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With the burgeoning computing power available, multiscale modelling and simulation has these days become increasingly capable of capturing the details of physical processes on different scales. The mechanical behavior of solids is oftentimes the result of interaction between multiple spatial and temporal scales at different levels and hence it is a typical phenomena of interest exhibiting multiscale characteristic. At the most basic level, properties of solids can be attributed to atomic interactions and crystal structure that can be described on nano scale. Mechanical properties at the macro scale are modeled using continuum mechanics for which we mention stresses and strains. Continuum models, however they offer an efficient way of studying material properties they are not accurate enough and lack microstructural information behind the microscopic mechanics that cause the material to behave in a way it does. Atomistic models are concerned with phenomenon at the level of lattice thereby allowing investigation of detailed crystalline and defect structures, and yet the length scales of interest are inevitably far beyond the reach of full atomistic computation and is rohibitively expensive. This makes it necessary the need for multiscale models. The bottom line and a possible avenue to this end is, coupling different length scales, the continuum and the atomistics in accordance with standard procedures. This is done by recourse to the Cauchy-Born rule and in so doing, we aim at a model that is efficient and reasonably accurate in mimicking physical behaviors observed in nature or laboratory. In this work, we focus on concurrent coupling based on energetic formulations that links the continuum to atomistics. At the atomic scale, we describe deformation of the solid by the displaced positions of atoms that make up the solid and at the continuum level deformation of the solid is described by the displacement field that minimize the total energy. In the coupled model, continuum-atomistic, a continuum formulation is retained as the overall framework of the problem and the atomistic feature is introduced by way of constitutive description, with the Cauchy-Born rule establishing the point of contact. The entire formulation is made in the framework of nonlinear elasticity and all the simulations are carried out within the confines of quasistatic settings. The model gives direct account to measurable features of microstructures developed by crystals through sequential lamination.
Influences of Individual and Contextual Factors on Improving the Professional Development of TVET Teachers in Ethiopia (2009)
This Dissertation tried to provide insights into the influences of individual and contextual factors on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) teachers' learning and professional development in Ethiopia. Specifically, this research focused on identifying and determining the influences of teachers' self perception as learners and professionals, and investigates the impact of the context, process and content of their learning and experiences on their professional development. The knowledge of these factors and their impacts help in improving the learning and professional development of the TVET teachers and their professionalization. This research tried to provide answers for the following five research questions. (1) How do TVET teachers perceive themselves as active learners and as professionals? And what are the implications of their perceptions on their learning and development? (2) How do TVET teachers engage themselves in learning and professional development activities? (3) What contextual factors facilitated or hindered the TVET Teachers' learning and professional development? (4) Which competencies are found critical for the TVET teachers' learning and professional development? (5) What actions need to be considered to enhance and sustain TVET teachers learning and professional development in their context? It is believed that the research results are significant not only to the TVET teachers, but also to schools leaders, TVET Teacher Training Institutions, education experts and policy makers, researchers and others stakeholders in the TVET sector. The theoretical perspectives adopted in this research are based on the systemic constructivist approach to professional development. An integrated approach to professional development requires that the teachers' learning and development activities to be taken as an adult education based on the principles of constructivism. Professional development is considered as context - specific and long-term process in which teachers are trusted, respected and empowered as professionals. Teachers' development activities are sought as more of collaborative activities portraying the social nature of learning. Schools that facilitate the learning and development of teachers exhibit characteristics of a learning organisation culture where, professional collaboration, collegiality and shared leadership are practiced. This research has drawn also relevant point of views from studies and reports on vocational education and TVET teacher education programs and practices at international, continental and national levels. The research objectives and the types of research questions in this study implied the use of a qualitative inductive research approach as a research strategy. Primary data were collected from TVET teachers in four schools using a one-on-one qualitative in-depth interview method. These data were analyzed using a Qualitative Content Analysis method based on the inductive category development procedure. ATLAS.ti software was used for supporting the coding and categorization process. The research findings showed that most of the TVET teachers neither perceive themselves as professionals nor as active learners. These perceptions are found to be one of the major barriers to their learning and development. Professional collaborations in the schools are minimal and teaching is sought as an isolated individual activity; a secluded task for the teacher. Self-directed learning initiatives and individual learning projects are not strongly evident. The predominantly teacher-centered approach used in TVET teacher education and professional development programs put emphasis mainly to the development of technical competences and has limited the development of a range of competences essential to teachers' professional development. Moreover, factors such as the TVET school culture, the society's perception of the teaching profession, economic conditions, and weak links with industries and business sectors are among the major contextual factors that hindered the TVET teachers' learning and professional development. A number of recommendations are forwarded to improve the professional development of the TVET teachers. These include change in the TVET schools culture, a paradigm shift in TVET teacher education approach and practice, and development of educational policies that support the professionalization of TVET teachers. Areas for further theoretical research and empirical enquiry are also suggested to support the learning and professional development of the TVET teachers in Ethiopia.
The focus of this work has been to develop two families of wavelet solvers for the inner displacement boundary-value problem of elastostatics. Our methods are particularly suitable for the deformation analysis corresponding to geoscientifically relevant (regular) boundaries like sphere, ellipsoid or the actual Earth's surface. The first method, a spatial approach to wavelets on a regular (boundary) surface, is established for the classical (inner) displacement problem. Starting from the limit and jump relations of elastostatics we formulate scaling functions and wavelets within the framework of the Cauchy-Navier equation. Based on numerical integration rules a tree algorithm is constructed for fast wavelet computation. This method can be viewed as a first attempt to "short-wavelength modelling", i.e. high resolution of the fine structure of displacement fields. The second technique aims at a suitable wavelet approximation associated to Green's integral representation for the displacement boundary-value problem of elastostatics. The starting points are tensor product kernels defined on Cauchy-Navier vector fields. We come to scaling functions and a spectral approach to wavelets for the boundary-value problems of elastostatics associated to spherical boundaries. Again a tree algorithm which uses a numerical integration rule on bandlimited functions is established to reduce the computational effort. For numerical realization for both methods, multiscale deformation analysis is investigated for the geoscientifically relevant case of a spherical boundary using test examples. Finally, the applicability of our wavelet concepts is shown by considering the deformation analysis of a particular region of the Earth, viz. Nevada, using surface displacements provided by satellite observations. This represents the first step towards practical applications.
New Possibilities for Building High-Vacuum Chambers Using Glued Aluminum Plates and Application to Sputtered Nanocomposite Coatings (2002)
In this work the investigation of a (Ti, Al, Si) N system was done. The main point of investigation was to study the possibility of getting the nanocomposite coatings structures by deposition of multilayer films from TiN, AlSiN, . This tries to understand the relation between the mechanical properties (hardness, Young s modulus), and the microstructure (nanocrystalline with individual phases). Particularly special attention was given to the temperature effects on microstructural changes in annealing at 600 °C for the coatings. The surface hardness, elastic modulus, and the multilayers diffusion and compositions were the test tools for the comparison between the different coated samples with and without annealing at 600 °C. To achieve this object a rectangular aluminum vacuum chamber with three unbalanced sputtering magnetrons for the deposition of thin film coatings from different materials was constructed The chamber consists mainly of two chambers, the pre-vacuum chamber to load the workpiece, and the main vacuum chamber where the sputtering deposition of the thin film coatings take place. The workpiece is moving on a car travel on a railway between the two chambers to the position of the magnetrons by step motors. The chambers are divided by a self constructed rectangular gate controlled manually from outside the chamber. The chamber was sealed for vacuum use using glue and screws. Therefore, different types of glue were tested not only for its ability to develop an uniform thin layer in the gap between the aluminum plates to seal the chamber for vacuum use, but also low outgassing rates which made it suitable for vacuum use. A epoxy was able to fulfill this tasks. The evacuation characteristics of the constructed chamber was improved by minimizing the inner surface outgassing rate. Therefore, the throughput outgassing rate test method was used in the comparisons between the selected two aluminum materials (A2017 and A5353) samples short time period (one hour) outgassing rates. Different machining methods and treatments for the inner surface of the vacuum chamber were tested. The machining of the surface of material A (A2017) with ethanol as coolant fluid was able to reduce its outgassing rate a factor of 6 compared with a non-machined sample surface of the same material. The reduction of the surface porous oxide layer on the top of the aluminum surface by the pickling process with HNO3 acid, and the protection of it by producing another passive non-porous oxides layer using anodizing process will protect the surface for longer time and will minimize the outgassing rates even under humid atmosphere The residual gas analyzer (RGA) 6. Summary test shows that more than 85% of the gases inside the test chamber were water vapour (H2O) and the rests are (N2, H2, CO), so liquid nitrogen water vapor trap can enhance the chamber pumping down process. As a result it was possible to construct a chamber that can be pumped down using a turbo molecular pump (450 L/s) to the range of 1x10-6 mbar within one hour of evacuations where the chamber volume is 160 Litters and the inner surface area is 1.6 m2. This is a good base pressure for the process of sputtering deposition of hard thin film coatings. Multilayer thin film coating was deposited to demonstrate that nanostructured thin film within the (Ti, Al, Si) N system could be prepared by reactive magnetron sputtering of multi thin film layers of TiN, AlSiN. The (SNMS) spectrometry of the test samples show that a complete diffusion between the different deposited thin film coating layers in each sample takes place, even at low substrate deposition temperature. The high magnetic flux of the unbalanced magnetrons and the high sputtering power were able to produce a high ion-toatom flux, which give high mobility to the coated atoms. The interactions between the high mobility of the coated atoms and the ion-to-atom flux were sufficient to enhance the diffusion between the different deposited thin layers. It was shown from the XRD patterns for this system that the structure of the formed mixture consists of two phases. One phase is noted as TiN bulk and another detected unknown amorphous phase, which can be SiNx or AlN or a combination of Ti-Al-Si-N. As a result we where able to deposit a nanocomposite coatings by the deposition of multilayers from TiN, AlSiN thin film coatings using the constructed vacuum chamber
Typically software engineers implement their software according to the design of the software structure. Relations between classes and interfaces such as method-call relations and inheritance relations are essential parts of a software structure. Accordingly, analyzing several types of relations will benefit the static analysis process of the software structure. The tasks of this analysis include but not limited to: understanding of (legacy) software, checking guidelines, improving product lines, finding structure, or re-engineering of existing software. Graphs with multi-type edges are possible representation for these relations considering them as edges, while nodes represent classes and interfaces of software. Then, this multiple type edges graph can be mapped to visualizations. However, the visualizations should deal with the multiplicity of relations types and scalability, and they should enable the software engineers to recognize visual patterns at the same time. To advance the usage of visualizations for analyzing the static structure of software systems, I tracked difierent development phases of the interactive multi-matrix visualization (IMMV) showing an extended user study at the end. Visual structures were determined and classified systematically using IMMV compared to PNLV in the extended user study as four categories: High degree, Within-package edges, Cross-package edges, No edges. In addition to these structures that were found in these handy tools, other structures that look interesting for software engineers such as cycles and hierarchical structures need additional visualizations to display them and to investigate them. Therefore, an extended approach for graph layout was presented that improves the quality of the decomposition and the drawing of directed graphs according to their topology based on rigorous definitions. The extension involves describing and analyzing the algorithms for decomposition and drawing in detail giving polynomial time complexity and space complexity. Finally, I handled visualizing graphs with multi-type edges using small-multiples, where each tile is dedicated to one edge-type utilizing the topological graph layout to highlight non-trivial cycles, trees, and DAGs for showing and analyzing the static structure of software. Finally, I applied this approach to four software systems to show its usefulness.
In this thesis, we have dealt with two modeling approaches of the credit risk, namely the structural (firm value) and the reduced form. In the former one, the firm value is modeled by a stochastic process and the first hitting time of this stochastic process to a given boundary defines the default time of the firm. In the existing literature, the stochastic process, triggering the firm value, has been generally chosen as a diffusion process. Therefore, on one hand it is possible to obtain closed form solutions for the pricing problems of credit derivatives and on the other hand the optimal capital structure of a firm can be analysed by obtaining closed form solutions of firm's corporate securities such as; equity value, debt value and total firm value, see Leland(1994). We have extended this approach by modeling the firm value as a jump-diffusion process. The choice of the jump-diffusion process was a crucial step to obtain closed form solutions for corporate securities. As a result, we have chosen a jump-diffusion process with double exponentially distributed jump heights, which enabled us to analyse the effects of jump on the optimal capital structure of a firm. In the second part of the thesis, by following the reduced form models, we have assumed that the default is triggered by the first jump of a Cox process. Further, by following Schönbucher(2005), we have modeled the forward default intensity of a firm as a geometric Brownian motion and derived pricing formulas for credit default swap options in a more general setup than the ones in Schönbucher(2005).
In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird das Tragverhalten von durchlaufenden stahlfaserbewehrten Stahlverbunddecken analysiert. Auf der Basis von experimentellen und rechnerischen Untersuchungen werden zwei Bemessungsmodelle entwickelt. Anhand der experimentellen Untersuchungen an einfeldrigen und durchlaufenden stahlfaserbewehrten Verbunddecken werden Aufschlüsse über das Trag- und Verformungsverhalten der Decken gewonnen. Dabei werden sowohl offene trapezförmige als auch hinterschnittene Profilbleche verwendet. Auf eine konventionelle Betonstahlbewehrung wird gänzlich verzichtet. Das Stützmoment wird vom Stahlfaserbeton alleine aufgenommen. In vier Versuchsserien mit insgesamt 18 Versuchen werden einzelne Parameter wie z. B. unterschiedliche Deckenstärken, unterschiedliche Profilblechgeometrien sowie unterschiedliche Stahlfaserbetonmischungen untersucht. Für die Berechnung und Bemessung werden die im Verbundbau üblichen Nachweisverfahren aufgegriffen und modifiziert. Die Traganteile des Stahlfaserbetons werden über den Ansatz von Spannungsblöcken implementiert. Bei der Nachrechnung der einzelnen Versuche zeigt sich die Eignung der Verfahren. Für die einzelnen Nachweise werden in Parameterstudien Bemessungsdiagramme und –tabellen erstellt, die dem anwendenden Ingenieur ein einfaches und sicheres Bemessen ermöglichen. Anhand der experimentellen Ergebnisse und der rechnerischen Untersuchungen werden zwei mögliche Bemessungsmodelle entwickelt, mit denen die Tragfähigkeit von stahlfaserbewehrten durchlaufenden Verbunddecken nachgewiesen werden kann. Dabei kann der Nachweis entweder nach den Verfahren Elastisch-Plastisch oder Plastisch-Plastisch erfolgen.
On the distribution of eigenspaces in classical groups over finite rings and the Cohen-Lenstra heuristic (2014)
In 2006 Jeffrey Achter proved that the distribution of divisor class groups of degree 0 of function fields with a fixed genus and the distribution of eigenspaces in symplectic similitude groups are closely related to each other. Gunter Malle proposed that there should be a similar correspondence between the distribution of class groups of number fields and the distribution of eigenspaces in ceratin matrix groups. Motivated by these results and suggestions we study the distribution of eigenspaces corresponding to the eigenvalue one in some special subgroups of the general linear group over factor rings of rings of integers of number fields and derive some conjectural statements about the distribution of \(p\)-parts of class groups of number fields over a base field \(K_{0}\). Where our main interest lies in the case that \(K_{0}\) contains the \(p\)th roots of unity, because in this situation the \(p\)-parts of class groups seem to behave in an other way like predicted by the popular conjectures of Henri Cohen and Jacques Martinet. In 2010 based on computational data Malle has succeeded in formulating a conjecture in the spirit of Cohen and Martinet for this case. Here using our investigations about the distribution in matrixgroups we generalize the conjecture of Malle to a more abstract level and establish a theoretical backup for these statements.
Acidic zeolites like H-Y, H-ZSM-5, H-MCM-22 and H-MOR zeolites were found to be the selective adsorbents for the removal of thiophene from toluene or n-heptane as solvent. The competitive adsorption of toluene is found to influence the adsorption capacity for thiophene and is more predominant when high-alumina zeolites are used as adsorbents. This behaviour is also reflected by the results of the adsorption of thiophene on H-ZSM-5 zeolites with varied nSi/nAl ratios (viz. 13, 19 and 36) from toluene and n-heptane as solvents, respectively. UV-Vis spectroscopic results show that the oligomerization of thiophene leads to the formation of dimers and trimers on these zeolites. The oligomerization in acid zeolites is regarded to be dependent on the geometry of the pore system of the zeolites. The sulphur-containing compounds with more than one ring viz. benzothiophene, which are also present in substantial amounts in certain hydrocarbon fractions, are not adsorbed on H-ZSM-5 zeolites. This is obvious, as the diameter of the pore aperture of zeolite H-ZSM-5 is smaller than the molecular size of benzothiophene. Metal ion-exchanged FAU-type zeolites are found to be promising adsorbents for the removal of sulphur-containing compounds from model solutions. The introduction of Cu+-, Ni2+-, Ce3+-, La3+- and Y3+- ions into zeolite Na+-Y by aqueous ion-exchange substantially improves the adsorption capacity for thiophene from toluene or n-heptane as solvent. More than the absolute content of Cu+-ions, the presence of Cu+-ions at the sites exposed to supercages is believed to influence the adsorption of thiophene on Cu+-Y zeolite. It was shown experimentally for the case of Cu+-Y and Ce3+-Y that the supercages present in the FAU zeolite allow for an access of bulkier sulphur-containing compounds (viz. benzothiophene, dibenzothiophene and dimethyl dibenzothiophene). The presence of these bulkier compounds compete with thiophene and are preferentially adsorbed on Cu+-Y zeolite. IR spectroscopic results revealed that the adsorption of thiophene on Na+-Y, Cu+-Y and Ni2+-Y is primarily a result of the interaction of thiophene via pi-complexation between C=C double bond (of thiophene) and metal ions (in the zeolite framework). A different mode of interaction of thiophene with Ce3+-, La3+- and Y3+-metal ions was observed in the IR spectra of thiophene adsorbed on Ce3+-Y, La3+-Y and Y3+-Y zeolites, respectively. On these adsorbents, thiophene is believed to interact via a lone electron pair of the sulphur atom with metal ions present in the adsorbent (M-S interaction). The experimental results show that there is a large difference in the thiophene adsorption capacities of pi-complexation adsorbents (like Cu+-Y, Ni2+-Y) between the model solution with toluene as solvent and the model solution with n-heptane as solvent. The lower capacity of these zeolites for the adsorption of thiophene from toluene than from n-heptane as solvent is the clear indication of competition of toluene in interating with adsorbent in a way similar to thiophene. The difference in thiophene adsorption capacities is very low in the case of adsorbents Ce3+-Y, La3+-Y and Y3+-Y, which are believed to interact with thiophene predominantly by direct M3+-S bond (thiophene interacting with metal ion via a lone pair of electrons). TG-DTA analysis was used to study the regeneration behaviour of the adsorbents. Acid zeolites can be regenerated by simply heating at 400 °C in a flow of nitrogen whereas thiophene is chemically adsorbed on the metal ion. By contrast, it is not possible to regenerate by heating under idle inert gas flow. The only way to regenerate these adsorbents is to burn off the adsorbate, which eventually brings about an undesired emission of SOx. The exothermic peaks appeared at different temperatures in the heat flow profiles of Cu+-Y, Ce3+-Y, La3+-Y and Y3+-Y are also indicating that two different types of interaction are present as revealed by IR spectroscopy, too. One major difficulty in reducing the sulphur content in fuels to value below 10 ppm is the inability in removing alkyl dibenzothiophenes, viz. 4,6 dimethyl dibenzothiophene, by the existing catalytic hydrodesulphurization technique. Cu+-Y and Ce3+-Y were found in the present study to adsorb this compound from toluene to a certain extent. To meet the stringent regulations on sulphur content, selective adsorption by zeolites could be a valuable post-purification method after the catalytic hydrodesulphurization unit.
Dealing with information in modern times involves users to cope with hundreds of thousands of documents, such as articles, emails, Web pages, or News feeds. Above all information sources, the World Wide Web presents information seekers with great challenges. It offers more text in natural language than one is capable to read. The key idea for this research intends to provide users with adaptable filtering techniques, supporting them in filtering out the specific information items they need. Its realization focuses on developing an Information Extraction system, which adapts to a domain of concern, by interpreting the contained formalized knowledge. Utilizing the Resource Description Framework (RDF), which is the Semantic Web's formal language for exchanging information, allows extending information extractors to incorporate the given domain knowledge. Because of this, formal information items from the RDF source can be recognized in the text. The application of RDF allows a further investigation of operations on recognized information items, such as disambiguating and rating the relevance of these. Switching between different RDF sources allows changing the application scope of the Information Extraction system from one domain of concern to another. An RDF-based Information Extraction system can be triggered to extract specific kinds of information entities by providing it with formal RDF queries in terms of the SPARQL query language. Representing extracted information in RDF extends the coverage of the Semantic Web's information degree and provides a formal view on a text from the perspective of the RDF source. In detail, this work presents the extension of existing Information Extraction approaches by incorporating the graph-based nature of RDF. Hereby, the pre-processing of RDF sources allows extracting statistical information models dedicated to support specific information extractors. These information extractors refine standard extraction tasks, such as the Named Entity Recognition, by using the information provided by the pre-processed models. The post-processing of extracted information items enables representing these results in RDF format or lists, which can now be ranked or filtered by relevance. Post-processing also comprises the enrichment of originating natural language text sources with extracted information items by using annotations in RDFa format. The results of this research extend the state-of-the-art of the Semantic Web. This work contributes approaches for computing customizable and adaptable RDF views on the natural language content of Web pages. Finally, due to the formal nature of RDF, machines can interpret these views allowing developers to process the contained information in a variety of applications.


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kamjah necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 11 diseños de 6 diseñadores freelance.
Kamjah Coaching
I am a Master NLP Certified Coach. I coach in the areas of: Dating, Career, Finding Purpose and Life Transition. In addition to private coaching, I hold workshops and seminars and want to soon start group coaching via teleconference.
I target mainly women between the ages of 28 - 55 - keep in mind I work with men too. Mostly people who are in periods of life transition. They tend to be hip to the latest trends, spiritual, and progressive.
my audience does yoga, pilates, cares about their health and well being, is spiritual, not to mention seeking! seeking higher purpose and connection
This site was initially designed quick before having a through understanding of what elements are important to make a creditable design that makes people feel trust and then take action to sign up for the services. So I am looking for a fresh look that is simple, easy to understand and quick to connect with. It should have a relaxed though yet upbeat tone that will make prospects feel at ease, comfortable and excited about contacting me for coaching services. This site is my 24/7 friendly, trustworthy representative / selling agent that generates leads either by phone, e-mail or contact form. EVEN the logo can be changed (take services out and create a fresh logo that flows with the new design). Designing with SEO scalability in mind is very important too!
* I plan on adding a video to the front page so design with that in mind.
* I also plan on adding a video page and perhaps a members area in the future.
Sites I like:
http://www.rejuvination.me/ (there are issues with this design but the look works)
http://www.osmaravindel.com/ (again - some issues but overall look is very nice!)
http://www.billbaren.com/ (nice site except for the Orange background..that color is not friendly)
For pictures of me - please find me on facebook and take what works from facebook account as my photos are open. Find me on FB by my e-mail: email@example.com .

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A Lifesaving Caution
An urgent telephone call interrupted a meeting which Rav Yitzchak Zilberstein, rav of the Ramat Elchanan community in Bnei Brak, was having with some of the residents of the neighborhood about how to increase public participation in the local Torah classes. The catalyst for this meeting was a tragic spate of untimely deaths in the community, and the tone of this call indicated that another might be on the way.
"An hour ago I prescribed a medicine for a woman in your community," said the doctor on the other end in an alarmed voice, "and I just realized that I made a grave mistake. If she takes that medicine it could do her irreparable harm. You must stop her immediately!"
After figuring out exactly where this woman lived, one of the men at the meeting rushed out to sound the alarm. No sooner had he reached the next street than he saw the womans husband pacing back and forth. "My wife bought a medicine the doctor prescribed for her," he explained, "but she refuses to take it until she is assured that it is kosher. I gave it to a local pharmacological expert to analyze and am out here waiting for his verdict."


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Anti-Israel Groups Shakin' in Their Boots
Monday, March 31, 2014 | David Lazarus ISRAEL TODAY
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, those Israel-hating, apartheid-mongers are cooked. Obsessively accusing Israel of everything from stealing water to targeting Palestinian children, these anti-everything Israel junkies have gone too far. Their compulsive Israel-hatred has stirred a massive grassroots counter-attack. Synagogues, churches, students, businesses and everyday folk have heard enough. They will be silent no more.
And it's not only Jews, or even Christians rising to the battle. Young Israeli Arabs, Druze and even Bedouins are up and out telling the world what Israel means to them.
Heeb, a 27-year-old Bedouin Muslim who participated in a "StandWithUs" pro-Israel advocacy program, said he was happy to have the opportunity to dispel the damaging myths perpetuated by Israeli Apartheid Week organizers. "I wanted to meet students and tell them the truth. This is one of my goals – to bring our image of Israel… Some did not know there are Arabs in Israel. A lot of people were surprised," said Heeb, a University of Haifa student working on an MA in public policy.
Another new innovative program is sending Israeli college students to speak at at university campuses, schools, synagogues, and churches across North America as part of their IDF reserve duty. These young people are passionately sharing about the real Israel with tens of thousands of students and community members each year. In 2013, groups sent by "StandWithUS" visited 150 different events and reached countless numbers of people through press coverage and social media.
"I see how Israel is misrepresented in the media," says Tepper, co-founder of Word Swap, another pro-Israel upstart. "They're accusing Israel of apartheid… and you know it's not true, but if you don't stand up and say it's not true, a lot of people are going to believe these lies."
Bader, a 23-year-old Tel Aviv University student studying for his BA in computer science and economics, said he meets university students who are shocked to learn that Arabs live in Israel. He tells them, "I am living proof," in Arabic of course, his mother tongue.
"Most of the people we talk to are from the Middle East, from Yemen, from Saudi Arabia, from Syria, from Lebanon. To them, Israel is just an entity – they call it Little Satan," says Bader. "I'm an Israeli Arab, my grandparents have lived there, I've lived there, I have full rights, I've served in the IDF, I work in Tel Aviv, I don't face discrimination. How can you say that if you haven't even been there?" he challenges them.
When students at a well known university in the US wanted to boycott Israel's Ben Gurion University, Heeb, the Israeli Bedouin, told them, "Listen guys, Ben Gurion University has the most Arab girls, Bedouin girls, studying there, more than [schools in] Arab countries." Heeb explained that he is a Bedouin student from the University of Haifa, and that the faculty would not be able to exchange their knowledge if there is a boycott. "They didn't answer," he said.
Never has there been a time when so many different people from so many places around the globe are working together for Israel. Synagogues and churches are running "Buy Israeli Goods" campaigns. Students of all ages and backgrounds are organizing lectures and debates on college campuses. But most impressive of all are the millions of everyday, work-a-day folks speaking up now because they are no longer willing to stomach the vicious lies about Israel. Join the gang! God IS on our side!
PHOTO: Ishmael Khaldi, a Bedouin Arab spokesman for Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is a regular visitor to university campuses around the world
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Live updates
- ITV Report
What were the Arctic Convoys?
Extended Interview with Peter Irving Stuart
Michael Moore: "It is a real honour to be giving Irving his medal"
Arctic Star awarded to Langholm man
The Secretary of State for Scotland, Michael Moore, has presented the Arctic Star medal to Peter Irving Stuart for his bravery during the Second World War. He was part of the convoys that travelled from Britain to northern Russia to supply troops fighting the nazis.
The Ministry of Defence only decided in February that men who risked their lives on the convoys to help british allies during the war deserved a medal.


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Slain Woman's Family Intends To Sue JSO
Report: Officers Failed To Collect Evidence In 20-Year-Old's Abduction
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The family of 20-year-old Michelle McCoy, who was abducted and killed early this year, has filed an intent to sue claim against the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.
According to a JSO Internal Affairs report released in July, three police officers did not meet work standards by failing to collect evidence at the scene where the slain McCoy was abducted in January.
McCoy was seen being dragged into a minivan in Northwest Jacksonville on Jan. 10. McCoy was reported missing Jan. 13, and police did not go public with her kidnapping for nearly three weeks. That's when the pieces of what was thought to be two separate cases came together.
Once the public heard about McCoy being missing, tips started coming in that helped lead officers to McCoy's remains days later.
Tips also led police to their prime suspect in the abduction, Larry Thompson, a convicted rapist who pledged not to go back to jail and committed suicide during a SWAT standoff.
According to the JSO internal affairs report, Officers M.L. Albert and C.J. Lightfoot did not collect a shoe and rope, or do a canvass of businesses and homes to see if anyone else had seen what witness Edmund Haye told police he saw the night McCoy was abducted.
"I'm concerned about the girl," Haye said in a 911 call the night of the abduction. "Talk to me anytime. I'm trying to find this van. I'm looking for the van, whether you're looking for it or not."
Haye, who said he saw McCoy screaming while being forced into the minivan, told internal affairs that the two officers basically blew him off as not credible because he was so worked up.
"There is no body. No crime has been committed," one officer told Haye, according to the report.
"This is not CSI. Stuff doesn't happen overnight magically," one officer said, according to the report.
Sgt. G.L. Mattson was also found to not have met work standards for failing to make sure the report of the officers was complete and accurate. Lt. C.A. Tyree, a fourth officer investigated, was cleared of any wrongdoing.
The three officers were given formal counseling, which JSO points out is not a form of discipline. They were written up, which will follow them on their employment record.
The sticking point for the family remains the slow response in the investigation, starting with the 911 call by Haye.
"I don't know if it's enough to warrant a lawsuit," said Channel 4 crime analyst Ken Jefferson. "In the family's mind, it is enough."
JSO has six months to respond to the intent to sue. Then a lawsuit can officially be filed. City of Jacksonville attorney Howard Maltz said the city usually takes all of that time before responding.
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My favorite event at Microsoft's TechEd 2008 conference held in Orlando this year was a roundtable discussion about automating DBA work with several other SQL Server experts. The session was moderated by Allen White and included myself, Dan Jones (of Microsoft), Steve Jones (of SQL Server Central fame), and Buck Woody (also of Microsoft, though you may have seen his excellent column at http://www.informit.com/). These guys are smart, funny, and experienced.
Maybe you'd like to take a look? Microsoft has posted the video at Tech·Ed Online: Automating DBA Processes.
In addition, I'd like to point out that fellow blogger Jonathan Kehayias has posted a good issue up on Connect for a problem in the SQL 2008 Management Studio tools that I have already been told is a by design issue. You may not realize it, but Microsoft now allows you to vote on which issues you want tackled. Let's build some community support for issues like these - the issue is that SSMS 2008 can't connect to 2005 Reporting Services Instances by WMI - https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=361680.
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Hi all! I can't believe how this month flew by. Hate to try and rush my life away but I hope June is just as quick. The Girl needs a break from all the drama at school. With summer coming, I wonder how my reading and my challenges will fare.
I managed to get a few things read for my challenges this month.
5th Canadian Books Challenge. Two more books added to this challenge, Buffalo Hunt and The Republic of Nothing. That makes it 10/13. Just 3 more books and 1 month left. I can do it!
The Audiobook Challenge. One more book added to this one, The Black Tower. I haven't seen much that I wanted to listen to this month. That puts me at 9/12.
My Genteel Ladies in Foreign Lands Project is now at 2, since I read In Morocco this month. I need a little break after that one.
I'm at a standstill for the rest of the challenges: Gender in SFF and Once Upon a Time Challenge. Maybe next month.
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So I didn't quite make it to 8 pins for Trish's Pin It and Do It Challenge but I did do 7! You can see the other pins here, here and here. Yesterday I made this Spicy Shrimp & Green Apple Salad. I actually heated everything through and served it on rice. It was really good! It loved this challenge. Thanks, Trish!


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Based on general partitions of unity and standard numerical flux functions, a class of mesh-free methods for conservation laws is derived. A Lax-Wendroff type consistency analysis is carried out for the general case of moving partition functions. The analysis leads to a set of conditions which are checked for the finite volume particle method FVPM. As a by-product, classical finite volume schemes are recovered in the approach for special choices of the partition of unity.
Transition from Kinetic Theory to Macroscopic Fluid Equations: A Problem fo Domain Decomposition and a Source for New Algorithms (1999)
In the paper we discuss the transition from kinetic theory to macroscopic fluid equations, where the macroscopic equations are defined as aymptotic limits of a kinetic equation. This relation can be used to derive computationally efficient domain decomposition schemes for the simulaion of rarefied gas flows close to the continuum limit. Moreover, we present some basic ideas for the derivation of kinetic induced numerical schemes for macroscopic equations, namely kinetic schemes for general conservation laws as well as Lattice-Boltzmann methods for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations.
We give a comparison of various differential cross-section models for a classical polyatomic gas for a homogeneous relaxation problem and the shock wave profiles at Mach numbers 1.71 and 12.9. Besides the standard Borgnakke-Larsen model and its generalizations to an energy dependent coefficient to control the amnount of rotationally elastic and completely inelastic collisions, we discuss some new models recently proposed by the same authors. Moreover, we present numerical algorithms to implement the models in a particle or Monte-Carlo code and compare the numerical shock wave profiles with existing experimental data.
The asymptotic behaviour of a singular-perturbed two-phase Stefan problem due to slow diffusion in one of the two phases is investigated. In the limit the model equations reduce to a one-phase Stefan problem. A boundary layer at the moving interface makes it necessary to use a corrected interface condition obtained from matched asymptotic expansions. The approach is validated by numerical experiments using a front-tracking method.
The asymptotic analysis of IBVPs for the singularly perturbed parabolic PDE ... in the limit epsilon to zero motivate investigations of certain recursively defined approximative series ("ping-pong expansions"). The recursion formulae rely on operators assigning to a boundary condition at the left or the right boundary a solution of the parabolic PDE. Sufficient conditions for uniform convergence of ping-pong expansions are derived and a detailed analysis for the model problem ... is given.
We derive a new class of particle methods for conservation laws, which are based on numerical flux functions to model the interactions between moving particles. The derivation is similar to that of classical Finite-Volume methods; except that the fixed grid structure in the Finite-Volume method is substituted by so-called mass packets of particles. We give some numerical results on a shock wave solution for Burgers equation as well as the well-known one-dimensional shock tube problem.
We present a particle method for the numerical simulation of boundary value problems for the steady-state Boltzmann equation. Referring to some recent results concerning steady-state schemes, the current approach may be used for multi-dimensional problems, where the collision scattering kernel is not restricted to Maxwellian molecules. The efficiency of the new approach is demonstrated by some numerical results obtained from simulations for the (two-dimensional) BEnard's instability in a rarefied gas flow.
In the present paper we investigate the Rayleigh-Benard convection in rarefied gases and demonstrate by numerical experiments the transition from purely thermal conduction to a natural convective flow for a large range of Knudsen numbers from 0.02 downto 0.001. We address to the problem how the critical value for the Rayleigh number defined for incompressible vsicous flows may be translated to rarefied gas flows. Moreover, the simulations obtained for a Knudsen number Kn=0.001 and Froude number Fr=1 show a further transition from regular Rayleigh-Benard cells to a pure unsteady behavious with moving vortices.


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In many respects this month has been one to remember presidents. We have observed the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination. We also recall the many presidential proclamations establishing Thanksgiving as a national holiday.
There is a great deal about our presidents to interest genealogists. A few of us can actually claim a president among our direct ancestors. Those presidents who have living descendants include the following: John Adams, Jefferson, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Van Buren, William H. Harrison, Tyler, Taylor, Andrew Johnson, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding (through an illegitimate daughter), Coolidge, Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H W Bush, Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama. Others never had children (like Washington, Polk, and Buchanan) or have had their lines die out, including most notably Lincoln and Arthur. One, Andrew Jackson, has descendants (though not of his blood) through an adopted son, while Reagan's only grandchild is through an adopted son.
Even if you are not a direct presidential descendant, you may be related to a president through a common ancestor. Many presidents trace their ancestry who immigrants who arrived in the colonial era, and from them, many Americans also claim descent. The Genealogy Center has several books that attempt to trace exhaustively the known ancestors of presidents. Perhaps the best book is Gary Boyd Roberts's Ancestors of American Presidents (2009 edition) (GC 929.11 R54ab). This work catalogs the ancestry of all of the presidents through Obama, contains kinship charts among presidents, and also shows the royal descents of some presidents. Craig Hart's book, A Genealogy of the Wives of the American Presidents and Their First Two Generations of Descent (973 H251g), attempts to trace the ancestry of First Ladies, though this work is not as comprehensive as the Roberts book.
If your interest is in the descendants of American presidents, you may wish to examine Burke's Presidential Families (second edition, 1981) (929.11 B915), or American Presidential Families (1993) (929.11 Am352). The latter book lists descendants of collateral relatives of those presidents who do not have living descendants, but neither work is documented. Some presidents appear in larger published genealogies. For example, in 1990, the Theodore Roosevelt Association published The Roosevelt Family in America: A Genealogy (929.2 R67rf), an extensive genealogy of this extended New York Dutch family.
New research is continually being published, and sometimes new discoveries are made with some fanfare, such as the discovery of President Obama's Irish ancestry several years ago. In 2011-2012, Michael Thomas Meggison and R. Andrew Pierce compiled a multi-part article on descendants of Timothy Bush of Connecticut, the paternal ancestor of the Bush family, which continued over three issues in two volumes of The Genealogist (973.005 G2855), published by the American Society of Genealogists. Their research brings to light much new information about this colonial family, which, until recently, has not been fully investigated.
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text: Today, Clearwire announced network rollout plans for the "Clear" WiMax service, in conjunction with Sprint. In 2009, Las Vegas, Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Baltimore, Seattle, Honolulu and Charlotte are all scheduled to go live; next year, they'll light up New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., Houston and the San Francisco Bay Area. Better yet, subscribers will be getting a 3G/4G modem this summer, that'll do WiMax in their home markets and Sprint EVDO Rev A in other cities—a lustworthy USB dongle if I ever heard of one. [Clearwire]


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Q: A couple of weeks ago, my family and I took a trip to Hilton Head Island. We booked a rental car with Enterprise and the fine print in the contract said there would be an additional charge of $5 a day for "each additional authorized driver other than a spouse or domestic partner."
I checked this language specifically, because my partner and I are partners, not spouses. We live in Canada (though we're U.S. citizens) and are "common-law spouses" (a domestic partnership category) under Canadian law.
When we arrived to pick up the car at the Savannah, Ga., airport, we were told we had to pay the extra fee because we were not married. Unfortunately, I didn't have the document with the above language printed out, so I had to choose between signing the paperwork at the counter and finding a car from another agency. Naturally, I chose to sign the paperwork; I had already waited in line for nearly half an hour, and I would almost certainly have had to pay a substantially higher rate as a last-minute walk-up at another agency.
When we got to Hilton Head, I looked up the information in my email, called Enterprise's customer service line, and explained the situation. The gentleman with whom I spoke initially told me that "of course" we wouldn't have to pay the extra fee if we were domestic partners. He then put me on hold to call the Savannah airport counter. When he came back on, he told me that he had been wrong: the domestic partner exclusion applied only to same-sex domestic partners, not opposite-sex domestic partners.
I explained that the contract they sent to me did not specify "same-sex domestic partners." It merely said "domestic partners." He agreed with me that we should not have to pay the fee, in his opinion, but said there was nothing he could do because that was company policy. He suggested that I register a formal complaint; I did so, but no one has gotten back to me.
— Stacey Koprince, Montreal
A: If your contract promised domestic partners didn't have to pay a fee for an additional driver, then Enterprise shouldn't have charged you an extra $5 a day.
The extra-driver fee is, in my opinion, nothing more than a money grab. It doesn't make any sense, either. By Enterprise's logic, a married couple or a same-sex couple is less of a risk to a rental car than an opposite-sex couple, or just two friends. I haven't seen any evidence that married couples are any less likely to total a car than unmarried couples.
Enterprise is hardly the only car rental company to charge extra-driver fees. But what makes its charges so troubling is the discriminatory nature of the fees. It won't charge married couples, or gay couples, but it will charge straight couples? Come on. If Enterprise wants to charge an extra $5 per driver, it should do it for everyone.
Next time you're in a situation like this, don't accept the rental. I don't care if you had to spend half an hour in line. Ask to speak with a manager, and if that doesn't work, call the Enterprise reservation number from the counter. Don't make a scene, but don't back down, either.
Once you sign on the dotted line, your options are limited. You've already agreed to the price, even if Enterprise is wrong. Getting it to reverse course won't be easy.
But it's not impossible. I contacted Enterprise on your behalf, and it refunded the extra-driver fee.
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From Wednesday, Dec. 26 through Monday, Jan. 7, the City will have two areas set up for residents to dispose of their Christmas trees for recycling:
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2010:Went 1-0 with a 0.93 ERA and one save in seven appearances, including one start … Struck out seven and walked two in 15.0 innings … Held opponents to a .173 average … Played as pinch-runner in four games … Picked up first collegiate win in 4.0 innings of scoreless relief vs. Oakland (Feb. 26) Made collegiate debut vs. Oakland (Feb. 20) … Struck out three walked none in 2.0 innings of relief in first career collegiate outing … Made first collegiate start on the mound at Western Kentucky (Mar. 30) … Atlantic Sun All-Academic Team.
High School: Two-time All-State selection. ...Named to the All-Northeast Georgia Team by the Athens Bannerall four years. ...Four-time All-Regional selection. ...Four-year starter. ...Compiled a 23-6 record (the team was 25-10) and a .42 earned run average. ...The team advances to the state sectionals. ...As a sophomore her high school team won the state championship. ...Made four state player appearances as a pitcher. ...Finished high school career in the top 10 in overall in Georgia, rating ninth in ERA (.63), seventh in career wins (73) and sixth in career innings pitched (664). ...Honor roll all four years. ...Graduated with honors. ...Member of BETA club.
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Mike Mattarocci necesitaba un nuevo diseño de camiseta y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 38 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
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My name is Mike and I help run a global brand of merchandise and apparel that caters to the electronic dance music community. Everything we do is centered around music, whether it's usb bracelets, wallets made from DJ MAGAZINE pages dipped in acrylic, or whatever. A big part of our business plan is collaborating with djs/producers/label owners/etc who want us to handle their merchandise as well as handle our own line.
Our target audience is the crowd that goes out clubbing, listens to electronic dance music, is fashion conscious, does bottle service poolside in Las Vegas while KASKADE is djing or even goes to illegal raves and is still a teenager. Our target age is anywhere from 16-60 that likes clothing that isn't very conservative or normal.
I have an international dj who is very famous who wants to try and do something really cool, interesting, cutting edge, etc with a ghetto blaster. We are slammed with work and need some fresh input from new designers to keep up with work. The design can be an "all over" print, as we have access to an all-over printer in Los Angeles. Feel free to do something where foil is used for some (or all) of the design if you'd like. Get creative. I am a huge fan of black and white digital artwork, so if you're feeling that, then go for it. Use cool angles.....make it bleed off the shirt....even create some sort of collage or wallpaper out of ghetto blasters. I think you get the idea. I am looking for something simple or something off the wall.
Plan on having a small, little space where we incorporate the dj's name into the design. More than likely, it'll be where the manufacturer's label would go on the boom box. I will tell the winner what the dj's name is once we narrow it down to the final designers. Until then, just use "Dj Whoever" in your space. If you have a better idea for a placement of the dj's name, then let me see it or know about it. The ghetto blaster could even be tuned into "Dj Whoever FM" or whatever. What we're not looking for is a traditional DJ billboard tshirt where the name is huge on the front of the shirt. These don't sell well. The design needs to sell itself.


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SAN JOSE — Despite her obvious reluctance, the mother of a young man accused of killing 15-year-old Michael Russell took the stand Monday in her son's murder trial and gave testimony that strengthened the prosecution's case.
Christina Trujillo acknowledged that she tried to reach her son Jae Williams 14 times after Santa Teresa High School let out on Nov. 10, 2009, the afternoon Michael was stabbed. Her inability to reach him bolstered prosecutor Valerie McGuire's contention that Williams was busy at the time — helping to stab Michael to death.
Williams and his close friend Randy Thompson are both charged in the case. But Thompson will be charged separately, after Williams' four- to six-week trial ends.
Williams confessed to police that they befriended Michael, long planned to kill him and did so for thrills.
Michael suffered at least 12 significant stab wounds, one of which perforated his larynx, jugular vein and carotid artery and another that collapsed his right lung. Another penetrated 7 inches deep through his chest and into his heart.
Trujillo did not make it easy for McGuire to extract information about her son.
Appearing sad and weary, Trujillo would quietly deny everything she was asked about, then wind up conceding it was true. For instance, she said she never made repeated phone calls to try to reach Williams, forcing McGuire to draw her attention to cellphone records and police reports proving she had.
She denied agreeing to let police interview her son. But when McGuire confronted her with the consent form she'd signed, she conceded she had granted permission.
Trujillo said that she, Williams and her then-19-year-old daughter discussed the horrific killing during dinner at Applebee's a couple of days after he was slain. Williams continued to feign ignorance about it, though he confessed the next day.
He even told his mom what people were saying about why Michael may have been killed.
"Jae said it could have been somebody (Michael) owed some money to for a drug deal," she said.
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However, once I remove the motor, how do I make it run to test it? Will simply plugging it in make it run?
During the wash cycle, after it agitates, it stops for a couple of minutes (it is suppose to do this - at least it always has). Sometimes, it won't restart and may sit there doing nothing until I take some action. So, if I simply bang on the lid, it starts. To me, this sounds like the lid switch may be failing.
Then see if the spin cycle still stops (I believe it will, but who knows). If it still stops spinning, then replace the motor.Does this sound like a good plan? Have I missed anything?Again, MANY MANY thanks.


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What should be $\text{Spec } \mathbb{Z}[\sqrt{D}] \times_{\mathbb{F}_1} \text{Spec } \overline{\mathbb{F}}_{1}$?
Sure, there's more than one definition. I'm looking for any answer that uses at least one definition of scheme over $\mathbb{F}_1$.
This really is more a question of opinion. What do you think this should be? Some monoid that has something to do with $\text{Spec }\mathbb{Z}[\sqrt{D}][\mathbb{Q}/\mathbb{Z}]$ would be my guess (where the second brackets mean group ring).
This interests me from the point of view that, say, hyperelliptic curves over a finite field come (geometrically) from the group scheme of a quadratic extension of $\overline{\mathbb{F}}_p [t]$. In this case the frobenius acts on ideal classes, and satisfies a quadratic equation. But, from what I understand, the natural analogue of frobenius in the arithmetic case, is like taking any positive power, and taking limits to 0 (or something of the sort). Would this satisfy some kind of equation on, say, $\text{Pic(Spec } \mathbb{Z}[\sqrt{D}] \times_{\mathbb{F}_1} \text{Spec } \overline{\mathbb{F}}_{1}\text{)}$? (for whatever definition of Pic that should be natural here)
I've searched for information on $\mathbb{F}_1$, but most just talk about making $\text{Spec }\mathbb{Z}$ into a curve, getting zeta functions to be Riemann's, etc. Instead, I want to ask questions that are not just about proving the Riemann hypothesis, like the one above.


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A 67-year-old man adrift for several weeks on board a disabled sailboat was rescued hundreds of miles miles off the coast of Alaska with help from a 984-foot containership and the U.S. Coast Guard.At approximately 9:00 a.m. Thursday, Coast Guard District 17 command center watchstanders received a distress alert from the sailing vessel Miss Lilly, in which the man aboard reported his vessel to be disabled and adrift roughly 500 nautical miles south-southwest of Dutch Harbor, and he was in need of assistance.The distress alert was communicated from the man's 406Mhz Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) to a search and rescue satellite that relayed the message to the U.S.
Chevron Oil Cargo Tangled in US' Venezuela Sanctions
Chevron Corp crude oil cargo has become embroiled in U.S. sanctions on shipping companies for violating restrictions on doing business with Venezuela, the company confirmed on Friday.Adamant Maritime Ltd, the owner of very large crude-oil carrier (VLCC) Seahero was sanctioned by the U.S. Department of Treasury on Tuesday for carrying a Venezuelan cargo in February. The vessel currently is heading to Asia after recently stopping in Trinidad and Tobago, according to vessel tracking data.The tanker on short term charter and "performing a voyage that is not related to Venezuela," Chevron spokesman Ray Fohr said.
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CMA CGM expects activity in the shipping sector to bottom out during the second quarter as countries emerge from coronavirus-related lockdowns and ship operators adjust capacity, the France-based group's finance chief said.The world's fourth-largest container shipping line had anticipated a 15% year-on-year drop in its volumes in the second quarter, after a 4.6% decline in the first quarter, Chief Financial Officer Michel Sirat said."I think that the second quarter will be the low point," he told Reuters by telephone. "The shipping industry is much more resilient than in the past.
China Pushing Sea Claims Under Cover of COVID-19 -US Commander
China is using the coronavirus as a cover to push territorial claims in the South China Sea through a surge in naval activity meant to intimidate other countries that claim the waters, the commander of U.S. Forces in Japan said on Friday.There has been a surge of activity by China in the South China Sea with navy ships, coast guard vessels and a naval militia of fishing boats in harassing vessels in waters claimed by Beijing, said Lieutenant General Kevin Schneider."Through the course of the COVID crisis we saw a surge of maritime activity," he told Reuters in a phone interview.
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ABB has signed a contract to support icebreaking LNG carrier Christophe de Margerie with remote diagnostics services for increased safety and performance as the vessel completed the transit of the Northern Sea Route, bound for China with Yamal LNG cargo two months earlier than usualThe pioneering icebreaking liquified natural gas (LNG) carrier Christophe de Margerie will now have round-the-clock remote support provided through ABB's global network of eight ABB Ability Collaborative Operations Centers.


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WKU professor part of committee that oversaw U.S. climate report
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Tuesday's release of the 1,100-page National Climate Assessment was a momentous day for WKU professor Rezaul Mahmood.
Dr. Mahmood, associate director of the Kentucky Climate Center and the Kentucky Mesonet, was one of about 60 members of the National Climate Assessment Development and Advisory Committee, which oversaw the 3½-year process that resulted in the largest, most comprehensive U.S.-focused climate change report ever produced.
This National Climate Assessment summarizes the impacts of climate change on the United States, now and in the future, and concludes that the evidence of human-induced climate change continues to strengthen and that impacts are increasing across the country. The highlights and full report are available at http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/
The report is important regardless of people's views on climate change and global warming, Dr. Mahmood said.
"We should not be doing business as usual whether you believe the climate is changing or not, because based on current science, our climate has been changing," he said. "More importantly, even if you say it is not happening, we must take measures to protect ourselves from floods, drought, severe weather and heat because we will have those no matter what. We must have policies, plans and infrastructure in place to protect ourselves from potential climate change impacts."
Dr. Mahmood, a professor in WKU's Department of Geography and Geology, was named to the NCADAC in 2011. The committee oversaw a team of more than 300 scientists and experts who developed the National Climate Assessment, which was written by more than 240 authors.
"It was a great learning experience," Dr. Mahmood said of his work on the committee. "It was a very engaged process and the group did a very good job."
The report was extensively reviewed by the public and experts, including federal agencies and a panel of the National Academy of Sciences.
The report's overview notes: "Scientists who study climate change confirm that these observations are consistent with significant changes in Earth's climatic trends. Long-term, independent records from weather stations, satellites, ocean buoys, tide gauges, and many other data sources all confirm that our nation, like the rest of the world, is warming. Precipitation patterns are changing, sea level is rising, the oceans are becoming more acidic, and the frequency and intensity of some extreme weather events are increasing. Many lines of independent evidence demonstrate that the rapid warming of the past half-century is due primarily to human activities."
The report includes analyses of impacts on seven sectors – human health, water, energy, transportation, agriculture, forests, and ecosystems – and the interactions among sectors at the national level. The report also assesses key impacts on all U.S. regions: Northeast, Southeast and Caribbean, Midwest, Great Plains, Southwest, Northwest, Alaska, Hawai'i and Pacific Islands, as well as the country's coastal areas, oceans, and marine resources.
Kentucky is included one of 11 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands included in the Southeast and Caribbean region, which "is exceptionally vulnerable to sea level rise, extreme heat events, hurricanes, and decreased water availability. The geographic distribution of these impacts and vulnerabilities is uneven, since the region encompasses a wide range of environments, from the Appalachian Mountains to the coastal plains," the report said.
Dr. Mahmood said Kentucky fares well in the report but noted that the state is likely to face hotter and drier summers. However, he added, weather and climate trends don't follow state borders. "If things happen in the Midwest or the Southeast, it will impact Kentucky," Dr. Mahmood said. "We are not isolated."
Contact: Rezaul Mahmood, (270) 745-5979.
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You may have noticed that we've stopped running out daily notes. And you also may have noticed last week's "The Best of Kotaku, This Week" feature. Well, this is going to be a regular thing.
Part of this thing includes nominating a Best Comment of the Week. That's you guys. We want to highlight the best community contributions each week, and we'd like to hear your input.
So, who will it be this week? If you remember a funny, thoughtful, smart, adjective, interesting comment, submit it here. We'll look through and pick the best one for tomorrow's Best of Kotaku feature.
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A year ago, the Montgomery County Relay for Life was pushed indoors at Wabash College because of unrelenting July thunderstorms. Still, nearly 600 people of all ages turned out for our six-hour Relay that raised a Montgomery County-record of just over $60,000.
Regular readers of this column may recall how excited I was, as a cancer survivor and Relay for Life committee member, that my college was able to get more involved in the annual fund-raiser for our local chapter of the American Cancer Society.
So when organizer Ruthanna Williamson inquired about moving the event to Wabash permanently, I was positively ecstatic thinking about the possibilities that Knowling Fieldhouse provides.
Moving the event from July to April was deliberate; we wanted to get more school groups and Wabash students involved. And, we wanted to walk 12 hours through the night.
Friday's Ninth Annual Relay for Life has come and gone, and I think I speak on behalf of all of the volunteers involved when I say it was our biggest and best Relay ever!
Not everybody made it the entire night. In fact, only about 30 hearty souls walked in Relay fashion for the entire 12 hours. But that in no way diminishes what was one of the most memorable community building events with which I've ever been involved.
Big thanks go out to Wabash's Campus Services. The set-up guys and custodians went out of their way to insure that the event would come off without a hitch. Brent Harris, sports information director, had never been involved with the Relay for Life. That didn't deter him from working most of the day Friday and all of the night to make sure we had all the technology and sound we needed.
Local businesses donated hundreds of dollars worth of drinks and food for the Relay walkers. Businesses donated many hundreds of dollars in merchandise used for give-aways for cancer survivors and for the silent auction.
The logistics involved with organizing and planning an event so large are an important part of the work that goes on.
But it's the heart of this community that really touched me on Friday.
Changes in venue, timing, and length of the Relay did not slow Montgomery County one single bit. Teams organized, raised funds, recruited members, and threw enormous amounts of time and creativity in making this Relay for Life the best yet.
I think about the team from Random House Publishing, who not only raised some big-time cash, but also brought over cases and cases of children's books to give away. And the Athens Medical Group, with nearly 70 blue-clad team members, made quite a statement.
Annette Hitch and the gang from Pace Dairy Foods, as usual, took top honors in creativity (with a nod to Random House's Cat-in the-Hat tails). Once again, Pace brought out a huge team and partnered with Rotten Robby's bikes to carry out a bicycle theme.
Wabash men were also a part of the Relay for the first time. The guys in the Beta Theta Pi fraternity handed Ruthanna a check for $1500, a sum that may continue to grow as they sell "Wabash Always" wristbands and partner with Applebee's on a fund-raiser this week.
The men from Alpha Phi Omega had hoped to stretch quarters all the way around the track. They didn't reach their goal, but they were there, at the end of the Relay, spreading out the quarters they had raised to fight cancer in our community.
And on a very personal note, I was most touched by an act of kindness from my daughter, Samantha. She was on her way to the Relay at about 3:30 on Friday when she suddenly realized she had no money to donate to the cause. She rushed to the garage and found a Relay for Life sign from last year. She taped a sign beneath it that said: "F-I-H-T Cancer: Kool-aid 25 cents a cup."
Two hours later, she brought her locked-up bank with $17.53 worth of Kool-aid money and proudly turned in all those pennies, nickels, and dimes. (She also brought another sign and a stack of granola bars to sell at the Relay.)
The Relay for Life really is an amazing event. It takes a disease that kills hundreds of people every year in this county, lifts it up, and kicks it in the face. It shouts loudly that together, we can make a difference; together we can beat cancer.
Amidon is Wabash College's Director of Public Affairs. He writes a weekly column for the Crawfordsville Journal Review. This column appeared in April 18 editions.
In photos:
On homepage: Members of Beta Theta Pi present Relay chairman Ruthanna Williamson a check for $1,500.
Above right: The teams start their long Relay walk.
On left: A balloon release marked the start of the walk.
Center right: Survivors a big part of annual fund-raiser.
Bottom right: Sam's homemade sign.


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SAN ANTONIO -- Spectrum Athletic Clubs, Los Angeles, announced last week that it has purchased the Concord Athletic Club & Spa in San Antonio from The Wellbridge Co.
The purchase of the 65,000-square-foot facility gives Spectrum 10 clubs in San Antonio, with an 11th set to open in June in the South Texas Medical Center. Spectrum also has 12 clubs in Southern California.
The Concord club will be renamed Spectrum Athletic Club at Concord Plaza. The club includes strength and cardio equipment, courts for basketball, racquetball and squash, a 25-meter indoor pool, and other amenities.
Spectrum has hired Concord's 100 employees, says Andy Gillen, Spectrum's chief operating officer.
"We've seen this as a great opportunity to add to our family of clubs for quite some time," Gillen says. "It's a fantastic outcome for members and staff at Concord. We'll maintain that high-end presence in San Antonio."
Spectrum has been without a CEO since Matthew Stevens left to become the new president and CEO of Western Athletic Clubs, San Francisco, last fall. Rahul Aggarwal, the managing director for Brentwood and Associates, Spectrum's parent company, declined to give an update on a search for a new CEO.
The Wellbridge Co., where Stevens had served as an executive for nine years prior to his arrival at Spectrum, announced last week that it plans to open the Colorado Athletic Club at Tabor Center in downtown Denver in late 2009. The 39,000-square-foot club will include a 25-meter, four-lane indoor pool, cardio and strength equipment, group exercise studios, and other amenities.


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Thomas Kulp is CMO of Universal Athletic Club, a large multipurpose facility in Lancaster, PA. Kulp's club has a member retention rate of 84 percent. He was runner-up in the 2006 John McCarthy Scholarship for IHRSA University. Kulp also is CEO of Fitness Club Consultants, the creator of the Members4ever club management system that brings clubs the ability to manage, involve and keep members at your club. Kulp has spoken in four countries—England, Brazil, Canada and Russia—bringing his experience in management and retention-improving skills to health clubs worldwide. He is a member of REX Roundtables for Executives and is the president of Mid-Atlantic Club Management Association. Kulp can be reached at 717-799-5155 or [email protected].
For more than 25 years, health club operators drove the industry on a model of selling memberships based on the attributes of our facilities and on our pricing strategies. Today, however, we are in a different world, and a new model needs to emerge.
Simply put, our organizations must regroup and realize that this new business model will depend on keeping members longer, involving them in club activities and keeping them engaged so they realize the value of their memberships. The best part of this equation is that the longer members stay, the more money they spend. The more money they spend, the more money we have to invest in our facilities and our staff training. It also allows us to design programs that help us make a bigger impact on the community around us.
Can we articulate to our members the need to retain our club's membership for the rest of their lives? To do this we need to be more than just treadmills and circuits. We need to be a center for stress release and energy enhancement, as well as a place that helps members achieve a better quality of life. When we deliver that every day, we become an essential part of the new member's life.
No one wants to pay too much for anything. Giving our members value on every visit is paramount to long-term success. We need to ensure that every staff member understands the need to give members value on every visit, because once new members experience a decline in value and don't know where to go to stop the slide, they will cancel. We should view cancellations as failures on our end, not failures on the members' part.
Our reception team must start the member experience with a professional, warm and friendly greeting. They must be knowledgeable about the activities and the culture of the club. They should be able to set the stage and initiate the experience that new or current members will have in your facility on a regular basis.
Your club needs to have a theme of involvement, which starts with the salespeople—our membership representatives. Salespeople must establish the types of relationships where new members know they can reach out to them whenever they need help, have a question or are struggling. We need to make sure that after prospects see all the fancy equipment, beautiful locker rooms and nice facility design, they know that behind it is a core group of people who operate every day with the members' success in mind.
Your staff should have a specific process to initiate new members into the club culture. All members should be treated equally and given all the tools they need to be successful. The sales process should articulate this journey to ensure that new members comprehend that it's not about a single step, but it is one small step after another that will lead them to a more fulfilled, more energetic and healthier life.
Our sales team must slow down and take a few minutes to interview prospects—get to know them, get to know about them and get to understand the struggles they have or will face on our journey together. We need to understand the things that will need to be done to help them succeed by their definition and not by ours. Then and only then should we take prospective members on a tour around our club.
The tour should point out aspects of the club and programming that will benefit that potential member, rather than leading it based on our passions. Tours focused on the potential member's needs are more time efficient and allow us a longer-term focus on the member. Plus, spending more time with the member up-front builds stronger relationships, allows us to help the potential member understand how to meet health goals, makes closing the sale easier and helps create a relationship that can blossom into referrals and more non-dues revenue sales.
Developing a business plan to get your member to try all the areas of your club leads to higher retention. Your sales team needs to discuss these areas, your fitness team needs to get members involved and your whole staff needs to be connected to new members to keep them engaged.
At the end of the day, it comes down to people getting the success they desire. That means understanding what the new member wants, rather than assuming what we think they want. We need to ask better questions, record the answers, and ensure that our whole team is clued in to member needs. Our plan should be established with their buy-in and commitment, then we should follow-up at planned intervals during the membership life cycle.
We need to start a revolution and get committed to making a different, fitter, healthier world, one member at a time.


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This article appeared in an August 2016 issue of the student newsletter.
Dallas County Community College District students can transfer to Texas Tech University and either fast-track to a teaching career at Texas Tech or pursue a bachelor's degree in nursing through the university's El Paso campus, thanks to recent transfer agreements signed by both institutions.
DCCCD students who want to pursue a career in teaching now have a pathway to transfer to Texas Tech's TechTeach, a program that puts them on a fast track to earn a bachelor's degree and a teaching certificate in one calendar year after completing an associate degree. The degree and certification guarantee teaching positions at schools in the Dallas Independent School District.
A transfer agreement signed by the two institutions offers this opportunity: Students who complete a recommended degree plan and earn an Associate of Arts degree in teaching or an Associate of Science degree and who fulfill Tech's requirements will be admitted to the TechTeach program and earn a bachelor's degree in multidisciplinary studies.
The agreement was signed at DCCCD in July by Dr. Justin Lonon, DCCCD's executive vice chancellor, and Dr. Scott Ridley, dean of the College of Education at Texas Tech.
The TechTeach program allows students to earn a bachelor's degree and the teacher certification in one year through a combination of online classes and intensive clinical experience. In this program, students are placed as teachers at DISD schools, and their work is monitored by mentors and coordinators.
"The TechTeach program offers an excellent opportunity for our students to take a fast track to teaching and bring more teachers into Dallas classrooms," said Lonon. "Transfer agreements like TechTeach and our general transfer renewal with Texas Tech enable our students to attend a university, build a career and teach to help young students grow."
"Texas Tech University strongly values its programming partnership with DCCCD, and the data tell us that we are jointly producing excellent new teachers for the communities and children that need them the most," Ridley stated.
DCCCD students will be guaranteed admission to the program if they complete an A.A.T. or A.S. degree; have a cumulative grade point average of 2.75; earn a "C" or better in all courses; and achieve minimum scores on one of the following exams:
The TechTeach program offers four educational certificates, including:
During the ceremony, DCCCD and Texas Tech also renewed a general articulation agreement that enables students to transfer from the district's seven colleges to Texas Tech. DCCCD students who follow the recommended program of study – the common core and transfer curriculum – and who meet all other admissions requirements and deadlines pertaining to application for admission, orientation and registration, and payment of tuition and fees will be eligible for admission to Texas Tech.
The renewal was signed by Lonon and Dr. Patrick Hughes, Tech's associate vice provost for undergraduate education.
Under the general transfer renewal, DCCCD students who have earned 12 to 22 credit hours and who have a GPA of 2.5, and students who have 24 or more credit hours and a minimum GPA of 2.25, will be guaranteed admission at Texas Tech. In addition, students who complete common core requirements or who earn an associate degree will be accepted automatically.
Texas Tech also will accept credits from online, dual credit and early college high school courses; only courses with a grade of "C" or better will be eligible for transfer.
Under another partnership, Brookhaven College nursing students will be able to earn a bachelor's degree from Texas Tech El Paso's Gayle Greve Hunt School of Nursing through a dual enrollment program between the two schools. Brookhaven students will be able to complete their four-year degrees without leaving the Dallas area by participating in their clinical rotations at local hospitals and by taking online classes at GGHSON.
The new partnership will help alleviate the national shortage of nurses because many hospitals now require nurses to have bachelor's degrees.
Almost 28,000 nurses already work in Dallas County, but at least 4,000 more are needed immediately, according to recent figures from Economic Modeling Specialists International.
For more information about DCCCD's transfer programs, please email Sunny Huang, DCCCD's coordinator of transfer services, at
firstname.lastname@example.com or call 214-378-1751.
For more information about the new partnership between Brookhaven's nursing program and dual enrollment with Texas Tech's nursing program, please contact Mark Meyer, DCCCD's dean of nursing, at
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Helsinki NATO event seeks to improve cooperation in crisis management
On 4 March, Finland and Sweden are hosting the seminar "NATO's New Strategic Concept – Comprehensive Approach to Crisis Management" in Helsinki to discuss ways of enhancing cooperation between NATO and other international actors to improve crisis management.
The conference is looking at the future challenges of crisis management and NATO's role and interaction with other international actors, such as the European Union. Sessions are focusing on the evolving world order, the growing role of the European Union in security policy and crisis management, how to build capabilities by bringing actors together, and how to make future crisis management operations successful.
"The logic of the comprehensive approach is compelling, but its implementation remains difficult," said NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, in his opening speech. "Each player operates within its own stovepipe, and with its own working methods. The combined impact of our efforts remains much less than what it could be."
He outlined the three steps that he believes are necessary for an effective approach: instill a new understanding of the need for better civil-military cooperation, build closer cooperation between all major institutions and NGOs at all levels, and increase NATO's connectivity with the wider world.
"We need to see each other as indispensable partners, and not as competitors," Mr Rasmussen said. "It is clear from our recent operation in Marjah [Afghanistan] that we achieve better, more lasting results when the military and civilian sides work together from the outset and according to a single plan."
Key speakers at the event also include Finnish President Tarja Halonen, Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, Finnish Foreign and Defence Ministers Alexander Stubb and Jyri Hakamies, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, NATO Group of Experts Vice-Chair Jeroen van der Veer, and Supreme Allied Commander Transformation Stephane Abrial.
In addition to organising this seminar, Finland and Sweden have presented written opinions to the Group of Experts on the subjects of NATO's role in crisis management, EU-NATO cooperation and Nordic cooperation.