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03-26 18:52:31 UTC mickey esham said: 5 star DELICIOUS! Will order again! 2017-01-24 01:39:00 UTC Thomas Loeffler said: Awesome Oysters Im originally from southern Maryland but I'm currently living in Wisconsin. I love seafood and fresh seafood is hard to come by in Wisconsin. I stumbled across Crabville online and I am so glad I did! I highly recommend anyone looking for fresh seafood to give Crabville a try. I ordered 2 quarts of oysters. 1 quart being selects and 1 quart being counts. Both quarts had huge oysters in them. My experience with Crabville was awesome! I ordered the oysters online with no issues. I tracked them online. They were sent out when I asked them to be sent. They were very well packed. No breakage. They were packed with ice packs to keep them cold but not so cold that they would freeze. I just can't say enough about how great my experience was. I will definitely be ordering again from Crabville. They have gained a new customer for life! 2017-01-03 01:24:40 UTC Jane Gregorits said: 5 star best oysters EVER 2017-01-02 19:53:34 UTC David Dunlap said: Reliable Have ordered shucked oysters from this source for many years. Sizing is always accurate, delivery is prompt and expedited shipping reasonably priced. Quality is consistent. Holds for a week or so after receipt. Ideal for baked oyster dishes. 2017-01-02 03:27:22 UTC Don Ketterman said: Christmas Oysters Dear Rick: The oysters were delicious and arrived on time.I will recommend your oysters to everyone.Thanks for selling to me.You,your family and everyone at Crabville/J&W Seafood have a very prosperous ,healthy and happy new year.Thanks again!,Don W.Ketterman P.O.Box 338,118 Bunny Lane,Petersburg,WV 26847 2017-01-02 01:55:54 UTC Joan B. said: Best ever fresh oysters! Our friends who received the fresh shucked select oysters as a gift said they were the best ever! Large, fresh, great whether eaten raw, battered and fried, or grilled. Thank you so much for an excellent product that was delivered promptly. 2017-01-01 21:45:14 UTC Anita Harrison said: Well packaged and arrived when promised This was a gift shipped to my family in Reno, Nevada. Two quarts of shucked oysters were sent. The shipment arrived on time and the recipients complimented the freshness and quality of the product. They were also impressed with how well everthing was packaged. The cost of the oysters was very reasonable and the quality outstanding. The only downside was the cost of shipping which was more than the cost of the oysters. Customer service was excellent and we will definitely order more of their products in the future. 2017-01-01 21:40:28 UTC Anne DeGeer said: Best oysters ever! These are the best oysters I've eaten since I moved away from the Middle Peninsula. Big and juicy, tasting like the Rappananock. They arrived cold and in perfect condition. I couldn't be happier, and I certainly will be back for more. 2017-01-01 18:21:45 UTC M Darrell Williams said: Superb Oysters, Fast delivery, Well Packed I ordered Count oysters (2 quarts) and while a bit on the expensive side, even the most ardent of our prairie wander friends were impressed with my oyster stew. Can’t get these kinds of oysters in North Dakota stores. 2016-12-31 01:55:04 UTC June Obenshain said: oysters the oysters arrived on time and were packed perfectly, In the past I have always ordered from a Maryland company. I was very pleased, I thought the selects were smaller than I was use to but excellent freshness and flavor. Thanks for making a Virginia girl's Christmas! 2016-12-27 23:15:25 UTC joe nagel said: shucked oysters you have the best and freshest oysters you are great ! 2016-12-26 22:06:04 UTC Jim Brown said: 5 star Fresh Shucked Oysters 2016-12-26 17:35:49 UTC Michelle Paulson said: 5 star Fresh Shucked Oysters 2016-12-26 14:10:15 UTC Lisa Surless said: The best oysters ever! I was introducing oysters to my family for the first time. These were incredible. They arrived nice and cold exactly on time. The taste was delicious. I used the smaller size in an oyster casserole. It was probably my favorite dish among all the seafood that night. Leftovers should be great! 2016-12-26 13:51:33 UTC Ellen Lanham said: Wonderful Holiday treat I purchased a gallon of fresh shucked oysters for the Christmas holidays from Crabville. I was so happy that i found them online. The shipment arrived FedEx as promised. An excellent çhoice of counts. Perfect for frying. Enjoyed by all. I highly recommend Crabville for oneself or gift giving for your seafood lover friends and family !!! Ellen, Rosedale, MD 2016-12-25 22:28:52 UTC Tim Whaley said: Fresh shucked oysters Excellent quality!! 2016-12-25 18:19:02 UTC Hugh Brown said: Fresh Shucked Oysters Christmas Oysters! Nothing better than oysters with the family on Christmas morning. They were very good and tasty. Thanks for providing a quality product for our celebration. 2016-12-24 17:01:11 UTC Melissa Hilbish said: Always great My dad eats a lot of oysters. These are hands down his favorites. Huge Christmas gift! 2016-12-24 13:42:42 UTC Keith Allston said: Three pints of Oysters to Florida! I send these to my parents in Florida every year. They love them. Packaged and arrived perfectly on time. 2016-12-19 21:25:45 UTC Thomas Cardwell said: 5 star Fresh Shucked Oysters 2016-12-18 22:55:03 UTC Ruthie Taylor said: Pint of oysters They were great! 2016-12-14 18:54:29 UTC Oakridger said: Oak ridger Second purchase of oyster's this quarter‼️ By far the tastiest that I have ever had. A great big 2016-12-13 17:47:53 UTC Todd Wheeler said: 5 star Best oysters ever!!! 2016-12-12 20:43:04 UTC David Dysard said: Great source for fresh oysters My Oysters arrived packed in a protective wrap...The were very fresh, the best tasting oysters I have ever tasted. I ate half of the quart Raw with a little vinegar and Pepper. The other half I made Oyster dressing. Which turned out very good. Shipping was just as they said it would be.. I would give this order ten stars for a rating........ 2016-12-10 18:32:38 UTC Leo L. Conner Jr. said: Fantastic Oysters The oysters were some of the biggest I'd ever had. I prepared them using my fathers recipe for oyster stew. In pot,combine 1 quart of oysters,1beef bullion cube, 1 tablespoon butter, and a dash of black pepper. Simmer lightly until edges curl, then add desired amount of whole milk. Heat stew until hot, serve with crackers on the side and enjoy. 2016-12-06 12:16:58 UTC Steve Elson said: 5 star Fresh Shucked Oysters 2016-11-09 15:44:05 UTC Carey Lang said: Fresh Shucked Oysters Positively some of the largest, best tasting oysters you will ever find - classics of the Rivah' legacy! Crabville also has wonderful crab cakes and deviled crabs as well! They are always my go to for the freshest seafood! Always packed to ensure freshness and always delivered on time!Collaborative Study of the Coulter Counter-Chemical Method for Counting Somatic Cells in Raw Milk 1. Variation between laboratories for Electronic Somatic Cell Counting by the chemical method (ESCC) was evaluated by a collaborative study. 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on spiders either, preferring soft-bodied insects (and presumably those without fangs or venom) such as aphids and caterpillars. But not all insects fear ants: certain sap-suckers are tended and protected by them. These include the membracids and eurymelids which in Australia feed mostly on wattles and eucalypts. Not surprisingly, these insects were absent from the black booyongs, perhaps because of the low numbers of ants, or other traits of the tree, or a combination of both. So next time you visit a forest, spare a thought for the arthropod world: the hundreds of different species way up there in the trees. All those complex machinations playing out above while we are happily oblivious below. You may rarely see the players as they are all so small. But there’s an awful lot going on, and that’s just in the black booyongs. How many other types of bugs live on the myriad other species of rainforest trees? What other interactions between predator and prey, insect and leaf, are taking place? But that is another story, for another day.glabel func_800A3BC0 /* B1AD60 800A3BC0 27BDFFE8 */ addiu $sp, $sp, -0x18 /* B1AD64 800A3BC4 AFBF0014 */ sw $ra, 0x14($sp) /* B1AD68 800A3BC8 8CB90030 */ lw $t9, 0x30($a1) /* B1AD6C 800A3BCC 0320F809 */ jalr $t9 /* B1AD70 800A3BD0 00000000 */ nop /* B1AD74 800A3BD4 8FBF0014 */ lw $ra, 0x14($sp) /* B1AD78 800A3BD8 27BD0018 */ addiu $sp, $sp, 0x18 /* B1AD7C 800A3BDC 03E00008 */ jr $ra /* B1AD80 800A3BE0 00000000 */ nop Central serotonin activity and aggression: inverse relationship with prolactin response to d-fenfluramine, but not CSF 5-HIAA concentration, in human subjects. This study compared the nature and magnitude of the relationship between aggression and CSF 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA) concentration with that between aggression and the prolactin response to d-fenfluramine challenge in human subjects. The Life History of Aggression assessment scores of 24 subjects with personality disorders were compared with their lumbar CSF 5-HIAA concentrations and with their prolactin responses to d-fenfluramine challenge. Aggression was significantly and inversely correlated with prolactin responses to d-fenfluramine challenge but not with lumbar CSF 5-HIAA concentrations in these subjects. Prolactin response to d-fenfluramine may be more sensitive than lumbar CSF 5-HIAA concentration in detecting a relationship between aggression and central serotonin activity in noncriminally violent human subjects.Q: Unmarshalling using JAXB for collections I have an XML that looks like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <layout> <panel> <ComboBox incEmpty="true"> <label>Shipment Types:</label> <fieldName>StringData1</fieldName> <type>static</type> <element>Samples</element> <element>Gifts</element> <element>Possessions</element> <element>Merchandise</element> </ComboBox> <CheckBox> <label>Report Usage:</label> <fieldName>IntData1</fieldName> </CheckBox> </panel> </layout> Basically I need to create a Swing panel from the XML. There will be several occurrences of <ComboBox> and <CheckBox>. I need to retrieve them in the order in which they have been added in the XML, to allow me to render them on screen in the correct order. I need to unmarshall this XML and generate the code. I am unable to come up with an XSD that will generate me the correct classes to get this to work. I know I will need a collection to be able to order the items in the correct order. Towards that I created an updated XML: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <layout> <panel> <component> <ComboBox incEmpty="true"> <label>Shipment Types:</label> <fieldName>StringData1</fieldName> <type>static</type> <element>Samples</element> <element>Gifts</element> <element>Possessions</element> <element>Merchandise</element> </ComboBox> </component> <component> <CheckBox> <label>Report Usage:</label> <fieldName>IntData1</fieldName> </CheckBox> </component> </panel> </layout> The idea was that I could programatically make Component as an interface and do something along the lines ComboBox implements Component and CheckBox implements Component and then in Panel something like: public List<Component> getComponent() { if (component == null) { component = new ArrayList<Component>(); } return this.component; } I could then check each item in the collection for type (instanceof) and process it accordingly. However, JAXB does not seem to cope very well with interfaces. I tried to use the scenario described here: How to wrap sublist with jaxb, however it does not suit my case as I need to return different objects as part of the same collection. Any help will be much appreciated. I can post xsds here if needed. A: You can use a choice structure in your XML Schema, this will cause an annotation like the following to be generated. What it means is that if either the ComboBox or CheckBox element is encountered then it will put it in the component collection. @XmlElements({ @XmlElement(name="ComboBox", type=ComboBox.class), @XmlElement(name="CheckBox", type="CheckBox.class) }) public List<Component> getComponent() { if (component == null) { component = new ArrayList<Component>(); } return this.component; } For More Information http://blog.bdoughan.com/2011/04/xml-schema-to-java-xsd-choice.html The Pool Safety Compliance Rules in Queensland, Australia October 20, 2016 4:59 am Swimming pools should be fun but drowning is one the of most frequent causes of death in Queensland, Australia for children under the age of five years old. As supervision of children is of the highest importance, pool safety laws can save lives. Starting 30th of November 2015, a single pool safety standard is currently enforced in Queensland. All pools, including portable pools, need to comply with the standard. The standard covers such things such as the strength of barriers, non-climbable areas, gates and latches, and preventing direct access from a building into a pool area. To assist in finding out if your pool meets the standards, we provide some examples of minimum requirements. The minimum height from the ground level to the top barrier is 1200mm. The maximum allowable gap from finished ground level to the bottom of any barrier cannot exceed 100mm. If your horizontal rails are at minimum 90mm apart, the gaps in the horizontal rails must not exceed 100mm, so you are in conformity with the standard. Climbable objects must be at least 900mm from the top pool barrier on the outside and 300mm on the inside. Pool gates must not open inwards towards the pool area and must be self-closing and self-latching from all positions. Latches on the gates must be at least 100mm high from ground level or if they are located on the inside part of the gate, they must be a minimum of 150mm below the top of the fence and must also be covered with a 450mm radius shield. There must be no direct access from house door to the pool area. A current CPR sign must be displayed either attached to the barrier of the pool or displayed near the pool so that the sign is easily visible to anyone near the pool. All pools in Queensland must be registered with the qbcc.qld.gov.au. The Pool Safety Register is just another initiative protecting young children. If you are selling or leasing your property with the pool, then you have some further obligations with regards to your pool safety certificate and you can find this information at qbcc.qld.gov.au. Pool laws are vital so it’s really important that you get yourself up to speed. If you are in doubt whether your pool complies with the standard, then you may consider engaging a pool safety inspector to visit your home. You can

sphere included maternity services, family doctors (GPs), mental health services, health visitors, emergency department staff, social workers, courts and schools. The personal sphere involved partners, ex-partners, friends, family, children and other parents. The first of two precursor themes-both attitudinal-was *People see me as an unfit parent.* This was the largest theme and incorporated four subthemes. The participants in this theme spoke about how people from both spheres perceived they would be, or were, incapable and inadequate in a parental role. The subthemes in this theme were: *People assume I'm not safe or trustworthy; They come in guns blazing* (reflecting *p*articipants feeling that professionals were being overly protective); *I am judged; and Others make decisions* (reflecting a view that other people made decisions about their children and they were not consulted). The second precursor theme was *People are not understanding or sympathetic.* The themes, subthemes and typical quotes can be seen in Table [2](#T2){ref-type="table"}. ###### Reported experiences of mental illness-based discrimination in relation to parenthood: illustrative examples **Themes and subthemes (themes in bold)** **Illustrative examples**^**a**^ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ **1) People see me as an unfit parent** *'I have been made to feel inadequate as a parent.'* *'There\'s immediate suspicion from people you\'re not capable of looking after a child.'* *'The psychiatrist was talking about bringing in social services-that was unfair to assume I can\'t look after my children.'* People assume I am not safe or trustworthy *'I\'m classed as depressed so people won't let me look after the children. I\'m treated like a leper. They assume I\'m unsafe or not trustworthy.'* '*Because of my mental illness social services thought I\'d burnt my daughter but I hadn\'t.'* *'When my daughter was a toddler and fell off her space hopper onto a concrete floor, the hospital staff kept asking me \'all these questions\', because I was \'a single mother and a mental health parent\'. They put my daughter on the 'at risk' register and missed the fact that my daughter had a heart problem.'* They come in guns blazing *'People watch me too closely.'* *'Social services are always involved, coming in guns blazing.'* *'I always feel that people are checking up on me and my children because of my diagnosis.'* *'I was kept in hospital for an extra week after having my children because the staff felt they needed to contact social services.'* I am judged *'I feel people were judging me when I was pregnant and having my baby. The midwife for example seemed to jump to conclusions because of my diagnosis.'* *'My son has ADHD, when he\'s struggling, teachers immediately ask about my mental health and I feel I am being judged'.* *'I feel that other parents judge me.'* Others make decisions *'My mum recently took my son to Sweden (which was good) but she didn\'t ask me, and I didn\'t know about it, and I\'m his mother after all.'* *'They \[social services\] take your power to make decisions because they think you aren\'t thinking straight.'* **2) People are not understanding or sympathetic** *'Mental health staff said I should pull myself together because I have a family'.* *'My daughter's college made me feel like an irresponsible as they did not understand that I could not speak to them at that time.'* *'The school has not been sympathetic when my son is late to school or not handed things in (*e.g. *money).'* *'She was not understanding of my situation and was making inappropriate demands of me.'* **3) I am stopped from having children** *'We were basically told don\'t even go there by the hospital and a psychiatrist and that we wouldn\'t be considered for adoption.'* '*A doctor advised me not to have children, it was the worst thing I could do.'* *'My family said I should never marry or have children.'* I am not helped to come off or change my medication to have children *'Nobody wanted to help me to get off tablets to enable a pregnancy.'* *'I\'ve been told I have to stay on the medication I\'ve been given and also told that the medication causes birth defects'.* *'I can't conceive because of medication.'* *'I have a fiancé and we would like to get married and have children but again the medication interferes and I don\'t want to have a disabled baby.'* I was told I wouldn't be able to adopt *'I have children and I\'m trying to adopt another but mental health could be an issue apparently, even though I\'ve got children of my own and brought them up.'* *'We considered adoption but I was told that with my mental health issues, it would be unlikely.'* They didn't want to give me IVF *'My fiancé could not have children so we looked into IVF. My doctor was funny about supporting me and discouraged me from having children.'* *'I\'ve been told I\'ll find it hard to conceive because of my medical problems and mental health problems and that adoption/IVF treatment is out of the question.'* People discourage me from having children because they think I will relapse *'I feel my psychiatrist is frightened I will become ill again.'* *'I can't conceive because of my medication and I'm not able to have children because my illness would get worse.'* If I have a baby it would be taken away *'I was told if I had a baby I would be taken.'* *'If I want a family I am likely not to be able to keep any children and am worried about it'* **4) I am not allowed to see my children**   My children have been taken away *'My children have been taken away and I can\'t put my point across \'cause no one believes me.'* *'Police took my kids away from me when they were young.'* *'I had two babies, one was taken away.'* *'After my divorce my children were taken by my ex-husband one by one.'* I am not allowed to be alone with my child *'I am not able to see my children unsupervised.'* *'I'm not allowed to have my children while my husbands at work.'* My ex-partner makes it difficult to see my child *'I have access to my son but the mother has taken him to live in Glasgow-she knows it's difficult for me to go on a train so I can't see him very often.'* *'I gained access to my 10 year old son 3 or 4 weeks ago. My wife took him away from me 2 years ago because of my mental health.'* *'I have 4 children-they are very

Frequency Percentage ---------------------------------------------- ----------- ------------ Age (mean years (±SD)) 23.1 ±0.5 Sex  Male 176 49%  Female 184 51% Level of education  Third 197 54.7%  Sixth 163 45.3% Marital status  Single 293 81.4%  Married 50 13.9%  Other 8 2.2% Place of residence (*N*: 357)  With the family 255 71.4%  In campus 50 14%  Rented place 48 13.4%  Other 4 1.1% Subjective economic status  Good 135 37.5%  Managing 203 56.5%  Poor 22 6% Having work beside the studies  No 230 64%  Irregular 98 27.2%  Regular 32 8.8% Chewing khat  No 199 55.3%  Irregular 70 19.4%  Regular 91 25.3% Smoking  No 305 84.7%  Irregular 49 13.6%  Regular 6 1.7%  Epworth sleepiness score (mean score (±SD)) 9.7 4.2  Excessive sleepiness (ESS score \> 10) 161 45% ###### Principal component analysis of ESS. No. Item Correlated item-total correlation Component 1 Component 2 ------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- ------------- ------------- 1 Sitting and reading 0.217 0.456 2 Watching TV 0.561 0.861 3 Sitting, inactive in a public place (e.g., a theatre or a meeting) 0.534 0.819 4 As passenger in a car for an hour without a break 0.421 0.591 5 Lying down to rest in the afternoon when circumstances permit 0.400 0.566 6 Sitting and talking to someone 0.239 0.462 7 Sitting quietly after lunch 0.502 0.698 8 In a car, while stopped for a few minutes in traffic variance explained 0.421 0.803 Cronbach\'s alpha (*α*) 0.65 0.65 0.62 ###### Standardized model and SMC^∗^ of the hypothesized and revised models. Item Label Model -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- ------- ------- ------- ------- Watching TV TV 0.96 0.927 0.98 0.958 As a passenger in a car for an hour without a break Passenger 0.67 0.454 0.67 0.447 Sitting, inactive in a public place (e.g., a theatre or a meeting) Public places 0.63 0.392 0.62 0.379 Sitting quietly after a lunch Quietly 0.57 0.282 0.59 0.350 In a car, while stopped for a few minutes in the traffic Car 0.48 0.232 0.481 0.232 Lying down to rest in the afternoon when circumstances permit Lying 0.53 0.282 0.53 0.278 Sitting and talking to someone Sitting & talking 0.27 0.070 --- --- Sitting and reading Sitting & reading 0.24 0.056 0.23 0.054 Cronbach\'s alpha (*α*) 0.65 0.68 ^∗^Square multiple correlation. [^1]: Academic Editor: Liborio Parrino The liquidity index of XRP cryptocurrency in Philippine has been growing at a very high rate in recent times, attaining another new all-time high. 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65 selected citations on LMFBR development. The citations were compiled from the DOE Energy Data Base covering the period January 1978 (EDB File No. 78R1087) through August 1980 (EDB File No. 80C79142). The references are to reports from the Department of Energy and its contractors, reports from other government or private organizations, and journal articles, books, conference papers, and monographs from US originators. Report citations are arranged alphanumerically by report number; nonreport literature citations are arranged chronologically. Corporate, Personal Author, Subject, and Report Number Indexes are provided in Volume 2. This bibliography contains information on the reprocessing portion of the nuclear fuel cycle included in the Department of Energy's Energy Data Base from January 1981 through November 1982. The abstracts are grouped by subject category. Entries in the subject index also facilitate access by subject. Within each category the arrangement is by report number for reports, followed by nonreports in reverse chronological order. These citations are to research reports, journal articles, books, patents, theses, and conference papers from worldwide sources. Five indexes, each preceded by a brief description, are provided: Corporate Author, Personal Author, Subject, Contract Number, and Report Number This annotated bibliography lists 2146 works on atomic and molecular processes reported in publications dated 1979. Sources include scientific journals, conference proceedings, and books. Each entry is designated by one or more of the 114 categories of atomic and molecular processes used by the Controlled Fusion Atomic Data Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, to classify data. Also indicated is whether the work was experimental or theoretical, what energy range was covered, what reactants were investigated, and the country of origin of the first author. Following the bibliographical listing are indexes of reactants and authors This annotated bibliography lists 2866 works on atomic and molecular processes reported in publications dated 1980. Sources include scientific journals, conference proceedings, and books. Each entry is designated by one or more of the 114 categories of atomic and molecular processes used by the Controlled Fusion Atomic Data Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, to classify data. Also indicated is whether the work was experimental or theoretical, what energy range was covered, what reactants were investigated, and the country of origin of the first author. Following the bibliographical listing are indexes of reactants and authors This bibliography includes 5465 selected citations on LMFBR development. The citations were compiled from the DOE Energy Data Base covering the period January 1978 (EDB File No. 78R1087) through August 1980 (EDB File No. 80C79142). The references are to reports from the Department of Energy and its contractors, reports from other government or private organizations, and journal articles, books, conference papers, and monographs from US originators. Report citations are arranged alphanumerically by report number; nonreport literature citations are arranged chronologically. Corporate, Personal Author, Subject, and Report Number Indexes are provided in Volume 2 This comprehensive bibliography contains 5476 citations of foreign and domestic research reports, journal articles, patents, conference proceedings, and books concerned with the exploration and exploitation of geothermal resources. The coverage dates back as far as useful references could be obtained and extends through June 1976. References are arranged in broad subject categories and are made up of complete bibliographic citations. These are followed by a listing of subject descriptors used to describe the subject content of each reference. Four indexes are included: Corporate, Personal Author, Subject, and Report Number. Also included is a list of journals from which articles were selected. (LBS) The literature relating specifically to international nuclear fuel service centers would appear to be relatively scarce, based on the results of searches of the Energy Data Base, the libraries of the University of California at Los Angeles, and The Rand Corporation, and other sources. Works specifically relating to international service centers are annotated in this bibliography. Also listed, without annotation, are studies of various kinds of multinational public enterprises. In addition, there are references to many of the studies of the one-nation nuclear energy center concept. Most of these resulted from the survey of possible sites for these centers mandated by the US Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 An annotated bibliography of technical papers, documents, and memorandums produced by or related to the Software Engineering Laboratory is given. More than 100 publications are summarized. These publications cover many areas of software engineering and range from research reports to software documentation. All materials have been grouped into eight general subject areas for easy reference: The Software Engineering Laboratory; The Software Engineering Laboratory: Software Development Documents; Software Tools; Software Models; Software Measurement; Technology Evaluations; Ada Technology; and Data Collection. Subject and author indexes further classify these documents by specific topic and individual author. Internationally, the nuclear industry is represented by both commercial utilities and research institutions. Over the past two decades many of these entities have had to relocate inventories of spent nuclear fuel from underwater storage to dry storage. These efforts were primarily prompted by two factors: insufficient storage capacity (potentially precipitated by an open-ended nuclear fuel cycle) or deteriorating quality of existing underwater facilities. The intent of developing this bibliography is to assess what issues associated with fuel drying have been identified, to consider where concerns have been satisfactorily addressed, and to recommend where additional research would offer the most value to the commercial industry and the U. S. Department of Energy. An annotated bibliography is presented which was compiled while searching the literature for information on fluid inclusions in salt for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's study on the deep-geologic disposal of nuclear waste. The migration of fluid inclusions in a thermal gradient is a potential hazard to the safe disposal of nuclear waste in a salt repository. At the present time, a prediction as to whether this hazard precludes the use of salt for waste disposal can not be made. Limited data from the Salt-Vault in situ heater experiments in the early 1960's (Bradshaw and McClain, 1971) leave little doubt that fluid inclusions can migrate towards a heat source. In addition to the bibliography, there is a brief summary of the physical and chemical characteristics that together with the temperature of the waste will determine the chemical composition of the brine in contact with the waste canister, the rate of fluid migration, and the brine-canister-waste interactions This two-part report provides an essentially complete listing of radioactive occurrences in Colorado, with a comprehensive bibliography and bibliographic cross-indexes. Part 1 lists approximately 3000 known radioactive occurrences with their locations and brief accounts of the geology, mineralogy, radioactivity, host rock, production data, and source of data for each. The occurrences are classified by host rock and plotted on U.S. Geological Survey 1 0 x 2 0 topographic quadrangle maps with a special 1 : 100,000-scale base map for the Uravan mineral belt. Part 2 contains the bibliography of approximately 2500 citations on radioactive mineral occurrences in the state, with cross-indexes by county, host rock, and the special categories of ''Front Range,'' ''Colorado Plateau,'' and ''thorium.'' The term ''occurrence'' as used in this report is defined as any site where the concentration of uranium or thorium is at least 0.01% or where the range of radioactivity is greater than twice the background radioactivity. All citations and occurrence data are stored on computer diskettes for easy retrieval, correction, and updating Life in the sea is vulnerable to the influx of trace metals resulting from man's activities. Although many pollutants introduced to the sea eventually degrade to less harmful forms, trace metals accumulate in sediments and have a continued potential for effect on biota. Copper has a toxic potential exceeding all other metals due to the quantity discharged and its toxicological effect. Fortunately, copper in the oceans is rendered less bioavailable or less toxic by its ready interaction with the complex chemical components of seawater. This bibliography was prepared to illustrate the status of current knowledge of the biogeochemistry of copper and to aid the development of research programs to define the effects of copper discharged to the marine environment. The references are categorized to aid the reader to locate literature concerning specific aspects of the biogeochemistry of copper. A brief comment describing the important findings in each category is given. Although this bibliography is not exhaustive, the listed references are likely representative of current knowledge. This bibliography lists reports and papers written as part of the Nirex Safety Assessment Research Programme, which is concerned with disposal of low-level and intermediate-level waste (LLW and ILW) and associated radiological assessments. The bibliography has been divided into two sections, a list of Publications in roughly chronological order and an Author Index. The topics involved include near-field and far-field studies. The near-field includes the waste package, filling or sealing materials, and those parts of the host medium whose characteristics have been or could be altered by the repository or its content. The far-field is the rock formation outside the repository, including the surrounding strata, at a distance from the waste disposal site such that, for modelling purposes, the site may be considered as a single entity, and the effects of individual waste packages are indistinguishable in the effects of the whole. The far-field includes also the biosphere, into which radionuclides from the waste could conceivably migrate in the future. (author) The bibliography includes nearly all references in the literature on acoustic emission published during the three-year period, 1970 through 1972. Included in the 412 references are several for each of the associated technologies including: signature analysis, boiling detection, cavitation, leak detection, seismology, and rock mechanics. Information has also been obtained from eight abstracting and indexing services searched in compiling the bibliography. The bibliography has been arranged alphabetically by author and is cross referenced with a list of approximately 400 authors. Also included is

, while the mean duration of hospitalization was 8.4 days. This suggests that these patients could be successfully weaned from NIPPV therapy and did not require any respiratory support over a significant duration of hospital stay subsequent to this therapy. Although this study was conducted on a small sample size, which included only three nonresponders, the promising results obtained by us merit further validation in a more elaborate randomized trial, and the results of BiPAP therapy need to be compared with the outcome of ventilator therapy. In the event of these initial findings being authenticated, this treatment modality can offer a valuable alternative to the more expensive and technically demanding ventilator therapy, particularly in resource-constrained situations. However, it would be apt to use a suitable and safe device for this purpose that can deliver adequate inspiratory and expiratory pressure through an endotracheal tube, possess satisfactory power back-up, and provide alarm signals in case of emergency. Hybrid ventilators, which perform both pressure and volume preset ventilation and are substantially cheaper than an ICU ventilator, could be an appropriate alternative in this regard. **Disclosure** The authors report no conflicts of interest in this work. ###### Patient characteristics of two group and baseline physiological variables in COPD patients with coma Variable Median (range) *P*-value -------------------------------- ---------------- ---------------- ------- Age (years) 60 (38--72) 60 (55--65) 0.957 Gender distribution (M/F) 15/2 2/1 0.404 COPD duration (years) 10 (2--14) 12 (10--20) 0.199 Smoking (pack years) 10 (2--14) 18 (0--20) 0.264 GCS 6 (3--7) 7 (4--7 0.438 Systolic blood pressure 122 (90--150) 102 (102--122) 0.111 Heart rate (beats/min) 116 (90--136) 132 (124--140) 0.022 Respiratory rate (breaths/min) 28 (22--36) 32 (28--34) 0.145 pH 7.1 (6.9--7.2) 7.1 0.872 PaCO~2~ 28 (22--36) 32 (28--34) 0.559 SOFA score 3 (2--5) 7 (7--8) 0.004 **Abbreviations:** COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; F, female; GCS, Glasgow coma scale; M, male; PaCO~2~, partial pressure of carbon dioxide; SOFA, sequential organ failure assessment. ###### Comparison of vital signs and ABG variables with length of BiPAP administration between two groups Variable Baseline At 2 hours *P*-value (within the group) At end[a](#tfn3-copd-7-321){ref-type="table-fn"} *P*-value (within the group) ----------------------- ------------- ------------- ------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ **Systolic BP** Responder (n = 17) 122 ± 15.9 117 ± 9.1 0.177 114 ± 11.2 0.039 Nonresponder (n = 3) 104 ± 16.0 102 ± 7.2 0.102 104 ± 14.4 1.000 **Heart rate** Responder (n = 17) 113 ± 16.0 101 ± 11.4 0.001 86.7 ± 4.5 0.003 Nonresponder (n = 3) 120 ± 22.2 119 ± 20.4 0.593 123 ± 23.3 0.109 **Respiratory rate** Responder (n = 17) 28.3 ± 3.8 23.3 ± 3.5 \<0.001 18.3 ± 2.6 \<0.001 Nonresponder (n = 3) 29.3 ± 2.3 30 ± 3.4 0.902 30.6 ± 5.7 0.593 **pH** Responder (n = 17) 7.01 ± 0.09 7.12 ± 0.07 0.001 7.31 ± 0.04 \<0.001 Nonresponder (n = 3) 7.1 ± 1.09 7.11 ± 1.0 1.000 7.08 ± 0.15 0.420 **PaCO~2~** Responder (n = 17) 97.1 ± 14.3 78 ± 12.3 \<0.001 55.5 ± 5.9 \<0.001 Nonresponder (n = 3) 93.6 ± 4.0 95.3 ± 10.5 1.000 106 ± 7.2 0.109 **SOFA score** Responder (n = 17) 5.2 ± 0.7 3.2 ± 0.3 0.001 0.35 ± 0.6 \<0.001 Nonresponder (n = 3) 7.3 ± 0.5 6.6 ± 0.2 0.626 6.0 ± 1.0 0.105 **GCS** Responder (n = 17) 5.8 ± 1.0 10.5 ± 1.7 \<0.001 14.6 ± 2.6 \<0.001 Non-responder (n = 3) 6.3 ± 1.1 7.0 ± 1.7 0.157 4.3 ± 0.5 0.109 **Note:** "At end" signifies the termination of BiPAP therapy. **Abbreviations:** ABG, arterial blood gas; BiPAP, bilevel positive airway pressure; BP, blood pressure; GCS, Glasgow coma scale; PaCO~2~, partial pressure of carbon dioxide; SOFA, sequential organ failure assessment. Members of our #NBArank panel are recounting the greatest NBA Finals games. First we asked five NBA writers to share their favorites. Then, Kevin Pelton started ranking his top 25 Finals games of all time, unveiling five per day. Ray saves day: 2013 NBA Finals, Game 6, Spurs vs. Heat J.A. Adande: Before the shot there was the rebound. And before the rebound there was the rope. What makes Game 6 of the 2013 NBA Finals stand out among all the Finals games I've watched since 1979 or covered since 1993 is that there wasn't just one singular moment, there wasn't just one stellar performer. There was incredible competitive drive from both the Miami Heat and the San Antonio Spurs, a throwback 30-point, 17-rebound outing by Tim Duncan matched by the 32-11-10 triple-double by LeBron James, the emotional swings of the Heat overcoming a 10-point deficit at the start of the fourth quarter to take a three-point lead with two minutes remaining, only to see the Spurs surge ahead in the final minute. 2013 NBA Finals, Game 6 Date: June 18, 2013 Result: Heat 103, Spurs 100, OT (Miami ties series 3-3) Top performer: LeBron James (32 points, 10 rebounds, 11 assists) And it all led to that epic sequence near the end of regulation, which was framed by that yellow rope around the court. The rope is what lends a surreal element to my memory of that game. I can't recall exactly when I noticed the rope. Watching the final minute on YouTube, there's a timeout with the Spurs leading by five points with 28.2 seconds left. The broadcast shows both teams' huddles, then when play resumes there are a bunch of security people in yellow shirts around the edges of the court, holding that yellow rope. It's as if they just materialized, like the Grim Reaper showing up in a cartoon when things look bleak. The rope is the NBA's way of keeping fans and media away from the oncourt stage used to present the trophies to the champions. Because the Spurs led the series 3-2 the rope was only necessary if they won. Players on both teams noticed the rope -- at one point the holders had to scoot back to give Duncan room to inbound the ball -- and they recognized its significance. "When they brought out the yellow rope and you know you're the one that's not going to celebrate, it hurts," Dwyane Wade told reporters afterward. "So we just kept fighting." With the court being readied for a Spurs celebration, Ray Allen launches the shot that tied Game 6 and forced overtime. Robert Mayer/USA TODAY Sports The

with WT mice. **c** GO (DAVID) analysis of pairwise comparisons of up-regulated genes in DKI mice compared with Nras^G12D/+^ (upper panel) and Dnmt3a^R878H/+^ (lower panel) mice, respectively. **d** Venn diagram of genes up-regulated (left panel) and down-regulated (right panel) in KI and DKI mice in comparison to WT. \|log2Ratio\| ≥ 1, false discovery rate (FDR), q-value ≤0.05. Genes with significant change in DKI mice were showed in Additional file [2](#MOESM2){ref-type="media"}: Table S2 Cooperation of Dnmt3a R878H and Nras G12D activates Myc pathway {#Sec17} --------------------------------------------------------------- To further investigate the key upregulated genes in the pathogenesis of DKI mice, we performed gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) of RNA-seq data. GSEA showed a significant enrichment of the gene sets related with negative regulation of differentiation and apoptotic signaling in the Gr-1^+^ cells of DKI groups compared with Dnmt3a^R878H/+^ mice (Fig. [6](#Fig6){ref-type="fig"}a). Interestingly, gene sets associated with Myc oncogenic signature and Myc targets were significantly enriched in DKI groups (Fig. [6](#Fig6){ref-type="fig"}b). The heat map displayed the dysregulated genes correspond to gene sets significantly affected according to GSEA (Fig. [6](#Fig6){ref-type="fig"}c). Compared with Dnmt3a^R878H/+^ mice and Nras^G12D/+^ mice, DKI mice showed obvious up-regulation of transcription factor *Myc* and a serial of Myc target genes \[[@CR35]\], including *Nme* family genes, *Cebpa*, *Npm1* and *Bcl3* genes involved in the development of leukemia \[[@CR36]--[@CR38]\], *Cdk4* and *Bax* genes related with cell cycle and apoptosis process \[[@CR39], [@CR40]\]. The upregulated-genes were validated by real-time qPCR (Fig. [6](#Fig6){ref-type="fig"} d). The oncogene c*Myc* is one of the most common genetic alterations in human cancers \[[@CR41]\]. *cMyc* has been reported to be implicated in regulating a wide variety of biological activities, and particularly in balancing the self-renewal and differentiation of hematopoietic stem cell \[[@CR42], [@CR43]\]. Western blot showed that the expression of cMyc protein was increased in DKI mice compared with Dnmt3a^R878H/+^ or Nras^G12D/+^ single KI mice, and cMyc s62 phosphorylation, which was reported to increase cMyc protein stability and activity \[[@CR44], [@CR45]\], was also remarkably overexpressed in DKI mice. Therefore, up-regulation of *Myc* and Myc target genes related to proliferation and apoptosis may contribute to promote the process of *Dnmt3a* mutation-induced AML. Fig. 6The activation of Myc oncogenic signature in DKI mice. **a** GSEA shows enrichment of differentiation and apoptosis gene sets in DKI groups compared with Dnmt3a^R878H/+^ group. **b** GSEA shows enrichment of *Myc* oncogenic signature and Myc target gene sets in DKI group compared with Dnmt3a^R878H/+^ group. NES, normalized enrichment score. **c** Heat map of up-regulated *Myc* and Myc target genes in DKI mice compared with WT, Dnmt3a^R878H/+^ and Nras^G12D/+^ mice. **d** The gene expression levels were validated by real-time RT-PCR. Primers were listed in Additional file [3](#MOESM3){ref-type="media"}: Table S3. **e** Western blot analysis of cMyc and p62-cMyc. Horizontal bars correspond to Mean ± SEM values. \* *P* \< 0.05, \*\* *P* \< 0.01, \*\*\**P* \< 0.001, significance was determined by two-tailed Student's t test Discussion {#Sec18} ========== As one of common epigenetic alterations in AML, *DNMT3A* mutation has been demonstrated to play an important role in the pathogenesis of leukemia. Many studies have suggested that mutant *DNMT3A* requires additional gene mutations to cause full-blown AML. In this regard, a previous report showed the cooperation of *DNMT3A* mutation and *RAS* mutation in leukemogenesis by using retroviral transduced mouse model \[[@CR12]\]. However, the conditional KI approach is better than retroviral transduction system to recapitulate human leukemic features in mice. In this study, we created the first conditional DKI mouse model expressing Dnmt3a R878H and Nras G12D under the control of endogenous promoters by crossing Dnmt3a^R878H/+^ KI mice and Nras^G12D/+^ KI mice. By generating the conditional DKI mouse model, we discovered that cooperation of Dnmt3a R878H and Nras G12D could lead to a much earlier onset and more severe AML characterized by significantly increased WBCs, elevated immature cells, splenomegaly and shortened survival time, compared with Dnmt3a^R878H/+^ or Nras^G12D/+^ KI mice. In this pilot study, preliminary data derived from 10 mice per group were statistically analyzed. Dnmt3a^R878H/+^ mice have been reported to develop moderate AML with considerably increased hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells especially LSK cells which were demonstrated to harbor leukemia-initiating cells \[[@CR13]\]. Here, we showed that the LSK compartment was significantly enlarged in DKI AML mice compared with the diseased Dnmt3a^R878H/+^ mice, suggesting that *DNMT3A* mutation with acquisition of additional genetic abnormality such as *NRAS* mutation could significantly promote the leukemogenic transformation and proliferation of hematopoietic cells. We investigated the mechanism underlying the leukemic phenotype induced by the cooperation of Dnmt3a R878H and Nras G12D. DKI mice showed much more up-regulated genes contributing to positive regulation of growth, negative regulation of differentiation and negative regulation of apoptosis process than Dnmt3a^R878H/+^ KI mice and Nras^G12D/+^ KI mice. Interestingly, the genes associated with phosphorylation and protein activation cascade were also up-regulated in DKI mice, indicating abnormal phosphorylation and protein activation caused by the cooperation of *Dnmt3a* and *Nras* mutation. We found that *Dnmt3a* mutation together with *Nras* mutation could not only increase the expression of *Myc* oncogene and Myc target genes, but also could induce the s62 phosphorylation of cMyc which has been reported to play a key role in increasing the protein stability and activating the Myc oncogenic signature \[[@CR44], [@CR45]\]. Therefore, the activation of Myc pathway may contribute to the pathogenesis of full-blown AML caused by the cooperation of *Dnmt3a* mutation and *Nras* mutation. In this work, we generated a novel DKI mouse model to investigate the function and mechanism of *Dnmt3a* mutation under the presence of *Nras* mutation in inducing a full-blown AML. We discovered that *Dnmt3a* mutation and *Nras* mutation could cooperate to induce a much more severe AML than *Dnmt3a* or *Nras* mutation alone. In the mechanism study, we revealed that DKI mice showed significantly altered gene expression patterns with involvement of Myc pathway activation, indicating a potential therapeutic target in *DNMT3A* mutation-related leukemia which needs to be further investigated. Conclusions {#Sec19} =========== In conclusion, we discovered that cooperation of *Dnmt3a* mutation with *Nras* mutation could synergistically induce AML under the control of endogenous promoter/enhancer in mice, and activation of Myc pathway is one of the key players in the disease mechanism. Our study thus provides a unique mouse model that recapitulates many aspects of human AML and a potential therapeutic target for *DNMT3A* mutation-related leukemia. Supplementary information ========================= {#Sec20} **Additional file 1: Table S1.** Primers for identifying genotypes of Knock-in mice. **Additional file 2: Table S2.** Genes with Different Expression Patterns of Gr-1 Positive Cells Between DKI and WT Mice. **Additional file 3: Table S3.** Primers for validating the results of RNA-seq analysis. AML : Acute myeloid leukemia BM : Bone marrow BMT : Bone marrow transplantation CMPs : Common myeloid progenitors DKI : Double knock-in DNMT3A : DNA methytransferase 3A FBS : fetal bovine serum Hb : Hemoglobin HSCs : Hematopoietic stem cells KI : Knock-in LRPs : Lineage-restricted progenitors LSKs : Lin^−^ Sca-1^+^ c-Kit^+^ cells MEPs : M

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maintained. Yet another drawback of this design is that any maintenance that must be performed on the bellows requires that the vessel be opened and the adjacent compression plate be removed. It is an object of the present invention to overcome the above and other drawbacks of conventional fuel cell stack compression systems. It is another object of the invention to provide a compression system that is easy and relatively inexpensive to assemble and maintain. It is a further object of the invention to provide a fuel cell stack compression system that can prolong the operating life of the stack. It is an additional object of the present invention to provide a compression system for use in conjunction with a fuel cell stack housed within a vessel, whereby compressive force can be adjusted without requiring dismantling of the vessel. It is another object of the invention to provide a compression system that accommodates flexing of compression plates during operation of the fuel cell stack. It is yet another object of the present invention to provide a compression system for use with either a horizontally disposed or vertically disposed fuel cell stack. The above and other objects are achieved by the present invention, which overcomes the disadvantages of conventional compression systems by providing a fuel cell stack compression system with compression assemblies which are at least partially outside the fuel cell stack vessel. The compression system of the present invention is used in conjunction with a fuel cell stack having first and second ends and enclosed within a vessel having first and second end walls facing the first and second stack ends. The compression system includes: a first compression plate inside the vessel at the first end of the stack; a second compression plate exterior to the vessel and abutting its second end wall and facing the second end of the stack; at least one member extending along a face of the stack, the member or members each having a first end connected to the first compression plate and a second end extending to the second end wall of the vessel; and at least one compression assembly, each compression assembly being coupled to a second end of a member, and a portion of the compression assembly being disposed exterior to the vessel.package com.vpaliy.domain.interactor; import android.text.TextUtils; import com.vpaliy.domain.executor.BaseSchedulerProvider; import com.vpaliy.domain.model.User; import com.vpaliy.domain.repository.SearchRepository; import java.util.List; import io.reactivex.functions.Consumer; import android.support.annotation.Nullable; public class UserSearch extends SearchInteractor<List<User>> { public UserSearch(SearchRepository searchRepository, BaseSchedulerProvider schedulerProvider) { super(searchRepository, schedulerProvider); } @Override public void search(@Nullable String query, Consumer<? super List<User>> onSuccess, Consumer<? super Throwable> onError) { if (!TextUtils.isEmpty(query)) { searchRepository.searchUser(query) .subscribeOn(schedulerProvider.io()) .observeOn(schedulerProvider.ui()) .subscribe(onSuccess, onError); } } @Override public void nextPage(Consumer<? super List<User>> onSuccess, Consumer<? super Throwable> onError) { searchRepository.nextUserPage() .subscribeOn(schedulerProvider.io()) .observeOn(schedulerProvider.ui()) .subscribe(onSuccess, onError); } } Asian, Chinese, Singaporean 15 Mason Avenue, Otahuhu, Auckland, Auckland, 1062, New Zealand Asian, Singaporean, Malaysian 451 Ti Rakau Drive, Golflands, Manukau, Auckland, 2013, New Zealand Putera-Puteri's Malaysian Cuisine Sample Menu Hainanese Chicken Rice Perfectly poached chicken thigh sitting on a special soy sauce. the stock is used to cook the rice, making it very fragrant and tasty, accompanied by a garlic and ginger chilli sauceQ: Windows Work flow for TFS Build process Tutorial Is there any tutorial which is used to create a build Windows work flow for the project solution which has many projects. Needed to create a custom build using the Work flow. When i used the default template for our solution, the build is getting drop for every project in a single release folder. Our solution has around 70 projects and all the build is dropping into a single folder. How do we customize to make the build of each project has its respective release folder. A: The ALM Rangers put out the best tutorial I know of for customizing builds in TFS. I work for a large enterprise with MANY TFS builds and we have always avoided changing the build process template. I would challenge you to look at other TFS extension points instead, for example pre/post build/test PowerShell scripts MSBuild MSDeploy TFS API Additionally, TFS 2013 introduced a new feature that does exactly what your looking for. Just add /p:GenerateProjectSpecificOutputFolder=True to your MSBuild arguments. Comparative analysis of two sampling techniques for pollen gathered by Nannotrigona testaceicornis Lepeletier (Apidae, Meliponini). Pollen counts from samples taken from storage pots throughout one year (from October to September) were adjusted by Tasei's volumetric correction coefficient for the determination of pollen sources exploited by two colonies of Nannotrigona testaceicornis in São Paulo, Brazil. The results obtained by this sampling technique for seven months (December to June) were compared with those from corbicula load samples taken within the same period. This species visited a large variety of plant species, but few of them were frequently used. As a rule, pollen sources that appeared at frequencies greater than 1% were found with both sampling methods and significant positive correlations (Spearman correlation coefficient) were found between their values. The pollen load sample data showed that N. testaceicornis gathered pollen throughout the external activity period.--- abstract: 'Most of our knowledge of extrasolar planets rests on precise radial-velocity measurements, either for direct detection or for confirmation of the planetary origin of photometric transit signals. This has limited our exploration of the parameter space of exoplanet hosts to solar- and later-type, sharp-lined stars. Here we extend the realm of stars with known planetary companions to include hot, fast-rotating stars. Planet-like transits have previously been reported in the lightcurve obtained by the SuperWASP survey of the A5 star HD15082 (WASP-33; $V=8.3$, $v\sin i = 86$ km s$^{-1}$). Here we report further photometry and time-series spectroscopy through three separate transits, which we use to confirm the existence of a gas giant planet with an orbital period of 1.22d in orbit around HD15082. From the photometry and the properties of the planet signal travelling through the spectral line profiles during the transit we directly derive the size of the planet, the inclination and obliquity of its orbital plane, and its retrograde orbital motion relative to the spin of the star. This kind of analysis opens the way to studying the formation of planets around a whole new class of young, early-type stars, hence under different physical conditions and generally in an earlier stage of formation than in sharp-lined late-type stars. The reflex orbital motion of the star caused by the transiting planet is small, yielding an upper mass limit of 4.1 M$_{\rm Jupiter}$ on the planet. We also find evidence of a third body of sub-stellar mass in the system, which may explain the unusual orbit of the transiting planet. In HD 15082, the stellar line profiles also show evidence of non-radial pulsations, clearly distinct from the planetary transit signal. This raises the intriguing possibility that tides raised by the close-in planet may excite or amplify the pulsations in such stars.' author: - | A. Collier Cameron$^{1}$[^1], E. Guenther$^{2}$, B. Smalley$^{3}$, I. McDonald$^{3}$, L. Hebb$^{4}$, J. Andersen$^{5,6}$, Th. Augusteijn$^{6}$, S. C. C. Barros$^{7}$, D. J. A. Brown$^{1}$, W. D. Cochran$^{8}$, M. Endl$^{8}$, S. J. Fossey$^{9}$, M. Hartmann$^{2}$, P. F. L. Maxted$^{3}$, D. Pollacco$^{7}$, I. Skillen$^{10}$, J. Telting$^{6}$, I. P. Waldmann$^{9}$ and R. G. West$^{11}$\ $^{1}$SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9SS, UK.\ $^{2}$Th[" u]{}ringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, D-07778 Tautenburg, Germany.\ $^{3}$Astrophysics Group, Keele University, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK.\ $^{4}$Vanderbilt University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Nashville, TN 37235, USA.\ $^{5}$The Niels Bohr Institute, Astronomy Group, Juliane Maries Vej 30, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.\ $^{6}$Nordic Optical Telescope Scientific Association, Apartado 474, ES-38700 Santa Cruz de La Palma,

BSON, PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT,v.ANTHONY DELLA ROCCO, JR., WEBSTER BANK, FORMERLY KNOWN AS FIRST FEDERAL BANK, FORMERLY KNOWN AS FIRST CONSITUTION BANK, NEW HAVEN HEALTH DEPT, DEFENDANTS-APPELLEES,UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, DEFENDANT. Docket No. 00-6340August Term, 2000 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALSFOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT Argued: May 29, 2001Decided June 12, 2001 1 Appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Janet Bond Arterton, Judge) denying plaintiff's motion to set aside its judgment against her as void for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. 2 AFFIRMED. 3 John-Henry M. Steele, Votre & Associates, New Haven, Ct., for Appellant. 4 Kevin P. Walsh, Cella, McKeon & Williams, North Haven, Ct., for Appellee Della Rocco. 5 Audrey C. Kramer, Office of Corporation Counsel, for Appellee New Haven Health Department. 6 Stephen R. Griffin, Griffin & Griffin, Waterbury, Ct., for Appellee Webster Bank. 7 Before: Calabresi and Katzmann, Circuit Judges, and Kaplan,* District Judge. Per Curiam 8 This dispute arises out of the injuries allegedly sustained by plaintiff-appellant Annie Parker, now a seven-year old child, from lead paint in her New Haven residence. Several years ago, the district court dismissed the suit for plaintiff's failure to comply with court rules. More recently, the court rejected plaintiff's motion challenging its jurisdiction to enter that judgment, and plaintiff appeals from that decision. We affirm. 9 In late 1997, Annie Gibson, Parker's mother, brought suit on Parker's behalf in Superior Court for the Judicial District of New Haven against defendants-appellees Webster Bank, the New Haven Health Department, and Anthony Della Rocco, who, in some combination, plaintiff alleges owned or managed the property in question. Parker also named as a defendant the United States Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD), which subsidized Gibson's rent through its "Section 8" program, see generally Salute v. Stratford Greens Garden Apartments, 136 F.3d 293, 296 (2d Cir. 1998). 10 On January 5, 1998, the case was removed to the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Janet Bond Arterton, Judge) pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1442(a)(1), which authorizes removal of suits against "[t]he United States or any agency thereof." On March 9, the district court issued a "Notice to Counsel" (1) pointing out that the parties had failed to comply with a local rule requiring that a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(f) discovery report be filed within 40 days of removal, (2) ordering that the report (and an explanation for the delay) be filed within 10 days of the notice, and (3) threatening both sanctions and dismissal for failure to comply. On March 19, 1998, plaintiff voluntarily withdrew her claims against HUD. She did not, however, submit the required discovery report, explain her failure to do so, move for the case to be remanded to state court, or challenge the district court's exercise of jurisdiction in the absence of HUD as a defendant. On March 25, 1998, the district court dismissed the case for failure to comply with its rules and orders. 11 Two and a half years later, plaintiff, with the benefit of new counsel, moved under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(4) for the district court to void its judgment against her on the ground that it had lacked subject matter jurisdiction over the suit.1 The court held that removal was proper under 28 U.S.C. § 1442(a)(1), that the subsequent dismissal of the claims against HUD did not strip the court of its supplemental jurisdiction over the pendent claims, and that it had the discretion to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over those claims. On appeal, as below, plaintiff argues primarily that dismissal of the federal defendant eliminated the basis for federal jurisdiction and that, therefore, there was no claim to which the state claims were "supplemental"; she argues in the alternative that it was an abuse of discretion to exercise supplemental jurisdiction. 12 The district court's analysis of its supplemental jurisdiction was correct. Because the district court properly exercised removal jurisdiction over the claims against HUD,2 see Mizuna, Ltd. v. Crossland Fed. Sav. Bank, 90 F.3d 650, 655 (2d Cir. 1996) (noting that "the initial sufficiency of the grounds for removal" is prior to the question of whether supplemental jurisdiction survives the "post-removal dismissal of all claims against the federal defendant"), these claims provided the basis for supplemental jurisdiction over the other claims, which were plainly part of the same controversy. And "[w]hen [HUD] was dropped from the case, the district court still had the power under 28 U.S.C. § 1367 to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the other claims." Mizuna,, 90 F.3d at 657. This is, of course, consistent with the general rule that "the district court may, at its discretion, exercise supplemental jurisdiction over state law claims even where it has dismissed all claims over which it had original jurisdiction, [even though] it cannot exercise supplemental jurisdiction unless there is first a proper basis for original federal jurisdiction." Nowak v. Ironworkers Local 6 Pension Fund, 81 F.3d 1182, 1187 (2d Cir. 1996). Mizuna applied this approach to a case very much like this one, in which the FDIC invoked a statute making claims against it removable and plaintiff later voluntarily dismissed the claim against the FDIC, which was the only jurisdiction-conferring claim. See Mizuna, 90 F.3d at 657; but cf. Wellness Community-National v. Wellness House, 70 F.3d 46, 50 (7th Cir. 1995) (holding that when the complaint is amended to drop the jurisdiction-conferring claim, there can be no supplemental jurisdiction based on a claim in the original complaint). 13 Appellant argues that, notwithstanding the general rule stated in Nowak and applied in Mizuna, 28 U.S.C. § 1447(c), limits supplemental jurisdiction in the removal context by providing that "[i]f at any time before final judgment it appears that the district court lacks subject matter jurisdiction, the case shall be remanded." This argument fails because § 1447(c) merely addresses the consequences of a jurisdictional flaw, i.e. it mandates a remand rather than a dismissal, see Int'l Primate Protection League, 500 U.S. at 87; it does not affect the standard for determining whether jurisdiction is lacking. We therefore find unpersuasive Bailey v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 981 F. Supp. 1415, 1416-17 (N.D. Ala. 1996), upon which appellant relies. Here, the dismissal of the party whose presence had allowed removal did not deprive the court of subject matter jurisdiction, notwithstanding the fact that, had HUD not been named in the first place, there would have been no removal jurisdiction. See Mizuna, 90 F.3d at 657. 14 Not only did the district court have the power to exert supplemental jurisdiction over the remaining claims, but the court was within its discretion to exercise that power in the circumstances of this case. Although the suit was in its earliest stages, the district court here retained supplemental jurisdiction for the limited purpose of enforcing its own rules governing the conduct of those early stages. Regardless of whether it would have been proper to continue to exercise supplemental jurisdiction in order to reach the merits of plaintiff's state law claims, it was entirely appropriate to do so here. See Carnegie-Mellon Univ. v. Cohill, 484 U.S. 343, 350 (1988) (noting that district courts should weigh "values of judicial economy, convenience, fairness, and comity" as they pertain to "every stage of the litigation"); see also Mizuna, 90 F.3d at 657 (upholding exercise of supplemental jurisdiction that served in part to stymie a "fairly bald effort to avoid an unfavorable outcome"). but cf. Tops Markets, Inc. v. Quality Markets, Inc., 142 F.3d 90, 103 (2d Cir. 1998) ("[W]hen all federal claims are eliminated in the early stages of litigation, the balance of factors generally favors declining to exercise pendent jurisdiction over remaining state law claims and dismissing them without prejudice." (emphasis in original)). 15 We have considered all of appellant's arguments and found them to be meritless. Accordingly, we AFFIRM the order of the district court. NOTES: * The Honorable Lewis A. Kaplan, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, sitting by designation. 1 Plaintiff apparently is seeking to avoid any res judicata effect that the judgment might have in other litigation. The scope of any preclusive effect is not currently before us. Cf. Semtek Intern. Inc. v. Lockheed Martin Corp., 121 S.Ct. 1021 (2001) (holding that when a federal court sitting in diversity dismisses a case "on the merits," Fed. R. Civ. P. 41(b), the preclusive effect of that dismissal is determined by the law of the state in which

57±0.90 8.02±2.24 0±0 19.42±1.19 18.08±1.08 18.09±1.63 21.14±2.02 29.82±1.63 rods 9.63±3.33 12.55±2.77 0±0 15.23±1.81 11.19±1.1 11.88±1.48 13.7±2.21 26.42± 2.51 Also, along the dorsal-ventral axis, we observed photoreceptor-subtype specific lesion patterns ([Fig. 3D, G](#pone-0080483-g003){ref-type="fig"}, [Table 4](#pone-0080483-t004){ref-type="table"}). The focused light lesion is located centrally for all cone subtypes, whereas the rod lesion covers 3 times more of the ventral than of the dorsal half of the retina ([Fig. 3G](#pone-0080483-g003){ref-type="fig"}). In contrast, after diffuse light lesion, the size of the dorsal lesion exceeds the size of the ventral lesions by factor two in case of the short wavelength sensitive cones (UV and blue). The mid and long wavelength sensitive photoreceptors instead (red/green double cones and rods) are damaged within a much smaller area and the size of their ventral lesion is four-fold larger than of their dorsal lesion ([Fig. 3B, G](#pone-0080483-g003){ref-type="fig"}). 10.1371/journal.pone.0080483.t004 ###### Average dorsal-ventral photoreceptor lesion extents ± SEM in percent of half retina length. {#pone-0080483-t004-4} focused light lesion diffuse light lesion ------------------------ ---------------------- ---------------------- ------------ ------------ UV cones 27.94±2.32 28.16±3.19 91.47±1.11 47.13±1.11 blue cones 7.75±0.73 13.23±1.52 43.76±1.10 22.30±0.74 red/green double cones 2.58±0.50 8.72±1.22 3.95±0.58 16.49±0.66 rods 5.90±2.18 19.95±2.04 5.94±1.26 19.63±1.20 In conclusion, we can describe two lesion zones as summarized in [Figure 4:](#pone-0080483-g004){ref-type="fig"} Zone 1 is characterized by loss of all photoreceptor subtypes and located centrally. Zone 2 is depleted of the short wavelength light sensitive blue and UV cones only and encloses zone 1. After diffuse light lesions, zone 1 is located along the midline of the retina within a horizontal band that comprises around 17% of the retinal area ([Fig. 4B](#pone-0080483-g004){ref-type="fig"}). Zone 2 extends over about 50% of the total retina area and more than two third (73%) of it locate in the dorsal half in diffuse light lesion. In focused light lesions, both zones are round and located close to the centre of the retina ([Fig. 4A](#pone-0080483-g004){ref-type="fig"}). Similar to diffuse light lesions, the small central zone 1 comprising 7.5% of retina area is enclosed by a bigger zone 2 extending over 14% of retina area. {#pone-0080483-g004} In both paradigms, the ventral retina is largely spared of damage in agreement with previous studies [@pone.0080483-Bernardos1], [@pone.0080483-Thomas1]. The susceptibility of different photoreceptor subtypes correlates with their specificity of wavelength sensitivity, indicating that the UV emitting light source is a possible reason for the strong effect of diffuse light lesions onto UV and blue cones. Moreover, the morphology of photoreceptors and their state of contraction in the light adapted retina [@pone.0080483-Hodel1] as well as their contact to neighbouring RPE cells might influence the susceptibility of the different photoreceptor subtypes. In previous work on diffuse light lesions, cell loss per 300 µm retina length was determined by counting cell bodies in transversal sections containing the optic nerve [@pone.0080483-Thomas1]. In contrast to our results, the percentage of cell loss was higher for rods than for cones and more cells were lost in the dorsal half than in the ventral half of the retina. To compare our results about regional specificity of lesions and the photoreceptor subtype specific susceptibility received in normally pigmented fish with the above mentioned data published in albino fish, we quantified absolute cell numbers ([Table 5](#pone-0080483-t005){ref-type="table"}) in the same manner as described by Thomas et al. However, to label rod and cones, we did not perform immunohistochemical stainings but *in situ* hybridization as the published antibodies are not commercially available. The optic nerve head locates in the ventral half of our sections and does not divide the section in two equal halves. In the following, we will refer to the counting area dorsal of the optic nerve head as dorsal counting area although it is not completely within the mathematically determined dorsal half of the retina. Analogous, the area ventral from the optic nerve head is referred to as ventral counting area and it should be pointed out that this area is more peripheral than the dorsal counting area. In summary, we observed a 31.4% reduction in number of rod cell bodies in the dorsal, but none in the ventral counting area. In the case of UV cones we find a 98% reduction of cell bodies on the dorsal, but only 4% on the ventral counting area, consistent with our findings in lesion patterns where zone 2 locates primarily dorsal. Within the limited counting areas, the percentage of cell loss in UV cones predominates over rods, although the absolute loss of cells is higher in rods (on average 72 rods vs. 43 UV cones) due to the different densities of the photoreceptor subtypes. Taken together we can conclude that in our model at least UV cones are indeed more sensitive to light damage than rods. In this context it is also important to point out that the number of rod cell bodies in the untreated albino retina already seems to be reduced by roughly 50--70% compared to our untreated WT AB retina, whereas the UV cone density is similar in the two different samples (i.e. in the dorsal counting area; rods: 81.4±1.9 (albino) vs. 230.5±21.1 (WT AB); UV cones: 45.6±2.3 (albino) vs. 43.6±2.3 (WT AB)). The main difference between the two models is the use of differently pigmented fish strains for experiments. The albino fish lack melanin granules in the Retinal Pigment Epithelium (RPE) and are therefore not light protected as discussed above. 10.1371/journal.pone.0080483.t005 ###### Average number of photoreceptor cell bodies per 300 µm retina length ± SEM after light lesion and respective P-value for control vs. 3dpl comparisons. {#pone-0080483-t005-5} control 3 dpl P-value ------------------- ------------ ----------- ---------- Rods, Dorsal 230.5±21.1 158.1±8.5 0.0161 Rods, Ventral 152.4±9,5 159.5±5.4 0.5568 UV cones, Dorsal 43.6±2.3 0.4±0.4 4.59E-09 UV cones, Ventral 49.8±1.7 48.2±1.5 0.5029 In summary, focused light lesion depletes photoreceptors both in central and in peripheral regions of the retina. Diffuse light lesion depletes photoreceptors only in a central area, which is however larger than after focused light lesion. Within each light lesion, two lesion zones are determined by ablation or at least reduction of all photoreceptor subtypes (zone 1) or only blue- and UV-sensitive cones (zone 2) corresponding to the different wavelength sensitivity of photoreceptors (summarized in [Fig. 4](#pone-0080483-g004){ref-type="fig"}). Optical properties of the fish eye lead to a distinct focused light lesion pattern {#s3c} ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To explain the lesion induced by the focused light lesion, we developed an optical model to simulate the course of light beams within the eye. Light enters the eye through the cornea and

n Let z be 18/24*430/(-15)*-2. Suppose 5*y - 28 = -z. Let v(i) = 11*i + 5. Let t(u) be the second derivative of u**3 + 3*u**2/2 - 2*u. Give y*v(w) + 5*t(w). -3*w Let y(u) = 122*u**3 + 7*u**2 + 10*u - 53. Let s(n) = 63*n**3 + 4*n**2 + 6*n - 28. What is 7*s(q) - 4*y(q)? -47*q**3 + 2*q + 16 Let d(b) = -b. Let v(p) be the third derivative of 1/60*p**5 + 81*p**2 + 0*p**3 - 1/6*p**4 + 0*p + 0. Determine -2*d(c) + v(c). c**2 - 2*c Let y(k) = -9*k**3 + 7*k**2 - 20*k + 7. Let u(f) = 6*f**3 - 5*f**2 + 13*f - 5. Give -7*u(w) - 5*y(w). 3*w**3 + 9*w Let i(s) = -3*s**3 - 4*s**2 + s - 5. Let n(p) be the first derivative of -p**4/2 - 2*p**3/3 - 3*p + 5199. What is 3*i(x) - 5*n(x)? x**3 - 2*x**2 + 3*x Let w(l) = l**2 + 3*l + 13. Let d = 3950 - 3943. Let h(p) = -p**2 - 4*p - 19. Determine d*w(c) + 5*h(c). 2*c**2 + c - 4 Suppose -4*n - 3*t + 30 = 29, -48 = -3*n + 3*t. Let b(q) = -q - 29. Let k(m) = m + 43. What is n*b(w) + 5*k(w)? -2*w + 12 Let j(w) = -2*w**2 + 17*w + 197. Let d be j(15). Let c(b) = 6*b - 12. Let s(f) = -f + 1. Calculate d*c(t) + 22*s(t). -10*t - 2 Let r(m) = 23*m - 30. Let a(n) = -8*n + 1. Give -6*a(p) - 2*r(p). 2*p + 54 Let f(v) = 2*v - 4. Let w = -59 - -56. Let q(t) = -t. Suppose 2*r + 3 - 35 = 0. Suppose r = 2*n + 2*n + 4*h, 4*n = 5*h - 29. What is n*f(g) + w*q(g)? g + 4 Let f(w) = w**2 + w. Let x(g) = -202873*g + 2 + 4*g**2 + 0 + 202875*g. Calculate 2*f(t) - x(t). -2*t**2 - 2 Let f(b) = -2*b**3 + 244*b**2 + 16*b - 1. Let m(l) = -l**3 + l**2 - 14*l + 1. Give -f(n) - m(n). 3*n**3 - 245*n**2 - 2*n Suppose 4*j - 385*b + 6 = -387*b, 15 = 5*j - 2*b. Let p(m) = 3*m**3 - 5*m**2 - 2*m + 3. Let r(a) = -a**2 - a + 1. What is j*p(q) - 3*r(q)? 3*q**3 - 2*q**2 + q Let j be -1*(-3 - -2) - 25. Let u = j - -26. Let g(r) = -26 - 3*r**3 - r**3 + 24 - 2*r**u. Let y(c) = -4*c**3 - 3*c**2 - 3. Calculate -3*g(a) + 2*y(a). 4*a**3 Let z(m) = m**3 + 2*m**2 - 2*m - 2. Let c be z(-3). Let u be (9/2 - 3)*((-336)/36 + 12). Let n(a) = -2*a - 5. Let j(q) = -2*q - 6. What is c*n(d) + u*j(d)? 2*d + 1 Let m(q) = 1. Let z(l) = -4*l - 12. Let n = 424 - 387. Suppose -7*k = -n + 23. Calculate k*z(p) + 24*m(p). -8*p Let h(l) = l + 2. Let o be (-34)/(-14) + (36/(-14))/6. Let p be o - (-1 + 2)*-6*-1. Let q(f) = -5*f - 9. What is p*q(v) - 18*h(v)? 2*v Let w(c) = 10*c. Let l(o) = 81*o - 5399. Determine l(a) - 8*w(a). a - 5399 Let r(u) = u**2 + u + 3. Suppose 31*h - 299 = 18*h. Suppose 5*g = h - 63. Let v(j) = -2*j**2 - 2*j - 5. Determine g*r(k) - 5*v(k). 2*k**2 + 2*k + 1 Let n(q) = 184*q - 476. Let r(c) = 104*c - 237. What is 5*n(x) - 9*r(x)? -16*x - 247 Let z(i) = 226*i**2 + 30*i - 30. Let s(d) = 45*d**2 + 6*d - 6. Let q(l) = 11*s(l) - 2*z(l). Let j(c) = -c + 1. Calculate -6*j(h) - q(h). -43*h**2 Let z(j) = -2*j**3 - 35*j**2 - 98*j - 2. Let g be z(-14). Let c(a) = -5*a - 7. Let k(w) = -2. What is g*c(r) + 6*k(r)? 10*r + 2 Let q(r) = -5145*r**2 + 34*r + 51. Let f(t) = -643*t**2 + 4*t + 6. Determine 51*f(c) - 6*q(c). -1923*c**2 Let h(d) = -d + 8. Let k(t) = 19*t + 21. Let v(j) = 8*j + 10. Let p(g) = -3*k(g) + 7*v(g). Give 4*h(c) - 3*p(c). -c + 11 Let v(g) = -g**3 + g + 1. Suppose 10*y - 4*a - 14 = 12*y, 5*a + 16 = -y. Let d(s) = 7*s**3 - 4*s - 4. Calculate y*d(z) - 4*v(z). -3*z**3 Let b(i) = -8*i**2 - 5035*i - 154. Let s(n) = -3*n**2 - 1678*n - 56. Calculate -4*b(x) + 11*s(x). -x**2 + 1682*x Let g(r) = 12*r**2 + 309*r + 18. Let n(k) = -12*k**2 - 309*k - 24. Calculate -4*g(a) - 3*n(a). -12*a**2 - 309*a Let s(j) = -j**2 + j - 1. Let q(x) = 32*x**2 + 2*x - 3. Suppose 0 = 74*i - 55*i - 38. Calculate i*s(z) - q(z). -34*z**2 + 1 Let v(o) = 18*o**3 - 13*o**2

\exp{ \Big[ \frac{im}{2\hbar}\frac{(x_3 - x_3^{\prime})^{2}}{\tau}\Big]}. \label{Eq14}$$ In order to use Schwinger’s method to compute the two-dimensional propagator $K_{\bot}({\bf r},{\bf r}^{\prime};\tau) = \langle{\bf r},\tau|{\bf r}^{\prime},0\rangle$, we start by writing the differential equation $$\label{EqDiferencialPropagador2D} i\hbar\frac{\partial}{\partial\tau} \langle{\bf r},\tau|{\bf r}^{\prime},0\rangle = \langle {\bf r},\tau|\mathcal{H}_{\bot}({\bf R}_\bot(0), \mbox{\mathversion{bold}${\pi}$}_\bot(0) )| {\bf r}^{\prime},0\rangle\ ,$$ where ${\bf R}_\bot(\tau) = X_{1}(\tau){\bf e_1} + X_{2}(\tau){\bf e_2}$ and $\mbox{\mathversion{bold}${\pi}$}_\bot(\tau) = \pi_{1}(\tau){\bf e_1} + \pi_{2}(\tau){\bf e_2}$. In (\[EqDiferencialPropagador2D\]) $|{\bf r},\tau\rangle$ and $|{\bf r}^{\prime},0\rangle$ are the eigenvectors of position operators ${\bf R}(\tau)=X_{1}(\tau){\bf e_1} + X_{2}(\tau){\bf e_2}$ and ${\bf R}(0)=X_{1}(0){\bf e_1} + X_{2}(0){\bf e_2}$, respectively. More especifically, operators $X_{1}(0)$, $X_{1}(\tau)$, $X_{2}(0)$ and $X_{2}(\tau)$ have the eigenvalues $x_{1}^{\prime}$, $x_{1}$, $x_{2}^{\prime}$ and $x_{2}$, respectively. In order to solve the Heisenberg equations for operators ${\bf R}_\bot(\tau)$ and $\mbox{\mathversion{bold}${\pi}$}_\bot(\tau)$, we need the commutators $$\begin{aligned} \label{ComutadorXcomPi2} \Big[X_{i}(\tau) , \pi_{j}^{2}(\tau) \Big] &=& 2i\hbar \pi_{i}(\tau)\, ,\cr \Big[\pi_{i}(\tau) , \pi_{j}^{2}(\tau)\Big] &=& 2i\hbar eB\epsilon_{ij3}\pi_{j}(\tau), \label{ComutadorPicomPi}\end{aligned}$$ where $\epsilon_{ij3}$ is the usual Levi-Civita symbol. Introducing the matrix notation $${\bf R}(\tau)=\left( \begin{array}{c} X_{1}(\tau) \\ X_{2}(\tau) \end{array} \right) \hspace{0.25cm};\hspace{0.25cm} \mbox{\mathversion{bold}${\Pi}$}(\tau)=\left( \begin{array}{c} \pi_{1}(\tau) \\ \pi_{2}(\tau) \end{array} \right) \label{Eq20}\ ,$$ and using the previous commutators the Heisenberg equations of motion can be cast into the form $$\begin{aligned} \label{EquacaoR} \frac{d{\bf R}(\tau)}{d\tau}&=&\frac{\mbox{\mathversion{bold}${\Pi}$}(\tau)}{m}\ , \\ \frac{d\mbox{\mathversion{bold}${\Pi}$}(\tau)}{d\tau} &=& 2\omega \mathbb{C} \mbox{\mathversion{bold}${\Pi}$}(\tau) \,, \label{EquacaoPi}\end{aligned}$$ where $2\omega={eB}/{m}$ is the cyclotron frequency and we defined the anti-diagonal matrix $$\mathbb{C}=\left( \begin{array}{cc} 0 & 1 \\ -1 & 0 \end{array} \right) \label{Eq21}\ .$$ Integrating equation (\[EquacaoPi\]) we find $$\begin{aligned} \mbox{\mathversion{bold}${\Pi}$}(\tau) &=& e^{2\omega\mathbb{C}\tau}\mbox{\mathversion{bold}${\Pi}$}(0) \label{Eq23}\ .\end{aligned}$$ Substituting this solution in equation (\[EquacaoR\]) and integrating once more, we get $$\begin{aligned} \label{Eq22} \textbf{R}(\tau)-\textbf{R}(0)&=&\frac{\sin{(\omega\tau)}}{m\omega} e^{\omega\mathbb{C}\tau}\mbox{\mathversion{bold}${\Pi}$}(0) \ ,\end{aligned}$$ where we used the following properties of $\mathbb{C}$ matrix: $\mathbb{C}^{2}\!=\!-\uma$; $\mathbb{C}^{-1}\!=\!-\mathbb{C}=\mathbb{C}^{T}$, $e^{\alpha\mathbb{C}} = \cos{(\alpha)}\uma + \sin{(\alpha)}\mathbb{C}$ with $\mathbb{C}^{T}$ being the transpose of $\mathbb{C}$. Combining equations (\[Eq22\]) and (\[Eq23\]) we can write $\mbox{\mathversion{bold}${\Pi}$}(0)$ in terms of the operators ${\bf R}(\tau)$ and ${\bf R}(0)$ as $$\label{Eq24} \mbox{\mathversion{bold}${\Pi}$}(0)=\frac{m\omega}{\sin{(\omega\tau)}} e^{-\omega\mathbb{C}\tau}\biggl({\bf R}(\tau)-{\bf R}(0)\biggr).$$ In order to express $\mathcal{H}_\bot = (\pi_1^2 + \pi_2^2)/2m$ in terms of $\textbf{R}(\tau)$ and $\textbf{R}(0)$, we use (\[Eq24\]). In matrix notation, we have $$\begin{aligned} \mathcal{H}_{\bot}&=&\frac{1}{2m}\,\mbox{\mathversion{bold}${\Pi}$}^{T}(0)\mbox{\mathversion{bold}${\Pi}$}(0)\nonumber\\ &=&\frac{m\omega^2}{2\sin^2{(\omega\tau)}}\biggl({\bf R}^{T}(\tau){\bf R}(\tau)+{\bf R}^{T}(0){\bf R}(0)+\nonumber\\ &\ &\hspace{1.5cm}-{\bf R}^{T}(\tau){\bf R}(0)-{\bf R}^{T}(0){\bf R}(\tau)\biggr)\ . \label{Hnaoordenado}\end{aligned}$$ Last term on the r.h.s. of (\[Hnaoordenado\]) is not ordered appropriately as required in the step ([**ii**]{}). The correct ordering may be obtained as follows: first, we write $$\textbf{R}(0)^{T} \textbf{R}(\tau) = \textbf{R}(\tau)^{T}\textbf{R}(0) + \sum_{i=1}^{2}[X_{i}(0) , X_{i}(\tau)]\, .$$ Using equation (\[Eq22\]), the usual commutator $[X_{i}(0),{\pi}_j(0)]=i\hbar\delta_{ij}\uma$ and the properties of matrix $\mathbb{C}$ it is easy to show that $$\label{Eq25} \sum_{i=1}^{2}[X_{i}(0) , X_{i}(\tau)] = \frac{2i\hbar\sin(\omega\tau)\cos(\omega\tau)}{m\omega}\, ,$$ so that hamiltonian $\mathcal{H}_{\bot}$ with the appropriate time ordering takes the form $$\begin{aligned} \mathcal{H}_\perp&=&\frac{m\omega^2}{2\sin^2{(\omega\tau)}} \biggl\{{\bf R}^{2}(\tau)+{\bf R}^{2}(0)-2{\bf R}^{T}(\tau){\bf R}(0)\biggr\} \, \nonumber \\ &-& i \hbar \omega\cot(\omega\tau). \label{Eq27}\end{aligned}$$ Substituting this hamiltonian into equation (\[EqDiferencialPropagador2D\]) and integrating in $\tau$, we obtain $$\label{ProtoPropagador} \langle{\bf r},\tau\vert{\bf r}^{\prime},0\rangle = \frac{C({\bf r},{\bf r}^{\prime})}{\sin{(\omega\tau)}} \exp\biggl\{{\frac{im\omega}{ 2\hbar}}\cot(\omega\tau)({\bf r}-{\bf r}^{\prime})^2\biggr\} ,$$ where $C({\bf r},{\bf r}^{\;\prime})$ is an integration constant to be determined by conditions (\[CondicaoP(tau)\]), (\[CondicaoP(0)\]) and (\[CondicaoInicial\]), which for the case of hand read $$\begin{aligned} \langle{\bf r},\tau\vert\pi_j(\tau)\vert{\bf r}^{\prime},0\rangle \!\!&=&\!\! \left(-i\hbar\frac{\partial}{\partial x

mu); struct kgsl_iommu *iommu = _IOMMU_PRIV(mmu); struct kgsl_iommu_context *ctx = &iommu->ctx[KGSL_IOMMU_CONTEXT_USER]; int status; mmu->features |= KGSL_MMU_PAGED; if (ctx->name == NULL) { KGSL_CORE_ERR("dt: gfx3d0_user context bank not found\n"); return -EINVAL; } status = _setstate_alloc(device, iommu); if (status) return status; /* check requirements for per process pagetables */ if (ctx->gpu_offset == UINT_MAX) { KGSL_CORE_ERR("missing qcom,gpu-offset forces global pt\n"); mmu->features |= KGSL_MMU_GLOBAL_PAGETABLE; } if (iommu->version == 1 && iommu->micro_mmu_ctrl == UINT_MAX) { KGSL_CORE_ERR( "missing qcom,micro-mmu-control forces global pt\n"); mmu->features |= KGSL_MMU_GLOBAL_PAGETABLE; } /* Check to see if we need to do the IOMMU sync dance */ need_iommu_sync = of_property_read_bool(device->pdev->dev.of_node, "qcom,gpu-quirk-iommu-sync"); iommu->regbase = ioremap(iommu->regstart, iommu->regsize); if (iommu->regbase == NULL) { KGSL_CORE_ERR("Could not map IOMMU registers 0x%lx:0x%x\n", iommu->regstart, iommu->regsize); status = -ENOMEM; goto done; } if (addr_entry_cache == NULL) { addr_entry_cache = KMEM_CACHE(kgsl_iommu_addr_entry, 0); if (addr_entry_cache == NULL) { status = -ENOMEM; goto done; } } kgsl_iommu_add_global(mmu, &iommu->setstate, "setstate"); kgsl_setup_qdss_desc(device); kgsl_setup_qtimer_desc(device); if (!mmu->secured || MMU_FEATURE(mmu, KGSL_MMU_PT_EARLY_ALLOC)) goto done; mmu->securepagetable = kgsl_mmu_getpagetable(mmu, KGSL_MMU_SECURE_PT); if (IS_ERR(mmu->securepagetable)) { status = PTR_ERR(mmu->securepagetable); mmu->securepagetable = NULL; } else if (mmu->securepagetable == NULL) { status = -ENOMEM; } done: if (status) kgsl_iommu_close(mmu); return status; } static int _setup_user_context(struct kgsl_mmu *mmu) { int ret = 0; struct kgsl_iommu *iommu = _IOMMU_PRIV(mmu); struct kgsl_iommu_context *ctx = &iommu->ctx[KGSL_IOMMU_CONTEXT_USER]; struct kgsl_device *device = KGSL_MMU_DEVICE(mmu); struct adreno_device *adreno_dev = ADRENO_DEVICE(device); struct kgsl_iommu_pt *iommu_pt = NULL; unsigned int sctlr_val; if (mmu->defaultpagetable == NULL) { mmu->defaultpagetable = kgsl_mmu_getpagetable(mmu, KGSL_MMU_GLOBAL_PT); /* if we don't have a default pagetable, nothing will work */ if (IS_ERR(mmu->defaultpagetable)) { ret = PTR_ERR(mmu->defaultpagetable); mmu->defaultpagetable = NULL; return ret; } else if (mmu->defaultpagetable == NULL) { return -ENOMEM; } } iommu_pt = mmu->defaultpagetable->priv; if (iommu_pt == NULL) return -ENODEV; ret = _attach_pt(iommu_pt, ctx); if (ret) return ret; ctx->default_pt = mmu->defaultpagetable; kgsl_iommu_enable_clk(mmu); sctlr_val = KGSL_IOMMU_GET_CTX_REG(ctx, SCTLR); /* * If pagefault policy is GPUHALT_ENABLE, * 1) Program CFCFG to 1 to enable STALL mode * 2) Program HUPCF to 0 (Stall or terminate subsequent * transactions in the presence of an outstanding fault) * else * 1) Program CFCFG to 0 to disable STALL mode (0=Terminate) * 2) Program HUPCF to 1 (Process subsequent transactions * independently of any outstanding fault) */ if (test_bit(KGSL_FT_PAGEFAULT_GPUHALT_ENABLE, &adreno_dev->ft_pf_policy)) { sctlr_val |= (0x1 << KGSL_IOMMU_SCTLR_CFCFG_SHIFT); sctlr_val &= ~(0x1 << KGSL_IOMMU_SCTLR_HUPCF_SHIFT); } else { sctlr_val &= ~(0x1 << KGSL_IOMMU_SCTLR_CFCFG_SHIFT); sctlr_val |= (0x1 << KGSL_IOMMU_SCTLR_HUPCF_SHIFT); } KGSL_IOMMU_SET_CTX_REG(ctx, SCTLR, sctlr_val); kgsl_iommu_disable_clk(mmu); return 0; } static int _setup_secure_context(struct kgsl_mmu *mmu) { int ret; struct kgsl_iommu *iommu = _IOMMU_PRIV(mmu); struct kgsl_iommu_context *ctx = &iommu->ctx[KGSL_IOMMU_CONTEXT_SECURE]; unsigned int cb_num; struct kgsl_iommu_pt *iommu_pt; if (ctx->dev == NULL || !mmu->secured) return 0; if (MMU_FEATURE(mmu, KGSL_MMU_PT_EARLY_ALLOC)) { mmu->securepagetable = kgsl_mmu_getpagetable(mmu, KGSL_MMU_SECURE_PT); if (IS_ERR(mmu->securepagetable)) { ret = PTR_ERR(mmu->securepagetable); mmu->securepagetable = NULL; } } if (mmu->securepagetable == NULL) return -ENOMEM; iommu_pt = mmu->securepagetable->priv; ret = _attach_pt(iommu_pt, ctx); if (ret) goto done; ctx->default_pt = mmu->securepagetable; ret = iommu_domain_get_attr(iommu_pt->domain, DOMAIN_ATTR_CONTEXT_BANK, &cb_num); if (ret) { KGSL_CORE_ERR("get CONTEXT_BANK attr, err %d\n", ret); goto done; } ctx->cb_num = cb_num; done: if (ret) _detach_context(ctx); return ret; } static int kgsl_iommu_set_pt(struct kgsl_mmu *mmu, struct kgsl_pagetable *pt); static int kgsl_iommu_start(struct kgsl_mmu *mmu) { int status; struct kgsl_iommu *iommu = _IOMMU_PRIV(mmu); status = _setup_user_context(mmu); if

] Harmony being excited upon our Perception of some primary Quality, and having relation to Figure and Time, may indeed have a nearer resemblance to Objects, than these Sensations, ∥80which∥ seem not so much any Pictures of Objects, as Modifications of the perceiving Mind; and yet were there no Mind with a Sense of Beauty to contemplate Objects, I see not how they could be call’d beautiful. We therefore by* Absolute Beauty understand only that Beauty, which we perceive in Objects without comparison to any thing external, of which the Object is suppos’d an Imitation, or Picture; such as that Beauty perceiv’d from the Works of Nature, artificial Forms, Figures∥82, Theorems∥. Comparative or Relative Beauty is that which we perceive in Objects, commonly considered as Imitations or Resemblances of something else. These two Kinds of Beauty employ the three following Sections. Edition: 1726; Page: [16] Edition: current; Page: [28] SECTION II: Of Original or Absolute Beauty. Sense of Men.I. Since it is certain that we have Ideas of Beauty and Harmony, let us examine what Quality in Objects excites these Ideas, or is the occasion of them. And let it be here observ’d, that our Inquiry is only about the Qualitys ∥1which∥ are beautiful to Men; or about the Foundation of their Sense of Beauty: for, as was above hinted, Beauty has always relation to the Sense of some Mind; and when we afterwards shew how generally the Objects ∥2which∥ occur to us, are beautiful, we mean ∥3that such Objects are∥ agreeable to the Sense of Men: ∥4for as there are not a few∥ Objects, which seem no way beautiful to Men, ∥5so we see a variety of∥ other Animals ∥6who∥ seem delighted with them; they may have Senses otherwise constituted than those of Men, and may have the Ideas of Beauty excited by Objects of a quite different Form. We see Animals fitted for every Place; and what to Men appears rude and shapeless, or loathsom, may be to them a Paradise. II. That we may more distinctly discover the general Foundation or Occasion of Edition: 1726; Page: [17] the Ideas of Beauty among Men, it will be necessary to consider it first in its simpler Kinds, such as occurs to us in regular Figures; and we may perhaps find that the same Foundation extends to all the more complex Species of it. Uniformity with Variety.III. The Figures ∥7which∥ excite in us the Ideas of Beauty, seem to be those in which there is Uniformity amidst Variety. There are many Conceptions of Objects ∥8which∥ are agreeable upon other accounts, such Edition: current; Page: [29] as Grandeur, Novelty, Sanctity, and some others, ∥9which shall be mention’d hereafter.*∥ But what we call Beautiful in Objects, to speak in the Mathematical Style, seems to be in a compound Ratio of Uniformity and Variety: so that where the Uniformity of Bodys is equal, the Beauty is as the Variety; and where the Variety is equal, the Beauty is as the Uniformity. This ∥10will be plain from Examples.∥ Variety.First, the Variety increases the Beauty in equal Uniformity. The Beauty of an equilateral Triangle is less than that of the Square; which is less than that of a Pentagon; and this again is surpass’d by the Hexagon. When indeed the Number of Sides is much increas’d, the Proportion of them to the Radius, or Diameter of the Edition: 1726; Page: [18] Figure, ∥11or of the Circle to which regular Polygons have an obvious Relation,∥ is so much lost to our Observation, that the Beauty does not always increase with the Number of Sides; and the want of Parallelism in the Sides of Heptagons, and other Figures of odd Numbers, may also diminish their Beauty. So in Solids, the Eicosiedron surpasses the Dodecaedron, and this the Octaedron, which is still more beautiful than the Cube; and this again surpasses the regular Pyramid: The obvious Ground of this, is greater Variety with equal Uniformity. Uniformity.The greater Uniformity increases the Beauty amidst equal Variety, in these Instances: An Equilateral Triangle, or even an Isosceles, surpasses the Scalenum: A Square surpasses the Rhombus or Lozenge, and this again the Rhomboides, ∥12which is∥ still more beautiful than the Trapezium, or any Figure with irregular curve Sides. So the regular Solids ∥13vastly∥ surpass all other Solids of equal number of plain Surfaces: And the same is observable not only in the Five perfectly regular Solids, but in all those which have any considerable Uniformity, as Cylinders, Prisms, Pyramids, Obelisks; which please every Eye more than any rude Figures, where there is no Unity or Resemblance among the Parts. Edition: 1726; Page: [19] Compound Ratio.Instances of the compound Ratio we have in comparing Circles or Spheres, with Ellipses or Spheroids not very eccentric; and in comparing the compound Solids, the Exoctaedron, and Eicosidodecaedron, with the perfectly regular ones of which they are compounded: and we shall Edition: current; Page: [30] find, that the Want of that most perfect Uniformity observable in the latter, is compensated by the greater Variety in the ∥14others∥, so that the Beauty is nearly equal. IV. These Observations would probably hold true for the most part, and might be confirm’d by the Judgment of Children in the simpler Figures, where the Variety is not too great for their Comprehension. And however uncertain some of the particular aforesaid Instances may seem, yet this is perpetually to be observ’d, that Children are fond of all regular Figures in their little Diversions, altho they be no more convenient, or useful for them, than the Figures of our common Pebbles: We see how early they discover a Taste or Sense of Beauty, in desiring to see Buildings, regular Gardens, or even Representations of them in Pictures of any kind. Beauty of Nature.V. ∥15It is∥ the same foundation ∥16which∥ we have for our Sense of Beauty in the Works of Nature. In every Part of the World Edition: 1726; Page: [20] which we call Beautiful, there is a ∥17vast∥ Uniformity amidst ∥18an∥ almost infinite Variety. Many Parts of the Universe seem not at all design’d for the use of Man; nay, it is but a very small Spot with which we have any acquaintance. The Figures and Motions of the great Bodys are not obvious to our Senses, but found out by Reasoning and Reflection, upon many long Observations: and yet as far as we can by Sense discover, or by Reasoning enlarge our Knowledge, and extend our Imagination, we generally find ∥19their Structure, Order∥, and Motion, agreeable to our Sense of Beauty. Every particular Object in Nature does not indeed appear beautiful to us; but there is a ∥20vast∥ Profusion of Beauty over most of the Objects which occur either to our Senses, or Reasonings upon Observation: For not to mention the apparent Situation of the heavenly Bodys in the Circumference of a great Sphere, which is wholly occasion’d by the Imperfection of our Sight in discerning distances; the Forms of all the great Bodys in the Universe are nearly Spherical; the Orbits of their Revolutions generally Elliptick, and without great Eccentricity, in those which continually occur to our Observation: ∥21now∥ these are Figures of great Uniformity, and therefore pleasing to us. Edition: 1726; Page: [21] 22Further, to pass by the less obvious Uniformity in the Proportion Edition: current; Page: [31] of their Quantitys of Matter, Distances, Times of revolving, to each other; what can exhibit a greater Instance of Uniformity amidst Variety, than the constant Tenour of Revolutions in nearly equal Times, in each Planet, around its Axis, and the central Fire or Sun, thro all the Ages of which we have any Records, and in nearly the same Orbit? ∥23by which∥, after certain Periods, all the same Appearances are again renew’d; the alternate Successions of Light and Shade, or Day and Night, constantly pursuing each other around each Planet, with an agreeable and regular Diversity in the Times they possess the ∥24several∥ Hemispheres, in the Summer, Harvest, Winter and Spring; and the various Phases, Aspects, and Situations, of the Planets to each other, their Conjunctions and Oppositions, in which they suddenly darken each other with their Conick Shades in Eclipses, are repeated to us at their fixed Periods with invariable Constancy: These are the Beautys

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As actresses join modeling about getting noticed. There are many television actresses who were once State, and National level beauty queens turned into acting to gain name and fame across the globe. Most beauty pageant participants landed up in the glamorous TV industry. So here is the list of ten televisions diva’s who were once glam queen in beauty pageant contest. Look onto the list below- Famous TV serial Kuch Rang Pyar Ke Aise Bhi fame Erica Fernandez aka Dr. Sonakshi Bose from the soap opera also started off by participating in beauty pageant contest. Erica took part in the beauty contest, Miss India 2012, and she finished the contest by entering into top 10. Beautiful TV actress Aishwarya Sakhuja rose to fame for her role as Toasty in the daily soap opera Saas Bina Sasural. Aishwarya too is a model turned actress who participated in the Miss India beauty contest for the year 2006. She stood one of the finalists in the beauty pageant Miss India contest. After shining in the beauty contest Aishwarya entered in the TV industry. Currently, she is seen in the TV show Trideviyaan. Mihika Verma is a noted face on Indian television. She was part of few popular Hindi serials which includes Yeh Hai Mohabbatein, Kis Desh Mein Hai Mera Dil, and Kitni Mohabbat Hai. Before shining in TV screen, Mihika won the beauty pageant title Miss India International Title in the year 2004. Popular actress Nikita Dutta also shined in a beauty contest by being one of the top finalists in the Femina Miss India 2012. Nikita also worked in one Bollywood film Lekar Him Deewana Dil. She also appeared in two daily soaps Dreamgirl and Ek Duje Ke Vaaste. Most popular face on Indian television is Divyanka Tripathi. Before entering into TV industry, Divyanka too participated and also won the state level beauty contest Miss Bhopal. Her beauty, impeccable acting skills, and charming persona made her fans favorite. She gained immense of popularity for the roles she played on screen be it Ishita or Vidya. Daljeet Kaur Daljeet Kaur participated in a numerous beauty pageant contest including Miss Pune, Miss Mumbai, and Miss Navy. She won the title of Miss Pune. She appeared in many television shows like Iss Pyar Ko Kya Naam Doon, Kulvadhu, Kala Tikka and Swaragini. Bubbly actress Asha Negi also holds the state title of Miss Uttarakhand in the year 2009. She rose to fame for her role Purvi in the popular TV soap opera Pavitra Rishta. She has a cult of fan following who falls for her cuteness and personality. Ashima Sood Before making her TV debut, Asmita Sood too was a prominent finalist contestant in the beauty contest Miss India 2011. She entered into TV industry with the show Batameez Dil. She even worked in few Telugu films. Reshmi Ghosh has been part of many soap operas like Sasural Simar Ka, Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, Kayamath, Meri Awaaz Hi Pehchan Hai and much more. Before making her screen presence, she won the title of Miss India Earth in the year 2002. Gauri Pradhan Former TV actress Gauri Pradhan rose to fame with her TV serials Kutumb and Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi. Gauri also participated in the beauty pageant contest Miss India in the year 1998 before making into TV industry.Dogpile on the Herbie! Dogpile on the Herbie! Sure, otherpeoplehavementioned it, but I've been waiting for this for so long that I can't let it pass without bringing it up here, too (Plus, maybe if I type about it enough, Dark Horse will comp me? Please?). And while I'd prefer a nice, thick, affordable black and white collection, at this point, I'll take what I can get. Now where's my Showcase Presents Sugar & Spike, DC? You have no longer have any excuse.Marcella Scarlett, Business Reporter No one is denying that the possibility that vehicles with water damage or exposed to radiation can enter the Jamaican market from Japan and end up in people's garages, but they all insist the likelihood is slim despite the absence of any mechanism to police it. Several websites of Japanese dealers, some of which are used by Jamaican used-car dealers, have damaged cars on display, with a note in fine print at the bottom of the vehicle stating "this car was exposed to radiation" or "water damaged". These cars are selling for as low as JPY750, which translates to J$817 based on currency rates published by Bank of Jamaica. Some of the vehicles are also being auctioned and can be bought for similar low prices. Both the new and used-car dealers say they have no dealings with such cars, but they acknowledge that neither the border control division of Customs nor the Trade Board which issues import permits for vehicles has a mechanism to check whether a car is contaminated with radiation. Banking on dealer integrity Sunday Business was referred from one agency to another when clarification was sought from state regulators, but not even the chief enviro-watchdog, the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), could proffer an answer as to how such vehicles could be detected. NEPA referred Sunday Business to an official at the Ministry of Health - home of the Environmental Control Division. She was not reached for comment despite several tries. But from the sparse information available, the system set up around car imports appears to be banking on the integrity of dealers. "As it relates to new cars, the manufacturers have guarantees that none of the vehicles could be exported out of Japan," said Kent LaCroix, president of the Automobile Dealers Association. "We are satisfied that the new cars are radiation-free and that they are not water damaged," he said. Lynvalle Hamilton, president of the Jamaica Used Car Dealers Association (JUCDA), gave similar assurances. "It is very unlikely that vehicles will come with radiation," he said. "The cars are checked and screened very carefully before they are loaded on the ships and Trade Board will not give a licence to get a vehicle in from say Fukushima." Fukushima is located in the east of Japan, the site of the nuclear accident that followed the tsunami and earthquake that hit in March 2011. It was said to be the largest nuclear disaster since the Chernobyl meltdown of 1986. Checks with the Trade Board show that the procedure to get an import licence has not been altered to take into consideration the natural disaster that happened last year March in Japan, nor do they discriminate by destination when issuing import licences. "The Trade Board follows key criterion based on the motor vehicle import policy and the key criterion is the age of the vehicle. We don't look at it by way of country (of origin)", said Trade Administrator Douglas Webster. "We are authorised under Section 210 of the Customs Act that a prospective importer should not even make shipping arrangements before the import permit is issued. Trade Board acts on the document," he said. Webster said that if the specific damage could not be ascertained beforehand, and if there is no rider in the document relating to the degree of damage or contamination, then the Trade Board would not know the status of the vehicle. Imported vehicles are inspected on arrival at the port but this is done by customs agents who do visual checks, and would not have the equipment required to detect radiation. "From a legal perspective, the onus is on the manufacturer and the dealer as the agents, to carry out any due diligence," the trade administrator said. "To restrict import from a particular geographic area is quite okay in principle but we have to be careful about anything that would seem to be discriminatory in trade, for example WTO requirements and rules. As an importing jurisdiction, we have to be very cautious," he said. Potential exists Ken Shaw, a past president of JUCDA, says the potential for contaminated vehicles entering Jamaica exists, but suggested that no

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Find out why I think the Manfrotto 3373 is the perfect traveling light stand here: 28/10/2008 - The Manfrotto 3373 : The Perfect Traveling Light Stand With the global airline industry becoming increasingly volatile it is become less shocking to hear of airlines shutting down operations with little to no notice. Iceland's Sterling Airways has been teetering on failure for sometime due to Iceland's financial crisis. This week its finances ran out and the airline was forced to cancel all its flight standing thousands of flyers. To find out more about the airline's closure check here: 29/10/2008 - Iceland's Sterling Airways Shuts Down Stranding Thousands The second part of entries on Lufthansa this week addressed the airline's announcement they would be trimming routes and reducing spending. The reduction of routes and expenses comes with the airline taking a 45% stake in one airline, an 80% stake in another airline, all while trying to take significant stakes in two other European airlines, and setting up Lufthansa Italy SpA. You can find out more about this interesting, and potentially hazardous, business plan in this entry: 29/10/2008 - LH Pt 2 : Lufthansa Trimming Expansion While Taking Over 2 Airlines & Making A Play For 2 More After a week off, the iPhone 'App' Of The Week series returns. This week I discuss the new Google Earth iPhone 'App.' This 'App' is fantastic, and an incredibly useful tool for not only photographers working on the road, but for any traveler on the road. Learn more about Google Earth for the iPhone by clicking here: 30/10/2008 – iPhone 'App' Of The Week : Google Earth It has been a long week of posts on Flying With Fish and I plan to kick off next week with some fun exciting news. I've been working hard to help photographers, and all travelers, on the road, and in one area, these efforts have been recognized by a company I used and support. For those of who get Flying With Fish's updates on Twitter, at www.twitter.com/flyingwithfish , some of this exciting news has already been mentioned........Siv Jensen har sluttet å snakke om «verdens rikeste land» 18. okt. 2014 12:15 Sist oppdatert 18. oktober 2014 Det er flaut. Uvirkelig. Uforståelig. Trist. Vi bor jo i et av «verdens rikeste land». Slike utsagn var svært vanlige for opposisjonspolitikeren Siv Jensen. Men etter at Frp-lederen selv fikk makt over pengebingen, er tilsvarende sitater svært vanskelig å finne. Det er litt over en uke siden det ble lagt frem et statsbudsjett i Norge – et budsjett der man kuttet i barnetillegg til uføre, øker beløpsgrensen for å få frikort hos fastlegen med 80 kroner og gjør det litt vanskeligere å få sykepenger og foreldrepenger. Men ingen sentrale Frp-ere hevet røsten og påpekte at dette skjer i «verdens rikeste land» eller i «ett av verdens rikeste land». Heller ikke da Aftenposten nylig kunne fortelle at kun svært få får en ny dyr kreftmedisin, var det ingen i Siv Jensens parti som påpekte at dette skjer her – i verdens rikeste land. Da Frp satt i opposisjon, ble en tilsvarende nyhet kommentert slik av ham som nå styrer Frps stortingsgruppe på Stortinget, Harald T. Nesvik. – Det er totalt uakseptabelt at verdens rikeste land er en europeisk sinke når det gjelder å tilby de beste kreftmedisinene til sine innbyggere. Les også: Les også Her er Siv Jensens nye moteord Har sluttet å bruke begrepet «Fant ingen resultater som passet med søket «verdens rikeste land.» Det er beskjeden som kommer opp på Frps hjemmeside når man nå foretar et søk for å finne ferske Frp-utsagn der frasen «verdens rikeste land» er blitt brukt. Flere søk på i Stortingets arkiv gir heller ingen funn. For ikke å feilinformere om det skulle ligge en gjemt bisetning i et referat, kan Aftenposten uansett slå fast at det «knapt» finnes uttalelser fra siste år der Siv Jensen eller andre Frp-politikere har brukt begrepet fra Stortingets talerstol eller i skriftlige spørsmål til statsråder. Og da Aftenposten satte medieovervåkerne i Retriver til å gå gjennom riksaviser og lokalaviser over hele landet – både nett og papir – for å sjekke om de overhode fant noen sitater der Siv Jensen det siste året har brukt uttrykket, var beskjeden følgende: — Retriever har gjort grundige søk i det norske mediebildet, og vi finner ikke at Siv Jensen har brukt uttrykket «verdens rikeste land» etter at hun tiltrådte som finansminister , sier kunde- og analysesjef i Retriever, Kristina Nilsen. Sist hørt i valgkampen? Hun opplyser også at deres søk tyder på at Frp-lederen «dempet bruken av begrepet i perioden før hun ble minister». — Vi finner imidlertid en hel del nyhetsoppslag der begrepet kobles til Siv Jensen, så selv om hun selv har sluttet å bruke begrepet, så lever det videre, sier hun. En av årsakene til at begrepet lever videre, er Siv Jensens og andre sentrale Frp-politikeres hyppige bruk av begrepet de åtte årene de rødgrønne styrte landet. Selv om Frps trang til å understreke hvor rike vi er, ser ut til å ha sunket i takt med at Frp nærmet seg regjeringskontorene, brukte partilederen frasen så sent som i september 2013. I en valgutgave av Frps medlemsblad beklager hun at det ikke er bedre eldreomsorg «i verdens rikeste land». Det er det siste funnet Aftenposten har klart å oppspore. Før den tid, er det mangt å finne både fra dagens parlamentariske leder Harald T. Nesvik, Siv Jensen og svært mange andre. «Norge er i en unik posisjon» Aftenposten har forsøkt å få en kommentar fra Siv Jensen om hvorfor hun det siste året ikke har brukt begrepet. I en SMS gir hun følgende svar: «I alle sammenhenger understreker jeg at Norge er i en unik posisjon, og at vi har muligheter til å løse utfordringer i folks hverdag i dag, samtidig som vi kan investere i fremtidens Norge.» SV tar opp arven Frp har uten tvil vært det partiet som oftest har argumentert med hva man burde kunne ha råd til eller hvordan forholdene burde være i «verdens rikeste land». Men før SV gikk inn i regjering i 2005, lurte SV-ere ofte på

get :new, "something[type]" => "TimeOfUseTariff" end Neither: setup do get :new, "something[type]".constantize => "TimeOfUseTariff" end Is there any way how I can achieve passing this extra parameter? A: This should work if the controller expects "something[type]": setup do get :new, :something => {:type => "TimeOfUseTariff"} end A Unique Church and the Unique Woman Who Designed It Rob Hardy October 16, 2012 10:56:21 AM Here is an architect you have never heard of: Sarah Losh. One of the reasons you haven't heard of Losh is that she has one fine church to represent her oeuvre. One of the reasons is that this little structure was built in 1842, and it was built in an out-of-the-way village, Wreay, outside of Carlisle in northern England. Another reason is simply that she was a woman, so she really wasn't an architect because women were not allowed to be architects. She was, however, an extraordinary woman in many ways, and now she has as full a biography as can ever be written. Jenny Uglow, who has written several outstanding books about personalities of that age and locale, has an appreciation for Losh's life and her remarkable church in The Pinecone: The Story of Sarah Losh, Forgotten Romantic Heroine - Antiquarian, Architect, and Visionary (Faber and Faber). The book has good pictures, and concentrates on St. Mary's Church in Wreay, partly out of necessity. Losh didn't leave much documentation of her life. She wrote poetry, but none of it remains, and she kept a journal which others read and treasured and kept passages from, but she burned her journals and other documents. If she ever fell in love, or wrote love letters, we have no evidence. What she did have, and what enables Uglow to tell her story in this fullness, is a bustling family with wealth coming in plentifully from the chemistry of the Industrial Age; a time of political upheaval and Losh's own radicalism; and the little church, which shows an energetic and independent mind. Losh got much of her education courtesy of her Uncle James, who, with her father John, was educated at Cambridge. The brothers made their fortune manufacturing chemicals, especially the alkali needed to make glass. John died early, but James was an enormous influence in the life of Sarah and her sister Katharine. James was a lawyer who favored the radical politics of the time, including the importance of education for women. He counted as friends William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Sarah may have been among the first to hear "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"), the essayist Thomas Holcroft, and the philosopher William Godwin. James actively got Katharine and Sarah reading; Sarah was familiar, for instance, with the work of Mary Wollstonecraft, and she grew up in an atmosphere in which it was acknowledged that women did not have to become wives, and they could remain independent. Her and her sister's independence, however, was based on the income and estates of the males in their family. James made sure that the sisters traveled to Europe, where Sarah got to see churches and paintings that would influence the style of her church. She was especially interested in the ruins of Pompeii. Upon their return, Sarah began tentatively remodeling the family home, adding rooms and changing the aspect of the front of the house. There was a nostalgia at the time, fueled by such works as the novels of Sir Walter Scott, and Losh's designs harked to the romantic past. She and her sister designed and built a simple mortuary chapel and a school building. Uglow writes, "It was quite common for the women of landowning families to fund and supervise the building of schools on their estates. It was another thing altogether for them to design the buildings, to work as an architect and site manager. Yet this is what Sarah and Katharine, determinedly independent, chose to do." Katharine suddenly died in 1835; it was a loss Sarah never overcame, but she used her grief to power her work on the church. The old church at Wreay was a relic, but the bishop of the area, and the Twelve Men of Wreay (landowners and farmers who oversaw village affairs) agreed grudgingly at first to its restoration, and then, only because Losh would pay for a new church, agreed to let her have her way. The land was made available, and Losh went to work. The church is a product of her own ideas and flew in the face of the Victorian revival of the Gothic style. Overall, she preferred her own version of a Romanesque design, but especially in the decoration of the church, she produced something unique. The nave is simple, almost like a small stone barn, but it is joined to a curved apse, so that it looks like a small Byzantine basilica. Losh loved her region's past, and had grown up admiring the round-arched Norman style which she was able to incorporate into her building. Her fascination for the past went much further back, however. She was especially interested in the fossils of her area, and the ammonites, corals, and ferns were carved into the church's doorways or installed in its stained-glass windows. (Losh could be nothing but an amateur in her geological interests - she could never have become a member of the Geological Society for the same reason she could not officially become an architect.) A plesiosaur serves as a gargoyle. Not content merely to install ancient creatures into her church, she crammed it with symbols from different creation myths, like lotus blossoms. Her pinecone, and there are pinecones all over the church, was also a symbol of reproduction and regeneration. The pinecone also suggests the shape of the pineal body, which Descartes had said was where the soul resides. (The pinecone had a meaning to Losh so deep that we will not fully understand it; the statue she ordered for the mausoleum shows Katharine holding a pinecone and regarding it intently.) On the arches and in the windows and on the walls are poppies, wheat, and gourds, and an eagle and a stork to hold up lecterns, and lotus-shaped candlesticks, and a baptismal font with carved lilies and lily-pads sticking out of the water. Losh herself did much of the carving. There is a mysterious arrow that looks as if it had just been shot deep into the baptistery wall; it might allude to the death of a friend of Losh's, William Thain, who died in the first Anglo-Afghan war (1839-1842). But no one knows. In fact, there were no frank memorials to anyone in the church. Not only that, but there were no depictions of saints. If you wanted to find a cross, you had to look for small versions in the windows or decorations; those lotus candlesticks stood in its place on the altar. Not everyone approved, and vicars afterward tried to put a Christian spin on the décor; that wasn't a stork holding up the lectern, for instance, but a pelican, the bird that symbolized charity, and that butterfly arising from the chrysalis represented resurrection. It was a bit of a strain to make the connections, but nothing Losh said or wrote indicated that she was aiming for these interpretations. Importantly, she installed no rood screen and no image of doom or judgement. Her building is a celebration not of belief but of beliefs, as well as of the natural world. It is convenient to think that it signifies some sort of easy pantheism, but you can still get to Anglican services there. That Losh could incorporate historical and natural trends in her tiny church in a little village shows the artistic importance of her work. Uglow's biography has the same merits, using the architect and her church as a mirror for the natural, religious, and scientific movements of Losh's time. Uglow thus gets to tell us about the railways, the industrial revolution, the fashions of architecture, the enthusiasm for antiquities, the Afghan war, and more. Molding the story of Sarah Losh's life from these external sources, since she left so little written documentation, is something like trying to find her within her lovely little church. Uglow writes that Losh "left stones and wood, not letters, for us to read." Losh now has a fine biography to supplement the stones and wood.An article relating to the fake use of Doctorate title by Mr Levengood. Text copied here Pretend you are a graduate doctor, while it is not so, just to own glory, that is not kosher. And yet such a situation seems to go hand in crop circle world. At the head of the U.S. crop circle research BLT Research is William Levengood. In his own publications and in the work of his colleagues can read that this gentleman a PhD and there is usually ‘Dr.’ for his name. Even in the popular but misleading series ” Ancient Aliens “Levengood is depicted as a doctor. Graduate and expert in alternative phenomenon, his results insinuate scientific value. His team is ” the worlds leading research group . Turns out, however, that he does not hold the title. The Englishman Matthew Williams

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People want to grow their own food and they want to grow it close to home; in their front yards and their backyards, side-by-side with their neighbors. Yet there’s this segment of the population that sees this progress and is deciding to double-down and fight back against the tide by legislating away expressions of urban agriculture. The most famous example this year is that of Julie Bass of Michigan whose plight was made popular after Colleen Vanderlinden wrote about it for TreeHugger and the internet descended on the story forcing lawmakers to backdown. 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the Central District of California, Mariana R. Pfaelzer, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CR 93-00545-MRP-2. Before: FARRIS, BRUNETTI and KOZINSKI, Circuit Judges. OPINION KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge. 1 We decide under what circumstances 18 U.S.C. § 3288 permits reindictment after dismissal of an indictment on statute of limitations grounds. 2 * Defendant was convicted of conspiracy and mail fraud for selling and collecting premiums on nonexistent insurance. In 1987, he was Vice President for Marketing [R.T. at 527] and supervised the underwriting department [R.T. at 721] at Rubell Helm Insurance Services, Inc. (RHIS). R.T. at 229 (testimony of Jeffrey Daly); 528 (testimony of Kathleen Helm). Between September 1987 and May 1988, RHIS landed three customers whose existing coverages were about to expire. The problem in each case was that little or none of the promised insurance was in place when the clients' prior coverage ended. To the extent insurance was subsequently arranged for while Clawson was still at RHIS, it was invariably too little, too late. In each case, RHIS billed its clients for premiums and the clients sent money through the mail. R.T. at 2298. These mailings formed the basis of a series of mail fraud charges as well as a charge of conspiracy to commit mail fraud. 3 The grand jury handed down an indictment on June 10, 1993, [docket sheet at 20--3 Clawson ER] and defendant promptly moved to dismiss the conspiracy count for failure to allege an overt act within the five-year statute of limitations. The district court initially ruled that Clawson had withdrawn from the conspiracy on July 5, 1988, by resigning from RHIS and warning clients of improprieties. The indictment, however, only alleged overt acts that occurred before June 10, 1988, outside the limitations period, or after July 5, 1988, at which point Clawson had already withdrawn. The district court therefore dismissed the indictment. 4 The government promptly obtained a First Superceding Indictment alleging overt acts within the window of June 10 to July 5, 1988. By then, the statute had run as to all of Clawson's involvement in the conspiracy. The government nevertheless argued that it had a six-month grace period to reindict under section 3288 because the statute of limitations had expired after the first indictment was obtained but before it was dismissed. Clawson again moved to dismiss, arguing that section 3288's savings provision explicitly excludes indictments dismissed for failure to comply with the statute of limitations. The district court denied the motion and a jury convicted Clawson of conspiracy and mail fraud. On appeal, he claims the conspiracy count was barred by the statute of limitations.1 II 5 Dismissal of an indictment obtained near the end of the statute of limitations period can have grave consequences. A technical defect that would normally be easy to fix can bar reprosecution altogether if it isn't noticed until after the statute has run. To prevent this, 18 U.S.C. § 3288 has long given the government an additional six months to reindict where the original indictment was dismissed "for any error, defect, or irregularity with respect to the grand jury" or where an indictment or information, filed after defendant waived prosecution by indictment, was "found otherwise defective or insufficient for any cause." Act of Aug. 30, 1964, Pub.L. No. 88-520, § 1, 78 Stat. 699, reprinted in 1964 U.S.C.C.A.N. 795. "[The] underlying concept of § 3288 is that if the defendant was indicted within time, then approximately the same facts may be used for the basis of any new indictment [obtained after the statute has run], if the earlier indictment runs into legal pitfalls." United States v. Charnay, 537 F.2d 341, 354 (9th Cir.) (quoting Mende v. United States, 282 F.2d 881, 883-84 (9th Cir.1960), cert. denied, 364 U.S. 933, 81 S.Ct. 379, 5 L.Ed.2d 365 (1961)), cert. denied, 429 U.S. 1000, 97 S.Ct. 527, 50 L.Ed.2d 610 (1976); see United States v. Wilsey, 458 F.2d 11, 12 (9th Cir.1972) (section 3288 "assur[es] that the continued running of the statute of limitations will not permit the defendant to escape through technicality before correction can be secured"); United States v. Peloquin, 810 F.2d 911, 912 (9th Cir.1987) ("The savings clause prevents defendants from reserving legal challenges to indictments until after the applicable statute of limitations has run."). 6 Were this the end of the story, Clawson would have no plausible argument: The original indictment put him on notice that he was being charged for a conspiracy "[b]eginning in or about July 1987, and continuing until in or about June 1989," Indictment at 4 (June 10, 1993) [ER1 at 4]; it merely failed to name overt acts that occurred between June 10 to July 5, 1988, a defect that was cured by reindictment. But the story continues. In 1988, Congress "simplified" section 3288 by providing the same six-month grace period "[w]henever an indictment or information ... is dismissed for any reason." Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, Pub.L. No. 100-690, tit. VII, § 7081, 102 Stat. (1988 U.S.C.C.A.N.) 4181, 4407. Congress also added a final sentence to the new section 3288 stating that it does "not permit the filing of a new indictment ... where the reason for the dismissal was the failure to file the indictment or information within the period prescribed by the applicable statute of limitations, or some other reason that would bar a new prosecution." Id. 7 This new last sentence seems to exclude Clawson's reindictment from section 3288's savings provision because the district court here dismissed the conspiracy count of the original indictment for failing to allege that one of the elements of the crime (an overt act) took place within the statute of limitations. See 18 U.S.C. § 371; Grunewald v. United States, 353 U.S. 391, 396, 77 S.Ct. 963, 969-70, 1 L.Ed.2d 931 (1957); Meyer v. United States, 220 F. 800, 803 (9th Cir.1915). Clawson urges us to read the last sentence of section 3288 as barring the use of the section's savings provision whenever an indictment is dismissed because of failure to comply with the statute of limitations. But the sentence says more: It denies the government the six-month extension if an indictment is dismissed for failure to meet the statute of limitations "or some other reason that would bar a new prosecution." Read in its entirety, this last sentence cuts off the six-month grace period only where the defect--whether it's a limitations problem "or some other" problem--is not capable of being cured. 8 There are many situations, of course, when giving the government an additional six months to reindict would be unfair to the defendant. Thus, if the original indictment was brought after the limitations period ran on all the alleged criminal conduct, allowing reindictment under section 3288 would obliterate the statute of limitations: A defendant could be indicted two years after the statute had run and, when the court dismissed, the prosecution could simply reindict within six months, free from the limitations bar. In such circumstances, reindictment is not possible under section 3288. The matter is much different where the original indictment is brought within the limitations period, but is dismissed for failure to allege the exact elements of the crime, or some other technical reason. In the latter circumstance, a valid indictment could have been brought in a timely fashion; the six-month grace period merely allows the government to do what it had a right to do in the first place. 9 Clawson's case falls in the category of cases where reindictment is permissible within six months because the original indictment was within the limitations period. Clawson was charged on June 10, 1993, for a conspiracy in which he participated until July 5, 1988. Immediate dismissal for failure to allege an overt act after June 10, 1988, still left an alleged conspiracy that continued for some weeks afterwards. See United States v. Read, 658 F.2d 1225, 1233 (7th Cir.1981) ("A defendant's withdrawal from the conspiracy starts the running of the statute of limitations as to him."). Thus, Clawson was charged within the statutory period with the exact crime for which he could have been prosecuted had there not been a defect in the indictment. Section 3288 was designed to apply in this situation. See Charnay, 537 F.2d at 354 ("Allowing a second indictment to remedy legal deficiencies present in the first is the very purpose for which § 3288 was enacted.").

hand, furnishes a large quantity of electricity at low pressure, as a street may be flooded by a broken water-main though the pressure is low. In fact, the quantity of electricity required to decompose a grain of water is equal to that discharged in a stroke of lightning, while the action of a dilute acid on the one-hundredth part of an ounce of zinc in a battery yields electricity sufficient for a powerful thunder-storm. Many tests were made, and the result was a convincing proof that electricity is the same whatever its source, the different effects being due to difference in pressure and quantity. "But in no case," said Faraday, "not even in those of the electric eel and torpedo, is there a production of electric power without something being used up to supply it." Faraday's professional work would have made him wealthy. In one year he made L1000 ($5000), and the amount would have increased had he sold his services at their market value. But then there would have been no Faraday the discoverer. The world would have had to wait, no one knows how long, for the laying of the foundations of electrical industries. He chose to give up wealth for the sake of discovery. He gave up professional work with the exception of scientific adviser to Trinity House, the body which has charge of Great Britain's lighthouse service. Nor did he carry his discoveries to the point of practical application. As soon as he discovered one principle, he set out in pursuit of others, leaving the practical application to the future. Faraday loved the beauty of nature. The sunset he called the scenery of heaven. He saw the beauty of electricity, which he said lies not in its mystery, but in the fact that it is under law and within the control of the human intellect. A Wonderful Law of Nature Not long after Faraday made his first dynamo, Robert Mayer, a physician from Germany, was making a voyage to the East Indies which proved to be a voyage of discovery. He had sailed as the ship's physician, and after some months an epidemic broke out among the ship's company. In his treatment he drew blood from the veins of the arms. He was startled to see bright-red blood issue from the veins. He might almost have believed that he had opened an artery by mistake. It was soon explained to him by a physician who had lived long in the tropics that the blood in the veins of the natives, and of foreigners as well, in the tropics is of nearly the same color as arterial blood. In colder climates the venous blood is much darker than the arterial. He reasoned upon this curious fact for some time, and came to the conclusion that the human body does not make heat out of nothing, but consumes fuel. The fuel is consumed in the blood, and there the heat is produced. In the tropics less heat is needed, less fuel is consumed, and therefore there is less change in the color of the blood. When a man works he uses up fuel. If a blacksmith heats a piece of iron by hammering, the heat given to the iron and the heat produced in his body are together equal to the heat of the fuel consumed in his blood. The work a man does, as well as the heat of his body, comes from the burning of the fuel in his blood. What is true of a man is true of an engine. The work the engine does, as well as the heat it produces, comes from the heat of the fuel in the furnace. Mayer found that one hundred pounds of coal in a good working engine produces the same amount of heat as ninety-five pounds in an engine that is not working. In the working engine the heat of the five pounds of coal is used up in the work of running the engine, and therefore does not heat the engine. Heat that is used in running the engine is no longer heat, but work. So Mayer said the heat is not destroyed, but only changed into work. He said, further, that the work of running the engine may be changed again into heat. Mayer's theory was opposed by many scientific men of Europe. One great scientist said to him that if his theory were correct water could be warmed by shaking. He remembered what the helmsman had remarked to him on the voyage to Java, that water beaten about by a storm is warmer than quiet sea-water; but he said nothing. He went to his laboratory, tried the experiment, and some weeks later returned, exclaiming: "It is so! It is so!" He had warmed water simply by shaking it. These results mean that work or energy cannot be destroyed. Though it changes form in many ways, it is never destroyed. Neither can man create energy; he can only direct its changes as the engineer, by the motion of his finger in opening a valve, sets the locomotive in motion. He does not move the locomotive. He directs the energy already in the steam. Since the time of Galileo, men had caught now and then a glimpse of this great law. Galileo had stated his law of machines; that, when a machine does work, a man or a horse or some other power does an equal amount of work upon the machine. Count Rumford had performed his experiment with the cannon, showing that heat is produced by the work of a horse. Davy had proved that, in the voltaic battery, something must be used up to produce the current--the mere contact of the metals is not sufficient. Faraday had said that in no case is there a production of electrical power without something being used up to supply it. Mayer stated clearly this law of energy when he said that energy cannot be created or destroyed, but only changed from one form to another. And yet inventors have not learned the meaning of this law. They continue trying to invent perpetual-motion machines--machines that will produce work from nothing. This is what a perpetual-motion machine would be if such a machine were possible. For a machine without friction is impossible, and friction means wasted work--work changed into heat. A machine to keep itself running and supply the work wasted in friction must produce work from nothing. The great law of nature is that you cannot get something for nothing. Whether you get work, heat, electricity, or light, something must be used up to produce it. For whatever you get out of a machine you must give an equivalent. This law cannot be evaded, and from it there is no appeal. Chapter V GREAT INVENTIONS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY The discoveries of Faraday prepared the way for the great inventions of the nineteenth century. By the middle of the century men knew how to control the wonderful power of electricity. They did not know what electricity is, nor do we know to-day, though we have made some progress in that direction; but to control it and make it furnish light, heat, and power was more important. Before the inventions of James Watt made it possible to use steam-power, factories were built near falling water, so that water-power could be used. But the steam-engine made it possible to build great factories wherever a supply of water for the boilers could be obtained. Cities were built around the factories. Cities already great became greater. With the growth of cities the need of a new means of producing light and power made itself felt. Electricity promised to become the Hercules that should perform the tasks of the modern world. Discovery gave way to invention. During the second half of the nineteenth century many great inventions were made and industries were developed, while discoveries were few until near the close of the century. Within this period the great industries which characterize our modern civilization, and which arose out of the discoveries that science had made in the centuries preceding, attained a high degree of development. In this chapter we shall trace the applications of some of the discoveries with which we have now become familiar. This will lead us into the field of electrical invention, for we are dealing now with the beginning of the world's electrical age. Electric Batteries From the time of Volta to the time of Faraday the only means of producing an electric current was the "voltaic battery," so called in honor of Volta. The voltaic cell is the simplest form of electric battery. In this cell the zinc and copper plates are placed in sulphuric acid diluted with water. As the acid eats the zinc, hydrogen gas is formed. This gas collects in bubbles on the copper plate and weakens the current. The aim of inventors was to produce a steady current, to devise a battery in which no gas would collect on the copper plate. They saw the need of a battery that would give out a current of unchanging strength until the zinc or the acid was used up. The first real improvement in the battery was made by Professor Daniell, of King's College, London. In the Daniell cell the zinc plate is in dilute sulphuric acid, and the copper plate is in a solution of blue vitriol or copper sulphate. Professor Daniell separated the

scraping our emails for more behavioral surplus to target ads.' And people all over the world, as you will recall, Russ, were mobilized in outrage. Such was the outrage that an important California legislator immediately drew up legislation to outlaw this unilateral taking of private human experience. What I just wrote to my mom in an email. Okay. Now, what happened? The Google team mobilized. And it created a war room. And it was there in the heat of that Gmail contest they first developed the strategies and the sequence of tactical operations that they would use over and over again across the last 15 years, Russ. And that operation goes like this. The first thing is, what I call, Step One: Incursion. In other words, they take what they want. They take your email; when it came to Street View [trademark via Google Maps], they take your house. They can get WiFi data out of your house, they take that, too. They just take what they want until somebody tries to stop them. When somebody tries to stop them, they go into Phase Two, which is called: Habituation. Habituation is, they try to draw out the process of contest for as long as possible. During that time, they are trying to--they are using backstage operations to try and stop any real impediment. But, what they are doing publicly is they are explaining, they are apologizing; they are saying, 'Well, we'll do this. We'll do that.' And they, you know, they may be fielding court cases. They may be fielding hundreds of court cases. They let those court cases, you know, drag on for as long as possible. And suddenly the weeks and months and years start drifting by. It's at the end of that time, there is still any kind of protest, they will make some superficial adaptations. In many cases, by the end of this habituation period, people can no longer remember why they were so upset in the first place. Because, this is what happens. Habituation sets in. You know, things that were, that violated norms, that violated boundaries, that we greeted as outrageous, you know, they become fixed things in our life. It's like we're seeing that so much in the political domain now. You know, boundaries that could never be crossed. Norms that could never be violated. Now, when they are violated routinely, we grow numb. This is called psychic numbing. We grow numb to these outrages. And that is what allows habituation and normalization to set in. 20:40 Russ Roberts: Well, let me challenge that a little bit, or give a different, maybe, framework for it. Okay? And let you tell me why this is not representative. So, I am alarmed by some of this, particularly in the political realm; and I think, you know, the ability of Facebook, Twitter, etc. to control what I see and read is very concerning. And robots and other things that stir up anger and tribalism, I think, are not good for our country. And how we deal with that is a very tough question; and we are going to come to that, I hope, toward the end. But let me give you a different framework for this. So, my washing machine breaks. Now, a washing machine is an expensive thing to repair. I may need a new one. It may not be worth repairing. But let's say a guy--there's a new service available. And, what the guy says is, 'Here's the deal: I'm going to come to your house. I'm going to either fix your washing machine or give you a new one. No charge.' Wow! Fantastic. 'The only thing, though, is that when I'm in your house, I'm going to take some pictures of the inside of your house, and I'm going to learn about you. And I'm going to sell some of that information to other people to help send you targeted ads and other things.' So, they come into my house; they find other things that are broken. They may see that I love wine or that I like to read or that I'm a photographer. And so I start getting, in my mail, I start getting ads for cameras and ads for wine. I can get over the Internet and special book offers. And so on. And then they say, 'Oh, by the way, I'll also,' let's say, 'I'm going to give you your choice of free wine every week. But if you are going to, I'm going to have to--to get that service, you are going to have to let me see who you mail stuff to.' Okay? And they start doing that. And eventually, yah, I love inexpensive wine, or I love wine without charge; I love having my washing machine repaired with no charge or getting a new one. And these incursions into my privacy of taking a few pictures--you know--I don't leave everything out, obviously, when I know the washing machine guy is coming. But, they do take advantage of the fact that they wander through my house. And there is something deeply creepy about it, right? And I don't--and, by the way--I should have made it even clearer: They don't really tell me that's what they're going to do. They just do it. So, I just think-- Shoshana Zuboff: Oh, okay. That's a big difference. Russ Roberts: Right. Of course. I get--so it's like I'm getting a free washing machine. And then I notice I'm getting a lot of ads for cameras. And I think, 'I guess that washing machine guy used the chance to be in my house to notice I have a lot of photographs up. He knows I like photography.' Etc., etc. And so, I have a choice, right now, to use these services. Now, I agree it's really hard to give them up. I am habituated to them. I love them. There are many of them. Not all of them. Many of them I love, though. I love Waze [owned by Google--Econlib Ed.]. It's just, it's really improved the quality of my life. I really enjoy it. There are many other things I like about Gmail. It is a fantastic service. And the deal--and here's part of the problem--was that it was never an explicit deal--the implicit deal was, 'Well, by the way, while you are using these "free services," they aren't really free because, lots of reasons. I'm going to use your data. I'm going to charge advertisers for the opportunity to buy, to get access to you.' Which means the price could be higher than it otherwise would be. But, I have a choice. And, if you ask me, how do you like it: Well, I don't like it that they take pictures of my house when I'm in here. It is kind of creepy. But I do like the services a lot. And here's the key point: Nothing really horrible has happened, so I put up with it. And I think it's basically a good deal for me. And I would argue that, for young Americans in particular listening to this program--of which there are many--they think a lot of this concern about privacy and data--some of them, people, don't even get it. But, for me, it bothers me. I find it alarming, and particularly in the political realm. Because it could change how people vote, and what they do. But, is it really as, as frightening--again, as concerning? Isn't it mainly successful not because they have power but because I've given them that power? Because I like the deal? Shoshana Zuboff: Heh, heh, heh. All right. Well, let's talk about two things. If--because I need to lay out some terms of reference so I can really answer your question. The first thing I want to talk about is what puts the surveillance in surveillance capitalism. Why is it called 'surveillance capitalism'? And the second thing is: Let's talk about the economic imperatives here. Because, unless our listeners, and especially our young people who are listening--and if you are listening to this--Listen up close. Because this is about your future. And, uh, you are the person that I'm most concerned about in this conversation. So, I want to talk about the economic imperatives. And I think that will give us a framework, Russ, for then coming back to your example and looking at it through some other lenses. Is that okay with you? Russ Roberts: Sure. Go ahead. Shoshana Zuboff: Okay. So, the first thing I want you to know is: Why is it called 'surveillance capitalism'? So, this takes us back to the early invention of surveillance capitalism. At Google. I don't need to go into all the details of this origin story, Russ. If you don't need me to. Suffice to say that, *cough, cough* in the heat of financial emergency, during the dot com meltdown in the early 21st century, the years 2000, 2001, Google, like most other startups in Silicon Valley, faced tremendous investor pressure. Startups were going bust left and right. Really smart people were losing their businesses. They could not monetize fast enough for the demands of the impatient capital represented by the, um, the venture capital firms that largely--led investment in the Valley. 27:25 Russ Roberts: They weren't making any money. They [Google?--Econlib Ed.] had a search engine that was fabulous. They kept gaining market share. But they hadn't

themselves by using a float when the higher sea water into the ship 's body . Reported by CNN , the ship completed by 460 high school students Seoul is scheduled to follow the field trip to the resort island of Jeju . Lim Hyung - min , one of the survivors said the hassle to fight for his life . " I had to swim to the first boat to be saved , " he said .( Read: egg food untuk pleci ) Until today , the South Korean government to help mobilize fielded more than a hundred ships , rescue teams and helicopters to comb to the location of the sinking vessel , with no hope of surviving . Local authorities did not despair , even if bad weather should be blocked . Heavy rain accompanied by strong winds and thick fog have trouble making the team survived . They assume there are survivors , when looking at the hull of a ship is still at sea level . " Maybe in these areas there is no air to breathe , " said Mike Dean , Deputy Director of the U.S. Navy . The victims' families gathered , hoping against hope for salvation in the dock family members Jindo , South Korea , which is about 20 kilometers from the location Boats Sewol . ( one )Background {#Sec1} ========== Chronic low back pain (CLBP) and identification of risk factors in evolution toward chronicity has been the subject of numerous controversial works \[[@CR1]\]. This is a chronic pain syndrome (recurrent or continuous) in the lower back region, lasting for at least 3 months (with or without radiculalgia). In the USA, the prevalence of LBP is from 15 to 45 % according to cross-sectional studies. Data from Western countries is similar. UK estimates place LBP as the biggest single cause of absence from work in 1988--89, when it was responsible for about 12.5 % of all days of sickness absence \[[@CR1]\]. The "low back pain triangle" (organic factor, socioprofessional factor and psychological factor) makes the need for multidisciplinary care obvious. Recent studies show: the need for networked care for the patient, including health actors as well as interlocutors within the company, to enhance diagnosis and care quality \[[@CR2]\]; the effectiveness at 6 months of 3 weeks' multidisciplinary care on pain repercussions, disability and quality of life \[[@CR3]\]; the slightly better impact of a functional restoration programme than of individual physiotherapy on absenteeism \[[@CR4]\]; and the importance of educational and informational components in physical care (physical training) to improve patients' self confidence \[[@CR5]\]. It is important to note that the feasibility of the care content needs scientific backing for better efficiency \[[@CR6]\]. Moreover, it seems that a rigorous theoretical approach along with patient-centered listening would make it possible to remove obstacles linked to professional constraints \[[@CR7]\]. In France, in 2008, the HAS Haute, Autorité de Santé (French National Authority for Health), recommended the following modalities for chronic pain care: ambulatory outpatient identification, assessment, and treatment setting, or a request for an opinion from specialized structures and guidance to the attending physician. We note that the occupational physician is not included in these recommendations (Circulaire DGOS/DH n°98--47, 12). To date, few studies have investigated the factors of continued employment in the public sector, including care services. Therefore, those studies pay little attention to organizational context or intervention in the workplace before the decision to return to work. Aims of the study {#Sec2} ================= The aim of this study was first to investigate prognosis factors for return to work at 2 years of a population of CLBP employees after care in a specialized occupational pathology consultancy with two main areas of intervention: conventional care in ambulatory functional rehabilitation and intervention by the OP in the company, comparing a population of healthcare workers (HCW) and a population of non-healthcare workers (non-HCW control group). The secondary objective was to analyze the overall effectiveness of the programme and the evolution of indicators such as clinical examination, psychosocial and pain impact. Methods study design {#Sec3} ==================== A prospective cohort study, monitoring changes for a period of two years. Potential predictors for staying at work were initially recorded at baseline (T1), and their evolution after a physiotherapeutic and occupational approach was recorded at each follow-up visit, that is at 6 months, one year and two years. Population {#Sec4} ---------- The workforce followed up by OPs in the department of Loire Atlantique (West of France) consisted of 472,483 employees in 2009. An information letter on the establishment of a Specialized Professional Pathology Consultancy for management of CLBP, based on the biopsychosocial model, along with the establishment of a link with the occupational physician or the company during sick-leave was sent out in 2006. The letter to General Practitioners (GPs) (*n* = 800) and OP (*n* = 120), explained the rules for inclusion in the programme. The initial multidisciplinary consultation was carried out by an OP, a rehabilitation physician and an occupational psychologist. This first meeting was to explore the factors involved in the LBP issue in a multidimensional perspective. If indications were raised, the patient was included in the protocol. Inclusion criteria were: to be between 18 and 65 years old, to be an employee in the care sector or outside the care sector, and to have suffered from LBP for more than three months. Exclusion criteria were: surgical indications, inflammatory disease (rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis...), or scalable lower back sciatica, fibromyalgia, being unemployed or self-employed. Under a protocol of exploratory research, consultation was open to care staff in the public sector for 2 years (HCW reference group), and then to the private industrial and commercial sectors for 2 years (control group). The intervention approach comprised two dimensions:During the visit to decide on inclusion (T1) and after clinical examination by the rehabilitation physician and the OP, the principle of ambulatory physiotherapy was outlined to the patient: it was either a standard rehabilitation program with the patient's usual physiotherapist, or a more intensive program with a physiotherapist of the Regional CLBP network. The choice was determined by the distance between home and the physiotherapist's practice. A typical prescription was issued to the patient at the end of the consultation, explaining the principle and requesting a signed consent. Care by the patient's usual physiotherapist (MKH) comprised three sessions of 30 min per week for 5 weeks. Care by the network physiotherapist included three one-hour sessions per week for 5 weeks. It was an active treatment excluding the use of any kind of passive technique, massage or acupuncture. The exercises were intended to promote flexibility, training, stretching, muscular strengthening, endurance working and proprioception exercises. The program also included an educational component, with learning exercises to be performed only at home. To minimize the risks associated with the resumption of sustained physical activity in the deconditioned subject, attention focused on the progressive nature of the program and on adapting techniques to the person. In addition to the 15 initial sessions, the patient might also receive five additional booster sessions during the following year.During the inclusion visit (T1), a review of the curriculum and the link between pain and work was recorded by the OP and the occupational psychologist. This involved noting the patient's speech, his feelings in specific work situations, and the constraints perceived in the description of his work. The psychic balance involved in work is connected with the meaning of work, investment of personality in work, identity investment materialized in gesture. What, in the encounter between the organization of work and investment of the subject, could develop or worsen the subject's health? This was a specific and single qualitative analysis of the situation. It included identifying (− if this had not already been done during the clinical interview with the doctor) satisfaction at work, historical items relating to the company and to the professional background, the quality of relationships with superiors and colleagues, pathogenic organizational practices, organizational changes, the arrival of a new manager, and new working techniques. The various biomechanical and psychosocial risk factors were explained, as well as the interest in linking GP, OP and employer from a staying-at-work perspective. This second session took 60 min per patient on average. At the end of the consultation, a summary and a letter were dictated to the patient and sent to the principal correspondents, that is OPs and other doctors looking after the case, such as rheumatologists, physiotherapists, surgeons, pain specialists etc. The patient was sent a copy. At the end of the letter, appointments were proposed at six months (T2), twelve months (T3) and 24 months (T4). There was no interim relaunch. Follow-up consultations were carried out by the OP, who recorded the follow-up indicators. Follow-up {#Sec5} --------- Variables recorded during the medical visit for inclusion were: the number of days' sick leave (declarative data) before inclusion, clinical examination data, i.e. history of back pain or sciatica, smoking, comorbidity (psychiatric illness, chronic disease), level of pain intensity (visual analogic scale), weight, height, Schober index (10-cm Schober test), fingertip-floor distance, evaluation of the psychological impact of pain on social and professional life: Hamilton Anxiety Depression (HAD, Fear Avoidance Belief Questionnaire (FABQ), Dallas, and Quebec scales \[[@CR8]--[@CR11]\]. Work questionnaire: job description, employee's satisfaction at the workplace, vision of his future career, development training, and ways to improve on

"I'll look after that too. Gotta go now - see you at six." Bryan placed the phone on the hook, smiled and walked to the bathroom, stared at himself in the mirror. His hair was thinning, prematurely. And he was pale, ashen, not enough sun. He squinted and opened his mouth. Even his tongue was pale, but his teeth were white and even. He grinned, frowned, grinned again, then closed his mouth and stood as tall as he could. _About average height I would say_. But thinning hair, at twenty six? No matter, I'm not fat, even thin maybe. He pulled in his stomach, leaned forward and gazed into his brown eyes, his hands resting on the edge of the sink. _Ordinary face I'd say._ His hair was so light in colour, almost blond he thought, that it looked even thinner than it really was, and he shaved regularly although one could hardly see any sign of a beard. He leaned closer, still staring, closer, bumped his head on the mirror and staggered back with a grunt. Liz was coming over, tonight. He really had missed her. It was good to have her back. He could tell her about the history, the _short_ history. They had three weeks before term started. She would have some good ideas; they could spend the evening discussing it. CHAPTER 12 the Top Floors It was a fine evening. The pizza was the best he had ever tasted, piled high with cheese and bacon and green peppers. The wine was so-so, but the salad was also great, tangy, with lots of garlic, olive oil, oregano and not too much vinegar. The last time Bryan had enjoyed his dinner was - when? _I guess it was the last time Liz was here_ he thought. "Okay, so tell me more about your history, your _short_ history," said Liz clearing away the plates. "You said you visited Jaffre. Didn't you get anything at all from him?" "Nothing ... uh, something about _babies_. I think he's senile. _Dementia_ the nurse said. _Willow woggles_ , she said. An _epidemic_ , she said." Bryan leaned back and groaned, holding his stomach. "I ate too much." "You said that the old Bourden house used to be on _this_ property, right where this - this crummy apartment is located?" "That's what I understand," said Bryan. "The old willow tree, it stood right on this site. I saw a picture of the old Bourden house." "You did? Where did you see that?" "It was in the _Gazette_. The article about Jaffre. It was while you were away lolling on the beach at Doctor's Cove." Liz had placed the dishes in the soapy water, in the sink, and sat down at the table. "Let's go into the living room," she said. "These chairs are the most uncomfortable chairs I've ever sat in. Your living room furniture isn't much better." "Okay. Okay. Make fun. What am I to do on an assistant professor's salary? A run down apartment, and run down furniture to match." They both collapsed into a chair and Bryan read the article in the newspaper. Liz listened intently until he had finished. Porgy had jumped onto her lap and she was stroking the dog and scratching its floppy ears. "There must have been earlier articles in the _Gazette_ ," she said. "I mean much earlier, when the Bourden house was still standing, about the Bourdens themselves and their unfortunate demise." "I did read some stuff when I was working on this history, but I can't remember what it was." "I'm not surprised. Your memory is as run down as your furniture. I guess it matches -" "Yes, I know. It matches the apartment. So why don't you come with me, tomorrow. We'll go over the articles and _you_ can commit them to memory." Liz laughed and Porgy opened his eyes, panted happily and wagged his tail. Bryan stared at the ceiling and hummed softly. "You know, I was thinking," he said. "If the willow tree really did kill all those tenants, like Jaffre said, it was long after the Bourden house was torn down. The tree no longer existed. How can a tree kill anybody when the tree isn't even there?" He looked at Liz and frowned. "Old man Jaffre is crazy." "The newspaper article did mention a workman who died, remember? You read it only a minute ago. You can surely remember that." "Yes. I remember that ... uh, Butch or something. A branch fell on him, wasn't that it? That was an accident. Maybe we should forget about this. I'll stash my _short_ history in the desk and forget about it until - until next year. Maybe we can spend the next three weeks doing something more interesting. How about a trip to the lake? We can camp for a few days and -" "Bryan," she said sternly. "Are you saying it's not worth the effort? I say we go over the articles in the _Gazette_. Tomorrow. First thing in the morning." Liz looked at her watch. "Now it's late. Gotta go. Mom's waiting. She won't go to sleep till I get home and it's already past her bedtime." Liz pushed Porgy off her lap and got up to leave and Bryan jumped out of his chair, stumbled and grabbed her. "Kiss me goodnight so I can get some sleep too," he laughed. Liz put her arms about his neck and kissed him. They walked to the hall closet and he watched her put on her coat. She pulled her long blond hair, shook it back with a toss of her head and straightened her collar. Although she wasn't ravishingly beautiful she had a face he could watch for hours. He stared at her now, her blue eyes sparkling, full lips, a smile that was as wide as her face. She often smiled and was always in such good spirits, loved to have fun, do things out-of-the-ordinary, wild and crazy things, on the spur of the moment. He was such a stick-in-the-mud. Just being with her made him feel better. He hadn't realized how much he had missed her. Now that he looked more closely she really _was_ beautiful, ravishingly beautiful. "Stop staring," she whispered and opened the door and stepped into the hall. "I'll be here by ten. Be ready. Have the coffee hot. Make your bed. Don't step on the soap. Wash behind your ears. Brush your teeth." "Okay ... I'll remember to do all those things. I'm really glad you're back. Say hello to your Mom. I assume she enjoyed Jamaica too, and -" He watched as she walked to the top of the stairs, pausing to look at the plywood sheet leaning against the wall. "It fell over," he explained, pointing to the sheet of wood. "I just put it against the wall. It keeps nosy people from the upper floors. Nosy people who are unraveling the mysteries of the willow tree. Anyone caught climbing the stairs will contract a bad case of _willow wiggles_." " _Willow woggles_ ," she corrected. Liz stared up into the dark stairwell. "Have you ever been up there?" "Nope. Nobody has. Not for a long time, I think." Liz walked to the foot of the stairs and peered up into the dark. Bryan watched as she climbed tentatively onto the bottom step. "Don't go up there," he warned. "I don't think it's safe. Besides, it's too dark. No lights. Maybe even wobbly stairs." "Get a flashlight," she said, still staring up into the dark stairwell. Bryan complained with a short grunt, but Liz had already started up the stairs. He ran back into the apartment and returned with a flashlight. Liz was gone. He stared up into the dark and pointed the light. The beam was faint and kept getting fainter. "Liz? Are you up there?" He whispered the words, shook the flashlight, it brightened and he started slowly up the stairs, shaking the light as he went. "Up here, Bryan," he heard her call. "I'm on the next floor. Can't see a blessed thing." He hurried up the stairs and shone the light down the hall. A door was open and he walked to it, slowly, looking to either side as he went and feeling along the wall. He looked into the open door, but it was too dark to see so he stepped just halfway through the door holding the waning light before him. It looked much like his apartment, which made him feel a little more comfortable, so he stepped into the room, quickly, stumbled over something and dropped the flashlight. He was lying on the floor, in the dark; the flashlight had gone out. He heard noises from his right and he pushed himself to his knees and began to crawl backward toward the hall. Something brushed his leg and he jumped to his feet, scrambling toward the door.

issues here? Is this a proposal that various groups are talking about or pushing for? If so, who? Who’s against it and why? I can see how Dems or others on the left might object to this option because of their general preference to increase the minimum wage, but aside from the argument that it’s not exactly what they want, I wonder what objections there would be. I don’t know enough about the mechanics of the EITC or minimum wage issues to get a sense of what the real political issues would be for a proposal like this. Oh and maybe I do have a third alternative in the restaurant scenario – I could raise my hamburger prices by 20% to cover the wage increase. But oh wait, this might tick off the customers and my business volume drops and I’ll have to do some layoffs anyways. Frank McIntyre November 9, 2006 at 2:16 pm Christian, I am not sure I know what you mean. I don’t think anybody doubts that the government can affect the wage distribution through regulation. The question is who is hurt by that change. I think the unexamined presumption is that businesses are hurt, but that is naive. Depending on what one assumes or observes about the labor market, the higher wages could be hurting workers, firms, or consumers, or all three. EJS, This is based on work I did with a professor at Stanford when I was in grad school. We wrote some papers comparing the old-school EITC, minimum wages, and this approach. We were not working off of anyone else’s idea, but the idea is simple enough that I would not be at all surprised to discover that it has been independently thought of by a variety of people. It is a natural way to think about the problem. Roland, The “under the table” jobs may be, to some extent, a response to high minimum wages. This was my first point about evading the law. Matt Evans November 9, 2006 at 2:20 pm If the government really cared about the working poor they’d prohibit anyone from working for less than $40 an hour. Frank McIntyre November 9, 2006 at 2:22 pm Travis, The Employment Policies Institute sponsors research like this. But i don’t know if there has been any serious consideration of it by a state or the federal government. The obvious political advantage of the minimum wage is that you can shove the costs out of sight! In reality, the minimum wage probably costs an amount comparable to the EITC or the Food Stamps program, but since it does not go through the budget this makes it easier to do. Roland, You have nicely illustrated in concrete terms all the different groups that might end up paying for a minimum wage hike! Suppose you could raise prices without losing many customers, well then if your customers were low income they are now paying to raise wages for your workers, many of whom may well not be poor! jeff hoyt November 9, 2006 at 2:22 pm People making decisions about raising the minimum wage (Democrats in office) are, I suspect, very aware that they are hurting the poor. The economics are relatively straightforward. Democrats gain in two ways from increasing the minimum wage. First, by creating the image that they care about the poor and conversely that those evil republicans hate the poor. Second, by assuring that those with skills below minimum wage value will have a difficult time upgrading those skills and thus will be premanently a part of the undeclass which votes overwhelmingly democrat. One might label my belief about this as incredibly cynical, but I have never heard a single democrat official oppose a minimum wage hike. How likely is it that not a single one of them understand the economics? Chad Too November 9, 2006 at 2:39 pm I have no head for numbers so the restaurant example above helps me see the bigger picture. Thank you for that. Now my question. Assume in Roland’s example that instead of an increase, the minimum wage was decreased by 20% with no cut in the prices he charges for meals. The payroll costs could potentially drop to $8000. Where does the extra $2000 go? In my mind, it would go into the owner’s pocket. I doubt the manager is going to use it to hire more people (assuming the 10 employees he mentioned above are sufficient to run the business). I don’t have a problem with that per se (he/she assumes the risk of owning the restaurant), but I think it doesn’t go deep enough to say that the poor receive no benefit from a minimum wage. Employers are always going to maximise profits when they can and if they could get away with hiring people at 50% of what the government requires they would. Now if we could just get the poor to understand that it really is a good idea to pay off their high interest rate payday loans instead of letting them carry over, even though it means less money in their pockets for a few months. Jay S November 9, 2006 at 2:42 pm People talk about “upgrading their skills” as a solution. And while it may be a solution for an individual, it makes bad policy for everyone to do so. Why? Because if everyone is more qualified, then you have everyone vastly overqualified. This creep is why a college degree is worth less now than it was 30 years ago. Basically, we will always have a need for janitors, waiters, dishwashers etc. If everyone has a college degree, we will have dishwashers with a BA in English LIt. Not a bad thing, but a waste of resources. I think we should have a living wage, that is, that each person who works should have enough food, clothing and shelter to survive. I agree that the EITC is a good way to accomplish this. I recall reading an article on slate that espoused this view a while back. The downside is that the full effect of the EITC isn’t spread out, but comes once a year (some effect comes during, as deductions are lower). Thus it doesn’t impact standard of living as much as it could, and instead of being spent on clothing and bread, is more likely to be spent on debt reduction and big screen tvs than if it were spread out. Also, raising the min wage increases illegal immigration. Now, I am not an opponent of immigration, but it stands to reason that if you raise wages relatively, you increase the desire of immigrants to come and work. You also increase the demand for under the table labor. We need to realize that we our country does not contain a vacuum, but is porous and both impacts and is affected by other economies. I think raising the min wage isn’t a horrible idea, but isn’t a panacea. The benefit is too far spread, benefiting the working class family and teenagers working for the A&F sweater. I am interested to see how the passage of the recent ballot measure in Nevada will play out. It changed the minimum wage to require a $1 per hour increase for every worker who is not provided health care. “Where does the extra $2000 go? In my mind, it would go into the owner’s pocket.” In the short term. In the long term, the lower risk will mean more restaurants will open up, creating more job opportunities. Ardis November 9, 2006 at 3:00 pm Complaints about raising the minimum wage always seem to be illustrated by cases such as roland’s, with a low profit margin business and low skilled workers who very well may be adversely affected by a raise in the minimum wage. You don’t ever hear about the cases of, say, Provo lawyers who take home $250K in addition to paying many of their living expenses through office accounts, but who pay their secretaries, clerks, accountants, and other peons $6-$10 per hour regardless of their experience or the contributions made to the lawyers’ reputation and income in the way of, oh, I don’t know, let’s say pacifying irate clients and irritated clerks and judges, and keeping the paperwork flowing so that the lawyers don’t get bounced out of the bar for repeated instances of missing deadlines and ignoring clients’ cases. Not that I have any particular Provo gentlemen in mind, but would anybody care for a copy of my resume? They get away with it because there is always some student or student’s wife who is willing to take the job for even less. Personal grudges aside, the point is that employers pay as little as they can possibly get away with. I don’t fault anybody for that, really — I pay as little for potatoes as I can get away with, too. But if it cost more to raise and deliver potatoes than I’m paying now, I could pay more. So could many, if not most, employers who are paying minimum or barely-above-minimum wages. If they had to. Who cares how much the employer is taking home, that shouldn’t have any impact on the amount of money you deserve. When I get a job I agree to the job description and the employer agrees to pay me what we mutually agree on. If the job description expands then negotiation happens (which sometimes means I leave the job). Yeah, they could afford to pay me more but we didn’t agree on more, we agreed on what I make now. Frank McIntyre November 9, 2006 at

0.000 40.084--53.883 0.000  High 15.463--21.557 25.454--33.076 Sex  Male 18.686--29.558 0.709 28.874--39.230 0.690  Female 19.467--21.667 29.875--41.642 Age (years)  \<60 15.061--28.244 0.534 24.693--38.293 0.425  ≥60 20.912--30.546 31.585--40.832 Tumor length (cm)  \<5 21.003--30.646 0.267 31.214--40.028 0.288  ≥5 14.049--27.094 23.020--40.408 Tumor location  Upper, middle 18.717--28.950 0.684 29.592--39.555 0.761  Low 19.409--32.591 28.795--41.205 Invasion depth  pT1, pT2 25.776--43.474 0.001 35.333--49.834 0.002  pT3 16.327--22.737 26.647--35.072 Differentiation grade  Well, moderate 21.879--31.205 0.030 32.627--41.015 0.027  Poor 10.228--22.105 15.999--34.334 Venous invasion  Yes 12.260--30.406 0.358 23.730--40.404 0.568  No 21.104--30.075 31.118--39.870 Lymphatic metastasis  Yes 14.692--23.354 0.001 24.870--33.857 0.002  No 27.374--40.774 37.857--49.460 TNM stage  I, II 28.261--40.054 0.000 39.090--49.092 0.000  III 11.483--16.517 20.495--27.869 ###### Multivariate analysis of characteristics associated with OS and DFS. Factor OS DFS -------------------------------------------------- ------- --------------- ------- ------- -------------- ------- Periostin (high *vs.* low) 2.260 1.143--4.468 0.019 2.265 1.181--4.342 0.014 mTOR (high *vs.* low) 2.117 1.008--4.447 0.048 2.309 1.080--4.938 0.031 Sex (Male *vs.* Female) 1.397 0.745--2.618 0.297 1.243 0.668--2.311 0.493 Age (\<60 *vs.* ≥60) 0.694 0.381--1.261 0.230 0.670 0.374--1.201 0.179 Tumor length (\<5 *vs.* ≥5) 1.065 0.546--2.079 0.853 1.288 0.657--2.525 0.461 Tumor location (Upper, middle *vs.* Low) 1.045 0.591--1.848 0.880 0.916 0.515--1.628 0.764 Invasion depth (pT3 *vs.* pT1, pT2) 1.632 0.761--3.502 0.209 1.923 0.838--4.411 0.123 Differentiation grade (poor *vs.* well/moderate) 1.514 0.744--3.080 0.253 1.550 0.787--3.055 0.205 Venous invasion (Yes *vs.* No) 0.805 0.402--1.610 0.539 0.898 0.451--1.790 0.760 Lymphatic metastasis (Yes *vs.* No) 0.851 0.310--2.337 0.754 1.232 0.423--3.588 0.702 Stage (III *vs.* I, II) 3.983 1.383--11.472 0.010 3.180 1.086--9.313 0.035 [^1]: Study Design [^2]: Data Collection [^3]: Statistical Analysis [^4]: Data Interpretation [^5]: Manuscript Preparation [^6]: Literature Search [^7]: Funds Collection Digestive enzymes and protease inhibitors in plasma from patients with acute pancreatitis. The plasma levels of certain digestive enzymes and protease inhibitors were determined in 40 patients with severe acute pancreatitis diagnosed as gallstone-induced (GP), alcoholic (AP), or idiopathic (IP). On admission, plasma levels of amylase and immunoreactive cationic trypsin(ogen) (IRCT) and elastase 2 (IRE 2) were found to be 50 +/- 10 ng/ml, 340 +/- 64 ng/ml, and 190 +/- 15 ng/ml, respectively, in all groups of patients. These enzymes levels remained high for the first 2 days following hospitalization and then decreased, although amylase and IRCT levels remained elevated above normal values throughout the study period (2 weeks). In general amylase and IRCT were lower in patients with concomitant ascites, pancreatic pseudocysts, or abscesses, and higher in patients who died, as compared to the pancreatitis group as a whole. In these patients, levels of immunoreactive alpha 1-protease inhibitor (alpha 1-PI) and alpha 2-macroglobulin (alpha 2-M) remained relatively constant at the lower end of the normal range throughout the study period. Inhibitor levels in plasma were unaffected by the etiology of pancreatitis or the occurrence of complications. A similar trend was seen with plasma levels of lysosomal hydrolases. The results indicate that in this group of patients, plasma levels of pancreatic digestive enzymes were reflective of the clinical features and severity of the disease, as well as the time following the acute attack that brought the patient to the hospital.{-# LANGUAGE ForeignFunctionInterface, CPP #-} import Foreign.C foreign import ccall unsafe "test" test :: CInt -> IO () main :: IO () -- Use conditional language to test passing a file with a filename -- starting with a hyphen to the preprocessor. #if defined(__GLASGOW_HASKELL__) main = test 3 #endif Twelve-year-old Cyril (Thomas Doret), all coiled anger and furious motion, is living in a group home but refuses to believe he has been rejected by his single father (Summer Hours? Jérémie Renier). He spends his days frant... more &raquoically trying to reach the man, over the phone or on his beloved bicycle. It is only the patience and compassion of Samantha (Hereafter?s Cécile de France), the stranger who agrees to care for him, that offers the boy the chance to move on. Spare and unsentimental but deeply imbued with a heart-rending tenderness, The Kid with a Bike is an arresting work from the great Belgian directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Rosetta), masters of the empathetic action film.&laquo lessQ: How to identify the class of an Object which is in a cell of webtable I have a webtable which MIGHT have a weblink object in it's Row 2, Column 1 cell (also Index of this object is 0). If it indeed is a link I would like to click it else ignore it. Is there a way to identify the class of this object given that we know the row and column number. Below was my initial code. However it doesn't work always when the webtable cell doesn't have a link to click Set Table = Browser("Oracle PeopleSoft").Page("Request Payment Predictor").WebTable("Run Control ID").ChildItem(2, 1, "Link", 0) Table.Click I would like to know if there a way to find the class of the Object (in cell of a web table) so I can click on the Object only if it's a link Or in other words can we use GetRoProperty("Class Name") on a WebTable Cell Object? A: The ChildItem function returns a test object of the requested type if it exists, otherwise it returns Nothing. So your code should look like this: Set aLink = Browser("Oracle PeopleSoft")_ .Page("Request Payment Predictor")_ .WebTable("Run Control ID").

. - Da vi omtalte denne trenden sa jeg at jeg var bombesikker på at norske menn ikke kom seg til å la seg inspirere av den. Nå har Antonsen og Golden likevel testet den ut, men som de sier selv er dette hverken praktisk eller fint, sier hun. Hun lar seg likvel imponere at Antonsens nye stil på de ferske motebilden. - Antonsens nye frisyre er imponerende. Med barbert hode og skjegg ser han nesten ut som kjendisstylist John André Hanøy - dette kledde han, skryter Vold. Publisert: 24.08.13 kl. 09:00 Oppdatert: 24.08.13 kl. 11:23 Les også Mer om KulturAs CICIG’s mandate comes to an end this week, here’s why the anti-corruption body mattered and what happens next. Guatemala City – Guatemalans are concerned that corruption will flourish with a vengeance following the imminent shutdown of an international commission against impunity. Saturday marked one year since Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales announced he would not renew the mandate of the United Nations-backed International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG). Over the past 12 years, CICIG has worked alongside Guatemalan investigators and prosecutors to dismantle criminal networks entwined with state power. “CICIG was an innovative experiment,” UN representative Laura Flores said earlier this month. “It became a landmark on a global scale,” she added. As CICIG’s mandate officially comes to an end on Tuesday, here are five things to know about the UN-backed anti-corruption body: 1. CICIG was never just about corruption CICIG’s prominence skyrocketed in 2015 when the commission’s investigations into a criminal network involving the tax and customs agency led to the resignation and arrest of then-President Otto Perez Molina, then-Vice President Roxana Baldetti and other officials on fraud, bribery and other charges. The roots of the La Linea corruption ring stretched back decades to networks established under military rule in the midst of a 36-year civil war between the military and leftist rebel forces. An estimated 200,000 people were killed during the 1960-1996 conflict. A truth commission and courts have concluded state actors committed acts of genocide against indigenous Mayan civilians. During the war, military and intelligence forces spawned lasting criminal networks operating as hidden powers behind the scenes of politics and business. They are known in Guatemala as CIACS: illegal groups and clandestine security apparatuses. A woman holds up a sign with portrait of Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales that reads in Spanish ‘national shame’, during a rally in support of CICIG in Guatemala City [File: Moises Castillo/AP Photo] As part of the Peace Accords that ended the armed conflict, the government acknowledged its obligation to combat any manifestation of CIACS. A court ruling halted a 2004 government agreement with the UN to investigate CIACS, but renegotiations led to the creation of CICIG in 2007. CICIG is often dubbed an “anti-corruption body”, but the prosecution of high-level officials is just one tangible result of a much deeper objective. The commission has also worked on substantial electoral and judicial reforms. 2. Clandestine apparatuses ‘maintain state control’ CICIG’s mandate is ending precisely because the commission has managed to get to the root of the problem in Guatemala, head commissioner Ivan Velasquez said on Wednesday during the presentation of CICIG’s final report. 190705150858561 “CIACS have the state in their power,” he said, adding that the commission got too close to the central nucleus of the clandestine apparatuses. The report, Guatemala: Captured State, reveals how CIACS operate as illegal political-economic networks at all levels and branches of government with power that extends far beyond any one administration. CICIG brought forward more than 120 cases, obtained more than 400 convictions, and uncovered more than 70 criminal networks, but its work was far from over. “The absence of CICIG opens the door for the actors identified as those responsible for structures dedicated to corruption and impunity, especially with regard to the management of state funds, to feel free to continue to operate,” Iduvina Hernandez, director of the Association for the Study and Promotion of Security in Democracy, told Al Jazeera. “That freedom can be found in the fact that they are returning to their origin, which is that they are illegal groups and clandestine security apparatuses – structures of repression that exercise power and have ties to organised crime,” she said. 3. The CICIG crisis is not just about CICIG In 2017, CICIG began investigating President Morales and the ruling FCN party for alleged illegal campaign financing during 2015 presidential election, when Morales ran on an anti-corruption platform. Morales’ son and brother also came under investigation for corruption but were both acquitted this month. Morales and his allies began taking action against CICIG and commissioner Velasquez in 2017 and have not stopped since. After Morales announced in 2018 he would not renew CICIG’s mandate, the government declared Velasquez a threat to national security and barred him from entering the country. Morales accused CICIG of selective and ideologically motivated prosecution, claiming the commission was violating Guatemalan law and sowing “judicial terror” in the country. A demonstrator holds up a poster of Guatemala President Jimmy Morales as a prisoner, during a protest against Morales’s decision to not renew the mandate of CICIG [File: Luis Echeverria/Reuters] The Constitutional Court ruled against the ban, but the Morales government openly defied the ruling, prompting an ongoing crisis of constitutional order and the rule of law that transcends CICIG. Led primarily by targets of criminal investigations, including Morales, the campaign to shut down CICIG has been accompanied by attempts to undermine and even remove critical Guatemalan institutions and officials: the Constitutional Court, the head of the Special Anti-impunity Prosecutor’s Office (FECI), and the human rights ombudsman. FECI was created in 2008 to work with CICIG. FECI actually prosecutes the cases; CICIG has been a joint plaintiff. After months of uncertainty about FECI’s future in the wake of the CICIG shutdown, the attorney general reaffirmed Thursday that FECI will continue with existing and additional staff. The dozens of highly-trained Guatemalans who worked directly for CICIG are reportedly under consideration, but no commitment has been made to incorporate them. 4. CICIG will not be back anytime soon General elections were held in June. Polls have consistently shown more than 70 percent of Guatemalans support CICIG. Thousands have protested Morales’ decision to end the mandate, and several presidential contenders pledged to fight for its extension or return, but none of them secured a place in the August 11 presidential runoff election. “There is a high level of support for CICIG. But people did not manage to translate that into clear political party positions,” Jose Carlos Sanabria, socio-political unit director at the Association for Research and Social Studies, told Al Jazeera of the runoff. 170902170317359 President-elect Alejandro Giammattei proposed a new national commission against corruption. It will comprise three Guatemalans selected following dialogue with various sectors, he said this week, without providing details about its scope or functions. Giammattei, who will take office on January 14, also stated that US officials are on board with his proposed commission. The United States government was a key CICIG supporter and funder for its first 10 years, but then essentially gave the Morales administration a tacit green light to shut it down. The UN will continue to prioritise support for the justice sector, UN Resident Coordinator in Guatemala Rebeca Arias said on Thursday at the attorney general’s news conference addressing the future of FECI. 5. The future of the judiciary is at stake The elections of Giammattei and the next congress are not the only ones to coincide with the CICIG shutdown this year. Key judicial appointment processes are currently under way. Supreme Court judges serve five-year terms, designed to differ from four-year executive and legislative branch terms. But this year they line up. Special commissions are currently accepting Supreme Court and Appeals Court nominee applications, and the commissions will eventually decide which nominees make it to congress session votes. The appointment process is moving quickly and is expected to be completed by the current, outgoing legislators, many of whom are subjects of CICIG investigations. “The actors identified as CIACS who feel they are free (to) have the opportunity to consolidate the cooptation of the justice system,” said Hernandez. “With the elections of the courts in these conditions, Guatemala is not so much taking a step backward as it is standing in front of a precipice, taking a step forward,” she said.Muslims across the globe marked the religious festival of Ashura with parades, marches and some

preventing the parent's presence are likely to continue indefinitely.   M.R. , slip op. at 3-4 (holding that the trial court did not err when it denied a continuance to a mother confined to psychiatric hospital when her interests at the termination hearing were represented by counsel). In this case, the record does not support a finding that respondent had adequate notice of the best interests hearing.  Although the trial court stated that respondent was present in court when it set a date for the best interests hearing, the record does not support the trial court's assertion.  The report of proceedings for August 11, 1999, contains no indication that respondent was present and clearly indicates that her attorney was not present when the trial court set November 8, 1999, as the date for the best interests hearing.  Because respondent's attorney indicated that he had lost contact with respondent, we cannot presume that notice to her attorney was communicated to respondent.   Cf. C.L.T. , 302 Ill. App. 3d at 778 (holding that notice to counsel was a reasonable means of providing notice to the mother).  Kasper's testimony suggests that respondent was aware that the best interests hearing was scheduled.  However, we do not find this statement to Kasper sufficient to establish that notice of the hearing was provided by reasonable means or that respondent's absence constituted a voluntary relinquishment of her due process rights. More importantly, unlike M.R. and C.L.T. , respondent's interests were not represented by counsel at the hearing.  This lack of representation is particularly significant in light of the failure to comply with the requirements of Supreme Court Rule 13.  We conclude that the trial court erred when it granted respondent's counsel leave to withdraw without requiring compliance with Supreme Court Rule 13 and that the trial court compounded this error when it conducted the best interests hearing in respondent's absence.  Although the decision to continue a juvenile proceeding is a matter committed to the trial court's discretion, and this court appreciates the trial court's efforts to conclude this matter to insure J.P.'s stability, the combination of errors in this case deprived respondent of her right to due process.  Therefore, the trial court's decision to conduct the hearing in respondent's absence constituted an abuse of that discretion. We also note that the trial court stated that its ruling on the best interests of J.P. was based, in part, on respondent's addiction to cocaine and her failure to address her addiction.  A trial court's determination of whether a parent is unfit and whether the termination of parental rights is in the child's best interest must be based only on evidence properly admitted during the termination-of-parental-rights proceedings.  See In re A.B. , 308 Ill. App. 3d 227, 239 (1999); In re J.G. , 298 Ill. App. 3d 617, 629 (1998).  In this case, no evidence was presented during the best interests hearing that respondent was addicted to cocaine.  Further, because the trial court did not make a determination regarding the factual basis for respondent's admission, her admission of unfitness provides no support for the trial court's conclusion that she is addicted to cocaine.  The record does suggest that respondent is addicted to cocaine, and we presume that the trial court's assertion was based on its knowledge of the underlying proceedings.  However, during a typical proceeding to terminate parental rights, a trial court will likely receive various service plans and reports that may contain information that is hearsay or otherwise inadmissible.   J.G. , 298 Ill. App. 3d at 628-29.  Wholesale judicial notice of all matters occurring prior to the unfitness hearing is unnecessary and inappropriate, and a  trial court should only take judicial notice of those portions of the underlying court files that have been proffered by the State and to which the respondent is given an opportunity to object.   A.B. , 308 Ill. App. 3d at 238-39; J.G. , 298 Ill. App. 3d at 629.  Therefore, the trial court erred when it considered respondent's alleged addiction in its best interests determination, and on remand we caution the trial court to limit its consideration to the evidence presented to it and properly admitted. Finally, we wish to address some issues related to respondent's conduct.  We cannot, on the record before us, make a definitive finding regarding respondent's mental state.  However, if true, respondent's statement to Kasper that she did not care whether the trial court conducted the best interests hearing in her absence because she could simply appeal the ruling suggests that respondent possessed a sufficient understanding of termination procedures to manipulate the system to her advantage.  Few legal procedures exist that are incapable of abuse, regardless of the efforts of the judiciary, by those who place their own interests ahead of the concerns of justice and fairness.  See In re Marriage of Thomas , 89 Ill. App. 3d 81, 84 (1980).  A respondent parent who wished to delay an unfitness finding could certainly do so by refusing to cooperate with counsel or failing to appear in court at strategic times.  When the alleged unfitness is the result of mental illness or drug addiction, similar delays may occur without a conscious effort on the parent's part.  See M.R. , slip op. at 3.  A child's need for stability is significant and weighs heavily in favor of the swift determination of allegations of parental unfitness.   M.R. , slip op. at 3.  Accordingly, a trial court should not hesitate to determine fitness in the absence of a parent who is attempting to manipulate the system to her or his own advantage.  See C.L.T. , 302 Ill. App. 3d at 778.  However, when balancing a parent's interests and right to due process against the interests favoring a prompt disposition, a trial court must cautiously observe the relevant procedural requirements because a disposition that must be reversed on appeal serves neither interest. In conclusion, we hold that the trial court erred when it accepted respondent's admission of unfitness without determining that a factual basis existed for the admission in a manner analogous to that required by Supreme Court Rule 402(c) for guilty pleas in criminal cases.  Accordingly, we vacate respondent's admission of unfitness, reverse the order terminating her parental rights, and remand the cause for further proceedings consistent with this order. Reversed and remanded. INGLIS and RAPP, JJ., concur. Multi-phase or multi-component materials where solid and fluids are combined (slurries and suspensions, for example) may be separated into the respective solid, semi-solid, or fluid components and subcomponents thereof. Complex multi-component materials may be difficult to separate because of particle sizes, fluid viscosities, interactions between the materials, etc. Depending on the desired end use of a subcomponent, separation of some multi-component materials may be too labor intensive or time consuming to warrant separating the materials. For example, in arthroplasty procedures, the materials removed from the subject during bone bed preparation or bone reaming include a mixture of cartilage, bone chips, surrounding blood and fluids, and the dense spongy material known as bone marrow. The bone reaming materials can include beneficial undifferentiated cells, such as mesenchymal stem cells, white blood cells, and platelets which may be used to expedite the healing of the injury site and incision or may be used as therapy in other procedures. To separate the bone reaming materials into the beneficial mesenchymal stem cells is a multi-step process and can occupy hours of preparation and waiting time. An exemplary separation process includes precipitating the unwanted cells via culturing, plating, incubating the preparation, and then washing and centrifuging the preparation several times to concentrate the desired stem cells. This process is time consuming, labor intensive, and inefficient—characteristics that are neither desirable in a self-paced laboratory environment, nor desirable under surgical conditions and time restraints. Accordingly, despite the vast applications of the undifferentiated cells, white blood cells, and platelets in bone reaming material, the extensive labor in separation is too burdensome and therefore, the bone reaming material or bone reaming “debris” is discarded. Whole blood and fluids from the arthoplasty procedure may also be discarded despite the beneficial components. Like the bone reaming material, these fluids have fractions that may be used to expedite healing and promote tissue health. For example, the whole blood may be separated into platelets, red blood cells, and plasma by density in a device such as a centrifuge. Nonetheless, these methods do not provide a simple or efficient method to extract any more than one fraction and especially a fraction other than the top fraction. Even in these systems, multiple spins may be required to effectively separate the constituents without commingling the sample. These same difficulties may be encountered even using systems incorporating a float or other device that is disposed within the sample at the interfaces of the different fractions during the centrifuge process. Additionally, the current separation systems are generally designed to separate only same phase components and do not work with multiple states of matter such as partial fluid mixtures which contain macroparticles or large sized particles, such as the bone reaming materials described above. Therefore, it is desired to provide a device to allow for collection of selected constituents from a multi-component material having macroparticles. It is desired to provide a device to allow for the easy and reproducible removal of a particular fraction which does not happen to be the top fraction of a sample. It is desired to remove the required sample without mixing the different fractions during the extraction

. In sentencing Wilson, the trial court found Wilson’s criminal history to be an aggravating factor and his mental disability to be a mitigating factor. After considering each of these factors, the trial court imposed an enhanced, aggregate forty-year term.6 Again, in challenging his sentence, Wilson claims that the trial court abused its discretion by failing to find his youth to be a mitigating factor. The allegation that the trial court failed to find a mitigating factor requires Wilson to establish that the mitigating evidence is both significant and clearly supported by the record. Anglemyer, 868 N.E.2d at 493. “However, ‘[i]f the trial court does not find the existence of a mitigating factor after it has been argued by counsel, the trial court is not obligated to explain why it has found that the factor does not exist.’” Id. (quoting Fugate v. State, 608 N.E.2d 6 Indiana Code section 35-50-2-4 (2008) provides that a person who commits a Class A felony shall be imprisoned for a fixed term of between twenty and fifty years, with the advisory sentence being thirty years. Indiana Code section 35-50-2-5 (2008) provides that a person who commits a Class B felony shall be imprisoned for a fixed term of between six and twenty years, with the advisory sentence being ten years. 5 1370, 1374 (Ind. 1993)). Likewise, the trial court is not “obligated to weigh or credit the mitigating factors the way a defendant suggests they should be weighed or credited.” Abel v. State, 773 N.E.2d 276, 280 (Ind. 2002). “‘[I]f the defendant fails to advance a mitigating circumstance at sentencing, this court will presume that the factor is not significant, and the defendant is precluded from advancing it as a mitigating circumstance for the first time on appeal.’” Creekmore v. State, 853 N.E.2d 523, 530 (Ind. Ct. App. 2006), clarified on denial of reh’g (quoting Wells v. State, 836 N.E.2d 475, 479 (Ind. Ct. App. 2005)). Wilson concedes that his trial counsel did not argue that his youth should be considered to be a mitigating factor at sentencing. Wilson, however, argues that the trial court abused its discretion by failing to consider his youth to be a mitigating factor because his age was correctly listed in the pre-sentence investigation report. In making his claim, Wilson acknowledges that a defendant’s youth is not automatically a significant mitigating circumstance, but argues that, under the facts and circumstances presented here, it should have been considered mitigating. See generally, Gross v. State, 769 N.E.2d 1136, 1141 n.4 (Ind. 2002) (providing that while a defendant’s youth may be a mitigating factor in some circumstances, age is not a per se mitigating factor). Wilson asserts that in light of his mental disabilities, which he acknowledges that the trial court found to be a mitigating factor, his youth should also have been considered a mitigating factor because, at the time he committed the instant crimes, he was more immature and less able to control his impulses than other nineteen-year-olds. For its part, the State asserts that because Wilson failed to advance his youth as a 6 mitigating circumstance at sentencing, this court should presume that it is not significant and conclude that Wilson is precluded from advancing it as a mitigating circumstance for the first time on appeal. See Creekmore, 853 N.E.2d at 530. We agree. However, in light of our preference for deciding claims on their merits, we will nonetheless entertain Wilson’s claim on appeal. Again, a defendant’s youth is not automatically a significant mitigating factor. See Gross, 769 N.E.2d at 1141 n.4. Upon review, we conclude that Wilson’s youth does not warrant significant mitigating consideration as his actions are more akin to those of a hardened criminal than those of an immature nineteen-year-old. The record demonstrates that Wilson acted purposefully in carrying out his part of the conspiracy to break into the Killingers’ home and rob them of certain items. Wilson went with Warfield, Bronough, and Hittle to a store to purchase certain materials which could be used in furtherance of their crimes, entered the Killingers’ home carrying an AK-47, and upon entering the home, switched weapons with Warfield and shot an unarmed Brian Killinger in the stomach and in the arm. Moreover, Wilson’s criminal history indicates that he had previously been involved in at least two burglaries as a juvenile and one as an adult. Thus, in light of Wilson’s apparent predilection for committing burglaries, we can say with confidence that we believe that the trial court would have imposed the same sentence even if it had considered Wilson’s age to be a mitigating factor. As such, we conclude that the trial court acted within its discretion in sentencing Wilson. See Anglemyer, 868 N.E.2d at 490-91. The judgment of the trial court is affirmed. 7 VAIDIK, J, and CRONE, J., concur. 8 For the Love Mike **Also by Rhys Bowen** The Molly Murphy Mysteries _Death of Riley_ _Murphy's Law_ The Constable Evans Mysteries _Evan Only Knows_ _Evans to Betsy_ _Evan Can Wait_ _Evan and Elle_ _Evanly Choirs_ _Evan Help Us_ _Evans Above_ | | # For the Love Mike Rhys Bowen ---|---|--- St. Martin's Minotaur New York FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE. Copyright © 2003 by Rhys Bowen. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010. www.minotaurbooks.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bowen, Rhys. For the love of Mike / Rhys Bowen.—1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 0-312-31300-4 1. Murphy, Molly (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Women private investigators—New York (State)—New York—Fiction. 3. Irish American women—Fiction. 4. Women immigrants—Fiction. 5. New York (N.Y.)—Fiction. 6. Missing persons—Fiction. 7. Clothing trade—Fiction. I. Title. PR6052.O848F67 2003 823'.914—dc21 2003046819 First Edition: December 2003 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This book is dedicated to the memory of my great aunt Sarah, who shared Molly's spirit and also survived working in a sweatshop, going on to become a teacher and woman of letters. ## Acknowledgments With thanks to New Yorkers S. J. Rozan and Annette and Marty Meyers for believing in my books, to Rochelle Krich for attempting to set me straight on all things Jewish, and as always, special thanks to John, Clare, and Jane for their great suggestions and for making me work hard. For the Love Mike ## One _J. P. Riley and Associates, M. Murphy Notes: Monday, Oct. 14, 1901_ _Followed JBT from his office at 38 Wall Street. Observed him entering 135 E. Twelfth Street at approximately 7:40_ P.M. Actually I had been guessing at the time. I heard the clock on Grace Church, a couple of blocks away at Tenth and Broadway, chiming the half hour and it hadn't yet chimed the three quarters, but in my profession guessing wasn't really good enough. I'd just have to get myself a watch. I sensed my mother turning in her grave at the thought of such presumptive ideas. No one in Ballykillin had ever owned a watch, apart from the family at the big house, and they didn't count, being English. It was a pity I hadn't managed to get my hands on Paddy Riley's pocket watch before the police took his body away. Now it was probably on some sergeant's watch chain, where it was going to stay put, and as for myself, I wasn't making enough money to indulge in luxuries. If you want a real confession, I wasn't

one of latent depravity, the raunch manqué of an empty frat house. The floor's just the foundational concrete and the walls are exposed and painted-over cinder blocks and sheetrock and against them, lined up like day laborers, are the skis and the boards, both snow- and skate-. I figure that a few of the other adult campers, the skiers and snowboarders, must've brought skateboards, too, for night sessions in B.O.B., and I add mine to the bunch. There's a run-down pool table in the middle of the room, its baize the sallow color of a malnourished lawn. Behind that is the lounge area, where a pair of wizened leather couches face a wall-mounted TV that's playing a muted snowboard video for an audience of ghosts, shredders from hangs past. I head through the Spartan kitchen and back toward the color-coded bedrooms. When I dropped my stuff before orientation, I chose the only room that appeared to be unoccupied, the orange room, because as much as I wanted a friend, I still valued my privacy more. And during a quick survey of the place, my self-preservation antennae noted that while the door to the bathroom in the hall will close, the latch doesn't catch, let alone lock, so heads-up. On a sliding scale of coziness, I'd say we've ticked past Ski Chalet, past Dorm Room, and that we're maybe one busted pipe or shat-up toilet short of Orphanage. I unpack my extra shoes and jeans and my fifteen T-shirts. Why, pray tell, have I brought so many T-shirts? Because I am what you could call a sweater. My closest friends growing up, kids I skated with most often, sometimes called me "Sweatston." When comradely affection peaked or when I was particularly soaked after a long session, I was "Sweatston Knapsack." My hopes for getting a nickname this week are tinged with a fear that I will end up with this one again. My ibuprofen and Advanced Relief IcyHot go on the night table, along with my copy of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. For more than a decade I've been claiming I read this book when I was seventeen, while in fact I never have. But it's always sounded like something I wanted as part of my story, that I was the type of person who would've read Nietzsche in high school, on his own, unprompted. I can say I was a lot of things at seventeen—a semiserious skateboarder, the captain of my lacrosse team, an emotard who worked part-time at the Gap—but what I can't say is that I was a reader, not yet. I was envious of kids like that then, though, kids who had intellectual gumption and acted on their curiosity, who felt entitled to knowledge and not intimidated by it. That sort of freedom was still years off for me. To be curious means that you care about things and caring about these things, intellectual things, in the prevailing slacker aesthetic of the midnineties I grew up in, was to display a kind of sensitivity that opened you up to being called a pussy or, worse, gay, a faggot, and my sense of identity was way too fragile then to withstand charges like this, so I didn't flirt with them. I almost certainly would've pronounced Nietzsche's name as though it were an exotic martial art and paraded my ignorance around as something to be proud of. It's an abiding mystery of my life that this person ever existed, and it's even more baffling that this person was, and in irksome ways still is, me. No matter what I do to silence him—but it's stronger than that, to erase or exterminate him—there he remains, a cockroach of identity, a Groundhog Day–ish self I cannot wake all the way up from. (Evidence that this former self lives on in me? Time to time The Gay Science is still good for a fratty chuff. Ecce Homo, a Buttheady chortle.) In any case, I intend to make good on my claim during my time here, although, honestly, I still haven't decided whether I will come clean in the future or continue to say I read the book as a teen. Finally, as part of my campaign for friends, banking on junk food being an ageless staple of sleepaway camp, I've brought family-size packages of Double Stuf Oreos and Nutter Butters and Cheez-Its, which I drop on the cracked linoleum counter in the kitchen as I head outside to call Dad. The boards on the porch have gone soft with rot and on one of the two picnic tables there's a large piece of plywood painted robin's egg blue with WINDELLS written in white on either side. It's for beer pong, I deduce from experience. And the hot tub? Nowhere to be found. I catch Dad off a Father's Day golf outing with my youngest brother. When I tell him where I am, he laughs. In his version of the family mythos, Dad is responsible for getting me to stop skateboarding. So it goes, I was hanging out with a questionable crew in late middle and early high school and he stepped in and got me to play lacrosse, which he'd played D-1. But I skated all through high school, through my lacrosse days, and took a board to college. Strange as it is, given how often I've heard him tell this story, I've never corrected him. While I couldn't have said why until recently, I think I've always understood that he needed his version more than I needed him to know the correct one. No doubt the story's a product of his own nostalgia, his longing to return to what he must understand as his halcyon days, when he had three young boys and a wife, an intact family living in a house he owned, with a dogwood tree out front and a backyard that served as the setting for so much fun; when, I imagine, it wasn't quite so hard for him to feel full of purpose and meaning, days that must play in his mind now like a haunting phantasmagoria. On the flip side, I've also started to see that this nostalgia is responsible for a kind of arrested development. Because I'm not entirely convinced that Dad has known what to do with my brothers and me, since we became adults. The stories he tells of us are all taken from when we were young, when he fulfilled a more obvious "fatherly" role, and sometimes now when he looks at us he'll cock his head a little and on his face there'll appear something like confusion, something maybe like betrayal. But even he would have to admit that his presence in our lives started to fade after we entered college, as we drew closer to and then surpassed the age at which he had us. Given how little I feel he knows about me and my life now, I often wonder what he thinks of when he thinks of me. Does he see a young man all got up in a pair of billowy drawstring trousers from Structure and a black "ribbed" mock turtleneck he stole from his after-school job? Does he see a cloud of angst accessorized with a puka shell necklace and a hoop earring in each ear? More likely he sees me as a six- or seven- or nine-year-old boy, perhaps on my birthday, in our backyard, running an obstacle course that he set up for me and my twenty classmates, a steeplechase in the manner of American Gladiators, with different stations, different tests of strength and agility and speed, and which I continue to regard as a bellwether of my understanding of fun. Regardless, it makes me sad in an achy and emotardish way to think he sees someone who does not yet see himself. I've been thinking a great deal about fatherhood these days, mostly because Alexis and I have been trying to start a family of our own. Still speculative, this desire of ours exists in that vague and dreamy realm of possibility. It lacks the pinch of imminence, is a tornado watch and not a warning. And after we discuss it, I often feel like we've just been talking about what might have been, and not what could be—a strange and disorienting confusion of tenses. The most material thing to come of our talks is a pet theory that some men are more naturally disposed to be a father to younger kids, while others don't really hit their stride until the kids get older. I place Dad squarely in the former group and believe I will fall into the latter. But I suspect this is a theory born of ignorance, however well intentioned it might be, and that, in truth, it isn't and won't be so black and white. Maybe it's at once simpler and more complicated. Maybe we've never been great communicators, Dad and I. While on the phone with him, for example, I don't know what he's doing for work or where he lives exactly, but I do know that to ask after either would be to bring us into a muddied fen of confusion and awkwardness and discomfort, a low-lying and murky zone we do our best to avoid. When we do talk, Dad will often ask after my memories from a certain time or place fertile with family lore, but the sense I get is that he's not interested in hearing my memories so much as he is in corroborating

it will go through iterations and variations. In time, as systems mature, bugs are fixed, and pilots become more experienced, we can be sure that the F-35 will at least be a capable tool to warfighters. Argue the cost, argue the need, but making the argument that the folks at Lockheed all of a sudden forgot how to build capable fighter aircraft is absurd. ------ codeshaman Seems to me this F-35 is the pacifist's wet dream. It can't fight long or short range and even if it could, it can't kill because it's too slow. It doesn't respond to violence with violence, hence - pacifist. For ultimate peace making, they should equip it with pigeons and let the birds loose over the enemy territory, sending out love letters to everyone. Also balloons and candy for the enemy children would be appropriate. ------ exar0815 In the 1960s, we had some kind of the same fuckup in Germany, twice. Once the STarfighter/Lockheed affair [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-104_Starfighter#Ger...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-104_Starfighter#German_service) And at the moment basically the whole Bundeswehr in general. Google either: A400M, G36, Eurocopter Tiger... Edit: And the Eurofighter ------ mirimir It was arguably designed when radar stealth was a key advantage. But other detection technologies have since matured. And the Russians and Chinese have redesigned faster, perhaps relying on stolen plans and test results. So maybe it's time to drop the F-35, and copy Russian and Chinese designs. ~~~ engi_nerd Look at this image: [http://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Photo- compa...](http://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Photo-comparison- of-the-U.S.-F-35-left-and-Chinese-J-20.-China-obtained-F-35-design-data- in-2007-through-cyberespionage.-Chinese-Internet.jpeg) F-35 on the left, Chinese J-20 on the right. We don't have to copy Chinese designs, they already copied ours. ~~~ mirimir Yes, that's well known. But maybe, in addition to copying many features, the Chinese tweaked other stuff. Maybe they tweaked heat management, agility, IR etc sensors, and so on. And maybe they also hacked the Russians and Japanese, and combined best features. Overall, maybe the J-20 looks a lot like a F-35a might look. That's a lot of "maybes", I admit. But it would be foolish to ignore the possibilities, no? ~~~ engi_nerd Well, a certain degree of paranoia about these things is healthy. So I will not dismiss your scenario, though I believe it is unlikely. EDIT: And there's no "maybe" about if the J-20 resembles the F-35... ~~~ mirimir Unlikely? Hard to say. And yes, the J-20 closely resembles the F-35. There's no doubt about that. But in any case, I do think that it could be a productive scenario for the US military :) ~~~ engi_nerd Yes, hard to say. That's why I said, "I believe"...gut feeling, no evidence either way. ------ vilhelm_s Who is this Joseph Trevithick guy anyway? His linked in profile says "Journalist and researcher with experience using various open source and public domain resources", "Acted as an on call military history consultant for various miniatures gaming products." I feel a lot of the reasoning seems a little dubious. > Russian radars, such as the one on the new Sukhoi Su-35, at least match the > JSF’s APG-81, according to data compiled by Carlo Kopp at Air Power > Australia. While the specific details remain secret, Kopp estimates ... Air Power Australia have a MASSIVE axe to grind when it comes to the F-35. They also have a history of publishing things that look like F-22 fanfiction (e.g. an article saying that navalizing the F-22 should be a piece of cake, [http://www.ausairpower.net/APA- NOTAM-230209-1.html](http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-NOTAM-230209-1.html)). > But take a look at the F-35’s engine nozzle. It’s round. Highly stealthy > planes such as America’s B-2 bomber and F-22 fighter both boast flat engine > nozzles that spread out their exhaust plumes, I think they are flat mostly to shape radar reflections. I think the fact that the B-2 exhaust nozzle is on the upper half of the aircraft also is supposed to help the IR signature, but does the flatness really affect anything? > Even with its radar off, an F-35 could struggle to hide from enemy planes > ... “You can’t stealthify against long-wavelength radars” Sure, but this affects every airplane, it's not a weakness of the F-35. > The F-35’s limited weaponry was one of the major problems that a > controversial simulation highlighted back in 2008. Well, it was indeed controversial. As one article puts it "RAND’s core conclusion is not about specific fighter performance. It’s about the theoretical limits of better performance under adverse basing and logistics conditions."([http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/the-f-35s-air-to-air- cap...](http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/the-f-35s-air-to-air-capability- controversy-05089/)). In particular, they concluded that the F-22 would also be completely outgunned, despite being indisputably the best air superiority fighter right now. The _War is Boring_ coverage of the F-35 in general strikes me as kindof shoddy, it's like they decided that writing snarky anti-F-35 articles is now part of their blog brand. ------ mckiddy The missile argument is a bit of a stretch to me. The F-35 can carry way more than four missiles if they're attached to the wings (like the Su-35 the author compares it to), it will just destroy any semblance of stealth. Comparison with the F-22 ([http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/planes/q0105.shtml](http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/planes/q0105.shtml)). ------ curiousjorge I feel that the f-35 was a great plane to start with but ruined by adding a VTOL capabilities for the Marines. Why the hell does Marines Corp need fighter jets? Doesn't the Navy already have it? Doesn't the Air Force? Does this mean the Army will get it's own fighter jets? I don't understand why every branch of the military in the US needs a jet apart from Navy and Air ~~~ bkohlmann Much of this is rooted in history - namely Guadalcanal. The USMC was very angry at Naval Aviation for "abandoning" them on the beaches without Close Air Support while the Navy instead flew missions to protect their Fleet. The USMC demanded an increased in their organic capabilities to support THEIR mission -- boots on the ground. ------ ForHackernews Who cares? Air-to-air combat is exceedingly rare these days, and in the very near future no piloted aircraft will be able to keep up with a drone anyway (smaller, lighter, able to pull G-forces that would black out or kill a human pilot). ~~~ TheOtherHobbes There is no "very near future" in military spending. It will take at least five and probably ten years to get a working high-G drone design with equivalent capability off the drawing board and into the air. Meanwhile the F-35 is a fiasco for US and NATO force projection. The whole point of modern weapons - ugly and expensive as they are - is that they're supposed to be so intimidating you barely need to use them. The F-35 fails to continue that tradition. The political consequences are going to be a lot more significant than the military ones. ~~~ ForHackernews > It will take at least five and probably ten years to get a working high-G > drone design with equivalent capability off the drawing board and into the > air. Do you think we're going to have a shooting war with China or Russia before 2025? Because those are the

electromagnetically actuate machine balancer, entitled “Electromagnetically actuated rotating machine unbalance compensator”. This design pertains to a matured active type dynamic balancing technique. However, because of the use of high precision bearings and permanent magnet arrays, this technique has the drawbacks of expensive cost and large dimension. During installation, the balancer cannot be kept inside the spindle and must be hung on the outside of the spindle. FIGS. 6 and 7 show an eddy-current actuated balancer according to the prior art. According to this design, a rotary disc (or ring) 93 is mounted on a spindle 91 and partially inserted into an air gap in an electro-magnet 99. The rotary disc 93 is secured to the spindle 91 by means of a friction force. When not actuated by an eddy current, the rotary disc 93 is synchronously rotated with the spindle 91. However, when a magnetic field component is perpendicularly acted upon the surface of the rotary disc 93, the magnetic field will induce an eddy current on the rotary disc 93, and the cross product of the induced eddy current and the magnetic field will cause formation of an actuation force on the rotary disc 93 in a tangent direction reversed to the direction of rotation. When this actuation force overcomes the friction force between the spindle 91 and the rotary disc 93, the rotary disc 93 will be forced to make an angular displacement relative to the spindle 91, i.e. the spindle 91 and the rotary disc 93 will not rotate synchronously. By means of the aforesaid eddy current actuation principle, applying a pulse current to the electro-magnet 99 to generate a pulsed magnetic force on the rotating rotary disc 93 can induce a pulsed eddy-current actuation force on the surface of the rotary disc 93. When this pulsed eddy-current actuation force overcomes the friction force between the spindle 91 and the rotary disc 93, the rotary disc 93 will be forced to make an angular displacement relative to the spindle 91. In FIG. 7, the imaginary circles indicate an eddy current; the arrowhead direction indicates the current flowing direction. This pulsed eddy-current actuated balancing technique has the advantage of capable of driving the rotary disc 93 to make an angular displacement relative to the spindle 91 without touching the rotary disc 93. When compared to U.S. Pat. No. 5,757,662, this pulsed eddy-current actuated balancing technique has simple structure and small size characteristics.With advances in the widespread acceptance of CATV (cable television) systems and the like of recent years accompanied by a large number of channels for offering varieties of information, the trend is giving rise to a need for a single audio-video data recording and reproducing apparatus which, unlike conventional VTRs (video tape recorders), records or reproduces simultaneously a plurality of channels of audio-video data or reproduces one channel of data while recording another channel of data. The need is being met by growing popularization of an apparatus called a video server (or AV (Audio and/or Video) server) for recording and reproducing audio and video data using nonlinear accessible storage medium such as hard disks. Generally, video servers used by broadcasting stations need to have high data transfer rates to meet rigorous requirements of image and sound qualities, as well as large storage capacities for recording data for extended periods of time. Attempts to meet the above needs include the use of data recording and reproducing equipment comprising a plurality of hard disk (hereinafter called "HD") drives which may store video and audio data and which are accessible in parallel. Further, attempts to meet the needs for ensuring reliability include recording parity data in the event of failure of any HD drives. A multi-channel video server is implemented which is capable of addressing diverse modes of use such that a VOD (video on demand) system or an NVOD (near video on demand) system is constituted, by recording raw data composed of a plurality of items of audio and video data in a distributed fashion so as to output multi-channel data simultaneously or reproducing the same raw data in a temporally staggered manner for multi-channel reproduction, even if a number of data channels required by the contents of programs or broadcasts offered by broadcasting stations is different. The above type of video server employs a data recording and reproducing apparatus based on RAID (redundant arrays of inexpensive disks) techniques involving the use of a plurality of hard disk drives (called HDDs hereunder) each comprising a plurality of HDs, proposed in 1988 by Patterson et al., in "A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)", ACM SIGMOND Conference, Chicago, Ill., Jun. 1-3, 1998. In the paper cited above, the RAID techniques are grouped into five categories: RAID-1 through RAID-5. RAID-1 is a technique for writing the same contents to two HDDs. RAID-3 is a technique for dividing input data into equal lengths and writing the divided data to a plurality of HDDs while generating parity data and writing the generated parity data to another HDD, the parity data being acquired by exclusive-OR'ing corresponding data blocks between HDDs. RAID-5 is a technique for enlarging data divisions (blocks) and writing each data division as a data block to one HDD, whereby the result of exclusive-OR'ing any two corresponding data blocks between HDDs (i.e., parity data) is written as a parity block to another HDD as well as to further HDDs in a distributed manner. When reading data from at least two discontinuous areas of HDDs illustratively over a predetermined period of time, the above type of AV server (video server) reads the data in an order designated by a command. Where data are read from the HDD areas in the command-designated order, the area order may or may not be advantageous for access to the HDD areas. That is, when area order designated by command coincides with address order of the areas in the HDDs on which the data are recorded, reading the data from the areas in the order designated by command may be advantageous of less amount of access time. This is because the time to seek the HDDs in relation to access to the areas is minimized as head is moved according to the address order when reading the data. On the other hand, when area order designated by command does not coincide with address order of the areas in the HDDs on which the data are recorded, the order designated by the command is disadvantageous because the head may not access the areas in the order designated by the command and then, the traveling distance of head over the areas is extended and the HDD seek time is prolonged. It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus for reading data, data input/output device and others whereby the efficiency of data transfer is enhanced.I have a mining rig with 4 Sapphire 5830's running BAMT - air cooled. Been running it for a few months at 65*C average. Yesterday one of the card's fans died and the temperature on that card jumped to mid 90*C. I've found few threads talking about similar cases here, but none offered "ultimate" solution.It seems finding the replacement fan is not easy... and not very practical either.Following suggestions in other threads I've placed a 90mm high speed fan on top of died oneand stuck 60mm fan on the front and another 90mm on the back of that card.The temperature is hovering around ~80*C on that card now... According to BAMT it's right on border of "being dangerous"... what do you think?Should I:- keep like this? - try to repair it? (cost effective?)- turn it off and run without (eliminates the possibility of fire)? Thanks Selling gold & silver for Bitcoins.Please send me PM, if you have any questions. Believe it or not, that's actually not the worst this card been through...That same night, the accounting girl "felt hot" in the evening and turn off the a/c... and left it off for the night!In the morning the office was at 98*F and the cards were at running at 100*C+ !!! Right now, they are all still running at 300Mhs each with 2% dead... I guess, it's ok... Selling gold & silver for Bitcoins.Please send me PM, if you have any questions. ... I do not exactly have a case... ... it's kind of thrown together type of of deal...... before Bitcoin it was a wire-shelf... like this: But, yeah, you are 100% right, I will be careful not to burn down the office.Still need a real job after all... Seriously, buy cases or design one. Number one, cases allow for controlled airflow and controlled thermal manipulation. Number two they allow realistic cooling systems that might be a bit more expensive but will actually extend the life of your components. Number 3, cases (custom or OtR) allow you to ensure that hardware failure doesn't damage other components. Take some time on ACAD or just drawing it out, and design what you need. You'll thank yourself for it. If nothing else, keep an eye on the military/government surplus sites and see if you can grab some old DARPA or USAF cases. I've got an old USAF case that I used for my server that I picked up for $5 at an auction that had refrigeration, room for multiple motherboards, and all kinds of good stuff. Yes, for sure properly designed case with calculated airflow does extend components live. Our main company has their own NOC. There we maintain proper everything... But this thing was

a mechanical fashion, as the only way to react to the latest shock. I didn't think so at the time, but those crimes (magnicides, they called them in the press: I learned the meaning of that little word very early) had provided the backbone of my life or punctuated it like the unexpected visits of a distant relative. I was fourteen years old that afternoon in 1984 when Pablo Escobar killed or ordered the killing of his most illustrious pursuer, the Minister of Justice Rodrigo Lara Bonilla (two hit men on a motorcycle, a curve on 127th Street). I was sixteen when Escobar killed or ordered the killing of Guillermo Cano, publisher of El Espectador (a few steps away from the newspaper's offices, the assassin put eight bullets in his chest). I was nineteen and already an adult, although I hadn't voted yet, on the day of the death of Luis Carlos Galán, a presidential candidate, whose assassination was different or is different in our imaginations because it was seen on TV: the crowd cheering Galán, then the machine-gunfire, then the body collapsing on the wooden platform, falling soundlessly or its sound hidden by the uproar or by the first screams. And shortly afterwards there was the Avianca plane, a Boeing 727-21 that Escobar had blown up in mid-air – somewhere in the air between Bogotá and Cali – to kill a politician who wasn't even on board. So all the billiard players lamented the crime with a resignation that was by then a sort of national idiosyncrasy, the legacy of our times, and then we went back to our respective games. All, I mean, except for one whose attention remained riveted to the screen, where the images had moved on to the next news item and were now showing a scene of neglect: a bullring full of weeds as high as the flagpoles (or as high as the place where flags once flew), a roof over several vintage cars that were rusting away, a gigantic tyrannosaurus whose body was falling apart revealing a complicated metal structure, sad and naked like an old mannequin. It was the Hacienda Nápoles, Pablo Escobar's mythical territory, which had once been the headquarters of his empire, now left to its fate since the capo's death in 1993. The news item was about this neglect: the properties confiscated from the drug traffickers, the millions of dollars wasted by the authorities who didn't know how to make use of these properties, all the many things that could have been done and hadn't been done with those fairy-tale assets. And that was when one of the players at the table nearest the television, who up to that moment had not drawn attention to himself in any way, spoke as if talking to himself, but he did so out loud and spontaneously, like someone who, long used to solitude, had forgotten the very possibility of being heard. 'Well, let's see what they do with the animals,' he said. 'Poor things are starving to death and nobody cares.' Someone asked him what animals he was talking about. The man just said: 'It's not their fault, anyway.' Those were the first words I heard Ricardo Laverde say. He didn't say anything else: he didn't clarify which animals he was talking about, or say how he knew they were starving to death. But no one asked again, because we were all old enough to remember the Hacienda Nápoles in its better days. The zoo was a legendary place, a millionaire drug baron's eccentricity, that promised visitors a spectacle that didn't belong to these latitudes. I'd gone when I was twelve, during the Christmas holidays; I had gone there, of course, behind my parents' back: the very idea of their son setting foot on the property of a recognized Mafioso would have been scandalous to them, let alone the thought of him enjoying himself there. But I couldn't resist going to see what everyone was talking about. I accepted the invitation from the parents of a friend; one weekend we got up very early to make the six-hour drive from Bogotá to Puerto Triunfo; and once inside the ranch, after passing under the big stone gate (with the name of the property in thick blue letters), we spent the afternoon among Bengal tigers and Amazonian macaws, pygmy horses and butterflies the size of a hand and even a pair of Indian rhinoceroses which, according to a boy with a Medellín accent and camouflage flak jacket, had just recently arrived. And then there were the hippos, of course, none of which had escaped yet in those glory days. So I knew very well what animals the man was talking about; I didn't know, however, that those few words would spring to mind almost fourteen years later. But all this I've thought since, obviously: that day, at the billiard club, Ricardo Laverde was just one more of so many in my country who'd followed the rise and fall of one of the most notorious Colombians of all time with astonishment, and I didn't pay him too much attention. What I do remember about that day is that he didn't strike me as intimidating: he was so thin that he seemed taller than he actually was, and you had to see him standing beside a cue to see that he was barely five foot seven; his thin mousy hair and his dried-out skin and his long, dirty nails gave an impression of illness or laziness, like land gone to waste. He'd just turned forty-eight, but he looked much older. Speaking seemed to be an effort for him, as if he couldn't get enough air; his hand was so unsteady that the blue tip of his cue always trembled in front of the ball, and it was almost miraculous that he didn't scratch more often. Everything about him seemed tired. One afternoon, after Laverde had gone, one of the guys he'd been playing with (a man around the same age but who moved better, who breathed better, who is undoubtedly still alive today and perhaps even reading this memoir) told me the reason without my having asked. 'It's prison,' he told me, revealing as he spoke the brief sparkle of a gold tooth. 'Jail tires a person out.' 'He was in prison?' 'Just got out. He was in there for something like twenty years, so they say.' 'And what'd he do?' 'Oh, that I don't know,' the man said. 'But he must have done something, no? Nobody gets that many years for nothing.' I believed him, of course, because nothing allowed me to think there was an alternative truth, because there was no reason at that moment to question that first innocent and ingenuous version that someone gave me of Ricardo Laverde's life. I thought how I'd never known an ex-convict before – the expression ex-convict, anyone would notice, is the best proof of that – and my interest in getting to know Laverde grew, or my curiosity grew. A heavy sentence always impresses a young man like I was back then. I calculated that I was barely walking when Laverde went to prison, and no one can be invulnerable to the idea of having grown up and gone to school and discovered sex and maybe death (that of a pet and then a grandfather, for example), and having had lovers and suffered painful break-ups and come to know the power of deciding, the satisfaction or regret resulting from decisions, the power to hurt and the satisfaction or guilt in doing so, and all this while a man lives the life without discoveries or apprenticeships that invariably results from a sentence of such length. A life unlived, a life that runs through one's fingers, a life one suffers through while knowing that it belongs to someone else: to those who don't have to suffer. And almost without my noticing we began to approach each other. At first it happened by chance: I applauded one of his cannons, for example – the man had a knack for shots off the cushion – and then I invited him to play at my table or asked for permission to play on his. He accepted reluctantly, as an initiate receives a novice, in spite of the fact that I was a better player than him and that by teaming up with me Laverde could, at last, stop losing. But then I discovered that losing didn't matter much to him: the money he put down on the emerald-coloured felt at the end of a game, those two or three dark and wrinkled notes, was part of his daily expenditure, a debit already accepted in his budget. Billiards was not a pastime for him, or even a competition, but rather the only way Laverde had at that moment of being in society: the sound of the balls hitting each other, of the wooden counters on the scoreboard, of the blue chalk rubbing against the old leather cue tips, all this made up his public life. Outside those corridors, without a billiard cue in his hand, Laverde was unable to have a normal conversation, let alone a relationship. 'Sometimes I think,' he told me the only time we talked somewhat seriously, 'I've never looked anyone in the eye.' It was an exaggeration, but I'm not sure the man was exaggerating on purpose. After all, he wasn't looking me in the eye when he said those words. Now that so many years have passed, now that I remember with the benefit of an understanding I didn't have then, I think of that

X direction, 3% for the Y direction, and 2.6% for the Z direction. Using 32 subjects the intraday and interday reliability was good. The validity of the method was satisfactory for acquiring measurements of the spinal column.Today the development of legal procedures regarding equality between men and women, the advancement of gender theory, feminist thinking and social changes are recognizable as women’s successes. However, issues such as gender violence, precariousness, or the wage gap endure and are some of the most serious problems of modern society. One of the most relevant cases of gender violence in recent years in Spain and that has had a strong impact around the world is known as “La Manada” (The Herd). La Manada was an act of sexual violence that took place in Navarra, Spain, on July 7, 2016. Five men sexually abused an 18-year-old woman during the San Fermín festivities. The case was one of the most followed by public opinion and caused great controversy because the main defense strategy used by the abusers relied on attacks towards the victim’s attitude during the event. According to Carmen Ruiz Repullo, professor and researcher at the Pablo de Olavide University, “sexual violence is much more established in society than we think. We live in a culture of rape that continues to blame the victim and justify the culprit, which continues to use women as a sexual claim, which continues to reproduce sexist jokes that are not outrageous to all citizens. Finding girls who have not suffered some type of sexual violence is very unusual. When you approach the topic of sexual aggression and put on the table all the ways in which it is produced and reproduced, from compliment to multiple aggression, we can not find girls who have not suffered any of these aggressions“. The strong repercussion of this case is striking when similar situations that have taken place in Spain have gone much more unnoticed. To the expert, this is due to the current social moment. “The impact of the case La Manada is very related to the social moment we are living. The multiple aggression of La Manada has caused a social awakening of patriarchal anesthesia that had us asleep and numbed.” But also internationally, the accusations of sexual abuse in the film industry, the phenomenon #MeToo has also been fundamental to this awareness.” During the La Manada’s trial, many personalities and public figures defended the innocence of the accused, mainly alleging that the victim “did not resist the sexual act”. One of the judges who took the case, Ricardo Javier González, said it has nothing to do with the conduct constituting a sex crime. “The seriousness that socially assumes that a juridical person adopts this position is “a risk for all women”, “a justice that legislates against women” in favor of the aggressor’s brakes when it comes to filing a complaint, we are silenced, it leaves us at a judicial level”, says the teacher. “Currently, the reform of the [Spanish] Criminal Code” which is related to sexual crimes, contemplates various forms of sexual assault and resolve the issue of force does not imply consent. Not always that we consent means we want. However, whenever we wish, we consent” In addition, in 2017 a total of almost 30 thousand victims of gender violence were recognized, according to the National Institute of Statistics. According to the teacher, the policy and the possible release of the accused “would have meant a massive practice of the streets, social networks, and the media. But what worries me the most is that women have positioned themselves in a vulnerable legal and social position, there is not a single judicial system but society as a whole.” Among the multiple social reactions in the case of La Manada, mobilizations against the final sentence, the social abuse of foreign countries, the need to revise the penal code or the lack of training of traditional practices in the gender perspective. “From the case of La Manada, society has demanded a deep review of the administrations not only at the legislative level, but also at the social level. I hope that in a short time, we have a rule on the subject of sexual assault that protects women and really all forms of sexual assault that we suffer. “ The majority of victims of sexist violence do not consider that the aggressions suffered are crimes, a fact which, together with a high tolerance for social violence, means that few women initiate a judicial process. However, women are empowering themselves, conquering new spaces and achieving social change. “I do not think we are in a society where girls are more afraid than before, I think that now there is greater awareness about why we are afraid, why they have been inculcating it since childhood, and this is causing us to turn around , that we begin to face the fears to really be free and occupy the different spaces in freedom” said Professor Ruiz.Fox News host Sean Hannity's Twitter account briefly disappeared for a couple hours Friday night, prompting rampant speculation as to what happened. The disappearance occurred after Hannity sent out a mysterious tweet, which read: "Form Submission 1649 | #Hannity." After a few hours the verified account reappeared. Hannity has yet to tweet since the incident and Twitter did return a request for comment on what may have happened. The Daily Beast, however, did obtain a statement from a Twitter spokesperson, saying Hannity's account was "briefly compromised." “While we normally do not discuss individual accounts, for privacy and security reasons, we have permission from the account owner to confirm that account was briefly compromised. We are working with the owner to restore access," the Twitter spokesperson said. Hannity himself commented on his account troubles via two tweets Saturday evening. "I’m baaaccckk... a lot to say- Thanks for the support all you deplorable, irredeemables. Can’t get rid of me that easy. Too much work to do exposing #deepstategate—-Monday’s a big day…tick tock," he said. I just want to take a moment and thank my twitter friends for all of your support in the last 22 hours. It means more to me than you will ever know. God bless you all. Thank you Sean." I’m baaaccckk... a lot to say- Thanks for the support all you deplorable, irredeemables. Can’t get rid of me that easy. Too much work to do exposing #deepstategate---Monday’s a big day…tick tock. — Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) January 28, 2018 I just want to take a moment and thank my twitter friends for all of your support in the last 22 hours. It means more to me than you will ever know. God bless you all. Thank you Sean — Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) January 28, 2018 The tweet about "Form Submission 1649" by then had been deleted. Several politicos and journalists commented on the disappearance and what "Form Submission 1649" could mean, with some of them joking about some sort of conspiracy to silence the right-wing firebrand who is also a staunch supporter of President Trump. Notorious conspiracy theorist, Alex Jones of Infowars, suggested that the "deep state" took out the account. A search for Hannity's account at the time of its disappearance prompted only a screen that said: "Sorry, that page does not exist." Holy crap I thought it was a dream but Sean Hannity's Twitter account really did disappear. pic.twitter.com/E8JriaaQUH — Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) January 27, 2018 The account previously had more than 3.3 million followers according to a screen-capture archive, and appears to be recovering that number. It had 2.9 million by the end of Saturday. A similar incident happened in December to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. His follower count had significantly dropped upon account's return, but then dramatically rose back up. A spokeswoman for the company pointed out at the time that Twitter's guidance on reactivating an account says "account data (such as Tweets, followers, favorites, etc.) may take a few minutes to fully restore." Assange was one of the Twitter users who took note of Hannity's Twitter debacle. The most watched TV host in the U.S., @SeanHannity has his Twitter account (3.3 million followers) mysteriously disappear after tweeting "Submission Form 1649" https://t.co/jIw0Lq5K1m pic.twitter.com/Op3b2h24Zu — Julian Assange ⌛ (@JulianAssange) January 27, 2018 In the month prior to Assange's Twitter blackout, President Trump's very active Twitter account went dark for 11 minutes. But that was due to a Twitter customer support employee on his last day. In the case of Hannity, CNN's Donie O'Sullivan pointed out that Hannity's Twitter bio last week last week added the line: "Due to hackings, no DM’s!" No word on why @seanhannity's Twitter account went down last night. Hannity added this line to his Twitter bio just last week: "Due to hackings, no DM’s!" pic.twitter.com/wSqBYL6Rgu — Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) January 27, 2018 In recent weeks conservative figures and former Fox News employees appeared to

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Necrolytic migratory erythema is the distinctive cutaneous eruption seen with glucagon-producing tumours of the pancreas. Recognition of this eruption is important because it may lead to the early diagnosis of a glucagonoma. Recently, we saw a patient who had necrolytic migratory erythema, hyperglucagonaemia, and cirrhosis of the liver with no evidence of pancreatic tumour while alive or at autopsy. Serum glucagon levels during the period of observation and during an oral glucose tolerance test suggested that the hyperglucagonaemia was not due to an occult glucagon-producing tumour but may have been the result of advanced hepatic cirrhosis.1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a vulcanizing method and a vulcanizing apparatus of a tire capable of vulcanizing a tire at optimal temperature in accordance with various portions of the tire so as to enhance the performance of the tire. 2. Description of the Prior Art In general, when a tire is vulcanized, as shown in FIG. 5, a vulcanizing apparatus having an outer mold (a) having a tire forming barrel (a1), and a bladder (b) for pushing a raw tire (t) against an inner peripheral surface of the tire forming barrel (a1) is used. A tire is heated from outside by heat transmitted from heaters (h) provided on upper and lower platen plates (c) through the outer mold (a). The tire is heated from inside by high temperature thermal pressure medium (e) charged in the bladder (b), and the outside and inside of the tire is controlled to be constant temperature. On the other hand, characteristics required by various portions of the tire such as a tread portion, a side wall portion, and a bead portion are different. For example, the tread portion requires grip properties, wear resistance, crack resistance, low febriferous properties, and the like, so as to contact the ground to transmit the driving and braking forces. The side wall portion requires flexibility, crack resistance and weather resistance, so as to prevent the carcass from being injured, and so that the side wall portion can flexibly be bent. The bead portion requires rigidity, wear resistance and low febriferous properties so that the tire is fitted and fixed to the rim. Therefore, different compound rubbers are used for different portions of the tire for satisfying these individual requirements, and as the tire is sophisticated and the output becomes higher in recent years, the characteristics of the compound rubbers are enhanced. In order to allow the individual compound rubbers to exhibit the individual characteristics sufficiently, it is necessary to vulcanize the individual compound rubbers at optimal vulcanizing temperatures. However, in the conventional vulcanizing apparatus, since the outside and inside of the tire are controlled at constant temperature, it is difficult to sufficiently exploit the performance of the compound rubber, and the tire performance is deteriorated. Especially in a steam vulcanizing method using saturated steam as the thermal pressure medium, or in a gas vulcanizing method using a thermal pressure medium which is a mixture of steam and inert gas such as nitrogen gas, steam condensed in vulcanization tends to be accumulated at a lower side (s2) as drain (d), or low temperature inert gas and high temperature steam tend to be separated upward and downward in the bladder (b). As a result, an uneven temperature is generated between an upper side (s1) and a lower side (s2) in the inner surface of the tire (t), which promotes the deterioration of the tire performance which prevents optimization of the vulcanization. In Japanese Patent Publication JP-A-6-18699, it is proposed to change the temperature of the outer mold depending upon a portion of the tire (tread portion and side wall portion) so as to vulcanize the compound rubber at optimal vulcanizing temperature. However, the various portions of the tire are uniformly heated from inside through the bladder by thermal medium in the steam vulcanizing method or in the gas vulcanizing method, and uneven temperature is generated between the upper and lower sides (s1) and (s2) and therefore, it is difficult to sufficiently optimize the vulcanization. Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a vulcanizing method and a vulcanizing apparatus capable of vulcanizing various portions of the tire under optimal temperature conditions without generating uneven temperature between upper and lower portions, and capable of optimally enhancing the tire performance. To achieve the above objects, according to the vulcanizing method in a first aspect of the present invention, in the vulcanizing method for vulcanizing a tire by heating from an outer forming surface and an inner forming surface of a vulcanizing apparatus comprising an outer mold having the outer forming surface for forming an outer surface of the tire and an inner mold having the inner surface for forming an inner surface of the tire, the inner forming surface of the inner mold is divided into a plurality of inner forming surface portions in accordance with portions of the tire along an outline of a tire meridian cross section, and temperatures of the inner forming surface portions are varied to vulcanize each of the portions of the tire. According to the vulcanizing method in a second aspect of the invention, the outer forming surface of the outer mold is divided into a plurality of outer forming surface portions in accordance with portions of the tire along the outline of the tire meridian cross section, and temperatures of the outer forming surface portions are varied to vulcanize each of the portions of the tire. According to a vulcanizing apparatus in a third aspect of the invention, the vulcanizing apparatus of the tire comprises an outer mold having the outer forming surface for forming an outer surface of the tire and an inner mold having the inner surface for forming an inner surface of the tire, wherein the inner forming surface of the inner mold is divided into a plurality of inner forming surface portions in accordance with portions of the tire along the outline of the meridian cross section, and the inner mold is provided with heaters capable of heating the inner forming surface portions at different temperatures. According to the vulcanizing apparatus in a fourth aspect of the invention, the outer forming surface of the outer mold is divided into a plurality of outer forming surface portions in accordance with portions of the tire along an outline of the tire meridian cross section, and the outer mold is provided with heaters capable of heating the outer forming surface portions at different temperatures.Q: How to remove "css classes" when the "a href" is empty I've created a custom page template where i use WordPress posts to get images ( using feature images ) and I have made a gallery out of them. <div class="box"> <img class="img" src="<?php the_post_thumbnail_url(); ?>" style="width:100%"/> <div class="middle"> <div class="pyete-vete"> <a href="<?php echo the_field("peoplelink"); ?>" target="_blank">PYETE VETE</a> </div> </div> </div> Now, what i want to achieve is to remove .middle class when the HREF is empty. 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its wording; an improvement in wording will improve the thought. Now as to the application of this. I have referred to the occurrence in reading of “inarticulate” objections. The sole reason these are inarticulate is because the objection is too vague even to find expression. In a case like this we should word our objection the best we can, no matter how ridiculous or indefensible it at first sounds. But we should word it in as many ways as possible; we should say it in all different sorts of ways; we should write it in every different kind of way. Gradually our objection will become definite, clear, forceful. In short, we shall not only have improved our way of stating our thought; we shall have improved the thought itself. To study clearness of statement or acquisition of vocabulary is to study means of improving thought. Your notebook should not be used solely for the entry of “thoughts” as such, but any striking way of wording a thought which occurs to you should likewise be immediately written. But while there is some truth in Arnold Bennett’s statement that the wording is the thought, from another point of view its very opposite is true. The wording is _never_ the thought. Strictly speaking, “thought” is something which can exist only in the mind. It can never be transferred to paper. What then is it that we write? If words and sentences are not thought, what are they? If they are not thought how is it possible to transfer thought through the medium of writing? The fact is that words, though they are not thought, are the _associates_ of thought. You hear the word “horse.” Very likely the visual image of a horse arises in mind. This image, idea, notion, “concept,” will depend on your experience of particular horses. It will never be a logical abstract of these. It will never be a horse without color, particular size, sex or breed, as is sometimes thought. It may however have different elements in it from different horses you have seen. It may be the image of just one particular horse you remember. But no such thing as a general concept exists in the mind. We have a particular image which stands for all horses. The name of course is general. It—or its definition—may be called the logical concept. But the name itself is not used in thought. It is an arbitrary symbol which serves merely to arouse a particular image associated with it, and this image is dealt with as if general. This image we shall call the concept. It is the working concept: the psychological as opposed to the logical concept. As your concept of a horse will depend on your experience of particular horses, another person’s concept will depend on _his_ experience of that animal. And as his experience can never be exactly the same as yours, his concept, though it may be similar to yours, will not be the same. Not only will no one else have the same mental image or concept as you _but you yourself will never have exactly the same image twice_. This image will vary with the setting in which it occurs—with the associates which happen to arouse it. If you are reading about a great battle and the word “horse” is mentioned, a certain kind of horse will suggest itself to you. If you are reading about a grocery wagon and see the word “horse” another kind will suggest itself. This whether the animal is described by adjectives or not. At one time you may think of the horse as in motion, at another time as at rest. Unfortunately many so-called psychologists seem to consider the concept, even this image-concept, as something fixed in the individual, or at best as only changing with actual experience of the thing conceived. The truth is that the image or images aroused on hearing any word are not the same for two seconds at a time. They are fluid, dynamic; never static, immobile. They are associates of the words in a constant state of flux.[22] When the concept of one individual varies from one moment to the next, how must the concepts of different individuals differ from each other! I have instanced the idea of a horse because it is so simple and concrete. In actual thinking we never meet with a simple separated concept or with a single word; we deal with at least an entire sentence. This means that our images vary even more widely at different times than was the case in the example. It means that the images of other people are at a correspondingly greater variance from ours. As to the application of all this to writing. We have an idea; thinking it important we decide to jot it down. Now we cannot jot down the idea, but only words associated with it. We cannot even write all the words associated with it, for there are too many. So we write a comparative few; and we say we have written the idea. _But all we have really written is something associated with the idea._ When we read this over at a later time we shall not have the same ideas aroused as were in mind originally, but at best only similar ideas. For the associates of words, like all associates, are constantly changing; and thanks to the frailties of human memory exactly the same associates are never aroused twice. So after a long interval they will be much different than at the time we wrote. The reader will often have the experience of “writing a thought” and thinking it very important, but on reading it at another time he will fail to see why he ever considered it worth putting on paper. The truth is that at the time he wrote the idea it probably _was_ important, because he had the right concepts. But when he came back to the words he had written they failed to re-suggest the former concepts and associates. This difference between words and thought is even more strikingly brought out when the written thought is read by some other person than the writer. The writer is likely at least to have approximately the same concepts as at the time of writing. And he is greatly aided by his memory in recalling the concepts and associated ideas previously in mind, the words suggesting these. But when a person reads what some one else has written, he translates the words into the concepts previously connected with them in his own mind. Thus an author can never literally transfer an idea. He can merely put down certain arbitrary symbols, which will serve to arouse a similar thought in his readers. How greatly the reader’s thought differs from the author’s it is difficult if not impossible to determine, for minds can only communicate by words. It is this difference in associated concept which often makes a reader fail to appreciate the profoundest thoughts of an author, and even, on the other hand, occasionally to see depth where it does not exist. We come now to the solution of the problem to which this rather extended discussion has been preparatory. How is an author to convey, as nearly as possible, his actual idea? And the answer is: _he should word it in as many different ways as possible_. If a person had never been to a city and you wanted to give him an idea of it, you would show him photographs taken from different viewpoints. One photograph would correct and supplement the other. And the more photographic viewpoints he saw the more complete and accurate would be his idea—the more his concept would approximate the actual city. But he could never more than approximate; he could never obtain the idea of a man who had visited that city. An author’s language is a photograph of his thought. He can never actually transfer an idea, but by wording it in different ways he can show different photographs of it. If, for example, a second wording does not conform with the first concept which a reader has formed, the reader will be obliged to modify that concept. And if the idea is repeated in a number of different ways he will have to modify his concept so much that he will gradually more and more approximate the idea of the author. I remember the story in some educational treatise of an inspector who entered a school room, asked the teacher what she had been giving her class, and finally took up a book and asked the following question, “If you were to dig a hole thousands and thousands of feet deep, would it be cooler near the bottom or near the top, and why?” Not a child answered. Finally the teacher said, “I’m sure they know the answer but I don’t think you put the question in the right way.” So taking the book she asked, “In what state is the center of the earth?” Immediately came the reply from the whole class in chorus, “The center of the earth is in a state of _igneous fusion_.” . . . There is, and has been for the past generation, a great cry in educational circles that we should teach things, not words. In some instances this is inadvisable, even impracticable. But if the teacher in the foregoing story had taken the trouble to word her idea in at least more than one way, she might have implanted a real idea in her pupils. She would at least have found that as it was they had none. * * *

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Bestimmte Erkrankte sollen nicht zu Hause bleiben, auch wenn das Virus ihnen nicht sehr schadet. Um Krankenhausbetten zu sparen, gab es in Tokio zwischendurch sogar die Überlegung, das Olympische Dorf der verlegten Sommerspiele als Isolierstation zu verwenden. Aber dann entschied man sich doch für Hotels. Nötig sind die Ausweichquartiere auf jeden Fall, denn die Corona-Krise ist mit etwas Verzögerung ziemlich groß geworden im Land. Japans Coronavirus-Werdegang vom unscheinbaren Patienten zur Nation im Notstand ist für Außenstehende ein Rätsel. Vor wenigen Wochen noch verbreitete der rechtskonservative Premierminister Shinzo Abe auf höchster diplomatischer Ebene, dass die Olympischen Spiele wie geplant in diesem Sommer in Tokio stattfinden könnten. Fachleute staunten, dass ausgerechnet der überalterte China-Nachbar Japan im Weltvergleich geringe Infektionszahlen aufwies. Europa und die USA zählten längst Zehntausende von Toten, als man sich im Inselstaat noch für seine wirksame Hygienekultur mit Maskentragen und ohne Händeschütteln lobte. Gut möglich, dass Abe sogar glaubte, dass seine Politik zu der Zwischenbilanz beigetragen hatte, die noch am 25. März nur 1299 bestätigte Infektionen und 44 Todesfälle aufwies. Denn Absagen, Mahnungen, Schul- und sonstige Schließungen sowie eine von Abe persönlich angeschobene Notstandsgesetz-Erweiterung sollten ja durchaus Beiträge zur Virus-Bekämpfung gewesen sein. In Krankenhäusern und Notaufnahmen spürt man allmählich die Überforderung Aber mittlerweile sind die Zahlen ganz anders. Am Sonntagabend standen sie bei 10 620 bestätigten Infektionen und 222 Toten. Das ist immer noch wenig im Vergleich zu vielen anderen Ländern. Allerdings haben Japans Gesundheitsbehörden bis zuletzt nur Menschen auf das neuartige Coronavirus testen lassen, bei denen sie es für nötig hielten; Menschen mit schweren Symptomen oder deren Kontaktpersonen. Etwas mehr als 112 000 Personen sind deshalb bisher erst auf Covid-19 geprüft worden - fünf Mal weniger als im deutlich kleineren Nachbarland Südkorea. Die Dunkelziffer ist in Japan also besonders groß. In Krankenhäusern und Notaufnahmen spürt man allmählich die Überforderung. Schon am 6. April erklärten der Verband für Akutmedizin und die Gesellschaft für Notfallmedizin in einem Statement: "Das erste Zeichen des medizinischen Zusammenbruchs ist der Zusammenbruch des Notfallmedizinischen Systems, und der ist schon Wirklichkeit geworden." Medien berichten, dass Notfalldienste Probleme haben, Menschen mit Covid-19-Symptomen unterzubringen. Laut der Nachrichtenagentur AP wurde ein Mann mit Fieber und Atemnot von 80 Krankenhäusern abgelehnt, ehe die Sanitäter für ihn eines fanden. Osamu Nishida, Chef der japanischen Gesellschaft für Intensivmedizin, verweist darauf, dass in Japan auf 100 000 Menschen nur fünf Intensivbetten kommen. Weniger als in Italien (zwölf), wo die vielen Todesfälle auch mit den eingeschränkten medizinischen Möglichkeiten zu tun haben. Zu erwarten sei "sehr schnell ein Overshoot an Todesfällen", glaubt Nishida. Und Abes Regierungsstil trägt nicht zur Beruhigung bei. Früh hat er davon gesprochen, die Krise ernst zu nehmen, aber folgte dann wohl eher seinen Instinkten als Machtmensch. Schon lange fordern Wissenschaftler wie Kenji Shibuya, Chef des Intituts für Volksgesundheit am King's College in London, Japan müsse die Coronavirus-Tests nach dem Beispiel Südkoreas so ausweiten, dass man mehr Erkrankte ohne Symptome finde und Übertragungswege besser nachvollziehen könne. Die Abe-Regierung reagierte nicht. Weil sie wegen Olympia hohe Fallzahlen fürchtete? Aber als die Spiele verlegt waren und die Infektionszahlen plötzlich stiegen, wirkte Abe weiterhin zögerlich. Vor zwei Wochen erklärte er den Notstand für sieben von 47 Präfekturen. Prompt meldeten sich weitere Präfekturen, die den Ausnahmezustand für sich ebenso reklamierten. Und mit Tokio-Gouverneurin Yuriko Koike gab es Streit, weil sie im Sinne der Gesundheit weniger Rücksicht auf Abes wirtschaftliche Bedenken nehmen wollte. Aktuelles zum Coronavirus - zweimal täglich per Mail oder Push-Nachricht Alle Meldungen zur aktuellen Lage in Deutschland und weltweit sowie die wichtigsten Nachrichten des Tages - zweimal täglich mit SZ Espresso. Unser Newsletter bringt Sie morgens und abends auf den neuesten Stand. Kostenlose Anmeldung: sz.de/espresso. In unserer Nachrichten-App (hier herunterladen) können Sie den Espresso oder Eilmeldungen auch als Push-Nachricht abonnieren. 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The existence of an ice-dam almost always means that there is excessive transfer of heat to the roof which melts the snow on the upper sections, and the resulting meltwater refreezes on the lower section over the soffits. To reduce this heat transfer, we rely on insulation (to reduce the amount of heat leaking into the attic) and ventilation (to dissipate the residual heat before it melts the snow on the roof). However, there is another player in this game, and it can cancel out the efforts at insulating and ventilating. That player is air leakage. Like this: Frost can be beautiful. One of the benefits of poorly insulated windows, at least for small children, is the beautiful lace shapes that form – so delicate and yet so enchanting. Despite this beauty, there are plenty of places where in a home you do NOT want to see frost forming. Certainly, when found on windows, it is a clear sign that the window is not very good at insulating. 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scene with Data floating calmly to the other ship compared to the intense and well done scene in this movie. Compare Hardy to Cumberbatch, though I feel you can put a lot of blame onto the studios for Nemesis for just assuming Trek will get you some nice profit and just handing it to some no mark with no experience. Observation 1: While I know the intent was for Cumberbatch to be Khan, I think they left themselves some wiggle room. If they have a Khan story they could bring in a new actor to play him and pass off Harrison as another augment who took the title. Click to expand... I can't see them doing this, it would be needlessly complicated and they've shied away from complicating and confusing the audience so far. Click to expand... I agree. But if they decide to do another Khan movie and run into issues with either scheduling or money or Cumberbatch simply not wanting to do another one, I think they've given themselves an out. Just noting I have -not- read all 100 pages of this thread, so I may touch upon things already mentioned. And just in case anyone's here who hasn't seen it(though you're doing it to yourself) this post contains SPOILERS. So, all that said... here's my thoughts: I loved the opening bit. Sure, there have been any number of similar episodes to the concept of saving a primitive race, but this was just a few minute teaser and not a whole episode and it explores the characters reactions to the Prime Direction dilemma nicely. Which is to say... screw it. As Tom Paris sussinctly put it... "They're all going to die, anything's got to be better than that." So it comes as no surprise that the young and brash NuKirk goes along with interfering to keep the planet from going boom. Heck, even Spock logics himself into it, which I liked. Though it was rather artificial drama, of wondering "oh no Spock's gonna die!" Though even Scotty points out the bloody obvious... why the hell do you have the ship on the bottom of the ocean?! The answer being because the ship rising out of it makes for a cool shot. So... we see something new. Consequences for breaking the Prime Directive. Even Spock narcs Kirk out. Though seriously... getting demoted back to the Academy? Is there not ANYTHING between Cadet and Captain? Though Pike really starts to worm his way into the absent father figure for Kirk, by saving his career and making him First Officer. Though that doesn't last since Harrison kills him too. Really to make the last movie less stupid they should've made Kirk Pike's first officer then, then have him inherit the captain's role in this movie. Still at least they try to retcon that a bit. So Kirk's give his command back by yet another corrupt Starfleet Admiral... the horse is dead guys! Nice action sequences on the Klingon planet and I like that Scotty got a bigger role in this one than last time. Though Kirk's comment telling Chekov to put on the red shirt and the nameless extras doomed to death to take them all was funny. Spock and Uhura's argument was good stuff too. So Harrison shows how badass he is then just surrenders, but quickly starts to manipulate Kirk simply by telling the truth. I do have to say though the Khan reveal was a surprise to me. I guess Abrams did a good job with keeping everyone guessing on this one. Never quite got why the other Eugenics are in the torpedoes but whatever. Even after the reveal you're kept guessing if he's really gonna betray the good guys or is something of an anti-hero. By the way... just have to say it... I hate the concept of the USS Vengeance. Why don't we just call it the USS Evil Overlord with pictures of dead kittens painted on the hull? Still Harrison's a jerk, though his daughter's cute even if she's prone to just randomly take her clothes off for no reason. Kinda surprised there was nothing more between her and Kirk, though I guess she's kinda joined the main cast now. Gotta have a love interest for Kirk to get into trouble with next movie, right? Spock Prime's appearance was a nice easter egg without distracting from the main story. So yeah you're pretty much rooting for Khan to just kill Marcus. Though I liked how Kirk made the first move against Khan. I wish they'd made it more ambiguous if Khan was going to betray them or not before that. Now the ending.... Kirk sacrificing himself to save the ship. That was good stuff and the reversal of every thing was just plain eerie and powerful. I made the comment that I just can't see Pine pulling off a Khan scream once the rumor he was the villain started floating around.... well dang if Qunito can. That one gave me chills. Beyond that... well the ending's cliche as all hell and really just wraps up WAY too quick. First, I was disappointed as all heck that "oh superhuman techobabble dna cures radiation!" that just felt like a cop out to me and really cheapened the sacrifice. Killing Kirk off, well that would've made a statement and taken a risk. Not like you can't recon that next movie with alternate timelines and realities being what they are in Trek. The Spock/Khan fight made sense. Vulcan strength vs super human. Though if they can beam down people one at a time, I dunno why they just weren't sending every redshirt they could one at a time. Still Uhura shooting Khan is a nice touch. Overall... as I said, the ending really disappointed me. An epic sacrifice just cheapened by the reset button. Still, there was more good than bad in this one, so despite not liking the 2009 movie much, I'll give this one a B+. 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na> ok <ScottK> Heya vorian <rgreening> Anyway.. short answer.. no. Im planning on directly using xinput <vorian> hello, again <rgreening> lol <vorian> geeeez, kmoney is such a crappy app * vorian hopes upstream is not here and awake atm <vorian> JontheEchidna: what testing did you do? <JontheEchidna> need to do more of that actually, which is why I hadn't flung it at you yet <vorian> ah, ok <JontheEchidna> All I did was pbuild then find that pbuild didn't copy the debs out <vorian> i'll subcribe to it then <JontheEchidna> but now that I have to update it anyways it's not so bad that it didn't copy them out <vorian> hehe <vorian> whoa! someone changed the ninjas icon <vorian> Riddell: how's a fella get on the kubuntu-dev train? <ScottK> First we have to make a process. <ScottK> nixternal promised to draft something up. <vorian> roger that <ScottK> Then we get the process approved by the development membership board. <vorian> nixternal: congrats btw on your CC gig <ScottK> Oh, now you suck up. <ScottK> ;-) <vorian> hehe <vorian> the TB minutes were not very descriptive <ScottK> dtchen: Careful. Nullack is a professional QA person who is very good at explaining how all this ought to be done. * jussi01 waves to Nightrose - waves are back! :D * Tm_T is still waiting to get wave invite ): <jussi01> Tm_T: If I had any.... <Tm_T> aye <Tonio_> ScottK: not yet for the kns settings... will do soon <Tonio_> ScottK: I have to reinstall it first <Tonio_> JontheEchidna: the fix works !!!!!!!! <Tonio_> JontheEchidna: but only for qt apps.... kde apps do crash now :) <Tonio_> JontheEchidna: maybe just a rebuild against is needed... or we need to patch... dunno <Tm_T> hmm, no Qt 4.6 before Karmic+1 ? <Tonio_> Tm_T: I don't think so <jussi01> Tm_T: you can call it Lucid now :D <Tm_T> jussi01: I cannot <jussi01> ? <Tm_T> my what-you-call-brain doesn't allow it somehow <Tm_T> Tonio_: aye, seems like I might try to backport then when it's time <Tonio_> yup :) * Tm_T goes back to hunting this kwin crash <mgraesslin> Tm_T: I was unable to reproduce :-( <Tm_T> mgraesslin: roger, all trunk there? <Tm_T> mgraesslin: I finally should have build done, so I'll kick session up in a few minutes <mgraesslin> great <Tm_T> what's the situation of translations in Karmic? all works fine? <nixternal> oi oi! <jussi01> nixternal: did you notice waves are back? <jussi01> .d <nixternal> jussi01: yes, I wrote a Google Wave Robot to interact with bug trackers, right now only LP works, but I will hopefully implement the rest tomorrow :) <nixternal> on that note, it is time to go to bed... g'nite all! see you in like 6 hours \o/ <Tonio_> JontheEchidna: technically the qt patch changes what needs change... <Tonio_> JontheEchidna: as soon as the drag icon starts, it segfaults, which means I touched what needs to be touched :) <Tonio_> also qt builds, which is good <Tonio_> there is just a little thing to fix I guess, I'll try to read the backtrace <Tonio_> JontheEchidna: maybe kde components just need rebuid since I changed .h files... <Tonio_> JontheEchidna: I can't get qt apps to crash <Tonio_> JontheEchidna: they certainly need rebuild... <Tonio_> JontheEchidna: I'll put everything in my ppa and we'll see :) <Tonio_> JontheEchidna: although it seems to fix correctly in kmail :) <Tonio_> just dolphin crashes in fact <Riddell> another sunny day <jussi01> :) <Tonio_> Riddell: may I ask for your help regarding to the qt patch I'm trying to write ? <Tonio_> Riddell: it works at some points, I'm not tht far to get something that works.... <Tonio_> Riddell: just.... I'm stick right now <Riddell> Tonio_: hmm, am I likely to know the qt codebase any better than you? <Tonio_> Riddell: I'll send an email to lubos <Tonio_> Riddell: he fixed for qt3, and the patch is probably right now just incomplete.... I hope he'll accept to help <Tonio_> Riddell: email gone... maybe with some chance he'll help :) <Tonio_> Riddell: you may not know it better than me, but are a far more accurate coder :) <neversfelde> Riddell: no, but I can do it <Riddell> neversfelde: would be rocking if you did, do you know where to find it? <neversfelde> Riddell: yes <neversfelde> Riddell: I tried building kid3 twoo times locally and there was no problem, I don't know what to do? <Riddell> neversfelde: let me try <neversfelde> Riddell: if you need to reupload it, upstream suggested a change for debian/rules http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/288511/ <Riddell> nookie^: how about doing a horizontal version of your release image to go in the banner space? <Riddell> neversfelde: missing backslash of doom http://paste.ubuntu.com/288533/ <neversfelde> Riddell: oh, thanks for your help <nookie^> Riddell: where do u plan to have that horizontal image? <nookie^> and is it size 250x50? <Riddell> nookie^: well same place as the banner is now <nookie^> Riddell: im not sure im following you sry.. we have an image there already the banner i did? <nookie^> do u want a final release image? like Kubuntu 9.10 released or something? <Riddell> nookie^: right <Riddell> nookie^: you did a square 9.10 released but it might be useful to have it as a banner <nookie^> Riddell: yeah sure im sure i can come up with something <nookie^> Riddell: btw that banner is not correct in place in FF3.5 on mac and ie7 on windows <Riddell> nookie^: I'm sure ryanakca would love any fixes :) <nookie^> Riddell: hehe <nookie^> ryanakca: ping? <Tonio_> Riddell: any idea what's the problem with qt4 in the archives ? I was able to build it in a ppa with no problem <Riddell> Tonio_: no, it is yet to reach the top of my todo list <Tonio_> kk <Tonio_> Riddell: I'm testing right now... <Tonio_> Riddell: I suspect there is something going wrong in the source package... <Tonio_> Riddell: the only difference between this one and the one sent on my ppa is that I rebuilt the source package <Tonio_> Riddell: qt4 builds in a pbuilder chroot and a ppa... <Tonio_> Riddell: I don't get why it fails in the buildd <Tonio_> Riddell: I'm restarting the build on launchpad, just to be sure there wasn't a temp issue * txwikinger_work is looking forward to the Canadian winter... still too hot to bicycle to work :D * txwikinger_work really likes the new kmail in karmic !!! <rgreening> agateau: so indicator still does not work for me this morning. And not, kopete (in addition to kmail) do not show up in the indicator <Riddell> Tonio_: qt still broken <Riddell> rgreening: what version of plasma-widget-indicat

and sandalwood. He felt a real pang of regret at leaving her. “I have to go for a little while. Fancy's turned up, but he's quite unwell; someone should have told Kyrené to keep him in hand. I'll take care of him. I want you to take over as hostess here, as my wife.” “Your wife.” There were, almost, tears in Xerxinia's splendid eyes. “Oh, I never imagined! May I really tell them that?” “I insist.” He kissed her cheek. “You must tell me all the best parts that I miss.” * * * Public taxis and barges had been pressed into service for the transportation of suspected revolutionaries, wreckage, guards, the dead, and various spoils of battle. Sylvain found one waiting idle when it became clear that Fancy was in no health to walk to the Council's palace and, after offering an inventive bribe, secured it for their private use. Fancy was hallucinating by that time, and did not clearly recall where he meant to go. Each nightmare lasted a lifetime and was punctured by moments of excruciating lucidity. He babbled and cursed and, now and then, appealed to his particular gods. He shook and was in terrible pain, and could not manage to apologize to Sylvain for his display before he lapsed into incoherence and torments more subtle and agonizing than what his body suffered. Fancy was sorry that he was frightening Sylvain and exposing him to such grave risk; he was succumbing faster than even he had anticipated. Mostly he was, when he could think clearly, very sorry for himself. He hoped Sylvain would come up with a better way to explain this to Kyrené and Xerxinia. He could still smell the nenuphar, and choked on its taste and the bitter water of the River. It seemed to Fancy that constellations had been born and expired in dust and an absence of light by the time the bribed driver stopped a canal away from the Council's palace. There was a perilous moment when the driver realized what Fancy was and nearly denounced him and committed him to the River; but Sylvain reminded him of the indelicate nature of their bargain and, soundly chastised, he left them quietly at the footbridge. It was dangerous here. The River was close and, on a night of such humidity and rich violence, the nenuphars swarmed and openly satisfied their peculiar hungers. Their silvery, sibilant voices echoed off the scorched buildings and the pretty, ravaged span of the footbridge. It made Fancy ill and too dizzy to stand on his own, which he tried to explain to Sylvain before he fell over. Breaking into the palace would be difficult. Sylvain had been counting on Fancy's guidance; but when he questioned Fancy about the soundness, and the likelihood of guards, around the west cellar windows, he wept, refused to repent, and coughed up clots of blackish blood. It was unlikely that they would even reach the upper halls before the final stage of the metamorphosis overcame Fancy. For a brief, bitter moment Sylvain considered surrendering him to the River. His coat was spoiled and he had done worse things for lesser wrongs. He suspected that it was pity, or fatalism, or some other flaw that made the thought of doing that so acutely painful. * * * Exhausted, but triumphant and confident in the restoration of common order and the tolerance of small vices, the Auxiliary Provisional Acting Council, taking their rest in the airy galantes reception room, began the lengthy formalities that marked the conclusion of their service. Amfion thanked the various contingents of guards very prettily and praised the good sense of the secretaries who had filled in for the absent officers of the Council. He had just signaled their dismissal with his honorary flail of office and begun to thank several of the hierophantes, in low tones not meant to be overhead, when some trouble at the doors drew his attention. Some persons were demanding admittance, and the guards were in dispute with each other over whether these late visitors had any privileges. The inner doors banged against the patterned walls and on that breeze was the scent of the rapacious nenuphars; Amfion coughed and considered that he should order the windows and doors sealed until the most unwholesome odors had abated. He peered around the chief of the hierophantes, an attenuated figure in a hawk masque, to get a better view of the action. “I am the secretary to the second adjutant to a senior member of the Juvenile Penitentiary and Rehabilitation Commission! I am here as a representative, and am therefore, and in such times, the acting senior official—“ But, in the dissolving of provisional authority, he had only created more confusion. The guards were fighting each other and had even turned on some of the more minor former acting officials. Amfion saw Sylvain moving almost unnoticed past the doors; on his shoulder hung something that shivered and stumbled, draped in a ruined coat. Sylvain ducked around a clash of bayonets and sabres, and Fancy fell. Fancy was shaking too much to properly regain his feet, and after an unsuccessful attempt began to crawl along the patterned carpet toward Amfion. The quarrelling guards and secretaries fell back, aghast, and attempted to leave all at once. Fancy was insensible to the distress he caused; he was on the point of apotheosis and through his disordered senses he was not always certain of even Amfion's presence. He moved, it seemed to him, through a succession of rooms: the pretty hall where Amfion and Sylvain watched him with piquant expressions of horror; across a field ringed by hounds that bayed and prayed; through a silver room; toward the dreaming River under a sky which reflected its reveries back on the viridescent waters. “Sybaré,” the hierophantes said. Fancy choked and, with a great deal of difficulty, rose to his knees and, finally, stood wavering on his feet. “I told you,” he said to Amfion. “I told you it wouldn't be so easy.” “You brought him here!” Amfion pointed his flail at Sylvain, who out a kind of reluctant curiosity and morbid loyalty, lingered near the doors. “You let him in! That is forfeiture.” “You couldn't really excommunicate me, Amfion... you see....” Fancy nearly fell again. His eyes glowed and streamed, as if their own brilliance caused him pain. “I was never... never....” “Stop him!” Amfion stepped back, his flail of office drawn up as he, too late for any real protection, made the gesture of condemnation. “Can't you do something? Can't one of — you aren't going to let him—“ “Sybaré,” the hierophantes said again, and Fancy stopped and flinched. “We told you. You understood.” “You let him do this to me.” Fancy's voice trembled over the nenuphars' cadences. “He doesn't have any right.” “Your fate has always been beyond us. And beyond you.” He turned one round, shining eye on Fancy. “If you find yourself disgraced, it is only because you failed that.” It was perhaps Fancy's final choice; or he had, as he considered the full, terrible meaning of the hierophantes' words, at last surrendered to the flowering toxins, and the pain of the metamorphosis and dishonor became something keener and finer and altogether less concerned with those things. * * * Fancy blinked and drew in a breath, and, ambitious, tried a second. He gagged on the scent of nenuphars, lushly sweet and revolting; and that was such a relief that Fancy was quite overwhelmed, and began to laugh and weep at once. He sat up on the low catafalque in the hierophantes' subterranean room, papered with mold-flocked wallpaper, and caught the ibis masque's piercing eye in the spotted mirror. “Am I alive?” he asked. In the tarnished mirror, he still looked like one of the unfortunate drowned; nothing worse or more wicked, but a great deal less benevolent and natural than even the hierophantes. His head throbbed and he regretted, in equal measures, that Sylvain had lacked the cowardice to leave him and that he had not had the pleasure of seeing Amfion succumb. Perhaps, in some equivocal way, Fancy regretted that he found himself there. “Was I reprieved?”  ”Not quite,” the hierophantes said. * * * Nicole Votta is an editor and writer who has logged a lot of very mundane bylines, and a few more satisfying ones. She likes consistent proofreading marks, semi-colons, her indolent habits, and psychedelic sci-fi/fantasy book covers from the ‘60s and ‘70s. She dislikes 9th chords, whisky served in Styrofoam cups

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Beach Front News: Mike, tell us a little bit about yourself Mike Thomas Brown: My name is Mike Brown, I live in Boca Raton I train here in Coconut Creek. I’m from Maine originally and I’m a professional fighter. BFN: What’s your record? MTB: 22-4 BFN: How’d you end up at American Top Team? MTB: I was training in the North East up in Massachusetts and Maine, I started fighting in a show down here called “The Absolute Fighting Championship” a local show in Florida and then I made some contacts and met Ricardo Liborio from there talked to him and asked him what I had to do to come down and train. He said “get a plain ticket” and that was it. BFN: You recently won the WEC 145lb title. What was it like winning especially from Urijah Faber? MTB: It was umm reaching the pinnacle of the sport for the little guys. You know if you’re 145 pounds is the most prestigious title there is, so it was like finally reaching the top of the mountain. You know, you’re climbing the hill and you wanna reach the top and I finally did. Now I’m just tryin to play king of the mountain, stay on top as long as I can and try to get paid while I’m doin it. BFN: Your next opponent is Jose Aldo, and explosive striker. What are your opinions on him? MTB: He’s a young tough kid man. He’s fast…. Gonna be a tough fight. Its not gonna be easy. All his fans think he’s gonna crush me all my fans think I’m gonna crush him. So there’s only one way to find out whats gonna happen and that’s November 18th go in there and battle it out. BFN: Hows training been goin in preparation? MTB: Its good! I’m in good shape already 5 weeks out. I could fight now if I had to. I’ll peek perfectly. I got no injuries and I’m healthy and ready to go. BFN: You got a strategy planned out? MTB: Do what I do every fight. Try to hit em hard and if it goes to the ground try to be on top. Real simple, you know. Do what I do. BFN: There’s a rumor on the internet that after this fight you’re gonna go to 155lb. Is it true? MTB: Ummmm, I’ll fight 155 but I think right now there are a few other guys in line… I dunno! If I get through Aldo I mean this is a big huge test for me. I’ll be happy with a “W” over him and then from there we reanalyze the situation. I’ll go up to 155 though for opportunity with the UFC, try and make some money or bigger challenges but Aldo’s no joke and this is gonna be a very tough fight to win. BFN: Now, for your local fans when you’re not preppin for a fight and getting ready, training hard, where might they be able to run into you when you’re hangin out? MTB: Maaaan… I don’t go out a ton but sometimes I’ll go to Miami, sometimes I’ll go to the Hard Rock sometimes I’m just here at like AllStars. That’s where I go to see the fights a lot AllStars in Deerfield Beach. I live in West Boca so you’ll prolly find me creepin around Publix or something. I don’t get out a lot, I’m here at the gym and when I do go out its once every couple months go maybe to Blue Martini, maybe goHard Rock or something. BFN: Any sponsors of thank you’s you wanna throw out there? MTB: Yeah! I wanna of course thank American Top Team for everything they’ve given me. Tapout, Champion Nutrition, Bushmaster Firearms and check out my website www.MikeThomasBrown.com MTB: I was training in the North East up in Massachusetts and Maine, I started fighting in a show down here called “The Absolute Fighting Championship” a local show in Florida and then I made some contacts and met Ricardo Liborio from there talked to him and asked him what I had to do to come down and train. He said “get a plain ticket” and that was it. Click to expand... Not gonna lie to you Ben cause I like you, but the beginning of the interview sucked. I suggest running this stuff by the cage before you get it out there, unless you have smart editors. For example, I bet the WED thing would go unnoticed cause they don't know what that is. Also, I realize you guys are friends/teammates (right?) but maybe be more professional in asking the questions. Instead of 'Hows training been goin in preparation?' and 'You got a strategy planned out?' try to word that shit a little...better.Molecular pathways of frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is a neurodegenerative condition that predominantly affects behavior, social awareness, and language. It is characterized by extensive heterogeneity at the clinical, pathological, and genetic levels. Recognition of these levels of heterogeneity is important for proper disease management. The identification of progranulin and TDP-43 as key proteins in a significant proportion of FTLD patients has provided the impetus for a wealth of studies probing their role in neurodegeneration. This review highlights the most recent developments and future directions in this field and puts them in perspective of the novel insights into the neurodegenerative process, which have been gained from related disorders, e.g., the role of FUS in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Ask HN: How to respond to “whats the biggest technical challenge you've solved?” - ritchiea I&#x27;m curious how people respond to this question, especially front end developers. I&#x27;ve been interviewing and struggling with answers for this. It&#x27;s not that I have never had challenges but many of them have been very craft centric such as &quot;this has to look and feel smooth on many different devices.&quot; And a lot of time the challenge is &quot;this needs to be done quickly by this date&quot; or &quot;we don&#x27;t have any tests so can you figure out how this API should work, document that and add test coverage.&quot;<p>I tried asking myself how would my colleagues answer this question about their work and I also can&#x27;t answer so I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s just a matter of me not taking on challenging work.<p>I think I just lack any context or framework for what would make a good answer. ====== mtmail My take is the interviewer is looking for \- did candidate ask others for help, or stayed quiet (team player) \- did candidate finish the task even if was demotivating (self-motivation) \- how did candidate deal with stress, e.g. a deadline or pressure from management \- how deep did the debugging go. Surprising number of engineers don't know how to create smaller test cases, don't know how to do stack traces or run debuggers (I'm also bad that this). \- did candidate strive for an elegant solution, e.g. add test or documentation so it never happens again, or got it done and moved to the next task immediately (creating a stable infrastructure) \- my personal bonus is: if problem could be solved by just spending money (e.g. upgrade hardware, get consultant in, buy book, travel to another office to talk to a person who build it) was this considered? Spending some (company) money can be a fast-track compared to optimising software. What the technical challenge was doesn't matter. Out Loud: a successful workshop! It was so exciting to co-sponsor a masterclass on performing at public readings as a writer. Our participants included (among others) a new novelist, a New York Times published journalist, and a group of ladies with their own traveling show where they perform personal essays! 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spend some time with them over the summer. Three years, and he’s not managed to find the time yet. Even the five year old is wise to him by now. Ironically, my dad, who is in near-perfect health, has spent less time with my kids, who live 7 miles away, than Chris’ parents, who only just now fully retired, live 1,000 miles away, and one of whom is diabetic, had a quadruple bypass and walks with a cane. I also think it’s interesting that Chris didn’t spend much time with his grandparents as a kid, due to his family’s military moves, his grandparents health problems and other factors. If anyone could legitimately claim they raised their kids without grandparental help, it’s his parents. Yet they’re the ones who make the effort. What gives? So yes, this could be just Kat letting her “daddy issues” skew her vision. Except I hear a similar story from a LOT of my friends. Enough that I can’t help but wonder if there’s more to it. The truth is, my dad was similarly self-centered when I was a kid. Which is not to say I had a rotten childhood, or was neglected or any such thing, or that I didn’t know he loved me–because I did. But it was always 100% clear that the family schedule contained two types of items: Stuff Dad Wanted to Do, and Stuff That Did Not In ANY Way Interfere With Stuff Dad Wanted To Do. He traded my first car to someone else for a boat cover and a Ford Fairmont, which may have been the only car on earth less cool than the one I already had. Without telling me–I just came home one day and my car was gone. And let’s not even discuss the time I was grounded for two weeks for getting an A- on my report card, because the teacher wrote “Could try harder” in the comments…(although that one was really more on Mom.) So, yeah… “rein in the daddy issues, Kat”… but still… This is one post where I genuinely want to hear from you in the comments, assuming it’s not to say “I’m an awesome Boomer grandparent, you stupid…” followed by a lot of profanity that I’ll then have to moderate out. Because I can’t help but think that parents who didn’t make having a relationship with YOU a major priority when you were kids, probably aren’t bending over backward to have a relationship with your kids now that they’re a grandparent. I hear that a lot. But maybe it works the other way, too. Maybe some are trying harder because they learned from that. I would love to hear that. And what I wanted to say earlier, and didn’t, is that for most of those same Gen-X parents I know, the amazing, surprising blessing is that they find other exhausted Gen-X parents who are happy to give them a break and watch their kids every now and then. In fact, there’s a whole redemptive story that springs from that, and it’s touching and sweet and will probably make you cry in your keyboards, but it’s currently 3AM as I’m writing this, and I’m worn out from ranting. So that will have to wait. Follow-up post, and whatnot. So in the meantime, feel free to vent your own grandparent-related angst in the comments. Or grandkid-related angst. Or “kids of mine who are sucky parents now” angst. Just let it all out, people. In a non-profane way, of course. Share this: Post navigation 4 comments for “Wherein I work out my daddy issues and insult all Baby Boomer grandparents.” Jennifer 13 November, 2009 at 8:38 am I hear you. My in-laws raised 7 kids,and are entitled to some time to their selves now that they are in their 60s, but they live near by and offer to help out often. But whenever I’ve asked for a break, They can’t deliver. They have a very active schedule of church, prayer groups, and volunteering one afternoon each week with Meals on Wheels and it seems I only ask when they have an important activity. They expect to be invited on every family outing we plan, but if my husband or I want to leave the kids with them for an afternoon to recharge our batteries -sorry, no. When I suggested setting up a time each week or every other week where I could drop off her grand child and I could get some work done, she said sounds great, she’ll charge $5 an hour. And If I mention some child rearing annoyance that is getting to me, I get a loud fake laugh and “You only have 1 child. Relax, enjoy him. He’ll be grown before you know it” I realize this is true, but can’t I feel and vent frustration when I need too? Then she’ll tell be how lucky I am, She had the same problems times 7 and no Mother-in-law near by for help. I sound immature and spoiled, but hope you understand. I’m not, but it helps to vent. Four years into this, I’m mostly used to it. I know there are lots of parents out their happy to be active parts in their grandchildrens lives- most of my friends have very helpful parents. But not mine or yours. My parents were, in a nutshell, awful. My dad was a violent alcoholic and my mom was a passive-aggressive emotional vampire. I was the youngest of four and the victim of all the abuse that trickled down. I won’t have kids of my own so I’ll never know how my parents might have interacted with them. My sister does, though, and my niece and nephew are treated very differently than my sister and I were. I’m perplexed that parents who abuse their own children can be doting grandparents. .-= Charles Robinson´s last blog ..Gone fishing =-.Quantitative analysis of brain edema resolution into the cerebral ventricles and subarachnoid space. Resolution of vasogenic brain edema was examined using a model of infusion of fluid into the brain of rabbits. For this purpose infusion of Texas Red-albumin (MW 67.000 D) and sodium fluorescein (MW 376 D) dissolved in artificial cerebrospinal fluid (mock CSF) was made into the white matter of the left frontal lobe of the brain. In order to quantify the portion of edema fluid which was cleared by the ventricular system, a ventriculo-cisternal perfusion was performed with mock CSF. A closed cranial window was implanted above the left parietal brain for superfusion of the cerebral cortex with mock CSF, in order to study resolution of the artificial edema fluid via the subarachnoid space. CSF-samples were collected in 30 minutes-intervals and analysed with a spectrophotometer. The clearance of edema fluid was examined under low (2-5 mmHg) and medium (9-12 mmHg) intracranial pressure (ICP). In the low-pressure group both edema fluid markers were found in the ventriculo-cisternal and subarachnoid perfusate at 60 min and 90 min, respectively, after start of infusion. In the group with moderately increased ICP the markers appeared at 90 min and 120 min, respectively. The amount of clearance of fluorescent dye via the subarachnoid space was the same in both groups and independent of the intracranial pressure.The Supreme Court on Wednesday quashed an FIR lodged by an Assistant Commissioner of Sales Tax from Maharashtra against a deputy commandant, CRPF for rape on a false promise of marriage, saying both continued to have sexual relations, long after their marriage became a disputed matter. The top court said that an abusive message sent by the man to the woman using WhatsApp would not constitute an offence under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, as those are not meant for public viewing. A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and Indira Banerjee said those messages were alleged to have been sent on August 27 and 28, 2015 and October 22, 2015. At that time, the SC/ST Act was not amended to constitute those acts as offences in the statute. The court noted that in the case, the complainant and the officer knew each other since 1998 and were intimate since 2004. Both met regularly, travelled great distances to meet each other, resided in each other’s houses on multiple occasions, and engaged in sexual intercourse regularly over a course of five years and on multiple occasions even visited the hospital jointly to check whether the complainant was pregnant. On January 31, 2014, the man expressed his reservations about marrying the complainant. This led to arguments between them. Despite this, both continued to engage physically until March 2015. “The allegations in the FIR belie the case that she was deceived by the appellant’s promise of marriage,” the bench said. The court quashed the FIR registered on May 17, 2016, for rape and criminal breach of trust and other offences under the Atrocities Act. With regard to WhatsApp messages sent by the appellant, the court said those were not in public view, no assault occurred, nor was the appellant in a position to dominate the will of the complainant. “Therefore, even if the allegations set out by the complainant with respect to the WhatsApp messages and words uttered are accepted on their face, no offence is made

Sutton de Ezra Pound. Mângâie plasa de cumpărături din poală. Donald încetinește, se întoarce spre Willie. — Numele din plic are vreo legătură cu... știi tu cine? Sutton se uită la Donald. — Cu cine? — Știi tu. Cu Schuster? — Nu. Bineînțeles că nu. Iisuse, Donald, de ce mă întrebi asta? — Nu știu. Doar o presimțire. — Nu, Donald. Nu. Sutton bagă mâna în buzunarul de la piept. Se gândește. — În fine, spune, cred că într-un fel are... pe ocolite, cumva. În cele din urmă toate drumurile duc la Schuster, nu-i așa, Donald? Donald dă din cap. Conduce. — Arăți bine, Willie, băiete. — Cică sunt pe moarte. — Aiurea. Tu n-o să mori niciodată, în pula mea. — Da. Sigur. — N-ai putea să mori nici dacă ai vrea. — Hmm. Nici n-ai idee cât de adevărat e. Donald aprinde două țigări, îi întinde una lui Sutton. — Ce zici de un pahar? Ai timp până la îmbarcare? — Ce idee interesantă. Un strop de Jameson, cum zicea taică-meu. Donald iese de pe autostradă și parchează în fața unei cârciumi sordide. De-a lungul barului sunt atârnate rămurele de vâsc și luminițe de Crăciun. Sutton n-a mai văzut luminițe de Crăciun de când dragii lui Dodgers erau în Brooklyn. N-a mai văzut nicio lumină în afară de neoanele din închisoare care îți ard ochii și de becul gol de șaizeci de wați din celula lui. — Uite, Donald. _Luminițe_. Îți dai seama că ai fost în iad când un șir de beculețe colorate atârnate peste un bar de doi bani arată mai frumos decât Luna Park. Donald arată cu capul spre barmaniță, o fată blondă îmbrăcată într-o bluză strâmtă de lână și fustă mini. — Apropo de frumos, spune Donald. Sutton se holbează. — Când am plecat nu existau fuste mini, spune încet, plin de respect. — Te-ai întors într-o altă lume, Willie. Donald comandă un Schlitz. Sutton cere Jameson. Prima înghițitură e fericire pură. A doua un croșeu de dreapta. Sutton înghite restul dintr-un gât, lovește cu palma în bar și mai cere unul. La televizorul de deasupra barului sunt știri. _Principala știre a serii. Willie Sutton Actorul, cel mai prolific spărgător de bănci din istoria Americii, a fost eliberat din închisoarea Attica. În urma unei decizii surprinzătoare a guvernatorului Nelson Rockefeller..._ Sutton se uită la barul din imitație de lemn și se gândește: Nelson Rockefeller, fiul lui John D. Rockefeller Jr., nepotul lui John D. Rockefeller Sr., prieten apropiat al lui... Nu încă, își spune. Bagă mâna în buzunarul de la piept, atinge plicul. Acum pe ecran apare fața lui Sutton. Fosta lui față. O veche fotografie din arest. Nimeni de la bar nu-l recunoaște. Sutton zâmbește șmecher la Donald, îi face cu ochiul. — Nu mă cunosc, Donald. Nu-mi amintesc când am fost ultima oară într-o încăpere plină de oameni care nu mă cunosc. E bine. Donald mai comandă un rând. Apoi încă unul. — Sper că ai bani, spune Sutton. N-am decât două cecuri de la guvernatorul Rockefeller. — Care probabil nu sunt valabile, în mă-sa, spune Donald dezaprobator. — Ia zi, Donald... Vrei să vezi o șmecherie? — Oricând. Sutton merge șchiopătând de-a lungul barului. Șchiopătează înapoi. — Ta da. Donald clipește. — Nu cred că înțeleg. — Am mers de aici până acolo fără să mă necăjească vreun sclav. Și niciun deținut nu s-a luat de mine. Trei metri — cu o jumate de metru mai mult decât lungimea nenorocitei de celule, Donald. Și nu a trebuit să-i zic nimănui _domnule_ înainte sau după. Ai mai văzut ceva atât de minunat? Donald râde. — Ah, Donald... să fii liber. Cu adevărat _liber_. Nu poți să-i descrii sentimentul unuia care n-a fost la pârnaie. — Toată lumea ar trebui să stea închisă, spune Donald, reținându-și un râgâit, ca să știe. Ora. Willie se uită la ceasul de deasupra barului. — Rahat, Donald, e cazul să mergem. Donald merge șerpuit pe drumuri lăturalnice înghețate. De două ori derapează în șanț. A treia oară aproape lovesc un morman de zăpadă. — Poți să conduci, Donald? — Să-mi fut una, nu, Willie, de unde ți-a venit ideea? Sutton se prinde de bord. Privește în depărtare spre Buffalo. Își amintește că bărcile cu motor aduceau aici băutură din Canada. — Toată zona asta, spune, era controlată de bande de polonezi în anii douăzeci. Donald pufnește. — Gangsteri polonezi... ce făceau, îi jefuiau pe oameni și le dădeau portofelele _lor_? — Ți-ar fi tăiat limba dacă spuneai așa ceva. Față de polonezi, noi, irlandejii, eram copii de strană. Și polițiștii polonezi erau cei mai cruzi. — Șocant, spune Donald sarcastic. — Știai că președintele Grover Cleveland a fost călău aici? — Serios? — Slujba lui Cleveland era să înnoade ștreangul în jurul gâtului prizonierului și să-i dea drumul prin podeaua spânzurătorii. — Slujba-i slujbă, spune Donald. — I se spunea Călăul din Buffalo. Apoi fața lui a apărut pe bancnota de o mie de dolari. — Văd că n-ai renunțat la lectura istoriei americane

the importance of identifying incremental costs over time. Calculating a burn rate for the no-fly list relies on estimating the number of individuals involved in the day-to-day operations of the list, those responsible for dealing with the consequences and ancillary effects of the list, and their respective billing rates. These individuals are drawn from both the government and private sectors and constitute no-fly list resources. Estimating the number of individuals associated with the list is difficult because there is no one central agency or contracting firm responsible for its implementation. Sources in the security community and government documents from the U.S. GAO note that there are individuals drawn from over ten government agencies and multiple private firms. The non-exhaustive list includes: the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), National Security Agency (NSA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National Crime Information Center (NCIC), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and various private government contracting firms such as Acxiom Corporation. Given the broad scope of involvement and complexity of integrating the efforts among the various entities listed above, security professionals estimate that it is likely the number of individuals working on the list on a full-time basis is at least 250, with another 500 involved in some capacity on a partial-time basis. This represents the conservative or low estimate. Individuals I spoke with at various government contracting firms note that mid-range figures are likely in the 500 full/1000 partial range, with some estimating that the numbers could exceed 1000 full/1500 partial. Having estimated the number of individuals involved with the list, the next step is calculating their billing rate and amount of time devoted to the project. Turning to rates first, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) provides a yearly salary scale ranging from approximately $17,000 to $124,000. A conservative figure that estimates the cost of government employee benefits is approximately 50 percent (Cox & Brunelli, 1994). That is, if the salary of a federal employee is $50k/year, the adjusted cost to taxpayers, inclusive of benefits, is approximately $75k/year. Sources in the security community note that among federal employees working on the no-fly list, there are very few at the lower ends of the pay scale, with most falling somewhere in the top third. On the private side, government contracting firms typically bill out their resources somewhere in the $100k-$500k/year range. This number varies depending on the expertise of the contractor, the profit margin of the firm, the type of work being conducted, etc. For the purposes of this article, it is worth using a conservative blended billing rate precisely because there are a large number of factors that lead to billing rate fluctuation. A conservative figure of $100k/year, inclusive of both government employees with benefits and private firm contractors, is a reasonable estimate, but is potentially much higher and not likely to be much lower. Finally, not all employees mentioned above spend their full-time working on the no-fly list. The nature of the list suggests that there are likely a large number of individuals who do spend most of their time devoted to it, either in creating technology programs to support it, dealing with name removal requests, etc. There are a larger number of individuals, however, who work on the list part-time as needs arise. The FBI, TSA, and DHS, for instance, often collaborate on suspected individuals in order to determine whether or not they should be placed on the list. This type of activity does not consume an employee’s entire day, but does require time and effort. Consequently, part-time no-fly list employees can spend varied amounts of their day working on various list activities. In order to estimate this amount of work, gradations of time spent on the list will increase as estimates of low/medium/high increase. At the conservative end, it is estimated that partial-time employees spend 25 percent of their time working on the no-fly list; the medium range figure is 50 percent and the high range figure 75 percent. This estimate allows considerable variation in the amount of time required of resources and seems reasonable among the security professionals that have reviewed the numbers. Having identified the major components of the burn rate and estimated their value, a simple calculation yields burn rate figures for the low, medium, and high estimates. At the conservative end, the burn rate is estimated to be $7.5 million per year. The middle-range figure is estimated to be $20 million per year and the upper-range figure at least $43 million a year. Importantly, these figures only represent the personnel burn rate. They do not include other costs, such as technology systems, costs to non-government employees or costs to the private sector. It is to those costs that we now turn. Technology Product Costs The no-fly list operates both as a database of names and a system for ensuring that those named individuals do not board airplanes. The first component, the database, is maintained by DHS and TSA. The second component, the method of cross-checking passengers with the database, is maintained by the individual airlines. The government supplies the watch list to the air carrier whose automated information technology (IT) systems screen passengers. According to the GAO, 99 percent of all passengers on domestic flights are screened through the use of these computer systems; the other remaining 1 percent of passengers are “manually screened” because the airlines do not have an automated system. Finally, for international flights, air carriers are required to provide a list of passengers to Customs and Border Protection before take-off. These two components can be disaggregated and their costs estimated individually. On the government side, the Associated Press in 2006 reported that the TSA had spent more than $200 million on three aspects of the no-fly list: Transportation Worker Identity Credential (a program for allowing “safe” individuals access to secure port areas), Secure Flight, and the Registered Traveler Program (a program that allows individuals to submit themselves to background checks in order to receive less thorough screenings at airports). Once Secure Flight was suspended, in February 2006, Leslie Miller of the Associated Press reported that the total cost of the program was $200 million. Estimating the cost of the government side of the equation then is relatively straightforward. The $200 million in investment of Secure Flight since 2002 presumably includes human resources as well as the technology product, so the cost must be discounted slightly. A conservative estimate of the government’s technology costs for this program is $150 million. A mid-range estimate is $200 million, the quoted cost according to the Associated Press. Finally, an upper-range figure is $250 million which would include any updates and new developments since the AP’s story broke in early 2006. The airline technology products used to cross-check passenger names with the government-supplied no-fly list is more difficult to estimate because the air carriers have not published their compliance costs. Steven Lott of Aviation Daily, a trade journal for the airline industry, notes that as of July 2006 there was no uniform way for airlines to transmit their passenger lists to CBP, which accounts for the numerous in-air diversions and delays (to be discussed below) caused by airlines transmitting passenger lists after takeoff. In order to correct this problem, DHS has asked the airlines to adopt one of two systems. The first would have airlines transmit passenger information individually when each passenger checks into the flight, up to fifteen minutes before departure. Lott estimates the cost of this system to be $189 million in the first year and more than $600 million through 2015. The other solution, called APIS 60, is similar to the current system of sending passenger lists in bulk, but would cost more money to implement as a standardized process. It would require all passenger information to be sent to the government sixty minutes before plane departure. This would likely have an effect on check-in times, requiring passengers to be checked into their flights early in order to provide the sixty-minute window for name processing. Lott estimates $250 million in the first year for this and up to $1.9 billion over the next ten years. On August 9, 2007, DHS announced that the two options had been adopted as a rule and airlines would have to begin procedures to comply. These figures, as part of Lott’s analysis, help us to understand the potential costs associated with compliance, but they also provide a benchmark to estimate current costs. Lott notes that APIS 60 is similar to what airlines currently do, but is more expensive. Given that the more expensive, standardized version is $250 million – for the first year alone – a very conservative estimate for what it has cost the airlines to comply with no-fly list passenger screening to date is likely something well above $50 million. A middle range estimate of $100 million seems more likely, given the six years that have elapsed since 9/11 and the need to get systems up and running quickly across the industry. An upper range figure of $250 million would assume that the one-year cost of setting up this new system, while higher than the current system, is roughly equivalent to six years of running a less costly system. False Positives One of the recognized problems with the no-fly list is that, until very recently, the list was exceedingly large and false positives were quite common. In the last few years, stories of Senator Ted Kennedy and a host of other non-terrorist individuals being flagged by the no-fly list and not allowed to fly have appeared in the local and national news. The reason for this is largely because the no-fly list does not list individuals; it lists names, which can lead to the misidentification of individuals. This is most clearly seen

1.4. Mirror Entity and Potion of Polymorph Mirror Entity and Potion of Polymorph are triggered when the Mage's opponent plays a minion. Mirror Entity summons a copy of that minion for the Mage, while Potion of Polymorph turns the minion into a 1/1 Sheep. The wording here is important. The two Secrets will only be triggered when the opponent plays a minion, meaning that if the minion is summoned as part of some effect other than being played from the hand as a minion card, they will not trigger. For example, Mirror Entity does not trigger its effect when a minion is summoned as a result of a spell or Hero Power (such as Shaman Totemic Call or Paladin Reinforce). A very important issue regarding Mirror Entity concerns Battlecries. Since Battlecries are effects that take place when a card is played from the hand, and since Mirror Entity copies are summoned and not played from the hand, their Battlecries will not also be copied. For example, if Mirror Entity copies an Ironbeak Owl, its Silence Battlecry will not be usable. This applies even for Battlecries that do not require targeting, such as the Battlecry of the Mad Bomber. That said, there is an important exception here. Mirror Entity copies the minion after it has appeared on the board, which means that if the minion has a Battlecry that affects it, Mirror Entity will basically copy that Battlecry as well. For example, if the Mage's opponent plays an Injured Blademaster, then Mirror Entity will copy a damaged 4/3 minion, and not a 4/7 minion, despite the fact that the Injured Blademaster is a 4/7 minion on its minion card. This is because the Injured Blademaster deals damage to himself and changes his stats as part of his Battlecry, and Mirror Entity copies it afterwards. The same applies to the Twilight Drake, the health of which changes as soon as it reaches the board. 1.5. Counterspell and Spellbender Counterspell is triggered when the Mage's opponent casts a spell, and it counters it. This means that the effect of the spell does not take place, but the opponent's Mana Crystals and card are used up in the process. Counterspell does not apply to Hero Powers or Battlecries, being exclusive to spells that come from cards. Spellbender is very similar to Counterspell, with a few key differences. Like Counterspell, Spellbender is triggered when the Mage's opponent casts a spell, but Spellbender is only triggered by spells that are cast on minions. So, while Counterspell will prevent a Fireball from hitting the Mage, or a Holy Light from healing the Mage's opponent, Spellbender will not be triggered by these spells, since they are not cast on minions. Examples of spells that trigger Spellbender are Blessing of Kings or Mind Control. When Spellbender is triggered, the spell is not countered, but instead a 1/3 minion is summoned for the Mage, and this minion becomes the new target of the spell. So, if Spellbender was triggered by a Blessing of Kings, then the 1/3 minion will receive the buff, and the Mage will end up with a 5/7 minion. If Spellbender was triggered by a Mind Control, the 1/3 minion will be mind controlled, and it will move over to the opponent's side. Finally, we would like to mention that when both Counterspell and Spellbender are up at the same time, and a spell is cast that would trigger both of them, it is Counterspell that will be triggered. 1.6. Effigy Effigy is triggered when one of the Mage's minions dies. When this happens, a random minion of the same cost as the minion that died is summoned for the Mage. This new minion is not restricted to the Mage's deck (it can be any minion in the game), and as with all summoned units, it will not play its Battlecry on appearing on the board. 1.7. Vaporize Vaporize is triggered when the Mage is attacked by a minion, and it kills that minion. As the wording implies, the effect is only triggered by minion attacks (so Battlecries, spells, Hero Powers, or weapon attacks have no effect on it). The effect will kill any minion, even if it has a Divine Shield or an immunity effect (such as from Bestial Wrath) active on it. It is important to note that when a minion triggers Vaporize, it dies before actually attacking the Mage, meaning that they do not take any damage from that minion. 1.8. Ice Block Ice Block is triggered when the Mage takes fatal damage, and it causes the them to become immune for the remainder of the turn. This means that if the Mage has 3 health, and it takes 4 damage, the 4 damage will trigger Ice Block, which will then prevent the 4 damage from affecting them. The Ice Block will remain active for the rest of the turn, meaning that the Mage cannot be killed. Ice Block is triggered by any type of damage (minion attacks, Battlecries, spells, Hero Powers, weapons), and it also blocks any type of damage while it is active. 1.9. Kirin Tor Mage and Ethereal Arcanist The Kirin Tor Mage is a 4/3 minion with a Battlecry that causes the next Secret played during that turn to be free of cost. The Ethereal Arcanist has a passive ability that causes it to gain +2/+2 at the end of every turn if the Mage has at least one active Secret. There is no limit to how much this buff can stack. 2. Countering/Detecting Mage Secrets Whether you are playing against a Mage, or you are playing as a Mage, it is very important to learn how to counter and play around the Mage Secrets. We will approach this section as though your opponent was playing the Secret, but you can of course use the information if you yourself are the Mage, in order to understand how your Secrets may be countered. Whenever a Mage plays a Secret, you will immediately need to make it a priority to find out what that Secret is, and to remove it at the smallest possible cost. As soon as a Secret is played, you will have to do the following actions in an order that suits your current situation: kill one of the Mage's minions, the one that would be least beneficial for the Mage to get two copies of in their hand (in case the secret is Duplicate), and ideally one that costs little Mana (in case the secret is Effigy); If you have performed all of the above actions and none of them triggered a Secret, then the only other possibility is that the Secret is Ice Block. Let us look at each Secret in a bit more detail. Remember that these actions do not need to be performed in a specific order, since they depend greatly on what your options are (whether or not you have weak minions on the board or in your hand, or if you have spells, etc.). 2.1. Vaporize and Ice Barrier Both Vaporize and Ice Barrier are triggered from attacks made against the Mage. The optimal way to test for these Secrets is to attack the Mage with your weakest or most expendable minion, such as a Novice Engineer or a Silver Hand Recruit. In case the Secret is Vaporize, you will have only lost a very weak minion. Naturally, if you know for a fact that the Secret cannot be Vaporize (if, in Play mode, the Mage had already played 2 Vaporize spells in that game), then it is safe to attack the Mage with any minion you like. It is also interesting to note that, since your weapon attacks trigger Ice Barrier, but not Vaporize, you can attack with your weapon first, if your only minion on the board is too important to risk losing to Vaporize. If your weapon attack triggers Ice Barrier, then you know it is safe to attack with your minion. 2.2. Mirror Entity and Potion of Polymorph Testing for Mirror Entity and Potion of Polymorph is as simple as playing a very weak minion. Note that your Hero Powers do not trigger Mirror Entity or Potion of Polymorph, if you are a Shaman or a Paladin, so you will need to actually play a minion from your hand. You should try to play the minion that will be least beneficial for your opponent, or least costly for you to remove from the board later on, in case the Secret turns out to be Mirror Entity. For instance, if you are a Mage, you could play a Magma Rager, since

19.8 percent – This holiday season, nearly 20 percent of all American families are on food stamps. But since the stock market is soaring, most of the rest of the country doesn’t seem to care. $20 – If you want to “lock down that new man for Christmas”, you can buy a positive pregnancy test on Craigslist for just 20 dollars. 29.0 years – The average age when a man in America first gets married has reached an all-time high of 29.0 years. Thus the need for the fake pregnancy tests. 31.1 percent – An astounding 31.1 percent of all U.S. young adults in the 18 to 34-year-old age bracket are currently living with their parents. But the good news is that demand for tacky basement decor is at an all-time high. 33 percent – According to the Wall Street Journal, close to one-third of all Americans have a file in the FBI’s master criminal database. 34.6 percent – According to the CDC, 34.6 percent of all men in America officially meet the criteria for being obese. 36 – At this point only 36 percent of the U.S. population can name all three branches of government. 43 – The new EPA regulations issued while Barack Obama has been president are 43 times as long as the entire Bible. 45 percent – One survey discovered that 45 percent of all Americans “dread” the Christmas season. 48 percent – Only 48 percent of Americans can immediately come up with $400 in emergency cash without borrowing it or selling something. 50 – An MIT research scientist is warning that if current trends continue 50 percent of all children in America will be autistic by the year 2025. 50 percent – Half of all college graduates in America are still financially dependent on their parents when they are two years out of college. 52 percent – According to a survey that was conducted earlier this year, 52 percent of all Americans cannot even afford the house that they are currently living in right now. 54 percent – For the first time ever, more than half of all U.S. doctors support the legalization of assisted suicide. 57 percent – A recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found that 57 percent of all Americans consider race relations in America to be “bad”. That is the worst number in 20 years. 59 percent – One very disturbing recent poll discovered that 59 percent of Americans are in favor of torturing our prisoners. 60 percent – In the United States today, 60 percent of all bachelor’s degrees are earned by women. 64 percent – It would be a great understatement to say that pornography is popular with men in America. This is true even among men that are supposed to be religious. For example, one survey discovered that 64 percent of all Christian men ages 31 to 49 look at porn at least monthly. 65 percent – One shocking new poll found that 65 percent of Americans believe that the government is “broken”. The shocking part of the survey was that it was only 65 percent. 65 percent – According to a Census Bureau report that was released in December, 65 percent of all children in America are living in a home that receives some form of aid from the federal government. 70 percent – Right now, about 70 percent of all government spending goes toward dependence-creating programs. 78 percent – According to a Pew Research Center study that was released earlier this year, 78 percent of U.S. women “want a spouse with a steady job”. Apparently the other 22 percent want an unemployed bum that stays home all day playing video games. 85 percent – 85 percent of all artificial Christmas trees are now made in China, and there is a rumor that Santa and his elves are considering a permanent move to the Chinese city of Shenzhen. 1979 – The United States has become the nation of the “permanent emergency”. In fact, there has been at least one “state of emergency” in effect in this country since 1979. 7,500 – The worldwide Ebola death toll has surpassed 7,500 for the first time, but most Americans seem to believe that the crisis is over. The truth is that it may just be beginning. 20,000 – Right now McDonald’s has 14,267 locations in the United States, but payday lenders have more than 20,000. $30,000 – According to the Social Security Administration, 52 percent of all American workers made less than $30,000 last year. 80,000 – Back in 1980, there were only about 3,000 SWAT raids conducted in the United States. But today, there are more than 80,000 SWAT raids per year in this country. 100,000 – It is estimated that there are at least 100,000 underage sex workers in the United States. In case you were wondering, yes that means that we are a very sick nation. $1,000,000 – We are supposed to be a government “of the people, by the people and for the people”, but at this point more than half the members of Congress are millionaires. 1,400,000 – Thanks in large part to unchecked illegal immigration, there are now 1.4 million members of criminal gangs living in our cities. 2,400,000 – There are currently more than 2.4 million people behind bars in America, and since 1980 the number of people incarcerated in our prisons has quadrupled. 2,500,000 – According to the National Center on Family Homelessness, there are now 2.5 million homeless children in the United States. 4,000,000 – Right now there are more than 4 million adult websites on the Internet, and they get more traffic than Netflix, Amazon and Twitter combined. 9,700,000 – Almost 10 million more Americans have enrolled in Medicaid since Obamacare first launched. 15,000,000 – More than 15 million Americans have cosmetic procedures done each year, and Christmas is the busiest season of the year for plastic surgeons. 30,000,000 – In America today, more than 30 million Americans are taking antidepressants. And keep in mind that antidepressants are only one class of pharmaceutical drug. Overall, nearly 70 percent of all Americans are currently on at least one prescription drug according to the Mayo Clinic. $40,000,000 – More than 40 million dollars has been spent just on vacations for Barack Obama and his family since he has been in the White House. 49,000,000 – An astounding 49 million Americans are considered to be facing food insecurity at this point. 110,000,000 – Approximately one-third of the entire population of the United States (110 million people) currently has a sexually transmitted disease according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 156,600,000 – The population of Bangladesh (156,600,000) is actually larger than the population of Russia (143,500,00). But nobody is scared of Bangladesh. 3,000,000,000 – For the first time ever, there are now more than 3 billion people on the Internet around the globe. I don’t know if that is a good thing or a bad thing. $600,000,000,000 – Americans will spend more than 600 billion dollars this Christmas season. That is an amount of money greater than the entire GDP of Sweden. $1,200,000,000,000 – Student loan debt has hit a grand total of 1.2 trillion dollars in the United States. That number has grown by about 84 percent just since 2008. $2,000,000,000,000 – The war in Iraq cost U.S. taxpayers more than 2 trillion dollars, but now a radical jihadist terror organization known as ISIS controls nearly a third of the entire country. 5,000,000,000,000 – There are now 5 trillion little pieces of plastic floating around in the oceans of the world, and lots more plastic is being dumped into our oceans every single day. $18,031,021,541,347.52 – The current size of the U.S. national debt. It increased by more than a trillion dollars during the fiscal year that ended a few months ago, and it is on pace to approximately double during Obama’s eight years in the White House. $40,000,000,000,000 – There are five “too big to fail” banks in the United States that each have more than 40 TRILLION dollars worth of exposure to derivatives. This is a “sword of Damocles” that could destroy our financial system and our entire economy at any time. Let’s just hope that it does not happen in 2015. So what numbers would you add to this list? Please feel free to join the discussion by posting a comment below… FILED NOT FOR PUBLICATION MAR 15 2012 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS U .S. C O U R T OF APPE ALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT RYAN DELODDER, individually and on No. 10-56755 behalf of all those similarly situated and RICARDO MARQUES, individually and D.C. No. 2:08-cv-06044-DMG-AGR on behalf of all those similarly situated, Plaintiffs - Appellants, MEMORANDUM * v. 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d seen his arms, looked down at his torso, and been aware of his face in that vague, shadowy way people perceive themselves without a reflection, the blur of the nose and the cheeks and mouth with a presence so permanent to our vision that we forget they are there. He’d almost seen his face reflected in Sav’s eyes. Here, though, was the full article, and minus the cracks in the mirror it was as clear and defined as it could ever be. He felt like he was looking through a window into another world, seeing another person mimicking his movements. Then both of you are in another world, for this side of the mirror sure ain’t Kansas. His face stared back at him, mockingly. A smirk lined his face, carrying up to the dark, glittering eyes. Stop laughing at yourself, he told himself sternly, but he couldn’t help it. His mouth opened in a rogue’s grin, and he shook his head. The man in the reflection did the same. The same red markings, the tribal wine stains that careened over his body were present on his face. They lined his cheeks and brow like war paint, and yet the effect was more, well, wild, wild and mystical, than savage. At least I don’t have a red nose. He spent long minutes inspecting himself, dividing between marvelling at his skin design – the patterns made him want to call them extensive tattooing, but they were all-natural (just look at those hands), and miraculous for it – and his new face: a tough, dark-eyed and somewhat Middle-Eastern looking face, an on-the-dark-and-dirty-side-of-handsome face. He pleased himself thinking it possessed a kind of heroic villainy. He resolved to let his hair, a stallion black mane on top, grow at the shaved sides, before he would untie the knot that held it back. Facial hair, too. A face like this needed some thick stubble. That’s razors off the shopping list, and good thing too, for a man with no money. He put his hand in his pocket and pulled out four tiny coins. Scratch that, I have four jackals. Something tells me they’re not worth a loaf of bread. The coins were replaced, but the hand was found moving inward. One last thing to check. Jay glanced at the door. There was no lock, but it was at least firmly shut. It wasn’t entirely reassuring, but he couldn’t see why someone would barge in on someone else’s rented room. Unless it’s Savvi? But then again – the voice continued, in a sleazy kind of way – maybe her catchin you pants down is exactly the kind of – ‘Shut up,’ Jay said out loud. But he pulled down his pants anyway. He was, after all, still a man in a man’s body. And there are some things a man’s gotta know. He stood there, no shirt and his pants around his ankles, a stupid smile plastered to his face (but it’s not so stupid, is it? It’s better than the last guy’s smile, remember that? . . . No) as he looked at and touched himself with investigative measure, inflicted with the kind of small amazement that beds well with amusement. Fronting this amusement, however, there came first relief. Jay was relieved to see that his package didn’t look vastly different to what he was used to. The thing that struck him most, quite aside from the size (his grin increased, although his only comparison beyond the hints of Jay’s memories were those of Earth men), and the single (much larger) nut, was the bendiness; it was quite pliable even when hard, he noticed, and almost stayed in the positions you left it, like plasticine. It had that rubbery quality, both look and touch. The head was tapered slightly. Apart from that, though, it was both recognisable and appreciable as a cock and balls. Thank god for evolutionary similarities, and not giving me tentacles. The only immediate sense of alien was that the whole area was a dark, streaky red. He enjoyed himself for a while manipulating himself into vague turns, revelling like a child with a toy snake or one of those bendable figurines. He had only meant to check himself out, but found himself quickly carried away. There was a pressure, an insistence in his lower body that he hadn’t really noticed until its sudden absence. He felt clearer, and he did some stretches as he washed out the sink, wondering at how he could take the time to masturbate, given his utterly incredible situation, and all the things around to discover. But there’d been that urge. His body seemed to belong to that of a wild man turned teenager. The stretching felt good. He’d always hated exercise before. But now his muscles were strong, and he felt powerful. He put his clothes back on, gave one final, eager glance in the mirror – a glance that turned into a searching look – and left the room. The clerk audibly sighed as Jay walked down the stairs. He was tight-lipped as Jay smiled at him in an attempt to be friendly. ‘Yes?’ the clerk said, raising his bushy eyebrows. ‘Good morning. I was hoping for a shower. Well, to wash myself.’ The clerk sniffed. ‘I am sure you need it. Well. The washroom is out that door.’ ‘Oh, good. Is there hot water?’ ‘Do we look like a Sturm chamberhouse?’ ‘Um, no. I guess not. Thanks.’ Jay pushed through the door. Behind a curtain there was a series of bronze pipes that twisted in wheels before joining up to a spout that hung overhead. Jay found a valve and turned it. A crank increased the pressure until a steady light rainfall of water pattered down into a drain below. It wasn’t cold, more a lukewarm temperature that, if not exactly enjoyable, didn’t make his teeth chatter. After his shower, he replaced his baggy brown pants (there had been no undergarments) and his boots (sockless, but something about the make of the boots made his feet feel just fine without them; even on his journey to Nohaven his feet had not sweated. In the shower he’d noticed a rubbery hardness to his feet. They were as red as his hands, making his only socks skin-deep). He gave his shirt a cautious smell, but it seemed okay; it had been only him carrying the scent. Perhaps in this world they actually made shirts that resisted odours, or just sweat. Not that the shirt smelled like a rose garden; it spoke to his nostrils of horse, and sand, and a slight spice that he couldn’t place, but felt oddly comforting in the same way home does. The clerk was gone when he returned, and Jay left the rest house and emerged into the light. He was surprised at how quickly he was becoming accustomed to the colour, although the purple-ringed sun still sent a shiver through his body whenever he looked up. Everybody looked slightly different outside than inside – but then he supposed that was true on Earth, too. There was a transformative quality about it – something that lent a faintly mystical, secretive, almost furtive air to everything – although he had as yet little comparison, for he had not seen this outside world in Earth’s pale light. He made to go over to the bar, but found himself wandering. After all, he reasoned, she might not even be up yet. He walked along the thoroughfare, and then aimlessly through the town, along dusty streets, turning corners, turning heel and walking back on himself. He drifted in a daze, entranced with no small measure of wonder. People stared at him strangely, for he looked at things like a man born anew. As he walked his usurped memory offered up morsels, shadows of remembrance. There was the Bone Bin, a windowless establishment – if establishment would ever fit such a jumble of timber. It had been made with boards and bits of boards, stakes and sticks – all made from some kind of – the white gumba tree – and affixed all over with thousands of bent nails. The wood lay crooked off each other, broken planks attached more by spirit than strength to mere shards. It was a ribcage of a house, and seemed to come in layers: for there were many gaps between the bones, but inside he could make out a second shell, one that seemed just as pale and hapless. Inside, he knew, they smoked every kind of smoke there was, and the air within seemed to float with ghosts. On his left now came the red doors of the brothel, The Drain (his nose wrinkled at the sign). Opposite was a throng of small black children arguing over a furry ball that rolled about on its own volition – a bracker-ball, livin games to some. The leader was taller than the rest, with a gap where his nose should have been. His sunburst eyes flared as he caught sight of Jay, and waved to him. Jay waved back. That’s Jonner, a ragman. He’s alright. He don’t wanna kill you. There were Appalian mountain men, with their curly hair and square-cropped beards, and silver

comes 292065873 , not 300000000 . This is only experiment , as I said __sync_add_and_fetch will solve problem, but still I like to know the detail to cause this result . Edit : Both ++igblcnt and igblcnt++ produce the same code. g++ --std=c++11 -S -masm=intel x.cpp ,(source ++iglbcnt) the following code come from x.s : .LFB11: .cfi_startproc push rbp .cfi_def_cfa_offset 16 .cfi_offset 6, -16 mov rbp, rsp .cfi_def_cfa_register 6 sub rsp, 32 mov QWORD PTR [rbp-24], rdi call pthread_self mov rdi, rax call pthread_detach mov DWORD PTR [rbp-4], 0 jmp .L2 .L3: mov eax, DWORD PTR iglbcnt[rip] add eax, 1 mov DWORD PTR iglbcnt[rip], eax add DWORD PTR [rbp-4], 1 .L2: cmp DWORD PTR [rbp-4], 99999999 jle .L3 mov edi, OFFSET FLAT:.LC0 call puts lock add DWORD PTR iThreadDone[rip], 1 leave .cfi_def_cfa 7, 8 ret .cfi_endproc .LFE11: .size _Z7thread1Pv, .-_Z7thread1Pv .section .rodata .LC1: .string "iglbcnt=(%d) \n" .text Edit2 : for(int idx=0;idx<CNTNUM;idx++){ asm volatile("":::"memory") ; iglbcnt++ ; } and then compile it by -O1 will works fine , add compiler-time memory barrier would help in this case . A: igblcnt++ is a load, add, store sequence. This is performed without synchronization so threads (even if scheduled on the same core) will have a race because each of them has their own register context. A __sync_add_and_fetch instruction on igblcnt will resolve the race. The load into a core's register takes place then the thread is switched out (it's registers are saved) another thread reads the same value and increments and stores it back to memory (perhaps hundreds of increments) and then the first thread is switched in with its stale value which is incremented and stored -losing thousands to millions of increments potentially (as you have seen). Weirdest Christmas Tradition Ever Austria is a Christmassy sort of place. It gets plenty cold by the beginning of December, and snow usually arrives right on schedule. In the countryside, impossibly quaint small towns look like they belong under a Christmas tree with a toy train running around them. In Vienna, we have at least a dozen Christmas markets going, and all the major streets are decorated with elaborate light displays. In short, Christmas is a Big Deal. Being a traditional sort of country, there are also many holiday traditions to be observed in Austria. One visits the markets to shop for gifts and drink hot gluhwein. One eats roasted chestnuts, deep-fried potatoes, giant donuts, and kipferl, the little crescent-shaped cookies dipped in powdered sugar. One lights candles set in an Advent wreath on each of the four Sundays before Christmas. Children eagerly await the Christ child, who will bring them gifts on Christmas Eve. But first, they must pass a test. On Saint Nicholas’ Eve (December 5), they are visited by Saint Nicholas (as in the original, dressed as a bishop, not Santa Claus, the jolly old elf), and Krampus, who plays bad cop. The children are questioned as to whether they have been good. If they have been, St Nick gives them candy and oranges. If they have not, Krampus beats the living daylights out of them with birch switches and chains. Nice. Modern Krampus (from Wikipedia.) Krampus is a really interesting character. I thought he might be some kind of pagan throwback, and indeed he is. Ancient European legends often feature a satyr-like creature who is a mix of horned goat and man. The sexual implications are rather obvious, and confirmed by his birch switches, which were used in pagan coming-of-age rites. In fact, when we lived in nearby Prague, it was the tradition for young men to go around switching girls with birch or pussy willow branches on Easter, the original pagan fertility festival. So, there you go. Supposedly, in pre-Christian days, young men would go off into the woods in Alpine countries at puberty and come back in their goat-man kit to show their new masculinity. Scaring village children was also part of the ritual. The Catholic church attempted to suppress these naughty behaviors, but in remote villages, the tradition survived, as these things often do, to later get mixed up with the feast of Saint Nicholas. In modern Austria and surrounding countries, Krampus has become a pop culture figure, featured on greeting cards and gift bags, and represented in chocolate, marzipan, dried fruit, and stuffed-animal form. He even has his own website. You can buy a candy Krampus at any supermarket checkout at this time of year to remind your little cherubs to behave themselves. Or else. Many towns and cities also have a Krampuslauf, or Krampus walk, in which performers dressed as demons run around with chains, whips, and baskets to put naughty children in to take them to Hell. These are not cartoon devils with cute little trident tails. Krampus walkers take the custom very seriously and aim to scare the bejeezus out of everyone. According to Wikipedia, “there has been public debate in Austria in modern times about whether Krampus is appropriate for children.” Hmm, do you think? I haven’t made it to a Krampuslauf yet, but I certainly intend to. Meanwhile, I’ve been snapping photos of the evil dude as I see him around town. By the way, don’t assume you are safe if you live in the US. Some American communities with origins in this part of the world have apparently been reviving the custom. There is a Facebook page for Americans Who Love Krampus. Heck, Krampus even visited Stephen Colbert a while back. So, be good, folks. Or else! Typical chocolates that you can buy at any grocery store. Saint Nick and Krampus as chocolate minis. Gingerbread Krampus. Marzipan Krampuses (Krampii?) Huge chocolate Krampus. Yikes. Liquor-filled candies. This poster was on a bar near my house. Aw, look at the cute toddler trachten. Complete with a toddler-sized S&M demon. My own Kitchen Krampus. Hopefully, it will have a beneficial effect on the Teenager. hee hee- I was telling an ELO about Krampus and I know he thought I was making it up until I sent him the Wikipedia page! I first learned about Krampus as a kid from the Chalet School books (some were set in 1930s Austria) but have never been able to see it firsthand… […] portrayals of Satan. You might see him posed harmlessly on a greeting card or reproduced in chocolates or figurines. But you might also encounter a procession of Krampuses stalking through the town, laden with […]Obituary for Tunisia and Nigeria Country Director Francis Underhill Macy In 1961, Mr. Macy led the first ever citizen diplomatic mission into the USSR. The group of Russian-speaking American graduate students were the first Americans many locals had ever met. "The word got out and, rain or shine, there were long lines of people waiting to talk to young Americans," said Mr. Macy's wife, who accompanied him on the mission. "It changed their attitude about Americans. They saw for the first time that Americans were real people, not the rich capitalist racists who fit into the Stalinist stereotype." It was such a moving experience that Mr. Macy turned down a prestigious government posting in Moscow and joined the Peace Corps. He also took time to join the 1963 March on Washington and was there when Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have A Dream" speech. "Fran saw that when you bring people together, magic happens," said his wife. Between 1964 and 1972, he served as deputy Peace Corps director in India, country director in Tunisia and Nigeria and finally as director of all Peace Corps programs in Africa. Tuesday, February 10, 2009 A memorial service will be held on Feb. 21 for Francis Underhill Macy, an environmental activist and expert on Russian culture

[@kortenkamp:1994:Topological_Mapping_for_Mobile_Robots; @Thrun:1998:Learning_metric-topological_maps], feature-based [@Leonardetal:1992:Dynamic_map_building_for_AMR] and grid-based [@elfes:1989:Using_Occupancy_Grids_for_Mobile_Robot]. Recently other approaches have appeared using sparse matrices [@Yguel-RSS-07] or graph-based maps [@Grisetti-RSS-07]. In the case of grid-based maps, a typical way of representing the robot observations is by means of an occupancy grid, in which each cell can have two states, empty or occupied, and the grid contains the probability of the cell being occupied, as it was proposed by Elfes in [@Elfes:1987:Sonar_based_real_world_mapping_and_navigation; @elfes:1989:Using_Occupancy_Grids_for_Mobile_Robot], and recently used in [@Thrun:2005:Probabilistic_Robotics; @LeeChung:2009:Effective_Maximum_Likelihood_Grid_Map]. To have a feasible algorithm to build this occupancy grid using a probabilistic approach it is necessary to assume that the current observation is independent from the previous ones, and that the probability of being occupied for each cell is independent from the others, but in most practical cases these assumptions fail, and the maps based on them contain severe errors, (see [@RiboPinz:2001:A_comparison_of_three_uncertainty_calculi_for_building_sonar-based_occupancy_grids; @zhang2007comparative] for a comparison). A difference between the work presented here and probabilistic approaches is that our model does not need to assume that observations are independent, in fact, the opposite is assumed when some observations are used to correct others (see Section \[sec:con\_int\] for details). Several sensor models have been developed by different authors [@Thrun:2005:Probabilistic_Robotics]. These models provide different description levels of factors that produce uncertainty. Probabilistic models usually use stochastic techniques [@Elfes:1987:Sonar_based_real_world_mapping_and_navigation; @Foxetal:99:Montecarlo_Localization; @GutmannSchlegel:96:AMOS] (see in [@Thrun:2005:Probabilistic_Robotics] a classification of probabilistic sensor models) in order to build an occupancy grid (where cells contain the probability of being occupied), but in [@Saffiotti:1997:The_uses_of_fuzzy_logic_in_autonomous_robot_navigation; @RiboPinz:2001:A_comparison_of_three_uncertainty_calculi_for_building_sonar-based_occupancy_grids] it was proved that fuzzy models are more robust (have a higher recall of obstacles) and better suited for managing this imprecision and for building approximate maps (where cells contain the degree of being an obstacle, or of being an empty space). The model presented here is a fuzzy model, because the approximate maps built contain the degree of being an obstacle, or of being an empty space. However, the main difference of this model with previous fuzzy models [@Ruspini:1990:Fuzzy_Logic_in_the_Flakey; @Saffiotti:1997:The_uses_of_fuzzy_logic_in_autonomous_robot_navigation; @RiboPinz:2001:A_comparison_of_three_uncertainty_calculi_for_building_sonar-based_occupancy_grids; @OrioloUliviVendittelli:1997:Fuzzy_maps:_A_new_tool_for_mobile_robot_perception_and_planning; @GasosMartin:1997:Mobile_robot_localization_using_fuzzy_maps; @AguirreGonzalez:2003:A_Fuzzy_Perceptual_Model_for_Ultra_sound_Sensors_Applied_to_Intelligent_Navigation_of_Mobile_Robots; @karaman2005navigation; @yan2006building] is that in our model obstacles and empty-space form a pair of antonyms. And that impose certain constraints (see Section \[sec:antonyms\]) over the obstacle and empty-spaces maps that allows us to handle explicitly contradictions that arouse in the process, and to warranty that the integrated map will contain much less contradictions. Recently some works have focused on the problem of dealing with the contradictions that arise during the mapping and navigation process, for example Lee and Chung following a probabilistic approach proposed in [@LeeChung:2009:Effective_Maximum_Likelihood_Grid_Map] to use a conflict evaluated maximum approximated likelihood (CEMAL) approach to deal with that contradictions, although they assumed that observations are independent and that the exact position of the robot is known in advance. As it has been said before in our model it is not assumed the independency of observations nor that the exact robot position is know in advance (see Section \[sec:experiments\] for details). Fundamentals {#sec:foundations} ============ Occupancy grid maps are built using a grid of cells with a certain size. Each cell is associated with a state and a confidence degree, that in the case of probability maps [@Elfes:1987:Sonar_based_real_world_mapping_and_navigation] is the probability mass function, or in the case of fuzzy maps [@OrioloUliviVendittelli:1997:Fuzzy_maps:_A_new_tool_for_mobile_robot_perception_and_planning] is the possibility degree. Before introducing the foundations of antonyms, probabilistic maps and fuzzy maps are presented. Probabilistic Maps ------------------ In the probabilistic approach, to be able to tackle grids of a size big enough (e.g 100x100) it is assumed that cells states are independent and complete. That is, each cell has a state $s$, occupied or empty $s(C_{ij}) \in \{E,O\}$, with a certain probability defined by the function $P:\{E,O\}\rightarrow[0,1]$, that can be represented by a pair of matrices of size $(n\times m)$, with the probability associated with each state: $$\begin{array}{c} Map_{Occup} = \left[\begin{array}{ccc} P[s(C_{11})=O] & ... & P[s(C_{1m})=O]\\ \vdots & P[s(C_{ij})=O] & \vdots\\ P[s(C_{n1})=O] & ... & P[s(C_{nm})=O] \end{array}\right]\\ \\ Map_{Empty} = \left[\begin{array}{ccc} P[s(C_{11})=E] & ... & P[s(C_{1m})=E]\\ \vdots & P[s(C_{ij})=E] & \vdots\\ P[s(C_{n1})=E] & ... & P[s(C_{nm})=E] \end{array}\right] \end{array}$$ In this case, and since both Maps are complementary $$P[s(C_{ij}=E)]+P[s(C_{ij})=O] = 1,$$ then maintaining one map is enough. Each cell is associated with a probability mass function, which is estimated from a sensor model that measures confidence, and an integration process done by the Bayes-Rule. For example, in [@RiboPinz:2001:A_comparison_of_three_uncertainty_calculi_for_building_sonar-based_occupancy_grids] Ribo and Pinz proposed a sensor model detailed below[^1], although other models of the sensor measurements $p[r|s(C_{ij})=X]$ have been defined (see [@Thrun:2002:Robotic_Mapping_A_Survey] for details). $$\begin{aligned} & p[r|s(C_{ij})=O] = p_1[r|s(\theta,\rho)=O] + p_2[\theta,\rho|r] \label{eq:sensor_model}\\ p_1[r|s(\theta,\rho)] =& \left\{\begin{array}{ll} \left(1-\lambda\right)0.5+\lambda p_E & 0\leq \rho < r- 2\delta r, \\ (0.5-p_E)\left(1-\lambda\left(\frac{r - \rho-\delta r}{\delta r}\right)^2\right) & r-2\delta r \leq \rho < r- \delta r,\\ \lambda\left(p_O-0.5\right)\left(1-\left(\frac{r-\rho}{\delta r}\right)^2\right) & r-\delta r \leq \rho < r + \delta r, \\ 0.5 & \rho \geq r + \delta r \end{array}\right.

1921 and originally known as City Park, the park has a football/soccer field, baseball diamond, field house, several tennis courts, a skate park, and nature trails. The athletic field is artificial turf, and is additionally used as the home field for the NCAA Marquette Golden Eagles lacrosse teams and, as of 2017, the Milwaukee Torrent soccer team of the NPSL and WPSL . In 1960, to commemorate Wauwatosa's 125th anniversary, the common council named the park Charles Hart Park to recognize the city's founder. References Category:Protected areas of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Category:1921 establishments in Wisconsin Category:Soccer venues in Wisconsin Category:College lacrosse venues in the United StatesIn vitro bactericidal effects of near-ultraviolet light from light-emitting diodes on Helicobacter pylori. We investigated whether near-ultraviolet light emitted from light-emitting diodes (LEDs) effects Helicobacter pylori viability and whether this new method can potentially apply to eradication therapy. Three H. pylori strains were used for near-ultraviolet (UV) LED irradiation experiments. Viability of isolates exposed to near-UV light was compared with controls by counting colony forming units. A time-dependent bactericidal effect of near-UV light was definitely observed. LED irradiation with near-UV light showed effective bactericidal activity against H. pylori strains. Eradication therapy with LED might provide a new avenue of treatment in patients refractory to eradication due to antibiotic resistance and/or adverse effects of antibiotics.Ottawa Fury FC was honoured by the city Friday after the club won the North American Soccer League's fall championship earlier this week. Two days after Wednesday's triumph 3-1 win over Jacksonville - which ended with the team showering head coach Marc Dos Santos with Gatorade before hoisting him into the air - the Fury flag was raised at City Hall. Fury will host a still-to-be-determined opponent in the NASL Championship semi-final at TD Place on Nov. 8. It's also looking increasingly likely if Ottawa wins the semi-final, the final could also be held here. As it stands now, Fury has a five-point lead over the New York Cosmos for the overall league title, which would earn Fury home-field advantage throughout the post-season. But as always, it continues to be one game at a time for Fury, who want to close out the regular season with a win on Halloween night in Atlanta. They also want to see big crowds show up for the first-ever professional playoff soccer game to be played in Ottawa. "It's difficult (not to look too far ahead), but as you know we've had this philosophy all along, which you are totally bored with, which is one game at a time," Fury president John Pugh told the Sun Friday. Pugh, the man responsible for bringing pro soccer to the capital, was with the team to celebrate the win in Jacksonville. "That's one of those magic moments, they don't come very often and when they happen, you have to celebrate and savour that moment," he said. Defender Colin Falvey, who hasn't missed a minute of action for Fury this season, echoed Pugh's comments. "These are good moments to be a part of but the good thing is we're humble enough to enjoy it for a couple days (and then get) back to work to work straight away Monday. We want to win the combined (standings) now." As for what Pugh expects crowd-wise at the first-ever playoff game to be played at the new Lansdowne, he's hoping the club's growing supporter base continues to swell. "Let's pack as many people in there as we can, let's make a huge effort to get everybody there," said Pugh. The club will be presented with the fall championship trophy on Sunday before the 67's home game against the Peterborough Petes at 3 p.m. Twitter: @chrishofleyHere is a clip from SBS Australia aired in May 2013 “Have you ever heard of Zoroastrianism? If not, that’s because there aren’t many Zoroastrians left. Jeannette Francis talks to a family facing the challenges of keeping their ancient religion alive and preventing their culture dying. ”1) Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a monitoring system for semiconductor device fabrication facilities, and more particularly, to a monitoring system for semiconductor device fabrication facilities for simplifying the line installment between each facility and the monitoring system by providing a certain frequency to each facility to carry out a corresponding fabrication process of semiconductor devices and a measurement process therefor, and using one information transmission line and selective signal line. 2) Description of the Related Art Generally, a certain pattern is formed on a semiconductor wafer through an array of processing steps such as oxidation, diffusion, etching, deposition, or ion-implantation, and semiconductor devices are manufactured via an assembly process. Between the above processing steps, or during a certain processing step, various kinds of analysis, inspection, or measurement is performed on wafers or chips. Each analyzing step or measuring step for a certain process is carried out on its corresponding fabrication facility, and so, several and various kinds of fabrication facilities are provided on the semiconductor device fabrication factory. In order to produce normal semiconductor devices, it is necessary to check the operational state of the process carried out in each fabrication facility, or the state of the facility itself every process time, and so, in case of an abnormal operational state being found, proper and quick action should be made. One embodiment of the monitoring systems for the above purpose is disclosed in U.S. patent Ser. No. 5,568,042, entitled "Monitoring And Control of Filter In A Power Network." Meanwhile, the malfunctioning process or facility abnormality is checked using various kinds of sensors installed in the corresponding semiconductor device fabrication facility, and in case of a process malfunction or facility abnormality, a corresponding sensor senses and outputs the sensing signal responsive thereto. The sensing signal is applied to an alarming means for alerting an operator at work, or is transferred to a central monitoring apparatus for providing a judgment regarding the operational state of a corresponding process remotely. In order to transfer the sensing signal to the central monitoring apparatus, the central monitoring apparatus and the semiconductor device fabrication facility should be interfaced. As shown in FIG. 1, for remote-monitoring, the central monitoring apparatus 10 is connected to each semiconductor device fabrication facility 12 to 18 to receive the sensing signals. The conventional central monitoring apparatus 10 is individually connected to each semiconductor device fabrication facility 12 to 18, that is, with an independent line distribution. For the interface between the central monitoring apparatus 10 and each semiconductor device fabrication facility, a pair of inner lines are necessary for the formation of an electrical loop. That is, the number of the lines formed with a pair of inner lines is the same as the number of the semiconductor device fabrication facilities connected to the central monitoring apparatus 10. Therefore, more semiconductor device fabrication facilities to be monitored require more lines connected to the central monitoring apparatus which is connected to each facility on a one-to-one basis. As a result, the total length of the lines is longer and more complicated, thereby increasing the installment expenses and the difficulties of the layout inside the fabrication factory. Further, the control and the management of the lines become more difficult.Q: R function and regression I have the following DF named returns_data: date Tech Mining Banks Consumer One.Month FFMkt FFSMB3F FFSMB5F FFHML FFRMW 1991-01-01 0.12 0.13 -0.4 0.5 0.01 0.12 0.5 0.9 0.2 0.2 1991-02-01 0.62 0.33 0.4 0.7 0.31 0.42 0.6 0.2 0.7 0.6 1991-03-01 0.12 0.13 -0.4 0.5 0.01 0.12 0.5 0.5 0.8 I would like to run several regressions on the following columns, one by one. Tech, Mining, Banks and Consumer. I was hoping not o have to copy the code multiple times to do this. I named this Portfolio = c (Tech, Mining, Banks, Consumer) I am trying to run the following function RegCoef <- function(returns_data, port_name, factor_choice){ if(factor_choice == "3F"){ reg_formula = as.formula(paste(port_name, "- One.Month ~ FFMkt + FFSMB3F + FFHML")) }else if(factor_choice == "5F"){ reg_formula = as.formula(paste(port_name, "- One.Month ~ FFMkt + FFSMB5F+ FFHML + FFRMW + ")) } reg = lm(reg_formula, data = returns_data) summary_output = c(portfolio = port_name, intercept = summary(reg)$coef[1,1], intercept_tstat = summary(reg)$coef[1,2],

$ is a $K(\pi,1)$ for $p$-torsion coefficients, i.e. for all $p$-torsion local systems $\mathbb{L}$ on $X$, the natural map $$H^i_\cont(\pi_1(X,x),\mathbb{L}_x)\to H^i(X_\et,\mathbb{L})$$ is an isomorphism. Here, $x\in X(C)$ is a base point, and $\pi_1(X,x)$ denotes the profinite étale fundamental group. We note that we assume only that $X$ is affinoid; no smallness or nonsingularity hypothesis is necessary for this result. This theorem implies that $X$ is ’locally contractible’ in the pro-étale site, at least for $p$-torsion local systems. Now, on affinoid perfectoid subsets $U$, one knows that $H^i(U_\et,{\mathcal{O}}_X^+/p)$ is almost zero for $i>0$, where ${\mathcal{O}}_X^+\subset {\mathcal{O}}_X$ is the subsheaf of functions of absolute value $\leq 1$ everywhere. This should be seen as the basic finiteness result, and is related to Faltings’s almost purity theorem. Starting from this and a suitable cover of $X$ by affinoid perfectoid subsets in $X_\proet$, one can deduce that $H^i(X_\et,{\mathcal{O}}_X^+/p)$ is almost finitely generated over ${\mathcal{O}}_K$. At this point, one uses that $X$ is proper, and in fact the proof of this finiteness result is inspired by the proof of finiteness of coherent cohomology of proper rigid-analytic varieties, as given by Kiehl, [@KiehlFiniteness]. Then one deduces finiteness results for the $\mathbb{F}_p$-cohomology by using a variant of the Artin-Schreier sequence $$0\rightarrow \mathbb{F}_p\rightarrow {\mathcal{O}}_X^+/p\rightarrow {\mathcal{O}}_X^+/p\rightarrow 0\ .$$ In fact, the proof shows at the same time the following result, which is closely related to §3, Theorem 8, of [@FaltingsAlmostEtale]. \[Thm2\] In the situation of Theorem \[Thm1\], there is an almost isomorphism of ${\mathcal{O}}_C$-modules for all $i\geq 0$, $$H^i(X_\et,\mathbb{L})\otimes {\mathcal{O}}_C/p \rightarrow H^i(X_\et,\mathbb{L}\otimes {\mathcal{O}}_X^+/p)\ .$$ More generally, assume that $f:X\rightarrow Y$ is a proper smooth morphism of rigid-analytic varieties over $C$, and $\mathbb{L}$ is an $\mathbb{F}_p$-local system on $X_\et$. Then there is an almost isomorphism for all $i\geq 0$, $$(R^if_{\et\ast} \mathbb{L})\otimes {\mathcal{O}}_Y^+/p\rightarrow R^if_{\et\ast}(\mathbb{L}\otimes {\mathcal{O}}_X^+/p)\ .$$ The relative case was already considered in an appendix to [@FaltingsAlmostEtale]: Under the assumption that $X$, $Y$ and $f$ are algebraic and have suitable integral models, this is §6, Theorem 6, of [@FaltingsAlmostEtale]. In our approach, it is a direct corollary of the absolute version. In a sense, this can be regarded as a primitive version of a comparison theorem. It has the very interesting (and apparently paradoxical) feature that on the right-hand side, one has a ’coherent cohomology group modulo $p$’, but the cohomology is computed on the generic fibre. That this group behaves well relies on the fact that perfectoid spaces have a canonical ’almost integral’ structure. Moreover, it implies the following strange property of $$H^i(X_\et,{\mathcal{O}}_X^+)\ :$$ After inverting $p$, these groups are usual coherent cohomology $H^i(X_\et,{\mathcal{O}}_X) = H^i(X_\an,{\mathcal{O}}_X)$, but after modding out $p$, one gets étale cohomology. Thus, these integral cohomology groups build a bridge between étale and coherent cohomology. Although it should be possible to deduce (log-)crystalline comparison theorems from here, we did only the de Rham case. For this, we introduced sheaves on $X_\proet$, which we call period sheaves, as their values on pro-étale covers of $X$ give period rings. Among them is the sheaf ${\mathbb{B}}_\dR^+$, which is the relative version of Fontaine’s ring $B_\dR^+$. Any lisse ${\mathbb{Z}}_p$-sheaf $\mathbb{L}$ on $X_\et$ gives rise to a ${\mathbb{B}}_\dR^+$-local system on $X_\proet$, and it is a formal consequence of Theorem \[Thm2\] that $$\label{NotProvedByBeilinson} H^i_\et(X,\mathbb{L})\otimes_{{\mathbb{Z}}_p} B_\dR^+\cong H^i(X_\proet,\mathbb{M})\ .$$ We want to compare this to de Rham cohomology. For this, we first relate filtered modules with integrable connection to ${\mathbb{B}}_\dR^+$-local systems. \[Thm3\] Let $X$ be a smooth rigid-analytic variety over $k$, where $k$ is a complete discretely valued nonarchimedean extension of ${\mathbb{Q}}_p$ with perfect residue field. Then there is a fully faithful functor from the category of filtered ${\mathcal{O}}_X$-modules with an integrable connection satisfying Griffiths transversality, to the category of ${\mathbb{B}}_\dR^+$-local systems. The proof makes use of the period rings introduced in Brinon’s book [@BrinonRepresentations], and relies on some of the computations of Galois cohomology groups done there. We say that a lisse ${\mathbb{Z}}_p$-sheaf $\mathbb{L}$ is de Rham if the associated ${\mathbb{B}}_\dR^+$-local system $\mathbb{M}$ lies in the essential image of this functor. We get the following comparison result. \[Thm4\] Let $k$ be a discretely valued complete nonarchimedean extension of ${\mathbb{Q}}_p$ with perfect residue field $\kappa$, and algebraic closure $\bar{k}$, and let $X$ be a proper smooth rigid-analytic variety over $k$. For any lisse ${\mathbb{Z}}_p$-sheaf $\mathbb{L}$ on $X_\et$ with associated ${\mathbb{B}}_\dR^+$-local system $\mathbb{M}$, we have a $\operatorname{Gal}(\bar{k}/k)$-equivariant isomorphism $$H^i_\et(X_{\bar{k}},\mathbb{L})\otimes_{{\mathbb{Z}}_p} B_\dR^+\cong H^i(X_{\bar{k},\proet},\mathbb{M})\ .$$ If $\mathbb{L}$ is de Rham, with associated filtered module with integrable connection $(\mathcal{E},\nabla,\operatorname{Fil}^\bullet)$, then the Hodge-de Rham spectral sequence $$H^{i-j,j}_{\mathrm{Hodge}}(X,\mathcal{E})\Rightarrow H^i_\dR(X,\mathcal{E})$$ degenerates. Moreover, $H^i_\et(X_{\bar{k}},\mathbb{L})$ is a de Rham representation of $\operatorname{Gal}(\bar{k}/k)$ with associated filtered $k$-vector space $H^i_\dR(X,\mathcal{E})$. In particular, there is also a $\operatorname{Gal}(\bar{k}/k)$-equivariant isomorphism $$H^i_\et(X_{\bar{k}},\mathbb{L})\otimes_{{\mathbb{Z}}_p} \hat{\bar{k}}\cong \bigoplus_j H^{i-j,j}_{\mathrm{Hodge}}(X,\mathcal{E})\otimes_k \hat{\bar{k}}(-j)\ .$$ We define the Hodge cohomology as the hypercohomology of the associated gradeds of the de Rham complex of $\mathcal{E}$, with the filtration induced from $\operatorname{Fil}^\bullet$. In particular, we get the following corollary, which answers a question of Tate, [@TatePDivGroups], Remark on p.180. For any proper smooth rigid-analytic variety $X$ over $k$, the Hodge-de Rham spectral sequence $$H^i(X,\Omega_X^j)\Rightarrow H^{i+j}_\dR(X)$$ degenerates, there is a Hodge-Tate decomposition $$H^i_\et(X_{\bar{k}},{\mathbb{Q}}_p)\otimes_{{\mathbb{Q}}_p} \hat{\bar{k}}\cong \bigoplus_{j=0}^i H^{i-j}(X,\Omega_X^j)\otimes_k \hat{\bar{k}}(-j)\ ,$$ and the $p$-adic étale cohomology $H^i_\et(X_{\bar{k}},{\mathbb{Q}}_p)$ is de Rham, with associated filtered $k$-vector space $H^

canal that bordered Seren'naie -- about a hundred yards away from the camp. Brandon saw they numbered maybe half of what Mogritas had brought, though the city's forces were better armed. Next, two figures walked over the bridge from the city, hand in hand, past the guards and toward Mogritas's army. Brandon focused his vision and recognized them as fully a transformed Carrie and Marco. They walked until they were about twenty yards away and stopped. Mrs. Minch screeched at someone, then broke free and ran to Carrie. She hugged Carrie tightly, as if she never wanted to let go. Carrie returned the hug, but not as vigorously. Mrs. Minch sobbed with joy, her huge ears shaking. "Mom, it's okay. I'm okay," Carrie said after her mother had a minute to collect herself. "Okay? It's not okay! Those little monsters held me prisoner! And you too! I'm just so glad to finally have you back." "Mom, they're not monsters, they're good people. And they weren't holding me prisoner." Mrs. Minch looked at her daughter doubtfully. "Honest, Mom! It was my choice to come out here. Marco came along, too. He didn't have to." Carrie flashed Marco a shy smile. Carrie continued in a lower voice, but Brandon could still make out her words. "Mom, the guy you're with is a bad person. He's a liar and he's only using you to get what he wants." "That's not true! He's the only reason you're here with me. No one else would help me." Carrie shook her head. "No, Mom. All you had to do was come here. None of this," she said, indicating the army in front them, "was necessary." Mrs. Minch stood staring at her daughter, then shook her head. "Brainwashed... they've brainwashed you!" Carrie groaned in frustration. "No, Mom, they haven't brainwashed me. You're the one that's got it all mixed up. This Mogritas guy has been lying to you." She paused and said, "Just like Dad." Mrs. Minch shook with rage and shouted, "Don't compare him with your father! Mogritas is the only man who's ever shown me any kindness! Your father was a lying dirt bag who walked out on the both of us!" Carrie dropped her head. "I know, Mom. But Mogritas is the same, he's just wrapped in a prettier package." Brandon felt embarrassed to be eavesdropping on such a personal conversation, but he couldn't help but wonder if Carrie was right. He had trusted Mogritas, but what if he hadn't been telling the whole truth? Mrs. Minch was sobbing again. "Carrie, how can you say that? You don't even know him." Mogritas chose this moment to step forward. Brandon didn't know if he'd been listening. Maybe he wanted to console Mrs. Minch, or perhaps he just wanted to find out what was going on. "Kathy, are you all right?" Mogritas said and gently placed an arm on her shoulder. "No," Mrs. Minch cried. "Carrie's been saying awful things about you, and I don't know who to believe." Mogritas looked surprised. "What has she been saying?" Mrs. Minch looked up at him. "She says you've been lying to me all along. She was never held prisoner here and you've just been using me. Is it true?" "Of course not." He turned to Carrie then. "I care quite deeply for your mother. She is a remarkable woman." Carrie looked at him. "Okay. Prove it. I'm here and I'll come with you. So turn this army around and march back to your castle." Mrs. Minch looked to Mogritas for a response. It was the first time Brandon had ever seen him look unsure of himself. "I can't," Mogritas said at last. "I still have some business with Ba'ize." A tear ran down Mrs. Minch's cheek. "What business?" Mogritas pursed his lips, then said, "I am the rightful ruler of Seren'naie. Ba'ize has brought the city to ruin, I am only trying to set things right." "More lies," Carrie said. "Why didn't you tell me this before?" Carrie's mother was distraught, like someone whose world was crumbling around her. Mogritas watched her sniffling in front of him. Her greenish skin was blotched with pink and red from her tears and distress, and her ears drooped in despair. Brandon saw Mogritas's eyes harden as he came to a decision. "Because I chose not to," he said coldly. Then he turned back to the camp and shouted, "Launch!" "No!" Carrie screamed. A groaning of wood and stone sounded from behind Brandon and then a whoosh as the arm of the catapult swept forward, flinging two of the barrels of waste toward the city. "Reload!" Mogritas shouted. A crew went to work resetting the arm. "What are you doing?" Mrs. Minch screamed. "You said it was only to be used as a threat!" He turned to her sharply. "I'm taking back what is mine! Now go! Go and enjoy your family reunion which I have so thoughtfully provided for you!" He pointed back to the camp. Around him, Brandon saw the army preparing to march. Anger flared in Mrs. Minch's eyes. "Never again," she said quietly, but full of venom. "I swore to myself, I'd never let a man hurt me again!" The first two barrels impacted, one on the southern guard tower and the other in front of the bridge, in the middle of the guard force. Both broke open explosively, spraying their contents several yards in every direction. Brandon heard screams of pain and fear and saw two noxious clouds forming where the contaminated liquid had landed. In front of him, Brandon saw the earth reach up and encase the feet and legs of Mogritas. He twisted around and glared at Mrs. Minch. "That was a mistake!" Mogritas said and shifted form, breaking his bonds and absorbing much of the dirt and stone into himself as he increased greatly in size. Brandon watched as a fierce, rust-colored dragon took shape in front of him. Marco grabbed Carrie and dragged her out of danger. Mogritas roared and faced Mrs. Minch. Sections of earth continued to rise up and grab at Mogritas and Brandon felt gusts of air buffeting him. "Launch!" Mogritas shouted a second time. The catapult groaned and swung once more, sending the last two barrels at their target. Mogritas broke free from the earth again and swiped at Mrs. Minch with a foreleg. She screamed, "Tear him apart!" as Mogritas's talons ripped through her midsection and sent her flying through the air. Mrs. Minch landed heavily and didn't move. "No!" Carrie cried, running to her mother's side. "Form up and finish off those that haven't died from the poisons! March!" The army hurried to obey, giving Mogritas a wide berth. Brandon had been too shocked to move. The second set of barrels hit their mark and blew apart, splashing their deadly contents through the ranks of the defending force and into the city entrance. More cries erupted from the helpless guards and citizenry. # Chapter 46 Jenni heard screams. I'm too late! Flying in from the north, she saw the tall towers in the hub of Seren'naie had been destroyed. Even the Seat of Governance was no more than a pile of rubble. She pushed herself for more speed. She flew over the city, noting the damage in the back of her mind, and feared for her friends. Jenni raced to the east and the source of the horrified sounds. She spotted Ba'ize in his gray robes on one of the guard towers. Then she saw two cylindrical black shapes sailing through the air. The barrels hit and burst open, spilling their contents. More screams split the air. Jenni watched poisonous clouds form where the waste spilled. "Lori!" she shouted at the air, "see if you can contain those clouds!" Please hear me. "She's on it," Mrs. Osorio said in Jenni's ear. Jenni dove and landed with a rush of air from her wings on the tower roof. Two guards drew their weapons to defend Ba'ize. Several others were writhing in pain on the stone. Fingers of deadly mist formed from splashed areas. "Jenni!" Ba'ize said in surprise and waved off the guards. His robe was smoking in several places. The stench of the no

}} ^3}},\label{eq:omega}\end{aligned}$$ where $G$ is the gravitational constant. The particles’ orbital periods are $T_{i} = 2\pi /\omega_{i \mathrm{,0}} $. Without the influence of the perturber, the positions of the particles are given for all times by the initial radius $r_{i \mathrm{,init}} $ and the angle $$\begin{aligned} \theta_{i} (t) = \theta_{i \mathrm{,0}} + t \, \omega_{i \mathrm{,0}} .\label{eq:thetai}\end{aligned}$$ During the period which the perturber needs to reach pericentre ($t_{\mathrm{peri}} - t_{\mathrm{init}} $), a particle that is initially (at ) at the position ($\theta_{i \mathrm{,init}} $,$r_{i \mathrm{,init}} $), would move without the perturber’s influence to ($\theta_{i \mathrm{,init}} + \omega_{i \mathrm{,0}} \, (t_{\mathrm{peri}} - t_{\mathrm{init}} )$, $r_{i \mathrm{,init}} $) [^7]. This is the position @1972ApJ...178..623T called “the position \[it\] would have reached at time t = 0 in the absence of forcing”. Since the particle will never be at this position, we will call it virtual pericentre position (VPP) in the following. This position is obtained from the initial position by the transformation $$\begin{aligned} \theta_{i \mathrm{,vpp}} &= \left[ \theta_{i \mathrm{,init}} + \omega_{i \mathrm{,0}} \, (t_{\mathrm{peri}} - t_{\mathrm{init}} ) \right]\mod 2 \pi\label{eq:tvpp}\\ r_{i \mathrm{,vpp}} &= r_{i \mathrm{,init}} .\label{eq:rvpp}\end{aligned}$$ ![Virtual pericentre positions (VPPs) for a perturbed disc. The perturber has the same mass as the host and the pericentre of the parabolic, prograde orbit is at (1,0). In [**a)**]{} and [**b)**]{} the disc is seen face on when the perturber has nearly reached pericentre and at $t = t_{\mathrm{init}} $, respectively. In [**c)**]{} the VPPs of the disc particles are shown. For full description see text.[]{data-label="fig:unspiral"}]({faceon_pericentre}.png){width="80.00000%"} ![Virtual pericentre positions (VPPs) for a perturbed disc. The perturber has the same mass as the host and the pericentre of the parabolic, prograde orbit is at (1,0). In [**a)**]{} and [**b)**]{} the disc is seen face on when the perturber has nearly reached pericentre and at $t = t_{\mathrm{init}} $, respectively. In [**c)**]{} the VPPs of the disc particles are shown. For full description see text.[]{data-label="fig:unspiral"}]({faceon_start}.png){width="80.00000%"} ![Virtual pericentre positions (VPPs) for a perturbed disc. The perturber has the same mass as the host and the pericentre of the parabolic, prograde orbit is at (1,0). In [**a)**]{} and [**b)**]{} the disc is seen face on when the perturber has nearly reached pericentre and at $t = t_{\mathrm{init}} $, respectively. In [**c)**]{} the VPPs of the disc particles are shown. For full description see text.[]{data-label="fig:unspiral"}]({faceon_vpp}.png){width="80.00000%"} Figure \[fig:unspiral\] shows an example of this transformation for a disc of particles perturbed by a perturber with mass $M_{\mathrm{p}} = M_{\mathrm{h}} $. The perturber passes the host on a parabolic orbit coming from the bottom of the image, passing pericentre at (1,0), and leaving at the top of the image (see black line in Fig. \[fig:unspiral\_1\]). The particles are coloured by their final fates: blue particles remain bound to the host, green particles become captured by the perturber, and red particles become unbound. Figure \[fig:unspiral\_1\] shows the particles when the perturber has nearly reached pericentre (perturber position indicated by a black dot at the bottom of the image). Owing to the influence of the perturber, the disc is already deformed at that moment. Figure \[fig:unspiral\_2\] shows the same for $t= t_{\mathrm{init}} $. Because of the differential rotation within the disc, the pattern from Fig. \[fig:unspiral\_1\] appears “wound up“. In contrast to Fig. \[fig:unspiral\_1\], the disc is not yet deformed by the influence of the perturber. Figure \[fig:unspiral\_3\] shows the particles at their VPPs. In this case, the disc is neither deformed nor is the pattern from Fig. \[fig:unspiral\_1\] wound up like in Fig. \[fig:unspiral\_2\]. New parametrisation of the initial conditions {#sec:vpp} --------------------------------------------- Instead of setting up simulations by sampling the initial positions of the particles (at $t = t_{\mathrm{init}} $) randomly and plotting the particles later at the VPPs, as shown for example in Fig. \[fig:unspiral\_3\], we invert the transformation given by Eqs.  and to parametrise the initial conditions. This is analogous to the definition of the impact parameter for the description of scattering processes, e.g. of a test-particle in the field of a single attracting body. The impact parameter describes at which distance the test-particle would pass the target without being influenced. Similarly, we define the initial particle positions by the positions where the particles would be when the perturber is in pericentre without the perturbation. For a given initial distance between host and perturber, the initial particle positions are obtained by sampling the VPP space and transforming the coordinates with $$\begin{aligned} \theta_{i \mathrm{,init}} &= \left[ \theta_{i \mathrm{,vpp}} - \omega_{i \mathrm{,0}} \, (t_{\mathrm{peri}} - t_{\mathrm{init}} ) \right]\mod 2 \pi\label{eq:tinit}\\ r_{i \mathrm{,init}} &= r_{i \mathrm{,vpp}} .\label{eq:rinit}\end{aligned}$$ The numerical simulations {#sec:numerics} ------------------------- For our simulations, we sampled the VPP space spanned by $x_{\mathrm{vpp}} $ and $y_{\mathrm{vpp}} $ with massless tracer particles. Both dimensions were divided into bins and sampled with particles, each in the centre of the respective bin. For the figures presented in Sect. \[sec:results\], the region $x_{\mathrm{vpp}} /r_{\mathrm{p,peri}} \in [-5;5]$, $y_{\mathrm{vpp}} /r_{\mathrm{p,peri}} \in [-5;5]$ was sampled with particles. The mass of the host is $M_{\mathrm{h}} = 1$, the perturber with mass $M_{\mathrm{p}} = m$ moves on a parabolic orbit ($e_{\mathrm{p}} = 1$) with a pericentre of . The trajectory of each particle was integrated individually with the adaptive LSODA integrator from the ODEPACK library [@ODEPACK]. The initial position of the perturber was determined individually for each particle. To fulfil the claim that the initial influence of the perturber is negligible, the initial distance of the perturber was chosen so that the force from the perturber onto the particle, $F_{\mathrm{p}}$, was small relative to the force from the host, $F_{\mathrm{h}}$: $$\begin{aligned} F_{\mathrm{p}}/F_{\mathrm{h}} < \epsilon\label{eq:force}.\end{aligned}$$ This maximum initial influence of the perturber determines the initial position of the perturber. For a particle with , the minimum initial distance between particle and perturber, $d_{\mathrm{p}}$, follows from Eq. : $$\begin{aligned} d_{\mathrm{p}} = r_{\mathrm{vpp}} \sqrt{m / \epsilon}.\end{aligned}$$ For practical reasons, the initial distance between host and perturber is set to $r_{\mathrm{p,init}} = d_{\mathrm{p}} + r_{\mathrm{vpp}} $. From $r_{\mathrm{p,init}}$ and the eccentricity of the perturber orbit, $e_{\mathrm{p}}$, follows $\theta_{\mathrm{p,init}}$ according to $$\begin{aligned} r_{\mathrm{p,init}} = \frac{r_{\mathrm{p,peri}} (1

. How far she had risen since the time when Gaetano had stared at her so continuously at the Burgtheater. Now it was not one pair of eyes which were fixed on her but many, and the sensation of being stared at had long since ceased to be frightening and had become pleasant. She had often envied her sister-in-law Selma for being the focal point of attention. Now she could be it too. She smiled gratefully at Gaetano. "Do you know him?" he asked. He meant the embittered speaker. Of course she knew him; it was Herr Seitz, the Socialist mayor of Vienna, who rivalled popular Lueger as a man of the people. "He's so nice," was her epithet for him as for most people, and she recalled the jingle made by the ironical Viennese: Now let us see Bauer, Renner, and Seitz, Show if they know how to put us to rights. "A scamp!" Gaetano retorted. This time he spoke so loud that the Spanish diplomat on Martha Monica's left cleared his throat admonishingly and quickly asked his neighbor if she would like to go to the opening in the Raimund Theater this evening. They were giving one of the craziest plays, something they now called "expressionistic" a good friend of his, who had a part in it, had confided in him that in the second act the ladies—The rest he whispered into the girl's ear. For an instant she wondered whether she should be shocked. Then she laughed heartily. Why shouldn't one use risqué words? That was one more prejudice which these times had obliterated, and it was wonderful of these times to do it. Men spoke with you on equal terms; at last you were no longer the 'weaker sex.' "I should have loved to go," she explained to the Spaniard. "But we are doing the grand tour tonight." By that was meant going to as many night clubs as you could manage between 11 P.M. and 7 A.M. The Spaniard clearly recognized the cogency of her refusal but hoped to meet Martha Monica on her grand tour. "An abyss is yawning at our feet and we act as though we were standing on firm ground," someone said. "If we want to live we must see the abyss and build a bridge across it. If we want to be destroyed we shall cover our eyes and crash down into it." Was that the monsignor again? He was getting somewhat tiresome, according to Martha Monica, besides, with his ascetic austerity he made you think of a preacher. And what else did he want, anyway, now that he had so much money and every one would have enough? She no longer paid any attention to Monsignor Seipel. The charm of the novelty had worn off, and in any case she had an appointment at three at the hairdresser's. As her eyes strayed about, her attention was caught by an elegant woman who was watching her from the gallery. Ready to acknowledge one more look directed at her, Martha Monica smiled, but in that same instant the lady looked away. Immediately afterwards she discovered her brother Hans. Although she made every effort to attract his eye, she did not succeed. With his head resting on his hands, he was sitting on the stairs in the gallery. He reminded her of a little boy listening to his favorite story. "There is Hans over there!" she told Gaetano. "Where?" he asked in an unusually nervous manner. She pointed him out. "Not an agreeable person," remarked Gaetano. "You don't know each other well enough," declared Hans's sister. "He's a darling." Later in the foyer she arranged to wait for Hans. It was ridiculous that he and Gaetano avoided each other; they really must make it up. Angel that he was, Gaetano had not the slightest objection to waiting in the crowded corridors. On the contrary, he was entertained by it. How many acquaintances he had! All sorts of fascinating people. He spoke to his colleagues from Sofia and Bucharest. And he chatted for a moment with that elegant woman. An Italian, he said, when Martha Monica asked her name. Then Hans came. As he had seen the Italian from a distance, he was determined not to speak to Martha Monica. In his opinion this alluring gentleman would bear watching. Hans could not stand his troubadour ways, nor yet his half-comic mispronunciation of the language which appeared to be deliberate. But Martha Monica would not allow him to get by. She literally took him by the hand. The Italian said, "How did you do?" and Martha Monica laughed somewhat nervously. He was well, Hans said, but he must hurry. He was on his way to fetch Selma during the noon recess after her rehearsal at the Burgtheater. "Won't you come along?" he suggested to his sister. The Italian made a negative gesture. "I'm sorry, I have an appointment at the hairdresser's," she replied. "But I could telephone and cancel it; then perhaps we could come—I mean Conte Corbellini and I. I should so like him to meet Selma. He will be delighted." "But not Selma," Hans said. It slipped out. "What I mean is," he said, correcting himself at once, "after rehearsals she is always a little nervous." "Your brother has funny manners," the Italian told her with a perfect pronunciation. He laughed as he said it, and showed his dazzling white teeth. "I'm sorry if I make that impression," Hans said. "It wasn't my intention to insult you." "Of course not!" exclaimed Martha Monica. "You see, Gaetano is laughing!" "Such people cannot possibly slight me," said Conte Corbellini in a burst of sudden vehemence. "Not Herr Otto Bauer, nor Herr Seitz, nor Herr Alt." He made no mistakes, as when he talked with Martha Monica, but spoke with perfect correctness. Yet that was not what struck Martha Monica. It was the company with which he associated her brother and it led to the explanation, "You know, Hans, he can't stand the Sozis." "Good-bye, Mono," Hans said. "I must be going now." His meagre stock of patience had already been exhausted by the session of Parliament in which, according to his opinion, both parties left unmentioned the most essential things. The Italian said loudly enough for Hans to hear, "Naturally his wife cannot possibly be enthusiastic about me. Someone who is so enthusiastic about Otto Bauer!" Don't listen, said Hans to himself. When he did not get the reaction he expected Conte Corbellini called after Hans, "I'm accustomed to being treated politely, you Sozi!" His otherwise melodious voice echoed sharply in the marble corridor. Hans turned instantly round. He had never tolerated scorn. Two strides had brought him back to the Italian, when someone behind him remarked, "This gentleman has unclear ideas about immunity. It's valid in Parliament for deputies but not for diplomats. Why don't you say that to him, Hans? He has already shown by his exclamations that he doesn't clearly grasp where he is." Despite the rage which had driven the blood into his head, Hans recognized the speaker. It was someone he had not seen for a long time—Ebeseder, his schoolmate, who had, meanwhile, become a deputy. The Italian turned contemptuously round. "I accept no instructions from Sozis, nor from people whose wives consort with Sozis—" As Hans's arm shot vehemently forward it was quickly seized and forced down by Ebeseder's hands. "Quiet," he said. "We're not going to give this gentleman the satisfaction of some free political advertisement. But it will afford me a juicy titbit when I question our Minister of Foreign Affairs on the subject of the functions of a military attaché of the Italian Government and ask whether we've already been so far sold out that people who are here to keep their mouths shut can open them so wide." This last he said to Hans as they approached the main staircase arm-in-arm. "How have you been keeping?" he asked. "I've heard about you indirectly from time to time. You seem to have remained a decent sort of chap." "What impertinence!" "He's of no importance," was Ebeseder's view. "We shall get rid of him and all his kind. You were at the session?" "What does a man like that think he's doing?" "Chancellor Seipel things he has saved Austria. Incidentally, do you believe that too?" "A people cannot be saved by money. The insolent fellow!" "Correct," Ebeseder answered as they reached the entrance of the Social Democratic Club. "Perhaps we can get together some time?" As Hans went out into the street the City Hall clock struck three. His thoughts were still in confusion. Seipel had not saved Austria. Selma was all for Otto Bauer. One, two, three, he could have stood in a meadow full of violets and shot at a man. For a long time he had held that against his father. But it does not depend on you. When he

sure everything fits on your allotted table. Sponsor booths ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sponsor booths are only available for our larger sponsors due to space limitations. You will be given a booth that is in the back of the Ballroom, which is the primary conference venue. Most of the attendee focus will come during breaks (10 minutes between each talk, two longer snack breaks) and at the beginning and end of the day. **Logistics**: Booth setup is available Sunday, but they only need to be staffed on Monday and Tuesday. Power and Wifi are available. * The *large* sponsorship booth is 12 feet * The *small* sponsorship booth is 6 feet Writing day ~~~~~~~~~~~ On Sunday we hold our Writing Day. This is a place where the community gathers to get actual work done. This generally involved companies hosting a documentation sprint on some piece of documentation that is open source and needs improvements. If you want to participate in the Writing Day, it helps to do a bit of work up front. The best way to prepare is to have a set of issues that you've already picked as "easy for beginners". Starting with these issues will make it much easier for people to start, and feel productive. Make sure you also have good installation instructions and other helpful beginners content as well. **Logistics**: You can email us before the conference, and we will add your project to the website as a project that attendees can work on. You can also introduce your project to attendees at 9:30 on Sunday during the Writing Day Introduction. How do I get the most out of my sponsorship? -------------------------------------------- Come prepared to engage with our community, and to learn just as much as you teach. Engage with our event as attendees as well as sponsors. Send technical staff who can chat with people on the interesting things your company is doing, and get value from the vast amount of insight in the room. 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magic at all. My son..." His grip tightened, like a hard-polished root over the younger man's soft palm and pudgy fingers. "My son, I love you, and no more now than when you have offered to go in my stead. But yours is not a powerful enough wizardry to do what needs to be done. Maybe not even to cross the Void alive. A strange and terrible magic fills that darkness, and I do not know its strength. You simply have not the experience." Quietly, Rhion said, "I don't want you to die." The old man smiled. "Then I may not. It is only an hour past sunrise—there is an entire day for Shavus to reach us. And then all our fears, all our endeavors on this subject, will be for naught, and we'll laugh about them over the steam of tomorrow's coffee. But thank you. I will never forget." Listening to the thrumming of the rain on the tower's sand-colored walls, Rhion had felt only a sinking darkness of despair. If Shavus had been delayed, the rain would delay him further. It had been too late even then to do much in the way of turning the storm aside. And now, huddled in the sheltered corner of the old shrine under what was left of its crumbling tile roof, that despair returned, bringing panic and a hundred imagined scenarios of disaster like camp followers in its train. Toward noon, before he left the shrine, Rhion called to the Gray Lady through the crystal and, after a few moments, saw her face in its facets, more beautiful, more ageless than in true flesh, like a crystal herself filled with hidden light. "I don't know what I can do," Rhion concluded, having told her of Shavus' nonappearance and Jaldis' resolve to cross the Void, come what may, that night. "I can't let him go alone. He says he'll be all right, that Eric and Paul—the two wizards on the other side—will take care of him. But I can't know that." "No," the Lady said softly. Her hazel eyes clouded, and Rhion felt a stab of guilt for laying upon her a new trouble, when, with the difference his absence could make to the power of the rites, she had sufficient worries already. "No—I understand your fears. But Jaldis is right in saying that Shavus may yet appear. He's a wily old man, and very powerful, trained in the skills of war. Neither is Gyzan to be reckoned lightly. They both know your master's resolve. If they could not come, Shavus would contrive to send word." "To what purpose?" Rhion sighed and straightened his water-flecked spectacles with one plump forefinger. "If he tells Jaldis not to undertake the quest to this other world—which he will if he sends word at all—Jaldis will only ignore it. He is—obsessed." "Then you must make your choice," the Lady said, and there was sadness in her eyes. "But Rhion, if you both go... What will become of Jaldis' books?" "Ah..." Rhion looked away, unable to meet her eyes even through the crystal's tiny image. Away across the marsh, hunting horns were ringing through the drizzly mist as a party of young nobles splashed their horses through puddles, their dogs bounding happily in their wake. Rhion thought he recognized Marc of Erralswan's bright-green doublet, close beside a lady in a yellow gown with long cascades of raven curls. He did not want to lie to the Gray Lady, but Jaldis had ordered him strictly to say that he did not know. "Rhion," she said sharply, calling his gaze back to hers. "This is not a trick. Does he think I will wait until his back is turned and then come to steal them?" It was, in fact, exactly what Jaldis thought, and something Rhion himself would not quite put past the Lady, much as he cared for her. So he only said, "He's made provision for them. They'll be safe—Shavus or any of the Morkensiks, will be able to get to them." "But not corrupt and superstitious Earth-witches, not Bone-Casters who weave little spell-dollies in straw and divine the future from the flight of ducks. I must go," she said, exasperation at the opinion of her fading from her face, leaving it weary and sad. "It is noon. I must rest, and prepare. And so must you, if you will do this thing tonight." Rhion nodded. Indeed, he thought, if the victim of the spring rite were to survive, the Lady would need all her power—even as he would need all of his, such as it was, to see the other side of the Void alive. He felt spent already from long scrying. The slow stirring of the sun-tide was rising in his veins, like the pull of the tide in his blood. "I pray the Goddess will keep you safe." Her image faded. Rhion got to his feet, chilled and slightly nauseated, though, as usual, the nausea changed to an overwhelming craving for sweets before he was halfway up the muddy road to the town gates. He bought half a dozen balls of steamed sweet dough wrapped in greased paper in the Old Town market, enough for himself and his sons; the rain had eased by this time, and the steam from the vendor's cart blew in soft white clouds, like rags of fog in the gray air. Most of the market stands were shutting down, farmers and their wives folding up the bright-colored awnings of orange and blue, to return to their homes to prepare for the procession tonight. Not only in his own blood could Rhion feel the coming of the equinox. It was implicit in every closed shop, in every home-hurrying slave, in the steam that leaked from every window he passed on his way back to the palace. The city and all who worshipped the orthodox gods had lapsed into the time of preparation, the time of acknowledgment of their sins from whose consequences only the gods could save them. But for the mageborn there was no salvation. As he walked by the Bull and Ring Tavern in Market Lane, a glimpse of something yellow caught his eye—he saw it was the poster of the "God of Wizards" crudely pasted to the wall beside the door. In the rooms above the library tower, he found Jaldis asleep and no sign yet of Shavus' coming. Jaldis' books, he noticed, were gone, entrusted already under every seal of protection the blind mage could devise to the Duke's care. The old man must have told him that he was going away for a time, though of course not how or where. The secret of the Dark Well was too deep, too dangerous, to be shared, even with one whose lack of ability or thaumaturgical training would have made his knowledge harmless. The afternoon passed like the slow gray wheel that crushes out the grain. Rhion knew he should sleep, should rest and meditate, but sought out Tally and his sons, instead. The boys were far too absorbed in the excitement of trying on their masks to have much attention to spare even for their favorite of their mother's friends. It was said to be bad luck to try on one's mask before the procession, but the boys were doing exactly what Rhion and his friends had done at their age—holding the masks to their faces with meticulous care not to touch the flesh and seeing how close they could come. In the secrecy of a loft above the mews, Rhion and Tally made love, feverishly clinging to one another amid the smells of sawdust and leather and the cinnamon of Tally's perfume, and lay locked in one anothers' arms in the huddle of cloaks and horse blankets until nearly dark. The dark fell early, overcast and grim. After a final, inconclusive attempt to argue Jaldis out of his resolve, Rhion tried to sleep, but the slow fever of the spring-tide was flowing too strongly in him now, the awareness of the heavens' turning towards their balance point... and the awareness of how increasingly unlikely it was that Shavus would arrive in time. "You are fretted," the old man said comfortingly and patted Rhion's arm. He seemed rested, stronger and livelier and with the quiet serenity of one whose mind is made up. "That is understandable..." " _Fretted_ is _not_ how I'd describe my reaction to the prospect of throwing myself into an infinity of chaos, with nothing reaching out toward me from the other side but a bunch of half-trained wizards who can't even work magic!" Jaldis smiled. "All will be well," he said softly. "They need my help, Rhion, if they are to defeat the enemies of magic in their world—if they are to return their world to the true paths of power. I cannot turn my back." "We can't leave this way!" he pleaded. "Shavus could be in trouble! We have no idea what's going on in Nerriok, in Felsplex, or anywhere..." He thought of Esrex again and of T

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is deposited into that account. After that discovery, the mayor directed the chief to notify the Lake County State’s Attorney’s office, which opened an investigation, resulting in today’s arrest. Newsome surrendered to officials this morning and was released after posting $25,000 bond, officials said. In the press release, Rockingham said that if the charges are proven, it would be “an enormous betrayal of trust.” [email protected] Twitter: @TribLocal # TICKET NO. 9672 ## * * * ## JULES VERNE _Translated by_ ## LAURA E. KENDALL # ## * _Ticket No. 9672_ First published in 1886 ISBN 978-1-62012-177-1 Duke Classics © 2012 Duke Classics and its licensors. All rights reserved. _While every effort has been used to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the information contained in this edition, Duke Classics does not assume liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in this book. Duke Classics does not accept responsibility for loss suffered as a result of reliance upon the accuracy or currency of information contained in this book._ # Contents ## * _Chapter I_ _Chapter II_ _Chapter III_ _Chapter IV_ _Chapter V_ _Chapter VI_ _Chapter VII_ _Chapter VIII_ _Chapter IX_ _Chapter X_ _Chapter XI_ _Chapter XII_ _Chapter XIII_ _Chapter XIV_ _Chapter XV_ _Chapter XVI_ _Chapter XVII_ _Chapter XVIII_ _Chapter XIX_ _Chapter XX_ # Chapter I ## * "What time is it?" inquired Dame Hansen, shaking the ashes from her pipe, the last curling rings from which were slowly disappearing between the stained rafters overhead. "Eight o'clock, mother," replied Hulda. "It isn't likely that any travelers will come to-night. The weather is too stormy." "I agree with you. At all events, the rooms are in readiness, and if any one comes, I shall be sure to hear them." "Has your brother returned?" "Not yet." "Didn't he say he would be back to-night?" "No, mother. Joel went to take a traveler to Lake Tinn, and as he didn't start until very late, I do not think he can get back to Dal before to-morrow." "Then he will spend the night at Moel, probably." "Yes; unless he should take it into his head to go on to Bamble to see Farmer Helmboe." "And his daughter Siegfrid." "Yes. Siegfrid, my best friend, whom I love like a sister!" replied the young girl, smiling. "All, well, Hulda, shut up the house, and let's go to bed." "You are not ill, are you, mother?" "No; but I want to be up bright and early to-morrow morning. I must go to Moel." "What for?" "Why, we must be laying in our stock of provisions for the coming summer, and—" "And I suppose the agent from Christiania has come down with his wagon of wines and provisions." "Yes; Lengling, the foreman at the saw-mill, met him this afternoon, and informed me of the fact as he passed. We have very little left in the way of ham and smoked salmon, and I don't want to run any risk of being caught with an empty larder. Tourists are likely to begin their excursions to the Telemark almost any day now; especially, if the weather should become settled, and our establishment must be in a condition to receive them. Do you realize that this is the fifteenth of April?" "The fifteenth of April!" repeated the young girl, thoughtfully. "Yes, so to-morrow I must attend to these matters," continued Dame Hansen. "I can make all my purchases in two hours, and I will return with Joel in the kariol." "In case you should meet the postman, don't forget to ask him if there is a letter for us—" "And especially for you. That is quite likely, for it is a month since you heard from Ole." "Yes, a month—a whole month." "Still, you should not worry, child. The delay is not at all surprising. Besides, if the Moel postman has nothing for you, that which didn't come by the way of Christiania may come by the way of Bergen, may it not?" "Yes, mother," replied Hulda. "But how can I help worrying, when I think how far it is from here to the Newfoundland fishing banks. The whole broad Atlantic to cross, while the weather continues so bad. It is almost a year since my poor Ole left me, and who can say when we shall see him again in Dal?" "And whether we shall be here when he returns," sighed Dame Hansen, but so softly that her daughter did not hear the words. Hulda went to close the front door of the inn which stood on the Vesfjorddal road; but she did not take the trouble to turn the key in the lock. In hospitable Norway, such precautions are unnecessary. It is customary for travelers to enter these country inns either by night or by day without calling any one to open the door; and even the loneliest habitations are safe from the depredations of thieves or assassins, for no criminal attempts against life or property ever disturb the peace of this primitive land. The mother and daughter occupied two front rooms on the second story of the inn—two neat and airy, though plainly furnished rooms. Above them, directly under the sloping roof, was Joel's chamber, lighted by a window incased in a tastefully carved frame-work of pine. From this window, the eye, after roaming over the grand mountain horizon, returned with delight to the narrow valley through which flowed the Maan, which is half river, half torrent. A wooden staircase, with heavy balusters and highly polished steps, led from the lower hall to the floors above, and nothing could be more neat and attractive than the whole aspect of this establishment, in which the travelers found a comfort that is rare in Norwegian inns. Hulda and her mother were in the habit of retiring early when they were alone, and Dame Hansen had already lighted her candle, and was on her way upstairs, when a loud knocking at the door made them both start. "Dame Hansen! Dame Hansen!" cried a voice. Dame Hansen paused on the stairs. "Who can have come so late?" she exclaimed. "Can it be that Joel has met with an accident?" returned Hulda, quickly. And she hastened toward the door. She found a lad there—one of the young rascals known as _skydskarls_ , that make a living by clinging to the back of kariols, and taking the horse back when the journey is ended. "What do you want here at this hour?" asked Hulda. "First of all to bid you good-evening," replied the boy, mischievously. "Is that all?" "No; that isn't all; but a boy oughtn't to forget his manners, ought he?" "You are right. But who sent you?" "Your brother Joel." "And what for?" asked Dame Hansen, advancing to the door with the slow and measured tread that is a characteristic of the inhabitants of Norway. There is quicksilver in the veins of their soil, but little or none in the veins of their bodies. The reply had evidently caused the mother some anxiety, however, for she added hastily: "Has anything happened to my son?" "No, but the Christiania postman gave him a letter, and—" "A letter from Drammen?" repeated Dame Hansen, in a lower tone. "I don't know about that," replied the youth. "All I do know is, that Joel can't get home before to-morrow, and he sent me here to deliver the letter." "It is important then?" "I should judge so." "Hand it here," said Dame Hansen, in a tone that betrayed keen anxiety. "Here it is, clean and not wrinkled in the least. But the letter is not for you." Dame Hansen seemed to breathe more freely. "Then who is it for?" she asked. "For your daughter." "For me!" cried Hulda. "It is a letter from Ole! I am sure it is—a letter that came by way of Christiania. My brother did not want me to be kept waiting." Hulda had snatched the letter from the boy's hand, and now taking it to the table upon which her mother had deposited the candle,

Neurological Disease 159 Nervous System Development & Function 64 Psychological Disorders 75 Embryonic Development 22 Cancer 114 Organ Development 14 Genetic Disorder 212 Skin and Hair Development and Function 11 Pathway analysis showing the four most significant diseases and disorders linked (left columns) and physiological systems (right columns) altered in the brains of MAM-treated vs. vehicle-treated *Mgmt^−/−^* mice *plus Mgmt^−/−^ vs.* wt mice treated with respect to MAM vs. vehicle. Data were aggregated and all time points were combined for a total of 443 molecules. [Table 4](#pone-0020911-t004){ref-type="table"} shows the top KEGG pathways denoting molecular interactions perturbed by MAM in either wild type or *Mgmt^−/−^* brains. Pathways involved in cancer, Wnt signaling, and insulin-signaling pathways were among the most significant. Other prominent KEGG pathways included those involved in purine metabolism, MAPK signaling, neurotrophin signaling, chemokine signaling and neuroligand-receptor interaction ([Table 4](#pone-0020911-t004){ref-type="table"}). 10.1371/journal.pone.0020911.t004 ###### Top MAM-associated brain KEGG pathways. {#pone-0020911-t004-4} Top KEGG Pathways Genes Phenotype ----------------------------------------- ------- -------------------- Pathways in cancer 13 CC Wnt signaling 10 AD, CC, skin, bone Insulin signaling 9 AD, ALS Purine metabolism 9 Prostate cancer 8 CC MAPK signaling 7 AD, CC Melanogenesis 6 PD? CC Neurotrophin signaling 6 AD Focal adhesion 6 AD, CC Chemokine signaling 5 AD Neuroactive ligand-receptor interaction 5 AD Calcium signaling pathway 4 AD, CC Top brain KEGG pathways (derived from 443 MAM-modulated genes, see [Table 3](#pone-0020911-t003){ref-type="table"}) and the number of MAM-modulated genes and human diseases associated with each pathway. Note the prominent involvement of the Wnt, insulin and MAPK signaling pathways, in addition to the presence of pathways involved in inflammatory and other responses. AD: Alzheimer disease. ALS: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. CC: Colon cancer. PD: Idiopathic Parkinson\'s disease. We also performed a PAINT (Promoter Analysis and Interaction Network Tool) analysis to identify the biologically relevant transcription factor binding sites in the genes that were enriched among the genotypes and differentially expressed genes between MAM and vehicle-treated animals. The 5′-flanking regions of the differentially expressed genes (2000 bp upstream of the transcription start site) were examined for enrichment of commonly expressed transcriptional regulatory elements (TREs). [Table 5](#pone-0020911-t005){ref-type="table"} shows the TREs among the unique genotype-specific (n = 153) and a subset of anchored (n = 60) genes targeted by MAM. Only TREs that were significantly enriched (p\<0.05) in MAM-targeted genes are shown ([Fig. 7](#pone-0020911-g007){ref-type="fig"}). The highest scoring TRE was the highly conserved hepatocyte nuclear factor 4 (HNF-4), which binds to the consensus sequence AGGTCAaAGGTCA to activate transcription. {#pone-0020911-g007} 10.1371/journal.pone.0020911.t005 ###### MAM-associated enriched transcription factor binding sites. {#pone-0020911-t005-5} Transcriptional Response Element P Value ---------------------------------- --------- HNF-4 \<0.001 Lmo-2 0.008 Tal-1α/E47 0.025 GATA-2 0.033 Tal-1β/E47 0.042 Enriched transcription factor binding sites among genotype-specific differentially expressed genes between MAM and vehicle-treated animals. Data based on 60 differentially expressed genes anchored to *O* ^6^-mG levels (see [Fig. 6](#pone-0020911-g006){ref-type="fig"}). Discussion {#s3} ========== Brain and Colon: Common Pathways but Different Outcomes {#s3a} ------------------------------------------------------- We have shown that the cycad genotoxin MAM induces persistent DNA damage (i.e., *O^6^*-mG lesions) and modulates several cell signaling pathways (i.e., TP53, NF-κB, MAPK) in the brains of young adult *Mgmt^−/−^* mice. Our data support the hypothesis that MAM-induced *O* ^6^-mG DNA lesions alter purine metabolism and modulate cell-signaling pathways associated with both neurodegeneration and cancer. While MAM does not induce brain tumors in singly treated adult mice, the genotoxin consistently triggers tumors in peripheral organs, notably the intestine [@pone.0020911-Laqueur2], [@pone.0020911-Suzui1]. The prominent modulation of "cancer genes" in the "tumor-insensitive" brains of MAM-treated adult animals suggests that perturbations of these genes in the brain have consequences other than cancer. Molecular mechanisms underlying MAM-induced colon cancer have been established in the azoxymethane (AOM) mouse model of colorectal adenocarcinoma in which MAM (the cytochrome P~450~2E1-mediated metabolite of AOM) is the sole triggering agent [@pone.0020911-Nigro1], [@pone.0020911-Chen1]. In the AOM mouse model, MAM-induced mutation of *K-ras* (i.e., transversion from G:C to A:T at codon 12 derived from *O^6^*-mG lesions) activates this pathway and the downstream MAPK and Phosphoinositide 3-kinase/Akt (PI3K/Akt) mediators, indicating that MAM perturbs gene expression in these pathways by a DNA damage-dependent mechanism. Mutations in *β-catenin* blocks its degradation by a GSK-3β-mediated mechanism resulting in its intracellular accumulation and the activation of the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway. The nuclear transport of β-catenin leads to the activation of genes that regulate cell proliferation, while expression of pro-apoptotic proteins is inhibited [@pone.0020911-Chen1], [@pone.0020911-Takahashi1]. Such events may explain how MAM modulates the expression of genes with pivotal roles in cell signaling in the brain of young adult mice ([Fig. 8](#pone-0020911-g008){ref-type="fig"}). ![Proposed relationship between MAM-induced colon cancer and brain disease/disorders.\ Genotoxicants that induce *O^6^*-methylguanine lesions (DNA damage) (e.g. via methylazoxymethanol, MAM) disturb cell signaling pathways, including transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β), wingless and proto-oncogene Int-1 (Wnt), and mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK). In general, the literature supports up-regulation (green) and down-regulation (pink-red) in association with the two distinct phenoptypes. (Modified from Chen and Huang [@pone.0020911-Chen1]).](pone.0020911.g008){#pone-0020911-g008} Cancer and Neurodegenerative Disease: Two Sides of the Same Coin? {#s3b} ----------------------------------------------------------------- The key finding relevant to ALS-PDC is the presence of MAM-induced transcriptional changes in the brains of young adult mice that lack efficient repair of *O* ^6^-methylguanine DNA lesions. This is in contrast to the absence of significant transcriptional changes in the adult brain of MAM-treated wild-type mice. The human brain shows variable amounts of MGMT activity, but most adult brains studied have minimal levels comparable to that of *Mgmt^−/−^* mice [@pone.0020911-Silber1]. If the human brain responds to MAM in a manner comparable to the *Mgmt^−/−^* mouse brain, the response would be alterations in cell signaling pathways linked to both neurodegeneration and neuropsychological abnormalities. While the present results are based on short-term studies, the apparent association between the most significant MAM-associated biological functions in the adult mouse brain and cycasin-associated ALS-PDC are obvious. Their corollary provides clear support for

). As we have stated: It is well settled in this State that what constitutes a reasonable attorney's fee rests within the sound discretion of the trial court and any testimony by attorneys with respect to such fee is purely advisory and not binding on the trial court. We will not reverse the trial court on the question of attorney's fees unless there is a manifest abuse of discretion in making the allowance.... Deer Creek Constr. Co. v. Peterson, 412 So.2d 1169, 1173 (Miss.1982). The reasonableness of an attorney's fee award is determined by reference to the factors set forth in Rule 1.5 of the Mississippi Rules of Professional Conduct. This Rule provides in pertinent part: (a) A lawyer's fee shall be reasonable. The factors to be considered in determining the reasonableness of a fee include the following: (1) the time and labor required, the novelty and difficulty of the questions involved, and the skill requisite to perform the legal service properly; (2) the likelihood, if apparent to the client, that the acceptance of the particular employment will preclude other employment by the lawyer; (3) the fee customarily charged in the locality for similar legal services; (4) the amount involved and the results obtained; (5) the time limitations imposed by the client or by the circumstances; (6) the nature and length of the professional relationship with the client; (7) the experience, reputation, and ability of the lawyer or lawyers performing the services; and (8) whether the fee is fixed or contingent. Miss. Rules of Professional Conduct 1.5. See also Richardson v. Canton Farm *270 Equip., Inc., 608 So.2d 1240, 1256 (Miss. 1992); Carter v. Clegg, 557 So.2d 1187, 1192 (Miss.1990); McKee v. McKee, 418 So.2d 764, 767 (Miss.1982). In addition to these factors the Legislature gives additional guidance to courts in determining the reasonableness of attorney's fees by instructing the court to "make the award based on the information already before it and the court's own opinion based on experience and observation...." Miss.Code Ann. § 9-1-41 (1991). ¶ 33. On remand CHC hired attorney Liston to aid Lipscomb in preparing a motion for attorney fees. Lipscomb filed a motion for attorney fees which was accompanied by affidavits by himself and Liston and several exhibits in support of the motion. CHC requested $107,510 as reasonable attorney's fees and $22,072.26 for expenses. CHC also requested that the court award an enhancement fee based on the Rule 1.5 factors and a contingency enhancement for a total fee request of $287,000. The chancery court granted CHC its requested expenses and also accepted that Lipscomb expended 654.25 hours and Liston expended 57.25 hours in litigation of this action at the rate of $150 per hour finding that this rate is within the range of fees customarily charged. However, due to the fact that Lipscomb failed to maintain contemporaneous time records, the court reduced the award to Lipscomb by ten (10%) percent from $98,137.50 to $88,323.75. Further, the chancery court denied any enhancement to the award. The total amount of the attorney's fee award is $97,696.25. It is this amount that CHC argues is inadequate, and Mauck and Smotherman challenge as excessive. ¶ 34. Mauck and Smotherman advance the argument that the chancellor erred when she did not exclude the estimates of hours spent that were not based on contemporaneous time records. They cite to several federal cases in support of this contention. The United States Supreme Court has stated that "[t]he party seeking an award of fees should submit evidence supporting the hours worked and rates claimed. Where the documentation of hours is inadequate, the district court may reduce the award accordingly." Hensley v. Eckerhart, 461 U.S. 424, 433, 103 S.Ct. 1933, 76 L.Ed.2d 40 (1983). This does not mean as Mauck and Smotherman suggest that all hours not contemporaneously documented must be excluded. The record does reveal that Mr. Lipscomb, attorney for CHC, did fail to keep adequate time records for the period March 1988, through December 1993, and relies upon his estimate of hours expended during that period of time. However, the chancellor did address this failure by reducing CHC's fee award accountable to Lipscomb by ten percent (10%). The chancellor specifically found that the hours submitted are reasonable. The Fifth Circuit held that "[t]he proper remedy when there is no evidence of billing judgment is to reduce the hours awarded by a percentage intended to substitute for the exercise of billing judgment." Walker v. United States Dep't of Hous. & Urban Dev., 99 F.3d 761, 770 (5th Cir.1996). Therefore, the chancellor did not abuse her discretion by not disallowing all the time for which contemporaneous time records were not kept, and it was within her discretion to determine how much reduction is necessary when considering counsel's failure. ¶ 35. Mauck and Smotherman next argue that the hourly rate of $150 is not the customarily charged fee in the locality for similar legal services as required by Rule 1.5(a)(3) and that it was an abuse of discretion to award a fee that uses nearly twice the rate which Mr. Gholson charged for the same time period. They base this contention on the fact that Mr. Gholson, the corporate attorney for CHC, charged $85 per hour for his services rendered in this case and a survey by the Mississippi Bar conducted in 1993, which reveals that the average hourly rate for a solo practitioner as of December 1992, was $84 per hour. The Chancellor specifically found that $150 is within the *271 range of fees customarily charged in the legal community, that the court did not find the 1993 Bar survey convincing, and that none of the defendants submitted any affidavits regarding the customary fees charged in the legal community. The record reflects that as early as 1988, attorney Lipscomb testified that "[i]n Miami, Florida, I charge $175 to $250 per hour. From what I understand of the fees in Columbus, a reasonable fee would probably be between $100 and $150 per hour." The chancellor reviewed the respective qualifications of both Mr. Lipscomb and Mr. Liston and found that CHC's attorneys were experienced and possessed the requisite degree of skill necessary for cases of this nature. The chancellor did not abuse her discretion in finding that $150 is "within the range of fees charge in the legal community." ¶ 36. The United States Supreme Court adopted the "lodestar" method of calculating reasonable attorney fees. In calculating the "lodestar" fee, [t]he most useful starting point for determining the amount of a reasonable fee is the number of hours reasonably expended on the litigation, multiplied by a reasonable hourly rate. This calculation provides an objective basis on which to make an initial estimate of the value of a lawyer's services.... Hensley, 461 U.S. at 433, 103 S.Ct. 1933. The chancellor did this when she determined the reasonable number of hours expended and multiplied them by the rate of $150 per hour. She then adjusted the award according to the factors enumerated in Rule 1.5 of the Mississippi Rules of Professional Conduct. The Supreme Court in Hensley further stated: We reemphasize that the district court has discretion in determining the amount of a fee award. This is appropriate in view of the district court's superior understanding of the litigation and the desirability of avoiding frequent appellate review of what essentially are factual matters. It remains important, however, for the district court to provide a concise but clear explanation of its reasons for the fee award.... Hensley, 461 U.S. at 437, 103 S.Ct. 1933. Turning to the case at bar, in the opinion by the chancellor awarding attorney fees, she gave a complete analysis of her reasoning based on each of the eight factors listed in Rule 1.5 of the Mississippi Rules of Professional Conduct. Once again the chancellor did not abuse her discretion when she applied the factors of Rule 1.5 and awarded CHC $97,626.25 in attorneys' fees and $22,072.26 in documented expenses. V. ¶ 37. The chancery court specifically found that this is not an appropriate case for enhancement of the fee award. CHC complains that the chancellor erred when she did not enhance the fee award based on the fact that the fee arrangement between CHC and Lipscomb was contingent, CHC was extremely successful after almost six years of litigation, and that it has had to wait an additional three years before any award of attorneys' fees was granted. However, the chancellor in this case did consider these factors. She carefully documented her reasoning concerning each of these factors. The chancellor concluded that the case did not involve difficult legal questions, counsel was not precluded from accepting other business which would have created a conflict of interest, there were not extraordinary time limits imposed on the attorneys and the plaintiffs were ultimately successful at the appellate level which resulted in a gain of $1,150,000. CHC contends the chancellor failed to give any consideration to the fact that this was a contingent fee arrangement. But the record does not show the chancellor failed to consider this factor, instead the record reveals that the chancellor specifically found that although the fee arrangement was contingent this was not a controlling factor, "what is controlling is what is reasonable". *272 ¶ 38. Mauck and Smotherman argue that any award of attorney's fees to CHC is made by virtue of the language contained in the lease agreement, not because of the type of fee arrangement

rudimentary understanding. I'll remind you again: this article is for designers. In the coming paragraphs, I'll discuss exactly how, as designers, we should change the way we design to better fit the process of responsive web design. Grid Systems and You , a perfect example of a rigid, grid-based design that you should strive for. The Grid System , a perfect example of a rigid, grid-based design that you should strive for. Even if you're not designing for Responsive Web Design, you should be designing with some sort of grid system. As the modern, educated designer you are, you should already have an understanding of what it means to use a grid, so I'll skip the frilly bits. One of the pillars of Responsive Web Design is The Fluid Grid. Essentially, it means that your grid, which was traditionally measured in pixels should now be thought of in terms of percent of the total page width. The actual calculated width of each column in a responsive web site changes every time the browser window changes size, and cannot be guaranteed to be the same across different devices. This is why you must use a grid when designing for Responsive Web Design. It is a necessity, not a nicety. You cannot create a responsive web site without a grid-based design; it's simply out of the question, it wouldn't work. Knowing that your design won't have the exact same pixel measure for each column as in your design comp, there are a few other measures you should take to insure that your grid scales without issue. Try to refrain from using textured borders in your columns, like this: These kinds of things would be difficult for your developers to use in a responsive web site, because they wouldn't scale well horizontally. If you make the column wider or thinner, the textured borders would struggle. Horizontal gradients are another no-go. For the same reason as the previous point, namely the inability to scale horizontally, do not do this. Yes, it's possible with new CSS3 properties, but if you're targeting an audience of less tech-savvy users, many won't have a compatible browser and the effect will be useless. If you do have a textured background in a column, make sure it is one that can be tiled easily. Do: use grain, grunge, whatever. Don't: use a photograph, illustration, or otherwise un-tilable image. Thinking With Proportions In scaling your design down horizontally to accommodate smaller screens, there will come a point at which some text on the page will simply be too big. Sure, that 100pt headline looks great in your psd, but it simply won't work on an iPhone screen, for example: it'll be too large and the text will have to wrap over several lines, reducing the impact of your original decision. Here the developer, using CSS media queries, will adjust the font size to better fit the screen. This is a design decision, so as a designer, you should have a say in it, right? To help the developer as well as to help maintain the integrity of your original design, you should decide what text on the page should remain constant, that is, stay the same size at any screen width, and what text should be adjusted. A good example of the constantly-sized text would be body copy, or small headers that act as a larger version of the body copy. You should also decide, concerning the text that will be adjusted, how it should be adjusted. Here's the wrong way to do it: x should always be 20pt bigger than y. Not only is this thinking a big hassle for the developer, it also doesn't make much sense in the responsive canvas, because you're factoring in a constant, a value that will never change no matter what the screen size. For RWD, this is a huge mistake, as it doesn't properly take into account the inherent fluidity of the web. Here's the right way to do it: x should always be 1.5 times as big as y. This way accepts that the only true meaning a design gets out of font-size is how big or small the text is compared with the other text on the page. A constant value, like 24pt or 67pt, is meaningless. Once you have all this figured out, make sure to convey this information to the developer. That's the only way to make sure that your decisions, as the designer, are displayed in the actual web page that viewers will load into their browser and enjoy. Make it Modular The final piece in the Responsive puzzle is Media Queries. In case you're unfamiliar, Media Queries are a way to apply CSS rules to the page based on (for our purposes) the size of the displaying browser. The incredible power of this is that you can adjust, and indeed re-design, the entire layout of your website to fit a smaller or larger browser than the one for which you originally designed. In order to best design for this eventuality, you should start thinking about the different parts of your design, such as main content, sidebar, header, and navigation, not as pieces of a puzzle that must stay in the same place relative to one another, but as modules that can be re-organized, re-sized, and shuffled without their original significance getting lost. Here's an example: imagine that you're designing a website that looks like this (I'm sure you've worked with similar layouts before): The crucial part of this example is the identification of groups of elements that must stay together for any layout. For example, all the navigation links must stay together, because otherwise they would make no sense. This is a module, a section of information that can be moved around amongst the other modules without losing its meaning. Building your site with these modules in mind makes it easy to imagine how your layout will adapt for different viewport sizes. For instance: See how although the modules are in different places, they still display the same information as the original, just in a form more easily digested by mobile devices or other, differently-sized browsers. There isn't anything you will have to change in your layout to make this modularity work, it's just a different way to look at the same image. Hopefully though, this new perspective will help you make more informed decisions as you work on your future design projects. Conclusion Like so much on the internet, Responsive Web Design is evolutionary, not revolutionary. It's simply the natural next step for the web, not a complete rethinking of everything. As designers, we must continually adapt our workflows, and this time is no different. Responsive Web Design is the future, or at least, it will be when developers and designers alike embrace it. As web designers and developers, we are the only ones with the power to see this wonderful new standard come to fruition. Make it happen, for you, for me, for the internet at large!These Two Rescued Cats Just Can’t Stop Hugging Each Other There’s nothing like brotherly love, even if you’re a rescue kitten. Mori and Louie are seen on their Instagram page spending their days snuggling, giving kisses and following each other around. But it hasn’t always been hugs and affection for the rescued brothers. Before they met, the pair was kept apart for several weeks. As much as Louie knew to keep his distance from Mori, he couldn’t resist curling up next to him. [Via: Inside Edition]My wallet is getting to big Its ripping holes in my jeans 172 sharesAssociation of clinical factors with survival outcomes in laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC). Treatment strategies in laryngeal squamous cell cancer (LSCC) straddle the need for long term survival and tumor control as well as preservation of laryngeal function as far as possible. We sought to identify prognostic factors affecting LSCC outcomes in our population. Clinical characteristics, treatments and survival outcomes of patients with LSCC were analysed. Baseline comorbidity data was collected and age-adjusted Charlson Comorbidity Index (aCCI) was calculated. Outcomes of overall survival (OS), progression-free survival (PFS) and laryngectomy-free survival (LFS) were evaluated. Two hundred and fifteen patients were included, 170 (79%) underwent primary radiation/ chemoradiation and the remainder upfront surgery with adjuvant therapy where indicated. The majority of patients were male, Chinese and current/ex-smokers. Presence of comorbidity was common with median aCCI of 3. Median OS was 5.8 years. On multivariable analyses, high aCCI and advanced nodal status were associated with inferior OS (HR 1.24 per one point increase in aCCI, P<0.001 and HR 3.52; p<0.001 respectively), inferior PFS (HR 1.14; p = 0.007 and HR 3.23; p<0.001 respectively) and poorer LFS (HR 1.19; p = 0.001 and HR 2.95; p<0.001 respectively). Higher tumor (T) stage was associated with inferior OS and LFS (HR 1.61; p = 0.02 and HR 1.91; p = 0.01 respectively). In our Asian population, the presence of comorbidities and high nodal status were associated with inferior OS, PFS and LFS whilst high T stage was associated with inferior LFS and OS.Do you know if you are going to make it yet?Directions Coat a slow cooker with cooking spray. Place the bell pepper strips and pork chops into the slow cooker. Pour the teriyaki

to the “ex” status) has a hard time getting a job, but men almost always have manual labor jobs like construction to fall back on. Women don’t. Think of the “typical” women’s work industries, teaching or nursing. Good luck getting something in either of those fields. When you try to be a secretary, you need to get into an industry where they don’t care about your record. The only two jobs I was able to get that stuck, were office work for construction and landscaping companies. That’s assuming you have training, there are tons of women out there who haven’t had the opportunities to learn the most basic of work skills. I want to change that, to start a non-profit for woman with records, to help them get job training, partner with companies to give them jobs based on their skills, jobs they can be proud of and succeed at. Find mentors to help them start their own businesses (because I’m also passionate about small businesses), find ways to get them child care if they need it. Give them counseling, hold them responsible for taking charge of their life, instead of being forced to go on welfare or sell drugs because there are no other options. I don’t want anyone else to ever have to feel their mistakes make them less of a person, that they need to give up, that the system has them beat. I’m going to be really, brutally honest here. When I initially thought about writing this post, I had every intention of it being anonymous. I mean, I have a baby business, mostly online, people will see this, they’ll put two and two together, it could totally sink everything I’ve worked so hard to build up. But then Lauren said something to me after I approached her. She said ‘I think it’s incredibly brave to admit openly and I think it would challenge a lot of peoples’ initial thoughts on “felons”.’ I realized my being anonymous because of the fear of what others would think, that’s not brave, and I would be participating in the very stereotype I’m trying to fight. For those who are curious, I am very aware of my clients and what my past may or may not mean to them. Many planners will hire vendors on behalf of their clients, handling mass quantities of money. I won’t do that, not because I’m afraid I’ll be tempted, but I know if something happens, I’m going to be the one everyone comes after. I pay vendors on the wedding day, but only with checks made out to them before hand, put in sealed envelopes by my clients. There have been occasions I’ve been given envelopes full of cash, to dole out tips, so I write what I gave each vendor on the back of the envelope, and if there’s anything left I return it to my clients. I do every thing in my power to track everything I do and take away any possible questions. I don’t broadcast my record, not because I’m ashamed of it, or it needs to be hidden, but it just isn’t relevant. How would you feel about meeting someone and leading off with all your biggest life mistakes? All it would do is make people uncomfortable, or alienate them. Sometimes my clients figure it out on their own (I work for a LOT of lawyers, funny enough), or we become close and it just comes up in conversation. So far no one has had a problem with it. Because I do my job, and I do my job well. The emotionally mature part of me says if someone has a problem with it, there are plenty of other planners out there who can help them. The little girl in me who was never accepted mourns the thought of people not liking me, of talking about me in hushed whispers around the dinner table, or in nasty anonymous comments. But while my past in no way defines me, it has shaped me into the person I am today, and I’m damn proud of who I am. I know that people typically come to me for the funny, not hard hitting personal exposés. I have a tendency to make anything, no matter how taboo, something that you can walk away from laughing. It’s a point of pride for me, and I started out trying to do it here. Anyone who personally knows me, and knows about my record, will tell you I have no problem making light of it, and revel in poking fun at myself. But in this post it felt forced and crass. I think it’s because too many people have been hurt by this very thing, and they aren’t in a position to laugh about it. I’ve been lucky enough to make it through the sinking tunnel of depression, and see how far I’ve come, so I can afford to joke about my “dark and sordid past”; safe at home with my loving husband while I bake cookies and get semi-steady paychecks. But many people aren’t there yet, and don’t feel they’ll ever get to the point where they’re safe and loved and good enough. There are enough stigmas and jokes about felons, cons and criminals, I just can’t add to it. My goal isn’t to make anyone feel bad for me, or anyone else. Instead, I hope anyone who reads it is perhaps more open to giving someone a second chance. To anyone who has been in a position similar to mine, it’s not the end of the world, even though it feels like it, especially on really bad days. But you can come out the other side and have a “normal” amazing life better than anything you could have dreamed. People as a whole are flawed, beautifully, wonderfully flawed, and they deserve a chance to embrace their flaws and use them to make them stronger. 22 thoughts on “Guest Posting: Inequality Continued” There’s so much bravery in this. We all have to own our mistakes, but many of us don’t have to keep paying for them over and over throughout our whole lives like this. Thanks for sharing, Ang. This will stick with me for a long time. Good luck with building your non-profit, can’t wait to hear about the awesome things you bring into people’s lives. Ang, the honesty and grace you show here is all anyone needs to know about you. I’m so sorry that a mistake you made has to follow you with such tough consequences. Thank you so much for your bravery in sharing this with us. I truly believe that the only way to breakdown inequalities is to share with the world the fact that they do exist. Keep believing in your business and your non-profit. I hope so much that excellent things come your way soon. I cannot even begin to tell you how incredibly moving and poignant this was. How important I think it is for this to be out there. So often our mistakes, and how we deal with them, are what make us who we are. What stuck me most was this: “How would you feel about meeting someone and leading off with all your biggest life mistakes”. That bit made me cry, because it’s not something many people understand. It hits very close to home for me, in a very different way, and this post has given me a lot ot think about in the power of sharing how those mistakes shape us and affect our lives. Wow, this *is* a very brave post. It opened my eyes to something I was totally oblivious to. Like Erin said, everyone makes mistakes but rarely do we have those mistakes follow us forever. It sounds like you are in a good place, and I hope that your non-profit does really well and helps many people. Gah, what a story. And Lauren was right about challenging thoughts about felons . . . We tend to think of “ex”-cons in a particular light — not because our preconceived notions are necessarily true, but because it makes things more convenient and easier to compartmentalize in our heads. We as a society do it with a lot of different groups, which only marginalizes people and does us all a disservice. Thank you for sharing your incredible story. I’m nearly done with Michelle Alexander’s “The New Jim Crow”. I had some idea of how deep the rot in the so-called justice system was but the book is absolutely incredible at illustrating how systematic the discrimination is and how out of line it is with the rest of the world. This is amazing! You are amazing! I am similar to Lauren in that I have a certain amount of awareness and compassion for the justice system and mistakes (and the mental illness component etc) – but your story is something I have never heard and it is breath-taking. Especially your goals to help women combat their past in a society that makes it hard to do so. Way to go for remaining YOU despite it all. Ang, thank you so much for writing this brave and powerful post. It really hits home for me in many ways, because (now I am going to try to be half as brave as you) I used to be a drug user. More than 6 years ago I “fell in with the wrong crowd” and began a pretty heavy habit of just about everything you can imagine. It is only by dumb luck that I was not arrested for what certainly would have been felony offenses. Eventually I moved away, changed my life, and became the relatively successful, well-adjusted person I am today. I have a career, a home, a steady paycheck, a loving husband. But to be honest, I feel like a fraud. I got these things because of opportunities that NEVER would have been afforded me if I had

un momento new patch coming <hazmat> SpamapS, http://paste.ubuntu.com/770604/ <SpamapS> yeah the 1st one didn't work ;) <SpamapS> hazmat: confirmed, that fixes it <SpamapS> hazmat: if you want to test in a chroot (highly recommended) its pretty easy.. install ubuntu-dev-tools, run 'mk-sbuild oneiric', and then 'schroot -c oneiric-amd64 -u root' to get a clean oneiric chroot to play in (that gets cleaned up on exit) <SpamapS> apt-get build-dep juju will pull in all the build deps <SpamapS> .. obviously ;) <hazmat> SpamapS, why not just lxc? <hazmat> SpamapS, thanks i'll try that out <SpamapS> hazmat: because this is nearly identical to the buildd <nijaba> SpamapS: ok, will try, thanks <nijaba> marcoceppi: first version with rsync as an option: lp:~nijaba/charm-tools/peer-scp/ <nijaba> SpamapS: (context: start my own scp) <nijaba> sshd even <_mup_> juju/trunk r433 committed by [email protected] <_mup_> [trivial] fix provider unit test regression from r431, from overly exact error output check [r=clint-fewbar] <niemeyer> hazmat: I noticed that, and cleared them today <niemeyer> I'm heading out for the day.. cheers everybody! <hazmat> niemeyer, cheers * hazmat debates heading out to a nodejs meetup * SpamapS dist-upgrades his precise box with fingers firmly crossed <hazmat> smoser, do you know if cloud-init is installed on the rackspace cloud instances by default <hazmat> apparently not <_mup_> juju/ssh-known_hosts r439 committed by [email protected] <_mup_> Inject keys as part of cloud-init for ZK instances <_mup_> juju/ssh-known_hosts r440 committed by [email protected] <_mup_> Merged trunk & resolved conflicts #juju 2011-12-15 <hazmat> woah.. that's awesome.. <hazmat> job requirement -> An infrastructure management nut: Chef or Juju preferred. <SpamapS> hazmat: nice <m_3> we've arrived <jimbaker> http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/15084/devops-infrastructure-engineer-surveymonkey has the detailed requirement. very cool indeed <jimbaker> and apparently one other: http://www.dovajobs.com/job-details.html?jobid=4405192&jobtitle=devops+engineer+-+mountain+view%2c+ca&joblocation=mountain+view&jobcountryid=222 <jimbaker> ironically, juju.com is a job search engine; doubly ironically, one of the local python users works for them (remotely) <SpamapS> jimbaker: haha <SpamapS> jimbaker: I used to work for a job board company. Its a weird space.. so dominated by monster and linkedin at this point. :p * hazmat picks up a book on ITIL <_mup_> juju/ssh-known_hosts r441 committed by [email protected] <_mup_> Properly handles key injection <fwereade> niemeyer, sorry, I never followed up on the start hook guarantee discussion <fwereade> niemeyer, you had more thoughts? <niemeyer> fwereade: I have some, and it'd be nice to catch up about the subject at some point <niemeyer> fwereade: Right now is not a great time for me, but maybe later today? <fwereade> niemeyer, sure, just ping me when it works for you <niemeyer> fwereade: Sounds great, thanks! <fwereade> niemeyer, offhand: when will we find out dates of UDS in April? <fwereade> niemeyer, (or who should I be asking who might know ;)) <niemeyer> fwereade: Marianna might be the best bet <niemeyer> fwereade: But the page is generally updated as soon as she knows it, IIRC <fwereade> niemeyer, cool, thanks <niemeyer> "We are excited to announce our new South America (Sao Paulo) Region." <niemeyer> Brilliant! <therve> niemeyer, finally fast AWS for you? :) <niemeyer> therve: Finally :) * hazmat yawnsw <hazmat> another day, another ec2 region <hazmat> hmm.. the sao paulo region appears to be the most expensive of the bunch <oarcher> hi all. After deploying a charm, all was ok. But after rebooting the nodes, juju status say that 'state: down' for all services, and 'state: not-started ' for bootstrap. But all services are working fine ... Does anybody know how to say juju that everything is ok ? <oarcher_> why 'juju status' bring my node to state 'down' after a reboot ? Everything seems to work well ! <niemeyer> oarcher_: Which provider are you using? Local? <oarcher_> yes, i'm using local <niemeyer> oarcher_: Ok.. it still doesn't work over reboots <oarcher_> Is it a bug report that i can follow ? <hazmat> oarcher_, its a known problem with work addressing already in progress <lynxman> hey guys o/ I'm writing a charm for a service that generates a certificate on the server side, I'd like to know if there's any best practices in order to transfer the certificate to the client charm (needed for bilateral auth) <lynxman> any charm I can have a look that would give me an example of that? <mchenetz> lynx man, bet… installed your port install of juju yesterday and got it working. However, juju did not work for local provider because of apt issues <lynxman> mchenetz: yeah I couldn't include apt in my build since OSX was lacking it :) <mchenetz> hehe <lynxman> mchenetz: happy to hear all the rest worked though, I need to find a way around that <mchenetz> lynxman: i am working on a solution with virtual box as a provider <lynxman> mchenetz: oooh schweet <mchenetz> i will probably create a brew repo after that <lynxman> mchenetz: let me know when you do so I can give it a ride :) <mchenetz> most defintiely <hazmat> lynxman, via relation data <lynxman> hazmat: any example I can have a look at? :) <hazmat> lynxman, no.. but you'd just encode the cert you want to transfer and set it on the relation... via relation-set <lynxman> hazmat: cool! <hazmat> lynxman, one qualification to doing that its available to all related units of the remote service <lynxman> hazmat: yeah it should be intended to work like that in this case so it's more than fine <hazmat> er.. all units of the related service <hazmat> cool <rog> is anyone else having problems with launchpad? <rog> i'm consistently seeing this message: http://paste.ubuntu.com/771240/ <rog> hazmat, fwereade: ^ <fwereade> rog, I've seen it once or twice in the past, it usually goes away again quite quickly <rog> fwereade: i hope so - i've mucked up lp:juju/go and i need to restore it before anyone notices :-) <fwereade> rog, and it's happening for me too ATM <rog> good. i thought it might be something i'd done locally <rog> fwereade: thanks <fwereade> rog, don't worry, probably nobody else could see it... until you confessed :p <rog> fwereade: they might have noticed that it had lost the last 2 revisions... <rog> "Warning: criss-cross merge encountered. See bzr help criss-cross." <rog> yay <fwereade> rog, that's *usually* less painful than

. Dressing in yellow garments also made practical sense on dimly lit city streets, enabling prostitutes to stand out to prospective clients. By the late eighteenth century, even the term 'yellow' had taken on a pejorative sense. Often associated with Hollywood Westerns as a way of describing a coward, who might also be described as 'a yellow-belly', the description in this sense is believed to have been used first in England, perhaps in Lincolnshire. According to Francis Grose's _A provincial glossary, with a collection of local proverbs, and popular superstitions_ , which was published in 1787, 'Yellow bellies. This is an appellation given to persons born in the Fens, who, it is jocularly said, have yellow bellies, like their eels.' That same year, _Knight's Quarterly Magazine_ records an account of life in the Staffordshire coalfields and includes an attempt by a lady to guess the nickname given to the locals, with 'yellow-belly' among the options provided along with 'lie-a-bed', 'cock-eye' and 'pig-tail'. Although yellow's usage in these instances may stem from its link with illness and be disparaging rather than designed to taint, its association with cowardice soon became prevalent. A report in an 1842 edition of the _Wisconsin Enquirer_ describes the Texan forces readying to face a rival force from Mexico. 'God send that they may bayonet every "yellow-belly" in the Mexican army,' a Captain Wright exhorts, although it is not known whether the reference refers to skin colour, ill-health or an association with snakes or reptiles. In 1856, American showman and politician P. T. Barnum wrote in _Struggles and Triumphs_ , 'We never thought your heart was yellow.' By the Second World War, the words 'yellow' and 'coward' had become interchangeable among American soldiers. In France, attitudes gradually began to change from the 1850s. Due in part to impressionist painters who focused on landscapes outside the artist's studio, yellow became radiant and uplifting rather than denoting deceit and decay, most famously in the works of Vincent van Gogh, where the wheat fields and sunflowers have an extremely luminous and joyful quality, which is echoed every year at the Tour in the emblematic photographs and images of the peloton passing between fields of dazzlingly vibrant blooms. Yet for most of the French population, unaware and untouched by impressionism and abstract art, yellow essentially retained the long-established negative motifs, illustrated by the barbs shouted Christophe's way in Grenoble on that early morning when the first leader's jersey was presented. Comic and satirical publications still depicted their villains in yellow scarves and shawls. Around the turn of the century, in an increasingly industrialised and unionised France, 'yellow' also described a strike breaker and, by association, a traitor to the cause of the working-class. The first 'yellow union' was established in 1899 by a group of miners at Montceau-les-Mines in the east of the country. Unlike 'red unions', which had links to socialist and communist groups, this new group endeavoured to advance its rights without resorting to strikes or direct action against business owners. More emerged, and in April 1902 the Fédération Nationale des Jaunes de France was founded, headed by Pierre Biétry. Thanks to financial support from leading industrialists, the yellow movement flourished and attracted up to 100,000 members. In 1908, Biétry set up a political party and a federation uniting the nation's 'yellow unions', both of them firmly in favour of the long-standing divide between the owners and workers and against workers having any kind of ownership of the means of production. It is interesting to note that when _L'Auto-Vélo_ , as it was originally entitled, was established in 1900, its funding came from a large number of very prominent and wealthy industrialists angered by the political stance and partisan editorial support of _Le Vélo_ , the market-leading title printed on green paper, and of its editor Pierre Giffard. Although there is no evidence that _L'Auto-Vélo_ 's founders deliberately chose yellow paper for their new title, a yellow described by Pastoureau as 'one of those pale, drab yellows that were used to colour cheap paper, destined for short-term usage and mass consumption, a yellow that was neither valued nor rewarding', it is surely an intriguing coincidence, especially because under Desgrange's leadership it adopted a very conservative approach to socio-political matters. Equally intriguing is the decision to create a leader's jersey that was apparently waxy yellow in hue, rather than in the pale but brighter colour on which _L'Auto_ was printed. As noted earlier, more luminous shades had featured in pre-war jerseys and several of these remained unchanged following the Great War. Consequently, there doesn't seem to have been any issue in manufacturing what would now be recognised as yellow. Could Desgrange have ordered a golden jersey on purpose? Did he want to boost the status of his race's leader by clothing him in a colour that suggested nobility and authority, rather than in one that might be ridiculed because of more inappropriate and associations? There is, unfortunately, no evidence one way or the other. Desgrange may have put in his request without having the slightest idea what shade it might be when it was delivered. However, given the absolute control he exercised over his event, it seems extremely unlikely that the Tour director wouldn't have had a say on the precise nature of the colour used, and it's absolutely certain that he would have had it changed quite quickly if he hadn't approved of it. What can be confirmed is that by the time Louis Mottiat, for a day, and Léon Scieur, for the rest of the race, donned the yellow jersey during the 1921 Tour, it had taken on a more familiar shade and _L'Auto_ 's association with it had developed to the point where the paper was widely known as 'Le Jaune'. When Ottavio Bottecchia wrapped up the first of two consecutive victories in 1924, the jersey featured the name of his Automoto-Hutchinson team, although branding of this type was dropped when the event returned to a national team format in 1930. Inevitably, there has been further tinkering. _Ottavio Bottecchia displaying the Automoto-Hutchinson branding_ In 1948, the Tour's second director, Jacques Goddet, paid tribute to his predecessor by adding Desgrange's initials to the jersey. 'Embroidered in black, next to the heart, the initials H.D. in the style of the father of the Tour's handwriting. This was the homage I wanted to make to the designer of the cathedral,' Goddet explained in his autobiography. The practice, he complained was subsequently abandoned 'by others and not by me, to leave the entire jersey free for branding that's judged obligatory. It's a decision that upsets me, but one that has to be understood, because it is by increasing its financial gains that the Tour can become an even more perfect event in terms of sporting status... Nevertheless, I deplore the fact that the decision was taken not to retain this symbolic logo in a fitting place on an official document.' Dropped in 1984, Desgrange's distinctive initials reappeared on both the front and back in the one hundredth Tour in 2013 when Le Coq Sportif remodelled the jersey, brightening it and adding a transparent Corsican Moor's head emblem to celebrate the race's first visit to the island. Reflective spots were included in the design, making it stand out even more in the lights during the first night-time finish on the Champs-Élysées. As a final tribute to the Tour's founder, these were complemented by a reflective dedication: 'En 1903 Henri Desgrange créait le plus grand événement cycliste de tous les temps' – In 1903, Henri Desgrange created the greatest cycling race of all time. On occasions faded as if, like much of the French countryside, bleached of its vitality by July's fierce sun, and on others quite psychedelic in tone when touched by the orange end of the yellow palette, the Tour leader's jersey has steadily contributed to a re-evaluation. Introduced, says Pastoureau in _Dictionnaire des couleurs de notre temps_ , 'to better highlight the link between the organising newspaper and a cycling race that was already very popular', it was initially 'neither valued nor rewarding'. Yet, as Pastoureau points out, the magic of the Tour de France would soon come into play: 'As soon as it was put on, the jersey became an object of desire, almost mythological (although it still didn't have any history). It gave birth to a syntagma – Yellow Jersey – the use of which spread not only within cycling but also beyond the sporting domain. There were and there still are yellow jerseys in finance, the economy, universities, etc.' Being the Yellow Jersey now signifies "being in the lead" in any area, whatever kind of competition or means of classification is involved... The Tour de France has consequently contributed to the re-evaluation of the colour yellow and of it becoming the colour of victory, and even of excellence. It's no longer the yellow that used to be used for _L'Auto_ 's paper, but a luminous, striking

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Featuring help from two of the biggest supermodels in the world ...A statement from his publicist to the Press Association said that he "passed away peacefully at home". The news of Michael's sudden death, and the loss of yet another music icon, has prompted many famous names from the entertainment industry to pay their respect to the late star on social media. Here are some of their reactions:With a paper published Thursday, UC Berkeley researchers have conclusively mapped the inner workings of hot, rocky channels deep below ground, in the process unearthing a connection that has long eluded scientists. Barbara Romanowicz, a professor in the campus department of earth and planetary science, and former UC Berkeley doctoral student Scott French — who is now an alumnus — used seismic data and supercomputers to produce the clearest image yet of the chutes through which hot rock travels. Their results established a connection between massive plumes of hot rock below ground and volcanic hot spots — long hypothesized to form chains of volcanic islands such as Hawaii and Iceland — formalizing a conclusion debated by earth scientists for decades. “Hot material rises, but there is a long standing question about whether material rises all the way from the base of the mantle,” said Bruce Buffett, campus professor in the earth and planetary science department, in an email. Buffett noted that some scientists have argued that hot spots draw their material from shallow pools beneath the earth’s surface, while others hypothesized that the plumes did not exist at all. The chutes transport solid hot rock, as opposed to liquid magma, in a manner analogous to the flow of glaciers and at a rate of centimeters per year, French said in an email. Seismologists working with the study’s process — akin to computer tomography, or CT imaging — had postulated that deep chutes of hot rock were linked to volcanic hot-spot islands, such as Hawaii or Samoa in the Pacific, but earlier renderings failed to prove the link conclusively. “While a CAT scan uses X-rays and beams X-rays at you from many different directions … we used seismic waves,” French said. French said their study examined seismic waves at a variety of speeds as they passed through different regions of the mantle, allowing them to make inferences about the materials’ temperature and plate tectonics. Included in the data French and Romanowicz analyzed were more than 200 powerful earthquakes over the past two decades. Seismologists have used computer imaging to map Earth’s interior for several decades, but the supercomputer technology used in the study allowed for a precise, unambiguous image, overcoming shortcomings of earlier seismic tomography, according to French. Romanowicz and French additionally discovered that plumes are “unusually broad,” leading to questions about their exact composition or the speed of convection in the mantle. “We didn’t expect these things to be so thick,” Buffett said in an email. “Other (scientists) will now try (to) understand the dynamics that allows these features to form.” French anticipates additional discoveries in seismology and earth sciences as more researchers use supercomputers to create higher-resolution images and models of the earth’s interior structure. Contact Anna Sturla at [email protected].Impact of supervised cardiac rehabilitation on urinary albumin excretion in patients with cardiovascular disease. Urinary albumin excretion is a predictor of cardiovascular death. Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) with exercise training (ET) has been shown to improve exercise capacity and prognosis in patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, it remains unclear whether CR reduces urinary albumin excretion in CVD patients. We performed a retrospective, observational study using data obtained from 98 male CVD patients without macroalbuminuria and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) < 30 mL/minute/1.73 m(2) who participated in CR with ET during hospitalization. Twenty-three patients continued supervised ET for 6 months (supervised group) and 75 patients quit supervised ET (non-supervised group). The supervised ET program consisted of 60 minutes of supervised sessions 1-3 times a week and 30-60 minutes of home exercise at least twice a week. Urinary albumin/creatinine ratio (ACR) was significantly decreased in the supervised group at 6 months after enrollment (43 ± 71 mg/g to 17 ± 20 mg/g creatinine, P < 0.05) but not in the non-supervised group. eGFR was unchanged in the supervised group but was significantly decreased in the non-supervised group (72 ± 18 mL/minute/1.73 m(2) to 67 ± 17 mL/minute/1.73 m(2), P < 0.001). The results of multiple regression analysis showed that only supervised ET was an independent contributor to ΔACR. CR with supervised ET decreased urinary albumin excretion without deterioration of renal function. These findings suggest that continuation of a supervised ET program is associated with reduction in the development of CVD and reduction in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in CVD patients.NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected a rapid-fire "storm" of high-energy blasts from a highly magnetized neutron star, also called a magnetar, on Jan. 22, 2009. Now astronomers analyzing this data have discovered underlying signals related to seismic waves rippling throughout the magnetar. Such signals were first identified during the fadeout of rare giant flares produced by magnetars. Over the past 40 years, giant flares have been observed just three times -- in 1979, 1998 and 2004 -- and signals related to starquakes, which set the neutron stars ringing like a bell, were identified only in the two most recent events. "Fermi's Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) has captured the same evidence from smaller and much more frequent eruptions called bursts, opening up the potential for a wealth of new data to help us understand how neutron stars are put together," said Anna Watts, an astrophysicist at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and co-author of a new study about the burst storm. "It turns out that Fermi's GBM is the perfect tool for this work." Neutron stars are the densest, most magnetic and fastest-spinning objects in the universe that scientists can observe directly. Each one is the crushed core of a massive star that ran out of fuel, collapsed under its own weight, and exploded as a supernova. A neutron star packs the equivalent mass of half-a-million Earths into a sphere about 12 miles across, roughly the length of Manhattan Island in New York City. While typical neutron stars possess magnetic fields trillions of times stronger than Earth's, the eruptive activity observed from magnetars requires fields 1,000 times stronger still. To date, astronomers have confirmed only 23 magnetars. Because a neutron star's solid crust is locked to its intense magnetic field, a disruption of one immediately affects the other. A fracture in the crust will lead to a reshuffling of the magnetic field, or a sudden reorganization of the magnetic field may instead crack the surface. Either way, the changes trigger a sudden release of stored energy via powerful bursts that vibrate the crust, a motion that becomes imprinted on the burst's gamma-ray and X-ray signals. advertisement It takes an incredible amount of energy to convulse a neutron star. The closest comparison on Earth is the 9.5-magnitude Chilean earthquake of 1960, which ranks as the most powerful ever recorded on the standard scale used by seismologists. On that scale, said Watts, a starquake associated with a magnetar giant flare would reach magnitude 23. The 2009 burst storm came from SGR J1550−5418, an object discovered by NASA's Einstein Observatory, which operated from 1978 to 1981. Located about 15,000 light-years away in the constellation Norma, the magnetar was quiet until October 2008, when it entered a period of eruptive activity that ended in April 2009. At times, the object produced hundreds of bursts in as little as 20 minutes, and the most intense explosions emitted more total energy than the sun does in 20 years. High-energy instruments on many spacecraft, including NASA's Swift and Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, detected hundreds of gamma-ray and X-ray blasts. Speaking at the Fifth Fermi International Symposium in Nagoya, Japan, on Oct. 21, Watts said the new study examined 263 individual bursts detected by Fermi's GBM and confirms vibrations in the frequency ranges previously seen in giant flares. "We think these are likely twisting oscillations of the star where the crust and the

fully connected blocks. The architecture of the encoder is presented in Figure \[pic\_encoder\]. The input vector of length $400$ is fed to the input of the encoder. Next, there is a branching into a fully connected and convolutional chains. The convolutional chain (at the top of the circuit in Figure \[pic\_encoder\]) consists of $4$ series-connected blocks, each of which consists of a convolution layer, a batch normalization layer, a ReLU activation function and a MaxPooling layer. Next, we have another convolution layer. At the output of this block we get $25$ neurons. The fully connected chain of the encoder (at the bottom of the circuit in Figure \[pic\_encoder\]) consists of $3$ fully connected (dense) layers, interconnected by a batch normalization and ReLU activation functions. At the output of the last fully connected layer we have $25$ neurons. The outputs of the convolutional and fully connected chains are concatenated, which gives us a vector of length $50$. Using two fully connected layers we get two $25$-dimensional vectors which interpreted as a vector of means and a vector of logarithms of variances for $25$ normal distributions (or for one $25$-dimensional normal distribution with a diagonal covariance matrix). The output of the encoder is a vector of length $25$ in which each component is sampled from those normal distributions with specified means and variance. We will interpret this $25$-dimensional vector as a vector of new features sufficient to describe and restore with small error the one cardiac cycle. As the loss function, the Kullback–Leibler distance $$\label{KL-distance} D_{KL}(P \parallel Q) = \int_X p\log{\frac{p}{q}} d\mu$$ is used. Due to this fact those $25$ new features are of normal distribution. In (\[KL-distance\]) $\mu$ is any measure on $X$ for which there exists a function absolutely continuous with respect to $\mu$: $p = \frac{dP}{d\mu}$ and $q = \frac{dQ}{d\mu}$, $P$ is the initial distribution, $Q$ is the new distribution we have obtained. Neural network architecture. Decoder ------------------------------------ The architecture of the decoder is presented in Figure \[pic\_decoder\]. As an input, the decoder accepts the $25$-dimensional vector of features. Then, similarly to the encoder, branching into convolutional and fully connected chains occurs. The fully connected chain (at the bottom of the circuit in Figure \[pic\_decoder\]) consists of $4$ blocks, each of which contains a fully connected (dense) layer, batch normalization layer and the ReLU activation function. The convolutional chain (at the top of the circuit in Figure \[pic\_decoder\]) performs a deconvolution. It consists of $4$ blocks consisted of a convolutional layer, a batch normalization layer, and ReLU activation function, followed by and an upsampling layer. As a result of the convolutional and the fully connected chains, we get $400$ neurons from each. Next, we concatenate two results, obtaining $800$ neurons. Using a dense layer we get $400$ neurons which represents the ECG restored. As a loss function for the output of the decoder, we use the mean squared error. Experimental results {#AA} ==================== As a training test, we use $2033$ $10$-second ECG signals of frequency $500$ Hz [@Kalyakulina2018; @Kalyakulina2019]. We process them according to the principles as described above and train our network on the obtained $252636$ cardiac cycles. Examples of those cardiac cycles are presented in Figure \[fig-res-real\]. {width="100.00000%"} After training the network we can test the decoder by supplying random (generated according to the standard normal distribution) numbers to its input. The examples of the produced results are given in Figure \[fig-res\]. These synthetic generated ECG look quite natural. {width="100.00000%"} Also, for evaluating our results we calculated the Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) metric (see [@DelaneyBrophyWard2019]) on the set of $3000$ generated ECG. The value of MMD is equal to $3.83\times 10^{-3}$. Remark that the best value of MMD obtained in [@DelaneyBrophyWard2019] by GAN is $1.05\times 10^{-3}$. However, we note that the comparison of these two metric values is not very correct, since these values were obtained on different training tests and for solving similar, but different problems. Unfortunately, the papers [@ZhuYeFuLiuShen2019; @GolanyRadinsky2019] don’t contain (applicable to our problem) values of similar metrics. ![Examples of ECG generated when a parameter is varying. Each column correspond to the set of fixed $24$ features and varying other feature.[]{data-label="fig-var-param"}](3rd11_01_60.png "fig:"){width="\linewidth"} ![Examples of ECG generated when a parameter is varying. Each column correspond to the set of fixed $24$ features and varying other feature.[]{data-label="fig-var-param"}](3rd11_01_61.png "fig:"){width="\linewidth"} ![Examples of ECG generated when a parameter is varying. Each column correspond to the set of fixed $24$ features and varying other feature.[]{data-label="fig-var-param"}](3rd11_01_62.png "fig:"){width="\linewidth"} ![Examples of ECG generated when a parameter is varying. 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it had once done service, and on the higher of the two panels was embossed the Penfield triple crescent. This great sheet of painted steel MacNutt held above his head, as a hesitating waiter might hold a gigantic tray. Then he stepped toward the shimmering guard-rail, and stood in front of it. "Now, this luxurious-lookin' rear-admiral's rail-fence is at present connected with a tapped power circuit, or a light circuit, I don't know which. All I know is that it's carryin' about a twenty-eight-hundred alternatin' current. And just to show that it's good and ready to eat up anything that tries monkeyin' round it, watch this!" He raised the Burgundy-red door-sheathing vertically above his head, and stepping quickly back, let it descend, so that as it fell it would strike the metal of the sunken vault-top and the copper guardrail as well. The very sound of that blow, as it descended, was swallowed up in the sudden, blinding, lightning-like flash, in the hiss and roar of the pale-green flame, as the sheet of steel, tortured into sudden incandescence, bridged and writhed and twisted, warping and collapsing like a leaf of writing-paper on the coals of an open fire. A sickening smell of burning paint, mingling with the subtler gaseous odors of the corroding metal, filled the little dungeon. "Don't! That's enough!" gasped the woman, groping back toward the support of the wall. MacNutt shut off the current, and kicked the charred door-sheathing, already fading from incandescence into ashen ruin, with his foot. The smell of burning leather filled the room, and he laughed a little, turning on the woman a face crowned with a look of Belial-like triumph, with dark and sunken circles about the vindictive, deep-set eyes. Once, in an evening paper, she had pored over the picture of an electrocution at Sing Sing, a haunting and horrible scene, with the dangling wires reaching down to the prisoner, strapped and bound in his chair, the applied sponges at the base of the spine, the buckled thongs about the helpless ankles, the grim and waiting gaol officials, the boyish-looking reporters, with watches in their hands, the bald and ugly chamber, and in the background the dim figure of Retributive Justice, with uplifted arm, where an implacable finger was about to touch the fatal button. Time and time again that vision had brought terror to her midnight dreams, and had left her weak and panting, catching at her startled husband with feverish and passionate hands and holding him and drawing him close to her, as though that momentary guardianship could protect him from some far and undefined danger. "Oh, Mack," she burst out hysterically, over-wrought by the scene before her, "for the love of God, don't make him die this way! Give him a fighting chance! Give him a show! Do what you like with _me_, but don't blot him out, like a dog, without a word of warning!" "It's not my doin'!" broke in her tormentor. "It's inhuman--it's fiendish!" she went on. "I can't stand the thought of it!" MacNutt laughed his mirthless laugh once more. "Oh, I guess you'll stand it!" "But I can't!" she moaned. "Oh, yes; you'll stand it, and you'll see it, too! You'll be right here, where you can take the whole show in, this time! It won't be a case o' foolin' the old man, like it was last time!" "I will be here?" she gasped. "You'll be right on the spot--and you'll see the whole performance!" She drew her hands down, shudderingly, over her averted face, as though to shut something even from her imagination. "And do you know what'll be the end of it all?" MacNutt went on, in his frenzied mockery. "It'll all end in a little paragraph or two in the _Morning Journal_, to the effect that some unknown safecracksman or other accidentally came in contact with a live wire, and was shocked to death in the very act of breaking into a pious and unoffendin' cigar-store vault! And you'll be the only one who'll know anything different, and I guess you won't do much squealin' about it!" She wheeled, as though about to spring on him. "I will! I will, although I wither between gaol walls for it--although I die for it! I'm no weak and foolish woman! I've known life bald to the bone; I've fought and schemed and plotted and twisted all my days almost, and I can die doing it! And if you kill this man, if you murder him--for it is murder!--if you bring this dog's death on him, I will make you pay for it, in one way or another--I'll make you mourn it, David MacNutt, as you've made me mourn the first day I ever saw your face!" She was in a blind and unreasoning passion of vituperative malevolence by this time, her face drawn and withered with fear, her eyes luminous, in the dungeon-like half-lights, with the inner fire of her hate. "Keep cool, my dear, keep cool!" mocked MacNutt, without a trace of trepidation at all her vague threats. "Durkin's not dead yet!" She caught madly at the slender thread of hope which swung from his mockery. "No! No, he's _not_ dead yet, and he'll die hard! He's no fool--you've found that out in the past! He will give you a fight before he goes, in some way, for he's fought you and beaten you from the first--and he'll beat you again--I know he'll beat you again!" Her voice broke and merged into a paroxysm of sobbing, and MacNutt looked at her bent and shaken figure with meditative coldness. "He may have beaten me, once, long ago--but he'll never do it again. He won't even go out fightin'! He'll go with his head hangin' and his nose down, like a sneak! And you'll see him go, for you'll be tied there, with a gag in your pretty red mouth, and you'll neither move nor speak. And there'll be no light, unless he gets so reckless as to strike a match. But when the light does come, my dear, it'll be a flash o' blue flame, with a smell o' something burnin'!" The woman covered her face with her hands, and swayed back and forth where she stood. Then MacNutt held back his guttural laugh, suddenly, for she had fallen forward on her face, in a dead faint. CHAPTER XXII THE ENTERING WEDGE It was at least four o'clock in the afternoon--as the janitor of the building later reported to the police--when a Postal-Union lineman, carrying a well-worn case of tools, made his way up through the halls and stairways of one of those many Italian apartment houses just south of Washington Square and west of Broadway. This lineman worked on the roof, apparently, for some twenty minutes. Then he came down again, chatted for a while with the janitor in the basement, and giving him a cigar, borrowed an eight-foot step-ladder, for the purpose of scaling some twelve feet of brick wall, where the adjoining office building towered its additional story above the apartment-house roof. If the janitor had been less averse to mounting his five flights of stairway, or less indifferent as to the nature of the work which took the busy telegraph official up to his roof, he might, that afternoon, have witnessed both a delicate and an interesting electrical operation. For once up on the second roof, and sure that he was under no immediate observation, the lineman in question carefully unpacked his bag of tools. His first efforts were directed toward the steel transom which covered the trapdoor opening out on the roof. This, he discovered with a grunt of disappointment, resisted even his short, curved steel lever, pointed at one end, like a gigantic tack-drawer. Restoring this lever to the bottom of his leather tool-bag, he made his way to the southeast corner of the building, where a tangle of insulated wires, issuing from the roof beneath his feet, merged into one compact cable, which, in turn, entered and was protected by a heavy lead pipe, leading, obviously, to the street below, and thence to the cable galleries of

of a very turbulent time- stuffed with love, sex, heart-breaks, betrayals, cowardice, heroism. It’s s a tale of actions taken, derring-do or gutlessness, annihilation or amelioration, and all their far-reaching reverberations. Human nature doesn’t change. A feeling that something akin to what happens in this most prescient novel is occurring in America right now. We are reminded of a time when the great Elizabethan Age is coming to a close. Oliver Cromwell is about to show up, darkening the horizon. In some ways, the tangled roots of this meticulously researched page-turner, are a reflection on Yeats’ poem The Second Coming. Subliminally, is it a cry from the heart urging us to gird ourselves for the huge danger we are facing in this country at this very moment. Let us hope that right now no ‘…rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born.’ At the finish of this thoughtful page-turner we are not abandoned in total darkness. Is this glow a hint of the approaching dawn? Or are we witnessing a final twilight of the gods…” Archives Get my book… About Me Loretta Goldberg is the author of The Reversible Mask: An Elizabethan Spy Novel, and she is passionate about historical novels. She is involved in the Historical Novel Society and hopes her experience there has helped her to make a best-selling book.Extra skeletal osteosarcoma of gall bladder: A case report. Extraskeletal osteosarcoma is a rare malignant soft tissue tumor. At open cholecystectomy performed for gallstones, a 45-year-old woman was found to have extraskeletal osteosarcoma on histopathological examination. 1 year after surgery, the patient is symptom free and all imaging studies are normal. After multidisciplinary discussion it was decided to give no further treatment. The patient was asked to follow up three monthly. Although osteosarcoma has rarely been reported at other extraskeletal sites, this appears to be the third case of a primary tumor in the gallbladder.m c + k*v and give k. 25 Express 6 + 13*k**2 + 3*k**2 - 4 - 5*k**2 + 4*k**2 + 7*k**2 + (k + 0*k + 0*k)*(5 - 5 - 2*k) as l*k**2 + a*k + r and give a. 0 Rearrange (2*u - 2*u + u)*(u - u - u) - 1291 + 1291 - 25*u**2 to m + b*u**2 + s*u and give b. -26 Express -h**2 + 9 - 6*h**3 - 36*h**4 - h - 18*h**4 + 52*h**4 as w*h**2 + x*h + l + v*h**3 + u*h**4 and give u. -2 Rearrange -180*n - 133*n + 37*n + 27*n + 9*n to i*n + a and give i. -240 Rearrange 0 - 7*k - 3*k**2 - 7 + 12 + 47*k - 2 to the form j + z*k**2 + o*k and give o. 40 Rearrange 2 - 3 - 5696*r**2 + 5731*r**2 - 2*r to m + o*r + g*r**2 and give g. 35 Express 61*r**2 - r**4 - r - 91*r**3 + 89*r**3 + r as q*r**4 + y + m*r**3 + h*r**2 + j*r and give h. 61 Express 97791*j**4 + 0*j**3 - j - 2*j**2 + 3 + 2*j**3 - 97792*j**4 as v + l*j**4 + w*j**2 + z*j**3 + o*j and give v. 3 Express (34 - 23 - 83 - 35)*(-s**4 - s + s) as f + i*s**4 + y*s**2 + b*s**3 + j*s and give i. 107 Rearrange -3 - 893*g + 11 - 9 + 1 to the form b*g + d and give b. -893 Express -2 + 10592*c**2 - 10620*c**2 - 2*c - 4 + 5 as q*c**2 + i*c + v and give i. -2 Express -3*l + 3*l - 2*l**3 + (3*l**2 - 3 + 3 + (-4*l + l + l)*(-l - 3*l + l))*(-9*l + 13*l + 12*l) in the form h*l**3 + j + w*l + u*l**2 and give h. 142 Express 0*i**4 - 4*i**3 - 4*i**3 - 13*i + i**4 + 3*i**4 + 7*i**3 + 1 in the form n*i**2 + c*i**3 + q*i**4 + r + b*i and give b. -13 Express (3*h**2 - 3*h**2 - h**2)*(0*h - 2*h + 0*h) - 34*h**3 + 10*h**3 - 7*h**3 - h**3 - 4*h**3 + h**3 as b*h + d + o*h**3 + v*h**2 and give o. -33 Rearrange (2 - 2 - 1)*(45*l - 281*l + 474*l) to s + v*l and give v. -238 Rearrange -82*t**2 + 8 + 29*t**2 + 29*t**2 + 36*t**2 to s*t + u*t**2 + c and give c. 8 Rearrange (5*z**3 - 3*z**3 - 3*z**3)*(-3 + 206*z - 292*z + 1) to b*z**2 + f*z + t + h*z**4 + o*z**3 and give o. 2 Express 11*g + 0*g + 0*g + 4*g - 2*g - 3*g + (-2*g + 0 + 0)*(4 + 0 - 6) - 2 - 4*g + 2 in the form s + w*g and give w. 10 Express 64*a**2 + 2*a - a - 196*a**3 - 64*a**2 as f + q*a**2 + w*a + c*a**3 and give w. 1 Rearrange (-2*n + 7*n + 0*n)*(9*n - 11*n + 0 - 22) to r + l*n + d*n**2 and give l. -110 Rearrange (159*d - 80*d - 295*d)*(-3 + 2*d**2 + 3 + (2 + 0 - 3)*(-4*d**2 + 2*d**2 + 0*d**2) + d**2 - 2*d**2 + 2*d**2) to j*d**2 + u + g*d**3 + v*d and give j. 0 Rearrange -143*l**2 - 162*l**2 - 1 + 2 + 2 - 5 to t*l**2 + b*l + j and give t. -305 Rearrange 52*a**2 - 23 + 22 - 23*a**2 + 59*a**4 - 27*a**2 + 2*a to the form v*a**3 + j*a + d*a**2 + i*a**4 + t and give t. -1 Rearrange 3 - 7*k - 10*k - 3*k + 22*k + 1 to the form b + d*k and give d. 2 Rearrange (-5 + 11 - 4)*(2 + 438*t**3 - 17*t**4 - 436*t**3 - 14*t**4) - 2*t**4 - 4*t**4 + 5*t**4 to k*t**4 + s*t + h*t**2 + m + n*t**3 and give k. -63 Rearrange -3 + 6*w**3 + 235*w - 215*w + 3 to the form y*w**2 + b + g*w**3 + v*w and give v. 20 Rearrange -87*o**2 + 18*o**2 + 101*o**2 + 153*o**2 to u*o**2 + h*o + d and give u. 185 Express 18*x - 2178*x**2 + 4*x - 22*x in the form y*x**2 + t + a*x and give y. -2178 Rearrange -1042*o + 14*o**3 - 6*o**3 + 1036*o + o**3 to the form m*o + j + q*

1}{2}\log|\mbox{{\boldmath ${I}$}$_{n}$}+r_0 \mbox{{\boldmath ${K}$}$_{n}$}/(r_1\phi_0)|+\frac{r_0}{2}(||f_{0}||^2_k+c))\} f_\nu (\mbox{\boldmath ${r}$}) d\mbox{\boldmath ${r }$} \notag \\ =&p_{\phi_0}(\mbox{\boldmath ${y }$} |f_0, \mbox{\boldmath ${X}$}) \int\exp\{-( \frac{1}{2}\log|\mbox{{\boldmath ${I}$}$_{n}$}+r_0 \mbox{{\boldmath ${K}$}$_{n}$}/(r_1\phi_0)|+\frac{r_0}{2}(||f_{0}||^2_k+c))\} \notag \\ & g_{\nu_0} (r_0) g^*_{\nu_1} (r_1) dr_0 dr_1.\end{aligned}$$ From (\[Aeq1\]), (\[Aeq2\]) and (\[Aeq3\]), we have $$\begin{aligned} &\frac{1}{n}(-\log p_{\phi_0,\theta,\hat r}(\mbox{{\boldmath ${y}$}$$}|\mbox{{\boldmath ${X}$}$$})+\log p_{\phi_0}( \mbox{{\boldmath ${y}$}$$}|f_{0},\mbox{{\boldmath ${X}$}$$})) \notag \\ \leq& -\frac{1}{n}\log\Big\{\int\exp\{-( \frac{1}{2}\log|\mbox{{\boldmath ${I}$}$_{n}$}+r_0 \mbox{{\boldmath ${K}$}$_{n}$}/(r_1\phi_0)|+\frac{r_0}{2}(||f_{0}||^2_k+c))\} \notag \\ &g_\nu (r_0) g^*_\nu (r_1) dr_0 dr_1\Big\}+\varepsilon \notag \\ \leq & \frac{1}{2n} \Big\{\int \log|\mbox{{\boldmath ${I}$}$_{n}$}+r_0 \mbox{{\boldmath ${K}$}$_{n}$}/(r_1\phi_0)|g_\nu (r_0) g^*_\nu (r_1) dr_0 dr_1+ ||f_{0}||^2_k+c\Big\}+\varepsilon, \notag\end{aligned}$$ which shows that Lemma 1 holds. Now let us prove the inequality (\[Aeq1\]). Following proofs of Theorem 1 in [@r15] and Lemma 1 in [@r10], it is sufficient to prove (\[Aeq1\]) when the true underlying function has the expression $$\begin{aligned} &{f}_{0}(\cdot)=r_0\sum_{l=1}^n\alpha_l k(\mbox{\boldmath ${x}$},\mbox{{\boldmath ${x}$}$_{i}$};\mbox{{\boldmath ${\theta}$}$_{}$})\doteq r_0 K(\cdot)\mbox{\boldmath ${\alpha}$}, \notag\end{aligned}$$ where $K(\cdot)=(k(\mbox{\boldmath ${x}$},\mbox{{\boldmath ${x}$}$_{1}$};\mbox{{\boldmath ${\theta}$}$_{}$}),...,k(\mbox{\boldmath ${x}$},\mbox{{\boldmath ${x}$}$_{n}$};\mbox{{\boldmath ${\theta}$}$_{}$}))$ and $\mbox{\boldmath ${\alpha}$}=(\alpha_1,...,\alpha_n)^T\in R^n$. Let $P$ be a measure induced by $GP(0,r_0k(\cdot,\cdot;\hat{\mbox{\boldmath ${\theta}$}}))$. Let $Q$ be the density function of normal distribution $N(f_0(\mbox{\boldmath ${X}$}), r_0\mbox{{\boldmath ${K}$}$_{n}$}(r_0\mbox{{\boldmath ${K}$}$_{n}$}/(r_1\phi_0)+\mbox{{\boldmath ${I}$}$_{n}$})^{-1})$. We can show that $Q$ is the posterior distribution of $\tilde f$ from a model with prior $GP(0, r_0k(\cdot,\cdot;\mbox{{\boldmath ${\theta}$}$_{}$} ))$ and Gaussian likelihood term $\prod_{l=1}^n N(\hat y_{i}|\tilde f( \mbox{{\boldmath ${x}$}$_{i}$}),r_1\phi_0)$, where $\hat{\mbox{\boldmath ${y}$}}=(\hat y_{1},...,\hat y_{n})^T=(r_0\mbox{{\boldmath ${K}$}$_{n}$}+r_1\phi_0\mbox{{\boldmath ${I}$}$_{n}$})\mbox{\boldmath ${\alpha}$}$. Then we have $E_{Q}(\tilde f)=f_{0}$, where the expectation is taken under probability density $Q$. From Fenchel-Legendre duality relationship in [@r16] and [@r17], we have $$\begin{aligned} \label{FLD} -\log p_{\phi_0,\theta, r}(\mbox{{\boldmath ${y}$}$$}|\mbox{{\boldmath ${X}$}$$}) \leq E_{Q}(-\log p_{\phi_0, r}(\mbox{{\boldmath ${y}$}$$}| \tilde{f}, \mbox{{\boldmath ${X}$}$$})+D[Q,P].\end{aligned}$$ Let $\mbox{\boldmath ${B}$}=\mbox{{\boldmath ${I}$}$_{n}$}+r_0\mbox{{\boldmath ${K}$}$_{n}$}/(r_1\phi_0)$, then we have $$\begin{aligned} &D[Q,P]=\frac{1}{2}\left\{-\log|\hat{\mbox{\boldmath ${K}$}}_{n}^{-1} \mbox{{\boldmath ${K}$}$_{n}$}|+\log|\mbox{\boldmath ${B}$}|+Tr(\hat{\mbox{\boldmath ${K}$}}_{n}^{-1} \mbox{{\boldmath ${K}$}$_{n}$}\mbox{{\boldmath ${B}$}$^{-1}$})\right. \notag \\ &\hskip 2cm \left.+r_0||f_{0}||^2_k+r_0\mbox{\boldmath ${\alpha }$} \mbox{{\boldmath ${K}$}$_{n}$}(\hat{\mbox{\boldmath ${K}$}}_{n}^{-1} \mbox{{\boldmath ${K}$}$_{n}$}-\mbox{{\boldmath ${I}$}$_{n}$})\mbox{\boldmath ${\alpha}$}-n\right\}, \label{KBdist} \\ &E_{Q}(-\log p_{\phi_0,r}(\mbox{{\boldmath ${y}$}$$}|\tilde{f},\mbox{\boldmath ${X}$})) \notag \\ \leq& -\log p_{\phi_0,r}(\mbox{{\boldmath ${y}$}$$}|f_0,\mbox{\boldmath ${X}$}))+\frac{r_0}{2r_1\phi_0}Tr( \mbox{{\boldmath ${K}$}$_{n}$}\mbox{{\boldmath ${B}$}$^{-1}$}), \label{EQP}\end{aligned}$$ where $\hat{\mbox{\boldmath ${K}$}}_{n}=(k(\mbox{{\boldmath ${x}$}$_{j}$},\mbox{{\boldmath ${x}$}$_{l}$};\hat{\mbox{\boldmath ${\theta}$}}))_{n\times n}$. From (\[FLD\]), (\[KBdist\]) and (\[EQP\]), it gives that $$\begin{aligned} \label{GPcons-1} &-\log p_{\phi_0,\theta, r}(\mbox{{\boldmath ${y}$}$$}|\mbox{{\boldmath ${X}$}$$})+\log p_{\phi_0,r}(\mbox{{\boldmath ${y}$}$$}|f_0,\mbox{\boldmath ${X}$})) \notag \\ \leq& \frac{1}{2}\left\{-\log|\hat{\mbox{\boldmath ${K}$}}_{n}^{-1} \mbox{{\boldmath ${K}$}$_{n}$}|+\log|\mbox{\boldmath ${B}$}|+Tr((\hat{\mbox{\boldmath ${K}$}}_{n}^{-1} \mbox{{\boldmath ${K}$}$_{n}$}+r_0 \mbox{{\boldmath ${K}$}$_{n}$}/(r_1\phi_0))\mbox{{\boldmath ${B}$}$^{-1}$}) +r_0||f_{0}||^2_k\right. \notag \\ &\left.+r_0\mbox{\boldmath ${\alpha }$} \mbox{{\boldmath ${K}$}$_{n}$}(\hat{\mbox{\boldmath ${K}$}}_{n}^{-1} \mbox{{\boldmath ${K}$}$_{n}$}-\mbox{{\boldmath ${I}$}$_{n}$})\mbox{\boldmath ${\alpha}$}-n\right\}.\end{aligned}$$ Due to the bounded, continuous covariance function and almost sure convergence of $\hat{\mbox{\boldmath ${\theta}$}}$, we have $\hat{\mbox{\boldmath ${K}$}}_{n}^{-1} \mbox{{\boldmath ${K}$}$_{n}$} -\mbox{{\boldmath ${I}$}$_{n}$}\rightarrow 0$ as $n\rightarrow \infty$. Hence, there exist positive constants $c$ and $\varepsilon$ such that for a large enough $n$ $$\begin{aligned}

There are drinks in the sitting room, then dinner in her basement dining room where the table is set with a starched white cloth and starched white napkins and gleaming china and glasses and silver, at the center a small bunch of pretty flowers. She wants everything to be pretty. The meals she prepares are mostly French, as are the wines she has opened and put on the buffet to breathe. A Francophile, she says the French enjoyed life more than the English, and, at the end of a meal, instead of asking everyone to go upstairs to the sitting room for coffee, she keeps her friends around the table for the coffee and more wine and talk, as she says is done in France. She is always exhausted, as her dinner parties require of her a great effort, a duty even, and after having made the effort, performed the duty, as if to confirm that the things of this life matter because there is no other life, she hardly eats what she has prepared, but sits a little removed from the table and drinks and smokes as her friends eat, and as the evening deepens she takes a more and more commanding view of her friends, all of whom she devotes herself to. And it usually happens, when everyone is sitting about the table long past coffee but with smudged glasses of wine, that there occurs in Sonia's devotion, which is like a great cloud that envelopes everyone, a sudden shock of thunder and lightning. She attacks a friend for something he – always, as far as I knew, he – said. At a dinner party, she suddenly attacked a friend, in the context of a conversation about the Nazi concentration camps, for the friend expressing horror at them. There was, she would insist, no expression of the horror of the camps that was equal to what they had been. She recounted having been to, I think, Belsen with her friend Marguerite Duras and her rage when Duras expressed horror, Sonia answering Duras' horror with, 'What did you imagine it would have been like? What?' To Sonia, the extermination camps were so indicative of the fact of human baseness, she took them as a given: of course people would exterminate other people, for whatever reason, of course. She even became angry at her Jewish friends for any bewilderment they might have had about why the camps: they, above all, should know why, which is the baseness of humanity. When Sonia read the unpublished memoir of a former inmate of a detention, not an extermination, camp which he was trying to get published, she said, 'He was in a very minor concentration camp.' Friends took this as a parody of Sonia's snobbism – and she is, she herself admits, an intellectual snob, perhaps instilled in her by the Sacred Heart nuns, also intellectual snobs: if you read about the French philosopher Jacques Lacan in the review section of newspapers, you soon met him at Sonia's house – but her denouncing the former inmate of what Sonia called a minor camp for presuming to use his experiences there to promote the publication of his memoirs, which Sonia found badly written, showed the depth of her basic conviction that everyone really is vain, that vanity really is everything. Beyond stating the starkest facts, you cannot not express any feelings about horror that are not expressions of basic vanity, and the more emotional the expressed feelings the more filled with vanity. I admire her, I admire her even when, drunk, her denunciation becomes relentless. 'How could you say that? How could you? How?' You draw back into silence, and the other guests try to change the subject, but Sonia keeps after you: 'How could you have said that?' I never mind Sonia denouncing me at one of her dinner parties, not only because I know she will telephone the next morning to apologize and to invite me again, but because I believe that she has the right to, believe that in her rejecting a faith that tried to destroy her in the name of trying to save her she has earned the right to denounce hypocrisies, has learned that all expressions of feeling are in an essential way hypocritical. It reassures me for my hypocritical, because false, expressions of emotion to be denounced by Sonia. Nikos is aware of these false expressions of feeling from me, but is gentler than Sonia in making me aware of them. Francis Bacon gave Sonia a painting of a head, done in savage brushstrokes, which hangs in a gold frame to the side of Sonia's sitting-room fireplace. He is often at her dinner parties. When I, drunk, asked him, as I often asked him, if he had ever had any religious feelings, he, also drunk, said, as he always said to my question, 'Never, never, never, never, never, never, never.' But Bacon was a cynic, and Sonia not. Sonia came over to Francis and me and asked what we were talking about. Francis said to her, 'David asked me if I've ever had any religious feelings.' Sonia frowned one of her severe frowns at me and said, 'You couldn't have.' I said, trying to justify myself, which was always a mistake with Sonia, 'I just wanted to know if Francis ever in the past believed in God.' 'Don't be stupid. Of course he didn't,' Sonia, angry at me for my presumption, answered. I had already set myself up to be denounced by Sonia that evening, so when I said, drinking more wine at the table and more drunk than before, that I wondered if, even for an irreligious writer, it was possible to write a really deep book that wasn't religious, she denounced me for not being a deep writer – she repeated, 'You can't be a deep writer if you say that. No one who says what you've said can be a deep writer' – because, she said, religion in a novel, in any work of art, made the work obvious, made the work banal and pretentious. 'I know you're right,' I said, 'I know,' and I had that curious, slightly thrilling sense of having said what I'd said just to get Sonia to react as she did. Maybe I risked bringing up religion with Sonia so she would reproach me for bringing it up. I was drawn to Sonia partly because she reassured me in my being lapsed, and I sometimes made provocative statements about religion that I knew she'd condemn me for, because her reaction, which I could count on, reassured me all the more about my being lapsed, and, more, the very attention she gave me by condemning me reassured me. I almost felt rejected by her when she desisted. She said, 'Hrumph,' and, as if to make up for turning her attention away from me, asked me to open more bottles of wine, which were on the buffet. I did, with pleasure. Wine was essential. Food was essential. Dinner parties were essential. And in fact this evening, maybe because of Francis whom she was intimidated by, she didn't attack anyone else after she had attacked me, and certainly not Francis, and the party was altogether as pretty as the flowers at the center of the table. She invited me to tea, maybe to reassure me after having attacked me at her dinner party. I found that when I was alone with her she would get onto a subject – almost always a friend – and talk and talk about that friend as if the talk itself would sort that person, who badly needed to be sorted, out. Most often when I tried to add to the sorting out, she would say, 'You don't understand.' This afternoon, a grim winter afternoon with her sitting room warm with a fire and bright with all the lamps lit, the person was the writer Rosamond Lehmann, whom I told Sonia I had met. I described Rosamond Lehmann, tall and big-boned with a very white face and long, white hair, as looking like a moon goddess, which I'd thought original of me, but which made Sonia frown severely at me as if for trying to be colourfully original. I should have known by that frown not to continue to talk about Rosamond Lehmann, whom Sonia evidently disapproved of, but whom she nevertheless felt compelled to sort out. I said I wondered if what explained Rosamond Lehmann, whom I didn't know at all well, was her belief in the ghost of her dead daughter appearing to her, which she'd written about in her book The Swan in the Evening. Sonia frowned even more severely. 'You read that book?' 'Yes, I did,' I answered. 'How could you have? You don't believe in ghosts, a stupid, childish, self-indulgent belief, so why should you indulge someone else's belief in ghosts? I don't understand.' 'I wanted to find about what she had to say.' 'About a ghost appearing to her?' 'Yes.' 'That interests you?' 'Well, yes, it interests me, in a way.' 'How could it? How could you be interested in anything so stupid, childish, self-indulgent?' 'I guess it is stupid, childish, self-indulgent.' Sonia lit a cigarette and shook her hair back and stared at me with narrowed, blood-shot, angry eyes and said in a low, hard voice, 'It is.' While she talked, the smoke of her many cigarettes making the air dull, I

. Plus the intelligence. Enemy strengths and whereabouts are sketchy. We are pretty much going to have to do an advance to contact to find them. It is the uncertainty that is worse than anything. Not knowing what will happen. But soon we will know._ ### _4_ That night the Royal Anglian Battle Group rolled out of Bastion in two columns each of more than fifty vehicles. They drove east down the A1 highway, which had been built during the time of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, and occupied a battle group harbour area in the flat desert north-west of Gereshk. The sheer size of the convoy removed any possibility of surprise. But Carver tried to disguise their intentions by having the Afghan National Army troops conduct a large-scale patrol operation in Gereshk. He hoped this would create the impression that the Royal Anglians had arrived in the area to join a major security sweep in the town. Any long-distance operational move in hostile country involving large numbers of combat vehicles is subject to 1,001 frictions including vehicle break-downs, navigation errors, lost communications, traffic accidents and enemy attack. The Recce Platoon was responsible for oiling the wheels of the move, policing the route, guiding vehicle packets, providing protection and keeping commanders informed of progress. The Royal Anglians' Recce Platoon was equipped with Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Tracked), or CVRT. They had eight of these vehicles, also known as Scimitars. Lightly armoured, and resembling small tanks, the Scimitar had a crew of three – commander, gunner and driver – and was equipped with a 30mm Rarden cannon, a 7.62mm machine-gun and two four-barrel smoke dischargers. The machine-gun was coaxially mounted, which means its aim was slaved to that of the Rarden cannon. First brought into service in 1973, the Scimitar was an elderly vehicle, but had undergone a 'Life Extension Programme', including installation of a Cummins BTA 5.9 diesel power-pack to replace a much less reliable six-cylinder petrol engine. Although not without its problems, the Scimitar was already proving a success in Afghanistan, with its speed, all-terrain mobility and formidable firepower. The Recce Platoon got to the harbour first. Their role was to make sure the area was clear of enemy, secure it against interference and guide the various elements of the battle group into position. In the harbour area the battle group deployed in all-round defence, forming up into the groupings it would operate in at the start of Silicon. Final vehicle, weapons and equipment checks were carried out and last-minute briefings and orders given. Other than that, the men had only to maintain security and rest as best they could before going into battle. The Gun Group, two troops each of three 105mm light guns from 28/143 Battery (Tombs's Troop) Royal Artillery, set up in the harbour area and would remain there, providing indirect fire support for the battle group throughout Silicon. Each gun could fire 15.1-kilogram high-explosive shells at the rate of six rounds a minute out to 17 kilometres and could also support the Royal Anglians by laying down smoke screens and illuminating the night sky. The battle group was fully established in the harbour area shortly after last light. As a dust storm began to gather, Carver called his commanders and HQ staff together for a final confirmatory O Group, at the back of his Viking tracked command vehicle. He briefed them on an unexpected problem that would require a major change of plan for B Company, with just a few hours to go before the operation began. The company had planned to enter the Green Zone across a wide canal. A suitable crossing point for both troops on foot and Viking vehicles had been identified. But a short time earlier, Colour Sergeant Al Thurston, the Recce Platoon 2IC, had been to check the crossing point. He discovered a large earth berm blocking the route for vehicles – which had not been there a few days before. B Company would have no problem crossing on foot, but they needed the Vikings with them in the Green Zone to provide flank protection, ammunition and water resupply and casualty evacuation. The only solution was for the Vikings to drop off the company, drive west to Gereshk, cross the canal by the road bridge there, and then drive eastwards into the Green Zone to link up with the troops. It was risky. The Vikings would be driving several kilometres through the Green Zone without infantry support. That made them vulnerable to attack by Taliban with RPG anti-armour missiles in the close country. But there was no other choice. The new plan was agreed, and watches were synchronized. The company commanders confirmed that all their men, vehicles and equipment had arrived without problems and would be ready to move in time for H-Hour. ### _5_ On the far side of the harbour, Second Lieutenant Ben Howes, 5 Platoon commander in B Company, was checking his men. As with every officer and soldier on the eve of his first battle, Howes was wondering how he would perform in contact with the enemy – he had been in the battalion for only three months, straight out of training. He knew that it was one thing to show your leadership ability during controlled exercises at Sandhurst or on the Platoon Commanders' Battle Course at Brecon. It was a different matter altogether to do so with real bullets flying and perhaps with your own men getting killed around you. As platoon commander he did not just have to worry about how he would personally perform, he also had total responsibility for the lives of the thirty men under his command. He thought how lucky he was that he had Sergeant Keith Nieves as his platoon sergeant. Nieves had guided him since he arrived in January, and he could not have wished for a better mentor. This was the eternal role of the platoon sergeant – to turn a young platoon commander from an apprentice with little more than paper leadership qualifications and no solid military experience into a commander who could earn the respect of his men, lead them to success in battle and preferably keep them alive. Nieves was doing this in the way that only the best platoon sergeants were capable of – by always supporting the platoon commander in front of the men and never doing anything to undermine his position. And by being open, frank and forthright with him in private – but only in private. Howes also counted himself lucky to have a particularly strong group of NCOs in the platoon – his corporals and lance corporals, the section commanders and 2ICs. In his eyes there was not a weak link among them. He walked round between the four Vikings his platoon had travelled in from Bastion. Nieves had detailed off one sentry to man each of the vehicle guns, with a second sentry forward, on the ground, manning a dismounted GPMG with Viper thermal imaging night sight. Those men who were not on sentry, or 'stag', were resting beside the Vikings. As Howes walked past one of the vehicles, Private Joseph Rix stood up. The twenty-year-old sharpshooter had been sitting on his daysack, checking his ammo. 'Sir, what time are we off?' 'H-Hour is at about 0530, so we'll be heading out of here a couple of hours before that, I should think. I'm going to an O Group with the company commander shortly, and he'll confirm the time then.' 'Why can't we just go now, sir? I can't wait till the morning.' 'Of course we can't go now, Rixy, what are you talking about?' Howes laughed. 'Yes, but I can't wait to go. This is brilliant, all of this. It's what I joined the Army for. I can't wait to have a go at the Taliban. I just want to know what a contact is really like. I've seen all the films and heard all that boring stuff from the blokes that were in Northern Ireland. But I want to do it myself, for real.' Corporals Simon Thorne and Tom Mason had been chatting beside the vehicle and strolled over. Thorne said, 'Rixy, I'll tell you all about Northern Ireland sometime, and about Kabul too if you want. I've got so many war stories I could keep you awake till H-Hour.' 'I know, Si, I've heard them all before, every bleeding day.' Thorne said to Howes, 'Rixy's right though, boss: every one of my lads is up for this. One or two are a bit nervous, but they all want it. I must admit I can't wait to get down there and get in among them. Tom and me were just talking about it. I just hope it happens the way we're expecting. But knowing our luck, the enemy won't even turn up. Most of Iraq was like that, nothing happening, and Kabul. It would be just our luck.' Mason nodded in agreement. 'How about Northern Ireland, then, Si? That must've been rough,' laughed Rix. 'I'll give you Northern Ireland, Rixy. Best you get your head down before I find a four-hour gap in the stag roster for you to fill.' Howes moved on to the next Viking. He stopped to talk to a young soldier who had just arrived in the battalion and was lying awake in his sleeping bag. 'How's it going?

. Alwar. 27. Bikaner. 28. Bharatpur. 29. Dhopur. 30. Kotah.31. Jaipur.Rajputana32. Jodhpur. 33. Tonk.34. Patiala.35. Jind.36. Nabha.37. Kapurthala. 38. Sirmoor. 39. Malerkotla. 40. Faridkot.41. Cuteh.42. Junagadh.43. Nawanagar. 44. Bhavanagar 45. Porbandar.46. Dharangadhra. 47. Palanpur.48. Radhapur.49. Morvi.50. Gondal.51. Jafrabad.52. Dhrol.53. Limbdi.54. Wadhwan.55. Lakhtar.PunjabStates of Western India56. Vala.57. Jasdan.58. Manavadar.59. Thana Deodi.60. Vadha.61. Lathi.62. Muli.63. Virpur.64. Malia.65. Kotala-Sangani.66. D. S. Vala Mulu Suraj of Jetpur.67. D. S. Vala Rewat Ram of Bilkha.68. Patdi.69. Tharad.70. Wad.71. M.S. Jorawarkhanji’s State Varahi.72. Thana areas and the Civil Stations of Wadhwan and Rajkot in the Western-India States Agency.73. Travancore 75. Cochin.74. Pudukattah.76. Savantuadi. 77. Jath.78. Sauanur. 79. Cambay.MadrasBombay80. Janjira.81. Koliapur.82. Mudh’ol.83. Sangli.84. Miraj (Senior)85. Miraj (Junior)86. Jamkhandi.87. Kurundwad (Senior) 88. Kurundwad (Junior) 89. Ramdruz.90. Idar.91. Vijayanagar.92. Danta.93. Mansa.94. Malpur.95. Surgana.96. Bhar. 97. Raipipla.98. Chhota Udepur. 99. Lunawada. 100. Saut.101. Kadaua.102. Bhadarwa. 103. Senjeli.104. Jambugheda. 105. Aunsh.106. Phaltan.107. Akalkot.108. Khairpur.109. Bansda.110. Dharampur.111. Jawhar.112. Administered areas comprised in the thana Circles and Sadar Bazzar. 113. Sankeda Mewas.114. Pandu Mewas.115. Cooch Behar. 116. Tripura.117. Benares. 118. Tehri.119. Athgarh.120. Athmallik. 121. Bamra.122. Baramba. 123. Bastar.124. Baudh.125. Bonai.126. Changbhakar. 127. Chhulkhadan. 128. Daspalla.BengalUnited ProvincesEastern States Agency129. Dhenkanal. 130. Gangpur. 131. Hindol. 132. Jashpur. 133. Kalahandi. 134. Kanker. 135. Kawardha. 136. Keonjhar. 137. Khairagarh. 138. Khandpara. 139. Kharsawan. 140. Korea.141. Mayurbhanj. 142. Nandgaon. 143. Narsinghpur. 144. Nayagarh. 145. Nilgari.146. Pal-Lahara. 147. Patna.148. Raigarh. 149. Rairakhol. 150. Ranpur. 151. Sakti.152. Sarangarh. 153. Seraikela.154. Sonepur. 155. Surguja. 156. Talcher. 157. Tigiria. 158. Udaipur.Assam159. Manipur.Part B—States, Included in the Schedule for the Period Terminating on the Date Specified against eachState Date of terminationBaria .............. .............. 1st June, 1940.Ali Raipur .............. .............. 1st October, 1940.Second ScheduleList of Sections of the Indian Penal CodeSections 300, 302, 303, 304, 307, 308, 311, 382, 392, 393, 394, 395, 396, 397, 398, 399, 400, 401 and 402.(b) Rules for the Search and Seizure of Property.Government of India Foreign and Political Department, Notification No. 36-I., dated the 20th July, 1925.In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 22 of the India Extradition Act, 1903 (XV of 1903), the Governor-General in Court is pleased to make the following rule, namely:(1) In any proceedings against any person under the provisions of the Indian Extradition Act, 1903, or of any treaty for the extradition of offenders, the Magistrate acting in such proceedings and any Police Officer authorised to arrest such person under the provisions of the said Act or of such treaty, may exercise in any place in British India in respect of any property in the possession of such person or any of the other person which appears to such Magistrate or police officer to have been the subject of or to be required for proof of the offence in respect of which the proceedings are being taken the powers respectively of a Court and of an officer in charge of a police station under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, as if such property were the production of which is necessary for the purposes of any investigation or trial under the said Code, so Code by or before such Court or officer; and the provisions of the said far as they can be made applicable, shall apply to any summons or warrant issued in pursuance of this rule andto any search made under the authority of any warrant so issued and to the disposal of any property seized in any such search.(2) Such Magistrate may send such property to the State to which such person is surrendered and shall have, in respect of any such property produced before him in such proceedings or returned by the aforesaid State, all the powers of disposal vested in a Court under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, in respect of any property produced before it during an enquiry or trial.VI—Extradition offences within the Meaning of Indian Extradition ActGovernment of India, Foreign and Political Department, Notification No. 1718-I. dated the 16th December, 1931.(a) Offences under Criminal Tribes Act—In exercise of the powers conferred by the First Schedule to the Indian Extradition Act, 1903 (XV of 1903) and in supersession of the Notification of the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Department No. 4806-I.B., dated the 17th November, 1919, the Governor-General in Council is pleased to declare offences under the Criminal Tribes Act, 1924 (VI of 1924), to be Extradition offences within the meaning of the Indian Extradition Act, 1903 (XV of 1903).Government of India, Foreign and Political Department, Notification No.-249-I., dated the 10th May, 1933.(as amended up-to-date)2(b) Desertion from Indian States Forces—No. 249-1.—In pursuance of the First Schedule to the Indian Extradition Act, 1903 (XV of 1903) and in supersession of the notification of the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Department No. 405-I., dated the 20th June, 1928, the Governor-General in Council is pleased to declare the following units of the Indian States Forces to the units desertion from which is an extradition offence:Alirajpur Partap Infantry.Alwar Mangal Lancers.Alwar Jey Paltan.Alwar Palton (Training Battalion).Alirajpur AlwarBahawalpurHis Highness the Nawab’s Bahawalpur Own Body Guard Lancers. 1st Bahawalpur Sadiq Infantry.2nd Bahawalpur Haroon Infantry.Baria Subhag Risala. Baria Ranjit Infantry.Second Baroda Infantry.BariaBarodaBenaresFirst Benares (Prabhu Narain’s Own) Infantry. Second Benares Cavalry Troop.Bharatpur Jaswant Household Infantry. Bharatpur Jaswant Garrison Company. Bharatpur Body Guard.Bhavnagar Lancers. Bhavnagar Infantry.Bhopal Sultania Infantry Battalion.BharatpurBhavnagarBhopalBhopal Gohar-i-Taj. Own Training Company.Bikaner Ganga Risala.Bikaner Sadul Light Infantry.Bikaner Dungar Lancers.Bikaner Bijey Battery.Bikaner Motor Machine Gun Sections.BikanerChamba Infantry. Chamba Body Guard.Cutch State Infantry. Cutch State Body Guard.Datia Gobind Infantry.Datia Gobind Infantry. “B” Company.ChambaCutchDatiaDharDhar Light Horse (Maharaj Kumari Kamla Raja’s Own). Dhar Infantry (Maharaja Anand Rao’s Own Laxmi Guards).Dhrang

brings you the best of both worlds – super intuitive Sailfish OS apps and the latest Android™ apps. The recent article on OS/2 [1] makes me wonder whether such compatibility (which, as I understand, is full and not selective) is actually good for them. Either way, tough, I wish Jolla success; I'd like to see Sailfish OS [2] on an actual device. [1] See [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6792010](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6792010). The short of it is that the Ars Technica article claims OS/2's compatibility with Windows made developers less inclined to write native applications for OS/2\. Some discussion on whether that was the case can be found in the comments to this response to the article: [http://www.os2museum.com/wp/?p=2144](http://www.os2museum.com/wp/?p=2144). [2] [https://sailfishos.org/](https://sailfishos.org/) ~~~ jimbokun As long as their business is based on selling hardware, it might not be a problem. Then they are not competing with Google in mobile OS development, but with Samsung etc. Sailfish OS could then allow them to differentiate from other handset makers, without advertising it as such. In other words, market the capabilities, not the Sailfish "brand". ~~~ x3c Would Sailfish also run apps that use google play services? ~~~ shawn-butler No, not as far I know. Jolla CEO Tomi Pienimäki went on record last month stating that devices will ship with its own app store partner, Yandex [http://store.yandex.com](http://store.yandex.com) I believe, not Google Play. So apps consuming Play Services might work if a user was able to install the play services .apk, but I guess this would not be in a supported fashion. Seems all very murky. Jolla claims full Android compatibility but I don't believe it has Android(™) compatibility. Would be a good developer FAQ. ------ znowi One of their implicit pitch is that Jolla is "surveillance free". And it can run Android apps. I think these two features are good enough to spark an interest. The spec looks also impressive. But freedom doesn't come cheap at almost $550. Nonetheless, a very exciting development. I'm also waiting for Firefox OS to mature and produce more devices. I can't wait to drop Android. Each release takes more freedom away from the user and gets increasingly integrated with whatever social, cloud, data milking services they have at their disposal. Funny how _freedom_ becomes a competitive advantage for startups against the big and evil Internet giants. ~~~ sbierwagen One of their implicit pitch is that Jolla is "surveillance free". Bullshit. Unless the phone can lie to the phone company about which cell tower its connected to, or some magic like that, it's not going to be anything like "surveillance free." ~~~ king-coconut I think he ment that if you want to use the phone, you are not forced to use a ecosystem monitored by USA. ------ shmerl FYI: those who wonder about the technology, check out these sites: * [https://sailfishos.org](https://sailfishos.org) * [http://merproject.org](http://merproject.org) * [https://wiki.merproject.org](https://wiki.merproject.org) * [http://mer-project.blogspot.com/2013/04/wayland-utilizing-an...](http://mer-project.blogspot.com/2013/04/wayland-utilizing-android-gpu-drivers.html) * [http://mer-project.blogspot.com/2013/05/wayland-utilizing-an...](http://mer-project.blogspot.com/2013/05/wayland-utilizing-android-gpu-drivers.html) Jolla.com is more consumer oriented, so that can puzzle some who look for technical details. It's probably good to provide some links to the above from the Jolla.com. You can give them feedback, they are even present on Diaspora*: [https://joindiaspora.com/u/jolla](https://joindiaspora.com/u/jolla) ------ atwebb Perhaps I'm not in the know (I'm not) but it took me way too long to figure out it was a phone and not some UI overlay/Android enhancement suite. ~~~ sudomal It's like a lot of things that appear on HN... strange and unfamiliar words without context. Yep, a smartphone. ~~~ missing_cipher It's the title's fault, OP made no effort to explain what he was linking. Pretty annoying actually. ~~~ nicholassmith That'd be editorialising the title which is expressly discouraged by the site moderators. ------ buster It would be awesome if Jolla would become a successful company after Nokia sold out to MS (because it seems like Jolla is a continuation of what would have been Nokias route without MS). Also i only heard good things about the N900, i love linux, i hope the handset/os is "free"... and 399€ doesn't seem to be too expensive. Also it looks well designed. Good luck, Jolla Team! ~~~ purringmeow I think 400 euro is a lot for a device with these specs though. They are letting a huge number of devices "fly under them"(be cheaper) and the average consumer doesn't give a damn if the phone runs Sailfish OS or Android. Nevertheless, I too wish them luck :) ------ Fauntleroy It really bothers me that they didn't do something about the flickering infrared light in the video. I know it's not going to show up in real life, but that's going to confuse some people who aren't aware of the fact cameras can see some things we don't. ------ easytiger Hint: most global mega corps block youtube. Host videos locally for product demos if you can pay for the bandwidth. You will reach a bigger audience. ~~~ kfinley Is Vimeo a good alternative, or is it also blocked? ~~~ hsuresh Vimeo is terribly slow, at least from here in India. ------ 616c What is interesting is that anyone that comes here, likes it (I do from what I see) and goes to check on the Mer Project where this work stems from will see their git repos have been largely untouched for two years. [0] I find that strange because I had to search a few pages into their wiki to even find that URL. I wish people who liked Meego would support the latest update to the truly free OpenMoko project. [1] You can build your own upgrade or buy the whole thing in an old GA02 case (the second revision OpenMoko phone). I am waiting out for pocket change to buy one of those. Buy a real open handset and fight the power guys! [0] [http://gitweb.merproject.org/gitweb](http://gitweb.merproject.org/gitweb) [1] [http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-main/](http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-main/) ------ CookWithMe > To get back to Home from any app, swipe from either side of the screen. I don't think it's a great idea to reserve the "swipe from side of screen" gesture for the OS. Especially the left-swipe is used in many apps to reveal a menu, which is a UI-pattern I like a lot. Anyway, looks interesting, would love to try one out! ~~~ k-mcgrady >> "I don't think it's a great idea to reserve the "swipe from side of screen" gesture for the OS." In iOS 7 a gesture from the left side towards the right navigates back in an app. ------ davexunit Can anyone comment on how free this device will be? From what I recall, Sailfish is partially free software, but contains proprietary software as well which is a real shame. ~~~ pekk What is your alternative? ~~~ daliusd Firefox OS, Ubuntu Touch ~~~ fulafel The Firefox OS phone (Zte Open) has proprietary stuff. ~~~ rhelmer Are there any phones that do not require proprietary drivers? I am not aware of any. ~~~

plugin-name .`A woman taken hostage by her ex-boyfriend and shot by police when they tried to rescue her accepted a monetary settlement with the city. “This is a three-party agreement along with the city of San Bernardino and Ms. Bauer,” Redlands city spokesman Carl Baker said in an email Monday. “The city of Redlands will pay $200,000 as its part of the settlement.” Kristin Bauer signed the agreement Feb. 19. As part of the deal, she agrees not to sue the cities of Redlands and San Bernardino in this matter. Bauer, 29, of Corona was shot in the right shoulder by police on March 24, 2016, during a three-hour standoff on High Avenue, east of Sixth Street, in which her ex-boyfriend, Andrew Mike, was killed. Police originally claimed Bauer had been shot by Mike, prompting them to take action and open fire, but officials later recanted that claim and took responsibility for wounding Bauer in the incident. Redlands police Chief Mark Garcia said at a press conference in the days following the incident that Mike had threatened Bauer’s life multiple times and police unsuccessfully tried to negotiate with Mike. Thinking Bauer was in danger, officers fired their weapons, striking Mike and killing him, Garcia said. Eleven officers fired a total of 25 rounds, Garcia said. Of the officers who fired their weapons, nine were Redlands police officers and two were San Bernardino police officers. “At the same time Kristin was wounded,” Garcia said. The bullet was from a responding officer, not Mike’s gun, which had jammed, Garcia said. Mike abducted Bauer from a nearby Office Depot, where she worked as a manager, and fled to High Avenue, just east of the office supply store. Attorney Dale Galipo filed claims with the cities of Redlands and San Bernardino in July on behalf of Bauer. The claims were seeking more than $1 million in damages. Precursors to a lawsuit, the claims allege police were negligent and failed to get Bauer immediate medical attention after the shooting, contributing to her injuries. The parties settled for a payment of $300,000. Bauer was unavailable for comment at the time of this report. RELATED Dad heard hostage-taker say, ‘he wasn’t afraid to die’ Woman shot in hostage-standoff released from hospital Hostage still in critical condition; community gives blood in her nameComparison of technetium-99m MAG3 with iodine-131 hippuran by a simultaneous dual channel technique. Technetium-99m MAG3, a technetium-labeled analog of hippuran, was compared with [131I] hippuran using a simultaneous dual isotope study in 20 patients. The plasma clearance for MAG3 was lower than that of hippuran, but its plasma concentration was higher, resulting in similar rates of excretion and similar renal time-activity curves. Apart from better statistics with the technetium-labeled agent, there were no clinically significant differences in this group of patients.Hemodynamic determinants of pulmonary valve motion during systole in experimental pulmonary hypertension. To clarify the determinants of pulmonary valve (PV) motion in pulmonary hypertension, we examined the correlations among PV echo patterns, the pulmonary artery (PA) flow curve just above the PA orifice and the pulmonary artery-right ventricle (PA-RV) pressure gradient. By constricting the PA, we could produce a variety of PV echo patterns, including midsystolic semiclosure in open-chest dogs. Throughout the experiments, the PV echo pattern and PA flow curve were similar in pattern and timing. When the PV echo showed midsystolic semiclosure with reopening. The PA flow curve showed a transient decrease followed by a transient increase during midsystole. The PA-RV pressure gradient became transiently positive (PA pressure greater than RV pressure) and then negative in midsystole only when the PV echo showed midsystolic semiclosure with reopening. In conclusion, PV motion during systole may be instantaneously determined by PA flow change and the PA-RV pressure gradient during the cardiac cycle in experimental pulmonary hypertension.View full sizeRoss D. Franklin, The Associated PressThe city of Phoenix and a developer who was poised to raze the 1952 Wright-designed home in the city's Arcadia neighborhood have reached an agreement that postpones the threat of demolition for almost a month. Demolition delayed: The unique spiral house that Frank Lloyd Wright designed in Phoenix for his son David has won a temporary reprieve from demolition, as the search goes on for a buyer, according to The Associated Press. Meanwhile, another Wright-designed house, this one built in Sammamish, Wash., in his Usonian style, is up for sale (asking price: $1.39 million), which gives a nice chance to view photos of it online. The doghouse's house: The tale of the doghouse designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (previously covered in this column) brought attention to the San Anselmo, Calif., house that it was designed to complement. The house, too, comes with a quirky story, about a teacher, Bob Berger, who, aware of Wright's talent but not his fame, asked the architect to design a house that Berger could build himself. Now that home is on the market -- for $2.5 million, and that's a good thing because it gives us a chance to take a virtual look at it -- there are 26 photos on the listing website -- and also to learn much more about the home and its story via a PDF. The house reportedly took five years for Berger to build, and as you would guess from the timeline, there were sacrifices involved. Yet the payoff made it all worthwhile. Berger reflected once about his house: "It's just a constant -- the constant idea of beauty in the house. ... It's such a thrill to be feeling a work of art; actually living in it. It's like a living thing. I'm overjoyed with it." Lessons from Gehry: Freshome offers "10 inspirational lessons from the most important architect of our age," Frank Gehry. (That particular accolade for the Pritzker Prize winner came from Vanity Fair.) The lessons are accompanied by photos and discussion of his work, so they're quite interesting. My favorite Gehry quote: Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert. Calling fowl: Across the pond, Britons are clucking about a hedge fund manager's design for a £130,000 chicken coop in the style of the Parthenon. (Sample headlines: "Cluckingham Palace" and "The fowl extravagance of Crispin Odey's chicken house.) David Shariatmadari of the Guardian writes, "We appear to exist in an age where some chickens get treated like kings while hundreds of thousands of humans live like battery hens." House raffle: In Detroit, a woman who wants to move to Germany is raffling off her house -- for $100 a ticket -- instead of trying to sell it in the usual way. Open spaces: This beautiful, simple 925-square-foot house is so open to the landscape of cornfields around it that it feels large. Dwell says of it: "For this rural Ontario home, building sustainably was less about high-tech gizmos than learning to truly love the land." The photos -- such as the view from the front door through the house to the land outside; the long deck extending out into the corn; the spare but carefully chosen furnishings -- are worth study. The story also contains some interesting design lessons, such as this: When building such a modest structure in a large landscape, designer and client often had to defend their vision to their collaborators. "We knew this house was going to be for Maggie (Treanor) and she would live there alone," (Designer Lisa) Moffitt says. "But people are always projecting for future resale. Putting in the smallest size of anything--to any subcontractor, it's just not reasonable." This is why (Maggie's son) Nick Treanor --a philosophy professor--selected all the mechanical and electrical systems. "When you do things yourself, you learn that there are a lot of myths floating in the building industry," Moffitt says. "If you go to the source and talk to manufacturers, you learn that many things that supposedly won't work are entirely feasible." Natural home:The Home in the Log Cabin by Ryntovt Design in Ukraine takes the natural look to an extreme, and uses green not just as the theme but as the sole accent color in a field of white -- a surprisingly effective touch. The kitchen backsplash is a mural of grass; stools are made of stumps. Energy-plus: Take that, net zero! The Villa Akarp in Sweden doesn't just produce as much energy as it uses, it produces more -- a yearly surplus of 600 kilowatt hours out of its total capacity of 4,200 kilowatt hours.Death Panels await those who don’t throw out their food on time! The “suffragents” are losing the war against women! Rejoice — for the Apocalypse is nigh! Welcome to “This Week In Crazy,” The National Memo’s weekly update on the wildest attacks,

brioche bread. Tomorrow morning – fresh bread and jam. Living it up!Electrochemical impedimetric DNA sensing based on multi-walled carbon nanotubes-SnO2-chitosan nanocomposite. A sensitive electrochemical impedimetric DNA biosensor based on the integration of tin oxide (SnO2) nanoparticles, chitosan (CHIT) and multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) is presented in this paper. The MWNTs-SnO2-CHIT composite modified gold electrode was characterized by cyclic voltammetry (CV) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). Compared with individual MWNTs-CHIT, SnO2-CHIT and bare gold electrode, this composite showed the most obvious electrochemical signal of the redox probe [Fe(CN)6](3-/4-). According to the change of the electron transfer resistance (R(et)) induced by the hybridization, target DNA was successfully detected via EIS. This DNA electrochemical biosensor was applied to detect phosphinothricin acetyltransferase (PAT) gene in transgenic corn. The synergistic effect of the MWNTs-SnO2-CHIT remarkably enhanced DNA immobilization and hybridization detection. The dynamic detection range was from 1.0×10(-11) mol/L to 1.0×10(-6) mol/L with a detection limit of 2.5×10(-12) mol/L. This sensing platform showed inner advantage, such as simplicity, good stability, and high sensitivity.Information processing deficits as a driving force for memory impairment in MS: A cross--sectional study of memory functions and MRI in early and late stage MS. Memory impairment (MI) is a common symptom of MS. Previous studies were conflicting in respect to the possible existence of early MI and the role of hippocampal atrophy. The objective of this study was to investigate MI and structural MRI correlates in homogenous groups of early and late MS, controlling for a potential information-processing speed (IPS) deficit, and utilizing multiple memory test paradigms. 152 individually matched subjects were recruited: early MS (EMS, N = 25, disease duration 1.0 ± 0.8 years), late MS (LMS, N = 52, 16.5 ± 5.2 years), and corresponding controls. Five memory tests were utilized to account for differences in learning material (verbal, visual), encoding (incidental, intentional), and retrieval (free recall, recognition, recurring recognition). Performance was related to IPS, memory-specific (hippocampal volumes), and unspecific MRI measures (T1/T2LL, brain volume, cortical thickness). Memory was impaired across all tests in LMS, but not in EMS. LMS-patients were also significantly impaired in IPS which was correlated with several memory scores. Regression analyses revealed IPS and cortical thickness as predictors for visual MI, and IPS, sex, and left hippocampal volume as predictors for verbal MI. Additionally to direct destructions in memory specific tracts such as the hippocampus, memory decline in MS may also be related to a general factor comprising slowed information-processing and global tissue loss.Q: How do I properly compare strings? I am trying to get a program to let a user enter a word or character, store it, and then print it until the user types it again, exiting the program. My code looks like this: #include <stdio.h> int main() { char input[40]; char check[40]; int i=0; printf("Hello!\nPlease enter a word or character:\n"); gets(input); printf("I will now repeat this until you type it back to me.\n"); while (check != input) { printf("%s\n", input); gets(check); } printf("Good bye!"); return 0; } The problem is that I keep getting the printing of the input string, even when the input by the user (check) matches the original (input). Am I comparing the two incorrectly? A: You can't (usefully) compare strings using != or ==, you need to use strcmp: while (strcmp(check,input) != 0) The reason for this is because != and == will only compare the base addresses of those strings. Not the contents of the strings themselves. A: Ok a few things: gets is unsafe and should be replaced with fgets(input, sizeof(input), stdin) so that you don't get a buffer overflow. Next, to compare strings, you must use strcmp, where a return value of 0 indicates that the two strings match. Using the equality operators (ie. !=) compares the address of the two strings, as opposed to the individual chars inside them. And also note that, while in this example it won't cause a problem, fgets stores the newline character, '\n' in the buffers also; gets() does not. If you compared the user input from fgets() to a string literal such as "abc" it would never match (unless the buffer was too small so that the '\n' wouldn't fit in it). A: Use strcmp. This is in string.h library, and is very popular. strcmp return 0 if the strings are equal. See this for an better explanation of what strcmp returns. Basically, you have to do: while (strcmp(check,input) != 0) or while (!strcmp(check,input)) or while (strcmp(check,input)) You can check this, a tutorial on strcmp. Setose Station is a railway station in Engaru, Monbetsu, Hokkaidō Prefecture, Japan. Its station number is A49. Lines Hokkaido Railway Company Sekihoku Main Line Adjacent stations Category:Railway stations in Hokkaido Prefecture Category:Railway stations opened in 1927Wednesday, 31 August 2011 Wilks lambda & Discriminant analysis and its Weakness Today’s class was about discrimination analysis in SPSS. As per my understanding from class and some research on net, here are few things about discrimination analysis and Wilks lambda. Also I have mentions some of problems in Discriminant analysis. To start with, discriminant analysis is done by creating a new variable that is a combination of the original predictors. This is done in such a way that the differences between the predefined groups, with respect to the new variable, are maximised. Because there are two classes the maximum number of discriminant functions is one and each has an associated eigen value. Larger eigen values are associated with greater class separations and they can also be used to measure the relative importance of discriminant functions in multi-classanalyses. Eigen values can be converted into Wilk’s lambda, a multivariatetest statistic whose value ranges between zero and one. Values close to zero indicate that class means are different while values close to one indicate that the class means are not different. Wilk’s lambda will be one when the means are identical. Wilk’s lambda is equal to 1/(1+λ) for a two-class problem and can beconverted into a chi-square statistic so that a significance test can be applied. Wilk’s lambda can be converted into a canonical correlation coefficient fromthe square root of 1- Wilk’s lambda. The canonical correlation is the squareroot of the ratio of the between-groups sum of squares to the total sum of squares. Squared, it is the proportion of the total variability explained by differences between classes. Thus, if all of the variability in the predictors wasa consequence of the group differences the canonical correlation would beone, while if none of the variability was due to group differences thecanonical correlation would be zero. An assumption of a discriminant analysis is that there is no evidence of a difference between the covariance matrices of the classes. There are formalsignificance tests for this assumption (e.g. Box’s M) but they are not very robust.In particular they are generally thought to be too powerful, i.e. the nullhypothesis is rejected even when there are minor differences, and Box’s M isalso susceptible to deviations from multivariate normality (another assumption). Each discriminant function can be summarised by three sets of coefficients: Inconsistent -. Because of the dissimilar processes involved in Fisher's discriminant analysis and Mahalanobis's discriminant analysisapproaches to discriminant analysis, the resulting solutions are not alike. Unintuitive- Due to the complexity of discriminant analysis's mechanics, it is an unwieldy tool for all those but the mathematically-savvy. Similar tools, such as multiple regression, are just as flexible as discriminant analysis without carrying along the intricacy and specificity associated with discriminant analysis. Prediction- The prediction available through discriminant analysis is not true prediction. discriminant analysis can only tell a researcher the likely grouping of a certain data point; it cannot tell the researcher other properties of the data point or how likely it is the data point is a member of the classified group. Inspite of all the weaknesses Discrimination analysis has wide rage of applications in all the fields.Cardoen Cardoen may refer to: Carlos Cardoen, a Chilean businessman and weapon scientist Johan Cardoen, Belgian biologist and businessmanToontown.com Ad blocker

y \mapsto T_2, x \mapsto T_1)}{e'}{T}.$$ By type uniqueness, $\Tnf_1 = T_1$ and $\Tnf_2 = T_2$. Once again, we want to prove that $$\prsvE{\kappa'}{v}{T}.$$ Like in the previous case, by the first inductive hypothesis instantiated on $T_1 \times T_2$ we get that $\kappa_a$ is well typed and $u$ has type $T_1 \times T_2$ in $\kappa_a$. By the specification of $\ii{fresh}$ () we get that $\kappa_b$ is well typed and that $U(\kappa_b) = U(\kappa_a) \oplus u_1 \mapsto T_1 \oplus u_2 \mapsto T_2$, where $u_1$ and $u_2$ do not appear in $U(\kappa_a)$. By the specification of $\ii{unify}$ we know that $U(\kappa_c) = U(\kappa_b)$ and means that $\kappa_c$ is well typed. Finally, we instantiate the second inductive hypothesis on $T$, using the Substitution Lemma and Unknown Invariance to prove its premise. Follows directly from the induction hypothesis after inversion of the typing derivation for $e$. Similar to . The unknown case for unfold as well as the four cases derived by inlining $\ii{choose}$ are similar to . We have $$\begin{gathered} \narrow{e_0}{\kappa}{t_0}{q_0}{v_0}{\kappa_a},\quad \narrow{e_1}{\kappa_a}{t_1}{q_1}{v_1}{\kappa_b},\\ \narrow{\substs{e_2}{f}{v_0}{x}{v_1}}{\kappa_b}{t_2}{q_2}{v}{\kappa'},\end{gathered}$$ as well as the corresponding inductive hypotheses, where $v_0$ is of the form $(\ErecT{f}{x}{e_2}{T_1}{T_2})$. The preservation typing assumption states that $\kappa$ is well typed and that $\typeCE{\kappa}{(e_0 ~ e_1)}{T_2'}$. Inverting this typing relation gives us that $$\typeCE{\kappa}{e_0}{T_1' \rightarrow T_2'} \tand \typeCE{\kappa}{e_1}{T_1'}.$$ By the first inductive hypothesis, Instantiating this hypothesis on $T_1' \rightarrow T_2'$ and inverting the resulting typing relation gives us that $T_1' = T_1$ and $T_2' = T_2$. The remainder of the proof is similar to the second part of . We have $$\narrow{e}{\kappa}{t}{q}{v}{\kappa_a} \tand \CsampleV{v}{\kappa_a}{t'}{q'}{\kappa'}.$$ By the inductive hypothesis, The typing premise of preservation states that $e$ has type $\Tnf$ in $U(\kappa)$, and we can instantiate the inductive hypothesis with $\Tnf$. By the specification of , $U(\kappa') = U(\kappa)$ and the typing lemma for yields that $\kappa'$ is well typed which concludes the proof. Each of the four cases derived by inlining are similar. The typing premise is $\typeC{\kappa}{\Einst{e}{e_1}{e_2}}{T},$ while we know that $\typeCE{\kappa}{e}{\Tnf_1 \times \Tnf_2}$. Inverting the premise and using type uniqueness allows us to equate $T$ with $\Tnf_1 \times \Tnf_2$ and also gives us that $e_1$ and $e_2$ have type $\ii{nat}$ in $\kappa$. We have that $\narrow{e}{\kappa}{t}{q}{v}{\kappa_a}$ and the corresponding inductive hypothesis: We instantiate it to $\Tnf_1 \times \Tnf_2$. Using the narrowing of types and Unknown Invariance, we get that $e_1$ and $e_2$ have type $\ii{nat}$ in $\kappa_a$. We proceed similarly for the derivations $$\narrow{e_1}{\kappa_a}{t_1}{q_1}{v_1}{\kappa_b} \tand \narrow{e_2}{\kappa_b}{t_2}{q_2}{v_2}{\kappa_c},$$ using the induction hypothesis and propagating type information using and Unknown Invariance, to obtain that $\kappa_c$ is well typed, $v$ has type $\Tnf_1 \times \Tnf_2$, and $v_1$ and $v_2$ have type $\ii{nat}$. Continuing with the flow of the rule, $$\CsampleV{v_1}{\kappa_c}{t_1'}{q_1'}{\kappa_d} \tand \CsampleV{v_2}{\kappa_d}{t_2'}{q_2'}{\kappa_e},$$ and the specification for lifted to yield $U(\kappa_e) = U(\kappa_d) = U(\kappa_c)$ and $\kappa_e$ is well typed. We can then apply the specification of to the generation of the unknowns $u_1$ and $u_2$, $$\Cfresh{\kappa_e}{[\Tnf_1, \Tnf_2]}{[u_1, u_2]}{\kappa_0},$$ which means $U(\kappa_0) = U(\kappa_e) \oplus u_1 \mapsto \Tnf_1 \oplus u_2 \mapsto \Tnf_2$ and $\vdash \kappa_0$. Therefore, $U(\kappa_0) |_{U(\kappa_e)} \equiv U(\kappa_e)$ and by Unknown Invariance the type of $v$ carries over to $U(\kappa_0)$. In addition, $\inl{\Tnf_1 + \Tnf_2}{u_1}$ and $\inr{\Tnf_1 + \Tnf_2}{u_2}$ have the same type as $v$ in $\kappa_0$. The two unifications operate on $\kappa_0$, $$\Cunify{\kappa_0}{v}{(\Einl{\Tnf_1\mathord{+}\Tnf_2}{u_1})}{\kappa_l}$$ and $$\Cunify{\kappa_0}{v}{(\Einr{\Tnf_1\mathord{+}\Tnf_2}{u_2})}{\kappa_r},$$ and the specification of unify applies to give us that$U(\kappa_0) = U(\kappa_l) = U(\kappa_r)$, as well as $\vdash \kappa_l$ and $\vdash \kappa_r$. Thus, for both $\kappa_l$ and $\kappa_r$, $v$ has type $\Tnf_1 \times \Tnf_2$. Since will pick one of $\kappa_l$ or $\kappa_r$ to return, this concludes the proof. With preservation for the narrowing semantics proved, we only need one very simple lemma about the interaction between variable and valuation substitution in expressions: \[lemma:substU\_subst\] $$\left. \begin{array}{l} \sigma(e) = e'\\ \sigma(v) = v' \end{array} \right\} \Rightarrow \sigma(e[v/x]) = e'[v'/x]$$ The result follows by induction on $\sigma(e) = e'$ and case splitting on whether $x$ is equal to any variable encountered. Soundness and completeness can be visualized as follows: $$\begin{tikzcd} e_p \arrow{r}{\Downarrow} & v_p \\ e \Dashv \kappa \arrow{u}{\sigma \in \sem{\kappa}} \arrow[]{r}{\Downarrow_q^t} & v \vDash \kappa' \arrow[swap]{u}{\sigma' \in \sem{\kappa'}} \end{tikzcd}$$ Given the bottom and right sides of the diagram, soundness guarantees that we can fill in the top and left. That is, any narrowing derivation $\narrow{e}{\kappa}{q}{t}{v}{\kappa'}$ directly corresponds to some derivation in the predicate semantics, with the additional assumption that all the unknowns in $e$ are included in the domain of the input constraint set $\kappa$ (which can be replaced by a stronger assumption that $e$ is well typed in $\kappa$). Before we formally state and prove soundness, we need two technical lemmas about unknown inclusion in domains. \[lemma:narrow\_domain\] $$\left. \begin{array}{l} \narrow{e}{\kappa}{t}{q}{v}{\kappa'}\\ (\forall u. ~ u \in e \Rightarrow u \in \ii{dom}(\kappa))\\ \end{array} \right\} \Rightarrow\; \forall

Lakers at this point don’t know which players will be with them tomorrow much less next week as they continue to try to trade for New Orleans Pelicans big man Anthony Davis. What the Lakers do know is that LeBron James will be back as they take on the Indiana Pacers tonight at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. The Lakers have continued their slide down the Western Conference standings. They are 27-26 on the season, lost their last game and are 4-6 in their last 10 games. They currently sit at 10th in the Western Conference.The Pacers have struggled without Victor Oladipo, but are still fifth in the East as they built up a healthy lead over the Brooklyn Nets prior to Oladipo’s injury. But the Pacers have won their last two, have split their last 10 and are 34-19 on the season. The last time they met, the Lakers won 104-96 on November 29 behind LeBron James’ 38 points and seven assists. Pacers big man Domantas Sabonis led Indiana with 20 points and 15 rebounds. LeBron James made his return to the court last Thursday in a 123-120 overtime win, but after James played heavy minutes, he was held out on Saturday in a 101-115 loss against the Golden State Warriors. Depending on who you follow, it seems like things were tense for the Lakers after that game, which reportedly included some of the veteran players approaching and trading words with head coach Luke Walton. Aside from Brandon Ingram, who finished with 20 points, no one really stood out on the Lakers roster. Kyle Kuzma, who has normally been the go-to in James’ absence, had just 13 points and was one of six Lakers who reached double figures, but a majority of them really just broke the mark. The Lakers’ slow start and finish, scoring 24 in the first quarter and just 15 in the fourth, likely did them in. The Warriors played enough to get them the win, but it was very much a winnable game for the Lakers, with Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant not having the standout games they have had lately. The many questions surrounding the future of the Lakers and the ability for the roster to change drastically basically overnight could prove to be an issue and distraction until the trade deadline comes to an end. The Pacers and coach Nate McMillan have tried using several different lineups since the team lost Victor Oladipo for the season. The Pacers lost four straight after the injury, but have no won their last two, a 95-88 win over the Miami Heat on Saturday and a 109-107 win over the Pelicans yesterday. A back-to-back after a hard-fought win is obviously not ideal, but the Pacers will look to challenge themselves after experiencing some success lately. Inserting starting point guard Cory Joseph has been McMillan’s latest lineup adjustment, and he has started in the last two wins. While Joseph has not done much individually, he has experience being a player that is known as a steady hand at the point. Darren Collison has continued to play well and had 22 points and six assists against the Pelicans. Domantas Sabonis has provided a spark off the bench for the Pacers all season, and he had 16 points to go along with 13 rebounds last night. Defending LeBron James will obviously be a tough task for the Pacers, but look for McMillan to counter with Thaddeus Young to try to slow down the all-star forward. Los Angeles is a 3.5 point favorite to win tonight’s game on the road. The over/under is 217 points and the moneyline has not budged since the Lakers opened at -155. Against the spread, the Lakers are 24-12-17 and Indiana is 25-16-12. Los Angeles is 11-14 on the road and 20-12 as the favorite, while the Pacers are 18-7 at home and 8-9 as the underdog The Oklahoma City Thunder (31/18 and Orlando Magic (20-30) are two teams currently on totally different trajectories, but both will be looking for an important win in tonight’s matchup in Orlando. The visiting Thunder are one of the hottest teams in the NBA, as they are currently on a five-game win streak that has propelled them up to third place in a competitive Western Conference. After an impressive three-game homestand that culminated with a win against the Eastern Conference-leading Milwaukee Bucks, the Thunder will look to bring the same energy to Orlando as they begin a three-game East coast road trip. On the other hand, the reeling Magic return to Orlando after another close defeat, this time at the hands of the Houston Rockets. The Magic have now lost six out of their last seven, and they desperately need a home win to stay in contention for an Eastern Conference playoff spot. The Magic began the season with aspirations of making it back to the playoffs for the first times since 2012, but those playoff dreams have begun to slip away as the season has progressed. The Magic were in playoff position as late as December, but they now find themselves in 11th place in the Eastern Conference after a dreadful 3-13 run. One major problem that has plagued the Magic during their recent stretch is their inability to close out games in the fourth quarter. In Sunday’s loss against the Rockets, the Magic led by 15 points midway through the third quarter, but they faltered down the stretch, eventually falling 103-98. The bright spots of the Magic continue to be center Nikola Vucevic and forward Aaron Gordon, 2 big men who love to drive to the basket. In Sunday’s contest, Vucevic contributed 19 points and collected 17 rebounds, while Gordon added 23 points and 10 rebounds in his 40-minute performance. However, while the Magic’s interior offense thrives, their outside shooting continues to hurt them at the end of close games. Another major concern for the Magic is the performance of rookie lottery pick Mo Bamba. Bamba, a lanky 7-foot center, has struggled mightily in his first NBA season, averaging only six points per contest in his rookie campaign. Against the Rockets, Bamba had a particularly subpar performance, contributing no points, rebounds, or assists in 14 minutes before being taken off after committing three quick fouls. Bamba will look to bounce back from the tough game and help the Magic snap out of their rut against the Thunder. Recently, the Thunder have looked like one of the most intimidating teams in the Western Conference, and much of their success can be attributed to the emergence of Paul George. Before this season, George was a perennial all-star, but he struggled to become a full-fledged superstar. However, George has taken over the reins of the Thunder offense this season, and he has transformed into a true game changer. George now finds himself squarely in the MVP discussion, and he’s only improved as the season has progressed. In Sunday’s win against the Bucks, George outdueled fellow MVP candidate Giannis Antetokounmpo, leading all scorers with 36 points. In addition, George added 13 rebounds and 3 steals to help secure the Thunder’s 118-112 victory. George will look to continue his stellar play as the Thunder continue to fight for home-court advantage in a loaded Western Conference. To complement George’s Herculean effort, the rest of the Thunder starting five also scored in double digits against the Bucks, allowing some of the pressure to be lifted off of George’s back. Point guard Russell Westbrook had his 16th triple-double of the season, scoring 13 points, collecting 13 rebounds, and dishing out 11 assists in 36 minutes. Center Steven Adams left the game early with a right ankle sprain, but he was able to return in the second quarter, finishing with 14 points and 8 rebounds. Jerami Grant, brother of Magic guard Jerian Grant, also had a big night against the Bucks on both sides of the floor, adding 16 points and 5 blocks. The Thunder offense has been in-sync for the last two months (they haven’t scored less than 100 points since December 14), and they are poised for another big night against the struggling Magic. The Thunder have opened up as 5 point favorites for tonight’s matchup in Orlando. On the season, the Thunder are an impressive 27-22 ATS, one of the best records ATS in the NBA this season. Furthermore, the Thunder are also 14-11 ATS on the road. Meanwhile, the Magic have struggled at home, only going 10-13 ATS at the Amway Center this season. The over-under for tonight’s matchup currently sits at 221 points. You know, I think it's important to keep a balance in things. Yeah, balance, that's the right word. Because the guy who wants too much risks losing absolutely everything. Of course, the guy who wants too little from life, might not get anything at all. You know, I think it's important to keep a balance in things. Yeah, balance, that's the right word. Because the guy who wants too much risks losing absolutely everything. Of course, the guy who wants too little from life, might not get anything at all.<!-- Copyright (C) 2016 The Android Open Source Project Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an

. In the first step, we obtain the *per-star* posterior probability density function (PDF) of distance and reddening for stars towards the Perseus Molecular Cloud, based on their optical (Pan-STARRS1, hereafter PS1) and near-infrared (2MASS) photometry. When available, we fold in existing knowledge on the distance to each star, based on its Gaia DR2 parallax measurement. In the second step, we use the slices of a CO spectral cube as dust templates—by multiplying each slice by a gas-to-dust conversion coefficient—and sample for the probable range of distances to each velocity slice given the distance and reddening estimates to stars towards the same region. In this section, we briefly describe the key data sets necessary for this analysis. Pan-STARRS1 Photometry {#ps1} ---------------------- The Pan-STARRS1 $3\pi$ survey is a deep optical survey of the three quarters of the sky north of $\delta=-30^\circ$ [@Chambers_2016]. The PS1 observations are obtained using a 1.8-meter telescope situated on Mount Haleakala in Hawaii, which has been equipped with a Gigapixel camera with a $3^\circ$ field of view and pixel scale of 0.258$\arcsec$. The survey observes in five broadband filters, the $grizy_{P1}$ bands, spanning $400-1000$ nm [@Chambers_2016]. The images are processed by the PS1 Image Processing Pipeline, which automatically performs photometric and astrometric measurements on the reduced data [@Magnier_2016]. The stellar posteriors on distances and reddening we utilize in this work (from ; see §\[green\_method\]) are based on catalog coadds of single-epoch photometry derived from the PS1 DR1 $3\pi$ steradian survey, which reaches typical single-exposure depths of 22.0, 21.8, 21.5, 20.9, and 19.7 magnitudes (AB) in the $g$, $r$, $i$, $z$, and $y_{P1}$ bands, respectively [@Chambers_2016]. 2MASS Photometry {#2mass} ---------------- The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) is a near infrared survey of the full sky targeting the $J$, $H$, and $K_s$ bandpasses at $1-2 \; \micron$ [@Skrutskie_2006]. The 2MASS observations are obtained via two 1.3-meter telescopes located on Mount Hopkins, Arizona and Cerro Tololo, Chile, both of which are equipped with a three-array survey camera with an $8.5\arcmin$ field of view and a pixel scale of 2$\arcsec$ [@Skrutskie_2006]. Like PS1, the image processing pipeline automatically performs photometric and astrometric measurements on the reduced images. The resulting catalogs achieve typical $10\sigma$ point-source depths of 15.8, 15.1, and 14.3 magnitudes (Vega) for the $J$, $H$, and $K_s$ bands, with bright sources possessing photometric uncertainties on the order of $< 0.03$ mag. To derive the stellar posteriors on distance and reddening based on , we specifically use the 2MASS “high-reliability" catalog (see §3.3 in for more details). Gaia DR2 Astrometric Data {#gaia} ------------------------- Gaia DR2 is an intermediate data release from the Gaia mission [@Gaia_2016], and includes proper motion and parallax measurements for one billion stars, accompanied by all-sky broadband optical photometry (in the $G$, $G_{RP}$ and $G_{BP}$ bands) and radial velocity measurements for stars on the bright end ($G < 13$ mag). We only utilize the astrometric catalog [@Lindegren_2018] and defer potential incorporation of Gaia photometry to future work. The astrometric catalog has a limiting magnitude of $G=21$ mag and a bright limit of $G=3$ mag, with uncertainties on the brightest end of $\approx 0.04$ mas and on the faintest end of $0.7$ mas. For a full treatment of the astrometric processing pipeline, see @Lindegren_2018. We implement the same quality cuts for the Gaia data as given in Equation 11 of @Lindegren_2018. CO COMPLETE Data {#complete} ---------------- We employ maps of the $\rm ^{12}CO$ (1-0) transition in Perseus, taken from the COMPLETE Survey of Star Forming Regions[^1] [@Ridge_2006]. We have chosen the COMPLETE data due to its high-angular resolution (half-power beamwidth $\approx 46"$) and its relatively low noise (mean rms per channel $\approx$ 0.35 K). Its spectral resolution in the $\rm ^{12}CO$ (1-0) line is $\rm 0.06 \; km \; s^{-1}$. The total areal coverage of the COMPLETE survey towards Perseus is 6.25 x 3 deg$^2$. We have chosen the $\rm ^{12} CO$ (1-0) line primarily because it is more abundant and has more extended emission, which allows us to target larger areas of the sky (and therefore more stars), enabling better distance estimates. In theory, we could employ maps targeting the rarer CO isotopologues (e.g. $\rm ^{13}CO, C^{18} O$) in lieu of or in addition to the $\rm ^{12}CO$ data. There are several arguments to be made for using the $\rm ^{13}CO$ (1-0) line in particular, most notably that it is optically thinner and tends to be more linear with extinction than the $\rm ^{12} CO$ (1-0) line [@Pineda_2008]. According to @Pineda_2008, the $\rm ^{12} CO$ line typically saturates in Perseus (and thus non-linear with reddening) around an $A(V) \approx 4$ mag, while the $\rm ^{13} CO$ line typically saturates around an $A(V) \approx 5$ mag. Thus, in theory, $\rm ^{13}CO$ allows us to probe one magnitude deeper, and thereby spatially closer to the densest star-forming cores. However, gaining an extra magnitude does not translate to an appreciable increase in the number of stars available for analysis, since few stars are visible behind such a high dust column density. Moreover, because of the higher critical density of $\rm ^{13} CO$ [it becomes self-shielded at $A(V) \approx 2$ mag, vs. $A(V) \approx 1$ mag for $\rm ^{12} CO$; see Tables 4 & 6 in @Pineda_2008], it is a comparatively poor dust template in the more diffuse, extended envelopes of the clouds, from which we draw the bulk of our stars.[^2] Thus, all the results presented in this work utilize the $\rm ^{12} CO$ line, towards sightlines where $\rm ^{12}$CO does not saturate. Obtaining Stellar Distance and Reddening Estimates {#green_method} ================================================== Based solely on the PS1 (§\[ps1\]) and 2MASS (§\[2mass\]) photometry, we obtain stellar distance and reddening estimates for stars across Perseus based on the work of . We then post-process the distance-reddening stellar posteriors to incorporate the Gaia DR2 parallax information. The methodology used to derive the distance and reddening posteriors is given in @Green_2014 [@Green_2015]. In brief, infers a distance modulus $\mu$, reddening $E$, and stellar type $\Theta$ for a star, where $\Theta$ is parameterized by the star’s absolute PS1 $r$-band magnitude, $M_r$, and its metallicity, $\left[ \mathrm{Fe} / \mathrm{H} \right]$. By adopting a set of stellar templates that map the star’s intrinsic stellar type to its absolute magnitude in different photometric bands, obtains the following relation for the modeled apparent magnitudes for each star: $$\vec{m}_{mod}=\vec{M}(M_r,\left[ \mathrm{Fe} / \mathrm{H} \right])+\vec{A}(E,R(V)) + \mu$$ where the vector notation indicates that $\vec{m}_{mod}$, $\vec{M}$, and $\vec{A}$ are considered over a range of passbands (e.g. $\vec{m}_{mod}=[m_{mod, \, g}, m_{mod, \, r}, m_{mod, \, i} ....$\]). Then, fixing the extinction curve and assuming $R(V)=3.3$ [@Schlafly_2016][^3], the likelihood of observing a star with apparent PS1 and 2MASS magnitudes $\vec{m}$, assuming independent Gaussian photometric uncertainties $\vec{\sigma}$, is a multivariate normal with mean $\vec{m}_{mod}$ and standard deviation $\vec{\sigma}$, evaluated at $\vec{m}$. Prior knowledge of the number density and metallicity of stars across the Galactic disk and halo [@Juric_2008; @Ivezic_2008], as well as on the stellar luminosity function [@Bressan_2012], is also incorporated into the model.[^4] Combining the likelihood function and priors, draws from the posterior distribution function of $\mu$,

of old worm-eaten ship-timber: jumbled together without any attempt at order or arrangement, and planted, for the most part, within a few feet of the river's bank. A few leaky boats drawn up on the mud, and made fast to the dwarf wall which skirted it: and here and there an oar or coil of rope: appeared, at first to indicate that the inhabitants of these miserable cottages pursued some avocation on the river; but a glance at the shattered and useless condition of the articles thus displayed, would have led a passer-by, without much difficulty, to the conjecture that they were disposed there, rather for the preservation of appearances, than with any view to their being actually employed. In the heart of this cluster of huts; and skirting the river, which its upper stories overhung; stood a large building, formerly used as a manufactory of some kind. It had, in its day, probably furnished employment to the inhabitants of the surrounding tenements. But it had long since gone to ruin. The rat, the worm, and the action of the damp, had weakened and rotted the piles on which it stood; and a considerable portion of the building had already sunk down into the water; while the remainder, tottering and bending over the dark stream, seemed to wait a favourable opportunity of following its old companion, and involving itself in the same fate. It was before this ruinous building that the worthy couple paused, as the first peal of distant thunder reverberated in the air, and the rain commenced pouring violently down. "The place should be somewhere here," said Bumble, consulting a scrap of paper he held in his hand. "Halloa there!" cried a voice from above. Following the sound, Mr. Bumble raised his head, and descried a man looking out of a door, breast-high, on the second story. "Stand still, a minute," cried the voice; "I'll be with you directly." With which the head disappeared, and the door closed. "Is that the man?" asked Mr. Bumble's good lady. Mr. Bumble nodded in the affirmative. "Then, mind what I told you," said the matron: "and be careful to say as little as you can, or you'll betray us at once." Mr. Bumble, who had eyed the building with very rueful looks, was apparently about to express some doubts relative to the advisability of proceeding any further with the enterprise just then, when he was prevented by the appearance of Monks: who opened a small door, near which they stood, and beckoned them inwards. "Come in!" he cried impatiently, stamping his foot upon the ground. "Don't keep me here!" The woman, who had hesitated at first, walked boldly in, without any other invitation. Mr. Bumble, who was ashamed or afraid to lag behind, followed: obviously very ill at ease and with scarcely any of that remarkable dignity which was usually his chief characteristic. "What the devil made you stand lingering there, in the wet?" said Monks, turning round, and addressing Bumble, after he had bolted the door behind them. "We—we were only cooling ourselves," stammered Bumble, looking apprehensively about him. "Cooling yourselves!" retorted Monks. "Not all the rain that ever fell, or ever will fall, will put as much of hell's fire out, as a man can carry about with him. You won't cool yourselves so easily; don't think it!" With this agreeable speech, Monks turned short upon the matron, and bent his gaze upon her, till even she, who was not easily cowed, was fain to withdraw her eyes, and turn them towards the ground. "This is the woman, is it?" demanded Monks. "Hem! That is the woman," replied Mr. Bumble, mindful of his wife's caution. "You think women never can keep secrets, I suppose?" said the matron, interposing, and returning, as she spoke, the searching look of Monks. "I know they will always keep _one_ till it's found out," said Monks. "And what may that be?" asked the matron. "The loss of their own good name," replied Monks. "So, by the same rule, if a woman's a party to a secret that might hang or transport her, I'm not afraid of her telling it to anybody; not I! Do you understand, mistress?" "No," rejoined the matron, slightly colouring as she spoke. "Of course you don't!" said Monks. "How should you?" Bestowing something half-way between a smile and a frown upon his two companions, and again beckoning them to follow him, the man hastened across the apartment, which was of considerable extent, but low in the roof. He was preparing to ascend a steep staircase, or rather ladder, leading to another floor of warehouses above: when a bright flash of lightning streamed down the aperture, and a peal of thunder followed, which shook the crazy building to its centre. "Hear it!" he cried, shrinking back. "Hear it! Rolling and crashing on as if it echoed through a thousand caverns where the devils were hiding from it. I hate the sound!" He remained silent for a few moments; and then, removing his hands suddenly from his face, showed, to the unspeakable discomposure of Mr. Bumble, that it was much distorted, and discoloured. "These fits come over me, now and then," said Monks, observing his alarm; "and thunder sometimes brings them on. Don't mind me now; it's all over for this once." Thus speaking, he led the way up the ladder; and hastily closing the window-shutter of the room into which it led, lowered a lantern which hung at the end of a rope and pulley passed through one of the heavy beams in the ceiling: and which cast a dim light upon an old table and three chairs that were placed beneath it. "Now," said Monks, when they had all three seated themselves, "the sooner we come to our business, the better for all. The woman knows what it is, does she?" The question was addressed to Bumble; but his wife anticipated the reply, by intimating that she was perfectly acquainted with it. "He is right in saying that you were with this hag the night she died; and that she told you something—" "About the mother of the boy you named," replied the matron, interrupting him. "Yes." "The first question is, of what nature was her communication?" said Monks. "That's the second," observed the woman with much deliberation. "The first is, what may the communication be worth?" "Who the devil can tell that, without knowing of what kind it is?" asked Monks. "Nobody better than you, I am persuaded," answered Mrs. Bumble: who did not want for spirit, as her yokefellow could abundantly testify. "Humph!" said Monks significantly, and with a look of eager inquiry; "there may be money's worth to get, eh?" "Perhaps there may," was the composed reply. "Something that was taken from her," said Monks. "Something that she wore. Something that—" "You had better bid," interrupted Mrs. Bumble. "I have heard enough, already, to assure me that you are the man I ought to talk to." Mr. Bumble, who had not yet been admitted by his better half into any greater share of the secret than he had originally possessed, listened to this dialogue with outstretched neck and distended eyes: which he directed towards his wife and Monks, by turns, in undisguised astonishment; increased, if possible, when the latter sternly demanded what sum was required for the disclosure. "What's it worth to you?" asked the woman, as collectedly as before. "It may be nothing; it may be twenty pounds," replied Monks. "Speak out, and let me know which." "Add five pounds to the sum you have named; give me five-and-twenty pounds in gold," said the woman; "and I'll tell you all I know. Not before." "Five-and-twenty pounds!" exclaimed Monks, drawing back. "I spoke as plainly as I could," replied Mrs. Bumble. "It's not a large sum, either." "Not a large sum for a paltry secret, that may be nothing when it's told!" cried Monks impatiently; "and which has been lying dead for twelve years past or more!" "Such matters keep well, and, like good wine, often double their value in course of time," answered the matron, still preserving the resolute indifference she had assumed. "As to lying dead, there are those who will lie dead for twelve thousand years to come, or twelve million, for anything you or I know, who will tell strange tales at last!" "What if I pay it for nothing?" asked Monks, hesitating. "You can easily take it away again," replied the matron. "I am but a woman; alone here; and un

house before descending into its indoor swimming pool as the chorus begins. During the second and third choruses, Concha Buika also features, though appearing separately from Furtado, standing at the bottom of a staircase in a more modern-day building. Track listing Remix CD promo – Promotional only "Fuerte" (Cajjmere Wray Hot Sweat Edit) — 3:03 "Fuerte" (Cajjmere Wray Hot Sweat Mix) — 8:06 "Fuerte" (Cajjmere Wray Spanglish Club Mix) — 7:51 "Fuerte" (Cajjmere Wray Spanglish Edit) — 3:07 "Fuerte" (Twisted Dee Club Mix) — 8:38 "Fuerte" (Twisted Dee Dubstrumental) — 7:08 "Fuerte" (Twisted Dee Electro-Tribe Mix) — 9:09 "Fuerte" (Twisted Dee Radio Edit) — 4:14 "Fuerte" (Massi and DeLeon Sunset Blvd Mixshow) — 5:02 "Fuerte" (Massi and DeLeon Sunset Blvd Mix) — 7:38 Personnel Credits are adapted from the Mi Plan liner notes. Production Salaam Remi – producer, arrangements, keyboards, drums Staybent Krunk-A-Delic – guitar Vincent Henry – guitar Franklin Emmanuel Soccoro – engineering, recording, mixing Ryan Evans – engineering, recording Javier Limón – guitar solo Recording Recorded at Instrumental Zoo, Miami, Florida, and Casa Limón Studio, Madrid, Spain Mixed at Glenwood Place Studios, Burbank, California Charts References Category:2010 songs Category:Nelly Furtado songs Category:Songs written by Nelly Furtado Category:Songs written by Alex Cuba Category:Song recordings produced by Salaam RemiBrokeback the musical? Today's New York Daily News is reporting that author Annie Proulx, who wrote the short story upon which Brokeback Mountainwas based, has given the go-ahead for the story to hit the stage--in the form of an opera. It will be composed by Charles Wuorinen. We are not sure what to make of this, but considering how much we loved Brokeback, we hope for the best.Q: String comparison on pug I rendered the value on status.js like below res.render('status', { status: JSON.stringify(status) }); After that I tried to compare the value on my status.pug which is Jade template like this if status == 'success' and also tried -if(status == 'success') The result is always not equal A: That's because it can't be equal to 'success'. You pass the status variable to JSON.stringify which returns something you could save as a .json file. Is success valid JSON? No, so there's no way JSON.stringify would return that. I assume that status is a string and (sometimes) has the value 'success'. Calling JSON.stringify("success") returns '"success"' and '"success"' !== 'success'. There's no reason to use JSON.stringify here. Just remove it. [^1]: Dr. Gordon\'s present address is Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D. C. Dr. Miller\'s present address is Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland Olufemi Onabajo Olufemi Onabajo is a Nigerian academic, a professor, and Former Vice-Chancellor of the Lead City University, a private university in Nigeria. Career He started his career as a secondary school teacher as at 1978. He worked as an editor in Ogun State Broadcasting Corporation (OGBC) He studied and acquire his master's degree at the University of Lagos. He later joined the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) Ikeja. where he served for 10 years before he became the Controller of News and Current Affairs. He has written 23 books in the field of mass communication. References Category:Living people Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Nigerian academics Category:Yoruba academics Category:Place of birth missing (living people) Category:Lead City University faculty Category:Nigerian academic administrators Category:University of Lagos alumni Category:Nigerian media peopleMexico has deployed 15,000 soldiers and National Guardsmen at the U.S.-Mexico border and is detaining migrants who attempt to illegally cross. The Mexican government’s actions aim to meet President Donald Trump’s demands that the country help slow the influx of migrants entering the U.S. from Mexico, AFP reports. “We have a total deployment, between the National Guard and army units, of 14,000, almost 15,000 men in the north of the country,” Mexican Defense Minister Luis Cresencio Sandoval said at a press conference. Sandoval confirmed the governing is now detaining migrants at the border, AFP reports. “Given that (undocumented) migration is not a crime but rather an administrative violation, we simply detain them and turn them over to the authorities” at the National Migration Institute, he continued. Earlier this month, Mexico committed to deploying 6,000 National Guardsmen to its southern border to control immigration, but only a fraction have actually been deployed, according to the New York Times. Trump gave Mexico an ultimatum last month, threatening to place a 5% tariff on all Mexican imports starting on June 10 unless illegal immigration from Mexico into the U.S. was stopped. (RELATED: Trump Plans To Impose Tariff On Mexico To Encourage Them To Stop Illegal Immigrants) Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador expressed clearly that he was not interested in a trade war with the U.S., and sought to reach a deal with Trump through negotiations. “We’re not going to get into a trade war, a war of tariffs and of taxes,” Lopez Obrador said at a news conference earlier this month. “We’re doing all we can to reach a deal through dialogue,” he continued. On June 10th, the United States will impose a 5% Tariff on all goods coming into our Country from Mexico, until such time as illegal migrants coming through Mexico, and into our Country, STOP. The Tariff will gradually increase until the Illegal Immigration problem is remedied,.. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 30, 2019 The Mexican government has been criticized for its treatment of detainees at the northern border since an AFP photographer reported Mexican National Guardsmen forcefully apprehending two women and a little girl in Ciudad Juarez last week. Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact [email protected] abstract: 'This paper describes the design of a modified tent map characterized by a uniform probability density function. The use of this map is proposed as an alternative to the tent map and the Bernoulli shift. It is shown that practical circuits implementing the latter two maps may possess parasitic stable equilibria, fact which would prevent the desired chaotic behavior of the system. On the other hand, commonly used strategies to avoid the parasitic equilibria onset also affect the uniformity of the probability density function. Conversely, the use of the proposed tailed tent map allows to assure a certain degree of parameter deviation robustness, without compromising on the statistical properties of the system.' bibliography: - 'chaotic.bib' - 'pram.bib' - 'tent.bib' - 'analog.bib' title: A CMOS Tailed Tent Map for the Generation of Uniformly Distributed Chaotic Sequences --- =1 Introduction ============ Discrete time chaotic systems based on simple, one-dimensional, piecewise linear maps can be conveniently implemented using current mode operation [@Bean:ISCAS94-6-125]. Low circuit complexity makes them appealing for many applications, like secure communication schemes [@Hasler:ISCAS94], noise generators and analog random number generation for stochastic neural models [@Clarkson:NNW93-5-551]. Design requirements can be posed either on the spectrum or on the probability distribution of the chaotic signal. For instance, the random number generator needed in [@Clarkson:NNW93-5-551] should produce samples characterized by a uniform probability density function (PDF). Although systems based on the tent map (Fig. \[fig:maps\]A) and on the Bernoulli shift satisfy this requirement, their implementation [@Bean:ISCAS94-6-125; @Delgado:El] is not completely straightforward, due to the possible onset of parasitic stable equilibrium points, as result of the unavoidable errors introduced by the physical realization of the electronic devices. Since this fact would not allow the desired chaotic behavior, special strategies must be adopted to make the system robust to parameter deviation. Unfortunately, commonly adopted solutions [@Delgado:El] also prevent the achievement of a uniform PDF. (A) (B) The aim of this paper is to show that a one-dimensional system based on a

NULL ); if( m_hIDComDev == NULL ) return( FALSE ); memset( &m_OverlappedRead, 0, sizeof( OVERLAPPED ) ); memset( &m_OverlappedWrite, 0, sizeof( OVERLAPPED ) ); COMMTIMEOUTS CommTimeOuts; CommTimeOuts.ReadIntervalTimeout = 0xFFFFFFFF; CommTimeOuts.ReadTotalTimeoutMultiplier = 0; CommTimeOuts.ReadTotalTimeoutConstant = 0; CommTimeOuts.WriteTotalTimeoutMultiplier = 0; CommTimeOuts.WriteTotalTimeoutConstant = 5000; SetCommTimeouts( m_hIDComDev, &CommTimeOuts ); wsprintf( szComParams, "COM%d:%d,n,8,1", nPort, nBaud ); m_OverlappedRead.hEvent = CreateEvent( NULL, TRUE, FALSE, NULL ); m_OverlappedWrite.hEvent = CreateEvent( NULL, TRUE, FALSE, NULL ); dcb.DCBlength = sizeof( DCB ); GetCommState( m_hIDComDev, &dcb ); dcb.BaudRate = nBaud; dcb.ByteSize = 8; unsigned char ucSet; ucSet = (unsigned char) ( ( FC_RTSCTS & FC_DTRDSR ) != 0 ); ucSet = (unsigned char) ( ( FC_RTSCTS & FC_RTSCTS ) != 0 ); ucSet = (unsigned char) ( ( FC_RTSCTS & FC_XONXOFF ) != 0 ); if( !SetCommState( m_hIDComDev, &dcb ) || !SetupComm( m_hIDComDev, 10000, 10000 ) || m_OverlappedRead.hEvent == NULL || m_OverlappedWrite.hEvent == NULL ){ DWORD dwError = GetLastError(); if( m_OverlappedRead.hEvent != NULL ) CloseHandle( m_OverlappedRead.hEvent ); if( m_OverlappedWrite.hEvent != NULL ) CloseHandle( m_OverlappedWrite.hEvent ); CloseHandle( m_hIDComDev ); return( FALSE ); } m_bOpened = TRUE; return( m_bOpened ); } BOOL CSerial::Close( void ) { if( !m_bOpened || m_hIDComDev == NULL ) return( TRUE ); if( m_OverlappedRead.hEvent != NULL ) CloseHandle( m_OverlappedRead.hEvent ); if( m_OverlappedWrite.hEvent != NULL ) CloseHandle( m_OverlappedWrite.hEvent ); CloseHandle( m_hIDComDev ); m_bOpened = FALSE; m_hIDComDev = NULL; return( TRUE ); } BOOL CSerial::WriteCommByte( unsigned char ucByte ) { BOOL bWriteStat; DWORD dwBytesWritten; bWriteStat = WriteFile( m_hIDComDev, (LPSTR) &ucByte, 1, &dwBytesWritten, &m_OverlappedWrite ); if( !bWriteStat && ( GetLastError() == ERROR_IO_PENDING ) ){ if( WaitForSingleObject( m_OverlappedWrite.hEvent, 1000 ) ) dwBytesWritten = 0; else{ GetOverlappedResult( m_hIDComDev, &m_OverlappedWrite, &dwBytesWritten, FALSE ); m_OverlappedWrite.Offset += dwBytesWritten; } } return( TRUE ); } int CSerial::SendData( const char *buffer, int size ) { if( !m_bOpened || m_hIDComDev == NULL ) return( 0 ); DWORD dwBytesWritten = 0; int i; for( i=0; i<size; i++ ){ WriteCommByte( buffer[i] ); dwBytesWritten++; } return( (int) dwBytesWritten ); } int CSerial::ReadDataWaiting( void ) { if( !m_bOpened || m_hIDComDev == NULL ) return( 0 ); DWORD dwErrorFlags; COMSTAT ComStat; ClearCommError( m_hIDComDev, &dwErrorFlags, &ComStat ); return( (int) ComStat.cbInQue ); } int CSerial::ReadData( void *buffer, int limit ) { if( !m_bOpened || m_hIDComDev == NULL ) return( 0 ); BOOL bReadStatus; DWORD dwBytesRead, dwErrorFlags; COMSTAT ComStat; ClearCommError( m_hIDComDev, &dwErrorFlags, &ComStat ); if( !ComStat.cbInQue ) return( 0 ); dwBytesRead = (DWORD) ComStat.cbInQue; if( limit < (int) dwBytesRead ) dwBytesRead = (DWORD) limit; bReadStatus = ReadFile( m_hIDComDev, buffer, dwBytesRead, &dwBytesRead, &m_OverlappedRead ); if( !bReadStatus ){ if( GetLastError() == ERROR_IO_PENDING ){ WaitForSingleObject( m_OverlappedRead.hEvent, 2000 ); return( (int) dwBytesRead ); } return( 0 ); } return( (int) dwBytesRead ); } Errors: 1>c:\..\consoleapplication2\serial.cpp(31): error C2664: 'int wsprintfW(LPWSTR,LPCWSTR,...)': cannot convert argument 1 from 'char [15]' to 'LPWSTR' 1>c:\..\consoleapplication2\serial.cpp(31): note: Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast 1>c:\..\consoleapplication2\serial.cpp(32): error C2664: 'HANDLE CreateFileW(LPCWSTR,DWORD,DWORD,LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES,DWORD,DWORD,HANDLE)': cannot convert argument 1 from 'char [15]' to 'LPCWSTR' 1>c:\..\consoleapplication2\serial.cpp(32): note: Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast 1>c:\..\consoleapplication2\serial.cpp(46): error C2664: 'int wsprintfW(LPWSTR,LPCWSTR,...)': cannot convert argument 1 from 'char [50]' to 'LPWSTR' 1>c:\..\consoleapplication2\serial.cpp(46): note: Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast A: Your error message: error C2664: 'HANDLE CreateFileW(LPCWS ^ ~~~~ indicates you use UNICODE build (W indicates that CreateFile macro is defined with CreateFileW function), so you should use wide literal here (and in next wsprintf): wsprintf(szPort, L"COM%d", nPort ); ^ ~~~~~ ! and wchar_t array: wchar_t szPort[15]; // or under winapi you would use WCHAR wchar_t szComParams[50]; 1 Share Share It seems like it was only a matter of time before the bulked-up Channing Tatum played a Roman soldier: His head seems like it was crafted for a helmet, and his physique made for short tunics and giant swords. In The Eagle, which opens today, he appears as a commander who has a power switch with his slave (Jamie Bell) while on a mission. We talked to Tatum about the inevitable whispers of homoeroticism that come with any sword-sandal-and-slave movie, as well as the bad, cruel press for his Sundance movie, The Son of No One. And, of course, we check in with his scalded penis, because it would be rude not to. In The Eagle, there are two male leads but no female love interests. Would you say there’s a homoerotic element to the film? Well there are swords, and two guys are sword fighting. There’s a metaphor there I’m sure. And back in the Roman day I think it was probably more accepted than it is now. But there’s none in the movie. Me and [director Kevin Macd

which share a common value for the ordered pair $({{\mathbb{P}}(\sigma)},{{\mathbb{P}}(\theta)})$. We can rewrite the function ${g_{w,\sigma,\theta}}(n)$ from Thereom \[thetatheorem\] as an infinite sum, $$\begin{aligned} {g_{w,\sigma,\theta}}(x)&=e^{-x{{\mathbb{P}}(w)}{\textbf{Q}_{\sigma,\theta}}}\sum_{ m \geq 2}\frac{(x{{\mathbb{P}}(w)})^{m}{\textbf{T}_{\sigma,\theta}}^{m-1}{\textbf{Q}_{\sigma,\theta}}}{m!}L_{m}\Big(\frac{{\textbf{T}_{\sigma,\theta}}}{{\textbf{Q}_{\sigma,\theta}}}, \;\frac{{{\mathbb{P}}(w)}{\textbf{T}_{\sigma,\theta}}}{{\textbf{Q}_{\sigma,\theta}}},\;x\Big).\end{aligned}$$ with the function $L_{m}$ given by $L_{m}(a,b,x):=a(m-1)^{2} +m(2-m)+bmx$. The terms ${\textbf{Q}_{\sigma,\theta}}$ and ${\textbf{T}_{\sigma,\theta}}$ only depend on the *probabilities* of $\sigma$ and $\theta$; their internal composition does not matter. This allows a great reduction in the number of terms to handle. With some abuse of notation, we define the terms $$\begin{aligned} \textbf{Q}_{r,c,d}^{(k)} &:= \textbf{Q}_{a^{krc}b^{kr(1-c)},a^{krd}b^{kr(1-d)}} = p^{krc}q^{kr(1-c)}+p^{krd}q^{kr(1-d)},\\ {\textbf{T}_{r,c,d}^{(k)}}&:=\textbf{T}_{a^{krc}b^{kr(1-c)},a^{krd}b^{kr(1-d)}}=p^{krc}q^{kr(1-c)} \times p^{krd}q^{kr(1-d)}\end{aligned}$$ and then define the atom of all our remaining analysis, which is $$\begin{aligned} \label{gdef} g(x,r,c,d)&=\sum_{w \in {\mathcal{A}}^{k(1-r)}}e^{-x{{\mathbb{P}}(w)}{\textbf{Q}_{r,c,d}^{(k)}}}\sum_{ m \geq 2}\frac{(x{{\mathbb{P}}(w)})^{m}{\textbf{T}_{r,c,d}^{(k)}}{}^{m-1}{\textbf{Q}_{r,c,d}^{(k)}}}{m!}L_{m}\Big(\frac{{\textbf{T}_{r,c,d}^{(k)}}}{{\textbf{Q}_{r,c,d}^{(k)}}}, \;\frac{{{\mathbb{P}}(w)}{\textbf{T}_{r,c,d}^{(k)}}}{{\textbf{Q}_{r,c,d}^{(k)}}},\;x\Big).\end{aligned}$$ With this notation, we have the following proposition. \[gprop\] Let $g(x,r,c,d)$ be as in (\[gdef\]). Then ${\widetilde{V}_{3}}(n)$ from Theorem \[thetatheorem\] admits the representation $$\begin{aligned} \label{hsum} {\widetilde{V}_{3}}(n)=\sum_{\substack{0 < \ell < k \\ 0 \leq i,j \leq \ell}} {\ell \choose i}{\ell \choose j}g(n,\tfrac{\ell}{k},\tfrac{i}{\ell},\tfrac{j}{\ell}).\end{aligned}$$ Now we analyze $g$. Analysis of $g(n,r,c,d)$ ------------------------ All our final estimates rest on our analysis of the function $g$ given in Proposition \[gprop\]. To begin that analysis, we take the Mellin transform of $g$ and, specifying the bounded portion $$\begin{aligned} W(s,r,c,d)=\sum_{m \geq 2} \Big(\frac{{\textbf{T}_{r,c,d}^{(k)}}}{{\textbf{Q}_{r,c,d}^{(k)}}}\Big)^{m-1}\frac{\Gamma(s+m)}{\Gamma(s+2) m!} L_{m}\Big(\frac{{\textbf{T}_{r,c,d}^{(k)}}}{{\textbf{Q}_{r,c,d}^{(k)}}}, \;\frac{{\textbf{T}_{r,c,d}^{(k)}}}{{\textbf{Q}_{r,c,d}^{(k)}}{}^{2}},\;s+m\Big),\end{aligned}$$ we obtain $$\begin{aligned} {g^{*}}(s,r,c,d)&=\Gamma(s+2)W(s,r,c,d){\textbf{Q}_{r,c,d}^{(k)}}{}^{-s}\sum_{w \in {\mathcal{A}}^{k(1-r)}}{{\mathbb{P}}(w)}^{-s}\\ &=\Gamma(s+2)W(s,r,c,d){\textbf{Q}_{r,c,d}^{(k)}}{}^{-s}(p^{-s}+q^{-s})^{k(1-r)}.\end{aligned}$$ We then consider the value of $n^{-s}{g^{*}}(s,r,c,d)$, which will be the integrand of our inverse Mellin integral. Using the relation $k=\alpha\log(n)$, we can write $n^{-s}{g^{*}}(s,r,c,d)=\Gamma(s+2)W(s,r,c,d)n^{H(s,r,c,d)}$, where the function $H$ is as defined in Section \[subsec:intro\]. From here, we can recover the value of $g(n,r,c,d)$ via an inverse Mellin transform. We summarize the results in the following theorem. \[hasymptote\] Define the discriminant $$\begin{aligned} A(r,c,d)=\frac{\alpha(1-r)}{(\alpha/k)\log({\textbf{Q}_{r,c,d}^{(k)}})+1}.\end{aligned}$$ Then the function $g(n,r,c,d)$ defined in (\[gdef\]) obeys the following asymptotic scheme.\ If $A(r,c,d) < \alpha_{1}$, then $g(n,r,c,d)=O(n^{-M})$ for every $M>0$.\ If $\alpha_{1} < A(r,c,d) < \alpha_{2}$, then $$\begin{aligned} g(n,r,c,d) &= \frac{n^{H(\rho_{r,c,d},r,c,d)}}{\sqrt{\log(n)}}\sum_{y \in \mathbb{Z}}\frac{n^{i \Im(H(\rho_{r,c,d}+iyK,r,c,d))}W(\rho_{r,c,d}+iyK,r,c,d)\Gamma(\rho_{r,c,d}+iyK+2)}{\sqrt{2\pi \frac{\partial H}{\partial s}(\rho_{r,c,d}+iyK,r,c,d)}}\\ &\times (1+O(\log(n)^{-1/2})).\end{aligned}$$ If $A(r,c,d) > \alpha_{2}$, then $g(n,r,c,d)=n^{H(-2,r,c,d)}W(-2,r,c,d)(1+O(n^{-\epsilon}))$ for some $\epsilon>0$. The estimates of Theorem \[hasymptote\] can be derived using techniques that are standard (albeit pretty technical) in the analysis of tree structures. In the first regime, one can show that $H(s,r,c,d)$ is always decreasing in $s$, so integrating along $\Re(s)=s_{0}$ for $H(s_{0})=-M$ gives the desired bound. In the second regime we use the saddle-point method, and in the final regime, we derive the asymptotics by taking the residue from the pole of $\Gamma(s+2)$ at $s=-2$. Theorem \[hasymptote\], though certainly essential, is not in itself sufficient for our purposes, since we have to sum $g(n,\frac{\ell}{k},\frac{i}{\ell},\frac{j}{\ell})$ over a set of triplets $(\ell,i,j)$ that will grow unboundedly large as $n \rightarrow \infty$. The next lemma gives the needed statement about uniform convergence. \[uniformlemma\] Suppose $\alpha_{1} < \alpha < \alpha_{2}$. Then there exists $r_{0} > 0$ such that for all triplets $(r,c,d)$ in the rectangle $R_{0}=[0,r_{0}]\times [0,1]^{2}$, we have $\alpha_{1} < A(r,c,d) < \alpha_{2}$, and the saddle-point estimate of Theorem \[hasymptote\] holds uniformly. Furthermore, the analogous result holds in the polar case, when $\alpha > \alpha_{2}$. The claims about $A(r,

] The state nevertheless argues that Simmons' double jeopardy argument should be rejected because, in the present case, evidence was presented at trial indicating that Simmons' possession of the .44 magnum pistol on the two occasions charged — in April and in July of 1990 — was interrupted by Simmons' sale of the weapon to Herrera. The state's argument suffers from two shortcomings. First, the claim of interrupted possession advanced by the state on appeal is at odds with the theory of prosecution it pursued below. Below, Simmons raised his double jeopardy argument in the form of a pretrial motion to dismiss one of the two counts with which he was charged. In response, the state argued that Simmons' motion was premature — that "the proper remedy is merger after a determination of guilt." At trial, even though evidence was presented indicating that the .44 magnum had at times been in Herrera's possession, the state took the position that transfer of actual possession had no effect on Simmons' constructive possession. At the conclusion of trial, the jury was given instructions covering actual and constructive possession. The instructions told the jury that Simmons could be convicted if it found either form of possession. In arguing the state's case to the jury, the prosecutor specifically maintained that, even though at times Herrera may have had actual possession of the gun, the gun had always remained in Simmons' constructive possession: The conduct of Mr. Simmons throughout this time period is consistent with someone who owned, possessed and had dominion and control over a handgun. He had it sent to him in March, it got to him in April, he used it in April. He used it in *937 July. He apparently misplaced it and was looking for it in July, or late June. And then he tried to get rid of it, when he found out that it — he might get in trouble for it. He got rid of it, in the sense that someone else was holding onto it. He got rid of it in the sense that he gave it, or sold it to Mannie Herrera. But it was still available to him, he still had control over it, because all he had to do was pick up the phone, and ask him to bring it over. And use [it] for whatever purposes he wanted to use it. And that happened in September. And that's consistent with Mr. Simmons possessing a gun.[7] Thus, the theory advocated by the state at trial all but invited the jury to convict Simmons of both charges based on a single, uninterrupted course of illegal possession. Second, and more fundamentally, although the evidence presented at trial might theoretically have supported a finding of interrupted possession, the jury was never required to consider or decide the issue. Because the instructions did not apprise the jury of the need to find that Simmons' possession of the .44 magnum pistol had been interrupted at some point between the first alleged offense and the second, the jury's verdicts left the issue unresolved. At this juncture, "[a]ny ambiguity must be resolved in favor of the accused." McDonald v. State, 872 P.2d 627, 660 (Alaska App. 1994). Cf. Dawson, 894 P.2d at 679. Accordingly, we conclude that Simmons' two convictions must merge.[8] Simmons further asserts that the trial court erred in denying him a new trial based on alleged juror misconduct. At trial, Dalton Moss was called by the state to testify about the circumstances surrounding his possession of a holster and some live .44 caliber ammunition belonging to Simmons. According to Moss, Simmons had given him a rucksack containing the holster and ammunition toward the end of the summer of 1990 and asked him "to hang onto it." Moss turned the rucksack over to the police after his wife decided that she did not want live ammunition in the house with children. Moss also testified that he had later talked to Simmons in the jail and "was led to believe that I was supposed to say he gave me this rucksack to sell[.]" After trial, Simmons filed a motion for a new trial, alleging misconduct on the part of juror C.L. In response to Simmons' motion, the superior court conducted a thorough hearing. C.L. acknowledged that, sometime before the parties' final arguments, she had overheard Dalton Moss talking on the telephone. Moss had laughingly said "something to the effect that, he didn't say what he was going to say, instead he said everything [a] different way." During the jury's deliberations, C.L. indicated to the other jurors that she wanted to abstain from voting, saying that "there was a phone call which makes me wonder about [Moss'] testimony." The other jurors told C.L. not to inform them of the substance of that telephone call. C.L. made no further mention of the issue. The jury then resumed its deliberations, with C.L. participating. Following the sentencing hearing, the superior court entered a written order concluding that, objectively viewed, the information overheard by C.L. had no effect on the jury's verdict. The court thus denied Simmons' motion. Our review of the record convinces us that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in reaching this decision. See Swain v. State, 817 P.2d 927, 930, 934 (Alaska App. 1991). Simmons lastly challenges his sentence. Our decision that one of Simmons' convictions must be vacated makes it unnecessary to consider Simmons' claim that his composite sentence is excessive. We must nevertheless examine his remaining sentencing arguments. Simmons maintains that the sentencing court erred in refusing to strike *938 unverified information from his presentence report. Simmons' cursory discussion of this issue, however, constitutes an abandonment. See, e.g., Lewis v. State, 469 P.2d 689, 691-92 n. 2 (Alaska 1970). Moreover, it appears to us that the information in the presentence report is adequately verified. See generally Evan v. State, 899 P.2d 926 (Alaska App. 1995). Simmons also maintains that the sentencing court erred in rejecting his two proposed mitigating factors: that his conduct in this case was among the least serious in its class and that his past and current offenses have resulted in consistently minor harm. AS 12.55.155(d)(9) & (d)(13). These arguments are meritless; the sentencing court's rejection of the proposed factors was not clearly erroneous. See Lepley v. State, 807 P.2d 1095, 1099 (Alaska App. 1991); Shaw v. State, 677 P.2d 259, 260 (Alaska App. 1984). Simmons lastly contends that the imposition of maximum sentences was unwarranted in his case. Upon conviction, Simmons was subject to the presumptive term of three years specified for third and subsequent felony offenders convicted of class C felonies. AS 12.55.125(e)(2). The state proved two aggravating factors: that Simmons' prior criminal history included repeated instances of assaultive behavior and that Simmons had three or more prior felony convictions. AS 12.55.155(c)(8) & (c)(15). Based on Simmons' extensive criminal history, Judge Hanson characterized Simmons as "clearly one of the most dangerous people I've seen[,]" and found him to be "among the very worst offenders[.]" The sentencing record supports these findings; the findings, in turn, support Judge Hanson's decision to impose a maximum term. See, e.g., State v. Graybill, 695 P.2d 725, 731 (Alaska 1985). Having independently reviewed the entire sentencing record, we conclude that the sentence imposed below is not clearly mistaken. McClain v. State, 519 P.2d 811, 813-14 (Alaska 1974). The conviction and sentence as to one of the two counts for which Simmons was convicted are AFFIRMED. As to the second count, the conviction must be VACATED. This case is REMANDED to the superior court with directions to amend Simmons' judgment of conviction accordingly. NOTES [1] Professor LaFave cautions against reading too much into imprecise time references: "the existence or nonexistence of probable cause should not turn on whether the affidavit's verbs end in `s' or `ed.'" 2 Wayne R. LaFave, Search and Seizure § 3.7(b), at 92-93 (2d ed. 1987) (footnote omitted). We view M.J.'s use of the present tense "keeps" to be relevant, but not pivotal. Cf. State v. Davenport, 510 P.2d 78, 82 n. 8 (Alaska 1973) (noting that courts must interpret search warrant affidavits in a "commonsense and realistic fashion"). [2] Simmons additionally argues that the trial court erred in allowing Herrera to be cross-examined about a pending criminal charge and in allowing witness Dalton Moss to testify that, toward the end of the summer of 1990, Simmons had given Moss a holster and some loose rounds of .44 caliber ammunition and had requested Moss to hold it for him. Simmons failed to object to this evidence below. We find no plain error. See, e.g., Post v. State, 580 P.2d 304, 308 (Alaska 1978). [3] In contending that the arrest and search warrants in his case had been issued without probable cause, Simmons obliquely asserted that he had been unconditionally discharged on his prior offenses more than five years previously. The record provides no indication that Simmons attempted to pursue this issue as an affirmative defense at trial. [4] U.S. Const. amend. V; Alaska Const. art. 1

wild-type mice by ligating the left anterior descending coronary artery. Enhanced green fluorescent protein-EPCs with or without EPO were transplanted into peri-infarct myocardium. Enhanced green fluorescent protein-EPCs were detected 7 and 28 d after surgery. The amount of circulating EPCs was analyzed 3 and 28 d after surgery. The stromal cell-derived factor-1α and vascular endothelial growth factor concentrations, microvessel density, apoptosis, fibrosis in the peri-infarct myocardium, and cardiac function were compared among the groups. More enhanced green fluorescent protein-EPCs were found in the hearts treated with EPC + EPO than in those treated with EPC alone. The circulating EPC level was markedly elevated after EPC + EPO treatment compared with EPC application alone. Stromal cell-derived factor-1α and vascular endothelial growth factor were increased accordingly, along with increased microvessel density, decreased apoptosis, and reduced fibrosis in the peri-infarct myocardium. Left ventricular fractional shortening was greater and the interventricular septum was thicker after EPC + EPO treatment compared with EPC treatment alone. EPO improved the efficiency of EPC therapy in mice with myocardial infarction. This effect was associated with enhanced transplanted EPC survival and autologous EPC mobilization.Determination of nucleic acids by a resonance light-scattering technique with alpha, beta, gamma, delta-tetrakis[4-(trimethylammoniumyl)phenyl]porphine. The resonance light-scattering technique, using a spectrofluorometer, was first developed as a sensitive instrumental analysis method. At pH 7.48 and ionic strength 0.004, the extent of light-scattering of alpha, beta, gamma, delta-tetrakis[4-(trimethylammoniumyl)phenyl]porphine (TAPP) is enhanced by nucleic acids near 432 nm. There are linear relationships between the enhanced extents of light-scattering and the concentrations of nucleic acids in the range of 1.8 x 10(-7)-10.8 x 10(-7) M for calf thymus and fish sperm DNA and in the range of 1.8 x 10(-7)-1.8 x 10(-6) M for yeast RNA. The limit of determination (3 sigma) is 4.1 x 10(-8) M for calf thymus DNA, 4.6 x 10(-8) M for fish sperm DNA, and 6.7 x 10(-8) M for yeast RNA. Mechanism study indicates that nucleic acids react with the title porphyrin in two modes, depending on the concentrations of nucleic acids. When the molar ratio of nucleic acids to TAPP is smaller than 4:1, the hypochromicity and fluorescence quenching of TAPP by nucleic acids appear, and the enhancement of resonance light-scattering can be observed. When the molar ratio of nucleic acids to TAPP is larger than 4:1, a new fluorescent complex is formed.Chris Cornell, RIP Thu May 18 2017 I don’t know if anyone who will read this follows me on twitter, but if you do, you may be thinking ‘He’s never had a single nice thing to say about Chris Cornell in his life. Who the hell does he think he is writing a tribute?’ I’ll admit that at this moment I feel bad for talking shit about Cornell. Today is a sobering reminder that every single person you’ve ever made fun of on social media will die. But also, social media is not real life. I’ve said lots of nice things about Chris in real life. It’s true that both the critic and the fan in me lamented the slow degradation one of the strongest voices of my formative years. Maybe it’s a dumb impulse; think what you want. If you want to be a legend, die young; if you want to be a human being, live as long as possible. But this death, this timing, this everything…this is the worst. I saw Soundgarden perform only once, and it was unforgettable: Summerfest, 1994. Kurt was dead but grunge was still running on fumes. Superunknown was the soundtrack of our summer. One of my best friends at the time and I had similar shaggy haircuts, and walking around the Marcus together earned us the shortlived nickname of "the Vedder twins". I can't believe I'm admitting that. We weren't really even embarrassed; we were true believers in the corporate juggernaut known as Alternative, cornfed teenage guppies reveling in the latest doomed generational fad, and hell yeah, our parents let us grow our hair long! Late afternoon, onstage comes Jeff Buckley, whom we'd never heard of. I wish I could say his performance changed my life. He might as well have been singing opera; we didn't know what to make of him. Then we felt like suuuuuuch Seattle insiders because we had listened to Tad before. Eleven played next; I have no recollection of that set whatsoever. Soundgarden opened with "Jesus Christ Pose", still my favorite of all their songs. Yeah I'm getting choked up thinking about this set. Thanks to Kurt I was way into any kind of feedback/noise jam situation, which was how this show began and ended, and the epic ear-shattering finale is probably what has stuck with me the most all these years. But when Cornell came in with that "WELL YOU STAAAAAAARE AT MEEEEEEEE" it was like the second coming of a young Robert Plant. I don't need to elaborate on the guy's voice, right? Have you heard the song "Birth Ritual" for chrissakes? Even Plant at his peak couldn't have touched those high notes. That's what Cornell will be remembered as: a singer. Of all the grunge superstars he was easily the most vocally gifted, but also the least outspoken. He never quested after notoriety. Aside from his hair, he didn't seem to give a shit about how he presented himself to the public. Soundgarden got huge just due to hard work and good songs. They were around way before Nirvana or Pearl Jam or Alice In Chains and somehow wound up riding the coattails of their own disciples, but they never seemed to mind. We kids were constantly being fed axioms about integrity and authenticity, about rejection of conformity. Meanwhile, Soundgarden got more and more radio-friendly and nobody minded. They never played the credibility game. They were unabashed rock stars when the time came and nobody could blame them. Cornell did absolutely everything wrong in terms of maintaining respect from the underground. Nominated for a Grammy in 1988 before anyone has ever heard of you? Gee, how'd you manage that, Chris? He put together a grunge supergroup before grunge had even taken off, and invited Eddie Vedder, the ultimate pretender/usurper of the Seattle scene, to sing on Temple Of The Dog's "Hunger Strike", which in turn became the most critically reviled smash hit of the era. A fucking grunge power ballad if there ever was one! (Personally, my favorite of his supergroups was Alice Mudgarden...) Hanging out with Aerosmith and collaborating with Alice Cooper during his clinging-to-hair-metal phase. Then yet another supergroup, adult-contemporary solo albums, writing tunes for American Idol dropouts, a Timbaland-produced pop album...the list goes on. It's not like he could've been unaware of how people might react to these kinds of offenses. I'll confess that he really didn't make any music after Down On The Upside that I cared for, and it bugged me. But after a while, after age lifted the veil of some lost "alternative" ethos, I had to respect the guy for doing whatever he felt like and not giving a shit about the consequences. It takes a lot more balls for an aging rocker to release a dance pop record than it does to make a serious artistic statement. Yet, if you were to paint Cornell as an oblivious fool, you couldn't write a more clichéd mockumentary than Cornell's actual life. He didn't seem oblivious, though. He seemed contentedly above it all, untouched and unfazed. Until today. I'm not gonna overstate my Cornell fandom. I think he made two bona fide classic albums with Soundgarden and I'm not listening to them today. I'm not planning to go back and reassess his solo albums. I don't regret selling off my copies of Ultramega OK and Screaming Life/Fopp years ago. I'm not lamenting having given up on the guy or failing to appreciate him while he was still around. I'll leave all that to his true fans. I do feel profoundly sad for anybody that knew him, and ill that this is how it all comes to an end. It feels so sickeningly inevitable. The last time I saw Chris was at the PJ20 to-do at Alpine Valley in 2011. It was the Temple Of The Dog reunion that middle-aged gen-xers had dreamt of all their adult lives. Each of the two nights, Cornell came out during Pearl Jam's encore--the band that stole his drummer after his band originally broke up--and did four TotD songs, stone-faced, impeccably coifed, belting 'em out like a star. I had some very emotional episodes that weekend, but not these segments. I was unmoved, somehow unable to access the gratitude I should've been feeling for the privelege of being present for these historic moments.

-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP)-treated mice. In this study, we investigated whether oral administration of CoQ(10) could protect the striatal dopaminergic (DAergic) nerve terminals against MPTP-induced toxicity in C57BL/6N mice using immunoisolation technique for DAergic synaptosomes. CoQ(10) significantly attenuated decrease in dopamine transporter as well as in synaptophysin and actin protein levels in DAergic synaptosomes from MPTP-treated mice. The effect of CoQ(10) was also observed in crude synaptosomes fraction, but not in homogenate. Our results indicate that the nerve terminals are a site for the action of CoQ(10) against the MPTP-induced DAergic neurodegeneration.Blog Archives LAS VEGAS. I've written my fair share of stories about Flash insecurity over the years. I've also written about new tools to secure Flash. At Black Hat, Felix "FX" Lindner launched a new tool called Blitzableiter under the GPLv3 open source license. The word - Blitzablienter - is a German term for lighting rod. The idea being that the tool takes dangerous lighting and turns it into a harmless Flash file. The tool integrates with the NoScript plugin for Firefox enabling users to check if a Flash file is doing something malicious. Going a step further, if there is something malicious in the Flash file, the tool will strip that out and provide the user with a safe file. In my opinion it's a really good idea. While NoScript is a great tool as it enables users to block JavaScript and Flash - the options had previously been limited to either allow or deny. so now with Blitzableiter as filter, user's can actually check to see if the Flash is ok, instead of just denying it. LAS VEGAS. A new tool shows how easy it can be to target websites for drive-by downloads in an effort to help build better security. The Black Hat conference is one that is legendary for its talks that get pulled. Once such pulled talk in 2010 is a talk on the Chinese Cyber Army by Armorize CTO and founder Wayne Huang. Instead of just giving up his speaking slot, Huang delivered a presentation on a new tool called Drivesploit that he developed to help deliver and analyze drive-by exploits. Drive-by exploits have become increasingly common in recent years and put users at risk simply by visiting an infected website. Huang noted that Google was the victim of one such drive-by attack last year in the so-called Aurora attack. LAS VEGAS. Black Hat is always busy, and this year moreso than any year I can ever remember. Even the vendor booths are busy this year! The busiest booth by far this afternoon was Google's. (that's a pic of their booth- left) Why? Google had the most 'interesting' giveaway. Well maybe not the most interesting item, but the most interesting method of getting the item. In order to get a special Google Black Hat T-shirt, Black Hat attendees have to complete a wood puzzle box (think Rubic's Cube). LAS VEGAS. Security researcher Barnaby Jack (pic left) took to the stage at Black Hat and showed how he could 'jackpot' ATMs to get cash. And guess what? According to Jack, it's Microsoft Windows that bears some of the blame for the way that he can get ATM's to give him cash. Jack noted that his goal wasn't to necessarily teach people how to defraud ATM's, but rather to highlight insecurities in ATMs. Jack explained that most ATM's run Microsoft Windows CE on ARM processors and they all tend to have remote updating capabilities. Jack wrote a remote exploitation program called Dilinger to remotely exploit the ATM. Then once the ATM is exploited he has another program called Scrooge which is a root kit for the ATM. With those tools, Jack - much to the delight of the massive Black Hat crowd that gathered to see him - used his tools to exploit a pair of ATMs on stage - Live. LAS VEGAS. Jane Holl Lute (pic left), the deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security took the stage at Black Hat this morning with a key message. Lute said that cyberspace isn't the wild west and it's not a jungle either. "What is DHS trying to do?" Lute said. "We're trying to create a safe security resilient place where the American way of life can thrive." Lute added that the mission of DHS isn't necessarily about more governance "The goal here is not control, it's confidence." Lute also face some tough questions from the audience including a question about why anyone should trust the DHS to do their job, when the TSA and other U.S. agencies seem to be lacking. Lute responded that she thinks the U.S. can have security and citizen rights but there needs to be a debate about the balance. In the case of openSUSE 11.0, it's two year and one month (25 months). The openSUSE 11.0 release debuted in June of 2008 and has since been replaced by more recent releases - with the most recent release being the openSUSE 11.3 release earlier this month. As part of the end of life announcement, openSUSE developers have compiled some really interesting statistics on how the release was updated over its life span in contrast with its predecessor openSUSE 10.3. Overall, openSUSE developers reported that the 11.0 release had a 7 percent reduction in the number of security patches when compared to 10.3. The top package fixed in openSUSE 11.0 over its lifespan was Mozilla Firefox with 18 patches, which is 5 more than 10.3 had. Novell's openSUSE, like all Linux distros, relies on upsteam project for many of its security disclosures, so the reduction in patches for openSUSE 11.0 may well be a good sign for Linux (and open source) overall. Then again, openSUSE developers noted that the number of CVE identified items that were fixed actually went up by 13 percent - which leads me to believe that perhaps more patches were more efficient at tackling multiple vulnerabilities. According to data presented by DiBona, the GPLv3 license now represents more than half of the GPL licensed code that Google hosts on its Google Code site. Just to mix and match some stats here, a year ago I wrote about a Black Duck report that showed the GPLv3 still lagging behind the GPLv2. As with lots of other things, sometimes adoption is just a matter of time. There is still a vast amount of GPLv2 code out there and I personally suspect that the Linux kernel will never move away from it. That said, what DiBona's data shows is that developers are embracing GPLv3 and using it for their project in growing numbers. At this point we're three years into the GPLv3 process as Richard Stallman officially released GPLv3 on June 29, 2007. So yeah it's about time that GPLv3 asserts itself as the dominant form of the GPL. Marten Mickos (pic left) is perhaps best known as the former CEO of open source database vendor MySQL. Mickos is currently the CEO of open source cloud vendor Eucalyptus and he's trying to mimic the success that MySQL had with his new company. So how does an open source company make money? During a keynote at the OSCON conference on Wednesday, Mickos delivered a very simple formula. "There are some people with lots of time and no interest in spending money and there are other people with lots of money and no interest in spending time," Mickos said. "So we're trying to sell something to those with money and give something to those with time." Makes good sense to me - there will always be users that won't pay for software for whatever reason. For some users there may not be a need for support and services either. But the fact that there are people that will pay because they have a need, is what continues to enable commercial entities to prosper with open source software. Stormy Peters (pic left) is the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation and she's got a message for open source devs and users : Pick Up the Poop. No I'm not making that up. That was the title of her OSCON keynote on Wednesday in which she encouraged attendees to fix what's wrong with web services. Peters explained that she has a 3 year old at home (and little kids are fascinated by the word 'poop'), so that's partially where the title came from. Fundamentally though in her view it is up to the open source community to see where there is 'poop' - that is things that don't work right or aren't as they should be - in an effort to make them right. In particular she stressed that in the modern era of online services like Facebook, Twitter and webmail - users need to ensure that they still have their freedom. We all need to make sure that our data and content is portable and that it can be extracted from the online services. She warned open source users to look out for their own freedom to ensure that their content isn't taken away by some kind of online service lock-in. "Think about your freedom," Peters said. "And help pick up the po

on tietenkin se, että Jessen kautta he ovat nyt saaneet haltuunsa kaksi kivääriä. Tämänpäiväisten tapahtumien valossa aseet saattavat osoittautua hyvinkin hyödyllisiksi. Ja Jesse on luvannut opettaa heidät kaikki käyttämään niitä. Mikä sekin tulee varmaan olemaan mielenkiintoista, sillä Jade ei ole ihan varma, osaako Jesse puhua änkyttämättä pitempiä kuin kolmen sanan lauseita. He ovat myös laatineet yöpartiointilistan. Koskaan ei voi tietää, tulevatko ne kivääripojat takaisin kymmenen kaverinsa kanssa. Tai joku muu vielä vaarallisempi. Tai rotat. Siksi he aikovat valvoa vuoronperään, jotta muut voivat nukkua rauhassa. Ainoa ongelma suunnitelmassa on se, että heistä kukaan ei oikein luota Jesseen, paitsi ehkä Sara. Mutta Sara onkin Jaden mielestä järjettömän luottavainen. Ja sinisilmäinen. Asiasta oli noussut aikamoinen riitakin. Jade oli tuonut esille, että hän ei ainakaan henkilökohtaisesti tuntisi oloaan kovin turvalliseksi, tai pystyisi nukkumaan, jos Jesse valvoisi hänen vierellään kivääri kädessä. Ali ja Tomi olivat viissiin kerrankin hänen kanssaan samaa mieltä, koska eivät sanoneet siihen juuri mitään. Eivät edes, että Jaden ei tarvinnut olla niin tyly. Sara tietenkin oli ollut kauhuissaan Jaden suorasukaisuudesta, mutta se nyt ei ollut mitään uutta. Tyttö on niin herkkä, että metsäkauriskin vaikuttaisi tunteettomalta robotilta häneen verrattuna. Mikä sekä ärsyttää Jadea että herättää hänessä jonkinlaista ällöttävää suojelunhalua. Vähän niin kuin Suseten kanssa aikaisemmin. Jos Jade voisi sulkea tuon typerän tunteen ikuisiksi ajoiksi jonnekin syvälle pimeään tai vaihtoehtoisesti leikata sen itsestään irti veitsellä, hän tekisi niin heti. Empimättä. "Vahditaanko pareittain?" Tomi lopulta ehdottaa sovittelevasti ja kaikki myöntyvät ajatukseen vähän turhankin nopeasti. Tajuamatta, että heitä on pariton määrä. Kun Jade tuo asian ilmi, kaikki muut vain tuijottavat häntä tyhmänä, aivan kuin heidän aivonsa olisivat lakanneet toimimasta. "Mä voin vahtia yksin, olkaa te pareissa", Jade sanoo. Tomi ja Ali katsovat toisiaan merkitsevästi. "Ehkä mä tai Ali voitais ottaa se yksinäinen vuoro", Tomi ehdottaa. Jade puristaa kätensä tiukasti nyrkkiin, niin kovasti hänen sisällään alkaa kiehua. Miksi Tomi aina kyseenalaistaa hänen ehdotuksensa? Aivan kuin hän kuvittelisi, että Jade on jotenkin avuttomampi kuin hän itse. "Ai miksi? Koska muhun ei voi luottaa vai siksi että mä olen tyttö? Vai molempia?" Hän katsoo heitä uhmakkaasti kädet rinnalla ristissä. Aina tämä sama laulu näiltä pojilta, hän on siihen niin totaalisen kyllästynyt. Jopa Sara tuhahtaa hänen vierellään, mutta ei sano mitään. Jade kääntyy katsomaan tyttöä sisuskalut tulessa. Hänestä itsestäänkin on ihme, ettei hänen suustaan leimahda liekkejä, kun hän puhuu. "Onko sulla jotain sanottavaa?" hän kysyy purevaan sävyyn. Sara puree huultaan. "No itse asiassa on", hän sanoo vapisevalla äänellä. "Miten sä voit puhua luottamuksesta, kun et itse luota Jesseen?" Jade tuijottaa Saraa hetken niin tiukasti, että tämä joutuu ottamaan askeleen taaksepäin. Se tuntuu Jadesta hyvältä. Pelätköön häntä, mokomakin hiirulainen. "Miten sä voit olla niin idiootti, että luotat kaikkiin ihmisiin, jotka vilkaiseekin suhun päin? Tajuatko sä, että me ei eletä missään keijukaisten vaaleanpunaisessa satulinnassa, jossa kaikki on toistensa kavereita? Mä en ajattele vaan mun omaa parastani, vaan myös sun parasta. Mitä jos tuo läski on joku sosiopaatti, joka aikoo murhata meidät kaikki heti kun silmä välttää?" Hän osoittaa Jesseä sormellaan, ja poika näyttää siltä kuin haluaisi vajota maan alle. Siinäpä vasta näky olisikin, elefantin mentävä aukko kaupan lattiassa. Jade nakkelee niskojaan. "Kiesus Jade", Tomi puuskahtaa. "Eikö sulla ole mitään filtteriä?" Jade katsoo Tomia vihaisesti. "Eikö sulla ole rahkeita sanoa asioita suoraan? Kyllä mä tiedän, että säkin olet miettinyt tätä tilannetta samalta kantilta kuin minä. Vai etkö muka ole?" Tomi ei sano mitään, mutta puna leviää hitaasti hänen kasvoilleen alkaen verkkaritakin kauluksesta ja päätyen hiusrajaan. Jade hymähtää ja vilkaisee Jesseä. "Me ei voida tietää kenenkään meille tuntemattoman motiiveja tässä vaiheessa." Kukaan ei sano mitään. Kukaan ei myöskään katso ketään toista. Paitsi tietenkin Jade itse, mutta hänpä ei pelkääkään sitä mitä muut ajattelevat. Vain Ali kohtaa hänen katseensa, ja pojan ilmeestä voi lukea paljon. Hän onkin se, joka puhuu seuraavaksi. "Jesse, mitä sä olet mieltä? Voisitko sä valvoa mun kanssa yhden vahtivuoron?" hän kysyy sovittelevasti. Jesse nyökkää ja nostaa katseensa lattiasta. Hetken hänen harmaat silmänsä katsovat Jadea, sitten hän kääntää ne toisaalle. "Joo", hän sanoo. "Mut ihan ti-ti-tiedoksi vaan, etten mä-mä-mäkään luota teihin. Keneenkään." # Kolmaskymmeneskuudes luku KOLMASKYMMENESKUUDES LUKU ## Susette Susette kiiruhtaa pihan poikki, sillä hänellä on aavistus, että aikaa on vähän. Vaikka Rafi on talolla Oliverin kanssa, ei ole varmaa että hän pysyy siellä. Saunan jälkeen hän kantoi pikkuveljensä tup

at 150 rpm for 24 h. The obtained suspension of modified reactive materials was centrifuged at 4500 rpm for 10 min. Then, the solution was poured to create the samples and topped up with distilled water. The samples were shaken at 150 rpm for 10 min. The content of each flask was poured into a plastic bottle fitted with a cap and topped up with 1 dm^3^ of distilled water. The bottles were screwed tight and shaken again at 150 rpm for 1 h. They were then put away for 15 min, after which the samples were filtered using a vacuum water pump and fine filter papers. Material samples remaining on the filter paper were dried at 105 °C, and then rinsed again using the same procedure described above. The rinsing was done until the pH of the solution was similar to the pH of the reactive materials prior to the modification with Ca(OH)~2~. In order to establish the efficacy of reactive materials modification with the following Ca(OH)~2~ solutions: 0.10 M, 0.25 M, 0.50 M, an initial experiment of phosphate removal was carried out. The conditions of the experiment were decided on based on the data from the available literature: Dose: 5.0 \[g/dm^3^\], according to [Table 4](#materials-13-01190-t004){ref-type="table"};Phosphate concentrations: approximately 1.0 and 7.0 \[mg/dm^3^\], according to [Table 1](#materials-13-01190-t001){ref-type="table"}. Expecting changes in phosphate concentrations over time, while wanting to select the appropriate Ca(OH)~2~ concentration for the modification, it was assumed that phosphate concentrations will be determined after: 24, 48, 72, and 144 h \[[@B95-materials-13-01190]\] of the contact time of modified reactive materials with phosphate compounds. Initial and final phosphate concentrations within the compound were analysed using a colorimetric method with ammonium molybdate and ascorbic acid \[[@B102-materials-13-01190],[@B103-materials-13-01190]\] on a Hitachi U--1800 spectrophotometer (Hitachi, Tokyo, Japan), at a wavelength of 870 nm. The method, utilising ascorbic acid, involves a reaction of ammonium molybdate and antimonium tartaricum in acidic environment with orthophosphates, thus forming phosphomolybdic acid which is subsequently reduced with ascorbic acid to an intensely coloured molybdenum blue. The standard solution of potassium dihydrogen KH~2~PO~4~ by Merck was used as the benchmark. All designations for each sample were done three times (samples were collected from three bottles). In order to select the concentration which would finally be used in the reactive material modification, the impact of different concentrations on the efficacy of phosphate removal from the prepared solutions was assessed. The efficacy of phosphate removal was defined using Equation (1): $$Skt = (\frac{c_{0} - c_{t}}{c_{0}}) \times 100\%$$ where: *Skt* is efficacy of phosphate removal \[%\]; *c*~0~ is initial concentration \[mg/dm^3^\]; *c~t~* is concentration after contact time, where t = 24, 48, 72, 144 \[mg/dm^3^\]. Two phosphate concentrations were used in the experiment (approximately 1.0 \[mg/dm^3^\] and approximately 7.0 \[mg/dm^3^\]), which corresponded to the characteristic concentrations of the drainage water ([Table 1](#materials-13-01190-t001){ref-type="table"}). After the set contact time elapsed, each of the modified materials' phosphate concentrations were measured in the solution. Then, the efficacy of phosphate removal was calculated, and the results are presented in [Figure 1](#materials-13-01190-f001){ref-type="fig"}a,b. 3.2. Determining The Chemical and Mineral Composition, As Well As The Porous Texture and Morphology of The Modified Reactive Material {#sec3dot2-materials-13-01190} ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chemical composition was determined using X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (WD--XRF) (PANalytical, Almelo, The Netherlands). A quality analysis of the spectrum was done by identifying spectral lines and determining their potential coincidences. Based on this, analytical lines were selected. A semi-quantitative analysis was designed using SQX calculation software (fundamental parameters approach). The analysis was done within the scope of fluoride--uranium (F--U), while the content of the determined elements was normalised to 100%. Standard preparation using the pastillation technique with the addition of a binder (Celleox) was applied. The ratio of sample to binder was 4.5:1.5. For the analysis of the mineral composition, X-ray diffractometry (XRD) (PANalytical, Almelo, The Netherlands) was used. The designation of the phase composition was carried out by means of an X-ray, using the powder (Debye--Scherrer) method. X-ray images registered by means of the Rigaku SmartLab X-ray diffractometer, applying the Cu lamp, reflection graphite monochromator. The analysis was carried out within the angular scope 5--70° 2θ; the calculation time corresponding to one time step was 1 s. The obtained values of inter-surface distances were used for the identification of the phases contained in the tested samples, based on the data included in the International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD) 2014 catalogue and the XRAYAN software. The porous texture characteristics were determined based on the isotherms of low-temperature adsorption and desorption of nitrogen at 196 °C. The analysis was carried out using ASAP 2020 (Micromeritics) designed for precision sorption measurements. Prior to measuring, samples were vacuum heated at 150 °C for 12 h. The following parameters of porous texture were calculated for these samples:Specific surface area (SSA~BET~) according to the methodology by Brunauer--Emmett--Teller;Pore total volume V^0,99^~tot~ for relative pressure p/p0 = 0.99;Micropore volume V^DR^~mik~ (pores of width smaller than 2 nm) according to the methodology by Dubinin--Radushkevich;Mesopore volume V^BJH^~mez~ (pores of width greater than 2 nm and smaller than 50 nm) according to the methodology by Barrett--Joyner--Halenda (BJH). Macropore volume was calculated based on the total difference between pore volume and the volume of micro- and mesopores. The analysis was conducted as recommended by the norms: ISO 9277:2010(E), ISO 15901--2:2006(E), ISO 15901--3:2007(E). Morphology was analysed using a JEOL JSM--820 scanning microscope (Joel, Tokyo, Japan). Samples were previously adequately prepared. Small amounts of the materials were dried out to a solid mass and then placed on a carbon medium, ensuring charge dissipation from the sample. Materials were coated with a thin layer of gold using the JEOL JEE--4X evaporator (Joel, Tokyo, Japan). 3.3. The Experiment Methodology of Phosphate Removal Using Calcium Hydroxide Modified Reactive Material {#sec3dot3-materials-13-01190} ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The phosphate removal experiments were carried out in order to assess and compare the efficacy of phosphate removal using modified reactive material CaTF, i.e., the tuff of Filipowice created in a process of synthesis by the fusion method and modified by 0.25 M Ca(OH)~2~. The experiments were carried out using statistical method in a closed circuit \[[@B104-materials-13-01190]\]. This means that the known (and unchanged during the course of the experiment) volumes of solutions containing phosphates reacted with the reactive materials in a given time: 1, 4, 24, 48, 72, and 144 h \[[@B95-materials-13-01190]\]. Compared to the experiment done using dynamic method (a solution flows through a column containing the reactive material), the experiment done using the statistical method was characterised by a lack of flow or constant mixing of phosphate solutions in with the reactive material. Samples of modified reactive material used in the experiment were dried out. Modified reactive material samples of the following quantities: 500, 1000 and 2000 ± 2.0 mg per sample were placed in plastic bottles. The volume of the bottles was 0.25 dm^3^. Individual doses of material were topped up with 0.20 dm^3^ of solution containing appropriate phosphate concentration. The assumed material doses correspond to the ratio of solid mass to the solution volume: 2.5, 5.0 and 10.0 \[g/dm^3^\]. After the analysis of the phosphate concentrations listed in [Table 1](#materials-13-01190-t001){ref-type="table"}, it was decided that the experiments testing the use of modified reactive materials for phosphate removal will use the following concentrations of these compounds: approximately 1.0, 3.2 and 7.0 \[mg/dm^3^\] which approximately corresponds to the phosphate concentrations found in the drainage waters of classes III--V \[[@B5-materials-13-01190]\]. Phosphate solutions were prepared by dissolving appropriate quantities of monopotassium phosphate (KH~2~PO~4~) in distilled water. The contents of bottles were mixed for

OF A NON-BELEIVER. ARE THERE ANY? THAT SHOW THE EFFECTSOF MERCURY RETROGRADE? AND, IS THERE ANY POSSIBILITY THAT A SUCCESSFUL, POWERFUL RELATIONSHIP CAN RESULT FROM A MEETING AND/OR FIRST DATE DURING MERCURY RETROGRADE? Hi Tovah - What kind of research would you accept? Michele Gauquelin did lots of statistical research on planetary positions and profession which show remarkable results, but I don't think he ever did anything about Mercury RX. I am known as somewhat of an expert on Mercury RX, having written the first significant book on it, and I don't think it's necessarily a bad time to start things. It just depends on what you're starting. It's a good time to start research on something, or travel. It's a good time to start correcting things that need it, or rehearsing something to be done "for real" later. I've ordered things on line that were delayed, but turned out just fine. (Electrical and mechanical things are another matter entirely!) I signed a lease on an apt during a Mercury RX thinking I would only be there a short time, and I still have it 18 years later. In my book, "A New Look At Mercury Retrograde," I discuss many things about the phenomenon, including how those with Mercury RX seem to do well, move forward, etc. during these periods. Since they are a recurring factor in the orbit of that planet relative to the Earth, they obviously are good for many things, since nothing is bad in and of itself, except for needless violence, cruelty, and suffering. And yes, I'm sure many "successful" relationships have been started during Mercury RX - but I'll bet they took some interesting twists and turns along the way! Dear Robert! Though I've never before supported\approved:) people who ask for your insights for the personal purposes here, but the time being(via ambivalent situations) can change human approaches... So,what can Mercury Re together with Venus propose a person if they conjunct with the natal Mars at the moment/More than that white Moon is near natal Chiron as well? I was born on april 17,1957,at 2.20 a.m.(Minsk time) Sorry,but my current situation is far from being only mine.Thank you for possible advice... It's been an incredible time for me- this past Mercury Rx, culminating with the Summer Full Moon, and has effected many changes, breaking from the past bonds, which have been finally released with Mars being strong, too. New foundations to view power use and abuse and act accordingly. many things were set in motion in January when Pluto moved into Cap, until June 14, when it Rx into sag again. I wonder if you have any insights into how the mercury Rx was affected when during its last week, Pluto changed signs. Its been an incredible period of discoveries, revelations, and actually beginning to put some of those ideas into action, esp when the Mercury Rx ended, but that drive to fo into action seemed to get a boost on the 14th when Pluto returned for an encore in Sag. There has been a lot of clarity of complex situations. When Mercury retrogrades in Aquarius, as it will in a matter of days, are there particular issues to watch out for? I've set up some pretty heavy duty meetings to raise funds, and my boss will have these meetings during the next retrograde cycle. We've been struggling for a year to get recognition as an educational consultancy (charity) and for funds -- as I am new to this country. All of a sudden in August, contacts sprung up like weeds. I'm not sure, therefore, if this is STARTING a new project or continuing -- it's certainly been stalled to now. Hi Annette - Mercury is in fact rx'ing in Libra. Will post more about that in the near future. Just approach meetings with a sense of giving them options they can decide on in the future after the meetings. Give them things and approaches to consider so they can come back in the near future to discuss or decide with you. Make it piecemeal with modules they can fund together or separately. More info, more info, more info. Make new beginnings 3 weeks down the road! My book is usually on Amazon used for whatever you can find it, at leas for now. Hi Roots - Why worry? Job interviews are as much about you interviewing them as them interviewing you. Few jobs are permanent in the larger sense of that word, and realize that even if you do get something, it will lead to other things, you'll understand things you don't at present, and perhaps be a preparation for things to come you cannot even imagine right now. Build in a delay, research time, or see other ways this could lead to other things.Just a few miles inland from the super-sleek international resort of Saint Tropez lies a treat of a medieval village with streets built up a hillside in ever-decreasing circles, like the shell of a snail. At the centre of Ramatuelle’s spiral, in part of an ancient chateau, stands a hidden house which for the past five years has been home to Marjolaine Leray, her husband, Claude Avignon, and her daughter, Mia, now aged 12. Not content with transforming a large building that had lain empty for more than 50 years, she has also, with her business partner and best friend, Sitor Senghor, opened three shops selling artefacts from around the world. La Galerie des Matières is in her own vaulted cellar, formerly home to one of the village’s three olive presses. Thanks to the hill’s incline, this 'basement’ is sited at street level (conversely, the garden at the back is higher than the street). La Salle du Château, which houses a cabinet of curiosities and a fabric workshop, is in the next-door building, which used to be part of the 17th-century chateau. The third shop is a tiny boutique, ALM25, filled with ceramics, lamps and paintings. Finding Leray in this small-town environment is something of a surprise. She is an international decorator, and her company, ALM, began as a consultancy with her husband as the architect-designer, and Senghor as the art expert. They have been in demand ever since, creating houses, hotels, shops and restaurants in France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, England and America. The architectural practice is now housed above ALM25. Leray usually works in a friendly, contemporary style, stating, 'I like to show that modern can also be warm.’ However, once in a while she is seduced by an old house. That is what happened here. In fact, moving here was something of a homecoming for Leray, who was born and brought up in Ramatuelle. She left at the age of 12 to go to boarding school, and has since lived around the world, in New York, Paris and London among other places. Although she had happy childhood memories of the place, Leray had no plans to move back . But when she heard that the 'large house of the village’ was for sale, she couldn’t resist looking round. She found it in ruins but 'charming because it somehow felt right and like the family house I’d always dreamed of. I could not believe my dream house was also in my dream village,’ she says. Pleasing features included a tangled garden hung with vines, a view of the sea from the top floor, and an external metal staircase designed in 1868 by Gustave Eiffel’s company, which had made it possible to add two floors. Amazingly, as Leray says, 'You can’t see the house from the village; it is higher than the street and tucked away.’ It required rather more than a lick of paint to become habitable again. The previous owner had lived in one room, and there were trees growing inside. Moreover, the kitchen was in a corridor, there was only one bathroom, and the lavatory was in the garden. It was clear that the whole exercise would be long and challenging. The narrow, spiralling streets made it difficult to bring in the heavy machinery required, while the beams were so long it took imagination and planning to get them through Ramatuelle at all. First the basic structure had to be shored up and given a new roof (curved like the original), and the lofty stone cellar was restored. In order to put in under-floor heating the ground-floor tiles were taken up and replaced with hexagonal ones, and chestnut floors were installed everywhere else (none of the other levels had floors at all). The chateau was never home to a grand seigneur, so was built of plain materials – stone instead of marble, and local walnut or chestnut instead of oak. Fortunately Avignon is 'crazy about wood and natural materials, and although I studied wood engineering he knows so much more than I do about it,’ Leray says. Twenty years ago he started a woodworking company that makes what he designs, from full-size residential to tree houses. The company owns a large stock of aged wood for furniture and floors. 'When we work for ourselves it’s more difficult, because we always come last,’ Leray explains. Nevertheless, the whole renovation and decoration took only nine months. Avignon designed the handsome wooden-cupboard-lined kitchen, the bathroom’s wood

We're going to do our best to help the U.S. try to qualify for Tokyo in 2020."I remember spending a lot of time as little kid running around the USA gyms," added Barry, whose mother, Lynn, worked for USA Basketball from 1985-1996. "And I was able to try out for the U19 team back [in 2013] when I was a freshman in college. So, it feels great to still be a part of the USA Basketball family and be able to represent my country."The USA will be one of 20 nations competing in the 3x3 World Cup. The team opens play on June 19 against four-time defending champion Serbia and Turkey, followed by games against South Korea and Netherlands on June 21. The top two teams from the pool will advance out of pool play and into the quarterfinals.The Lakers forward is known for his antics— such as showing up to a talk show in his underwear — but he’s becoming famous for talking about an issue that is often concealed: mental health. Artest is funding therapy and mental health awareness through the sale of his championship ring and possibly the donation of his entire $6.79 million 2011-2012 salary. The NBA champion has already raised enough with his ring raffle — nearly half a million dollars — to hire eight school therapists, he says. He will reveal July 1 what percentage of next year’s paycheck he plans to donate. He says he might give away the whole thing. — PZS ESPN: It takes a dedicated 0.1 percentile-type of person to consider giving away a large percentage of the $6.79 million he is contracted to make next season. “Either all or some,” Artest said about his donation plans prior to the Lakers’ game against the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday. “You’ll know July 1.” Read more “I definitely want to thank … my psychiatrist.”Dave Marsh (game developer) David R. Marsh (born November 5, 1964) is an American video game designer known for his work supporting the intellectual properties that used to belong to ICOM Simulations, and creating the MacVenture game Shadowgate. As of 2012, he recently founded a new game development company called Zojoi, LLC with plans to release new, remastered and revised versions of games created by him and Karl Roelofs when they were at ICOM Simulations. Biography ICOM Simulations In the mid-1980s, Dave Marsh started his career in game development by developing projects and creating graphics with an Apple II. He met programmer Terry Schulenburg from ICOM Simulations after they had released their first MacVenture game: Déjà Vu: A Nightmare Comes True in 1985. Terry told Dave about the kind of games they were working on and lent one of ICOM's Macintosh 128K systems to him. Dave enlisted the help of his friend Karl Roelofs, and together the two began working on their first complete game which would eventually become Shadowgate. Dave officially joined ICOM Simulations in April–May 1985, and began working as an artist on the 2nd MacVenture game: Uninvited and as an artist and producer on the PC ports of the first MacVenture game, Déjà Vu. Karl came on board soon after, and the two continued designing and developing Shadowgate while working on the other MacVenture games. One of the issues that Dave and Karl had to deal with in making Shadowgate was the size constraints of the floppy disks. Some of the puzzles and rooms that were designed had to be cut in order for there to be enough space to fit them on the disks. In the early 1990s, with the rise in CD-ROM technology, the higher ups at ICOM Simulations decided to move away from adventure games in favor of side-scrollers and action games. Adventure games that Dave and Karl were involved in, such as Beyond Shadowgate and The Awakening, were cancelled and ICOM secured a contract with NEC to develop for the TurboGrafx-16. In addition to the more action oriented games, Dave and Karl also were heavily involved working on games that used live actors and full motion video, such as Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective, to make use of the latest technological advancements. Two major changes happened at ICOM Simulations while Dave was there. On July 5, 1991, Tod Zipnick, the founder and principal shareholder of ICOM Simulations, died of Hodgkin's Disease at the age of 35. In May 1993, ICOM Simulations was purchased by Viacom, Inc. as part of the media conglomerate's expansion into interactive media. ICOM Simulations was then renamed to Viacom New Media and changed the focus of the games Dave and the company would develop for the next four years. Viacom New Media After ICOM Simulations became Viacom New Media, Dave began working on producing games based on licensed properties, primarily those of MTV and Nickelodeon. Some of these games included Rocko's Modern Life: Spunky's Dangerous Day and Beavis and Butt-head. In 1998, Viacom shut down Viacom New Media and sold off its intellectual properties. One of Viacom New Media's former employees was Eugene Evans, formerly of Mythic Entertainment, who had founded his own company called Infinite Ventures. He contacted Dave and got his help in securing most of ICOM Simulation's intellectual properties, including Shadowgate. Infinite Ventures With ICOM Simulation's library of games in their possession, Eugene Evans worked with Dave Marsh and Karl Roelofs to revitalize Shadowgate and the other MacVenture games. They also re-released higher quality versions of all three volumes of the Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective Video Mysteries and Dracula Unleashed as Interactive DVD games that could be played on any DVD Player. In 2008, Infinite Ventures closed down and the intellectual properties of ICOM Simulations remained in the possession of Infinite Venture's Karla Knickerbocker. In January 2012, Dave Marsh approached Karla with an interest to secure the rights to the ICOM Simulations library of games. Zojoi On March 7, 2012, Dave founded Zojoi, LLC with fellow ICOM Simulations and Infinite Ventures veteran, Karl Roelofs. On the Zojoi company website, they state their mission as follows: On March 16, 2012, Zojoi launched a Kickstarter crowd funding campaign to help fund the development of a remastered version of the original nine Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective mysteries. Dave Marsh appeared in the pitch video for the project to describe what he and his company wanted to do. They had set a funding goal of $55,000 for their campaign, and offered rewards that would allow backers to become an additional part of the game, such as by writing an important article for in game copies of The London Times. Unfortunately, the campaign ended on April 28, 2012 after raising $17,430: 31% of their target goal. This meant that Dave and Zojoi would not get any funding at all as outlined in Kickstarter's guidelines. Despite this turn of events, Dave stated in an update on the campaign page that he and Zojoi would still work towards remastering and releasing Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective, even though it would take longer to raise the money necessary to finish the work. On September 18, 2012, the first three Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective mysteries were released on iTunes for the iPad 2 and newer iPad models. The Windows and OS X version of the same three mysteries were later released via Desura on October 7, 2012. Dave's next project was to revitalize Shadowgate, and on October 26, 2012, Zojoi launched a Kickstarter campaign for it. Dave and Karl both appeared in the pitch video, and were offering physical rewards including recreations of the "Staff of Ages" used in the game and a Shadowgate card game called Quests of Shadowgate designed by Coleman Charlton of Iron Crown Enterprises and Mayfair Games. Their target goal for this campaign was set at $120,000 and would last for 31 days. Unlike previous releases of Shadowgate, the version Dave Marsh and Karl wanted to make would be different. Dave stated that the game would be a "re-imagining" of Shadowgate where new puzzles that were cut from the original game would be added in along with other brand new puzzles. Some puzzles and rooms would also be removed or altered so that the solution to solving the room's puzzle in the new game would be different than in previous releases. The campaign met its funding goal with about two days left before the end of the campaign. When it ended on November 25, 2012, it raised $137,232 in pledges from 3,468 backers. Not only did the campaign meet its target funding goal, but its first stretch-goal as well. With the campaign's success, Dave began production on Shadowgate at Zojoi. As of December 24, 2012, Zojoi is still accepting pledges via PayPal in case anyone else wanted to pledge and assist in reaching the next stretch goal, and Dave is currently working on the game's development. Games See also ICOM Simulations MacVenture Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective Zojoi References External links Zojoi, LLC Homepage Category:1964 births Category:American video game

it appeared to be unfinished. Jeff never signed it. That night, Jeff reportedly went to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting at the hospital. Another was scheduled for Friday evening, and Jonathan says the facility's staffers expected to see Jeff there, too. But he never showed up--and even though the attendants knew that Jeff was suicidal, they didn't assign anyone to find out where he was. While most of the people in the hospital's psychiatric ward, where Jeff was housed, were attending the AA session, Jeff was in his room. No one knows exactly when, but at some point during the early evening, he fashioned a noose out of one of his bed sheets, looped it over his head, hooked the opposite end to a hinge on his bathroom's door and leapt off a lounge chair. He was barely alive when hospital employees found him. Jonathan had lost contact with Jeff and didn't know that his brother was in Connecticut until earlier that day, when Gary had called inquiring about Jeff's status. Jonathan was still at the Journal at eleven o'clock that evening when the hospital called with the news: Jeff had hanged himself and wasn't expected to make it through the night. At the hospital, Jonathan was met by what he refers to as the "don't-sue-me team." These representatives--one a higher-up in the institution's management, another a doctor--ferried him to the Intensive Care Unit. Jeff's eyes were vacant. Jonathan could see that he was already gone. That evening, Jonathan, having consulted with other family members, decided that there was no choice other than to disconnect the equipment that was keeping Jeff alive. Even though there was virtually no chance that Jeff could feel pain at this point, Jonathan's wife, Jessica, a nurse, demanded that a morphine drip be connected to him. Jeff's face was tense while he was on the respirator, but the tension in it eased when the machine was unplugged. Then, when the morphine hit, his body jolted--bam--before relaxing again. Gary was especially pleased that the last sensation Jeff felt was "the greatest high in the world." The funeral service, conducted the day before Halloween at a beautiful old church in Westport, was primarily a family affair. Jonathan spoke, as did Dwayne. To this day, Dwayne (now in the computer business) is a man of few words, but his anecdotes about Jeff as a young man were incisive and heartfelt. Gary, flown to the service by the Dahls, chose not to speak at the service. He says he was afraid he'd cry. As a result, the foremost representative from Jeff's Westport period was the Human Skull, John Hines, who played an appropriate song, twitching and convulsing in rhythm just as he had back when Joe Downer, Vinnie Venooch and Jeff were still among the living. The most cherished possession Jeff left behind was a guitar, purchased shortly before his death, likely with some of the $3,500 Sheila had sent his way. Gary wanted the instrument himself, but he realized that it would mean more to someone else: Christopher, the elder of Dwayne's two teenage sons. A guitarist in a garage band, Christopher had met Jeff when he'd flown to Maryland for Sheila's wedding to Albert and immediately took a shine to his mysterious uncle. They talked for hours about music, establishing a relationship that they nurtured during another visit and numerous phone calls. Gary says that when he and Jonathan presented Christopher with the guitar at the service, the young man was overwhelmed. Christopher was just as taken aback by what he found inside the guitar--the outlines of a tune, complete with chord notations, written in Jeff's hand. The untitled composition was, surprisingly, a sincere love song unmarred by references to prostitutes, pornography or any other of Jeff's traditional themes. The opening verse takes place on Venice Beach in Southern California, where the protagonist, walking on broken glass, begins to cry. He vows to an absent lover, "If you take me back/I would do anything/Sell this guitar/And dump out this drink." After that, the scene changes: The main character wakes up in a field, suffused with sadness and unsure where he is (a flashback, perhaps, to the cornfield where a delusional Jeff spent his first night in Colorado). But he's not so lost that he can't offer one more declaration of affection: You made me feel somethin' strange Somethin' to think about when I'm sleepin' in the rain You gave me a love so true That's why I keep writin' all these corny songs about you Sheila was certain the song was about Michelle and hurried it to Jeff's former spouse. But Michelle, who did not attend the funeral, isn't nearly so sure. She appreciates Sheila's gesture but sees the ditty merely as one of Jeff's sporadic efforts to stretch. "He'd write much more beautiful songs, much more interesting songs than a lot of them he'd play. They weren't full of horrible images," she says. "But he didn't like them, because they weren't horrible. So he'd write them and then destroy them." But Michelle wasn't so cynical that she didn't mourn Jeff. Two days before the funeral, she held a wake at her duplex that was attended by several of the musicians in Jeff's circle. As news of his demise rippled through the Denver music community over the next few weeks, several of his peers, including Bill Houston and Mike Elkerton, floated the concept of assembling the scattered recordings Jeff made, rough though they were, for a tribute CD. So far, nothing has come of the idea. In the meantime, Perry Dino, a local filmmaker, is trying to figure out what to do with footage of Jeff he shot over the years. Included among it is film of Jeff's last-ever Cricket on the Hill show and The Jeff Dahl Movie, a ten-minute clip that consists of Jeff glowering menacingly as he watches Jonathan's appearance on Good Morning America. Gary has plenty of Jeff mementos, too, from carting away the belongings his friend left in the apartments he abandoned over the years. He gave some things to Jonathan to aid him with his book, and now wonders when or if he'll get them back. Gary's married now, to a German native named Grit who makes her living selling European rail passes. The couple is hoping to relocate to Berlin mid-year and open a small pool hall. Gary is disappointed that Jeff won't be around to visit him in his new home, but he tries mightily to see an up side to the suicide. "Michelle said to me, `I'm really pissed off that he did this. I'm angry,'" he recounts. "And I'm like, `Right, you're angry. But he was the one in pain.' I mean, how can you be angry? I'm going to miss him the rest of my life, more than I can say. But at least he isn't hurting anymore." Sheila and Dwayne are also buoyed by this realization, but by little else. Right now they're choosing to mourn quietly, privately. They don't want to make a stir. Jonathan sees possible negligence in Norwalk Hospital's handling of Jeff's case--specifically, staffers' failure to keep closer tabs on a suicidal patient--but neither he nor Sheila envision filing a lawsuit at this time. They knew that Jeff had tried suicide numerous times before. Norwalk Hospital just happened to be the place where he succeeded. (Maura Romaine, assistant director of community relations at the hospital, declines to comment about the matter on the grounds that "patient information is privileged"). Not that this understanding has made things any better for Jonathan. He may have gotten caught up in, and chewed up by, the star-making culture at the Wall Street Journal, but he doesn't admit to regretting his decision to turn his search for Jeff into something of a commodity. He insists that "Missing in America" served an important purpose--to remind the nation, at a time when politicians cavalierly discuss the slashing of social programs, that there are weak, defenseless people out there who desperately need help. On a more personal level, he believes that the article, the book and the movie forced him to spend more time with Jeff than he otherwise might have. "Those drives up to Estes Park--it was just great when you could somehow remove him from the stress of where he was living," Jonathan says. "It took me back to when we were kids, just walking through the woods together. A big brother gives you this kind of confidence that nobody else can. It's not just that he beat up bullies for me, although he did do those things. It was more letting you know every day that you're okay--and even at 37, I got that feeling from him. When I went back to the Journal, I was afraid. And he'd tell me, `Everything's going to be all right,' in just the right way. He could seem worldly instantly, without ever having been here and seeing this world, and that would turn on the confidence in me and other people immediately. But he never had that confidence in himself. I couldn't convince him to even apply for a job at McDonald's." Jonathan blames himself for that, and for plenty more; at one point, he asks, "Could I have done more for Jeff? Yes. If maybe I'd stayed on my toes more..." He's just as self-critical when he considers the question of

microbial components, often called pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs). Viral RNA, in various forms, is the main PAMP targeted by the system to detect the presence of influenza virus. An important role is also played by the recognition of host products designated as damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) released as a consequence of virus-induced cell lysis. Receptors capable of recognizing the presence of viral products are in the category of pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), which overlap partially with damage recognition receptors (DRR). Once activated, PRRs lead to the secretion of a number of effector molecules that trigger inflammation. These mediators include lipids, such as leukotrienes and prostaglandins, pro-inflammatory cytokines, chemokines and type I interferons [@bib14], [@bib15]. Lipid mediators and pro-inflammatory cytokines, which are produced locally and can also act systemically, cause inflammation, fever and malaise, while chemokines recruit additional cells involved in host defences including myeloid cells (e.g neutrophils and monocytes) and lymphoid cells (e.g. natural killer, or NK cells, T and B cells). A prominent role in host defences is played by NK cells, which kill virus-infected cells, thereby blocking viral replication [@bib16]. Phagocytic inflammatory cells, as well as resident alveolar macrophages, are also important in viral clearance, due to their ability to ingest and destroy infected cells [@bib17]. Three groups of PRRs mediate recognition of PAMPs or DAMPs relevant to influenza infection: 1) Toll-like receptors (TLRs); 2) RIG-I-like receptors (RLRs); 3) NOD-like receptors (NLRs). TLR3 detects the presence of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), while TLR7 and TLR8 sense single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) and RIG-I specifically recognizes 5′-triphosphate RNA. NLRs, such as NLRP3 (standing for NOD-, LRR- and pyrin domain-containing 3), are also able to directly recognize viral products and DAMPs, leading to the formation of large multiprotein complexes called inflammasomes. The availability of mice lacking single receptors or downstream signal transduction components has greatly contributed to our understanding of innate immune sensing and signalling. By using these models, it is possible to analyse the severity of infection induced by murine-adapted strains of influenza A virus (IAV), as well as disease outcome and pathology, in the absence of specific host factors. Further information can be gained by observing the outcome of influenza in patients with genetic defects in these factors. TLRs {#sec4} ==== TLR3, 7 and 8 are predominantly located in internal cell membranes, with the exception of respiratory and intestinal epithelial cells that can express TLR3 also on the plasma membrane \[[Fig. 1](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}\]. These TLRs have a crucial role in the recognition of RNA viruses that, like IAV, enter cells through receptor-mediated endocytosis. In resting cells, these receptors are present in the endoplasmic reticulum, bound to the chaperone protein UNC93B. Upon cell activation by a variety of stimuli, including receptor-mediated endocytosis, nucleic acid-sensing TLRs are moved to the endosomes [@bib18]. This occurs in different steps, involving trafficking to the Golgi apparatus and to early endosomes, which mature into late endosomes and can fuse with lysosomes. Nucleic acid recognition likely occurs in acidified late endosomes or endolysosomes, where full-length, inactive TLRs are cleaved by acid proteases into active and more stable forms [@bib19]. Thus, endosomal acidification and proteolytic cleavage are essential for TLR signaling.Fig. 1Condensed summary of signal transduction pathways activated by TLR3 and TLR7 in cells infected with the influenza virus. After cell entry, the influenza virus is initially found inside endosomes where its genome, consisting of 5′ tri-phosphorylated ssRNA segments, can be recognized by Toll-like receptors 3 and 7 (TLR3/7). TLR7 signalling induces, *via* the myeloid differentiation primary response 88 (MyD88) adaptor protein and other signalling intermediates, the activation of the transcription factors nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) and interferon regulatory factors 1, 3 and 7 (IRF1/3/7). NF-κB activates the transcription of pro-inflammatory cytokine genes, such as pro-interleukin1-beta (IL-1β) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), while the IRFs induce type I interferons (IFN-α and IFN-β) and some interferon-stimulated genes (ISG). TLR3 activates IRF3 *via* the adaptor TRIF (TIR-domain-containing adapter-inducing interferon-β). Viral RNA is recognized in the cytosol by retinoic acid-inducible gene-I (RIG-I), which, leads to the induction of IFN-β and ISG *via* the mitochondrial antiviral signaling (MAVS) protein and IRF3. Abbreviation: Viral NP: viral nucleoprotein.Fig. 1 TLR3 is expressed in the endosomes of all cells of the innate immune system, with the exceptions of plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) and neutrophils [@bib20]. Moreover, TLR3 is expressed both on the surface and in the endosomes of bronchial and alveolar epithelial cells. TLR3 differs from other TLRs in using only TRIF (TIR-domain-containing adaptor protein-inducing IFN-β) as an adaptor for signal transduction \[[Fig. 1](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}\]. The TRIF-dependent pathway leads to the induction of proinflammatory cytokines and type I IFN mainly through the activation of, respectively, NF-κB and IRF3 (or IFN regulatory factor 3) [@bib21]. TLR3 recognizes the dsRNA synthetic analog poly I:C, and, in addition, various forms of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) that can form during viral infection, including: 1) genomic material of dsRNA virus, such as reovirus; 2) dsRNA transcription intermediates of complex DNA virus, such as herpes viruses; 3) dsRNA replication intermediates of positive strand RNA viruses, such as picornavirus and flavivirus; 4) self dsRNA structures that form in damaged cells; 5) miRNA and siRNA complexes. Although TLR3 is involved in host responses to IAV, the exact structure(s) recognized by this receptor are not entirely clear. TLR3 should be unable to recognize the bulk of influenza virus genomic RNA, which consists of segmented ssRNA [@bib22], [@bib23], [@bib24], [@bib25]. Moreover, dsRNA replication intermediates are believed to be rapidly destroyed by cellular RNA helicases, such as UAP 56, in IAV-infected cells [@bib23], [@bib24]. Accordingly, Weber et al. were unable to detect dsRNA by immunofluorescence in IAV-infected cells [@bib25]. However, recent studies using more sensitive monoclonal antibodies have shown that dsRNA is indeed present in both the cytoplasm and the nucleus of IAV-infected cells [@bib22]. Interestingly, protease pretreatment was necessary to detect dsRNA in the nucleus, suggesting that dsRNA binding proteins (viral nucleocapsid proteins?) block dsRNA exposure in this compartment. In addition, *in vitro* infection of epithelial cells with IAV readily triggers TLR-3 dependent proinflammatory cytokine production [@bib26]. It is conceivable that TLR3 recognizes the double stranded structures formed by short complementary sequences at the 5′- and 3′-ends of each segment. Moreover, self dsRNA structures forming in damaged cells may also come into contact with endosomal TLR3 in resident or recruited macrophages, which actively phagocytose dying and apoptotic cells [@bib27]. TLR3 is likely to play an important role in anti-IAV innate host defences, since *Tlr3*^−/−^ mice display higher viral burden in experimental infections, compared with wild-type mice [@bib28], [@bib29]. However, TLR3 signalling may also contribute to pathology since *Tlr3*^−/−^ mice survive longer under these conditions [@bib28], [@bib30]. These mice generate normal CD8^+^ and CD4^+^ T cell responses, suggesting that TLR3 is not required for the initiation of adaptative immune responses to IAV [@bib31]. Human TLR7, which is expressed in the endosomes of bronchial epithelial cells, can sense the presence of the IAV genome in these structures after viral entry through receptor-mediated endocytosis [@bib32]. Endosome acidification is required for both maturation of the receptor and for freeing the genome from the viral core. Specifically, the low endosomal pH activates the M2 viral protein, which functions as a proton channel and acidifies the viral core, promoting dissociation of the M1-nucleoprotein complex [@bib33], [@bib34]. Signals originating from TLR7 and 8 are transduced by the adaptor MyD88, resulting in the activation NF-κB and of IFN-regulatory factors (IRF), which differ in different cell types \[[Fig. 1](#fig1){ref-type="fig"}\]. Stimulation of TLR7 in primary bronchial, but not alveolar, epithelial cells resulted in the release of IL-6 and type III IFN [@bib32]. Plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs), which express TLR7 and TLR8, are recruited to the lung during influenza and produce high amounts of type I IFN by virtue of their high-level, constitutive expression of IRF-7 [@bib35]. TLR7/TLR3 double-deficient or MyD88-deficient mice showed limited ability to restrict IAV replication and were highly susceptible to infection [@bib29]. However, in a different study, TLR

then they stopped. Now they are gone. The angst about the franchise’s impending demise and the hurt that indeed happened is not to the level of what the city felt when the Oilers were snatched out from under us, but the Comets’ loyal following is hurting this week. The Comets meant something to a lot of Houstonians. “The Comets were a source of deep pride for all Houstonians,” said Rockets owner Les Alexander, who owned the Comets during the glory days. “I will never forget our team making history by winning that first WNBA championship, then following it up with three more consecutive titles. The team was a great source of inspiration and had a great impact on thousands of young women everywhere.” In the first few years, Comets fans rocked the Compaq Center. Even when attendance fell off, their games were fun events. Alexander described the Comets’ fans as the “most loyal and energetic fans in the league.” The Comets’ average attendance their first season (1997) was 10,227. That jumped to nearly 13,000 the second season and held around 12,500 for the next two title runs. And it was a different crowd than what you see at other major sports events. A diverse crowd. A fun crowd. A crowd with hundreds of children sitting close enough to see the players’ sweat. In those seats where the fat cats sit at Toyota Center and Reliant Stadium. When the titles stopped coming, some fans did the same, but the team still drew nearly 11,000 a game in 2002. By this past summer, though, the Comets were down to 13th in the 14-team league in attendance, drawing just 6,585 per game at Reliant Arena, roughly half what they did 10 years ago. When the Comets moved to Toyota Center along with the Rockets, it just wasn’t the same as it was at the Compaq Center. The team wasn’t winning enough to keep fan interest high. Empty seats don’t spend money. It was obvious that the Comets were in trouble. One wonders what is in store for the rest of the league if a franchise with the Comets’ history — in a huge market that has displayed as much interest in women’s basketball as Houston did that long ago — can’t survive. What about the league? The Comets’ sad end would seem to indicate that the WNBA is in trouble, particularly in today’s economic environment. Not so, says league president Donna Orender, who said the Comets’ issues were specific to the Comets. “I think that everyone here understands that there’s a history here that predates this economic crisis that created extremely tough challenges for the future success of the Comets and unfortunately we weren’t able to overcome them,” Orender told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. That is sad. It is sad that after such a glorious beginning you can now go on eBay and buy memorabilia for a defunct franchise known as the Houston Comets. It is sad that girls in Houston won’t have a local professional team in the only legitimate women’s league in America to look up to.Related Stories Quotations "It's exciting. This is an indication that there is at least some reproduction going on in the East Coast," Mr. Minkkinen said. "And it shows that the Chesapeake Bay's water quality and habitat is still good enough to support these subadult fish."TESTS = noinst_LTLIBRARIES = librp_builder.la librp_builder_la_SOURCES = algorithmsuite_builder.c asymmetric_binding_builder.c binding_commons_builder.c \ https_token_builder.c layout_builder.c qname_matcher.c rampart_config_builder.c secpolicy_builder.c \ security_context_token_builder.c signed_encrypted_elements_builder.c \ signed_encrypted_parts_builder.c signed_encrypted_items_builder.c \ supporting_tokens_builder.c symmetric_asymmetric_commons_builder.c \ symmetric_binding_builder.c token_builder.c transport_binding_builder.c username_token_builder.c \ wss10_builder.c wss11_builder.c x509_token_builder.c policy_creator.c librp_builder_la_LIBADD = INCLUDES = -I$(top_builddir)/include \ -I ../../../include \ -I ../../../../include \ -I ../../../../axiom/include \ -I ../../../../util/include \ @AXIS2INC@ Best Of Tuthilltown Spirits Distillery Description: In 2003, Ralph Erenzo and Brian Lee put an end to the state’s 80-year dry spell by reopening the historic Tuthilltown Gristmill as a distillery offering the first whiskeys to be legally produced in the state since Prohibition. In the ensuing years they’ve been hard at work making up for lost time, earning a flurry of national and international awards for their whiskeys, vodkas, and other spirits (including gin and rum). But despite their international success and distribution, Tuthilltown itself remains an adamantly local, artisan affair, crafting their small-batch whiskey and vodka solely with the freshest apples and corn from nearby farms. Mixologists looking to make the perfect Manhattan might want to pick up their authentic New York rye, while the distillery’s award-winning Baby Bourbon and moonshine-style, unaged Corn Whiskey are sure to satisfy sippers. Tuthilltown spirits are available at bars and liquor stores throughout the Valley, but visit the distillery itself for tours and tastings or to dine at the beautiful Mill Restaurant & Tavern.Command line or remote panel? by Tom Adelstein Recently, I had the pleasure of watching an article of mine show up on Slashdot, Digg.com, Newsforge and a myriad of other web sites at the same time. None of my colleagues had seen so much traffic on a Linux site before. Aside from the several million hits on our server, we had a quarter of a million unique visitors concentrated in a five-hour period. When you see that kind of traffic, you don't want the server to go down or you'll miss new readers. In our situation, a reboot allowed the system to return to service for a few minutes, but then it locked up again. On a normal day, we used less than ten percent of our system resources, so we thought we had prepared for the hottest day of the year. Little did we know we would experience rolling blackouts. I attempted to explain to our self-proclaimed system administrator that we needed a way to renice unnecessary processes automatically, restart those that failed and keep the server going at all costs. He just had no enterprise experience and insisted he knew the best way to manage the system. He used a RRD tool with a front-end. But when it came to handling processes, he insisted he would login with SSH and handled everything remotely. This provides an example of hardheadedness and an inability to adapt and improvise. I know you do not know any one else like this, but I do. In fact, the majority of noise makers in the community refuse to use tools that execute in a web services environment. You can characterize the modern business climate by friction, uncertainty, disorder, and rapid change. Each situation is a unique combination of shifting factors that cannot be controlled with precision or certainty. System administrators need to learn to adapt. Adaptability means shortening the time it takes to adjust to each new situation. Two basic ways to adapt exist. First, if we have enough awareness to understand a situation in advance we can take preparatory action. Call this anticipation. At other times we have to adapt to the situation on the spur of the moment without time for preparation. This is improvisation. To be fully adaptable, we must be able to do both. We co-hosted our server at an ISP 250 miles from our base of operations. When the server went down, we had to call the ISP and have one of his service personnel run down to the server rack and power it back to a working situation. From that point, our brilliant, know-it-all sys admin had to login into sshd. By the time the server powered back and started all the processes including sshd, the server locked up again. So what was next? Insisting on using the command line, the sys admin had to walk a support technician through a series of steps to renice and shutdown PIDs without allowing the system to connect to the Internet. Once he got the system dedicated to one purpose, he reconnected it to the Internet and though slow, the OS and web server stayed up. Next, our sys admin had to stop several of the Content Management System processes to keep the server up and allow visitors to view a single article. Eventually, the server responded in a reasonable manner. But, consider all the trouble. Sacreligion I prefer using the command line myself. But some situations warrant something in addition. For example, when you manage dozens or even hundreds of servers, you need to poll and drill down into each server remotely and efficently.

I saw outside.York loan for Shaq Posted on 13 March 2015 - 16:45 Shaq Coulthirst has joined League Two side York City on loan until the end of the season. The striker, who made his First Team debut for us as a substitute in a Europa League victory over Anji Makhachkala in December, 2013, recently returned from a loan spell at Southend United and also garnered senior experience on loan at Leyton Orient and Torquay United last season.Negative regulation of antigen receptor-mediated signaling by constitutive association of CD5 with the SHP-1 protein tyrosine phosphatase in B-1 B cells. CD5, a membrane-associated glycoprotein, has been shown to negatively regulate antigen receptor-mediated growth responses in peritoneal B lymphocytes, thymocytes and mature T cells. The CD5-expressing peritoneal B cells (B-1) that are normally unresponsive to B cell receptor (BCR)-mediated growth signals mount a proliferative response to BCR cross-linking if the CD5 gene is deleted or if the CD5 molecule is sequestered away from the BCR. SHP-1, a cytosolic protein tyrosine phosphatase, has also been implicated in the negative regulation of antigen receptor-mediated signaling. The present study shows that SHP-1 is constitutively associated with the BCR in B-1 cells. This association is mediated in part by CD5, as it is reduced substantially after antigen receptor ligation in CD5(-/-) B-1 cells, and upon sequestration of CD5 from the antigen receptor complexes in wild-type B-1 cells. Prior cross-linking of CD5 also restores a normal calcium mobilization response as well as NF-kappaB activation in B-1 cells. These data support a model whereby CD5 negatively regulates antigen receptor-mediated growth signals by recruiting SHP-1 into the BCR complex in B-1 cells.State of Washington: Strengthening the Defense Industry Since 2006, TIP has been working in communities, regions, and states that are home to military installations and defense contractors. Many of our defense-community projects have been funded by assistance grants from the US Department of Defense’s Office of Economic Adjustment (OEA). These grants help defense-dependent communities adjust to and plan for closures, reductions, or expansions at military installations or defense contractors. TIP’s work has included strategic analyses and planning focused on economic diversification, talent retention, target industries, and defense industry adjustment. The map above illustrates our engagements throughout the US. TIP is partnering with management consulting firm Kepner-Tregoe for our current defense industry adjustment project, which builds on the success of three previous OEA-funded pilot projects in Washington State. This project will assist selected defense contractors in developing strategies to find new markets, secure new customers, improve processes, and enhance worker skillsets. The specific services participating companies will receive include an organizational health assessment, a strategy assessment and development assistance, an action plan, and follow-up support. Participants will be selected this month, and assistance will begin immediately, including a two-day in-person executive session. Managed by the Washington Department of Commerce, the goal of this project is to provide a framework for sustaining the health and vitality of the state’s defense-reliant economy amid defense spending uncertainty and variability. A final report will be produced, identifying key findings, recurring themes, and lessons learned. The report will also assess the transferability of these results to other firms in the Washington defense supply chain. Tags Archives Archives About TIP Strategies TIP STRATEGIES, INC. (TIP) is a privately held Austin-based firm providing consulting and advisory services to public and private sector clients. Established in 1995, the firm’s core competency in strategic planning for economic development has broadened to include expertise in talent strategies and organizational development. Ask HN: Last Mile as a Service - poofypanda I’m trying to determine if there are start ups that are doing last mile delivery as a service. Similar to EC2 but you provision drivers and cars who can fulfill deliveries. For about every other company building last mile technology feels like unnecessary heavy lifting. ====== byoung2 [https://onfleet.com/](https://onfleet.com/) Onfleet is the trusted last mile delivery solution for thousands of companies across dozens of industries including food and beverage, retail, pharmacy, cannabis, e-commerce and more. [https://onerail.io/](https://onerail.io/) OneRail connects shippers to an extensive courier ecosystem to automate, optimize and control the entire fulfillment supply chain, from the demand signal to the proof of delivery. Ready to use in under 72 hours! ------ dvtrn [http://jungleworks.com/](http://jungleworks.com/) \- Check this company out (specifically their “Logistics Cloud”), many of their offerings I think fit the mold to a certain extent, in that they provide the technology for onDemand/last-mile’ish services and tooling. No affiliation, just stumbled upon them when I was kicking around a startup idea of my own. Sunday, July 30, 2006 Open Forum If anyone is taking pictures of the last week of the primary campaign, and wants to see them published on this site, send them in! You'll get as much or as little credit as you want. Click on "about" for my email address. 28 comments: I'm getting concerned that Malloy is starting to get the momentum back. His direct mail from the last week has been terrific and he looks like he's getting ready to take on the Governor. JDS is definitely the better candidate. Universal health care is a right for everyone. His support from labor unions and particularly public employee unions shows that he knows what is important. A JDS governorship will result in health care for all, and for public employees, it will be health care covered in full by employers, even in retirement. JDS is married to a teacher who enjoys lifetime tenure. JDS no doubt knows the value of tenure and the security it provides to working families. I'm hopeful that he will see merit in extending tenure to all employees, but particularly public employees. A tax on millionaires should also be part of his agenda. Shifting wealth from the haves to the struggling middle-class is an ideal of liberal Democrats like JDS. An important component of any wealth-shifting proposal should include a state estate tax which would place limits on legacies. JDS is the only candidate out there who could be persuaded to endorse such a plan. In short, JDS will prove to be the favorite son of labor unions and workers and it would be a mistake to support Malloy's vision of a business-friendly government which seeks to make the state stronger for business, at the expense of workers. I love how Connecticut Local Politics has become a place where progressive ideas gets a ritual bashing. Is this a conservative political site now? Maybe we should call this "Connecticut Republican Politics?" Universal healthcare IS a right, and if you think that labor unions are as corrupt as they once were during the 1960's then you've been sleeping for a while. No matter how you feel towards them, they're the only political entity that actually seeks to protect workers. If they weren't there, Let's see how many more Wal-Mart workers go on HUSKY. "Malloy is more business-friendly" is Courant code for "he's more Republican and DLC so we trust him on backing corporations rather than working people." Please remember, The Courant endorsed Bush in 2000 and 2004, and now they show their true colors again by endorsing DLC hacks like Lieberman and Malloy. Well, then, I guess we need to understand what your definition of a "right" is. The Healthcare isn't free. Therefore, in order to provide healthcare to everyone, we are going to have to take from someone (via taxes) to pay the doctor so you can have your right. So you now have the "right" to take from others to provide you with your right. I'm not arguing the merits of universal health care, but instead am arguing solely on your view of what a right might be. If universal health care, or food, or education, or housing, is a right, then that means that the government has to take from someone else to give to you. There may many valid reasons to provide education, housing, food or medical care to some or all of the populace, but I strongly disagree that these things can ever be construed as rights, since I do not believe that a right for you can impose a burden on someone else. It seems like all the liberals have already left and become My Left Nutmeggers. It's pretty obvious nowadays, since Lamont and DeStefano get torn apart here on CLP whereas they are treated favorably on MLN. I think maybe CLP and MLN have taken two different approaches to the blogosphere. CLP is taking the "open forum, virtual town hall" format. MLN has tapped into the netroots as defined by Kos. Most of the bloggers over at MLN are not shy about their progressive persuasions for either Lamont or DeStefano. Whereas here, the admins have tried very hard to be more journalistic - more neutral. I don't know which format will win out in the future. But here's my thinking (and this isn't knocking anyone

(2019-12-29) ### Features * first open-source commit (from v2.18.1) ([07abea5](https://github.com/minhloi/ulangi/commit/07abea5)) ### BREAKING CHANGES * Ulangi is open-source and released under GPL v3.0 The invention relates to a unit for irradiating a workpiece with ultraviolet radiation, with at least one UV radiation source and at least one transporting device, it being possible by means of the transporting device for the workpiece to be fed from a charging location of the unit to an irradiating zone and to be transported from the latter to a removal location of the unit, the unit having a common charging and removal location and it being possible for the workpiece to be moved back and forth between the common charging and removal location and the irradiating zone. Units for irradiating a workpiece with ultraviolet radiation are used, for example, in the production of interior components for motor vehicles. It is customary for them to be provided with a usually transparent layer of varnish or resin, to produce a glossy and hard-wearing surface. The layer of varnish can be applied in this case by the interior component to be coated, for example a wooden molded part, in particular a veneered part, being positioned against a wall of a molded part in such a way that a gap is formed between the wall and the surface to be coated of the interior component, which gap can subsequently be filled with liquid surface coating material which cures when exposed to ultraviolet radiation. The curing is then performed by the interior component being introduced into a unit for irradiating with ultraviolet radiation. The workpiece in the form of the interior component is then fed by means of a transporting device to an irradiating zone, i.e. the radiation field of a UV radiation source, where it is irradiated with the ultraviolet radiation. Subsequently, the workpiece is transported to a removal location of the irradiating unit, where it can be removed from the unit. An endless transporting belt, which makes it possible for the workpiece to be transported in a straight line past one or more UV radiation sources, is usually used as the transporting device for the coating unit. Such a configuration has the advantage that a multiplicity of workpieces to be irradiated can be disposed one behind the other on the transporting belt and can be taken past the radiation sources, so that mass production can be accomplished. However, a disadvantage of such a design is that usually a number of persons are required to operate a unit of this type. EP-A-0 501 551 discloses a unit for the successive processing of workpieces, in which four carriers for receiving one workpiece in each case are disposed on a turntable. The turntable can be set in rotation, it being possible for the carriers, with the workpieces fixed on them, to be fed from a charging and removal location one after the other to three different workstations, in order subsequently to return to the charging and removal location. One of the workstations is formed as a UV irradiating zone. The irradiating of a workpiece by means of such a unit has been found to be time-consuming. It is an object of the present invention to develop a unit of the type stated at the beginning in such a way that easier operation is made possible, it being possible for UV irradiation of a workpiece to be carried out within a shorter time. This object is achieved according to the invention in the case of a unit of the generic type by the unit comprising at least two carriers for receiving one workpiece in each case, which carriers can be positioned on the transporting device and can be moved back and forth in an alternating manner between the charging and removal location and the irradiating zone. Such a configuration has the advantage that the workpiece can be fed from the irradiating zone and, once irradiation has been performed, can be removed from the unit on the same side of the unit. The charging and removal of the workpiece can consequently be carried out by the same operator. This additionally has the advantage that the person who feeds the still unirradiated workpiece to the unit can himself check the result of the irradiation and, if need be, change the irradiating parameters of the unit for subsequent workpieces if the result of the irradiation is unsatisfactory. The operator can consequently be used not only for charging the unit and removing the workpieces but also additionally for checking the result of work and for setting the coating unit. The configuration according to the invention also has the advantage that the unit can be formed very compactly as a single workstation. In mass production, a number of single workstations of this type can be used, so that, even if one workstation fails, overall production does not come to a standstill but instead further workpieces can be irradiated at other workstations without any interruption. The carriers used according to the invention make it possible to align the workpiece in a defined position and feed it to the irradiating zone. For example, it may be provided that the workpiece can be securely clamped on the carrier. To be able to irradiate as many workpieces as possible within a predetermined time, it is provided according to the invention that the unit comprises at least two carriers, which can be moved back and forth in an alternating manner between the charging and removal location and the irradiating zone. This makes it possible to dispose a first workpiece on a first carrier and then feed it to the irradiating zone. During the rradiation of this first workpiece, a second workpiece can be positioned on the second carrier and subsequently likewise be fed to the irradiating zone. Subsequently, the first workpiece can then be removed from the irradiating zone and replaced by a further workpiece. It is particularly favorable if the carriers can be detachably connected to the transporting device. For example, it may be provided that the carriers can be screwed to or braced with the transporting device. In the case of a preferred configuration, it is provided that the transporting device comprises at least one displaceably mounted transporting carriage. The transporting carriage may be configured, for example, in the manner of a drawer, which is displaceably held in a guide. It is of advantage here if the transporting carriage is displaceable between the charging and removal location on the one hand and the irradiating zone on the other hand. It is particularly favorable if a number of carriers are mounted on the transporting carriage. This makes it possible to displace a number of carriers at the same time by the transporting carriage into a charging and removal position, so that a workpiece can be respectively disposed on the carriers. Subsequently, the transporting carriage is displaced into the irradiating zone, in which all the carriers disposed on the transporting carriage, with the workpieces secured on them, are exposed to the ultraviolet radiation. Once Irradiation has been performed, the transporting carriage can then be displaced back into its original position for the removal of the irradiated workpieces. Alternatively or additionally, it may be provided that the transporting device comprises a rotatably mounted turning framework, for example a turntable. The workpieces to be irradiated can be positioned on the turning framework and subsequently transported in first instance into the irradiating zone and, once irradiation has been performed, back into the original position by turning of the turning framework. It is of advantage here if on the turning framework there are mounted a number of carriers, which can preferably be fed by turning of the turning framework one after the other to the radiation field of a number of UV radiation sources. This permits continuous charging to and removal from the coating unit. For example, three UV radiation sources can be disposed on a common circumscribed circle, two radiation sources being disposed diametrically opposite each other and the third radiation source being positioned at an angular spacing of 90xc2x0 between the two other radiation sources. The common charging and removal location of the unit can then be disposed diametrically opposite the third radiation source. This makes it possible to transport a workpiece successively to the individual radiation sources and subsequently back again to its original position by turning the turning framework through 90xc2x0 in each case. To protect the surroundings from ultraviolet radiation, it is of advantage if the unit comprises a covering. It can advantageously be provided here that the covering has an opening, via which the workpiece can be fed to the irradiating zone and can be removed from the unit. The opening may be provided, for example, laterally on the unit, so that the unit can be operated completely from this one side. The coating unit can be made particularly easy to operate by making it possible for the workpieces to be fixed on the carrier and, after irradiation has been performed, removed from the carrier outside the covering and moved with the carrier through the opening. This makes it possible for the operator to secure the workpieces optimally on the carrier, without being hindered from doing so by the covering of the unit. In the case of a particularly preferred configuration of the unit according to the invention, it is provided that the covering covers the turning framework and that the carriers are mounted displaceably on the turning framework and can be displaced through the opening. For charging the unit, it is then just necessary in each case for the turning framework to be positioned in such a way that a carrier is in line with the opening in the covering and consequently can be displaced through it. As explained at the beginning, an irradiating unit of this type can be used in particular for the production of an internal component for motor vehicles. It is of advantage here if, for coating the workpiece and for curing the coating material by means of UV radiation, the at least one carrier comprises a molded part with a wall, against which the workpiece, that is for example the interior component, can be positioned in the region of a surface to be coated, thereby forming a gap, it being possible for the gap subsequently to be filled with liquid surface coating material which can be cured by

// IFC(m_pVB->AddTriStripVertices(6, &pVertex)); // // Duplicate the first vertex. This creates 2 degenerate triangles: one connecting // the previous rect to this one and another between vertices 0 and 1. // pVertex[0].ptPt = rgPosition[0]; pVertex[0].Diffuse = FLOAT_ONE; pVertex[1].ptPt = rgPosition[0]; pVertex[1].Diffuse = FLOAT_ONE; pVertex[2].ptPt = rgPosition[1]; pVertex[2].Diffuse = FLOAT_ONE; pVertex[3].ptPt = rgPosition[3]; pVertex[3].Diffuse = FLOAT_ONE; pVertex[4].ptPt = rgPosition[2]; pVertex[4].Diffuse = FLOAT_ONE; // // Duplicate the last vertex. This creates 2 degenerate triangles: one // between vertices 4 and 5 and one connecting this Rect to the // next one. // pVertex[5].ptPt = rgPosition[2]; pVertex[5].Diffuse = FLOAT_ONE; } Cleanup: RRETURN(hr); } //+---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // // Member: CHwTVertexBuffer<TVertex>::Builder::BuildWafflePipeline<TWaffler> // // Synopsis: Builds a pipeline of wafflers into the provided array of wafflers. // And returns a pointer (not to be deleted) to the input sink // of the waffle pipeline. // the final result is sinked int m_pVB. // //----------------------------------------------------------------------------- template<class TVertex> template<class TWaffler> __out_ecount(1) typename TWaffler::ISink * CHwTVertexBuffer<TVertex>::Builder::BuildWafflePipeline( __out_xcount(NUM_OF_VERTEX_TEXTURE_COORDS(TVertex) * 2) TWaffler *wafflers, __out_ecount(1) bool &fWafflersUsed ) const { UINT count = 0; for (int i = 0; i < NUM_OF_VERTEX_TEXTURE_COORDS(TVertex); ++i) { if (m_map.m_rgWaffleMode[i] != 0) { const MILMatrix3x2 &pMatWaffle = m_map.m_rgmatPointToUV[i]; // Each column ([a,b,c] transpose) of this matrix specifies a waffler that // partitions the plane into regions between the lines: // ax + by + c = k // for every integer k. // // If this partition width is substantially less than a pixel we have // serious problems with waffling generating too many triangles for // doubtful visual effect so we don't perform a waffling with width less // than c_rMinWaffleWidthPixels. So we need to know the width of the partition // regions: // // Changing c just translates the partition so let's assume c = 0. // The line ax + by = 0 goes through the origin and the line ax + by // = 1 is adjacent to it in the partition. The distance between // these lines is also the distance from ax + by = 1 to the origin. // Using Lagrange multipliers we can determine that this distance // is // 1/sqrt(a*a+b*b). // We want to avoid waffling if this is less than c_rMinWaffleWidthPixels // or equivalently: // 1/sqrt(a*a+b*b) < c_rMinWaffleWidthPixels // sqrt(a*a+b*b) > 1/c_rMinWaffleWidthPixels // a*a+b*b > 1/(c_rMinWaffleWidthPixels*c_rMinWaffleWidthPixels) // const float c_rMaxWaffleMagnitude = 1/(c_rMinWaffleWidthPixels*c_rMinWaffleWidthPixels); float mag0 = pMatWaffle.m_00*pMatWaffle.m_00+pMatWaffle.m_10*pMatWaffle.m_10; if (mag0 < c_rMaxWaffleMagnitude) { wafflers[count].Set(pMatWaffle.m_00, pMatWaffle.m_10, pMatWaffle.m_20, wafflers+count+1); ++count; } float mag1 = pMatWaffle.m_01*pMatWaffle.m_01+pMatWaffle.m_11*pMatWaffle.m_11; if (mag1 < c_rMaxWaffleMagnitude) { wafflers[count].Set(pMatWaffle.m_01, pMatWaffle.m_11, pMatWaffle.m_21, wafflers+count+1); ++count; } } } if (count) { fWafflersUsed = true; // As the last step in the chain we send the triangles to our vertex buffer. wafflers[count-1].SetSink(m_pVB); return &wafflers[0]; } else { fWafflersUsed = false; // If we built no wafflers then sink straight into the vertex buffer. return m_pVB; } } //+---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // // Member: CHwTVertexBuffer<TVertex>::Builder::IsEmpty // // Synopsis: Does our VB have any triangles/lines? // //----------------------------------------------------------------------------- template <class TVertex> BOOL CHwTVertexBuffer<TVertex>::Builder::IsEmpty() { return m_pVB->IsEmpty(); } //+---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // // Member: CHwTVertexBuffer<TVertex>::Builder::AddTrapezoid // // Synopsis: Add a trapezoid to the vertex buffer // // // left edge right edge // ___+_________________+___ <<< top edge // / + / \ + \ // / + / \ + \ // / + / \ + \ // /__+__/___________________\__+__\ <<< bottom edge // + ^^ + // delta // template <class TVertex> HRESULT CHwTVertexBuffer<TVertex>::Builder::AddTrapezoid( float rPixelYTop, // In: y coordinate of top of trapezoid float rPixelXTopLeft, // In: x coordinate for top left float rPixelXTopRight, // In: x coordinate for top right float rPixelYBottom, // In: y coordinate of bottom of trapezoid float rPixelXBottomLeft, // In: x coordinate for bottom left float rPixelXBottomRight, // In: x coordinate for bottom right float rPixelXLeftDelta, // In: trapezoid expand radius for left edge float rPixelXRightDelta // In: trapezoid expand radius for right edge ) { HRESULT hr = S_OK; if (AreWaffling()) { IFC(AddTrapezoidWaffle( rPixelYTop, rPixelXTopLeft, rPixelXTopRight, rPixelYBottom, rPixelXBottomLeft, rPixelXBottomRight, rPixelXLeftDelta, rPixelXRightDelta)); } else { IFC(AddTrapezoidStandard( rPixelYTop, rPixelXTopLeft, rPixelXTopRight, rPixelYBottom, rPixelXBottomLeft, rPixelXBottomRight, rPixelXLeftDelta, rPixelXRightDelta)); } Cleanup: RRETURN(hr); } //+---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // // Member: CHwT