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News, Show Recaps September 26, 2016
BAND OF HORSES & WHITE DENIM ROCK IN TOTAL BLISS AT SUMMERSTAGE
It was so dusky and cool before the Band of Horses show, Central Park was something like the moon. A few steps toward the stage, and the weightlessness was there too – your grass-covered shoes plodding around picnic blankets in the darkness, guided only by the giggles and shrieks of the cross-legged crowd. Just when the excitement on the lawn had become part of the night itself, like the hum of cicadas under the breeze, the stage came to life and began to glow.
The lively show that would follow began with the Austin, Texas four-piece, White Denim, and the instant pull of their Southern garage rock sound. They had the tough task of keeping the outdoor crowd at bay before the much-loved headlining act, but that was no problem for the seasoned band, who regularly burst into jammy segments that kept everyone on their toes. The audience let out big cheers between songs, and one after another, White Denim dished out an impressive opening set.
It was a traditional piano intro that filled the night air before Band of Horses took the stage, and for a good moment, the twinkling notes had much of the park in silent suspense. Then the five musicians walked on, quickly getting settled as the audience squealed. "New York City, how ya damn doin'?" asked frontman Ben Bridwell, his face bright with excitement. Then, in a simple sentence that flowed like a river, he explained their agenda. "Gonna start kinda mellow, work into a groove, and feel it."
Ben Bridwell – all smiles
Band of Horses did just that, and the good vibes were all-encompassing; their fans singing shoulder-to-shoulder under the stars. The Seattle alt-rockers opened with "Monsters," "The First Song," and "Casual Party," then bounced from favorite to favorite, brewing an especially warm sound on hits like "Solemn Oath," "No One's Gonna Love You," and "The General Specific." All the while, the guys were in wild motion, maintaining muscular focus to keep their sound right in synch – whether the moment was mild, or exploding like a star.
Before parting, Band of Horses brought out an impressive cover of Neil Young & Crazy Horse's "Powderfinger," then sent us home in the utter bliss of "Is There A Ghost" and "The Funeral." Ben's unmistakable vocals drifted through the trees, and in somewhat angelic fashion, his hair seemed to float up around his head like a halo. By the way their fans responded to the show, the image wasn't too far off.
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China's New Billionaires Worry About Leaving 'Untested' Heirs in Charge of Their Money
Liz Flora @Liz__Flora
A photo posted by Wang Sicong, the son of China's richest person Wang Jianlin, of his dog with a stack of iPhone 7s he purchased for it as a "gift." A new report says that it is difficult for Chinese billionaires to find a "suitable" heir who can handle their legacy. (Weibo)
Passing on vast fortunes to the next generation has been a focus for "old money" families in Europe for centuries, but China's newly minted billionaires are thinking hard about how to keep their kids at the top of the 1 percent.
According to the "Billionaires Insights" report released last week by UBS and PricewaterhouseCoopers, the rapid rise of the newly rich in China means that 85 percent of all billionaires in Asia are first-generation, making the transfer of wealth to heirs a particular concern as they grow older. A separate estimate by Hurun Report's recently released China Rich List finds that this first-generation effect is so concentrated in China that 95 percent of China's richest people didn't inherit their wealth.
With an influx of new money, China is set to see its "first-ever major intergenerational wealth transfer," according to the report, which calls it a "critical handover." In emerging markets like China, wealth transfer can be a particular challenge for the ultra-rich since business empires there are heavily reliant on personal relations, or guanxi. "Such is their complexity that they are difficult for a young person to manage," it says.
These billionaires have reason to worry, as current economic turbulence means that their wealth can be fleeting in China. The report says that while 80 new Chinese billionaires were created in 2015 and total wealth of China's billionaires grew by 5.4 percent, 40 additional Chinese tycoons dropped off the billionaire list. Meanwhile, the Hurun Report's new findings show that China actually has two fewer dollar billionaires than last year as of August 2016, a far cry from its 2015 estimate of new Chinese billionaires that was actually more than double that of UBS.
The report finds that many Chinese billionaires are worried their kids won't be up to the task of managing their fortunes, saying that it's difficult to hand over "diverse corporate empires to untested heirs," according to the report. It's even more of a challenge in China because of the one-child policy, as wealthy families have limited numbers of children to choose from when trying to find a "suitable heir."
The money-flaunting public antics of some of China's fuerdai (second-generation rich) don't make it hard to see the source of concern. Wang Sicong, the son of China's richest man Wang Jianlin, is infamous in China for his social media posts showing him wasting vast sums of money. He recently set off viral outrage among netizens when posted a photo of his dog with eight new iPhone 7s, which is actually part of a whole verified Weibo account he has set up just for the Alaskan malamute to show her with extravagant gifts. The pampered dog also made the news recently when he posted a picture of her wearing two Apple Watches worth $37,000 on two of her paws.
Although not all of China's fuerdai are as extreme as Wang, many idealistic wealthy Chinese millennials are reluctant to follow the path their parents set for them. "I am not so interested in taking over the family business," according to one millennial Chinese heir apparent quoted in the report. "It's a business I don't feel passionate about. I would prefer us to sell the business and then reinvest in other companies. Not buying stocks, but actively managing those companies and learning about different sectors." Concurrently, the report finds that rich Chinese from the younger generation are more interested in philanthropy than their parents.
As a result of these trends, the report says that "cashing out" will often "be the only choice" for parents whose kids can't or won't take over the family business. In addition, some will be preparing their heirs for "ownership rather than management." Not all ultra-rich Chinese parents are reluctant to put their wealth in their kids' names, especially when it comes to luxury real estate purchases abroad that are meant to be kept secret. But for the future of the family business, the report predicts that most of China's rich will be opting for a "private equity holding company model" when they face difficulties in turning over their companies to a capable and willing heir.
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Home » Musicians » Return to Forever
Miles Davis' electric bands in the late '60s (featured on such classic albums as In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew) served as the incubator for several pioneering jazz fusion bands, including Tony Williams' Lifetime, Herbie Hancock's Headhunters, John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra, Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter's Weather Report and Chick Corea's legendary Return to Forever, whose lifespan stretched from 1972 to 1977 with three different versions of the band.
After a touring absence of more than 25 years, the potent jazz-rock flagship quartet edition of Return to Forever returns in 2008. This highly anticipated reunion will see the group's classic lineup"Corea on keyboards, Al Di Meola on guitar, Stanley Clarke on bass and Lenny White on drums"embark on an expansive summer tour with dates in Europe and the United States.
A special Return to Forever anthology featuring remixed and remastered tracks from the classic albums Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy, Where Have I Known You Before, No Mystery and Romantic Warrior will also be released to coincide with the tour. And a concert DVD could well be released, featuring the band revisiting the material from their years together.
After Corea left Miles' employ, he helped found the avant-garde acoustic quartet Circle with saxophonist Anthony Braxton, bassist Dave Holland and drummer Barry Altschul. The band worked from 1970-'71, but Corea sought a new, less-esoteric direction where he could express his music to larger audiences"in a band committed to communicating the purity of sound, the challenge of improvising on complex compositions and the exploration of melding the jazz tradition with rock music. The time was ripe for what followed.
Return to Forever launched in 1972 with its self-titled debut featuring a quintet that Corea assembled, comprising Joe Farrell on flute and saxophone, Airto Moreira on drums and percussion, Flora Purim on vocals, and Stanley Clarke on bass"the only RTF member who served in all three editions of the band. With a Brazilian tinge imbued in the fusion, the first album featured such noteworthy tracks as "Sometime Ago," "Crystal Silence" and "La Fiesta." Later that year, the same RTF lineup delivered its follow-up, Light As a Feather, renowned as one of the band's best recordings. Tunes included such Corea classics as "Spain," "500 Miles High" and "Captain Marvel."
In 1973, when Airto and Flora left RTF to start their own band and Farrell also took his leave, Corea enlisted a new lineup to explore a harder-edged rock-jazz fusion. The electric guitar was added, and placed front and center along with Corea on electric keyboards. The guitarist for the first of the four quartet albums, Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy (1973), was Bill Connors, who soon left the band to pursue his solo career. He was replaced in 1974 by 19-year-old, fresh-from-college, hard-rocking Al Di Meola, who cut his eyeteeth in the band. He was featured on the remaining three quartet albums and proved to be an integral member of the band.
While drummer Steve Gadd was originally pegged to be in RTF, he opted out because he was unwilling to tour, and was replaced by funk-fueled Lenny White, who Corea knew from the Bitches Brew sessions. Clarke remained the bassist, developing during this time his singular electric bass style. This lineup is considered to be the golden RTF group, which recorded three popular crossover albums: 1974's Where Have I Known You Before (Di Meola's debut), 1975's Grammy-winning No Mystery and 1976's studio finale, Romantic Warrior, which became the best selling of all RTF recordings.
For the third and final version of RTF, Clarke remained, Farrell returned, and drummer Gerry Brown and vocalist Gayle Moran were enlisted. In addition, Corea brought aboard a four-piece brass section. That group recorded the 1977 Musicmagic album and toured throughout the year, documented by the album R.T.F. Live.
It was RIP for RTF in 1977, but the group was resurrected once for a quartet concert in 1983, and is now fully returning in this year's exciting reunion.
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\section{Introduction}
\label{intro}
The study of QCD at finite temperature and baryon density
has increasing phenomenological interest related to the physics
of heavy ion experiments and compact astrophysical objects.
The main open questions regard the location and nature
of phase transitions in the QCD phase diagram,
as well as the properties of strongly interacting matter around
the transitions. A reliable answer to these questions requires
at treatment of QCD at a non-perturbative level: unfortunately
lattice QCD simulations, which are the only available tool
for a non-perturbative study of the theory
based on first principles, are not possible at finite baryon chemical
potential, because of the well known {\em sign problem}:
the QCD fermion determinant becomes complex and the
probability interpretation of the QCD Euclidean action,
necessary for standard importance sampling Monte-Carlo, is lost.
A number of strategies have been developed to partially circumvent
that problem, like
reweighting techniques~\cite{glasgow,fodor,density},
the use of an imaginary chemical potential either
for analytic continuation~\cite{muim,immu_dl,azcoiti,chen,giudice,cea,sqgp,conradi,cea2}
or for reconstructing the canonical
partition function~\cite{rw,cano1,cano2}, Taylor expansion
techniques~\cite{taylor1,taylor2,gagu1,gagu2,gagu3} and
non-relativistic expansions~\cite{hmass1,hmass2,hmass3}.
The aim of the present work is that of exploiting the method of analytic
continuation from an imaginary chemical potential to study the
properties of hadronic matter around the deconfinement transition
in QCD with two light flavors ($N_f = 2$). As an improvement with
respect to previous studies based on analytic continuation, we
introduce to independent chemical potentials, $\mu_1$ and $\mu_2$,
coupled to the two different quark flavors.
That is equivalent to the introduction of two independent chemical
potentials, $\mu_B$ and $\mu_I$, coupled respectively to the baryon
and to the isospin charges $B$ and $I_3$.
Our strategy will be to determine the dependence of the free energy on
the two chemical potentials, apart from constant terms,
by measuring its first derivatives with respect to $\mu_1$ and $\mu_2$
(quark number densities) for imaginary values of the two variables,
and by then fitting them by suitable functions, to be continued
within proper analyticity domains.
One of our aims is the study of generalized
susceptibilities with respect to different conserved charges of the
model (baryonic, isospin). These quantities are of significant
phenomenological interest
and have been
determined till now mostly by the Taylor expansion method. We shall
compare our results with those obtained by previous studies and
comment on the efficiency and systematic effects of analytic continuation.
In the confined region, i.e. below the critical temperature $T_c$, we shall
be able to perform a high precision test of the Hadron Resonance Gas
(HRG) model, leading to the uncover of violations close to $T_c$.
Finally, the knowledge of the dependence of the free energy on the
two independent chemical potentials will allow us a study of the
average phase factor, which gives a direct measurement of the
severeness of the sign problem.
Our study is made for QCD with two flavors of unimproved staggered quarks
and is based on a standard RHMC algorithm.
The choice of parameters is taken from Ref.~\cite{gagu2}.
The paper is organized as follows:
In Section II we describe the model that we have
investigated as well as the relevant physical observables; we also discuss the
symmetries of the model, which are important for
the choice of the free energy interpolating functions to be used for analytic
continuation.
In Section III we report the technical details of our numerical
simulations. In Section IV we present results obtained below
$T_c$ and compare them to the predictions of the HRG model.
In Section V we report results obtained above $T_c$.
In Section VI and VII we discuss results obtained respectively
for generalized susceptibilities and for the analytic continuation
of the average phase factor.
Finally, in Section VII, we draw our conclusions.
\section{$N_f = 2$ QCD with two independent chemical potentials and
analytic continuation.}
\label{gensusc}
QCD with two continuum degenerate flavors is described, in the
(rooted) staggered fermion discretization of the theory, by the following
partition function
\begin{eqnarray}
Z(T) \equiv \int \mathcal{D}U e^{-S_{G}[U]} (\det M[U])^{1/2}
\end{eqnarray}
where $S_G$ is the discretized pure gauge action (standard
Wilson plaquette action in our case) and $M$ is the staggered fermion
matrix describing 4 continuum flavors. Periodic (antiperiodic)
boundary conditions are assumed for gauge (fermion) fields along
the Euclidean time direction.
The introduction of two independent chemical potentials, $\mu_1$ and
$\mu_2$, coupled to the number operators of each quark family leads
to the following expression for the grand canonical partition function:
\begin{eqnarray}
Z(T,\mu_1,\mu_2) \equiv \int \mathcal{D}U e^{-S_{G}}
\det M^{1\over 4} [\mu_1]
\det M^{1\over 4} [\mu_2]
\label{partfun1}
\end{eqnarray}
where the fermion matrix in the standard staggered formulation at finite
chemical potential reads:
\begin{eqnarray}
M[\mu]_{i,j} &=& a m
\delta_{i,j} + {1 \over 2}
\sum_{\nu=1}^{3}\eta_{i,\nu}\left(U_{i,\nu}\delta_{i,j-\hat\nu}-
U^{\dag}_{i-\hat\nu,\nu}\delta_{i,j+\hat\nu}\right) \nonumber \\
&+& \eta_{i,4}
\left(e^{ a \mu}U_{i,4}\delta_{i,j-\hat4}-
e^{- a \mu}U^{\dag}_{i-\hat4,4}\delta_{i,j+\hat4}\right)
\label{fmatrix}
\end{eqnarray}
Here $i$ and $j$ refer to lattice sites, $\hat\nu$ is a unit vector on
the lattice, $\eta_{i,\nu}$ are staggered phases;
$a \mu$ and $a m$ are respectively
the chemical potential and the quark mass in lattice units.
The two chemical potentials can be rewritten
in terms of a quark number chemical potential
$\mu_q = (\mu_1 + \mu_2)/2$ (or equivalently a baryon chemical
potential $\mu_B = 3 \mu_q$) and of an isospin chemical potential
$\mu_I = (\mu_1 - \mu_2)/2$.
While the original theory is invariant under both charge conjugation
and isospin rotations, the theory in presence of finite chemical potentials
obviously is not. However the original invariance
is reflected in the fact that the free energy
$F = - T \ln Z $
must be an even function of $\mu_q$ and $\mu_I$ separately, or equivalently
it must be invariant under the two following transformations
$(\mu_1,\mu_2) \to (\mu_2,\mu_1)$ and
$(\mu_1,\mu_2) \to (-\mu_2,-\mu_1)$, which are easily verified to be
symmetries of the partition function in Eq.~(\ref{partfun1}).
That places strong constraints on its possible functional dependence.
In presence of a finite chemical potential $\det M$ becomes
complex and $\det M[-\mu] = (\det M[\mu])^*$. Therefore,
apart from the case $\mu_2 = - \mu_1$ ($\mu_q = 0$), the integrand
in Eq.~(\ref{partfun1}) is complex and cannot be interpreted as
a probability distribution over gauge fields, so that standard
importance sampling techniques cannot be applied (sign problem).
Positivity is recovered if the chemical potentials $\mu_1$ and
$\mu_2$ are taken as purely imaginary: in this case numerical simulations
are feasible and results can be used to fit the functional dependence
of relevant observables.
Due to the above mentioned symmetries of the free energy,
analytic continuation is actually a continuation from negative to
positive values of $\mu_q^2$ and $\mu_I^2$. Of course
it is expected to be applicable as long as no phase transitions
are met along the continuation path.
It is convenient for the following discussion to introduce
the variables
$$\theta_q = {\rm Im}(\mu_q)/T = N_t a {\rm Im}(\mu_q) $$
$$\theta_I = {\rm Im}(\mu_I)/T = N_t a {\rm Im}(\mu_I) $$
and
$$\theta_1 = {\rm Im}(\mu_1)/T = \theta_q + \theta_I$$
$$\theta_2 = {\rm Im}(\mu_2)/T = \theta_q - \theta_I$$
where $N_t$ is the number of lattice sites in the temporal direction.
It can be easily shown that the introduction of
an imaginary chemical potential is equivalent to a twist
in the temporal boundary conditions for fermions by an angle
${\rm Im} (\mu)/T$. Hence
both determinants appearing in Eq.~(\ref{partfun1}) are
periodic functions, respectively of $\theta_1$ and $\theta_2$, with
period $2 \pi$, so that the free energy itself is a periodic function
of these variables.
In terms of $\theta_q$ and
$\theta_I$ that means again periodicity with period $2 \pi$ in both
variables, plus invariance under
$(\theta_q,\theta_I) \to (\theta_q + \pi,\theta_I + \pi)$.
However, following the argument given by Roberge and Weiss
in Ref.~\cite{rw}, it is possible to prove that a transformation
$\theta_q \to \theta_q + 2 \pi k/N_c$, where $N_c$ is the number of colors
and $k$ is an integer,
can be cancelled by a change of variables in the functional
integration in which all temporal links at a given time slice get
multiplied by a center element $\exp(-i 2 k \pi/N_c)$ (center
transformation).
Hence the free energy is expected to be a periodic function of $\theta_q$ with
period $2 \pi/N_c$ instead of $2 \pi$ ($N_c = 3$ in our case).
An analogous change of variables
does not work for translations in $\theta_I$, which rotate the link
variables appearing in each determinant in a different way, therefore
the period in $\theta_I$ is really $2 \pi$.
For temperatures below the zero density critical temperature, $T_c$,
no phase transitions are expected, as in the $\mu_I = 0$ case,
in the whole $\theta_q,\theta_I$ plane. Therefore, due to the
discussed periodicity and required symmetries,
the most natural parametrization of the free energy is in terms of a
trigonometric series as follows:
\begin{eqnarray}
\frac{F(\theta_q,\theta_I)}{T} = \sum_{h,l} w_{h,l} \cos (3 h \theta_q) \cos(l \theta_I)
\label{freelowT}
\end{eqnarray}
with $h$ and $l$ both integers; moreover $h$ and $l$ must have the same parity
because of the invariance under
$(\theta_q,\theta_I) \to (\theta_q + \pi,\theta_I + \pi)$.
Further constraints on the number of terms appearing in Eq.~(\ref{freelowT})
may be predicted by particular effective models of strong interactions
below $T_c$, like for instance the HRG model to be discussed in
Section~\ref{resultsHRG}. In such regime, information valid for
analytic continuation can be gathered in the whole $\theta_q,\theta_I$ plane.
For $T > T_c$ we expect instead phase transitions in the
$\theta_q,\theta_I$ plane, corresponding either to the continuation
of the physical deconfinement transition or to the generalization of
Roberge-Weiss (RW) transitions.
Therefore a limited region around
$\theta_q = \theta_I = 0$ is available for the purpose of analytic
continuation to real chemical potentials, and
we shall write an expression for the free energy valid in that region
which respects the predicted symmetries under
$\theta_q \to - \theta_q$ and $\theta_I \to -
\theta_I$ separately. In particular the free energy will be expressed
as a polynomial like
\begin{eqnarray}
\frac{F(\theta_q,\theta_I)}{T} = \sum_{i,j} c_{i,j}
\frac{\theta_q^{2 i}}{(2i)!}\frac{\theta_I^{2 j}}{(2j)!}
\label{freehighT1}
\end{eqnarray}
with $i,j$ non negative integers,
or as a ratio of polynomials of the same kind
\begin{eqnarray}
\frac{F(\theta_q,\theta_I)}{T} =
\frac
{\left.\sum_{i,j} n_{i,j}
\frac{\theta_q^{2 i}}{(2i)!} \frac{\theta_I^{2 j}}{(2j)!}
\right|_{n_{00}=0}}
{\left.\sum_{k,l} d_{k,l}
\frac{\theta_q^{2 k}}{(2k)!} \frac{\theta_I^{2 l}}{(2l)!}
\right|_{d_{00}=1}} \,.
\label{freehighT2}
\end{eqnarray}
The latter is an example of Chisholm approximant, i.e. the
generalization to the case of two independent variables
of usual Pad\`e approximants,
which have revealed to be better suited for analytic
continuation in some cases~\cite{mpl05,cea,shinno}.
Some of the quantities we are interested in are generalized
susceptibilities with respect to the different chemical
potentials, which for $N_f = 2$ are defined as follows
\begin{eqnarray}
\chi_{i,j} \equiv \frac{\partial^{i+j}}{\partial \mu_1^i \partial \mu_2^j}
\left( -\frac{F}{V} \right) =
\frac{\partial^{i+j}}{\partial \mu_1^i \partial \mu_2^j}
P \label{gensusc1}
\end{eqnarray}
where $P$ is the pressure. Analogous susceptibilities are
defined in terms of $\mu_q$ and $\mu_I$
\begin{eqnarray}
\chi_{i,j}^{q,I} \equiv \frac{\partial^{i+j}}{\partial \mu_q^i \partial \mu_I^j}
P \label{gensusc2} \, .
\end{eqnarray}
The free energy symmetries discussed above imply precise
constraints on the susceptibilities computed at zero
chemical potentials. In particular we have
$\chi_{i,j}^{q,I} \neq 0$ only if $i$ and $j$ are both even,
while $\chi_{i,j} \neq 0$ if $i + j$ is even and
$\chi_{i,j} = \chi_{j,i}$.
Such quantities encode all relevant information about fluctuations of
conserved charges, which are generally considered to be sensitive
probes for the properties of the thermal medium produced in heavy
ion collisions.
They have been computed mostly in the Taylor expansion
approach~\cite{taylor1,taylor2,gagu1,gagu2,gagu3},
where they are expressed as average values at $\mu = 0$
of operators which are more and more complex and computationally
demanding as the order grows, since they require more and more
matrix inversions. It is therefore sensible to
explore the consistency and the efficiency of different strategies. In the
analytic continuation approach we
determine numerically the functional dependence,
for imaginary values of the chemical potentials,
of the first derivatives of the free energy. In terms of
adimensional quantities, which are most conveniently determined on the
lattice, they are given by
\begin{eqnarray}
\hat{n}_q &\equiv& \frac{\langle N_q \rangle}{V T^3} =
\frac{\partial}{\partial \mu_q} (P/T^3) = \hat{n}_1 + \hat{n}_2
\nonumber \\
\hat{n}_{I} &\equiv& \frac{\langle N_{I} \rangle}{V T^3} =
\frac{\partial}{\partial \mu_I} (P/T^3) =
\hat{n}_1 - \hat{n}_2
\label{numbers1}
\end{eqnarray}
where $N_q$ and $N_{I}$ are respectively the quark number and
isospin charge operators, with
\begin{eqnarray}
\hat{n}_i &\equiv& \frac{\langle N_i \rangle}{VT^3} = \frac{1}{VT^2}
\frac{\partial \ln Z}{\partial \mu_i} = -
\frac{1}{VT^3} \frac{\partial F }{\partial \mu_i} \nonumber \\
&=& \frac{N_t^2}{4 N_s^3}
\left\langle {\rm Tr} \left( M^{-1}[U,\mu_i] \frac{\partial}{\partial
a \mu_i} M[U,\mu_i] \right) \right\rangle
\label{numbers2}
\end{eqnarray}
for $i = 1,2$.
In terms of the susceptibilities defined in Eq.~(\ref{gensusc1})
$\hat{n}_1 = \chi_{1,0}/T^3 $ and $\hat{n}_2 = \chi_{0,1}/T^3 $.
Such first derivatives, which are purely imaginary for imaginary
chemical potentials, can be measured quite efficiently
(only one matrix inversion is needed for the noisy estimation of the
trace) and, apart from constant terms,
encode all information about the dependence of the free energy
on $\mu_q,\mu_I$.
Information gathered at imaginary values of $\mu_{q/I}$ can then be
analytically continued to real values of $\mu_{q/I}$, in particular
higher order derivatives at $\mu_q = \mu_I = 0$ can be extracted.
In comparison to the Taylor expansion approach, the
great advantage related to the much simpler observables can be
compensated by the need for multiple simulations at different
values of the chemical potentials. Moreover,
this procedure involves some systematic dependence on the
function chosen to interpolate data at imaginary $\mu$'s, which should
be eventually checked by comparing results obtained with different functions.
We shall compare trigometric expansions with polynomials below $T_c$,
polynomials with ratio of polynomials above $T_c$.
\section{Parameter details and numerical setup}
\label{setup}
Since we want to compare our results for the
generalized susceptibilities with those obtained by the Taylor
expansion approach, we have chosen for this study a subset of
the parameters used in Ref.~\cite{gagu2}, which is reported
in Table~\ref{tabPARsim}. That corresponds to
five different temperatures with a standard staggered lattice
discretization on $N_t = 4$ lattices and a fixed value (on
the corresponding $T = 0$ lattices) for the pion mass,
$m_\pi \simeq 280$ MeV (actually $m_\pi/m_\rho = 0.31(1)$ and
$m_\rho/T_c = 0.54(2)$). The critical temperature reported
in Ref.~\cite{gagu2} is $T_c \simeq 170$ MeV.
\begin{table}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|c||c|c||c|c|c|}
\hline $T/T_c$ & $m_q$ & $\beta$ & $n_{pairs}$ & $n_{traj}$ & $N_{D}$\\
\hline
\hline 0.9 & 0.02778 & 5.26 & 95 & 2300 & $12.6 \cdot 10^{9}$ \\
\hline 0.951 & 0.02631 & 5.275 & 95 & 2460 & $14.0 \cdot 10^{9}$ \\
\hline 1 & 0.025 & 5.2875 & 95 & 3500 & $20.7 \cdot 10^{9}$ \\
\hline 1.048 & 0.0238 & 5.30 & 24 & 3120 & $4.7 \cdot 10^{9}$ \\
\hline 1.25 & 0.02 & 5.35 & 77 & 2270 & $8.7 \cdot 10^{9}$ \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\caption{List of simulated temperatures and corresponding $\beta,m_q$ values
(taken from Ref.~\cite{gagu2}), number of $(\mu_q,\mu_I)$ pairs explored at
each temperaure ($n_{pairs}$) and average number of trajectories (of 1
MD time length each) generated
at each temperature and for each $(\mu_q,\mu_I)$ pair ($n_{traj}$).
$N_{D}$ instead indicates the total number of Dirac matrix
multiplications performed at each $T$,
which is reported as an estimate of the overall computing effort
performed:
that is more or less equally distributed between Monte-Carlo and
measurements.
\label{tabPARsim}}
\end{table}
In particular, we have made simulations on a $16^3 \times 4$ lattice using a
RHMC algorithm. Our spatial size $L_s = 16$ corresponds to about 6.6
inverse pion masses, hence finite size effects are not
expected to be important.
For $T \leq T_c$ we have made simulations on a grid of
about 100 different pairs
$(\theta_q,\theta_I)$, in the range $[0,\pi] \times [0,\pi]$: because of the
above described periodicity, this surely contains all possible information
available at imaginary chemical potentials (actually in a redundant
way, which
however is a benefit for checking the reliability of our statistical analysis).
Since susceptibilities are calculated at null values of $\mu_q$ and
$\mu_I$, more points were taken in a
restricted region around the origin, in order to perform fits of
low-degrees polynomials in $n_q$ and $n_I$ around
the origin easily.
Morover, we have decided to perform a more accurate study of HRG model along
the axis $\theta_I = 0$, therefore we have chosen further points there.
For $T > T_c$ we have performed a preliminary study aimed at finding the position of
transition lines, with the purpose of delimiting the region at imaginary
chemical potentials available for analytic continuation.
Further information about this region are given in
Section~\ref{formaREGIONEbuona}.
For each $(T,\theta_q,\theta_I)$ we have produced about 2-3K thermalized
trajectories of 1 Molecular Dynamics time length each.
More details about the amount of $(\mu_q,\mu_I)$ pairs explored
and average numbers of generated configurations are
given in Table~\ref{tabPARsim}.
Quark densities have been measured by using noisy estimators. It is possible to
minimize the total error of these observables (sum of statistical and noise
fluctuations) at fixed simulation time by choosing an appropriate number of
random vectors used for each noisy estimation. Assuming that noise and
statistical fluctuations are independent of each other, the optimal number of
random vectors $n_{vec}$ to be used for each configurations is given by
\begin{eqnarray}
n_{vec}=\frac{\sigma_{noise}}{\sigma_{meas}}
\sqrt{\frac{\tau_{conf}}{\tau_{estim}}}
\label{optimalnvec}
\end{eqnarray}
where $\sigma_{meas}$ is the variance of the observable (quark density) over
different configurations, $\sigma_{noise}$ is the variance of the different
estimates of the observable over a fixed configuration, $\tau_{conf}$ is the
time needed to generate a new configuration and $\tau_{estim}$ is the time
needed to perform one noisy estimate of the observable. We have
measured those quantities in preliminary runs and we have found that,
with our numerical setup, this number is around 30 for all
explored parameter sets. Notice that Eq.~(\ref{optimalnvec})
does not take into account the autocorrelation among configurations
and thus overestimates $n_{vec}$; we have however directly checked,
by comparing different choices of $n_{vec}$, that the efficiency is
almost stable for $n_{vec} \sim 10-50$. We have always chosen
$n_{vec} = 30$ in our production runs.
Simulations have been done on two PC farms in Genoa and in Bari.
The complete collection of our data is not reported here, but is
at disposal for interested readers.
\section{Results at $T \leq T_c$: precision test on the Hadron
Resonance Gas model}
\label{resultsHRG}
The thermal medium below the critical temperature is generally believed
to be well described as a gas of free hadron resonances (HRG model).
This model provides a good description of thermal conditions at
freeze-out~\cite{redlich,redlich2,andronic} and has
received theoretical support from lattice QCD
simulations~\cite{kareta}. Deviations from
the model have been recently detected close to $T_c$
in a lattice study based on the Taylor expansion method~\cite{taylor2}.
In the HRG model the free energy is expressed as the sum of free
particle energies. In particular, the free energy for species $i$
of spin $s_i$, mass $m_i$,
baryon number $B_i$ and isospin $I_{3i}$, is given by
\begin{eqnarray}
- T \ln Z_i &=& \pm \frac{g_i V T}{2 \pi^2} \int_0^\infty
\ln \left( 1 \mp z_i e^{\frac{\sqrt{m_i^2 + k^2}}{T}} \right) k^2 dk
\nonumber \\
&=& \frac{g_i VT^2 m_i^2}{2 \pi^2} \sum_{l = 1}^{\infty}
\left[ \frac{(\pm 1)^{l + 1}}{l^2}z_i^l K_2 \left(\frac{m_i l}{T}
\right) \right]
\label{freeparticle}
\end{eqnarray}
where $g_i = 2 s_i + 1$, the upper (lower) sign applies to mesons
(baryons) and
\begin{eqnarray}
z_i = e^{\mu_i/T} = \exp\left( \frac{3 B_i \mu_q + 2 I_{3i}
\mu_I}{T} \right) \, .
\end{eqnarray}
The expression in Eq.~(\ref{freeparticle}) is an approximation
in the case of unstable particles, for which an integration over a Breit-Wigner
distribution in the particle mass would be more appropriate.
The Bessel function $K_2$ is exponentially suppressed for large
values of the argument, $K_2(x) \simeq \sqrt{\pi / (2 x)} e^{-x}$,
hence for $m_i \gg T$ we can keep just the first
term $l = 1$ in the $l$ expansion, corresponding to the Boltzmann
approximation in which quantum statistics effects are neglected.
Summing up over all known particles and resonances
and grouping together all charge conjugation and isospin
partners we get
\begin{eqnarray}
\ln Z = V T^3 && \sum_{B,I,m} W(m,g,T)
\bar\delta(B)
\cosh \left( 3 B
\frac{\mu_q}{T} \right) \nonumber \\
&& \left( \sum_{I_3 \geq 0}
\bar\delta(I_3)\cosh \left( 2 I_3
\frac{\mu_I}{T} \right) \right)
\end{eqnarray}
where $\bar\delta (n) = 1 - {1}/{2} \delta_{n,0}\,\,$ and
$$W(m,g,T) = 2g \left( m\over {\pi T} \right)^2
K_2 \left( m\over T \right) \, .$$
Such prediction is easily continued to imaginary chemical potentials,
where hyperbolic functions get transformed into trigonometric functions,
in particular we have
\begin{eqnarray}
\ln Z = V T^3 &&\sum_{B,I} W_{B,I}(T)
\bar\delta(B)
\cos ( 3 B \theta_q) \nonumber \\ && \left( \sum_{I_3 \geq 0}
\bar\delta(I_3)\cos ( 2 I_3 \theta_I ) \right)
\label{imF}
\end{eqnarray}
\begin{eqnarray}
{\rm Im} (\hat{n}_{q})
=
&&\sum_{B,I} 3 B W_{B,I}(T)
\sin ( 3 B \theta_q) \nonumber \\ && \left( \sum_{I_3 \geq 0}
\bar\delta(I_3)\cos ( 2 I_3 \theta_I ) \right)
\label{imNq}
\end{eqnarray}
\begin{eqnarray}
{\rm Im}( \hat{n}_{I})
=
&&\sum_{B,I} W_{B,I}(T)
\bar\delta(B)
\cos ( 3 B \theta_q) \nonumber \\ && \left( \sum_{I_3 \geq 0}
2 I_3 \sin ( 2 I_3 \theta_I ) \right)
\label{imNi}
\end{eqnarray}
where $W_{B,I}(T) = \sum_{m|_{B,I}} W(m,g,T)$.
The average quark densities are always purely imaginary for
imaginary chemical potentials, for that reason we shall simply write
$\hat{n}_{q}$ and $\hat{n}_{I}$ in the following, meaning implicitely
that their imaginary part is taken.
Predictions from the HRG model to be tested in lattice QCD simulations
can be classified as follows:
1) The free energy has a particularly simple form since, on the basis
of known hadron resonances, only
$W_{0,0}$, $W_{0,1}$, $W_{1,1/2}$, $W_{1,3/2}$ are different from
zero in previous equations. That means a further strong restriction
on the expected form of the free energy at low temperatures:
a necessary condition for the HRG model to be valid
is that only the few lowest terms of the Fourier expansion
in Eq.~(\ref{freelowT}) give contribution;
2) Also the numerical values of the coefficients can be predicted from
the known experimental resonance mass spectrum.
Latter prediction is easily affected by lattice artifacts
and by the unphysical quark masses used in simulations, which
change the actual hadron spectrum on the lattice. The former, instead,
is expected to be more robust and less sensitive to discretization
details. The method of analytic continuation is particularly
well suited for lattice QCD tests of the HRG model, since it gathers
information, below $T_c$, from the whole range of possible imaginary
chemical potentials, so that the number of terms actually contributing
to the Fourier expansion in Eq.~(\ref{freelowT}) can be checked
with great precision: this idea has been followed in earlier studies
limited to the $\theta_I = 0$ axis~\cite{immu_dl,cano1},
in which the presence, within errors, of a single Fourier contribution,
corresponding to $B = 1$, has been verified. In this respect the aim of
our work is to extend such studies by increasing precision and by
exploring also the $\theta_I \neq 0$ region.
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\includegraphics*[width=1.0\columnwidth]{fit_1sin_tot_0.9_asse.eps}
\vspace{-0.cm}
\caption{Normalized quark density at $T = 0.9\, T_c$ and $\theta_I =
0$. The solid line corresponds to the single sine fit reported in
Table~\ref{tabSINfit}.}
\label{figSINfitASSEb0.9}
\vspace{-0.cm}
\end{figure}
\subsection{$T = 0.9\, T_c$}
\label{T0.9}
We start by discussing results obtained at $T = 0.9\, T_c$. Let us
first look at the $\theta_I = 0$ axis: $\hat{n}_I$ is zero in this
case, while in general $\hat{n}_q$ can be Fourier expanded as:
\begin{eqnarray}
\hat{n}_q =\sum_{l=1} c_l \sin\left(3 l \theta_q\right)
\label{sinfit}
\end{eqnarray}
and the HRG model predicts contribution only from the lowest harmonic,
$l = 1$.
Indeed a simple sine term,
corresponding to $B = 1$, is perfectly compatible with our data,
as showed in Fig.~\ref{figSINfitASSEb0.9} and reported in
Table~\ref{tabSINfit}. A second term with $l = 2$ is therefore not necessary,
at least within the precision of our data, even if a two sine fit
leads to a smaller $\chi^2/d.o.f.$ with a $c_2 \neq 0$ within three
standard deviations (see again Table~\ref{tabSINfit}).
As shown in Table~\ref{tabSINfourier}, completely
equivalent results are obtained if, instead of fitting our data,
we compute the coefficients $c_l$ by explicit Fourier transform,
\begin{eqnarray}
c_l = \frac{3}{\pi} \int_0^{2 \pi /3} \sin (3 l \theta_q) \hat{n}_q
(\theta_q) d\theta_q
\end{eqnarray}
where the integration is performed numerically by linear interpolation
of consecutive data points.
Next we consider data for $\hat{n}_q$ and $\hat{n}_I$
obtained in the whole range of $\theta_q$ and $\theta_I$ explored,
which are shown in Figs.~\ref{figHRGfitTOT0.9} and \ref{figHRGfitDIF0.9},
and try to fit them according to the expressions in Eqs.~(\ref{imNq}) and
(\ref{imNi}), considering more and more parameters $W_{B,I}$ till an
acceptable value for the $\tilde{\chi}^2$ test is obtained.
Fit results are reported in Table~\ref{tabHRGfit}: a
reasonable value of $\tilde{\chi}^2$ is obtained if a term
with quantum numbers $B = 0$ and $I = 2$ is allowed for, besides those
corresponding to usual meson ($B = 0, I = 1$) and baryons
($B = 1, I = 1/2$ or $3/2$). Such term does not correspond to any known
or even possible exotic hadron~\cite{jaffe}, but it is easily recognized
as the first term, $l = 2$, neglected in Eq.~(\ref{freeparticle}) in
the Boltzmann approximation in the case of pions: this is actually the first
correction taking into account quantum statistics effects for pions,
i.e. the fact that they are bosons, and corresponds to a two-pion exchange.
With a pion mass as that used in our simulations,
$m_\pi \sim 280$ MeV, such term would mimic a coefficient
$W_{0,2} \sim 0.0045$, in very good agreement with the value obtained
in our fit. Notice that terms with $l >2$ are negligible
in our discretization setup, but would not be so, already at this
temperature, in the case of physical pion masses.
As for the data at $\theta_I = 0$,
allowing for a term with $B = 2$ leads to a lower value of $\tilde{\chi}^2$,
but is not strictly necessary, at least within the precision of our
data.
Our conclusion is therefore that at $T = 0.9 \, T_c$ numerical data
do not contradict, within errors, the prediction coming from the
HRG model and regarding the number of terms actually
contributing to the free energy, apart from marginal evidence
for a $B = 2$ term which however is not strictly needed to fit data.
Other deviations can be ascribed to
the crudeness of the Boltzmann approximation for pions and are indeed
well accounted for by the first neglected term.
Of course if one looks at the numerical value of the coefficients,
checking the agreement with experimental data is less trivial:
taking into account all
non-strange (since we are considering $N_f = 2$) hadron resonances reported
in the Particle Data Book~\cite{PDG},
we would expect, for instance,
$W_{0,1} = 0.457$\footnote{More precisely we considered
all mesons of widely accepted existence, marked with a dot in
the meson summary table.},
which is roughly twice the value we have obtained ($W_{0,1} = 0.216(2)$).
A more careful comparison is made using the unphysical pion and $\rho$ masses
realized in our lattice simulations ($m_\pi \sim 280$ MeV and
$m_\rho \sim 918$ MeV~\cite{gagu2}): the coefficient becomes $W_{0,1} \sim 0.30(2)$
including all resonances, $W_{0,1} \sim 0.26(2)$ taking into account just
pions and $\rho$ particles, and $W_{0,1} \sim 0.225(15)$ including
just pions (the errors here take roughly into account the
uncertainties given for the lattice estimate of the masses in Ref.~\cite{gagu2}),
i.e. much closer to our numerical result or even perfectly compatible
in the last case. We notice that,
since already $\rho$ masses are beyond the UV scale of our lattice
($a^{-1} \sim 700$ MeV), it is perfectly reasonable that the
contribution from higher
resonances is not properly take into account.
That also clearly shows that a comparison of the numerical values
of the fitted coefficients with the HRG model prediction is
unavoidably affected by the systematics of the lattice discretization.
\begin{figure}[t!]
\includegraphics*[width=1.0\columnwidth]{fit_hrg_tot_0.9.eps}
\vspace{-0.cm}
\caption{Fit of normalized quark densities at $T = 0.9 \, T_c $, obtained
from all imaginary chemical potentials explored (cross points),
with the prediction from the HRG model (grid surface)}
\label{figHRGfitTOT0.9}
\vspace{-0.cm}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[t!]
\includegraphics*[width=1.0\columnwidth]{fit_hrg_dif_0.9.eps}
\vspace{-0.cm}
\caption{Fit of normalized isospin densities at $T = 0.9 \, T_c $, obtained
from all imaginary chemical potentials explored (cross points),
with the prediction from the HRG model (grid surface)}
\label{figHRGfitDIF0.9}
\vspace{-0.cm}
\end{figure}
\subsection{$T = 0.951\, T_c$}
Once again we first look at results obtained for $\hat{n}_q$ at $\theta_I = 0$,
which are shown in Fig.~\ref{figSINfitASSEb0.951}.
In this case two Fourier terms, corresponding to
$B= 1$ and $B = 2$, are necessary to fit our data. The second
term is small, giving a contribution of the order of $5\%$ the
total signal, but our data are precise enough to detect it;
indeed a $\tilde\chi^2$ of order 2 is obtained if a single sine
fit is tried (see Table~\ref{tabSINfit}).
In this case the presence of the $B = 2$ term cannot be simply ascribed to
a violation of the Boltzmann approximation: assuming a mass
of order 1 GeV for the lightest baryon, the first neglected
term should lead to a signal a factor
$10^2$ smaller than what we get; moreover it should be negative,
as appropriate for a two-fermion exchange term.
The presence in the thermal medium of baryon-baryon bound states,
like deuterons, is a viable hypothesis: however assuming a mass
difference $\Delta M \sim 1$ GeV between those states and
the lowest baryon states, one would expect a suppression
factor of the order
$\exp (- \Delta M/T) \sim 10^{-3}$ at this temperature, i.e. much
smaller than what we have obtained~\footnote{Notice however that also
for this states lattice artifacts due to the low UV cutoff,
$a^{-1} \sim 700$ MeV, could be important.}.
A simpler explanation is
that at this temperature corrections to the HRG model, induced by
non-trivial interactions close to the phase transition,
start to be important.
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\includegraphics*[width=1.0\columnwidth]{fit_2sin_tot_0.951_asse.eps}
\vspace{-0.cm}
\caption{Normalized quark density at $T = 0.951\, T_c$ and $\theta_I=0$.
The solid line corresponds to the two-sine fit reported in
Table~\ref{tabSINfit}.}
\label{figSINfitASSEb0.951}
\vspace{-0.cm}
\end{figure}
That is confirmed by analyzing the complete set of data for
$\hat{n}_q$ and $\hat{n}_I$ as a function of
$\theta_q$ and $\theta_I$: fit results are reported in
Table~\ref{tabHRGfit}.
Also in this case a term with $(B,I) = (0,2)$ is needed, but
its value comes out to be about twice than
expected from the first term neglected
in the Boltzmann approximation for pions.
In order to get a reasonable value for $\tilde \chi^2$ it is
necessary to introduce also terms corresponding to $B = 2$
(in agreement with results at $\theta_I = 0$) and terms with
$B = 1$ and isospin up to $I = 7/2$. We interpret
this again as a violation of the HRG model.
Regarding the numerical values obtained for the fitted coefficients,
we obtain for instance $W_{0,1} \sim 0.256(2)$, to be compared with
$W_{0,1} \sim 0.24$ if only pions are taken into account,
$W_{0,1} \sim 0.28$ including pions and $\rho$ mesons,
$W_{0,1} \sim 0.35$ including all meson resonances. The same considerations
made for $T = 0.9\ T_c$ and regarding this comparison also apply here.
\subsection{$T = T_c$}
Finally let us briefly discuss results obtained at $T = T_c$. Since at
this temperature we stay in the confined phase as we switch an imaginary
chemical potential, however small, it is still sensible to test
predictions from the HRG model. However it is sufficient to look at
results obtained for $\hat{n}_q$ at $\theta_I = 0$ (Fig.~\ref{figSINfitASSEb1})
to realize that violations to the model are important: in this case inclusion
of the first three harmonics ($B = 1,2,3$) is necessary to
obtain a reasonable value for $\tilde\chi^2$ (see Table~\ref{tabSINfit}).
This fact is confirmed by fits to the complete set of data for
$\hat{n}_q$ and $\hat{n}_I$ which are reported in
Table~\ref{tabHRGfit}: the $\tilde\chi^2$ value decreases as
more and more terms in the expansion in Eq.~(\ref{freelowT}) are added.
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\includegraphics*[width=1.0\columnwidth]{fit_3sin_tot_1_asse.eps}
\vspace{-0.cm}
\caption{Normalized quark density at $T = T_c$ and $\theta_I = 0$.
The solid line corresponds to the three-sine fit reported in
Table~\ref{tabSINfit}.}
\label{figSINfitASSEb1}
\vspace{-0.cm}
\end{figure}
In conclusion, within the current precision of our data, corrections
to the HRG model are clearly detectable starting from $T \sim 0.951\, T_c$.
Our best fits reported in Tab.~\ref{tabHRGfit}, which are marked
in the $\tilde\chi^2$ field by a *, provide us with
a valid parametrization of the free energy (apart from a constant
term).
We shall make use of these parametrizations
in the following Sections to derive generalized susceptibilities
at $\mu_I = \mu_q = 0$ and to study the analytic continuation of
the average phase of the fermionic determinant. Systematic
effects are expected at $T = T_c$, where the
$\tilde\chi^2$ of our best fit is somewhat bigger than 1.
In order to check for systematic effects related to the choice of the
interpolating function we have also performed polynomial fits
in a limited range of chemical potentials: our results are reported in
Table~\ref{tabPOLfit}. Fits chosen for analytic
continuation are again
marked by a * in the $\tilde\chi^2$ field.
\section{Results at $T > T_c$ \label{formaREGIONEbuona}}
The range of imaginary chemical potentials available for
analytic continuation is limited, above $T_c$, either by the presence
of unphysical phase transitions related to center group dynamics
(RW transitions) or by transitions corresponding to
the analytic continuation of the deconfinement surface
present at real chemical potentials. A full account of the high
temperature phase
structure in presence of two different imaginary chemical potentials
will be given elsewhere~\cite{delmansan}; in the present context we
are just interested in the location of such transitions for the
two temperatures explored, i.e. $T = 1.048\, T_c$ and $T = 1.25\, T_c$.
To that aim we have performed preliminary simulations on a small
$8^3 \times 4$ lattice to get a rough idea of the phase structure
at these temperatures and thus delimit a safe region for analytic
continuation, where to perform simulations on the larger
$16^3 \times 4$ lattice.
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\includegraphics*[width=1.0\columnwidth]{studio_transizione_1.048.eps}
\vspace{-0.cm}
\caption{Polyakov loop modulus and chiral condensate at $T=1.048\, T_c$ along
$\theta_I = 0$ and $\theta_q = 0$ axes. The chiral condensate has been
divided by a factor 4 to better fit in the figure.}
\label{figTRANS1.048}
\vspace{-0.cm}
\end{figure}
As for $T = 1.048\, T_c$, in Fig.~\ref{figTRANS1.048}
we show the behaviour of the modulus of the Polyakov loop and of the
chiral condensate
as a function of $\theta_q$ at $\theta_I = 0$ and as a function of
$\theta_I$ at $\theta_q = 0$. It is clear that along both axes a transition
is met where the system gets back into a phase with confinement
and chiral symmetry breaking: at those points the system
is crossing the analytic continuation of the pseudo-critical
surface, present also at real chemical potentials. On the same symmetry grounds
as for the deduction of general properties of the free energy
in Section~\ref{gensusc}, one expects that
for small chemical potentials such pseudo-critical surface
must be of the form
$$T_c (\theta_q,\theta_I) \simeq T_c (0,0) + A \theta_q^2 + B
\theta_I^2 \, .$$
As clear from Fig.~\ref{figTRANS1.048} the transition happens at approximately
equal points along both axes ($\theta_q \sim \theta_I \sim 0.2\ \pi$),
i.e. $A \sim B$. Also the observables (Polyakov loop and chiral
condensate) seem to be, within a good approximation, universal
functions of $| \vec \theta |$, where
$\vec \theta \equiv (\theta_q,\theta_I)$, at least not too far from the
origin $\theta_q = \theta_I = 0$.
Only imaginary chemical potentials strictly within the deconfined
region can be considered for analytic continuation:
Fig.~\ref{figTRANS1.048} suggests us to take $|\vec \theta| < |\vec
\theta|_{max}$, with $|\vec\theta|_{max} \sim 0.12\ \pi$.
\begin{figure}[!t]
\includegraphics*[width=1.0\columnwidth]{obs_1.25.eps}
\vspace{-0.cm}
\caption{Polyakov loop modulus and chiral condensate at $T=1.25\, T_c$
as a function of $|\vec\theta|$ and at different constant values of
$\theta_I$ or $\theta_q$. The chiral condensate has been
divided by a factor 2 to better fit in the figure.}
\label{figobs1.25}
\vspace{-0.cm}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[!t]
\includegraphics*[width=1.0\columnwidth]{phase_1.25.eps}
\vspace{-0.cm}
\caption{Average phase of the Polyakov loop given in units of $2 \pi
/3$ at $T = 1.25\, T_c$.}
\label{figphase1.25}
\vspace{-0.cm}
\end{figure}
The phase structure is less trivial at $T = 1.25\, T_c$.
In Fig.~\ref{figobs1.25} we plot the behaviour of the modulus of
the Polyakov loop and of the chiral condensate as a function of
$|\vec\theta|$ in three cases: fixed $\theta_q = 0$, fixed $\theta_I =
0$ and fixed $\theta_I = 0.25 \pi$. We observe again an approximate universal
dependence on $|\vec\theta|$ for relatively small values of this
variable. Along the $\theta_q = 0$ axis a transition is met,
at $\theta_I \sim 0.42\ \pi$, which clearly belongs to the
pseudocritical confinement/deconfinement surface. Along the $\theta_I
= 0$ axis instead the system always stays in the deconfined phase and
the Roberge-Weiss transition is met at $\theta_q = \pi/3$
where the system enters a different $Z_3$ sector, as also apparent
from the behaviour of the Polyakov loop phase shown in
Fig.~\ref{figphase1.25}. What happens along the $\theta_I = 0.25 \pi$
axis is less clear: presumably there one meets a pseudo-critical
point close to the junction between the Roberge-Weiss transition and
the pseudo-critical deconfinement surface. In this context we are only
interested in delimiting a region safe for analytic continuation:
from Fig.~\ref{figobs1.25}
it is clear that points with $|\vec \theta| < |\vec \theta|_{max} \sim
0.3\ \pi$ are surely contained in that region
and this has been our conservative choice.
In this temperature regime we have tried to fit our results
for $\hat{n}_q$ and $\hat{n}_I$
as a function of $\theta_q,\theta_I$ according to polynomials
derived from the general expansion for the free energy given in
Eq.~(\ref{freehighT1}) and truncated to a given order,
or according to expressions derived from a parametrization
of the free energy given in terms of ratios of polynomials
as in Eq.~(\ref{freehighT2}).
At $T=1.048\, T_c$ a fourth order polynomial provides a good
fit, while coefficients are largely indetermined if a sixth order
polynomial is used: not enough information can be extracted from
the limited region available for analytic continuation. A marginally
good fit is obtained with the ratio of two second order polynomials,
but a fourth order polynomial at the numerator seems preferable.
At $T=1.25\,T_c$ a sixth order polynomial or the ratio
between fourth and second order polynomial are instead the best
interpolating functions.
A complete collection of our fit results is given in Table~\ref{tabPOLfit}
and in Table~\ref{tabRATfit}. Best fits chosen for analytic
continuation are marked again by a *.
Data obtained for $T = 1.25\, T_c$ are shown
in Figs.~\ref{figPOLfitTOT1.25} and \ref{figPOLfitDIF1.25}.\\
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\includegraphics*[width=1.0\columnwidth]{fit_pol_tot_1.25.eps}
\vspace{-0.cm}
\caption{Fit of normalized quark densities at $T = 1.25\, T_c $, obtained
from all imaginary chemical potentials in the region
$|\vec{\theta}|\leq 0.30\pi$ (cross points),
with a sixth order polynomial function (grid surface)}
\label{figPOLfitTOT1.25}
\vspace{-0.cm}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\includegraphics*[width=1.0\columnwidth]{fit_pol_dif_1.25.eps}
\vspace{-0.cm}
\caption{Fit of normalized isospin densities at $T = 1.25\, T_c $, obtained
from all imaginary chemical potentials in the region
$|\vec{\theta}|\leq 0.30\pi$ (cross points),
with a sixth order polynomial function (grid surface)}
\label{figPOLfitDIF1.25}
\vspace{-0.cm}
\end{figure}
\section{Generalized susceptibilities}
Best fits to our data provide us with a parametrization for the
dependence of the free energy on the chemical potentials, from which
generalized susceptibilities can be extracted. Results can be
considered reliable as long as different interpolations provide
consistent results.
In Table~\ref{tabSUSCall} we report results obtained for $\chi_{2,0}$,
$\chi_{1,1}$, $\chi_{4,0}$ and $\chi_{6,0}$ (definined in
Eq.~(\ref{gensusc2}))
from free energy best fits
marked by a * in the tables.
Results obtained for $\chi_{2,0}$, $\chi_{1,1}$ and $\chi_{4,0}$
are reported also in
Figs.~\ref{figSUSC20}, \ref{figSUSC11} and \ref{figSUSC40}
respectively,
where they are compared with analogous results obtained using the
Taylor expansion method in Ref.~\cite{gagu2}.
The following general features can be observed. Different
extrapolations provide always consistent results for $\chi_{2,0}$
and $\chi_{1,1}$. A good agreement with Taylor expansion results
can be observed as well, apart from the $T = T_c$ case.
For $\chi_{4,0}$ we observe a discrepancy between different
interpolations only for $T = T_c$ and $T = 1.048\ T_c$;
the agreement with Taylor expansion is less good around $T_c$.
For $\chi_{6,0}$ different extrapolations disagree or are at most
marginally compatible in the whole range of temperatures:
with the current precision of our data, we cannot get reliable
results for sixth or higher order susceptibilities.
In general, the comparison among different interpolation methods
and with Taylor expansion results is good, apart from the
region around $T_c$. This in not unexpected:
right above
$T_c$ the region of imaginary chemical potentials usable for analytic
continuation is small and restricted by the continuation of the
pseudo-critical line, so that poor information is available.
Moreover, right at $T = T_c$ we could not get best fits
to the free energy dependence with a $\chi^2/{\rm d.o.f}$ less
than 1.5, therefore we do not have a completely satisfactory
parametrization of the free energy for this temperature and
systematic effects related to analytic continuation may be
more important.
We have reported in Table~\ref{tabPARsim} the total number
of Dirac matrix multiplications needed in our numerical simulations
at each temperature.
We infer, from a rough estimate, that
the effort for measurement purposes in our case (which is
more or less half of the total) is approximately two orders of magnitude
larger than what needed (again for measurement purposes) in
Ref.~\cite{gagu2}. The increased effort leads to corresponding smaller
errors (about one order of magnitude)
only for the lowest
susceptibilities ($\chi_{20}$ and $\chi_{11}$), while for higher
order susceptibilities the Taylor expansion method seems to be more
efficient. One has to consider, however, that our numerical
simulations were not designed to be optimized for the computation
of susceptibilities, and that in our case we obtain a complete
parametrization of the free energy dependence in terms of
$\mu_1$ and $\mu_2$, which is usable for different purposes.
In Table~\ref{tabSUSCallQI} we report also results obtained
for the susceptibilities with respect to quark and isospin chemical
potentials and defined in Eq.(\ref{gensusc2}). In Fig.~\ref{chiqI}
we show in particular the values of $\chi_{2,0}^{q,I}$ and
$\chi_{0,2}^{q,I}$ for all temperatures, as obtained from polynomial
fits: notice that $\chi_{0,2}^{q,I}$ is always larger than
$\chi_{2,0}^{q,I}$ below $T_c$, meaning that isospin charge fluctuations
can be excited more easily (mainly in the form of pions)
than baryon charge fluctuations below $T_c$, while in the deconfined region
the two susceptibilities become almost equal, as appropriate for
a system made up mostly of quark-like degrees of freedom.
\begin{table}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|c||c||c|c|c|c|}
\hline
$T/T_c$ & $Fit$ & $\chi_{2,0}$ & $\chi_{1,1}$ & $\chi_{4,0}$ & $\chi_{6,0}$\\
\hline
\hline
0.9
& $HRG$ & 0.2925(20) & -0.0535(17) & 1.287(24) & 9.5(3) \\
\hline
& $POL$ & 0.289(3) & -0.0588(24) & 1.17(7) & 5.6 $\pm$ 1.2 \\
\hline
& \cite{gagu2} & 0.311(19) & -0.057(15) & 1.495(75) & 11.2 $\pm$ 7.0 \\
\hline
\hline
0.951
& $HRG$ & 0.439(4) & -0.058(3) & 2.32(8) & 22(2) \\
\hline
& $POL$ & 0.434(4) & -0.062(3) & 2.16(8) & 14(2) \\
\hline
& \cite{gagu2} & 0.423(21) & -0.080(17) & 3.16(26) & -29 $\pm$ 11 \\
\hline
\hline
1
& $HRG$ & 0.759(7) & -0.039(5) & 5.09(13) & 61(3)\\
\hline
& $POL$ & 0.734(7) & -0.060(5) & 4.27(13) & 31(2)\\
\hline
& \cite{gagu2} & 0.946(20) & -0.0331(72) & 6.51(20) & -5.3 $\pm$ 10.7 \\
\hline
\hline
1.048
& $POL$ & 1.557(6) & -0.032(5) & 3.4(3) & - \\
\hline
& $RAT$ & 1.557(7) & -0.033(6) & 3.3(4) & 1 $\pm$ 24 \\
\hline
& \cite{gagu2} & 1.55(16) & -0.0385(98) & 4.33(23) & -69 $\pm$ 16 \\
\hline
\hline
1.25
& $POL$ & 1.8470(12) & -0.0130(9) & 1.960(20) & 0.64(23) \\
\hline
& $RAT$ & 1.8473(11) & -0.0121(7) & 1.968(16) & 2.78(25) \\
\hline
& \cite{gagu2} & 1.84(12) & -0.0138(85) & 2.181(31) & 5.5 $\pm$ 1.7 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Table of different susceptibilities obtained from various
fits. We present the values obtained from ``best fits'' of each kind of
free energy form, together with values obtained by the
authors of Ref.~\cite{gagu2} using the Taylor expansion method.
\label{tabSUSCall} }
\end{center}
\end{table}
\begin{table}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|c||c||c|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
$T/T_c$ & $Fit$ & $\chi_{2,0}^{q,I}$ & $\chi_{0,2}^{q,I}$ & $\chi_{4,0}^{q,I}$ & $\chi_{0,4}^{q,I} $ & $\chi_{2,2}^{q,I} $\\
\hline
\hline
0.9
& $HRG$ & 0.478(6) & 0.692(4) & 4.92(25) & 4.05(7) & 1.94(3) \\
\hline
& $POL$ & 0.461(6) & 0.696(9) & 4.15(17) & 4.1(4) & 1.76(14) \\
\hline
\hline
0.951
& $HRG$ & 0.762(9) & 0.993(10) & 8.2(3) & 8.3(5) & 3.45(11) \\
\hline
& $POL$ & 0.744(8) & 0.992(10) & 6.95(23) & 7.5(4) & 3.36(15)\\
\hline
\hline
1
& $HRG$ & 1.440(14) & 1.597(16) & 19.8(5) & 16.8(8) & 7.47(21) \\
\hline
& $POL$ & 1.348(13) & 1.589(18) & 13.9(3) & 15.6(8) & 6.46(23) \\
\hline
\hline
1.048
& $POL$ & 3.052(17) & 3.178(15) & 7.5 $\pm1.9$ & 12.8$\pm 1.9$ & 5.5(4) \\
\hline
& $RAT$ & 3.045(21) & 3.176(15) & 2(5) & 11(4) & 6.6(9) \\
\hline
\hline
1.25
& $POL$ & 3.668(3) & 3.720(3) & 4.59(13) & 4.75(12) & 3.67(3) \\
\hline
& $RAT$ & 3.671(3) & 3.7188(24) & 4.72(11) & 4.68(9) & 3.681(17) \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Table of different susceptibilities calculated with respect to the
quark and isospin chemical potentials from the same best fits as for
Tab.~\ref{tabSUSCall}
\label{tabSUSCallQI}}
\end{center}
\end{table}
\begin{figure}[ht]
\includegraphics*[width=1.0\columnwidth]{susc20.eps}
\vspace{-0.cm}
\caption{Values obtained for $\chi_{20}/T^2$ from various fits
and compared with results from Ref.~\cite{gagu2}.}
\label{figSUSC20}
\vspace{-0.cm}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[ht]
\includegraphics*[width=1.0\columnwidth]{susc11.eps}
\vspace{-0.cm}
\caption{Values obtained for $\chi_{11}/T^2$ from various fits
and compared with results from Ref.~\cite{gagu2}.}
\label{figSUSC11}
\vspace{-0.cm}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[ht]
\includegraphics*[width=1.0\columnwidth]{susc40.eps}
\vspace{-0.cm}
\caption{Values obtained for $\chi_{40}$ from various fits
and compared with results from Ref.~\cite{gagu2}.}
\label{figSUSC40}
\vspace{-0.cm}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[ht]
\includegraphics*[width=1.0\columnwidth]{suscqI.eps}
\vspace{-0.cm}
\caption{Values obtained for $\chi_{2,0}^{q,I}/T^2$ and
$\chi_{0,2}^{q,I}/T^2$ from polynomial fits.
}
\label{chiqI}
\vspace{-0.cm}
\end{figure}
\section{Phase of the fermionic determinant}
\label{phase}
As we have recalled in Section II, the
complex phase of the fermion determinant,
$\det M[U,\mu] = |\det M[U,\mu]| e^{i \phi}$,
hinders numerical simulations in presence of a
real baryon chemical potential $\mu_B$.
The problem is however milder in case the
fluctuations of the phase $\phi$ around zero,
over the gauge configurations which are typical
of the statistical ensemble, are small:
in that case efficient numerical methods, like reweighting, can be used.
A typical measure of the severeness of the
sign problem is therefore given by the average of the phase factor
(or some power of it), computed for convenience over the ensemble
at finite isospin density. In particular in our
case we can define:
\begin{eqnarray}
\langle e^{i \phi/2} \rangle_\mu &\equiv&
\left\langle {\det M^{1 \over 4} (\mu) \over \det M^{1\over 4} (-\mu)}
\right\rangle_{(\mu,-\mu)} = {Z(\mu,\mu) \over Z(\mu,-\mu)} \nonumber \\
&=& {Z(\mu_q = \mu,\mu_I = 0) \over Z(\mu_q = 0,\mu_I = \mu)}
\, .
\label{phase1}
\end{eqnarray}
As clear from Eq.~(\ref{phase1}), a way to determine
$\langle e^{i \phi/2} \rangle_\mu$ is to take
the average of the ratio of two determinants over
the ensemble at real isospin chemical potential: that is
feasible but computationally demanding, especially at large
volumes. Studying the analytic continuation of
$\langle e^{i \phi/2} \rangle_\mu$ at imaginary values
of $\mu$,
\begin{eqnarray}
\langle e^{i \phi/2} \rangle_{i \mu} &\equiv&
{Z(i \mu,i \mu) \over Z(i \mu,- i \mu)}\, ,
\label{phase2}
\end{eqnarray}
is an alternative:
it has been shown~\cite{splitt1,splitt2} that, in the full QCD
case, the average phase factor is analytic around $\mu^2 =0$,
and an efficient numerical method for the evaluation of the ratio
of partition functions appearing in Eq.~(\ref{phase2}) has been
proposed in Ref.~\cite{conradi}.
In the present context we
adopt a much faster and cheaper approach: having measured and fitted
first derivatives with respect to both chemical potentials, we have a
complete knowledge, apart from constant terms, of the dependence of the
free energy on $\mu_1$ and $\mu_2$,
so that computing the ratio in Eq.~(\ref{phase2}) is straightforward.
Let us consider for instance the low temperature case, where we have
used the HRG parametrization in Eq.~(\ref{imF}) that we rewrite:
\begin{eqnarray}
F = - V T^4 &&\sum_{B,I} W_{B,I}(T)
\bar\delta(B)
\cos ( 3 B \theta_q) \nonumber \\ && \left( \sum_{I_3 \geq 0}
\bar\delta(I_3)\cos ( 2 I_3 \theta_I ) \right)
\label{imF2}
\end{eqnarray}
then
\begin{eqnarray}
\frac{Z(\theta_q = \theta,\theta_I = 0)}{Z(\theta_q = 0,\theta_I =
\theta)} = e^{-\frac{1}{T} \left(
F(\theta_q = \theta,\theta_I = 0) - F(\theta_q = 0,\theta_I = \theta)
\right)}
\end{eqnarray}
Non-zero coefficients $W_{B,I}$, apart from the constant
$W_{0,0}$ which does not enter in the computation of the
average phase factor, have been obtained by fitting our numerical
data. The expression can then be easily continued to
real chemical potentials obtaining:
\begin{eqnarray}
\langle e^{i \phi/2} \rangle_{\mu} &=&
\exp \left( \frac{N_s^3}{N_t^3}
\sum_{B,I} W_{B,I}(T)
\bar\delta(B)
\left( \cos ( 3 B \theta_q) - \right.\right.
\nonumber \\
&& \left. \sum_{I_3 \geq 0}
\bar\delta(I_3)\cos ( 2 I_3 \theta_I ) )
\right) \, .
\label{HRGphase}
\end{eqnarray}
The same procedure applies to other functional forms used in our fits: the
comparison of different extrapolations to real chemical potentials
based on different fitting functions, when available, gives a measure of the
systematic effects involved in analytic continuation. Notice that in
the case of the HRG parametrization we can distinguish the
different contributions to the average phase factor, hence to the sign
problem, coming from different particle species: this feature will be useful
in our analysis.
In Figs.~\ref{figfase0.9} and \ref{figfase0.95} we report,
as a function of $2 \mu/ m_\pi$, results
obtained respectively at $T = 0.9\ T_c$ and $T = 0.951\ T_c$
using HRG inspired and polynomial interpolations. Where visible, the
two lines reported for each extrapolation delimit the 90\% confidence
level region and give an estimate of our
uncertainties: a good agreement between HRG inspired and polynomial
extrapolations can be appreciated.
It is interesting to make a direct comparison of our results with
predictions coming from chiral perturbation theory ($\chi$PT). The average phase
factor has been computed to one loop order of $\chi$PT in
Ref.~\cite{splitt3}.
According to the results reported in Section VI of
Ref.~\cite{splitt3}, our spatial lattice size is big enough ($L_s m_\pi \sim
6.6$) to justify taking the thermodynamical limit at fixed T of the
one loop $\chi$PT result, which coincides with the prediction of a HRG
model including only pions:
\begin{eqnarray}
\langle e^{i \phi/2} \rangle_{\mu} = e^{-\Delta G_0}
\label{CPTHRG1}
\end{eqnarray}
with
\begin{eqnarray}
\Delta G_0 = V T^3
\left( \frac{m_{\pi}}{T\pi} \right)^2\sum_{n=1}^{+\infty}\frac{K_2
\left( \frac{n m_{\pi}}{T} \right)}{n^2}
\left( \cosh(2 \mu n) -1 \right)
\label{CPTHRG2}
\end{eqnarray}
This prediction (assuming in our case $m_\pi \simeq 280$ MeV and
$T_c \simeq 170$ MeV) is reported in Figs.~\ref{figfase0.9} and
\ref{figfase0.95} as a solid line. It is apparent that the
agreement of $\chi$PT with the analytic continuation of our
data is not satisfactory. In particular analytic continuation provides
a higher value for $\langle e^{i \phi/2} \rangle_{\mu}$, meaning
a milder sign problem. To better understand
the origin of this discrepancy, we have tried to compute the average
phase factor from our HRG model best fit, but neglecting all
contributions to the free energy with $B \neq 0$, which cannot
be taken into account by $\chi$PT, i.e. taking only contributions from
$W_{0,1}$ and $W_{0,2}$ in Eq.~(\ref{HRGphase}).
Results are shown in Figs.~\ref{figfase0.9} and
\ref{figfase0.95}: in this case the agreement with $\chi$PT is almost perfect
for $T = 0.9\ T_c$, and acceptable for $T = 0.951\ T_c$.
This is expected since, as we have discussed in Section~\ref{T0.9},
the coefficients $W_{0,1}$ and $W_{0,2}$ obtained by our fits are
compatible within errors, at $T = 0.9\ T_c$,
with those predicted if only pions are taken into account: of course
that may be an accident and the contribution of higher meson
resonances should be better understood.
Anyway, an outcome of our analysis, which is in agreement with HRG
model expectations, is that contributions to the average phase factor coming
from physical states with $B \neq 0$ are significant and tend in
general to make the sign problem less severe.
In Fig.~\ref{figfasetot} we report the analytic continuation of the
average phase factor obtained at all temperatures from a polynomial
fit: of course results reported in the figure must be intended to be valid
for chemical potentials bounded, below $T_c$,
by the deconfinement critical line present at real chemical potentials.
As expected, at fixed chemical potential the sign problem is much milder
for $T > T_c$. This can be put again in connection with the fact
that states with $B \neq 0$, which are more easily created above
$T_c$, tend to mitigate the sign problem.
\begin{figure}[ht]
\includegraphics*[width=1.0\columnwidth]{fase0.9.eps}
\vspace{-0.cm}
\caption{The average phase factor continued from different
interpolations and compared to 1-loop $\chi$PT results for $T = 0.9\
T_c$. In particular we show the 90\% confidence level band
extrapolated from our best fits to the free energy dependence.}
\label{figfase0.9}
\vspace{-0.cm}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics*[width=1.0\columnwidth]{fase0.95.eps}
\vspace{-0.cm}
\caption{Same as in Fig.~\ref{figfase0.9} for $T = 0.951\ T_c$.}
\label{figfase0.95}
\vspace{-0.cm}
\end{figure}
\section{Conclusions}
\label{conclusions}
In this paper we have studied $N_f = 2$ QCD thermodynamics, exploiting
analytic continuation from two imaginary chemical
potentials coupled to baryon and isospin charges. Simulations
have been performed at five temperatures around the critical
value $T_c \simeq 170$ MeV, using
a $16^3 \times 4$ lattice with a standard staggered action
and a fixed pion mass $m_\pi \simeq 280$ MeV.
\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics*[width=1.0\columnwidth]{fasetot.eps}
\vspace{-0.cm}
\caption{The average phase factor continued from polynomial
interpolations at all explored temperatures. For each temperature
we show the 90\% confidence level band corresponding to our best fits.}
\label{figfasetot}
\vspace{-0.cm}
\end{figure}
We have computed free energy first derivatives with respect to
the chemical potentials (quark number densities) and interpolated them
by suitable functions, in order to perform analytic continuation.
In particular we have tested HRG predictions below $T_c$,
reconstructed generalized susceptibilities at zero chemical potentials
and determined the analytic continuation of the average phase factor.
We have checked that HRG model predictions are in very good agreement
with our numerical results for $T = 0.9\ T_c$. Small but clearly detectable
deviations start to be visible at $T = 0.95\ T_c$, in agreement with
similar results reported in Ref.~\cite{taylor2}.
They appear, in a HRG inspired parametrization of the free energy,
as contributions from unphysical states with
higher values of baryon or isospin charges, which are of the order of
a few percent at $T = 0.95\ T_c$ and above 10 \% at $T \simeq T_c$.
Regarding the computation of generalized susceptibilities, analytic
continuation gives consistent results which are in
agreement with those obtained by the Taylor expansion method, apart
from temperatures in correspondence or right above $T_c$,
where the range of imaginary chemical potentials available for
analytic continuation is small and larger systematic effects are expected.
Poor information has been obtained for susceptibilities beyond sixth order.
We have obtained consistent determinations, by analytic continuation
with different interpolating functions, of the average phase factor.
In particular below $T_c$,
in the case of HRG inspired interpolations, we have been able to distinguish
the contribution to the average phase factor coming from the different
hadron states: results from analytic continuation are consistent
with $\chi$PT results, below $T_c$, if one takes into account only meson
contributions. Baryons
give contributions to the average phase factor which in general
tend to make the sign problem less severe.
The sign problem is much milder
for $T > T_c$, and this can be put again in connection with the fact
that states with $B \neq 0$, which are more easily created above
$T_c$, tend to mitigate the sign problem.
Our results should be refined and could be improved in several
respects. Simulation closer to the continuum limit and possibly
closer to the physical quark mass spectrum would clarify the comparison
with HRG predicitions, as well as that with $\chi$PT for the average phase
factor. An improvement in the determination of generalized susceptibilities
could be obtained by combining analytic continuation with other
techniques: for instance fixing lowest order terms in a polynomial
expansion by the Taylor expansion method or by reweighting could
lead to enhanced predictivity for analytic continuation. We shall
continue our investigation along those lines in the future.
\section*{Acknowledgments}
We thank F.~Becattini, F.~Karsch and K.~Splittorf
for very useful discussions, as well as
R.~Gavai and S.~Gupta for very interesting discussions and for providing
us with their numerical results for generalized non-linear susceptibilities.
Numerical simulations have been performed on two PC farms
in Genoa and in Bari provided by INFN.
\begin{table*}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c||c|}
\hline
$c_1$ & $c_2$ & $c_3$ & $\chi^2/d.o.f$\\
\hline
\hline
\multicolumn{4}{|c|}{$T=0.9~T_c$}\\
\hline
0.1536(14) & - & - &
28/21 \\
\hline
0.1514(15) & 0.0046(14) & - &
17/20 \\
\hline
\hline
\multicolumn{4}{|c|}{$T=0.951~T_c$}\\
\hline
0.2413(25) & - & - &
42/21 \\
\hline
0.2383(26) & 0.0102(22) & - &
21/20 \\
\hline
\hline
\multicolumn{4}{|c|}{$T=T_c$}\\
\hline
0.3865(4) & - & - &
248/21 \\
\hline
0.395(4) & 0.048(3) & - &
50/20 \\
\hline
0.389(4) & 0.048(3) & 0.018(4) &
23/19 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Coefficients of sinusoidal fits for $\hat{n}_q$ along
$\theta_i=0$ axis at various temperatures (see Eq.~(\ref{sinfit})).
Blank columns stand for terms not included in the fits. \label{tabSINfit}}
\end{center}
\end{table*}
\begin{table*}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|c||c|c|c|}
\hline
$T/T_c$ & $c_1$ & $c_2$ & $c_3$ \\
\hline
\hline
0.9 &
0.1521(11) & 0.0052(11) & - \\
\hline
0.951 &
0.2387(19) & 0.0101(17) & - \\
\hline
1 &
0.392(3) & 0.0503(27) & 0.018(3) \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Weight of differents harmonics at various temperatures for
$\hat{n}_q$ at $\theta_i=0$ (see Eq.~(\ref{sinfit})) obtained by Fourier
transform. Blank columns correspond to terms not included in the
previous fits.
\label{tabSINfourier}}
\end{center}
\end{table*}
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\begin{centering}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c||c|c|c|c||c|c||c|}
\hline
$W_{0,1}$ & $W_{0,2}$ & $W_{1,\frac{1}{2}}$ & $W_{1,\frac{3}{2}}$ & $W_{1,\frac{5}{2}}$ & $W_{1,\frac{7}{2}}$ & $W_{2,1}$ & $W_{2,2}$ & ${\chi}^{2}/{\rm d.o.f.}$\\
\hline
\hline
\multicolumn{9}{|c|}{$T=0.9~T_c$}\\
\hline
0.2284(11) & - & 0.0110(6) & 0.0202(3) & - & - & - & - &
284/187 \\
\hline
0.2157(18) & 0.0050(6) & 0.0115(6) & 0.0198(3) & - & - & - & - &
206/186 \\
\hline
0.2156(18) & 0.0051(6) & 0.0111(6) & 0.0197(3) & - & - & 0.00043(13) & - &
196/185 *\\
\hline
\hline
\multicolumn{9}{|c|}{$T=0.951~T_c$}\\
\hline
0.2862(13) & - & 0.0199(7) & 0.0305(4) & - & - & - & - &
640/187 \\
\hline
0.258(2) & 0.0114(6) & 0.0212(7) & 0.0292(4) & - & - & - & - &
281/186 \\
\hline
0.257(2) & 0.0117(6) & 0.0203(8) & 0.0290(4) & - & - & 0.00084(18) & - &
259/185 \\
\hline
0.256(2) & 0.0114(6) & 0.0210(8) & 0.0264(6) & 0.0017(3) & - & 0.00088(18) & - &
230/184 \\
\hline
0.257(2) & 0.0106(7) & 0.0212(8) & 0.0265(6) & 0.0009(4) & 0.0006(2) & 0.00090(18) & - &
222/183 *\\
\hline
\hline
\multicolumn{9}{|c|}{$T=T_c$}\\
\hline
0.3775(15) & - & 0.0412(7) & 0.0456(4) & - & - & - & - &
1798/187 \\
\hline
0.3322(21) & 0.0219(7) & 0.0391(7) & 0.0465(4) & - & - & - & - &
808/186 \\
\hline
0.3269(21) & 0.0225(7) & 0.0363(7) & 0.0464(4) & - & - & 0.00372(24) & - &
562/185 \\
\hline
0.3184(22) & 0.0246(7) & 0.0349(7) & 0.0396(6) & 0.0053(3) & - & 0.00436(24) & - &
330/184 \\
\hline
0.3208(22) & 0.0218(8) & 0.0342(7) & 0.0391(6) & 0.0038(4) & 0.0019(3) & 0.00445(24) & - &
288/183 \\
\hline
0.3214(22) & 0.0220(8) & 0.0344(8) & 0.0393(6) & 0.0042(4) & 0.0015(3) & 0.0031(6) & 0.010(4) &
281/182 *\\\hline
\end{tabular}
\par\end{centering}
\caption{Coefficients of HRG model fits at various temperatures.
\label{tabHRGfit}}
\end{table*}
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\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|c||c|c||c|c|c||c|c|c|c||c|}
\hline
$|\vec{\theta}|_{max}/\pi$ & $c_{20}$ & $c_{11}$ & $c_{40}$ &
$c_{22}$ & $c_{04}$ & $c_{60}$ & $c_{42}$ & $c_{24}$ & $c_{06}$ &
$\chi^{2}/d.o.f$\\
\hline
\hline
\multicolumn{11}{|c|}{$T=0.9~T_c$}\\
\hline
0.34 &
0.479(3) & 0.1892(22) & - & - & - & - & - & - & - &
6014/108 \\
\hline
0.34 &
0.659(5) & 0.412(4) & -2.66(7) & -1.22(4) & -2.40(4) & - & - & - & - &
237/105 \\
\hline
0.34 &
0.696(9) & 0.461(6) & -4.1(4) & -1.76(14) & -4.15(17) & 23(6) & 8(3) & 12(3) & 30(3) &
113/101 *\\
\hline
\hline
\multicolumn{11}{|c|}{$T=0.951~T_c$}\\
\hline
0.34 &
0.636(3) & 0.301(3) & - & - & - & - & - & - & - &
8483/108 \\
\hline
0.34 &
0.897(5) & 0.651(5) & -3.69(6) & -2.00(5) & -3.76(5) & - & - & - & - &
388/105 \\
\hline
0.34 &
0.992(10) & 0.744(8) & -7.5(4) & -3.36(15) & -6.95(23) & 62(7) & 28(4) & 26(4) & 54(4) &
125/101 *\\
\hline
\hline
\multicolumn{11}{|c|}{$T=T_c$}\\
\hline
0.34 &
0.838(5) & 0.394(4) & - & - & - & - & - & - & - &
12955/108 \\
\hline
0.34 &
1.340(9) & 1.099(9) & -5.75(8) & -3.33(8) & -6.67(7) & - & - & - & - &
972/105 \\
\hline
0.34 &
1.589(18) & 1.348(13) & -15.6(8) & -6.46(23) & -13.9(3) & 157(13) & 65(6) & 47(5) & 121(5) &
239/101 *\\
\hline
\hline
\multicolumn{11}{|c|}{$T=1.048~T_c$}\\
\hline
0.12 &
3.029(8) & -2.941(9) & - & - & - & - & - & - & - &
228/36 \\
\hline
0.12 &
3.178(15) & 3.052(16) & -12.8 $\pm$ 1.9 & -5.5(4) & -7.5 $\pm$ 1.9 & - & - & - & - &
39/33 *\\
\hline
0.12 &
3.178(24) & 3.05(3) & -10(6) & -7.6 $\pm$ 1.5 & -4(6) & 639(1005) & 125(148) & 224(135) & -991(1037) &
34/29 \\
\hline
\hline
\multicolumn{11}{|c|}{$T=1.25~T_c$}\\
\hline
0.3 &
3.2810(11) & 3.2438(12) & - & - & - & - & -& -& - &
170616/111 \\
\hline
0.3 &
3.7156(18) & 3.6677(2) & -4.67(4) & -3.555(9) & -4.74(4) & - & -& -& - &
142/111 \\
\hline
0.3 &
3.720(3) & 3.668(3) & -4.75(12) & -3.67(3) & -4.59(13) & 0(3) & 1.7(5) & 1.5(5) & 6(3) &
123/107 *\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\caption{Coefficients of polynomial fits at various temperatures.
Each line contains results of fit performed on all points in the
circumference of radius $|\vec{\theta}|_{max}$
\label{tabPOLfit} }
\end{table*}
\begin{table*}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|c||c|c|c|c|c||c|c|c|c|c||c|}
\hline
$|\vec{\theta}|_{max}/\pi$ & $n_{20}$ & $n_{02}$ & $n_{40}$ & $n_{22}$ & $n_{04}$ & $d_{20}$ & $d_{02}$ & $d_{40}$ & $d_{22}$ & $d_{04}$ & $\chi^2/d.o.f$\\
\hline
\hline
\multicolumn{12}{|c|}{$T=1.048~T_c$}\\
\hline
0.12 &
3.176(15) & 3.062(16) & - & - & - & 0.81(8) & 0.60(8) & - & - & - &
55/34 \\
\hline
&
3.185(23) & 3.07(3) & - & - & - & 0.9(3) & 0.7(3) & -14(17) & 3(4) & -18(18) &
45/31 \\
\hline
&
3.178(15) & 3.048(22) & 3(27) & -6(6) & -19(24) & -0.8$\pm$1.2 & -0.7$\pm$1.6 & - & - & - &
39/31 *\\
\hline
&
3.22(3) & 3.07(3) & -60(10) & -24(4) & -41(10) & -1.7(4) & -1.7(4) & -127(85) & -83(35) & -34(53) &
32/28 \\
\hline
\hline
\multicolumn{12}{|c|}{$T=1.25~T_c$}\\
\hline
0.3 &
3.7123(17) & 3.6928(19) & - & - & - & 0.3236(12) & 0.3217(11) & - & - & - &
25705/114 \\
\hline
&
3.723(3) & 3.694(3) & - & - & - & 0.329(4) & 0.353(4) & -1.58(4) & 0.589(11) & -1.66(4) &
3941/111 \\
\hline
&
3.7188(24) & 3.671(3) & -0.5(5) & -2.29(15) & -0.5(6) & 0.185(20) & 0.192(22) & - & - & - &
124/111 *\\
\hline
&
3.721(3) & 3.666(3) & -7.2(3) & -4.03(7) & -4.57(11) & -0.101(11) & -0.004(6) & -0.45(21) & -0.139(20) & 0.20(7) &
138/108 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\caption{Coefficients of rational fits at various temperatures. \label{tabRATfit} }
\end{table*}
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This was originally written on my FB page where I post pictures and links almost daily and which you immediately should follow. I remembered about the stool samples when I was writing this post about the Soviet medicine of my day.
*Warning: please don't eat while reading this.
Soviet kids had to be healthy whether they wanted it or not. And healthy meant parasite-free. So once in a while, my school (and I imagine all the other schools in the area) put out a call for stool samples. By a certain deadline every child had to submit a matchbox full of you-know-what, tightly wrapped and marked with the name of a producer.
At that time (and maybe still) the Soviet toilets (in places with indoor plumbing but not in public restrooms) were different from the American model we are all used to. Instead of a small pool of water ready to accept your deposits, it was more like a vase with hardly any water at all. When done, a person would pull a chain and a waterfall coming down from the high-mounted tank (if the water was on that day) would flush the stuff down through the hole located in the front part of the toilet.
That technical aside was necessary to explain that at least our parents didn't have to fish for floating crap, it was all right there, nice and piled. Clearly no 8- or 9- or even 12-year-old wants to have anything to do with putting their own crap in a small box, so that somber duty had to be fulfilled by our parents. Many years later, as a parent myself, I've done many disgusting things and touched some substances that would make a grown man gag (and they did). But even after thousands of diapers changed I am still not sure I could go ahead and do what my mom had to do. This is something that would make you think twice about having a child.
I always imagined that a lab in lower circles of socialized healthcare hell, populated by medical school dropouts, dimly lit and smelling worse than a meatpacking plant on a summer day, did nothing else but unwrapped the packages and examined the contents for parasite eggs and the signs of dinners past.But in reality I think they just threw these boxes away and faked the results. After all, sooner or later the parasites show their ugly heads, if you know what I mean.
Epilogue: When we came to the United States we had to pass some medical tests (in addition to the overpriced testing we were required to do in Moscow before we left). Then we received a mail-in stool sample kit, which consisted of some Popsicle sticks and cardboard envelopes. I was tempted to send my stuff in a box, but reconsidered and just threw the kits away.
They would have to pry a stool sample out of my……….
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Lespezi peak is also called corporate Everest because it is an easy accessible peak from Fagaras mountains that happens to have a good height of 2517m. We took the ridge track that takes us from Transfagarasan road (Piscu Negru) and passes near a shepherd hut where you can sleep in the winter (1h from the road) and up on the highest ground till the very peak (4h from the road).
All the way, if you have good weather, you will have great view over Fagaras mountain range.
You can find the track right here, don't mind the ending point, I forgot to stop the activity when we reach our car, but I stopped it when we reached Conacul Ursului where we had a great meal!
We leave you the video and the pics bellow. Until next time, ride safe!
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Colonel George Clingan (March 28, 1868 – January 24, 1944) was a physician, soldier and politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1914 to 1922, as a member of the Liberal Party.
Clingan was born in Dufferin County, Ontario, the son of Flemming Clingan and Mary Ann Cumberland, and was educated in Orangeville and at the Toronto Medical College. He received certification as a physician and surgeon. Clingan practised medicine in the village of Horning's Mills in Ontario, later moving to Manitoba. He also became a Major in the 12th Manitoba Dragoons. Clingan began his military career with the Dragoons in 1898, and saw military service overseas in France with a hospital unit during World War I. In 1938, he was named president of the Manitoba Medical Association. In religion, he was a Methodist. Clingan married Ida Thompson.
From 1908 to 1909, Clingan served as mayor of Virden, Manitoba. He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the provincial election of 1914, defeating Conservative incumbent Harvey C. Simpson by eighty-five votes in the rural, southwestern riding of Virden. The Conservatives won this election, and Clingan served with his party in opposition.
In 1915, the Conservative government of Rodmond Roblin was forced to resign amid a corruption scandal. The Liberals formed government, and won a landslide majority in the provincial election of 1915. Clingan was re-elected in Virden with an increased majority, and served as a backbench supporter of Tobias Norris's government.
The Liberals were reduced to a minority government in the 1920 election, as Clingan defeated his Farmer opponent R.E. Knight by 291 votes. Two years later, in the 1922 election, he lost his seat to United Farmers of Manitoba candidate Robert Mooney by 677 votes. Mooney went on to hold the seat until his death in 1953.
He died in Virden in 1944 from injuries received in an automobile accident.
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Boys basketball goes 2-1 on the week
Mark Robison with a shot in the fourth quarter.
| December 22, 2021 12:35 PM
The Columbia Falls boys basketball team went 2-1 on the week. On Tuesday the Wildcats squeaked past Eureka on the road, 68-65, but Thursday, they lost to conference foe Browning in another squeaker, 71-70.
Jace Hill led the squad against the Lions with 18 points, 10 rebounds and 12 assists. Three other players were also in double figures as Alihn Anderson had 12, Mark Robison had 13 and Cody Schweikert had 14. The Cats were up by as much as 14 in the second half and were able to hold off a Eureka rally for the win.
Against Browning, the game at times was more like a race, with both teams sprinting in transition. The Cats battled back from a seven-point deficit to take the lead, 70-68 with less than 30 seconds left.
But Browning dropped a trey to go up 71-70 with about seven seconds left.
The Cats got it across the timeline and took a timeout with two seconds remaining.
The inbounds pass went to Schweikert in the lane, but instead of taking the shot he passed the ball to Anderson, but by then it was too late and time expired.
Coach Chris Finberg said the team played well at times, though they had too many turnovers and suffered from some poor shooting both at the line and beyond he arc in the first half.
On the other hand, they shined in the fourth, with 27 points.
Anderson led the squad with 19, but Mark Robison had some clutch shots down the stretch to close the gap against the Indians with 17 points.
Hill had 13 points and 13 boards and eight assists.
On Monday the Cats dropped Bigfork in overtime on the road, 63-57. Hill scored 19 and Anderson added 13 in the win.
The Cats were up 33-29 at the break, but Bigfork took a five-point lead in the third. It was the third game in a row that came down to the wire for the young Wildcats' team. They travel to Polson Thursday before the holiday break.
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5 Must-See Media Panels You Can't Miss at Cannes
From Trump to diversity, here are the must-see events
By Sara Jerde
Panels at Cannes will cover everything from the Trump administration to weed legalization to Gen-Zers.
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For those attending the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, there are a plethora of topics that apply to media companies and executives. From how society views marijuana to making newsrooms more diverse, here are some discussions anyone in the industry could find useful.
Check out the full festival lineup here.
Fire and Fury: The New Normal?
Presented by: Goodby, Silverstein & Partners
When: Monday June 18, 11:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
Where: Lumière Theatre, Palais I
Why: Jeff Goodby, co-founder and co-chairman at Goodby Silverstein & Partners, will sit down with Fire & Fury author Michael Wolff to discuss all that has changed in the world since the book came out to widespread media attention in January. He's apparently coming out with a sequel, so he won't likely share all his secrets, but he'll talk journalism as it relates to social media, so you'll probably get a good tweet or two out of it.
Prescribed High
Presented by: Virtue, the agency born from Vice
When: Monday June 18, 3:00 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Where: Health Inspiration Stage, Palais II
Why: As more states move to legalize weed, and more media companies tackle covering it, how will society change the way it views the product? Hear from Krishna Andavolu, host and executive producer of Viceland's Weediquette, as well as Madeline Donegan, head of media, Weedmaps about the evolution of the discussion.
Diversity—a Values Issue and Business Imperative—Requires Bold Action
Presented by: HP and Omnicom Group
When: Tuesday June 19, 11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Why: Diversity in newsrooms has always been an issue, and as a report in the Columbia Journalism Review recently highlighted, it doesn't look like it's getting any better. This discussion will include British Vogue editor in chief Edward Enninful, HP CMO Antonio Lucio, actress Thandie Newton and Omnicom Group svp and chief diversity officer Tiffany R. Warren.
Future Five: Stars Your Kids Already Know but You Don't
Presented by: Awesomeness
When: Wednesday June 20, 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Where: Trends Stage, Palais II
Why: As influencers capture the attention of Gen Z-ers, what part do YouTube and social media stars play in the future of news? Watch the topic play out during this discussion—and leave knowing you can name-drop to your kids over dinner to feel like a ~cool~ parent.
Dirty John: How to Hit the Zeitgeist
Presented by: Los Angeles Times and Wondery
When: Thursday June 21, 11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Where: The Forum, Palais I
Why: The investigative piece, Dirty John, made a splash when it was published. Documenting the crumbling relationship between a manipulative man who seemingly sweeps a woman off her feet until his lies are exposed, the series was made into a podcast, and a TV show based on the reporting will premiere on Bravo. This panel will discuss how the Los Angeles Times got the scoop and developed the story.
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Sara Jerde is the digital media reporter at Adweek, covering publishers and platforms, including the OTT and streaming space.
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The Veil (2016) Slow Horror (Review)
Starring Jessica Alba, Lily Rabe and Thomas Jane The Veil is a slow plodding horror film based very transparently, on the 1978 Jonestown massacre in Guyana. In this tale, written by Robert Ben Garant and directed by Phil Joanou the Jones character is called Jim Jacobs and there is only one survivor; Sarah Hope.
Unlike the real event Jacobs and several of the most devout have a darker "God" and no-one drinks "Flavor-aid."
The charismatic but aggressive Jacobs (Jane) is seen in flashback, through the mind of Hope (Rabe) and via archive camera footage, and a video tape found at the leader's special residence on the compound.
The Veil moves at a snail's pace. The documentary film crew, led by Maggie Price (Alba), are lethargic and seemingly uninterested in the mundane task of searching for clues as to what happened on the day.
Hope was a child when the 900 followers of Jacobs' cult died and she is the group's guide. Jacobs' "church" feels more of a Spiritualist movement than an actual religion where its followers worship coming back from the dead rather than going to heaven.
Jane's cult leader is at turns charming, funny, angry and violent. At one point the man beats a follower to death with a hammer. The dead man then arises as Jacobs bellows the command to return and the followers are convinced of his power.
There are a few scenes that actually scare the viewer, one being a rotting corpse acting very un-corpse like. The body count is not too high and the there is a lack of overt gore, although there is one scene with Rabe's character that is impressively gross.
The whole film feels very "Blair Witch" but without the squabbling and found footage aspect. Granted there is the use of "found footage" but it is used as research, not too unlike the 2012 horror film Sinister.
The Veil is dark, almost sepia colored with an even darker texture to each scene from in the found footage sequences. The present day scenes feature more in terms of color but the the lighting is still shadowy and gloomy.
At 93 minutes, the film feels longer. Despite this dragging on affect, it is watchable, if for no other reason than to get to the punchline, or payoff. The film follows a "And Then There Were None" (the film version of Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians") motif with the documentary film makers being killed off one by one.
Reincarnation and karma seem to play a factor in the cult's belief system although the end of the film reveals a more sinister take on their religion. Jane is mesmerizing and terrifying as the cult leader but there is not nearly enough of the actor to make the film truly scary.
Rabe does her usual job of being convincing no matter what role she plays.
The Veil is Alba's third horror film. Her last was the western remake of the superlative Pang Bros film The Eye. The "Sin City" actress underplays her role and while this grounds the film somewhat it also makes the character less empathetic at the end.
Overall the film uses mechanizations from other movies. It does have, for example, quite a lot in common with The Skeleton Key in terms of swapping out bodies (the reason that Jacobs wants the children saved is not down to kindness but because he needs their "shells").
The Veil is a 3.5 star film. It could have been more but the plodding pace killed off much of the suspense. Thomas Jane chews up the scenery in great chunks while Alba and Rabe underplay their roles. Despite not being the top name on the credit's list, Jane makes this film his.
Streaming on Netflix at the moment, The Veil is certainly worth a look but not two.
Author Mike's Film TalkPosted on April 3, 2016 Categories EntertainmentTags Film Review, Horror, Jessica Alba, Lily Rabe, Thomas Jane
One thought on "The Veil (2016) Slow Horror (Review)"
Entertaining, good twist, well shot.Seems well crafted and I did jump a couple of time. Of course it s more of a psychological scare than a gore saw like.
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Josh Ens goofs around while grilling burgers with fellow fire fighters Merlin Funk and Corey Unruh. The Hillsboro Fire Department hosted a hamburger meal at the local fire station on Saturday, Nov. 10 to raise funds for general needs at the station.
"A lot of people came through so it was a success," said Ens.
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Q: Print trace of recursive calls I want to print all the recursive calls during the execution of a function for a particular invocation e.g. I've a function like this:
int foo(int n){
if (n == 0)
return 0;
else
return 1 + foo(n-1);
}
Then, for the invocation foo(3) I want to print:
foo(3) = 1 + foo(2)
= 1 + 1 + foo(1)
= 1 + 1 + 1 + foo(0)
= 1 + 1 + 1 + 0
= 3
But I can't find out a way. What I've tried so far is modifying the recursive function like this:
int foo(int n){
printf("foo(");
int aux;
if (n == 0)
aux = 0;
else
aux = 1 + foo(n-1);
printf(")");
return aux;
}
But clearly it doesn't work the I expect it to do so that's why I'm here asking for help.
Just to clarify, this questions is not the same that the one asked in (Tracing Recursion in C) the main difference is the form of how I want to print it. Please, reconsidere the duplicate.
A: Each call to foo needs to print an entire line. But the information needed to do so is simply not available. You will need to provide this info.
char *concat(const char* s1, const char* s2) {
size_t len1 = strlen(s1);
size_t len2 = strlen(s2);
char *s = malloc(len1 + len2 + 1);
memcpy(s, s1, len1);
memcpy(s+len1, s2, len2);
s[len1+len2] = 0;
return s;
}
unsigned _foo(const char* prefix, unsigned n) {
if (n) {
printf("%sfoo(%d)\n", prefix, n);
char *new_prefix = concat(prefix, "1 + ");
unsigned rv = 1 + _foo(new_prefix , n-1);
free(new_prefix);
return rv;
} else {
printf("%s0\n", prefix);
return 0;
}
}
unsigned foo(unsigned n) {
printf("foo(%u)\n", n);
unsigned rv = _foo("= ", n);
printf("= %u\n", rv);
}
This produces
foo(3)
= foo(3)
= 1 + foo(2)
= 1 + 1 + foo(1)
= 1 + 1 + 1 + 0
= 3
Used unsigned to avoid having to check for negative numbers. Error checking left to the user. Tweaking the code to get the exact output desired if left to the user.
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To legally fish in Slovenia you must hold a valid fishing license. All rivers are owned by the government and further managed by fishing clubs or Fisheries research institute of Slovenia. Some clubs manage more rivers at once, some just sections of rivers. Price of licenses range from 21 to 100 Eur per person per day and can also be purchased upon arrival at local fly shops, hotels, bars. We advise, do wait for guide and wait for his recommendation before purchasing the correct license for given day, situation.
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Tag: thriller
Furry Nights movie review – a crowd pleaser for lovers of campy indie horror.
Do you love trash like I do? In the 1970's, exploitation movies became a thing where trash and sleaze were loveable qualities. They had fun doing stuff the mainstream wouldn't do. Along with the bad, came good access for audiences that Hollywood didn't represent, like minorities and subcultures. Now "Fursploitation" is creeping into popular awareness. I characterize it that way if it portrays "furries" with off-the-rack, poorly fitting mascot costumes and orgy jokes. That stuff may not play well with furries, but it can. They'll probably dislike it if it has low effort at research, or feels carelessly opportunistic or mean, but it helps to be indie and share inside references to laugh together. A success would be CollegeHumor's "Furry Force", which the fandom took with good humor.
Furry Nights is an indie horror movie directed by J. Zachary. It premiered in late 2016 with a theater show in Atlanta. I heard from several very happy furry watchers who attended. Then Zachary asked me to tell you about it.
Furry Nights is now available on iTunes. Here's the synopsis from the official website:
"What begins as a carefree weekend amongst a group of camping teens soon takes a strange turn when the gang discovers they are not alone in the forest. FURRIES have rooted camp just across the nearby lake. Not worried about the "party animals," the kids sleep soundly that night, only to be woken by a real life horror — A BEAR! One of the teens shoots and kills the grizzly monster, but quickly realizes the tragic truth — HE HAS SHOT A FURRY . . . Now, the maniacal furries will stop at nothing to make them pay . . .
CAN THE TEENS SURVIVE THE REVENGE OF THE FURRIES?!"
@KaiWulf said: "Indy film, very campy. We had a good laugh." And here's another happy watcher.
The King of Las Vegas, by John Van Stry – book review by Fred Patten
The King of Las Vegas, by John Van Stry
Seattle, WA, CreateSpace, March 2016, trade paperback $10.99 (234 pages), Kindle $3.99.
John Van Stry has written four Hammer Commission novels; The Hammer Commission, Wolf Killer, Loose Ends, and The King of Las Vegas. They are set in a world where demons, devils, monsters, and vampires are real. Three of the four feature Mark Levin, a demon-devil-monster-vampire hunter for the FBI and Interpol who is a monster himself. Mark and his French partner Jake are minor characters in The King of Las Vegas, which features a rakshasa.
A traditional rakshasa is an Indian (Hindustani) demon, usually described as a huge fanged cannibal who can shape-shift and live hundreds of years. In Van Stry's novel, it's a tiger-striped shape-shifter who can turn into a tiger (not a were-tiger; the distinction becomes important in the story) that happens to be a good guy. Rafael is an American college student on vacation in India who is captured and enslaved by a Rakshasa (Van Stry sometimes capitalizes it) and is turned into one himself.
Eleven years later Rafael escapes to American Catholic missionaries in India, and is turned over by them to Mark and Jake. When they determine that Rafael doesn't want to prey on anyone, he just wants to return to America, they help him out. As a rakshasa, he needs lots of meat, he feeds on strong emotions, and he has to be near tigers. The best place in America for that is Las Vegas – the casinos provide plenty of cheap meals, the gamblers provide the strong emotions, he can pass his tiger stripes as makeup or tattoos for an act, and several Las Vegas attractions and magicians have live tigers.
Zootopia – movie review by Fred Patten.
Zootopia, directed by Bryon Howard and Rich Moore; co-directed by Jared Bush; produced by Walt Disney Motion Pictures. 108 minutes. March 4, 2016.
Zootopia has already been anticipated, seen, and covered more thoroughly than any other anthropomorphic motion picture in furry fandom history.
We know that its theatrical release has stretched from February 10 in Belgium to April 23 in Japan. (Dogpatch Press has covered its furry fandom theater parties throughout the U.S. and in Brazil, Canada, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia, Singapore, and Sweden.) We know that it was originally intended to be released as Zootopia worldwide, but due to various legal reasons it has become Zootropola in Croatia, Zootopie in France, Zoomania in Germany, Zootropolis in Denmark, Spain, and other countries, Zveropolis in Russia, and Zwierzogród in Poland.
It grossed $75,063,401 on its opening weekend in 3,827 theaters in the U.S. and $232,500,000 worldwide, breaking the records for the premiere of a Disney animated feature (Frozen with $67,400,000 in November 2013) and for any March animated feature (Illumination Entertainment's The Lorax; $70,200,000 in March 2012). Its voice cast features Ginnifer Goodwin as Judy Hopps, Jason Bateman as Nick Wilde, and numerous others ranging from celebrity actors to professional voice actors, and including directors Howard, Moore, and Bush as minor characters. It debuted with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 92 reviews. Disney reportedly hired at least one marketing agency to promote Zootopia to the furry community.
Cat Out of Hell, by Lynne Truss – book review by Fred Patten.
Cat Out of Hell, by Lynne Truss.
London, Hammer Books, March 2014, hardcover £9.99 (233 pages), Kindle £4.31.
British cover
As usual, this review lists the first, British, edition. American readers will find it easier to get one of the American editions (Melville House, March 2015).
An unnamed narrator is writing from an isolated English seaside vacation cottage. His wife of many years has died; despondent, he quits his dead-end Cambridge librarian's job and rents this cottage in an off-season winter month to wallow in grief. But it is too lonely, and he becomes bored. He has his laptop computer, and when a Cambridge ex-colleague e-mails him some lengthy mysterious text and audio files named "Roger", he opens them.
The files, from Roger and a man identified only as "Wiggy", make it clear that Roger is supposedly a talking cat. Although incredulous at first, the narrator gradually comes to believe that the files are genuine. Roger really is a talking cat. What most convinces the narrator is Wiggy's unmistakable denseness. The witty, sarcastic Roger constantly makes references and comments that go over Wiggy's head, which the narrator gets. (Wiggy also tells enough about himself in bits and pieces to identify himself as a youngish amateur actor in Coventry named Will Caton-Pines.)
The first files relate to a screenplay about a talking cat that Wiggy is writing and is enthusiastic about selling. Roger is bored out of his mind. He doesn't want to reveal himself to the public, and he is sure that Wiggy's screenplay will be unsaleably bad. Different parts of the files explain how Wiggy acquired Roger (he was the pet of Wiggy's sister, who has disappeared), and give Roger's life story at length.
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China reimposes lockdowns as Covid surges after weeklong holiday
Taiwan arms sale seeks to promote peace: US
Chinese airlines seek compensation from Boeing over 737 MAX grounding
Hong Kong protesters plan weekend rally after violent clashes
China station next target for Hong Kong protesters
Hong Kong's long history of protests
Outbreaks have been reported across the country, with the largest in Inner Mongolia and the far-west Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region.
China is one of the few places in the world still resorting to harsh measures to keep the disease from spreading. (Reuters Archive)
Chinese cities were imposing fresh lockdowns and travel restrictions after the number of new daily Covid-19 cases tripled during a weeklong holiday, ahead of a major Communist Party meeting in Beijing next week.
The latest lockdown started Monday in Fenyang city in northern China's Shanxi province after a preliminary positive case was found in citywide testing the previous day, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
In the nearby Inner Mongolia region, the capital Hohhot announced that outside vehicles and passengers would be prohibited from entering the city starting Tuesday. Hohhot has recorded more than 2,000 cases over about 12 days.
China is one of the few places in the world still resorting to harsh measures to keep the disease from spreading. The long-ruling Communist Party is particularly concerned as it tries to present a positive image of the nation in the run-up to a once-in-five-years party congress that starts Sunday.
Travel was down during an annual National Day holiday that began October 1, as authorities discouraged people from leaving their cities and provinces. But the number of new daily cases has still grown to about 1,800 from 600 at start of the break.
READ MORE: China puts Beijing districts under lockdown as Covid cases mount
"Zero-Covid" approach
Leaders don't want a major outbreak to cast a pall over the congress, but their strict "zero-Covid" approach has taken an economic toll, particularly on small businesses and temporary workers. Many in China hope the pandemic policy will ease after the meeting.
Outbreaks have been reported across the country, with the largest in Inner Mongolia and the far-west Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region. Both have been recording several hundred new cases a day.
Both Shanghai, where residents endured prolonged lockdowns earlier this year, and the national capital Beijing have had a small but growing number of cases. Two Shanghai districts announced closures of cinemas and other entertainment venues last week.
Lining up for a free virus test several times a week has become the norm for many Chinese, with Beijing and other cities requiring a negative test result within 72 hours to enter parks, office buildings, shops and other public places.
READ MORE: Shanghai Covid death toll rises as Beijing warns of 'grim' situation
India seals pro-freedom group Hurriyat's office in disputed Kashmir
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My big priority series that I won't part with anything from are Mario, Zelda, Final Fantasy, Persona, and Utapri. I'm unlikely to part with any really old items also since those are mostly from my childhood. (A lot of Dragon Ball items and video game ones are my husband's too so those are out). Anything else though I am pretty much open to reasonable offers on!
Thank you for your time anyways. Have a nice day.
Hello, I'd like to inquire about your Tokyo Mew Mew - Momomiya Ichigo - Perfect Figure (Takara). This is a serious inquiry. Please PM when you can.
Hello, your inbox is full!
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Hi I have PM-ed you regarding the D-Arts Megaman X figure! Am interested in it!
Saw an old post where you were selling the old yugioh coin figures but saw you had a good review on that tharja i missed out on and you've got good figure taste!
Hey everyone! Just wanted to post real quick about what's been going on the past month or so - especially since I've had stuff listed for sale and have received so many messages I hadn't been able to reply to!
Anyways, the long and short of this is that I haven't been on the computer like at all for the past month! So I'm sorry I hadn't been replying to any messages in that time.
I had my hubby send off all the pending packages that needed to go out shortly after I got sick - assumed all would be well for them though apologies if I never got you your tracking number - I know one package wound up severely delayed, it actually fell off my desk and between it and the wall so my husband didn't see that one to send, but it's gone out and been delivered by now!
As I'm sure you can imagine, with a baby on the way I am definitely still selling things!! I have a list made for the items I am selling specifically, but I'll entertain reasonable offers for just about anything in my collection too.
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I have officially decided to start my very own Project 52. For those of you who don't know what that is, it basically means that I plan to shoot, edit, and post one self-portrait every week for one year (52 weeks in a year, get it?) with the intention to improve my skills and concentrate my efforts on photography as well as create a really neat collection of photographs.
I thought about the doing 365 Project (one photo everyday for a year), and I am still considering doing that in the near future as well, but I chose the Project 52 because I really want to concentrate on producing one spectacular image each week – this will consist of pre-planning such as sketching out ideas and organizing the locations/props, shooting the actual photos, and a good amount of photoshop editing – and I'm super excited to push myself to get better with every aspect of it.
I'd like to take it a step further and document a bit of behind the scenes action to give you all an idea of how much time and effort it can take to produce an outstanding image. I also hope this helps other photographers learn more about photography and photoshop and just how powerful these two mediums really are. Feel free to ask any questions in the comments section or by sending me an email!
If you want the less nerdy version, you can click here for my Project 52 Set on 500px, and be sure to Follow me on Facebook so you can stay up to date with the project!!
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Free community event supported by the Harpur Trust.
Abrahams Creative have been asked by the Harpur Trust to help promote this years 'Have a go with Harpur' event.
This is an annual event held in Bedford during September. It aims to encourage local people to have a go at challenging but fun activities that they may not have tried before. Why not try a human hamster ball, a potholing cave, climbing wall, inflatable assault course or bungee run?
I have designed full and half page advertising for the local Bedford papers and also produced additional promotional material. This includes a 4 page, A5 leaflet that will be handed out on the day to everyone attending the event. A 3m banner will also help direct people to the free parking provided. They all feature the lovable William Harpur character as a reminder of the man and inspiration behind the Harpur Trust.
For over 450 years The Harpur Trust has been inspiring and supporting the people of Bedford to help them improve their lives. Their aim is for everyone to have pride in their community and to realise their own potential. The Harpur Trust give grants to local community projects, look after older people in their almshouses and support, promote and provide education.
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Abstract: Scientific societies have historically played a central role by enabling scientists to share and discuss discoveries and by providing major channels such as journals for the dissemination of scientific results. These roles are being affected by the amount of cross-disciplinary work now characteristic of so much science, and by the new means enabled by the Internet for communicating and discussing the latest scientific results. After an introduction to The Kavli Foundation, I will discuss how we approach supporting basic research in emerging, interdisciplinary fields, particularly ones where the physical sciences play a critical role. As a foundation, we have found methods that are working well and some of these may be appropriate for scientific societies. Finally, I will describe an initiative, the Science Philanthropy Alliance, recently established by a group of private foundations to enhance philanthropic support of basic science. The scale of philanthropy in supporting science within and across disciplines exceeds $6 billion per year, making it an important partner to the scientific community. Philanthropy is also an important source of support for early, higher risk research and for early and mid-career scientists.
Biography: Robert W. Conn is President and CEO of The Kavli Foundation, joining the Foundation in 2009. The Kavli Foundation is dedicated to advancing science for the benefit of humanity, promoting public understanding of scientific research, and supporting scientists and their work. The Foundation awards the Kavli Prize biennially, has established twenty endowed Kavli Institutes in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience, neuroscience and theoretical physics, and has played a seminal role in several major science initiatives, most particularly the U.S. BRAIN Initiative. The Kavli Foundation, along with five other foundations, formed the Science Philanthropy Alliance to increase philanthropic support for basic science. Dr. Conn serves as Board Chair of the Alliance.
Dr. Conn is recognized for his academic achievements, his leadership in education and research, and for his experience in the private sector. He began his academic career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he became Romnes Faculty Professor of Engineering Physics and served as founding director of the University's Fusion Technology Institute. He moved to UCLA as Professor of Engineering and Applied Science and there led the formation of UCLA's Institute of Plasma and Fusion Research.
Dr. Conn has been a leading researcher in plasma physics, fusion energy, energy policy and materials science. He pioneered, beginning in the 1970's, the study of fusion systems as potential power reactors, identifying the major physics and engineering challenges facing the development of practical fusion energy. His theoretical and experimental research focused on plasma physics, the plasma boundary layer, surface science and chemical physics. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1987 for his pioneering research contributions to the fields of plasma physics and fusion energy.
Dr. Conn left UCLA in 1993 to become Dean of the Irwin and Joan Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego and Walter J. Zable Professor of Engineering Science. While Dean, he led the School through a unprecedented period of growth in faculty, students and reputation, resulting in its current ranking among the top twelve engineering schools in the country. He worked closely with student groups to help ensure that all students gained the best possible experience while at the campus. Research centers established during Dr. Conn's tenure include the Center for Wireless Communications and the Whitaker Institute for Biomedical Engineering. He led a partnership across the UCSD campus to establish the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), which in 2001 received $100 million from the State and $160 Million from industry and private donors. Dr. Conn built partnerships between the university and industry and established the von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Transfer.
Dr. Conn's experience in the private sector includes co-founding Plasma & Materials Technologies, Inc., a company that developed etching and thin film deposition equipment used to manufacture semiconductors. PMT had its initial public offering on NASDAQ in 1995. He has also served on the Boards of two public companies in the semiconductor space, Intersil and STATS-ChipPAC, Inc. Dr. Conn was from 2002 to 2008 a Managing Director at Enterprise Partners Venture Capital (EPVC), a VC firm specializing in early-stage high tech and life science companies.
Dr. Conn is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of both the American Physical Society and the American Nuclear Society. Awards for his research include the Ernest O. Lawrence Memorial Award, presented on behalf of the President by the Secretary of Energy; the McGraw Research Award of the American Association of Engineering Education; the Distinguished Associate Award of the U.S. Department of Energy; and the Distinguished Alumni Award of the California Institute of Technology. He has served on committees for the U.S. Government, the University of California, the National Research Council, the National Academies, and several national laboratories. Dr. Conn received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Pratt Institute, and he M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering Science from the California Institute of Technology.
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Doctors approve new funding deal amid protest
Faction opposed latest division of medical cash by BCMA and province
Jeff Nagel
B.C. doctors have voted to ratify a new four-year master agreement with the province.
The B.C. Medical Association said the deal provides $100 million to continue and expand medical programs until 2014 as well as a "modest" lift in doctors' fees to cover their overhead costs.
The fee increase is 0.5 per cent in each of the next two years and would be renegotiated for the final two years of the agreement.
It also expands various incentives for family practice doctors to develop care plans for complex care, chronic disease and mental health patients and to increase access to family doctors.
But the 92 per cent vote in favour is being contested by a faction of physicians who don't like how the pot of medical funding is being divided.
Those opposed say the outcome is illegitimate because most members didn't vote and a further 3,000 to 4,000 non-BCMA members couldn't vote.
Dr. Zafar Essak said the agreement will expand the health care bureaucracy and muzzle doctors, who will be barred from speaking up for patients without approval of government officials.
"Most doctors are fed up and want to hold the government and the BCMA accountable for the current crisis in our health care system," Essak said.
Also unhapppy is the B.C. Anesthesiologists' Society, which campaigned for higher pay for its members and went to the brink of a service withdrawal this spring to try to win the right to bargain separately from the BCMA.
BCAS executive director Dr. Roland Orfaly said wait lists have grown longer despite greatly increased funding funnelled through the BCMA – now more than $3.6 billion a year.
"It's been a colossal failure at the taxpayers' expense and simply pouring more money into a dysfunctional BCMA process is not going to make the problem go away," he said.
BCMA officials contend specialist groups like the anesthesiologists, who got much more rapid fee increases than most doctors in past years, are simply irked because their pay is no longer rising as fast under the latest apportionment between physician groups.
"They've had quite a few increases," BCMA president Dr. Shelley Ross said.
"In tough economic times you're not going to get as much as you want."
She said anesthesiologists also benefit from one key gain negotiated in the new deal – an extra $20 million to recruit and retain specialists.
Ross said spending of that money will be overseen by independent arbitrators, not the BCMA.
Seniors share struggles with MLAs
Horse track merger idea unlikely: Coleman
Mission Christmas Bureau served more than 675 kids, handed out more than 550 hampers
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No real updates on Wahoo this month from around the web. The new Kickrs have been having…issues. I spoke about my experience with a Kickr Core recently which has now been replaced with a Neo 2.
Update for Strava's new Live Segments API: Segments with an average grade lower than -.25% are no longer supported by Strava due to safety concerns. Downhill and similarly steep descending segments will not be synced.
Do we know if the ELEMNT Rival will be able to connect to bluetooth enabled power meters?
I would assume so, yes. That's not based on any evidence other than Wahoo see to put all the features they can in their devices.
Could it be a replacement for the original Elemnt? Or even better the Elemnt Bolt 2?
Hopefully it'll actually offer real navigation!
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I need to check, ehm... Show me or any mod what actually got destroyed, dont fix anything, and keep it as is, so we can check the logs and come to a decision.
My decision: I see a grief of even 1 block made by aquadome, he's banned, cause i warned him.
i have 1 thing to say. what texture pack are you using tyko?
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The United States military announced yesterday that it was bringing death penalty charges against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and five other men suspected of orchestrating the September 11 attacks, and intended to try them under the Bush administration's much-criticised military tribunal system, which is subject only to partial oversight by the civilian appeals system.
Concerns were raised last night of political interference by the White House in the military's decision to go to trial in the middle of an election campaign in which the Republican frontrunner, John McCain, has made the fight against al-Qa'ida central to his election bid.
While few doubts have been raised, domestically or internationally, about the men's involvement in the attacks on New York and Washington, just about everything else about their treatment has been bitterly contested and is likely to continue to be contested, inside the courtroom and out. Everything is laden with potential controversy – the decision to try the six men together rather than individually, the proposed venue at Guantanamo Bay, where all six are being held, the threatened use of the death penalty, and perhaps the most controversial question of all: the admissibility of evidence gathered through waterboarding and other coercive techniques generally defined as torture.
Even Brig-Gen Thomas Hartmann, the Pentagon official co-ordinating the case, acknowledged yesterday that it could be several months before a trial begins and months more, if not years, before any death penalty – assuming it is enforced – is carried out.
General Hartmann was careful to say that he wanted the trial proceedings to be "as completely open as possible", with lawyers and journalists present in the courtroom – barring the possibility of some closed sessions to consider classified information. He stressed that the men would be regarded as innocent until proven guilty, just as they would in a civilian court. And he promised to provide "every piece of evidence, every stitch of evidence, every whiff of evidence" to the defendants' lawyers so they would be fully able to prepare for trial.
Aside from Mohammed, alleged to be the mastermind who planned and coordinated the September 11 attacks, the defendants are Mohammed al-Qahtani, labelled by US officials the "20th hijacker" who never made it on board any of the planes that were crashed; Ramzi Bin al-Shibh, an associate of Mohammed Atta's in Hamburg who is believed to have acted as an intermediary between the hijackers and the al-Qa'ida leadership; Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, a nephew of Mohammed's suspected of acting as his chief lieutenant; Waleed bin Attash, believed to have trained the hijackers; and Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi.
But contrary to General Hartmann's assurances, it is far from clear what rights any of these men will have. The Supreme Court, which struck down an earlier version of the military tribunal system, is expected to rule before July on whether the protections of the US Constitution apply to them.
Several commentators noted yesterday that the Bush administration is taking a risk by trying to press ahead with the trials. Its previous efforts to pursue justice against suspected terrorists have been patchy, if not downright disastrous.
Zacarias Moussaoui, the French national previously labelled the 20th hijacker, escaped the death penalty at his civilian trial and emerged as a deeply disturbed individual scarcely capable of participating in a sophisticated guerrilla operation – much to the embarrassment of the federal prosecutors who tried him in civilian court in Virginia.
Jose Padilla, the US citizen accused of wanting to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb", won the argument that he could not be held indefinitely in military custody without trial and went on trial in civilian court. He received a far lighter sentence than his prosecutors were seeking – 17 years instead of 30 to life.
The Bush administration appears to believe that, politically at least, it can win the argument by stirring up the country's emotions about the worst peacetime attack on its own soil.
The Pakistani, educated in the US, claims responsibility for 31 attacks and plots including the 9/11 attacks and the beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Accused of being military commander for al-Qa'ida's foreign operations. Captured in Pakistan in 2003 and taken to Guantanamo Bay from secret CIA prison. During interrogation, was subjected to simulated drowning technique known as waterboarding.
A nephew of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and cousin of jailed 9/11 bomber Ramzi Yousef. Accused of facilitating the attacks by transferring $120,000 to US-based operatives and assisting nine hijackers on their way from Pakistan.
The former room-mate of Mohamed Atta is accused of being a link between al-Qa'ida and the hijackers. The Pentagon says he helped find flight schools for the al-Qa'ida pilots.
The Yemeni, who was raised in Saudi Arabia, is accused of running al-Qa'ida camp in Afghanistan where he trained two 9/11 hijackers. Has admitted planning the attack on the USS Cole, and has also claimed involvement in the bombing of the US embassy in Kenya.
The Saudi national is accused of being a money-man for the 9/11 attackers. The Pentagon says he provided them with cash, Western clothing, credit cards traveller's cheques.
Officials say he was meant to be one of the hijackers but was barred from the US by immigration officials at Orlando Airport. Captured at Tora Bora caves in Afghanistan.
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Honda targets high-flyers with domestic launch of HondaJet in Japan
According to The Asahi Shimbun, The HondaJet compact plane has already proved a winner in North America and Europe, and now Japanese high-flyers will also have the chance to travel in the comfortable, fuel-efficient jets.
Honda Motor Co. announced on June 6 that it has begun taking orders for the aircraft that can accommodate up to seven people and is characterized by its engines sitting above the wings.
It has a flying distance of 2,661 kilometers, meaning business travelers can fly from Tokyo's Haneda Airport to Beijing or Taipei without refueling.
Manufactured by Honda Aircraft Co., a Honda Motor subsidiary, the HondaJet will be priced at $US 5.25 million (about 577 million yen).
Time will tell if the aircraft can take off among Japan's business community as it has in the West.
According to the Japan Business Aviation Association, there are about 90 small jets operating in Japan in both the private and public sectors. In contrast, the United States, the world's largest market, has about 13,000 small jets.
Honda Motor founder Soichiro Honda declared in 1962 that his company would develop a light aircraft.
Production of the HondaJet began at a U.S. plant in 2012, and the first aircraft was delivered in 2015.
Forty-three of the plane were sold in 2017, making it the best-selling aircraft weighing 5.7 tons or less.
Ref: http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201806070053.html
If you want to read this article in Japanese, please see the following link:
https://www.j-abc.com/jp-blog/3400985
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Q: Why a function is executed two times? I import a function from a package:
from read_video import getData
I wrote this function. It has the following structure:
def getData()
print 'start'
...
print 'end'
Then I call this function:
video_data = getData()
On the screen I see;
start
end
start
end
I thought that may be my function calls itself. But it is not the case. I also thought that my function calls a function that call my function. But it is also not the case. Does anybody knows what can be a reason of this strange behavior?
A: Modify the code to this:
import pdb
def getData():
print 'start'
pdb.set_trace()
...
And once you've dropped in an interpreter prompt, press w to see a call trace. This should help you figure things out.
A: I got the answer for my own question. My code was saved in the dimension.py file. So, I call the program by python dimension.py. In the dimension.py I had the following line:
sys.path.append('C:\\Users\\me\\datamining\\Dimensions\\')
from dimension import *
The problem was that the package was also in the file called dimension.py (file with the same name but located in another directory). Importing from dimension.py caused one additional execution of the program in dimension.py (not the package).
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Harnessing an old age technique to beat hidden hunger
Hidden in Grains
Photo: P. Lowe / CIMMYT (Flickr).
Our new Expert Group will equip small and medium-sized food companies in Kenya with knowledge and skills to use hydrothermal technology to process whole grains, an approach that increases their nutritional value. This technique unlocks the bioavailability of micronutrients inside the grains and enables their easy absorption. This Expert Group is a collaboration between Inclusive Business Sweden, Hidden in Grains, BioInnovate Africa and the Global Alliance on Improved Nutrition (GAIN).
Hidden hunger, a chronic lack of minerals and vitamins like zinc, iodine and iron, affects two billion people across the globe and is a big problem in Eastern Africa. This form of undernutrition occurs when the food people eat has poor quality, lacking micronutrients essential for growth, development and good health. This different kind of hunger can be devastating for the health and for economies, striking human mental development, productivity and the immune system. Even mild deficiencies can have serious cognitive and physical consequences.
According to the Hidden Hunger Index 2013, 51.7% of Kenya's population suffers from hidden hunger, 41.3% in Ethiopia, 35% in Tanzania and 34.3% in Uganda.
Balanced nutritious diets are key to reducing hidden hunger. Unfortunately, diets in Eastern African, just like in much of the rest of the world, lack variety and mainly consist of maize, wheat and rice, occasionally including other grains, like millet and sorghum. With bustling cities and busy lifestyles, people tend to opt for convenient, fast and cheap foods, and up to 60% of this food is processed.
Processed foods fill our stomachs but do not nourish our bodies, and the effects of their continuous consumption are especially hard on low-income consumers, who can't afford a more diverse food basket on a day-to-day basis.
Interestingly, many of the low-nutrient processed foods are paradoxically made from locally available traditional grains, most of which are very nutritious. However, most of the nutrients are lost during processing. For example, polishing rice and refining wheat can remove 60–90% of their micronutrients, turning these nutrient-rich foods into sources of empty calories.
Whole grains, especially ancient grains, have long served as an important source of carbohydrates and proteins, but they also contain vitamins and minerals. However, whole grains also contain phytate, an anti-nutrient that can bind calcium, zinc, iron and other minerals, inhibiting their absorption by reducing their bioavailability.
Hydrothermal technology is a proven, water, and heat-based method that can triple bioavailability of minerals in grains by reducing phytate.
Hidden in Grains, a Swedish social enterprise founded by two women with a background in food science, works with hydrothermal processing of grains. The process includes soaking of the raw materials, which is followed by gentle drying under low temperatures. This method has proven to provide the best possible access to natural minerals in grains. It is not a modern or new way of treating grains, but one developed from reliable techniques that date back several thousands of years. Hydrothermal treatment helps grains release vital nutrients and makes them easier to absorb by human bodies too.
Given that food processing companies provide more than half of all the nutrition that most low-income urban families consume, there is a clear need to improve the nutritional quality of widely consumed processed foods. Focusing on companies that target low-income customers could be particularly effective.
This expert group will share practical knowledge about hydrothermal processing with small and medium scale processors and food companies in Kenya and local policy makers, tackling hidden hunger through the use of whole locally grown traditional grains.
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We are delighted to announce Andy Rodgers has signed with the club until the end of the season.
Andy's registration with Peterhead expired just prior to the closure of the transfer window which allowed Shire the chance to offer him a contract, with the 32 year-old striker happy to accept.
It is the second time Andy has signed for Shire; he joined the club midway through the 2007/08 season before leaving for Ayr United at the end of the 2009/10 campaign.
He has been on loan from Peterhead for the last month and has scored a goal in each of his two starts for Shire since then.
We'd like to wish Andy a warm welcome back.
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Happy rosacea awareness month! April showers are upon us, but don't let rosacea rain on your parade! Rosacea is a chronic condition affecting millions of Americans, and can range from a rosy cheeked appearance to acne-like pimples to a very bumpy red nose (rhinophyma). Thankfully, advances in medicine are giving us more options to control this embarrassing condition, including a new powerful anti-inflammatory cream called Soolantra, and a facial flush-reducing cream called Rhofade. If you suffer from rosacea, come in for an evaluation.
Product of the month: Rozatrol – this product from the ZO skin health line has numerous ingredients that target the varying aspects of rosacea, including reduction of redness, excess oil, and skin dryness. In combination with other ZO products, Rozatrol is a great way to manage your rosacea symptoms.
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An incredibly good made game that uses the 4MB cartridge to avoid you the loading times, and to bring to your home a great fighting game. This makes possibly a non-slowdown framerate and characters that haven't lose neither a lonely sprite from the arcade version too. This game features a bunch of vampires, succubus, mummies, walking-dead and monsters that will make you love them. Another must-have for your Saturn.
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The 'Rix Panther' is the second of the new Wave Captain class of wind farm support vessels to be delivered. The new design features the latest high efficiency hull form developed by Alnmaritec design department over the last 18 months with CFD and model testing support. Powered by twin Cummins QSK 19 800 bhp diesel engines, coupled to ZF 2000V Gearboxes and driving twin 5 blade propellers the new boat achieves a cruising speed of 24 knots and has demonstrated exceptional sea keeping characteristics. She has a two tier wheelhouse with a large cargo area forward and she also has two single berth crew cabins below decks. She represents the state of the art in current wind farm service vessel design with exceptional attention to detail benefiting from Alnmaritec's long experience in this sector.
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Supply Chain Disruptions of 2022
Autor de la entrada:Sarp Kerensoy
Publicación de la entrada:agosto 30, 2022
Categoría de la entrada:.
Disruptions in supply chains continue to be a major issue as the world recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the pandemic is not the sole issue anymore with the Ukraine war, chip crisis, Chinese lockdowns, and many more other factors coming into play, supply lines are as unreliable as they can get.
The global overview of the supply chains in the past 6 months
From the sourcing of raw materials to the final destination of the end customer, the pandemic has affected all parts of supply chains. However, there are so many other drivers of this crisis that we cannot classify COVID-19 to be a major one anymore.
The disruptions stemmed by the pandemic are continuing to affect all regions of the world as flows of consumer goods into key markets such as Europe, South East Asia, North America, and India are restricted as a consequence of major ports and airports shutting down (Mainly in US, China, and South Korea). These disruptions are causing a great impact to supply chains as goods are piling up in warehouses which ultimately impacts ships heading to the ports through slowing down or diversion as they arrive. Hence, difficulties arise for businesses limiting their access to import products and restocking their inventories.
While the bottleneck in the Longbeach port in Los Angeles is easing, the improvement does not necessarily lead to a solution. The port in L.A. was under high pressure due to the overwhelming number of ships arriving. Unloadings were taking up to two weeks which is equivalent to making the trip to China from the port, meaning the vessel is ultimately losing the time needed for the trip back. And currently, the pressure has moved from the US to China. Throughput levels of containers have dropped by 25% month-on-month and total cargos shipped dropped by 30% in Shanghai. According to ING, stationary times for containers are soaring caused by the factories closing down in the region and difficulties in inland connections. Even when a cargo container is cleared, it is taking, on average, 100 days for the goods to reach the ports of the US and the UK. Below you can see a graph illustrating the share of ships waiting at important global ports as a percentage of global capacity. The graph clearly shows how the pressure has shifted from the US ports to China.
Input and labor shortages can also be considered to further exacerbate the current situation. Germany, aside from Europe in general and the US, is in desperate need of truck drivers with potential workforce immigration being granted permits and eventually citizenships since reports show a shortage of 60-80,000 HGV drivers. In addition to that, sharply increasing prices of commodities already make it a challenge for manufacturers to calculate and make accurate predictions for the year in order to commit to prices for deliveries. According to Kiel Trade Indicator, 11% of goods globally are waiting in container ships, with most of those located in China (May 2022). As a consequence of these factors, average transport rates remain at elevated levels, contributing to the already elevated prices for producers and consumers, on top of the rallying energy prices. The graph below represents the percentage of goods waiting on container ships globally;
We are witnessing perhaps permanent shifts in the trade flow of goods which is most importantly caused by the war in Ukraine. Trade flows are already reshaping major changes are expected in the permanent supply lines as time goes on as market players who used to make purchases from Russia are currently in search of alternatives. Other countries may step in and take advantage of the elevated prices, creating new supply lines and making them efficient enough to become major ones. In grains and energy commodities, there are already re-routing attempts as disruptions in the Black Sea continue. For example, food prices have risen massively over the past months with April having a 30% increase from that time last year, and agricultural exporters can take advantage of this situation and increase their export capacities. India was one to do so however, the rising prices are also a conclusion of a shortage in supplies and they had to ban wheat exports to have sufficient supply for their population. The graph below represents the reliability scale of sea transport schedule reliability over time;
Studies show that primary goods such as agricultural commodities can be easily substituted or redirected, however, that is not the case for manufacturing supply chains and energy imports as they are more hesitant to relocate, making it more difficult to make these substitutions.
What is predicted for the future, easing or stagnation?
The world is still facing under-capacity problems, dominated by the supply side. Looking at the global supply chain pressure index, we are slightly below the historically high levels. There is considerable easing in pressure levels, yet, "back to normal" still seems far away. The easing is caused by the softened demand from China, Europe, and the US as industries are also disrupted by supply chains and the ever-ongoing chip crisis. Nevertheless, the existing backlogs are sufficient to keep the supply chains under high pressure for the second half of this year. Below you can see the Global Supply Chain Pressure Index (taken from Federal Reserve Bank of New York, last updated June 2022);
Self-sufficiency is becoming a more and more debated topic, as trade dependence is bringing tremendous amounts of difficulties with it. Globalization has benefited this world, economies, companies, and individuals to extents that cannot be emphasized enough, however, it seems that regions do need a backup to suffice their own population's needs. Although in the short term, the supply chain pressures are likely to remain elevated, that may not be the case in the long term. The lack of self-sufficiency and the environmental impacts of global trade will push governments and companies to shift to more regional operations seeking to mitigate the risks of potential world events causing further disruptions and decrease their emissions.
Leaders of governments and industries are in process of strategy definition and improving their resilience in these unprecedented times by boosting domestic capabilities in order to decrease their relative dependence on global supply chains. Companies must work on re-evaluating their supply chain flows, storage capacities, distance margins, and many other factors to mitigate the risks that come with the unpredictable circumstances of today.
Manufacturers are more interested in risk factors as the key decision point of their operations rather than their prices, leaving behind the days of buffering inconsistencies in supplies with excessive inventories at low-cost purchases.
There are several potential considerations that we have found for companies to tackle these key challenges that the world is facing;
Flexible and adaptable operations can overcome and mitigate the damages of unpredictable events such as the pandemic and war, to overcome the difficulties in trade flows.
Increasing the use and investment in technologies. Although this may be a contrary action to the rising unemployment, it is certainly very beneficial to the efficiency and reliability of company operations.
Supply chain networks and fleet management must be capable of responding to the changes in the world. Alternative routes, sales channels, and production lines must be set before crises occur to disrupt operations.
These are unprecedented times for both governments and the private sector. Changes are necessary, dependence on foreign lands and even far distances domestically can cause significant issues. We believe that this is the start of a new era in supply chain management where the systems are going to be more flexible and adaptive to the circumstance of the moment because that is what the past years have shown us, the existing chains and strategies are not as sustainable in turbulent times.
Global Supply Chain Pressure Index. (n.d.). Newyorkfed.org. https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/policy/gscpi#/interactive
McLoughlin, B. (2022, May 24). Supply chain disruption is far from over | HERE. http://Www.here.com. https://www.here.com/company/blog/supply-chain-disruption-2022
Patterson, I. F., Joanna Konings, Rico Luman, Warren. (2022, May 13). Supply chain pressure to persist through 2022, leading to permanent changes in trade. ING Think. https://think.ing.com/articles/supply-chain-pressure-to-persist-through-2022
Rockefeller, B. (2022, May 18). Global Supply Chain Pressure Index: May 2022 Update. Liberty Street Economics. https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2022/05/global-supply-chain-pressure-index-may-2022-update/
Six key trends impacting global supply chains in 2022 – KPMG Singapore. (2022, March 24). KPMG. https://home.kpmg/sg/en/home/insights/2022/03/six-key-trends-impacting-global-supply-chains-in-2022.html
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Tech institutes in Odisha list out reasons for their dismal performance in NIRF rankings
In letters to the Skill Development and Technical Education department, several institutes cited reasons like faculty shortage and more which doesn't let them perform well
Sudarsan Maharana
VSSUT, Burla
The month of April was disappointing for state-run technical institutes and universities of Odisha as not a single one was among the top 100 in the National Institution Ranking Framework (NIRF) India ranking 2019 released by the Ministry of Human Resources Development. Some of these institutions, in letters to the Skill Development and Technical Education (SDTE) department, addressed this issue by citing reasons such as inadequate infrastructure, faculty shortage and dismal implementation of research programmes for the poor performance.
Technical universities and institutes such as Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT); Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology (IGIT), Sarang; Institute of Management and Information Technology (IMIT), Cuttack; Government College of Engineering (GCE), Keonjhar; College of IT and Management Education (CIME), Bhubaneswar and Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT), Burla presented several issues which doesn't let them compete with those engineering institutes at the national level. These institutes are unable to meet the NIRF parameters of teaching, learning and resources, research and professional practise as well as graduation outcome.
Authorities of the College of IT and Management Education, in their report to the department, have stated that the faculty crunch, which in turn has resulted in non-availability of sponsored research projects or consultancy works, has affected their performance at the national level.
VSSUT, which managed to get 126th position among engineering institutes in the NIRF ranking, also pointed out a number of issues affecting its performance. The university's score has remained poor in terms of research and professional practices due to less number of publications in journals. Officials of the department, however, are yet to respond to this matter.
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Q: Print in VB 2010 is working but page missing I'm trying to print my form which I created with Visual Studio. I'm using power pack printing. All goes really well but I'm missing 2cm on the right side of my printout. Page on printer is set to A4.
This is what i try to do but no luck:
PrintForm1.Print(Me, PowerPacks.Printing.PrintForm.PrintOption.ClientAreaOnly)
Whatever I change, it is always printing the cropped page. I'm using xps printer at the moment and there is no zoom option. Can I set the form to zoom to fit the page?
The borders are also too big. Thats why my printout gets cropped, but I have no idea how to change it.
The size of my form is 711 x 1034 pixels, it's a desktop application.
Thanks everybody.
A: Ok finally find it :D probably too tired yesterday :D
If anyone need to change margin on printer here it is!!!
Code:
PrintForm1.PrinterSettings.DefaultPageSettings.Margins = New System.Drawing.Printing.Margins(50, 50, 50, 50)
PrintForm1.PrintAction = Printing.PrintAction.PrintToPrinter
PrintForm1.Print()
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We are pleased to present our new logo capturing the mystique and intrigue of our brand as we take off on our new adventures, together with you. Open Reef official logo designed by Joshua Sweet, 2017. Please share around the world with your pals using #openreef and #citizensciencegis.
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Director Ritesh Batra
Screenplay Ritesh Batra, Rutvik Oza
Country India France Germany
7.8/10 IMDb
Genre Drama, Romance
Duration 104 min
Language Hindi English
Release date 19 May 2013 (2013-05-19) (Cannes Film Festival) 20 September 2013 (2013-09-20) (India)
Writer Ritesh Batra (screenplay), Vasan Bala (hindi dialogue writer)
Release date September 20, 2013 (India)
Executive producers Irrfan Khan, Ritesh Batra, Lydia Dean Pilcher, Vikramjit Roy
Awards Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie
Cast Irrfan Khan (Saajan Fernandes), Nimrat Kaur (Ila), Nawazuddin Siddiqui (Shaikh), Denzil Smith (Mr. Shroff), Bharati Achrekar (Mrs. Deshpande), Nakul Vaid (Rajeev)
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The lunchbox official hd trailer
The Lunchbox is a 2013 Indian epistolary romantic film written and directed by Ritesh Batra, and produced by Guneet Monga, Anurag Kashyap, and Arun Rangachari. The film was jointly produced by various studios including DAR motion pictures, UTV Motion Pictures, Dharma Productions, Sikhya Entertainment, NFDC (India), ROH Films (Germany), ASAP Films (France), and the Cine Mosaic (United States). It stars Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur and Nawazuddin Siddiqui in lead roles. The film was screened at International Critics' Week at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, and later won the Critics Week Viewers Choice Award also known as Grand Rail d'Or. It was shown at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. The film was released in India on 20 September 2013. The film was a box-office success.
Screenings and film festivals
Oscar selection controversy
The Lunchbox was nominated for the Film Not in the English Language category of the British Academy Film Awards 2015.
Saajan Fernandes (Irrfan Khan) is a widower who is about to retire from his job as an accountant. Ila (Nimrat Kaur) is a young wife seeking her husband's (Nakul Vaid)'s attention and looking for ways to put romance back into her marriage, one of which is to cook delicious food for him. Through a rare mix-up of the famous "dabbawalas" (a complicated system that picks up and delivers lunches from restaurants or homes to people at work) of Mumbai, the lunchbox Ila prepares for her husband gets delivered, instead, to Saajan. Ila eventually realizes the mistake and with the advice of her neighbour aunty (Bharti Achrekar – voice only) living in the apartment above her, writes a letter to Saajan about the mix up and places it in the lunchbox (along with her husband's favorite meal) the next day.
An exchange of the messages sent back and forth with the lunches ignites a friendship between the two, as they share memories and events of their own individual lives. At work, Saajan is tasked with training his replacement, Shaikh (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), an orphan whose incompetence initially annoys Saajan, who is already socially distant since his wife's death. Saajan and Shaikh gradually get to know each other better and strike a close friendship as well. At one point, Saajan saves Shaikh's job by covering for his blatant mistakes on pay orders and he also becomes his best man at his wedding with Mehrunissa (Shruti Bapna).
At home, Ila finds out that her husband is having an affair and she begins to give up hope on her marriage. In one of the lunchbox letters, she suggests moving to Bhutan where the cost of living is much less than in India. Saajan writes back suggesting that the two move there together. Ila then offers to meet in person at a popular food joint, but at the appointed time Saajan doesn't turn up. Upon receiving an empty lunchbox the next day, Saajan writes back to the dejected Ila and apologizes, saying that he did arrive and saw her from a distance but couldn't approach her. He explains how young and beautiful she looked, while surmising that he is too old for her and advising her to move on.
Some time later, Ila's father, battling with lung cancer, dies in her mother's care. After her mother (Lilette Dubey) confesses how unhappy her marriage was, Ila decides to search for Saajan, but then learns from Shaikh that he has already retired and headed to Nasik. She writes a last farewell message to Saajan announcing that she has decided to leave her husband and move to Bhutan with her young daughter.
Meanwhile, Saajan changes his mind en route to Nasik, returning to Mumbai and going in search of Ila – who is last seen at home waiting for her daughter to return from school – as he gets help from the same dabbawala who regularly picked up and delivered the eponymous lunchbox.
Irrfan Khan as Saajan Fernandes
Nimrat Kaur as Ila
Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Shaikh
Denzil Smith as Mr. Shroff, Saajan's office boss
Bharati Achrekar (voice only) as Mrs. Deshpande, Ila's neighbour
Nakul Vaid as Rajiv, Ila's husband
Yashvi Puneet Nagar as Yashvi
Lillete Dubey as Ila's mother
Shruti Bapna as Mehrunissa, Shaikh's wife
Nasir Khan as Ila's father
Lokesh Rai as Duke's owner
Sadashiv Kondaji Pokarkar as Dabbawala at Ila's house
Aarti Rathod as Saajan's neighbour
Rishi Raj More as Ila's brother
Krishna Bai as toothless woman in local train
Santosh Kumar Chaurasia as autorickshaw driver
Swapnil Shrirao as Duke's waiter
Baburao Sankpal as Dabbawala at Saajan's office
Mahesh Mahadev Salavkar as office peon
Abhijit Khanvilkar as young man in local train
Ritesh Batra, who had made short films, The Morning Ritual, Gareeb Nawaz ki Taxi and Cafe Regular, Cairo, started researching for a documentary on the famous Lunchbox delivery system of Mumbai, dabbawala, known for their efficiency, however after spending a week with them in 2007, he got to know of many interesting personal stories they would overhear while waiting outside an apartment. This idea gave birth to the idea of the film, and instead of making the documentary he began writing a film script. In time the film became joint production between Sikhya Entertainment, DAR motion pictures, National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC), India, ROH Films, Germany, ASAP Films, France and the Cine Mosaic, US of Lydia Dean Pilcher who previously produced films like, The Talented Mr Ripley (1999) and The Namesake (2007), and Germany's Match Factory became its international sales agent.
Batra completed the first draft of the screenplay in 2011. He was assisted by Rutvik Oza. It went on to win an Honorable Jury Mention at the 2012 Cinemart at the Rotterdam International Film Festival. Thereafter the project was part of the Talent Project Market of Berlin International Film Festival and was mentored at the screenwriter's lab (Torino Film Lab) at the Torino Film Festival. The character of Ila played by Nimrat Kaur, six months prior to the shooting, and the character played by Nawazuddin Siddiqui was further developed and improvised during shooting.
Irrfan Khan liked the script of the film and the concept of his character, not speaking much but talking through notes. After seeing Batra's short film and a couple of meetings he agreed to act in the film. Batra wanted to work with Nawazuddin Siddiqui, another principal character of the film, for a long time. For the female lead, auditions were conducted, wherein Nimrat Kaur was selected. Kaur had extensive experience at the Mumbai theatre and worked in films like Peddlers. Some of the dabbawalas who the director befriended while researching for the film, also were cast in minor roles.
The film was shot in 2012 in Mumbai at a budget of ₹220 million. Prior to the filming, the cast rehearsed for six months. It was shot using the Arri Alexa digital film camera. Many of the scenes were logistically broken down to make way for last minute location changes. According to Ritesh Batra, scenes on the train involved the use of only one compartment, and even included actual local commuters when needed.
Principal photography lasted 29 days, with a majority of the film's scenes done in three weeks. Afterwards, footage taken in a documentary manner were shot. Mumbai's famous dabbawalas were provided actual lunchboxes to deliver, and followed by a four-member film crew, which filmed the process in documentary style.
The film was screened on 19 May 2013 as a part of the International Critics' Week at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, where it received a standing ovation and positive reviews. and won the Critics Week Viewers Choice Award also known as Grand Rail d'Or. Variety called it "a notable debut from tyro helmer-scripter Ritesh Batra", for creating a film with "crossover appeal of Monsoon Wedding", and also praised acting of Irrfan Khan and Nimrat Kaur.
Thereafter, Sony Pictures Classics picked up all North American rights for distribution.
In India, this film was released in more than 400 screens on 20 September 2013.
The Lunchbox grossed ₹71 million in its first weekend of release in India, and ₹110 million in its first week. The film continued to gross significant amounts over the next few weeks, earning over ₹200 million in the first three weeks and another estimated ₹40–50 lakhs on its fourth weekend.
In the United States, The Lunchbox grossed $4.23 million, and was 2014's third highest grossing foreign film behind Cantinflas and P.K.. As of 28 May 2014, the film's worldwide collection stands at ₹84.92 crore (US$13 million). The film collected around ₹100.85 crore (US$16 million) worldwide in its lifetime run.
The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a score of 96% based on reviews from 97 critics, with an average rating of 7.7/10. The site's consensus is: "Warm, affectionate, and sweet but not cloying, The Lunchbox is a clever crowd-pleaser from first-time director Ritesh Batra".
Critic Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN gave a rating of 5/5 to the film stating, "The greatest love stories are the ones that make you root for the protagonists to come together, despite their destinies. This film illustrates how love transforms the unlikeliest of people." Pratim D. Gupta of The Telegraph gave two thumbs up to The Lunchbox calling it "as much a moving and muted love story as it is an evocative portrayal of loneliness." Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave the movie a 4/5 stating, "A well-told old-fashioned romance, The Lunchbox gracefully unknots the trials, tribulations, fears and hopes of everyday people sans the glamour that the city of Mumbai has become synonymous with." Karan Anshuman of the MumbaiMirror also went with a perfect score of 5/5 saying the film was, "one of the best films to come out of India in a long time."
Raja Sen of Rediff.com praised the film further, giving another perfect score of 5/5 and offered particular compliments to the director Ritesh Batra, stating "Batra, who has also written The Lunchbox, has allowed his smashing actors tremendous room to improvise, all the while himself sketching in nuanced details about the city, its food-ferriers, and the many disparities Mumbai is crammed with." Filmmaker/critic Khalid Mohammed of the Deccan Chronicle said "What stays in the mind at the end of 'The Lunchbox' is pretty much what stays in mind at the end of a memorable set by jazzmen – not their lapses but the heights they scale." Aditya Grover of YouthTimes gave it 4/5 stars and said, "The Lunchbox is delicious and delightful! If you're in the mood to witness genuinely moving cinema, you're in for a treat. The delectable taste of this lunchbox remains in your mouth much after you've left the theatre. Go for it!" Suparna Sharma of The Asian Age gave it 4 out of 5 stars and said: "The Lunchbox is a gently pulsating sweet-sad story of loneliness and love, of wilting spirits finding water again. There are three women in three marriages in this film, of which two are ailing. The third one is over, almost, only the last rites haven't been performed. There are two men in the film – one who has lived a full life and is getting ready to quietly slip off the face of the earth; the other is eager to begin… What's both shocking and soothing is what the film shows us — that it takes very little for a soul to come back to life. Mostly, just a hint of hope will do."
Trisha Gupta in the Sunday Guardian wrote "The Lunchbox is a lovely little film. But it does tick all the boxes that might appeal to festival audiences: quaint Asian urbanism (Mumbai trains, dabba delivery), Indian home-cooking, romance. It provides local colour, without being demandingly untranslatable." In a less positive review for the Chicago Reader, J.R. Jones criticized the film's premise as a gimmick and its purported use of "irritating comic foil" in reference to Nawazuddin Siddiqui's and Bharati Achrekar's characters as Shaikh and Mrs. Deshpande, respectively.
The Lunchbox was considered by many people throughout the year to be a lock as India's selection for the 86th Academy Awards Best Foreign Film Category, with many critics unanimously praising it and voting for it to be the representative film. Celebrity director Karan Johar also put his support behind the film saying "All kinds of audience can connect with it and yet within the parameters of love story it is completely unusual. You feel all the love in the world for the protagonists and the unusual aspect of it is they haven't met."
However, the selection committee of the Film Federation of India (FFI) deliberated on 17 September 2013 and decided to send the Gujarati film The Good Road instead. This decision sparked outrage from many supporters of The Lunchbox, including its cast and crew. The film's producer Anurag Kashyap quickly took to Twitter and expressed his disgust, saying "I don't know who the Federation is, but it goes to show the complete lack of understanding to make films that can travel across borders." He later deleted both his Twitter and Facebook accounts, saying, "this is a moment of defeat for me, and for independent cinema, because, for once, our chances were great." Karan Johar also said he felt very disappointed that such a wonderful chance at Oscar glory with The Lunchbox was spoiled. Guneet Monga, The Lunchbox's other producer, said she was flabbergasted as to how the Federation could select a movie that didn't even have an American distributor, and also listed the number of global festivals and appreciation her film received, concluding that it sadly and supposedly "wasn't enough for the FFI".
In an interview with Siddharth Sivakumar of Tinpahar, Goutam Ghose, the chairman of the committee revealed:
Personally I liked The Lunch Box very much. But eventually the eighteen member jury supported The Good Road. Now I can say that some people from Bombay felt that the basic premise of The Lunch Box was wrong. Because the Dubbawalas never do such mistakes. Films are after all works of fiction, with the right to cinematic liberty! Although Lunch Box was my personal favourite, but as a chairman one should not impose his or her choice on others. And as you know this became suddenly a big controversy. And I think the media was again to some extent responsible for this decision. Because every day during the deliberation or the screenings, the media projected Lunch Box as the chosen one. It's my assumption, that the members probably thought, "My God! If the media has already taken the decision then why we are here?" It was a Chomskian 'manufacturing consent' – Lunch Box, Lunch Box, Lunch Box every day!! So the members, who are all very important people from the industry, had an opposite impulse. I don't know, but maybe that's the way it happened.
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There is no doubt that winter is here. Regardless of where you live in Canada, one look out the window is the only encouragement required to stay indoors and focus on memories of your favourite warm weather riding destination.
As the result of a perfectly-timed invitation from Harley-Davidson Canada, I was fortunate enough to spend a couple of days riding around Southern California in January. In addition to a brief respite from the inclement temperatures at home, this was an opportunity to experience the brand's complete Softail lineup while enjoying the favourable weather that makes California one of my all-time favourite locations.
A full report on the Softail lineup, and whether or not Harley-Davidson has what it takes to win over a dedicated sport bike enthusiast like myself, will appear in an upcoming issue of Inside Motorcycles. In the meantime, with frigid temperatures in the west and Ontario under siege by freezing rain and snow, it seemed like a perfect time to share some warm weather California images taken by the amazing Benedict Campbell. Hopefully these will assist in channelling memories of your own riding adventures.
Cruising through Marina Del Rey on the Harley-Davidson Sport Glide.
Harley-Davidson Fat Bob with its impossible to miss front end.
Laid back cruising on the Harley-Davidson Deluxe.
Cutting through traffic on the all-new Harley-Davidson FXDR 114.
The FXDR 114 strikes a pose.
Ready to ride. Harley Davidson's Deluxe, Sport Glide, Breakout and Fat Bob.
Taking in the sights along the Pacific Coast Highway.
Sunsets are so much better when your riding a motorcycle.
Inside Motorcycles spent the first three weekends of new year on the road as the 2019 Motorcycle Shows made their way through Western Canada with stops in Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver.
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Thanks to social media, gone are the days when your biggest concern was that your mom would pull out the photo albums when you brought a 'special' friend home.
Now, from the day that you're born, your baby pics, toddler pics, and everything that follows is being posted on social media for all to see.
Correction – this actually starts before you're born with those creepy sonogram pics.
You know, the ones where the baby is scanned in 3D, which makes it look like something out of House of Wax?
Yeah, those. Please stop posting those. I haven't slept in weeks.
What parents don't realise is that their kids probably don't want their pics all over the internet. Here's Fast Company with the tale of a 14-year-old who wasn't allowed to use social media until she turned 13, then quit social media when she discovered her parents' photo gallery.
That's when I realized that while this might have been the first time I was allowed on social media, it was far from the first time my photos and stories had appeared online. When I saw the pictures that she had been posting on Facebook for years, I felt utterly embarrassed, and deeply betrayed.
Think about it – what if you discovered that someone had been documenting your life, without your knowledge or permission, online for years. You'd be pretty freaked out. The fact that it's her mom doesn't make it any better.
The moral of the story here is think before posting everything your kid does on the internet, or at least ask their consent.
I know it comes from a good place, and you just want to share how lovely and clever little *insert name* is, but they might not like having their entire lives play out on social media.
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See also
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BYU athletics: Tom Holmoe addresses the future of Cougars' program
By Jeff Call @ajeffreycall
Published: July 16, 2010 5:00 pm Updated: July 16, 2010 5:12 p.m.
BYU Athletic Director Tom Holmoe
PROVO — Is BYU going independent?
What's the state of the BYU-Utah rivalry?
Was BYU ever a candidate for the Pac-10?
After months of rebuffing interview requests on the recent shake-up in the college football landscape, BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe addressed those topics and more with a group of reporters Friday.
BYU is exploring every possible avenue to enhance its athletic department's position financially and competitively, Holmoe said. He stressed that BYU didn't begin assessing its situation this summer, when rumors and speculation erupted and moves occurred — like Utah jumping to the Pac-10 Conference.
"BYU's been working on this for three years," Holmoe said. "We're in an unusual position of being in the middle of things, but not on the internal area of things. Instead of being acted upon, we wanted to be proactive. On the other hand, we're not Notre Dame. We can't make demands, and we don't have multiple invitations. So we try to make the best of this jigsaw puzzle and position ourselves for current and the future."
In the short term, the athletic department's priorities are to crack the Bowl Championship Series and increase television exposure.
Holmoe doesn't believe conference expansion is finished and figures it probably won't be settled for a couple of years. In the meantime, BYU will continue to aggressively examine its options.
"Right now, there are certain things that are frustrating to us that we don't have a lot of control over," he said. "But we can control some things. The things we can control, we'll try to take advantage of."
Holmoe confirmed the Pac-10 was never an option for BYU.
The fact Utah is heading to the Pac-10 means the rivalry will change, Holmoe said.
"(Utah) is a great partner of ours. We had an incredible rivalry, and it was fun. It got nasty for the fans a lot. But on the field, if you play, you love it. For a lot of people that really get it, it's an incredibly great rivalry. That's sad that it will change. We're fighting to try to keep it and make it work, but it's hard. The logistics have all of a sudden changed dramatically. So, we're going to fight to see what we can do, but there's no answer to that today."
Holmoe and Utah athletic director Chris Hill have been in discussions about scheduling games beginning in 2011, when Utah joins the Pac-10. Asked if BYU would schedule a 2-for-1 deal with Utah, Holmoe said no.
"What we're going to do is do what's best for BYU," Holmoe said. "When we do that, we win."
There's been speculation that BYU, which is frustrated by the lack of exposure provided by the Mountain West Conference and The mtn. television network, could leave the MWC and be on its own with the help of its own TV network.
"Independence is an option. We will look at everything," Holmoe said. "There are pros and cons to the Pac-10, the Big Ten, the Big 12, the Mountain West Conference, independence. What you have to do is weigh those and measure them against what ... what's right for BYU. And what's right for BYU in 2010, but what's right for BYU into the future. That is quite a bit more complex than most people understand."
Given that, Holmoe pointed out the school has options.
BYU owns its own television network, BYUTV, which reaches a potential audience of 150 million around the world. The school boasts a new state-of-the-art broadcasting facility.
"There's nothing better than that west of the Mississippi," Holmoe said of the facility. "The thing we can do with that, nobody in the country has that ability.
"So are we just going to watch replays of the Holiday Bowl from 1980 on BYUTV? No. We want as much as we can possibly get done to benefit the mission of our school. A lot of times, the mission of our school can be aided by athletics."
Asked if there's been interest in BYU from other conferences, like the Big 12, Holmoe said, "The answer was 'no' right now. Is the answer going to change? What do we do in the meantime? Can we show people a side they haven't seen or didn't know of? We're constantly trying to do that, which is exposure. We're working on (scheduling) games and we're doing as much as we can to make that happen."
Meanwhile, Holmoe is optimistic the MWC, which will add Boise State in 2011, has a great shot at receiving an automatic BCS bid in two years.
"If we continue to play at the level we have in our conference, we're going to be automatic qualifiers," Holmoe said. "That would be a huge thing. That would (alleviate) a lot of people's concerns if we were an automatic qualifier."
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Includes all mounting hardware. Classic style. Four toothbrush holes. Premium finish. Made from brass and ceramic. Made in Taiwan. Dish length: 5.5 in.. Overall: 2.19 in. W x 4.5 in. D x 2.75 in. H. Assembly Instructions. Kingston Brass' bathroom accessories are built for long-lasting durability and reliability. They are designed so you can easily coordinate matching pieces. Each piece is part of a collection that includes everything you need to complete your bathroom decor.
Utilizing advanced Ultraviolet Ligh to effectively kill or inactive 99.9% of bacteria,virus,and molds that may be found on toys. UV-C light technology is one of the most effective and widely used sanitizing methods in hospital or medical labs.it can be used at home,hotel or for travel. Lithium-lon rechargeable battery ensure uninterrupted operation when AC power source us not available. Embedded fail-safe features automatically shuts off the device if the device is opened or tipped over during the operation,and the operation is very simple.
Engineered to fit your Electric Rechargeable Toothbrush. This premium hard EVA case is strong, durable and provides the highest level of protection against elements, keeping it safe and secure wherever you go. Mesh pocket for the accessories. Soft lining inside the case for protection. The case is splash-proof, shockproof. Handle included to allow for effortless portability and make transportation easy breezy.
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Emphasise your curves with this lovely Nadya body proposed by Passion. Its opacity and transparency will give you a sensual and elegant look. This delicious teddy offers sublime openings at the bust and at the back.
This attractive body is made of a material that is both stretchy and soft, allowing it to adapt to your feminine curves while being very pleasant to wear. Its duo of refined fabrics alternates between opacity and transparency, for an exquisite look. This body does not have underwiring, in order to enhance the natural curve of the chest. It is equipped with adjustable shoulder straps and a clasp that will provide you with an optimal fit.
The Passion Nadya body fastens at the crotch thanks to its hook and eye fastening, adjustable to two positions.
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Category: ovation awards
Applications Now Available to Join Ovation Awards Voter Pool
Applications to be an Ovation Voter for the 2019-20 season are now available!
The Ovation Awards will be live-streamed!
The 29th Annual LA STAGE Alliance Ovation Awards will be live-streamed on Monday, Jan. 28, 2019.
29th Annual Ovation Awards Nominees Announced!
Congratulations to the nominees!
The 29th Annual Ovation Awards Nominees To Be Announced on November 19
We're happy to share that the 29th Annual Ovation Awards nominations will be announced digitally on @ This Stage Magazine.
Voter applications for the 2018-2019 Ovation Awards season are now available. Applications must be submitted no later than Monday, May 21 at noon. The Ovation Awards are the only peer–judged theatre awards in Los Angeles, recognizing excellence in theatrical performance, production, and design in the Greater Los Angeles area. Approximately 250 Ovation voters are responsible for attending […]
The 28th Annual Ovation Awards Nominees To Be Announced on November 2
We're happy to share that the 2016 Ovation Awards nominations will be announced digitally on @ This Stage Magazine.
The 2016 Ovation Awards Nominees To Be Announced on November 2
The 2015 Ovation Award Winners Announced
The 2015 Ovation Awards, celebrating theatrical excellence and achievement during the past 12 months, were presented on Monday, November 9 at the Ahmanson Theatre at The Music Center.
The 2014 Ovation Awards Winners Announced
The Ovation Awards were held on Sunday, November 2 at San Gabriel Mission Playhouse.
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The Pride of Mel Hi Marching Band has been accepted in the National Cherry Blossom Parade in April. But there's still a lot of money to be raised.
Samantha Boss has seen the monuments, visited the museums, felt the history.
Boss is the drum major for the Pride of Mel-Hi, the Melbourne High School marching band, which will perform in the National Cherry Blossom Festival Parade April 14 in the nation's capital, but only if the band raises enough money to pay for the trip.
The goal is $130,000, about half of which remains to be had, and the deadline is approaching: If the money is not raised this month, director Josh Sall will be forced to withdraw from the festival.
Not only that, he said, but chaperones and four band directors must go, too. It adds up to 188 people.
The move to send the marching Bulldogs to what bills itself as "the nation's greatest springtime festival" started last school year, when Sall sent organizers a video of a performance in a parade in Melbourne with the hope of being one of 14 bands selected. The application was accepted last spring and plans to raise money were made at once, though actual activities to do so were delayed, first for permission from Brevard County Public Schools and then by the weather.
"We had to raise $130,000 in less than a year; we had to wait to be approved and then there was the hurricane," said Kerri Butler, president of the Mel-Hi Band Parent Association and mother of Melanie Butler, a freshman tuba player; and Eric Butler, a senior saxophonist.
Parents and friends keep the orchestras playing, she said. Most high school marching bands, including the Pride of Mel-Hi, receive no public funding.
So, food has been sold, drawings have taken place, cakes have been baked, cars have been washed and letters have been sent to potential donors, some of whom have given freely; others have baffled the parents and kids by their non-responses, so far.
"We've had about two fundraisers a month since school started," Sall said.
The young musicians talk about their efforts to get themselves to Washington, naturally, because they know the National Cherry Blossom Festival is a big deal and worth the effort.
A weeks-long event that starts March 15 and culminates in the parade, it will have Carla Hall of ABC's "The Chew" as grand marshal; entertainment by Arrested Development, Well Strung, Billy Gilman, Sarah Potenza and Ty Herndon; giant balloons; and thousands of marchers and spectators. The parade will be televised nationally.
The musicians see themselves not merely as students ready to enjoy themselves, but as representatives of their school and the greater community here.
Chad Kirk can imagine such an opportunity because he's been in similar situations, having played for Florida State University's Marching Chiefs at major bowl games as well as in parades like the Orange Bowl Festival. Once a member of the Pride of Mel-Hi, he now he is principal of Melbourne High School, and he wants his fellow musicians to know how it feels.
Those experiences will include marching and playing the likes of Justin Timberlake's "Can't Stop the Feeling," George M. Cohan's "You're a Grand Old Flag" and, of course, the Mel-Hi fight song, but they also will include visits to those monuments and museums. And band members are expected to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.
Clough and Boss, who have been there, took deep breaths at the very mention of it.
To donate to the Pride of Mel-Hi's campaign to go to the National Cherry Blossom Festival Parade, go to www.prideofmelhiband.com and click on the donate button or contact the Mel-Hi Band Parents Association, P.O. Box 1821, Melbourne, FL 32902.
Melbourne High School is located at 74 Bulldog Blvd., Melbourne, FL 32901.
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HomeNewsTwo Brothers Sentenced To 17 Years Imprisonment For Defiling Underage Girl In Ekiti
Two Brothers Sentenced To 17 Years Imprisonment For Defiling Underage Girl In Ekiti
Tunde Lawal March 30, 2022
The defendants were sentenced on two counts of conspiracy and r*pe of a 15-year-old girl on 8th May 2021 in Ajilosun Area of Ado Ekiti the state capital.
Martins Ifebuchi (32) and John Joseph (19) have been sentenced to seventeen years imprisonment each by an Ekiti State High Court, sitting in Ado Ekiti.
In her recorded statement, the victim said, "the first defendant and her mother were both tenants in the house, adding that her mother used to travel to buy goods to take care of her and the brother, she said, Martins has been using that opportunity to be sleeping with her, the victim said, there was a bloodstain on her mother's bed, the first day he forcefully had s3xual intercourse with her and warned her not to tell anybody, if she does she will die.
"Thereafter, the second defendant (John) came on holiday to his brother's (Ifebuchi) house, he also joined Martins in r*ping her.
"When she could not bear it anymore, she explained to her mother but instead of her mother to raise an alarm, she did not, she pretended to have travelled as usual, when she was sleeping around 9:00pm on that day, they defendants entered their room, they were in the process of undressing her when her mother entered and caught them, they were arrested and handed over to the police,'' she concluded.''
To prove his case, the prosecution counsel, Kola Kolade called three witnesses and tendered a medical report, statements of the victim and defendants, attestation form among others as exhibits while Otunba Sunday Ochayi counsel to the defendants called five witnesses including the defendants.
In his judgment, Justice Adeniyi Familoni said, "the offence of r*pe is a heinous crime, an act of utmost inhumanity which is devastatingly damaging. It becomes worse when a victim is a person of tender years, as in this case.
"The defendants deserve such punishment that should serve as a deterrent to others with similar tendencies.
"Conclusively, I hold that the prosecution has successfully proved the alleged offences of conspiracy and r*pe against the defendants beyond a reasonable doubt, as required by law.
"Consequently, the defendants are found guilty of the offences of conspiracy and r*pe of the fifteen-year-old girl on the 8th of May, 2021.
The defendants are each sentenced to seven (7) years imprisonment on the count of conspiracy and ten (10) years imprisonment each on the count of r*pe without an option of fine. The sentences are to run concurrently with effect from the date of his judgment.
In his reaction after the judgment, Otunba Sunday Ochayi said, he will study the verdict and weighting the possibility and option of appealing the judgment.
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What's New for 2017: Lexus
By FeedBot, December 24, 2016 in Auto News
With its edgy "spindle grille" look now firmly entrenched in its brand identity, Lexus is turning its sights on making making its lineup live up to the new look. To that end, the big news right now is definitely the upcoming arrival of the Lexus LC sports coupe. It's the successor to the SC, a model that arrived shortly after Lexus' launch but...
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Mapua Designer Tops Jewelry Awards
To win a design competition is tough enough. To win the top prizes, besting 250 other people, speaks of not sheer luck but raw talent shining. Such was the case when Mapua Institute of Technology Industrial design student Marianne Frisnedi the top positions for the three design categories of this year's prestigious 2nd Philippine Jewelry Design Competition and edged out the 13 other design finalists submitted by students and professionals alike.
Fresnedi's winning designs included the "Interwoven Necklace", whose concept is derived from weaved abaka inspired by the likeness of pandan leaves made from gold and diamonds; and the "C Pendant", a design tribute to the Philippine carabao and made from gold and silver and incorporates Kamagong for the horns. The two designs won the first place for the precious metals and gemstones and precious metals and non-traditional materials categories, respectively. Her designs were crafted by Sterling Gifts Inc., her sponsor in the competition.
Fresnedi also shone the brightest when the C Pendant was named as the best of the best for this year's design competition, which came with a P30,000 grand prize which added to the P40,000 pesos she had won for her two category wins.
When asked if her career plans would now be influenced by her win, she answered, "I had originally planned to take a job with a major clothing firm, but now I might seriously consider taking up a career in jewelry design."
Jay Camus, chairman of the design competition and director of the Guild of Philippine Jewellers Inc, described the affair as the birth of the country's next generation of jewellery designers. "We planned this project to be the showcase of fresh talent. That is why students were strongly encouraged to participate. Individuals having no ties to the industry were likewise invited to join," said Camus. The previous jewellery design competition, held in 1998, marked the beginning of the advocacy to raise the standard of the country's jewelry industry and helped showcase the Guild's commitment to the advancement and global recognition of the Philippine fine jewellery industry, as well as serve as the platform for discovering new talents in craftsmanship and design of precious personal ornaments.
The Mapua Institute of Technology, the educational institution under the Yuchengco Group of Companies (YGC) has been churning out talented designers and animators under its various design and arts programs. The top awards by one of its students in this competition made the exhibition of special winning pieces worthy of public appreciation and are presently on exhibit at the Yuchengco Museum. (For information, please call 889-1234).
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Q: Disabling entire header for WooCommerce's Storefront theme for a single product's page with CSS? I've tried doing things like .page-id-1122 #different-elements-i-saw-in-chrome-inspector-here { display: none; } without any luck.
Can anyone tell me how I'd accomplish this? Thank you in advance.
A: Just get your header id and go to your style css, add this code
body.product-template-default.single.single-product.woocommerce.woocommerce-page.customize-support .header-area {
display: none;
}
Here .header-area will be your header class/id.
A: Try this:
.page-id-1122 #different-elements-i-saw-in-chrome-inspector-here { display: none !important; visibility: hidden !important; }
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Home News ASEAN
Agreement signed to build China-Myanmar Economic Corridor
by Arno Maierbrugger - Sep 16, 2018
Myanmar and China signed a memorandum of understanding to set up the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC) as part of Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative, according to a statement from the China National Development and Reform Commission.
The agreement was signed on September 9 by Myanmar's Minister of Planning and Finance U Soe Win and He Lifeng, chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). The NDRC, China's top economic planning agency, aims to construct basic infrastructure across key economic centers in Myanmar.
The estimated 1,700-kilometer-long corridor will connect Kunming, the capital of China's Yunnan Province, to Myanmar's major economic checkpoints—first to Mandalay in central Myanmar, and then west to the Kyaukphyu Special Economic Zone.
The two sides agreed to form working groups focusing on a dozen different areas, including basic infrastructure, construction, manufacturing, agriculture, transport, finance, human resources development, telecommunications, and research and technology.
The deal comes at a time when Myanmar faces tremendous economic hardship at home and mounting global pressure over ethnic conflicts in the country. The CMEC offers a solution for the Southeast Asian nation to weather the daunting challenges and points to the growing popularity of China's win-win, no-strings-attached cooperation model under the Belt and Road initiative, analysts noted.
The CMEC will also reduce Beijing's trade and energy reliance on the Malacca straits — the narrow passage that links the Indian Ocean with the Pacific. Chinese planners worry that the military domination over the Malacca straits of the US — a country with which it is already engaged in a trade war — can threaten one of China's major economic lifeline.
Myanmar and China signed a memorandum of understanding to set up the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC) as part of Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative, according to a statement from the China National Development and Reform Commission. The agreement was signed on September 9 by Myanmar's Minister of Planning and Finance U Soe Win and He Lifeng, chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). The NDRC, China's top economic planning agency, aims to construct basic infrastructure across key economic centers in Myanmar. The estimated 1,700-kilometer-long corridor will connect Kunming, the capital of China's Yunnan Province, to Myanmar's major economic...
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The Red Bluff Veteran's Gun Show currently has no upcoming dates scheduled in Red Bluff, CA. This Red Bluff gun show is held at Red Bluff Elk's Lodge and hosted by Onpoint Firearms. All federal, state and local firearm ordinances and laws must be obeyed. Hosted by The Marine Corps League Detachment 1140.
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// Copyright 2017 DAIMTO ([Linda Lawton](https://twitter.com/LindaLawtonDK)) : [www.daimto.com](http://www.daimto.com/)
//
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
// the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
//
// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
//
// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on
// an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
// specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// <auto-generated>
// This code was generated by DAIMTO-Google-apis-Sample-generator 1.0.0
// Template File Name: methodTemplate.tt
// Build date: 2017-10-08
// C# generater version: 1.0.0
//
// Changes to this file may cause incorrect behavior and will be lost if
// the code is regenerated.
// </auto-generated>
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// About
//
// Unoffical sample for the Classroom v1 API for C#.
// This sample is designed to be used with the Google .Net client library. (https://github.com/google/google-api-dotnet-client)
//
// API Description: Manages classes, rosters, and invitations in Google Classroom.
// API Documentation Link https://developers.google.com/classroom/
//
// Discovery Doc https://www.googleapis.com/discovery/v1/apis/Classroom/v1/rest
//
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Installation
//
// This sample code uses the Google .Net client library (https://github.com/google/google-api-dotnet-client)
//
// NuGet package:
//
// Location: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Google.Apis.Classroom.v1/
// Install Command: PM> Install-Package Google.Apis.Classroom.v1
//
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
using Google.Apis.Classroom.v1;
using Google.Apis.Classroom.v1.Data;
using System;
namespace GoogleSamplecSharpSample.Classroomv1.Methods
{
public static class InvitationsSample
{
/// <summary>
/// Creates an invitation. Only one invitation for a user and course may existat a time. Delete and re-create an invitation to make changes.This method returns the following error codes:* `PERMISSION_DENIED` if the requesting user is not permitted to createinvitations for this course or for access errors.* `NOT_FOUND` if the course or the user does not exist.* `FAILED_PRECONDITION` if the requested user's account is disabled or ifthe user already has this role or a role with greater permissions.* `ALREADY_EXISTS` if an invitation for the specified user and coursealready exists.
/// Documentation https://developers.google.com/classroom/v1/reference/invitations/create
/// Generation Note: This does not always build corectly. Google needs to standardise things I need to figuer out which ones are wrong.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="service">Authenticated Classroom service.</param>
/// <param name="body">A valid Classroom v1 body.</param>
/// <returns>InvitationResponse</returns>
public static Invitation Create(ClassroomService service, Invitation body)
{
try
{
// Initial validation.
if (service == null)
throw new ArgumentNullException("service");
if (body == null)
throw new ArgumentNullException("body");
// Make the request.
return service.Invitations.Create(body).Execute();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw new Exception("Request Invitations.Create failed.", ex);
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Accepts an invitation, removing it and adding the invited user to theteachers or students (as appropriate) of the specified course. Only theinvited user may accept an invitation.This method returns the following error codes:* `PERMISSION_DENIED` if the requesting user is not permitted to accept therequested invitation or for access errors.* `FAILED_PRECONDITION` for the following request errors: * CourseMemberLimitReached * CourseNotModifiable * CourseTeacherLimitReached * UserGroupsMembershipLimitReached* `NOT_FOUND` if no invitation exists with the requested ID.
/// Documentation https://developers.google.com/classroom/v1/reference/invitations/accept
/// Generation Note: This does not always build corectly. Google needs to standardise things I need to figuer out which ones are wrong.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="service">Authenticated Classroom service.</param>
/// <param name="id">Identifier of the invitation to accept.</param>
/// <returns>EmptyResponse</returns>
public static Empty Accept(ClassroomService service, string id)
{
try
{
// Initial validation.
if (service == null)
throw new ArgumentNullException("service");
if (id == null)
throw new ArgumentNullException(id);
// Make the request.
return service.Invitations.Accept(id).Execute();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw new Exception("Request Invitations.Accept failed.", ex);
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Deletes an invitation.This method returns the following error codes:* `PERMISSION_DENIED` if the requesting user is not permitted to delete therequested invitation or for access errors.* `NOT_FOUND` if no invitation exists with the requested ID.
/// Documentation https://developers.google.com/classroom/v1/reference/invitations/delete
/// Generation Note: This does not always build corectly. Google needs to standardise things I need to figuer out which ones are wrong.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="service">Authenticated Classroom service.</param>
/// <param name="id">Identifier of the invitation to delete.</param>
/// <returns>EmptyResponse</returns>
public static Empty Delete(ClassroomService service, string id)
{
try
{
// Initial validation.
if (service == null)
throw new ArgumentNullException("service");
if (id == null)
throw new ArgumentNullException(id);
// Make the request.
return service.Invitations.Delete(id).Execute();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw new Exception("Request Invitations.Delete failed.", ex);
}
}
public class InvitationsListOptionalParms
{
/// nextPageTokenvalue returned from a previouslist call, indicatingthat the subsequent page of results should be returned.The list request must beotherwise identical to the one that resulted in this token.
public string PageToken { get; set; }
/// Restricts returned invitations to those for a specific user. The identifiercan be one of the following:* the numeric identifier for the user* the email address of the user* the string literal `"me"`, indicating the requesting user
public string UserId { get; set; }
/// Maximum number of items to return. Zero means no maximum.The server may return fewer than the specified number of results.
public int? PageSize { get; set; }
/// Restricts returned invitations to those for a course with the specifiedidentifier.
public string CourseId { get; set; }
}
/// <summary>
/// Returns a list of invitations that the requesting user is permitted toview, restricted to those that match the list request.*Note:* At least one of `user_id` or `course_id` must be supplied. Bothfields can be supplied.This method returns the following error codes:* `PERMISSION_DENIED` for access errors.
/// Documentation https://developers.google.com/classroom/v1/reference/invitations/list
/// Generation Note: This does not always build corectly. Google needs to standardise things I need to figuer out which ones are wrong.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="service">Authenticated Classroom service.</param>
/// <param name="optional">Optional paramaters.</param>
/// <returns>ListInvitationsResponseResponse</returns>
public static ListInvitationsResponse List(ClassroomService service, InvitationsListOptionalParms optional = null)
{
try
{
// Initial validation.
if (service == null)
throw new ArgumentNullException("service");
// Building the initial request.
var request = service.Invitations.List();
// Applying optional parameters to the request.
request = (InvitationsResource.ListRequest)SampleHelpers.ApplyOptionalParms(request, optional);
// Requesting data.
return request.Execute();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw new Exception("Request Invitations.List failed.", ex);
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Returns an invitation.This method returns the following error codes:* `PERMISSION_DENIED` if the requesting user is not permitted to view therequested invitation or for access errors.* `NOT_FOUND` if no invitation exists with the requested ID.
/// Documentation https://developers.google.com/classroom/v1/reference/invitations/get
/// Generation Note: This does not always build corectly. Google needs to standardise things I need to figuer out which ones are wrong.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="service">Authenticated Classroom service.</param>
/// <param name="id">Identifier of the invitation to return.</param>
/// <returns>InvitationResponse</returns>
public static Invitation Get(ClassroomService service, string id)
{
try
{
// Initial validation.
if (service == null)
throw new ArgumentNullException("service");
if (id == null)
throw new ArgumentNullException(id);
// Make the request.
return service.Invitations.Get(id).Execute();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw new Exception("Request Invitations.Get failed.", ex);
}
}
}
public static class SampleHelpers
{
/// <summary>
/// Using reflection to apply optional parameters to the request.
///
/// If the optonal parameters are null then we will just return the request as is.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="request">The request. </param>
/// <param name="optional">The optional parameters. </param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static object ApplyOptionalParms(object request, object optional)
{
if (optional == null)
return request;
System.Reflection.PropertyInfo[] optionalProperties = (optional.GetType()).GetProperties();
foreach (System.Reflection.PropertyInfo property in optionalProperties)
{
// Copy value from optional parms to the request. They should have the same names and datatypes.
System.Reflection.PropertyInfo piShared = (request.GetType()).GetProperty(property.Name);
if (property.GetValue(optional, null) != null) // TODO Test that we do not add values for items that are null
piShared.SetValue(request, property.GetValue(optional, null), null);
}
return request;
}
}
}
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A number of different sectors across construction have been making use of building information modelling (BIM) comma now a leading body wants it to be introduced into facilities management (FM).
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) produced a survey which found that there is still a lack of BIM knowledge among FM professionals and it is something that the organisation is keen to address. RICS is now calling for more ambitious sector targets to help raise awareness of the technology and the benefits it can bring to a company's operations.
BIM involves 3D modelling of a structure behind a single brick is laid. It is designed at helping contractors spot any potential problems that could occur during the building phase. RICS notes that it is essential to help companies not only complete a project on time but also prevents them from overspending on any unforeseen extra costs.
RICS' BIM4FM survey found that 35 per cent of FM professionals are not familiar with the technology and its uses. Officials are now concerned that companies within this industry could be missing out on the "added value" that BIM can bring to construction projects. One of main problems with implementing BIM, cited by 50.5 per cent of respondents, was the initial investment and maintenance costs.
However, RICS believes that this should not stop companies adopting the technology. Johnny Dunford, RICS' global commercial property director, said: "It is vital that the entire property industry works together to ensure the data BIM produces is transferable across the different professions operating at every stage of a building's life-cycle.
"By embracing BIM, FM professionals not only gain additional skills but can also become involved at the design stage as an educated consultant."
RICS is now set to work alongside the Construction Industry Council, a government-initiated task group for BIM, to raise awareness of BIM throughout the UK.
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1. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
PG-13 | 164 min | Action, Thriller
Eight years after the Joker's reign of anarchy, Batman, with the help of the enigmatic Catwoman, is forced from his exile to save Gotham City from the brutal guerrilla terrorist Bane.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, Gary Oldman
Votes: 1,434,630 | Gross: $448.14M
2. Dazed and Confused (1993)
R | 102 min | Comedy
The adventures of high school and junior high students on the last day of school in May 1976.
Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, Matthew McConaughey, Rory Cochrane
3. Power Rangers (2017)
Director: Dean Israelite | Stars: Dacre Montgomery, Naomi Scott, RJ Cyler, Ludi Lin
4. Brick (2005)
R | 110 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.
Director: Rian Johnson | Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lukas Haas, Emilie de Ravin, Meagan Good
5. National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
At a 1962 college, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.
Director: John Landis | Stars: John Belushi, Karen Allen, Tom Hulce, Stephen Furst
6. Halloween (I) (2018)
Laurie Strode confronts her long-time foe Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
Director: David Gordon Green | Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, James Jude Courtney
7. Jennifer's Body (2009)
A newly possessed high school cheerleader turns into a succubus who specializes in killing her male classmates. Can her best friend put an end to the horror?
Director: Karyn Kusama | Stars: Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Adam Brody, Johnny Simmons
R | 104 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
Obsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for twenty years without reason.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Samuel L. Jackson, Sharlto Copley
9. The Spectacular Now (2013)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A hard-partying high school senior's philosophy on life changes when he meets the not-so-typical "nice girl."
Director: James Ponsoldt | Stars: Miles Teller, Shailene Woodley, Kyle Chandler, Jennifer Jason Leigh
10. The Glass Castle (2017)
PG-13 | 127 min | Biography, Drama
A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty.
Director: Destin Daniel Cretton | Stars: Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, Naomi Watts, Ella Anderson
11. Project X (2012)
R | 88 min | Comedy
3 high school seniors throw a birthday party to make a name for themselves. As the night progresses, things spiral out of control as word of the party spreads.
Director: Nima Nourizadeh | Stars: Thomas Mann, Oliver Cooper, Jonathan Daniel Brown, Dax Flame
12. We Are Marshall (2006)
When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team's new coach and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive.
Director: McG | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Matthew Fox, Anthony Mackie, David Strathairn
13. The Game Plan (2007)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Family, Sport
An NFL quarterback living the bachelor lifestyle discovers that he has an 8-year-old daughter from a previous relationship.
Director: Andy Fickman | Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Kyra Sedgwick, Madison Pettis, Roselyn Sanchez
14. Ride Along (2014)
PG-13 | 99 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Security guard Ben must prove himself to his girlfriend's brother, top police officer James. He rides along James on a 24-hour patrol of Atlanta.
Director: Tim Story | Stars: Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, Tika Sumpter, John Leguizamo
Votes: 97,346 | Gross: $134.94M
15. Across the Universe (2007)
PG-13 | 133 min | Drama, Fantasy, History
The music of The Beatles and the Vietnam War form the backdrop for the romance between an upper-class American girl and a poor Liverpudlian artist.
Director: Julie Taymor | Stars: Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs
16. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Three World War II veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Fredric March, Teresa Wright
17. Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)
Three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview a guy who placed a classified advertisement seeking a companion for time travel.
Director: Colin Trevorrow | Stars: Aubrey Plaza, Mark Duplass, Jake Johnson, Karan Soni
18. The Watch (I) (2012)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
Four men who form a neighborhood watch group as a way to get out of their day-to-day family routines find themselves defending the Earth from an alien invasion.
Director: Akiva Schaffer | Stars: Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, Billy Crudup
19. October Sky (1999)
PG | 108 min | Biography, Drama, Family
The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes.
Director: Joe Johnston | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Laura Dern, Chris Owen
20. North Country (2005)
A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States, Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.
Director: Niki Caro | Stars: Charlize Theron, Jeremy Renner, Frances McDormand, Thomas Curtis
21. Starsky & Hutch (2004)
PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Crime
Two streetwise cops bust criminals in their red and white Ford Gran Torino, with the help of a police snitch called "Huggy Bear".
Director: Todd Phillips | Stars: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Snoop Dogg, Vince Vaughn
22. Wolves (2014)
R | 91 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
A boy is trying to find out about his family history and stumbles upon a town of lycans.
Director: David Hayter | Stars: Lucas Till, Stephen McHattie, John Pyper-Ferguson, Merritt Patterson
23. A Face in the Crowd (1957)
Not Rated | 126 min | Drama, Music
An Arkansas drifter becomes an overnight media sensation. As he becomes drunk with fame and power, will he ever be exposed as the fraud he has become?
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa, Walter Matthau
24. The Last Movie Star (I) (2017)
R | 94 min | Drama
An aging former movie star is forced to face the reality that his glory days are behind him. On its surface, the film is a tale about faded fame. At its core, it's a universal story about growing old.
Director: Adam Rifkin | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Ariel Winter, Clark Duke, Chevy Chase
25. The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976 TV Movie)
PG | 96 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The girl next door makes a teen born with immune deficiencies want to leave his germ-free bubble.
Director: Randal Kleiser | Stars: John Travolta, Glynnis O'Connor, Robert Reed, Diana Hyland
26. Kristy (2014)
Not Rated | 86 min | Horror, Thriller
When a college girl who is alone on campus over the Thanksgiving break is targeted by a group of outcasts, she must conquer her deepest fears to outwit them and fight back.
Director: Olly Blackburn | Stars: Haley Bennett, Ashley Greene, Lucas Till, Chris Coy
27. The Comebacks (2007)
R | 84 min | Comedy, Sport
A comedy that spoofs inspirational sports movies, this movie tells the story of an out-of-luck coach, Lambeau Fields, who takes a rag-tag bunch of college misfits and drives them towards the football championships. In the process, this life-long loser discovers that he is a winner after all by redeeming himself, saving his relationship with his family and friends, and finding that there is indeed... See full summary »
Director: Tom Brady | Stars: David Koechner, Robert Ri'chard, Carl Weathers, Melora Hardin
28. The Food of the Gods (1976)
PG | 88 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of friends travel to a remote Canadian island to hunt, only to be attacked by giant killer animals which have populated the place.
Director: Bert I. Gordon | Stars: Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker, Jon Cypher
29. Lazer Team (2015)
PG-13 | 102 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Four losers are thrust into the position of saving the world when they stumble upon a UFO crash site and become genetically equipped to the battle suit on board.
Director: Matt Hullum | Stars: Burnie Burns, Gavin Free, Michael Jones, Colton Dunn
30. Prom Night III: The Last Kiss (1990 Video)
The malevolent spirit of Mary Lou Maloney returns to Hamilton High, where she manipulates a naive male student into helping her wreak havoc on the school.
Directors: Ron Oliver, Peter R. Simpson | Stars: Tim Conlon, Cynthia Preston, David Stratton, Courtney Taylor
31. The Chocolate War (1988)
A surreal portrait of a Catholic Private School and its hierarchy. A new student must submit to the bizarre rituals of his peers and the expectations of the school's administration by ... See full summary »
Director: Keith Gordon | Stars: John Glover, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Wallace Langham, Doug Hutchison
32. Catching Faith (2015)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Family, Sport
From the outside, Alexa has the perfect life. Her son is the high school football star, her daughter a straight-A student, and her husband the CFO of a booming start-up company. The sudden ... See full summary »
Director: John K.D. Graham | Stars: Lorena Segura York, Garrett Westton, Bill Engvall, Alexandra Boylan
33. The Shortcut (2009)
Two brothers come upon a rarely used shortcut in their new town.
Director: Nicholaus Goossen | Stars: Katrina Bowden, Jeremy Bastian, Cavan Cunningham, William B. Davis
34. The Merger (2018)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
Troy Carrington, a former professional football player returns to his country town after an abrupt end to his sporting career and is persuaded to coach the hapless local footy team, the Roosters.
Director: Mark Grentell | Stars: Damian Callinan, Kate Mulvany, John Howard, Rafferty Grierson
35. Dogtown (1997)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Romance
Philip Van Horn, who left his small town a long time ago to become a Hollywood actor and hasn't had any success at that, returns to the town for a visit. There he is uniformally met like ... See full summary »
Director: George Hickenlooper | Stars: Rory Cochrane, David Shackelford, Trevor St. John, Price Carson
36. The Assault (2014 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Sam Gleason lives in a town where high school football is the backbone of the community. When she accuses a member of the team of committing heinous acts against her on a night she can't even remember, will anyone believe her?
Director: Jason Winn | Stars: Gary Weeks, Khandi Alexander, Erin Cole, Malik Yoba
37. Series 7: The Contenders (2001)
R | 86 min | Comedy, Thriller
A TV program selects people at random to kill one another for fame and their freedom.
Director: Daniel Minahan | Stars: Brooke Smith, Marylouise Burke, Mark Woodbury, Michael Kaycheck
38. Blue Ridge Fall (1999)
In Jefferson Creek, North Carolina, the colors of autumn signal Friday night lights, and high-school quarterback Danny Shepherd is the main event. He and his friends, Shane and Taz, live ... See full summary »
Director: James Rowe | Stars: Peter Facinelli, Jay R. Ferguson, Rodney Eastman, Chris Isaak
39. Holiday High School Reunion (2012 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
When a woman learns of her high school reunion a week before Christmas, she's ecstatic to finally have her chance to win back the one "that got away".
Director: Marita Grabiak | Stars: Rachel Boston, Jonathan Bennett, Jon Prescott, Marilu Henner
40. Catching Faith 2 (2019)
Drama, Family, Sport
Everything seems to be going wrong for the Taylor family right now. Just as Alexa is starting work at her dream job, she's overwhelmed by caring for her mother suffering from Alzheimer's ... See full summary »
Director: John K.D. Graham | Stars: Bill Engvall, Garrett Westton, Erin Ross, Lorena Segura York
41. Life of the Party (2005)
R | Comedy, Drama, Sport
A group of friends plan an intervention to help their pal address his drinking problem. Things go awry when the shrink they hired fails to show up.
Director: Barra Grant | Stars: Eion Bailey, Ellen Pompeo, Clifton Collins Jr., John Ales
42. Duke Nukem 3D (1996 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Blonde action hero Duke Nukem takes on murderous aliens and mutated Los Angeles police officers that have taken over Los Angeles.
Director: Greg Malone | Stars: Lee Jackson, Lani Minella, Jon St. John
43. Funky Monkey (2004)
PG | 94 min | Comedy, Family
Boy genius Michael Dean (Adkins) teams up with a super-talented chimpanzee and his caretaker (Modine) to take down an animal testing lab. In exchange the scientist gives the boy some pointers on the girl of his dreams.
Directors: Harry Basil, Gene Quintano | Stars: Seth Adkins, Matthew Modine, Roma Downey, Alexandre Aubry
44. The Overnighters (2014)
PG-13 | 102 min | Documentary, Drama
Broken, desperate men chase their dreams and run from their demons in the North Dakota oil fields. A local Pastor risks everything to help them.
Director: Jesse Moss | Stars: Jay Reinke, Andrea Reinke, Alan Mezo, Shelly Schultz
45. The Club (1980)
PG | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
Boardroom and dressing-room intrigues spill on to the field at the Australian Rules football club.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Jack Thompson, Graham Kennedy, Frank Wilson, Harold Hopkins
46. Big Bad Love (2001)
R | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Barlow is a hard-drinking, heavy-smoking, long-haired, and deeply unhappy aspiring writer who pulls a dozen rejection slips out of his mailbox every day while trying to get through his life with some semblance of purpose.
Director: Arliss Howard | Stars: Arliss Howard, Debra Winger, Paul Le Mat, Rosanna Arquette
47. Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story (1988 TV Movie)
A real-life story about a high school teacher and football coach who is diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease but refuses to give in.
Director: Roy Campanella II | Stars: Pam Dawber, Michael Nouri, Bess Meyer, Peter Berg
48. The Black 6 (1973)
R | 94 min | Action, Drama
A black high school student is caught dating a white girl by the girl's brother. He and his biker gang beat the boy to death. The boy's brother, who is a member of a black biker gang, hears... See full summary »
Director: Matt Cimber | Stars: Robert Howard, Cindy Daly, Mikel Angel, John Isenbarger
49. Two-A-Days: Hoover High (2006–2007)
30 min | Drama, Reality-TV, Sport
Follows the 2005 football season of the Hoover High School Buccaneers, of Hoover, Alabama.
Stars: Zack Lathem, Alex Binder, Max Lerner, Dwam 'Repete' Smith
50. Evil (2005)
An evil force is awakened in downtown Athens transforming the unsuspecting citizens into raving zombies. The few survivors will have to fight hard for their lives. To the death.
Director: Giorgos Nousias | Stars: Meletis Georgiadis, Argiris Thanasoulas, Pepi Moschovakou, Stavroula Thomopoulou
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You bicker. You say constantly. You yell and combat. Is this the very same person you married? So you need to know exactly how to take care of a connection that has gone sour, that appears to be loveless and possibly sexless? The bright side is that you can fix your partnership despite exactly how far gone it appears and even if you are the only one that wants to.
Among the first points to understand is that dealing with takes its toll on any type of partnership. The more you combat, the much more psychological range creates in between you. One trick to avoid combating is to "make a consultation to solve this" as opposed to advancing. You can see more concerning it in this article concerning tips to save a marriage in trouble. As quickly as you begin to bicker (and your spouse or partner will need to agree to do this) stop and state that you intend to make a consultation to proceed this argument. Maybe tonite at 7pm. Do not proceed the argument. Go obtain a breath.
You will rapidly discover that when 7 rolls around and you attempt to solve your difference, the majority of your battles were about foolish points. However maintain the appointments anyhow. This method is a great way to nip the saying in the bud to ensure that you can go on with the rebuilding of your partnership. You will be astonished at just how much far better you appear to agree your partner when you do not have bitter (and usually foolish) debates draining your psychological power.
Obviously, when it involves exactly how to take care of a connection, there is a whole lot more to it than finding out exactly how to fight much less. Maybe one of the most vital function of taking care of a connection is truly comprehending your partner and that person's mindset. Ladies constantly believe males are foolish and males believe ladies are crazy however it's merely not true. The problem is that both sexes believe differently. You may have an argument with your spouse and believe that their viewpoint is nuts, however the trick is to recognize WHY they have that viewpoint.
This is all rather stimulating things and you can not anticipate to learn exactly how to take care of a connection by reviewing write-ups on the internet. You require to lean on the recommendations of specialists that have helped countless couples save their partnerships.
Individuals looking for marriage help need to beware. As I've said before on other article, you need to obtain help, however obtaining the wrong help can make points even worse. Marriage counseling can hurt your marriage. Have a look at this article concerning can marriage counseling really work to see what I imply. You do not require simply any type of help– you require professional, tried and tested recommendations. Asking concerns in online forums, and reviewing online write-ups is simple and economical, however simply where is the recommendations originating from? As well as the very same opts for online marriage counseling. Yes it can work however read this article concerning is there free marriage counseling to obtain all of the info you require about online marriage counseling.
I was when approached by a net online marketer that was offering a book on exactly how to make your spouse drop back crazy with you. Seems excellent, right? Many married people (most, actually) discover that after a couple of years they simply do not "seem like they are in love any longer." Now, I believe this is a natural method to feel. Besides, "crazy" is in some cases utilized to imply "fixated with" or "stressed with" rather than actually loving your partner. It is a sensation that you have really little control over and it constantly fades to be changed by a more mature, lasting love.
However, back to my story … The "recommendations" of that ebook was to make use of tricks to make your spouse envious, and envy would make them "much more attracted" to you. This needs to be just about the stupidest thing you can do. Certain, it operates in senior high school constantly. However it rarely works when you have had a long-term partnership. If your marriage remains in problem and you attempt to make your spouse envious, you will drive your spouse additionally away. Needless to say, I would never ever be able to support a publication that was built on poor recommendations.
Right here's the important things– I understood it was bad recommendations, however would you? I found out to save my very own marriage and since then I've studied what real experts need to state. You could even state that I'm a specialist now. However are you? Probably not. If you got poor recommendations, would you understand it was bad recommendations or would you do what was recommended and end up damaging what stays of your partnership?
Quit reviewing write-ups you discover on the internet (except the ones I offer you such as this one concerning marriage problems stepchildren!) and stop socializing in marriage online forums! No recommendations is great recommendations unless it comes from a leading professional. This counts for pals also– sorry, however even with the very best of objectives, their recommendations is possibly wrong.
The CDC claimed the young person was offered tetanus immune globulin along with a vaccination for diphtheria, tetanus toxoids and also acellular pertussis (DTaP). He additionally needed to be sedated as a result of the spasms and also he had actually a tube placed in his windpipe to aid him take a breath.
At the healthcare facility, the kid was placed in a darkened area with minimal excitement and also offered ear plugs since excitement showed up to worsen his spasms.
During his therapy, the kid's neck and also back arching aggravated, he established high blood pressure or hypertension, and also his body temperature soared to 40.5 C. The ordinary body temperature is in between 36 and also 37 C.
In total amount, the kid needed to spend approximately eight weeks in the healthcare facility complied with by another 17 in a rehab centre prior to he was able to resume regular activities, such as cycling and also running.
The CDC kept in mind the costs for his therapy amounted to $811,929, omitting air transportation, inpatient rehab, and also ambulatory follow-up costs.
The report claimed the costs to treat the kid were 72 times the ordinary price of a pediatric healthcare facility stay in the UNITED STATE, which is $11,143.
Despite the fact that medical professionals reviewed the threats and also benefits of tetanus inoculation with the kid's family members, they still declined to give him a 2nd dosage of DTaP and also other advised immunizations, the report claimed.
The CDC included that extensive use vaccinations for tetanus have actually led to a 95 percent decrease in the variety of tetanus situations and also a 99 percent decrease in the variety of deaths connected to the illness because 1940.
"Unvaccinated or inadequately vaccinated persons are at risk for tetanus, irrespective of age," the report claimed.
The health and wellness firm claimed individuals who get tetanus aren't immune to it in the future.
The CDC report comes as health and wellness specialists grapple with a number of measles episodes in the UNITED STATE and also Canada. Earlier this month, the United Nations cautioned that a growing anti-vaccine movement is threatening to undo years of job to eradicate the illness.
To avoid tetanus, Health Canada recommends babies and also kids should get a consolidated vaccination that safeguards them from five various illness, including tetanus, at 2 months, 4 months, six months, and also 18 months. Older kids should obtain a booster tetanus vaccination in between the ages of 4 to six years of ages. The health and wellness firm claimed young adults should obtain another booster at age 14 to 16.
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Choosing a reputable physician for your hair transplant procedure is undoubtedly the most crucial decision you will make in the entire process. When correctly performed by a trained surgeon, the success rate of hair transplants is very high.
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Q: Scroll to UITableViewCell that contains a certain UITextField I have a UITableView with static custom UITableViewCells, I need to scroll a text field into view as currently they are getting hidden behind the keyboard after the return key is pressed and the next responder is set. I know i need to use scrollToRowAtIndexPath:atScrollPosition:animated:. How would I go about scrolling to one of the text boxes?
I know this should scroll itself but if your UIViewController derives from UITableViewController (as Apple states it should be) then the UITableViewController class handles this behaviour for you by implementing UITextFieldDelegate, UIScrollViewDelegate etc. My application stopped doing this as I changed to derive from UIViewController and add the table view on top of the view controller's UIView. So basically I'm missing the features from UITableViewController because I (for other reasons) choose to derive from UIViewControler.
A: I do this all the time. The way that I do it is I have a method that is called in the UIControlEventEditingDidBegin for the textfield, and in that method, I do:
-(void)startEdit:(UITextField *)textField {
self.prevOffset = self.tableView.contentOffset.y; //I like storing the current offset so I can restore it when the text stops editing, you don't have to do this.
int offSet = [textField superview].frame.origin.y; //this gets the y coordinate of the cell the textField is in. If the table is not at 0,0, you also need to add [[textField superview] superview].frame.origin.y;
offSet-=(self.view.frame.size.height-KEYBOARD_HEIGHT)/2; //where KEYBOARD_HEIGHT is 216 in portrait and 160 in landscape;
if (offSet<0) offSet = 0;
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.3 animations:^{
[self.tableView setContentOffset:CGPointMake(0,offSet)];}];
}
I do a lot of other things as well, but I believe they are specific for my application.
First, if the offset is greater than 0, I set teh contentInset to UIEdgeInsetsMake(0,0,KEYBOARD_HEIGHT,0) because I was having some jumpy scrollViews before I did that.
Also, if the original offset (self.prevOffset) plus the frame's height is greater than the content size (which would also cause jumping as it sets the offset too low then jumps back), I set the prevOffset to MAX(0,contentSize.height-frame.size.height).
These things aren't neccessary, but you are getting Scroll/TableViews that are jumping around, try them out.
A: UITableViewController has the delegate protocols already in the header field. Since your class is no longer a UITableViewController, you need to manually add the delegate protocol headers for a UITableView to your .h file.
When I create a custom view controller that has a UITableView, I start off with a UITableViewController too, just to get the delegate methods, but then I change UITableViewController to UIViewController as you have done, and manually add the Delegate protocols to the header.
If you want, you can look at UITableViewController.h and copy over the delegate protocols.
For your reference they are:
<UITableViewDelegate, UITableViewDataSource>
So your .h file should look similar to this:
@interface MyTableViewController : UIViewController <UITableViewDelegate, UITableViewDataSource>
Also, don't forget to set the delegates of the controller to the file's owner in Interface builder, or to self in code.
A: You may also find it a lot easier to use a framework such as the freely available Sensible TableView framework. These frameworks usually provide all the data entry cells out of the box, and will take care of all scrolling/resizing chores on your behalf.
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Shhh, don't tell Melanie I posted this picture! But it is perfect for my thoughts while I am writing this blog! This was taken one early morning just before we were heading into our yoga class.
What makes you smile and laugh? Or who makes you smile and laugh? I have found that I wake up each morning so happy with a smile on my face and I think part of the reason for my happiness is that I am just plain happy. I have surrounded myself with friends, such as Melanie and other wonderful people that I call my friends.
Keeping a great attitude and positive thoughts are ways to keep you smiling. Check your face once in awhile in the mirror, are you smiling? Next time you are in the grocery store smile at those you walk by.
Count your blessings and be grateful for each and every day!
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Web novel writing =/= traditional book writing.
And the guide in this thread is for people who wants to get traditionally published to learn how to tailor their stuff to professional traditional publishing requirements, ain't it? So yeah, it's like the environment is like that so you learn how to adapt to it, from what I see here.
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Sama/kisama
Welp, I guess it's time to drop my favorite books because they didn't format like the author of the guide told them.
Sorry guys, but these are the rules.
You guys . . . . okay, I said my piece. No need to waste my time on this drama whether history, records, statistic, and whatever get involved. If some of you think that I'm a coward for backing out of this thread, that's fine. I don't really care for that because I am going to use that time to focus on building my worlds and lives for my characters.
Everyone can disagree. I want to ask everyone in this thread a few questions:
1) Are Mandarin Chinese, French, American Sign Language, Japanese, Greek, Spanish, Hindi, Spanish, Thai, and Vietnamese considered "languages"? And I don't meant just the ones that you can just speak or verbalize. But the category of Languages always have their own rules and cultures.
So if you only came to either learn or improve your English Language Usage or English version of story writing, then rules are rules.
By English's "rules", I do not meant the "traditional publishing" or "market trending" or "number stats" stuffs. Because I think that is just drama unless you want to make money and fame off your own stories.
2) I know that Americans are known for disrespecting cultures, customs, and sometimes languages worldwide. But if you are dissing the grammars by Capitalizing every first letter of a word in every sentence, abusing "said" to the point it's "He/She/I/Me/You/They/Name/Object said, said, said", having 10 paragraphs made of 5 run-on sentences, "it's vs. its" confusion, jamming all your dialogue quotations into one paragraph of details, not specifying the identities of your speakers when in dialogue mode like "1" "2" "3" "4", misusing certain concepts when it's already existed and misrepresenting those concepts like "naiads" which are painted as "dark element succubus demons" when NAIADS ARE WATER NYMPHS, and etc. Those are criticisms that writers need some times to think about.
English grammars are not supposed to attack your stories, but your way of formatting structures written in English language have become a problem because the Feedbackers spotted this issue not just 1 time, but 25 times.
If I am an American who decide to write in any of the language listed in Question 1, but keep doing all that is listed above and refuse to fix the repetitive errors when noted by Native Speakers about it, then I must be an Idiot who only write to disrespect other people's language and cultures. This will escalate to international politic dramas because Readers only understand certain part and will misunderstand the rest.
So what the hell are your intentions and what messages are you trying to tell the worlds through your story?
3) If you are here to write your OWN stories NOT for money, fame, but for fun, self-experiment, and to tell a story, then WHAT THE FUCKING HELL ARE YOU GUYS ALL DOING HERE DEBATING, LURKING, OR TROLLING ON THIS THREAD AND NOT TAKING THAT DRAMA-RAGE TIME TO WORK OUT YOUR OWN STORIES' WORLDS AND DO SHIT STUFF WITH YOUR CHARACTERS' PLOTS?
GETTING ALL THAT RAGE OVER YOUR WRITING STYLE BEING DISSED FOR NOT BEING SO "ENGLISH LIT RULES" AND SPENDING THAT DRAMA TIME TO ARGUE BACK AND FORTH WILL GET NO ONE NOWHERE TO COMPLETION.
I don't really care if I am hated for saying this. JUST BECAUSE YOUR BOOKS JUST BECAME A GREAT SALE OR ACCEPTED DOES NOT MEAN YOU CAN USE THAT TO SLAP YOUR IDEALS AND SUCCESSES ON PEOPLE'S FACES ESPECIALLY ON POTENTIAL WRITERS WHO GOT THEIR OWN DREAMS AND THE WRITERS THAT ONLY CAME TO TELL THEIR STORIES AND SHARE IDEAS.
SO BE DONE WITH YOUR DRAMA and get back to your own storytelling. The story you tell is not just for the world around you, but for yourself.
Know your priority. Is this story an art or profit? Then write it like one!
Is this story for you or for others? Then write it like one and don't you dare expect anything from people!
You all could use that emotional drama time as fuels to grow your story worlds instead of fuck-fighting people on the internet. Just to be sure, IF YOU ASK FOR FEEDBACKS, you will not be given praises, but GET ALL the commentaries plus notes on everything you did to your writing.
Ask yourself this when editing, "If I change it, will that make my characters, my setting, my explanations, or my plot clear?"
NOT the "Will the changes impact your styles?"
Being a writer is to create a world for yourself to hold in your hands before sharing with others.
Disregard that, then your world's just wasted sands and you will feel hurt very hard and empty at this worst time.
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RaidenInfinity said:
What is it with people saying "said" is invisible to native readers lol. Its not. Esp. if its repeated a 100 times. It sounds repetitive and a bit cringe. We just try to ignore it for the sake of maybe a good story as in one with a good plot. But don't think we don't see it or it just never crossed our minds, its there and for some its bugging repetitive and takes out what could have been a great immersion.
If a word is supposed be "invisible," then it can be removed. Now its actually invisible because the word is no longer mentioned. Otherwise its telling me the elephant is not in the room when its clearly visible.
However since people seem to be so hang up on the rules of writing, there is no black and white rule. Its not bad to use said once in awhile, in fact its great. Just change it up a bit from time to time. And that goes for all other rules. But what if, what if.. There's always some exceptions. Its just a matter of how many fail while trying to become that exception. Some succeed, while others collapse a whole thing (be it trope, genre rule, etc). bc its often carried out too poorly. Some people follow the writing to a T when they shouldn't. Go for what one wants. But if still struggling and wonder why views/positive ratings haven't grown with your writing, then maybe, just maybe, revisit a few guidelines.
Said is not invisible. There are times where its pretty clear if its been redundant. Just wanted point that out.
AinsleyMarrow
If you say you don't read works that don't follow these rules, I'll go ahead and assume you haven't read anything from before 2010. That's when people began preaching 'show, don't tell' as if it holds any water what.so.ever. Previous works make use of passive voice in ways that would disgust you, apparently.
When were you born, 2000? I took creative writing classes at university in 1999 that presented "show don't tell" as optimal. Hell, even my high school English classes preached that for standard papers back in the 90s. If I turned in a paper with passive voice in it, it was a C at best.
AinsleyMarrow said:
Joya, bet. 'People preaching' is not a professor teaching 20-100 students. You def learned English before me, so don't act as if you dont get the meaning.
Well, though this is a little off topic, but I'll tell a little about why KR/JP/CN web novels tend to have short paragraphs and weird dialogue tagging (the tag is disconnected from the dialogue in its own paragraph). For equal-width character languages (like Korean and Chinese), legibility is a critical issue. You see, web novel readers (i know JP/CN ones do, not sure about KR) tend to want things that are easy and fast to read. They're gonna just skim through the text and press the next chapter button because there's so many novels out there on sites like Syosetsu (JP) and Qidian (CN) and there's less time to spare.
Now look at this picture. This illustrates what happens when reading a Chinese novel with long ass paragraphs on mobile phone.
Boy, the wall of text is damn excruciating to read (You don't even need to understand the language to feel the pain). And yes, the Chinese text in this picture does follow the styling where paragraphing is done by change of speaker like what's recommended in this thread. Look what comes out of it. That's why you often see one-sentence-paragraphs in KR/JP/CN writing even though it shouldn't be like that (for CN at least as there's quite the number of similarities between EN and CN styling guidelines).
For English, it's slightly less problematic as you have white space in between groups of letters (words) but similar concept applies when it comes to web platforms.
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Drama? Rage? Trolling?
The fuck you on about, buddy? Discussing is healthy.
owotrucked
Isekai express delivery
Oh that's why I was corrupted.
As a non-native english speaker, I like short paragraphs even if it means to break actions and put a shitty "he said" tag at the end of each dialogue. I feel like it's so much easier to read.
Heck, I don't care about "said", and would just enjoy the name of the speaker in the margin.
ForestDweller
Oh, I definitely have a problem with talking heads. I'm just too lazy to fix it.
I'm not creative enough to think up all sorts of ways I can write my characters' body language. I'll get stuck thinking about it.
Then again, I'm writing a Japanese-style light novel where that kind of stuff is everywhere.
@OokamiKasumi I want to ask you something. How about splitting two speaking paragraphs that are both said by the same character? I usually do it for emphasis or to show that there's a brief pause between the two. Like when a character suddenly changes his/her topic.
owotrucked said:
As a non-native, I prefer not having tags at all if you're just going to add he said or she said to every line. There's no need to since it should already be obvious who's speaking.
That's what I dislike with a lot of webnovels. They have these long ass conversations that don't distinguish between who the speakers are. That's why my characters tend to have distinct way of speaking that is immediately obvious to the reader.
ForestDweller said:
@ForestDweller
Paragraphing IS supposed to be divided by character --actions+dialogue. However sooner or later one will run across: Run-On Dialogue.
Run-On Dialogue is when one character talks, and talks, and talks...for whole paragraphs at a time.
Oddly enough, this problem isn't all that common, but it can happen to new writers who still haven't quite figured out how to break up their dialogue with actions and descriptions.
Far more common is the creation of whole paragraphs of Internal Dialogue and Introspection, especially when one writes in First Person POV, or Third Person Close POV.
When only one character is acting and talking, or acting and thinking, this can make for walls of text the size of a skyscraper. So, how do you break all that up?
Well hopefully you're breaking all that talking up with body language, action, and descriptions.
So, that's what you do first: Break up your lines of Dialogue with Actions, Description, and Body Language.
Next! Sub-Divide those lines of dialogue into paragraphs by Change in Action -- Change in Location -- Change in Thought or Ideas.
Example: Change in Thought or Idea
Did you know that you're supposed to write someone arguing with themselves as two different people having an argument complete with paragraph breaks, even though they're the same person?
I sure didn't.
Then my editor sent me that particular manuscript page covered in red ink.
Example of all three in 3rd Person Close POV:
Spoiler: Excerpt from: Death & the Maiden
Standing with her back against her room's closed door, Michiru clutched her bathrobe to her throat and gasped for breath. She'd known that Koyomi and Aso were...dating, but she hadn't quite realized they'd gone that far.
She winced. Idiot...! Of course they've gone that far. The Yomi half of Koyomi's personality was openly lecherous, at least around Michiru, and Aso was a known womanizer. She'd had more than one run-in with his openly adoring and half-naked harem.
Michiru sighed heavily then turned to her right to set her bath things on her battered dresser next to her aged brass bed. It was beginning to look like she was the only virgin in the dorm. In fact, according to the gossip her classmates shared, she was very likely the only virgin in the whole senior class.
She was seriously beginning to feel rather...left out.
Michiru scowled and jerked opened the middle drawer of her dresser to yank out a pink flannel nightgown. Stupid virginity! She flung the night gown on the neatly made bed and slammed the drawer closed. It wasn't that she was saving herself for marriage or anything. She doubted she'd live that long. She just wanted to give her virginity to someone she liked - that liked her back.
However, the way things were going, she sincerely doubted she'd live long enough to go on a proper date, never mind get the chance to lose her virginity. Damn it!
Michiru stomped across the room to pull the heavy curtains closed. It was too damned cold at night to leave them open. The cracked windows did little to keep heat in the room. She then moved to the fireplace opposite her bed and knelt to light the paper covered fire log in her fireplace, then added a few actual wood logs. The aged fireplace was the room's only source of heat and the paper coated fire log only lasted a few hours.
Once the log was well and truly lit, she slipped out of her bathrobe and pulled her night gown over her head, tugging it down over her nudity. Stupid zombies! Why were they all in her town anyway? If it hadn't been for them, she'd have been able to live a normal life and gotten herself a normal boyfriend.
Michiru flopped back on her bed to stare at the cracked, water-stained ceiling. So what should I do? She didn't want to die a virgin! That would be completely pathetic.
Note how the character's Actions and Mood Swings (the back and forth in Thought,) allowed for paragraph breaks.
Hopefully that helped.
Ah, I've been doing it right then.
You clearly have very good instincts for story telling.
There is a reason why this particular book is used as a College textbook.
What a lot of people don't know is that Strunk & White's book was first written in the late 1800's. It has since been...abridged many, many times since then. However, quite a bit of the original language is still in there and this has caused no end of problems with those who don't read actual literature.
And how many of those college kids, end up making a living out of writing novels? 5 out of a class of 30?
Run-On Dialogue in web fiction is not bad. Adding actions to the dialogue might destroy the flow of the conversation.
Vicky said:
Probably less than that. I'd say one out of every other class.
Colleges generally teach Creative writing, not Fiction writing.
-- There are a few colleges that do teach proper fiction writing with actual published fiction authors teaching it. However, the bulk of most writing classes offered in colleges teach Business writing, Thesis writing, and Creative writing. Even English Lit classes don't teach writing, merely how to break stories down to their component parts.
My copy of Strunk & White's was assigned by a thesis writing class I took.
The best Fiction writing courses are found in workshops offered by published authors. Sometimes they're held on college campuses, (Charles DeLint often holds workshops in UNC,) and some can be found at fantasy/anime conventions, (Ursula K LeGuin, CJ Cherryh, and Laurell K Hamilton used to go to Dragon Con in GA regularly,) but most of them are hosted privately at week-long retreats. They're not free, or cheap, but they cover a lot of the things you can't find in writing books, such as how to paragraph by character, how to plot a fantasy/adventure novel, and how to write smut scenes.
Oh yeah, does this apply to non-dialogue paragraphs? Like paragraphs describing a place or describing characters' actions in a detached, omniscient manner?
Yeah. A usual good rule of thumb is: "Use one paragraph for one thought you want to get across".
So when you describe a village, it helps to go:
- One paragraph the overall village feeling
- One paragraph important building a
- One paragraph important building b
- One paragraph person living in important building b
- One paragraph important building c
(Though of course, it's better to try and space them a bit and do dialogue or other stuff in between).
If you have three important things about one building that each have 2,3 sentences, then use 3 paragraphs for those things. If you switch from the look of a building to the function, it is also best to switch.
Same for a more detached battle:
- One paragraph attack person A
- One paragraph defense person B
- One paragraph summarizing the skipable bits
- One paragraph big attack A
- One paragraph B wounded
One paragraph per thought makes it clear, when you switch the subject of your sentence.
And it often also flows a lot better because there is less "what is he talking about" involved...
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If a character is interacting with the background they are in, then that background should be part of that character's paragraph.
Example: from Death & the Maiden
Still dressed in her school uniform; a burgundy turtleneck dress with a mauve sailor-styled short jacket, Michiru Kita strode across the creaky wood floor of the Black Dorm's decrepit dining room. She set her dinner bowl and chop sticks down on a table that was little more than boards set across saw horses, but the white table cloth was clean and creased from being pressed. The dining room itself was small, the saw-horse table and its eight miss-matched wooden chairs taking up most of it.
Simple observations of the area around them can be divided into their own paragraphs, and likely should -- especially if the description is long and detailed.
Example: (The next two paragraphs after the one above.)
A battered tile-top counter across the far end of the room was all that divided the dining area from the kitchen area. The sinks and squealing copper pipes dated back to the turn of the century, but the polished steel gas stove and massive stainless steel refrigerator were less than a year old.
Despite the crumbling and faded red plaster walls with its creaky, uneven flooring, the dining room was bright from the early November sunset spilling through the row of aged windows that made up the entire back wall. The view from said windows however, was more than a little depressing; a weed-filled graveyard that surrounded the entire building.
Commentary and internal thoughts on the setting, however, should get their own paragraph.
Example: (The paragraph following the two above.)
Once upon a time, the ramshackle dormitory had been a chapel for the aged Victorian Catholic school that Michiru attended; Kokuba Academy. As such, the school was only a short walk beyond the tall wrought iron fence guarding the cemetery surrounding the dormitory. She'd be graduating next spring - if she lived that long.
The truth is, it's up to the writer's taste how they divide up long heavy paragraphs describing the scenery.
I prefer to write scenery interspersed with with character actions and internal comments to keep the scene moving. This also keeps the text from turning into intimidating walls and getting dull or boring for my readers.
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Unwto Highlights Potential Of Domestic Tourism To Drive Restoration
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It has been found that domestic tourist's journeys for leisure purposes can last, in average, a minimal of 1.6 days (Yang et al., 2011) or greater than four days (Grigolon et al., 2014) relying on the season. It is plausible, due to this fact, that a number of man-made attractions may be collectively visited by domestic tourists throughout their regional visitation. Ultimately, leisure tourists are encouraged to maximise their trip experience in the destination by visiting various venues and sites for leisure purposes, which can turn out to be an important part of vacationers' recollections and experiences.
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Serve with Organic Brown Rice.
Place the onions, carrots, potatoes, jalapeño, peppers and chicken.In your 4-6 quart crockpot/slow cooker.
In a bowl, stir/whisk together the coconut milk, coconut sugar, garlic, ginger, turmeric, curry powder, coriander seed, salt, black pepper and red pepper flakes. Whisk until combined. Pour the mixture over the contents of the slow cooker.
Stir ingredients throughout cooking time— if you are not near your crockpot while it's cooking, it should be just fine!
At the end of cooking time, Taylor and I like to add additional spices, etc. to our liking! You might add in more coconut sugar for a sweetness, more turmeric for flavor and that yellow curry look, curry powder if your missing that curry flavor you like, and red pepper flakes for some heat! Salt and Pepper to taste of course!
Serve curry over brown rice! and add a squeeze of lime to pull out all of the flavors.
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Great support from developer. Issue resolved. The error was due to ( character in the dont learn strings. Removing it resolved the issue.
I have sent the files on email. Kindly check. Regards.
I retried again and am able to replicate the issue.
For the sake of example I used test as the string and wrote test1234 3 times and the same was saved in the file.
The quick find was opened by alt+space shortcut.
Autolearning is learning even strings which are set not to be learned after latest update. Please check video.
added string "test" (without the quotes) to exclusion list. Wrote test1234 4 times and it was saved in the learned file!
The problem of volume slider not working by scrolling in some apps is still not resolved in 4.16.
Configuring all the settings again after reset would take a lot of time. Since it seems to be working fine now with the "/" option I would continue like this. If I face the issue again in future I would try resetting it. Regards.
Sent email regarding the same. Thanks.
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In the school, we have been taught that the building block of all matter is particles. In fact, we often continue to teach this at universities level where we explain that quarks and leptons form the lego-bricks from which all matter is made. According to the Quantum field theory, The building blocks of matter or this real universe is not the particles at all, instead of this they are the continuous fliud-like substances, which is spread through the all of space.
Physics is wonderful way for people to understand the world around them. It can explain how birds fly, why ice freezes, what makes fire glow, just to mention few things. Now this doesn't mean that the explanations are always easy and clear. In fact, the explanations can be downright murky for phenomena far from the familiar. Perhaps the two physics theories that are the hardest to accept when you first encounter them are Einstein's theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. The first one talks about how moving clocks run more slowly than stationary and how objects in motion appear to shrink. The second one tells than no measurement is certain and that probability reigns to supreme in the subatomic world. There is some credible debate about these theories and that some scientists have somehow figured out a way to return to the more intuitive physics of late 1800's, but that isn't true. The simple fact is that relativity and quantum mechanics have been tested countless times and they work. Like or not, we have to learn these weird predictions are just, simply, well, true. However- and this might blow your mind- these ideas are also about a hundred years old. Frontier science has actually moved on. What scientist currently thinks is eve weirder still. So, let's review a bit what traditional quantum mechanics is all about. It was invented in the mid 1920s and it was exemplified by an equation devised by Erwin Schrodinger, what we call now Schrodinger's equation.
This equation explained why electrons had only certain energies and positions when they circled an atom. At its very simplest, the equation explained that an electron could be here or there, but never here nor there. That's what "Quantum" means. There are certain, discrete things that are possible and others that aren't. The things that were quantized could be mass, charge, position or energy. Now, Schrodinger's equation was only a partial Quantum theory and it didn't take into account relativity. What it did was taking a proton and assume it was surrounded by a classical electrical field. Remember that classical fields are not quantized. They vary smoothly. However, things changed in mid 1920s when Paul Dirac started puttering around with quantum mechanics. One thing he did was successfully merge quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of relativity. Another thing he spearheaded was to figure out a way to make a fully quantum theory. He did this by finding a quantum formulation of the electric field surrounding the proton. We call this the "second quantized revolution." This just means that the electric field was expressed quantum mechanically and that it joined such things as a quantum description of the location of the matter, which was covered by the first quantum revolution. In the ensuing years, these ideas have been generalized to cover all of the subatomic forces specifically the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force and electromagnetism. While each force has a different precise formulation, they are all examples of what we now call a Quantum Field Theory or QFT. Although each theory has its own interesting peculiarities, I want to tell about a little about some general truths of all quantum fields. In modern physics theory, one can picture all subatomic particle as beginning with a field. Then the particles we see are just localized vibrations in the field. So, according to quantum field theory, the right way to think of the subatomic world is that everywhere- and I mean everywhere- that are a myriad of fields. Up quark fields, down quarks fields, electron fields, etc. And the particles are just localized vibrations of the moving fields that are around. The idea can also explain how particles interact. For example, suppose you have an electron moving along. The electron is a localized vibration of electron. If the electron emits a photon, then the field theory way to looking at things and says that some of the energy of the electron field set up a localized vibration of a photon filed which then moves away.
So, those are essential features of quantum field theory. Theoretical physics simply imagines that ordinary space if full of fields for all known subatomic particles and that localized vibrations can be found everywhere. These can interact with one another, like adjacent tuning forks (Figure1.).
These interactions explain how particles are created and destroyed in physical world- basically the energy of some vibrations move from one field and set up the vibrations in another kind of field (Figure 2.). Now, of course, calculating something with this prescription is very difficult. The math can be crazy. But the basic idea is very simple. If you look around you and have even the smallest ability to think creatively, you can imagine these vibrations everywhere you look. I don't know about you, but I think that's awfully cool idea.
This process gives us the understanding of particles. This equation tells us that Energy is conserved. For instance, emitting a particle from a substance can change the number of particles in a state. Since Quantum mechanics and theory of relativity are the two corners of physics their combination can create a lot of new framework for physics. However, QFT is important while you're dealing with a quantum theory of fields (it doesn't matter whether it is relativistic or not). Quantum fields occurs frequently in condensed matter physics and a lot of the biggest ideas in quantum field theory originate from condensed matter physics.In condensed matter physicsFeynman diagrams are commonly used to describe the properties condensed matter. Quantum field theory methods are also used to study 1 Dimensional fermions. QFT has also been applied to statistical mechanics, e.g. While we study quantum phase transitions and critical phenomena where renormalization group methods are commonly applied to obtain critical exponents.
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Tencent Invested in 31 Gaming Companies in 2020, 300% More than in 2019
Nica San Juan
In 2020, Tencent Holdings went on an acquisition spree, securing more deals than any other studio. According to the research data analyzed and published by Safe Betting Sites India, the Chinese tech giant invested in 31 companies in the gaming industry during the year.
That was four times the number of merger and acquisition (M&A) deals closed in 2017. Compared to 2019, it marked a remarkable 300% increase.
The deals included a vibrant mix of mergers, acquisitions, funding rounds, minor and major stakes. Twenty three of the 31 deals involved are companies in China while the rest are based overseas.
Leyou Technology's acquisition at $1.5 billion was the highest valued transaction. Tencent also took part in Roblox' $150 million Series G funding round and a $100 million series B round in VSPN. Additionally, it made an $810 million investment in the merger between Huya and DouYu.
There was a shift in the company's M&A strategy, which in the past seemed conservative as it prioritized established companies. In 2020, it was more proactive, focusing more on smaller or early-stage companies.
All in all, Tencent took part in over 170 funding rounds in 2020 according to Chinese database IT Juzi. These investments were valued at a cumulative 249.5 million yuan ($38 million). For Tencent's investment team, that was the most active year in history.
Tencent set up an investment unit in 2008 and since 2015, it has been funding over 100 companies every year. Over the previous decade, the team has delivered remarkably. More than 70 companies from the 800-strong portfolio had gone public by January 2020. Over 160 of them had valuations of more than $100 million.
The Shenzhen-based company draws about a third of its revenue from the gaming industry. Although its investment focuses primarily on the gaming sector, it has diversified the portfolio into other arenas as well. These include fintech and cloud computing among other sectors.
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According to the Niko Partners' report, Tencent's change in M&A strategy was attributed to the increasing competition in the Chinese gaming scene. Though the Niko report highlights that Tencent is not in danger of losing the top spot, pressure is mounting.
Rivals ByteDance and Alibaba have in the recent past made significant strides to gain a hold on the gaming industry.
According to The Information, ByteDance more than doubled its revenue in 2020 to around $37 billion. Operating profit rose by about 1.3 times from under $4 billion in 2019 to $7 billion.
Remarkable growth in ad sales from its Chinese apps offset the effects of India's TikTok ban and the threat of a US ban.
On Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, approximately 50% of its revenue came from gaming-related advertising. At the end of 2020, ByteDance had 29 gaming-related companies and a dozen game studios.
Alibaba's Lingxi Platform Revenue Hit about $1 Billion in 2020
Alibaba is also making inroads into the gaming industry via Lingxi Interactive, its gaming subsidiary. At the beginning of December 2020, Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Strategy Edition was the fourth highest grossing iOS game in China.
For perspective, Tencent had four entries in the top ten highest grossing iOS games in China at the time. Though Lingxi has launched a number of games, it gained mainstream attention after the launch of Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
The gaming platform was moved from the Innovations Initiative segment to Digital Media and Entertainment in FY21 Q1 (April to June 2020). Though Alibaba does not disclose the platform's revenue separately, comparing the two segments' performance provides useful insights.
Prior to the transfer, Innovations and Initiatives posted 1.86 billion yuan as revenue in Q3 FY20. The figure rose to 2.29 billion yuan in Q4 FY20. Following the move, revenue dropped to 1.09 billion yuan in Q1 FY21 before rising to 1.17 billion yuan in Q2 FY21.
Under Digital Media and Entertainment, Q3 FY20 revenue was 7.4 billion yuan. It dropped to 5.94 billion yuan in Q4 FY20. After Lingxi was moved, it rose to 6.99 billion yuan in Q1 FY21, and then to 8.07 billion yuan in Q2 FY21.
Based on the foregoing, it appears that the mobile gaming segment generates about 1 billion yuan ($152 million) on average every quarter. According to Alibaba, Romance of the Kingdom generated 3.7 billion yuan ($563 million) in the first six months of 2020.
Therefore, Lingxi could have generated approximately $1 billion in revenue during the year. Though that is a good figure, it is a tiny fraction of the 41.4 billion yuan ($6.3 billion) revenue that Tencent got from its online gaming segment in Q3 2020 alone.
Nica is a BA Political Science graduate, startup founder and financial expert. She has an entrepreneurial spirit and started several startups from a young age, eventually becoming fascinated with stocks, cryptocurrencies and the blockchain economy. She specializes in financial tech and her expertise is in writing detailed tutorials and guides on how to invest in stocks and cryptocurrencies.
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A good Latin American dish found at real (read: not Taco Bell or Chi-Chi's) Mexican and South American restaurants. Frequently an appetizer.
It is a cold dish made of fish marinated in lemon or lime juice, onion, and chili, and usually served with cilantro and avacado. The fish is usually dropped in raw, and is chemically cooked by the high acid content of the food.
A popular way to enjoy ceviche in Mexico is on a crispy round fried corn tortilla, called a tostada. You can buy these refreshing ceviche snacks from little streetcart vendors in almost all the cities that lie on the coast. Each coastal city has it's own tostada especial. In Ensenada, for example, the locals place thinly-sliced slivers of avocado, shrimp, and diced octopus on top of the tangy ceviche. Some like to add a splash of worcestershire sauce to top it all off.
Lightly rinse fish in cold water then drain, careful that pieces maintain shape. Season with salt, pepper, garlic (garlic is the soul of ceviche, do not spare it), hot peppers (ceviche without hot peppers runs at best 75% of what it could be, the hotter the better), celery and coriander. Some people add parsley as well. Mix well and add lime juice (juice from acidic Peruvian limes works best, they are also known as key limes in the US).
REPLACEMENT OF KEY LIMES FOR LEMONS IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED AND NOT OPEN FOR DISCUSSION.
If nevertheless, you feel like using regular lemons instead of key limes, then you might as well use chicken instead of fish - but please don't call it ceviche.
Ahem, anyway ... Use red onions only, laying them over your dish, do not mix them in until you are ready to eat; if you mix in the onions, they will loose their crunchy texture, and the flavor may change. Allow mixture to stand for three minutes; lime juice will "cook" the raw fish.
If using fish other than sole or sea bass, let mixture stand for 10 minutes (Duration of cooking is a matter of taste). Serve on platter with lime juice mixture, covering fish with washed and drained raw onions. Garnish with corn, and slices of white potato and sweet potato. They help to balance the "hotness" of the dish.
In Peru fishermen often take a plastic bag in the boat to mix and eat ceviche on the spot. Divers just make "fin ceviche" on the blade of their fins. It'll put lead in your pencil.
Note : Most fish and seafood goes well in ceviche but not all. To name a few: octopus, conch, calamari, shrimp, tuna, flounder. Octopus merits special pre-preparation. And also, if you are lucky enough to find rocotos, be very careful when handling them. A well known variation of this plate is the famous Tiradito, which is more or less, the seasoned fish cooked in the key lime juice alone; with no onions, hot peppers, potatoes, etc.
The U.S. government warns that ceviche has been implicated in parasitic infection (as well as a vector for transmission of cholera). The high acid content of the lime juice will transform the proteins in the fish as if it were "cooked", but it does not kill bacteria or parasites within the fish's flesh (it may kill some on the surface of the fish). This is dependent upon both the acidity of the marinade and the length of time the fish is marinated. While parasites may be less of an issue with fish purchased from a reputable and modern facility with up to date sanitary precautions, if you're buying from a street vendor in Latin America, you are taking a risk. In any case, from a public health perspective, ceviche is considered "raw fish." The FDA recommends freezing fish intended for raw consumption in order to kill the parasites.
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Watch Sexual Assault Survivors Confront Jeff Flake and Lindsey Graham
By Bridget Read
Aaron P. Bernstein
So far, sexual assault survivors and activists have proved the bravest voices on the Hill supporting Dr. Christine Blasey Ford: At least three women have now confronted Republican Senators Jeff Flake and Lindsey Graham, both of whom have announced they are yes votes on Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination. After a hearing that lasted for more than eight frustrating hours yesterday, footage of protestors speaking with conviction and bravery and condemning GOP legislators' unwillingness to recognize the severity of Ford's allegations against Kavanaugh provides some catharsis—and a model for Democrats in Congress who have continued to vow to fight against Kavanaugh taking a Supreme Court seat.
On Thursday, a survivor and activist who identified herself on Twitter later as Robyn Swirling stopped Graham on his way into an elevator in a break in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. "Sen. Graham, I was raped 13 years ago," Swirling said to him, and then, "I don't remember the exact date, but do you believe me?" "I'm sorry," he responded, before adding, "You needed to go to the cops. Go to the cops." He then hurried away. The moment indicated exactly how little regard Republican senators, including Graham, displayed during their questioning of Ford and Kavanaugh for the wealth of research and expertise that explains why survivors of sexual assault do not report. "If @LindseyGrahamSC wants to talk further," Swirling tweeted after, "I'd love to chat about why 'go to the cops' is a horrifically insensitive and dismissive thing to say to a rape survivor."
This morning, more survivors disrupted a Republican senator's work day: Two women tearily and angrily confronted Sen. Jeff Flake, one of a handful of senators who are expected to decide whether Kavanaugh will be confirmed, soon after he announced that he would be voting yes on Kavanaugh's nomination. "I recognized in Dr. Ford's story that she's telling the truth. What you are doing is allowing someone who actually violated a woman to sit on the Supreme Court," one protester said. A second followed: "I was sexually assaulted and nobody believed me. I didn't tell anyone, and you're telling all women that they don't matter, that they should stay quiet." Flake, who initially attempted to move beyond the camera's reach, stood in the corner of the elevator, looking downcast, and sometimes muttering, "Thank you."
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1045673959159517184
That Flake's avoidant body language only motivated the women to speak to him directly is moving to see played back in the footage. "Look at me when I'm talking to you," she said. "You are telling me that my assault doesn't matter, that what happened to me doesn't matter, and that you're going to let people who do these things into power. That's what you're telling me when you vote for him. Don't look away from me . . . Look at me and tell me that it doesn't matter what happened to me, that you will let people like that go into the highest court of the land and tell everyone what they can do to their bodies."
Senate Democrats are hopefully learning from these activists—for all the talk of "norms" and "civility" that played out during the Judiciary Committee hearing, Senate Republicans and Kavanaugh unleashed vitriolic speech on their political opponents, despite tiptoeing around Ford's testimony via their proxy, Rachel Mitchell, in the first part of the day. Democrats will need to similarly break with protocol and procedure to protect Ford as well as the Supreme Court seat. And it looks like they might be; Senators Sheldon Whitehouse, Richard Blumenthal, Mazie Hirono, and Kamala Harris, and later Patrick Leahy, all walked out of the hearing earlier today, when Republicans decided that a vote would occur on Kavanaugh's nomination at 1:30 p.m. Hirono shouted, "I strongly object. This is just totally ridiculous. What a railroad job. My answer is no, no, no!" before she left the room. Harris and Sen. Cory Booker declined to vote on whether or not the confirmation vote would be taken. Senate Democrats who left the hearing room held an impromptu press conference after:
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Harris said that the GOP tactics were "about raw power. You're seeing that displayed in this hearing this morning; you've been seeing it from the process in the beginning." Hirono added that she had "never heard a Supreme Court justice come out and say there is a vast left-wing conspiracy to undermine his nomination." Inside the hearing, Sen. Amy Klobuchar spoke out to her colleagues: "The chairman even thanked [Christine Blasey Ford] for her bravery. Well where is the bravery in this room?"
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I was born in 1948 to a working-class family and grew up on my grandfather's dairy farm. There, I learned the value of hard work and personal responsibility. I graduated from a local Catholic School with honors and went off to college to study literature and creative writing. My objectives were interrupted by the Viet Nam War. At the end of my sophomore year in college, I received a draft notice. Instead of just rolling with the momentum of the state machinery, I enlisted in the United States Navy and volunteered for the Submarine Service. The Navy sent me to engineering school to learn computer science and trained me as a Fire Control Technician posting me to a nuclear powered, ballistic missile submarine where I eventually qualified as a missile control center supervisor. I was married while I was in the service and my wife and I lived in Groton Long Point, Connecticut until I completed my active service. Returning home, I finished my Associates Degree and went on to pursue a Bachelor's.
During this time, I worked as a traditional woodworker, apprenticed to a master craftsman, for the New York State Department of Historic Preservation. There, I honed my skills as a woodworker restoring windows and doors and fabricating arcitechtural elements on the lathe. In my twenty-eighth year I left that employment and entered the nascent computer information industry as a network engineer building complex systems for a research institute with which I had secured employement. For extra cash each month, I had enlisted in the Army National Guard. They enrolled me in Officer's Candidate School.
In my thirties, having completed my military obligation (then eight years), I worked as a telecommunications network engineer for an international information company. There I built a world-wide network for their expanding international customer base. After that, I went to work for a computer manufacturer as a corporate systems analyst. In the market crash that followed the S&L debacle, I went into business for myself and made a decent living as a computer systems network engineer, building functional networks and installing productivity software for my customers.
As we entered the twenty-first century, I began leveraging my experience into a career as a technical writer. By 2006, I was working exclusively as a technical writer. I had always dabbled in creative writing but now I began to make serious attempts to get my work published and some of my work was published in the west coast literary journal, Mind in Motion. I began submitting my short stories to blogs that periodically published such work and was warmly accepted by their reading community.
Since 2014, I've been in semi-retirement taking on short-term technical writing projects and submitting short stories, poetry, and philosophical and political essays to a number of on-line publications with some success. I would like to use this opportunity to move to the next level of my writing experience and hope that the work that I submit, if accepted, will be a source of enjoyment for this reading community. After all, I'm only doing this for fun.
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HOT 97.1 SVG » 10 Years on Top » Skinny Fabulous Untamed In Jamaica!
Skinny Fabulous Untamed In Jamaica!
Even before the party began, it was clear where Bacchanal New Year Band Launch & Fete, held last Saturday at the Mas Camp in St Andrew, Jamaica, was headed.
"It's a full house for the opening night and this is encouraging. I hope we can keep this momentum up through the rest of carnival," Michael Ammar Jr, a director of Bacchanal Jamaica, told the Jamaica Observer.
The director said fans can also expect more live entertainment this year.
"Other than the first party, every Bacchanal event after that will feature the top performers from across the Caribbean," he explained.
Under the theme Untamed, revellers rang in the new Bacchanal year in high spirits. By midnight things were in full swing under the masterful control of Duchess.
"We started a bit early when the crowd was thin, but it built to some really nice vibes," she said.
Duchess led into soca star Skinny Fabulous, who presented a short and well-received performance. He went through his various hits, dropping his brand new tune Going Off, before tempting the audience to Bruk Down D Fence, then bringing one lucky 'fluffy' female fan on to the stage for 6:30. He then ended on 2014's Worst Behaviour.
"I was surprised that Jamaicans knew the song already," he said, referring to his latest track.
"Carnival this year is very intense and the music is coming out fast and furious," Skinny Fabulous continued.
Once Skinny Fabulous left the stage, the huge crowd were treated to the unveiling of 18 costumes before settling down to a massive block of music as DJs Sanjay, Duchess and Richie Ras combined forces to satiate the large mass unwilling to leave until the early hours of the morning.
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Social media erupts after rapper T.I. admits his 18-year-old daughter's virginity is checked every year
Scheenagh Harrington
Rapper T.I, 39, has caused outrage on social media after admitting he takes his 18-year-old daughter Deyjah Harris on an annual gynaecological check-up to ensure she is still a virgin.
The sensational revelation came during an episode of the Ladies Like Us podcast, in which the star said: 'I will say as of her 18th birthday, her hymen is still intact'.
T.I.'s admission about sending his daughter Deyjah Harris for an annual virginity check-up has caused outrage. Pic: Getty Images
Jennifer Gunter, a gynaecologist and bestselling writer, said that 'hymen exams are medically not a thing' and 'support a disgusting patriarchal trope'.
Author Ijeoma Oluo commented: 'It's extremely abusive to police your daughter's hymen and any doctor who would participate in such an act needs to lose their licence.'
T.I. with his daughters Heiress and Deyjah, and his wife Tameka "Tiny" Harris. Pic: Getty Images
Rapper T.I, whose real name is Clifford Harris, said he makes a medical appointment the day after Deyjah's birthday, while she is persuaded to give her consent to her father having access her private medical information.
Other social media users slammed the move, with one tweeting: 'His daughter is an 18-year-old woman. Her appointments are none of his business. She needs to file a sexual abuse claim against him. This is just beyond creepy. Why is the doctor allowing this?'
T.I. has defended his actions, saying he's protecting his daughter. Pic: REX Features
Podcast hosts Nazanin Mandi and Nadia Moham laughed at T.I's revelation, while he revealed how doctors told him the hymen can be broken by sporting activities or horse riding, as well as sex.
He said: 'Look doc, she don't ride no horses, she don't ride no bike, she don't play no sports. Just check the hymen please and give me back my results expeditiously.'
Rapper T.I. explained why he goes to such lengths to protect his daughter, saying: 'I think that most kids in hindsight, looking back, they always thank their parents for not allowing them to damage themselves as much as they could have.'
T.I. is less worried about his son King, far left, who has been sexually active since he was 14. Pic: Getty Images
However, T.I. has a rather different attitude about his 15-year-old son, King, who has been sexually active since he was 14.
The teenager dropped the bombshell in an edition of the family's VH1 reality show, T.I. & Tiny: Friends & Family Hustle.
T.I. with his wife, Tameka 'Tiny' Harris. Pic: Getty Images
Rapper T.I. said: 'I don't want any of my children to have sex before it's time for them, but who's to say when it's time?
'I will definitely feel different about a boy than I will about a girl, and that's just the God's honest truth. I don't think there's any father out there who'll tell you any different.'
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MERCURY is covered with luminous pits unlike anything else in the solar system. Their existence challenges our view of the rocky world's history.
NASA's Messenger spacecraft flew past the planet three times, revealing craters filled with unidentified bright stuff, before settling into orbit in March 2011.
Now, more than a Mercury year (88 Earth days) later, Messenger's high-resolution camera has shown that the bright patches are shallow, irregularly shaped pits within the craters. The pits are tens of metres to a few kilometres across and look young by planetary standards.
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The Old Republic's publisher says that the game will have a wide reaching appeal.
EA might be carefully managing the Star Wars: The Old Republic launch, but it says that it has taken steps to ensure that Star Wars fans aren't disappointed by a lack of copies of the game over the holidays. EA's Frank Gibeau says that the publisher's launch plan is ambitious and that he doesn't think that too many people will have to wait.
"We don't feel like we're going to be leaving too much demand behind at launch but we definitely are going to be very cautious and thoughtful about how many people we bring on and in what order," he said. "It's a very interesting proposition from that standpoint because you have the Star Wars brand that draws in a lot of people. That is a good thing because we think we can sustain the business over a very long time as we grow. There's going to continually be new customer segments that we can open up and bring into the service."
Gibeau said that EA was using The Old Republic's beta to see what how many people the game will be able to handle at launch, and that the pre-order campaign was designed with those limits in mind. Back in August, EA also said that there would be a finite number of copies of the game available online, so not to overload the servers at launch.
Star Wars: The Old Republic comes out for PC on December 20th.
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Q: Return array after forEach loop (async) is finished I've been struggling with this for a few hours now. I am trying to collect data from my database and push it to an array. When the loop is finished I want to return the array with the retrieved data. Now I managed to make an async forEach loop, but (as expected) I am receiving an empty array, because it doesn't wait for the function to end.
Here's my code:
StatusHandler.prototype.recover = async function recover(modelIds) {
try {
const items = [];
modelIds.forEach(async (id) => {
try {
const query = {
[this.modelId]: ObjectId(id),
deleted: 'Y',
xms_status: {
$nin: [/inactive/, /maintenance/],
},
};
const model = await this.Model.findOne(query);
console.log(model); // Shows the correct data.
items.push(model);
} catch (err) {
throw err;
}
}, this);
return items; // Returns empty array
} catch (err) {
throw err;
}
};
I saw some related questions and noticed I can use the for..of loop, but I can't use that because of thee Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide (it recommends forEach instead of for..of).
Thanks in advance!
A: I don't understand why you loop over an array of IDs and use findOne to retrieve your objects, you could use something like this :
await this.Model.find({_id: {$in: modelIds}});
Also, instead of using forEach to push in an array, why don't you use map ?
I think you could do something like that :
async function recover(modelIds) {
return modelsIds.map(async (modelId, i) => {
const query = "..."; // your query with the id
return await this.Model.findOne(query);
})
}
And the surround your function call with try/catch to catch errors trhown during your function execution.
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from datetime import datetime, timedelta
from .base import TestCase
from .base import create_server, sqlalchemy_provider, cache_provider
from .base import db, Client, User, Grant
class TestDefaultProvider(TestCase):
def create_server(self):
create_server(self.app)
def prepare_data(self):
self.create_server()
oauth_client = Client(
name='ios', client_id='code-client', client_secret='code-secret',
_redirect_uris='http://localhost/authorized',
)
db.session.add(User(username='foo'))
db.session.add(oauth_client)
db.session.commit()
self.oauth_client = oauth_client
self.authorize_url = (
'/oauth/authorize?response_type=code&client_id=%s'
) % oauth_client.client_id
def test_get_authorize(self):
rv = self.client.get('/oauth/authorize')
assert 'client_id' in rv.location
rv = self.client.get('/oauth/authorize?client_id=no')
assert 'client_id' in rv.location
url = '/oauth/authorize?client_id=%s' % self.oauth_client.client_id
rv = self.client.get(url)
assert 'error' in rv.location
rv = self.client.get(self.authorize_url)
assert b'confirm' in rv.data
def test_post_authorize(self):
url = self.authorize_url + '&scope=foo'
rv = self.client.post(url, data={'confirm': 'yes'})
assert 'invalid_scope' in rv.location
url = self.authorize_url + '&scope=email'
rv = self.client.post(url, data={'confirm': 'yes'})
assert 'code' in rv.location
url = self.authorize_url + '&scope='
rv = self.client.post(url, data={'confirm': 'yes'})
assert 'error=Scopes+must+be+set' in rv.location
def test_invalid_token(self):
rv = self.client.get('/oauth/token')
assert b'unsupported_grant_type' in rv.data
rv = self.client.get('/oauth/token?grant_type=authorization_code')
assert b'error' in rv.data
assert b'code' in rv.data
url = (
'/oauth/token?grant_type=authorization_code'
'&code=nothing&client_id=%s'
) % self.oauth_client.client_id
rv = self.client.get(url)
assert b'invalid_client' in rv.data
url += '&client_secret=' + self.oauth_client.client_secret
rv = self.client.get(url)
assert b'invalid_client' not in rv.data
assert rv.status_code == 401
def test_invalid_redirect_uri(self):
authorize_url = (
'/oauth/authorize?response_type=code&client_id=code-client'
'&redirect_uri=http://localhost:8000/authorized'
'&scope=invalid'
)
rv = self.client.get(authorize_url)
assert 'error=' in rv.location
assert 'Mismatching+redirect+URI' in rv.location
def test_get_token(self):
expires = datetime.utcnow() + timedelta(seconds=100)
grant = Grant(
user_id=1,
client_id=self.oauth_client.client_id,
scope='email',
redirect_uri='http://localhost/authorized',
code='test-get-token',
expires=expires,
)
db.session.add(grant)
db.session.commit()
url = (
'/oauth/token?grant_type=authorization_code'
'&code=test-get-token&client_id=%s'
) % self.oauth_client.client_id
rv = self.client.get(url)
assert b'invalid_client' in rv.data
url += '&client_secret=' + self.oauth_client.client_secret
rv = self.client.get(url)
assert b'access_token' in rv.data
class TestSQLAlchemyProvider(TestDefaultProvider):
def create_server(self):
create_server(self.app, sqlalchemy_provider(self.app))
class TestCacheProvider(TestDefaultProvider):
def create_server(self):
create_server(self.app, cache_provider(self.app))
def test_get_token(self):
url = self.authorize_url + '&scope=email'
rv = self.client.post(url, data={'confirm': 'yes'})
assert 'code' in rv.location
code = rv.location.split('code=')[1]
url = (
'/oauth/token?grant_type=authorization_code'
'&code=%s&client_id=%s'
) % (code, self.oauth_client.client_id)
rv = self.client.get(url)
assert b'invalid_client' in rv.data
url += '&client_secret=' + self.oauth_client.client_secret
rv = self.client.get(url)
assert b'access_token' in rv.data
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Peter Yarrow, of Peter, Paul and Mary, is pictured warming up before a concert saluting the 25th anniversary of Woodstock in 1994.
Peter Yarrow — the Peter of legendary folk artists Peter, Paul and Mary — sees a way to combat society's divisiveness. A lot of ways, actually. They've been around for decades — and will take the stage in Clermont this week.
Yarrow's not-so-secret weapons to beat the cultural blues? America's great folk songs.
Thursday night, the Clermont Performing Arts Center will host "Lonesome Traveler," a touring theatrical concert of classics such as "Turn, Turn, Turn," "This Land Is Your Land," "This Little Light of Mine," "We Shall Overcome," "Michael, Row Your Boat Ashore" and many others.
Yarrow joins the tour as a "special guest star" at certain performances, including the Clermont stop. Before he joined the cast, he was fan.
Based in New York, Yarrow first saw "Lonesome Traveler" during its 2015 off-Broadway run at the 59E59 theater complex.
Using the music of Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie and others, "Lonesome Traveler" focuses on the 1920s-'60s as it intersperses scripted narration about the country's struggles and triumphs among the songs. "Celebrate the music that made history and the history that made music," is how the show's producers explain it.
The cast of "Lonesome Traveler," which will play the Clermont Performing Arts Center on Thursday.
Yarrow doesn't need a script — after all, he lived through much of what the show is about. As a social activist, Yarrow has fought against racial discrimination, war and bullying. He helped organize the 1969 March on Washington and stood with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Alabama.
He's enjoying singing "Puff the Magic Dragon" and other songs he popularized with Paul Stookey and Mary Travers, who died in 2009.
He's confident the audience will leave refreshed in soul.
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The Whitewoods TH30 Lightweight Touring snowshoes are designed for adults to easily tour the backcountry.
The Whitewoods TH30 Lightweight Touring snowshoes are designed for adults to easily tour the backcountry. These are also great for ascents with skiboards in your pack looking forward to that thrilling descent providing a less expensive alternative to AT bindings and climbing skins.
The adult TH model has an improved articulating binding spindle with auto-centering guides and oversized toe crampons for a secure and comfortable grip and stride. The TH models come in 27 and 30″ size. These include a full oval decking design for maximum flotation, combined with an auto centering aggressive articulating crampons for trips into deeper woods, or deeper snow. All Whitewoods snowshoes are made with aircraft grade 6061 aluminum, 2mm polyethylene decking and reinforced nylon washers all deck rivet locations. All bindings and crampons are mounted with lock nuts, not rivets, so they can be easily maintained. 3mm thick aluminum crampons offer an even transfer of weight and a secure grip. Bindings adjust easily by pull of the strap.
Weights are based on the total weight including any gear. We have simplified the sizing guide. Consider the average conditions of snow, either loose or hard pack when choosing the sizes, since snow pack effects flotation more than weight.
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The Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. Sanctuary and Audubon Center continues to inspire artists who experience its wonder.
Chip Hemingway is a member of Bowman Murray Hemingway Architects (BMHA), the group selected to develop the Master Site Plan for the Sanctuary and Audubon Center. During a visit to the campus, he was inspired to paint this aerial view of the Sanctuary.
Hemingway, through this project, has been able to blend his two passions: to create both art and architecture. This painting represents BMHA's approach to the Master Site Plan and renovation project – in a way that deepens the experience of nature and wildlife.
It is increasingly rare to experience something like the varied ecosystems of the Sanctuary because most land along the Outer Banks has already been developed for buildings, cars and people. This is the one of the last pristine and preserved region supporting the diversity of birds and wildlife found in the Outer Banks.
Chip Hemingway draws inspiration from the natural and human world, both of which provide endless opportunities to create his impressionistic impasto paintings en plein air and in his studio. View more of Chip's artwork on his website.
The Audubon Sanctuary is a private campus only open to research groups, special programs and by appointment. To learn more about Audubon North Carolina's ongoing conservation efforts at the Sanctuary, click here.
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Sadras is a fortress town located on India's Coromandel Coast in Chengalpattu district, 70 km south of Chennai in Tamil Nadu state. Sadras is the anglicised form of the ancient town of Saduranga pattinam.
History and Etymology
An inscription found in Sadras dated to 1359 mention this place as Rajanarayanan Pattinam after a Sambuvaraya chieftain. There is a temple to Vishnu here, and because of it later the city was known as Sadiravasagan Pattinam. This later changed into Sadurangapattinam, shortly known as Sadirai. Later the Dutch called it Sadras.
Dutch Fort
Modern Sadras was established as part of Dutch Coromandel in the seventeenth century, which was even before center for weaving superfine muslin cloth for export besides Pearl and edible oil. The magnificent Sadras Fort, built for commercial purposes by the Dutch, is a vast compound enclosing a huge granary, stables, and structures used to mount elephants. Unfortunately, only one of these structures survives. The fortress was raided by the British in 1818 and came under the control of the British East India Company. It is now maintained by the Archaeological Survey of India in efforts to contain further dilapidation. In 2003, a major restoration of the damaged fort was carried out leading to many archaeological findings. The first battle between British East India Company and the Dutch started here as Battle of Sadras. The fort includes a cemetery with many beautifully decorated graves that date to between 1620 and 1769.
Location
In recent times, Sadras has found mention due to its proximity to the atomic power plant (Madras Atomic Power Station) and the atomic research centre (Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research – IGCAR) both located at nearby Kalpakkam. The village of Sadras is sandwiched between the power plant and its township. There are two bridges connecting Kalpakkam and Sadras.
Gallery
The Sadras Fort also contains picturesque tombs.
References
External links
About sadras
A Travelogue with photos
Cities and towns in Kanchipuram district
Forts in Tamil Nadu
Coromandel Coast
Dutch Coromandel
Populated coastal places in India
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"Ajax in Iraq" Actor Discusses Firsthand Experience in Middle East War
Theatre SC's first main stage production of the season, "Ajax in Iraq," transports audiences to the front lines of battle in the most recent Iraq War. For cast member Jon Whit McClinton, a veteran of that conflict, that battlefield is a place he's experienced firsthand.
McClinton, whose multiple roles in the play include portraying the mythic Greek hero Odysseus, served on active duty in the US Marine Corps from 2006-2010. In that time he was deployed twice to both Iraq and Afghanistan for a total of 25 months. After returning home, he served four more years as a reservist.
"I went to school after my basic training and combat training to become a fueler," says McClinton. "That's pretty much the guy who waits for aircraft to come in, and you fill them up. But if there's not necessarily a need for that you'll be reassigned to something else, so I was retrained to be convoy security personnel as a gunner. I was pretty much on top of a turret in a truck, and I would provide surveillance and protection to get to and from different areas."
McClinton says that his job didn't put him in direct battle often, but the awareness that hostilities could break out at any time was always present.
"You get into the mentality where you think you're going to be hit every day, but it wasn't like that," he says. "Actually, that makes you a little more nervous because you have to be on your toes every day and not fall complacent. There could be ten to fifteen days were there are no incidents at all, then a string of days where they happen. I ran into hostilities here and there, but especially in Afghanistan, it was a little hotter."
The anxiety of constant alertness, he says, was sometimes compounded by a lack of specific knowledge about each mission — and that's all by design.
"As a private, it seems like things don't make sense and a lot of things get thrown at you. But the one thing you don't want to happen is to get into the mindset of questioning everything, because you're trained to go through with the orders when they're passed down. Honestly, it's safer for your team. And, that's where you have to get into the mindset where you're thinking about more than yourself."
Lessons of humility and learning to be part of a team carried over into his life after the service, informing his current experience as a theatre major at the University of SC. But, like many war veterans, adjusting to civilian life wasn't an easy task.
"The play deals with this, and I can relate to it. I got home and definitely felt a different mindset from my family and the civilian world. I was shutting people out and closing people off. Things would frustrate me, like I'd hear someone complaining about not getting enough cream in their coffee and I would think, 'Really? That's what you care about? I've got people in Afghanistan losing legs and you're worried about your coffee?' It would literally upset me."
"Some are lucky and don't experience any disconnect, and some people experience very traumatic events. I know this one person who didn't shoot one bullet because he was an administrative person, and suffered PTSD because he would have to do the paperwork about someone's death or sending people out, and he would think, 'I'm trained to fight and I'm just sitting here at this desk.' Even that can be traumatic, to feel like you're not doing your part."
Getting help through the VA for his own PTSD diagnosis ultimately brought McClinton around to a more adjusted place and into the theatre program at the University, where he's pursuing studies and stage experiences that he hopes will lead to an acting career. Since coming to the University as a transfer student from Central Carolina Technical College, McClinton has performed in three productions, including Yellowman and Status Update at the Lab Theatre, and Hamlet at Drayton Hall Theatre.
Asked for his unique perspective on what Ajax in Iraq gets right about the soldier's experience, McClinton quickly answers that it's the way the soldiers in the play talk that resonates as especially truthful. "A lot of the soldiers' testimonials in the show sound like things I've said and thought and wondered," he reveals. "It's eerie that it's so dead on, because in the moment you feel like you're the only one asking questions, but in reality it's part of the collective experience."
"I really want the audience to take away the honesty of this show," he adds. "You see the disconnection and distrust that can happen between soldiers and higher-ups, and still there's this camaraderie and knowledge that the soldiers are going to protect each other no matter what. That becomes bigger than the mission itself."
Ajax in Iraq will be performed October 3-11 at Longstreet Theatre, 1300 Greene St. Show times are 8pm Wednesday - Saturday, with additional 3pm matinees on Sunday, October 5 and Saturday, October 11. Tickets can be reserved by calling 803-777-2551, starting Friday, September 26.
For more information about Ajax in Iraq or the theatre program at the University of South Carolina, contact Kevin Bush by phone at 803-777-8353 or via email at [email protected].
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By now you may have heard that TSMC, the world's largest semiconductor contract manufacturer was the latest victim of a virus attack that was significant enough to impact its revenue by as much as $171M(US). The company suffered severe effects to its production due to a variant of the WannaCry virus infection that impacted its computer systems and fab tools, affecting machines used to make chips and processors.
TSMC was not the only victim, and unfortunately won't be the last. In 2017 Honda had to shut down production for a full day at its Sayama plant, northwest of Tokyo, which has a daily output of around 1,000 vehicles. According to the latest assessment of the World Economic Forum, the cost of cyber-crime to firms over the next five years could reach $8 trillion.
So, what can you do to avoid being the next victim? Read on to find out.
With the trend of IoT adoption on the rise, connecting plants and machines is an inevitable step if you want to stay competitive, but this doesn't have to come at the expense of your security. When it involves the right level of security, remote connectivity can bring significant economic gains.
You need to focus on solutions that protect from both internal and external attacks. For internal attacks, as the ones that happened in Honda and TSMC, you need a solution that provides the control of all file transfers across the entire plant, supporting an internal policy that can be configured and for the system to allow full auditability.
Externally, you need to limit and control the access of third parties like system integrators (SI) and tool providers. That way, all the data passes through a centralized inspection zone allowing your organization to avoid risks of internal contamination. You need a solution that delivers secure, configurable end-to-end remote IoT connectivity across a closed, private network to allow machine owners, SIs, and OEMs to remotely collaborate in ways that improve equipment performance at every stage of the process and lifecycle while protecting valuable intellectual property (IP).
The TSMC incident is a perfect case in point. The published reporting of the incident mentions that the virus was infected during an OEM software upgrade – software provided by the OEM without a virus scan. Had those infected files been delivered to the OEM's tool via an ISO/IEC 27001 certified secure software platform like Telit secureWISE™, they would have been quarantined and not allowed to be transferred to the tool.
SecureWISE gives a fab full control of how, when, and what tools can be accessed, assuring that OEMs or SIs don't have any unauthorized direct access to production tools. Furthermore, built-in role-based access functions give the machine owners a detailed audit trail with comprehensive reporting and business analytics of all activities.
The lesson to be learned by TSMC, Honda, and others is that if you want to avoid being the next victim, you need to lock down tool access, yet allow connectivity through a robust platform like Telit's secureWISE.
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Bernardí Tamames Alonso, més conegut per Berni Tamames (Lleida, 15 d'agost de 1973) és un jugador de bàsquet català.
Començà la seva etapa com a jugador a l'escola Maristes de Lleida. Més endavant fitxà pel F.C. Barcelona on jugà entre el primer equip i els filials fins a la temporada 1995-1996, any que va ser traspassat al Festina Andorra. Més endavant jugà a equips com el Gran Canaria i el Caja San Fernando, fins que va decidir tornar a Lleida per a jugar amb el Caprabo Lleida on finalitzà la seva carrera esportiva després de la temporada 2006-2007.
El Berni es caracteritza per ser un pívot molt dur. S'adapta a qualsevol sistema i compleix a la perfecció el paper que se li assigna en moments puntuals del partit. Sap moure's bé sota l'anella, a més de tancar el rebot defensiu, intimidar al contrari i resoldre amb contundència alguns atacs. L'entrega és la seva principal virtud. Aquestes coses han fet que es convertís en un dels jugadors més estimats per l'afició lleidatana.
En el seu palmarès esportiu destaquen diferents títols, com dos lligues catalanes guanyades amb el Caprabo Lleida i una lliga ACB guanyada amb el F.C. Barcelona
Finalment el 22 d'agost del 2007 a València rep un homenatge per part del Federació Espanyola de Bàsquet juntament amb altres sis històrics de la selecció espanyola abans del partit que enfrontava a les seleccions d'Espanya i Alemanya
Trajectòria Esportiva
Maristes Montserrat
1991-92 : F.C. Barcelona Junior
1992-93 : CB Cornellà F.C. Barcelona Banca Catalana
1993-94 : Llobregat Cornellà, F.C. Barcelona Banca Catalana
1994-95 : Llobregat Cornellà (EBA), F.C. Barcelona Banca Catalana
1995-96 : Festina Andorra
1996-97 : C.B. Gran Canaria (ACB)
1997-98 : C.B. Gran Canaria (ACB)
1998-99 : C.B. Gran canaria (ACB)
99-2000 : Canarias Telecom (ACB)
2000-01 : Caja san Fernando (ACB)
2001-02 : Caja san Fernando (ACB), Caprabo Lleida (ACB)
2002-03 : Caprabo Lleida (ACB)
2003-04 : Caprabo Lleida (ACB)
2004-05 : Plus Pujol Lleida (ACB)
2005-06 : Plus Pujol Lleida (LEB)
2006-07 : Plus Pujol Lleida (LEB)
Palmarès
Campió Lliga Catalana 2003 amb el Caprabo Lleida
Campió Lliga Catalana 2002 amb el Caprabo Lleida
Internacional amb la Selecció Nacional Universitària
Campió de Lliga amb el F.C. Barcelona a la temporada 1994-95
Medalla de Bronze amb la Selecció Nacional Universitària a la Universiada de Palma-99
Campió d'Espanya Junior amb el F.C. Barcelona a la temporada 1991-92
Jugadors de bàsquet lleidatans
Jugadors del Lleida Basquetbol
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Dacus quadristriatus är en tvåvingeart som först beskrevs av Munro 1984. Dacus quadristriatus ingår i släktet Dacus och familjen borrflugor. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.
Källor
Borrflugor
quadristriatus
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Women in the boardroom
Germany backs law demanding at least 30% women in top boardrooms
Frauenquote - or women's quotas - to be signed into law next month with firms required to implement the rule by 2016
Frankfurt, Germany. The push for gender equality is expected have a major impact on 108 of the country's largest firms. Photograph: Michael Probst/AP
Kate Connolly in Berlin
Wed 26 Nov 2014 09.26 EST
Large German companies face a major shake-up after the government ordered that at least a third of executive positions be filled by women.
The agreement, which was reached by the ruling coalition after months of heated debate, will involve the Frauenquote – or women's quotas – being signed into law in December. Companies will have to start implementing the law by 2016.
The decision will have a major impact on 108 of Germany's largest firms, many of which have resisted the legislation. Several firms, including some major car manufacturers, have threatened to move their production abroad if the law was passed.
An estimated 3,500 smaller businesses will be obliged to introduce gender-equality goals and to publish these over the coming years.
Businesses will not be allowed to claim that they cannot find enough suitable women candidates. Any that do will have to leave positions vacant under what has been termed the "empty chair sanction".
The women's affairs minister, Manuela Schwesig of the Social Democrats, said she hoped the law would also promote change further down the pecking order of companies, whether those listed on the stock exchange or the smaller mittelstand firms.
"This law is an important step for equality because it will initiate cultural change in the workplace," she told German radio.
Chancellor Angela Merkel, who initially opposed the reform, told the Bundestag on Wednesday: "It has been decided on and it is coming. We cannot afford to do without the skills of women."
But Ulrich Grillo of the German Industries Federation, at the same time as insisting that companies wanted more women in leadership roles, dismissed the law as counterproductive, insisting that voluntary solutions were preferable.
Justice minister Heiko Maas said the agreement was historic and would make Germany a more modern country.
Some business leaders had said the law was not necessary because equality between the sexes is anchored in the German constitution. But Schwesig said equality was "far from being true in real life". The effects of the law, she said, had the potential to go beyond the boardroom and would ultimately contribute to a change in society.
In contrast to Britain and the US, Germany has a two-tier board system comprising both non-executive supervisory boards, consisting of outside advisers, and full-time executive boards, which manage the company on a daily basis.
Supervisory boards are currently made up of about 22% of women, yet they hold only 12% of executive board posts.
Writing in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, commentator Heribert Prantl said the introduction of a frauenquote was simply bringing an end to the fact that "for ever and a day in top positions in business there have been male quotas of almost 100%. So the frauenquote are not the introduction of quotas, rather they are breaking through existing quotas … they are a tool to establish sensible standards. Just as children learn to swim with armbands, so the women's quotas are the armbands of society."
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Bulldogs pull away from Rams for title
Jon Mitchell
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Roaring Fork High School's Jassiel Petetan
Jon Mitchell / Post Independent |
GRAND JUNCTION — Moffat County High School's boys basketball team has three players on its roster who are three-year starters. The Roaring Fork Rams came into this season with three players who had varsity basketball experience.
Yet, here were the Rams on Saturday playing the Bulldogs in the championship game of the Class 3A Western Slope League District Tournament at Grand Junction Central High School. But by the end of the game, the more-experienced Bulldogs were the ones who played more poised down the stretch on their way to a 57-45 victory.
"I couldn't be prouder as a coach even if they had won the game," Roaring Fork coach Larry Williams said. "They've come so far.
"We had the league champs on the ropes, and it wasn't until the final six minutes that they made their run and we didn't answer," Williams continued.
"We had the league champs on the ropes, and it wasn't until the final six minutes that they made their run and we didn't answer." Larry WilliamsRoaring Fork High boys basketball coach
For three quarters, however, Roaring Fork (15-7 overall) put itself in a position to win just like it did in Craig on Feb. 14, when the Rams handed Moffat County its only league loss of the season. But thanks in part to senior Joe Camilletti, who scored 16 of his team's 26 fourth-quarter points and happens to be one of those three three-year starters, the Bulldogs (18-4) pulled away and will host the regional round of the Class 3A state tournament when it starts next weekend.
"They hit a few big shots there at the beginning, and that really took the momentum away from us," Roaring Fork senior Ben Carpenter said. "They have a great ballclub with great players who were well coached, and they outplayed us tonight."
Camilletti finished with a game-high 22 points, but his fourth-quarter outburst was the deciding factor against Roaring Fork. Carpenter finished with 15 points and three of Roaring Fork's five 3-pointers, and Raul Leyva scored seven of his nine points in the second half to help keep the Rams in the game.
Leyva hit the front end of a 1-and-1 foul-shot opportunity to put Roaring Fork up 33-30 with 36.4 seconds left before the fourth quarter, and a Moffat County foul shot from Matt Hamilton pulled them within two at the end of the third. That's when Camilletti got things going for Bulldogs, scoring the first seven Moffat County points of the stanza. His three-point play with 5:42 left, followed by a 3-pointer from Tyler Davis, gave the Bulldogs the lead for good at 41-37.
Meanwhile, the Rams, who were making their fourth appearance in the district-tournament title game in the past five years, weren't able to come any closer from that point on.
Benton Taylor added seven points and Hamilton and Dylan Kinkade each chipped in seven for the Bulldogs, who will find out who they're matched up with in the state tournament when the Colorado High School Activities Association announces its state-tournament bracket today. It'll be a busy weekend in Craig — Moffat County's girls team beat Olathe in its tournament-title game to earn the right to host for the 3A regional.
Meanwhile, Williams is confident about his team's chances at advancing regardless of where the Rams go this week.
"They beat a great team [Grand Valley] on Friday and they played very well against a great team today," the coach said. "I feel pretty good about how we're playing."
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Q: Translating a datasheet into a PCB design (TPS63001) I'm in the process of leaning to design PCB's and leaning to solder tiny QFN parts. As part of this process, I'm trying to create a circuit with the TPS63001 (Datasheet) buck-boost converter, which I would like to use to power a ESP8266 (which requires 3.3v) by a lipo.
According to the datasheet, the circuit should be:
And in the same datasheet, they even provide a layout example:
This layout is for the Adjustable Output Voltage version, I will be using the fixed voltage version.
With the information in the datasheet, I created this layout in eagle:
Now there are a few things I'm wondering:
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*There are three dots underneath the chip in the example in the datasheet. I guessed that these would be via's, and created a ground plane on the back of the board. I guess this is for heat dispensation, did I interpret this right?
*I connected VINA, EN and PS/SYNC together. In the layout example EN and VINA just move out of the picture, but according to the schema, they should be connected, did I do this right?
Are there any other dising rules / recommendations that I should take care of?
A: *
*The dots under the chip are indeed vias, and most likely help conduct heat to the other side of the board - which should have a fairly large area to help dissipate the heat. They'll only help if you solder the exposed pad down, though. If you only solder the pads at the ends, it may not be enough.
*The current carrying traces should be wider as shown in layout from the datasheet, and as explained in the text in the datasheet.
*One of the examples shows Vina, EN, and PS tied together, and then connected to Vin through a 100 Ohm resistor. You have those three tied together, and that appears to be a resistor that connects them to Vin, OK. Pulling PS high disables the power save mode.
Those are the things that I (as a hobbyist) can see.
Eagle should have some kind of rules for trace widths. If you set the power carrying connections to the proper type in the schematic, then it should tell you (or force you) to use wider traces when laying out those connections. I don't use Eagle, though, so I can't say for sure what it does or how to set things up - most programs have some features along those lines, though.
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RCW 43.20B.310: Residential care payments by families, when not collected.
Residential care payments by families, when not collected.
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