000 employees and more than 150 million delivery points, the U.S. Postal Service is vulnerable to internal fraud and theft. As a result, the agency is turning toward data and data analytics more than ever before.
Mark Pappaioanou, a deputy special agent in charge and the Chief Data Officer in the USPS Inspector General's Office, said data analytics can help identify patterns of bad acts. It comes in handy when the OIG is undertaking its roughly 4,000 investigations and 150 audits per year.
Mark Pappaioanou, deputy special agent in the Office of the Chief Data Officer in the U.S. Postal Service Inspector General's Office.
Before joining the OIG, Pappaioanou was a USPS special agent in Houston working on mail theft and narcotics investigations. Most of his work concerned health care providers and workers compensation programs. Over time, he developed a subject matter expertise in workers compensation and health care provider fraud, picking up on the signs of illicit behavior, and he moved to the OIG to oversee other experts.
Most of the data is related to pick-up and delivery addresses, weight, the type of mail used. The subject matter experts can ask what specific questions or occurrences to look for in the data.
With audits, Pappaioanou said his office has used data analytics to make recommendations to USPS to prevent future problems, such as when they found criminal activities among a number of postal facilities that, rather miraculously, would always have perfect financial counts.
Direction from Capitol Hill is motivating USPS to study the role it may be playing in narcotics trafficking and the opioid crisis. To do so, Pappaioanou said they are using some off-the-shelf software as well as custom-made in-house tools.
"We have a number of computer scientists on each team who have the ability to write code that can help us create kind of customized work that we use, depending on what the business question is that we're looking for or into," he said.


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Why does this happen? Also, is there a way for Explorer to include these files/folders when calculating the parent folder's size? Perhaps including other users' files/folders, even if you can't access them? Even for files you are not allowed to access, knowing the size of the folder seems important.
For me, this is happening in Windows 8, but I wouldn't be surprised if other Windows versions did the same thing.
I would like the solution to work right in Windows Explorer, but any solutions, including ones scripting languages, is fine.

A: Here is a simple solution in Powershell. You can tweak it all that you want:
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Perth man, Reginald Foggerdy, headed out on Wednesday from his Shooter's Shack campsite, which lies on the edge of Great Victoria Desert in central western Australia. His family says he is an experienced bushman, but had no idea the near death experience he was walking towards.
The 62-year old man was planning on hunting feral camels for food and followed one but became disoriented in the meantime. He was wearing only a T-shirt, thongs and a baseball cap along with his rifle, but was without any food or water.
When Mr. Foggerdy failed to return on Thursday, his brother reported him as a missing person, which started a land and air search. The police had trouble following his footprints as they would find them only to later lose them.
Kalgoorlie Police Superintendent Andy Greatwood told ABC radio that they were skeptical he would survive as they believed he didn't have any water or food. Eventually with the help of local Indigenous trackers they spotted one of his thongs on Monday afternoon and from there were able to follow more distinct footprints.
Early Tuesday morning around 6 a.m., 15km from his campsite and 6 days later, Mr. Foggerdy was found alive but extremely dehydrated and a bit delusional according to Greatwood. The last couple of days he survived the harsh conditions only by "lying down under a tree and eating black ants".
He was treated onsite by the Tactical Response Group with intravenous fluids right away, then flown to the Tropicana Mine Site where he received more medical treatment, and was eventually sent to Western Australian Hospital, Kalgoorlie hospital by the Royal Flying Doctor. He is said to be in stable condition.


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Participants of BizWest's CEO Roundtable on technology in Northern Colorado are, from left, Jayson Gitt, Kent Bejcek, Brenda Mares, Todd Headley, Ted Warner, Stan Strathman, Jeff Brauch, Nadine Trujillo-Rogers, Ross Henninger, Jim Sampson, Mike Grell, Bryan Watkins and Jeremy Swanner.
FORT COLLINS — Like many industries, one of the biggest issues facing technology businesses in Northern Colorado is the ability to hire and retain skilled talent.
In technology, it can be hard to recruit skilled talent, business leaders shared at BizWest's CEO Roundtable on technology in Northern Colorado on Tuesday.
Recruiting is especially challenging when competing with tech hubs such as Silicon Valley, Austin and Boston, and when cost of living is consistently becoming more expensive.
A particular issue can be with young people, who might prefer living in a more metropolitan area, such as Denver, than Northern Colorado.
Kent Bejcek, president and CEO of Squarei Technologies Inc., agreed.
Recruiting is only half the battle, though. The other issue comes in retaining the talent.
To entice employees to stay, people such as Jeremy Swanner, president of RLE Technologies, are offering more benefits to keep employees at the job and to keep up with the increasing cost of living in Colorado. But even that decision can be a difficult one.
While hiring and recruiting talent is a major concern, it's not the only one facing companies.
Another challenge that faces not just the tech industry but all business, is cybersecurity.
To keep up with the ever-varying attacks, companies such as Intel Corp. are doing what they can to get ahead.
"We're doing a lot to train and test employees and hammer in people's heads to check a link before they click on it," said Jeff Brauch, engineering manager for Intel in Fort Collins.
Northern Colorado's tech companies are trying to remind clients as well that if they think they're exempt from a security attack, they're not.
Participants: Kent Bejcek, president/CEO, Squarei Technologies; Todd Headley, president, CSU Ventures; Ted Warner, CEO, Connecting Point; Stan Strathman, VP of Wafer Fab Ops, Broadcom; Jeff Brauch, engineering manger, Intel; and Jeremy Swanner, president, RLE Technologies. Sponsors: Mike Grell and Jayson Gitt, EKS&H; Russ Henninger and Jim Sampson Hub International; Bryan Watkins, Brenda Mares and Nadine Truijillo-Rogers, Elevations Credit Union. Moderator: Christopher Wood, co-publisher/editor BizWest.


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Facebook status: in deep trouble. As if the social network hasn't been on the wrong side of the news enough lately, it's now being dragged into a massive scandal involving Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm with close ties to both Steve Bannon and conservative billionaire Robert Mercer.
"Cambridge Analytica specializes in what's called 'psychographic' profiling," explains Vox's Sean Illing, "meaning they use data collected online to create personality profiles for voters." Politicians and agencies — like, for example, the Trump campaign — hire them to do consulting work such as market research, ad targeting, and PR.
Most recently, though, Cambridge Analytica has made headlines for its extremely questionable acquisition of data from tens of millions of Facebook users that could hypothetically be used to inform their digital marketing strategies.
Sean Rameswaram talks to Kurt Wagner, senior editor covering social media for Recode, and Julia Angwin, senior reporter at ProPublica, about why the Cambridge Analytica news matters, whom it affects, and how you can fight back to protect your privacy.
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Turkish Airlines (THY) is reported to be among the best in Europe in safety inspections.
Turkish Airlines General Manager Bilal Ekşi said in a statement on the subject on his Twitter account that they always fly safely.
Ekşi said, "Foreign civil aviation authorities have carried out 64 SAFA inspections in 31 countries, 46 airports, abroad in the last 1 year. We are among the best in Europe with a finding rate of 0.175. We fly with safety and comfort." used the phrases.
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The Safety Assessment of Foreign Aircraft Program (SAFA) means the safety assessment for foreign aircraft. SAFA inspections cover the inspections carried out by other countries before the departure of the aircraft in the operations of foreign airlines between European Union (EU) countries.
In these transactions, unlike maintenance and airworthiness inspections, it is checked whether the aircraft fulfills the international requirements regarding flight safety.
During the inspections, in which the physical condition of the aircraft, the requirements to be complied with in the cockpit and cabin are checked, it is aimed to implement the rules that will ensure the flight safety of the passengers at the highest level during the flight.
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Engine Capital urges Kohl's to consider e-commerce separation - WSJ
December 5, 2021, 6:59 p.m. ·1 min read
The logo and trading informations for Kohl's is displayed on a screen on the floor at the NYSE in New York
(Reuters) - U.S.-based hedge fund Engine Capital LP is urging Kohl's Corp to consider a sale of the company or a separation of its e-commerce business, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
The activist investor, which owns a roughly 1% Kohl's stake, wants the department-store chain to examine the two alternatives to improve its lagging stock price, the report said, citing a letter sent to Kohl's board on Sunday.
Engine argues that the company has underperformed both the S&P 500 and other retailers in recent years, the report said https://on.wsj.com/3yapXCV.
Kohl and Engine Capital did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for comment.
In the letter cited by the newspaper, the activist investor also said that assuming online sales revenue of around $6.2 billion, Kohl's digital business alone would be worth $12.4 billion.
Engine also added it believes there are private-equity firms that would pay at least $75 a share and that interactions with potential buyers suggest they could do so by monetizing Kohl's real estate, the report said.
(Reporting by Akriti Sharma in Bengaluru; Editing by Daniel Wallis)
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It's been nearly three months since 18-year-old Brendan Santo vanished while visiting friends in East Lansing, Michigan, the weekend of the Michigan-Michigan State football game. There have been no clues yet as to what happened to the Grand Valley University student who disappeared on Halloween weekend, but the search for him continues, and his family is not giving up hope. "We just want Brendan back," they told ABC News.
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I'm currently working my way through Mycelium Running by Paul Stamets, in an attempt to learn more about fungi in ways I can't just by looking at wild mushrooms through layperson's eyes. I'm only a few chapters in, but already the author has made it quite clear just how intricately entwined fungi are in the very workings of life on Earth itself. It's not just the fruiting mushrooms that we can see above ground; more important, perhaps, are the vast networks of mycelia, the thread-like filaments of fungal being that may produce the mushrooms themselves. Mushrooms are a temporary state; mycelia are the permanent self of the fungi; or, to use an analogy, mushrooms are to apples as mycelia are to the apple tree.
This matches my previous experiences with Black Morel as totem. Morel struck me as a very opportunistic totem; not that it's alone in that, but that's where we connected first. So I talked to Morel more about what I read, and the habits of morels in a place scorched by fire or cleared by loggers.
Morel pointed out that sometimes opportunism has more than just a personal benefit. When morels spread out into a scorched landscape, there's absolutely no competition, but plenty to eat in the form of charred plant and animal material. Morels make the most of that, along with other fungal opportunists. However, as Stamets eloquently described, the morels are far from the only benefactors of this pioneering and experimental nature.
This connected with a recent experience of mine where I was interviewed about my participation in the pagan community as a leader. My place there is through my writing; in neopaganism, if you write enough apparently it gives you some authority (moreso if you write well and people get something out of it!) One thing that I pointed out was that I write primarily for myself. My writing is a record of my spiritual path; that's what this blog is. You can look over the past five years of posts here and see my progress in this path, and the many places I've explored as a result.
However, I deliberately shared it so others could benefit from what I found as well. While this was more conscious than the activities of the little wrinkled mushrooms, the pattern is the same–a few pioneering beings move into new territory, and leave a trail for others to follow, and soon an ecosystem is created. While Therioshamanism is still a relatively new phenomenon (and generally still my own personal path rather than a shamanic tradition per se), I have found people drawing on my experiences and integrating them into their own paths.
And going forward, Morel reminded me of the importance of remembering how my explorations can be helpful to others. It's still perfectly acceptable to act in my own self-interest. But if, in the process of doing so, I make things better for others, so much the better. Morels also thrive in complex ecosystems, not just scorched earth, and there's a lesson in that to be sure.
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The University of Wisconsin — La Crosse was founded in 1909. Since then it has become the 2sd best public university in Wisconsin. Here's a look at the historic buildings that help make UWL what it is.
The archeology center and laboratories were built in 1940, originally as a campus heating plant, and renovated to its current state in 1999. It contains educational exhibits of artifacts and descriptions of regional cultures over the past 10,000 years. There are also exhibits on the archaeologist's techniques used to retrieve these artifacts. The exhibitions are open to the public.
The Cartwright Center was built in 1959 with additions in 1965 and 1985. The Cartwright Center was the student union on campus until January 2017 when the new student union was opened. The building currently serves as offices for several science and health faculties and as a practice and training space for the wrestling team. The gymnastics team also uses the Cartwright Center for training and training. Its most recent function is to serve as a COVID-19 testing and vaccination site for students and the community.
Centennial Hall was constructed in 2011. The building is at the center of the campus and contains 46 classrooms, two auditoriums, and various academic and student counseling departments. A large open entrance into the building opens onto the Hall of Nations. The Hall of Nations is a meeting room that contains flags from 44 countries, representing the diversity of international students at UWL.
The Cowley Hall of Science was built in 1965 and expanded in 1970. In addition to classrooms and laboratories, it includes offices, research facilities, a greenhouse, planetarium and computer labs.
Graff Main Hall, built in 1909, is the original campus building. It was designated a historic site by the town of La Crosse in 1984 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Graff Main Hall contains classrooms, the 617-seat Hesprich Auditorium, and administrative and university offices.
The Health Science Center, which was built in 2000, is a project of the La Crosse Medical Health Science Consortium, Inc. The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and Western Technical College programs share classrooms, laboratories and equipment. The facility also has research laboratories managed by Gundersen Health System.
Mitchell Hall, built in 1965 and expanded in 1972, is a large educational, research and service center that houses several administrative, faculty and staff offices. Facilities include a swimming pool, climbing wall, 200-meter track, basketball courts, wrestling hall, dance studio, racquetball courts, indoor ropes course, fitness center. strength training and conditioning, lockers and showers, and several classrooms with art teaching technology.
Thomas Morris Hall was built in 1939 as the Teachers College Training School and added in 1966. Morris Hall is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is home to classrooms and university offices.
The Prairie Springs Science Center was constructed in 2018. The building is the first of two phases that will eventually replace Cowley Hall as the main campus building for science education and research. Phase I includes 36 teaching laboratories and 22 research laboratories. These laboratories serve many departments, including biology, chemistry and biochemistry, geography and earth sciences, microbiology, physics, and exercise and sports sciences. Notable labs include the River Studies Center, Radiation Center, and Anatomy & Physiology Suite.
The Florence Wing Technology Center was built in 1956 as the Florence Wing Library. It was transformed into Wing Technology Center in 2001.
Wittich Hall, originally known as the Physical Education Building, was the second building to be built on campus. It was considered one of the best buildings in the country for physical education when it was first built, it remained a facility for athletics, physical education and recreation until its recent renovation. Its suspended running track, gymnasiums and general architectural fabric have remained intact. These features have now been renovated into the new structure. The $ 25 million renovations were completed last summer and reopened for classes this fall semester.
Plans to renovate the university in 2022 include finishing the new football pitch and support complex, which began last summer, renovating the White Hall and replacing the elevator at Roger Harring Stadium. Several other projects are underway, but the dates are yet to be determined.
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At Cathedral school we follow the F.U.Ns scheme, as well as REAL (for gymnastics). Both schemes are designed to provide children with a style of learning that is differentiated, and based on developing the fundamental skills that need to be applied to a range of sports. Teachers have been provided with several training sessions by F.U.Ns specialists therefore ensuring that teachers are confident in providing a well- balanced P.E curriculum.
Twice a year, professional sports coaches provide each class with focused learning on one of the curriculum sports. They also provide extra- curricular opportunities for pupils in both KS1 and KS2. In addition to this, gifted and talented children develop their skills during a lunchtime club. During this time, the sports coach prepares the children with the skills to play competitively against schools from within the local community.
We have a varied curriculum; football, tennis, basketball and hockey all feature, as well as dance and gymnastics.
The highlight of the year for many children at Cathedral school is Sports Day. Pupils, staff and parents all participate in a fun, exciting and energetic day where pupils are encouraged to demonstrate a number of the skills developed throughout the academic year.


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Gary Sinise cancels band appearances after car accident
Actor Gary Sinise, a recipient of the 2008 Presidential Citizens Medal, speaks with members of the press, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008, outside the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari) (AP)
Gary Sinise is canceling appearances with his Lt. Dan Band after suffering injuries in a car accident.
A spokeswoman for the actor says Sinise was a passenger in a car involved in an accident Friday. Staci Wolfe did not offer details about the extent of his injuries.
The 57-year-old Sinise was to perform with his band at a fundraising event last weekend in Martinsville, Virginia, and next week in Palm Desert, California.
The Martinsville concert will be rescheduled. The Palm Desert performance has been canceled.
Sinise stars on TV's "CSI: NY." The show has completed production for the season and won't be affected by the actor's injuries.
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\section{Introduction}

Silicon nitride (SiN) integrated waveguides are an ideal platform for on-chip nonlinear optics \cite{Moss2013Cmos,Levy2010Cmos}, which advance diverse research topics such as supercontinuum generation \cite{Zhao15octaveContinium,Epping15continium,Halir12continuum} and microresonator Kerr frequency comb generation \cite{Kippenberg2011combs}. The latter represents a technology that enables an optical frequency comb with the mode spacing in the microwave range and with large bandwidth reaching one octave \cite{Haye2011octaveComb,Okawachi2011octave}.
Applications of low phase noise comb states in SiN microresonators \cite{Herr2012UniversalFormation} so far include coherent communication \cite{Pfeiffle2014terabitCom} as well as arbitrary waveform generation \cite{Weiner2011LineByLine}.
Recently the demonstration of temporal dissipative Kerr soliton formation in microresonators, in crystalline resonators \cite{Herr2013firstSoliton,Liang2015highPurityComb}, photonic chip-based SiN microresonators \cite{Brasch2014Cherenkov} and in monolithic silica micro-disks \cite{Yi2015soliton}, further provides a reliable and novel method for the generation of fully coherent and broadband frequency combs with smooth spectral envelope, and the generation of ultrafast and ultrashort femtosecond pulses.
This enables novel applications such as low-noise microwave generation \cite{Liang2015highPurityComb,Yi2015soliton,Jost2015cycles}, coherent data transmission \cite{Pfeiffle2014terabitCom,Pfeifle15solitonCom} and ultrafast spectroscopy.
In addition, it has been shown that the spectral bandwidth can be substantially increased into the normal dispersion regime \cite{Brasch2014Cherenkov} using soliton induced Cherenkov radiation\cite{Akhmediev1995Cherenkov,Coen2013octaveLLE}.

However it was observed that locally altered dispersion can prevent the soliton formation through the interaction between different mode families supported by the resonator; the problem was first addressed in \cite{Herr2013avoidedCrossings}. For certain frequencies two modes belonging to different families can be almost resonant and thus a minute coupling between both, e.g. through waveguide imperfections, can result in the formation of hybrid modes with shifted resonance frequencies. This results in a local defect in the resonator dispersion, which is termed \eqt{avoided modal crossing}.

\begin{figure}[tb]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{\string"./Fig1\string".pdf}
\caption{Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images of a dispersion optimized ${\rm 240}\text{ }\mu {\rm m}$ SiN microring resonator: (a) picture of the whole resonator; (b) the mode filtering section with an adiabatic tapered section (length ${\rm 130}\text{ } \mu {\rm m}$). (c, d) cross sections of the ring resonator's waveguide (dimensions $0.8 \times 1.65\text{ }\mu {\rm m}$), with (d) the taper waist (dimensions $0.8 \times 0.6\text{ }\mu {\rm m}$).
}
\label{fig:DesignAndFab}
\end{figure}

While detrimental for dissipative Kerr soliton formation, such an avoided modal crossing can provide local anomalous group dispersion (GVD) in microresonators such that it also initiates generation of Kerr frequency combs in an otherwise normal GVD regime\cite{Savchenkov2012OvermodedResonators}. Dual-ring geometries were also used to induce controllable avoided modal crossing between microresonators (in normal GVD regime) and to generate frequency combs with adjustable free spectral ranges (FSRs) \cite{2014modecoupling,miller2015dualring}.

In this letter, we present a novel, yet simple method to suppress higher order mode families in SiN microresonators by introducing a mode filtering section into the ring microresonator.
We show that by inserting an adiabatic transition to a single mode waveguide inside the resonator, avoided crossings in the resonator can be strongly reduced, while preserving the anomalous GVD as well as the high quality factor $(\emph{Q} \sim 10^6)$ of the fundamental modes.
We further demonstrate, with the novel resonator design, the generation of broadband frequency combs based on single dissipative Kerr soliton formation.

\section{Device design and fabrication}

\begin{figure}[t]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{\string"./Fig2\string".pdf}
\caption{Effective refractive index as a function of the waveguide width for the full set of mode families, at the free space wavelength $\lambda_{0} = $ 1.55 ${\mu {\rm m}}$; the mode profiles including the electric field vectors are shown as insets for the width of ${1.5 ~\mu {\rm m}}$; the waveguide height is 0.8 ${\mu {\rm m}}$ and the resonator's FSR is 100 GHz. An example region of mixed-shape mode profiles is marked.
}
\label{fig:SimData}
\end{figure}

The novel design of the mode filtering section in SiN microresonators is realized by tapering down the multimode ring waveguide to single mode, see Fig. \ref{fig:DesignAndFab}.
The design is a trade-off between two criteria, namely on one hand, the filtering
section has to be sufficiently long and the waist sufficiently small such that higher
order mode families are cut-off; on the other hand, the taper length has to be sufficiently short, to preserve an overall resonator dispersion that yields still anomalous GVD in order to allow for dissipative Kerr soliton formation and frequency comb generation via four-wave-mixing processes \cite{Chembo2010anomalousDisp}.
The boundary of the tapered waveguide region is defined as:
\begin{equation}
w(\phi)=\frac{w_{\rm n}+w_{\rm t}}{2}-\frac{w_{\rm n}-w_{\rm t}}{2}\cos\left(\pi\left(\frac{2r\phi}{l_{t}}\right)^{\mathrm{3}}\right)
\end{equation}
where $l_{\rm t}$ is the taper length, $r$ is the resonator radius, $w_{\rm n}$ is the nominal width of the multimode waveguide, ${w_{\rm t}}$ is the minimal width at the taper waist.
${r \cdot \phi \in [-\frac{l_{\rm t}}{2},\frac{l_{\rm t}}{2}]}$ where $\phi$ is the angular coordinate and ${\phi = 0}$ indicating the position of the taper waist.

In order to reveal the effects of the filtering section, we simulated eigen-modes \cite{Oxborrow2007}, including the mode profile and the cavity resonance frequency as a function of the waveguide width for the full set of mode families, see Fig. \ref{fig:SimData}.
When the waveguide width is narrowed down below 0.8 ${\mu{\rm m}}$, higher order modes are cut-off, leaving only the two fundamental mode families (${\rm TE_{00}, TM_{00}}$).
Regions of \eqt{mixed-shape} mode profiles were also observed, which were carefully studied in \cite{Carmon2008}. Consequences are not further regarded in the present work.
The set of SiN microresonators studied in this work has a waveguide height of 0.8 ${\mu {\rm m}}$ and a nominal width of 1.65 ${\mu {\rm m}}$ such that anomalous GVD is produced over a wide wavelength span. The FSR is 100 GHz. The taper waist in the filtering section ranges from 0.45 ${\mu {\rm m}}$ to the nominal width and the taper length is fixed to be 130 ${\mu {\rm m}}$. It should be noted that the parameter of the waveguide width in this paper has an undetermined offset in the range of $\pm$30 nm, induced during the microfabrication process.

The tapered SiN microresonator devices were fabricated using the \emph{Photonic
Damascene Process} \cite{Pfeiffer2015Damascene}. The waveguide pattern
was defined using electron beam lithography and transferred by dry
etching into the silicon dioxide substrate. Additionally a dense checkerboard
pattern was structured around the waveguide by photolithography
and dry etching to release the stress in the deposited SiN thin film.
After the deposition of the SiN film the excess material was removed
using chemical mechanical polishing. In the last steps the waveguide was clad
with oxide, annealed and separated into chips.

\section{Experiments and results}

\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{\string"./Fig3\string".pdf}
\caption{(a) Setup of frequency comb assisted tunable laser spectroscopy\citep{Riemensberger2012dispMeasurement}; DUT: device under test, ECDL: external cavity diode laser, PD: photodiode, BP: band pass filter, OSA: optical spectral analyzer; (b) mean value and standard deviation of the resonance linewidth, over the measurement wavelength range 1.51 -- 1.61 ${\mu {\rm  m}}$, as a function of the width at the tapered waist $w_t$.}
\label{fig:SetupAndQs}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure*}[t]
\includegraphics[clip,scale=0.95]{./Fig4}
\caption{Characterization of a resonator with constant waveguide width (a-d) comparing to one including the mode filtering section with $w_{\rm t} = 0.45 ~\mu {\rm m}$ (e-h); (a) integrated dispersion $D_{{\rm int}}$ as a function of wavelength of two fundamental modes and one higher order mode families, with ${\tilde D_1 = D_{\rm 1,TM_{00}} \approx 2\pi \times 96 ~{\rm GHz}}$; (b) dispersion deviation of the fundamental TM mode (defined as the deviation of $D_{{\rm int}}$ from a parabolic profile, i.e. $D_{{\rm int}} - \frac{1}{2} D_2 \mu ^2$); (c) microresonator transmission trace around one wavelength; (d) distribution of the resonance linewidth, over the measurement wavelength range, which is fitted by the Burr distribution (red line); (e-h) show the corresponding data as (a-d) for the resonator with filter section.}
\label{dispersionMeasurementData}
\end{figure*}

SiN microresonators were characterized using frequency comb assisted tunable laser spectroscopy\citep{Riemensberger2012dispMeasurement}.
Figure \ref{fig:SetupAndQs}(a) shows the setup that makes use of two beat signals -- the probe (ECDL) with (1) a self referenced and phase stabilized fiber laser frequency comb and with (2) a continuous wave laser -- to calibrate the frequency axis and therefore, precisely measure resonance frequencies and linewidths of the microresonator.
A fiber polarization controller at the microresonator input enables the measurement of mode families of all polarizations.

Resonance frequencies ${\omega _\mu}$ are defined with respect to a central resonance frequency $\omega_0$ as ${\omega_\mu = \omega_0 + D_1 \mu + \frac{1}{2} D_2 \mu ^2 + \cdots}$, where $\mu$ is the relative mode number, ${\frac{D_1}{2\pi}}$ is the FSR, ${D_2 = -\frac{c}{n}{D_1^2}\beta_2}$ is the second order dispersion parameter. A positive-valued $D_2$ implies that the microresonator is in the anomalous GVD regime with ${\beta_2 <0}$. Integrated dispersion ${D_{\rm int}}$ is described as the deviation of the resonance frequencies compared to an equidistant $\tilde D_1$-spaced grid, i.e. ${D_{\rm int} = \omega _\mu - \omega _0 - \tilde D_1 \mu}$.

We compare the characterization of a standard resonator with constant waveguide width (Fig. \ref{dispersionMeasurementData}(a-d)) to one including the mode filtering section with $w_{\rm t} = 0.45 ~\mu {\rm m}$ (tapered resonator, Fig. \ref{dispersionMeasurementData}(e-h)).
Mode family spectra are detected for both resonators (Fig. \ref{dispersionMeasurementData}(a,e)).
We identified two fundamental mode families and one higher order mode for the standard resonator, i.e. ${\rm TE_{00}}$, ${\rm TM_{00}}$ and ${\rm TE_{10}}$, while in the tapered resonator the higher order mode is suppressed.
The transmission trace of the standard resonator, Fig. \ref{dispersionMeasurementData}(c), shows the higher order ${\rm TE_{10}}$ mode that has Fano resonance shape \cite{Ding2014Fano}, together with the fundamental ${\rm TE_{00}}$ mode that has narrower resonance linewidths.
The oscillating background is induced by the Fabry-P\'{e}rot interference between the two chip facet.
The ${\rm TE_{00}}$ mode has the largest FSR according to simulations, which is measured to be $\sim 96 ~{\rm GHz}$.
However, in the transmission trace of the tapered resonator, Fig. \ref{dispersionMeasurementData}(g), resonances of ${\rm TE_{10}}$ mode are not observed. The FSR of the two fundamental modes remain approximately unchanged compared to the standard resonator. On the other hand, the ${D_2}$ parameter is reduced by introducing the mode filtering section, since the tapered waveguide section will contribute a small amount of normal GVD to the overall cavity dispersion. In the shown case, ${\frac{D_2}{2\pi}}$ near 1550 nm is reduced from ${\sim}$1.0 MHz (standard waveguide) to $\sim$0.8 MHz (tapered resonator). Still, the tapered resonator is in the anomalous GVD regime that is necessary for the formation of dissipative Kerr soliton.

Since different modes have different FSRs, they show distinct slopes in the mode spectrum.
Therefore, mode families cross with each other, implying resonances of two mode families are getting close at certain frequencies (crossing points), see Fig. \ref{dispersionMeasurementData}(a,e).
It is at such frequencies that avoided modal crossings appear. This can lead to strong local deviations from the parabolic curvature of the integrated dispersion, see Fig. \ref{dispersionMeasurementData}(b) for the ${\rm TE_{00}}$ mode family of the standard resonator.
In the tapered resonator, avoided modal crossings are much suppressed, see Fig. \ref{dispersionMeasurementData}(f), by filtering out the higher order mode.

The resonance linewidth distribution was also investigated over the whole measurement wavelength range 1.51 -- 1.61 ${\mu {\rm  m}}$, see Fig. \ref{dispersionMeasurementData}(d,h). Both standard and tapered resonators have a similar distribution that can be fitted with a general Burr probability distribution function \cite{burr1942} in order to account for the mean value and the standard deviation of the resonance linewidth.
A careful investigation of the resonance linewidth over different waveguide widths is shown in Fig. \ref{fig:SetupAndQs}(b), with all resonators having the same coupling geometry and being almost critically coupled. This demonstrates that including a modal filtering section in SiN microresonators will not degrade the resonance \emph{Q} factor (for values of $10^6$).

\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{\string"./Fig5\string".pdf}
\caption{(a) Integrated dispersion $\frac{D_{\rm int}}{2\pi}$ of a SiN microresonator with filtering section, with the taper waist ${w_{\rm t} = 0.5 ~\mu {\rm m}}$ yielding a measured anomalous GVD parameter of ${\frac{D_{2}}{2\pi} \approx \mathrm{0.8 ~MHz}}$; (b) frequency comb with single dissipative Kerr soliton formation; the spectrum is fitted with a $\mathrm{sech}^{2}$ function; the 3-dB bandwidth is around 6.4 THz; the soliton comb envelope has an offset of $\sim$0.95 THz from the pump.}
\label{fig:soli}
\end{figure}

We next show the Kerr frequency comb generation based on temporal dissipative Kerr soliton formation in a SiN microresonator with filtering section.
The laser detuning scheme introduced in \cite{Herr2013firstSoliton} was applied, in which the pump laser frequency is swept over a resonance of a fundamental mode and is stopped when the frequency comb generation is in the stable soliton state. One can also apply the \eqt{power kick} used in a previous work on soliton formation in SiN resonators \cite{Brasch2014Cherenkov}.
Figure \ref{fig:soli}(b) shows the generated soliton comb in a 100 GHz microresonator with a taper waist ${w_{\rm t} = 0.5 ~\mu {\rm m}}$.
The corresponding integrated dispersion $\mathrm{D_{\rm int}}$ is shown in Fig. \ref{fig:soli}(a).
The experiment employed 1 W of continuous wave pump light (at 1548 nm) in the waveguide.
The soliton comb has a spectral span of $\sim$25 THz. The 3-dB bandwidth is $\sim$6.4 THz corresponding to the Fourier limited pulse duration of $\sim$48 fs.
The frequency comb spectral envelope is fitted with a $\mathrm{sech^2}$ profile and reveals a slight asymmetry.
The asymmetric spectral envelope is attributed to the third order dispersion ($\frac{D_3}{2\pi} = \mathcal{O}(1)~\mathrm{kHz}$) as well as the self-steepening effects of the microresonator, which induces asymmetry in the parabolic curvature in the dispersion.
Moreover the soliton spectral envelope shows an offset of ${\sim 0.95 ~{\rm THz}}$ from the pump, which is attributed to the Raman induced soliton self-frequency shift as the intracavity soliton is estimated to have an intense peak power ($\mathcal{O}(1)~\mathrm{kW}$) \cite{Karpov2015raman}.

\section{Conclusion}

We have introduced a new resonator layout featuring a single mode filtering section for an integrated SiN platform. This design preserves the high \emph{Q} and the anomalous GVD of the silicon nitride resonator, and effectively suppresses avoided modal crossings caused by the interaction of higher order transverse modes of the waveguide of the micro-ring resonator. This realizes an effectively single-mode micro-ring resonator with anomalous GVD. The new devices show significantly reduced local dispersion deviation due to avoided crossings. It is shown that the design enables reliable generation of temporal dissipative Kerr solitons. The approach is particularly useful for low free-spectral range resonators, or resonators with large number of transverse modes.

\section*{Funding Information}
This publication was supported by Contract W31P4Q-14-C-0050 from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Defense Sciences Office (DSO).
This work was also supported by the Switzerland National Science Foundation (SNSF). VB acknowledges the support of the European Space Agency (ESA).
\section*{Acknowledgments}
SiN microresonator samples were fabricated in the EPFL nanofabrication facility (CMi).

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