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A survey conducted by the Industrial Research Institute (IRI) has found that R&D spending is expected to increase in 2012. The company's 2012 R&D Trends Forecast also found that new product development will increase in 2012.
The company surveyed 104 participants from a cross-section of industries, in medium to large companies, many multinational, with a total of 240 laboratories outside of the United States in 38 countries.
Of those surveyed, 94% indicated that they expected R&D spending to remain the same or increase, while only six companies expected a decrease. As in the past, the managers expect this increase to be focused on new business projects. While most respondents reported expectations that capital spending, support of existing businesses and directed basic research would remain relatively flat, almost 70% indicated that they thought R&D budgets focused on new business development would increase, as compared with only 8% who thought their spending in this area might decrease.
The expectations for R&D hiring in 2012 remain positive. Most respondents expected hiring to remain at current levels or increase slightly, either through increases in professional personnel levels or through new graduate hiring or both.
Industry segment data was collected as a part of this survey; data is presented for segments that are represented by at least five companies. This year, that includes chemicals, consumer products, food and paper. Although most managers reported expecting increases in R&D budgets in 2012, managers in the consumer products and paper industries expect decreases in overall R&D spending, while those in chemicals and food expected much larger increases than the overall average.
The companies continue to participate in external R&D collaborations. While participation in consortia grows, companies are continuing to participate in alliances and joint R&D ventures.
About 70% of participating companies now have R&D facilities overseas. This year's list of locations is longer than last year's, suggesting that businesses are broadening their global reach. Specifically, Thailand, Argentina and Colombia are new entrants on the list, suggesting that companies are looking more to innovation in Asia and South America. In addition, there is an emergence of Eastern European countries, in particular the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Romania.
One thing was common among survey participants—they all were concerned over innovation. When asked "What keeps you up at night," most of the participants answered with some form of innovation. When asked about the top challenges facing R&D managers, respondents indicated that their biggest problems were "growing the business through innovation," "accelerating innovation" and "balancing long-term and short-term R&D objectives"


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The Knife Release Tour Dates
We are excited to share with you details of The Knife's long-awaited Shaking the Habitual North American Tour, kicking off at the Coachella Music Festival on April 11th, 2014. These dates mark The Knife's return to North America, where they have not been seen since their 2006 Silent Shout performances.
General on-sale for all listed tour dates is Saturday, January 18th (with the exception of Oakland on-sale Friday, January 17th at noon PST).
The Knife have released the following statement about what you can expect from their live performance:
"Shaking the Habitual, the album, lays the groundwork for this show. Based on the artistic and political ideas therein, we play with the expectations and question habits of the concert, the dance performance, the club and the music festival.
Working within a highly commercial, professionalized and male-dominated music industry, we strive to twist and strangle hierarchies to find other ways of organizing work and its conditions. Disrespecting borders between digital and analogue, fake and real, professional and dilettante, star and cast, experimental acts and glamorous shows, nature and culture, audience and artist, blood family and chosen family, dance and action, a Buchla and bongo and the sound of a hit and a kiss.
We use the full potential of the electronic concert. In addition to bodies playing electronic music, we suggest different bodily engagements. We suggest dancing together as a mobilization, a collective moment for everyone in the room – on and off stage – to take part in.
In 2013 we played at clubs and festivals in European cities. Now it's 2014 and we're about to tour North America. With care and attention, we gathered our impressions and got back together to rework the show.
This is a continuation.
Some songs are the same, some songs are new.
Moves are added and changed.
Some instruments are electrified and more voices are heard.
Things glow and along the way we have elevated ourselves.
This time, we, The Knife, are a group of people with diverse approaches to dance, moves and music. Some of us are musicians, some of us are vocalists, some of us are choreographers, some of us are experienced performers and some of us are not. We are very proud to announce that Shannon Funchess from the electronic punk duo Light Asylum (New York) is joining the show. Already familiar with the project as she sings on the record, she is now with us on stage.
"We learn from each other.
We share responsibility.
This is a suggestion. For all of us."
-The Knife
The Shaking the Habitual Team, spring 2014:
Adena Asovic (Perfomer), Aja Svensson (Performer), Halla Ólafsdóttir (Performer), Jesper Strömbäck Eklund (Project Manager), Josefin Hinders (Set Designer), Julia Brightly (FOH Engineer), , Karin Dreijer (Performer), Kim Einarsson (Artistic Coordinator), Laura Davis (Monitor Engineer), Lotje Horvers (Tour Manager), Marcus Baldemar (Performer), Maryam Nikandish, (Performer), Mickey Hurcombe (Backline Tech), Miguel Gutierrez (Performer, Deep Aerobics), Olof Dreijer (Performer), Peter Hamilton (Production Manager), Rami Jawhari Jansson (Performer), Sarah Landau (Light Designer), Shannon Funchess (Performer), Stina Nyberg (Performer), Tarek Halaby (Performer, Deep Aerobics), and Zoë Poluch (Performer)
The Knife N.American Tour Dates:
4/11-Coachella Music Festival-Indio, CA
4/15—Fox Theater—Oakland, CA
(on-sale Friday 1/17 @ 12 PM PST)
4/18-Coachella Music Festival-Indio,CA
4/21-Fillmore-Denver, CO
4/23-Aragon-Chicago, IL
4/25-Kool Haus-Toronto, ONT
4/26-Metropolis-Montreal, QUE
4/28-House of Blues-Boston, MA
4/30-Terminal 5-NYC

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Silent in the Grave
Author: Deanna Raybourn
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-09-17
"Let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave." These ominous words, slashed from the pages of a book of Psalms, are the last threat that the darling of London society, Sir Edward Grey, receives from his killer. Before he can show them to Nicholas Brisbane, the private inquiry agent he has retained for his protection, Sir Edward collapses and dies at his London home, in the presence of his wife, Julia, and a roomful of dinner guests. Prepared to accept that Edward's death was due to a longstanding physical infirmity, Julia is outraged when Brisbane visits and suggests that Sir Edward has been murdered. It is a reaction she comes to regret when she discovers the damning paper for herself, and realizes the truth. Determined to bring her husband's murderer to justice, Julia engages the enigmatic Brisbane to help her investigate Edward's demise. Dismissing his warnings that the investigation will be difficult, if not impossible, Julia presses forward, following a trail of clues that lead her to even more unpleasant truths, and ever closer to a killer who waits expectantly for her arrival.


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Mercury Mariner Lease Questions
Member Posts: 38,514
Hi everyone. Please use the following discussion to post any questions that you have about leasing a Mercury Mariner. Thanks.
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truffing Member Posts: 2I'm having a heck of a time trying to get a lease price for the Mercury Mariner Hybrid. My saleslady said the residual is not available, however she said my vechile that I ordered (not knowing the lease price when I ordered) would be delivered to the dealership next week. Anyone have a clue as to what the lease price would be?0
CarMan@Edmunds Member Posts: 38,514Unfortunately, truffing, I have not seen the residual values for this truck either. Banks usually do not publish residual values for vehicles until they start arriving at dealers. To further complicate things, the residual values for hybrid vehicles are often significantly different than they are for equivalent non-hybrid models. I can tell you though that I expect this truck's lease program will not be very good and it will be a very expensive vehicle to lease. Sorry that I could not be of more help.
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truffing Member Posts: 2Well, I found out the hard way. I've been waiting for this since July '05. The interest rate from Ford Credit is 12.5%. The monthly payment on this SUV was $800.00 a month (with the A plan). Another Ford dealer (sells Mercury as well), gave me an interest rate of 7%. It cut it down to 750.00 a month. To buy the hybrid it was in the $600.00 range a month (with A plan). I figured I'd stick with the gas guzzler. I was told that Ford really doesn't want to lease these hybrids due to resale value. Since they are so new, no one would want to buy a used one.
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CarMan@Edmunds Member Posts: 38,514I'm not surprised that the interest rates that you were quoted for this truck are so horrible, truffing. Ford is not currently providing any sort of lease support on it and Ford Credit's standard interest rates are horrific. I think that you are right about banks not wanting to lease Hybrids. This technology is fairly new and no one knows how well hybrids will hold up over a period of several years. Eventually the batteries in hybrid vehicles will have to be replaced, which is an expensive repairs. A company called ALG is sort of the industry standard when it comes to independent analysis of vehicle's residual values and they don't even publish residuals for hybrid vehicles yet.
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sitdevil1 Member Posts: 2i picked up a lease last night, and its my first vehical. i found a scratch this morning and a discolored paint area... what can i do?! will the dealer fix these? this is how i picked up the car. -- the confused newbee0
chiefbigg Member Posts: 4Sitdevil,
I can't answer your question, but was hoping you could give the details on what model you got and the cost. I live in IL and have been trying to lease a Mariner, but the dealers don't seem very accomodating.
Did you get the Signature Lease? $279 on a Luxury with no other out of pocket except TTL.
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sitdevil1 Member Posts: 2chiefbigg -
The dealer i went do didnt have any luxury vehicals, i got a premiere. just a little more a month with a down payment to cover the 1st month and all fees.
Be careful, the signature lease doesnt include tax. and its 39 months and 10.5 k milage a year. the warrenty time is 36 months. i believe i got quoted that the 279 signature was the same as a 239 a month with a down payment.
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chiefbigg Member Posts: 4I ended up leasing the Premier tonight. It has pretty much everything you can get (leather, roof, 6 CD changer, sideboards, roof rack, back-up sensor). MSRP was $28,900. I had a trade which saved me about $600 in taxes, but I didn't really have any equity so it was a wash otherwise.
39 months, 12K per year. I was out the door for $327/mo. including TTL. No money out of pocket.0 -
kmom Member Posts: 2Just leased a 2006 Mariner yesterday. Feel like I researched it pretty good, test drove it, liked it and then when it came time to negotiate the sales people had apparently never heard of the $279/mnth, $0, $0, $0 deal. They were quoting like $330/ month for the convenience mariner. Finally they seemed to figure out what we wanted and explained that that deal was with very specific options(moon roof , V6 etc). They said they didn't have any in stock and neither did anybody else. We left to go talk about it when we returned they said they had one coming in end of the month. Anyways signed on a luxury with moonroof, 4x4, V6 and 6 cd for 288 month plus taxes. $9 more per month than the $279 because we are getting all the extra airbags. But I was pleasntly surprised they really offered the deal and it really was $0 down. Apparently Ford credit requirements are still reasonable for this deal. When Mitzubishi runs the same $0 down they want a credit score of 750+. Don't take delivery for a few weeks so can't tell you how satisfied I am with the car yet. But I am pretty happy with deal.0
illiniram Member Posts: 1What was the sticker price of the mariner you leased for $288. My Mercury dealer didn't know anything about the red carpet lease. Did they try to sell you the wear and tear option for when the vehicle is turned in? Was this a 36 month lease? Also, what was the residual %.
I am looking at a Mariner with a sticker of around $26,900 and being quoted a 36 month lease of approximately $314. Also, did your lease have a Mercury acquisition cost of approx $630? My salesman said this is added to every Mercury lease.
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kmom Member Posts: 2Our dealer claimed to know nothing about the red carpet lease at first either. Apparently Mercury came up with that deal based on particular features so that the residual value is high enough. So you have to get one with those specific options. We actually wanted a more base model but the lease payment would have been higher. We are waiting until next week to pick up delivery and we have until then to purchase the wear and tear but we have to pay cash for it. What is your opinion of this. I would turn it down we lan on taking care of the vehicle and keeping it clean but we have kids. We've never leased before so is this a good deal? The lease is 39 months not 36 and you get 1000 miles per month with a charge of 15 cents for every mile over. I believe the sticker price was 26,900 but in the lease agreement the agreed upon price of the vehicle is 24,000 which I know was below sticker price. Acquisition fee of 595 and documentation of 345. Or in other words profit margin. But these fees are all roled into the lease, still we did not put $1 down and our lease payment is $288 + sales tax. We could have gotten a payment of $279 but they had one coming in sooner with the airbags which I wanted. The side impact airbags are not one of the required options for the lease deal. So the $314 may be the $270 plus sales tax. Purchase at end of lease option is $14017. From what I have read mercury doesn't really want to lease these they want to get you into the showroom. But if you are firm they will make good on the deal. If you compare to other leases it is a really sweet deal. If one dealer won't cooperate go to another. Use cars.com. You can do your negotiations from home with another dealer. hope this answers some questions.0
ad12 Member Posts: 11Hi, we'd like to lease a 2008 Mariner Hybrid... It has been difficult to obtain quotes for one but I have found a GM at a dealer who's willing to work with me. The money factors for hybrids are pretty brutal, nonetheless, I have a deal on the table I'm considering:
Sale Price: $200 over invoice minus the $195 rebate = $29,082
He may give us trade equity on our current leased vehicle that has extremely low miles in the amount of: $1150
Adj Cap Cost: $27,754
Residual: $17,685
% to factor: 5.75%
39 months, 10,000 miles low mileage lease for wife who doesn't drive much.
Payment ($366), incl. WA. state sales tax: $399
Does this sound right? And all things considered regarding the difficulty of leasing a hybrid, is it a decent deal? It's only $7 more than our current payment on a VW Touareg...
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jramm Member Posts: 14Trying to find residual and money factor for 2008 Mariner Premier FWD. I'm still looking into several vehicles and trying to work the numbers on each. I've started contacting dealers but haven't gotten any details from them at this point. Can I expect them to share this information prior to going in and sitting down with them?
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sheyerly Member Posts: 1I own my own business and leasing is the best way to go for me for tax purposes. I tried to lease a hybrid Mariner today and the lowest I could get them was $660.00 per month. It was actually less to purchase this vehicle. I have never heard of such a thing. After discussing this they offered me a conventional Mariner for 340.00 per month. I declined both and left. It is very frustrating that I am trying to help the environment and I am being penalized. On top of that I live in Los Angeles where everyone is on the whole "environmental" craze.So, you would think that they would offer great deals. I am definitely going to take my time and check out other dealerships to see if there are better options. Any suggestions?0
craig001 Member Posts: 2I don't think that it's worth leasing these at their current price point. The extra money you pay will never be seen in fuel savings over a 36 month lease. I got mine for the "Hey I care about the environment factor," since the Explorer I got rid of only got 12.5 (V8/AWD). But this is just MHO.0
gerry2 Member Posts: 9Anyone have info on money factors and residuals for a 2010 Mariner Premier (4 cyl.) - residuals for 36 months - 12,000 and 15,000 miles would be helpful.
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ccardamone Member Posts: 4Hi Gerry:
I looked at the lease and decided to buy. The residuals, plus money down required on lease don't seem to make sense to me. I was able to lease a 2008 Escape XLT in March, 2008 for around $369 a month with nothing down but plates and good credit. Now the down payment for a 2010 Mariner was around $2,500 and the payment would be higher...I opted for the 0% offer for 48 months and put down the taxes and I feel my payment is reasonable (under $400). Hope that helps!0 -
CarMan@Edmunds Member Posts: 38,514Hi Gerry. Ford credit's lease program often varies by region. You never mentioned what state you are in, so for now I will provide you with information on what I believe is the most common program for the vehicle that you are interested in.
Ford Credit's current base lease rate and residual value for a 36 month lease of a Mariner Premier 4WD with 15,000 miles per year are 3.0% and 48%, respectively.
If you were to lease this vehicle with only 12,000 miles per year, its residual value would be 2% higher.
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mable91367 Member Posts: 4I will make my last payment on a 2008 Mercuyr Mariner in October 2010. How many months in advance to Ford notify you?
Also, how many months would Ford finance you if you want to buy the car? I am not sure if I want to finance the car with Ford or go with Bank of America. I would like to have my payments as cheap as possible. Right now, my lease payment is $362.
My payoff will be $14000, and I only have 5000 miles on the car. Yes, that is correct, only 5000 miles. The car is in perfect condition. I have always taken the train to work, and I basically just drive the car on weekends.
I am in the state of California.
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The following are the top-ten best selling titles for the month of January:
1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (360, PS3, Wii, PC)**
2. Just Dance 3 (Wii, 360, PS3)
3. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (360, PS3, PC)**
4. NBA 2K12 (360, PS3, PSP, Wii, PS2, PC)
5. Battlefield 3 (360, PS3, PC)
6. Madden NFL 12 (360, PS3, Wii, PSP, PS2)**
7. Mario Kart 7 (3DS)
8. Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (Wii, 3DS, 360, PS3, PC)**
9. Zumba Fitness 2 (Wii)
10. Saints Row: The Third (360, PS3, PC)**
**(includes CE, GOTY editions, bundles, etc. but not those bundled with hardware)
NPD analyst Liam Callahan commented that software, hardware and accessory sales declined compared to January of last year.
"January retail performance experienced steep declines with a lack of software launches, and poor Hardware and Accessory performance," Callahan notes.
Callahan added that one reason for the decline is that January 2011 saw the release of LittleBigPlanet 2, Dead Space 2 and DC Universe Online while January 2012 had no major releases.
On the hardware front, Microsoft reports that 270,000 Xbox 360 units were sold in January. According to Microsoft, this makes it the best-selling console in the United States for the thirteenth month in a row. Sony, meanwhile, notes "solid results for the PlayStation 3" but did not provide exact numbers.
Nintendo notes that Super Mario 3D Land has now sold 1.7 million copies and Mario Kart 7 has now sold 1.3 million. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword has also sold 1.3 million. On the hardware side, the 3DS has now sold more than 4.25 million units in the United States.


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About 30 percent of heart attacks, stroke and deaths from heart disease can be prevented for high risk individuals by adjusting eating habits to mimic those of Spain, Greece and Italy according to a study published by the New England Journal of Medicine this week.
A diet rich in olive oil, nuts, beans, fish, fruits and vegetables, while low in dairy, sweets and red meats has commonly been referenced as a healthier approach. The new study, conducted by Spanish researchers for almost five years, is the first major clinical trial to measure the diet's effect on cardiovascular risks, The New York Times reported. This Mediterranean method even allows drinking wine with meals.
The study included 7,447 subjects - men and women aged 55 to 80, all at risk for but not diagnosed with heart disease. Subjects either had type 2 diabetes, or at least 3 risk factors like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, family history or were smokers. Most of the subjects were already taking blood pressure or diabetes medication to lower their chance for heart disease.
Subjects were randomly assigned to 3 different groups, one given a low-fat, control diet, one given a Mediterranean diet high in olive oil, and the third given a nut-based Mediterranean diet. The low-fat diet group was found less likely to follow restrictions, perhaps attributed to their lessened counseling at the beginning of the study. This essentially transformed the study to the usual, modern Northern European or American eating habits against the Mediterranean diet. Subjects experienced quarterly checkups and were provided either olive oil, nuts, or nonfood gift items accordingly.
The magnitude of the study shocked and impressed experts. Rachel Johnson, a professor of nutrition at the University of Vermont and a spokesperson for the American Heart Association, told The New York Times that the study "used very meaningful endpoints. They did not look at risk factors...They looked at heart attacks and strokes and death. At the end of the day, that's what really matters."
Even if no weight loss was detected, the diet was proven to help lower health risks. The study even ended ahead of schedule, as the results were so clear that it was decided unethical to continue.
Dr. Ramon Esturch, a professor of medicine at the University of Barcelona and his colleagues were so impressed with the results of their study that they themselves reportedly are now following the diet.


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I've now seen
a paragraph about advertising in Jill Lepore's latest New Yorker piece in
a few places, including Andrew Sullivan's blog. Digital history blogging should resume soon, but first some advertising history, since something weird is going on here:
Political consulting is often thought of as an offshoot of the advertising industry, but closer to the truth is that the advertising industry began as a form of political consulting. As the political scientist Stanley Kelley once explained, when modern advertising began, the big clients were just as interested in advancing a political agenda as a commercial one. Monopolies like Standard Oil and DuPont looked bad: they looked greedy and ruthless and, in the case of DuPont, which made munitions, sinister. They therefore hired advertising firms to sell the public on the idea of the large corporation, and, not incidentally, to advance pro-business legislation.
I can see why
this paragraph seemed interesting enough to print. It offers a counter-intuitive
spin on the role of advertising—and business in general—in the history of American
politics. No one likes
advertisers, no one likes political consultants, and they seem somewhow
connected. But although we're tempted to blame some modern debasement of
politics on the over-reach of consumer culture, this suggests a much more
direct approach: in fact, the subversion of politics was the goal of big
industry all along, and the
anti-consumerist clichés about consumerism only make us ignore that big fact.
though, it has nothing to do with the actual history of advertising. Standard Oil and DuPont were not the 'big
clients' of the advertising agencies, and the industry's roots have little to
with the corporate image-making. For example: browse through the files, paying
attention to size and year, in the portfolios
of J Walter Thompson to see
who was paying their bills in the 1920s and 1930s. Or just trust me: it's far
and away consumer goods, companies like Quaker Oats, Lever Brothers soap, and
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It's safe to say that when the former Emerson and Union Hill High Schools merged to form one Union City High School this scholastic year, there wasn't exactly a smooth transition in the other two major sports, namely football and basketball.
There were some contentious moments, because two coaching staffs had to become one and the former head coaches who were left out in the cold didn't exactly enjoy being shown the door.
So the transition in football and basketball took a little time and in some cases, that uneasiness led to some disarray on the respective fields of play.
However, that's not the case with the new Union City baseball program, featuring former Emerson head coach Frank Clark and former Union Hill head coach Chipper Benway.
While Clark has the title of head coach for the new Union City Soaring Eagles, make no bones about the fact that this is a union of two excellent baseball minds. These are two guys who are on the same page together and are willing to work diligently to reach the same common goal.
"Having Chip with me has made it a seamless transition," Clark said. "We had lengthy decisions in the off-season to determine what we were going to do this season and it was apparent that the two of us are very similar personalities. We don't have big egos. We work well together. So the transition has been very easy and ended up going very well."
Clark said that both he and Benway are on the same wave length time and time again.
"It's funny," Clark said. "Chip will have a thought and I'll say, 'Don't tell me; I'll tell you what you're thinking.' We've been on the same page on a lot of things. The kids have seen that from Day One and it's been easy."
Having the coaches united certainly helped the merging of the two programs. The players didn't have to worry about choosing sides. They didn't have to be concerned of being a former Union Hill player for Benway and a former Bulldog for Clark. They were a melded bunch from the outset.
"The kids have been great," Clark said. "They have been wonderful with the transition. You would think that they had been together for years. I think playing together in the summer leagues really helped them to get ready to be together. They've come together nicely as a group."
So basically, you've taken a successful Emerson program and put it together with a highly competitive Union Hill program. You've now included the two head coaches and have them working together as one. Maybe this is what the powers-that-be had in mind when they decided to merge the two schools, because this group of Soaring Eagles has been Team United, a true union in Union City, from the very first moment.
"I'm very excited about this club, especially the youth," Clark said. "We have four seniors who contribute and do their part, but the rest of the club is filled with youngsters. It only bodes well for the future. We have a large number of sophomores and freshmen who are in it for the long haul."
That's another factor that benefits this program this season – numbers. There is healthy competition at many of the different starting positions and gives Clark the benefit of having a solid bench for the first time in his coaching career.
"We do have numbers," Clark said. "We never had numbers before."
For example, the Soaring Eagles can use any of eight different pitchers this season. That's right – eight. Not many other Hudson County teams have that kind of pitching depth.
Leading the way is senior Franklin Cruz, who was the top hurler for Union Hill last spring. Junior Jefry Castro, the younger brother of former Emerson All-Area standout Yoken, is a right-hander with a lot of promise. Senior Richie Velez, who is the Eagles' starting catcher, is also a pitcher.
Junior Kevin Luna, sophomores Yeudy Ventura, Antonio Borges (the team's lone left-hander) and Jose Matias and freshman Juan Bautista will all get to see mound action this spring.
"We have a lot of young arms and it all has to do with their maturity," Clark said. "That's what we keep preaching to them every day. Our success is predicated on how quickly they grow up. When the lights are on and they're facing teams like [St. Peter's] Prep, Memorial and Bayonne and how they react to facing them, then we'll see how they respond."
Velez is the team's catcher and has been a three-year starter for Clark. Senior Vimar Amaro, who was the starter last year at Union Hill, gives the Eagles depth at backstop.
First base duties are being shared between sophomore Matias (who has a ton of potential) and senior Taylor Perez.
Sophomore Willie Tavarez is the team's second baseman, with Luna playing shortstop.
The player to watch may be Bautista, the talented freshman who has a chance to be one of the all-time greats to come out of Union City.
"I don't want the kid to get a big head, but he can play," Clark said. "He has great baseball savvy and knows the ins and outs."
Junior Kevin Caraballo will handle the utility role and fill in at all the infield positions when one of them ends up pitching.
Left field is being shared by senior Anabil Fresse and Borges. Junior Jeremy Rivera and senior James Rodriguez are battling for playing time in centerfield and right field is being shared by sophomores Ventura and Matias.
It definitely has the makings of being a successful first season, a truly civil union in Union City.
"I'm happy and excited with the way it has turned out," Clark said. "Now, it all depends on how we play on the field."
Let the spring season begin.
Jim Hague can be reached at email@example.com.


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By David Crane
defrev (at) gmail (dot) com
October 6, 2009
Well, it's official, Remington, a Freedom Group, Inc./Cerberus Capital Management L.P.-owned company, has acquired/purchased Advanced Armament Corp. (AAC).It seems logical that AAC will be run under Remington's military products division, but DefenseReview hasn't yet confirmed this.
Click here to read the official AAC press release on the event, titled Remington Purchases AAC: An industry icon's new venture in suppressor technology.
Some Background:
Defense Review readers may remember that we originally published an article on August 24th (2009) about a rumor/unconfirmed/unverified report that was floating around inside the tactical firearms community that Freedom Group/Cerberus had already acquired AAC. When we subsequently contacted Kevin Brittingham by phone, he told us the rumor wasn't true. Brittingham was indeed telling us the truth at the time, since Remington/Freedom Group/Cerberus had at that time only started the acquisition process when we published that original piece and Brittingham and I subsequently spoke. Arguably, this was a technicality, but Brittingham was indeed technically accurate, and his statement to us was true. Remington/Freedom Group had not yet purchased AAC, and he couldn't disclose this acquisition-in-process situational nuance/caveat to us when we spoke, since he was operating under a NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) with, and professional obligation to, Remington/Freedom Group/Cerberus. So, he was in a bit of a professional bind at the time. He was simply not allowed to discuss the situation with us.
So, we (technically) accurately debunked the rumor and published an update about it on August 26th, 2009. However, since the situation was financially sensitive for AAC (considering the deal between AAC and Freedom Group Cerberus was still in process, unkown to us), Brittingham politely asked us to pull both articles about the rumor from DefenseReview, and we complied with his request. It's one of the only times we've ever pulled an article off DefenseReview, and we were torn about it. However, we complied because we felt it was the professionally-responsible thing to do, considering Mr. Brittingham explained his reasons as best he could without divulging anything about the pending deal with Remington/Freedom Group, and he had never asked us to do anything like that before. So, we pulled both articles. However, in light of recent events, we've re-published both of the "Rumor Mill" articles in question.
Defense Review likes Mr. Brittingham, and we believe that AAC is a good company that makes quality products, so we hope that Freedom Group/Cerberus does right by them and maintains AAC's high manufacturing and quality control (QC) standards. We'll be keeping an eye on it.
The following is the official AAC press release on the merger:
An industry icon's new venture in suppressor technology.
By Tom Beckstrand
Remington announced today that they have purchased the assets of Advanced Armament Corporation, an industry leader in suppressor manufacturing. The AAC acquisition appears to be part of Remington¹s broader strategic goal of returning American military weapons production to the American industrial base.
For the first time in years, Remington has introduced new products in the sniper rifle space with the Modular Sniper Rifle (MSR) and the carbine/sub-compact weapon space with the Adaptive Combat Rifle (ACR) to compete for emerging US government special operations and conventional force requirements. As it currently stands, the majority of small arms produced for the American military come from companies headquartered overseas.
Remington's decision to purchase AAC stems from recognition that future military weapons selections will almost unilaterally require sound and/or signature reduction. Our military has been at war for over 8 years now and experience shows that there are significant tactical advantages associated with suppressor use; hence the military's interest in adopting this new requirement.
The Advanced Armament Corporation is a small business devoted to suppressor, or 'silencer', development and production. AAC is headquartered in Georgia and has recently experienced substantial growth from the military¹s interest in and purchase of suppressors including its subcontractor role as the provider of silencers and flash hiders for the SOF Combat Assault Rifle (SCAR) program. Civilian sales are also up as civilians become increasingly aware that suppressor ownership is legal in 34 states.
AAC is one of the largest suppressor manufacturers in the United States. However, few suppressor companies are positioned to provide suppressors in the quantities required by existing and future military contracts while still being able to meet growing civilian demands. The merger of Remington with AAC will enable AAC to take advantage of Remington¹s production capabilities as well as benefit from the additional R&D capabilities that Remington has to offer.
While Remington purchased AAC¹s assets and intellectual property, initial indications are that they have no intention of replacing AAC's executive staff with one of their own and that they are instead intent on expanding on AAC's current footprint. AAC will report to Remington's Military Products Division, but the leadership at AAC, including former owner Kevin Brittingham, will remain in place and continue to function as they have in the past.
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Fall 2021 and Spring 2022 Analysis Seminars
The 2021-2022 Analysis Seminar will be organized by David Beltran and Andreas Seeger. Some of the talks will be in person (room Van Vleck B139) and some will be online. The regular time for the Seminar will be Tuesdays at 4:00 p.m. (in some cases we will schedule the seminar at different times, to accommodate speakers).
Zoom links will be sent to those who have signed up for the Analysis Seminar List. If you would like to subscribe to the Analysis seminar list, send a blank email to analysis+join (at) g-groups (dot) wisc (dot) edu. If you are from an institution different than UW-Madison, please send as well as an additional email to David and Andreas (dbeltran, seeger at math (dot) wisc (dot) edu) to notify the request.
If you'd like to suggest speakers for the spring semester please contact David and Andreas.
Analysis Seminar Schedule
date | speaker | institution | title | host(s) | ||
September 21, VV B139 | Dóminique Kemp | UW-Madison | Decoupling by way of approximation | |||
September 28, VV B139 | Jack Burkart | UW-Madison | Transcendental Julia Sets with Fractional Packing Dimension | |||
October 5, Online | Giuseppe Negro | University of Birmingham | Stability of sharp Fourier restriction to spheres | |||
October 12, VV B139 | Rajula Srivastava | UW Madison | Lebesgue space estimates for Spherical Maximal Functions on Heisenberg groups | |||
October 19, Online | Itamar Oliveira | Cornell University | A new approach to the Fourier extension problem for the paraboloid | |||
October 26, VV B139 | Changkeun Oh | UW Madison | Decoupling inequalities for quadratic forms and beyond | |||
October 29, Colloquium, Online | Alexandru Ionescu | Princeton University | Polynomial averages and pointwise ergodic theorems on nilpotent groups | |||
November 2, VV B139 | Liding Yao | UW Madison | An In-depth Look of Rychkov's Universal Extension Operators for Lipschitz Domains | |||
November 9, VV B139 | Lingxiao Zhang | UW Madison | Real Analytic Multi-parameter Singular Radon Transforms: necessity of the Stein-Street condition | |||
November 12, Colloquium, Online | Kasso Okoudjou | Tufts University | An exploration in analysis on fractals | |||
November 16, VV B139 | Rahul Parhi | UW Madison (EE) | On BV Spaces, Splines, and Neural Networks | Betsy | ||
November 30, VV B139 | Alexei Poltoratski | UW Madison | Pointwise convergence for the scattering data and non-linear Fourier transform. | |||
December 7, Online | John Green | The University of Edinburgh | Estimates for oscillatory integrals via sublevel set estimates | |||
December 14, VV B139 | Tao Mei | Baylor University | Fourier Multipliers on free groups | Shaoming | ||
Winter break | ||||||
February 8, VV B139 | Alexander Nagel | UW Madison | Global estimates for a class of kernels and multipliers with multiple homogeneities | |||
February 15, Online | Sebastian Bechtel | Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux | Square roots of elliptic systems on open sets | |||
Friday, February 18, Colloquium, VVB239 | Andreas Seeger | UW Madison | Spherical maximal functions and fractal dimensions of dilation sets | |||
February 22, VV B139 | Tongou Yang | University of British Comlumbia | Restricted projections along $C^2$ curves on the sphere | Shaoming | ||
Monday, February 28, 4:30 p.m., Online | Po Lam Yung | Australian National University | Revisiting an old argument for Vinogradov's Mean Value Theorem | |||
March 8, VV B139 | Brian Street | UW Madison | Maximal Subellipticity | |||
March 15: No Seminar | ||||||
March 22 | Laurent Stolovitch | University of Cote d'Azur | Classification of reversible parabolic diffeomorphisms of
$(\mathbb{C}^2,0)$ and of flat CR-singularities of exceptional hyperbolic type |
Xianghong | ||
March 29, VV B139 | Betsy Stovall | UW Madison | On extremizing sequences for adjoint Fourier restriction to the sphere | |||
April 5, Online | Malabika Pramanik | University of British Columbia | Dimensionality and Patterns with Curvature | |||
April 12, VV B139 | Hongki Jung | IU Bloomington | A small cap decoupling for the twisted cubic | Shaoming | ||
Friday, April 15, Colloquium, VV B239 | Bernhard Lamel | Texas A&M University at Qatar | Convergence and Divergence of Formal Power Series Maps | Xianghong | ||
April 19, Online | Carmelo Puliatti | Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea | Gradients of single layer potentials for elliptic operators | David | ||
April 25-26-27, Distinguished Lecture Series | Larry Guth | MIT | Reflections on decoupling and Vinogradov's mean value problem. | |||
April 25, 4:00 p.m., Lecture I, VV B239 | Introduction to decoupling and Vinogradov's mean value problem | |||||
April 26, 4:00 p.m., Lecture II, Chamberlin 2241 | Features of the proof of decoupling | |||||
April 27, 4:00 p.m., Lecture III, VV B239 | Open problems | |||||
Talks in the Fall semester 2022: | ||||||
September 20, PDE and Analysis Seminar | Andrej Zlatoš | UCSD | Title | Hung Tran | ||
Friday, September 23, 4:00 p.m., Colloquium | Pablo Shmerkin | University of British Columbia | Title | Shaoming and Andreas | ||
September 24-25, RTG workshop in Harmonic Analysis | Shaoming and Andreas | |||||
Tuesday, November 8, | Robert Fraser | Wichita State University | Title | Shaoming and Andreas |
Dóminique Kemp
Decoupling by way of approximation
Since Bourgain and Demeter's seminal 2017 decoupling result for nondegenerate hypersurfaces, several attempts have been made to extend the theory to degenerate hypersurfaces $M$. In this talk, we will discuss using surfaces derived from the local Taylor expansions of $M$ in order to obtain "approximate" decoupling results. By themselves, these approximate decouplings do not avail much. However, upon considerate iteration, for a specifically chosen $M$, they culminate in a decoupling partition of $M$ into caps small enough either as originally desired or otherwise genuinely nondegenerate at the local scale. A key feature that will be discussed is the notion of approximating a non-convex hypersurface $M$ by convex hypersurfaces at various scales. In this manner, contrary to initial intuition, non-trivial $\ell^2$ decoupling results will be obtained for $M$.
Jack Burkart
Transcendental Julia Sets with Fractional Packing Dimension
If f is an entire function, the Julia set of f is the set of all points such that f and its iterates locally do not form a normal family; nearby points have very different orbits under iteration by f. A topic of interest in complex dynamics is studying the fractal geometry of the Julia set.
In this talk, we will discuss my thesis result where I construct non-polynomial (transcendental) entire functions whose Julia set has packing dimension strictly between (1,2). We will introduce various notions of dimension and basic objects in complex dynamics, and discuss a history of dimension results in complex dynamics. We will discuss some key aspects of the proof, which include a use of Whitney decompositions of domains as a tool to calculate the packing dimension, and some open questions I am thinking about.
Giuseppe Negro
Stability of sharp Fourier restriction to spheres
In dimension $d\in\{3, 4, 5, 6, 7\}$, we establish that the constant functions maximize the weighted $L^2(S^{d-1}) - L^4(R^d)$ Fourier extension estimate on the sphere, provided that the weight function is sufficiently regular and small, in a proper and effective sense which we will make precise. One of the main tools is an integration by parts identity, which generalizes the so-called "magic identity" of Foschi for the unweighted inequality with $d=3$, which is exactly the classical Stein-Tomas estimate.
Joint work with E.Carneiro and D.Oliveira e Silva.
Rajula Srivastava
Lebesgue space estimates for Spherical Maximal Functions on Heisenberg groups
We discuss $L^p\to L^q$ estimates for local maximal operators associated with dilates of codimension two spheres in Heisenberg groups, sharp up to endpoints. The proof shall be reduced to estimates for standard oscillatory integrals of Carleson-Sj\"olin-H\"ormander type, relying on the maximal possible number of nonvanishing curvatures for a cone in the fibers of the associated canonical relation. We shall also discuss a new counterexample which shows the sharpness of one of the edges in the region of boundedness. Based on joint work with Joris Roos and Andreas Seeger.
Itamar Oliveira
A new approach to the Fourier extension problem for the paraboloid
An equivalent formulation of the Fourier Extension (F.E.) conjecture for a compact piece of the paraboloid states that the F.E. operator maps $ L^{2+\frac{2}{d}}([0,1]^{d}) $ to $L^{2+\frac{2}{d}+\varepsilon}(\mathbb{R}^{d+1}) $ for every $\varepsilon>0 $. It has been fully solved only for $ d=1 $ and there are many partial results in higher dimensions regarding the range of $ (p,q) $ for which $L^{p}([0,1]^{d}) $ is mapped to $ L^{q}(\mathbb{R}^{d+1}) $. One can reduce matters to proving that a model operator satisfies the same mapping properties, and we will show that the conjecture holds in higher dimensions for tensor functions, meaning for all $ g $ of the form $ g(x_{1},\ldots,x_{d})=g_{1}(x_{1})\cdot\ldots\cdot g_{d}(x_{d}) $. We will present this theorem as a proof of concept of a more general framework and set of techniques that can also address multilinear versions of this problem and get similar results. This is joint work with Camil Muscalu.
Changkeun Oh
Decoupling inequalities for quadratic forms and beyond
In this talk, I will present some recent progress on decoupling inequalities for some translation- and dilation-invariant systems (TDI systems in short). In particular, I will emphasize decoupling inequalities for quadratic forms. If time permits, I will also discuss some interesting phenomenon related to Brascamp-Lieb inequalities that appears in the study of a cubic TDI system. Joint work with Shaoming Guo, Pavel Zorin-Kranich, and Ruixiang Zhang.
Alexandru Ionescu
Polynomial averages and pointwise ergodic theorems on nilpotent groups
I will talk about some recent work on pointwise almost everywhere convergence for ergodic averages along polynomial sequences in nilpotent groups of step two. Our proof is based on almost-orthogonality techniques that go far beyond Fourier transform tools, which are not available in the non-commutative nilpotent setting. In particular we develop what we call a nilpotent circle method}, which allows us to adapt some the ideas of the classical circle method to the setting of nilpotent groups.
Liding Yao
An In-depth Look of Rychkov's Universal Extension Operators for Lipschitz Domains
Given a bounded Lipschitz domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$, Rychkov showed that there is a linear extension operator $\mathcal E$ for $\Omega$ which is bounded in Besov and Triebel-Lizorkin spaces. We introduce a class of operators that generalize $\mathcal E$ which are more versatile for applications. We also derive some quantitative blow-up estimates of the extended function and all its derivatives in $\overline{\Omega}^c$ up to boundary. This is a joint work with Ziming Shi.
Lingxiao Zhang
Real Analytic Multi-parameter Singular Radon Transforms: necessity of the Stein-Street condition
We study operators of the form $Tf(x)= \psi(x) \int f(\gamma_t(x))K(t)\,dt$ where $\gamma_t(x)$ is a real analytic function of $(t,x)$ mapping from a neighborhood of $(0,0)$ in $\mathbb{R}^N \times \mathbb{R}^n$ into $\mathbb{R}^n$ satisfying $\gamma_0(x)\equiv x$, $\psi(x) \in C_c^\infty(\mathbb{R}^n)$, and $K(t)$ is a `multi-parameter singular kernel' with compact support in $\mathbb{R}^N$; for example when $K(t)$ is a product singular kernel. The celebrated work of Christ, Nagel, Stein, and Wainger studied such operators with smooth $\gamma_t(x)$, in the single-parameter case when $K(t)$ is a Calder\'on-Zygmund kernel. Street and Stein generalized their work to the multi-parameter case, and gave sufficient conditions for the $L^p$-boundedness of such operators. This paper shows that when $\gamma_t(x)$ is real analytic, the sufficient conditions of Street and Stein are also necessary for the $L^p$-boundedness of $T$, for all such kernels $K$.
Kasso Okoudjou
An exploration in analysis on fractals
Analysis on fractal sets such as the Sierpinski gasket is based on the spectral analysis of a corresponding Laplace operator. In the first part of the talk, I will describe a class of fractals and the analytical tools that they support. In the second part of the talk, I will consider fractal analogs of topics from classical analysis, including the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, the spectral theory of Schrödinger operators, and the theory of orthogonal polynomials.
Rahul Parhi
On BV Spaces, Splines, and Neural Networks
Many problems in science and engineering can be phrased as the problem of reconstructing a function from a finite number of possibly noisy measurements. The reconstruction problem is inherently ill-posed when the allowable functions belong to an infinite set. Classical techniques to solve this problem assume, a priori, that the underlying function has some kind of regularity, typically Sobolev, Besov, or BV regularity. The field of applied harmonic analysis is interested in studying efficient decompositions and representations for functions with certain regularity. Common representation systems are based on splines and wavelets. These are well understood mathematically and have been successfully applied in a variety of signal processing and statistical tasks. Neural networks are another type of representation system that is useful in practice, but poorly understood mathematically.
In this talk, I will discuss my research which aims to rectify this issue by understanding the regularity properties of neural networks in a similar vein to classical methods based on splines and wavelets. In particular, we will show that neural networks are optimal solutions to variational problems over BV-type function spaces defined via the Radon transform. These spaces are non-reflexive Banach spaces, generally distinct from classical spaces studied in analysis. However, in the univariate setting, neural networks reduce to splines and these function spaces reduce to classical univariate BV spaces. If time permits, I will also discuss approximation properties of these spaces, showing that they are, in some sense, "small" compared to classical multivariate spaces such as Sobolev or Besov spaces.
This is joint work with Robert Nowak.
Alexei Poltoratski
Title: Pointwise convergence for the scattering data and non-linear Fourier transform.
Abstract: This talk is about applications of complex and harmonic analysis in spectral and scattering theory for differential operators. The scattering transform for the Dirac system of differential equations can be viewed as the non-linear version of the classical Fourier transform. This connection raises many natural problems on extensions of classical results of Fourier analysis to non-linear settings. In this talk I will discuss one of such problems, an extension of Carleson's theorem on pointwise convergence of Fourier series to the non-linear case.
John Green
Estimates for oscillatory integrals via sublevel set estimates.
In many situations, oscillatory integral estimates are known to imply sublevel set estimates in a stable manner. Reversing this implication is much more difficult, but understanding when this is true is helpful for understanding scalar oscillatory integral estimates. We shall motivate a line of investigation in which we seek to reverse the implication in the presence of a qualitative structural assumption. After considering some one-dimensional results, we turn to the setting of convex functions in higher dimensions.
Tao Mei
Fourier Multipliers on free groups.
In this introductory talk, I will try to explain what is the noncommutative Lp spaces associated with the free groups, and what are the to be answered questions on the corresponding Fourier multiplier operators. At the end, I will explain a recent work on an analogue of Mikhlin's Lp Fourier multiplier theory on free groups (joint with Eric Ricard and Quanhua Xu).
Alex Nagel
Global estimates for a class of kernels and multipliers with multiple homogeneities
In joint work with Fulvio Ricci we obtain global estimates for a class of kernels and multipliers which contain homogeneous Calderon-Zygmund operators for several different homogeneities. This is an extension of earlier work with Ricci, Stein, and Wainger on the local theory.
Sebastian Bechtel
Square roots of elliptic systems on open sets
In my talk, we will consider elliptic systems in divergence form with measurable and elliptic complex coefficients on possibly unbounded open sets which are subject to mixed boundary conditions. First, I will present and discuss minimal geometric conditions under which Kato's square root problem can be solved. In particular, I will present an argument that allows to work on a set that is not supposed to satisfy the interior thickness condition. Afterwards, we will investigate the question for which integrability parameters p the square root isomorphism $W^{1,2} \to L^2$ extrapolates to an isomorphism $W^{1,p} \to L^p$. We focus on the case $p>2$. I will introduce a critical number that describes the range in which $L$ (compatibly) acts as an isomorphism $W^{1,p} \to W^{-1,p}$. We will then see that this critical number also yields an optimal range in which the square root extrapolates to a $p$-isomorphism, even in the case of mixed boundary conditions.
Tongou Yang
Restricted projections along $C^2$ curves on the sphere
Given a $C^2$ closed curve $\gamma(\theta)$ lying on the sphere $\mathbb S^2$ and a Borel set $A\subseteq \mathbb R^3$. Consider the projections $P_\theta(A)$ of $A$ into straight lines in the directions $\gamma(\theta)$. We prove that if $\gamma$ satisfies the torsion condition: $\det(\gamma,\gamma',\gamma")(\theta)\neq 0$ for any $\theta$, then for almost every $\theta$, the Hausdorff dimension of $P_\theta(A)$ is equal to $\min\{1,\dim_H(A)\}$. This solves a conjecture of Fässler and Orponen. One key feature of our argument is a result of Marcus-Tardos in topological graph theory. This is a joint work with Malabika Pramanik, Orit Raz and Josh Zahl.
Po Lam Yung
Revisiting an old argument for Vinogradov's Mean Value Theorem
We will examine an old argument for the Vinogradov's Mean Value Theorem due to Karatsuba, and interpret it in the language of Fourier decoupling. This is ongoing work in progress with Brian Cook, Kevin Hughes, Zane Kun Li, Akshat Mudgal and Olivier Robert.
Brian Street
Maximal Subellipticity
The theory of elliptic PDEs stands apart from many other areas of PDEs because sharp results are known for very general linear and fully nonlinear elliptic PDEs. Many of the classical techniques from harmonic analysis were first developed to prove these sharp results; and the study of elliptic PDEs leans heavily on the Fourier transform and Riemannian geometry. Starting with work of Hörmander, Kohn, Folland, Stein, and Rothschild in the 60s and 70s, a far-reaching generalization of ellipticity was introduced: now known as maximal subellipticity or maximal hypoellipticity. In the intervening years, many authors have adapted results from elliptic PDEs to various special cases of maximally subelliptic PDEs. Where elliptic operators are connected to Riemannian geometry, maximally subelliptic operators are connected to sub-Riemannian geometry. The Fourier transform is no longer a central tool but can be replaced with more modern tools from harmonic analysis.
Laurent Stolovitch
Classification of reversible parabolic diffeomorphisms of $(\mathbb{C}^2,0)$ and of flat CR-singularities of exceptional hyperbolic type
The aim of this joint work with Martin Klimes is twofold:
First we study holomorphic germs of parabolic diffeomorphisms of $(\mathbb{C}^2,0)$ that are reversed by a holomorphic reflection and posses an analytic first integral with non-degenerate critical point at the origin. We find a canonical formal normal form and provide a complete analytic classification (in formal generic cases) in terms of a collection of functional invariants.
Related to it, we solve the problem of both formal and analytic classification of germs of real analytic surfaces in $\mathbb{C}^2$ with non-degenerate CR singularities of exceptional hyperbolic type, under the assumption that the surface is holomorphically flat, i.e. that it can be locally holomorphically embedded in a real hypersurface of $\mathbb{C}^2$.
Betsy Stovall
On extremizing sequences for adjoint Fourier restriction to the sphere
In this talk we will provide a soft answer to the question, "What properties must a function $f$ obeying $\|Ef\|_q \geq C \|f\|_p$ have?," where $E$ denotes the spherical extension operator. We will use our answer (called a linear profile decomposition) to establish new results about the existence of extremizers (functions obeying $\|Ef\|_q = \|E\|\|f\|_p$) for $E$. This is joint work with Taryn C. Flock.
Malabika Pramanik
Hongki Jung
A small cap decoupling for the twisted cubic
Bernhard Lamel
Convergence and Divergence of Formal Power Series Maps
Consider two real-analytic hypersurfaces (i.e. defined by convergent power series) in complex spaces. A formal holomorphic map is said to take one into the other if the composition of the power series defining the target with the map (which is just another formal power series) is a (formal) multiple of the defining power series of the source. In this talk, we are going to be interested in conditions for formal holomorphic maps to necessarily be convergent. Now, a formal holomorphic map taking the real line to itself is just a formal power series with real coefficients; this example also gives rise to real hypersurfaces in higher dimensional complex spaces having divergent formal self-maps. On the other hand, a formal map taking the unit sphere in higher dimensional complex space to itself is necessarily a rational map with poles outside of the sphere, in particular, the formal power series defining it converges. The convergence theory for formal self-maps of real hypersurfaces has been developed in the late 1990s and early 2000s. For formal embeddings, "ideal" conditions had been long conjectured. I'm going to give an introduction to this problem and talk about some joint work from 2018 with Nordine Mir giving a basically complete answer to the question when a formal map taking a real-analytic hypersurface in complex space into another one is necessarily convergent.
Carmelo Puliatti
Gradients of single layer potentials for elliptic operators with coefficients of Dini mean oscillation-type
We consider a uniformly elliptic operator $L_A$ in divergence form associated with a matrix A with real, bounded, and possibly non-symmetric coefficients. If a proper $L^1$-mean oscillation of the coefficients of A satisfies suitable Dini-type assumptions, we prove the following: if \mu is a compactly supported Radon measure in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}, n >= 2$, the $L^2(\mu)$-operator norm of the gradient of the single layer potential $T_\mu$ associated with $L_A$ is comparable to the $L^2$-norm of the n-dimensional Riesz transform $R_\mu$, modulo an additive constant. This makes possible to obtain direct generalizations of some deep geometric results, initially proved for the Riesz transform, which were recently extended to $T_\mu$ under a H\"older continuity assumption on the coefficients of the matrix $A$.
This is a joint work with Alejandro Molero, Mihalis Mourgoglou, and Xavier Tolsa.
Larry Guth
Series title: Reflections on decoupling and Vinogradov's mean value problem.
Series abstract: Decoupling is a recent development in Fourier analysis that has solved several longstanding problems. The goal of the lectures is to describe this development to a general mathematical audience. We will focus on one particular application of decoupling: Vinogradov's mean value problem from analytic number theory. This problem is about the number of solutions of a certain system of diophantine equations. It was raised in the 1930s and resolved in the last decade. We will give some context about this problem, but the main goal of the lectures is to explore the ideas that go into the proof. The method of decoupling came as a big surprise to me, and I think to other people working in the field. The main idea in the proof of decoupling is to combine estimates from many different scales. We will describe this process and reflect on why it is helpful.
Lecture 1: Introduction to decoupling and Vinogradov's mean value problem.
Abstract: In this lecture, we introduce Vinogradov's problem and give an overview of the proof.
Lecture 2: Features of the proof of decoupling. Abstract: In this lecture, we look more closely at some features of the proof of decoupling. The first feature we examine is the exact form of writing the inequality, which is especially suited for doing induction and connecting information from different scales. The second feature we examine is called the wave packet decomposition. This structure has roots in quantum physics and in information theory.
Lecture 3: Open problems. Abstract: In this lecture, we discuss some open problems in number theory that look superficially similar to Vinogradov mean value conjecture, such as Hardy and Littlewood's Hypothesis K*. In this lecture, we probe the limitations of decoupling by exploring why the techniques from the first two lectures don't work on these open problems. Hopefully this will give a sense of some of the issues and difficulties involved in these problems.
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Originally posted on use.perl, then I tried to figure out why I hadn't posted it here. I was thinking about my live testing demo and what sort of module to create when I discarded the idea of creating a D&D style Character class. Just showing the basics seemed too simple, but my brain just wouldn't let Character.pm die. When the idea of a profession (sometimes known as a character class, but the term is too confusing in this context) started causing problems, I realized that I was looking at a classic failing of traditional OO type systems. Imagine an abstract base class called Character that is subclassed by race (or species, if you prefer). Using a Perl6, we can imagine this: So far, all is well and good. But how do we create an Elven Thief? You don't want Thief to subclass from Elf because then each race gets a subclass for each profession and the number of classes quickly becomes ridiculous and you duplicate a lot of code. However, you can't have Elf subclass from Thief because not all elves are thieves unless you want to start toying with the idea of manipulating inheritance trees based upon an instance instead of a class (and all of the ridiculous problems that would bring.) Java interfaces are of no use because those are assigned at compile time and, in any event, don't provide the implementation. So you have two unpleasant alternatives. A traditional one is to use delegation. The simplest method is to provide a "profession" slot that stores a Profession object: But this is yet another problem. Now the elf has a reference to a Thief object but the abilities of the thief are tied to the abilities of the character instance, so the thief now has a dependency on an instance of a Character, so it probably stores the elf in a slot: This, of course, means a circular reference which might have to be broken explicitly and, in any event, guarantees that classes are coupled more tightly than I like and I have to violate the Law of Demeter if I want to do $elf.profession.pick_pocket($mark);. Naturally this breaks down pretty quickly when the elf is a magician and gets his fingers broken (or worse.) Ruby style mixins can help, but their ordering problems are well known and sometimes can cause difficulties that still force delegation. Perl 6 roles seem to solve the problem (see Apocalypse 12). Roles that are assigned at runtime instead of compile-time are called "mixins" and they can apply to an instace of a class! Still, whatever they are called, they seem to simplify the problem. With mixins I can just do this: $elf does Thief; # hmm ... that reads funnyAnd the Thief methods are automatically available to the $elf. Because inheritance is not involved, you don't have the ordering problems of multiple inheritance, nor do you have to worry about other classes picking up the undesirable trait (of being a thief.) Because interfaces are not used, you don't have the problem with duplicate code, but you do get the benefit of knowing the methods are implemented (and that required methods are available.) Because delegation is not involved, there are no "Law of Demeter" concerns, nor are the maintenance or performance penalties paid. All things considered, this seems to be a huge win. (mixins are apparently implemented in Perl 6 as anonymous classes attached to an instance but I don't know the implications of that.) As it turns out, roles are still quite useful. Remember how some races, such as gnomes and elves, had infravision? Rather than reimplement: This is all so spectacularly useful that I'm surprised more people haven't wanted it, though I admit it's a new idea (and I've described it rather incompletely.) And to wrap this up by bringing this back to reality, here's a classic OO example of bad inheritance. If you have an Employee class, how do you represent programmers and managers? One idea is to make two subclasses. This fails when your manager doubles as a programmer (as our's sometimes does.) Instead, you can use mixins: $employee does Programmer does Manager;OO can be very difficult to get right and that's part of the reason we've had so many variations on OO over the decades. Roles, mixins, and other goodies are a fascinating experiment in giving programmers the tools to do things right. Cheers, New address of my CGI Course.
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On January 30, 2013, hundreds of students and educators joined Minister of Education Dr. Hilda Heine at a morning ceremony to officially launch the One Laptop per Child program in the Marshall Islands. Delap Elementary School on Majuro will be the first school in the RMI to receive and begin using the laptops for its students.
Minister Heine gave a speech detailing the history behind the project's launch in the RMI, as well as the project's relevance and importance to education in the Marshall Islands today. Minister Heine emphasized the extensive training of teachers and careful selection of participating schools based on their performance. She further highlighted and thanked the United States government for providing funding for the project through its continued support of the Ministry of Education.
Following Minister Heine, Ambassador Armbruster spoke, beginning his speech with a series of questions for the more than 300 DES students seated in the audience, to which he received enthusiastic responses. Saying that while laptop computers are modern day learning tools which did not exist when he was a student, Ambassador Armbruster explained that his and older generations had their own learning tools, including "Etch-a-Sketches†and abacuses. The Ambassador emphasized to the students the importance of using their own minds and creativity in conjunction with these tools, as well as the importance of taking good physical care of the laptops. The ceremony closed with songs performed by the DES 6th grade classes.
In total, the RMI Ministry of Education purchased one-thousand of these special laptop computers using Compact Supplemental Education Grant funds from the United States. The remaining laptops will be distributed to schools on Majuro, Arno, Ailinglaplap, Aur, Likiep, and Jaluit Atolls.
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I am doing a project on detecting vulnerabilities in Windows 7/8 for software applications. Some of which some have source code available and some do not.
Please suggest some technique that can help me detect vulnerabilities either at compile time or run-time.
Is there any new way that can be used in finding out the buffer overflow vulnerability?


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The Dodgers' seven-game losing streak getting you down? Take a time out to peruse the tumblr site "textrastrophe,", which was pointed to me via gizmodo.
The basic conceit focuses on people who leave their phone numbers trying to sell a good or service (either using Craigslist or fliers or whatever). This guy starts texting them in a conversation that quickly transitions from business inquiry to total absurdity.
I especially liked this exchange, with a guy who advertised computer repair services:
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This means that you can work out $\pi$ by dividing the distance around a circle by the length of its diameter. The strange thing is that on a calculator the answer you get can only ever be approximate - that is, you can't show an exact value for pi with digits on a calculator screen or even on large pieces of paper. This has fascinated mathematicians for a very long
time and they have kept trying to find ways to calculate approximations of pi that are more and more accurate.
To work out the area of a circle you need to use an approximate value for pi (like $3.14$) then multiply that by the radius of the circle squared. For example; if the radius was $5 \; \text{cm}$, the area would be approximately $3.14 \times 5 \times 5 \times 78.5$ square centimetres.
What is the value of Pi?
In the Old Testament of the Bible (I Kings 7:23) it is suggested that $\pi$ is equal to $3$. The Babylonians, in about 2000 BC, use $3$ or $3 1/8$. In the ancient Rhind papyrus, the Egyptian scribe Ahmes said that $\pi$ was equal to $16/9$ squared. This calculates to $3.16049 \ldots$.
Archimedes worked on the problem of finding $\pi$ by calculating the area of regular polygons, with up to $96$ sides. He decided that $\pi$ was somewhere between $310/71$ and $310/70$. In decimals this would be $3.14085 \ldots$ and $3.142857 \ldots$ (remember the decimal places keep going on and on).
Over the centuries, many mathematicians, such as Ptolemy (the ancient Greek astronomer), Tsu Ch'ung-Chi (of China) and Ludolph van Ceulen (of Germany) kept trying to find more accurate values for pi using a variety of different methods. During the last few centuries people have been trying to find as many decimal places as possible so they can look for patterns in the long string of digits. In 1949 a computer was used to calculate pi to $2\;037$ places. In 1967 in France $500\;000$ digits were found. In 1983 a Japanese team found $16\;777\;216$ decimal places for pi. The current record is about $51$ billion decimal places.
Here are some of the decimal places that have been found: $$\pi = 3.14159 \; 26535 \; 89793 \; 23846 \; 26433 \; 83279 \; 50288 \; 41972 \; \dots$$ To help remember these digits, people like to make up sentences or rhymes, called mnemonics.
For example, "May I have a large container of coffee?" is quite a famous one for the first eight digits. You work out the numbers by counting the letters in each word.
Here's one for the first 31 digits:
"Now I will a rhyme construct,
By chosen words the young instruct.
Cunningly devised endeavour,
Con it and remember ever.
Widths in circle here you see,
Sketched out in strange obscurity."
Try making up your own mnemonic for the digits of pi.
To find out more about pi, have a look at Mathworld - although some of the topics it covers are very advanced!
Cut four triangles from a square as shown in the picture. How many different shapes can you make by fitting the four triangles back together?
Can you work out the area of the inner square and give an explanation of how you did it?


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Ending Mass Incarceration: Charting a New Justice Reinvestment
Justice Strategies Director, Judith Greene, has co-authored Ending Mass Incarceration: Charting A New Justice Reinvestment, with Vanita Gupta and Kara Dansky of the American Civil Liberties Union, Malcolm Young of Northwestern University Law School's Bluhm Legal Clinic, James Austin of the JFA Institute, Eric Cadora of the Justice Mapping Center, Todd Clear of Rutgers University, Marc Mauer and Nicole Porter of The Sentencing Project, and Susan Tucker, the former Director of The After Prison Initiative at the Open Society Foundations.
The paper traces the history and examines the impact of Justice Reinvestment (JR) since its inception a decade ago to its current incarnation as a national initiative.
The primary conclusion is that while JR has served to soften the ground for criminal justice reform, it has not achieved significant reductions in the correctional populations or costs in most of the states in which it has been conducted. This is in contrast to its original intent: to reduce corrections populations and budgets and reinvest in high incarceration communities to make them safer, stronger, and more equitable.
As originally conceived, Justice Reinvestment called for the reduction of corrections populations and budgets to generate savings that would be reinvested in high incarceration communities to improve public safety, and reverse the destructive effects of mass incarceration and harsh punishment visited disproportionately upon individuals and communities of color.
As implemented through legislation in 18 states, the Justice Reinvestment Initiative has helped stabilize corrections populations and budgets, educate state legislators and public officials about the expense of correctional system, and persuade them to undertake reforms, but it runs the risk of institutionalizing mass incarceration at current levels.
The major reasons the authors cite that the current JR approach will not achieve significant reductions in correctional populations and build stronger, safer communities are:
- JR legislative efforts are not addressing the two principal drivers of prison populations: the number of people admitted to prison and their length of stay. When promising strategies for affecting these two prison population drivers have been proposed, they are often the first to be jettisoned as a part of legislative compromises.
- JR activities are typically focused on state government policy makers and state-level reforms, eschewing and sometimes excluding other important state and local constituencies, including strategic advocates and locally-elected officials from high incarceration communities.
- JR initiatives which focus on short-term analysis and technical assistance to state corrections officials do not build or leverage state and local capacity to move genuine justice reform forward over the long-term.
- JR efforts have abandoned a key premise of its original concept: reinvestment in high incarceration neighborhoods to promote safe and vibrant communities. Absent demand-side advocacy from local stakeholders, resources become vulnerable to the claims of other criminal justice agencies, including from law enforcement.
- There has been insufficient attention to the problem of structural disincentives that discourage and inhibit officials at all levels of government from pursuing local, innovative, non-incarcerative public safety strategies. The state subsidy for imprisonment relieves local public officials of the financial consequences of sentencing decisions which greatly increase state prison populations.
To achieve the goals of reducing corrections populations and costs and investing in local communities, the authors recommend Justice Reinvestment approaches that would:
- Re-affirm and commit to achieving the two primary goals of JR: 1) significant reductions in all forms of incarceration and correctional supervision (i.e. probation and parole), and 2) reinvestment in high incarceration communities,
- Involve key stakeholders and non-governmental entities at the state and local levels throughout the planning, legislative, implementation and reinvestment process, and
- Create a multi-year plan for implementation and evaluation beyond short-term legislative or policy fixes


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Unlike anything audiences have been exposed to before, The Dead grabs you by the throat and takes you on a visceral journey across the harsh but stunning landscapes of Africa where the sole survivor of the doomed final evacuation flight out of the continent, has more than just the unforgiving terrain to deal with. Written and directed by Howard J. Ford and Jon Ford, The Dead has also stunned audiences at such prestigious film festivals such as Fantastic Fest, FrightFest and the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival. Garnering hundreds of rave reviews during its theatrical release, The Dead truly has become an instant cult classic.
When the last flight out of war-torn Africa crashes off the coast, Lt. Brian Murphy (Rob Freeman) is the sole survivor in a land where the dead are returning to life and attacking the living. On the run in a hostile and inhospitable parched landscape, Murphy has to use his wits and ingenuity if he is to get home alive to his family. When he crosses paths with local solider Daniel Dembele (Prince David Osei), a man frantically searching for his son, they join forces. Two desperate men from two very different cultures fight side-by-side to survive across the incredible vistas of Africa as the world around them succumbs to the deadliest of viruses.
The first horror film entirely filmed in Africa, The Dead takes the zombie legend back to its original roots and has justly been hailed as "superbly crafted…it's a knockout" by the Village Voice, "one of the finest zombie films I've ever seen" by the Horror Channel, Bloody-Disgusting declared it "one of the most buzzed-about films of the year." Anchor Bay Entertainment proudly announces the February 14th Blu-ray™ and DVD release of The Dead, the critically acclaimed horror film that wowed both audiences and critics worldwide. SRP is $26.98 for the DVD, and $29.99 for the Blu-ray™. Pre-book is January 18th.
Bonus features on The Dead Blu-ray™ and DVD will include audio commentary by writer/producer/director Howard J. Ford and writer/director of photography/co-director Jon Ford, "Unearthing The Dead: Behind the Scenes" featurette and a deleted scene.
Street Date: February 14, 2012
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(visited by Bernie Van Tighem)
26-Jul-2001 -- During a fishing trip on the Great Slave Lake we camped near this confluence. I was planning to visit 62N 114W as well but due to low fuel had to pass it by. I could not show the coordinates with all zeros as it was blowing pretty good and it was kind of hard to hold the boat on the point long enough to snap the image. I'll get the 62N 114W confluence next week.
This confluence is a couple of kilometres offshore in the Hearne Channel on the East Arm of the Great Slave Lake. I took a picture of my Garmin 48 screen as well as one of my fellow fishermen on the boat. Other pictures show Blanchette Island to the SE, Francois Bay to the North( where we were camped), and a look to the west down the Channel.
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Closure of the United Faculty of Theology
The United Faculty of Theology (UFT) was a College of the University of Divinity. The UFT concluded operations in December 2014 and the final students to complete awards through the UFT graduated from the University in March 2015.
Students who were formerly enrolled in the UFT were invited to re-enrol through one of the other Colleges of the University of Divinity. This includes the two successor Colleges to the UFT, both located in Parkville, Victoria:
Trinity College Theological School
Former students or graduates of the UFT seeking a record of their studies can find information on this website about how to obtain an academic transcript or other academic documents, and can contact the Student Services team in the Office of the Vice-Chancellor by email to firstname.lastname@example.com or by phone on (03) 9853 3177.
History of the UFT
The United Faculty of Theology (UFT) was an informal association of member institutions, in 2014 comprised of:
- Jesuit Theological College of the Society of Jesus incorporated in Victoria
- Trinity College Theological School (Anglican Province of Victoria)
- Uniting Church Theological College (Uniting Church in Australia Synod of Victoria and Tasmania)
The UFT was formed in 1969 to provide theological education on an ecumenical basis by sharing staff and facilities and bringing together the students of the member institutions in common classes. By common consent, the United Faculty of Theology made its classes and other resources available, on payment of fees, to students who were not enrolled with any of the member colleges. The early concentration of the UFT was on the preparation of candidates for ordained ministry, but, after the inauguration of the BTheol degree in 1974, a shift of focus took place. The UFT assumed a wider mission of theological education for anyone who wished to be part of it.
The UFT's Vision and Mission, as adopted by its governing body, the Senatus, in 2002 was as follows:
The UFT sees itself building and fostering a genuine ecumenical Christian community of teachers and students that encourages a radical vision of the Gospel of Christ, which will equip students not simply to understand faith, but to change the world by living the faith that does justice. The mission of the UFT is to serve the needs and to further the mission of the churches we represent by rigorous theological reflection on the Gospel and its radical implications.
UFT Office-bearers
The UFT was governed by a Senatus comprised of the academic staff of its member institutions, led by a President, and supported by a Dean and administration centre. The Office was housed successively in Ormond College (1973-1983), Jesuit Theological College (1983-1985), Queen's College (1986-2006), and at the Centre for Theology and Ministry (2007-2014).
Deans of the United Faculty of Theology
- The Revd Dr James M Young 1970-1977
- The Revd Dr Bruce Barber 1978-2001
- The Revd Dr Duncan Reid 2002-2005
- The Revd Dr Janet Crawford 2006-2008
- Dr Peter Sherlock 2008-2012
- The Revd Dr John Capper 2012-2013
- The Revd Dr Geoffrey King SJ 2013 (acting Dean)
- The Revd Dr Don Saines 2013-2014
Office Staff
- Gwynneth Rogers (Secretary)
- Anne Yeoh (Secretary, 1985-1991)
- Lyn MacMillan (Secretary, 1992-1994)
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CC Baird and The HBO Documentary, "Dealing Dogs"
Released in 2006, the HBO documentary Dealing Dogs follows "Pete", an LCA investigator who worked undercover for six months at C.C. Baird's dog kennel in Arkansas. Baird was a Class B dealer who supplied random-sourced dogs to laboratories for animal research. The investigation lasted six months and exposed widespread animal neglect and abuse at Baird's kennel and a network of stolen pets being sold to laboratories for animal research.
Watch the full-length documentary here: (WARNING: Graphic Content)
Dealing Dogs - Background Information
C.C. Baird
Chester Clinton (C.C.) Baird, Jr. grew up in Williford, Arkansas. Married to his wife, Patsy, for 40 years, the two have 5 daughters and 8 grandchildren. C.C. received a bachelor's degree in math, but became a Class "B" dealer and completed his first sale in 1990. Prior to being charged with hundreds of violations of the Animal Welfare Act and losing his Class "B" license, C.C. was also a minister of the Bettistown Church of Christ in Arkansas.
In 1997, Baird was convicted of violating the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) and fined $5,000. The charges against him include: failing to maintain complete records showing the acquisition, disposition, and identification of animals from January 1992 through June 1994. Baird also is charged with acquiring "random source" dogs in violation of the AWA from January 1992 through May 1993.
In 2002, LCA began an investigation into C.C. Baird and his facility, Martin Creek Kennels, by sending an investigator named "Pete" undercover.
Baird faced hundreds of violations of the Animal Welfare Act
As a result of LCA's undercover investigation, in March 2004, the USDA/APHIS filed a 108-page complaint against Baird, consisting of hundreds of violations of the Animal Welfare Act. Some of the violations in the complaint include:
"Severe mistreatment and neglect of a multitude of animals"
"Falsification of health certificates of dogs and cats that the respondents sold to research facilities"
"Multitudinous recordkeeping deficiencies and instances of noncompliance with the barest standards of care, husbandry, and housing for dogs and cats"
"These respondents have continually treated hundreds of animals cruelly and inhumanely in myriad ways including failure to provide them with the most basic needs: sufficient and nutritious food, potable water, safe shelter, and adequate veterinary care."
CC Baird "has a history of previous violations of the Act and regulations…who was previously found to have violated same regulations. Mr. Baird has knowingly disobeyed the cease and desist letter issued by the Secretary in Mr. Baird's previous case."
In January 2005, a settlement was reached in Baird's civil case. The consent decision was finalized on January 28th and permanently revoked Baird's USDA license and slapped him with a fine of $262,700, the largest fine ever imposed by the USDA/APHIS.
Baird Faced Criminal Charges
As part of his criminal case, on August 30, 2005, Baird pleaded guilty to felony charges of conspiracy to launder money in an operation involving the sale of dogs and cats to research laboratories.
Baird's guilty plea stems from his role in mail fraud, in which he violated the Animal Welfare Act by transferring dogs and cats to research facilities with false acquisition records through his facility, Martin Creek Kennels. The charge against Baird is punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a fine of more than $5 million.
Baird's wife, Patsy, a USDA-licensed Class "A" dealer (animal breeder) and owner of breeding facility Pat's Pine Tree Farm, pleaded guilty to misprision of felony mail fraud. The Bairds consented to criminal forfeiture of $200,000 and approximately 700 acres of land -- which includes their residence and former dog and cat kennels -- in Sharp County, Arkansas, valued at $1.1 million. They also agreed to pay approximately $42,400 in partial reimbursement of investigative costs as directed by the USDA, which will reimburse animal rescue groups that took custody of animals seized from Baird's property.
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The Physics of Christianity
By Frank J. Tipler
By Frank J. Tipler
By Frank J. Tipler
By Frank J. Tipler
Category: Religion | Science & Technology
Category: Religion | Science & Technology
Paperback $19.00
Aug 19, 2008 | ISBN 9780385514255
The Self-Aware Universe
The Probability of God
Faith Versus Fact
The Source Field Investigations
The Ascension Mysteries
The Synchronicity Key
The View From the Center of the Universe
Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
The Varieties of Scientific Experience
Praise for Frank Tipler's The Physics of Immortality:
"A thrilling ride to the far edges of modern physics." —New York Times Book Review
"A dazzling exercise in scientific speculation, as rigorously argued as it is boldly conceived." —Wall Street Journal
"Tipler has written a masterpiece conferring much-craved scientific respectability on what we have always wanted to believe in." —Science
"More readable than Roger Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind or Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach . . . an imaginative eschatological entertainment appropriate to the approaching end of the millennium." —New Orleans Times-Picayune
"Undeniably fascinating…" —Seattle Times
"Tipler's brash announcements are challenging—and entertaining. Although written from the viewpoint of a Ph.D., anyone should be able to get a kick out of the professor's big-bang ideas." —Publishers Weekly
"A book that proves the existence of the Almighty and inevitably of resurrection, without recourse to spiritual mumbo jumbo . . . Tipler does it all." —Mirabella
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Oct. 11th, 1943-A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun.


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For the 2020 Discovery Sessions, Guests will not be allowed due to smaller class sizes.
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In Wee/Pre Discovery, the children stay with the same teacher all day. Each teacher will take the children through a variety of activities related to the week's theme.
In Discovery, the children rotate between teachers for different activities related to the week's theme.
Morning sessions meet 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (Noon). Afternoon sessions meet 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Because of limited staffing time, children should be dropped off no more than 15 minutes early for the sessions and no later than 15 minutes after the session ends.
Yes, for the Wee/Pre Discovery Children. Due to the layout of the building and safety factors, we would like parents/adults to come into the building to pick up.
Yes. Each week revolves around a particular theme. There may be painting, music, and games, but there are variations on the approach to the projects.
No. Discovery and Wee / Pre-Discovery meet only Mondays through Thursdays while classes are in session.
Children must have reached the minimum age of 3 by May 1 and must be able to use the toilet unassisted. The child may use pull-ups, however, in case of an accident, a parent will be notified to pick up the child.
Children should come dressed to get messy. Some of the project materials might stain clothing. On particularly sunny days, it might be a good idea to wear sunscreen. Children should wear shoes to play in, tennis shoes or closed toed sandals with heel strap (no flip flops).
Before we allow a child to leave unattended from the program, we will need a signed permission slip from the parent or guardian.
For 2020 snacks will not be allowed in any ARCC Programs. Water may be sent in a resealable container that is clearly marked with the child's name.
For Discovery age children, no. Children between the first grade and sixth grades usually can hold out for three hours without a snack. For children in Pre/Wee Discovery it would be best to send a small healthy snack, in a well-marked bag/container. Drinks must be in a resealable container, and well-marked with the child's name.
*Snacks must be free of peanuts, or tree nuts, for the safety of other students.