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In 2015, I let go of many things. I didn't really count how many things I kept or got rid of, but I think I can say that I purged about 75% of my stuff, if not more. However, I look around my apartment and think I could get rid of more things. I have a bin with odds and ends in my closet. I have no idea why I'm keeping these items. I threw them all in there because I didn't really know where to put these things, and yet, I don't think I've ever used any of it. When I set up my closet after moving in last September, I hung all of my clothes on the rod on the left side of my walk-in closet. As I wore items and washed them, I hung those pieces on the right. Some items haven't moved. There are also clothes in my dresser drawers that I haven't worn in about a year. I have empty bins and baskets, a bookcase, a mirror, and a few lamps we no longer use that I've put away in the storage area. Many of my kitchen utensils are still in the box I set up earlier this year. All of the hard copy books I've kept remain unread, except for one that I've been reading here and there for the past several months. So what's the deal? Why have I kept these things? I think I just misjudged the value those items had for me. I went through a big purge. There was just so much to go through that it seems only normal to me that I'd have to make adjustments later on. Things I thought I'd use have gone unused. I've also added to our furnishings since. For example, I bought different lamps that suit our new place better than the ones I already had. It all seems perfectly acceptable to me as long as I don't hold on to the things that no longer serve me. Well, I'll re-evaluate my things again. I'll box up the bin of odds and ends and write a date on it. If I haven't used anything in the box by the selected date, it'll be donated without further consideration. I'll remove the clothes that are still on the left side of my closet and start over again with what's left on the right side. I know I haven't worn many of those in a while either. I'll give these away before this summer. I'll give my kitchen utensils another 3 months to prove their usefulness to me. Otherwise, they'll also get donated. I'll read one every month or two, and then I'll give it away once I'm done. It's not a failure, not even a surprise. Circumstances and people change. What seemed useful last month might be totally useless to me now. Time to give these things a new home. Let them be useful to someone else. I've joined a "Buy Nothing" group in my neighbourhood. Mr. Romantic was the one who told me about these types of groups. It's an online group where you can donate or receive (ask for) items or services. No money can be exchanged for these things. It's a nice way for neighbours to help each other out and to meet. Now I'll get to contribute to the group, and maybe make new friends as I do so.

Microcirculatory effects of somatostatin in acute pancreatitis. Somatostatin, a 28-amino-acid inhibitory polypeptide has been advocated for the treatment of upper gastrointestinal bleeding and acute pancreatitis. This study examines the effect of somatostatin in acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis in piglets (n = 12), weighing 8-12 kg. Six animals served as controls, and received only fluid resuscitation (0.9%, NaCl, 20 ml/kg/h). Six animals received somatostatin treatment consisting of a 15 micrograms/kg bolus i.v. given simultaneously with the induction of pancreatitis, and treatment continued with an intravenous infusion (15 micrograms/kg/h) for 5 h. Cardiac output, heart rate, blood pressure, arterial pO2, hematocrit and serum amylase were recorded before and each hour during the experiment. Regional blood flow in the gastrointestinal area was measured using the microsphere method. The microspheres labelled with three different isotopes were administered before the experiment and at 2 and 5 h, respectively. There was a significant decrease in the cardiac output (p less than 0.05) and an increase in systemic blood pressure in the somatostatin-treated group (p less than 0.025). Pancreatic blood flow decreased by 43% following somatostatin infusion. The decreases at 2 and 5 h were highly significant (p less than 0.005). Blood flow to the mucosal but not muscular region of the stomach was decreased by somatostatin. This study suggests that somatostatin might be harmful in acute pancreatitis due to its adverse effects on pancreatic blood flow and cardiac output. However, somatostatin may be effective in reducing gastrointestinal bleeding. If the drug is used clinically, careful monitoring of the cardiac output is necessary. Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Ohio. Previous Document: The enantiomeric error frequency of aspartate aminotransferase.

// // BRIBeaconMessageActionMapperStub.h // BlueRangeSDK // // Copyright (c) 2016-2017, M-Way Solutions GmbH // All rights reserved. // // Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one // or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file // distributed with this work for additional information // regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file // to you 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 // "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY // KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the // specific language governing permissions and limitations // under the License. // #import <Foundation/Foundation.h> #import "BRBeaconMessageActionMapperStub.h" #import "BRIBeaconMessageActionMapper.h" @interface BRIBeaconMessageActionMapperStub : BRBeaconMessageActionMapperStub<BRIBeaconMessageActionMapper> { BOOL _corruptJsonResponses; } @property (readonly) NSMutableDictionary* iBeaconActionMap; - (id) init; - /* override */ (BRRelutionActionInformation*) getBeaconActionInformationForMessage: (BRIBeaconMessage*) message; - /* override */ (BOOL) isAvailable; - (void) corruptJsons; @end

Publisher's Editorial Norm Kent Say what you will, 2009 and 2010 have been good years for gay Americans under the presidency of Barack Obama. We helped elect the right man President of the United States. So yes, Mabel, there has been a difference. First of all, the wrongs visited upon the lesbian couple in Miami a few years ago may be righted by an executive order the President authorized last week on his plane ride back to the Capitol from a Florida fundraiser. No longer will same sex partners be denied the right to visit their loved ones in a hospital. It's our front page story, and it is a significant legal victory for same-sex relationships. Second, President Obama continues to support measures to overturn the ban on gays in the military, effectively disarming the misguided proponents of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'. Activists are genuinely and legitimately perturbed this has not happened more quickly. They have this newspaper's support. Still, the bottom line is that the President has raised the issue and not run from it. The days of 'DADT' are grinding to a halt. Your Turn to Step Up to the Plate This marks the 12th issue of South Florida Gay News.com We hit the ground running and we are now in full stride. We have printed and published over 1,000 articles and 500 pages of news in less than 90 days. Our website has surpassed over 2,500 page views on Mondays, the day we publish, and we are receiving 1,000 plus visitors daily. Our South Florida Gay News.com facebook page has close to 700 fans, and we have nearly a thousand subscribers for our daily e-mail headline blast. Our publication has launched its 'Read Red' and 'Read All Over' campaign, based on our distribution of over 100 indoor news racks and 50 outdoor ones. When the paper is distributed on Monday mornings, three sets of independent contractors drop off the South Florida Gay News to over 360 locations in the tri county area, from Washington Avenue in South Beach to Worth Avenue in Palm Beach. Saluting 'Midge' Costanza and History Margaret "Midge" Costanza, 77, passed away last week, almost 33 years to the day she forged LGBT history in America. In lieu of a news story we commemorate her life in this editorial. The White House. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Until Saturday, March 26, 1977, its doors had never been opened to lesbians and gay men and straight allies. But on that historic day, more than a dozen women and men entered the West Wing of the presidential residence to meet with Midge Costanza, the director of President Jimmy Carter's Office of Public Liaison. Coming Out Today Liberates You Tomorrow It is Opening Day in Baseball. Baseball is the passion of my life, the center of most of my existence. Coming out as an athlete and baseball player was not in harmony with that universe of homophobic athletes I grew up around. Constantly, in the locker rooms and on the field, the most denigrating remark you would hear is that "you play like a faggot." That's the way it was. In some places, that is the way it still is. The world evolves though, and now everyone is rushing to come out of the closet, from Hollywood to baseball fields, so much so that our tongue in cheek cover and piece this week- in an otherwise serious issue- is that coming out of the closet has become the fashionable and trendy thing to do. In fact, we have created a waiting list for those seeking sunlight and affirmation as friends of Dorothy. Dame Edna would be proud. Two Days at a Pride Festival Publishing this newspaper takes a lot of time and energy, but the two days I spent at Pridefest were kind to me. So many of you overwhelmed me with praise and compliments on the energy and excitement we here at SFGN have created in the community. "Finally," I heard over and over again, "a paper with content; with real news." The truth is real news has always been there if other publications chose to invest in you and take the leap of faith necessary to believe you mattered. You are the news, and we just report it. South Florida may once have been a playground of just sun and fun but even in the year 2000, in the early days of The Express Gay News, I saw a vibrant gay community actively emerging. Times are tough today, for sure, harder than they have ever been for most of us. To continue our mission, this newspaper will continue to need your support. But there is reason to believe in ourselves and our unlimited capacity. The LGBT community is stronger and more diversified than it has ever been. The Spirit: HIV in 2010 A Pride Day Coloring Book The Past Comes Back to Haunt Tiny Tina No Forgiveness for 'Ex Gay' Icon OUTRAGE! Gay Men's Chorus Taken Hostage by a Bar Guide Your Community Newspaper CBS Embarrasses Itself by Rejecting Same-Sex Ad Atlanta Gay Bar Raids are a Gross Injustice A Friend Dies of AIDS Adam Lambert's Gutsy AMA Performance Wins Acclaim and Critics Gay America Wins a Place at the Table

Q: nodejs download fails due to invalid link (Protocol switch unsafe) Liferay 7 failures using Gradle v.6 + Workspace / liferay 7.2 , Here is the stacktrace exception of the first build command ​​​​​: Task :downloadNode FAILED Trying to download http://mirrors.lax.liferay.com/nodejs.org/dist/v10.15.1/node-v10.15.1-linux-x64.tar.gz to /home/jenkins/.liferay/mirrors/nodejs.org/dist/v10.15.1/node-v10.15.1-linux-x64.tar.gz.tmp Trying to download http://nodejs.org/dist/v10.15.1/node-v10.15.1-linux-x64.tar.gz to /home/jenkins/.liferay/mirrors/nodejs.org/dist/v10.15.1/node-v10.15.1-linux-x64.tar.gz.tmp FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. * *What went wrong: Execution failed for task ':downloadNode'. Redirection detected from http to https. Protocol switch unsafe, not allowed.   Any good FIX, thanks in advance..? A: Edit : problem solved by adding this to the build.gradle: allprojects { plugins.withId("com.liferay.node") { node.global = true node.nodeUrl = node.nodeUrl.replace("http:", "https:") System.out.println(node.nodeUrl) } }

Age Gap: Where are the middle-aged women on screens? By Rebecca Shaw 3rd Jun, 2016 Olivia Wilde and Liam Neeson play lovers in Third Person (2013) Try to imagine the most haggard and decrepit old actress you can think of. Who comes to mind? That's right, it's Olivia Wilde. The almost-objectively stunning Wilde recently revealed that she had been rejected for a role playing Leonardo DiCaprio's wife in the The Wolf of Wall Street because she was too old. At the time, she was 28 and Leo was 37. The part ended up going to Australian actress Margot Robbie, who was 21 at the time. The role in question involved portraying a real-life woman, who was 29 during the time the movie was set. I am no mathematics expert (or 'mathologist' as I believe they are called), but these numbers don't seem to add up. Neither do the numbers in a story that Maggie Gyllenhaal told last year when she revealed that she had been told she was too old to play the lover of a male actor in a film. At the time Maggie was 37 years old, and the actor? Fifty-five. Years. Of age. Again, not a mathologist, but according to my extensive calculations, this makes Maggie 18 years younger than that actor. And yet still too old to play his love interest. Of course, this is nothing new. It's been shown over and over again that male actors can comfortably age into their 40s, 50s and 60s, while their love interests remain in their 20s and 30s, in some kind of actress cryogenic recycling system. Almost none of these male actors are paired with women their own age, or even within shouting distance of women their own age – which is actually lucky because some of the men are so old that they wouldn't hear the shout. Last year Vulture published a breakdown of the film careers of some of the biggest female stars in the world, including Emma Stone and Jennifer Lawrence. Besides the Spider-Man movies, Emma Stone is consistently paired with men much older than her, including recent movies with Sean Penn and Colin Firth (both 30 years her senior). Jennifer Lawrence is the same, almost exclusively (outside of Hunger Games) playing opposite actors at least 15 years older than her. Because they are starring in big movies, with big-name established male leads, and because these movies are usually written and directed by middle-aged men about their own stories, this also means that someone like Jennifer Lawrence will often have to 'age up' in her roles. As a 25-year-old, she is playing roles that, in an ideal world, would be suitable for actresses in their 30s or 40s. Not only does this mean that we don't get to see actresses like Emma Stone and Jennifer Lawrence literally acting their age, but more importantly, it also means that older actresses that could play those roles in really interesting ways are passed over. Male actors can comfortably age into their 40s, 50s and 60s, while their love interests remain in their 20s and 30s. Of course, Hollywood doesn't give us enough women's stories in general. In 2014, only 12 per cent of movies featured a female protagonist, a number that dropped from the previous two years. And when it does show us women onscreen, it's often only an extremely narrow type of woman. Hollywood's idea of diversity is movie after movie starring 25-year-old beautiful thin white women, as well as the occasional 'gift' movie starring 60–70-year-old beautiful thin white women like Helen Mirren or Meryl Streep. The young women are the whores; the older women are the crones. Often all that is left for those in-between is to play someone's mother, in a movie probably not about the mother. A mother, or a witch. Meryl Streep has told the story that the year after she turned 40, she was offered three different roles as a witch. How are there even that many movies about witches? Is there some kind of mother-witch combination character we could let them play to increase diversity? So what happens when they are too old to be considered fuckable by 55-year-old men, but too young to be considered for the roles given to 60-year-old women? If it feels like they just disappear from the face of the earth, it's because they practically do. A study carried out by the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism found that in a single year, across more than 400 scripted movies, TV shows and digital series from ten major media companies, almost 80 per cent of characters aged 40 or over were men. Eighty. Per. Cent. Not even 80 per cent of people love Beyoncé (which is wrong by the way, it should be 100 per cent). And of course, most of those men will be paired off with actresses in their 20s. For women, no such luck. The roles begin to dry up, they begin to be told they are too old to play a viable romantic role, and then if they do come back into the public eye after time away, they are ridiculed for ageing, like Renee Zellweger. "What happened to her face?" people scream. Um, she aged like a normal human? Shocking, I know. When we don't get to see women on film aging out of their 20s, and we don't get to see their faces developing laugh lines, experience, age and character, this is what happens. We are the ones who miss out. We are missing out because there aren't enough women making movies portraying their own lives. We still have to rely on men to make the decisions about the stories and faces that we get to see. They've proven again and again that they are not up to the job. They have proven that what they care most about is the standard definition of youthful beauty to the exclusion of everything else. And that everything else is what we should be allowed to see. We all miss out when such a large group is shoved to the side. We all miss out when we toss women aside once they pass the age of 35. There is so much untapped potential, so many interesting and diverse and amazing and beautiful women we could be witnessing play out their lives on screen. As the number of women behind the scenes grows, we will see this happen more and more. But I wish it would happen faster – I'm getting old. Rebecca Shaw (aka @brocklesnitch) is a writer and creator of the parody Twitter account @notofeminism, which was developed into an illustrated book with Affirm Press. She is on the writing team at Tonightly with Tom Ballard, and has written for Junkee, The Guardian, Daily Life et al. She is also in constant competition with Ruby Rose to become Australia's favourite lesbian. More from Rebecca Shaw 23.01.18 — News — Kill Your Darlings Announcing the winner of our Japan giveaway Announcing the Winner of the KYD Unpublished Manuscript Award Announcing the winner of our Ubud giveaway 06.07.17 — Culture — Alice Robinson Learning How to Dream: Watching 'Anne with an E' 29.03.16 — Books & Publishing — Veronica Sullivan Confronting Multiplicity: An interview with Alison Whittaker Happy Holidays from KYD

Police, protesters clash at 'Occupy Cal' BERKELEY, Calif. Latest Developments: Arrests: There were 32 arrests this evening, 7 people were arrested earlier in the afternoon. 3:49 a.m. Update: Things still remain peaceful and the crowd seems to have shrunk down considerably. The police are still standing by monitoring things. 2:40 a.m. Update: Two new tents went up around 1:45 a.m. and they might be people from the "Occupy SF" protest that had just arrived at the time. Things are currently still peaceful. 1:45 a.m. Update: "Occupy Cal" protesters held a general assembly to discuss what their next actions are and have voted amongst themselves to hold a strike and not show up to class on Tuesday, Nov. 15. They also plan to meet every day until Tuesday at 5 p.m. or 6 p.m. to have a general assembly meeting to prepare for the strike. One person set up a tent and police have not yet gone after it, but many others are sleeping in sleeping bags, which is in violation of the university rules. The police are still present and silently monitoring the demonstration. The crowd is down to about 1,000 people and earlier tonight there were 1,500 at the height of the demonstration. 12:46 a.m. Update: The crowd is talking with each other and considering a strike sometime next week. Earlier reports we have received today said the Berkeley City Council voted Tuesday night not to send mutual aid officers to assist in the Occupy protests. 12:04 a.m. Update: 1,500 Occupy Cal demonstrators are now sitting in front of Sproul Hall. Things are peaceful. Around 11 p.m. Wednesday night we reported that a protester took a beating at the end of a baton on the UC Berkeley campus. Police there were trying to put a quick end to an occupation, just as it was getting started. Police said people can protest outside Sproul Hall, just not camp out. So when the tents started going up, the law started moving in. Around 9 p.m. there was a crowd of about 200 people and riot police moved in on them to take away their tents. The police swept into the plaza from two sides and immediately engaged the students who were three-deep with arms linked around the eight Occupy Cal tents that they were protecting. The crowd of spectators immediately rushed in to meet the police face-to-face and began chanting "peaceful protest, peaceful protest." As the tension escalated, plenty of people started feeling the business end of a Billy club as the officers bull-dogged their way toward the tents and began tearing them down. The crowd stayed in their face the whole time chanting, "shame, shame" and several of them were wrestled down and placed in plastic handcuffs. Earlier Wednesday night, vice chancellor Harry Legrand warned the crowd they would be arrested if they camped out, used sleeping bags, cooked, or even slept in Sproul Plaza. He was booed off by the crowd and about two hours later the police marched in with a strategic plan to pinch off the protesters and regain the tiny patch of grass that was "Occupy Cal." "I think is a really horrible effort at crowd control if you want to call it that. I also think there's some really bad tactical decisions being made by the administration towards peaceful protesters. So how is this going to end and what is the positive for the administration, the university? It's certainly not positive for the community?" asked Greg Levin from the Cal history department. "I thought it was excessive force. I think there's some tents on the lawn, I get that they're breaking a rule, but I think that the force that we saw was far in excess of what any were committed, if any were committed at all," said Cal student Ralph Boniello. "I just think it really wrong when students can't assemble peacefully. There's no space on campus for us to assemble 24 hours in this magnitude. So UCPD, when we're just standing here and UCPD is shoving students out of the way, is beating students with batons, that's unacceptable," said student senator Andrew Albright. In the afternoon, SKY7HD was over the crowd at U.C. Berkeley's Sproul Plaza when a large group of people gathered earlier in the day. Most of those people had cleared out, but an encampment similar to ones found on other Occupy sites has started to form. It was not a surprise when students made the formal announcement of the occupation. They promised it would be peaceful and non-violent. Sproul Plaza was chosen because of its association with the freedom of speech movement and peaceful demonstrations. Before the announcement of the occupation, there was a rally and then a march where demonstrators stopped in front of a Bank of America branch. Tuition hikes are the reason the demonstrators are at Sproul Plaza. Students have been hit with several fee increases and face even more tuition hikes. "There is no system of accountability, therefore things fall through the loopholes of irresponsibility," one student said. The chancellor of U.C. Berkeley sent out an email to students saying the school stands "ready to support our campus community in leading the movement in a way that is productive, dignified and consequential." The letter goes on to say the university will not allow students to set up tents or encampment structures.

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Package Per Capita in USD: 1.83 No amount/estimate: 24 June 2020, The government announced a COVID-19 Special Credit Loan to provide loan to farmers to relieve the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the agricultural sector. Both paddy and crop farmers are eligible to apply for the special relief loan until September 2020 with an interest rate of 5% per annum. No amount/estimate: (i) April 2020, Deposit auctions have been halted to maintain adequate liquidity in the interbank market; (ii) 9 April 2020, the Central Bank of Myanmar (CBM) announced a temporary reduction in banks' required reserve requirement ratio from 5% to 3.5% of deposits till September 30; (iii) April 2020, It also announced a temporary revision to the formula for calculating the liquidity ratio, increasing the weight of government treasury bonds with a remaining maturity of more than one year from 50% to 90%, until September. No amount/estimate: April 2020, The kyat has been allowed to adjust flexibly, with limited rules-based intervention to manage excessive exchange rate volatility. No amount/estimate: The CBM (i) cut the policy interest rate by 0.5 percentage points on 12 March 2020 and by 1 percentage point on 24 March 2020, and has announced a further 1.5 percentage points reduction to be effective 1 May 2020; (ii) May 2020, Deposit rates will be subject to a lower minimum rate of 6.5%, secured lending rates will be subject to a lower maximum of 11.5%, and unsecured lending will have a lower maximum rate of 14.5%. No amount/estimate: 23 April 2020, The CBM announced the extension of the deadline for compliance to certain prudential regulations (enacted in July 2017) by three years from end-August 2020 to end-August 2023 to enable banks to support the economy cope with the impact of COVID-19. 03 - Direct long-term lending info_outline MMK100,000,000,000 USD71,326,676 03A - Long-term lending info_outline MMK100,000,000,000 USD71,326,676 April 2020, A COVID 19 Fund worth MMK100 billion (USD70 million, 0.1% of GDP) has been established at the Myanmar Economic Bank to provide soft loans to affected business (particularly the priority garment and tourism sectors and small and medium enterprises [SMEs]) at reduced interest rates. 05 - Health and income support MMK38,300,000,000 USD27,318,117 05A - Health support MMK300,000,000 USD213,980 (i) April 2020, The allotment of MMK300 million (USD0.2 million) to the Ministry of Health and Sports for additional health-related expenditures; (ii) No amount/estimate: April 2020, Waiver of the "specific goods tax," customs duties, and commercial tax on "critical" medical supplies and products related to the prevention, control, and treatment of COVID-19. 05B - Income support MMK38,000,000,000 USD27,104,137 No amount/estimate: April 2020, Income and commercial tax payments due in the second and third quarters of the fiscal year have been made extendable to the end of the fiscal year. No amount/estimate: (i) April 2020, Starting 20 April 2020, the customs department has reduced duties for businesses operating with the Myanmar Automated Cargo Clearance System; (ii) April 2020, Exemption for the 2% advance income tax on exports to the end of the fiscal year has been announced; (iii) April 2020, The Ministry of Hotels and Tourism announced that fee for renewal license of hotels and tourism businesses will be exempted for one year up to the end of March 2021. No amount/estimate: April 2020, Households without a regular income will be provided for with food during the upcoming long holidays; and electric bills, for up to 150 units, are exempt for most until the end of April 2020; (ii) April 2020, The Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population will provide 40% of the social security fees for about 1.3 million insured workers from factories and workshops that are temporarily suspended for health inspections. 05B5 - Indirect income support MMK38,000,000,000 USD27,104,137 April 2020, The National Food Reserve has been allocated MMK38 billion. 05B6 - No breakdown (income support) No amount/estimate: May 2020, Up to 10% of FY 2019/20 initial budget expenditure (excluding those implemented by foreign loans and grants) of each ministry will be re-allocated to fight against COVID-19. 08 - International Assistance Received MMK2,847,209,640,000 USD2,030,820,000 08B - International loans/grants MMK2,847,209,640,000 USD2,030,820,000 08B1 - Asian Development Bank MMK406,650,100,000 USD290,050,000 (i) 29 January and 17 February 2020, Greater Mekong Subregion Health Security Project (USD6.60 million); (ii) 7 February 2020, Strengthening Regional Health Cooperation in the Greater Mekong Subregion-Additional Financing (USD0.33 million); (iii) 24 April 2020, Policy Advice for COVID-19 Economic Recovery in Southeast Asia (USD0.15 million); (iv) April 2020, Country Support under TA 9950-REG: Regional Support to Address the Outbreak of COVID-19 and Potential Outbreaks of Other Communicable Diseases (USD2.87 million); (v) 24 July 2020, Due Diligence and Capacity Development of Trade Finance Program Banks (Subproject 3) (USD0.21 million); (vi) 28 July 2020, Transport Sector Reform and Modernization (Additional Financing) (USD0.27 million); (vii) 10 August 2020, Sustaining the Gains of the Regional Cooperation in the Greater Mekong Subregion (Additional Financing) (USD0.05 million); (viii) 21 August 2020, COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program (USD250 million); (ix) 1 September 2020, Supporting Microfinance and Lending Partner Financial Institutions in their COVID-19 and Post-pandemic Response (USD0.16 million); (x) 8 October 2020, Greater Mekong Subregion Health Security Project (Additional Financing) (USD30 million); (xi) 02 December 2020, Promoting Transformative Gender Equality Agenda in Asia and the Pacific (Supplementary) (USD0.05 million); (xii) 5 February 2021, Climate Resilience Capacity Building for Women in Poultry and Fish Farming (USD0.10 million); (xiii) 7 September 2021, Due Diligence and Capacity Development of Trade Finance Program Banks (Subproject 4) (USD0.16 million) [update]. 08B2 - Other MMK2,440,559,540,000 USD1,740,770,000 (i) May 2020, The World Bank has approved a USD50 million credit for the Myanmar COVID-19 Emergency Response Project, as part of global emergency support operations through a dedicated fast-track COVID-19 facility (loan); (ii) 29 May 2020, The World Bank approved a (a) USD350 million credit from the International Development Association (IDA) to increase the output and efficiency of power generation and improve the resilience of Myanmar's electricity system to climate change and disasters; and (b) USD110 million in additional financing for the Essential Health Services Access Project, implemented nationwide since 2015; (iii) 26 June 2020, USD200 million to boost agricultural productivity and support farmers in the wake of COVID-19; (iv) 26 June 2020, The IMF has approved USD356.5 million emergency assistance for Myanmar under the Rapid Credit Facility and the Rapid Financing Instrument to support the government's COVID-19 Economic Relief Plan that aims at minimizing the pandemic's impact by stimulating the economy and boosting expenditures especially on health and social safety nets; (v) 21 July 2020, The US Government is providing more than USD18.5 million to support Myanmar's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, i.e. (a) approximately USD10.3 million for health and (b) USD8.2 million in disaster and humanitarian assistance, including to support vulnerable people and host communities during the pandemic; (vi) 15 August 2020, The Government of Japan provided medical equipment to Myanmar under a grant aid worth JPY2 billion (USD18.1); (vii) 1 September 2020, The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is providing JPY30 billion (approx. USD280 million) concessional loan to the Myanmar Government to support resilient economic recovery through implementation of COVID- 19 Economic Relief Plan (CERP) and related policies for investment/trade promotion and financial sector strengthening; (viii) October 2020, Additional Financing to Myanmar COVID-19 Emergency Response Project USD7.67 million; (ix) 13 January 2021, The IMF has approved the second emergency financial assistance equivalent to about USD350 million under the Rapid Credit Facility (RCF) and the Rapid Financing Instrument (RFI). (i) April 2020, Travel restrictions have been announced, i.e. suspension of visa issuances and international flights, and closure of several land borders; (ii) 7 July 2020, Myanmar government announced that it is opening for domestic travel, but incoming international travelers will not be allowed until the end of July 2020; (iii) July 2020, Restrictions on visa issuances and international passenger flights have been extended to 31 July 2020; (iv) 2 September 2020, The temporary ban on international commercial flights was extended to 30 September 2020. (i) April 2020, The government announced measures to limit the spread of the virus including quarantine requirements and ban of mass public gatherings; (ii) April 2020, Yangon and Mandalay will be under lockdown during the long holidays (10–19 April 2020); (iii) Government employees have been instructed not to travel home and will be compensated for this period; (iv) A National Central Committee on Prevention, Control and Treatment of 2019 Novel Coronavirus has been established to coordinate the authorities' response. A second committee, the Control and Emergency Response Committee on COVID-19, was setup on March 30 to help with stricter administrative measures to control the spread of the virus, including quarantine migrant workers coming from neighboring countries.

Scalthwaiterigg is a former civil parish, now in the parish of Skelsmergh and Scalthwaiterigg, in South Lakeland, Cumbria, England, immediately north east of Kendal. It previously had a joint parish council with the adjacent parish of Skelsmergh. In 2001 it had a population of 104. There were three listed buildings or structures in the parish: the 16th-century farmhouse Benson Hall and two bridges. History The parish was formed on 1 April 1897 from part of Scalthwaiterigg Hay and Hutton in the Hay. On 1 April 2015 and merged with "Skelsmergh" to form "Skelsmergh and Scalthwaiterigg". References Further reading External links Cumbria County History Trust: Scalthwaiterigg (nb: provisional research only – see Talk page) Former civil parishes in Cumbria South Lakeland District

The federal investigation marks the first time prosecutors have brought a cash-for-Cuba case in the ongoing battle against Medicare fraud in South Florida, which leads the nation in dollars fleeced from taxpayers. Despite arguments from Sanchez's lawyer on Monday that his client was not a flight risk and has family ties to Miami, U.S. Magistrate Jonathan Goodman ordered the defendant be held without bail. "The fact that [he] has made more than 78 trips out of the country over the years" was a major reason, the judge said. For years, Sanchez was a player in a global money-laundering organization that spanned from Montreal to Havana, prosecutors said. Though no one else has been charged so far, prosecutors say Sanchez, who owned a check-cashing business, was in a position to launder millions in government checks and wire payments doled out to crooked providers between 2005 and 2009. He was charged last week with one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. "Oscar Sanchez was a financier for fraudsters and a capitalist for the Cuban banks," prosecutors said in a court motion. While Sanchez was a target of the ongoing investigation, prosecutors say dozens of crooked Medicare providers — who offered HIV and medical equipment services — all took part in the laundering scheme set up for one reason: To hide the money. With millions pouring in from Medicare, suspects opened 15 bank accounts in Canada and Trinidad to move the money from the United States, court records state. In one major tactic, the ringleaders plunked down millions to buy reams of money orders — 20 boxes in all — and then put the money into an account in the Royal Bank of Canada in Montreal. To make the purchases, they used a host of names, including a famous alias: Bill Clinton. Then, after the money was concealed in the bank accounts, it was immediately wired to several accounts at Republic Bank in Trinidad. Investigators later found out that the accounts were not actually opened in Trinidad, but at the branch of Republic bank in Havana, records state. In addition, the bank had firm instructions on two of those accounts to wire all the money immediately into the Cuban banking system. So far, prosecutors, who are gathering their information from financial records and unnamed witnesses, said they have traced $63 million into Cuban banks — nearly half tied to Sanchez's case. "This is not a traditional money-laundering case," prosecutors said. One reason that the rogue healthcare providers turned to Sanchez was because he acted like a money machine: providing much-needed cash to them while they were waiting for their money to be laundered, prosecutors charged. Fast, efficient "The defendants' money laundering operation was faster, more efficient, and financially benefitted everyone involved, including [Oscar Sanchez], who charged a fee for his services," prosecutors wrote. In all, 70 medical company owners in South Florida submitted more than $374 million in claims to Medicare, and were reimbursed about $70 million. Many of those providers wanted to withdraw their proceeds in cash to "purchase luxury items or to pay illegal kickbacks," Davidson wrote. Though prosecutors charged that Sanchez would be a flight risk if released on bail — saying he traveled from the country 78 times since 2002 — defense lawyer Peter Raben said most of the trips were to Mexico where his client owned a condo. He said charging Sanchez in the international money-laundering ring was "a big red herring" to taint his client, who has no prior convictions. Prosecutors say Sanchez was part of a much larger scheme to get money into Cuba, a Communist country that does not extradite fugitives from the United States. As part of the Sanchez case, prosecutors are asking the court to seize seven homes he owns in Miami-Dade, Lee and Collier counties as well as two vehicles to recover the millions in laundered money. Experts who have watched Miami-Dade emerge as the nation's Medicare fraud capital say the Cuban government's involvement would not be too far-fetched — though they have no proof to back it up. Andy Gomez, a senior fellow of Cuban studies at the University of Miami, said he has heard from sources in Miami and Cuba that the Castro government extorts Medicare bounty from criminals who are allowed to travel freely between here and the island nation. More than two dozen people charged with Medicare fraud have fled back to Cuba over the last five years, and many more are suspected of hiding there. "The Cuban government knows what's going on,'' Gomez told The Miami Herald last year. "The government knows who the fugitives are, and the bigger they are, the more the government expects to be paid by them … It's a way to obtain hard currency and a way to discredit the Cuban-American exile community.'' Yearslong probe Kirk Ogrosky, a former lead prosecutor of Medicare fraud, said the latest case comes after years of investigation into the Cuban connections. "U.S. taxpayer money intended for Medicare has been flowing out of South Florida for decades,'' Ogrosky said. "If the Department of Justice really wanted to stop this mess in Miami, they would explain to the elderly how their participation in these schemes help support the Cuban government and Castro's people. "Some portion of whatever is left over gets funneled out of the U.S. to places like Cuba, where American taxpayers have no chance of getting it back.'' 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I recently bought an old shakuhachi. I think it is quite old. Testifies about it the color of mature bamboo and relatively small holes. Possible dates from the Edo, maybe Meiji, I can not judge accurately. However, a mystery for me is another matter. This flute have six finger holes. On top of the flute are standard 4 hole, but on the bottom of flute are two thumb holes. I have not yet encountered anything like it. Both bottom holes look old and probably it is not any additional adjustment. Could anyone of you advise what I actualy bought? Does anyone have any idea how to play on such shakuhachi? Thank you in advance for any advice or information. P.S. I am sorry for my horrible English. welcome. Two thumb holes looks strange. I am curious how this instrument can played. For the lower octave you have to close both thumb holes. Maybe the best solution is to close one thumb hole permanently. It looks like the flute starts to crack on the front holes. You might want to bind it to prevent cracking. thank you for your feedback. Exactly how you write - two holes for thumb it is really a bit much . But because both openings really do look like the original, I wonder how on this flute played the previous owners. Now flute does not play - among other things due to crack at the bottom. So to wrap and seal will be necessity. It looks like very old. Two holes is strange. I have not seen like that. It seems that this shakuhachi maker intended to imitate a chinese 笛子's sound with thin skin笛膜. So it has two holes. Upper hole is likely for skin. It seems not standart shakuhachi. For shakuhachi practicing, close the upper hole completely. I hope my judgment is correct. thank you for your insider's view, but ... I admit that I do not understand how is possible practically play this flute. How does can it work in practice? I apologize for my lack of imagination. I would really like to know it. Once more thank you, Harald. I already understand it. So my flute is of a kind of curiosity. I think I will keep as it is - as curiosity.

Unfortunately, we've encountered some unwanted and unexpected issues we had to deal with and due to them, we were forced to implement one more rule. One team had withdrewn from the league, Andreiuta Vero is that team. They've played some matches and due to it we could not cancel their other matches. Every tea, which they should have played with, will get 6 points. Some players did not show up to play their scheduled match even if they were informed with one day before. Only one player showed up of each team which had to play, in this case it is impossible to apply the rule of league referring at absentee, because belote is a team game and we can not awarde the points to any of those two teams. When only one player of each team will show up to play their scheduled matches, the points will be awarded to nobody and those matches will be canceled. Belote is a team game and the rules for the league were made for each team and not for the players who take part in. Therefore we can not apply them per players, we can just per team. We always make our best to inform each player on the time, so please be more respectfull to us, organizers and players you have to play with. We did not force anybody to take part in this league, all the players have signed up on their own. So please be more responsible and try to not bother our good organizing, because our goal is to have entertainment watching all the good matches you play, and not to have penalised teams. Kind regards, belote league team!

Now corporations are running public high schools. But in this case, it'll prepare students for high-demand science and technology careers and maybe even funnel them into a job at the company. What happens when a corporation helps create a high school? We've already seen hints of what it looks like with P-tech, IBM's six-year vocational high school in Brooklyn, where students learn extensive science, math, and engineering skills and after six years, get a high school diploma, associate degree, and a priority path to a job at IBM. Now the business software company SAP is trying its hand with a similar model. At Business Technology Early College High School (BTECH) in Queens, students have just started school, like their peers across the country. They are taking classes like physics, history, and physical education. But in the afternoon, they get a heavy dose of business or technology programming, depending on the major students have selected, and they stay in school all the way past 4 p.m. During their last two years, they get to spend time in real-world internships. And at the end of six years, students walk away with their diploma, an associate degree in business systems or engineering technology, and skills that are highly tailored to a job at SAP or one of its partner companies. The idea for the public school, a collaboration between SAP, Queensborough Community College, the New York City Department of Education, and the Early College Initiative at the City University of New York, was thought up by SAP two years ago. "We started funding STEM programs, after-school programs, and we started to get a little bolder. We wanted to provide a direct IT career pathway to students," says Jackie Montesisnos Suarez, head of SAP's North American corporate social responsibility team. This is the first year for the school, which now has a freshman class of 125. In the early years, the school is similar to a regular high school. Ninth and 10th grade have a strong emphasis on soft skills–like verbal and speaking skills–instead of technology. The school promises an emphasis on literacy and critical thinking, to ensure that kids who decide a tech career isn't for them don't get left behind. But then there are the differences. Kids choose a business or technology major. Every student gets a mentor from SAP on day one; teachers get mentors as well. "We want to make sure we're guiding the teachers and offering them professional development opportunities," says Montesisnos Suarez. In 10th grade, students begin to take college coursework. In the final two years, they move out of the high school altogether and onto the Queensborough Community College campus, where they switch off between classroom work and internships. SAP's imprint on the curriculum is easily apparent. The company did "backwards mapping" on many of the courses, taking entry-level descriptions of jobs at SAP–one around a developer role, another around a business/sales role–and mapping coursework to the skills required for those jobs. "We interviewed people in those jobs at SAP–people who have been in those jobs a long time–to see what you really need to be successful in the roles," says Montesisnos Suarez. Throughout their time at the school, students also have access to SAP products, making them more prepared to either work at the company or work at other companies that use those products as well. Like IBM, SAP isn't guaranteeing students a job at the end of their six years, though they will have an advantage over other graduates simply because of their technical experience. "We're working on building up internships and job-shadowing within the school. If they do that, they'll be competitive at any tech company," says Montesisnos Suarez. Instinctually, a corporate-sponsored high school seems like it could pose problems–if people are up in arms about Bill Gates creating school coursework, a big company can't be much better. But the difference is that Gates wants to revolutionize the way history, a basic school subject that can be manipulated to advocate for specific world views, is taught. SAP and IBM only get a say in the vocational, skills-based coursework–in courses that are essentially training for post-graduation jobs. These companies have insight into the job skills necessary today in the STEM world. Any protestations aside, the six-year vocational training high school model seems to be catching on. P-tech schools are sprouting up across New York state, and SAP is opening up similar schools in Vancouver, Boston, and other cities in the near future. With over 8 million STEM jobs predicted by 2018, the kids who go to these schools will be better prepared than most.

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The World Through Ben Carson's Surgical Magnifying Glass Refugees Risk Death Traveling Through European Winter Newsweek Magazine 'Fallout 4' Is the Most Complex Entertainment of Our Day, but Does That Make It Art? By Mo Mozuch On 11/02/15 at 11:30 AM EST A screenshot from the game "Fallout 4." Bethesda Game Studios Tech & Science Video games Video Game Review Fallout Gaming The air-raid siren wails. Its shriek drowns out the screams on the street. You clutch your wife's hand and run to the shelter. This is not a drill. Your neighbors panic. The bombs are coming. The door to the shelter won't open. The bombs are coming, but the door won't open. This is not a drill. A flash, so bright you see the bones of your hand, and a violent, invisible force that throws you to the ground. Darkness. A terrible heat follows. A hatch opens beside you. You fall in. You smell smoke and singed hair. Blind and burning, your last thoughts are of your wife: Did she hold our baby tight? Blackout. Welcome to Fallout 4—one of the most highly anticipated video games of the past decade. This isn't Super Mario saving his princess or a massive Minecraft map or a cascading stack of crushable candy. It is a richly layered, deeply constructed open world full of dystopian science fiction. Set in a postapocalyptic wasteland outside Boston, Fallout 4 takes place 200 years after a nuclear holocaust. Players assume the role of survivors who return to the surface after getting frozen in a vault. They squint into the sun as the vault door creaks open, tasked to explore this bizarro world that's part Lost in Space and part Mad Max. Related: APA Says Video Games Make You Violent, but Critics Cry Bias The opening scene described above is just a taste of what Fallout 4's creator, Bethesda Game Studios, has spent seven years designing. Fallout 4 features 110,000 lines of spoken dialogue (the script of Apocalypse Now is about 7,500 lines). It's estimated that players will have 30 square miles to explore, including a faithful layout of what Boston, from Paul Revere Mall to Fenway Park, would look like if it survived a nuclear war. In the time it takes to fully explore Fallout 4, players could watch the Godfather trilogy straight through 40 times. Fallout 4: Newest Video Game in Post-Apocalyptic Series Announced APA Says Video Games Make You Violent, but Critics Cry Bias The Case for Violent Video Games Downtime Culture Revisiting American Journalism's Ballsier Days Horizons Tech & Science Video: Ants Act Like Both Liquids and Solids Periscope Tech & Science Two Numbers: Bacon Is Carcinogenic, but So Is the Air You Breathe Periscope World Even With One-Child Policy Lifted, China Becoming 'World's Largest Old-Age Home' The Law Can't Keep Up With Technology…and That's a Very Good Thing R.L. 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Robots look more Ed Wood than Michael Bay, and in-game tutorials mimic the tone of those "Duck and Cover" safety films. It's one of the most visually striking and narratively immersive games ever made. But despite its many artistic elements, some critics are hesitant to consider a video game, any game, a work of art. In 2005, film critic Roger Ebert wrote that "no one in or out of the field has ever been able to cite a game worthy of comparison with the great dramatists, poets, filmmakers, novelists and composers." Ebert argued that games are played while art is not, and that games are created to make money, not emotions. The rebuttal to Ebert's argument comes, surprisingly, from Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. In 2011, he wrote the majority opinion for Brown v. EMA, a case about a California law that banned the sale of video games to minors. Video game fans latched onto the passage that read, "like the protected books, plays, and movies that preceded them, video games communicate ideas—and even social messages—through many familiar literary devices…. That suffices to confer First Amendment protection." For Todd Howard, executive producer of Fallout 4 and the head of Bethesda Game Studios, there is only one reason some people wouldn't consider video games to be art. "They haven't played the right game yet," Howard tells Newsweek at the company's suburban Maryland studio. "What they probably don't know is that there are games for everybody." Ebert eventually hedged a little. "It is quite possible a game could someday be great art," he wrote in 2010 in the self-effacing editorial "Okay, Kids, Play on My Lawn." Ebert's caveat was that no game had yet met the criteria for popular art. Does Fallout 4 ? It is certainly popular. Poised to be one of the best-selling and most critically acclaimed video games of the decade, it's the biggest project to date for Bethesda. The game developer's 2011 fantasy epic The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim sold more than 18 million copies worldwide. Fallout 3 , released in 2008, has sold roughly 10 million. Both titles won game of the year at the Game Developers Choice Awards, an annual gathering of industry leaders, in addition to the dozens of awards the games received from industry press outlets such as IGN, PC Magazine and GameSpot. Chris Melissinos, curator for the Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibit "The Art of Video Games," says video games must be art because they are made of art. "Inside a game like Fallout 4, you can observe landscapes and sculpture and orchestration and narrative arcs and principles of design," he says. "All of these things that, on their own, we put on a pedestal or hang on a wall or write into a book to be published." A view of the game "Pac-Man," one of the 14 video games that are part of the "Applied Designs" exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in New York on March 1, 2013. Jemal Countess/Getty Howard explains how the team attempted to make Fallout 4 an immersive, artistic experience. "We look for elegance. Not simplicity," he says. "What we're trying to do is what we think is best about video games. We're going to put you in another world. Who would you be? What would you do?" In Fallout 4, the players make ethical decisions and determine moral consequences—often within classic sci-fi scenarios. If a robot looks human, acts human and thinks it's human, should it be treated like a human? Do colonies of irradiated lepers deserve to live in isolation or does the threat of a pandemic justify genocide? These moments are full of what Scalia called "social messages" and are born of literary devices as old as Karel Capek's self-aware automatons in the play R.U.R., which premiered in 1921, or Mary Shelley's postapocalyptic plague survivor Lionel Verney from her 1826 novel The Last Man. Related: The Future, as Told by 'Call of Duty: Black Ops 3' "Fallout stands apart as an art form because not only is it narrative, not only is it artistically proficient, it is appropriating multiple areas of Americana and culture," Melissinos says. "It's directly based on your moral compass, how you view the world and how you want to see things unfold. And that's why it holds as art. And it holds as some of the most introspective and personal type of art that anybody can engage in." Howard compares the experience of playing the game to watching a film. "In an open game like ours, the player becomes the director." And where critics like Ebert might argue that a scenario in which a creator gives up control of his or her work takes away its artistic merit, the concept of participants changing the outcome of an artistic work also encompasses elements of performance art and goes back to at least the 1960s, when Brazilian theater director Augusto Boal invited his audience to become "spect-actors." Boal's typical performances involved a scene in which a character was oppressed by an antagonist, and audience members were invited to pause the scene, replace the victim on stage and change the narrative in a way that resolved the conflict in the hero's favor. Sounds like a video game. "Games can tap into that aspect that something live is happening," says Drew Davidson, the director of the Entertainment and Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University. "You have these wonderfully evocative experiences where you feel like your choices matter." Davidson says the ETC was born out of a partnership with Carnegie Mellon's performing arts program and that its founders—a mix of technologists and theater buffs—saw video games as an extension of performance art, since both contain elements like setting, narrative and voice acting. Howard says video games also have a unique emotional advantage over other media. "There is the range of emotions lots of entertainment can give you, from fear to excitement to sadness," he says. "Games can do that. But the one emotion that only games can [create] is pride. Pride in what you accomplish." Though naysayers will continue to naysay, at least for now, Fallout 4's creators believe that games will prove their artistic merit. "There's no question what we do is art. And it's an evolving art, as all art over the ages has been," says Istvan Pely, the game's art director. "It takes time to gain acceptance, but I think this will become the main medium for people to be entertained and to explore the human condition. Which is what art is all about—making people feel things and experience things." Melissinos, who included Bethesda's Fallout 3 in the Smithsonian exhibit, agrees. "It's a variety of all the different art forms," he says. He adds, somewhat loftily, that games represent "the apex" of everything humans know about art at this point in the culture. "Video games are not only an art form; they are one of the most important art forms that have ever been at the disposal of mankind." Unlike other art forms, though, video games are not built to last—technology fades at a much faster rate than plaster and ink. So while critics nitpick the lost meaning of a colored slab of dead wood, let's take time to engage the greatest entertainment technology of our era—regardless of whether it deserves space in a museum. 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Q: JOOQ Support for Axis2 WebServices I have an SOA application with Axis2 Web Service, and I am using JOOQ to create my entities and access the database. In my data service file I have the following code: public Contact[] findContactByName(String name) { try { Contact[] result = new ContactFacade().findContactsByName(name); return result; } catch (Exception ex) { // TODO: Add Error Logger return null; } } If I call this code within the same project as the web service it works fine, but when I call the service from the client application, I get the following messages in the console. [WARN] Unable to locate a BeanInfo cache for class org.jooq.impl.AbstractQueryPart (stopClass=class java.lang.Object). This will negatively affect performance! [WARN] Unable to locate a BeanInfo cache for class org.jooq.impl.AbstractTable (stopClass=class org.jooq.impl.AbstractQueryPart). This will negatively affect performance! [WARN] Unable to locate a BeanInfo cache for class org.jooq.impl.TableImpl (stopClass=class org.jooq.impl.AbstractTable). This will negatively affect performance! [WARN] Unable to locate a BeanInfo cache for class org.jooq.impl.IdentityImpl (stopClass=class java.lang.Object). This will negatively affect performance! [WARN] Unable to locate a BeanInfo cache for class org.jooq.impl.AbstractQueryPart (stopClass=class java.lang.Object). This will negatively affect performance! [WARN] Unable to locate a BeanInfo cache for class org.jooq.impl.AbstractField (stopClass=class org.jooq.impl.AbstractQueryPart). This will negatively affect performance! [WARN] Unable to locate a BeanInfo cache for class org.jooq.impl.TableFieldImpl (stopClass=class org.jooq.impl.AbstractField). This will negatively affect performance! [WARN] Unable to locate a BeanInfo cache for class org.jooq.impl.IdentityConverter (stopClass=class java.lang.Object). This will negatively affect performance! [WARN] Unable to locate a BeanInfo cache for class org.jooq.impl.DefaultDataType (stopClass=class java.lang.Object). This will negatively affect performance! [WARN] Unable to locate a BeanInfo cache for class org.jooq.impl.DefaultDataType (stopClass=class java.lang.Object). This will negatively affect performance! [WARN] Unable to locate a BeanInfo cache for class org.jooq.impl.DefaultDataType (stopClass=class java.lang.Object). This will negatively affect performance! The last warning just keeps repeating indefinitely until a service timeout is fired by the service. Thank you for your help. A: It took me a while, but I managed to tack down the issue and solved it. It turns out that this error occurs when trying to pass jooq's generated classes that are using the above ('TableImpl','TableFieldImpl ',.....). So instead, set the option to generate POJOs to true in your configuration and it will create POJO classes with basic structure. In your DAOs, when fetching the records, fetch them into the POJO object and return that through the service. This a sample call: List<Contact> contactsList = context.selectFrom(Tables.CONTACT) .where(Tables.CONTACT.NAME.equal("somevalue")).fetchInto(Contact.class); Hope this helps others :)

Hamas Spokesman Says Relations Between Hamas And Saudi Arabia Are "Developing Positively"; Hamas Political Leader May Visit The Kingdom By gmbwatch on March 18, 2015 Daily Islamist media is reporting on comments by a Hamas spokesman who said that relations between Hamas and Saudi Arabia are "developing positively." According to the Middle East Monitor report, another Hamas leader has said that he hopes that Hamas political leader Khaled Meshaal will visit Saudi Arabia: Relations between Hamas and Saudi Arabia are 'developing positively', the organisation's spokesman Ismail Ridwan said, adding that the group hopes this will lead to lifting the siege on Gaza and opening the Rafah crossing. Speaking to the Anadolu Agency, Ridwan said: 'We are keen to develop our relations with Saudi Arabia, which has always stood with the Palestinian issue. We hope that the head of Hamas's political bureau Khalid Meshaal visits Saudi and this visit contributes to regaining natural relations with the kingdom.' On Sunday, during a discussion panel in Gaza, senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Zahar said that there is a 'prospective visit for Meshaal to Saudi Arabia.' He also stressed: 'Hamas is keen to maintain good relations with Saudi Arabia.' Al-Zahar said that any new information about Meshaal's visit to Saudi Arabia would immediately be announced. If this visit happens, it would be the first of its kind since June 2012. In addition, Al-Zahar said: 'Saudi leads the Gulf in addition to being a large country in the region. It is seeking good relations with Hamas because of the political changes in the region as well as because of the control of the Houthi rebels in Yemen.' Relations between Hamas and Saudi Arabia are not 'perfect' because, journalists claim, of the connection between Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, while observers claim that Hamas's rapprochement with Iran is the reason behind Saudi's 'worries' regarding Hamas. In March 2014, the GMBDW reported that Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) had designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization and said a committee would be set up to determine the groups to be outlawed. Despite this development, the GMBDW has been monitoring activities in the Kingdom that suggest its commitment to fighting the Muslim Brotherhood maybe less than it has claimed. Since the above comments were made by Hamas itself, they may or may not turn out to be accurate. The GMBDW will continue to monitor the situation and bring you the latest developments. 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The government has announced that partially driverless lorries or small conveys will be tried on UK roads by the end of next year. The Netherlands has already trialled this technology on a small convey where the lead truck had control of the second. The Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) has been awarded a contract to carry out these tests on what they refer to as a 'platoon' of vehicles. The test is expected to include up to 3 HGV's where the lead lorry controls all the acceleration and breaking. The AA has said that the 'platoons' do however raise safety concerns. The TRL will very shortly start testing on test tracks with road trials expected at the end of 2018. The read lorries will not be completely human free in the trials. The lead HGV will control acceleration and breaking being mirrored to the rear HGV's but with the initial tests, steering will be controlled by a human. There is also a benefit to emissions and air pollution. As the 'platoons' will be travelling closer together, it can be expected to see that the lead vehicles pushes air out of the way for the rear vehicles improving their fuel consumption. With less risk on company's HGV Insurance and reduced fuel costs, it is hoped that these saving will be passed onto the consumer. The government has been promising such projects since 2014 but has been met with hurdles in the form of many European countries refusing to take part in 'platooning' trials. – DAF Trucks made by Dutch Manufacturer. – Ricardo which is a British smart tech transport firm. – DHL which is a German logistics company. 'Platooning Vehicles' is not new and has been seen in a number of other countries such as Japan, Germany and the US. Edmund King, president of the AA has said that British road provide a unique challenge not seen in other countries. Edmund's stated: "We all want to promote fuel efficiency and reduce congestion but we are not yet convinced that lorry platooning on UK motorways is the way to go about it," he said, pointing out, for example, that small convoys of lorries can block road signs from the view of other road users. It goes without saying that safety has to come first but, could this revolutionise the UK haulage industry reducing costs for all across the UK?

Blood & Bone — Available Now! The Brotherhood has returned, with a demon-summoner in Paris. Adam must go to the City of Lights to do battle with an ancient evil. Luke is keeping secrets that may test the limits of Adam's strength and endurance. There is a greater evil behind The Brotherhood than anyone knows. S.H. Roddey returns to the Shadow Council Archives, the tales of bygone days in the world of Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter, with Blood & Bone, a tale of intrigue, revenge, magic, lust, and love with ripples that will be felt throughout history. The evil Brotherhood has captured a woman capable of summoning demons, and they plan to unleash her evil upon the City of Lights, Paris. Adam has been enlisted by his sometimes friend, sometimes companion Vlad Dracula to rid the world of this evil.

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When Chaos Came To Town – Episode I: Everybody Wants To Rule The World There once was a time in this business when they had the eyes of the whole world in theaters! But that wasn't good enough for them, oh no! They had to have control of the homes of the whole world, too. So they opened their big libraries and out came VHS. DVD! STREAMING! — apologies to Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett and D.M. Marshman Jr. I have never heard as many people as confused about where the filming television industry is headed. Of course, you have media out front, full of piss and ignorance as ever, endlessly explaining the most simplistic perspectives possible, shifting in the wind as each exec or agent makes a pronouncement between their salad and portioned gluten-free entree. Truth be told, my head is spinning. And it's not so easy to spin my head. There have always been moments of WTF in the early moments of paradigm shifts, which is what we are in right now. But there were also some guard rails… mostly about making money. So let's get right into the meat of it… Making a nice profit on content is no longer the central goal in Hollywood. I have been coming at this from many directions over recent weeks and I promise I will show my work… but I don't want to bury the lede. After considering the actions of players large and small, trying to put a broader motive on the choices being made (aside from the too-easy blaming of COVID), and looking towards the logical outcome of the choices being made, my current conclusion is that Hollywood has become an industry unsatisfied with being in the business of making a profit, year in and year out. The Industry is now in the thrall of the crap shoot of Wall Street, spurred in no small way by Netflix envy (as well as misunderstanding Netflix), and that simply being successful is no longer success enough. The evolution of streaming is not too much unlike the evolution to sound movies. Back in 1927, a cash-strapped Warner Bros. released The Jazz Singer, pushing forward with the sound technology they had controlled in-house for at least a couple years. They didn't make a leap so much as were pushed into it by fear of bankruptcy. It was a huge hit, making Warner Bros. a ton of money, saving and super-powering the studio. But even more significantly, it put the onus on all the other studios to make the conversion to sound. (See: Singin' In The Rain) Netflix introduced streaming—then called "Watch Now"—in 2007, a decade into the company's history. It was computers-only and was poor quality. They had about 7 million subscribers to the subscription DVD service and cracked a billion dollars a year in revenue for the first time (as well as shipping their billionth disc). So they should have been ecstatic. But they weren't. They were stuck without a track to a higher level of growth. Netflix had also started an initiative in 2006, Red Envelope, to develop original programming on DVD… and by 2007, they already knew it wasn't working. Netflix sensed the decline in the domestic DVD business and knew that consistent mail distribution was problematic outside of the U.S. There was no next leap in delivering DVDs in envelopes. It wasn't the only reason they initiated the streaming effort… but it was significant. Over the next five years, with the combination of delivery and streaming, Netflix quintupled their membership numbers and tripled their revenues. But the company still was not the high flier that it would become. In 2010, Netflix expanded streaming to Canada and then to other regions. By the end of 2012, they had six million international streaming subs. In 2013, the international streaming subs leapt 62% to 9.7 million. In 2014, 72%. In 2015, 64%. 2016, another 50%. And then, in Q3 2017, Netflix's international paid subs (52.7 million) passed their domestic paid subs (51.4 million) for the first time. That is when, I propose, the entire filmed entertainment was turned upside down, leading to where we are today. At that time, in the third quarter of 2017… what was becoming undeniable to the legacy companies on every side of the $200b+ domestic television business was… well… The World. All of the production companies and major studios license content across the globe, profitably. For decades, everyone was thrilled to fight over the turf that they had worked so hard to develop. But Netflix, the very successful canary in the coal mine, made them realize—proved to them—that they might be limiting their opportunities. For instance, Comcast (NBC) can't lay cable across France and ABC (Disney) isn't welcome to broadcast their network in any other part of the world. Streaming expands the market in a way that allows these companies to remain in control of their content and the revenues (pending deals in each national territory). Netflix was proving that the world market could not only be bigger than the domestic market, but as theatrical movies had shown, dwarf it. As of Netflix's last quarterly report (July 2021), they had 74.4 million subs in the US & Canada and 133.3 million in the rest of the world. For the first time in the Netflix streaming era, there was a quarterly loss of domestic subs. Every other region remained up. No one much cared. Back in 2017, when Netflix tipped towards international. Disney's combined revenues from Media Networks (broadcast & cable) and Studio Entertainment (movies) were $26.8 billion. Netflix's total revenues were $11.7 billion. By 2020, Disney's combined revenues from Media Networks and Studio Entertainment were $38 billion and Netflix's total revenues were $25 billion. This is in spite of, for Disney, a significant impact from COVID. As internet service gets better, streaming (including, potentially, virtual cable offerings) will continue to eat into the cable/satellite business. But these companies don't have to wait for that process to come to fruition in America. There are more subs overseas than here at home. And the bigger money needed to make this transition will come from there. This is why I feel the lagging major streamers have years to get their acts together. Comcast and Viacom (And Disney) will all be making more money in domestic legacy cable and satellite than in streaming for at least three-to-five more years (not to mention Parks, in the portfolios of Disney and Comcast). The transition is not going to be quick. It wasn't for Netflix and it will be faster for others… just not fast. Streaming is a replacement for cable and satellite. The average domestic household in America spends about $90 a month on cable and satellite. With streaming as the delivery mechanism, there is suddenly the real potential of more than a $100 billion a year spent by households for streaming services. Netflix has been mostly an add-on service, with households willing to expand their spend by $10-$17 a month. But for there to be two or four or six services to be paid for every month, the money needs to come from somewhere… and the only realistic somewhere is the cable and satellite bill. So let's do the back of the napkin math on the streaming future… at $15 a month, 5.6 million households = $1 billion a year. That puts Disney, for instance, at a revenue breakeven for their filmed entertainment production and distribution businesses in this transition at about 225 million subscribers (not at $8 a month… $15… the bundle). Clearly, two things are critical… international subscriptions and the price point. (Netflix's Average Revenue Per User last quarter was $11.70. So they too are still below this hypothetical that is, in part, driving this market.) Those who are still high on Netflix have decided to believe in a 400 million+ household subscriber universe. That's double their current business. They have been growing at around 30 million subs a year, worldwide, in the last five years and will probably be close to that again this year. But the sub train is clearly slowing and the focus for investors is moving to profit, which has not been a strength for Netflix to date. Then, of course, it all gets much more complicated, because the costs needed to compete successfully in this direct-to-consumer business is a giant, evolving question mark. Netflix has been seen as the standard because of their success on Wall Street, but that Wall Street success has allowed them the indulgence of ever-expanding content spending. This won't work for anyone else. And it seems that we may be at the end of it working so well for Netflix. But that is another Episode… 2 Responses to "When Chaos Came To Town – Episode I: Everybody Wants To Rule The World" William R Burns Jr says: Sports streaming in the US is about $85 billion a year… Porn almost $100 billion. book publishing about $130 billion worldwide. cable TV almost $100 billion. Live performance theater, live concerts etc. Film theatrical? $40 billion worldwide. In the eyes of the corporate behemoths that own most of the entertainment industry, traditional cinema serves purposes well beyond, amd bigger, than the split they get back from AMC… or China. The profit from theatrical is basically budget dust. it's not as if these corporations need theatrical to generate stories, or even spectacle, any longer. Prestige filmmaking has a much smaller attendance than art museums… More like Broadway. David Poland says: Yes… but what the theatrical window does a uniquely good job of doing is developing a connection of content with audiences. It is much more indelible than TV has proven to be.

For the achievement of the aims set forth in Article 4, the founders establish a society under the provisions of Act II 1989 on association and the terms and conditions hereof. Seat: 1063 Budapest, Munkácsy M. u. 16. The "National Host of Hungary" Society (hereinafter Society) aims to promote the research of advanced IT and communications technologies and networks in Hungary, particularly including the support of Hungary's involvement and successful participation in the relevant EU programs and in the projects of such programs and other programs with similar aims. the Society may engage in complementary business activities to achieve the above aims and support its non-profit activities. The Society may not pursue direct political activities, it is independent of political parties and it may not support, or accept support from, political parties. All members of the Society are ordinary members in terms of their rights and obligations. The Society has no supporting or honorary members. 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The Presidency shall pass its resolutions by a secret vote to elect the officials falling within its authority or if requested by any of the Vice Chairpersons. The Society's Chairperson shall be elected for a one-year period by the Vice Chairpersons from among themselves. exercising the power to sign and remit jointly with a Vice Chairperson or the Executive Officer. In case the Chairperson is absent or prevented, he/she shall be substituted by a Vice Chairperson appointed for this purpose. The Chairperson may be re-elected to his/her office. The Executive Officer shall be elected by the General Meeting and the employer's rights in respect of him/her shall be exercised by the Chairperson of the Society. exercising the power to sign and remit jointly with a Vice Chairperson. The Executive Officer's work shall be supported by the Secretariat of the Society. The Secretariat keeps the Society's records, handles the expert assignments and the Society's documentation and publication activities. The Secretariat is responsible for organising the Society's events. The General Meeting shall elect a Supervisory Board to supervise the Society's management and the administration of its assets. The Supervisory Board shall consist of one Chairperson and two members. The members of the Supervisory Board may not hold other offices within the Society. The members of the Supervisory Board may not be relatives of each other or another elected official of the Society. The activities of the Supervisory Board shall be directed by its Chairperson. controlling compliance with the documentary discipline. While performing their duties, the Supervisory Board members may inspect any document relevant to the Society's activities. 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Consumer Surplus in Online Auctions Information Systems Research, Forthcoming 31 Pages Posted: 30 Jan 2008 Last revised: 24 Feb 2015 See all articles by Ravi Bapna Ravi Bapna Indian School of Business Wolfgang Jank University of Maryland - Decision and Information Technologies Department Galit Shmueli Institute of Service Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan There are 2 versions of this paper Number of pages: 48 Posted: 10 Nov 2005 Number of pages: 31 Posted: 30 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2015 You are currently viewing this paper Despite the growing research interest in Internet auctions, particularly those on eBay, little is known about quantifiable consumer surplus levels in such mechanisms. Using an ongoing novel field experiment that involves real bidders participating in real auctions, and voting with real dollars, we collect and examine a unique dataset to estimate consumer surplus in eBay auctions. The estimation procedure relies mainly on knowing the highest bid, which is not disclosed by eBay, but is available to us from our experiment. At the outset we assume a private value second-price sealed-bid auction setting, as well as a lack of alternative buying options within or outside eBay. Our analysis, based on a sample of 4514 eBay auctions, indicates that consumers extract a median surplus of at least $4 per eBay auction. This estimate is unbiased under the above assumptions, and otherwise it is a lower bound. The distribution of surplus is highly skewed given the diverse nature of the data. We find that eBay's auctions generate at least $7.05 billion in total consumer surplus in the year 2003 and may generate up to $7.68 billion if the private value sealed-bid assumption does not hold. We check for the validity of our assumptions and the robustness of our estimates using an additional dataset from 2005 and a randomly sampled validation dataset from eBay. Keywords: eBay, sniping, highest bid, consumer surplus Bapna, Ravi and Jank, Wolfgang and Shmueli, Galit, Consumer Surplus in Online Auctions (December 20, 2007). Information Systems Research, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1087658 Ravi Bapna (Contact Author) Indian School of Business ( email ) Hyderabad, Gachibowli 500 019 +91 40 23187156 (Phone) University of Maryland - Decision and Information Technologies Department ( email ) Robert H. Smith School of Business 4300 Van Munching Hall HOME PAGE: http://www.smith.umd.edu/faculty/wjank/ Institute of Service Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan ( email ) Hsinchu, 30013 HOME PAGE: http://www.iss.nthu.edu.tw

Warner Music has struck a wide-ranging deal with the Istanbul-based Doğan Group, which owns Doğan Music Company (DMC), Turkey's largest independent record label, and DMC's subsidiary NetD, one of the most popular channels on YouTube . Doğan Music Company (DMC) will distribute Warner Music's physical product in Turkey and represent its repertoire to Turkish-owned digital music platforms. The deal will also see Warner Music repertoire hosted on NetD, which is one of the Top 5 most-viewed channels on YouTube, with nearly 13 million subscribers and 600m monthly official video views. The repertoire will be hosted on dedicated playlists that NetD will promote on its home page and popular social media channels. Warner Music will also partner with NetD's significant influencer marketing network. They will create video content around Warner Music artists and songs that they will promote to their vast audience of predominantly Turkish viewers. Turkey is one of the world's fast-growing recorded music markets. The latest IFPI figures show that the value of the market increased by 31.7% in 2017 to some $55m. Alfonso Perez Soto, EVP, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa, Warner Music (pictured main), said: "Turkey is one of the most exciting emerging markets in the world. "We're very focused on ensuring our artists have truly global impact and this deal will provide them with the best way to connect with Turkish music fans. Samsun Demir, CEO, DMC, added: "We take pride in assuming the representation in Turkey of the repertoire from one of most significant music companies in the world. This agreement will see us cooperate across so many areas. Forget Drake. The music sales story of the year could soon be Johnny Hallyday.

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How to watch streaming River-Boca return Copa Libertadores 2018 by Dore At 9pm on DAZN will air the Superclasico that will award the Copa Libertadores 2018. Here's how to follow the match on TV and live streaming for free This is not a match like the others. And not only because it will assign the Copa Libertadores 2018 (the equivalent of the Champions League in South America), but because it puts River and Boca in front of each other. Not just two Argentine teams, but the two most important clubs in Buenos Aires, where you can breathe soccer on every street corner. This is the first time that the Copa Libertadores sees River Plate and Boca Juniors in the final. The two fans do not like each other (to put it mildly) and for a month in Argentina there is a different air, a spasmodic wait to see how it will end. Never before has the spotlight been on the 2018 Copa Libertadores return final as much as it has this year: soccer fans are looking forward to evenings like this. The Copa Libertadores final features a first leg and a return game: the first was played at the home of Boca Juniors and ended with a 2-2 result, while the return will be played tonight at the Monumental and will award the trophy. Away goals, however, do not count double and in the event that the ninety minutes of regulation play ends in 1-1 or 3-3, the game will go to extra time and possibly penalties. The anticipation for the match is great and also Italian fans will be able to watch River - Boca live streaming on DAZN that has acquired the rights to the Copa Libertadores 2018. The kickoff is set at 21:00 Italian time Finale Libertadores 2018, where to watch it DAZN, the video streaming platform born during the summer and that has secured the exclusive rights to three matches of the Seria A for each day, has enriched the offer by acquiring the rights to the Copa Libertadores 2018 and will broadcast live the Superclassico. To see River - Boca return of the final of Libertadores 2018 is necessary to be subscribed to DAZN (the cost is 9.99 euros per month, with the first month free) and have one of the devices supported by the platform (smart TV, tablet, computer, smartphone and console). DAZN is the only way to follow live the Superclassico 2018 between River and Boca. How to stream the Superclassico, return final of the Copa Libertadores 2018 If you are not at home, you do not have to worry, you can watch the return of the Copa Libertadores 2018 final between River - Boca streaming on DAZN using your computer or the application for smartphones and tablets. To watch the Superclasico streaming for free you need to launch DAZN, enter your credentials and then press on the Sport item of the menu. A pop-up window will open and you will have to click on Soccer. On the new page there will be all the matches broadcast on DAZN, scrolling down you will find the logo of the Copa Libertadores, press it and the section dedicated to the trophy will open. Clicking on the match banner will start streaming River - Boca final return match of Copa Libertadores 2018. Kickoff at 21:00. Update at 23:30 on November 24 Following the violent clashes outside the Monumental Stadium, the 2018 Copa Libertadores return final River - Boca has been postponed to November 25 at 21:00 Italian time. How to watch in free streaming River - Boca return final of the 2018 Copa Libertadores on November 25 The clashes that occurred outside the Monumental stadium and the attack suffered by the bus of Boca Juniors with six players injured, has forced the South American federation to postpone to today the return final of the 2018 Copa Libertadores. The most awaited match of the year in South America turned into what everyone feared: an urban guerrilla warfare that forced the police to shoot smoke bombs and rubber bullets to quell the clashes. The match has been postponed to today and the kick-off is set at 21:00 Italian time. Fans in the Bel Paese will be able to watch River - Boca final return match of Copa Libertadores 2018 in streaming on DAZN: you need to have a subscription to the platform and use one of the supported devices. The procedure to follow to watch the match in streaming is very simple: just launch the platform and from the home of DAZN click on the banner dedicated to River - Boca Juniors. 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Experimental method and statistical analysis to fit tumor growth model using SPECT/CT imaging: A preclinical study Ivan Hidrovo, Joyoni Dey, Megan E. Chesal, Dmytro Shumilov, Narayan Bhusal, J. Michael Mathis Pharmacology & Neuroscience Background: Over the last decade, several theoretical tumor-models have been developed to describe tumor growth. Oncology imaging is performed using various modalities including computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography (FDG-PET). Our goal is to extract useful, otherwise hidden, quantitative biophysical parameters (such as growth-rate, tumor-necrotic-factor, etc.) from these serial images of tumors by fitting mathematical models to images. These biophysical features are intrinsic to the tumor types and specific to the study-subject, and expected to add valuable information on the tumor containment or spread and help treatment plans. Thus, fitting realistic but practical models and assessing parameter-errors and degree of fit is important. Methods: We implemented an existing theoretical ode-compartment model and variants and applied them for the first time, in vivo. We developed an inversion algorithm to fit the models for tumor growth for simulated as well as in vivo experimental data. Serial SPECT/CT scans of mice breast-tumors were acquired, and SPECT data was used to segment the proliferating-layers of tumors. Results: Results of noisy data simulation and inversion show that 5 out of 7 parameters were recovered to within 4.3% error. In particular, tumor growth-rate parameter was recovered to 0.07% error. For model fitting to in vivo mice-tumors, regression analysis on the P-layer volume showed R2 of 0.99 for logistic and Gompertzian while surface area model yielded R2=0.96. For the necrotic layer the R2 values were 0.95, 0.93 and 0.94 respectively for surface-area, logistic and Gompertzian. The Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) weights of the models (giving their relative probability of being the best Kullback-Leibler (K-L) model among the set of candidate models) were 0, 0.43 and 0.57 for surface-area, logistic and Gompertzian models. Conclusions: Model-fitting to mice tumor studies demonstrates feasibility of applying the models to in vivo imaging data to extract features. Akaike information criterion (AIC) evaluations show Gompertzian or logistic growth model fits in vivo breast-tumors better than surface-area based growth model. https://doi.org/10.21037/qims.2017.06.05 Mathematical tumor growth model Quantification tumor growth 10.21037/qims.2017.06.05 Dive into the research topics of 'Experimental method and statistical analysis to fit tumor growth model using SPECT/CT imaging: A preclinical study'. Together they form a unique fingerprint. Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography Computed Tomography Medicine & Life Sciences 100% Growth Medicine & Life Sciences 38% Single-Photon Emission-Computed Tomography Medicine & Life Sciences 14% Theoretical Models Medicine & Life Sciences 11% Logistic Models Medicine & Life Sciences 9% Breast Neoplasms Medicine & Life Sciences 8% Feasibility Studies Medicine & Life Sciences 7% Hidrovo, I., Dey, J., Chesal, M. E., Shumilov, D., Bhusal, N., & Mathis, J. M. (2017). Experimental method and statistical analysis to fit tumor growth model using SPECT/CT imaging: A preclinical study. Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery, 7(3), 299-309. https://doi.org/10.21037/qims.2017.06.05 Hidrovo, Ivan ; Dey, Joyoni ; Chesal, Megan E. et al. / Experimental method and statistical analysis to fit tumor growth model using SPECT/CT imaging : A preclinical study. In: Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery. 2017 ; Vol. 7, No. 3. pp. 299-309. @article{33659edc78df42b494d29007a314825b, title = "Experimental method and statistical analysis to fit tumor growth model using SPECT/CT imaging: A preclinical study", abstract = "Background: Over the last decade, several theoretical tumor-models have been developed to describe tumor growth. Oncology imaging is performed using various modalities including computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography (FDG-PET). Our goal is to extract useful, otherwise hidden, quantitative biophysical parameters (such as growth-rate, tumor-necrotic-factor, etc.) from these serial images of tumors by fitting mathematical models to images. These biophysical features are intrinsic to the tumor types and specific to the study-subject, and expected to add valuable information on the tumor containment or spread and help treatment plans. Thus, fitting realistic but practical models and assessing parameter-errors and degree of fit is important. Methods: We implemented an existing theoretical ode-compartment model and variants and applied them for the first time, in vivo. We developed an inversion algorithm to fit the models for tumor growth for simulated as well as in vivo experimental data. Serial SPECT/CT scans of mice breast-tumors were acquired, and SPECT data was used to segment the proliferating-layers of tumors. Results: Results of noisy data simulation and inversion show that 5 out of 7 parameters were recovered to within 4.3% error. In particular, tumor growth-rate parameter was recovered to 0.07% error. For model fitting to in vivo mice-tumors, regression analysis on the P-layer volume showed R2 of 0.99 for logistic and Gompertzian while surface area model yielded R2=0.96. For the necrotic layer the R2 values were 0.95, 0.93 and 0.94 respectively for surface-area, logistic and Gompertzian. The Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) weights of the models (giving their relative probability of being the best Kullback-Leibler (K-L) model among the set of candidate models) were 0, 0.43 and 0.57 for surface-area, logistic and Gompertzian models. Conclusions: Model-fitting to mice tumor studies demonstrates feasibility of applying the models to in vivo imaging data to extract features. 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All rights reserved.", doi = "10.21037/qims.2017.06.05", journal = "Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery", publisher = "AME Publishing Company", Hidrovo, I, Dey, J, Chesal, ME, Shumilov, D, Bhusal, N & Mathis, JM 2017, 'Experimental method and statistical analysis to fit tumor growth model using SPECT/CT imaging: A preclinical study', Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 299-309. https://doi.org/10.21037/qims.2017.06.05 Experimental method and statistical analysis to fit tumor growth model using SPECT/CT imaging : A preclinical study. / Hidrovo, Ivan; Dey, Joyoni; Chesal, Megan E. et al. In: Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery, Vol. 7, No. 3, 01.06.2017, p. 299-309. T1 - Experimental method and statistical analysis to fit tumor growth model using SPECT/CT imaging T2 - A preclinical study AU - Hidrovo, Ivan AU - Dey, Joyoni AU - Chesal, Megan E. AU - Shumilov, Dmytro AU - Bhusal, Narayan AU - Mathis, J. Michael N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery. All rights reserved. N2 - Background: Over the last decade, several theoretical tumor-models have been developed to describe tumor growth. Oncology imaging is performed using various modalities including computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography (FDG-PET). Our goal is to extract useful, otherwise hidden, quantitative biophysical parameters (such as growth-rate, tumor-necrotic-factor, etc.) from these serial images of tumors by fitting mathematical models to images. These biophysical features are intrinsic to the tumor types and specific to the study-subject, and expected to add valuable information on the tumor containment or spread and help treatment plans. Thus, fitting realistic but practical models and assessing parameter-errors and degree of fit is important. Methods: We implemented an existing theoretical ode-compartment model and variants and applied them for the first time, in vivo. We developed an inversion algorithm to fit the models for tumor growth for simulated as well as in vivo experimental data. Serial SPECT/CT scans of mice breast-tumors were acquired, and SPECT data was used to segment the proliferating-layers of tumors. Results: Results of noisy data simulation and inversion show that 5 out of 7 parameters were recovered to within 4.3% error. In particular, tumor growth-rate parameter was recovered to 0.07% error. For model fitting to in vivo mice-tumors, regression analysis on the P-layer volume showed R2 of 0.99 for logistic and Gompertzian while surface area model yielded R2=0.96. For the necrotic layer the R2 values were 0.95, 0.93 and 0.94 respectively for surface-area, logistic and Gompertzian. The Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) weights of the models (giving their relative probability of being the best Kullback-Leibler (K-L) model among the set of candidate models) were 0, 0.43 and 0.57 for surface-area, logistic and Gompertzian models. Conclusions: Model-fitting to mice tumor studies demonstrates feasibility of applying the models to in vivo imaging data to extract features. Akaike information criterion (AIC) evaluations show Gompertzian or logistic growth model fits in vivo breast-tumors better than surface-area based growth model. AB - Background: Over the last decade, several theoretical tumor-models have been developed to describe tumor growth. Oncology imaging is performed using various modalities including computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography (FDG-PET). Our goal is to extract useful, otherwise hidden, quantitative biophysical parameters (such as growth-rate, tumor-necrotic-factor, etc.) from these serial images of tumors by fitting mathematical models to images. These biophysical features are intrinsic to the tumor types and specific to the study-subject, and expected to add valuable information on the tumor containment or spread and help treatment plans. Thus, fitting realistic but practical models and assessing parameter-errors and degree of fit is important. Methods: We implemented an existing theoretical ode-compartment model and variants and applied them for the first time, in vivo. We developed an inversion algorithm to fit the models for tumor growth for simulated as well as in vivo experimental data. Serial SPECT/CT scans of mice breast-tumors were acquired, and SPECT data was used to segment the proliferating-layers of tumors. Results: Results of noisy data simulation and inversion show that 5 out of 7 parameters were recovered to within 4.3% error. In particular, tumor growth-rate parameter was recovered to 0.07% error. For model fitting to in vivo mice-tumors, regression analysis on the P-layer volume showed R2 of 0.99 for logistic and Gompertzian while surface area model yielded R2=0.96. For the necrotic layer the R2 values were 0.95, 0.93 and 0.94 respectively for surface-area, logistic and Gompertzian. The Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) weights of the models (giving their relative probability of being the best Kullback-Leibler (K-L) model among the set of candidate models) were 0, 0.43 and 0.57 for surface-area, logistic and Gompertzian models. Conclusions: Model-fitting to mice tumor studies demonstrates feasibility of applying the models to in vivo imaging data to extract features. 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Irvine postpones $5.7 million deal for UCI… Irvine postpones $5.7 million deal for UCI Health to sponsor Great Park The Great Park Balloon and sports complex in Irvine, CA, on Wednesday, January 2, 2019. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG) By Tess Sheets | [email protected] | PUBLISHED: September 29, 2021 at 11:23 a.m. | UPDATED: September 29, 2021 at 4:00 p.m. Irvine city leaders this week held off on approving a sponsorship deal with UCI Health that would have tacked the name of the health system onto the Great Park logo as a presenter and provided a host of other branding opportunities. In a deal that would have meant roughly $5.7 million for Irvine over the next decade, UCI Health as the Great Park's top sponsor would host and take part in health and wellness initiatives and hold an "Annual Wellness Month presented by UCI Health" for city employees. Support of city-organized events such as blood drives, health screening and vaccination programs, and possibly air ambulance services, could have also been worked out as part of the deal. The health provider would be a source of medical expertise for the city through the term of the agreement, as it is now for COVID-19 best practices. But after some complaints over the exclusive nature of the sponsorship and questions about the price tag, Irvine leaders decided Tuesday, Sept. 28, the city will go back to the drawing board. More about the sponsorship deal could be discussed at a City Council meeting next month. "I think this is a new direction for us going to sponsorships, so this is the first one and we want to do it right," Mayor Farrah Khan said at a Great Park Board meeting. "So if we need to take a little bit of time to make sure that we do it right, well, we'll go ahead and take that time." City officials in February 2020 hired consulting firm The Superlative Group to create a sponsorship program at the Great Park, which set out the following month to find the 1,300-acre recreational hub a presenting sponsor. UCI Health was selected out of national and local companies considered for the deal, Irvine's community services manager, Jenn Starnes, said at the Tuesday meeting. The medical center was "most aligned with the city's strategic goals and offered the most advantageous terms to the city," she said. The sponsorship prospect came amid expansion plans for UCI Health. The medical center is building a new health complex near the northern edge of its university campus, which will feature a 144-bed hospital, specialized oncology and neuroscience services, children's health and urgent care facilities. But some council members – they also serve as the Great Park board – were apprehensive over parts of the deal. Anthony Kuo and Tammy Kim voiced concern about a provision of the agreement that would restrict other health care providers from some sponsorship opportunities within the Great Park. That exclusivity raises the value of the deal, Kim said, arguing the sponsorship is worth more than what UCI Health planned to pay. Also not factored in, she said, is Orange County's placement as one of the top media markets in the country, making advertisements here especially costly. "We look at this and we think, 'Oh, it's a lot of money,'" Kim said. "But it actually isn't compared to what they're getting." Starnes said other healthcare providers could still sponsor some community events in the park, such as the annual Irvine Global Village. The deal would have brought in $500,000 to the city the first year, with annual payments increasing by 3% until they reached $652,386 in the 10th year. The Superlative Group would receive 10% commission on the payments. The remaining funds would be allocated "to enhance the budget" for the City Council's executive assistance staff, according to the staff report. The choice to designate sponsorship revenue there was made previously by the City Council, said Pamela Baird, Irvine's director of community services. City leaders this summer voted to drop "Orange County" from the park's moniker, saying Irvine should be recognized for operating the amenity, which lies within its city limits. Councilman Larry Agran, who previously opposed the name change, urged the city's leaders to "go slow" in choosing how the park's logo might change again with a presenting sponsor. City leaders are still shopping branding opportunities for a number of other Great Park fixtures, including the soccer, baseball and softball stadiums, light pole banners, the farmers market and more, Baird said. Branding of public spaces seems to be becoming more common, said Niklas Myhr, a marketing professor at Chapman University, "at the same rate as the willingness to pay tax dollars for it has gone down." The concept can be seen as a "win-win" by the public, who can enjoy the benefits of a park, for example, while the money to operate it comes out of someone else's pocket, he said. So long as the brand is compatible with the use of the space. A tobacco company, for instance, may not be popular for a kid's soccer field, he noted. Myhr said sponsorships are playing a bigger role in more spaces that were previously void of ads "as costs go up, and organizations, nonprofits and for-profits alike are looking for other ways to sustain themselves and grow." city-council Great Park Tess Sheets | Reporter Tess Sheets covers Fullerton, Orange and Irvine, along with communities in south Orange County including San Juan Capistrano, Mission Viejo and Lake Forest, for The Orange County Register. 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Amelia Earhart: What The General Public Never Knew Home Page: Amelia Earhart About Tod Swindell Drumming Out False Earhart History The Curious Mrs. Irene O'Crowley Craigmile-Bolam Past Significant Amelia Earhart Disappearance Investigations About 'Operation Earhart' (1960-1970) The 1980s and 1990s Words Of Monsignor James Francis Kelley On Amelia Earhart Comparing Amelia Earhart To Irene O'Crowley Craigmile (Surname 'Bolam' added in 1958) Wikipedia Deceitfully Misleads the Public About Amelia and Irene Newspaper Fraud Tried To Hide The Truth In 1982 The Year Is 2021, And The Truth Pertaining To What Became Of Amelia Earhart Is Now Plain To See Irene O'Crowley Craigmile was a real Twentieth Century person. The individual displayed above was identified that way from the 1940s on, but she was not the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile. A recent study revealed she did not appear as "Irene" prior to the 1940s. In 1965, it was first suspected that the distinguished looking person above, who was known as Irene, had previously gone by the name of Amelia Earhart. In 1970, she publicly denied she was Amelia Earhart, although it was never outright proved if she was or wasn't the once world famous pilot living with a different name. Now, the results of a privately conducted study have made the truth plain to see. Below are sample elements from the 'digital comparison' section of a forensic research analysis that deeply examined the life stories of two 1930s' flying pals, Amelia Earhart and Irene O'Crowley Craigmile: The post-1940 only Irene. [The analysis learned that there was more than one, Irene O'Crowley Craigmile.] Amelia Earhart in 1937... begins to... digitally transition into... ...the post-1940 Irene in 1965 The comprehensive Amelia Earhart and Irene O'Crowley Craigmile forensic research study and comparison analysis not only surfaced the reality of more than one Twentieth Century person having been attributed to the same, Irene O'Crowley Craigmile identity; it also left no doubt that the post-1940 only Irene O'Crowley Craigmile was previously known as, Amelia Earhart. Keep going to learn more about this recently learned, and now wholesomely presented finality. About The Original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile The original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, who Amelia Earhart knew and had flown with in the early 1930s, looked nothing like Amelia: This 1930 dated newspaper photo features the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, shown between her husband, Charles James Craigmile (left) and her father, Richard Joseph O'Crowley. Tragedy struck the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile's life in 1931, when her husband of three years, Charles James Craigmile, suddenly died: After her husband died, the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile decided to become a pilot. With Amelia's encouragement, she purchased a plane in 1932, and she earned her wings in 1933. In fact, she was a pretty good at it for awhile, and became part of an elite group of fliers that based at Long Island, New York's Roosevelt and Floyd Bennett Airfields. An old newspaper photo of the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, shown next to her plane in 1933. It was no small feat for any pilot in 1933, to fly a single engine, two-seater plane to Chicago from Long Island, New York. In 1967, an elderly, retired pilot by the name of Elmo Pickerill, recalled the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile from the early 1930s, in the following manner: Strangely, approximate to when Amelia Earhart went 'missing' in the late 1930s, the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile as well, was no longer evident. In time, clear photo evidence of the original Irene had also been removed from circulation. Whatever became of the original Irene is not publicly known, but it is certain anymore that Amelia Earhart continued to live-on after she was declared missing during the pre-dawn era of World War Two, and in due-time she was able to assume the original Irene's leftover identity for herself to use... for the remainder of her days. Any further, this reality of what became of Amelia Earhart after she went missing in 1937, exists as an obvious truth to behold. [See more digital comparisons further down.] "The forensic studies are very convincing. She was not an ordinary housewife as she claimed. She was influential, knew many well placed people and was well traveled." From an Associated Press article by Ron Staton, John Bolam refers to early results from the 21st Century Amelia-to-Irene forensic comparison analysis orchestrated by Tod Swindell. John Bolam was the generation younger brother of the post-1940 only Irene's British husband, Guy Bolam. He died in 2008, not long after making the above statement. "All one has to do is realize that the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile was a real person who knew Amelia Earhart in the 1930s -- but that she did not look like Amelia -- while understanding at the same time how the post-1940 only Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, proved to be congruent to Amelia Earhart in a head-to-toe manner, and the truth suddenly reveals itself." Tod Swindell How The 'Irene' Controversy Originally Surfaced:- The 1970 book, Amelia Earhart Lives, by Joe Klaas, focused on the results of 'Operation Earhart', a ten-year investigation that concluded by boldly asserting the post-1940 Mrs. Irene O'Crowley Craigmile (later, 'Bolam'), shown next to the book, had previously been known as, Amelia Earhart. The post-1940 only Irene was blindsided and she denounced the contents of Amelia Earhart Lives, and people ended up making fun of Operation Earhart's assertion about her, after she deliberately convinced the curious that it was outlandish to even suggest that her long ago friend, Amelia Earhart, somehow survived her 1937 disappearance and went on to be known by another name. I have studied this issue for a long time and I'm here to inform all that anymore, mocking the simple notion of Amelia Earhart continuing to live-on after she was declared 'missing', and then changing her name, is no longer judicious. To be sure, it never was judicious. As well, the idea of Amelia Earhart opting to change her name, especially after whatever it was she endured during her period of absence, was never as far-fetched as some individuals made it out to be, nor was it ever an outlandish suggestion. For hindsight now shows that Amelia's survival and name change was not only true, but it was the result of a well thought out and well orchestrated endeavor, the end result of which, that of Amelia Earhart veritably replacing the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, was a reality that was never supposed to be known by the general public. The book Amelia Earhart Lives did catch the living, former Amelia Earhart off guard in 1970, and to her, she recognized no other choice but to deny her true past in order to preserve her privacy, and no doubt as well, to avoid confusion and conflict. Anymore it is completely evident, though, that beyond several off-target assumptions the book presented, it indeed was correct where it asserted that Amelia Earhart survived her disappearance -- and she lived to become known as, 'Irene.' Tod Swindell Above: The former Amelia Earhart faces the press in 1970. She denounced the contents of the book, Amelia Earhart Lives, denied her true past, and people believed her. Amazingly, however, no one back then thought to compare her to Amelia. Decades later, researcher Tod Swindell's study of Amelia's life story became the first such effort to include an Amelia to Irene, forensic comparison analysis. The former Amelia as 'Irene' Again, the post-1940 only Irene O'Crowley Craigmile looked nothing like the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, because she used to be known as, Amelia Earhart. Above is another digital composite of Amelia Earhart and the post-1940 only Irene O'Crowley Craigmile (Bolam), from the first-ever 'Amelia versus Irene' comparison analysis. [The study issued many comparisons.] Above, the cover of Shirley Dobson Gilroy's classic 1985, "artistic tribute to Amelia Earhart" book, Amelia / Pilot In Pearls It's Over...- The results of a long-term, comprehensive forensic research analysis that studied Amelia Earhart's life story and her 1937 disappearance and missing person case in a revolutionary kind of way are presented here, and they display the veritable truth pertaining to what became of Amelia after she went missing. Amelia Earhart aficionados were already familiar with the unresolved, Amelia/Irene controversy from the 1970s. The analysis results confirmed that the top photo portrait shows the former Amelia Earhart in 1977, who lived the remainder of her days after the 1930s, with the identity of Irene O'Crowley Craigmile applied to her person. It is now a reality to behold, that from the 1940s on, the former Amelia Earhart was known as, Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, until 1958, when she married Guy Bolam, of England, that updated her name to, Irene O'Crowley Craigmile Bolam. [From 1958 on she was more commonly known as, "Mrs. Irene Bolam" or "Mrs. Guy Bolam".] Amelia Earhart knew and had flown with the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile in the early 1930s. After the original Irene endured a tough decade, though, by the late 1930s she no longer appeared. You will find out more about the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile as you continue reviewing the analysis results displayed here. You will also ascertain for yourself how from the 1940s on, even though the person featured in the top portrait photo was legally known as Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, (and later, 'Bolam') she definitely was not the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile. Rather, she was the former Amelia Earhart, according to the forensic research discoveries and comparison results the analysis delivered. Amelia Earhart in 1937, right before she purportedly, disappeared without a trace. If you cannot fathom the truth about what became of Amelia Earhart by way of the analysis results displayed here, it is most likely because your care worn Earhart soul won't permit you to. Your chance to recognize the truth about Amelia, though, is by being considerate to what this in-depth analysis discovered about her, as opposed to dismissing it all out of hand. The people who have been Earhart educated in misleading directions will likely influence you in a 'don't believe what you see here' way, as will stodgy historians that will tell you to disregard the now plain to observe reality that shows what became of Amelia Earhart after she went missing. Notwithstanding their opinions and other false platitudes--that conflicts a person's ability to maintain a sense of proportion about Amelia--it is your right, if you wish to observe and know the truth, to keep going here. Tod Swindell, 2021 A Note About A Person's Looks Throughout her famous career, Amelia Earhart demonstrated a variety of looks. Below left is the same photo of her taken during her 1937 world flight, just before she went missing. When compared to the 1932 photograph in the center and the 1928 far right photos, it's hard to recognize they all display the same person. [Food for thought when comparing individuals and their different looks.] Below, all Amelia... The Origin Of The Now Recognizable Truth About Amelia Earhart Few recall the contentious, never resolved story from 1970, about an assertion that stated Amelia Earhart continued to survive after she was declared missing in 1937, and how she was later discovered in the U.S. living under an assumed identity: November of 1970 Headlines: The University of Texas at Dallas, that houses a special collection of U.S. aviation historical research, recently cited that Amelia's survival in the described manner above was plausible given the amount of credible evidence that supported it. Keep going to find out why, and what more results from the new, comprehensive analysis learned about the shared Twentieth Century identity of, Irene O'Crowley Craigmile (Bolam). Note: Wikipedia's "Irene Craigmile Bolam" page presents a falsified brief about the never resolved 'Amelia became Irene' assertion, where it suggests the Irene identity controversy was settled using known facts about her life, and by way of a forensic detective hired by the National Geographic Society in 2006. The study learned that the National Geographic Society never hired a forensic detective that delivered a final conclusion about Irene's life-long identity, and facts about the original Irene, who had known Amelia in the 1930s, are easy for anyone to trace. It is important to point out that there is no record of any forensically drawn conclusion that stated Amelia Earhart did not live to become known as, 'Irene O'Crowley Craigmile (Bolam)' in her later life years. So wikipedia's page is misleading where it implies such a thing. In the meantime, an overwhelming preponderance of both forensic and circumstantial evidence accumulated in decades gone by indicates that Amelia did live on after she went missing, and at some point, for reasons only she and very few others understood, she assumed the leftover identity of a person she used to know, whose name was Irene O'Crowley Craigmile. Below again, the original Irene The old 1930 newspaper photo above, features the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, shown between her husband, Charles J. Craigmile (left) and her father, Richard Joseph O'Crowley. According to the forensic analysis results, at some point the post-1940 only Irene assumed the original Irene's leftover identity. As well, also according to the analysis results, there were a total of three different women attributed to the same "Irene O'Crowley Craigmile" identity. Note: Clear photo records of the original Irene were removed from circulation long ago. Thanks to the analysis results, it is now fairly easy for one to recognize with a naked eye, that the above younger to older images are those of the three different people who were attributed to the same Twentieth Century identity of Irene O'Crowley Craigmile. Individually they were: 1.) The original Irene. 2.) The surrogate mother Irene, and 3.) The post-1940 only Irene. There are people, of course, including the survived families of both Amelia and Irene, who never wanted the long existing, 'Amelia versus Irene' controversy to be seriously addressed, let alone have the truth of Amelia's post disappearance existence in such a well hidden manner be known by the general public. But now it is known, and it needs to be reckoned with. As mentioned, the Twenty First Century study that delivered the Earhart truth was only recently finalized, so its findings have yet to be formally accepted, but it is certain they will be. It came down to simple true or false reality checks, and hands down the truth of Amelia's post-disappearance life as Irene easily prevailed when all was said and done. More About The Original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile: Note: After Charles James Craigmile died of a sudden illness in 1931, his widow, the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, who had met Amelia Earhart before, turned to Amelia and Amelia's well-known pilot friend, Viola Gentry, to pursue her new dream of learning to fly: Amelia Earhart in 1921. In 1928, when she was thirty years old she suddenly became famous. Soon after that she met the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile through Irene's aunt, a noted attorney by the name of Irene Rutherford O'Crowley. In 1929, Amelia Earhart and Viola Gentry became charter members of the 99s'. Above, Viola Gentry in 1927. She came to know the original Irene through Amelia Earhart. Viola Gentry was famous for her endurance flying and stunt flying. The original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, shown next to her plane in 1933, the year she earned her pilot's license. Her future as a pilot would be interrupted not long after this picture was taken. As fate had it, just after the original Irene earned her pilot's license in mid-1933, she became pregnant out of wedlock, that naturally interrupted her new life as a pilot. She went on to deliver a baby boy in early 1934, yet by the late 1930s, her son, (whose father was estranged) was being raised by a 'nanny' mother figure whom he grew up believing to be his biological mother. The original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile's pilot license was not renewed beyond 1937, and to this day her ultimate fate remains unclear. Her leftover identity, however, helped Amelia to become the non-public person that she had missed being during her fame years. Before Amelia left on her 1937 world flight, she was sure to announce it would be her last flight of any significance, and she turned the attention of news reporters toward her pilot friend, Jackie Cochran, proclaiming that Jackie stood to be America's new female aviation heroine going forward. Note: For some insight toward the way Amelia regarded the world fame she achieved during her flying career, consider the Doris Rich quote below. "Over the nine years spanning her first and last transoceanic flights, Amelia Earhart became one of the most famous women in the world. The private Amelia disliked that fame intensely." From author-historian, Doris Rich's 1989 biography of Amelia Earhart. Below, again, the 1967 note from one Elmo Pickerill, Secretary of the Early Birds of Aviation of Long Island, New York, ties the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile together with Amelia Earhart and Viola Gentry in the 1930s: Below again is the post-1940 only Irene O'Crowley Craigmile (Bolam) shown facing the press in 1970, to decry the contents of the new McGraw-Hill book, Amelia Earhart Lives. Two statements the post-1940 only Irene (Mrs. Bolam) made about herself in 1970: [The record showed that the original Irene O'Crowley married Charles James Craigmile in late 1928.] About The "post 1940 only Irene" Moniker The analysis discovered that the post-1940 only Irene O'Crowley Craigmile (Bolam) was not identifiable anywhere as 'Irene' prior to the 1940s. When combined with its other realizations, hindsight revealed that the post-1940 only Irene's past identity question emerged in 1970 as a valid controversy -- that became obfuscated by endless deliberating -- thus enabling the former Amelia Earhart to continue on living the post-World War Two era 'private life' she'd grown accustomed to, and so obviously preferred not to abandon. Two Friends... Above: Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart in 1933. The two became friends after they met. Below is a digital composite of Amelia's above image and a 1965 taken photo of the post-1940 only Irene O'Crowley Craigmile (Bolam). "It is nearly impossible even for families to recognize a loved one after thirty years of absence, so greatly has the self altered. And a little reflection upon the changing quality of consciousness is sure to give us some insight into the numberless selves our surface minds and egos have become since first appearing in the world." Philosopher Uell Stanley Andersen (1917-1986) Below, the post-1940 only Irene O'Crowley Craigmile Bolam in 1965. her look here may not remind us of her former life, yet there is no question anymore that she did used to be known as Amelia Earhart. JOSEPH A. GERVAIS PHOTO POST-1940 ONLY IRENE O'CROWLEY CRAIGMILE BOLAM Again Amelia... ...her future Irene self in 1965 An Executive Branch Quandary Even A War Couldn't End President Franklin Delano Roosevelt Below find excerpts from a document generated by the White House nine months after Amelia Earhart was declared a missing person. The full transcript it came from concerned information President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration withheld that pertained to what actually happened to the famous pilot: To this day no explanation has been given to account for the above recorded words, but it is now certain that Amelia Earhart continued to live-on well past July 2, 1937, the date she went missing. Here, one can understand why the secrecy that concerned what really happened to Amelia in July of 1937, and what became of her afterward, managed to remain in tact. Note: The spirit of forensically recognizing and accepting the truth about what became of Amelia Earhart, was not born from an idea suggesting FDR's administration used bad judgment during the pre-dawn era of World War Two, when it optioned not to publicly disclose what it learned about the outcome of Amelia's failed world flight attempt. Issued in 1987 by the Republic of the Marshall Islands: Below is a 50th Anniversary commemorative stamp depicting Japan's Imperial Navy rescuing Earhart and Noonan, and recovering Amelia's plane. This occurred at the same time the second Sino-Japanese War was commencing, that served as a precursor to World War Two. Whatever went wrong with the duo's flight plan, it put the White House in a tough spot since the U.S. was against Japan's invasion of China. The United States general public was conditioned not to recognize the Marshalls' version of Amelia Earhart's world flight ending from the time it was first evidenced to a variety of United States soldiers who had been sent to serve in World War Two's Pacific theater. Below, this Associated Press article lead-in appeared in 2002. Ever since the World War Two era, different, 'Amelia ended up in the Marshalls' accounts akin to this one kept surfacing. Sadly, in the United States, few seem to care much about this reality based version of Amelia Earhart's world flight ending: Especially in recent decades, people have been cajoled (or misled) into looking for Amelia's plane above all else, even though the sad reality is, her plane will never be found by privately organized and funded expeditions. "While I do believe that Amelia Earhart ended her world flight quest in the lower Marshall Islands, I do not believe that she was a spy when she was 'picked up' there by Japan, the Marshall's governing authority when her world flight took place. I do consider, though, where James Donahue's British Connection research from the 1980s comes into play, and statements made by Lockheed employees that referenced how an additional plane similar to Amelia's had been readied to also participate in her world flight plan, that there possibly was a British supplied man and woman flight team in some other plane, that while doing reconnaissance over the Marshalls adjacent to Amelia's "civilian" flight plan, had encountered trouble and went down there. Where the White House transcript cited that Amelia disregarded all orders, this may have been relative to Amelia unexpectedly rerouting her flight and heading to the Marshall's in an effort to help the downed fliers, one of whom may have been the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile. (The original Irene was a competent pilot who had known Amelia, and Amelia was not shy and spoke several languages, including some Japanese.) Unfortunately, the move backfired when Amelia learned the other plane had been shot down and the pilots did not survive, and she also realized she was viewed by Japan's military as a diversion 'accomplice' to the other plane's illicit activities, thus prompting her detainment, and eventually leading to the official silence to always be maintained toward the matter by the governments of the United States and Japan." Tod Swindell "Numerous investigations foundered on official silence in Washington and Tokyo, leaving the true fate of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan an everlasting mystery." 1982, aviation historians, Marylin Bender and Selig Altschul on the 1937 disappearance and subsequent missing person cases of Amelia Earhart, and her navigator, Fred Noonan, quoted from their book, The Chosen Instrument. Above is Amelia Earhart in 1928, the year she instantly became famous. Nine years later, in 1937, she purportedly disappeared without a trace, and according to history she was never seen again. Many documented World War Two 'Pacific Theater' servicemen from the U.S. and Japan, along with South Sea Islands' government officials and residents, disagreed with history there. They commonly stated, based on the eyewitness accounts of people who saw Amelia alive overseas after she was declared missing, and on other corroborating testimonials, that Amelia Earhart lived-on well after the date of her so called, disappearance. From the 1960s' on, several investigations that were conducted also agreed with this conclusion. Throughout the war years, Amelia's mother, Amy Otis Earhart, also insisted that her daughter was still alive overseas based on information she'd privately been made aware of. Again, above is Amelia Earhart (left) and Viola Gentry, two good pilot friends in the 1930s, who both knew and helped the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile to earn her wings. By the late 1930s, however, the original Irene was gone, and to this day it remains unclear what her ultimate fate was. Reusing a few photos, the box below has more on this trio: again shown next to her plane in 1933. She was commonly referred to as, 'Irene Craigmile' as listed below: Again, Amelia Earhart, before she became famous. Eight years after she met the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, Amelia Earhart was declared a missing person. Then in 1939, to release her estate to her next of kin, she was legally declared, 'dead in absentia' after no certain explanation to account for what became of her could be given. Above, Viola Gentry, "The Flying Cashier." She and the original Irene lived in the same Brooklyn apartment building for awhile. Viola often invited the original Irene to events she attended, like this one in 1933: Another 1933 press notice telling of Viola Gentry entertaining Lady Drummond Hay of England, along with the original Irene Craigmile and other pilots. Note: Pearl Pellaton lived in the same 316 Rutland Rd apartment building in Brooklyn that the original Irene and Viola did. The above 1932 Akron, Ohio newspaper photo featured Amelia Earhart (outlined in white), Viola Gentry (outlined in gray), next to the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, (outlined in black.) Reprinted from today's available newspaper archive, when enlarged, the original Irene's facial image is the only one in the group with no discernible features: Viola Gentry, who maintained Amelia was still alive after she went missing in 1937, was among the individuals who continued to know Amelia -- after Amelia assumed the original Irene's leftover identity. The same goes for Amelia's sister, Muriel. However, they never publicly acknowledged who their later-life friend, 'Irene' used to be. Instead, both strongly contested the suggestion whenever they were asked about it. There may have been more to the McGraw-Hill publishing controversies that took place in 1971, and their relationship to Amelia Earhart's old 'missing person' case than was realized at the time, and once again, where so, Viola Gentry may have figured in. That one of the most reputable publishing houses in the world would issue consecutive books that dialed in on the life of Howard Hughes, and then quickly withdraw them both, is somewhat odd in itself. The first book was Amelia Earhart Lives, that threaded a theorized level of involvement that Howard Hughes possibly had in covering for Amelia after she went missing. (Read about the 'Irene Bolam versus McGraw-Hill's Amelia Earhart Lives book lawsuit' further down.) Hughes, a great pilot himself, was a known 1930s acquaintance of Amelia's, but he was never consulted by Joe Klaas, the author of Amelia Earhart Lives, and the book was withdrawn by McGraw-Hill in early 1971, shortly after it was published. Next, throughout 1971, Clifford Irving wrote a supposedly authorized by Howard Hughes 'autobiography' that was set to be published by McGraw-Hill at the end of the year. Once again, however, Clifford Irving did not consult with Hughes, and he was charged with perpetrating a hoax after Hughes objected to his book and claimed he'd never met Irving. This led to pressed copies of the book being burned by McGraw-Hill before they made it into circulation, and to some jail time for Irving as well. Interestingly enough, Joe Klaas was never challenged by Howard Hughes at all, nor was he fined or convicted of any crime, and neither was Joseph A. Gervais, whose ten year investigation Amelia Earhart Lives was largely about. Amelia Earhart Medal Presented to Howard Hughes by Viola Gentry on Amelia's sixty-sixth birthday, 7/24/1963 The Amelia Earhart medal displayed above, was presented to Howard Hughes by Viola Gentry two years before the former Amelia Earhart was first publicly recognized for who she used to be. Perhaps not so ironically, it was Viola Gentry who introduced the post-1940 only Irene to the gentleman who recognized her as the former Amelia Earhart, (Joseph A. Gervais) the day before this photograph was taken: Above is Viola Gentry and Guy Bolam, on August 9, 1965, outside of the Sea Spray Inn of East Hampton, Long Island. The original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile was long gone by then. Viola had known her, just as she knew the new post-1940 only Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, who had married Guy Bolam in 1958, and who had previously been known as her famous flying friend, Amelia Earhart. (Above photo taken by the former Amelia Earhart, AKA, Mrs. Guy Bolam.) Below is an excerpt from Jennifer Bean Bower's 2015 biography of Viola Gentry, The Flying Cashier, where a 1941 interview Viola gave to Maybelle Manning was recalled. While reading these words, know that Viola maintained that her missing friend, Amelia, was still alive throughout the war years, yet after the war ended she stopped talking about her: Knowing how close Viola Gentry had been to both Amelia Earhart and the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, it is incomprehensible to even entertain the idea that after 1940, Viola's friend, the original Irene, could have suddenly morphed into an older-version, carbon copy twin of Viola's famous friend, Amelia Earhart, who had gone missing years before, never to be seen again. It turned out the original Irene was gone by the end of the 1930s, and basically, Amelia, who had continued to live-on, took her name in the 1940s to further use for herself. Once Again... Above, Amelia Earhart, age 39... ...digitally transitions into... ...Mrs. Guy Bolam in 1965 Amelia Earhart, age 36... A Quick Review 'The History of the Mystery' As we enter 2021 after a most trying year, anymore it seems that people are bored with the subject of Amelia Earhart's odd 1937 disappearance. In recent decades, to regenerate public curiosity, a variety of organizations and theorists, (a few shown below; the oldest being TIGHAR and the newest being the 2017 upstart, Chasing Earhart) took to promoting myriad theories to the news media, within their attempts to offer a solution to the 'mystery' cloud that continued to hover over the legendary pilot's fate. Of little surprise, it turned out that none of their varied conclusions were correct. However, another accredited researcher, Tod Swindell, who deftly avoided media adulation, quietly approached Amelia Earhart's disappearance and missing person case forensically. The results of his work are detailed beneath the following once promoted but now discarded theories. TIGHAR CHASING EARHART Richard Gillespie of Tighar, 'learned what happened'; said Amelia flew south of the Equator to a desert island, died a castaway, and was eaten by small land crabs. Elgen Long, of Nauticos, said he 'solved the mystery': Claimed Amelia flew in an uncertain direction after missing Howland, and she went down in the ocean at unknown coordinates. Mike Campbell said he found, 'the truth at last'; Claimed Amelia died in captivity within a ruthless Nippon military culture. Richard Martini of "Earhart's Electra" felt he, 'knew the answer'; Amelia was executed on Saipan by a small Japanese firing squad. Below: The New, 'Paradigm Shift' Alternative After decades of intense study, what does Tod Swindell profess to know about Amelia Earhart's old missing person case -- and a forgotten controversy in relationship to it? Enough to where the differing conclusions offered by past Amelia Earhart theorists were deemed anachronistic with one long ago, prematurely dismissed exception. A forensic analysis he orchestrated with human identity experts, proved instrumental in discovering never before known realities about an infamous assertion from the 1970s, that stated Amelia Earhart privately lived on for years under an assumed identity after she was declared "missing" in 1937, and "dead in absentia" in 1939. To begin with, until the analysis took place, it was not known that a formidable woman known as, Mrs. Irene Bolam, who in the 1970s had been called-out as the former Amelia Earhart, had a physicality about her that proved to be congruent to Amelia Earhart's physicality. It wasn't known because Mrs. Bolam was never actually compared to Amelia Earhart before the analysis took place. After the analysis did take place, when the results were combined with the additional corroborating information that had previously surfaced, (such as the accounts given by Monsignor Kelley, previewed directly below) it became forensically clear that Amelia did survive and in time became known as Irene. The post-1940 Irene (FKA Earhart) dining with Monsignor Kelley "After all she'd been through she didn't want to be the famous Amelia Earhart anymore." Monsignor James Francis Kelley, 1987 Monsignor James Francis Kelley [1902-1996] held PhD's in philosophy and psychology. He admitted to having counseled Amelia in the 1940s, and helping with her identity change as well. The post-1940 only Irene, (FKA Earhart) above on the right, did not like it when people candidly took her picture. Her expression here appeared to make that abundantly clear. The dark haired gal with the gray streak in the photo was Gertrude Kelley Hession, Monsignor James Francis Kelley's sister, who was a regular 1970s traveling companion of Irene's after Guy Bolam died. This photo was taken in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, in 1976. (Note the digital composites below.) Ever evasive to the press, when asked about the identity controversy that concerned his friend, Irene, Monsignor Kelley was quoted in 1982 in the New Jersey Tribune this way: Anecdotal information about the post-1940 Irene and her 1970s' friendship with LPGA promoter, Peter Busatti: Above: The post-1940 Irene and Peter Busatti, 1978 Above left is the post-1940 Irene O'Crowley Craigmile; above center is the post-1940 Irene and Amelia digitally combined; above right is a rare profile photo of Amelia Earhart, taken just before she went missing. "Peter Busatti said he accompanied Mrs. Bolam to the Wings Club in New York City on one occasion. He said a full length portrait of Amelia Earhart hangs in the room dedicated in her honor. ""It was a dead ringer for Irene,"" he said. ""Sometimes I thought she was [the former Amelia] and sometimes I thought she wasn't. Once when I asked her directly she replied, "When I die you'll find out,"" Busatti said. At a Wings Club event in Washington, Busatti mentioned how, ""All the admirals and generals seemed to know her."" Excerpted from a 1982 New Jersey Tribune article. When interviewed, Peter Busatti openly commented about his suspicion that his friend, the post-1940 Irene O'Crowley Craigmile-Bolam, used to be known as Amelia Earhart. Balloon Rides Anyone? The above 'hot air balloon' newspaper photo taken in 1979, features Irene O'Crowley Craigmile-Bolam [FKA 'Amelia'] accompanied by famous golfer, Kathy Whitworth. Especially in the 1970s, after taking over to manage her company's accounts, to include for her main client, Radio Luxembourg, the former Amelia Earhart was simply known as 'Irene Bolam' to friends and associates of hers. In the meantime she had also grown to be respected and admired by important people not only in the United States--but internationally as well. Those who were aware of who she used to be, of course, never talked much about her, such as her friend, Senator Barry Goldwater, who in her later life years she shared her ongoing love of photography with. Senator Goldwater himself was a great pilot who distinguished himself that way in World War Two. Anymore, reality states that the woman above was not the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile. Rather, she was known as 'Amelia Earhart' for the first half of her life, and then as 'Irene' for the last half of her life. To not recognize this is to not recognize the truth when it comes to what became of Amelia Earhart after she went missing in 1937. A Word from the Orchestrator of the Forensic Analysis Tod Swindell and 'Gibson' in 2016 I am not, nor have I ever claimed to be a certified forensic expert, but to learn and better understand forensic comparison applications, I educated myself by reading about them, meeting and consulting with forensic detectives, with forensic anthropologists, with physicians, with a voice comparison specialist, and with a document examiner. Ultimately, by the time I finished my forensic endeavoring, twenty-years of a learning process had transpired as I applied various comparison techniques to the dated, yet never settled, did Amelia become known as Irene question. I began my 'forensic comparison journey' in 1997. I first registered portions of my research at the Writers Guild of America in 1998, then again under the MSS title of Protecting Earhart in 2004, 2008, 2012, & 2016, revising it along the way. I copyrighted my MSS in 2014, and then again in 2017, with the forensic visual elements added to it. I am now in the process of launching a new website platform while producing a trailer for my upcoming documentary, and am preparing my Protecting Earhart MSS for final publication. Hocus-pocus has never characterized my work, or "hokum", as it was once accused of being by one of Amelia's living relatives. I was never prone to trickery or fraud, or chicanery or frame. I just let the chips fall. In recent years I have been unfavorably written about in newer Amelia Earhart books. As well, various media outlets, starting with the National Geographic Channel in 2006, took to downplaying my forensic accomplishments. That never bothered me much, really, because it wasn't until 2020, the horrid year of the Covid 19 outbreak, that I finally started to feel I was ready to go public with my epic, Amelia-to-Irene forensic journey... and the full results it achieved. This included its discovery of the unrealized fact that three Twentieth Century women were attributed to the same 'Irene' identity, with the post-1940 only Irene being the one who matched Amelia. I suppose that amid the fog of 2020, I decided it might provide a good, and possibly enlightening public distraction to come forward with this new information. I attest that my efforts handily display a forensic reality about Amelia Earhart, pertaining to a truth about her that has been ignored ever since it first surfaced five decades ago. That's right. In 1970, our national news media alerted our country of this very same truth about Amelia's post-loss survival as Irene, only to see it be categorically shouted-down without being disproved. [Note: A self proclaimed Earhart fanatic, Dr. Alex Mandel of Ukraine, outright fabricated in his 2007 posted, "Irene Craigmile Bolam" wikipedia page, where he wrote that the Irene in question's 'life history' was, "thoroughly documented, eliminating any possibility she was Earhart," and that a Nat Geo forensic detective "concluded" that the 'Amelia became known as Irene' postulation was false. Trust knowing, Dr. Mandel marshaled some loose information that he twisted into lies there.] If you cannot fathom the truth about what became of Amelia Earhart by way of my work, it is most likely because your tainted over time Earhart soul disallows you to. Your best chance to recognize it, though, is by giving serious consideration to the analysis results displayed here, rather than dismissing them all out of hand, as you will probably be influenced to do by less Earhart-educated individuals, or by people who simply wish to leave this now observable reality alone. It's up to you. Otherwise, my own reward of truth came by way of the incredible journey I traveled to get to it. For what it's worth, I am thankful for choosing the path less chosen when I came to my Amelia Earhart fork in the road, for it did make all the difference. Tod Swindell - 2021 "The journey is the reward." Tao On November 11, 1970, news reporters and cameramen crowded into a law office conference room in New York City, to listen to Mrs. Irene O'Crowley Craigmile Bolam respond to a broad-minded implication about her that appeared in a new book about Amelia Earhart. When asked by a reporter if she used to know Amelia Earhart, Mrs. Bolam acknowledged that she was a long ago friend of hers. The title of the book was, Amelia Earhart Lives. Amazingly, Amelia Earhart Lives focused on a ten-year investigation that ended by boldly suggesting Mrs. Irene Bolam had previously been known as, Amelia Earhart. Mrs. Bolam's Press Conference: Caught off guard, but wielding a strong and certain voice, Mrs. Bolam stood alone while reading a statement prepared by her attorney. She admonished the assertion that said she was really Amelia Earhart, then held her ground while briefly answering a few questions. She concluded by strongly denouncing the book, Amelia Earhart Lives, and left the room. Except, the story about her true past was far from over. Below, two statements Mrs. Bolam made about herself in 1970: married Charles James Craigmile in 1928.] Continuing on... It turned out that the fairly enigmatic, Mrs. Irene O'Crowley Craigmile Bolam, was a jet-setting international businesswoman who in 1958, married Guy Bolam of England, the person who originally founded the business she ran. Beyond facing the press to challenge the McGraw-Hill Company, Amelia Earhart Lives author, Joe Klaas, and Joseph A. Gervais, whose ten year investigation had inspired Klaas to write about it, Mrs. Bolam followed-up with a defamation lawsuit against them. Below: The indomitable Mrs. Irene Bolam O'Crowley Craigmile Bolam The Irene Bolam versus McGraw-Hill defamation case that lasted from 1971 to 1976, was more complex than people realized. Mrs. Bolam had claimed to be an ordinary New Jersey housewife, although in actuality, she was a world traveler who presided over 'Guy Bolam Associates' that sported major global clients, to include Radio Luxembourg. Although Mrs. Bolam rejected the book's implication about her, the press conference she held and her subsequent lawsuit did not put an end to her 'real identity' controversy. True, in the years that followed, strangely enough even the New York State legal system (see below) was not able to determine if she was or wasn't the former Amelia Earhart. In fact, few people realized that the controversy over Mrs. Irene Bolam's life-long identity never came close to being settled in a forensic kind of way. "Lou Foudray calls the investigative research of Gervais and Swindell, ""Just the tip of the Iceberg."" "All the evidence all put together, I feel like she [Amelia] did survive. I think she survived and came back to the United States, but that she wanted her privacy." Lou Foudray, Amelia Earhart Historian and former proprietor of the Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum in Atchison, Kansas, is quoted from interviews conducted by Lara Moritz of KMBC TV, Kansas City, and by The Topeka Kansas Capital-Journal's, Jan Biles. Mrs. Foudray believed that the combined research of Joseph A. Gervais and the in-progress forensic analysis orchestrated by Tod Swindell, had already provided enough proof to conclude that Amelia Earhart had survived after she went missing, and that in time she became known as, Irene O'Crowley Craigmile (and later, 'Bolam'.) She also correctly projected that there was much to the story that remained unknown, by way of her, "tip of the iceberg" anology. Some reporters kept tracking the curious, unresolved case of who Irene Bolam really was, or used to be. The reason the controversy over her identity was never fully settled was found in the forensic analysis orchestrated by Tod Swindell, that ended up displaying how more than one Twentieth Century woman had been attributed to the same, Irene O'Crowley Craigmile Bolam identity. It also revealed that the Irene who faced the press in 1970, appeared nowhere identified as 'Irene' prior to the 1940s. In short, she was not the original Irene, who is shown again below: Above Center: The original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, in 1930, shown between her husband and father. After meeting Amelia Earhart through her aunt, she briefly became a pilot herself until a pregnancy interrupted her flying days. Not by accident, no clear photos of the original Irene are readily available today. "It's sad, in a way, how the profound greatness of Amelia Earhart's person became lost in the so-called mystery of her disappearance. Here, for a brief moment let's again look back at the outcome of Amelia's loss through words generated by the White House nine months after she was declared missing: As mentioned, the White House never did reveal what it knew about Amelia Earhart's world flight outcome, and by now it is certain that the general public was dissuaded from being able to realize what really happened to Amelia. Today, people seem to have forgotten that Amelia's 1937 disappearance was an international controversy, because it ended up being systemically swept under the rug of official history by the U.S. federal government. This exercise was already in the works in September of 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. The facts of Amelia Earhart's loss continued to be obfuscated throughout the war years as well, and then even more exponentially after the war was over. Indeed, the effort to muddle the truth about what became of Amelia Earhart, actually continued on into the 1950s, until finally, it was determined that people in general had been conditioned enough to accept that Amelia simply crashed and sank at unknown ocean coordinates prior to completing her world flight, even though that was a far cry from what had actually happened. Heeding to the false dictates of Amelia's living family members, institutions overseen by the U.S. federal government, and its offshoot cottage industries that managed to keep the the curious stupefied, this is all the public continues to know at this present space in time. And that's a shame. Basically, for decades gone by the citizenry of the United States has been spoon fed non-truths about Amelia Earhart's world flight outcome, by individuals that felt they were doing it for the better good of the body public. Anymore, though, it is obvious that Amelia managed to live-on and become known as one of three Twentieth Century women attributed to the same Irene O'Crowley Craigmile identity." Tod Swindell Above is Amelia Earhart and the post-1940 only Irene in a digital composite. Over the years people were conditioned to not pay attention to the never fully settled, Irene Bolam Versus McGraw-Hill lawsuit. Now, in 2021, the forensic analysis arranged by Tod Swindell, that concluded Amelia Earhart and the post-1940 only Irene were the same human being, has proved itself to be an incontestable equation. To better ascertain this for yourself, keep going to learn more about this new, fortified reality. "In the late 1990s, I couldn't believe it when I came to know Joseph A. Gervais, the Air Force officer whose ten year investigation had inspired the 1970 McGraw-Hill book, and he mentioned that no one had seriously compared Irene Bolam to Amelia Earhart before. It seemed odd, because after decades he was still insisting that she was the former Amelia Earhart." Tod Swindell Tod Swindell and Joseph A. Gervais in 2002. "Many theories have been given by many different people; some bordering on the absurd, some plausible. Gervais' theory as to what happened to Amelia Earhart is one of the plausible ones. Gervais and his colleagues were seasoned Air Force pilots, and thus, understood the problems in flying long distances over water as well as the technical aspects of flying aircraft. Their experience and some of the documents and leads uncovered in their research led them to believe that Amelia Earhart did indeed survive." Paul A. Oelkrug, C. A., University of Texas at Dallas, 2006. Below, another digital composite example from the analysis: The post-1940 Irene Bolam IRENE O'CROWLEY CRAIGMILE BOLAM Above is how the post-1940 only Irene Bolam looked in 1965. Hardly a soul felt that she resembled Amelia Earhart all that much, and while looking at this photograph that Joseph A. Gervais took of her that year, it seems understandable. Most people assumed Gervais' assertion that suggested she was the former Amelia Earhart, was debunked at some point, but it never was, and to people's astonishment, the Twenty First Century forensic analysis displayed her to have been congruent to Amelia Earhart. This included by way of Digital Face Recognition, that was much improved and became more available in the Twenty First Century: Amelia Earhart... (continued below) A Digital Face Recognition grid common to the post-1940 Irene O'Crowley Craigmile Bolam and Amelia Earhart. Same posturing of head position and neck to the shoulders is clearly evident as well. Light shading adjustments can help to exact a common face print within a digital composite. ...begins to... ...digitally transition into... ...the post-1940 Irene Tod Swindell's human comparison study revealed that more than one person had been attributed to the same Irene Bolam identity, and the one above shown compared to Amelia, was not identifiable as "Irene" prior to the 1940s. The study also determined that not only facially, but the post-1940 Irene's entire physical being was congruent to Amelia Earhart's physical being, as were her character traits. These 'forensic realities' were not known before the study took place. Why? Once again, simply put, no one had ever seriously compared Irene Bolam to Amelia Earhart before. Dr. Walter S. Birkby Dr. Walter S. Birkby, a noted Forensic Anthropologist who advised on key portions of Tod Swindell's analysis, challenged himself with a, 'if this, then that' argument when it came to the assertion of Amelia living-on and becoming known as Irene. Based on the different Irene Bolam's that Dr. Birkby acknowledged the study displayed, with the Irene that proved herself to be congruent to Amelia Earhart appearing nowhere as 'Irene' prior to the 1940s, it was prudent of Dr. Birkby to offer his expert opinion in said manner. In Rollin Reineck's book, Amelia Earhart Survived, Dr. Birkby commented on the difficulty he had in nullifying the post-1940 Irene as the former Amelia Earhart. (Dr. Birkby was originally engaged by Tod Swindell to nullify her if he could. He couldn't.) Dr. Birkby acknowledged that the cranium, hairline, facial features, and neck-to-torso of the post-1940 Irene were the same as Amelia's. He was also impressed with the post-1940 Irene's eyes, calling them, "a perfect match spacing wise and tear-duct to tear-duct" to Amelia's eyes. Beyond aging and some obvious post-1940 changes that included hairstyles, fashion, and makeup, there may have been some nasal work endured by the post-1940 Irene as well, but nothing (according to Dr. Birkby) that would have been unexplainable in medical terms. Dr. Birkby also pointed out that while it varies, a person's ears and nose will continue to grow as he or she gets older. Thus his, "if this, then that" approach surely would apply where the idea was for the 'Irene Bolam' in question not to be recognized for who she used to be. So the "if this, then that" example would be: If at some point, Amelia Earhart optioned for a non-public life going forward after she was declared "missing" in 1937, and "dead in absentia" in 1939, then her overall objective that involved changing her name and altering her appearance some, would have included her not wanting to be recognized for who she used to be. It stands to reason: The plural Irene's realization coupled with the digital composites that revealed the post-1940 only Irene's full head-to-toe congruence to Amelia Earhart, when further combined with the overwhelming preponderance of circumstantial evidence, and the eyewitnesses that pointed to Amelia's continued existence after the date of her so-called disappearance, never amounted to, just a coincidence. Above, the post-1940 Irene in 1965, digitally transitions into Amelia in 1935. Face to face, head to head, neck to neck, shoulders to shoulders, heights, appendages, etc., all aligned with exactitude. A key indicator of the post-1940 only Irene was the large flower pendant that she often wore. (See it outlined in the boxes below.) Joseph A. Gervais believed it to be emblematic of her former identity of 'AE' for people in the know. Merritt Island, Florida - 1965 Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia - 1976 Senator Hiram Bingham & Amelia Earhart Rescued and Detained as opposed to Captured, Imprisoned, and Executed "In the Twenty First Century, clarity was delivered to the suppressed fact that Amelia Earhart did not go missing somewhere in the equatorial South Sea Islands. From the World War Two era on, in a contiguous manner, the people who saw her alive there and knew who she was shared the non-promoted reality of it with others. They commonly stressed that Amelia went down on a remote, civilized land-mass in the lower Marshall Islands, where she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were rescued within a matter of days by Japan's Naval Authority, just as Japan was beginning to engage China in the second Sino-Japanese War. This first-ever 'human comparison analysis' managed to surface non-contestable body evidence that displayed Amelia Earhart alive as 'Irene Bolam' long after she went missing. Therefore, coupled with the reality that Amelia had continued to privately live-on that way, it appears certain anymore that all along, the event of her rescue in the lower Marshall's and her subsequent detainment was nothing less than straight-forward information delivered by honest speaking people." Tod Swindell Amelia Earhart In The Above, a remarkable 1994 book authored by Donald Moyer Wilson, (revised in 1999) displayed well over a hundred testimonials offered by South Sea Islands residents, World War Two soldiers from the U.S. and Japan, U.S. military brass, and more, that described Amelia Earhart's post loss survival under Japan's stewardship. The common thread that existed among the testimonials was that Amelia went down in the lower Marshall Islands where she and her navigator were rescued and detained by Japan's Imperial Naval Authority. Although a few people said they heard that Amelia may have died while in Japan's custody, no real evidence was ever found to support that such a thing had happened. Below once again, this Associated Press article lead-in appeared in 2002. Ever since the World War Two era, different accounts akin to this one kept surfacing. In the United States, to this very day few seem to care about this reality based version of Amelia Earhart's world flight ending: Below, a 'Winter of 2015' article by Larry Clark, featured in an issue of Washington State University magazine, described some recent Marshall Islands travel-adventures of school teacher and WSU alumni, Dick Spink. Well studied on Amelia Earhart, Mr. Spink first visited the Marshalls in 2006, and was amazed that the history of Amelia Earhart having been there was common knowledge: Below, again the 1987 "50th anniversary" commemorative stamp issued by the Marshall Islands, depicts the rescue of Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, and the recovery of Amelia's plane. "While Amelia's rescue and detainment in the Marshall's is generally accepted to have been true by astute researchers of Amelia Earhart's missing person case, the account went awry in the 1960s, when people started pushing sensationalized conjecture that touted Amelia as a 'spy' who was captured, imprisoned, and executed. The fact is, however, nobody ever knew that to be true. In the meantime, the later introduced notion that said Amelia continued to live-on after she was rescued and detained -- that she continued to survive -- and that at some point she changed her name, seemed to go over the vast majority of people's heads. Yet it is obvious anymore, that did happen." Tod Swindell Disclaimer: Nat Geo Versus Wikipedia Before Tod Swindell embarked on his study, previous investigations of Amelia Earhart's disappearance and missing person case had not bothered to compare Irene Bolam to Amelia Earhart. Wikipedia's "Irene Craigmile Bolam" page posted in 2007, is misleading. Where it states, "Bolam's personal life history has since been thoroughly documented, eliminating any possibility she was Earhart", it is now known that statement is untrue. It turned out here was an original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile who Amelia had known in the 1930s, and that was not the person who faced the press in 1970, who later demonstrated an overall congruence to Amelia Earhart. Although clear photo evidence of the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile is all but non-extant today, below is how her image appeared in a newspaper photo taken in 1930. Once again, she was not the same Irene who faced the press in 1970: 1930 dated newspaper photo of Charles James Craigmile, his wife, the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, and the original Irene's father, Richard Joseph O'Crowley. Below, the original Irene's image is enhanced. The wikipedia page also incorrectly mentions that a National Geographic hired forensic detective "concluded" that Amelia did not become known as Irene Bolam. This was and remains a fabrication issued by the person who launched the page, Dr. Alex Mandel, of Ukraine. Dr. Mandel posted the page in 2007, after learning about the comparison study Tod Swindell had embarked on. Dr. Mandel, favored a claim stating Japan had captured and imprisoned Amelia in 1937, and that she died in its custody. Japan, of course, maintains to this day that it never harmed Amelia Earhart. In recent decades there has been an aligned contingency of individuals that have influenced news media outlets (and therefore the general public) in different directions about Amelia Earhart's 1937 world flight outcome. This has prevented the reality of Amelia's post-1940 'private life' existence from being openly embraced. While the Smithsonian and National Geographic Society have always ridden the fence about Amelia's final fate, their one exception has been to traditionally downplay the 'Amelia became Irene' conveyance. The "forensic detective" who briefly appeared on a Nat Geo special in 2006, Kevin Richlin, had little foreknowledge of the Amelia-to-Irene postulation, and merely looked at a few photo samples given to him by Nat Geo's producers. After doing so, he suggested if the material they gave him was 'all there was' to support the assertion of Amelia becoming known as Irene, then he would advise the proponents of it to 'move on to something else.' Detective Richlin never deeply evaluated the postulation himself, nor did he come close to "concluding" that Amelia having changed her name to Irene was forensically untrue. Given all that was learned about it dating back to the late 1960s, it would have taken a much more serious evaluation on his part to make a forensic determination. Thus the adage, "Don't believe everything you read in wikipedia." Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. Although history tried to impress upon people that the two Irene Bolam images below represented one in the same person, the analysis revealed them to have been entirely different human beings: The above cover features a 1970s photo. According to record, Irene O'Crowley Craigmile Bolam died on July 7, 1982, and a Memorial Dinner was held for her in October. Anymore the question is, which Irene died that year? The one above did not match Amelia Earhart at all. She was not the original Irene either. Rather, she served as a mother figure to the original Irene's 1934 born son. Above book page leaf: Reprinted with permission from Joe Klaas, the author of the 1970 McGraw-Hill book, Amelia Earhart Lives. The Irene in the photo only appeared as 'Irene' after 1940. Shown above, as mentioned, a key discovery that Tod Swindell made during the course of his study: There was more than one Twentieth Century person attributed to the same Irene Bolam identity. In fact there were three, for the person featured on Irene Bolam's memorial dinner program cover was not the original Irene, nor was she the post-1940 only Irene. This is edified further down. In the meantime... The Positive ID Placement Made By Irene Craigmile Bolam's Son: From Tod Swindell: Thursday, February 20, 2014 Subject: Verification I want you to know that I am in full agreement with you that Amelia Earhart was not your mother. Your mother, as you identified her in these younger and older version photos, led a very different life than Amelia and bore little resemblance to her physically. Our agreement on this matter is pertinent to the correct presentation of the facts. My conveyance is that you have positively identified these images as those of your late mother, and that she absolutely was not, and never possibly could have been Amelia Earhart. I agree with this 100%, and understand that you do too. If you could you send back a simple 'I agree' for verification I'd appreciate it. Clarence Alvin 'Larry' Heller: Friday, February 21, 2014 Subject: Re: Identity Verification The attached pictures are of my mother and she was not Amelia Earhart. C. Heller Proof is available. "AROUND 1940" Reviewing A White House Preface: The above sentences were photo-copied from a White House transcript that referred to the actual outcome of Amelia Earhart's 1937 world flight attempt. They were recorded in 1938, nine months after Amelia was reported 'missing'. The Executive Branch of the United States Federal Government has never revealed the details it knew about Amelia's 1937 world flight outcome, dating back to the administration of President Franklin Roosevelt. from July 2 & 3, 1937: Amelia in 1936 Amelia and her later-life self in a digital composite. "The forensic determinations that showed Amelia Earhart's physical being alive as 'Irene' in the last half of the Twentith Century are non-contestable." Tod Swindell Reviewing the Foundation of this Forensic Research Study The below investigative accounts of Amelia Earhart's 1937 disappearance were extensively analyzed in a recently completed study. The endeavor was undertaken to shed a better light on Amelia Earhart's old missing person case, that was historically left unresolved. The end result is a new Manuscript and Forensic Analysis entitled, Protecting Earhart. Both are set to be issued in 2021 by independent researcher and film producer, Tod Swindell. His documentary film that has been years in the making is also nearing completion. This website serves as a preview. 1993 UK, 1994 US 1994, revised-1999 All of the above investigations determined that during the pre-dawn era of World War Two, Amelia Earhart, and her navigator, Fred Noonan, did not lose their lives by crashing into the Pacific Ocean at unknown coordinates, as the public was left to assume. As well, five of them ended up concluding that Amelia Earhart not only survived beyond the date of her disappearance, [July 2, 1937] but that she continued to live-on, and in time changed her name. Most people found that hard to believe. Now, (as Paul Harvey used to say) here's the rest of the story... An Old Story with a New Twist The following material is exclusive to Tod Swindell's Twenty First Century analysis, that revealed a non-publicized forensic reality about Amelia Earhart. As the world knows, Amelia Earhart was declared 'missing' in 1937, and then 'dead in absentia' in 1939. Thus far, historians at the Smithsonian have been encouraging people to not pay attention to the digital composites issued by the analysis, even though they are non-contestable. The post-1940 Irene in 1977 Amelia Earhart and the post-1940 Mrs. Irene O'Crowley Craigmile Bolam, AKA Mrs. Guy Bolam, in a Digital Composite from the overall analysis. (She had wed Guy Bolam of England in 1958.) The post-1940 Irene O'Crowley Craigmile Bolam in 1977 The comparisons not only demonstrated an overall Amelia-to-Irene congruence, they also evidenced that the 'Irene' above was not identifiable as 'Irene' prior to 1940. It is essential to recognize that there actually was a 1930s pilot by the name of, Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, who, although her prominent family never officially reported it, went missing close to the same time Amelia Earhart did. This person was simply known as 'Irene Craigmile' and both Amelia and her well-known pilot friend, Viola Gentry, knew her and had flown with her. According to Viola, Amelia had introduced her to Irene Craigmile. Learn more about the original Irene further down. For now, below are excerpts from a letter written in 1967 by one Elmo Pickerill, who at the time was serving as secretary of a Long Island based club called, The Early Birds of Aviation: Above, a small brownie camera photo from 1932, listed Amelia climbing on the wing, Jack Warren in the rear pilot seat, and Irene Craigmile & Viola Gentry standing. The plane had recently been purchased by Irene. Below once again, is a photo that appeared in the Akron Ohio Beacon Journal on September 1, 1932. Outlined in white is Amelia Earhart; outlined in gray is Viola Gentry; outlined in black and fully shaded is the original Irene Craigmile: Where one takes the time to enlarge each facial image in the above photo, it's somewhat curious that Irene's is the only one where no facial features are discernable. The photo was reprinted from today's available newspaper archives. Again, the 1930 dated newspaper photo of Charles James Craigmile, his wife, Irene, and Irene's father, Richard Joseph O'Crowley. Below, Irene's image is enhanced. In late 1931, Charles James Craigmile fell ill and died within three days time. From his September obituary: A year after Charles died, his widow, Irene, began taking flying instructions from Viola Gentry's husband, Jack Warren. "The courts have yet to decide the matter once and for all." After the news story about her broke in 1970, Mrs. Guy Bolam, sued for defamation. Her attorney referenced where the Air Force officers' new book, Amelia Earhart Lives, contained factual errata beyond insinuating that his client, Mrs. Bolam, was possibly a bigamist and a traitor. Four years later, in 1974, as the follow-up news article stated, the 'courts' still had not decided if Mrs. Guy Bolam was or wasn't the former Amelia Earhart, and in the end it was left that way. When her defamation case was finally settled in 1976, Mrs. Guy Bolam, who had originally sought $1.5 million in damages, was awarded $60,000 to be paid by the book's publisher, McGraw-Hill. The Air Force officers were left alone, however, since the question of Mrs. Bolam's former identity remained unanswered. Amazingly, it stayed that way well into the Twenty First Century, until Tod Swindell's comprehensive forensic analysis was undertaken, the first one ever to compare Mrs. Guy Bolam to Amelia Earhart, that naturally delivered its telling results. A handwriting example from the character traits section of the comparison analysis: Above is a cryptic handwritten line from a 1967 note penned by the post-1940 Irene to Joseph A. Gervais. She actually wrote about two people who, 'knew us both well as Amelia Earhart and Irene Craigmile'. Below is Amelia's own 'Amelia M Earhart' signature the way it appeared on a school form she filled out when she was seventeen. The similarity of the cursive styles is no coincidence since the same hand produced them. Below, more from the Character Traits section of the comparison study, some of the post-1940 Irene (O'Crowley Craigmile) Bolam's cursive letters are shown on the left, and some cursive letter samples from when she lived as Amelia are shown on the right: Looking Back at the Life of Mrs. Guy Bolam Note: It was Joseph A. Gervais (USAF Ret.), who in 1965, encountered Mrs. Guy Bolam at a gathering of senior pilots in New York. After he was introduced to her, without formally receiving permission, he took a photograph showing her next to her British husband, Guy Bolam, who she had wed in 1958: Above left, the 1965 photo taken by Joseph A. Gervais of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Bolam; center, from the original negative; right, the infamous 1970 book, Amelia Earhart Lives, that the 'Guy and Irene Bolam' photo appeared in. It is easy to see why Mrs. Bolam did not remind people of Amelia Earhart, until recent years, when the digital composites the forensic analysis generated were issued. Above: February 5, 2000, retired USAF Major Joseph A. Gervais, accepts the Amelia Earhart Society of Researchers 'Historical Achievement Award' for his unparalleled investigative research and final analysis of Amelia Earhart's failed world flight attempt. The Society's founding President, Bill Prymak, referred to Joe Gervais as, "A World War Two flying hero widely recognized as the world's leading authority regarding the subject of Amelia Earhart's disappearance." Joseph A. Gervais died in 2005, having never disavowed that at some point after she went missing in 1937, Amelia Earhart took the name of a past 1930s' acquaintance of hers, Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, whose demise was obscured to enable it. One might ask: Why is it that people in general have never heard of Joseph A. Gervais? The best answer was given by Gervais himself: "No one was was ever supposed to know that Amelia survived and took on another identity, so my 1960s investigation that learned she did was swept under the rug of official history." "Before his passing took place in 2005, I befriended and came to know Joseph A. Gervais, and I was surprised when he mentioned that no one had ever really compared Irene Bolam to Amelia Earhart before. Based on the national news-making claim that he made about her in 1970, I found that hard to believe and decided to do something about it." Tod Swindell Below, the most significant realization from Tod Swindell's overall analysis, that is tantamount to understanding the duplicity that characterized the Amelia-to-Irene equation and how it was originally contrived, was the discovery of not just two, but three different Twentieth Century women having been attributed to the same Irene O'Crowley Craigmile identity. This was never ascertained before. Not to omit, the one who matched Amelia Earhart appeared nowhere as 'Irene' prior to 1940: Above on the left is the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile in 1930, who Amelia Earhart had known, shown between her first husband, Charles James Craigmile, and her father, Richard Joseph O'Crowley. She did not resemble Amelia Earhart. The original Irene went missing around the same time Amelia did. What became of her is unknown . Above in the center, shown in younger and older forms, is the surrogate mother of the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile's 1934 born son. She was also attributed to the same identity of Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, after she took over raising the original Irene's son in 1937. To the right is the third Irene O'Crowley Craigmile-Bolam, shown on top in 1946, and below in 1965. She married Englishman, Guy Bolam, in 1958. The forensic study concluded that she was not identifiable as Irene O'Crowley Craigmile prior to 1940. [The math should start to get simple here.] Digitally Forensic Post-1940 Irene & Amelia digitally combined Accredited Digital Face Recognition programs arrived in the Twenty First Century Tod Swindell's comprehensive forensic research study that deeply reviewed the known facts of Amelia Earhart's disappearance, also examined the full-life story of Irene O'Crowley Craigmile Bolam. This included comparing her physical being and character traits to Amelia's. According to a purely objective viewpoint, the results of his study only appear to affirm the concealed reality of Amelia Earhart's post-1940 life as, Irene. The Amelia To Irene Forensic Study © Tod Swindell 1997-2020 What The Entirety Of The Accumulated Data Revealed data (noun): a general collection of facts, such as numbers, words, measurements, observations and descriptions of things forensic (adjective): belonging to, used in, or suitable to courts of law or to public discussion and debate First, a look at how the Amelia Earhart to Irene Bolam assertion became clouded by misinformation: Note: Of the invented Amelia Earhart cottage industries shown below, the oldest and most notable being Tighar, and the most recent being Chasing Earhart, (that surfaced in 2017) none of them produced significant factual data pertaining to the 1937 disappearance and missing person case of Amelia Earhart. Nor did they produce authentic evidence to help explain what actually happened to her. Basically, cottage industries such as these operate as businesses that exploit the mystery of Amelia Earhart's disappearance in the interest of adulatory pursuits and financial benefit. Contrarily, the 1960s investigations of two individuals, Fred Goerner and Joseph A. Gervais, along with the 1980s investigation of Randall Brink, that reviewed and solidified the data originally generated by Goerner and Gervais, and then expanded on it, well eclipses any information produced by other parties on the subjects of Amelia Earhart's 1937 disappearance and her post-loss missing person case. Based on the additional accumulated data that supports the authentic findings of Goerner, Gervais, and Brink, it is pragmatic to ignore viewpoints expressed by Amelia Earhart cottage industries that offer other ideas. Especially where so much of the data the earlier investigations generated has now been solidified by the Twenty First Century efforts of investigative researcher, Tod Swindell. His first-ever, 'Amelia-to-Irene' comparative analysis was part of a massive, in-depth study that commenced some twenty odd years ago. The results he achieved only affirmed that Joseph A. Gervais, was correct all along where he determined that Amelia Earhart lived well beyond 1937, excepting that she had changed her name for both political reasons, and for the sake of her own future privacy. "Special recognition goes to Tod Swindell, who undertook an extensive, in-depth forensic analysis of the post-1940 Irene (O'Crowley Craigmile) Bolam as compared to Amelia Earhart, to show the world they were one in the same person." In his book, Amelia Earhart Survived, a quote from author and golden age of aviation historian, USAF Colonel Rollin C. Reineck. [Colonel Reineck was a Joseph A. Gervais collaborator from 1990 to 2005.] Tod Swindell Some years ago, after meeting and getting to know Joseph A. Gervais (USAF Ret.) from 1996 to 2005, it perplexed me to learn that no one had ever disproved his 1970 assertion that stated Amelia Earhart had changed her name and continued to live-on for decades after she was declared 'missing' in 1937. This is because the former Amelia Earhart hired powerful lawyers that did an incredible job when it came to obfuscating the life story of Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, a real person Amelia had known in the 1930s, whose leftover identity the famous pilot went on to assume for herself after 1940. Today, we need only remind ourselves that from 1970 to 2016, five nationally published book authors averred that Amelia Earhart survived her disappearance and later became known as Irene. Could the reason be they were advancing the truth, except the general public, that was basically unfamiliar with the shouted-down 'Amelia to Irene' story, found it too hard to believe? Yep. That's basically it. I've worked hard on developing and exposing the reality of this truth ever since meeting Joseph A. Gervais, a great pilot himself and a veteran of three foreign wars, who died in 2005, never having disavowed what he alone discovered. As the year 2021 kicks off a new decade with positive vaccine news, perhaps it is time for our body public to begin taking the now obvious reality of Amelia's later life existence more seriously. Especially when compared to the variety off-base, Johnny come lately Earhart theories presented in recent decades by glitzy looking cottage industries out there, the ineffective activities of which dominate the news media and the internet, in turn hindering the verisimilitude of Amelia's post-1940 life as Irene O'Crowley Craigmile from cleanly shining through. Tod Swindell, 2020 Below the following dedications, continue to examine Tod Swindell's landmark forensic undertaking. Doris Kearns Goodwin and Amy Kleppner Above, Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin (left) and Amy Kleppner (right) Educator, Doctor of Philosophy, Amelia Earhart's niece. Also honoring the life of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who, "...bore witness to, argued for, and helped to constitutionalize the most hard fought and least-appreciated revolution in modern American history: the emancipation of women. Aside from Thurgood Marshall, no single American has so wholly advanced the cause of equality under the law." Jill Lepore, The New Yorker Most importantly, remembering Amelia Earhart... Amelia Earhart, 1937 "Amelia Earhart was interested in the status of women from an early age. She compiled a scrapbook about women who had nontraditional jobs, mainly in male dominated fields. She wanted women to achieve greater equality in the aviation industry. She persisted because she loved aviation and she also was passionate about achieving equality for women." Amelia Earhart's niece, Amy Kleppner [2018 Canary & Co interview] Again, the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile looked nothing like Amelia Earhart. After 1940, Amelia virtually replaced her. Read more about the original Irene below. The former Amelia Earhart in 1977, living as Mrs. Irene (O'Crowley Craigmile) Bolam. The original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, who Amelia Earhart had known, earned her pilot's license in 1933, then gave birth to a son in 1934. She did not frequent airfields as much after that, and her license was not renewed after 1937. What became of the original Irene is a mystery unto itself. Before 1940 arrived, a surrogate mother had already been raising her 1934 born son for her, and her son grew up believing she was his biological mother. Below is the original Irene's son, Clarence Alvin "Larry" Heller's positive ID placement that he put in writing in 2014, as a contribution to Tod Swindell's forensic research and comparison analysis. Mr. Heller met twice with Tod Swindell in New York, and optioned his version of his mother's life story to him through the law firm of Cowan Liebowitz & Latman PC. Now, take another look: It is fairly easy for one to recognize with a naked eye, that the above younger to older images are those of three different people; the original Irene, the surrogate mother Irene, and the post-1940 only Irene. The above photograph, described in newsprint as taken in 1937, shows the original Irene's son, Clarence Alvin "Larry" Heller, with his "mother" in the Florida everglades, although it is hard to truly determine which mother is shown with him. The annulment of his parent's marriage was just getting underway at the time, and Larry Heller's father, a Brooklyn based pilot by the name of Al Heller, moved alone to Buffalo, New York that same year. As the story went, the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, had become pregnant out of wedlock with Al Heller's child (Larry) in mid-1933, so the two eloped to marry and she briefly took his last name -- until it became known to her that Al was still legally married to another woman he'd had a child with. After the annulment was completed, (that basically says a marriage never legally happened) the surname of 'Heller' went back to being Craigmile, the last name of the original Irene's first husband, who had died in 1931. Al and Irene's son, Larry, however, kept the surname of 'Heller' as was listed on his birth certificate. It seems somewhat out of place that in the annulment complaint, Al Heller was described as "improvident" when it came to the matter of supporting his wife and son, where the photo above depicts them looking fairly well supported. Not many people could afford travel trailers, kiddie cars, and vacations to Florida back then. May as well add here, that it was Miami, Florida where Amelia departed from on June 1, 1937 to begin her world flight. It does appear to have been the case, that both Amelia and the original Irene went missing approximate to each other, leaving it possible to consider that the original Irene, a pilot herself and a friend of Amelia's, had flown in the other purported plane that had been designated to coincide with Amelia's world flight plan to do reconnaissance during the Pacific leg of Amelia's journey, and that the original Irene and her possible 'British furnished' male co-pilot met with tragic misfortune while doing so. The original Irene was a pretty good pilot. The below May of 1933 mention in the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper was a testament to this fact. For anyone to fly alone in his or her own plane from New York to Chicago and back, that was a hardy 'private pilot' feat during that time period. It was a month or two after that, though, she realized she was pregnant with Al Heller's child. As revealed in a 1938 White House transcript discovered decades later, it was against "all orders" (see below) that Amelia headed toward the Marshall Islands, the last known area the other flight duo was believed to have been doing fly-overs. Amelia aborted her known flight plan to head there in an effort to try and find out what had happened to Irene, and to help if she could. Unfortunately, the move backfired and left her as an additional suspect pertaining to the recon flight plan. This was deduced from a September of 1938 OS-2 intelligence report discovered decades later, that stated that Amelia made the final call to head "north" (her given bearing was actually northwest) and she continued to check in at half-hour intervals while doing so until she was out of range. The OS-2 report directly contradicted the two-way radio report released by the White House two months earlier, in July, a full year after Amelia's world flight had taken place. Read more about the two plane scenario in the "British Connection" section, relative to the 1985 book by James Donahue, that is elaborated on further down. [Note: First hand accounts from Lockheed employees, the manufacturer of Amelia's plane, did convey that more than one plane was prepared for and involved with Amelia's world flight plan.] If this sounds like a far-fetched idea, it merely serves as a potential explanation for the original Irene's non-reported demise, and why Amelia, who survived her 'missing person case' ordeal, later ended up using Irene's name. This suggestion was first introduced by Tod Swindell in his copyrighted manuscript, Protecting Earhart. Above, another excerpt from the May 13, 1938 White House transcript that denied First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's request for its 'report' on Amelia Earhart's premature world flight ending from the previous year. FDR right hand man, Henry P. Morgenthau Jr., made these comments directed to Mrs. Roosevelt, adding to the reason for his additional aforementioned comment below, of not wanting to ever make public what really happened to Amelia. Of note, the White House never did make public the information it withheld. It is apparent that initially, the White House deduced that Amelia and her navigator, Fred Noonan met their demise after they entered Japan's forbidden fly zone of the Marshall Islands. It wasn't until August of 1939, about eight months after Amelia was legally declared dead in absentia, that the White House first became privy to new information, suggesting that at least Amelia was possibly still alive under Japan's stewardship. More accounts of Amelia's ongoing survival surfaced after that, but by then Germany had invaded Poland (September 1, 1939) marking the beginning of World War Two. Below left is the cover image of the James Donahue book, that expounded on a non-publicized arrangement to involve more than one plane in Amelia's world flight plan. Next to it, once again is the 1987 commemorative stamp issued by the Marshall Islands. The stamp depicts Amelia, her navigator, Fred Noonan, and Amelia's plane being retrieved in the lower Marshall Islands. As noted, this has always been considered 'common history' in the South Sea Islands region that Amelia Earhart went missing in. The Smithsonian Institution, however, as an acting agent of the U.S. federal government, all-but censures any version of Amelia's continued existence after the date of her disappearance, July 2, 1937. Recognize her above? Probably not, but this is the post-1940 Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, or, 'the former Amelia Earhart' in Hawaii, before she married British international businessman, Guy Bolam, in 1958. Above: The former Amelia Earhart in Jamaica in 1976. Can an individual change over time physically, emotionally, spiritually, and egotistically to a point where they become difficult to recognize after a long period of absence? Consider the following quote from Twentieth-Century philosopher, Uell Stanley Anderson: "If we think of ourselves as bodies, our changing self becomes apparent. It is nearly impossible even for families to recognize a loved one after thirty years of absence, so greatly has the self altered. And a little reflection upon the changing quality of consciousness is sure to give us some insight into the numberless selves our surface minds and egos have become since first appearing in the world." Uell Stanley Andersen (1917-1986) Now, here again, consider the 1987 words of Monsignor James Francis Kelley, a past President of Seton Hall College, who perhaps was the former Amelia Earhart's closest later-life friend and confidante. Although he demurred when reporters asked him questions about her, to certain individuals he knew, Father Kelley, who held PhD's in Philosophy and Psychology, disclosed that his friend, the post-1940 Irene, indeed was the former Amelia Earhart. He included the rationale of why she decided to become another person in the following aforementioned way: "After all she'd been through she didn't want to be the famous Amelia Earhart anymore." The point being made here: The general public did not know 'all Amelia had been through' both during her famous career -- and especially during her long years of absence -- and how it altered her psyche to a place where she no longer wished to be the famous celebrity she once was. Life was never easy for Amelia. Before she went missing her nine years of fame consumed her; then during the eight years she was not in view, wherever she was and whatever she was doing was very likely no picnic for her. Consider the following Doris Rich quote about Amelia's famous career from prior to her 1937 world flight: Why People Didn't Know As we enter the third decade of the Twenty First Century, the first ever, Amelia to Irene forensic comparison study left no doubt that Joseph A. Gervais was right all along about having discovered the former Amelia Earhart living as Irene (O'Crowley Craigmile) Bolam, in 1965. Why people didn't see this before, and why a human comparison study was not orchestrated until after Tod Swindell came along, is partially explained in the following way: Beyond the 'official government silence' observed toward the matter ever since the event of Amelia's loss occurred, there were four main players involved in maintaining the nondisclosure of Amelia's ongoing existence with a different name after 1970, the year that Joseph A. Gervais went public with his discovery. They were, 1.) Amelia's sister, Muriel 2.) Amelia's pilot friend from the 1930s, Viola Gentry 3.) Clarence 'Larry' Heller, the 1934 born son of the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, and 4.) Most significantly, the former Amelia Earhart herself. Under the photo of the original Irene, shown between her husband and father below, the above mentioned individuals are shown in younger and older forms: Again, Charles James Craigmile, the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, and the original Irene's father, Richard Joseph O'Crowley, in 1930 'Larry' Irene [F.K.A. AE] Above columns, left to right: Amelia's sister, Muriel, in younger and older forms. The next column shows Viola Gentry above, with Amelia, far left, and Elinor Smith in between them. Underneath is Viola in 1965 with Guy Bolam, the British husband that the former Amelia Earhart married in 1958. The next column shows Clarence 'Larry' Heller, the 1934 born son of the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, above in a 1982 newspaper photo, and in a more recent photo underneath it. The next column shows the former Amelia Earhart, above in a 1965 photo, living as the post-1940 Irene (O'Crowley Craigmile) Bolam, and in a 1977 formal photo portrait taken of her underneath it. All four individuals were quick to refute the 1970 Gervais' assertion, that stated in the 1940s, Amelia Earhart had quietly resurfaced in the United States with a different name and a new profession. Anymore, though, by virtue of the study results, it is clear that such a thing did happen. For the sake of what reality states, while focusing on how they were individually quoted when it came to what Joseph A. Gervais asserted at the conclusion of his 1960-to-1970 investigation, the duplicity that went on to characterize the issue of Gervais' concern is revealed. 1.) Starting with Muriel's quote, beyond admitting that she 'knew' (the post-1940) Irene, she countered: "Its just ridiculous. There is practically no physical resemblance." 2.) From Viola: "Why, that's ridiculous. I knew Irene since 1930, and I knew Amelia Earhart, too, when we all flew from Roosevelt Field. They certainly are not the same woman." 3.) From Larry Heller: "My mother is not Amelia Earhart." 4.) From the post-1940 Irene, FKA 'Amelia Earhart': "I am not a mystery woman and I am not Amelia Earhart." Note: Based on the decades worth of data accumulated after the above individuals offered their comments, and upon analyzing the context of each quote, the line between truth and non-truth becomes blurred. This is due to the realization of the study results exhibiting that more than one person had been attributed to the same Irene O'Crowley Craigmile identity. Therefore, Muriel was not so incorrect when she said there was, "practically no physical resemblance" ...since the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, did not at all look like her sister, Amelia. However, the post-1940 Irene, who Muriel knew in her later life years, proved to be a head to toe match to her sister, Amelia. As well, Viola Gentry definitely had known -- and sometimes flew with the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile in the 1930s -- just as she knew the post-1940 Irene (O'Crowley Craigmile) Bolam in her later life years, who used to be Amelia. Since it was true that the post-1940 Irene was not the same woman as the original Irene, Viola was not so incorrect there. As for Clarence 'Larry' Heller, clearly, Amelia Earhart, who was famously in the public eye in 1934, (the year Mr. Heller was born) was not his biological mother, rather, the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile was. So his statement of, "my mother was not Amelia Earhart" was correct as well. Last but not least, the former Amelia Earhart did not live a mysterious life as 'Irene' after 1940, and technically, she no longer was Amelia Earhart. Rather, when she said what she did in 1970, she was in her third decade of being known as Irene.

The 'First Five Days Indicator' just came in positive, TheStreet has learned. This is the market data you need to know about, like now. The "S&P 500 First Five Days Indicator" has come in positive for 2018, and Jeff Hirsch of the Stock Trader's Almanac says that means there's now an 83.7% chance that equities will rise for the year as a whole. That's good news for Wall Street, because stocks historically do poorly in a year that has midterm U.S. congressional elections. "While I'd love for the midterm year to have a textbook bear market [that offers buying opportunities], it's looking less and less likely," said Hirsch, who's editor of the Stock Trader's Almanac and chief market strategist at Probabilities Fund Management LLC. Hirsch's now-retired father Yale invented the First Five Days Indicator in 1972, backtesting it to 1950. The indicator holds that if the S&P 500 rises during the first five sessions of any given year, odds are that it will finish higher for that year as a whole. With the S&P 500 up 2.77% for the year as of the close on Monday (January's fifth session), the indicator has come in positive for 2018. In an interview shortly before Monday's close, the younger Hirsch said that the First Five Days Indicator has correctly predicted the S&P 500's annual direction in all but seven years since 1950. The indicator came in positive 43 times between 1950 and 2017 and the blue chips ultimately rose in 36 of those instances. That's an 83.7% accuracy rating. The Santa Claus Rally Indicator. Another market measure invented by Hirsch's dad, The Santa Claus Rally Indicator holds that stocks usually rise during the seven sessions covering the last five days of an old year and the first two of the new one. It's a good sign when that happens -- and this year, it did. The January Barometer. This measure looks at how the S&P 500 performs during January as a whole. If the blue chips rise that month, that's a positive indicator for where stocks will go over the entire year. We won't get a reading on that last indicator until Jan. 31, but in years when all three come in positive, the S&P 500 has risen 93.1% of the time for the year as a whole going back to 1950. That's partly why Hirsch's current "best-case scenario" has the S&P 500 ending 2018 at 3,300, up 23.4% for the year. Similarly, his best case for the Dow industrials calls for them to finish the year at 29,000, a 17.3% annual gain. The expert said Monday that if the January Barometer comes in positive at month's end, "that will be confirmation that our [best-case scenario] was bullish enough. And it might even push us into the 'Fully Bullish' camp."

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Many drivers do not appreciate that they are still over the legal limit during the following day. However, a current documentary by Radio and TV presenter Adrian Chiles highlighted the long-term damage alcohol has on your health. A current documentary included Proofessor Roger Williams from the Institute of Hepatology at King's College Hospital in South London, has given his life to medicine and is widely revered as the "Sir Alex Ferguson of the medical establishment", and his driving passion is to dispel our blasé attitudes to casual, excess drinking and face up to its real cost. A speech made a few weeks ago by the Secretary of State for Health, Matt Hancock read: 'For 95 per cent of people, the alcohol we drink is perfectly safe and normal. I like a pint or the odd glass of wine, and I know I speak for most of my audience and certainly the vast majority of my colleagues, too.' We must also need to point out that alcohol plays an important role in the lifestyles of European citizens and cultures of European countries. Alcohol is also an important driving force behind the European economy that creates jobs, generates fiscal revenues and contributes to the UK and EU economy by around €9 billion annually through trade (Anderson & Baumberg 2006) WHAT riled Professor Williams was that first sentence? For while the Health Secretary may think 95% of alcohol consumption is safe, Professor Williams and fellow experts on the influential Lancet Standing Commission on Liver Disease in the UK do not. They are committed to lobbying the Government and public health policy makers to act, especially on the availability of cheap drink. The NHS recommends that adults drink no more than 14 units each week — that's 14 single shots of spirit or six pints of beer or a bottle and a half of wine. But about a third of drinkers consume more than this, which is enough to significantly damage their health, particularly their liver. The reporter used to be a bit of a drinker, often knocking back six pints of Guinness a day. In an average week, I'd consume around 50 units, although that number was known to double. I did my best to downplay and told himself everyone likes a drink. (But that's not true, since about 17 per cent of adults don't drink at all and 70 per cent of those who do stick to the 14-unit guidelines.) The only days I drank nothing focus on extreme cases, and so the rest of us look at the classic 'alcoholic' slumped in a shop doorway, and say to ourselves: 'Oh, that's not me! Therefore, I have no problem. I am fine.' Well, I know now that we aren't fine. Today, as someone who still likes to drink, nothing when he was broadcasting in the evening. He needed an actual reason to abstain for even one day. His drinking habits go back a long way. At university, if anyone I liked had said they didn't drink, well, I probably wouldn't have ended up being friends with them. And as a lifelong West Bromwich Albion fan, going to a match meant having a few drinks with mates — one or two or countless — beforehand. I believe the word 'alcoholic' is outdated, but I've come to realise that I was undoubtedly depend­ent on alcohol to some extent. And if I am, then thousands of others are, too. They are drinkers like me, quietly putting it away without, superficially, doing any great harm — when, actually, we could do ourselves some real good by drinking significantly less. I believe that all the coverage of alcohol misuse and abuse fails to tackle this problem. It tends to focus on extreme cases, and so the rest of us look at the classic 'alcoholic' slumped in a shop door­way, and say to ourselves: 'Oh, that's not me! Therefore, I have no problem. I am fine.' Well, I know now that we aren't fine. Today, as someone who still likes to drink, nothing would give me more pleasure than to tell you that the 14-unit figure is a load of nonsense. But I can't do that. Over the past months, I've applied my (admit­tedly unscientific) mind to a vast amount of evidence, and it is clear that the folks in white coats speak the truth: drinking more than 14 units a week is bad for you. To suggest otherwise is about as daft as claiming that smoking isn't harmful. To be fair to Matt Hancock, he's right when he points out that the group most at risk of alcohol-related health problems is the 5% of drinkers who put away more than 50 units a week (for women, who are more suscep­tible to damage caused by alcohol, it's 35 units). Indeed, this group consumes about a third of all the alcohol drunk in the UK. But look at it another way and you discover that nearly half of all alcohol is consumed by the 8.5 million drinkers like me who knock back between 14 and 50 units a week. More than one million hospital admissions annually are the result of alcohol-related disorders, and it costs the NHS £3.5 billion a year. Alcohol is the biggest risk factor for death in men under 60. And terrifyingly, with the frequency of deaths from liver disease and hospital admissions increasing year on year, logic dictates that must include many of those drinking between 14 and 50 units a week. From all I have learned about full­blown liver disease, the symptoms are horrific and the end ghastly. Just as worrying is the demon­strated link between drinking arid the increased risk of common cancers of the breast and bowel. All of this becomes even more alarm­ing when you realise — as I did when making the documentary for the BBC — that it's very easy to drink 50 units a week if you drink something every day and then throw in a couple of big nights out. At a friend's 40th birthday cele­bration last year, I drank four pints of Guinness, four bottles of beer, a glass of champagne and five glasses of wine. Even a quiet night out — what I, in my ignorance, thought of as a non-drinking night with a mate — would be two pints of Guinness each and perhaps a bottle of wine between us. Even with that degree of regular boozing, the symptoms can be silent. Liver disease often doesn't show itself until it's too late to easily treat. Routine blood tests showed my liver function was normal, but for the documentary I had a fibroscan which is a type of ultrasound that assesses the hardness of the liver. That told a different story. My liver is fatty, which is bad, and there are signs of fibrosis caused by a large amount of scar tissue — both undoubtedly linked to my drinking. In short, last year I found I was well on the way to having potentially fatal liver disease. The liver specialist I saw said: 'You can't go on like this' — and he was right. For you, it's not a choice between living a good, long life or a good, slightly shorter life, he added; it's about making your declining years as bearable as possible. And drinking too much before you get there isn't going to help. Ironically, my biggest concern is getting to old age without having ruined my innards so much that I can't enjoy a drink to ease me through my twilight years. So, I've cut down on my drinking, though it's not been easy. In fact, I wonder whether it's easier to stop completely rather than to try to moderate what you drink. If you stop completely, you have only one decision to make, hard though it is. But you know where you stand, and so does everyone else. If you're merely moderating, there are dozens of decisions to make every week. When do I drink? How much do I drink? Will this friend or that friend be annoyed if I don't drink with them? But I'm proud to say that I've managed it. And, for me, the key to it has been counting units. Believe me, I know how hard it is to bring yourself to do this, and I resisted for a while. I find the Drink Less phone app easiest to use (other apps are available). It allows you to input your alcohol intake throughout the day and projects it onto a graph. The effect on me was immediate. I've discovered that once you're counting units, you can work out which drinks you really want, or need or will enjoy. I reckon if you put every drink I've ever consumed in a row, it would stretch for nearly four miles. But, to be honest, I think I've only really appreciated a third of them. The rest were completely unneces­sary, and now I've got a dodgy liver for my trouble. What an idiot! Nowadays, when I go to the pub, I order what the Germans call beer sour: half a beer and half a soda water in the same glass. That's been a game changer for me. It gives you a pint to hold and the taste isn't dramatically different. More importantly, it's half the units. I've also started drinking alcohol-free versions of the drinks I like, and there's plenty of good stuff out there. So how do I feel in my new guise as a 'moderating drinker'? Well, I'm a bit lighter, a bit calmer, a bit healthier and, what I do drink, I enjoy more. The biggest changes I've noticed, however, are psychological. The pressure we put on each other to drink is absurd. Alcohol is the only drug you must apologise for not taking. I've sworn a solemn oath no longer to be pressured into drinking by anyone, and nor will I pressure anyone else. But neither will I pressure any­one into drinking less. If you enjoy every drop, crack on —just if you're aware that more than 14 units a week puts your health at risk. Don't beat yourself up if you can't get down to that number. I still really struggle, but every unit I don't drink helps. If you're regularly drinking much more than that — say 40 units a week — my strongest advice is to ask your GP to send you for a fibro-scan. I know how lucky I am. I got the wake-up call I needed. Now, I want to wake-up others. And if I ever need further encouragement, I can always call upon the image of Professor Williams slumped at his desk in despair, knowing better than anyone what too much booze is doing to us — and determined to do something about it. About the Author Tony Previous Post Smart tachographs: what you need to know Next Post Maintaining truck and trailer fridge units Load security issues Vehicle load security pilot AdBlue checks <# if(ThriveComments.current_user.ID){#>href="https://keepontrucking.net/wp-login.php?action=logout&_wpnonce=eb82e6fb6f"<#}#>><#= ThriveComments.util.render_label('logout_change') #>

Q: How to sync local data to server in Blazor WebAssembly-PWA? I want to building a Blazor WebAssembly Progressive Web App, that can run offline. I began Blazor this morning, and I'm just trying to get the hang of it. To begin I want to do something like keep.google.com. You can work on you notes offline, on different devices, and when the connection is re-established, all notes are synchronized in the background with the server. My idea is to have simple notes on a server, with an id, title and a message. These notes can be displayed and added/modified from the client. Since I want the application to work offline, I want the synchronization process to be as follows: * *The fist time visiting the website, all notes are fetched from the server, *When notes are added/modified, they are saved on the server, *If connection is lost, notes can still be read and added/modified localy, *When the connection is re-established, the modifications are saved to the server, *Periodically or after pressing a button, sync is done between client and server to fetch new data present on the server. I think the way to do this is to have a copy of the database localy. Client do modification on the local database and periodically/after pressing a button/when connection is re-established, I sync local database with server database. I'm sure there is an official and easy solution to do that. I followed the CarChecker example from Microsoft, but they used the IndexedDB in javascript to do that (23min13 in the official tutorial video). Do you know a .NET solution/tutorial/service that store data locally, and sync in the background with the server ? A: I wrote a Blazor WebAssembly PWA with similar technical requirements. There is certainly more than one way to accomplish this but the steps I used are as follows: * *I used sqlite on the client side to persitist the data locally. The simplest way to make that persist-able with the ability to use Entity Framework is to use the SqliteWasmHelper nuget package. https://github.com/JeremyLikness/SqliteWasmHelper *On startup and/or when online I fetch the necessary data and insert it into the local sqlite database. *The user can make changes and I save that to the local sqlite DB and mark it as ready to be synced. *I have a background service with a timer which executes on a configurable interval and grabs the local data marked to be synced and calls the API on the server to save the data to a SQL Server database. Of course I check to see that the user is online before attempting the sync. *I use Javascript to determine whether the device is online. I can provide that to you if you need but you should be able to google it. *I have an application update checker based on this method which works pretty well: https://whuysentruit.medium.com/blazor-wasm-pwa-adding-a-new-update-available-notification-d9f65c4ad13 I hope that helps. I'm happy to provide more detail if you like.

I prettied up some of my beading patterns for sale on Sellfy! They're pretty cheap, so if you're interested, check them out! If you don't know how to loom bead, I also have a tutorial for sale there. Bonus: here's a pattern you can have for free.

Home > Appliances > COMMENT:Why Sharp Is A Massive Basket Case COMMENT:Why Sharp Is A Massive Basket Case By David Richards| 7 Mar 2016 Appliances, Latest News Sharp Australia hasn't got much left in the consumer appliance market, they got out of the TV market last year, not because their TV's were inferior but because of poor marketing resulting in a lack of uptake by consumers. Now their appliances business is on life support as their parent Company is set to be flogged to Taiwanese Company Foxconn, in a multibillion dollar deal that could well see the Companies consumer products disappear from Australian shelves. Sharp make extremely good products but they don't know how to price them or market them because of a combination of poor Japanese management and local management, who don't have a clue when it comes to delivering cut through marketing. Sharp management have failed dismally resulting in lost jobs, and a once great brand relegated to the back end of stores. The Sharp Australia web site which is a low cost way for the Company to market their products. But the problem is that this site is shocking and local management, don't have a clue when it comes to social media marketing, which in the USA is seriously driving sales for Sharp. Sharp Australia Intro Page Same Product Page On the Sharp US web site Sharp Australia product page, 1999 type design. Same type of product page at Sharp USA with scrolling benefits. In the USA Sharp appliances are top of mind and growing, but when it comes to online the difference between the Sharp Australia web site and the US site, the difference is like chalk and cheese. While the Australian web site looks like something from the early days of online the US web site is engaging and designed to deliver information for consumers. Deloitte Australia Research shows that 65% of consumers are going online to search for information prior to shopping, they either visit a retailer's web site or go direct to a vendors site who redirects them back to a retailer to buy or like Sharp in the USA sell the product direct. According to a recent study by e-commerce analytics company Clavis Insight, Sharp trumps its top five online competitors in the big US market, including Panasonic who are the #1 microwave supplier in Australia in five key metrics: availability, image presence, content, keyword search and customer ratings. With 17 percent of market share by volume in 2015, according to Euromonitor, Sharp leads the pack with strong breadth and depth of distribution among online appliance retailers analysed in the study. Specifically, at least 15 Sharp models were offered by the trio Amazon, Target.com and Walmart.com – while Target's e-tail site carried 33. What's more, the brand outperformed its peers on both search performance and image presence, offering multiple product views on a large majority of its product pages. This must be embarrassing for Sharp Australia staff who believe marketing is still about giving retailers a bundle of cash and expecting them to build the brand and market the product using catalogues, store visits and online. Along the way they slap together some external marketing to demonstrate to retailers that they are actually conducting some form of external marketing. Today a strong web site that promotes a brand as well as products is a critical part of any marketing mix. Also critical is video as 63% of all transactions at web sites like Harvey Norman and JB Hi Fi are coming from portable devices such as a smartphone or tablet. Consumer today want to simply press a button, watch a video and then make a decision as to their next move. Sharp's problem is not about money, it's all about deadwood. What Sharp Australia needs is a Young aggressive digitally savvy marketing team that can ID the right products for Australia and then aggressively market them. They need to give the brand CPR so that when it comes back to life consumers actually want to engage with the brand. At one stage Sharp branded products were an object of pride for both Australian and Japanese consumers. Sharp started to come unstuck in 2005 when Japanese management started to believe that the brand was invincible. They believed that their new LCD/LED TV production plant at Kameyama was the be all of TV production plants. The only problem was that the Japanese management was only watching the Japanese markets and not overseas markets like Australia or the UK and the USA, while at the same time they failed to capture orders from third party TV Companies to manufacture display components. This resulted in the Company racking up massive losses. Even while the plant was pumping out product, it was seriously in debt due to competition from other TV manufacturers, including Chinese and Korean manufacturers. The blinkered world view that still exists at Sharp Australia today has destroyed a once great brand. Now the Japanese are fretting at the loss of the iconic brand to a Taiwanese Company Foxconn who has made a name for themselves making goods for Apple. at the heart of Japan's reluctance to let Sharp be sold to Foxconn is the bile building up in the throats of Sharp management and Japanese Government official's that the know how once owned by a great Japanese Company is set to fall into the hands of a competitor. The anxiety comes from a deep feeling that denies the ascendance of Taiwan, China and South Korea in realms where Japan once reigned. Japanese media never seriously discuss the fact that companies such as LG, Samsung and Haier now dominate the global home electronics field. A few pundits and journalists have made the case that not only does Sharp's likely sale to Hon Hai not signal the end of the world, but that it could turn out to be a good thing for Japan. During a recent Japanese TBS Radio discussion, listeners sent in questions betraying their nervousness over the deal. One listener remarked that if Hon Hai buys the ailing company, Sharp will merely become a "maker of goods." Atushi Osanai a Japanese academic told the listener that, in fact, Hon Hai was buying Sharp because it admires the company's knack for new ideas. What he failed to communicate was the fact that Japanese Companies are making great products but they are failing dismally when it comes to marketing the products. Sharp who does not have much of a profile outside Japan due to its lack of initiatives is doomed to becoming a supplier of components. Japanese electronics makers "have never had an overseas strategy," according to Osanai, unlike Japanese car makers. He claims Hon Hai will give Sharp that chance, something the Innovation Network Corporation of Japan who also been bid for the Company would not have been able to do. Foxconn says it will not sell off any part of Sharp, though that could change once the financing dust has settled. Japanese media say that Hon Hai wants Sharp for its display technology, but there is nothing special about Sharp's LCDs, which have become a commodity because Sharp management were unable to sell the superiority of their panels. In truth, it wants to get into the IOT (Internet of things) business, by producing home appliances that can connect to the Web, and for that it needs Sharp's know-how. Hon Hai's rival, Haier, bought General Electric's appliance business for the same reason. Softbank another big Japanese Companies popular robot, Pepper, is manufactured by Foxconn another fact the media rarely mentions but one that is central to the issue of Sharp's worth to the company. "Hon Hai is just like Pepper," said Osanai. "You can tell it what to do, but it won't come up with ideas on its own." David Richards has been writing about technology for more than 30 years. A former Fleet Street journalist, he wrote the Award Winning Series on the Federated Ships Painters + Dockers Union for the Bulletin that led to a Royal Commission. He is also a Logie Winner for Outstanding Contribution To TV Journalism with a story called The Werribee Affair. In 1997, he built the largest Australian technology media company and prior to that the third largest PR company that became the foundation company for Ogilvy PR. Today he writes about technology and the impact on both business and consumers. appliances, microwave, sharp, tv Virtual Reality Roller Coasters Set To Launch Haier Close To Closing US$5.4B GE Appliance Deal Christmas Kitchen Sale Hits Aldi This Saturday TCL Moves Into Oz Whitegoods Market Sharp Reveal New Microwaves You Can Talk To Sharp Gets Into The Gaming Console Market In Partnership With Nintendo Samsung Brings Etsy Art To Frame TV

2021 Conger Wild Horse Gather 2021 ONAQUI MOUNTAIN WILD HORSES GATHER 2018 Cedar Mountain Horse Gather 2020 Confusion Gather 2020 Frisco Gather 2018 Muddy Creek Wild Horse Gather 2018 Range Creek Gather 2019 North Hills Gather 2019 Onaqui Gather 2020 Range Creek Wild Horse Gather 2020 Swasey Mountain Gather 2020 Sulphur Gather Begins: September 26, 2019 Ends: October 2, 2019 The BLM will gather approximately 200 horses from Federal, State and private lands. The appropriate management level for this HMA is 75-125 animals and the current population 282 horses, which is projected to reach 338 with the addition of the 2019 foals. Horses removed from the range will be transported to the Axtell Off-Range Contract Wild Horse Facility in Axtell, Utah. Public lands will remain open unless closures are deemed necessary due to safety concerns. Outdoor recreationists and visitors to the gather area should be aware that there will be low flying helicopters. The recreational use of drones is discouraged from Bruin Point to Nine Mile Canyon, and from Dry Canyon east to Rock Creek Canyon. Brief road closures may also be needed to allow movement of horses during gather operations. Anyone interested can get updates on Twitter by following @BLMUtah or searching #RangeCreekGather. To learn more about how to adopt or purchase a wild horse or burro, visit the BLM National Wild Horse and Burro website at www.blm.gov/whb or call (866) 468-7826. Public Observation Opportunities are available for the public to observe daily operations through BLM-escorted tours so long as conditions remain safe for both the horses and participants, and ensuring that gather operations are not disrupted. Observers must provide their own transportation, water, and food. No public restrooms will be available. The BLM recommends weather-appropriate footwear and neutral-colored clothing. Binoculars and four-wheel drive or other high-clearance vehicles are also strongly recommended. To protect the wild horses and the horse gather operations, no drones will be allowed to be flown in the vicinity of the gather sites. Details on the BLM-escorted tours will be updated each evening during the gather and announced daily on the BLM gather hotline at (801) 539-4050. Gather operations will begin on Sept. 26 on private land where public observation will NOT be available. For those interested in observing the gather, opportunities begin on Sunday, Sept. 29 and individuals should meet at Millers Wellington Chevron convenience store located at 2195 East Main Street, Wellington, Utah where tours will depart at 6:00 a.m. MDT. For additional information on participating in public observation days, contact Lisa Reid, Public Affairs Specialist, at (435) 743-3128 or [email protected]. Persons who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1-800-877-8339 to leave a message or question for Lisa Reid. The FRS is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Replies are provided during normal business hours. Daily Gather Reports Summary: Sixty three horses were gathered today. Body scores of the horses were 4's. There were no members of the public viewing the event due to the gather being on private land. Approximately 25 members of the public were at the temporary holding facility. Animals gathered: 63 (21 stallions, 32 mares, 10 foals) Animals shipped: 37 Total Deaths Today: 0 Acute: 0 Chronic/Pre-existing: 0 Summary: Nine horses were gathered today. Body scores of the horses were 4's. There were no members of the public viewing the event due to the gather being on private land. There were 12 members of the public were at the temporary holding facility. Animals gathered: 9 (3 stallions, 5 mares, 1 foals) Summary: Thirty four horses were gathered today. Body scores of the horses were 4's. There were no members of the public viewing the event due to the gather being on private land. There were 8 members of the public were at the temporary holding facility. Animals gathered: 34 (8 stallions, 22 mares, 4 foals) Summary: Zero horses were gathered today. No gather operations today due to high winds. There were 4 members of the public present today. Animals gathered: 0 Animals shipped: 0 Summary: Twelve horses were gathered today. Body scores of the horses were 4's. There were 6 members of the public viewing the event. There were 19 members of the public were at the temporary holding facility. One filly was humanely euthanized after severely injuring herself during gather. Animals gathered: 12 (2 stallions, 7 mares, 3 foals) Summary: Twenty-two horses were gathered today. Body scores of the horses were 4's. There were 5 members of the public viewing the event. There were approximately 20 members of the public were at the temporary holding facility. Animals gathered: 22 (10 stallions, 10 mares, 2 foals) Summary: Fourteen horses were gathered today. Body scores of the horses were 4's. There were 2 members of the public viewing the event. There were six members of the public at the temporary holding facility. Final Totals updated 10/2/19 Animals Gathered Animals Returned to Home Range Animal Deaths

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I notice, in the Saturday newspapers, that Labour MP Andrew MacKinlay has resigned in fury over ministers allowing the extradition of Gary McKinnon to the United States to stand trial for hacking into their military computers. Whether Gary really has a serious disability or not, and whether he intended only to find details of UFOs or had a more sinister intent has nothing to do with my blog today. I was disgusted with the noise that MacKinlay is making. Resigning as an MP at the next election will not really be a problem for NuLabour as they will be having a huge weed out anyway. I would have been more impressed if MacKinlay resigned immediately causing a new by-election. After all, its only a loss of a few months pay, and he is 60! Only by leaving immediately would he have made any impact on the present leadership. No Mister MacKinlay — I am not the least bit impressed at your rantings and ravings. They will have absolutely no effect on anybody. Did you really expect the public not to see through your half-hearted stance! I read with interest that the government has decided, in its wisdom, that the reason middle class and working class children are losing out in the top jobs is because of elitism! There is one thing we can be sure of, and that is elitism has no place in this election of our members of Parliament. They cannot see that it is their disastrous attempts in education that has caused youngsters in government schools to fail through life. Parents of the very well off, and this includes many Labour MPs, send their children to private schools to ensure they get a good education. One does not have to be very intelligent to know if schools fail in one sector then those pupils will do worse in life. Whereas, the schools that excel with their teaching ensure their pupils have the best start in life. MPs must look closer to home for the reason why this "elitism" exists. My solution is simple, improve standards and disciplines in government schools and you will see middle-class and working-class children getting their equal share of the top jobs. PS I have dictated this using Dragon NaturallySpeaking software and have to admit it is now making my life a lot easier! Especially since I'm about to launch a community newspaper. I have just come back from a weekend in Antwerpen. It is a lovely city and for places to see and visit, you will find a lot to read at their Antwerp site on Wikipedia and its sister site Wikitravel. One of the best restaurants is Het Pomphuis. We ate there on my birthday. A lovely leisurely meal, with absolutely no pressures. The food was delightful and the service impeccable. Attentive without being intrusive. The waiter took charge of our bottle, and was there to top up our glasses whenever they needed topping up. And he made our bottle last with about six or seven top ups throughout the meal. This was the type of restaurant one reads about in establishments a hundred or so years ago. We had a three course meal with a bottle of wine, then a glass each of dessert wine with our sweet, and coffee afterwards. The bill came to 150 Euros but you could easily go to 300 Euros. Not cheap by any means but if you look at the "value for money" this comes up very high on my list. To get there from the centre? Taxi 15 Euros, three buses go by from the centre, or you can walk it in about 45 minutes. Public transport is by means of bus, tram or larger tram they call their Metro. Tickets are E1.60 each if you pay the driver, if you buy at the bus stop it is E1.25 or you can purchase a ticket for ten journeys which work out at 0.80 cents a journey. Once you activate the ticket you can make as many changes as you wish during the hour from the first ticket activation. I give you an example. From our hotel, there was a lovely cafe five stops away in the old town. We could go there, have a coffee, and return to the hotel with the return journey not being charged for. Our hotel was a four star hotel called the Plaza Hotel in Charlottalei (the name of the street, and also Metro station). The hotel people had a sense of humour. They gave me room 69 as I was 69 when we arrived. I had visions of them moving me to room 70 on my birthday, but thank goodness it didn't happen! Room 69 turned out to be a junior suite but we weren't charged extra which I thought was very nice, as was the box of Belgian chocolates they placed in my room on the day. As a little footnote, we saw the package advertised in one of the package trips to Europe deals, but as we are over 60 I checked prices separately. And we saved £140 between us by booking Eurostar and the hotel ourselves. The Hotel was the same but as we were older, we got a better deal on Eurostar. eBay doesn't really like snipers as it eats into their profits. But my expenditure is more important than their profits. Now that I have retired and no longer get all the "men's toys" from various PR companies who used to court me when I was a journalist, I have withdrawal symptons. However, Pam (my long suffering wife) and I have come to an understanding. I can still play with my toys if I sell some of them on eBay and use that money for buying new ones. Anyway, this is what I do. And I have developed a style which is very successful. As a journalist I can compose my Auction details page to make the product sound exceedingly exciting. But when I buy, I look for bids which are written by people not as competent with descriptive adjectives. Naturally I check how many transactions they have made to date and what percentage of their feedback is positive. It works and I invariably sell my toys for more money than I pay for them. But what do I mean by sniping? There are companies outside of eBay where you add the Auction reference number and the maximum amount you want to pay for the item. The sniper software keeps an eye on the bid and a few seconds before then end of the auction, slides in your bid at the minimum next level. This is the first time that anyone on eBay knows of your interest, so you don't bump up the auction price. I use EZsniper and have been using them successfully for a year or two now, saving myself considerable money. EZsniper is an American company who went commercial, after being in development for a year, on September 13, 2001, two days after 9/11. Starting with a core of dedicated beta testers, they have now grown to over 500,000 users in their EZsniper database. Since their beginning they have delivered millions of bids saving users millions of pounds. They have since expanded their service to include about forty auction sites in addition to all of eBay's sites (around the world) about two years ago. This expansion has been well received by international users who can read the site in 17 languages. I have spoken to the people at EZsniper and they have informed me that they have a major innovation coming very shortly. I just can't wait to see what it is. eBay also own a bank called PayPal which is quite complex to use, but very useful if you take the time to work your way through all the services and additions they add to make your transactions as painless as possible. Finally, not everything that eBay touches turns to gold. They evidently didn't use EZsniper when they purchased Skype (the company) as they paid well over the odds and now they want to sell it. It will make a loss of hundreds and hundreds of millions! Take schools, for example. You may be sending your children to one of the few excellent comprehensive schools but, unless you are in a predominantly non-immigrant area, you are fortunate. However, if your school is in one of the many hundreds, if not thousands, of areas where there are massive immigrant populations – some London borough schools have pupils of over thirty different "first languages" then education there has to slow down to enable these pupils to catch up with their English. This means that, by the time your children leave school they could be at the least, a year behind Public school pupils, and at the most, two years behind! Not a very comforting thought. "The government says the UK has moved from the 'containment' to the 'treatment' phase of Swine flu as the number of people catching swine flu continues to rise. The Fawkes family are in London for another fortnight, before we head for France. 4 year-old Miss Fawkes is in day two of displaying possible Swine flu symptoms: high temperatures, tummy ache, headaches and a dry cough. "Last night a worried mother took Miss Fawkes (who had a temperature of 39.1 C / 102.3 F) to the paediatric A & E unit of a London hospital where she was given a mask and told to go instead to a walk-in unit. The walk-in unit told her there was a four hour wait and that she might as well go home and see her GP. This morning the GP's receptionist said that they could not have a suspected case of Swine flu in the waiting room and she was to go home. Isn't this absolutely disgusting? A young family with a four year old suspected of having the "swine flu" with another two year old child in tow, and they get treated like this. MPs aren't worried of course, they can afford private medicine, and can afford private schooling. Those who, being Labour, have to send their children to comprehensive schools no doubt pay for private tuition for them! And don't we all know they'll find a way of getting us, the tax payer, to fund this "expense"?

So there's a new facebook, and all the pallaver that goes with people adjusting to the new stuff. Please, before you run around madly worrying about privacy and facebook charging for things, check out this fabulous woman's page called Mari Smith. She'll set you right and I can't possibly add a comment to all the daft facebook panics going on at the moment! (She gets lots of comments on her page from people sharing her stuff, so switch it from 'Everyone most recent' to just show 'mari smith' when you look at her page). Right, rant over, on with the show! Apparently there is a new feature where we are going to be able to tell that someone has unfriended us. It's not so new is it, because I can tell now that an apparent friend who once worked with me unfriended me, as her name looks different to me when she comments on my friends updates? (If you are seriously considering unfriending someone, just unsubscribe to their updates, don't be so obvious as to unfriend them unless they are really horrid; you've always been able to do this by having lists and only looking at the lists of people that you like lots). Well I'm going to tell you why you never need to worry about supposedly losing a friend. It's because as one person is leaving your life, there is always someone else on the way in. Always. No exceptions. It might not always be obvious because actually although they de-friended you on friday at 1pm, they were actually gradually going off you for ages. So in the meantime there has been someone else, or maybe a couple of people who have been gradually getting to know you. Have a think about it, you do have new friends don't you? Plus now with facebook, twitter and all sorts of online communities, it's really easy to make new connections. So there will be a new person. Also, there is a downside to everyone. Why are you glad that they have unfriended you? Did you worry everytime they said they had achieved something that you weren't as good as them? Were they reminding you of a life that you no longer have? Were they talking with lots of other people about how fabulous they were, so you automatically were assuming that you aren't fabulous? Were they moaning about life lots? Did they basically take up time in your life, reading their updates, that you will never get back? Plus they didn't unfriend you because you are horrid, they did it because you remind them of themselves which irritates them. There is also the fact that some people get really twitchy on facebook about seeing other people's lives going well. I can already hazard a guess at who is remaining my friend but unsubscribing this instant. It's impossible for you to appeal to everyone in life, the most you can achieve is 50%. So next time someone unfriends you on twitter or facebook or even in 'real life', just pop this song on really loud, have a dance, stick two fingers up, and then keep your eyes open for new opportunities of friendship surrounding you.

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Refrigerated trucks and vans have contributed to a network of growing delivery markets. They are the perfect resource for small businesses and companies looking to deliver quality products and services. A refrigerated truck could mean the difference between your perishable goods making it to the sales floor or the waste bin. If your business is responsible for delivering perishable goods at their freshest, then you have come to the right place. South Bay Ford Commercial offers the latest and greatest in Ford refrigeration vans and trucks. While the 2018 Ford Transit was built for either a cargo or very popular work van, this full-size Ford van is also one of the most ideal refrigerated vans in LA. How is this possible? Thanks to the largest distributer of refrigeration vans in the United States, the popular Ford Transit has been converted to a refrigeration unit on wheels. Beginning with a wood frame, laid by Delta-Stag, alongside the floors and the walls. After, a polyurethane foam is sprayed and leveled for ideal insulation. After the aluminum, odor free and easy to clean ChemLight interior is setup the Thermo King engine-controlled refrigeration unit is installed. The nicest thing about this unit is that it can be controlled by the driver vs. having to go in the back of the van to reset the temperature for each delivery. Available in three roof sizes (low, medium and high) for all your perishable delivery needs, the Transit receives its power from three strong and efficient engine choices, including a standard 3.7-liter V6 (275 HP, 260 lb-ft of torque), an optional turbocharged 3.2-liter diesel-powered inline five-cylinder (185 HP, 350 lb-ft) and an optional turbocharged 3.5-liter V6 (310 HP, 400 lb-ft. Each of these engines are partnered with a select-shift six-speed transmission that offers better drivability and fuel economy. Although the Ford Transit Van is the easiest to upfit into a refrigeration vehicle, South Bay Ford also specializes in the upgrade of other Ford commercial vehicles. So, if you are in need of a different fleet of refrigerated trucks in Los Angeles, contact South Bay Ford to discuss available upfit opportunities. Along with creation of a top-performing refrigeration vehicle, the specialists at the leading Hawthorne, CA Commercial Ford dealer also foster close working relationships with local distributors to procure the highest quality tow truck and fuel-efficient Ford truck upfits available. As your trusted Commercial Headquarters, South Bay Ford also offers the delivery of specialized commercial vehicles throughout the United States. This means hassle-free distribution of your new Refrigeration Van/Truck, Parcel, Linen, Bakery, Food, Work Truck, Van, or Utility vehicle right to your door. Are you ready to get behind the wheel of the perfect refrigerated vehicle? Then, what are you waiting for? Come on down! We at South Bay Ford Commercial want to be the first place you think of for all your custom commercial vehicle upfit needs.

Spring is here, and that means most of us are gearing up for some long-awaited spring cleaning. Whether that means clearing out your closet, shredding old paperwork, or re-organizing the garage, we know that spring cleaning is a nice opportunity to remove the clutter and clear out the cobwebs – literally and figuratively. We know you'll have no trouble sprucing things up around the home, but what about spring cleaning your professional life? If you're seeking a new position, it's our job at MJW Careers to polish our clients' assets so that they shine during their interviews, and ultimately get the job. Ready to give your professional strategy a good scrubbing? Here are a few tips to set you up for success. If one of your favorite spring cleaning rituals is reevaluating your closet, followed by removing old items and replacing them with new pieces, think of updating your resume as a similar concept. How often do you update your resume? If it's not regularly, then you're not allowing this powerful tool to showcase all of your skills and experiences. Don't worry if you're unsure about what to change; our expert resume writers are here to help you create a one that you'll feel confident submitting to potential employers. When you're actively applying for positions, you know that an interview is typically the next step in the job hunting process. So even if your resume is stellar, and you've already picked out your power outfit, are you ready to walk into that interview with the right amount of confidence? If you need a refresher on your basics, our interview trainers are happy to assist. By the time you go through our sessions and mock interview, all those nerves will disappear, and you'll leave that interview with an unforgettable first impression. As we look towards warmer temperatures, you may start putting away those heavy sweaters and scarves and making way for brighter colors and lighter clothing. If you have an interview coming up, what you wear is a key part in perfecting that first impression. What you wear will vary depending on the type of industry to which you're applying. Reviewing a company's website may help you determine what the expected dress code is, especially if it features photos or videos of actual employees. Whether you decide to wear a suit, or something a little more business casual, make sure you choose an outfit that you feel comfortable in, and is appropriate for the company's environment. According to a 2018 Career Builder Survey, 70% of employers use social media to screen candidates during the hiring process. Why? Because it's a way to get a glimpse of someone's personality beyond the resume, and to ensure that a potential employee is a good fit with the company. Start by reviewing your social accounts and checking your privacy settings. Many don't realize that posts, photos and videos are set to a "public" default setting, meaning everyone can view them even if he or she isn't following you. If there's anything you would like to keep between family and friends, adjust your settings before you start applying to jobs. If you find yourself in a job searching slump and unsure of your next step, contact our experts at MJW Careers. It's our goal to guide clients to the right career by consulting with you on what's working, what's not, and how you'd like to move forward. We hope you try out a few of our tips, and we look forward to helping you succeed!

2018 the beginning of Google releasing the browser version of Chrome, which automatically block intrusive advertising. New Google's filtering technology developed by obsessions establish "Coalition for Better Ads guidelines laid down - which means that this browser users will see fewer pop-up ads, and hear less automatically pasileidžiančių audio, writes engadget.com. "The reality is that people too often have to deal with įkyriomis work preventing online advertising - for example, those which have unexpectedly loud and starts playing music or causes to wait 10 seconds before showing open the page content," - said Google's advertising and commerce senior vice president Sridhar Ramaswamy. According to him, the annoying experiences some people can lead to absolutely block all ads and thus cause serious injury to the Internet platform, content developers and journalists. They are dependent on advertising, which has the ability to create content. The first reports that Google intends to create an ad-blocking version of Chrome, appeared in April. And while the evaluation of the user's perspective to get rid of any annoying content seems sensible move in terms of Google's prospects for such a solution it seems somewhat surprising: each quarter for one of your Google earns after more than 20 billion. US dollars. Meanwhile, Web content developers will be able to see that their advertisements violate the new Google standards. When Google in 2018 will strictly apply the new standards better ads, these ads to users in Chrome no longer see.

Administrative Support Coordinator II California State University Stanislaus Job no: 493479 Department Academic Affairs Work type: Staff Location: Stanislaus - Turlock Categories: Unit 7 - CSUEU - Clerical and Administrative Support Services, Probationary, Full Time Full time position available on or after August 15, 2019 for the Anthropology, Geography, & Ethnic Studies Department. Under the general direction of the Department Chair, this incumbent will provide administrative support for the Anthropology, Geography, & Ethnic Studies Department. The incumbent will assist with overseeing and coordinating the day-to-day operations of a large, busy, and complex academic department. Coordinates, collects, and creates students files of all student records for the Departments including: graduate students, majors/minors, and those with a concentration.Creates and provides advising worksheets and posts curriculum requirements. Determines and assigns appropriate academic adviser in area of student's concentration of interest. Works with evaluators in Enrollment Services interpreting and administering university and departmental policy, procedures and guidelines relating to student admission, advising and registration.Develops and maintains computerized database to track student progress in the major, minor and concentration, such as advisor data, address, phone, GPA, and academic standing for general department evaluation and consideration for outstanding student awards and honor societies. Coordinates and schedules student appointments with faculty for academic advising. Secures and maintains files each day for academic advising appointments, releasing academic registration holds through the PeopleSoft system.Participate in New Student Orientation to assist faculty advisors and welcome new students. Provide staff support for the student Honors Societies. Coordinate the student honor society application process; create application forms, facilitate collection of student membership fees utilizing designated trust account, verify student eligibility according to GPA, initiate membership activation, distribution of official membership certificates, ensure campus charter is current. Coordinates the annual induction ceremony. Coordinate class scheduling process and input class schedules into the university's CMS/PeopleSoft system. Work with department chair and program directors on course scheduling worksheets and summer and winter session for Anthropology, Geography, Ethnic Studies, Social Sciences, Liberal Studies and cross-listed courses. Includes adjusting faculty-teaching assignments through the schedule change process.Establishes office procedures/processes (in coordination with the Chair) and maintains timelines and notifies faculty, staff, and students to ensure that processes are complete. Coordinates and implements comprehensive information related to the Anthropology, Geography, & Ethnic Studies programs in Turlock and Stockton. Articulates clearly to students in person, by phone or e-mail, websites, and social media. Acts as the procedural liaison with other departments an offices on-campus and off-campus.Attends, interprets and implements information from the College of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Administrative Support meetings, Professional Development Training Sessions, PICWEB trainings and CMS PeopleSoft meetings as needed.Communicates with students, staff and the public regarding inquiries at off-campus televised sites/remote broadcast (e.g. Stockton televised classrooms, Zoom, etc.). Maintains department membership status in professional organizations (e.g. American Anthropological Association, Association of American Geographers, etc.).Communicates and coordinates departmental buying, delivery and storage; acts as liaison with suppliers, vendors, and contractors.Provides administrative coordinator support for affiliated institutes and centers, specialized classrooms, and labs. Coordinates, compiles data and implements some departmental grant proposals such CAHSS Dean's Teaching Initiative, Dean's Travel and Teaching Initiative Funds, RSCA Grants, Service Learning Faculty Grants, Keck Grants, Equipment Request, and UEE Funds.Extracts information on students and alumni to print labels for mail distribution for survey purposes. Arrange travel request and claims through concur or other university systems (e.g. lodging, transportation, per-diem travel reimbursements, receipts), including international travel. (Annual 50+ trips)Administers field trip travel and claims through concur or other university systems (e.g. lodging, transportation, per-diem travel reimbursements, receipts). (Annually, 6-20 field trips)Research, evaluate, and arrange transportation (e.g. rental vans), lodging, permits, food, equipment & supplies, conference registration for university related travel of faculty and student participants. Research, evaluate, and purchase supplies and equipment for field trips, field courses, and events.Perform work independently under general direction from Chair and Program Directors related to goals. Identify projects, outline plans, initiate work, and complete and/or appropriately delegate work.Coordinate with student course fee system, IRA, Dean's Office, SERSCA, RSCA, Service Learning, UEE, extra-mural grants, Chancellor's Office. Communicate and assist off-campus vendors and venues from local and regional that are unfamiliar and unprepared to navigate university procedures and processes.Work with multiple work unit projects and priorities to arrange coordinate all aspects of the events. Duties include but are not limited to room reservations, event services, technical support, permits, food, hospitality, honoraria, parking, security, and student assistance.Interact with high-level university personnel and outside officials, presenters, and performers.Advertise events through campus media and regional media. Coordinate with risk management to ensure that all paperwork is appropriately constructed, completed by participants.Coordinate with student course fee system, IRA, Dean's Office, SERSCA, RSCA, Service Learning, UEE, extra-mural grants, Chancellor's Office.Works with the Office of Communications & Public Affairs to publicize events. Coordinate and delegate work to the students assistants providing event support for the 6-15 events.Process all new-hire paperwork for staff, faculty and student assistants.Facilitate the national faculty hiring process by preparing complex travel arrangements, coordinating agendas, arrange for hospitality services and acting as administrative escort for job candidates.Place job postings on additional websites to ensure a diverse applicant pool. Prepare separate program requests for part-time faculty hires and maintains part-time contracts.Maintain information on part-time faculty pool and provide this information to department chair. Assist in the faculty RPT process. Maintain all documents pertaining to RPT, PTR elaborations, and the department part-time lecturer evaluation processes. Review census figures, FTES, and workload reports to assist department chair in adhering to university policies regarding student enrollments and faculty workload expectations.Prepare faculty Workload Reports and Assigned Time forms; review for accuracy and submit to department chair for timely approval. Full-accountability of work-flow and completion of work for the assigned support staff and student assistants.Prepares requests, job descriptions, interviews, hires, trains, schedules, assigns, mentors, and monitors student assistant work. Accountable for work-study students' work.Assists in the hiring process and procedures for student assistants hired under faculty grants and department funds.Coordinates and prioritizes administrative and clerical projects interspersed with the day-today activities and operations of the department. Monitors budget, develops line item costs and updates department chair and coordinator of budgetary issues.Develop/maintain spreadsheets to track department expenditures, prepares financial reports for the department chair and program director.Monitor/reconcile program budgets including general fund, extended education, trust and foundation accounts using university databases. Research and evaluate information requested by the department chair and program director using data sources in university and system-wide databases; prepare reports from information obtained from database searches.Coordinates with CAHSS Budget Analyst and Financial Aid office work-study annual allocation. Manages program details such as student payroll, scholarships, internal grants and purchasing for the department offices.Serves as a direct contact with the Student Payroll office.Tracks budget information on Financial Data Warehouse, PeopleSoft, and/or Foundation monthly account reports, for the department's Anthropology, Geography, Ethnic Studies, GIS Lab, Geography Field Trips, 5 state accounts, 6 trust accounts, and 2 Foundation accounts. Coordinates and maintains budget management for State, Trust, Foundation and Grant accounts for the department to include design, preparation and maintenance of spreadsheets for budget reporting, planning and forecasting.Furnish monthly budget reports and updating appropriate faculty of budgetary capacities.Prepare purchase requisitions and encumbrances of supplies, services, and instructional equipment for Anthropology, Geography, Ethnic Studies, GIS computer lab, the Bone Lab, Soil Lab, KECK Visual Anthropology Lab, Department Institutes, other program specialized needs.Responsible for expenditures and monthly reporting of the department Procurement Card, Travel Pro Card, KECK Grant Pro Card and Staples accounts.Monitors and tracks faculty grants, transfers and balances.Coordinates and maintains inventory control for Anthropology, Geography and Ethnic Studies.Responsible for surveying-out outdated equipment. Coordinate and maintain equipment inventory for 150+ items.Maintains annual reports, catalog copy, course revisions, new course scheduling, scholarships, census reports, library archives, and incomplete grades.Requests, distributes, and maintains records related to supplies and equipment for the department office and department labs.Processes course changes and cancellations for dissemination to appropriate areas for approval. Provides support for faculty in curriculum revision process. Sets time lines and manages deadlines for department requirements and paperwork. Responsible for undergoing training and then implementing new systems and processes related to department functions.Assists the Directors of the four centers housed in the Department of Anthropology, Geography, and Ethnic Studies when needed, including supporting external grant administration. Processes and serves as contact for key requests and maintains key list for Anthropology, Geography and Ethnic Studies faculty. Completes annual review reports for inventory key control with Facility Services.Maintains, schedules and coordinates office equipment servicing/repair of copy machines, scanners, telephone, etc. Maintains inventory control of department property. Coordinates and orders books and desk copies for Anthropology, Geography, and Ethnic Studies.Assist with administering class assignments in emergency or unforeseen faculty absence. Education:Completion of a high school program, technical/vocational program, or their equivalents. Experience:Several years of related office work experience. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.Excellent organizational skills. Experience to be fully functional in all technical aspects of work assignments. Excellent computer skills: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and Outlook). Knowledge of university databases such as PeopleSoft and Data Warehouse. Experience working with the Concur travel program. Some college education and knowledge of Spanish. Comprehensive and detailed knowledge of the university infrastructure, policies, and procedures.Thorough mastery of English grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Thorough knowledge of office systems and expertise in using office software packages, technology and systems. May function as the office information technology specialist. Ability to use and quickly learn new office support technology systems and software packages is a prerequisite. Ability to independently handle multiple work unit priorities and projects. Ability to interpret and apply a wide variety of policies and procedures independently, and use judgment and discretion to act when precedents or specific guidelines do not exist. Ability to troubleshoot most office administration problems and respond to all inquiries and requests related to work area.Ability to understand problems from a broader perspective and anticipate the impact of office administration problems and solutions on other areas. Ability to analyze operations and procedural problems and develop, recommend, and evaluate proposed solutions.Working knowledge of budget policies and procedures. Ability to perform business math, such as calculate ratios and percentages, track and analyze financial and/or budgetary data, and make accurate projections requiring some inference. Ability to effectively write and present own reports.Ability to effectively handle interpersonal interactions at all levels and handle highly sensitive interpersonal situations. Ability to use negotiation and persuasion skills to achieve results and expedite projects. $3,115 - $5,639 per month plus excellent paid benefits. (Anticipated salary will be$3,115 - $3,427 per month, depending on the qualifications of the successful finalist.) Commensurate with qualifications and experience. As a member of the 23-campus CSU System, we offer an extremely competitive benefits package that includes, but is not limited to, outstanding vacation, health, dental, and vision plans; a fee waiver education program; membership in the California Public Employees Retirement System (PERS); and 14 paid holidays a year. To be considered, qualified candidates must submit a completed Stanislaus State online employment application, cover letter, and resumé. Applications are accepted electronically only. Please note that failure to completely fill out each section of the online application may result in your application not receiving consideration. To apply online, please click the 'Apply Now' button on this page. Applications will be processed in accordance with Article 9.3 of the CSU/CSUEU Memorandum of Understanding. Preference will be given to qualified individuals currently employed at CSU Stanislaus in bargaining units 2, 5, 7, and 9 except when it is determined that it is necessary to appoint outside applicants to meet the best interest of the campus by obtaining specialized skills and abilities not available from current employees. Criminal Background Clearance Notice Satisfactory completion of a background check (which includes checks of employment records, education records, criminal records, civil records; and may include motor vehicle records, professional licenses, and sex offender registries, as position requires) is required for employment. CSU will make a conditional offer of employment, which may be rescinded if the background check reveals disqualifying information, and/or it is discovered that the candidate knowingly withheld or falsified information. Failure to satisfactorily complete the background check may affect the continued employment of a current CSU employee who was conditionally offered the position. Campus & Area California State University, Stanislaus serves the San Joaquin Valley and is a critical educational resource for a six-county region of approximately 1.5 million people. The University is fully committed to creating a culture of diversity and inclusion – one in which every person in the University community feels safe to express their views without fear of reprisal. Widely recognized for its quality academic programs, the University has 10 nationally accredited programs and 662 faculty members. 94 percent of full-time faculty holds doctorates or terminal degrees in their fields. The University offers 43 undergraduate majors, 16 master's programs, 7 post-graduate credentials, a doctorate in education and serves more than 10,000 students. New instructional facilities have been built for the unique pedagogy of professional programs, laboratory sciences and performing arts. Stanislaus State continues to receive national recognition with its ranking as one of the best 384 colleges in the nation by The Princeton Review. The University was one of 12 public universities in the nation to be recognized by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities for demonstrating exceptional performance in retention and graduation rates. In addition, U.S. News and World Report ranks Stanislaus State in its top 10 among public universities in the West, while Washington Monthly honored Stanislaus State as the West's No. 1 university for the money. Stanislaus State also is recognized as a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) by the U.S. Department of Education. The university is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against persons on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, medical condition, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, covered veteran status, or any other protected status. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. The person holding this position is considered a 'mandated reporter' under the California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act and is required to comply with the requirements set forth in CSU Executive Order 1083, revised 7/21/17, as a condition of employment. Applicants requiring necessary accommodations to the application process may contact the Human Resources Department at (209) 667-3351. California Relay Service is available at (800) 735-2922 voice and (800) 735-2929 TDD.As a federal contractor, we are committed to attracting a diverse applicant pool. Please consider completing the Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability form (your response will not be shared with the search committee) at:https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/sec503/Self_ID_Forms/VoluntarySelf-ID_CC-305_ENG_JRF_QA_508c.pdf. CSU Stanislaus hires only individuals lawfully authorized to work in the United States. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire. Clery Act Disclosure Pursuant to theJeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act,the annual security report (ASR), is now available for viewing athttps://www.csustan.edu/annual-campus-security-report. The ASR contains the current security and safety-related policy statements, emergency preparedness and evacuation information, crime prevention and sexual assault prevention information, and drug and alcohol prevention programming. The ASR also contains statistics of Clery Act crimes for Stanislaus State for the previous three years. A paper copy of the ASR is available upon request by contacting the office of the Clery Director located at One University Circle, Turlock, CA 95382, or by calling 209-667-3572. The individuals who appear to be the best qualified for this position will be contacted by telephone or email for an interview. INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS ANNOUNCEMENT MAY BE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE To Apply, visit: http://careers.csustan.edu/st/en-us/job/493479/administrative-support-coordinator-ii jeid-0ed13bb0e76e3144bc739d06fcb5904c About California State University Stanislaus California State University, Stanislaus is an exceptional public university that, because of its student-friendly size and commitment to excellence, is able to offer all the benefits of a private education. CSU Stanislaus offers baccalaureate degrees in the liberal arts, sciences, business and education, as well as teaching credentials, master?s degree programs, and other professional studies. The University is composed of the College of the Arts, College of Business Administration, College of Education, College of Human and Health Sciences, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the College of Natural Sciences. Additional course offerings developed specifically for learners seeking professional or personal development are available through University Extended Education. CSU Stanislaus continues to emphasize quality and excellence in education and to respond to the needs of its diverse student population. Through a strong commitment to diversity and educational equity, CSU Stanislaus helps all students reach their full potential.California State University, Stanislaus is an exceptional public university that, because of its student-friendly size and commitment to excellence..., is able to offer all the benefits of a private education. CSU Stanislaus offers baccalaureate degrees in the liberal arts, sciences, business and education, as well as teaching credentials, master?s degree programs, and other professional studies. The University is composed of the College of the Arts, College of Business Administration, College of Education, College of Human and Health Sciences, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the College of Natural Sciences. Additional course offerings developed specifically for learners seeking professional or personal development are available through University Extended Education. CSU Stanislaus continues to emphasize quality and excellence in education and to respond to the needs of its diverse student population. Through a strong commitment to diversity and educational equity, CSU Stanislaus helps all students reach their full potential.California State University, Stanislaus is an exceptional public university that, because of its student-friendly size and commitment to excellence, is able to offer all the benefits of a private education. CSU Stanislaus offers baccalaureate degrees in the liberal arts, sciences, business and education, as well as teaching credentials, master?s degree programs, and other professional studies. The University is composed of the College of the Arts, College of Business Administration, College of Education, College of Human and Health Sciences, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the College of Natural Sciences. Additional course offerings developed specifically for learners seeking professional or personal development are available through University Extended Education. CSU Stanislaus continues to emphasize quality and excellence in education and to respond to the needs of its diverse student population. Through a strong commitment to diversity and educational equity, CSU Stanislaus helps all students reach their full potential. 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Everything seems to slow down a little in August, including wedding season. I've been using the time to look ahead to fall and get started on some exciting new projects, including new additions to our online store. More to come soon! You've been asking- and we've been listening. Soon, you'll be able to order a dozen of our signature Coconut Macaroons online, boxed and ready for gifting or enjoying! It's jam time! We are using these quieter days to stock up on summer berries and turn them into beautiful preserves for winter gift boxes and next summer's cakes. We are counting down the days to the first issue of To Market, a new publication from the editor of Edible Boston, which will focus on the New England food community as a whole and the policy issues that impact it. Until you get it in your hot little hands, you can read more here. Hello summer! The oven has been cranking, and we have been floating from one beautiful wedding celebration to the next, sneaking in bike rides + beach trips, and eating all the berries. We hope you're doing some of the same. The latest. If you have not yet heard our exciting news- we are thrilled to share that we have been awarded a Best of Boston by Boston Magazine + Boston Weddings for best wedding desserts! We could not be more excited, or more grateful to all the couples who've asked us to be a part of their celebration. Lovely things. We are headed back to Lynzarium's Plant Shack! Join us on Sunday, July 31st for a pop up with Nectar & Green for the perfect summer breakfast pairing. Laurel will be sampling her incredible almond milk- and we'll have granola to go with-hope to see you there! Community. Here at the kitchen, we only fill about one bag of trash every two weeks- thanks in large part to obsessive recycling- and our awesome friends at Black Earth Compost. Located here on Cape Ann, they offer curbside pickup to residents and businesses across the North Shore. We're big fans. What happened to the May newsletter you ask? Good question. Now here we are in June. The Peonies are in bloom, wedding season is in full swing, and I've got lots to share with you. And while I'll be spending most of my days at the kitchen, I'm looking forward to sneaking in time at the beach and visiting all the exciting new food places opening on Cape Ann- hope to see you around! The latest. Keep an eye out for us next week on facebook live with Style Me Pretty! Later this month, in partnership with Rockport Exchange, we will be back at Seaview Farm for our second annual farm dinner fundraiser in support of our local farmers' market. Please contact us for ticket information! Lovely things. There is just something about June, with everything in bloom, that makes us a little giddy. We celebrated the season at a recent wedding with classic shortbread cookies dressed up in rose petals and pansies for something extra special. Community. It doesn't get more local than Atlantic Saltworks. Flaky, small batch sea salt harvested right here in Gloucester. It adds depth of flavor to our cakes and a great crunch to our cookies + confections. March felt a little like a lost month around here- it came and went and I barely noticed. Now I feel like I'm going to blink and it will be May. I'm gearing up for spring holidays, weddings, farm dinners, and some exciting editorials. And looking forward to sharing news on all of it with you. The latest. A gift for Mom. Just a gentle reminder that Mother's Day is coming and it's always good to think ahead. We'll be adding Lavender Madeleines to our flourboxes in place of our classic cookies because we think Mom deserves something a little extra special. All Mother's Day orders must be in by Wednesday April 27. Lovely things. Our new website is live! The goal was to create something user friendly that better showed what Mayflour is all about. We couldn't be happier with the results- and hope you'll agree. A HUGE thank you to Whitney Buckley for her tremendous talent and shared vision- she worked some serious magic for us! Community. This time of year in particular we get a lot of requests for our Lavender Honey cake, and find ourselves making a few trips to Tomten Beeworks in Ipswich for the Mansur family's beautiful, raw liquid honey. We also tuck little jars of their creamed honey into our large gift box for some local sweetness. With the first day of Spring a few weeks away, it feels like just maybe we are out of the woods and can start to look forward to warmer weather. I've already started some spring cleaning at the kitchen and am busy working on some exciting new collaborations that I hope to share with you soon. The latest. We're excited to announce that starting soon, we will be partnering with Nectar & Green to offer our classic granola as an add on option to their beautiful Almond Milk. Visit their site for details and to read more about this local business we love so dearly. Lovely things. A little something pretty for your Monday- Vanilla Rose cupcake with Raspberry Buttercream. We love the hint of floral, especially this time of year when we are looking for something lighter and brighter. Community. Every week we make the short drive to Chicken Little Farm in Ipswich to pick up our eggs. The farm is run by 18 year old Cole Desmond, who makes the health of his free range chickens his number one priority. His gorgeous eggs are the only ones we use in the Mayflour kitchen, and at home. I don't think it's ever too late to commit to your new year's resolutions. And while January slipped quietly by, the start of a new month has me energized and excited for winter projects, like our very first newsletter! The latest. All the news that's fit to print. This month we'll be celebrating Valentine's Day and spreading the love just as we did last year, with Lynzariums right here in East Gloucester. Join us all weekend for cupcakes + packaged goodies- perfect for gifting, excellent for indulging. Lovely things. A little space for some inspiration. Winter means recipe testing and currently we're elbow deep in Marshmallows. Fluffy clouds of sweetness, we think they're kind of divine. Look for them soon as the newest addition to our confections selection. Community. Here's where we rave about farmers, makers, and fellow small business owners. We get our beautiful Chocolate + Cocoa from Equal Exchange and love that everything is organic and fairly traded, supporting small farmers around the globe.

1. Who is always hungry? 2. What is your favourite food? 3. What is the craziest thing you have ever eaten? Amiel - Sheep Head Curry, I didn't know what it was at the time. 4. How did you experience Beast Grill? "Beastly"... even though we had forgotten our snorkels! 5. What was your favourite dish at the Beast Grill launch? 6. How do you feel South Africans respond to your music? Our music makes people happy. That is why we have such a varied support base, ranging from 4 year olds to 80 year olds. 7. Any South African artist you guys look up to? The large crowds are amazing as well - lots of people singing with, is an incredible experience. 9. Your music is unique, yet difficult to describe. How would you describe it? Amiel - We play happy, make-you-feel-good music. Brendan - We do a lot of writing on the road, and draw influence from different experiences in a variety of locations. So our music generally reflects the mood that we are in, and we are almost ALWAYS in a good mood. 10. These totally EPIC Rubber Duc caps you guys are sporting? Where can I get one? What a Crazy yet Awesome woman!

Q: SOSL query field limitations Someone asked me why a SOQL query for a product value on the Case object returned all the records with the product name queried while a SOSL search on the same returned only 1 record. Example using SOSL: FIND {GC3060} IN ALL FIELDS RETURNING Case Example using SOQL: SELECT ID from CASE where product__c='GC3060' Normally (without having invested much time in searching and reading documentation), they would have expected the same amount of records from both queries or maybe even more from the SOSL if there had been other fields referencing the product name elsewhere. However, this was not the case. the SOSL returned 1 record, and the SOQL 10 (for Ex.) I went through the documentation and other SFSE posts in order to find why: * *SOSL on Lookup Fields not working. *Dynamic sosl query not returning all events with search term in their subject *SOSL Limits along other articles from the SOQL and SOSL Reference *SOSL Operation Limitations from the Tooling api guide *SOSL searching picklists However, I did not find a complete concrete guide on what is and isn't supported by SOSL (in one place at least). I am also thinking this could benefit the community. Feel free to provide an answer on what limitations there are to SOSL queries on objects and fields which would result in this behavior. Product__c is a picklist (usually included in a fresh Dev org on the CASE Object) (FYI: the above is easily reproduce-able in a Dev Org using the developer console, you can copy paste the queries separately.) A: It would appear the picklist fields are not searchable with SOSL. You can confirm this by checking the DescribeFieldResult for the field in question. Schema.DescribeFieldResult dfr = Schema.SObjectType.Case.fields.Product__c; System.debug(dfr.isSearchPrefilterable()); What isn't 100% clear is why a field that isn't "prefilterable" in the SOSL where clause would also be excluded from any SOSL indexes. There is also the associated Idea : Include pick list values in search, which confirms other users finding that picklists are excluded from SOSL results. See also: * *Searchable Objects and Fields

Why does East Bay Flag Football give money to local charities? East Bay Flag Football has had a lot to celebrate. They have grown from 80 players in their first season, Fall 2013, to over 480 players in Fall of 2018! And the leagues charitable contributions have grown too. EBFF made it's first official donations to local charities in 2014, giving $2,000 each to Children's Hospital Oakland and BayKids. Since then, the league has donated a total of $42,000!! CHO's and BayKids' dedication to youth wellness, teamwork and generosity is what inspired the league's formation. Organizers plan to make donations to local charities every year. Donations are raised through East Bay Flag players' registration fees. At Children's, the money is earmarked to buy toys for the teen center's bingo night prizes and holiday gifts. "We know a couple thousand dollars won't go far covering medical costs, but it will buy a lot of toys and gifts for sick kids" said league founder Adam McNulty. BayKids, based in San Francisco, also helps sick kids. BayKids filmmakers help patients at Children's make their own movies, everything from anime to adventure films to documentaries. By learning to make films while they are in the hospital, kids can learn about acting, photography, script writing, editing and other skills. "BayKids provides a much needed distraction. Kids can concentrate on 'their film', rather than all the other scary stuff going on in the hospital. Hopefully our donations to BayKids will help them continue doing what they do" McNulty said. EBFF began donations to Oakland High School's Football Program in the Spring 2015 Season. Lead by Head Coach Jayce Goree, Oakland High's football program gives their players a sense of purpose, pride and accomplishment. EBFF is proud to help these great local charities and programs. For information, go to: Baykids.org & Childrenshospitaloakland.org ...and GO WILDCATS!

Kitambar Biomass Fuel Switch, Brazil Type: Sustainable Infrastructure | Renewable Energy Standard: VCS Working with the Kitambar ceramics factory in north-eastern Brazil, the project has switched the fuel source for the factory kilns from unmanaged forest wood to renewable biomass. The project alters the fuel source fed to the kilns from native wood in the Caatinga biome to renewable biomasses such as algaroba and cashew tree wood. This protects the 895 km2 Caatinga ecoregion from deforestation and delivers emissions reductions by reducing unsustainable harvesting of native vegetation. Switching to renewable biomass to reduce emissions and protect local biodiversity. I have worked at the factory since 2005 and the change of fuel made things so much better. We no longer have contact with the fire, I just have to put the fuel into the feeder and that's it. With the construction of safety fences, there is also much more protection from the machines. From all changes though, what made the biggest difference for me is the school. In the past, when I wrote my name it would come out all wrong, you know, missing letters. It made me very sad not to know how to write my own name. Now with the classes it comes out perfect, it feels so good! I still cannot read, but I'll get there! Recently we were told we could invite people from outside the ceramic factory to attend classes with us, so I brought my brother, he is also learning to read. Ailton Pedro da Silva's story In addition to delivering emissions reductions to help take urgent action to combat climate change (SDG 13), the project delivers a number of other sustainable development benefits. These include: Life on Land: Prior to the project, the Caatinga biome – one of the most threatened ecosystems in Brazil – was used as a fuel source for the factory. Without the project the Kitambar ceramics factory was estimated to consume 32,700 m2 per year of non-renewable wood. Approximately 50% of the Caatinga area has already been converted from its native vegetation for uses such as grazing and timber extraction. 187 species of bees, 240 species of fish and 516 species of birds inhabit Caatinga. Quality Education: Ceramic factory staff are offered additional training courses including laboratory analysis for product quality control, electrical and machine safety courses, and management and leadership. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure: The project has donated tiles and bricks to support local construction, including for a church, drug recovery centre and youth orchestra. Clean Water and Sanitation: The project also contributes to the Cistern project in partnership with a local NGO which refurbishes the roofs of low income families' homes, incorporating water catchment for clean drinking water. This initiative started in April 2015, and the factory contributes 5,000 roof tiles monthly. Good Health and Wellbeing: Kitambar provides training programs about health and safety practices, H1N1 vaccinations and labour gymnastics three times a week to encourage physical activity. Affordable and Clean Energy: The factory possesses a dryer that recycles the heat from the kilns resulting in reduced energy and uses 50% renewable wood in heating them. Decent Work and Economic Growth: The company offers employees a fixed salary, benefits such as life insurance, transportation, meals, commission on production and a 50% subsidy for health insurance.

The restoration is ongoing and an exciting find, under mud, silt, earth and debris has been the original floor of the cellar. At an average depth of 18" I struck stone. It proved to be slabs of schist, about 50% of a floor. Thinking ourselves lucky to have so much left intact we sought to lift the stones, trench around the walls to put in a perforated drain pipe, remove a 4" slice of soil and replace it with impacted shingle and re-lay the slabs, standing to chance to acquire the rest. No such luck. The spade struck hard with a shower of sparks and slid! I followed as the spade sped away passing neatly under a biscuit of compressed soil. Crash! What had revealed itself is a cut and napped quartz floor under the schist slabs. A lined diagonal drain is cut into the quartz and the evidence is that the quartz floor is original 12th Century. We have found coinage wedged between the quartz blocks in witness to its medieval origins. Mother died, her legacy helped enormously. We committed ourselves to a programme of leaded stained glass windows and limed oak and chestnut woodwork in the style of manufacture of the 15th - 17th Centuries. Copper guttering, cut stone work in stone sympathetic to the project from as far away as Spain and Alsace; the Sarcophagus destined to be moved into the cellar (will that make it a crypt then ?) before too long as it is starting to suffer the effects of drying out to the detriment of the carving. "Templars" is like a living museum, we live here with trappings and object d'art from every era of history to the present day. A programme of maintenance of the existing will have to be budgeted after the cost of living and repayments of loans, forever to be the monthly nightmare as they are for so many of us, eh ? "Templars" was saved from the bailiffs in a moment of crisis with the French loan sharks. Two years into the restoration, thirteen individuals, family and friends, from around the world put together a package enabling us to, with great difficulty, get the sharks and their menaces out of our hair. When finally our house sold, the brave and generous 13 were repaid and they will forever be part and parcel of the story of our quest to save "Templars" as intact as possible for the benefit of history and the interest of younger and future generations. At the end of these posts you will find space for your comments, thoughts, observations and participation. Your inclusion in this site will be of great importance to us and I must say, we have not set up the blog as a begging bowl, just as a means to share our enthusiasm and excitement of such an unusual project.

\section{Introduction} The journal \textit{Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society} (MNRAS) encourages authors to prepare their papers using \LaTeX. The style file \verb'mnras.cls' can be used to approximate the final appearance of the journal, and provides numerous features to simplify the preparation of papers. This document, \verb'mnras_guide.tex', provides guidance on using that style file and the features it enables. This is not a general guide on how to use \LaTeX, of which many excellent examples already exist. We particularly recommend \textit{Wikibooks \LaTeX}\footnote{\url{https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX}}, a collaborative online textbook which is of use to both beginners and experts. Alternatively there are several other online resources, and most academic libraries also hold suitable beginner's guides. 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It is also possible to produce un-numbered equations by using the \LaTeX\ built-in \verb'\['\textellipsis\verb'\]' and \verb'$$'\textellipsis\verb'$$' commands; however MNRAS requires that all equations are numbered, so these commands should be avoided. \subsection{Special symbols} \begin{table} \caption{Additional commands for special symbols commonly used in astronomy. These can be used anywhere.} \label{tab:anysymbols} \begin{tabular}{lll} \hline Command & Output & Meaning\\ \hline \verb'\sun' & \sun & Sun, solar\\[2pt] \verb'\earth' & \earth & Earth, terrestrial\\[2pt] \verb'\micron' & \micron & microns\\[2pt] \verb'\degr' & \degr & degrees\\[2pt] \verb'\arcmin' & \arcmin & arcminutes\\[2pt] \verb'\arcsec' & \arcsec & arcseconds\\[2pt] \verb'\fdg' & \fdg & fraction of a degree\\[2pt] \verb'\farcm' & \farcm & fraction of an arcminute\\[2pt] \verb'\farcs' & \farcs & fraction of an arcsecond\\[2pt] \verb'\fd' & \fd & fraction of a day\\[2pt] \verb'\fh' & \fh & fraction of an hour\\[2pt] \verb'\fm' & \fm & fraction of a minute\\[2pt] \verb'\fs' & \fs & fraction of a second\\[2pt] \verb'\fp' & \fp & fraction of a period\\[2pt] \verb'\diameter' & \diameter & diameter\\[2pt] \verb'\sq' & \sq & square, Q.E.D.\\[2pt] \hline \end{tabular} \end{table} \begin{table} \caption{Additional commands for mathematical symbols. These can only be used in maths mode.} \label{tab:mathssymbols} \begin{tabular}{lll} \hline Command & Output & Meaning\\ \hline \verb'\upi' & $\upi$ & upright pi\\[2pt] \verb'\umu' & $\umu$ & upright mu\\[2pt] \verb'\upartial' & $\upartial$ & upright partial derivative\\[2pt] \verb'\lid' & $\lid$ & less than or equal to\\[2pt] \verb'\gid' & $\gid$ & greater than or equal to\\[2pt] \verb'\la' & $\la$ & less than of order\\[2pt] \verb'\ga' & $\ga$ & greater than of order\\[2pt] \verb'\loa' & $\loa$ & less than approximately\\[2pt] \verb'\goa' & $\goa$ & greater than approximately\\[2pt] \verb'\cor' & $\cor$ & corresponds to\\[2pt] \verb'\sol' & $\sol$ & similar to or less than\\[2pt] \verb'\sog' & $\sog$ & similar to or greater than\\[2pt] \verb'\lse' & $\lse$ & less than or homotopic to \\[2pt] \verb'\gse' & $\gse$ & greater than or homotopic to\\[2pt] \verb'\getsto' & $\getsto$ & from over to\\[2pt] \verb'\grole' & $\grole$ & greater over less\\[2pt] \verb'\leogr' & $\leogr$ & less over greater\\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{table} Some additional symbols of common use in astronomy have been added in the MNRAS class. These are shown in tables~\ref{tab:anysymbols}--\ref{tab:mathssymbols}. The command names are -- as far as possible -- the same as those used in other major astronomy journals. Many other mathematical symbols are also available, either built into \LaTeX\ or via additional packages. If you want to insert a specific symbol but don't know the \LaTeX\ command, we recommend using the Detexify website\footnote{\url{http://detexify.kirelabs.org}}. Sometimes font or coding limitations mean a symbol may not get smaller when used in sub- or superscripts, and will therefore be displayed at the wrong size. There is no need to worry about this as it will be corrected by the typesetter during production. To produce bold symbols in mathematics, use \verb'\bmath' for simple variables, and the \verb'bm' package for more complex symbols (see section~\ref{sec:packages}). Vectors are set in bold italic, using \verb'\mathbfit{}'. For matrices, use \verb'\mathbfss{}' to produce a bold sans-serif font e.g. \mathbfss{H}; this works even outside maths mode, but not all symbols are available (e.g. Greek). For $\nabla$ (del, used in gradients, divergence etc.) use \verb'$\nabla$'. \subsection{Ions} A new \verb'\ion{}{}' command has been added to the class file, for the correct typesetting of ionisation states. For example, to typeset singly ionised calcium use \verb'\ion{Ca}{ii}', which produces \ion{Ca}{ii}. \section{Figures and tables} \label{sec:fig_table} Figures and tables (collectively called `floats') are mostly the same as built into \LaTeX. \subsection{Basic examples} \begin{figure} \includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{example} \caption{An example figure.} \label{fig:example} \end{figure} Figures are inserted in the usual way using a \verb'figure' environment and \verb'\includegraphics'. The example Figure~\ref{fig:example} was generated using the code: \begin{verbatim} \begin{figure} \includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{example} \caption{An example figure.} \label{fig:example} \end{figure} \end{verbatim} \begin{table} \caption{An example table.} \label{tab:example} \begin{tabular}{lcc} \hline Star & Mass & Luminosity\\ & $M_{\sun}$ & $L_{\sun}$\\ \hline Sun & 1.00 & 1.00\\ $\alpha$~Cen~A & 1.10 & 1.52\\ $\epsilon$~Eri & 0.82 & 0.34\\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{table} The example Table~\ref{tab:example} was generated using the code: \begin{verbatim} \begin{table} \caption{An example table.} \label{tab:example} \begin{tabular}{lcc} \hline Star & Mass & Luminosity\\ & $M_{\sun}$ & $L_{\sun}$\\ \hline Sun & 1.00 & 1.00\\ $\alpha$~Cen~A & 1.10 & 1.52\\ $\epsilon$~Eri & 0.82 & 0.34\\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{table} \end{verbatim} \subsection{Captions and placement} Captions go \emph{above} tables but \emph{below} figures, as in the examples above. The \LaTeX\ float placement commands \verb'[htbp]' are intentionally disabled. Layout of figures and tables will be adjusted by the publisher during the production process, so authors should not concern themselves with placement to avoid disappointment and wasted effort. Simply place the \LaTeX\ code close to where the figure or table is first mentioned in the text and leave exact placement to the publishers. By default a figure or table will occupy one column of the page. To produce a wider version which covers both columns, use the \verb'figure*' or \verb'table*' environment. If a figure or table is too long to fit on a single page it can be split it into several parts. Create an additional figure or table which uses \verb'\contcaption{}' instead of \verb'\caption{}'. This will automatically correct the numbering and add `\emph{continued}' at the start of the caption. \begin{table} \contcaption{A table continued from the previous one.} \label{tab:continued} \begin{tabular}{lcc} \hline Star & Mass & Luminosity\\ & $M_{\sun}$ & $L_{\sun}$\\ \hline $\tau$~Cet & 0.78 & 0.52\\ $\delta$~Pav & 0.99 & 1.22\\ $\sigma$~Dra & 0.87 & 0.43\\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{table} Table~\ref{tab:continued} was generated using the code: \begin{verbatim} \begin{table} \contcaption{A table continued from the previous one.} \label{tab:continued} \begin{tabular}{lcc} \hline Star & Mass & Luminosity\\ & $M_{\sun}$ & $L_{\sun}$\\ \hline $\tau$~Cet & 0.78 & 0.52\\ $\delta$~Pav & 0.99 & 1.22\\ $\sigma$~Dra & 0.87 & 0.43\\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{table} \end{verbatim} To produce a landscape figure or table, use the \verb'pdflscape' package and the \verb'landscape' environment. The landscape Table~\ref{tab:landscape} was produced using the code: \begin{verbatim} \begin{landscape} \begin{table} \caption{An example landscape table.} \label{tab:landscape} \begin{tabular}{cccccccccc} \hline Header & Header & ...\\ Unit & Unit & ...\\ \hline Data & Data & ...\\ Data & Data & ...\\ ...\\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{table} \end{landscape} \end{verbatim} Unfortunately this method will force a page break before the table appears. More complicated solutions are possible, but authors shouldn't worry about this. \begin{landscape} \begin{table} \caption{An example landscape table.} \label{tab:landscape} \begin{tabular}{cccccccccc} \hline Header & Header & Header & Header & Header & Header & Header & Header & Header & Header\\ Unit & Unit & Unit & Unit & Unit & Unit & Unit & Unit & Unit & Unit \\ \hline Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data\\ Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data\\ Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data\\ Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data\\ Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data\\ Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data\\ Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data\\ Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data & Data\\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{table} \end{landscape} \section{References and citations} \subsection{Cross-referencing} The usual \LaTeX\ commands \verb'\label{}' and \verb'\ref{}' can be used for cross-referencing within the same paper. We recommend that you use these whenever relevant, rather than writing out the section or figure numbers explicitly. This ensures that cross-references are updated whenever the numbering changes (e.g. during revision) and provides clickable links (if available in your compiler). It is best to give each section, figure and table a logical label. For example, Table~\ref{tab:mathssymbols} has the label \verb'tab:mathssymbols', whilst section~\ref{sec:packages} has the label \verb'sec:packages'. Add the label \emph{after} the section or caption command, as in the examples in sections~\ref{sec:sections} and \ref{sec:fig_table}. Enter the cross-reference with a non-breaking space between the type of object and the number, like this: \verb'see Figure~\ref{fig:example}'. The \verb'\autoref{}' command can be used to automatically fill out the type of object, saving on typing. It also causes the link to cover the whole phrase rather than just the number, but for that reason is only suitable for single cross-references rather than ranges. For example, \verb'\autoref{tab:journal_abbr}' produces \autoref{tab:journal_abbr}. \subsection{Citations} \label{sec:cite} MNRAS uses the Harvard -- author (year) -- citation style, e.g. \citet{author2013}. This is implemented in \LaTeX\ via the \verb'natbib' package, which in turn is included via the \verb'usenatbib' package option (see section~\ref{sec:options}), which should be used in all papers. Each entry in the reference list has a `key' (see section~\ref{sec:ref_list}) which is used to generate citations. There are two basic \verb'natbib' commands: \begin{description} \item \verb'\citet{key}' produces an in-text citation: \citet{author2013} \item \verb'\citep{key}' produces a bracketed (parenthetical) citation: \citep{author2013} \end{description} Citations will include clickable links to the relevant entry in the reference list, if supported by your \LaTeX\ compiler. \defcitealias{smith2014}{Paper~I} \begin{table*} \caption{Common citation commands, provided by the \texttt{natbib} package.} \label{tab:natbib} \begin{tabular}{lll} \hline Command & Ouput & Note\\ \hline \verb'\citet{key}' & \citet{smith2014} & \\ \verb'\citep{key}' & \citep{smith2014} & \\ \verb'\citep{key,key2}' & \citep{smith2014,jones2015} & Multiple papers\\ \verb'\citet[table 4]{key}' & \citet[table 4]{smith2014} & \\ \verb'\citep[see][figure 7]{key}' & \citep[see][figure 7]{smith2014} & \\ \verb'\citealt{key}' & \citealt{smith2014} & For use with manual brackets\\ \verb'\citeauthor{key}' & \citeauthor{smith2014} & If already cited in close proximity\\ \verb'\defcitealias{key}{Paper~I}' & & Define an alias (doesn't work in floats)\\ \verb'\citetalias{key}' & \citetalias{smith2014} & \\ \verb'\citepalias{key}' & \citepalias{smith2014} & \\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{table*} There are a number of other \verb'natbib' commands which can be used for more complicated citations. The most commonly used ones are listed in Table~\ref{tab:natbib}. For full guidance on their use, consult the \verb'natbib' documentation\footnote{\url{http://www.ctan.org/pkg/natbib}}. If a reference has several authors, \verb'natbib' will automatically use `et al.' if there are more than two authors. However, if a paper has exactly three authors, MNRAS style is to list all three on the first citation and use `et al.' thereafter. If you are using \bibtex\ (see section~\ref{sec:ref_list}) then this is handled automatically. If not, the \verb'\citet*{}' and \verb'\citep*{}' commands can be used at the first citation to include all of the authors. \subsection{The list of references} \label{sec:ref_list} It is possible to enter references manually using the usual \LaTeX\ commands, but we strongly encourage authors to use \bibtex\ instead. \bibtex\ ensures that the reference list is updated automatically as references are added or removed from the paper, puts them in the correct format, saves on typing, and the same reference file can be used for many different papers -- saving time hunting down reference details. An MNRAS \bibtex\ style file, \verb'mnras.bst', is distributed as part of this package. The rest of this section will assume you are using \bibtex. References are entered into a separate \verb'.bib' file in standard \bibtex\ formatting. This can be done manually, or there are several software packages which make editing the \verb'.bib' file much easier. We particularly recommend \textsc{JabRef}\footnote{\url{http://jabref.sourceforge.net/}}, which works on all major operating systems. \bibtex\ entries can be obtained from the NASA Astrophysics Data System\footnote{\label{foot:ads}\url{http://adsabs.harvard.edu}} (ADS) by clicking on `Bibtex entry for this abstract' on any entry. Simply copy this into your \verb'.bib' file or into the `BibTeX source' tab in \textsc{JabRef}. Each entry in the \verb'.bib' file must specify a unique `key' to identify the paper, the format of which is up to the author. Simply cite it in the usual way, as described in section~\ref{sec:cite}, using the specified key. Compile the paper as usual, but add an extra step to run the \texttt{bibtex} command. Consult the documentation for your compiler or latex distribution. Correct formatting of the reference list will be handled by \bibtex\ in almost all cases, provided that the correct information was entered into the \verb'.bib' file. Note that ADS entries are not always correct, particularly for older papers and conference proceedings, so may need to be edited. If in doubt, or if you are producing the reference list manually, see the MNRAS instructions to authors$^{\ref{foot:itas}}$ for the current guidelines on how to format the list of references. \section{Appendices and online material} To start an appendix, simply place the \verb' \section{Introduction} \label{sec:intro} The study of emission lines provides a powerful way to investigate a large variety of physical processes ocurring in galaxies. This is particularly true for H$\alpha$, which is often one of the most prominent lines in the optical interval. Indeed, star-formation may produce a powerful H$\alpha$ line emission from recombination in nebular regions ionized by the radiation field of young, massive stars \citep[e.g,][]{osterbrock2005}, and the flux of this line is often used as an indicator of the star formation rate \citep{kennicutt1998_SFR,starlightI,Calzetti2013,madau2014}. But other sources than star-formation can also ionize the gas and lead to H$\alpha$ emission, like nuclear activity driven by AGNs, where the ionizing photons are produced in an accretion disk around a massive black hole \citep[][]{veron-cetty-veron2000}, or shocks in the gas \citep[][]{dopita1995,alatalo2016}. In some cases the origin of the emission is not clear, as is the case of the LINERS. This terminology was introduced by \cite{heckman1980} for objects with emission lines with widths similar to that found in Seyfert galaxies but showing lower excitation when compared to those galaxies. Later, \cite{trinchieri1991} and \cite{binette1994} proposed that, instead, the LINER emission could originate through ionization by evolved stars, like post-AGB stars or white dwarfs. \cite{cidfernandes2010} have argued that many galaxies with weak LINER-like emission lines could be {\it retired} galaxies, where the star formation ceased and which are now being ionized by old stars. The introduction of integral field studies helped to clarify this issue by showing that the LINER emission in some galaxies is actually extended and can not be produced by nuclear activity alone \citep[e.g. ][]{singh2013,ricci2014,belfiore2016}. Many studies on the morphology of the H$\alpha$ emission were carried out aiming to derive structural or kinematical properties of the galaxies or of the gas emission. \cite{karachentsev2010} investigated the H$\alpha$ emission for the Local Volume, finding evidence of stellar formation in early-type objects both in knots and in the central regions, interpreting it as indication of accretion of intergalactic gas. \cite{nelson2012} compared spatially resolved maps in H$\alpha$ with maps of the continuum in the R band for a sample of $z\sim1$ star forming galaxies, showing that although both the maps are quite similar, H$\alpha$ emission is more extended and more clumpy than the continuous emission. \cite{gavazzi2018}, analyzed a sample of 147 early-type galaxies (ETG) from the ATLAS$^{3D}$ survey \citep{Cappellari2011} and found that 37\% of them exhibited some emission in H$\alpha$, with about 14\% of them exhibiting relatively strong emission, produced mainly by low mass S0 with stellar and gaseous fast rotating discs. Since H$\alpha$ emission (and its luminosity) is an important proxy for both nuclear activity and formation of stars, spatially resolved maps of H$\alpha$ may provide important informations about ionization mechanisms, star formation rates, mass assembly, and other galaxy properties. The advent of integral field spectroscopy surveys, like ATLAS$^{3D}$ \citep{Cappellari2011}, SAMI Galaxy Survey \citep{croom2012}, CALIFA \citep{sanchez2012}, and MaNGA \citep{bundy2015}, enabled the investigation of the spatially resolved properties of galaxies and their relation to processes influencing the formation and evolution of galaxies, like quenching. With spatially resolved data it is possible to study the radial dependence of star formation histories \citep{perez2013,garciabenito2017,rosa2017,goddard2017, amorim2017} or evaluate star formation rates inside galaxies, both locally and globally \citep{canodiaz2016,rosa2016,kokusho2017,medling2018}. The morphology of the H$\alpha$ has often being addressed via the distribution within a galaxy of the star formation rate or other star formation indicators. As part of a series of studies on the star formation morphology in galaxies of the Virgo Cluster, \cite{Koopmann2001} analyzed R-band and H$\alpha$ images, radial profiles, integrated fluxes, and concentration indices to establish links between the H$\alpha$ morphologies of Virgo Cluster spiral galaxies and the types of interaction(s) that may have affected them. These authors proposed a set of classes (combinations of normal, enhanced, anemic, and truncated) to describe the global galaxy star formation morphology. Analyzing a small sample of galaxies in the MaNGA prototype run (P-MaNGA), \cite{li2015} classified the radial profiles of their three diagnostic parameters (Dn4000), EW(H$\delta$), and EW(H$\alpha$)) as either 'centrally quiescent' or 'centrally star forming'. Recently, \cite{spindler2018} investigated the spatial distribution of star formation in a large sample of galaxies of the MaNGA survey \citep{bundy2015}, revealing the existence of two groups of galaxies, which they named 'Centrally Suppressed' and 'Unsuppressed' regarding the radial distribution of their specific star formation rates. Analogously, \cite{medling2018} studied the resolved star formation of a sample of galaxies in the SAMI survey, also finding a split between galaxy populations with centrally concentrated star formation and those with flatter star formation profiles. In this paper we consider the classification of H$\alpha$ emission radial profiles for a sample of 86 almost face-on CALIFA survey galaxies. We focus on H$\alpha$ to avoid, in the classification stage, discriminating between emission due to star formation, AGN or old stars. We propose an objective procedure where we first divide galaxies in two classes - those where the peak of the H$\alpha$ emission is in the galaxy center and those where this peak is outside the center- and, after, we divide the galaxies in the first group in two by using the light concentration in the $r$-band to take in to account in this classification the bimodal nature of the galaxy population. Indeed, in the local universe, a bimodality is present in many galaxy properties, such as colors and stellar formation rates \citep{Strateva2001, omill2006, baldry2006, zibetti2017, Nelson2018}, by which they can be separated into two large groups, early-types and late-types. Early-types comprise essentially elliptical and lenticular galaxies with old stellar populations, red colors, high masses and almost none star formation \citep{Trager2000, conselice2006, vanDokkum2007}. In contrast, late-type galaxies are mostly spirals (with and without bars) and irregulars galaxies, characterized by younger populations, blue colors, lower stellar masses and active star formation, when compared to early-type galaxies \citep{Bell2003,abilio2006}. We also investigate whether our profile classification is correlated with other galaxy parameters or properties, in particular those inferred from population synthesis. The analysis of stellar populations through galaxy spectral synthesis \citep[e.g., ][]{tinsley76,tinsley80,leitherer99,bruzualecharlot2003,starlightI} allows to determine properties such as mean stellar ages, metallicity, stellar mass and star formation history that are useful to characterize the galaxies. Additionally, morphological types, brightness profiles \citep{deVaucouleurs1948,Sersic1963} and also concentration parameters have been shown to relate to many physical features of galaxies or of their galaxy populations \citep{okamura1984,graham2001,gini2003,conselice2014}. \cite{Strateva2001}. This paper begins with a description of our sample in Section \ref{sec:Data}. There we describe some relevant details of the CALIFA Survey, the Pipe3D pipeline and how we deal with the dust extinction. In Section \ref{sec:analysis} we explain the structural and physical parameters used here, as well as the procedure to determine and classify the radial H$\alpha$ profiles. Section \ref{sec:results} present a comparative study between the profile classes and other physical parameters. In Section \ref{sec:discussion} we discuss these results, making clear the relations between profile classes and galaxy properties. Section \ref{sec:summary} summarizes the work presented here. \section{Data} \label{sec:Data} The galaxies analyzed in this work were selected from the CALIFA Survey, with datacubes treated by the Pipe3D pipeline, both briefly described below. Additionally, we present our procedure to correct the H$\alpha$ emission for dust attenuation, as well as the criteria adopted to select the final sample. \subsection{The CALIFA sample} \label{sec:califa} The Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area \citep*[CALIFA;][]{califa_surveyI} survey, in its second release \citep{califadr2}, observed 200 galaxies of all Hubble types in the nearby universe. The galaxy sample of this survey was selected from the SDSS-DR7 photometric catalogue \citep{sdssDR7}, with constraints on isophotal diameter ($45" < D_{25} < 80"$) and on the redshift range ($0.005 < z < 0.03$). The objects were observed with the integral-field spectrograph PMAS/PPak mounted on the 3.5 m telescope at the Calar Alto observatory and with two different spectral setups for each galaxy: a V500 grating with low-resolution ($\lambda/\Delta\lambda=850$ in 5000Å) in the wavelength range 3745Å-7500Å, and a V1200 grating with medium-resolution ($\lambda/\Delta\lambda=1650$ in 4500Å) in the wavelength range 3400Å-4750Å. A more complete description of the CALIFA survey can be found in \cite{walcher2014}. \begin{figure*} \includegraphics[width=0.49 \columnwidth,angle=0]{fig/ur_dist.png} \includegraphics[width=0.49 \columnwidth,angle=0]{fig/age_dist.png} \includegraphics[width=0.49 \columnwidth,angle=0]{fig/massgal_dist.png} \includegraphics[width=0.49 \columnwidth,angle=0]{fig/zh_dist.png} \caption[]{Some properties of the galaxy sample discussed in this paper, comprised of face-on galaxies from CALIFA/DR2.} \label{distrib_propriedades} \end{figure*} \subsection{Pipe3D} Pipe3D \citep{Pipe3d,I_Pipe3d} is an analysis pipeline developed to extract information from IFS datacubes of surveys like CALIFA, MaNGA and SAMI \citep{califa_surveyI, bundy2015, croom2012}. Pipe3D depends on a spectral synthesis tool \citep[FIT3D][]{I_Pipe3d} and comprises the GSD156 library of simple stellar populations \citep{cid2013}, with 156 templates covering 39 stellar ages (from 1Myr to 14.1Gyr), and 4 metallicities ($Z/Z_{\odot{}}=0.2, 0.4, 1, \text{and} 1.5$). All the steps used to obtain the dataproducts are well explained in \cite{I_Pipe3d,Pipe3d}. In this work we have started by using the results of Pipe3D for 200 galaxies from CALIFA/DR2 \citep{califadr2}, with the V500 setup. From the many dataproducts obtained with Pipe3D, we used in our analysis the H$\beta$, [OIII]$\lambda$5007, H$\alpha$ and [NII]$\lambda$6583 emission lines maps, all of them in units of $10^{-16}$erg s$^{-1}$ cm$^{-2}$. \subsection{H$\alpha$ maps: source and dust attenuation} \label{sec:maps} Most of our analysis is based on H$\alpha$ maps. To take in to account the effect of extiction due to dust within the galaxy on this and other line intensities, we corrected the dust attenuation by using a screen model \citep[e.g.][]{calzetti1994}. We adopted the extinction law of \cite{cardelli1989}, with $R_V=3.1$. These assumptions lead to a relation between the extinction coefficient in the V-band and the H$\alpha$/H$\beta$ intensity ratio as: \begin{equation} A_V = 6.10 \times \log \Bigg[\frac{H\alpha}{H\beta}\Bigg] - 2.78. \end{equation} In order to correct the dust attenuation pixel by pixel, we have used the mean value of $A_V$, calculated in $r > 0.20 a$ (where $a$ is the semi-major axis of the galaxy image; see Sect. \ref{sec:analysis}), to avoid contamination of this estimate by non-stellar nuclear activity. \subsection{Our sample} From the 200 galaxies observed in CALIFA/DR2, we selected nearly face-on objects, i.e., those with ellipticity $\epsilon < 0.35$ in the V band (see next section). Our final sample contains 86 galaxies of different morphological types, which we divided in three morphological classes as shown in Table \ref{tabela_morf}. This sample covers a range of physical properties typical of those found in bright galaxies in the local universe: it has colors in the interval $1.4 < u-r < 3.4$, mean stellar ages in $\sim 10^{7.8} < t_* ~({\rm yr}) <10^{9.8}$, stellar masses in $\sim 10^{9.5} < M_*/M_{\odot} < 10^{11.8}$ and metallicities in $-0.4 < \log(Z/Z_\odot) < -0.03$. Figure \ref{distrib_propriedades} shows the distribution of these properties for the 86 galaxies in the sample. Table \ref{tab01}, in the Appendix, summarizes relevant properties for each galaxy. \section{Analysis} \label{sec:analysis} In this section we describe some morphological estimators for the $V$-band emission and our definitions of the concentration of the $H\alpha$ emission. We also show how we measured the $H\alpha$ emission profiles and present a procedure for their classification. \subsection{Morphological and Structural Parameters} \begin{table} \vspace{0.3cm} \centering \begin{tabular}{|c| c| c|} \hline Morph. Class & Hubble type & \# \\ \hline \hline E\underline{ }S0 & E0-E7, S0 & 30 \\ S\underline{ }early & Sa, Sab, Sb & 23 \\ S\underline{ }late & Sbc, Sc, Scd, Sd & 33 \\ [1ex] \hline \end{tabular} \caption[]{Morphological classes of our sample, with the respective Hubble Types and number of objects.} \label{tabela_morf} \end{table} \begin{figure*} \begin{center} \includegraphics[width=0.49 \columnwidth,angle=0]{fig/concentracoes_cr.png} \includegraphics[width=0.49 \columnwidth,angle=0]{fig/concentracoes_Cefe_ha.png} \includegraphics[width=0.49 \columnwidth,angle=0]{fig/concentracoes_Cc_ha.png} \caption[]{Distribution of the concentrations $c_r$, $c_e(H\alpha)$ and $c_c(H\alpha)$ for the galaxies in the sample.} \label{figure: distribuicoes_concentracao} \end{center} \end{figure*} We have determined quantitative morphological parameters for the images delivered by Pipe3D for the galaxies in our sample through their image moments $\mu_{pq}$. The raw and central image moments of order $(p+q)$ are given by \citep{flusser09} \begin{equation} M_{pq}= \sum_{i=1}^{n_x} \sum_{j=1}^{n_y} x_i^p y_j^{q} F(x_i,y_j) \end{equation} and \begin{equation} \mu_{pq}= \sum_{i=1}^{n_x} \sum_{j=1}^{n_y} (x_i - \bar{x})^p (y_j - \bar{y})^{q} F(x_i,y_j), \end{equation} where $(x_i,y_i)$ are the coordinates of the $i$-th pixel of the image, ($\bar{x},\bar{y}$) is the centroid of the emission, given by \[\bar{x} = \frac{M_{10}}{M_{00}} ~~~~~~~~~~ \bar{y} = \frac{M_{01}}{M_{00}},\] and $F(x_i,y_i)$ is the flux in that pixel. Image moments are useful for obtaining the major and minor semi-axes \textit{a} and \textit{b}, the ellipticity $\epsilon$, the inclination angle $\theta$ and the mean radius $\bar{R}$ of the ellipse that fits the image of a galaxy. We apply the moments of the image in the V band map reconstructed by Pipe3D of each galaxy, so that the flux $F(x_i,y_i)$ and all the derived (ellipse) parameters are in $V$ band. The moments were calculated using all pixels with positive fluxes. Since we have galaxies of different sizes, it is convenient to normalize the scales (and in particular the major semi-axis) of each galaxy by its effective radius, $R_e(V)$, which is defined as the radius which comprises half of the $V$-band galaxy's flux. To help in the discussion on the structural properties of the H$\alpha$ emission for each galaxy, we have derived two concentration parameters. The first is the effective concentration, $c_e(H\alpha)$, which measures the ratio of the radius containing 50\% of the H$\alpha$ emission ($R_e(H\alpha)$) in the H$\alpha$ maps, to the major semi-axis obtained in the $V$ band, $a$, through the image moments, and, second, the central concentration, $c_c(H\alpha)$, which measures the ratio between the H$\alpha$ flux within $0.2a$ and the total H$\alpha$ flux: \begin{equation} c_{e}(H\alpha) = \frac{R_{e}(H\alpha)}{a} \end{equation} \begin{equation} c_c(H\alpha) = \frac{I_{H\alpha}(0.2a)}{I_{H\alpha}(a)} \end{equation} The concentraction $c_r$ of the luminosity in the r band, as defined by \cite{Strateva2001}, was also calculated for the galaxies in the sample, and the distributions of these three concentrations are shown in Figure \ref{figure: distribuicoes_concentracao}. The concentration $c_r$ was used by \cite{Strateva2001} to investigate the bimodality of the galaxy population (which is also present in the figure), and we show below that it is also useful to analyze H$\alpha$ profiles. \subsection{Radial Profiles of H$\alpha$} \label{sec:profiles} In this section we discuss, initially, our procedure to obtain radial H$\alpha$ profiles and, after, the criteria we adopted to classify them in to three classes. Given the H$\alpha$ image of a galaxy, we first define its centroid and other geometric parameters as the same obtained by using the moments of the image in the $V$ band. Then, for each pixel, we compute its radius as \[ a_i =\sqrt{\frac{[\Delta{x} \sin \theta+\Delta{y} \cos \theta]^2+[\Delta{x}\cos \theta+\Delta{y} \sin \theta]^2}{(1-\epsilon)^2}}, \] where $\Delta{x}=(x_i-\bar x)$, $\Delta{y}=(y_i-\bar y)$, $\theta$ is the inclination angle and $\epsilon$ is the ellipticity. We sorted these radii and binned them in 50 radial bins with approximately the same number of pixels, and computed for each of these bins the mean value of the H$\alpha$ emission. We then built the H$\alpha$ radial profile of each galaxy by plotting the mean flux in each bin as a function of the bin radius. The resulting profiles are shown in Figures \ref{CE_profiles}, \ref{CL_profiles} and \ref{E_profiles} in the appendix \ref{profiles_ha_appendix}. From visual inspection, we first point out that they can be divided in two broad classes with respect to the maximum H$\alpha$ emission: those with maximum emission at the galaxy center, which we designate as $C$ (for central) profiles, and those where the peak of the emission is outside the galaxy center, which we designate as $EX$ (for extended) profiles. This is somewhat analogous to the two classes {\it centrally quiescent} and {\it centrally star-forming} of \cite{li2015} or the {\it unsuppressed} and {\it centrally suppressed} classes discussed by \cite{spindler2018}. Figure \ref{distribuicao_rmax} shows the distribution of the radius of maximum emission $R_{ME}$ for our sample. There are 63 and 23 galaxies of our sample in classes $C$ and $EX$, respectively. \begin{figure} \includegraphics[width=1.0 \columnwidth,angle=0]{fig/histograma_Rmax_emission22.png} \caption[]{The distribution of the radius of maximum H$\alpha$ emission, $R_{ME}$, for our sample. For almost 3/4 of our sample the maximum emission is in the galaxy center. } \label{distribuicao_rmax} \end{figure} A visual examination of $C$ profiles shows that they comprise a variety of behaviors, from those where most of the H$\alpha$ emission indeed comes from the center, to those where a significant fraction of this emission comes from more external regions of the galaxy. Figure \ref{concentration_by_type} shows the distribution of the concentrations $c_{e}(H\alpha)$, $c_{c}(H\alpha)$, and $c_r$ for the $C$ and $EX$ profile classes. From the examination of this and other figures, we decided to divide the $C$ profiles in two sub-classes, with respect to the $c_r$ concentration. Indeed, \cite{Strateva2001} has shown that this quantity is useful to discriminate between the red and blue galaxy populations, with $c_r = 2.63$ providing a divisory line. We then define the $CE$ class as that containing early-type objects with $C$ profiles, i.e., those with $c_r > 2.63$, whereas the $CL$ class comprises late-type galaxies ($c_r < 2.63$) with $C$ profiles. From several tests, we verified that sub-classification of $C$ profiles with $c_r$ provides a more sensible classification than using the other concentrations, $c_{e}(H\alpha)$and $c_{c}(H\alpha)$. Our sample has 36 and 27 galaxies in classes $CE$ and $CL$, respectively. \begin{figure*} \begin{center} \includegraphics[width=0.49 \columnwidth,angle=0]{fig/histograma_Conc_r_tipos_c2} \includegraphics[width=0.49 \columnwidth,angle=0]{fig/histograma_Conc_efetiva_tipos_c2} \includegraphics[width=0.49 \columnwidth,angle=0]{fig/histograma_Conc_central_tipos_c2} \caption[]{Distribution of the concentrations $c_r$, $c_e(H\alpha)$ and $c_c(H\alpha)$ for the galaxies in the sample.} \label{concentration_by_type} \end{center} \end{figure*} \begin{figure*} \includegraphics[width=0.85 \columnwidth,angle=0]{fig/perfil_Ha_NGC5614_correcao_Avm} \includegraphics[width=0.85 \columnwidth,angle=0]{fig/perfis_all_CE_norm} \includegraphics[width=0.85 \columnwidth,angle=0]{fig/perfil_Ha_NGC0477_correcao_Avm} \includegraphics[width=0.85 \columnwidth,angle=0]{fig/perfis_all_CL_norm} \includegraphics[width=0.85 \columnwidth,angle=0]{fig/perfil_Ha_NGC6154_correcao_Avm} \includegraphics[width=0.85 \columnwidth,angle=0]{fig/perfis_all_EX_norm} \caption[]{Examples of the three H$\alpha$ profile types. From top to bottom: $CE$, $CL$ and $EX$ profiles. The left panels show a typical profile (that with the class median $c_r$), whereas the right panels shows all profiles of a given type together, normalized by their maximum H$\alpha$ emission.} \label{perfil_ha_classificacao} \end{figure*} Figure \ref{perfil_ha_classificacao} shows the result of this profile morphological analysis. The figure shows H$\alpha$ profiles separated by these three classes, as well as the profile with median $c_r$ of each class. In general, $CE$ profiles present most of the emission comming from the galaxy center, without relevant emission outside the central region; $CL$ profiles tend to be more extended, indicating H$\alpha$ emission spread over larger radii. For type $EX$ profiles, by definition most of the emission comes from regions outside the galaxy center, in one or more bumps. \begin{table} \vspace{0.3cm} \centering \begin{tabular}{|c| c| c| c|} \hline & $CE$ & $CL$ & $EX$ \\ \hline \hline E\underline{ }S0 & 28 & 1 & 1 \\ S\underline{ }early & 4 & 8 & 11 \\ S\underline{ }late & 4 & 18 & 11 \\ [1ex] \hline \end{tabular} \caption[Tabela de contingência]{Contingency table for the H$\alpha$ profiles and morphological classes, where we show the number of galaxies in each profile and morphological class.} \label{Contigencytable_perfil_morfologia} \end{table} \section{Results} \label{sec:results} In this Section we present some consequences of our profile classification, arguing that it is indeed meaningful, by examining relations between the profile types and other galaxy parameters: morphological classes, concentration measurements and stellar population parameters. Finally, we use diagnostic diagrams to determine the origin of the H$\alpha$ emission. \subsection{Relations with morphological types and concentrations} We start by investigating whether the profile types are related to the galaxy morphological classes. A simple $\chi^2$ test of the contingency table of morphological classes and profile types, Table \ref{Contigencytable_perfil_morfologia}, leads to $\chi^2 \simeq 53$, with a $p-value=8.5 \times 10^{-11}$, indicating that the profiles and the morphological classes are not independent. Figure \ref{perfil_ha_mosaic} shows the proportion of each morphological class for each profile type. Considering $C$ profiles, our two classes discriminate well between the E\underline{ }S0 (mostly in the $CE$ class) and S groups (mostly in the $CL$ class). $EX$ profiles are mostly comprised of spiral galaxies. On the other side, the S\_early and S\_late groups are both numerous in $CL$ and $EX$ profile types. By analyzing the $CL$ profiles in Figure \ref{CL_profiles} individually, it may be noticed that $\sim75\%$ of the objects have at least a second H$\alpha$ emission peak along the galaxy's extension, probably coming from star formation in the disk of these objects. Since $CL$ profiles are dominated by spiral galaxies, both S\underline{ }early and S\underline{ }late, it is reasonable to associate these secondary H$\alpha$ emission peaks to star-forming arms or rings in the body of the galaxy. In contrast, when we examine E\underline{ }S0 objects classified as CL and EX (NGC1349 and NGC5784, respectively), we notice that they also have emission peaks outside the center. As \cite{gomes2016a} argues, these early-type galaxies present evidence of recent stellar activity, showing that not all early-type galaxies are actually quenched. \begin{figure} \begin{center} \includegraphics[width=0.98 \columnwidth,angle=0]{fig/quase_mosaico3_c2.png} \caption[]{Fraction of morphological classes in each of the H$\alpha$ profiles' type.} \label{perfil_ha_mosaic} \end{center} \end{figure} The relation between concentrations and the three types of H$\alpha$ profiles is shown in Figure \ref{fig: concentracoes_violin} using violin diagrams (which depict the range of values and the probability of variables). The mean value of the concentration $c_r$ is larger for type $CE$ than for $CL$, by construction, and $CL$ and $EX$ types have similar $c_r$ values, corresponding approximately to the blue peak seen in the bimodal $c_r$ distribution in Figure \ref{figure: distribuicoes_concentracao}. The mean value of the central H$\alpha$ concentration decreases from $CE$ to $CL$ and to $EX$ profiles. The effective concentration, which is in fact measuring how extended is the line emission in the galaxy, increases from $CE$ to $CL$ to $EX$. Table \ref{tabela_propriedades_Estelares_perfil} presents the mean values of the concentration measurements for each profile type. \begin{figure*} \begin{center} \includegraphics[width=0.65 \columnwidth,angle=0]{fig/Cr_boxplot_c2.png} \includegraphics[width=0.65 \columnwidth,angle=0]{fig/Ccha_boxplot_c2.png} \includegraphics[width=0.65 \columnwidth,angle=0]{fig/Cha_boxplot_c2.png} \caption[]{Distribution of concentrations $c_r$, $c_c(H\alpha)$ and $c_e(H\alpha)$ with their mean value shown as a white dot inside the violin plot.} \label{fig: concentracoes_violin} \end{center} \end{figure*} \subsection{Stellar Population Properties} To investigate the relations of the H$\alpha$ profiles with the properties of stellar populations, we have also used the mean values of some stellar population properties- age, metallicity and stellar mass- obtained from Pipe3d, since these quantities are good tracers of other properties of galaxies \citep[][for some examples]{gallazzi2005,gallazzi2008,peletier2013,rosa2014b,zibetti2017}. The mean values for these quantities for each type of profile are shown in Table \ref{tabela_propriedades_Estelares_perfil}, whereas their violin diagrams, by H$\alpha$ profile types, are shown in Figure \ref{perfis_stellar_properties}. \begin{table*} \vspace{0.3cm} \centering \begin{tabular}{|c| c| c| c| c| c| c|} \hline Profile & ${c_r}$ & ${c_c}(H\alpha)$ & ${c_e}(H\alpha)$ & log($t^*$/Gyr) & log($Z/Z_{\odot}$) & log($M_* / M_{\odot}$)\\ \hline \hline CE & 3.07$\pm 0.03$ & 0.33$\pm0.02$ & 0.66$\pm 0.03$ & 9.49$\pm0.05$ & -0.23$\pm 0.01$ & 11.15$\pm0.07$ \\ CL & 2.22$\pm 0.04$ & 0.22$\pm0.03$ & 0.64$\pm 0.02$ & 8.90$\pm0.07$ & -0.29$\pm 0.01$ & 10.61$\pm0.10$ \\ EX & 2.29$\pm 0.07$ & 0.14$\pm0.03$ & 0.70$\pm 0.02$ & 9.12$\pm0.07$ & -0.31$\pm 0.01$ & 10.80$\pm0.09$ \\ [1ex] \hline \end{tabular} \caption[]{Mean value and standard deviation for the concentrations and stellar population parameters for the three types of H$\alpha$ profiles.} \label{tabela_propriedades_Estelares_perfil} \end{table*} Considering only $C$ types, the mean ages, metallicities and masses are larger for galaxies with $CE$ than with $CL$ profiles; comparing $CL$ and $EX$ types, we notice that the latter seems to represent a population less evolved than the former, in the sense that their mean ages and metallicities are smaller for $CL$ than for $EX$ classes. Stellar masses in our sample are larger for $CE$ than for $CL$ types, and are larger for $EX$ than $CL$ types. \begin{figure*} \begin{center} \includegraphics[width=0.65 \columnwidth,angle=0]{fig/idade_boxplot_c2.png} \includegraphics[width=0.65 \columnwidth,angle=0]{fig/metalicidade_boxplot_c2.png} \includegraphics[width=0.65 \columnwidth,angle=0]{fig/Mass_boxplot_c2.png} \caption[]{The violin plot for the stellar age, metallicity and stellar mass and for each type of H$\alpha$ profile.} \label{perfis_stellar_properties} \end{center} \end{figure*} \subsection{The source of H$\alpha$ emission} \label{emission_lines_source} The next step in our analysis is to investigate the nature of the H$\alpha$ emission associated with each type of profile, if star formation, some kind of nuclear activity or both. For this we have made use of the \cite{bpt1981} BPT diagram. Figure \ref{bpt_all_galaxies} presents BPT diagrams for each profile type. At the left side of this figure we show the mean BPT diagram for each galaxy of a given profile type, whereas in the right panels we show this diagram separately for the internal ($r < 0.2 a$, in red) and external ($r > 0.2a$, in blue) regions of galaxies, again separated by profile type. This figure also shows the empirical line proposed by \cite{kauffmann2003} (where galaxies below it are classified as pure star-forming objects), the model line proposed by \cite{kewley2001} (where galaxies above it are considered AGNs), and the line proposed by \cite{schawinski2007} to discriminate between LINERs (below the line) and Seyfert galaxies (above the line). Any object between Kauffmann's line and Kewley's line are considered as an object in transition, with emission characteristics of both stars and AGNs. The BPT diagram for the galaxies as a whole shows interesting trends with the H$\alpha$ profile. $CE$ objects present emission coming from both the star-forming and transition regions, with just one galaxy in the LINER region of the diagram. The fraction of galaxies in the transition region decreases from type $CE$ to $EX$ to $CL$ and, at the same time, the proportion of objects in the star-forming region increases. Galaxies with H$\alpha$ profiles of type $EX$ in this panel are all close to the line proposed by \cite{kauffmann2003}, showing less scatter than the other profiles. Panels at the right side of Figure \ref{bpt_all_galaxies} tell a more interesting story. Considering the central region of the galaxies ($r < 0.2 a$, in red), type $CE$ profiles have most of their galaxies, $\sim 47\%$, in the transition region, $\sim 36 \%$ in the star-formation region and the other $17\%$ coming from the LINER region of the BPT diagram. Profiles of type $CL$ have $63\%$, $22\%$ and $15\%$ of central region emission coming from star-forming, transition and LINER regions, respectively. Galaxies with $CL$ profiles in the star-forming region are distributed forming a tail towads low values of $[NII]/H\alpha$, suggesting that these objects have lower metallicity than the others in $CE$ and $EX$ classes. $EX$ galaxies present a larger homogeneity in the distribution of central emission, with $30\%$, $39\%$ and $30\%$ of their members in star-forming, transition and LINER regions, respectively. \begin{figure*} \begin{center} \includegraphics[width=0.85 \columnwidth,angle=0]{fig/bpt_CE_profile.png} \includegraphics[width=0.85 \columnwidth,angle=0]{fig/bpt_in_out_CE_profile.png} \includegraphics[width=0.85 \columnwidth,angle=0]{fig/bpt_CL_profile.png} \includegraphics[width=0.85 \columnwidth,angle=0]{fig/bpt_in_out_CL_profile.png} \includegraphics[width=0.85 \columnwidth,angle=0]{fig/bpt_E_profile.png} \includegraphics[width=0.85 \columnwidth,angle=0]{fig/bpt_in_out_E_profile.png} \caption[]{BPT diagram for galaxies in the sample: left panels show the diagram for galaxy mean emission line ratios of each type of H$\alpha$ profile. Right panels present the BPT diagram for the different profile types separated by inner (in blue) and outer (in pink) regions, respectively.} \label{bpt_all_galaxies} \end{center} \end{figure*} \section{Discussion} \label{sec:discussion} The H$\alpha$ emission is by far one of the most important tools to investigate galaxy properties. In this paper, through an analysis of a sample of CALIFA galaxies, we present a classification of the H$\alpha$ radial profile in three classes: $CE$, $CL$ and $EX$. The central profiles $CE$ and $CL$, have the peak of the line emission in the galaxy centre, whereas in $EX$ profiles, the maximum H$\alpha$ emission is outside the center. We found useful to distinguish two classes of central profiles ($CE$ and $CL$), dominated by early- or late-type populations, accordingly with the value of the $c_r$ concentration \citep{Strateva2001}. The profiles' types exhibit good relation with some structural and physical parameters such as concentrations and stellar population properties. The first aspect to point out is that the large majority of our sample, $\sim 75$\%, has central ($C$) profiles. Dividing this group by the $c_r$ value in early, $CE$, and late $CL$, subtypes, we noticed that $CE$ profiles are dominated by early-type galaxies, E and S0. Spiral galaxies in the $CL$ class are mostly blue objects (in terms of the $c_r$ criterion), while the $EX$ class contains the same fraction of blue and red late-type galaxies. In other words, most of the spirals with central profiles are blue galaxies, whereas those with an extended profile have a mix of red and blue objects. E\underline{ }S0 galaxies are less than 4\% of the $CL$ and $EX$ profile classes; early-type galaxies in these classes are probably objects still forming stars, not quenched yet \citep[e.g.][]{gomes2016a}. Concerning the H$\alpha$ concentration parameters, we have shown that the central concentration $c_c$ is indeed useful to describe the emission profiles: for central profiles, $CE$ objects tend to have more H$\alpha$ emission in the central region than the $CL$s and $EX$s. The effective concentration does not show strong trends with the profile types, although it tends to be larger for $EX$ profiles than for the others. Stellar population properties also show trends with the profile types. Stellar populations are older for $CE$ profiles. Comparing mean stellar ages for $CL$ to $EX$ profiles, we can verify that the latter presents older populations than the former. Mean metallicities decrease from $CE$ to $CL$ and to $EX$. These results indicate that $CE$ profiles are more likely to be associated to early-type objects than $CE$ and $EX$ profiles. The BPT diagram also presents significant differences between the three classes. Considering the mean value of the line ratios (left panels of Fig. \ref{bpt_all_galaxies}), the most striking difference is the large fraction of transition objects for $CE$ profiles compared to the others, which have most of their galaxies in the star-forming part of the diagrams. When we consider the internal and external BPT diagrams, several interesting features appear. For all profiles the number of galaxies with LINER central emission increases. The same is true for objects in the transition region, at least for late-types. For these galaxies, the large majority of the emission in the external regions seems to be due to star formation. Indeed, the second aspect we consider important to highlight here is the difference in the properties of late type galaxies in the $CL$ and $EX$ classes. $EX$ objects have a significant fraction with central emission in the transition region, whereas for $CL$ objects, the fraction where the emission can be ascribed to star-formation is larger. Also, $CL$ galaxies seem to have a larger range of physical properties (e.g. nebular abundances) than late types in the $EX$ class. This seems to indicate that $EX$ objects are more evolved than $CL$ galaxies. Our results support the findings of \cite{li2015} and \citet{spindler2018}. The latter authors analyzed SFR profiles from the SDSS-IV MaNGA survey, showing that they can be divided in 'centrally suppressed' and 'unsuppressed' star formation, in close association with our C and EX profiles. Our conclusions are in general agreement with theirs; they found that both centrally suppressed and unsuppressed galaxies have a bimodal distribution, whereas our EX galaxies are mostly blue. This is probably a consequence of our small sample size. The classification procedure adopted here is objective and can be extended to other IFU-like observational data. We are interested in using this approach to investigate galaxy samples in the local universe observed by the surveys S-PLUS \citep[][in prep.]{mendesdeoliveira2018}, J-PLUS \citep{cenarro2018}, and J-PAS \citep{benitez2014}. Despite being photometric surveys, they are imaging large areas of the sky with a large number of narrow and broad-band filters (12 for S-PLUS and J-PLUS, and 59 for J-PAS). They contain narrow filters centred on H$\alpha$ and it has been shown that the H$\alpha$ emission can indeed be reliably determined for nearby objects with the observational setup of these surveys \citep{vilella-rojo2015,logrono-garcia2018}. \section{Summary} \label{sec:summary} We have determined the radial profile of the H$\alpha$ emission for a sample of 86 face-on galaxies from the CALIFA survey. After visual examination, we classified these profiles in three classes, $CE$, $CL$ and $EX$, taking in to account the position of the maximum H$\alpha$ emission (in the galaxy centre or not) and, for galaxies where the maximum of H$\alpha$ emission comes from the galaxy centre, if the dominant population is red or blue, by using the light concentration in the $r$-band, $c_r$. Our results show that, for $\sim 75$\% of the sample, the peak of the emission is in the galaxy centre. Galaxy properties, like morphology, mean stellar ages and metallicities, and the nature of the line emission, correlate well with these three classes. For example, most of the objects in the $CE$ class are early-type galaxies. Late-type galaxies are spread between the $CL$ and $EX$ classes, with $CL$ objects presenting features of a less evolved population when compared to the $EX$ class. The classification presented here helps to highlight the diversity of H$\alpha$ emission in the galaxies of the local universe and its close links with properties usually adopted to describe the galaxy population. \section*{Acknowledgements} PMN thanks the financial support from Brazilian funding agency CNPq (grant 142436/2014-3). She also thanks Rosa González Delgado, Enrique Perez and Ruben García-Benito for useful comments. PMN also thanks the Instituto de Astrof\'isica de Andaluc\'ia (IAA/CSIC) and the Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas (IAG/USP) for their warm scientific environment that made this work possible. LSJ aknowledges support of CNPq (304819/2017-4) and FAPESP (2017/237666-0) to his work. \bibliographystyle{mnras}

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Home Entertainment Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukerji reunite for 'Bunty Aur Babli 2' after... Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukerji reunite for 'Bunty Aur Babli 2' after 11 years New Delhi (India), Dec 19 (ANI): After spelling magic in 'Hum Tum', Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukerji will be back on screen with Yash Raj Films to play the original 'Bunty Aur Babli' in the fully rebooted sequel after 11 long years. YRF had earlier announced a complete new pairing of Siddhant Chaturvedi, who rose to fame in 'Gully Boy' and debutante Mumbai girl, Sharvari as the new conmen for the Varun Sharma helmed upcoming Movie. Saif Ali Khan who is elated to be a part of the franchise issued a statement saying, "Bunty Aur Babli 2 is a completely rebooted sequel and is set in today's time. It is a fantastic script that hooked me on instantly." Mentioning the movie as a complete family entertainer, he added "It is an out and out entertainer for the entire family to sit and enjoy and this is what I loved and connected with. Also, it's a new role for me, new language and milieu and that's what I really look for in a script. I also love the dynamics between the originals and the new Bunty Babli in the film." "It's fresh, hilarious and extremely engaging. Rani and I have always had a lot of fun working with each other and I'm looking forward to our creative collaboration again. It's also equally amazing to be back home at YRF again," the ' Cocktail' actor said. The much-anticipated sequel will see a huge time leap of 10 years and has also brought the originals back in the franchise. Recalling the love received for the originals, Rani said, "The original 'Bunty Aur Babli' got tremendous love and appreciation from audiences and it is their love that has made YRF decide to make the sequel." Talking about Abhishek Bachchan, Rani added, "Abhishek and I were both approached by YRF to reprise our roles as the originals in Bunty Aur Babli 2 but, unfortunately, things didn't work out with him and we will miss him dearly. As a team, we are so happy to welcome Saif." She further added, "I have lovely memories of working with him and I'm really looking forward to creating something new and exciting with him in Bunty Aur Babli 2. Hopefully, audiences will give us the same love that they have given our earlier films " Produced by Aditya Chopra, the much-anticipated movie is already on floors. (ANI) Babli Mukerji Previous articleTop Web Series Releasing On OTT This Week: Upcoming Web Series Of This Week – See Latest Next articleUpcoming Indian Web Series On Netflix, ZEE5, Amazon Prime of this Week Jurassic World 3 Director Reveals Steven Spielberg's Reaction to the Legacy Characters Reuniting All main heroes wish to do multi-starrers: SS Rajamouli 'Yadhalo Mounam': Music video featuring Sridevi's niece sizzles is a hit! Pushpa Movie Download Filmyzilla in Hindi HD (LEAKED) 480p, 720p, Watch Online Legally Kerala Lottery Result Today 17.12.2021 Karunya Plus KN 399 – Check Winning Number List Atrangi Re Movie Download Filmywap, Tamilrockers HD leaked online illegal sites

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25 Years of Sonic! June 27, 2016 10:36 pm Published by Solid Jack 2 Comments The year of anniversaries continues as the speedy, blue hedgehog created by Sega, celebrated his 25th last week and sure we should have done this on the day, (June 23rd) but with all the news that was expected to following the celebration, we felt it was best to put it off until now and then go over everything! Whilst at the same time dedicating another day to such a momentous occasion. But why start with current events, when we can start with the history of Sonic instead, so we're going to do just that. It was 1991 and Sega didn't want just another character, they wanted someone who could be a mascot, a character that would make the company a leading company in the video game industry and Sonic proved to be all that and more. The hedgehog didn't just go on to get a couple of sequels, he went on to get many spin-offs and made appearances in a number of Nintendo titles such as Smash and Mario & Sonic. But that's the present, let's go back to the early 90's where Sonic games were releasing yearly, with plenty of spin-offs in between them. In fact there were so many games that there wasn't a single year between '91 & 99 that didn't involve the speedster. Sadly though, all of the hedgehog's success wasn't enough to stop Sega from continuing with creating their own consoles, but an ongoing partnership with Nintendo saw to it Sonic and all his friends would never leave us, as Sonic games have continued to come ever since and not just on Nintendo devices. Fast forward to now, Sonic has had quite a few mangas, TV shows, which includes the Sonic Boom series that also has two games already associated with it and Fire & Ice due for release later on this year, but he's been in films too. First there was his appearance in 2012's Wreck-It-Ralph, along with Tails (my favourite character from the Sonic universe) and Eggman, but there's also a new Sonic film in the works and has been since 2014. In short, it's nearly 25 years later and Sonic continues to be popular and it's a good thing too because Sega came out this week to confirm that there is a Completely New game in development by the Sonic Team. This is the statement Takashi Iizuka gave Famitsu earlier on the week and although specific details aren't revealed, it is expected they will following during the 25th anniversary party next month on the 22nd of July. "We at Sonic Team – are developing a completely new game, as well as developing a full movie, actively done by Sony Pictures, and animation on Sonic Boom. We are also ready to improve sponsor ties. The most important thing is not the fact the series survived for 25 years, but how many games was developed. Our goal – add something new and overcome any potential hardships." Still that won't be the only statement we'll be sharing this week, as we also have a comment from Iizuka regarding Sonic's relationship with Nintendo and another comment from Ivo Gerscovich regarding Sega's emphasis on quality. Both responses come from the latest issue of MCV. Takashi Iizuka: "When SEGA stopped making hardware and just started doing software, the first platform that we released Sonic on was a Nintendo console. We felt from the very beginning, that the Nintendo platforms were where the passionate Sonic fans were. Historically that is where our relationship started with Nintendo. Unfortunately, the Wii U didn't manage to get as many gamers on the hardware as we would have liked. That was unfortunate for Sonic because we didn't get the mass of people to enjoy the content. But Nintendo has always been a great partner, we have Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, Sonic in Super Smash Bros… we really appreciate the work that they do." Ivo Gerscovich: "SEGA is really – as of this last year – putting a huge emphasis on quality. One of the things about Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice is that we held the title for a year, which is not something SEGA has traditionally done, but this focus on quality is really about trying to take Sonic back to where it used to be. We are really focused on turning Sonic into an entertainment icon, not just a games icon. We want to go across all platforms and elevate his status even further, which explains why we are doing so much." It is great to see Sega coming out and speaking out like this, especially since Sonic, like Link and Mario, is a character I grew up with and fondly remember, and even with what we shared above, that isn't all we heard from Iizuka this week as we also found the time to tell us why Dr. Robotnik became Eggman and you can read his explanation here: "When the game was originally developed in Japan, they called the character Eggman. That was the name of the character, but when the game got localized and ported into the Sonic the Hedgehog that we know in the West, they decided to, without confirming with the development team, change his name to Ivo Robotnik or just Robotnik. That's kind of when everyone first learned about the character. Of course, this was without consulting the people who made the game. They just kind of went off and did it. It became super popular and everyone in the West kind of learned about the character as Robotnik. That went on through the "classic" series in the Genesis/Mega Drive era, but as far as the developers are concerned – the ones who made the character and the leaders of what this character is doing next – we really didn't want to have anyone in the universe with two names. To us, he's Eggman, but in the rest of the world he's called Robotnik. We wanted to unify that into one name moving forward. This is something I actually did in the Sonic Adventure series. I made it so that we understand the character's name is Robotnik, but his nickname is Eggman, and as far as everyone is concerned in the world now, we're just going to call him Eggman as his official name." The blue hedgehog is clearly sticking around as far as Sega is concerned and we couldn't be happier about it and with the 25th anniversary part happening next month, don't be surprised if Sonic snags a headline here and there in the meantime as plenty of new announcements have been promised, but what about you? It's been 25 years of Sonic, have you got a favourite Sonic memory you feel like sharing? We'd love to hear it. Source: @NE_Brian of Nintendo Everything, MCV & Natalie Levig of My Nintendo News Tags: Dr Robotnik, Eggman, Ivo Gerscovich, mario and sonic at the Rio olympic games, Sega, Sonic, Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice, Sonic the Hedgehog, Tails, Takashi Iizuka Categorised in: 3DS, News, Wii U This post was written by Solid Jack

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New airline to service Trinidad-Tobago airbridge soon A new airline is in the making to compete with Caribbean Airlines on the Trinidad and Tobago airbridge. The airline is to be called Tobago Airways and the businessmen behind it are seeking to attract investors. The airline's website, www.tobagoairways.com has a countdown that currently shows 29 days with a headline, "Something new and exciting is coming soon". A proposal being issued to investors names the airline's Chief Executive Officer as Raymond McMillan. He told CNC3 that they are hoping to meet the launch date of just about one month from now, once office and staffing issues are cleared. He said they are currently going through the process of finalising the necessary approvals. McMillian says two aircraft will be put into service, both of which have already been sourced. The Tobago Airways CEO did not go into deep detail, saying a media statement will be issued soon, but he did add that the plan for the airline also includes the establishment of an aviation school in Tobago where potential pilots can learn on fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. The proposal sent to investors states that the airbridge has been a sour-point for over 30 years. It states that while the pace of development in Tobago has increased over the last five years, the difficulty in getting to Tobago defeats all the investments, resulting in the entire economy being frustrated. It states: "The recent press release from the existing carrier Caribbean Airlines (CAL), stated that with a 30 minutes delay, their performance was at 86 percent (above industry standards). One then wonders why almost on a weekly basis, do we have passengers stranded and having to overnight at the airport after waiting for hours on end, for a 20 minutes flight." It says a simple shift in the ability of citizens to get to Tobago can cause an economic explosion on the island. "The answer is simply another carrier to meet the demand left unsatisfied by CAL, providing the confidence for individuals to travel, enjoy Tobago and return to their respective destinations reliably and on time," the proposal states. It states that the team is one of energetic and dynamic citizens who have come together to make a difference in complimenting CAL's efforts in bringing passengers to Tobago. Favourite count: Favourite count ids: ,64945,65732,67316,63628,53739,64191,67566 Red Force rot continues in Super50 slaying Three charged with stealing plaintains

package ProGAL.dataStructures.rangeSearching.rangeTree2; import java.util.LinkedList; import java.util.List; import ProGAL.geomNd.Point; /** * Class that models a N-dimension Range Tree. * When the tree reaches the last two dimensions, a 2DRangeTree * is used for modeling these dimensions. * @author Soren Lynnerup 11.01.2012 */ public class RangeTreeNodeNd extends RangeTreeNode { // protected RangeTreeNodeNd leftchild; // protected RangeTreeNodeNd rightchild; protected RangeTreeNode assocstruct; /** * Initializes the RangeTreeNode for N dimensions. */ public RangeTreeNodeNd(List<Point> sortedpoints, int dimension, boolean use_fc) { // Define dimensions and the number of points we are working with. int dimensionsleft = sortedpoints.get(0).getDimensions() - dimension - 1; this.dimension = dimension; int numberofpoints = sortedpoints.size(); // Find the median point. int medianindex = numberofpoints / 2; this.median = sortedpoints.get(medianindex); // Create the associated structure. Check if we have reach the last two dimensions. if(use_fc) { if(dimensionsleft == 2) { this.assocstruct = RangeTree.buildRangeTree2d(sortedpoints, this.dimension + 1); } else { this.assocstruct = RangeTree.buildRangeTreeNd(sortedpoints, this.dimension + 1, use_fc); } } else { if(dimensionsleft == 1) { this.assocstruct = RangeTree.buildRangeTree1d(sortedpoints, this.dimension + 1); } else { this.assocstruct = RangeTree.buildRangeTreeNd(sortedpoints, this.dimension + 1, use_fc); } } // We have reached the bottom of the tree. if(numberofpoints == 1) { this.isleave = true; return; } // Create the child nodes. this.leftchild = new RangeTreeNodeNd(sortedpoints.subList(0, medianindex), this.dimension, use_fc); this.rightchild = new RangeTreeNodeNd(sortedpoints.subList(medianindex, numberofpoints), this.dimension, use_fc); super.leftchild = this.leftchild; super.rightchild = this.rightchild; } /** * Return the points inside the given range. */ public List<Point> query(double[] low, double[] high) { List<Point> reportedpoints = new LinkedList<Point>(); return query(low,high,reportedpoints); } protected List<Point> query(double[] low, double[] high, List<Point> reportedpoints){ // Find the splitting node on x-value. RangeTreeNodeNd splitnode = (RangeTreeNodeNd) findSplitNode(low[this.dimension], high[this.dimension], this.dimension); // List<Point> reportedpoints = new ArrayList<Point>(); // If splitnode is a leaf, check if it should be reported. if(splitnode.isleave) { splitnode.reportPoint(reportedpoints, low, high); return reportedpoints; } RangeTreeNodeNd n = (RangeTreeNodeNd) splitnode.leftchild; // Run down left child. while(!n.isleave) { if(low[this.dimension] < n.median.get(this.dimension)) { // Report the right child // reportedpoints.addAll(n.rightchild.query(low, high)); n.rightchild.query(low, high, reportedpoints); n = (RangeTreeNodeNd) n.leftchild; } else { n = (RangeTreeNodeNd) n.rightchild; } } // Check if the leaf should be reported. n.reportPoint(reportedpoints, low, high); n = (RangeTreeNodeNd) splitnode.rightchild; // Run down right child. while(!n.isleave) { if(high[this.dimension] >= n.median.get(this.dimension)) { // Report the left child // reportedpoints.addAll(n.leftchild.query(low, high)); n.leftchild.query(low, high, reportedpoints); n = (RangeTreeNodeNd) n.rightchild; } else { n = (RangeTreeNodeNd) n.leftchild; } } // Check if the leaf should be reported. n.reportPoint(reportedpoints, low, high); return reportedpoints; } /** * Checks if the point should be reported. */ private void reportPoint(List<Point> reportedpoints, double[] low, double[] high) { if(this.median.get(this.dimension) >= low[this.dimension] && this.median.get(this.dimension) <= high[this.dimension]) { // reportedpoints.addAll(this.assocstruct.query(low, high)); this.assocstruct.query(low, high, reportedpoints); } } }

With more than 35 years of experience, Ms. Lehmkuhl is a celebrated nursing professional who most recently served as a medical and disability nurse case manager at Liberty Mutual in Overland Park, KS, from 2006 until her retirement from the industry in 2016. Prior to this appointment, she was the supervisor of clinical services at Mid-America Physicians from 2003 to 2006, a manager of occupational health at the Visiting Nurse Association of Greater Kansas City from 1993 to 2002, an assistant administrator at Hickman Mills Clinic from 1991 to 1992, and a nursing supervisor at Hickman Mills Clinic from 1988 to 1991. Over the years, she has also worked for such corporations as Managed Healthcare Resources, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, and Humana Hospital in several prominent roles. To prepare for her career, Ms. Lehmkuhl pursued a formal education at Johnson County Community College, graduating with an Associate of Arts, with honors, in 1977. She subsequently attended the University of Kansas, earning a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, with highest distinction, in 1979. She is a registered nurse in the states of Kansas and Missouri, as well as a certified case manager. In recognition of her exceptional achievements, Ms. Lehmkuhl was deemed an Arthur S. and Leora J. Peck Scholar and an Allstate Foundation Nursing Scholar in 1977. In addition, Liberty Mutual named her the Registered Nurse of the Month in 2013. Notably, she has been highlighted in several editions of Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Nursing, Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare, Who's Who in the Midwest, and Who's Who of American Women.

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Q: How does SSMS show partial results of a large resultset whilst the query is still running, and can equivalent behaviour be achieved in .NET? In SQL Server Management Studio, when running a query that produces a very large resultset, it appears to sometimes display the results of the resultset as it's loading them, rather than them all appearing at once. My normal assumption would be that it's simply it populating the grid(s) in SSMS with the results of the finished query, and that the SQL query itself is finished. However, if I run the following query: SELECT 1 SELECT * FROM EnormousTable INSERT INTO SomeOtherTable([Column1]) SELECT 'Test3' That last INSERT does not occur until after the results from the larger resultset have been fully returned. I have two main questions: 1. What is happening here? Is SSMS breaking down the query into separate batches even without GO statements? Please note that I'm not a DBA, so if there's some fundamental reason for this behaviour that 'any DBA would know', there's a good chance I don't know it. 2. Is there a way to attain similar functionality in .NET? What I mean by this is, when running a set of queries that will produce multiple resultsets, whether or not it's possible to have a DataSet get populated with the results of each successive query as it finishes (without waiting for all the queries to finish), without me having to manually break down the query (unless that's what SSMS is actually doing under the hood).

Cape Town Buzz Worcester SAPS officers arrested for extorting spaza shops Posted by Andile Sicetsha Four South African Police Service (SAPS) constables from Worcester, Western Cape, were placed under arrest and charged with crimes related to corruption and extortion, on the morning of Monday 6 July 2020. How Worcester SAPS officers extorted spaza shops According to police spokesperson Captain FC Van Wyk, an internal investigation into the conduct of the four SAPS officers aged between 43 and 53 was launched after spaza shop owners reported that they were being extorted for selling cigarettes illegally. According to the lockdown regulations, the sale of cigarettes is prohibited and merchants found to be contravening this newly established law could face heavy penalties or even worse, jail time. This is allegedly the type of fearmongering the Worcester constables used to extort money from the spaza shop owners between Saturday 4 June and Tuesday 21 June. "It is alleged that the members took money from several shopkeepers in the Worcester area between 4 June 2020 and 21 June 2020 to avoid being arrested for selling cigarettes during Lockdown. The members were identified and linked to the incidents by means of witness statements, video footage, duty registers and automatic vehicle location reports," Captain Van Wyk noted in a statement. 'We have zero-tolerance for corruption' – Van Wyk Before any arrests could be made, the case was brought to the attention of Rodney de Kock, the Western Cape's Director of Public Prosecutions. With his approval, after sifting through all the evidence, four arrest warrants were issued out for the suspects. The rogue officers have since appeared before the Worcester Magistrate's Court on corruption charges and await another court schedule to iron out the administrative part of the trial. On the conduct of the Worcester officers, Captain Van Wyk stressed that "SAPS management remains committed [to] uprooting all forms of corruption." Watch: Gateway Mall jewellery store robbed [video] © 2021 Copyright Swisher Post News. Built by inDEVnito

Home » Sanskrit » Introduction » For experts This longer introduction is meant for advanced readers, such as teachers, scholars, those who may know some Sanskrit already, or those who simply want to know more about the guide. This page covers the same information as our introduction for beginners, but it does so in a deeper and more sophisticated way. If you are already satisfied by our introduction for beginners, you can skip this section and move on to the next one. Our intended audience Our guide is for anyone who wants to read Sanskrit literature and who wants to learn grammar to make sense of what they read. Grammar is a technical subject, but we do not expect any background knowledge in grammar, linguistics, or related fields. Too often, resources for teaching Sanskrit (especially those written in English) use an academic and highly technical style. This is fine per se, but as a whole, this technical style carries an implicit message: "Sanskrit is something only an elite person can know and learn. If you are not an elite, Sanskrit is not for you." We reject this idea completely. We believe that anyone who wants to learn Sanskrit should be able to do so and that it is our responsibility to encourage and nurture learners rather than throw them into a sea of rules and jargon. Second language acquisition research Our starting point, and the basis for our approach to Sanskrit grammar, is the main finding from second language acquisition research: acquiring and studying a language are different mental processes and respond to different techniques. The realm of acquisition is essentially one of subconscious, implicit, and organic growth in the learner's implicit mental representation of the language, which develops through exposure to interesting and level-appropriate content. Consistent exposure to such content over time is enough to acquire any language to a very high level, perhaps when paired with the limited and ad-hoc study of explicit grammar rules. The realm of study is essentially one of conscious, explicit, and willful development of an explicit model of the language and its rules, which occurs through the diligent study and application of various rules, often to a list of intentionally memorized words. Consistent study of rules is enough to develop deep mastery but has little relationship to the fast and accurate real-time interpretation of content in our language of interest. Although the exact relationship between these explicit and implicit modes of engagement is still unclear in the research, what can be said with some confidence is that the neurolinguistic processes involved are different enough to treat implicit (acquisition) and explicit (studying) approaches to language as two different activities. In the future, we'll add some links to the literature here. For now, we recommend the works of Bill VanPatten and Susan Gass. Focusing on explicit grammar In light of this division, we see the textbook model as fundamentally flawed because it attempts to support the divergent activities of implicit and explicit study simultaneously. If implicit knowledge is knowing how to throw a ball, explicit knowledge is knowing the kinematic equations that describe the ball's trajectory. Knowing the calculus of kinematics has some incidental relationship to throwing a ball, but in a pragmatic sense, neither provides much insight into the other. Here is a small example of what we mean. A person rides a bicycle or skateboard or scooter or motorcycle but drives a car or truck and pilots a boat or airplane. The semantics of these three words are similar, but it is difficult to articulate a specific and explicit rule that accounts for the difference. Such is the real-world behavior of human language. Given this divergence between implicit and explicit representations of language and the approaches necessary to cultivate them, we have focused solely on building up an explicit representation of Sanskrit. This narrower perspective is profoundly liberating and allows us to perform one task simply and effectively. But perhaps we should address the critical question: why study grammar at all? Mainly, grammar offers a shortcut to working through ancient Sanskrit literature. We use the phrase "working through" deliberately: the slow, word-by-word analysis of a sentence is completely different from the fast, accurate, and real-time understanding of a sentence that arises through acquisition. But there are other compelling reasons to pursue the study of grammar. Grammar is interesting for its own sake, especially given Sanskrit's long tradition of linguistics and grammatical study. Grammar can clarify doubts on usage and meaning for those interested in composition or exegesis. And grammar can provide structure for those learners who crave structure and certainty. What are the specific advantages of focusing solely on explicit representation? The first is that we can omit many of the devices that are shown in the literature to be ineffective, such as translation drills, conjugation drills, vocabulary lists, and other kinds of what we might call "language practice." These devices sap time and energy from the student and are not particularly effective for acquisition, which is their intended focus in the first place. The second is that we can sequence our content in an entirely different way. In the standard textbook, introducing a new topic for discussion is an expensive and costly thing to do, because the assumption is that the student must memorize most or all new material that is presented. But more critically, these topics must be presented with an eye to acquisition. As a result, important but grammatically unusual features are either unreasonably delayed or introduced piecemeal and out of sequence. When we are free of these constraints, we can present Sanskrit's major systems clearly and comprehensively. If we omit any devices aimed at acquisition, what is our answer to the acquisition problem? What do we recommend that learners do? Simply, we encourage the use of resources aimed directly at Sanskrit acquisition, such as: Amarahāsa: free online stories written especially for acquiring Sanskrit. Samskrita Bharati (India, US): Conversational Sanskrit. Includes workshops, classes, correspondence courses, and in-person events. Vyoma-Saṃskṛta-Pāṭhaśālā: Online Sanskrit lectures in a classroom format. That said, there will always be those who find anything other than ancient literature to be a waste of time. Now that our grammar guide has matured, we are building an assisted reading environment for such learners. Assisted reading is not an optimal acquisition environment because the material involved is far too complex for beginning and intermediate learners. But we see such an approach as a pragmatic compromise for those who insist on grammar-based approaches. Style and intended audience Our focus is ordinary people who want to read Sanskrit literature and who want to use grammar to make sense of what they read. Perhaps some of these people are comfortable with technical expressions like "partitive genitive" or "past passive participle" and delight in the intricacies of grammar. (We can certainly relate!) But to most people, such terms are confusing, intimidating, and sterile. We want to include as many learners as we can, so we avoid this complex and highly technical jargon and prefer simple, everyday language. This does not mean, however, that we dumb down our content. As an example, one of the common Sanskrit suffixes is -ta. -ta is often termed a "past passive participle" suffix. This term is problematic in two ways. First, it doesn't make any sense (unless the reader knows about past tenses, the passive voice, and participles). Second, it is a poor fit for Sanskrit specifically: Many roots use -ta in an active sense (e.g. gata). Many roots use -ta without any clear past sense at all (e.g. śakta). The concept of "participles" is much less powerful than just considering the class of Sanskrit verbal suffixes (also known as kṛt suffixes) as a whole. Rather than laboriously explain this suffix using terms that poorly fit the way Sanskrit works, we can simply say instead that the suffix -ta generally shows that someone "has acted" or "has been acted on," with a few examples. The suffix is thus tied immediately to meaningful Sanskrit expressions and to English counterparts that the reader already knows deeply. And the learner doesn't need to memorize an awkward and ill-fitting term. To put it simply, we make a distinction between knowing Sanskrit and talking about Sanskrit. How we talk about Sanskrit doesn't matter at all. What matters is that we communicate useful knowledge to the learner in a way that they can easily understand and internalize.

Book I Chapter 5: Romulus recognised, Amulius killed. It is said that the festival of the Lupercalia, which is still observed, was even in those days celebrated on the Palatine Hill. This hill was originally called Pallantium from a city of the same name in Arcadia; the name was afterwards changed to Palatium. Evander, an Arcadian, had held that territory many ages before, and had introduced an annual festival from Arcadia in which young men ran about naked for sport and wantonness, in honour of the Lycaean Pan, whom the Romans afterwards called Inuus. The existence of this festival was widely recognised, and it was while the two brothers were engaged in it that the brigands, enraged at losing their plunder, ambushed them. Romulus successfully defended himself, but Remus was taken prisoner and brought before Amulius, his captors impudently accusing him of their own crimes. The principal charge brought against them was that of invading Numitor 's lands with a body of young men whom they had got together, and carrying off plunder as though in regular warfare. Remus accordingly was handed over to Numitor for punishment. Faustulus had from the beginning suspected that it was royal offspring that he was bringing up, for he was aware that the boys had been exposed at the king's command and the time at which he had taken them away exactly corresponded with that of their exposure. He had, however, refused to divulge the matter prematurely, until either a fitting opportunity occurred or necessity demanded its disclosure. The necessity came first. Alarmed for the safety of Remus he revealed the state of the case to Romulus. It so happened that Numitor also, who had Remus in his custody, on hearing that he and his brother were twins, and comparing their ages, and the character and bearing so unlike that of one in a servile condition, began to recall the memory of his grandchildren, and further inquiries brought him to the same conclusion as Faustulus; nothing was wanting to the recognition of Remus. So the king Amulius was being enmeshed on all sides by hostile purposes. Romulus shrunk from a direct attack with his body of shepherds, for he was no match for the king in open fight. They were instructed to approach the palace by different routes and meet there at a given time, whilst from Numitor's house Remus lent his assistance with a second band he had collected. The attack succeeded and the king was killed. Event: Birth of Romulus and Remus

Spartan Newsroom (https://news.jrn.msu.edu/2017/06/greater-lansing-animal-shelters-help-homeless-animals-find-homes/) Greater Lansing animal shelters help homeless animals find homes By Kaiyue Zhang | June 28, 2017 photo by Kaiyue Zhang Kay, who has been volunteered for 7 years cuts cat's nail on June 25, 2017 at the Ingham County Animal Control and Shelter in Lansing. John Dinon, the director of Ingham County Animal Control and Shelter is pictured on June 25, 2017 in the Ingham County Animal Control and Shelter. In 2016, there were around 12,000 animals licensed in and around Lansing. During the same period, 7,381 animals were taken into the two biggest animal shelters in the Greater Lansing Area: 3,139 of the animals went to Ingham County Animal Shelter, and 4,242 of them went to the Capital Area Humane Society. Some of the animals were abandoned by their owners, who could not care for their pets anymore for different reasons, some of them were rescued from unsafe places, and some of them were stray and became an animal shelter's property. "They are usually just being dropped off at the door like sometimes the leash is tied to the door knob or they're roaming around," said Kelsee Horrom, a former volunteer at the animal shelter. "If they're older the dogs won't get adopted as quickly as younger ones, sadly. Depending on the shelter if it's not killed or not you'll see the older ones look sad and know they aren't getting a home as quickly as puppies or dogs of a specific breed." There always are animals being euthanized due to different reasons. "We can't put dangerous into the community. We do medical testing on any animal who come in and they will all be vaccinated," said John Dinon, the director of Ingham County Animal Control and Shelter. "If the animals are unhealthy, and they are either having a low quality of life, or have inflectional disease, or if they are dangerous. About 20 percent of animals came in here are euthanized, with cats, it's more because of the disease, with dogs, it's more about the behavior." According to Dinon, in the past five years, all the adoptable animals had found a home or transferred to other shelters. The animal shelters have good reputations in the Lansing area and especially in some student groups at Michigan State University. The Zoology Student Association (ZSA) constantly organize group volunteer activities to help the shelters. "They take care of them and spend countless hours trying to find these animals a new home," said Mariah Faszczewski, the Former President of the ZSA. "Without them, they would either end up on the streets or at a shelter that does kill their animals after a certain length of time. That is also why people should always buy from a shelter and support their local ones with either donations or volunteering." Faszczewski also thinks the homeless animals reflect the fact of the homeless people in the United States. "I think that there is an over abundance of breeding going on so that people can make money," said Faszczewski. "yet shelters are filled with animals constantly. The statistics of homeless animals outdoes the amount of homeless people in the US." A cat who waits to be adopted is pictured on June 25, 2017 in the Ingham County Animal Control and Shelter. A dog who waits to be adopted is pictured on June 25, 2017 in the Ingham County Animal Control and Shelter. A visitor plays with dogs in the shelter on June 25, 2017 in the Ingham County Animal Control and Shelter. However, the shelters are not home for most of the animals, some volunteers claim that the animals in shelters don't get the time they should, they are being kept in the cages for a long period of time and do not get to walk or run a lot. Not a lot of volunteers stick to the work for a long time, but the shelter's environment and situation is getting better because of the joint effort of more fresh blood volunteers. Kay, who has been volunteered for 7 years cuts a cat's nails on June 25, 2017 at the Ingham County Animal Control and Shelter in Lansing. About Kaiyue Zhang Visual storyteller who can speak both English and Mandarin. Experienced photographer and videographer, and writer in mandarin. Major in Journalism and minor in Public Relation and Documentary Production. Familiar with the basic use of Adobe Premiere, Audition, Photoshop, Indesign, Lightroom, After Effects and ready to explore more. More by Kaiyue Shelter finds loving homes for animals, even in pandemic The Capital Area Humane Society has continued adopting out animals despite new safety measures and other disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

I'm Charles Wang and I am a first year PhD student in math at Harvard. I am jointly advised by Lauren Williams and Bernd Sturmfels. I completed my undergraduate studies at Georgia Tech, and was a graduate student at UC Berkeley for one year before moving to Harvard. I am broadly interested in algebraic combinatorics, algebraic geometry, and tropical geometry. My current research focuses on combinatorial aspects of cluster varieties, in particular Grassmannians and Lagrangian Grassmannians. My email address is [email protected].

""" Kubernetes No description provided (generated by Swagger Codegen https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-codegen) OpenAPI spec version: v1.7.4 Generated by: https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-codegen.git """ from pprint import pformat from six import iteritems import re class V1SecurityContext(object): """ NOTE: This class is auto generated by the swagger code generator program. Do not edit the class manually. """ def __init__(self, capabilities=None, privileged=None, read_only_root_filesystem=None, run_as_non_root=None, run_as_user=None, se_linux_options=None): """ V1SecurityContext - a model defined in Swagger :param dict swaggerTypes: The key is attribute name and the value is attribute type. :param dict attributeMap: The key is attribute name and the value is json key in definition. """ self.swagger_types = { 'capabilities': 'V1Capabilities', 'privileged': 'bool', 'read_only_root_filesystem': 'bool', 'run_as_non_root': 'bool', 'run_as_user': 'int', 'se_linux_options': 'V1SELinuxOptions' } self.attribute_map = { 'capabilities': 'capabilities', 'privileged': 'privileged', 'read_only_root_filesystem': 'readOnlyRootFilesystem', 'run_as_non_root': 'runAsNonRoot', 'run_as_user': 'runAsUser', 'se_linux_options': 'seLinuxOptions' } self._capabilities = capabilities self._privileged = privileged self._read_only_root_filesystem = read_only_root_filesystem self._run_as_non_root = run_as_non_root self._run_as_user = run_as_user self._se_linux_options = se_linux_options @property def capabilities(self): """ Gets the capabilities of this V1SecurityContext. The capabilities to add/drop when running containers. Defaults to the default set of capabilities granted by the container runtime. :return: The capabilities of this V1SecurityContext. :rtype: V1Capabilities """ return self._capabilities @capabilities.setter def capabilities(self, capabilities): """ Sets the capabilities of this V1SecurityContext. The capabilities to add/drop when running containers. Defaults to the default set of capabilities granted by the container runtime. :param capabilities: The capabilities of this V1SecurityContext. :type: V1Capabilities """ self._capabilities = capabilities @property def privileged(self): """ Gets the privileged of this V1SecurityContext. Run container in privileged mode. Processes in privileged containers are essentially equivalent to root on the host. Defaults to false. :return: The privileged of this V1SecurityContext. :rtype: bool """ return self._privileged @privileged.setter def privileged(self, privileged): """ Sets the privileged of this V1SecurityContext. Run container in privileged mode. Processes in privileged containers are essentially equivalent to root on the host. Defaults to false. :param privileged: The privileged of this V1SecurityContext. :type: bool """ self._privileged = privileged @property def read_only_root_filesystem(self): """ Gets the read_only_root_filesystem of this V1SecurityContext. Whether this container has a read-only root filesystem. Default is false. :return: The read_only_root_filesystem of this V1SecurityContext. :rtype: bool """ return self._read_only_root_filesystem @read_only_root_filesystem.setter def read_only_root_filesystem(self, read_only_root_filesystem): """ Sets the read_only_root_filesystem of this V1SecurityContext. Whether this container has a read-only root filesystem. Default is false. :param read_only_root_filesystem: The read_only_root_filesystem of this V1SecurityContext. :type: bool """ self._read_only_root_filesystem = read_only_root_filesystem @property def run_as_non_root(self): """ Gets the run_as_non_root of this V1SecurityContext. Indicates that the container must run as a non-root user. If true, the Kubelet will validate the image at runtime to ensure that it does not run as UID 0 (root) and fail to start the container if it does. If unset or false, no such validation will be performed. May also be set in PodSecurityContext. If set in both SecurityContext and PodSecurityContext, the value specified in SecurityContext takes precedence. :return: The run_as_non_root of this V1SecurityContext. :rtype: bool """ return self._run_as_non_root @run_as_non_root.setter def run_as_non_root(self, run_as_non_root): """ Sets the run_as_non_root of this V1SecurityContext. Indicates that the container must run as a non-root user. If true, the Kubelet will validate the image at runtime to ensure that it does not run as UID 0 (root) and fail to start the container if it does. If unset or false, no such validation will be performed. May also be set in PodSecurityContext. If set in both SecurityContext and PodSecurityContext, the value specified in SecurityContext takes precedence. :param run_as_non_root: The run_as_non_root of this V1SecurityContext. :type: bool """ self._run_as_non_root = run_as_non_root @property def run_as_user(self): """ Gets the run_as_user of this V1SecurityContext. The UID to run the entrypoint of the container process. Defaults to user specified in image metadata if unspecified. May also be set in PodSecurityContext. If set in both SecurityContext and PodSecurityContext, the value specified in SecurityContext takes precedence. :return: The run_as_user of this V1SecurityContext. :rtype: int """ return self._run_as_user @run_as_user.setter def run_as_user(self, run_as_user): """ Sets the run_as_user of this V1SecurityContext. The UID to run the entrypoint of the container process. Defaults to user specified in image metadata if unspecified. May also be set in PodSecurityContext. If set in both SecurityContext and PodSecurityContext, the value specified in SecurityContext takes precedence. :param run_as_user: The run_as_user of this V1SecurityContext. :type: int """ self._run_as_user = run_as_user @property def se_linux_options(self): """ Gets the se_linux_options of this V1SecurityContext. The SELinux context to be applied to the container. If unspecified, the container runtime will allocate a random SELinux context for each container. May also be set in PodSecurityContext. If set in both SecurityContext and PodSecurityContext, the value specified in SecurityContext takes precedence. :return: The se_linux_options of this V1SecurityContext. :rtype: V1SELinuxOptions """ return self._se_linux_options @se_linux_options.setter def se_linux_options(self, se_linux_options): """ Sets the se_linux_options of this V1SecurityContext. The SELinux context to be applied to the container. If unspecified, the container runtime will allocate a random SELinux context for each container. May also be set in PodSecurityContext. If set in both SecurityContext and PodSecurityContext, the value specified in SecurityContext takes precedence. :param se_linux_options: The se_linux_options of this V1SecurityContext. :type: V1SELinuxOptions """ self._se_linux_options = se_linux_options def to_dict(self): """ Returns the model properties as a dict """ result = {} for attr, _ in iteritems(self.swagger_types): value = getattr(self, attr) if isinstance(value, list): result[attr] = list(map( lambda x: x.to_dict() if hasattr(x, "to_dict") else x, value )) elif hasattr(value, "to_dict"): result[attr] = value.to_dict() elif isinstance(value, dict): result[attr] = dict(map( lambda item: (item[0], item[1].to_dict()) if hasattr(item[1], "to_dict") else item, value.items() )) else: result[attr] = value return result def to_str(self): """ Returns the string representation of the model """ return pformat(self.to_dict()) def __repr__(self): """ For `print` and `pprint` """ return self.to_str() def __eq__(self, other): """ Returns true if both objects are equal """ if not isinstance(other, V1SecurityContext): return False return self.__dict__ == other.__dict__ def __ne__(self, other): """ Returns true if both objects are not equal """ return not self == other

/* * To change this license header, choose License Headers in Project Properties. * To change this template file, choose Tools | Templates * and open the template in the editor. */ package CXL_PeakPairFinder; import MSUmpire.PeakDataStructure.PeakCluster; /** * @author Chih-Chiang Tsou */ public class CoElutePeak { public PeakCluster peakpair; public float Correlation; public float PPM; public CoElutePeak(PeakCluster peakpair, float correlation, float ppm) { this.peakpair = peakpair; this.Correlation = correlation; this.PPM = ppm; } }

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As the newly elected councillor for Saltford Parish Council, I would like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who voted for me. I look forward to working positively with all of Saltford's local councillors, both on the parish council and B&NES Council. Since I have a young family of my own, commute to work, and am lucky enough to have my elderly, retired parents living in Saltford; I am certain I view life here with a broad enough perspective to take on board and represent most people's point of view. Saltford is my home and not simply an address where I happen to live. This is a small place, anything that happens here impacts on all of us. We each need to take ownership of our responsibilities to Saltford in its entirety, and not just worry about our half of the the street in which we live. I feel it is vital that whatever decisions we make now are firmly based on the future needs of our community, ensuring we leave a legacy we can all be proud of. As such, it is my intention to do all that I possibly can to prevent detrimental influences on our environment and to promote new initiatives that will improve the quality of all our lives here as a whole.

RBC — EnCana Oil and Gas (USA) Inc., encourages high school seniors who are pursuing a degree in engineering, geology or geophysics at a four-year university, to see their school counselors to apply for its High School Scholarship Program. The scholarships can also be applied at a two-year college, including technical or trade schools related to the oil and gas industry, such as production technology, heavy equipment operator or land administration. The scholarship — $2,500 per year for up to four years — is awarded annually to one graduating student in each school district within EnCana's areas of operations, including: Coal Ridge, De Beque, Erie, Fort Lupton, Frederick, Grande Valley, Meeker, Rangely, Rifle and Weld Central high schools. High school seniors who have demonstrated a solid academic record, and community involvement, and plan on being a full-time student are eligible to apply. Individual school districts will review applications and select recipients. The deadline is April 1. Students should see their school guidance counselors for an application. Last year's recipients included Matthew Herrera of Rangely High School and Hope Merritt of Meeker High School. MEEKER I Fall registration for CNCC classes in Meeker now open, and it is time to get registered. RANGELY I On Feb. 17, Colorado Northwestern Community College announced several college-related awards centered on the top employee, administrator, classified employee and faculty member of the year. I am a freshman in college this year and will be attending Arizona State University for my sophmore year to major in Civil Engineering. I am looking for any scholarships that I can to help me with the cost for out of state tution. I was reading your scholarship but it states for high school seniors. Do you have a scholarship awarded to students that are already in college? If so could you tell me how to apply for it. I was born and raised in the Rifle area so I am a local. Please let me know any help would be great.

The Face Reflecting in the Water is Yours Parshas Vayishlach This week we read the parsha of Va'yishlach. At the end of last week's parsha, Yaakov, after the birth of Yosef, left the house of Lavan to return to Eretz Yisroel (Land of Israel). "Va'yishlach Yaakov malachim l'fanav el Esav achiv {And Yaakov sent 'malachim' ahead to Esav his brother}[32:4]." Yaakov was afraid that Esav was still planning to murder him for impersonating him and receiving the brachos {blessings}. He therefore sent these 'malachim' to test the waters and determine Esav's attitude and intentions. The word 'malachim' can either mean messengers or angels. Rashi understands that Yaakov sent actual angels to Esav. Why was this necessary? The Ohr HaChaim explains that Yaakov was afraid that Esav would, at best, disregard ordinary messengers, or, at worst, beat them to the point that they'd be unable to return. This would allow Esav a sneak attack against Yaakov. Yaakov therefore sent actual angels hoping to strike some fear into Esav's heart. Let Esav realize that these awesome, frightening angels do the bidding of Yaakov and let him beware. These awe-inspiring, celestial couriers returned to Yaakov with the following account of Esav's reaction. "And the angels returned to Yaakov saying: 'We came to your brother (you, Yaakov, view him as your brother) to Esav (his brotherly feelings are somewhat lacking — he's Esav!) and four hundred men are with him (it ain't gonna be pretty…)' [32:7]." Esav wasn't worried or intimidated in the least — he was planning to make good on his earlier threat. Yet, when the two meet, the verse states: "And he (Yaakov) bowed seven times until he had drawn close to his brother. And Esav ran to greet him and he hugged him and he fell on his neck and kissed him, and they cried [33:3-4]." What happened!? What broke through Esav's animosity and brought about such a drastic change of attitude? Before the establishment of the State of Israel, Rav Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld zt"l, one of the venerable sages of Jerusalem, was adamantly advocating a strong religious presence and attitude in the holy city. There were many who resolutely opposed his views and goals. Once, a group of ruffians stormed into his house and began to threaten him. His calm demeanor and responses seemed to confuse the aggressors who nevertheless continued their threats. As their curses and threats reached a crescendo, the Rav suddenly opened his shirt and moved toward the intruders. "Shoot me! Kill me!" he shouted. "I'm ready to sacrifice myself for my principles — I'm not ready to sacrifice what I see as truth." He then gently explained his views on Hashem and Jerusalem. The humbled assailants shamefacedly hurried from his home. Much later, Rav Yosef Chaim explained his behavior by relating the following story. In Shadik, Poland there was a moser {informer} who terrorized the Jewish community. While he was being richly rewarded, tremendous suffering was befalling the town as a result of his slanderous reports. He furthermore had the audacity to demand the most dignified seat in the synagogue and to be called to the Torah for the most honorable aliyah {different people are honored to be called to the Torah during the reading}. When the community Rav had passed away, the position was filled by one of the Torah leaders. He had wanted the position in this smaller community as it would afford him a chance to devote himself to his studies in a relatively uninterrupted way. He had a small Beis Medrash {study hall} adjacent to his house wherein he immersed himself in prayer and study. When the new Rav heard of the damage being caused by this moser and his insolent demands for honor, he decided that this disgrace could not continue. On one Shabbos, the Rav appeared in the main synagogue. When the moser was called for the aliyah, the Rav pounded on the lectern and shouted: "What do you have to do with the Torah!? You endanger the lives and possessions of your brothers! How dare you come forward to pronounce a blessing on the holy Torah? Leave at once!" The humiliated man hurriedly backed out of the synagogue. As he was leaving, though, he turned to the congregation with a wicked smile and sneered: "I'll teach you… You'll all pay for this dearly…" The next few months passed uneventfully with the community nervously awaiting the explosion of the time-bomb. One day, the Rav was summoned to a nearby village to perform a bris {circumcision}. As he was traveling with two disciples, they saw in the distance the moser approaching on a horse. They became quite nervous while the Rav maintained his calm composure. Suddenly, as the horse was almost upon them, the moser jumped off the horse and ran toward the Rav. To the shock of the students, he bowed before the Rav and began to beg him for forgiveness. He then mounted his steed and rode off. The Rav turned toward his bewildered students and explained. "When I saw him approaching, I sought counsel from a passuk {verse}. I thought of the verse in Mishley [27:19]: As the face of the water reflects the face that it's shown, so too the heart of a man to a man. I started to search for some merit on his behalf. How sad, to think of the state of callousness that this man has sunken to. Perhaps, with the right education and home, this would never have happened to him. I kept thinking along these lines until I was overcome with compassion for him and bore him no animosity or ill will whatsoever. Once I was viewing him in that way, his heart responded in kind to that warmth and caring. He started to think: 'Perhaps the Rav is right. His intentions are not for personal honor or simply to fight with me. His intentions are truly for the sake of Hashem's honor.' With such reciprocal thoughts, he approached me to beg forgiveness for what he had done." Rav Yosef Chaim continued that this can really be seen in the Torah itself. Yaakov heard that Esav was approaching with four hundred ruffians. What did he do? "And he (Yaakov) bowed seven times until he had drawn close to his brother [33:3]." Yaakov 'bowed' his thinking until he was able to view Esav in a different light. He sought merit 'until he had drawn close to his brother'! Once those feelings of brotherly love had been firmly entrenched in his heart, the heart of Esav responded in kind. Overcome with compassion, Esav hugged and kissed Yaakov. "As the face of the water reflects the face that it's shown, so too the heart of a man to a man." In my line of work, at times I've had to approach boys who have been somewhat less than enthusiastically motivated towards Torah study and Judaism in general. Almost without fail I've found that if I walk into his room with the feeling that there's no way this guy's going to attend the shiur {class}, then he doesn't. If, however, I'm thinking that this young man just needs to hear Hashem's words presented in the correct way. That this guy can really make something out of himself and be extremely successful at whatever he'll decide if he'll only apply himself. Then, the response that I get is almost always an encouraging one. Let's try to compassionately see the good in others and have that be the feeling in our hearts. May the 'heart' of Hashem respond in kind, reverberating kindness and compassion by sending us the Moshiach {Messiah}, speedily in our days, Amen. Good Shabbos, This week's parsha-insights is dedicated in mazel tov to Howie Hershkovich and Martha Vays in honor of their upcoming wedding. May they be zocheh to much happiness together and to build a bayis ne'eman b'Yisroel. To Dine with The Divine What Impressed Yisro? Rabbi Shlomo Jarcaig (5764) We Were There! Class 38ᅠ- Yisro Rabbi Heshy Grossman (5760) Torah.org (5780) Get the Message? We Were Not Chosen For Our Brains Mamlekhet Kohanim V'Goy Kadosh: A Kohanic Kingdom? Haftorah Commentary Parshas Yisro Rabbi Dovid Siegel (5782) A View From the Outside Protective Shield Rabbi Raymond Beyda (5765)

A sympathetic protagonist & sweet love story make this YA Fantasy shine. Cody Forester plans to become a doctor. Instead, he becomes a werewolf. The first time Cody shows fang and fur, his parents ship him off to podunkville to live with his black sheep uncle. His revised career choice is social hermit. As the new kid, he makes more enemies than friends. His high school teachers label him a troublemaker. The whole town hates him. Except Brittany. She's beautiful, with her eyes painted black and her lips dark purple. This is Book #1 of 4 in the "Amazing Wolf Boy" series. So far it is the only one on audio. Although there were a number of things I didn't like in this book (it starts off with one of my most disliked tropes, see below), I was nevertheless drawn in from the beginning and really enjoyed it. It was well written, with characters I liked, and I especially enjoyed the realistic progression of the teenage romance. I am looking forward to when the next book becomes available on audio. Cody: He is a good kid (he even looks away when Brittany's skirt rides up). But he isn't perfect; for example, he had occasionally sent new students at his old school to the wrong place as a prank. I wish that the book hadn't gone the too typical route of given him special abilities that few/no other werewolves have. I think I would have been OK with it, if it had been pointed out that he could only do these things because nobody told him he couldn't (i.e. a result of him being kept in the dark so long). Brittany: She leans towards goth in her clothing, but without the stereotypical (in fiction at least) interest in dark kinds of things. Her New Age interests seem to be firmly in a positive vein. I liked her family. Her single mother has to work 2 jobs, but does her best to be sure her kids have a good dinner and "family time." Cody & Brittany: Their relationship begins with a very real world sort of InstaLove. The kind were a guy sees a girl and is instantly intrigued & seeks out opportunities to be closer to her and get to know her better. From there things proceed very much like real relationships I actually witnessed in High School. There is also mention that wolves mate for life, and his being sure she is his mate, but it isn't presented as a mystical bond they have no choice about. I could have done without the jocks = bullies characters. But, I really like that the gym/football coach is one of the people who are nice to him, and that he see's his players clearly and is willing to do the right thing. / I would have liked a few more females in larger roles. The book takes place in small town Florida. Shifters are real (obviously), but no other supernatural creatures are mentioned. One of the main side characters is Native American, and there are a couple of sections that discuss their remedies & beliefs. I don't know how accurate they are. There are also sections regarding New Age & tarot subjects that were consistent with what I've read in other books. The beginning was particularly well done. I was able to immediately connect emotionally with his horror at what was happening to him. And the descriptions of all the sensory input was good. The secrets were drawn out way too long, however. Since they were obvious to the reader, it made it extra frustrating. There was a complete ending with no major threads left dangling. The scene where he is very upset and the unknown other wolf flips him a fish. I COULD HAVE DONE WITHOUT: Parents who keep secrets, fail to prepare their child for potential life altering changes, and emotionally abandon said child. (I've actually written a post on how much I dislike this trope.) / A really brutal bullying scene involving a severe assault / The nudist colony and everything involved with it. / The constant repetition of Brittany's nickname for her brother, it ceased being funny really quickly on audio. CONTENT NOTES : This is a book about a teenage boy in love. There are a couple of comments about the fact that his body responds to her, but they are all very tastefully done. / Werewolves returning to human shape are naked, which leads to some awkwardness. What's your favorite book/series where the parents do their best to prepare their child for crazy stuff? Are you more or less inclined to want people to get what's coming to them when it's fictional?

Dollar is Stretched, but will it Correct? The US dollar had a good week, gaining against all the major currencies. Strong economic data underpinned it, and what we suspect is a mistaken belief that the debate about an earlier rate hike by the Fed has truly intensified. Ironically, the strong data failed to instill any traction in US bond yields. The 10-year yield was flat on the week, unable to sustain upticks above 2.40%. The 2-year yield rose about six bp, though still below 50 bp. It is in the middle of the August range. Moreover, despite the fears expressed by some hawks at the Fed about the risk to prices, few have noted the 8.5% decline in the CRB index over the past two months and the five-week slide in the price of West Texas crude oil. Broadly speaking, the dollar is stretched from a technical perspective. Yet, the fundamentals, including the upcoming ECB meeting, with new staff forecasts, the launching of the TLTRO, and the Scottish referendum in the first half of September, may stiffen the resolve of the dollar bulls, who are only now experiencing gratification on their long held views. Euro: In the second half of last week, the euro struggled to stay above the lower Bollinger Band (2 standard deviations below its 20-day moving average). The 20-day moving average contained euro upticks at the start of the week. The euro has not traded above its 20-day average since mid-July. It comes in near $1.3270. The $1.3230 level approached in the second half of last week corresponds with a retracement objective of the euro's rally that began last July near $1.2755 and peaked in early May just below $1.40. A break of that area would target the low from last September near $1.3100. One note of caution here is that the RSIs have failed to confirm the new lows recorded, and the MACDs are over-extended. The take away is to sell into bounces. Yen: After trading for the better part of the past four months in a JPY101-JPY103 trading range, the dollar finally broke out–and without the help of firmer US yields. Indeed, the US 10-year premium spent most of the past seven sessions below 190 bp and in the lower end of the where it has traded over the past year. The dollar spent most of the second half of last week above the top of its Bollinger Band. This has been seen four times previously this year and generally marked a near-term high. The JPY103.50 area held on the corrective down ticks ahead of the weekend, and JPY103 should remain intact if the breakout is for real. The highs from early April were set near JPY104.10. A convincing break of it would target JPY105. Sterling: The downtrend in sterling extended to its seventh consecutive week. In this time, it has fallen about 6.5 cents from its mid-July peak near $1.7200. Last week, it broke below its 200-day moving average for the first time since last August. The bottom Bollinger Band comes in near $1.6535, and sterling has been tracking it lower. The next level of chart support is pegged in the $1.6460-$1.6500 area. Resistance is seen in the $1.6625-50 area. READ 27 Huge Red Flags For The U.S. Economy Swiss Franc: Like the euro, there are last franc losses have not been confirmed by the technical indicators. The greenback was establishing a foothold above the CHF.0.9100 area, a retracement objective of the greenback's decline from July 2013. Additional support for the dollar is seen in the CHF0.9070-85 area. Initial resistance is seen near CHF0.9160 and then CHF0.9225. For its part, the euro is trading in narrow ranges against the franc, near its weakest level since last 2012. Canadian Dollar: The US dollar has tried in vain to rise through CAD1.10 more than a handful of times this month. However, it is not clear that the greenback bulls have given up. It may take a break of the 200-day moving average (~CAD1.0880) or the mid-August low (~CAD1.0860) to signal the capitulation. The first decline in Canadian CPI may encourage speculation that the BoC will lag behind the Fed in raising rates. Still, the strength of the retail sales (4-5x stronger than expected and the May series was revised higher as well) points to a robust Q2 GDP figure that will be reported next week (~2.6% after 1.2% in Q1), which will mean its pace of growth exceeded the US. Australian Dollar: The Aussie briefly slipped to a new 3-month low, just below $0.9240 on August 21, but quickly snapped back, leaving bullish divergences in its wake. It finished the week above its 20-day moving average for the first time in nearly a month. The initial target on the upside is $0.9350-75. Mexican peso: Technical indicators are not generating a strong signal in the peso. The dollar built a four-day base near MXN13.03. We suspect the greenback can test the MXN13.15-MXN13.1850 area without much consternation. US Treasuries: The US 10-year yield has not closed above its 20-day moving average here in August. It has not even trading above that average since August 5. It is found just below 2.45% now. A break could see 2.50%-2.53%. The 2-year yield is a bit perkier, and from a technical perspective, shows more potential to rise. The RSI and MACDs are heading higher. The weekly close was the best so far this month. The modest curve flattening is not consistent with the hawks' claim about the dangers that the Fed is slipping behind the inflation curve. S&P 500: It took the market the better part of a month to close the gap that was created with the lower opening on July 25, which signaled the 4.5% pullback. New record highs have been recorded. The technical tone is constructive, and the next target is near 2003. It has been climbing the 5-day moving average for nearly two weeks. It is found near 1984 now, and its break would be the first sign the bulls are getting tired (again). READ 2009: Looking Back on the Greatest Depression CRB Index: New six-month lows were recorded last week. There is a bullish divergence in the daily RSI, and the MACDs are in deep negative territory. The downside momentum seemed to slow around 288, a key retracement of the advance earlier this year. However, the market continues to struggle to sustain even the most modest of upticks. New lows are likely in the coming days. The initial target is near 285-286. WTI: The front-month October futures contract posted a potential key reversal on August 21, as it made a new low for the move initially and then rallied to close above the previous day's high. However, there was not follow through buying ahead of the weekend, and the contract appears set to retest the low of $92.50. Risk extends to $92.00 and then $90 a barrel. Resistance is seen $94.00-50. Observations based on speculative positioning in the futures market: 1. There were several significant position adjustments in the most recent Commitment of Traders report covering the week through August 19. Gross short positions in the euro, yen and sterling jumped by more than 10k contracts, The gross long Australian position rose by more than 10k contracts. Only five of the 14 gross positions we track rose by less than 5k contracts. Taken together this reflects increased activity, and may be a function of trending markets. 2. Specifically, the gross short euro position rose by 18k contracts to 195.6k. The gross short yen position rose by 11.6k contracts to 105.2k. The gross short sterling position rose 12.4k contracts to 58.9k. The gross long Australian dollar position rose by 11k contracts to 65.7k. 3. That said, there was a clear bias in adding to long currency futures positions, which seems to be largely a reflection of bottom picking. The lone exception was the Canadian dollar, where the longs were pared by 2.2k contracts to 41.8k. Gross short positions were also grown, though there were two exceptions. The gross short Swiss franc position was trimmed by less than 1k to 21.7k contracts, and the gross short Mexican peso position was reduced by 8.2k contracts to 43.8. 4. At 72.2k contracts, the gross long sterling position remains the largest among the currency positions we track. At 195.6k contract, the gross short euro position remains the largest. 5. The net short US 10-year Treasury speculative position slipped to 43.5k contracts from 50.2k. Gross long and short positions grew. The gross long position rose by 20.6k to 483.1k contracts. The gross short position rose by 14k contracts to 526.6k. 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Day 2: Your least favorite song This one's a hard pick as there are at least 4 that I can name that I really hate. They are (in no particular order because I hate them all pretty much equally): 01 & 02) Hey Jude and The Long and Winding Road by the Beatles. Not only do these dongs seem to take FOR-FRIGGIN-EVER to play, but that dingbat I was married to LOVED the Beatles and that's pretty much all he'd play. Not only did we hear them ad nauseum via cassettes, but he also insisted on playing them on his guitars (acoustic mostly but later he got himself a second hand electric) AND sing along. Dude was tone deaf. These two got played quite often. 03) Unchained Melody. This one actually fits elsewhere in the list so we won't bother putting the video up quite yet for it. and the last one (but certainly NOT the least on the list is): Drum roll please Yeah go figure that the group that gave us my favorite song also created one of my most hated songs. Why? Because everytime I go into a chat room or music sharing place, people take a glance at my name and figuring out that I do love me some Styx, they play this one. *barf* Puh-LEEZ! This one actually fits in in a way in a few days so expect a revisit to it. Well - any song would be destroyed if what happened to songs #1 and #2 were to happen to them!! I've always enjoyed Styx ever since I heard "A.D. 1928 / Rockin' the Paradise" - such exuberant really got my feet shufflin' (way past toe tappin'!) My least favorite? Wow.. now that's a hard one. Kanye West, "Gettin' It In"? or Jay-Z, "It's Hot"... but there are lots of runners up! Kid Rock and Allison Moorer (I think that's her name) "Picture" is one of my least favorite of all time. Chat stream wore that song to a frazzle when I didn't like it to begin with. The first time I heard it I thought it was a joke because they sound off key. Another song that makes me barf is a country song recorded by the Pirates of the Mississippi called "Feed Jake". Stoopid! You have to understand that song came out when my kids were in their growing up years and hubby was listening to only country music. They heard me scream a time or two when that song came on the radio. Oh and I have to add Debbie Boone's "You Light up My Life" because it is so sappy. Geeze, I could go on and on and on..... Sorry, Punkn, but I love "Feed Jake" LOL. Songs I really don't like? (Hate is such a strong word): "Ticks" by Brad Paisley Everything by Rush with the exception of "Overture" and "Temples of Syrinx" from 2112. Punkn: The Kid Rock song was with Sheryl Crow and I so feel you on that one. That and the Gretchen Wilson When I Feel Like Cheating song. I went on strike and basically refused to play either one. Chicago: *chuckles* I like ~some~ Rush, not all and I adore the Ticks song. Iggy: If you get a chance, check out the Cyclorama cd... a few decent ones on that one too. Least favourite... Can't just name a song... Anything that falls in to the rap catagory, anything where there are a lot of swear words, and... Well, basically all the stuff my brother listens to and claims is music, but sounds like just noise meant to induce headaches!

Raymond James analyst Laura Chico initiated Dova Pharmaceuticals with an Outperform and $44 price target. Chico's physician survey indicates suggest a need for novel treatments like Dova's Droptelet and said investor expectations are modest, providing a favorable setup for shares. As previously reported, Leerink analyst Geoffrey Porges upgraded Dova Pharmaceuticals to Outperform from Market Perform after Shionogi announced results from its phase III trial investigating thrombopoietin receptor agonist lusutrombopag for the treatment of thrombocytopenia in patients with chronic liver disease undergoing an invasive procedure. The analyst notes that lusutrombopag is from the same class of drugs as Dova's avatrombopag, but is less effective ex-Japan, and believes Dova's avatrombopag has advantage. Porges also raised his price target on Dova's shares to $32 from $24. Jefferies analyst Eun Yang raised her price target for Dova Pharmaceuticals to $33 after avatrombopag received FDA priority review with an action date of May 21, 2018. The analyst sees a higher probability for regulatory success of 95% and potential approval three months earlier than previously thought. She keeps a Buy rating on Dova. Ladenburg Thalmann analyst Matthew Kaplan started Dova Pharmaceuticals with a Buy rating and $65 price target.

having a Chinese Someone who regularly reads/comments on this blog (you know who you are, but I won't say because your blog seems pretty anonymi{s/z}ed) wrote yesterday: we went to the supermarket and then had a Chinese. I suppose we could put this with the count/mass differences I discussed last week. In AmE you could have Chinese for dinner or have Chinese food, but have a Chinese sounds a little like cannibalism. This have a [insert cuisine here] construction is used for take-away (BrE; AmE = take-out) meals, rather than fine dining experiences. Other examples: [on the great nightlife for yoof (BrE slang) in Doncaster:] ...all we can do is go into town on a Friday night. Or maybe go to the cinema and have a McDonalds. (bbc.co.uk) When in Spain, do as the locals do...have an Indian. (Benidorm Spotlight) When I have a Burger King I have a diet coke to offset the damage. (What Mountain Bike Forum) In AmE, you could go to McDonalds or eat at McDonalds or have a Big Mac, but you couldn't have a McDonalds. Unless you were a franchisee, of course. Better Half points out that in AmE you can get your coffee in a to-go cup, but in the UK it has to be a take-away cup, which might be made of paper or polystyrene (AmE=styrofoam). Labels: count/mass , determiners , food/cooking , idioms , verbs Oooh, I don't think I've ever been described as anonymous before. It's not so much for myself, but for my web developer husband :) I've never thought that it could sound like cannabilism... I said it without a second thought, it's bizarre. My husband would "go out for a meal" -- while, as an American, would "go out for dinner/lunch". Also, he's just come up with another -- he would "go out FOR a meal or FOR dinner", while I would "go out TO dinner." Interesting site. I noticed a lot of differences in language when I was dating an Englishman. One of the things he used to say was "I was sat..." instead of "I was sitting..." Have you ever heard this? It doesn't sound like proper grammar to me. Also, as Janet says, he would say "meal" more often than the average American. I don't really like that word, as it reminds me of "mealy". BTW, thanks for explaining the rutabaga/swede connection. I finally know what I ate when I visited England. And all this time, I thought the English had discovered a new vegetable! Yes, meal is more common here when talking about going out to eat--especially when it's going out to eat the main meal of the day. Perhaps this is just to avoid deciding whether to say dinner or supper or tea or whatever. I've been told it's "charming" that Americans say dinner for almost any evening meal (and some midday ones too), as it sounds rather formal to ears here. I was sat sounds odd to Americans because it seems like a passive form, but only transitive verbs should be able to take the passive form and sit is generally intransitive. But it doesn't give quite the same feel as I was sitting, does it? The progressive form sitting indicates that an activity is going on--the sitting activity. I was sat sounds a lot more, well, passive--you'd say I was sat in front of the telly, but probably not I was sat at a lovely cafe talking to the most interesting people!. It's not a standard usage, but it is BrE. There is some discussion of it at: http://www.lydbury.co.uk/grammar/forum_posts.asp?TID=9820 I should say that the previous comment I left was written without any British input (Better Half is away), so my intuitions about when one would say I was sat could be completely wrong... On the subject of meals, it used to crack me up every time my ex-bf used to say "I'm eating my tea." Funny, but before reading the rest of the comments my immediate thought was "I was sat" sounds like it should end "by the waiter at a horrible/nice table". Technically, BE + -ED is a passive construction. "Was sat" is passive. Yet it's being used to replace "BE + ING" progressive? That's definitely interesting. I wouldn't say 'was sat' is replacing 'was sitting'--I'd say that it's doing a slightly different job. Tregina 25 July, 2006 12:25 Thank goodness for this post! If I hadn't read about 'having an Indian' before going to England last week for the first time, hearing it would have sent me into hysteria! :) Here's another odd sounding usage in the 'I was sat' category. It comes from a MUD I play whose server is housed in Brighton. When the player arrives in a new location, the description sometimes reads "You are stood in a..." It was jarring the first time I encountered it, but that and 'are/was sat' seem normal now. Anonymous 14 October, 2006 15:27 I am Mexican, whose spoken AmE all my life and just moved to England. The other day a Brit friend asked me if he could "pinch a fag" and let me say we were not in a gay club. Can you imagine my surprise when he expained that he was asking for a cigarrette? Any idea were that expression came from? It's also common in AmE to say, "We had McDonald's/Subway/..." Emmet 07 May, 2009 04:11 Love the blog! Sorry to comment on an old post, but I'm working my way backwards...;) I'm a native speaker of both BrE (well, IrE, but I spent a year doing a((post-)graduate course/degree in England)) and AmE, and I see "bused" as the preferred past of "to bus" in both. Google has it at about two to one, and the latter probably includes a few "kisses" anyway... posted to the wrong post, sorry! Whenever someone says "I was sat" [somewhere], I can hear my late mother say sternly "Sitting!". It is not correct usage in British English, but is becoming increasingly common. Kate (Derby, UK) Richard Gadsden 23 August, 2012 22:18 This reminds me of the fantastic Goodness Gracious Me sketch "going out for an English". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpStoROu0XE Johnny E 07 March, 2014 17:04 I'm not sure it only applies to takeaways - a sit-down meal at a low/mid-range restaurant would be "going (out) for a(n) [nationality]". As in that "going out for an English" sketch. "but 'have a Chinese' sounds a little like cannibalism." Is there a difference in use of "a Chinese" for a person? Because I've seen it a few times from American sources, but I have a feeling many Brits would avoid that construction. I suppose once upon a time we might have said "a Chinaman" (a la Frenchman, Irishman, Englishman), but that's got racist connotations too. "Chinese person" seems to be the only option remaining. lynneguist 18 March, 2014 09:08 Americans wouldn't generally call a Chinese person 'a Chinese' but it's the most natural way to interpret the phrase if we hear it, rather than a meal interpretation. The OED hasn't yet accepted a Chinese, but this is part of the entry for Indian 10. Brit. colloq. (a) A meal served at an Indian restaurant; (also) a takeaway Indian meal; (b) a restaurant serving Indian food. 1982 P. Redmond Brookside (Mersey TV shooting script) Episode 4. 60 C'mon, we're going out for an Indian. 1988 C. Keatley My Mother said I never Should ii. 25/2 We could get a take-out Indian. 1995 D. McLean Bunker Man 183 At Grant's party, at the Indian, the way you just walked out! 1998 A. Warner Sopranos 164 We've got Light of India and yon Bamboo place..but when ya grow up in the villages, well when are you goan have an Indian? 2002 Time Out 2 Jan. 47/2 The basement dining room aims to rival London's finest Indians with a set dinner menu costing £39 per head. The quotation from Sopranos grabbed my attention. However, it turns out to be not the American TV series but a Scottish novel. As a Brit, I would say you can omit the article i.e. saying "Do you want to have Indian/Chinese/Malaysian etc. for dinner?" Also I'm pretty sure 'sat' is a quasi-adjective in 'I was sat' describing a state (analogous to "I was hot"). It seems to focus more on the actual seated position to me, emphasising the seated posture, whereas 'I was sitting' is more incidental. David Crosbie 28 October, 2015 01:38 Culinary a Chinese still hasn't made it into the OED online, but Oxford Dictionaries subsidiary dictionary has it as British informal in two senses: • 'a Chinese meal' e.g. a takeaway Chinese washed down with Chardonnay • 'a Chinese restaurant' e.g. we found a Chinese in Soho I think we've discussed was sat elsewhere, but can't find the link. In the northern half of England, and probably in other regions Perfect forms like I was sat, I was stood etc are perfectly normal and acceptable. In parts of Southern England some people regard them as non-standard. For me personally, • I was sitting focusses on the posture • I was sat focusses on the location • I was seated also focusses on the location but is much more formal Present Perfects formed with be rather than have have a long history in English, but have dwindled in recent centuries. According to a recent Historical Syntax of English by Bettelou Los, these forms continued until about 1900. I suspect that was sat, was stood were preserved — if only in regional variants — because they were no longer Present Perfect in meaning. • I can say I was sat in the front row • but I can't say I am was already sat there for an hour or I am sat here long enough. • I can only say I had already sat there for an hour and I have sat here long enough.

Mathematical Ramblings About the author: Dr. A.J. Bruce Category Archives: Physics Physics, Post Doc Luxembourg, Research work A "higher graded" version of supersymmetry and superspace December 10, 2018 ajb Leave a comment In a preprint On a ℤ₂ⁿ-Graded Version of Supersymmetry I construct a "higher" graded version of the extended supersymmetry algebras and construct the corresponding generalisation of Minkowski superspace. Supersymmetry is a powerful non-classical symmetry that relates bosons and fermions. A geometric understanding of this can be found under the umbrella of "superspace" methods, which rely on the theory of supermanifolds. At a basic level, one starts with Minkowski space-time and then appends to this anticommuting spinor coordinates. By anticommuting we mean that θ1 θ2 = – θ2 θ1 The fact that we append object that anticommute is deeply tied to that fact that quasi-classically, fermionic fields require us to use such weird things. This is really a form of the Pauli exclusion principle. However, from a mathematical point of view, there is no reason why we cannot append spinors with more exotic relations between them. Indeed, people have considered "non-anticommuting superspaces" inspired by the way string theory should modify space-time on the smallest scales. In the preprint, I consider a very mild version of this non-anticommutativity by appending spinors that commute (i.e., the order does not matter) up to a sign given by a ℤ₂ⁿ-grading. This leads to spinors that square to zero (as they should), yet commute amongst themselves! This is very different from the standard theory of supermanifolds and supersymmetry. In fact, we are immediately reminded of Green-Volkov parastatistics. I comment on this in the preprint, though parastatistical versions of "superspace" were not my main motivation with this work. It seems that just about everything can be generalised to this higher graded setting using the theory of ℤ₂ⁿ-geometry, which is itself a new and developing piece of mathematics. In particular, a higher graded version of Minkowski superspace is given and the corresponding supersymmetry transformations are explored in the preprint. Education, General Mathematics, Physics Can one disprove special relativity with high school mathematics? March 19, 2016 ajb Leave a comment Is it possible using mathematics that is not much beyond high school mathematics to prove that special relativity is wrong? And what does that even mean? The mathematics of special relativity It is more-or-less true that Einstein's original works on special relativity do not really use any highbrow mathematics. In a standard undergraduate introduction to the subject no more than linear algebra is really used: vector spaces, matrices and quadratic forms. So, as linear algebra is well-founded, one is not going to find some internal inconsistencies in special relativity. Moreover, today we understand special relativity to be based on the geometry of Minkowski space-time. Basically, this is Euclidean with an awkward minus sign in the metric. Thus, special relativity, from a geometric perspective, is as well-founded as any thing in differential geometry. So one is not going to mathematically prove that special relativity is wrong in any mathematical sense. On to physics… However, the theory of special relativity is falsifiable in the sense of Popper. That is, taking into account the domain of validity (ie., just the situations you expect the theory to work), experimental accuracy, statistical errors etc. one can compare the theoretical predictions with what is measured in experiments. If the predictions match the theory well, up to some pre-described level, then the theory is said to be 'good'. Otherwise the theory is 'bad' and not considered to be a viable description of nature. In this sense, using not much more that linear algebra one could in principle calculate something within special relativity that does not agree well with nature (being careful with the domain of validity etc). Thus, one can in principle show that special relativity is not a 'good' theory by finding some mismatch between the theory and observations. This must be the case if we want to consider special relativity as a scientific theory. Is special relativity 'good' or 'bad'? Today we have no evidence, direct or indirect, to suggest that special relativity is not a viable description of nature (as ever taking into account the domain of validity). For example, the standard model of particle physics has at its heart special relativity. So far we have had great agreement with theory and experiment, the electromagnetic sector is extremely well tested. This tells us that special relativity is 'good'. Even the more strange predictions like time dilation are realised. For example the difference in the life-time of muons as measured at rest and at high speed via cosmic rays agrees very well with the predictions of special relativity. Including gravity into the mix produces general relativity. However, we know that on small enough scales general relativity reduces to special relativity. Any evidence that general relativity is a 'good' theory also indirectly tells us that special relativity is 'good'. Apart from all the other tests, I offer the discovery of gravitational waves as evidence that general relativity is 'good' and thus special relativity is also 'good'. The clause The important thing to remember is that the domain of validity is vital in deciding if a theory is 'good' or 'bad'. We know that physics depends on the scales at which you observe, so we in no way would expect special relativity be a viable description across all scales. For example, when gravity comes into play we have to consider general relativity. On the very smallest length scales, outside of what we can probe, we expect the nature of space-time to be modified to take into account quantum mechanics. Thus, at these smallest length scales we would not expect the description of space-time using special relativity to be a very accurate one. So, no one is claiming that special relativity, nor general relativity is the final say on the structure of space and time. All we are claiming is that we do have 'good' theories by the widely accepted definition. Are all claims that relativity is wrong bogus? Well, one would have to examine all claims carefully to answer that… However, in my experience most objections to special relativity are based on either philosophical grounds or misinterpreting the calculations. Neither of these are enough to claim that Einstein was completely wrong in regards to relativity. Astronomy, Physics The Polish and Welsh contributions to the discovery of gravitational waves February 14, 2016 ajb Leave a comment I just want to acknowledge the contributions of two teams to the discovery of gravitational waves. These groups are only part of the wider community and I highlight them for purely personal reasons. The Polish group The Virgo-POLGRAW group, lead by Prof. Andrzej Królak at IMPAN. The Welsh group The Cardiff Gravitational Physics Group, and within that the Data Innovation Institute lead by Prof Bernard F Schutz. On the physics of chocolate August 28, 2015 ajb Leave a comment Researchers at Technische Universität München, Germany, have reported that molecular dynamics can be used to gain new insights into the chocolate conching [1]. Chocolate conching is the stage of manufacturing where aromatic sensation, texture and mouthfeel are developed. This work seems to be the first to attempt to properly understand the role of lecithins in chocolate production. Physics, helping to build a tasty more palatable world. [1] M Kindlein, M Greiner, E Elts and H Briesen, Interactions between phospholipid head groups and a sucrose crystal surface at the cocoa butter interface, 2015 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 48 384002. Chocolate physics: how modelling could improve mouthfeel, IOP website. Physics, Post Doc Poland, Research work The 2nd Conference of the Polish Society on Relativity July 14, 2015 ajb Leave a comment I will be attending the 2nd conference of the Polish Society of Relativity which will celebrate 100 years of general relativity. The conference is in Warsaw and will be held over the period 23-28 November 2015. The invited speakers include George Ellis, Roy Kerr, Roger Penrose and Kip Thorne. I am a little excited about this. Registration is now open and you can follow the link below to find out more. Polskie Towarzystwo Relatywistyczne June 6, 2015 ajb Leave a comment The subject of a quantum theory of gravity is interesting, technical and very difficult. However, there are three basic principles that we expect such a theory to obey. Creating a full quantum theory of gravity seems to be out of our reach right now. String theory comes close, but the full theory here is not understood. Loop quantum gravity also offers a good picture, but again technicalities spoil achieving the goal. I am no expert in quantum gravity, but I thought it maybe interesting to outline three basic 'rules'. The full quantum theory of gravity should be: Renormalisable (maybe not perturbatively) or finite. Background independent. Reducible to general relativity (plus small corrections) in a sensible classical limit. As a warning, I will not be too technical here, but will use some standard language from quantum field theory. Renormalisable The standard methods of quantum field theory are to expand the theory about some fixed configuration, usually the vacuum, and consider small fluctuations about this reference configuration. However, in doing so some techniques are needed to remove the appearance of infinite values of things you would like to measure in the lab. These methods are collective known as 'perturbative renormalisation'. For example, we know that the quantum theory of electrodynamics can be handled properly using these methods. However, general relativity as described by Einstein is not amenable to methods of perturbative renormalisation. Well, this is true if we want a full theory. What one can do is consider quantum general relativity as an effective theory. That is we accept that at some energy scale the theory will breakdown, but as long as we are not at that scale the theory is okay. By adding a 'cut-off' we can understand quantum general relativity using Feynman diagrams to 'one-loop' and calculate graviton scattering amplitudes and so on. Interestingly, there is some evidence that general relativity or something close to it is nonperturbatively renormalisable; this is known as asymptotic safety. With no details, the idea is that quantum general relativity is not 'sick' and well-defined, just not as a perturbative theory like quantum electrodynamics. This is fascinating as it means that a proper quantum theory of gravity may not be a theory of gravitons after all! Recall that small ripples in the electromagnetic field are quantised and understood to be photons. Maybe it is not really possible to describe quantum gravity in a similar way where small ripples in space-time are quantised. Alternatively, a full theory of quantum gravity could be finite. That is we can employ perturbative methods, but do not need renormalisation techniques. Amazingly, we know of supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories that are finite. Moreover, superstring theory is also finite (I am unsure as to how rigours the proof are here, but the string community generally accept this as fact). It maybe possible that the full theory of quantum gravity is finite from the start. This suggests that looking at supersymmetric theories of gravity is a good idea, but by no means the only thing one can think about. In short, any full quantum theory of gravity must allow us to calculate things we can hope to measure. Background independence This means that the theory should not depend on any chosen background geometric fields. In particular, this is taken to mean that the theory should not require some chosen background metric. String theory as it stands fails on this. However, string theory is usually employed using perturbation theory and so some classical background is chosen, often 10-d flat space-time. Loop quantum gravity seems better in this respect, but it has other problems. In short, any full quantum theory of gravity should not require us to fix the geometry (and maybe topology) from the start. Reduce to general relativity General relativity has been so successful in describing classical gravitational phenomena. It is tested to some huge degree of accuracy and so far no deviations from it's predictions have been found. General relativity is a good theory within the expected domains of validity. Thus, any quantum theory of gravity must in some classical limit reduce to general relativity, up to small corrections. These quantum corrections must be small enough as not to be seen already in astrophysics and cosmology. If a quantum theory of gravity cannot be shown to reduce to general relativity in some limits (there maybe several ways of doing this) then we cannot be sure that we really have a quantum theory of gravity. Today we know that string theory gives us general relativity + small corrections. In essence this is because the spectra of closed string theory contains a spin-2 boson, via rather general arguments we know that this has to be the graviton and the field equations are essentially the Einstein field equations. (Remember this is all in perturbation theory). Recovering general relativity from loop quantum gravity has yet to be done. This I would say is a sticking point right now. In short, any full quantum theory of gravity must reproduce the phenomena of general relativity is some classical limit(s). The original review of general relativity It has now been 99 years, to the day (20/03/2015) since Einstein published his original summary of general relativity [1]. Before that he had published some incomplete works that have the wrong field equation, but the key ideas were in place by 1914. The core idea is that space-time is dynamical and interacts with the matter and energy. It is hard to believe that this theory of gravity has stood the test of time so well. We know for various reasons that general relativity cannot be the complete picture, but nature just refuses to give us hints on what could be the more complete theory. [1] A. Einstein, Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie, Annalen der Physik 354 (7), 1916, 769-822. General Mathematics, Physics, Post Doc Poland, Research work Supersymmetry and mathematics Prof Beate Heinemann, from the Atlas experiment at CERN had said that they may detect supersymmetric particles as early as this summer. But what if they don't? What if nature does not realise supersymmetry? Has my interest in supermathematics been a waste of time? Superysmmetry We hope that we're just now at this threshold that we're finding another world, like antimatter for instance. We found antimatter in the beginning of the last century. Maybe we'll find now supersymmetric matter Prof Beate Heinemann [1] In nature there are two families of particles. The bosons, like the photon and the fermions, like the electron. Bosons are 'friendly' particles and they are quite happy to share the same quantum state. Fermions are the complete opposite, they are more like hermits and just won't share the same quantum state. In the standard model of particle physics the force carriers are bosons and matter particles are fermions. The example here is the photon which is related to the electromagnetic force. On the other side we have the quarks that make up the neutron & proton and the electron, all these are fermions and together they form atoms. Supersymmetry is an amazing non-classical symmetry that relates bosons and fermions. That is there are situations for which bosons and fermions can be treated equally. Again note the very different 'lifestyle' of these two families. If supersymmetry is realised in nature then every boson will have a fermionic partner and vice versa. In one swoop the known fundamental particles of nature are (at least) doubled! Moreover, the distinction between matter and forces becomes blurred! A little mathematics Without details, the theory of bosons requires the so called Canonical Commutation Relation or CCR. Basically it is given by \([\hat{x},\hat{p}] = \hat{x} \hat{p} – \hat{p} \hat{x} = i \hbar \). Here x 'hat' is interpreted as the position operator and p 'hat' the momentum. The right hand side of this equation is a physical constant called Planck's constant (multiplied by the complex unit, but this is inessential). The above equation really is the basis of all quantum mechanics. The classical limit is understood as setting the right hand side to zero. Doing so we 'remove the hat' and get \(xp- px =0 \). Thus, the classical theory of bosons does not require anything beyond (maybe complex) numbers. Importantly, the order of the multiplication does not matter here at all, just think of standard multiplication of real numbers. The situation for fermions is a little more interesting. Here we have the so called Canonical Anticommutation Relations or CAR, \(\{\hat{\psi}, \hat{\pi} \} = \hat{\psi} \hat{\pi} + \hat{\pi} \hat{\psi} = i \hbar\). Again these operators have an interpretation as position and momentum, in a more generalised setting. Note the difference in the sign here, this is vital. Again we can take a classical limit resulting in \(\psi \pi + \pi \psi =0\). But hang on. This means that we cannot interpret this classical limit in terms of standard numbers. Well, unless we just set everything to zero. Really we have taken a quasi-classical limit and realise that the description of fermions in this limit require us to consider 'numbers' that anticommute; that is ab = -ba. Note this means that aa= -aa =0. Thus we have nilpotent 'numbers', that is non-zero 'numbers' that square to zero. This is odd indeed. Supermathematics and supergeometry In short, supermathematics is all about the algebra, calculus and geometry one can do when including these anticommuting 'numbers'. The history of such things can be traced back to Grassmann in 1844, pre-dating the applications in physics. Grassmann's interests were in linear algebra. These odd 'numbers' (really the generators of) are usually referred to as Grassmann variables and the algebra they form a Grassmann algebra. One of my interests is in doing geometry with such odd variables, this is well established and a respectable area of research, if not very well represented. Loosely, think about simple coordinate geometry in high school, but now we include these odd numbers in our description. I will only reference the original paper here [2], noting that many other works evolved from this including some very readable books. What if no supersymmetry in nature? This would not mean the end of research into supermathematics and its applications in both physics & mathematics. From a physics perspective supersymmetry is a powerful symmetry that can vastly simplify many calculations. There is an industry here that works on using supersymmertic results and applying them to the non-supersymmetric case. This I cannot see simply ending if supersymmetry is not realised in nature, it could be viewed as a powerful mathematical trick. In fact, similar tricks are already mainstream in physics in the context of quantising classical gauge theories, like the Yang-Mills theory that describes the strong force. These methods come under the title of BRST-BV (after the guys who first discovered it). Maybe I can say more about this another time. From a mathematics point of view supergeometry pushes what we know as geometry. It gives us a workable stepping stone into the world of noncommutative geometry, which is a whole collections of works devoted to understanding general (usually associative) algebras as the algebra of functions on 'generalised spaces'. The motivation here also comes from physics by applying quantum theory to space-time and gravity. Supergeometry has also shed light on classical constructions. For example, the theory of differential forms can be cast neatly in the framework of supermanifolds. Related to this are Lie algebroids and their generalisations, all of which are neatly described in terms of supergeometry [3]. A very famous result here is Witten's 1982 proof of the Morse inequalities using supersymmetric quantum mechanics [4]. This result started the interest in applying physics to questions in topology, which is now a very popular topic. Supermathematics has proved to be a useful concept in mathematics with applications in physics beyond just 'supersymmetry'. The geometry here pushes our classical understanding, provides insight and answers to questions that would not be so readily available in the purely classical setting. Supergeometry, although initially motivated by supersymmetry goes much further than just supersymmetric theories and this is independent of CERN showing us supersymmetry in nature or not. [1] Jonathan Amos, Collider hopes for a 'super' restart, BBC NEWS. [2] F. A. Berezin and D. A. Leites, Supermanifolds, Soviet Math. Dokl. 6 (1976), 1218-1222. [3] A Yu Vaintrob, Lie algebroids and homological vector fields, 1997 Russ. Math. Surv. 52 428. [4] Edward Witten, Supersymmetry and Morse theory, J. Differential Geom. Volume 17, Number 4 (1982), 661-692. Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Symposium Videos December 5, 2014 ajb Leave a comment The videos from the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Symposium are now available to watch, follow the link below. The symposium was held on the 10th November at Stanford University and co-hosted by UC-San Francisco and UC-Berkeley. There was a panel discussion with Adam Riess, Brian Schmidt, Saul Perlmutter and Yuri Milner, and individual 20-minute talks from Nima Arkani-Hamed, Juan Maldacena, Andrei Linde, Stephen Shenker, Alexei Kitaev, Patrick Hayden, John Preskill, Nathan Seiberg, Joe Polchinski and Uros Seljak. Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Videos 2015 Why there is no equivalence principle for electromagnetic theory November 10, 2014 ajb 6 Comments Quite regularly one will come across a website, blog or some thread on a forum that says the gravity is just electromagnetism. For sure they are not the same. However, I am not sure what would constitute the 'nail in the coffin' for all these clams. With this in mind, I am not going to try to debunk every such claim. However, I think the reason for this seeming equivalence comes from the static limit. In this limit it is true that there are many formal similarities between Newtonian gravity and electrostatics. In fact there are many formal similarities in the full classical theories, both are very geometrical in nature, but I won't go into details here. I just wanted to point out one very clear difference between gravity and electromagnetism that can be seen in this static limit. That is the lack of a generalisation of the equivalence principal for electromagnetic theory. This principal in gravity is very important and one that I will comment on in due course. The static limit I am guessing that we have all seen Coulombs law for electrostatics and Newton's law for gravity. Let me just write them down \( F = k \frac{qQ}{r^{2}}\), where \(k\) is Coulombs constant, it is a measure of the strength of the electrostatic force and \(q\) and \(Q\) are the electric charges of two point particles. The above expression is the electrostatic force between two such charged particles. Similarly we have Newton's law of gravity \( F = G \frac{mM}{r^{2}}\), where \(G\) is Newton's constant which measures the strength of the gravitational force and \(m\) and \(M\) are the masses of two point particles. The above expression measures the gravitational force between these particles. These expressions for the forces should be seen as the static non-relativistic limit. I just mean that as long as the particles are moving slow enough then the change in the fields can be viewed as instantaneous. This is okay for many applications, but it is not the full picture. However, it is the one you see at high school. The formal similarities at this level are clear. You just need to swap constants and interchange charge and mass. But this does not mean they are the same, and there is a subtle issue here. Before that we need Newton's law of motion Newton's second law Newton's second law tells us that the force exerted on a particle is proportional to the acceleration of that particle. Moreover, the constant of proportionality is the (inertial) mass. \(F = m a \). That is all we will need. The gravitational equivalence principal Let us think of the particle of mass \(m\) as a test particle. That is we will think of how it is moving in the gravitational field generated by the particle \(M\) and that it does not generate a gravitational field of its own. This approximation is good for small objects moving in the gravitational field of big objects; say planets around a star or satellites in orbit around the Earth. Now we can examine how the small mass is influenced by the big mass. We should just equate the two expressions due to Newton \( ma = G \frac{mM}{r^{2}} \), for which we can solve for the acceleration \(a = G \frac{M}{r^{2}}\). We notice a very amazing thing. The small mass cancels from both sides of the equation. (We assume that gravitational mass and inertial mass are the same. This seems to be case in nature.) This means that the motion of the test particle does not care about any of the intrinsic properties of that particle. The only things it does care about is the initial position and velocity. This is one form of the equivalence principal which has it's roots in the experimental work of Galileo- acceleration of a test particle due to gravity is independent of the mass being accelerated. Thus, really all the information about the test particles motion is encoded in the gravitational field alone. All test particles whatever their mass will behave the same. This is the clue that gravity can be formulated very intrinsically in terms of space-time geometry alone; this leads to general relativity which is not the subject for today. The electromagnetic version Now let us play the same game with electrostatics… \( ma = k \frac{q Q}{r^{2}} \), where we think of the test particle \((m, q)\) moving in the electric field generated by the particle \((M,Q)\). Now solving for the acceleration gives us \(a = k \left(\frac{q}{m}\right) \frac{Q}{r^{2}} \). Now we see the difference. The motion of the test particle does depend on the intrinsic properties of that particle, namely the charge-mass ratio. There is no similar statement like for gravitational physics; there is no equivalence principle. Everything above is done in a particular limit of the full classical theories. The same picture is true when we examine the motion of test particles in general relativity and the Lorentz force in electromagnetic theory. I have chosen these limits because I think this is clear and also the source of the instance that gravity is just electromagnetic theory. I have pointed out one clear and explicit difference. One can do the same with Coulomb's law for the magnetic force. Although magnetism is a bit more complicated we can examine the situation for point-like poles. This is okay for small enough poles that are well separated. You will reach the same conclusion that there is no equivalence principal in this situation. Thus, gravity is not magnetism either. Random thoughts on mathematics, physics and more… Welcome to Mathematical Ramblings The intention with this blog is to post maybe once or twice a month about mathematical physics, theoretical physics, pure mathematics and anything else I find interesting. This blog will also be used for dissemination of my work and entries related to my research will feature heavily. Disclaimer: Any views of opinions expressed on this blog are that of the author and do not necessarily reflect that of any other individual or institution the author maybe associated with. My name is Andrew Bruce and I am a mathematical physicist who works on the boundaries of physics and modern geometry. Currently I am Research Associate in the Mathematics Research Unit of the University of Luxembourg. My research interests are in mathematical physics and modern geometry. 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We hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving holiday and are ready to take a break from the shopping mall to see what you missed this week at Third and State. We blogged about the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue's Britney Spears moment, the challenges of reading all the way to the end, and why it's good to be king (or at least a well-paid CEO). On the Marcellus Shale, Michael Wood blogged about a $56 million "oops" by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue in estimates it made earlier this year of Marcellus Shale industry tax contributions in 2010. On jobs and the economy, Mark Price explained why it's a good idea to read to the end before criticizing the work of others. He also highlighted in the Morning Must Reads The Philadelphia Inquirer's series "America: What Went Wrong" and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's series on what happened to the middle class. In other Morning Must Reads, Mark Price shared news stories on the fallout of fiscal austerity across the Commonwealth and wrote about the big bucks the new CEO of Pittsburgh-based American Eagle Outfitters will be making. As King Louis XVI of France was fond of saying, it's good to be king. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released new estimates of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act's impact on employment and output (the quantity of goods and services in the economy). Commenting on the new ARRA estimates, Paul Krugman argues that the U.S. has been practicing austerity since the middle of 2010. Failing to do more to boost employment growth means tax revenues remain depressed for state and local governments. And this means higher local taxes and more layoffs at a time when the unemployment rate remains higher in most cities and counties in Pennsylvania than it was even at the worst of the last two recessions. Recent commentaries by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's editorial board and the Allegheny Institute in Pittsburgh offer a good lesson for why you should really try to read all the way to the end. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports this morning that the Pittsburgh-based retailer American Eagle Outfitters has hired a new CEO. So what is it like to be the CEO of the company most responsible for millions of tweens wearing sweat pants in locations other than the gym? Well, for starters, you get a nice signing bonus and $15,000 for your lawyer to review your contract, a luxury car and a severance package equal to two years of your salary plus your stock options should things not work out. The new CEO made $2.6 million a year at Levi Strauss, so he just got a 242% raise. As King Louis XVI of France was fond of saying, it's good to be king. American Eagle Outfitters Inc.'s new CEO Robert L. Hanson could make as much as $26.7 million over his first three years with the company, the South Side clothing retailer disclosed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Averaged over the three-year contract, the $8.9 million a year Hanson could make leading American Eagle would rank him near the top 10 CEOs in Pittsburgh for annual compensation in 2010. If you are concerned about a lack of good jobs for the 99%, one positive development is that Governor Tom Corbett has formed an advisory council to be housed at the Team PA Foundation to focus on issues important to manufacturing. On average, manufacturing jobs pay better than jobs in the service sector (especially at the low end, see the chart) so it makes sense to do what can be done to expand manufacturing employment. Morning Must Reads: What Went Wrong and the Confidence Fairy Is Back! Over the next year, The Philadelphia Inquirer will be updating a series from 1991 titled "America: What Went Wrong," by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele. This morning, Barlett and Steele take on the legacy of Apple Computers. The death of Steve Jobs was followed by an avalanche of superlatives — brilliant, genius, and visionary among the more common. He was likened to Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, and Thomas Edison. But in the case of Edison, there was one significant difference that went unmentioned. For more than a century, just one of Edison's inventions alone — the incandescent lightbulb — was manufactured at numerous locations in the United States, providing employment for millions of Americans across family generations. While Barlett and Steele explore what went wrong, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's series Middle of Nowhere continues today with a survey of major events and policy choices that are thought to be important to creating the middle class in America. This week, we blogged about the latest developments in enacting a Marcellus Shale drilling fee, more bad employment news for Pennsylvania and a new study ranking nations based on indicators of social well being (the U.S. doesn't do so good). On the Marcellus Shale, Sharon Ward provided an update on legislative developments in the Pennsylvania House, and Michael Wood shared a new fact check from the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center comparing the effective rates of leading drilling tax and fee plans before the General Assembly. On inequality, Stephen Herzenberg blogged about a new study that ranks the 31 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries on eight indicators of social well-being. The U.S. ranks 27th. On jobs and unemployment, Mark Price wrote about more bad employment news for Pennsylvania, including a revised outlook from the Philadelphia Federal Reserve signaling that the state's economy will be shrinking through the first quarter of 2012. In the Morning Must Reads this week, Mark Price summed up local unemployment data, shared an amusing video from The Daily Show suggesting that it is time for the 1% to go on strike, wrote about rising college tuition and budget strains for local governments, highlighted a lack of political will for fixing the broken economy, and noted that some in the U.S. Senate would just prefer that people that have to drive over structurally deficient bridges would just drop dead. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the body that establishes monetary policy at the Federal Reserve, announced on Wednesday that it is expecting the economy to grow more slowly than previously thought over the next several years. In response to the deteriorating economic situation, the committee decided to do nothing. At his press conference explaining the FOMC decision, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke urged Congress to do something about jobs. 'I think it would be helpful if we could get assistance from other parts of the government to help create more jobs,' Mr. Bernanke said. Meanwhile, with unemployment high, federal assistance running out and the state cutting spending, local government finances are deeply in the red. Lackawanna County appears headed for layoffs and tax increases. A bipartisan advisory panel recommended Wednesday that Lackawanna County increase real estate taxes to balance its 2012 budget, warning a steep hike will be required as county government contends with a financial crisis that will not be resolved quickly or painlessly. The Philadelphia School District, also deeply in the red, has a plan to save up to $9 million by closing nine schools. Turning to college kids, student loan debt rose by 5% in 2010. Public colleges, faced with significant cuts in state support, raised tuition nationally by 7.3% this year. This week we blogged about momentum building for a natural gas drilling tax and rising unemployment in Pennsylvania. We also featured a guest post on the need for stronger insurance rate protections in Pennsylvania. And Mark Price kept us up to date with the Morning Must Reads. On jobs and unemployment, Stephen Herzenberg shared his media statement on the rising jobless rate in Pennsylvania. On the Marcellus Shale, Sharon Ward highlighted a recent New York Times article on the problems that have come with Marcellus Shale growth in Pennsylvania. Kate Atkins urged readers to sign a letter to lawmakers in support of a drilling tax that would generate revenue to improve schools, fix roads, train workers, and protect the environment. On health care, Athena Ford of the Pennsylvania Health Access Network penned a guest post on the need for better insurance rate protections in Pennsylvania. Finally, Mark Price had Morning Must Reads on the economic polarization of the 99%, the need for more accountability in charter schools, how we can boost the economy, and what budget cuts and layoffs have in common. Morning Must Reads: Yes Bridges Need Repair & Little Old Ladies Are Homeless But Ask Yourself Have We Really Done Enough for the Top 1%? With unemployment in the construction industry at record highs, interest rates low and a deep backlog of thousands of structurally deficient bridges in need of repair, now is a great time to spend money to fix stuff do nothing! Actually, it is not really that bad; it's worse. The Pennsylvania Legislature is spending time debating changes to the state's prevailing wage statute, even though a large body of empirical research demonstrates that changes to prevailing wage laws do not lower construction costs. Anyway, if you find yourself in Pittsburgh, make sure your car seat also doubles as a floatation device.

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Q: How to implement a subprocess.Popen with both live logging and a timeout option? My goal is to implement a Python 3 method that will support running a system command (using subprocess) following a few requirements: * *Running long lasting commands *Live logging of both stdout and stderr *Enforcing a timeout to stop the command if it fails to complete on time In order to support live logging, I have used 2 threads which handles both stdout and stderr outputs. My challenge is to enforce the timeout on the threads and the subprocess process. My attempt to implement the timeout using a signal handler, seems to freeze the interpreter as soon as the handler is called. What's wrong with my implementation ? Is there any other way to implement my requirements? Here is my current implementation attempt: def run_live_output(cmd, timeout=900, **kwargs): full_output = StringIO() def log_popen_pipe(p, log_errors=False): while p.poll() is None: output = '' if log_errors: output = p.stderr.readline() log.warning(f"{output}") else: output = p.stdout.readline() log.info(f"{output}") full_output.write(output) if p.poll(): log.error(f"{cmd}\n{p.stderr.readline()}") class MyTimeout(Exception): pass def handler(signum, frame): log.info(f"Signal handler called with signal {signum}") raise MyTimeout with subprocess.Popen( cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, universal_newlines=True, **kwargs ) as sp: with ThreadPoolExecutor(2) as pool: try: signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, handler) signal.alarm(timeout) r1 = pool.submit(log_popen_pipe, sp) r2 = pool.submit(log_popen_pipe, sp, log_errors=True) r1.result() r2.result() except MyTimeout: log.info(f"Timed out - Killing the threads and process") pool.shutdown(wait=True) sp.kill() except Exception as e: log.info(f"{e}") return full_output.getvalue() A: Q-1) My attempt to implement the timeout using a signal handler, seems to freeze the interpreter as soon as the handler is called, What's wrong with my implementation ? A-1) No your signal handler not freezing, There is freezing but not in the signal handler, signal handler is fine. Your main thread blocked (frozen) when you call pool.shutdown(wait=True). Because your subprocess is still running and you do while p.poll() is None: in the log_popen_pipe func. That's why your main thread will not continue until log_popen_pipe finished. To solve this issue, we need to remove pool.shutdown(wait=True) and then call the sp.terminate(). I suggest you to use sp.terminate() instead sp.kill() because sp.kill() will send SIGKILL signal which is not preferred until you really need it. In addition that, end of the with ThreadPoolExecutor(2) as pool: statement, pool.shutdown(wait=True) will be called and this will not block you if log_popen_pipe func ended. In your case log_popen_pipe func will finished if subprocess finished when we do sp.terminate(). Q-2) Is there any other way to implement my requirements? A-2) Yes there is, you can use Timer class from threading library. Timer class will create 1 thread and this thread will wait for timeout seconds and end of the timeout seconds, this created thread will call sp.terminate func Here is the code: from io import StringIO import signal,subprocess from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor import logging as log from threading import Timer log.root.setLevel(log.INFO) def run_live_output(cmd, timeout=900, **kwargs): full_output = StringIO() def log_popen_pipe(p, log_errors=False): while p.poll() is None: output = '' if log_errors: output = p.stderr.readline() log.warning(f"{output}") else: output = p.stdout.readline() log.info(f"{output}") full_output.write(output) if p.poll()!=None: log.error(f"subprocess finished, {cmd}\n{p.stdout.readline()}") with subprocess.Popen( cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, universal_newlines=True, **kwargs ) as sp: Timer(timeout,sp.terminate).start() with ThreadPoolExecutor(2) as pool: try: r1 = pool.submit(log_popen_pipe, sp) r2 = pool.submit(log_popen_pipe, sp, log_errors=True) r1.result() r2.result() except Exception as e: log.info(f"{e}") return full_output.getvalue() run_live_output(["python3","...."],timeout=4) By the way p.poll() will return the returncode of the terminated subprocess. If you want to get output of successfully terminated subprocess, you need to use if p.poll()==0 0 generally means subprocess successfully terminated