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Q: Shibboleth - multiple customers for one Service Provider I have installed Shibboleth as a Service Provider on one of my servers. We provider software as a service to universities. What I'm wondering is, what's the best way to handle multiple customers with a single Service Provider instance?
I came across this:
https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/EDS10/1.+Overview
But I don't want to display a list of schools that are in our network to students. Is there a way to configure Shibboleth to automatically know who the customer is via the XML configuration rather than using the Embedded Discovery Service?
A: The only way of doing that is to have a sub-domain for each of your customers. None of other methods will guarantee that you know which customer's IdP to use to login your users.
customer1.yourservice.com, customer2.yourservice.com etc shouldn't be a big deal to configure on DNS level. But you have to keep in mind SSL certificates.
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This time of year also represents a season to be thankful for our families and the many other good things we have in our lives. We are also thankful for our many veterans, active duty, and reserve members of the military who made the commitment to preserve and protect our nation's principles and freedoms.
I am thankful for the great work insurance professionals do every day for Floridians, as well as the work of our legislative leaders. I've had the pleasure to work with many of these leaders and stakeholders who are as dedicated as I am to ensuring that we accomplish needed changes during the upcoming legislative session. We must do everything we can to curb fraud and keep money in Floridians' pockets where it belongs.
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FAREWELL the States of Jersey.
Last week's announcement that the name 'Government of Jersey' will be adopted as the official title both in the island and overseas is another reminder that the two islands have chosen very different political paths.
The decision to drop the States of Jersey is designed to highlight the roles and responsibilities of the government – ie. the executive authority of the Council of Ministers and their public administrators – as opposed to the States Assembly of deputies, who act as the lawmakers.
Guernsey's committee-based system has no such divisions, of course. The 38 deputies are held jointly responsible for government and are still seen as one unit, despite the apparent 50:50 voting split on many major issues.
Not surprisingly, Jersey's decision has not gone down well with everybody. The States of Jersey is a historic term bound up tightly with its identity both abroad and at home.
Even the figleaf offering of the Jerriais alternative, where appropriate, of 'Gouvernement d'Jerri' has done little to douse the fire of those who see it as a betrayal of the island's heritage.
The rebranding should make no difference to the unrealised ambitions of the two Bailiwicks to work more closely together.
However, each time the chief ministers hand over their business cards in Westminster or send in letters to Whitehall and Brussels there will be a small reminder to those outside the Channel Islands that the islands are separated by more than just a few miles of sea water.
There will be those in Guernsey who envy Jersey their executive government. Certainly, if the States of Guernsey cannot rise from its current torpor and start showing an ability to be decisive, imaginative and forward-thinking the clamour for the 'Government of Guernsey' will get louder.
It is not clear at this stage if that move towards executive government will be given impetus by the advent of island-wide voting next year. With no sign of the development of strong political parties in time for this election it will once again be 38 individuals – with some loose alliances – voted in.
Each will then take their share of the burden of government through their votes on committees and in the States Assembly.
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Данные водного реестра
По данным государственного водного реестра России относится к Нижнеобскому бассейновому округу, водохозяйственный участок реки — Северная Сосьва, речной подбассейн реки — Северная Сосьва. Речной бассейн реки — (Нижняя) Обь от впадения Иртыша.
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Trailer Frenzy
It's a Big, Big World(s) out There in This Splendorous New Trailer for A Wrinkle in Time
Image: Disney
Trailer FrenzyA special place to find the newest trailers for movies and TV shows you're craving.
Disney has released the latest look at director Ava DuVernay's upcoming film, A Wrinkle in Time, showcasing more of the amazing worlds Meg Murry will discover... as well as the problems she's leaving behind.
The UK trailer for A Wrinkle in Time, based on Madeleine L'Engle's classic novel, dives more into the backstory of our hero, Meg Murry (Storm Reid). In the book, she's a proto-genius who started acting out after her father, played here by Chris Pine, disappeared. It's not until Mrs. Who (Mindy Kaling), Mrs. Which (Oprah Winfrey), and Mrs. Whatsit (Reese Witherspoon) send Meg, her friend, and her brother Charles Wallace out on a mission to rescue her father does she realize her full potential.
DuVernay previously said she specifically wanted to make A Wrinkle in Time because it would give her the freedom to create her own worlds, and those worlds are on full display here. We get a closer look at the gorgeous, lush visuals and otherworldly creatures her film has created, and it makes me hopeful to see what else she has in store in her vision for A Wrinkle in Time.
And bonus: Charles Wallace actually talks in this trailer! I was beginning to think he was a ghost.
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LastTimeAround
It's a Big, Big World(s) out There in This Splendorous New Trailer for A Wrinkle in Time
Am I the only one having a tough time with the capitalizations in this headline?
Also, io9 has been pushing this movie as something amazing, while I dunno, the trailers so far really look Divergent-level terrible.
Am I simply missing something here? This isn't a case of Disney money being used to promote a movie in the editorial... right?
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Home Local News Agape NPI Partners briefed on new and ongoing projects
Agape NPI Partners briefed on new and ongoing projects
George Bakoyannis
Agape's Ian Williams (far left) and Kevin McLeod (centre) led the Feb. 25 meeting of the NPI Partners Committee.
On Feb. 25 during a meeting of the Laval NPI Partners Committee at Laval Senior Academy, the partners and members heard presentations from several local organizations mandated to provide social assistance and services in the Laval region.
The Bright Beginnings project was explained by Agape Youth & Parents Family Association executive-director Kevin McLeod, who also welcomed Varun Thurairatnam as Agape's recently hired coordinator for Youth outreach and for the Enhancing Regional Community Capacity initiative.
The Bright Beginnings program is designed to mobilize partners and enhance the well-being and educational success of English-speaking children and youth in Quebec. Funding for this program is provided by the Lucie and André Chagnon Foundation and the project is managed by the CHSSN.
The Regroupement Lavallois pour la réussite scolaire/Wurd Up series was presented by Katrina Diver (Community Learning Centre). A special mention of Katrina's good work at Laval Senior Academy and on this project was noted by members present.
Literacy through learning
Over the past three years LSA's Community Learning Centre in partnership with Agape has received funding from The Ministère de l'Éducation et de l'Enseignement supérieur (MEES) to develop a project promoting literacy through learning activities. This project targets youth 12-17 years of age from both Laval Junior and Senior Academy schools, their families as well as members of the greater Laval community.
Boys to Men/Girls to Women (Mentoring Circles) was presented by David Cordes, executive- director of Boys to Men Canada. Testimonials as to the effectiveness of the programs were provided by students (Fad and Destiny) from Laval Senior Academy who attend the boy's and girl's mentor circles.
Boys and girls mentoring
Boys to Men and Girls to Women Canada are intergenerational mentoring programs Laval Senior Academy has begun to offer its students. Supporters say the mentor circles provide a safe, non-judgmental and supportive environment for students to share their stories, recognize their authentic voice and limitless potential and help develop essential and valuable life skills.
Circle sessions work like this: each circle is composed of an intergenerational team of mentors (seniors, young adults, alumni, teachers, support staff) and is led by a group facilitator. Mentors commit to weekly sessions and hold space and provide support for participating students.
Sessions combine learning, fun, leadership opportunities, peer mentoring and self-esteem building exercises. Every session begins with a check-in for each member and is followed by a discussion/activity led by the group facilitator.
Embracing diversity
The Healthy Early Years Program was introduced by Kevin McLeod and presented by new project coordinators Natalina Pace and Danielle Boisvert. Helen Morrison from the CISSS Laval invited the coordinators to attend the "Embracing Diversity" event in order to help promote this new project.
The Got my info youth web resource was presented by Kevin McLeod. The website (https://gotmyinfo.com) was presented to the partners. (A mobile app is available for Android users, but some difficulties are being worked out with Apple for the ios version.) Agape is asking that this resource be shared to better allow it to be known to youth, parents and those who work with youth.
Conversation Club
The McGill Retention of bilingual health professionals and Bursary program was presented by Agape's social worker and coordinator Ian Williams. A new addition was introduced with the Conversation Club which started in the fall of 2019 to help health professionals who have taken English courses to maintain their skills (a project from Montérégie-est NPI).
Representing the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board, Michael Quinn said the SWLSB is interested in the Special Targeted Bursary program, where students who are granted a bursary and promise to return to work in Laval or other identified regions can also fulfill their commitment by working as health professionals at the SWLSB. Occupational Therapists and Speech Language Pathologists are heavily lacking both at the SWLSB and at the CISSS Laval.
Gardening project
The Intergenerational Gardening Project was presented by Kevin McLeod. This project between Agape Senior Wellness Centre seniors and grade two children at Twin Oaks Elementary was initially funded by the City of Laval and then by the Desjardins Foundation. Funding is no longer available and new partners are being sought.
A special announcement was made by Darlene Brown of The Learning Exchange. TLE is once again running a reading and storytelling project called A 1000 books before Kindergarten. Representatives of the TLE can go to your school or daycare to read and provide free books. Those interested can go to https://tleliteracy.com/1000-books-before-kindergarten on the web.
The Laval NPI Partners Committee is a "network partnership initiative" created in conjunction with the Community Health and Social Services Network (CHSSN). Agape, which provides charitable services from its storefront and offices on Notre Dame Blvd., is the sponsoring organization for the Laval network.
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Q: Why char.Equals() method didn't works me with ".", "+", "-", "/" or "*" I am trying to build a calculator in C# using WPF and I need to know if in the display (a System.Windows.Controls.TextBlock object) are some operators like +, -, / or *.
The TextBlock, that I named "Display":
<TextBlock Name="Display" Text="0" FontFamily="Consolas" FontSize="60"
HorizontalAlignment="Right" VerticalAlignment="Bottom"
Padding="15" Height="120"></TextBlock>
The problem begins when I call the TextBlock.Text (returns a string) property, and try to compare some index of that string (a char) with another char (., +, -, /, *) with the char.Equals() method:
private void Dot_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
if (Display.Text.Length < 20 & !".".Equals(Display.Text[Display.Text.Length - 1])) Display.Text += ".";
}
I expected that when the last character in the display are a dot, the user couldn't write more dots. Like this:
But just happened this:
The same problem occurs when i typed +, -, * or /
Thanks for helping!
A: You should compare with char. You are trying compare string and char. "." is a string and '.' is a char.
private void Dot_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
if (Display.Text.Length < 20 & !'.'.Equals(Display.Text[Display.Text.Length - 1])) Display.Text += ".";
}
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Brigadoon Academy and a Once-in-a-Century Challenge
(This post is part of a series of articles, blog posts, and short briefs produced by EXPLO Elevate focused on supporting schools' virtual learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.)
Moira Kelly | President, Exploration Learning
At some point, brick and mortar schools in the West will reopen, but planning for the daily realities of what that means is not entirely clear. In China, schools are several months ahead of their Western counterparts. Wahaha International School in Hangzhou China and a founding member of the EXPLO Elevate Schools Cooperative, is reopening after two months of remote learning. On a recent webinar and Q&A session with Elevate, Anders Hjelm, Executive Principal of the School, shared details of their planning, the challenges, and how they are approaching the rest of the calendar.
Wahaha's careful approach got us thinking. We then scoured reports coming in from school reopening in Denmark and checked in with various experts.
Join us for the reopening of Brigadoon Academy, a co-ed K-12 day school founded in 1904. The Academy enrolls 700 students and sits on 27 acres in a suburb of a major East Coast city. In a typical year, the admit rate is 38% and 35% of the students are on financial aid. This year, the admit rate was 39% while 39% of the student body is now on aid. The Academy's endowment is $37 million.
The Start of the School Day
It is September 1, 2020, the first day that Brigadoon has opened its brick and mortar doors since it closed the third week of March. Because social distancing is still required, in-person schooling is on a staggered schedule. The school has been split in two. The Lower and Middle School students will each attend for three days a week whereas Upper School students will attend for two days a week. This week, only the Upper School will start. Everyone expects that many things will not work and will require modification, so working out the kinks with just the Upper School seemed to make the most sense. (No doubt a different set of challenges will present themselves with the Lower and Middle School students.) Even with just the Upper School students, start times are staggered since every student is screened on arrival and only so many students can be screened at once.
Car drop off has been moved away from the front door to an area further away where students are met by the school nurse and assistants for screening on fever, coughing and other symptoms. Temperatures are taken. Students must show they have a mask, as well as disinfecting wipes and gel. The digital form that they will complete everyday asks families to confirm that the student has not knowingly come into contact with anyone with COVID. This completed form gets uploaded into the school's new COVID database. This first day's form is more extensive. Families must confirm that they have kept a temperature log for two weeks. That log will be reviewed before students can get out of the car. Parents are not allowed to leave until the full screening is completed so that if a student must be turned away, they can be sent home before entering the building. Progress is slow, but the expectation is that with practice things will move faster in the coming days.
Sample flow chart of student arrival at Brigadoon Academy
Arriving by bus is not yet possible. Brigadoon has decided to hold off on bus transportation for at least a week until it can make sure that all of the systems it has in place for opening are working. (One big challenge still to sort through is figuring out a bus schedule that will work with staggered seating. Each bus won't be able to hold as many students. Plus the bus company has demanded the school supply a bus monitor and that's still under negotiation.)
Once the screening is completed for students arriving by car, students exit their vehicles and wipe down their hands with one of the approved disinfecting wipes. Students then proceed, single file, to the front door of the school. Yellow tape has been put down on the walkway so that students understand how far to stay away from one another. As they move to the front of the line they are greeted by the Head of School who does not give them the traditional handshake, but instead a nod of greeting. The nod is also a sign that gives the students permission to enter the building and go to their lockers. Teachers are in the hallways ensuring that students move swiftly and don't get too close to one another.
Heading to Class
After students go to their lockers, they head to their first period class where they sit in their assigned seats. Brigadoon is a school known for small group work and flexible seating. But since COVID-19 can linger on desks, the decision was made to have students sit in the same seat, as much as possible. Furthermore, seating has been set up so that students are distanced from one another and facing the front of the room. There are no more than 12 students in a class because that is the maximum number possible in order to keep them socially distanced. Some of the smaller seminar rooms are not being used, while both gyms, the library, theatre, and the dining hall have been turned into classrooms. The entire schedule has been modified to minimize students changing classrooms since the halls cannot be filled between classes. This means teachers are changing rooms and need to bring their materials with them. Some classes, of course, have specialized equipment, and in those cases students head to the labs and studio spaces, but it's slow going since between classes the teacher has to disinfect all of the equipment.
While the Brigadoon community is returning to the building, a surprisingly large percentage of the academic work is being done on-line, much of it in an asynchronous fashion. Face to face (f2f) meetings are being reserved for discussions, labs, and other work that require specialized equipment. The aim is to use f2f time in active ways.
Professional Learning for Faculty
Faculty spent several weeks this past summer engaging in professional learning to support them in modifying courses so that they could run f2f, online, and in a hybrid fashion. Given Brigadoon is a school known for engaging courses with high participation and lots of small group work, making the leap to keeping the same pillars in an online and hybrid format was challenging. There was work on pacing, agenda setting, and releasing responsibility to students. Work was also done on assessment and documentation. No doubt the faculty is better prepared than they were in March, but many concerns remain.
Modifying the Schedule
One lesson that came out of the Spring semester is that simultaneously trying to do seven courses online was almost impossible. So early in the summer, a faculty task force reworked the Middle and Upper school schedule into modules. Students are taking no more than two courses at any one time. The fallout, of course, was that the curriculum for all courses needed to be modified. The summer was heavily choreographed. One set of tasks could not be done until another set of tasks was completed. This was a rollercoaster summer for all faculty.
Most faculty are expecting that students will not be fully prepared for their fall courses. Instead of just a summer slide, it's the spring and summer slide. The early part of the new term will be spent in review.
Electives and Extracurriculars
Chorus, band, wind ensemble, and orchestra have been suspended or moved to online. Singing and blowing into instruments creates too much hazard. Most competitive athletics are similarly suspended, though there are a few exceptions. One is a modified cross-country schedule where students will compete only against the clock rather than each other. The others are golf, swimming, and tennis, but students are not traveling to other campuses, nor are other students coming to Brigadoon. Senior varsity athletes are very concerned about what it all means for their college admissions, but there doesn't seem to be a reasonable alternative. (Brigadoon is known for its sports program and without three-quarters of it, the Athletic Department is feeling the pushback from families.) The hope is that some student clubs will still run f2f, but the student activities office is still trying to sort through which ones will work and have enough interest. Many parents seem to want their children to leave school as soon as the standard school day is completed.
Counseling and Health Services
College counseling has moved completely on-line, as has mental health counseling. The School struggled over the summer to put itself in a position to become HIPAA compliant. In a similar fashion, much of the specialized tutoring that filled the Learning Center's days are also happening online, but when students are in the building, the Learning Center is trying to arrange a once a week f2f session. That said, no one quite yet believes it will match what was provided f2f multiple times per week.
School counselors have also been providing some professional learning with faculty on how to work with students who are suffering from some level of trauma. All students were cooped up at home for the better part of six months. This was an adverse experience that has caused some students to emotionally withdraw and this may impact their life at Brigadoon for some time.
A COVID Clinic has been established so that any student who is found to have a fever or other symptoms can be isolated from the rest of the population until the child can be sent home. This is a separate area from the usual Health Center.
Lunch, Staffing and Disinfecting
Lunch has changed dramatically. The usual lunch set up has been abandoned — hot-line, salad bars, buffet — since it would mean too much interaction with food, plates, and utensils. Instead there are pre-made boxed lunches that are delivered to student classrooms.
Given the reduced complexity of lunch, two members of dining services were let go during the summer. Those salaries have been redirected to custodial. Daily disinfecting is the new norm and even with two additional custodians, keeping up with the workload is difficult. At the end of the Spring semester, Brigadoon put in a large order for disinfecting and other cleaning supplies, as well as masks. Thankfully they did so as supplies of these products are now spotty.
Running Two Schools at Once
Of course, while life is abuzz on the ground at Brigadoon, the Academy at the same time is trying to run an online school. Most of the students are doing a hybrid model: some in person and some online. But, about 20% of the student body is only doing online. This is because though students and their families love the school, because of various health conditions – a parent with MS, a father with a heart condition – some families do not feel safe having their children attend school in person. Since they have paid their tuition – and Brigadoon does not want to lose them – the School is trying to run a reasonably robust online program. For similar health and family reasons, 20% faculty has not returned and have been deployed fulltime as online teachers. Unfortunately, this group of faculty is bunched up in three departments and this has caused some real challenges in terms of scheduling the f2f days.
Videoconferencing has been installed in every classroom. Two trustees made donations to pay for all of the equipment, but the IT Department has not yet made it through training every teacher on how to include online students in the primarily f2f classes. The equipment was ordered the first week of June, but because there was such demand, it was backordered and just arrived last week..
The most questions surround those teachers who will be teaching a group of students who are sitting at Brigadoon, while the teachers are home. No one is quite sure that this is going to work, but these are some of the Academy's most beloved teachers, and it seemed worth making the attempt.
There are still so many unknowns. Brigadoon is doing the best it can in a world that can feel upside down. The community is trying to remain flexible, optimistic, and moving forward. There is no playbook for this situation and Brigadoon knows that whatever plans are in place, they likely will change many times over in the coming months. Everyone is trying to keep a sense of humor. Things that used to seem really important seem less so now. The Academy has made it through two World Wars and the Great Depression. With persistence and resourcefulness, the expectation is that it will make it through this set of challenges.
Changed, but still standing.
As more research emerges on antibody testing and immunity, by sometime in the fall students may be able to carry documentation of their antibody status and skip the elaborate check in each morning. The systems and procedures described above are simply meant to illustrate the thinking that will need to go into planning to reopen. Current CDC guidance on reopening considerations can be found at:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/reopen-guidance.html
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/schools-childcare/guidance-for-schools.html
"Brigadoon" comes from the Lerner and Loewe musical about the mysterious Scottish town that appears only once in a hundred years. We hope school buildings will not come alive in the fall only to close soon thereafter.
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President Obama said Sunday that counterterrorism efforts in Yemen are ongoing despite President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's ouster by Houthi rebels.
"Our top priority is to make sure our people on the ground are safe," Obama said during comments in New Delhi with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"It is a dangerous country and dangerous part of the world," he added.
Obama said he has seen reports that those counterterrorism efforts have been suspended.
"This is one more sequence in what has been an ongoing turbulent process inside Yemen," he added.
"Yemen has never been a perfect democracy or an island of stability," Obama said.
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Pattern: Useless shift
Issue: -
## Description
This rule checks if shift or shift-assign operations shift by more than the length of the underlying variable. Update variable type or shift count to make your intention and code more clear.
Example of **incorrect** code:
```go
func ShiftTest() {
var i8 int8
_ = i8 >> 8 // i8 is too small for shift of 8
}
```
Example of **correct** code:
```go
func ShiftTest() {
var i8 int8
_ = i8 << 7
}
```
## Further Reading
* [Go - Arithmetic operators](https://golang.org/ref/spec#Arithmetic_operators)
* [Go Vet - shift](https://golang.org/cmd/vet/#hdr-Shifts)
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Göthe Ericsson, folkbokförd Nils Göte Eriksson, född 4 december 1925 i Tillinge församling, Uppsala län, död 8 oktober 2011, var en svensk teaterman.
Biografi
Göthe Ericsson hade tidigt ett brinnande teaterintresse, vilket fick honom att i 20-årsåldern skriva till Hjördis Petterson för att erbjuda sina tjänster till revykungen Karl Gerhards revytrupp. Han fick vara med och blev snabbt betydelsefull som sekreterare och allt-i-allo åt Karl Gerhard. Han stod också ofta på scenen, bland annat i rollen som Karl Gerhards samtalspartner. Han medverkade i revyer som Kråkslottet, Två träd, Karl Gerhards jubelsommar och Ursäkta handsken. Ericsson medverkade också i revy på Gröna Lunds teater.
Regissören och teaterchefen Ingmar Bergman rekryterade honom till Dramatiska teatern efter att Karl Gerhard 1964 hade avlidit. Där kom han att verka som chef för scenens byrå och planeringschef/sceninspektör fram till pensioneringen på 1990-talet.
Göthe Ericsson var i unga år sambo med sin arbetsgivare Karl Gerhard (1891–1964) och därefter under många år med Benny Almebratt (1931–2009).
Jan-Erik Sääfs och Erik Fägerborns musikal Jag blir nog aldrig bjuden dit igen (efter Gerhards kuplett), med urpremiär på Malmö Opera och svensk turné våren 2017, handlar om Göthe Ericssons och Karl Gerhards långa relation och bygger på Karl Gerhards dagböcker, med Gerhards kupletter varvade med Sääfs musik.
Teater och revy
Roller
Referenser
Externa länkar
Göthe Ericsson på Svensk Filmdatabas
Svenska skådespelare under 1900-talet
Personer inom svensk teater
Män
Födda 1925
Avlidna 2011
Personer från Tillinge socken
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Resources for Anzac Day lessons
To Anzac Day Websites MAIN PAGE
Anzac Day Websites
Memorials and rolls
Researching World War 1 and interviewing veterans
Researching activities
Honouring Anzacs (honouringanzacs.net.au)
Students engage in research about an individual soldier, using an online interactive book. Portions of the book may be downloaded and printed. Registration is free, although currently (12 Dec 2015) school registration is unavailable.
Browsing Anzac Day - Social Studies Activities - Levels 4 and 5 (New Zealand) (nzhistory.net.nz/classroom)
AWM Advanced Search page (awm.gov.au)
Besides searching, you can look at the various categories.
Military history WW1 and Australian military history (museumsvictoria.com.au)
An overview of starting points for researching the history of Australians involved in World War 1.
Interviewing a veteran
See also Interviews
Valuing our veterans (anzacportal.dva.gov.au)
Several pages designed to assist students in researching a veteran in person. Particularly relevant sections are:
- Gathering Australia's war memories (same as home page of this section)
- Making contact with veterans
- Recording and preserving veterans' memories
Covers: Preparing for the interview, conducting the interview, recording the veterans' memories, interview outcomes.
- Communicating what is learnt
Asking questions of veterans [pdf] (australiansatwar.gov.au)
See pages 34-35.
Hints for conducting a successful interview (anzacday.org.au)
Twelve points to remember when interviewing a war veteran.
Finding Stories, Questions [pdf] (Anzac Day Media Style Guide 2016 pages 32-37)
These pages have been written with members of the media in mind, but some of the information may be helpful for students planning to interview people who have participated in military activities.
Your local community Finding evidence of the impact of war on your community (anzacday.org.au)
A general overview of searching your community for evidence of involvement in war, with links to:
- interview hints
- preparing a list [pdf], and
- creating a map [pdf]
Memories (dva.gov.au)
Click on Recognising Australia's war heritage and Preserving Australia's war heritage for suggetsions and ideas.
New Zealand research National Library: First World War guide (natlib.govt.nz)
A very useful guide for those wishing to research any aspect of New Zealand's participation in World War 1.
New Zealand and the First World War (warletters.net)
A guide to online resources about New Zealand and World War 1.
Sites and sources (ww100.govt.nz)
Starting points for research learning about New Zealand's participation in war.
A Guide to Researching Your Military Service Personnel (armymuseum.co.nz)
Focuses on exploring service records.
World War 1 online resources for children (wcl.govt.nz)
Very extensive collection of suggested research sources.
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● Interviews
● Memorials and rolls
● Referencing (citing websites)
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Die Firma Amati Kraslice ist ein tschechischer Hersteller von Blasinstrumenten mit Sitz in Kraslice.
Geschichte
Amati wurde im September 1945 als Genossenschaft gegründet. Im Zuge der Vertreibung der deutschen Instrumentenbauer nach Kriegsende aus Graslitz wurden die dort ansässigen Manufakturen unter dem Dach der Firma "Amati" zusammengefasst, diejenigen in Schönbach unter dem Namen "Cremona". Die Firmennamen spielten auf traditionsreiche italienische Geigenbauer an (Amati und Cremona). Beide Unternehmen unterstanden später einer zentralen Handelsorganisation in Prag, die den Außenhandel führte. Für Exportprodukte wurden die deutschen Firmenzeichen teilweise beibehalten.
Drei Jahre später erfolgte 1948 im Zuge der Beneš-Dekrete die Verstaatlichung, in deren Verlauf dem Unternehmen andere traditionsreiche Firmen angegliedert wurden. Im Laufe der Zeit entwickelte sich der Ort zu einem Zentrum der tschechischen Produktion von Blas- und Perkussionsinstrumenten, letztere werden mittlerweile nicht mehr hergestellt. Im Zuge der Privatisierung zur s.r.o im Jahr 1993 gab man dem Firmennamen den Zusatz Denak (Dechové nástroje Kraslice = Blasinstrumente Kraslice). 1994 schenkte der damalige tschechische Präsident Václav Havel seinem US-amerikanischen Amtskollegen Bill Clinton ein Amati-Tenorsaxophon, auf dem Clinton im Prager Jazzclub Reduta spielte.
Das Unternehmen war bis 2021 im Besitz der britischen Firma Geneva BrassWind, der Rest gehörte dem Unternehmer Jiří Štípek. 2019 machte das Unternehmen einen Umsatz von umgerechnet 4 Millionen Euro. 2020 meldete Amati-Denak Insolvenz an. Es war zu diesem Zeitpunkt mit umgerechnet 7,3 Millionen Euro verschuldet. Die Produktionsstätte in Hradec Králové wurde 2020 geschlossen.
2021 sollte das Unternehmen nach einer öffentlichen Auktion vom Unternehmer Roman Staněk und dessen Unternehmen RIQ Investments für umgerechnet eine Million Euro übernommen werden. Der Wert des Unternehmens wurde höher geschätzt. Staněk gab an, das Unternehmen in eine Genossenschaft umwandeln zu wollen. Während das Unternehmen in den 1980er-Jahren etwa 1800 Beschäftigte zählte, waren es Anfang 2023 nur noch 85 in Kraslice.
Produkte
Das Unternehmen zählt mit seiner Instrumentenproduktion neben Buffet Crampon und Selmer zu den drei größten Betrieben seiner Art in Europa. Es beherbergt die Marken Amati, Stowasser und V. F. Červený & Synové, wobei letztere (mit eigenem Produktionsstandort in Hradec Králové bis 2020) hinsichtlich der Sortimentsbreite der weltweit größte Produzent von Zylinderinstrumenten ist.
An Holzblasinstrumenten fertigt Amati Klarinetten, Fagotte, Kontrafagotte und Saxophone. Umfangreicher ist das Programm an Blechblasinstrumenten, es umfasst: Kornette, Trompeten, Flügelhörner, Tenorhörner, Baritonhörner, Euphonien, Posaunen und Zugposaunen, französische Hörner, Tuben und Susaphone.
Amati stellt Klarinetten mit deutschem und französischem Griffsystem her (Oehler-System bzw. Böhm-System). Mit deutschem System werden angeboten: Zwei Modelle in B, ein Modell in Hoch-Es, zwei Modelle in Tief-G, ferner eine kurze Bassklarinette in B bis Tief-Es und zwei lange bis Tief-C reichend. Mit französischem System werden hergestellt: zwei Modelle in B, drei in A, zwei in C, drei in Hoch-Es, eine Alt-Klarinette in Tief-Es sowie eine kurze Bassklarinette und zwei lange.
Die Firma vertreibt ihre Produkte in Tschechien und mehr als 50 weiteren Ländern.
Weblinks
Webpräsenz von Amati-Denak
Website der Marke V. F. Červený & Synové
Einzelnachweise
Blasinstrumentenhersteller
Produzierendes Unternehmen (Tschechien)
Musik (Tschechien)
Kraslice
Unternehmen (Hradec Králové)
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Metroid Prime developer Retro Studios could work on a Miyamoto-led project that's coming, "directly in the future," according to Nintendo producer Kensuke Tanabe.
The Texas-based studio is currently working on Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, but what comes next is a mystery.
Batting the chat-ball back the other way, Tanabe added, "We consider Retro as part of the Nintendo family and a very capable game development studio. As a Nintendo development team, they will keep working not only with SPD, but also with the teams in Kyoto. They might even work on a title that Miyamoto-san leads directly in the future.
Call us suspicious, but that seems like an odd theoretical to drop in there. It follows Miyamoto's claim that Retro Studios are ready to tackle the Zelda franchise. Could it be involved in the Zelda Wii U project?
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Can I use fonts from Google Fonts in commercial projects? If you had a website with higher traffic, you would need to upgrade to a more expensive tier that offered more pageviews. Quenos Typeface Botera Typeface Derinogullu Typeface Regattia Font Repo Pocket Serif Font Sac Prairie Serif Typeface Supernova Font Finches Serif Italic Font Handy Font Cognitype Typeface Chuck Noon 2 Font Syntesia Typeface Formal Inline Font Florence Font Shamery Font Shamery is a free uppercase serif typeface suitable to be included in luxurious and elegant design projects. Anurati is a new, free uppercase font with a futuristic flavour, created by France-based graphic designer Emmeran Richard. The font is great for logos, headings and posters. Have we not had enough? Diamor Script Diamor Script is a fantastic monoline font designed to create beautiful typography. Terrain Font Gruesa Sans Typeface Girl Gang Font Clear Opinions Typeface Neutro Grotesk Typeface Figno Typeface Adlanta Font Adlanta is a beautiful and round cornered font with two weights, Light and regular. Good for headlines to trap the attention.
The font is great for logotypes, branding, greeting cards, or any design with a strong and elegant touch. Jaden is a free geometric sans serif typeface, designed by Kolkata-based visual designer Aritra Das. This free font was designed by Spanish creative agency and comes in regular and bold weights. Roses Please Signature Typeface Free Biren Script Font Biren inspired by handwritten. Track type is all caps fonts and alphabet only, inspired with railway tracks slash, static, dynamic, and clean. La Viola — Free Script Display Font La Viola is a free script display font for personal and commercial use.
Pelmeshka, though, has gone the extra mile to become something truly unique. Mohave Typeface is good for display type such as headlines, posters, titles and more. And it all exists in perfect typographic harmony. What are some of your favorite foundries that have offerings available on Adobe Fonts? It is a simple typeface with a techy feel and a strict, geometric origin. It is easily paired with a sans serif font, like Open Sans. Nelda script is a beautiful calligraphy, modern, playful and multi-purpose typeface that combines brush lettering with natural handwriting, designed by Aulya Rahman. Hipster fonts remind me of the days when speedball pens and paintbrushes were used to achieve appealing fonts.
Designed by Kazakhstan-based graphic designer Slava Kirilenko, Archive is a contemporary free font constructed with strong geometric forms. Richard created the font with the intention of offering it for free for personal use to the masses. A few other nice choices are , , and. Please review any files included with your download, which will usually include information on the usage and licenses of the fonts. Free Script Font Highlander Marker Script Font Almairah Significent Wild Brush Hoodson Script. Debby is a free font that designed to feel personal and imperfect with the irregular bouncy characters and rough shapes speak for itself. The Geometric style fits well with current design trends and the fact that the type is sans serif also adds to its modern appeal.
The font was designed by graphic and type designer Jack Harvatt. Metafors Free Font Metafors is a free hand writing font. Pier comes in four weights — regular, italic, bold and bold italic. Utilizing a great-looking font is a key part of making any type of design look more professional. In addition, this font family has taken advantage of the multiple master to create several weights which go from UltraLight to Black. Smile Font Southbank Sans Apple Sans Adjectives Oks Free Typeface Oks Typeface is rough and naive sans serif has certain charm and can be used in large sizes for headlines, posters, etc. It has slight curves that make the lettering eye-catching.
KanKin is perfectly suitable for web, print, logos, motion graphics and posters. Do you recommend self-hosting or serving the fonts directly from Google? Designed by Belgium-based graphic designer Tarek Okbir, Original is an all caps rounded font that includes 2 styles — regular and alternate. The fonts and the typefaces are base for any type of digital communication. How do you define a hipster? This family consist Klasik regular, rough and shadow. It also suits many different languages with its added glyphs. Check out for some recommended pairings.
You can modify the colours of Anurati to suit your needs as well. Blacker is available in six weights, from light to heavy, with matching italics. Baron is free for both personal and commercial use. It achieves this with a vertical emphasis, utilising short ascenders and a very high x-height to ensure clarity. Oranienbaum is a modern Antiqua free font, created by TypeType foundry and Oleg Pospelov.
Monotonia Display Typeface Shkoder 1989 Typeface Reach Font Kano Typeface Kano is an uppercase and lowercase display typeface, with a geometric structure and a sharp edge point, making it ideal for logos, posters, and other typographic works. It consists of greater than 500 glyphs having a lot of languages — extended Latin and Cyrillic character support as well as Bulgarian localization functions. Fredoka Font Fredoka One is a big, round, bold font that is perfect for adding a little fun to any headline or large text. The vision behind Geometria was to revisit the perennial favourite to lend subtle individuality to its tried and true forms. The font contains more than 300 characters that includes uppercase, lowercase, numerals, accents, symbols and ligatures.
Forum is designed for titles and headlines but you can be used to set body texts too. Badhead is a free fresh looking font, comes with stylistic alternates, ligatures, and ornaments for easy customization, designed by ianmikraz studio. Hope you find good use for it. The font is great for logos and other high-impact type. The font is ideal for headlines. The font is perfectly suitable for headlines, business purposes, advertising, packaging, and publications.
The files come from the Google Fonts repository on —I regularly check the on GitHub to make sure the files provided here contain the latest versions. Lorano ExtraLight Typeface This font is great for user interfaces, branding, editorial and more. If you like geometrical shapes, symmetrical compositions and linear design, I suggest you get acquainted with the Maze font. A new year is just around the corner. Eufoniem Script Font Kadisoka Script Font Beautify Script Font Signatura Monoline Typeface Signatura Monoline Free Typeface is a new modern calligraphy Typeface Fonts collection from Ianmikraz studio. Free ttf font download from Pixelbuddha.
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Today's episode is all about unreadable books. What does it mean to read? How do we garner read meaning from text written in a language that we do not understand? Today we will talk about the process of reading, and I have some fun historical and contemporary examples of indecipherable books. We will go into the mysterious Voynich Manuscript, the surreal Codex Seraphinianus, and contemporary unreadable works by book artists Heather Peters and Timothy Ely.
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On July 12, 2018, the Progressive Conservative government delivered the 42nd Parliament's opening Speech from the Throne. The speech highlighted the Government's new tone and focus on advancing policies pledged during the election campaign.
The speech detailed the Government's policy-making priorities focusing on four main areas: energy and carbon pricing, taxes and trade, accountability and spending, and social policy.
Key themes outlined include fiscal responsibility, reducing government spending and lowering taxation on consumers and businesses, with the caveat that, "no dollar is better spent than the dollar that is left in the pockets of the taxpayer".
The Government outlined a set of policy objectives based on overarching themes aimed at helping Ontarians during this period of domestic and international, economic and social uncertainty, seeking to move beyond the politics of division and promising to usher in a new era of economic prosperity.
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Top 5 Abilene Weather Events in 2021 – #1: February freeze
A look back at the significant weather events in and around Abilene in 2021
by: Kayleigh Thomas
ABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – Wrapping up our look back at the year in weather, KTAB/KRBC Meteorologist Kayleigh Thomas, is counting down and breaking down the top five weather events of 2021 in Abilene. It is no surprise that our top weather event for 2021 is the major winter storm and record cold event, the February Freeze.
This winter storm rocked the entire state of Texas. It plunged temperatures far below average and brought snow, sleet and freezing rain across the Lone Star State. It all began February 10, when a cold front moved through the region, bringing with it, the first surge of cold air.
Top 5 Abilene Weather Events of 2021 – #4: A warm finish to 2021
By February 11, winter weather advisories and winter storm warnings began being issued across West and Central Texas. This was when we first started seeing freezing rain and sleet, and when travel conditions became hazardous.
Another strong cold front moved through on Valentine's Day, February 14. This front was the tipping point from a significant winter storm, to the historic winter weather event that would eventually unfold.
By that Sunday, all 254 Texas counties were under a winter storm warning. Moderate to heavy bands of snowfall began falling that morning and would continue through the evening hours.
By the end of the day, 9.8 inches of snow had fallen in Abilene alone. This set the record for the highest snowfall seen in one day. While snowfall for the entire month measured 10.1 inches, also setting a record for the second highest February snowfall.
Accumulated snowfall from February 2021
2021 recorded as 4th warmest year in U.S., its effects on the Big Country
Snowfall was not the only record-setting weather phenomenon that would occur that month. Numerous temperature records were shattered in Abilene and across the Big Country. These were the coldest temperatures the area had experienced since 1989.
Temperature data from February 1989 compared to February 2021
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View all of Kayleigh's Top 5 Abilene Weather Events of 2021:
Top 5 Abilene Weather Events of 2021 – #5: Stormy end to September
Top 5 Abilene Weather Events of 2021 – #3: A very dry summer
Top 5 Abilene Weather Events in 2021 – #2: A wet spring
Abilene spent 252 hours, or 10-and-a-half days, below or at freezing temperatures, setting a record for the longest consecutive time period spent that cold. At the end of the month, February concluded as the sixth coldest on record in Abilene.
Without a doubt this had to be our top weather event of this past year – now we just wait to see what 2022 has in store.
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NBA Daily Preseason Rundown: Giannis posts double-double against Porzingis and Mavs
Bucks lean on Antetokounmpo to defeat Mavericks
The visiting Milwaukee Bucks had to make full use of a Giannis Antetokounmpo double-double performance as they defeated the Dallas Mavericks, 118-111. The Greek Freak amassed 34 points, 11 rebounds and 4 assists, while making three of his four tries from beyond the arc. Another bright spot for the Bucks was the productive outing of back-up center Dragan Bender. Bender, a former fourth overall pick, had three three-pointers on his way to 17 points off the bench. The Croatian stretch big man also filled up the stat sheet with 6 boards, 3 assists and 2 blocks. After three very forgettable seasons with the Phoenix Suns, Bender moved on and was signed by the Bucks this summer.
It was a very efficient shooting display for Milwaukee, who torched the opposition as they put up a stellar 43% clip from the long-range bomb. Along with Bender's break-out night for the Bucks, veteran sharpshooter forward Ersan Ilyasova was also sensational. The big man had 18 points to lead the second unit, while firing five three-pointers. The 12th-year power forward is not showing any signs of slowing down, considering that he is coming off another international stint with the Turkey national team. Ilyasova says that playing more high-level basketball during the offseason gave him a real boost in his confidence for this upcoming NBA season, per Matt Velasquez of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
"Just playing games with the national team at a high level, I think it just kind of gave me confidence, not just being around basketball but playing at a high level. When you spend the summer just kind of working on your game and playing pick-up games it's different, but when you compete, play at a high level I think it's going to improve you."
Donte DiVincenzo, a sophomore shooting guard, also came up with double-digit scoring off the bench as he racked up 14 markers along with 4 rebounds and 3 assists. Holding on to a six-point lead after the first half, the Bucks broke the game wide open as they finished the third quarter leading by 17 points.
Luka Doncic had another solid scoring performance as he netted 27 points, while grabbing 7 boards and making five threes. New star acquisition Kristaps Porzingis struggled from the floor as he only came up with 11 markers. Hulking big man Boban Marjanovic topscored for Dallas' second unit with a near double-double outing of 16 points and 8 rebounds.
Zion scores 26 in Pelicans' comeback win
The home crowd of the New Orleans Pelicans finally got a taste of the Zion Williamson show as their team hacked out a close-call 128-127 victory over Rudy Gobert and the Utah Jazz. Williamson led the way with 26 points and 5 rebounds, including another solid shooting performance as he missed just three of his 12 attempts. The high-flying rookie also made seven of his nine free-throws, and showed off the range with a rare three-pointer. His fellow rookie, Nickeil Alexander-Walker also impressed with 22 points and 4 assists off the bench. Brandon Ingram contributed 18 markers, while Lonzo Ball had his highest scoring output as a Pelican as he scored 15 points.
It was a comeback win for the young Pelicans team as they erased an 11-point lead by the Jazz entering the final period. Despite the victory, head coach Alvin Gentry points out that they really need to spend more time working on their defensive schemes, as per SB Nation's The Bird Writes.
"We have to get better in our defense. We're trying to put in a new system, and this team is not a good team to play when you don't have all of your defense in. They shot the ball extremely well, but the thing I think I like most about our guys right now is that we just keep playing and keep plugging away at it. It doesn't matter who we have in, we seem to find a way to keep ourselves in touch so when we do make a run we can put ourselves back in the game."
This game against the Jazz is the Pelicans' only home contest in the entire preseason. But the folks at the Smoothie King Center sure loved what they saw as to the maturity and potential of their young guys. Star point guard Jrue Holiday didn't play as he is still recovering from a minor quad injury.
Recently-acquired veteran forward Jeff Green led the Jazz with 20 points, while another new face in Bojan Bogdanovic poured 15 points, 8 boards and 2 steals. The Jazz' new backcourt duo of Mike Conley and Donovan Mitchell combined for 14 total assists, although they both had quiet scoring performances.
Wizards' balanced offense enough to win in New York
Five players put up double-digit points as the Washington Wizards used a balanced offensive attack to emerge victorious against the New York Knicks, 115-99. All-Star combo guard Bradley Beal topscored with 21 points, while former Laker big man Mo Wagner finished with 18 points, 4 boards and 2 steals. Another ex-Laker center in Thomas Bryant amassed a double-double night of 10 markers and 10 rebounds. Veteran swingman Justin Anderson was the team's energy bunny off the bench, as he racked up 15 points, 3 steals and five three-pointers.
But defense was the name of the game for the Wizards. During a second quarter explosion that saw them score 41 points, they also held the Knicks to only 17 total points. Michael Longabardi, the team's new defensive coordinator, stressed the importance of the basics of defense to his squad, per Candace Buckner of The Washington Post.
"We want to take away every layup we can, so no layups. And no rhythm threes, especially from the strongside corner. And then we want to defend without fouling, and the most important thing, we want to finish the possession with a rebound. If we can make that our staple, we have an opportunity to be in games and potentially win games, and that's what we're hoping to do."
Marcus Morris led the Knicks with 21 points, while prized rookie RJ Barrett contributed 15 points and 7 boards. Julius Randle, the Knicks' biggest free agent acquisition during the summer, had 14 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists in the losing effort.
Other games:
Cleveland Cavaliers fall to the Detroit Pistons, 105-109
Chicago Bulls lose to the Indiana Pacers, 87-105
Boston Celtics defeat the Orlando Magic, 100-75
Philadelphia 76ers win against the Charlotte Hornets, 100-87
Los Angeles Lakers fall to the Brooklyn Nets, 77-91
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The other day I watched the 50 Shades of Grey trailer. I have to admit I am probably one of the few women left in the world who have not yet read any of the books, however the trailer got me totally excited about the film. I am so in with this trend, that I decided we should celebrate our own 50 Shades of something. Why not focus on what we love the most; fashion, style and love. Lets have a look at the 50 most beautiful wedding dresses of all time.
45. Carrie Bradshaw "The bride wore a dress by nobody"
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'Blackfish' Backlash: Fan Pressure Leads Willie Nelson to Cancel SeaWorld Concert
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http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/12/05/blackfish-backlash-willie-nelson-cancels-seaworld-performance?cmpid=tpanimals-eml-2013-12-7-whales
Country music legend and animal welfare activist Willie Nelson has canceled his performance at SeaWorld Orlando's Bands, Brew & BBQ Fest, which Nelson and his group were to kick off on Feb. 1, 2014.
Nelson confirmed the cancellation Friday afternoon during a live telephone interview with Brooke Baldwin on CNN—marking the second musical act to recently back out of entertainment engagements at one of its aquarium parks. Despite SeaWorld's claim of a "scheduling conflict," Nelson said that it was his friends and fans who led him to the cancellation.
"I had a lot of calls from people asking me to cancel, and I understand there's petitions going around, and you know, I just had to cancel," Nelson told Baldwin.
Even his own great-granddaughter gathered 250 signatures from "people she knew asking me not to play the venue," he said. "And also, I don't agree with the way they treat their animals, so it wasn't that hard a deal to just cancel."
SeaWorld did not return email or telephone requests for comment.
Sources tell me that a quiet, behind-the-scenes effort was undertaken to reach out to Nelson with information on killer whales in captivity, especially in light of Barenaked Ladies' cancellation last week and the October premiere on CNN of the anti-captivity documentary Blackfish.
The popular Canadian group canceled its Feb. 15 gig at SeaWorld after drummer Tyler Stewart watched Blackfish and was reportedly rattled by what he saw.
"We've talked things over and decided not to play at SeaWorld at this time," the band wrote on its Facebook page. "This is a complicated issue, and we don't claim to understand all of it, but we don't feel comfortable proceeding with the gig at this time. The SeaWorld folks have been gracious and extended us invitations to the park to learn more about what they do, and how they do it. It's not about money, or petitions, or press…but it is about our fans. We listen to them, and they're important to us."
The cancellation of two marquee acts is just one more blow to SeaWorld, which, it is fair to say, has had better years. Attendance in the first nine months was down by 1 million visitors compared with the same period last year.
Then there was the robust reaction to Blackfish. According to Nielsen fast national data, among the youngest viewers (ages 18–34), CNN wiped out the competition on the day the documentary premiered, with 471,000 people in this group tuning in—more than eight times the combined number for Fox (31,000) and MSNBC (25,000). Online activity was also vigorous. "Blackfish ranked #1 in page views among all CNN films this year," according to the press release.
"I am thrilled that yet another world-famous, socially conscious artist has chosen to cancel his SeaWorld performance," says Samantha Berg, a former SeaWorld trainer featured in Blackfish. "Mr. Nelson's decision sends a powerful message that the exploitation of whales and dolphins for human entertainment is unacceptable and that it's time for SeaWorld and other marine parks and aquariums to do the right thing and end the shows."
When asked if there was "anything SeaWorld could say or do" to change his mind, Nelson said no way. "I don't want to play there," he said, "and that's just the end of the story."
For now, SeaWorld Orlando's Bands, Brew & BBQ Fest has a rather anemic lineup. Booking major acts at the park, whether in February 2014 or any time after that, will likely become difficult as public pressure is brought to bear on potential performers.
That could hurt SeaWorld's already tarnished reputation, not to mention its bottom line.
7 Things About Wild Killer Whales You'll Never Learn at SeaWorld
Killer Whales are among the most intelligent species in the world, making them particularly unsuitable to captivity.
http://www.takepart.com/photos/wild-killer-whales
(One of the things I have noticed is that the majority of the killer whales in captivity shown in photos all have deformed dorsal fins.
Isn't it time we stop keeping intelligent, sentient, wide ranging marine mammals such as Dolphins and Orcas in captivity just for
our entertainment and profit for corporations?
We don't OWN these magnificent creatures and no-one should be able to, including Sea World and Yes, even our own Coral World with their plans of breeding even more dolphins for dismal, sterile lives in capitivity.)
Shocking Video of SeaWorld Attack
See video here:
The release of a video showing Kasatka, a wild-caught orca enslaved at SeaWorld, exploding in extreme frustration at trainer Ken Peters in front of visitors to the theme park is sending shockwaves of outrage and dismay through the media and the public over the appalling pressures of captivity on orcas and other wild marine mammals—and the danger to those who come into contact with them.
As David Kirby describes in his book Death at SeaWorld, when Kasatka heard her calf's distress calls for her from another tank, she dragged Peters underwater repeatedly, shaking him about before the stunned audience. Eventually gaining his freedom, Peters required surgery for his injuries. But SeaWorld ignored the risks, permitting the perilous situations to continue.
This video footage was previously shown during the Secretary of Labor v. SeaWorld of Florida LLC trial, which resulted from the horrific death of SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau during a disturbingly similar episode involving another captive orca, Tilikum. Judge Ken Welsch, who called the video "chilling," held SeaWorld liable for permitting hazardous interactions between humans and the huge, dangerously stressed animals.
Please join PETA in asking The Blackstone Group—the company that owns SeaWorld—to release its animal captives into sanctuaries. And if you know people who are planning a trip to SeaWorld, encourage them to visit PETA's new website, SeaWorldOfHurt.com, to learn what kinds of cruelty their dollars would support.
Update on the case for non-human personhood and the rights of whales and dolphins.
Dear signatories to the Declaration of Rights for Cetaceans: whales and dolphins.
No doubt you will have seen the growing media interest in the rights of non-humans, and here we provide you with an update on some developments in the field of whale and dolphin rights over the last year.
For example, in a bold move SEA LIFE, a major aquarium chain, have announced a very progressive position on whale and dolphin captivity:
'SEA LIFE believes that the highly evolved sensory abilities and complex social structures of whales and dolphins makes them unsuited to captivity and that they should never be taken from the wild for the purpose of captive display or entertainment.'
Thank you for your support. Please don't forget to forward the Declaration of Rights for Cetaceans: Whales and Dolphins to your colleagues and friends for them to sign and add their voice to this growing movement.
Philosopher, Professor Thomas I White, has been an advocate for recognising the rights of whales and dolphins for over two decades and is one of the founding signatories to the Declaration for the Rights of cetaceans: whales and dolphins.
In a new essay 'Whales, Dolphins and Ethics: A Primer', White lays down the gauntlet to marine mammal scientists, asking them not just to languish in data collection and analysis, but to also reflect on the ethical significance of some of these new scientific insights. He notes: 'The fundamental challenge for marine mammal scientists who want to explore the ethical implications of what marine mammal science has discovered about whales and dolphins is to move from the description of facts about whales and dolphins to the evaluation of what those facts say about human behavior towards these cetaceans'.
White argues further that beyond the basic right to life, whales and dolphins deserve the right to flourish in their natural environments. In a presentation he gave in July this year, he outlines the conditions required to enable these species to flourish.
PRIMER ON NON-HUMAN PERSONHOOD AND CETACEAN RIGHTS
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Professor Thomas I White argues that dolphins are non-human persons. Like humans, then, they have moral rights appropriate to their nature. White argues that the scientific data of the last thirty years makes it quite clear that the slaughter and captivity of dolphins are ethically indefensible. He argues further that anyone who doesn't recognize this is either unfamiliar with the full body of relevant scientific literature or doesn't understand the ethical significance of the data.
A PRIMER ON NONHUMAN PERSONHOOD AND CETACEAN RIGHTS
Professor Thomas I. White, Ph.D., Conrad N. Hilton Professor in Ethics, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
Fellow, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics
Author, In Defense of Dolphins: The New Moral Frontier (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007). Whale, Dolphins, Ethics: A Primer (2014).
Recent discussions about the philosophical implications (especially the ethical implications) of the scientific research on whales and dolphins have shown that a variety of claims can be easily misunderstood: 1) that whales and dolphins are "nonhuman persons"; 2) that they are entitled to "rights"; 3) that these rights are violated by such human activities as whaling, drive hunts and captivity; and, therefore, 4) that these activities are ethically indefensible. This short essay attempts to clarify these claims and to point to the scientific research that underlies them.
Personhood
The concept of a "person" as opposed to a "human" is a standard part of metaphysics, the part of philosophy that the most fundamental features of existence. "Personhood" has a long history in philosophy and is closely connected to the discussion of "personal identity." (For a couple of good, basic articles, see the entries to "personal identity" and "persons" in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy.)
WHAT DO WE MEAN BY 'PERSON'?
The simplest answer is that a person is a who, not a what. The more technical answer is that a "person" is any being, no matter what their species, who has the traits that imply a sophisticated level of intellectual and emotional sophistication. The set of criteria used in my In Defense of Dolphins sets the bar quite high: being alive; aware; the ability to experience positive and negative sensations (pleasure and pain); emotions; self-consciousness and a personality; self-controlled behavior; recognizes and treats other persons appropriately; and a series of higher order intellectual abilities (abstract thought, learning, solves complex problems and communicates in a way that suggests thought). Other sets of criteria for personhood have less to them.
The distinction between "human" and "person" leads immediately to two questions: Are all humans persons? And, are there any persons who are not human?
The first question has come up repeatedly in medical ethics. For example, is someone "brain dead" a person? Or, is a fetus a person? If we were to say that the answer to one or both of these questions is "no," what does this say about the ethical character of an action to end the life of a "human non-person"?
The second question is discussed in animal ethics. Scientific research has continued to uncover impressive intellectual and emotional abilities in such nonhumans as chimps, gorillas, elephants, whales and dolphins. If these abilities are sophisticated enough to suggest that these mammals are "persons," what does that say about the ethical character of human treatment of these animals: use in medical experimentation, willful killing, captive breeding, confinement in captivity for the sake of research, human therapy, entertainment, generating profit and the like?
WHY DO WE BOTHER TO USE THE TERM "PERSON" AND APPROACH THINGS THIS WAY?
One of the most important reasons is to limit the amount of species-bias that can color discussions of the treatment of nonhumans. Ideally, 'person' is a species-neutral term.
WHY DOES PERSONHOOD MATTER?
From an ethical perspective, personhood matters because persons have what philosophers refer to as "moral standing." If you're a person, then you're entitled to be treated in certain ways. To have "moral standing" means that in any calculation about what the right thing to do is in a situation, you count. Your pain, happiness, rights and interests matter. Also, you count as an individual.
This is one of the most important implications of the fact that nonhumans like dolphins are persons. They count as individuals—the same way that you and I count as individuals. Conservationists, however, talk about dolphin "stocks" and "populations." One of the most disappointing things about the letters that the Society for Marine Mammalogy have sent to the Japanese government opposing the drive hunts is that they referred only to "stocks" and fail to take up the issue of the welfare of individual dolphins. The underlying assumption is that the drive hunts kill too many dolphins for the population to sustain itself. Unfortunately, this implies that if the hunts kill fewer dolphins, it would be OK. This would be like saying that—if we take a small human community as an example—as long as the number of people we kill doesn't have a significant, negative impact on reproduction rates in the village, then the deaths are acceptable.
ISN'T THIS A BAD APPROACH FOR "ANIMAL ETHICS" BECAUSE IT MEANS THAT ONLY PERSONS DESERVE SPECIAL TREATMENT?
No. To say, "If A is a person, then A has moral standing" does not imply that "If A is not a person, then A does not have moral standing." That's the logical fallacy of denying the antecedent.
Unfortunately, a common objection to the "personhood" argument is that it encourages people to think that other animals deserve proper treatment only if they're "just like us." As Diana Reiss has commented, "Since dolphins are, like humans, intelligent, self-aware beings with personalities, emotions, and the capability to govern their own behavior, [Thomas White] proposed they be viewed as 'nonhuman persons' . . .. I worry about this argument, however—does it mean that other species may be mistreated?" [248-9]
My answer is that if people are looking for an excuse to mistreat nonhumans, they'll find one. And they may use the "personhood" argument as a rationalization. But that just means that animal rights advocates need a different argument for nonhumans. It's important to recognize, however, that the personhood argument is the strongest case to use with average people if we're talking about how we should treat cetaceans better. In my experience, the "personhood" argument explains even to someone with anthropocentric biases why it's wrong to kill dolphins or keep them captive.
Also, it's appropriate to use the distinction between "persons" and "nonpersons" because they have different capacities for pain and harm. For example, if I mock and berate a friend in public for the purpose of cruelly humiliating him for my own pleasure, I'm sure he'll experience pain. If I say exactly the same thing to a squirrel I may come across, I doubt that my words will have any impact on him. He doesn't have this particular vulnerability to being hurt in this way.
BUT AREN'T THINGS LIKE CORPORATIONS ALSO PERSONS?
Corporations are "legal persons" not, shall we say, "moral persons," which I'll discuss shortly. I appreciate that there is a legal tradition that thinks this makes sense, but I'm not one of them. Legally, a legislature could make my toaster a 'person.'
SO WHAT'S THE CONNECTION BETWEEN PERSONHOOD AND RIGHTS?
Personhood implies moral standing. The way that I describe the next step is to say that this is a recognition that the complexities that go with being a person mean that the conditions that we need in order to grow, flourish or experience life in even a rudimentarily satisfying way are more complicated than the conditions nonpersons need; it also means that these complexities make us vulnerable to harm in a way that nonpersons aren't.
But notice that I'm talking about "needs" not "rights." That's deliberate because I maintain that rights are derivative from basic needs.
First of all, we aren't talking about "legal rights" at all. So set aside any thought about how we enforce any of this or enshrine it in laws or treaties until we can get everyone discussing this through at least one conversation at the simplest level and stay on track.
We're talking about "moral rights," and they're grounded in the idea that the fact that someone's a person means that the only way they'll grow, develop fully, flourish and experience even a basic sense of satisfaction with life is if they experience certain conditions. This approach says that a person has a right to something because he or she absolutely, positively needs it in order to fully grow, develop, etc.
OK, AND WHAT ARE THOSE CONDITIONS?
That depends on the species, which is why this is all "species-specific."
For humans, look at any of the various statements of "basic human needs" or "basic human rights." What we get is something like these: Life; Physical health and safety; Emotional health and safety; Freedom of choice (actions, beliefs); Education (way to get necessary skills); Fairness, care, equality, respect for our dignity as persons; Access to meaningful emotional relationships; Rest.
The most logically fundamental piece of this, then, is the idea of "basic human needs." This then lets us say that there are such things as "basic human rights," or, if you like, "inalienable rights." We have a right to them because we need them. If we don't get them, we're in some way harmed.
The logic would be the same with cetaceans—except we know so much less than we need to about what their "basic needs" are. But we do know that they need: life; a rich and complex social life; the liberty to operate in a way that individuals and communities are able to operate successfully enough in an environment to survive in both the short and long term.
The Declaration of Rights for Cetaceans, then, is a statement meant to describe what we have to do in order to allow cetaceans to get these needs met.
That's why it's a Declaration of Cetacean Rights, not human rights.
BUT THE DECLARATION ALSO SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT CETACEANS HAVING THE RIGHT NOT TO BE TREATED AS PROPERTY? IF I CAN GUARANTEE THAT THEIR NEEDS ARE MET IN CAPTIVITY, WOULDN'T THAT BE OK? NO HARM, NO FOUL?
Yes and no. On the one hand, if it were possible, it would seem as though no cetacean is being harmed. However, what we've learned about the social lives of wild dolphins makes it clear that we can't replicate those conditions in captivity. Your facility would have to be at least as big as, say, the Sarasota Bay.
However, one of the most important needs that persons seem to have is to be treated with dignity, with respect for their autonomy and ability to determine their own fates. This is the idea that persons have inherent worth, that they're somehow special in and of themselves, and that it's intrinsically wrong to treat them as objects. Hence, the Declaration's statement that cetaceans have a right not to be treated as property.
Even among humans, we'd say that it's simply fundamentally wrong to own another person or to treat them as though were simply an object. Even if we treated slaves well, we still say that it's wrong.
OK, SO LET'S CONCEDE THAT, IN THEORY, THIS ALL MAKES SENSE. ISN'T IT UNREALISTIC TO THINK THAT THE AVERAGE HUMAN IS GOING TO SIGN ON TO THIS?
No. I've been doing presentations on this to all sorts of audiences for more than 20 years. When most people hear the evidence (which, minimally, takes about an hour to lay out even the most basic case), they understand that it makes sense. They recognize that putting this into practice is going to be complicated. But when they understand the concept of "person," when they hear the evidence and when they hear what the philosophical and ethical implications of the evidence are, they're basically OK with this.
They recognize that there will inevitably be conflicts between human rights and cetacean rights that we'll have to resolve—just like we have to resolve conflicts between the rights of one human and the rights of another human now. But not all of this is impossibly complicated. For now, I'd settle with everyone recognizing that the deliberate killing of cetaceans is wrong, that captive breeding is wrong, and that we have to figure out what to do with the cetaceans who are in captivity. (Can they go to preserves? Can some be released? What's appropriate?)
Yes. Personhood is neither the only nor, probably, the best philosophical argument for treating cetaceans in an ethically acceptable fashion. It still has problems with species bias. But it's the best one to use with the general public, and it's probably the only approach the courts will eventually listen to.
Personhood has major weaknesses, however, because of how anthropocentric the criteria are. This is especially evident in the way "intelligence" gets defined and studied, and in the human fixation on "language." (It's beyond the current scope of this piece to go into this, but I'm beginning to think that the best evidence for "cetacean intelligence" lies in "cetacean culture.") I'm currently developing an approach that tries to address the weaknesses of personhood by making central the species-specific conditions related to "flourishing."
Flourishing?
I'm adapting a new approach to animal ethics pioneered by philosopher Martha Nussbaum (a philosopher at the University of Chicago). She calls it the "capabilities approach."
The central idea I'm advancing is that we need to begin with what cetaceans need in order to flourish—that is, what they need in order to develop the physical, emotional, social and intellectual capabilities inherent in their species which allow them to have a successful and satisfying life. I'll explain this perspective in my next book. As a way of illuminating the biological foundation of the claim that cetaceans have moral rights, I'll describe what marine scientists have discovered about the conditions cetaceans require in order to grow and develop fully. I'll argue for a broader understanding of what constitutes harm for cetaceans than has traditionally been used in discussions about how marine mammals should be treated. For example, it is obvious that we can harm humans by subjecting them to a life which, while physically safe, is barren in many other ways and prevents the development of certain capabilities (e.g., literacy). I'll argue that it is similarly harmful to limit captive cetaceans to a life which, while physically safe, deprives them, for example, of the opportunity to learn the social skills needed to manage the many and varied relationships which are central to the lives of wild dolphins and orcas and which are critical to their well-being.
THE CURRENT STATE OF THINGS
I'd like to be able to put this more diplomatically, but, in my opinion, at least, what strikes me as "mainstream thinking" in the marine mammal science community is obsolete and philosophically uninformed. (To be fair, most of the discussion by philosophers is scientifically uninformed. This is one of the challenges of multi-disciplinary work. And I never make a presentation to philosophers without stressing the importance of concentrating on a specific species [not "animals"], having a thorough familiarity with the scientific literature and having some serious exposure to field-work.) The evidence for the personhood of dolphins—and what the ethical implications of that are—are so clear that this is not really a controversial issue any more. Anyone challenging it (or saying they 'aren't sure') either hasn't studied the scientific evidence closely enough, or, if they have, they don't understand the philosophical and ethical implications of the data. This is no more debatable than the fact that global warming is taking place. People can spin things to make it sound as though it's debatable. But if you really know the facts and understand what they mean, there's nothing to debate.
The best recent example of this is the 2012 letter that the leadership of the Society for Marine Mammalogy sent to the Japanese government objecting to the ongoing killing of dolphins in the annual drive hunts there. Despite the overwhelming scientific evidence that dolphins, like humans, experience life as self-aware individuals, the letter employs an obsolete perspective that discusses only the sustainability of "stocks" or "populations" of dolphins. The letter fails to offer the strongest ethical argument—that the killing of any individual dolphin is indefensible. In my opinion, the traditional, "conservation" outlook in which these senior scientists were trained makes it difficult for them to appreciate fully the ethical significance of the empirical research in their field.
Another common example is the idea that captivity is defensible because the benefits to a large number of wild dolphins outweigh the costs to the far smaller number of captive dolphins. This is the classic weakness of "utilitarianism." In my opinion, the only way you can make this argument work is to advance the claim that a minority is less important than the majority, and a smaller number of people can be used, in effect, as tools to advance the welfare of the majority.
BUT DOESN'T CAPTIVITY ACTUALLY PRODUCE SOME POSITIVE BENEFITS?
The other problem is that I think that much of what is presented in captive facilities is "mis-education." What's described about dolphins is carefully edited to omit, for example, the research that suggests that dolphins are individual, nonhuman persons whose welfare depends on social conditions that couldn't possibly be replicated in captivity.
In my opinion, when it comes to education, anything less than "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth" is unacceptable.
Take a look at the websites of the major captive facilities. They'll give lots of detailed information about many aspects of dolphins—except intelligence, self-awareness, individuality, etc. It can reasonably be argued, then, that captivity doesn't "educate," but "perpetuates a stereotype"—Lassie of the sea.
http://uk.whales.org/issues/primer-on-non-human-personhood-and-cetacean-rights
There are all sorts of odd and unexpected pairings in the animal kingdom: cats and birds, hippos and turtles, chimps and pumas. Every day in the small Irish town of Tory Island, Ben the yellow lab runs down to the harbor and jumps into the water.
He doesn't have to wait long for his dolphin friend, Duggie, to show up, and the two then go for a swim. Locals say the pair will swim for anywhere up to three hours (depending on Ben's schedule), and Duggie will make sure Ben gets back to shore if he's tired. Though the two have very different lives, they are inseparable when it comes to play time.
See video:
http://www.care2.com/causes/daily-cute-dog-and-dolphin-form-an-unlikely-friendship.html?onswipe_redirect=no&oswrr=4#comments
Could This Beautiful Attraction End Marine Animal Captivity for Good?
Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/could-this-beautiful-attraction-end-marine-animal-captivity-for-good.html#ixzz3JcIevADh
Blackfish already made waves in the cetacean captivity debate, but one of the former trainers featured in the documentary has done more for the cause. We met Christopher Porter, the former Sealand trainer, early on in the film; when Tilikum the Killer Whale was being transferred to SeaWorld, Porter was happy for the orca because, as he describes in the film, "it was like, 'OK, Tilly, you're going to Disneyland. Lucky you." But Porter couldn't delude himself much longer about Tilikum's situation or the situation of marine animals in captivity, so he's doing something to change that — and it's called OceanWall.
OceanWall Makes its Debut
As reported in Times Colonist, Christopher Porter's OceanWall made its grand debut on November 8 at the Hillside Centre. The huge attraction – complete with nine screens, each 3.7-meters high and 2.1-meters wide — resides in the middle of the shopping center's food court and plays videos of the ocean and its surrounding wildlife.
As Porter told the Times Colonist, the goal of his project is to "get the general public to focus on the wild and the state of the wild as it is." Instead of getting up close and personal to marine wildlife at a sea circus or aquarium, Porter brings the wildlife to us with the hope that we'll still come to appreciate and protect the animals without ever drawing a picture with them, swimming with dolphins or making them perform tricks. While there will be no narration, his images are important because they capture wildlife in their normal activities; for example, the endangered polar bear hunting for salmon, instead of the abnormal stereotypic behaviors that we've come to accept as normal. In this way, the animals will tell their own stories.
There's also a nuance of citizen science in Porter's project. Everyday people can submit their own encounters with wildlife to WildVision Edutainment, of which Porter is one investor. The screens will be updated with new content regularly, and Porter hopes to bring in marine wildlife experts to "edutain" the shopping center's visitors. While OceanWall is still getting used to its sea legs, Porter envisions it going to spas, hotel lobbies, schools and gymnasiums. I'd definitely take OceanWall over an aquarium any day.
What About the Cetaceans in Captivity Now?
While Porter's project could address one half of the problem of cetacean captivity by preventing the need for it, it doesn't answer the other whale of a problem: what are we going to do with the cetaceans currently stuck in captivity? While we'd love to see all of the tanks empty and every killer whale and dolphin back with their pods, realistically that's just not going to be possible in every case. But the good news is that there is an option that gets the cetaceans back in the ocean: sea pens.
As marine mammal scientist for the Animal Welfare Institute, Naomi A. Rose, Ph.D., wrote in CNN, sea pens are netted-off bays or coves in the ocean that act as sanctuaries for the retired animals. There'd be no people gawking at them and no foreign sounds or lights. They'd live in pods, but incompatible members wouldn't be forced to stay together like Tilikum had to and was repeatedly bullied because of it.
The only human contact would be in the form of veterinary care because captive whales are generally more unhealthy and live shorter lives compared to their wild counterparts. Captivity does kill with the host of obesity-and stereotypic-related illnesses, including bad teeth from chewing on the gates. And the most important difference between a sea pen and a sea circus: there would be absolutely no breeding. This way, the cetaceans that have had their freedom stolen from them get a piece of it back, and no future generations have to go through it again.
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Wall Street's 2023 outlook for stocks
This post was originally posted on TKer.co
It's that time of year when top Wall Street strategists tell clients where they see the stock market heading in the coming year.
Typically, the group's average forecast is for the S&P 500 to rise by around 10%, which is in line with historical averages.
This time the pros are exceptionally careful with the most anticipated the S&P to end 2023 lower than it is today.
There are hundreds of pages of research and analysis that accompany the forecasts of these strategists. The general themes: Most Wall Street firms expect the U.S. economy to enter a recession in 2023. the downside means a lot of volatility for stocks in the beginning. of 2023. At the same time, many also expect an unambiguous decline in inflation, which would give the Federal Reserve permission to ease its hawkish monetary policy. At least some strategists believe that if economic conditions deteriorate significantly, the Fed may even start cutting interest rates again.
Wall Street is exceptionally skeptical about 2023. (Image: Getty)
Overall, strategists expect a volatile first half to be followed by an easier second half, which could see stocks climb slightly higher.
Below is a summary of 16 of these 2023 forecasts for the S&P 500, including highlights from the strategists' comments. Targets range from 3,675 to 4,500. The S&P closed Friday at 4,071, implying returns of between -9.7% and +10.5%.
Barclays: 3,675, EPS of $210 (as of Nov 21, 2022) "We recognize some upside risks in our scenario analysis given post-peak inflation, strong consumer balance sheets and a resilient labor market. However, the current multiples come with a strong moderation in inflation and ultimately a soft landing, which we continue to view as a low probability event. »
Societe Generale: 3,800 (as of Nov 30) "Bearish but not as bearish as 2022 as the return profile should be much better in 2023 as the Fed hike comes to an end for this cycle. Our "soft landing" scenario calls for a rebound in EPS growth to 0% in 2023. We expect the index to trade in a wide range as we expect negative earnings growth in 1H23, a Fed pivot in June 2023, the reopening of China in 3Q23 and a US recession in 1Q24.
Capital savings: 3,800 (as of October 28) "We expect global economic growth to disappoint and the world to slide into a recession, which will cause more pain for global equities and corporate bonds. But we don't anticipate a particularly prolonged downturn from here: towards mid-2023, the worst could be behind us and risky assets could, in our view, begin to rally again in a more sustained fashion. »
Morgan Stanley: 3,900, EPS of $195 (as of Nov 14) "That leaves us 16% below consensus EPS of 23 in our base case and down 11% from a year-over-year growth perspective. other. After what remains of this current tactical rally, we see the S&P 500 discounting 23 earnings risk in Q123 via a price bottom around 3000 to 3300. We believe this is happening ahead of the eventual trough in EPS, which is typical of earnings recessions. "
UBS: 3,900$198 EPS (as of Nov 8) "With UBS economists predicting a U.S. recession for Q2-Q4 2023, the setup for 2023 is essentially a race between easing inflation and financial conditions per versus the coming hit to growth + earnings History shows that growth and earnings continue to deteriorate to market lows before financial conditions improve materially.
City: 3,900, EPS of $215 (as of Nov 18) "We implicitly believe that multiples tend to rise coming out of recessions as EPS in the denominator continues to fall as the market begins to assess the recovery on the other side. Part of this multiple expansion, however, has a tariff connection. The monetary policy impulse to lower rates is raising multiples as the economy claws its way out of the depths of recession.
BoA: 4,000, $200 EPS (as of Nov. 28) "But there's a lot of variability here. Our bullish case, 4600, is based on our sell-side indicator being as close to a "buy" signal as it was in past market lows – Wall Street is bearish, which is bullish. Our bear case stressing our signals earns 3000."
Goldman Sachs: 4,000, EPS of $224 (as of Nov 21) "U.S. equity performance in 2022 was all about painful devaluation, but the equity story for 2023 will be about the lack of EPS growth. Zero earnings growth will correspond to zero appreciation of the S&P 500."
HSBC: 4,000$225 EPS (as of Oct 4) "…we believe valuation headwinds will persist through 2023, and most of the declines in the months ahead will come from slowing profitability."
Credit Suisse: 4,050EPS of $230 (as of Oct. 3) "2023: A year of weak, non-recessionary growth and falling inflation"
RBC: 4,100$199 EPS (as of Nov 30) "We believe the path to 4,100 will likely be choppy in 2023, with a potential retest of October lows early in the year as earnings forecasts are reduced, policy the Fed is approaching a transition (stocks tend to fall before final cuts), and investors are digesting the start of a tough economy.
JPMorgan: 4,200$205 (as of Dec 1) "…we expect market volatility to remain elevated (VIX averaging ~25) with a further round of equity declines, particularly post year-end that we claim and the S&P 500 multiple approaching 20x.Specifically, in 1H23, we expect the S&P 500 to retest this year's lows as the Fed overtightens on weaker fundamentals. sell-off combined with disinflation, rising unemployment and falling business sentiment should be enough for the Fed to start signaling a pivot, subsequently driving assets higher and pushing the S&P 500 to 4,200 by the end of the year 2023."
Jefferies: 4,200 (as of Nov. 11) "In 2023, we expect bond markets to probe the Fed's terminal rate, while equity markets will be in 'no man's land' as earnings continue to decline as growth and the margins disappoint."
BMO: 4,300EPS of $220 (as of Nov 30) Unfortunately, we believe it will be difficult for stocks to end 2023 much higher than current and expected levels given the ongoing tug of war between Fed messages and market expectations.
Wells Fargo: 4,300 to 4,500 (as of August 30) "Our unique and consistent message since the start of 2022 has been to play defense in portfolios, which practically means making patience and quality the daily watchwords. Sticking firmly to these words implies that long-term investors, in particular, can exercise patience to potentially turn time into advantage. As we wait for an eventual economic recovery, the long-term investor can use available cash to gradually and disciplinedly add to the portfolio.
Deutsche Bank: 4,500, EPS of $195 (as of Nov 28) "Equity markets are expected to rise in the near term, dip when the US recession hits, then recover fairly quickly. We see the S&P 500 at 4,500 in the first half, down more than 25% in the third quarter and back to 4,500 by the end of 2023."
The range of forecasts is quite wide this year, and therefore different surveys yield very different results. Bloomberg polled 17 strategists who had an average forecast of 4,009. Reuters' poll of 41 strategists found a median forecast of 4,200. (CNBC publishes its survey here, but it's not yet updated with the 2023 goals.)
🙋🏻♂️ I will say two things about one-year price targets.
First, don't obsess over those one-year goals if you don't have to. Here is what I wrote last December:
⚠️ It's amazing difficult to predict precisely where the stock market will be in a year. In addition to the countless variables to consider, there are also the totally unpredictable developments that occur along the way. Strategists often revise their goals as new information comes in. In fact, some of the numbers you see above represent revisions to forecasts. For most of you, it's probably not advisable to review your entire investment strategy based on a one-year stock market forecast. Still, it can be fun to track these goals. This helps you get an idea of how high or low different companies on Wall Street are going.
Second, most of the equity strategists tracked by TKer produce incredibly rigorous, high-quality research that reflects a deep understanding of what drives the markets. The most valuable things these pros have to offer have nothing to do with one-year goals. (And in my years of interacting with a lot of these people, at least a few of them don't care about the year-long goal posting exercise. They do it because it's popular with clients.) Don't dismiss all of their work just because their one-year goal isn't up to scratch. And don't be surprised to see me highlight their views in future newsletters.
Good luck in 2023!
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In this article, we are going to be discussing the incubation of poultry eggs. We have natural incubation, where the eggs are placed under the mother hen and she can take care of them until they hatch. This means that she would provide them with the sufficient warmth, oxygen, and turning them around. On the other hand, artificial incubation is whereby the eggs are put into an incubator until the time of hatching. In this article, we are going to discuss natural incubation vs. artificial incubation.
You can't tell when a hen wants to brood.
If the eggs don't turn automatically, you have to turn them at least three times a day.
We are now going to look at an egg incubator guide that should be able to guide you into acquiring an incubator to suit your needs, according to the thechickenhub.com website. It is good to note that incubators are not only used for chicken, or poultry, but also for reptiles, since reptiles also need the mother to brood the eggs. They are also used for premature human beings, and to harvest bacteria, but their most common use is for eggs. The incubator controls the temperature, humidity, and air circulation, allowing the eggs to mature and hatch. There are some that automatically rotate the eggs, while with some, the eggs have to be rotated manually. They can cater for eggs of all birds and reptiles, although their hatching would vary depending on the species.
Incubation can either be done naturally or manually. It all depends on your preference, and the reason that you would like to hatch the eggs. Artificial incubation is usually used for large scale production of chicks or reptiles.
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In partnership with the Peter Weir Collection we're releasing Kilian Eng's fantastic new poster for 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' (1975). Based on the extraordinary eponymous novel by Joan Lindsay, this often overlooked film marked the directorial debut of the most successful Australian director of all times, with such titles under his belt as The Witness, The Truman Show, The Dead Poet Society, Fearless, The Mosquito Coast... you get the idea!
Visually mesmerising, moody and mysterious, it is perhaps no surprise that Kilian counts 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' as top of the list of his favourite movies and has resulted in Kilian creating a very personal illustration, very different in many respects to his retro-futuristic work, but still unmistakably Kilian Eng.
We're extremely thankful to the Weir family for their support with this project, particularly to Peter Weir and his daughter Ingrid for their encouragement throughout.
'Picnic at Hanging Rock' is on sale now here. To receive an e-mail alert for future releases sign up to our newsletter.
"A synopsis of the film in a single frame. Such fine work." - Peter Weir.
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ORNL DAAC Releases First GEDI Level 4 Dataset Offering Predictions of Aboveground Biomass Density
New dataset provides the first high-resolution 3D aboveground biomass density estimates for tropical and temperate forests around the globe.
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GEDI addresses its mission science questions by acquiring lidar waveform (i.e., vertical profile) observations between 51.6° N and S latitudes. By precisely recording the return timing of laser energy pulses shot at Earth's surface, each GEDI observation contains information about the vegetation canopy and the topography underneath. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
At this very moment, approximately 220 miles above the Earth, lasers from the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) instrument on the International Space Station (ISS) are firing 242 times per second, illuminating 25-meter footprints on the Earth's surface, and taking systematic and detailed 3D measurements of forest canopy height, forest structure, and surface elevation.
Since the initial release of GEDI Level 1 and Level 2 data in January 2020, these three-dimensional assessments of the Earth's terrestrial biomes have enhanced the ecological research community's investigations of planet's most diverse environments. Now, NASA's Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center (ORNL DAAC) has released the first Level 4 data from the GEDI mission, which is sure to benefit ecological research even more.
"This is the first time that aboveground biomass density (AGBD) estimates are available at this level of detail for tropical and temperate forests across the world," said Dr. Rupesh Shrestha, a research staff member at the ORNL DAAC. "Distribution of aboveground biomass (or carbon) and how it interacts with the changing climate and other disturbances is not well understood. GEDI provides globally consistent measurements and algorithms and helps to overcome the uncertainties in AGBD estimates."
The models used to produce Level 4A data were developed with field estimates of AGBD collocated with simulated GEDI waveforms from discrete-return airborne lidar and used a quality-filtered calibration dataset that contains 8,587 simulated waveforms in 21 countries. The GEDI approach to developing footprint AGBD models considers multiple candidates stratified by world region and plant functional type (PFT) with different functional forms. The footprint models represent the following combination of PFTs: deciduous broadleaf trees, evergreen broadleaf trees, evergreen and deciduous needleleaf trees, and combinations of woodlands, grasslands, and shrubs.
The Level 4A dataset consists of 6,742 files in HDF5 format and covers the period from April 18, 2019, to September 2, 2020. These files include more than 5 billion land surface shots (measurements), which is orders of magnitude more than any previous global biomass study. The Level 4A product also contains all the ancillary information necessary to reproduce the AGBD prediction for individual GEDI measurements from Level 2A data.
About the GEDI Mission
Launched on December 2018 and installed on the ISS's Japanese Experiment Module-Exposed Facility, GEDI is a full waveform lidar (i.e., laser version of radar) instrument offering the highest resolution and densest sampling of any lidar ever put in orbit. Led by scientists at the University of Maryland, the mission is supported by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
GEDI has three lasers that produce 8 parallel tracks of observations. Each laser fires 242 times per second and illuminates a 25-meter footprint on the surface over which 3D structure is measured. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
The GEDI instrument produces high-resolution laser ranging observations of the 3-dimensional structure of the Earth. Its data are transferred to the GEDI Mission Operations Center and then processed through the Science Operations Center, both of which are located at Goddard, and then sent to two NASA Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) where they are archived, managed, and distributed to a diverse worldwide user community.
The GEDI mission has published three previous datasets. The first, lower-level datasets — a Level 1B product that provides geolocated waveforms and Level 2A and 2B products providing canopy height and canopy profile metrics at the footprint level — were made available in January 2020 through NASA's Land Processes DAAC (LP DAAC), a partnership between NASA and the USGS that manages, archives, and distributes EOSDIS land processes data, services, and tools for discovering and analyzing data.
Along with the GEDI Level 3 dataset released earlier this year, the GEDI Level 4A dataset is available from ORNL DAAC, a partnership between NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy that is responsible for collecting, archiving, and distributing EOSDIS data related to biogeochemical dynamics, ecological data, and environmental processes. The AGBD estimates and footprint models of the GEDI Level 4A dataset will be used as inputs for the ORNL DAAC's forthcoming Level 4B data product, which will provide gridded estimates of AGBD and associated uncertainty at 1km grids.
In addition to collecting, archiving, and distributing EOSDIS data related to biogeochemical dynamics, ecological data, and environmental processes, the ORNL DAAC also provides a variety of data subsetting and visualization tools that allow users to analyze and explore available data products, including those from GEDI and other missions.
GEDI Level 4A data will be available for subsetting in the ORNL DAAC's Global Subsets Tool, which allows users to select a location and get subsets and time series visualizations covering up to 200 km x 200 km for the selected NASA data products. GEDI Level 4A data will also be available in NASA's Earthdata Cloud, which gives users the opportunity to access and process large quantities of data, and promotes opportunities for innovation around new services, such as sequencing data to support machine learning and artificial intelligence.
The extended processing capabilities offered by the Earthdata Cloud will undoubtedly be a benefit to those working with the GEDI mission's expansive data. During its lifetime, GEDI is expected to provide more than 10 billion of land surface measurements, which, in addition to providing a wealth of information on the structure and canopy height of the world's forests, will generate invaluable calibration information for other missions, such as the upcoming NASA-Indian Space Research Organisation SAR (NISAR) Mission, which will measure Earth's changing ecosystems, dynamic surfaces, and ice masses providing information about biomass, natural hazards, sea level rise, and groundwater.
For decades, studies of Earth's terrestrial ecosystems have relied on two-dimensional satellite data and limited field studies and sampling from ground-based and airborne lidar. That began to change with the initial releases of GEDI data. Now, with this new GEDI Level 4A dataset published through ORNL DAAC offering footprint level estimates of AGBD, scientists engaged in ecological research will have even more high-resolution data to inform their investigations.
To learn more about the GEDI mission and GEDI data products, see the following online resources:
GEDI mission website
Article: New, Gridded Level 3 Data Product Facilitates the Use of GEDI Mission Data
GEDI data can be searched for and discovered using the EOSDIS Earthdata Search application.
Information about using the Earthdata Cloud is available on NASA's Earthdata website.
LP DAAC GEDI Landing Pages:
ORNL DAAC GEDI Landing Page:
Land Use/Land Cover | Land Use/Land Cover Classification
Biomass | Vegetation
ORNL DAAC
ESDIS Weekly Metrics: January 26, 2023
EOSDIS Again Receives High Scores in 2022 Customer Satisfaction Survey
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This very spacious raised ranch in the Goshen school district has almost 2500 sqft of living space. This well maintained home features 3 bedrooms and 3 full baths. Plenty of room to prepare meals in the large open kitchen. Dining area large enough for a formal dining room set with hutch. Huge open area on lower level with a full bath and walkout to back deck. There are 2 large decks in the back, one from the dining area on the upper level and one from the lower level overlooking the more than 1.5 acres of level property. Great for entertaining! Updates within the last 3 years include most floors redone and freshly painted bedrooms.The furnance/boiler was replaced in 2011.
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HIGHLIGHTS from our BEST ADVENTURES IN PROVENCE® MAY 2018 TOURs!
2018 May Provence Tour Photos and highlights from our 1st Tours of the Season!
During May 2018 Tours in Provence guests on our 6 day/5 night Provence Tours discover magical landscapes and villages of Provence during daily walks in 3 of the region's most beautiful areas (Alpilles, Luberon & Valensole plateau (lavender), and Chateauneuf-du-Pape). Spend a day along the beautiful Mediterranean coast, as we explore and discover Cassis and all its treasures featuring our friends' local family owned perfumery and tasting pastis, the coastal drinks of choice, with our friend Roger. Explore and learn about local artisan trades of chocolate with family friend Joel during a privately hosted visit of his chocolate workshop. Stroll and shop at weekly artisan and craft markets in St. Remy-de-Provence and Cassis. Learn about Van Gogh's life in Provence guided by our very own Van Gogh art specialist. Indulge in gourmet cuisine and regional wines daily, as welcomed friends to our favorite restaurants, the best kept secrets in Provence; all hosted by local friends. To top off our exclusive Provence experience, we've selected the gem of St. Remy-de-Provence as our base, Conde Nast Recommended boutique HOTEL GOUNOD – (NO hotel hopping)!
Check out our 2018 May Provence Tour Photos of all the great experiences and fun during our Best Adventures in Provence® Walking & Foodie Tours!
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Many instructional design and development processes produce ineffective products, often accompanied by delayed timelines and cost overruns. Agile instructional design applies the SAM (Success Approximation Model) principles to training development, which results in meaningful and effective learning experiences that help the learner as well as meet the needs of stakeholders. In this course, Richard Sites explores how to apply an agile process to instructional design. Learn how to start savvy, document your ideas, prototype course content, build your design, and review your instruction for any missed opportunities. Dr. Sites also shows how to align your current process with SAM and become an effective leader of agile and iterative training and development projects.
- Are you looking for a way to produce higher quality, engaging instructional products on time and on budget? The Successive Approximation Model, SAM, is the way you can start using an agile instructional design approach today. I'm Richard Sites, and for over a decade I've been writing, consulting, and executing the SAM model with clients of all sizes, and for every training topic imaginable. I've seen successful organizations struggle to stay on schedule and within budget. I've helped teams of professionals move beyond boring page-turning e-learning, and I've experienced myself the challenges of working with unrealistic expectations.
In this course, I'll walk you through the key benefits of using an agile, iterative approach, and some unique strategies for avoiding common project risks. Regardless of your role, if you are eager to begin creating engaging learning experiences for your organization, join me, as I offer some of the key strategies and methods for successfully implementing the SAM model. Now let's get started.
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← My Christmas gifts to you!
I love a good roadie, and there are few places more spectacular for a road trip than the South Island of New Zealand. I feel blessed to call this part of the world home, and grab any excuse to get out there amongst it. So the launch of my biggest and most beautiful book yet, ESSENTIAL, seemed like a good reason to hit the road and visit bookstores and top tourist attractions around the south. Here are some of the highlights.
I held my first book signing of the South Island leg of my tiki-tour before we even reached the mainland – setting up shop in Hector's Cafe on the Interislander as it crossed Cook Strait! We were blessed with a beautiful calm day for the crossing from Wellington to Picton, and I took time to enjoy the view as we cruised through the spectacular Marlborough Sounds. Then it was off to Blenheim, where I spent a wonderful afternoon at Thymebank tasting an amazing array of delicious spray-free herbs, including chocolate mint, and then on to a splendid wine tasting at Mahi Wines in Renwick and dinner at Arbour Restaurant. I loved Marlborough! There's a deep sense of community there, and shared values around sustainable growing and provenance.
I arrived in the South Island with the capacious boot of my Jeep Wrangler crammed with goodies from my friends at L'Occitane, and felt like Mother Christmas giving out gorgeous little pouches of samples to everyone who bought a copy of my new book ESSENTIAL at my signings, including today's events at Blenheim Paper Plus and Nelson Paper Plus. My room at Marlborough Vintner's Hotel in Blenheim enjoyed a lovely restful view across the vines, and the manager even let me steal some lemons from the trees there! We also squeezed in a visit to the World of Wearable Arts and Classic Cars Museum in Nelson – what can I say but WOW!
On the road early today for book signings at Paper Plus stores in Richmond and Motueka (above left). The Jeep aced its first river crossing to get to Jester House Cafe in Motueka, and we swung by Langbein St in Richmond, which is next to Broadgreen Historic House, where my great grandparents lived since way back in 1901. It's the oldest cob house in New Zealand, and has been preserved as an amazing museum that gives an idea of life in colonial times. I love coming back here – so many fond memories from my childhood visits! Then it was time to point the Jeep towards the West Coast, arriving to a beautiful evening in Westport and the wild roar of the Tasman Sea at Carters by the Sea.
When in Westport, do what the locals do – whitebaiting! I was out on the Buller River at 6.30am, but even with pro-whitebaiter Thomas Stuart from Donaldo's Cafe as my guide I didn't have much success! On the road south we took a breather at Punakaiki to marvel at the bizzarely layered pancake rock formations, then it was off to Greymouth to prepare for my cooking demonstration to raise money for the Greymouth Life Education Trust. It was a fun night meeting so many fabulous West Coast foodies, and a bonus to be able to give away a beautiful L'Occitane tote bag with every copy of ESSENTIAL. Plus, of course, everyone who buys the book can be in to win the Jeep I'm driving on the tour.
What do you do on a rainy day in Hokitika? Eat cake of course, and at Stella Cafe the owner and clever cook Rachael says my Ultimate Chocolate Cake is their bestseller. I love seeing fabulous foodies using my recipes! After a signing at the Take Note store in Hokitika, I hit the road for the West Coast Wildlife Centre in Franz Josef, where I was lucky enough to meet a young tuatara (just 25 years old) and newly hatched Rowi kiwis – this one just three days old and like a giant ball of fluff. This fabulous collaboration between the Department of Conservation and the West Coast Wildlife Centre is bringing this rare species of kiwi back from the brink of extinction.
Day Six: Fox Glacier, more West Coast and home to Wanaka!
It's a glorious day for an adventure, and after a night at the Distinction Fox Glacier, it's such a thrill to heli-hike up on the glacier with Kurt from Fox Glacier Guiding. The ice here is only about 25 years old and is constantly moving, but unlike other glaciers it's not always retreating. Given that there is 11 metres (yes metres) of rainfall here a year I was so lucky to have had this very special experience. Then it's time to head back to Wanaka, stopping for a photo opportunity at Bruce Bay and whitebait fritters at Curly Tree Whitebait in Haast – a fitting way to end my West Coast adventure! It's been an amazing week getting way off the beaten track, discovering some extraordinary landscapes and enjoying the warmest hospitality.
After a little rest at home in Wanaka and a Bookshop Day signing at my hometown bookstore, Paper Plus in Wanaka, I was back on the road, heading south for signings at the Paper Plus stores in Cromwell and Te Anau. I was lucky enough to stay at Fiordland Lodge in Te Anau, where the food was as spectacular as the view.
Winton here I come! The huge sign on the way into town sure does make a girl feel welcome! I'm deep in the south now, and after my signings at Paper Plus stores in Winton and Invercargill I continue my quest to find the best cheese roll in Southland. At Zookeepers Cafe Invercargill they use grain bread, which gives them a great texture, and a hero's spread of butter once they're toasted. I put out a call on social media for other great examples of this regional classic and the replies come flooding in – so many passionate recommendations I don't know where to start!
I'm on a roll now, and after a night in Invercargill, the southernmost point of my tour, I head north for signings at Paper Plus in Gore and The Warehouse in Dunedin South. It's such fun to meet so many great Kiwi cooks and hear how they use my recipes and adapt them to suit their own families.
Continuing up the east coast on a misty morning, we pass through Moeraki and can't resist a quick stop to admire the spherical boulders on the beach and have a look around Fleurs Place. There's so much whimsy and charm in every frame at Fleur Sullivan's iconic restaurant in this tiny fishing village, where she gets all her fish fresh right off the boats. It's too early for the restaurant to be open, but on other visits I have sat here eating my lunch and watching the guys come off the boats, fillet the fish and take them straight into the kitchen. Last time I came Fleur cooked us a huge puffball – just sliced and fried like a steak in butter. She is a legend. It's tempting to hang around, but I have signings lined up at Oamaru, Timaru and Ashburton, so there's no time to waste!
Day Twelve: Christchurch and home again!
Earlier this year I ran a competition where the prize was a visit from me, complete with morning tea and a full set of my books. Today I visited the winner at the New Brighton Community Gardens in Christchurch, and it was the highlight of my week. Catherine O'Neill took me on a fab walk around the gardens, which 14 years ago were a bowling green. At the risk of offending the bowls players I have to say, what an inspired reinvention of land use! Sixteen people work here most days on a voluntary basis and the harvests are shared – lots of amazing heritage veges and flowers. It's all organic and literally tons of compost get made each year to keep it fed and blooming. I couldn't resist their seedling stall, and have stocked up on heritage tomatoes, zucchinis and more. And what a spread! Their volunteers had made my Green Goddess Hummus to serve with freshly dug spring carrots from the garden, along with my Orange Lightning Cake. I was lucky enough to be allowed into the kitchen at Hotel Montreal to make some fresh asparagus rolls, but the stars of the show were the amazing cakes we got from Cakes By Anna – not just beautiful but super delicious. And after such a glorious morning there was only one more signing, at Paper Plus in Bush Inn, before I packed up the Jeep and headed home to Wanaka. Thanks everyone for making my tiki-tour so much fun. It makes me so proud to be a Kiwi!
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Once you know that you need automotive attention, whether you're looking for a new car or simply to have your existing vehicle serviced, you have a decision to make: where are you to go? If you're seeking a Nissan dealer serving Houston TX and the surrounding areas, then there is one answer that will keep popping up again and again: Robbins Nissan. As a longtime member of the Humble community boasting a wide variety of new Nissan and used vehicles from a number of highly-regarded automakers, we take our responsibility to our community extremely seriously. And, as part of a family of dealerships that has served our area since 1928, ours is an area that we've come to know quite well.
Although we are located a few miles north of Houston in nearby Humble, we pride ourselves on our ability to understand the sensibilities of urban drivers. To that end, we provide a terrific lineup of new Nissan trucks, SUVs, crossover SUVs and cars, as well as an extensive and ever-changing inventory of terrific used vehicles. Each Nissan Certified Pre-Owned vehicle is subject to a thorough multi-point inspection and offers a 7-year/100,000-mile limited coverage warranty, while features such as roadside assistance and a CARFAX vehicle history report are offered as well. Whatever vehicle you desire at Robbins Nissan, whether it's one of our terrific new Nissan models or one of our many CPO models, you can be confident that it will be a vehicle you can cherish for years to come.
At Robbins Nissan, we understand that the need for service isn't always something that you can predict. That's why our Nissan-certified service team does its best to work with all clients to offer a Regular Scheduled Maintenance Schedule, helping to eliminate potential problems before they even arise. Additionally, we only use Nissan-certified parts in your repairs, further evidence that, when it comes to your service at Robbins Nissan, your satisfaction is guaranteed.
A simple way to think about our use of Nissan-certified parts at Robbins Nissan is, "You put good in, you get good out." This means that, by using only the best quality parts, we can stand by our service for the many miles ahead. We put in the finest parts available on the planet, and you in turn receive outstanding performance you can trust from a vehicle you love. At Robbins Nissan, we wouldn't have it any other way.
When you've been serving the area for over 85 years as we in the Robbins family have, you come to understand that there are ways to alleviate the stress that comes with an automotive purchase. First and foremost, we let our vehicles do the talking, and simply try to get out of their way. We believe that our lineup of new Nissan and used vehicles from several automakers is second to none, and we believe that once you visit our Houston-area dealership, that you'll agree.
We also believe that, by visiting our welcoming showroom in Humble, Texas, you'll understand that our "family" extends far beyond those who have Robbins as a last name. Our entire community, our entire staff, and all of those who we serve are family as well. We do our best to treat everyone who enters our facility with the utmost respect and integrity, and we believe that your next visit to Robbins Nissan certainly won't be your last.
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This is the last menu before we take a week out of the kitchen.
Orders from this menu are due on Monday, March 13 for delivery in greater Topeka and Lawrence on Monday, March 20.
With the warm weather, we're not offering a soup this week. Instead we're offering a slightly more exotic Beef and Vegetable Curry in that flex-spot. While we know meals like this are not to everyone's liking, we also know that many of our friends love to try something different from time to time. Enjoy.
It's funny though, as I write this, I see there is a chance of snow on Friday night and on Monday. Ahhh, Kansas.
Regardless. Be sure to order early to secure your spot in this last cook week before the week away from the kitchen and if you are one of our weekly clients, be sure to order extra to get you through until our next delivery on April 3. These weeks before and after a week out of the kitchen often fill up early.
Enjoy the spring weather this afternoon, for tomorrow night we might be worrying about ice on the roads!
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Specification: • Overall Dimension: 8.2 x 5.5 x 3 inches • Item Weight: 9.6 ounces • Power Source: Corded-electric The Dual Thermostat and Humidistat is designed for use with Power Attic Ventilators. The dual controls allow for a user to limit the operation of the fan based on user selected temperature and humidity levels. This item is often called a Duostat and is an essential tool for homeowners to regulate the temperature and humidity levels while preventing their power attic ventilator from running in continuous operation mode. The Duostat allows for worry free operation during both winter and summer months by allowing the homeowner to not manually turn on and off their attic fan when needed. This Ventamatic Dual Temp/Humidity Control helps power attic ventilators equalize inside and outside attic temperatures to remove excess heat from your attic in summer and humidity in winter. Accessory Type Ventilation accessory. Year-round control removes excess humidity and protects roofing components Controls up to three units, not to exceed 10 amps.
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Q: A mountain of a mole hill? I am trying to solve https://www.codingame.com/ide/puzzle/a-mountain-of-a-mole-hill following problem but I dont understand how to approach to this problem. below requirement of the problem
Moles have infested a 16x16 area.
The fences of your gardens are outlined on maps with |, + and - symbols.
The mole hills are represented by a lower-case o.
How many mole hills are in your gardens?
*
*Two parallel fences of the garden cannot touch (it wouldn't make sense).
*Garden space is filled with white space unless there is a mole hill. Other space is filled with dots unless there is a mole hill.
*Everything that touches the outside of the map and is not enclosed in fences is other space. A fence is always between garden space and other space.
*Mole hills cannot be on fences.
below initial code
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.math.*;
/**
* Auto-generated code below aims at helping you parse
* the standard input according to the problem statement.
**/
class Solution {
public static void main(String args[]) {
Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
for (int i = 0; i < 16; i++) {
String line = in.nextLine();
}
// Write an answer using System.out.println()
// To debug: System.err.println("Debug messages...");
System.out.println("answer");
}
}
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Q: Auto renewable IN-App Subscriptions returns multiple transactions and "Sign-In required" dialogs I am implementing Auto renewable Subscriptions in my App. Whenever I launch my app, " func paymentQueue(_ queue: SKPaymentQueue, updatedTransactions transactions: [SKPaymentTransaction])" is called with multiple transactions. I am not sure why is this happening. May be because of "restore" functionality. I have implemented "RestoreCompletedTransactions" when user hits the Restore Button. I am running into issue either I get multiple dialogs for "Sign-In required"and/or I get so many transactions without calling anything. I am making sure I finish transaction. Please help!!
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Q: Autofocus when clicking button to new page (seperate html) I was able to implement auto-focus when you click a button taking you to the modal. Due to the following code:
AngularJS:
app.directive('autoFocus', function($timeout) {
return {
restrict: 'AC',
link: function(_scope, _element) {
$timeout(function(){
_element[0].focus();
}, 0);
}
};
});
HTML:
<input type="text" auto-focus>
However when applying the same logic to input boxes that are available after clicking on a button and going to a separate page, it doesn't seem to work. Has anyone encountered this before or experienced the same issue?
A: I have used the built in autofocus like this
<input ... autofocus="{{$index==0}}"/>
Have you tried that? No custom directive.
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Q: Cordova - cordova platform add android access denied I recently have setup my dev environment to work with Phonegap/Cordova and I am getting a weird success when I add the android platform
I run the command cordova platform add android, it goes through doing its thing and right before it tells me Project successfully created it has Access is denied.
Any ideas? is this an issue?
full cli log including commands:
http://pastebin.com/RBcSgyAJ
A: Looks quite similar to the issue stated here. Most likely an Antivirus problem, try to disable it temporarily and execute the cordova platform add android command again.
Also, I noticed that your drive volume is J:, is this a network drive? That could also lead to problems.
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Thanks for all you to to have your kiddos here on time and ready to learn each day. Our school day begins at 8:30 with the first bell at 8:25. Please see below for upcoming event and happenings here at Adams.
October 8 – School Picture Day.
Jog-a-thon Pledge Collection is On!
Thanks for working to get your Jog-a-thon pledge envelopes in by October 18th. As you know, we use funds from this fundraiser to ensure that we have lots of enrichment opportunities for kids at Adams throughout the year and do not ask for parents to send in additional funds to support special projects.
STRETCH GOAL! IF WE HAVE 90% OR GREATER OF ENVELOPES FROM THE ENTIRE SCHOOL TURNED IN, A LUCKY STUDENT FROM EACH GRADE LEVEL WILL GET TO HELP "SLIME THE PRINCIPAL"!
Positive Behavior Support at Adams. Showing Our Adams P.R.I.D.E.!
At Adams Elementary, Positive Behavior Intervention Support (PBIS) is a school-wide system used to teach and reinforce our four school expectations: Be Safe – Be Respectful – Be Caring-Be Responsible. Our staff is committed to teaching these expectations and creating a positive learning environment where all students can be successful.
On a daily basis, students can earn "Alligator Awards" tickets for following school rules. There will be regular class and weekly school wide drawings to reward students for their hard work.
I=Integrity – Do the right thing.
D=Discipline – Be a self-manager. Practice self control.
E=Effort – Put in the time and focus to do your best work.
Please remember that we do not have supervision on the playground before the school day. Students who arrive early need to walk bikes on campus and adhere to school rules and expectations, just as if they were on recess. Unless your child is eating breakfast in the cafeteria, he or she should not arrive before 8:10. Thank you for reviewing this information with your child.
A measure that would provide local funding for Eugene public schools is on theNovember 6 election ballot.
By law, bond money can only be spent on capital improvements such as facilities, equipment, curriculum and technology. It cannot be used to pay for teachers, school days or school programs.
U of O SPICE Open House – Free Science for ALL!
You are Invited! This event is free and open to everyone.
The Science Program to Inspire Creativity and Excellence (SPICE) will hold the 8th annual "Science Open House" October 3th, 2018 in the Willamette Hall Atrium (6:30pm-8:30pm) on the University of Oregon (UO) campus.
All activities are completely free and open to the public. There will be something fun for children of all ages.
Hands-on activities and demonstrations will include the Flubber Factory, the Egg Drop, Laser Maze and much more. Attendees can also sign up for the Science Pentathlon where they will complete five activities in the core science disciplines (biology, chemistry and physics).
Walk, Bike and Roll to school on Wednesday October 10 for exercise, to reduce pollution and to conserve fuel! Everyone who walks, bikes, scooters, skates, skateboards, carpools or rides the bus will get a snack, prizes and a chance to enter a raffle for even bigger prizes.
Volunteers are needed for this fun event. Please contact Diane at [email protected].
In order to better include our bus-riding students on Walk & Roll to School Day, 4J's Safe Routes to School and Transportation Department, in partnership with our school, are planning a "walking school bus!" We invite all students to participate and are looking for volunteers! Please sign up here or contact Sarah Mazze at 541 516-0887 or [email protected] if you can volunteer to be a chaperone for the walk or stationed along the route.
*If your child rides the bus and you do not want them to participate, they can remain on the bus to be transported to shttp://signup.com/go/PrPFoEHchool.
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Networking giant Cisco, which has long sold routers, switches, and other network equipment as a bundle of hardware and software, is now looking to unbundle the hardware and software components. In theory, this would allow customers to run Cisco software on other vendors' hardware, and third-party software on Cisco hardware.
In the short term, this is a risky move for Cisco. It dominates its markets, and major changes in the way it prices products could open the door to competitors, especially if the can allow Cisco's Internet Operating System to run on much cheaper hardware. Further, Cisco has no experience pricing this way, so getting prices right and being able to communicate them clearly without confusing customers will be a challenge.
Over the long term, though, the strategy is brilliant (if they can pull it off). In the Information Week interview (see link above), Chambers keeps coming back to wanting to know what customers value. When everything is bundled together, vendors don't know if customers are buying throughput, security, ease-of-use, service, or some other feature. By unbundling, Cisco will better understand the customers' value drivers, and be able to align investments in R&D, service, and support to better serve those drivers.
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One of life's biggest challenges, getting all the family in one place, at the same time for a photograph. Why not let us take care of it? These photoshoots are done in the great outdoors, no bright lights or strange backgrounds – this results in natural, happy photographs – with no false smiles.
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We decided we want to keep our prices simple, and affordable. We manage this by dropping any unnecessary extras from our packages. Below you will find a few optional upgrades you can add to your package, simply let us know when contacting us and we will add them in to your price.
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It's that time of year when people are starting to spruce up their home. Worried about color? No need to! I'm offering an Exterior Color Palette for just $125. This is the type of graphic you'll receive. Taking appointments starting April 9th.
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Add a touch of luxury to your wardrobe. This Shooting Zip Neck Knit is made from premium lambswool. The cuffs, hem and collar are ribbed and finished with contrast tipping for visual interest. Constructed from a medium 9 gauge knit. Soft lambswool for warmth and comfort Hand wash only Neck zip to allow for ventilation when needed Musto's Geelong lambswool is sustainably and responsibly sourced from sheep herds located in Victoria, Australia. These herds graze in quality assured pastures to ensure the health of the animals, as well as the premium quality of the wool.
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A Fleet's Last Lesson
Gene Breiner got a little choked up when he handed over his 1929 Fleet Model 2 to the National Air and Space Museum
Linda Shiner
Gene Breiner got a little choked up when he handed over his 1929 Fleet Model 2 to the National Air and Space Museum at "Become a Pilot" Day on Saturday. He dedicated it to "all the people who learned to fly in her, and all the people I took for their first and last airplane rides in her." In the first category, that would be hundreds.
Chet Machamer in the Fleet Model 2 leaves little doubt that flying is fun.
The Fleet was the first aircraft designed to be a civilian trainer. That's why Breiner's Fleet, one of six Model 2's remaining, earned a place at the Museum. This particular airplane was used in the Civilian Pilot Training Program, a U.S. Government effort begun in 1938 with the stated purpose of boosting general aviation. (An unstated purpose was to boost the number of U.S. pilots as war brewed in Europe.)
One of the students who learned to fly in Breiner's Fleet was on hand for Saturday's ceremony. In fact, 16-year-old Chet Machamer soloed the airplane that very morning. With his airline-pilot dad along, he flew it from Bermudian Valley Airpark in East Berlin, Pennsylvania, to Frederick, Maryland, where Breiner took over and flew, also with John Machamer, the last leg to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Dulles Airport in Virginia.
Machamer had already flown the long solo trip required for his pilot's license in a J-2 Cub, but he preferred flying the Fleet. "The J2 is only 36 horsepower," his dad explained. "He always complains that he can't keep up with the big trucks on the highway."
What did it feel like to solo in the Fleet? Chet, whose dad is also his flight instructor, said, "It was definitely different with a lot less weight." His dad, the weight, replied, "That's my son."
We'll have more about the Fleet in our September issue—including the story of how Breiner found and restored it. Pretty nice that on its last day of flying, the airplane did what it was invented to do: Help a novice rack up flying time on the way to becoming a pilot.
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YouTube Bans Firearm Demonstration Videos
Vice and Recreation
Gun control advocates in the United States haven't had much success lobbying politicians in Congress to introduce restrictions on the sale of firearms. But after the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida they have found an alternative to simply asking politicians to pass a law. They are targeting businesses that are affiliated with the NRA and help facilitate gun sales.
Many companies have already capitulated to the gun control advocates demands in the latest act of corporate virtue signalling. So far over a dozen companies including Avis, and Best Western are no longer offering discounts, free trials or insurance to NRA members. There is also a push for credit card companies to longer facilitate firearm sales. PayPal, Square, Stripe and Apple Pay already do not allow firearms to be purchased via their platform.
Gun control activism has intensified following the Parkland shooting using alleged survivors David Hogg and Emma González as their spokespeople in the US mainstream media. They and other students at the school founded the gun control group Never Again MSD which has had success in having a series of gun control measures passed in the Florida state legislature.
A number of nationwide student demonstrations have been organized to advocate for gun control, so far there has been the Enough! National School Walkout on March 14 where 3,000 schools and 1 million students participated. This Saturday the March for Our Lives is planned for Washington D.C with simulations demonstrations taking place in other cities. Then there is another walkout for the National Day of Action Against Gun Violence in Schools which takes place on April 20 on the 19th anniversary of the The Columbine High School massacre.
Another target of this new student led gun control movement is censorship on the internet of what they would call firearm propaganda or promoting gun culture. Social media giants have of course been only to eager to censor views that do not fit a progressive agenda and hastily respond the latest social justice outrage.
YouTube owned by Google is full of firearm demonstration videos, reviews and instruction videos. Most of them do not even have a political agenda but are simply recreational firearm enthusiasts want to share their knowledge with others who have the same hobby. But despite gun control advocates claiming they support the Second Amendment and the right for Americans to legally own guns these banal videos are now deemed to be inspiring would be mass shooters.
As we have come to expect YouTube has updated its policies on content featuring firearms that it will prohibit content that intends to sell firearms or certain firearms accessories through direct sales or provides instructions on the manufacturing of a firearm. A YouTube spokesperson said "We routinely make updates and adjustments to our enforcement guidelines across all of our policies".
But of course this new policy has led to a whole suite of firearms videos being completely deleted from YouTube, despite YouTube stating the policy not take affect until April. The National Shooting Sports Foundation has said "We suspect it will be interpreted to block much more content than the stated goal of firearms and certain accessory sales". Spike's Tactical a firearms company had its YouTube channel temporarily suspended which YouTube later claimed was a mistake.
Another social media company that has began cracking down on people who enjoy recreational shooting is dating app Bumble which is working to ban photos of guns and asking its users to report any user who is displaying themselves with a gun.
The campaign for gun control is at its core a campaign against all gun use period, they claim that don't want to ban all guns but they would if they could get away with it. This latest gun control campaign in the aftermath of Parkland has demonstrated this with its new strategy to make it harder for anyone to purchase a legal firearm for legitimate purposes and to access information on how to use it in a legal and recreation a way.
Tags: parkland, second amendment, uspol, youtube
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On Wednesday, GOP Presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) took to the floor of the Senate for 10 hours and 30 minutes to filibuster the renewal of Section 215 of the Patriot Act. The controversial section, which is used by the National Security Agency to justify its bulk collection of Americans' data, is set to expire at the end of the month.
Paul held the floor from 1:18 p.m. to 11:49 p.m. on Wednesday. Politico noted that by extending his filibuster to the brink of Thursday, Paul prevented Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) from filing cloture on a bill that would extend the Patriot Act.
According to the Washington Times, McConnell had said on Tuesday that he would schedule a vote this week on a rewrite of the Patriot Act, "setting up a final showdown on the NSA's bulk-data programs and putting pressure on civil liberties advocates to muster the 60 votes needed to end the snooping," in the hopes that the senators would end up having to accept an extension of the current Patriot Act.
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Episode 51 - Pandemic Check-in
May 15, 2021 Christine Malec and JJ Hunt Season 2 Episode 51
Toronto lockdown
Visualizations of India's COVID surge
Pandemic in the UK
NYC museum vaccination clinic
May 15, 2021 Season 2 Episode 51
This podcast began with the notion that the visuals of pandemic life around the world needed to be described. Many months have since passed, and those visuals have changed. This week, Christine and JJ check in on COVID and lockdown visuals around the world. From anxiety on the streets of Toronto, to India's infection rate graphs, and vacationing goats in North Whales, to vaccinated wales in New York museums, Talk Description to Me has you covered.
And I'm JJ Hunt. This is talk description to Me where the visuals of current events and the world around us get hashtag in description rich conversations.
Before we begin today, I would like to remind everyone that we are on clubhouse. And we will be hosting our first event on Thursday, May 20, at 7pm. Eastern, and it's called describing the invisible universe. And our special guest will be Kim arcand of the chanter observatory. And we'll be talking about the work that they're doing to make astronomy more accessible. So we're going to combine Kim's subject matter expertise with Jade is describing and it's going to be awesome. So if you're on clubhouse, please look for us at talk description to me and join us for our event on May 20. There's a significant way in which our podcast got started, just by describing COVID and the look of the streets and the world in COVID. That was what got JJ and I thinking about describing current events. And so this week, we want to revisit that because it's been over a year. And although at the time, it would have been impossible to believe we're still we're still in the midst of of COVID events. And so we want to do a little survey around the world of images from different places. And since JJ and I are in Toronto, we thought we would start here partly because I want to get this this grumpy thing out of the out of the way it's a we are still very much in in lockdown stay at home order. So every part of the world is in a different place around the pandemic, which is kind of what got us thinking about this that different countries are approaching it differently. So JJ and I here in Toronto are still hunkered down at home. There's no restaurants, there's no salons, there's there's very little yeah to to recommend the city at the moment as a fun place to be. So JJ, can we start with some of the visuals that you're seeing as the as the spring opens up here, but everything else is staying closed.
As you say, spring has sprung and I walk a lot that's one of the only things we can do right now is get out and walk right. We can't go into movie theaters, we can't go into restaurants and cafes. So it's outdoors, and it's walking. And so I walk through a lot of West End Toronto neighborhoods. And I have noticed some changes over the year right, the way people were behaving on this in the street, at the beginning of the pandemic and the way people behave now is a little bit different. So, you know, when when passing people on the sidewalk, I've noticed that a lot of people, a lot of sighted people, at the beginning of the pandemic would step off the curb, and into the street to avoid passing someone to close might or maybe do the zigzag from one side of the street to another. So if you're walking down the street and someone's coming toward you on the sidewalk, you're zigzag across the street to the other side of the street until someone approaches in that direction, then you're zigzag back, a lot of that zigzagging back and forth. But while people were doing that, at the beginning of the pandemic, I noticed that there was a lot there was extra nods and smiles or hellos, a little extra wave to people even beyond the kind of forced pleasant demeanor that Canadians are often teased for, right, we would be compensating for the lousy feeling that comes with avoiding people by being extra polite, hello, how you doing? It's not you. It's the pandemic, you know, it's that kind of thing. But now I'm noticing that people are tired. And people are maybe a little bit more suspicious of each other because some people aren't following social distancing rules and norms. Right? And so now we are still zigzagging we are still stepping into the street to avoid people on sidewalks. But now maybe we're looking away. We're not waving and smiling now maybe people I'm watching people hold their breath. I do this a little bit too, I'm afraid. Well, as you're passing someone in the suit, you kind of tighten up and you hold your breath. You keep your head down. You're not making that kind of contact with anyone. As if It's absurd as if making a friendly eye contact or we're sharing a little wave is somehow contagious. It's silly. It's but that's I think maybe a little bit of where we're at. So that kind of vibe as I'm walking through the city is definitely noticeable. The visuals of that, the feeling of that, for sure are noticeable.
I remember talking to you after one of the press conferences in which we got some some very strict lockdown instructions. And we I should say we were having a lot of variant issues here, which is why things are so bad. And I remember you remarking that the next day in walking in your morning walk, people just looked upset.
That really struck me.
Yeah, people have been looking really despondent and really an angry. I'm also finding as I'm walking past people, you know how you catch just snippets of conversations, as you're walking past people on the sidewalk, you get two or three sentences, and over and over and over again, as I would pass people on the sidewalk. You'd hear just a little bit of that check in like, what do you think of this? I can't believe we're still doing that. And can you believe they made this rule irregular, and there's a lot of anger and frustration. And you can, you can see that tension in the way people are carrying themselves the way they are holding their bodies close and tight. And the way they are reacting to others on the street, the way they are communicating with each other. If they're walking in pairs, or in small, you know, family groups. It's tense, it really is tense.
And what else are you seeing on the streets in the city?
Well, it's interesting to see how public spaces are being occupied. So parks continue to be packed, especially spring comes around. And they they were, you know, pretty busy throughout the winter. But as spring comes along, lots and lots of people in parks and it is kind of like when you go to a park, it's now it's a little bit like when you go to a beach when you're on vacation, and you have to find and occupy your own personal space. So yeah, you know, it starts off with everyone spread out, and then more people come and they put their picnic blanket or their towel down, you know, equidistant to all the other groups, and now you filled in those gaps. And then and then more people come and they fill in the gaps between them. And so you end up with this, you know, this spread on lawns, and in parks where people try and keep some distance by filling in the spaces between other groups. The photos, I always like to mention this a photos if taken from above of these crowded parks, they show that distance between the groups of people. But when you take photos across a busy Park, or a busy beach or a sidewalk or something, it's really deceptive, it makes a diff the distances between groups appear much smaller, that point of view really changes things. So newspaper photos that have drone footage, or satellite footage from above, much more trustworthy, to figure out whether or not people are socially distance. And then that the way others public spaces like residential alleyways, there are a lot of those in my neighborhood in Toronto where there are alleyways that lead to people's garages behind houses. And those are often packed with kids on scooters and bikes, you know, zipping back and forth, often wearing their COVID masks, and people gathering for a couple of drinks in the garage or, you know, on the front porches and really any outdoor space that can be occupied now is occupied. There is an unused restaurant patio that's at the end of my street. This is just for a restaurant that's not currently occupied. And people have have dragged like a strange mismatched collection of old lawn chairs and side tables and just left them there. And now people hang out there a lot of the day and into the evening. We've had we've nicknamed it the Piazza. And people go and hang out there. And you know, mostly it's okay. Mostly, it's just people trying to find ways to connect with each other and spread out a little bit. So that's what you do, you create your own Piazza.
In talking about getting ready for this episode, we understood clearly that it would be disrespectful and lacking in compassion, not to acknowledge the worst thing that's going on in the world around COVID, which is the situation in India and we talked at some length and with difficulty about how to cover it, how to talk about it. And JJ, maybe you can sort of try to sum up what we were, what our thoughts are on how to how to talk about this the situation.
Yeah, it's been a real it's been a struggle to figure out how to cover this. You know, we You and I both talked about not wanting to be quite so North American and Eurocentric And especially with regards to this global pandemic. And the story in India right now is the global pandemic story. And truly, there's a very important visual component to this story. And it, it absolutely fits our mandate. But the visuals are, they're terrible. They're they're agonizing, and they're crushing. I mean, rapt bodies lined up in the streets, mass funeral pyres, people weeping, it's just, it's, it's awful. And while it's true there, there may be some benefit to describing those images in detail. You know, perhaps descriptions of the ongoing horrors will help people make their own decisions about wearing masks, or to make their own decisions about where to donate their time, or their money or their energy. It might even add to conversations about vaccines and variants, and very real global resource inequality, which is a serious issue. All of those things might be true, but the fact is spending time considering and describing and discussing those images. It has a real emotional cost, right both for us, for you and I and also a real cost for the listeners too. And one of the things, of course, Chris, that you and I talked about is that we are all a little bit closer to the edge than is comfortable right now. Right? We're all feeling the strain of the situation. So what we've decided to do is instead of describing the horrific visuals, to convey the magnitude of the situation in India, we're going to try and describe some of the charts and graphs that visualize the staggering data. And our hope is that this will properly convey the severity of this surge and the weight of the moment. Without trotting on any of our already fragile mental health.
There's no right or wrong choice. This is just how JJ and I have decided to approach it. And so it's no intention of disrespect for the genuine human suffering. But I think JJ expressed it very well. And so this, this is the way that we have chosen. So I guess we want to just offer our any apologies to anyone who feels that this was not the right choice of how to talk about India. So JJ, walk us through some of the the data visualizations that you've seen.
Reuters, the news agency has on their website a COVID-19 tracker, and they've got lots of interactive graphs and charts. You can plug in various locations, and they'll give you information that's, that's current and up to date in the form of these interactive graphs, and charts. So the most straightforward graphs are the line graphs that track new infections and daily deaths. The bottom of these graphs on the horizontal axis is a line that tracks the date. And it goes from December 31 2020, on our left, all the way to may 10 2021. On our right, and the vertical axes, which are on our right, they track numbers. So we've got two different graphs here, one tracks the daily infections, and that's by the 100,000. And the other graph tracks, daily deaths, and that's by the 1000. And then there's a yellow line that tracks these numbers. And it, you know, Bobs along along this graph. So the yellow line that tracks the numbers line up very closely on these two different graphs, the one tracking new infections and the one tracking deaths, daily deaths, they line up very closely on the two different graphs from December to March 2020, the line is flat along the horizontal axis in both, so no infections, no deaths, this is, you know, December to March 2020. And then from about March to May, the infections start to rise, so first into the hundreds and then into the 1000s. But the numbers are so low compared to the scale on the vertical axis, that the line still looks virtually straight along the bottom of the graph. And that's the same with the graph mapping the graph mapping the deaths, right? It's not until June of 2020, that the that the yellow line starts to rise. And what it does is it creates a small mountain on both of the graphs on each one of the graphs, the line rises up, hits a peak and then begins to fall again, the peak is almost 100,000 new infections on September 16 2020, and almost a little over 11,000 deaths for about the same time, September 2020. And in both cases, those little mountain shapes reach the lowest number that's indicated on the vertical axis. So about 100,000 and About 1000, and then the line gradually falls back down and hovers just above the horizontal axis from January to March 2021. But then, by April 2021, the line shoots up, I mean, truly nearly vertically on each one of the graphs, the lines that shoot up reach four times higher on the vertical axis than those mountains that peaked in December. So at the beginning of March 2021, there were 12,000 new daily infections, and under 100 deaths, by the beginning of May, over 400,000 new infections, and over 4000 daily deaths. So these lines shoot straight up four times higher than the previous peak. And if you zoom in really close on the data, you can see that there may be one or two reporting periods that indicate that the numbers might now be dropping, but the drop is too small to register visually, straight up the line is straight up 400,000 new infections 4000 daily deaths.
Obviously, you've been looking at visualizations from many places over the course of the year. So just to put it in context, this does this look like any other visualization you've seen from anywhere else?
It's interesting, the way different waves register in different places is, is really quite different. So in some places, you have distinct peaks for wave one and wave two and wave three. In some cases, you have very few, like a very small peak for wave one or wave two. But wave three is a big peak. And that's a big mountain. It's really, it's really interesting how these, this particular these two charts look very different from place to place, a good way to compare. There's another graph another data representation to provide a more global context. So near the bottom of the webpage, are a series of these gray horizontal bars with fine vertical white lines that cross the across the horizontal bar. And I'll look at one that breaks down. That's just labeled deaths globally. So this tracks all death in in different countries around the world, the white lines represent the number of deaths in each individual country. So each country that is reported COVID, number of death tolls is assigned a separate thin white line, countries with zero deaths, their lines are at the left edge of the gray bar, that's the start of the bar. And then the country with the most deaths, that's the far right, that marks the end of the bar. So this representation is all about relativity, fewest COVID deaths to the most COVID deaths. At the left nearest zero, there are a cluster of white lines, so many white lines at the bar actually looks white. And if you move the pointer over this little area, the countries that are that are here and their exact death tolls associated are they'll pop up. And this cluster of white lines occupies maybe the first 10th of the bar. So this, these are countries that have had between zero and 20,000 deaths. And then if you move toward the right from about that 1/10 of the way along the bar, to maybe a quarter of the way along the bar, that area, there have lines that are spread out a little bit, but they're still gathered together. So there's still there's gray, you know, empty space between them. But they're still gathered together. And here, deaths range from 25,000, in Belgium, to almost 130,000 in the UK. And then there's a big gap. If you move toward the middle of the bar, there's a great big gap until you reach about the middle. And here there are three lines, Mexico has almost 220,000, India has almost 250,000 and Russia has just over 250,000 that's more or less the middle of this bar. And then there's another big gap as you move to the right and about three quarters of the way along that bar is one line, a single line, Brazil 422,000 deaths. And then all the way at the end of the line, the very last line that marks the end of the bar. That's the United States 582,000 deaths.
Thank you for the time that you spent looking at that it's their their numbers when you say them, but we all know what they mean exactly really hard to to be focusing your energy on. When I look on Twitter and other social media, it's clear that everywhere is at a different place in terms of what going on. So in Toronto, you can't eat out on a patio, but in Spain, they're having concerts. And so that's in a way that's what got me thinking about this episode is that the range of how people are living these days and so I think JJ you're able to get some really good images from the UK about
I got some fantastic images so I started flipping through online photos I googled like pandemic life UK, and just look through photos and, and I was seeing some interesting images, but I wasn't sure if they were actually representative of what was going on. So I thought, you know what, I'm going to reach out to to someone in the UK, so I flipped through my international League of Extraordinary describers Rolodex,
and I contacted a lovely colleague and Twitter friend in London, Roz Chalmers, and I asked her if, if there were any UK pandemic visuals that she thought we could talk about. And she emailed us a wonderful list, complete with photos and some of her thoughts. It was just lovely of her to take the time. So thank you very much was just so great of you. And so she sent a couple of things she sent some before and after pictures of Trafalgar Square. Trafalgar Square, of course, is a very famous square in central London, often visited by tourists used for community gatherings, political demonstrations, protests, just a big open square with their two matching fountains in the square some statues, a pillar monument, and pre pandemic. This space would generally be packed with people, it's a bustling place, lots of traffic, whipping a boat, people meeting and gathering going in and out of the National Gallery. But in the pandemic picture that Roz sent me, it looks, it looks empty, like really, this is a photo she sent as a middle of a bright and sunny day. But there are only a handful of people standing at one of the fountains and there are a few people crossing this vast expanse of what I think is like gray concrete, it just looks very, very quiet. Roz also drew my attention to an anti lockdown protest in London, the unite for freedom protest, which was I believe, last week. And of course, there have been sporadic anti lockdown anti mass protests all over the world, anywhere where people have the legal right to protest, there have been protests, I've seen photos and news of protests from, you know, Canada, the US or across the UK. And people are often carrying signs that say things like my body, my choice, shut your face, wash your hands, stay afraid, or freedom is non negotiable. And the people that these protests they, you know, just scanning these photos, they appear to be of different ages, they're wearing clothing of different styles. But I should it's worth noting that scanning the photos, the protesters do seem to be predominantly white. One of the things that made these recent unite for freedom protests notable was that some of the people involved chose to wear yellow stars of David to express the idea that they had been persecuted. And I didn't know if this was just a terrible And that's a visual symbol that everyone recognizes right? The one off choice or part of a greater movement. So I dug around a little bit and I found a few other images in the press. There were a handful of anti vaccination protesters who wore the Star of David in the Czech Republic back in January, and a few folks in Avignon France, who wore these yellow stars reading "non vaccine". And of course, th se stars are modeled after he yellow badges that were used by the Nazis to identify J ws leading up to the Holocaus . yellow star? It is a potent symbol that is is absolutely clear. Some of these stars that are being worn in these in these anti vaccination protests, some of them are amateurish, like the ones from France I saw where they looked like they were just simple stars cut out of yellow construction paper with handwritten messages inside. But some of them are proper stars of David a six pointed hexagram made of yellow fabric with with black writing inside and in some of them the messages of protest were written in a mock Hebrew font.
So absolutely fully intentionally referencing these, these stars that were used by the Nazis. I mean, it's just staggering.
Wow, I did not know that.
Yeah, I was I was pretty shocked to see those too. But then Roz also said let's lighten things up a little bit and she sent me a link to some news stories that I had not heard before. And this is wonderful. So goats.
There's an obsession with goats. The media loves goats love. They are everywhere.
Ah, and they are taking over a lovely little town in North Wales. So there's a herd of wild goats. And I'm going to do my best to get my pronunciations right but it's this is Wales here. So it's a little tricky. So there's a herd of wild goats that live in great Orme county park, this is a limestone headland in North Wales. And there there's a nearby a seaside town called Llandudno, And there are so few visitors that are at this little seaside town. And you know, residents have been locked down, people are staying indoors. So the mountain goats have decided to become city goats. And they they keep wandering down from the headlands into town and just like chill out and they eat the grass and they ate people's hedges, and they just wander about town so people have been photographing them and posting videos on YouTube. These are like, you know, waist tall goats shaggy white for short tails and long gnarly horns that curve back over their heads. And you know, as I say images of them chewing the grass and the parks and eating hedge rows in front of houses and churches. I've seen photos of them walking single file along the sidewalk past little boutique shops. There's a picture of four goats walking past the upper crust sandwich shop. There's a photo of these goats are walking up a picturesque street lined with rows of lovely white houses that have matching bay windows and peaked roofs and they're just walking between the rows of parked cars, photos of them gathered outside of the hairdresser's.
There's one photo, they're all looking at us, which really adds to the strange humor. These goats like sitting on the sidewalk looking at us as they have their pictures taken. There's one picture of four goats standing outside, this might be a small apartment building, maybe an office building. And there are two people inside the building standing at the glass front door. And like looking out at the goats, they're either unwilling or unable to step outside, because these goats are just chilling out in front of the building. Oh, it's fantastic. Lovely, crazy images.
I know that some of the mass vaccination clinics are are quite notable for for their their their visuals and some of the wistful things that are going on. So I think JJ, you had some visuals from New York about that.
I mean, they're all over the place. Wherever these vaccination clinics need to be held. If they're having to find strange places to hold them interesting, you know, you got to be close to the populations. And often sometimes you want to be indoors, sometimes if depending on the weather, you can be outdoors. And there are lots of events spaces that are unused right convention centers, hotels, stadiums, museums, theme parks, racetracks. And so in various cities, they are using those quirky locations as their vaccination clinics. And one of my favorites, some fantastic images of come from New York City, where they have turned the American Museum of Natural History into a vaccination clinic. And for those who have never been to this iconic Museum, it is a wonderful one of a kind. Kind of an anachronistic museum. I always say it's a museum that belongs in a museum. Many of the exhibits especially the beloved heritage ones, are of the diorama variety. So replicas big and small set up in displays in like quazi natural surroundings. Very, very antiquated. This diorama scene and they're old, like some of these are really heritage. So I always think if like if the filmmaker Wes Anderson was ever going to design a museum, it would be the American Museum of Natural History in New York and this is now a mass vaccinate vaccination site in the city. And there are a handful of photos that are available to the public. One of the museum's main open galleries the family Hall of ocean life is where the where the main clinic is, and suspended in the air in this family Hall, backed by a grid of false skylights is a famous life size model of a blue whale. 94 feet long, it's long, pointed head aimed down, like at a 45 degree angle, its tail bent to where it's where its body begins to narrow. It looks like this whale is about to dive toward the floor. And this is directly above the vaccination clinic.
Ha ha ha! I love it.
So like right below there are these little cubicles curtained-off cubicles in gray and black, and a curtain curtained-off waiting room with socially distance folding chairs. And right above this 94 foot long whale that has a bandaid on its fin on its pectoral fin right where it would have recieved its shot.
Oh my god I love that!
It's pretty cute. And then there are other wonderful photos from the museum clinic. There are photos that look like snapshots that maybe healthcare workers have snapped of each other and then provided to various press organizations. I've got a photo here of two health care providers in these kind of translucent plastic lab coats and surgical masks. There's a standing white woman and a seated black woman. And behind them is I'm going to guess like a 1/3 scale diorama of two black men in bathing suits free diving in an underwater world of colorful coral and fish.
The light from the photographer's flashes reflecting off the glass wall that's protecting this diorama. And these two healthcare workers are just you know, going about their thing doing their doing their business. Another snapshot with a row of skin similarly dressed healthcare workers and they're seated in front of a larger diorama. This diorama has an arched roofline. It's got these giant blubbery walruses with wrinkled snouts and scarred, leathery, brown hides and, and, and these foot long tusks. And these walruses are just lounging on a false ice floe behind this row of these health care workers. And a third snapshot that perhaps my favorite features to young women health care workers with medium skin tones, long, dark hair. And again, both of these health care workers in their translucent lab coats, they've got safety goggles, name tags, they're holding maybe clipboards or tablets, they're engaged in conversation, very animated conversations, ones pointed to the mask. The other ones like reaching out with a pen, they're clearly you know, figuring out their day figuring out their approach, and right behind them stocks a polar bear in a display case.
It's a keeper! Ha ha ha!
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Inspiration-Imagination-Interpretation: Mosques of Malaysia is an exhibition presented by The Association of Voices of Peace, Conscience and Reason (PCORE). It highlighted a collection of sixty- four artworks by twenty-one artists executed in several styles in a variety of mediums. Through the artist's eye and skilful hands, this painting collection depicts the diverse architectural styles prevalent in Malaysia, which derives its influence from the early Southeast Asian heritage as well as the Middle East and beyond.
It also captures the aesthetic moods of the traditional roofs and facades as well as the finesse of the introduced domes and minarets.
The uniqueness of this collection is that it documents a selection of Malaysian mosques through the eyes of contemporary Malaysian artists, who cherish the aesthetic and artistic form, while proudly highlighting Malaysia's cultural heritage.
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Spirulina Benefits
Spirulina is a simple one-celled microscopic blue-green algae (Cyanobacteria). There are two species, Arthrospira platensis and Arthrospira maxima. The Arthrospira platensis and Arthrospira maxima species were once classified in the genus Spirulina. There is now agreement that they are in fact Arthrospira; nevertheless, and somewhat confusingly, the older term Spirulina remains in use for historical reasons.
Arthrospira is cultivated worldwide; used as a dietary supplement as well as a whole food; and is also available in tablet, flake and powder form. Under a microscope, spirulina appears as long, thin, blue-green spiral threads. The odor and taste of spirulina is similar to seaweed.
Spirulina can be found in many freshwater environments, including ponds, lakes, and rivers. It thrives best under pesticide-free conditions with plenty of sunlight and moderate temperature levels, but it is also highly adaptable, surviving even in extreme conditions. More than 25,000 species of algae live everywhere - in water, in soils, on rocks, on plants. They range in size from a single cell to giant kelp over 150 feet long. Macroalgae are large like seaweeds. Microalgae are microscopic. Ocean microalgae, called phytoplankton, are the base of the ocean food web.
Spirulina is often deemed the most nutritionally complete of all food supplements, containing a rich supply of many important nutrients, including protein, complex carbohydrates, iron, and vitamins A, K, and B complex. It also has a high supply of carotenoids such as beta carotene and yellow xanthophylls which have antioxidant properties. It is also rich in chlorophyll, fatty and nucleic acids, and lipids. Thus, spirulina has countless uses as a supplement for maintaining good health and for preventing diseases.
Iron is essential to build a strong system, yet is the most common mineral deficiency. Spirulina is rich in iron, magnesium and trace minerals, and is easier to absorb than iron supplements.
Spirulina is the highest source of Vitamin B-12, essential for healthy nerves and tissue, especially for vegetarians. Having said that, there does seem to be lots of evidence that the B12 is in a slightly different form than that which can easily be absorbed by humans, so it is debatable how much good this B12 will do you. It seems to be only B12 that has this absorption issue. The rest of the nutrients in Spirulina do seem to be bio-actively available to the body.
Anti-cancer protection
Spirulina is the richest beta carotene food, with a full spectrum of ten mixed carotenoids. About half are orange carotenes: alpha, beta and gamma and half are yellow xanthophylls. They work synergistically at different sites in our body to enhance antioxidant protection. Twenty years of research proves eating beta carotene rich fruits and vegetables gives us real anti-cancer protection. Synthetic beta carotene has not always shown these benefits. Research in Israel showed natural beta carotene from algae was far more effective. Natural is better assimilated and contains the key 9-cis isomer, lacking in synthetic. As suspected, natural carotenoids in algae and vegetables have the most antioxidant and anti-cancer power.
Spirulina is an ideal anti-aging food; concentrated nutrient value, easily digested and loaded with antioxidants. Beta carotene is good for healthy eyes and vision. Spirulina beta carotene is ten times more concentrated than carrots.
Healthy Dieting with Spirulina
About 60% of dry weight spirulina is protein, which is essential for growth and cell regeneration. It is a good replacement for fatty and cholesterol-rich meat and dairy products in one's diet. Every 10 grams of spirulina can supply up to 70% of the minimum daily requirements for iron, and about three to four times of minimum daily requirements for vitamins A (in the form of beta carotene), B complex, D,and K. By itself, it does not contain vitamin C, but it helps maintain this vitamin's potency.
Spirulina is rich in gamma-linolenic acid or GLA, a compound found in breast milk that helps develop healthier babies. Moreover, with its high digestibility, spirulina has been proven to fight malnutrition in impoverished communities by helping the body absorb nutrients when it has lost its ability to absorb normal forms of food.
Increases stamina
Spirulina also increases stamina and immunity levels in athletes, and its high protein content helps build muscle mass. At the same time, it can curb hunger that may develop during the most demanding training routines. Thus, it indirectly acts as an effective way to maintain an athlete's ideal body weight.
The Disease Fighter
As well as beta carotene, Spirulina contains other nutrients such as iron, manganese, zinc, copper, selenium, and chromium. These nutrients help fight free radicals, cell-damaging molecules absorbed by the body through pollution, poor diet, injury, or stress. By removing free radicals, the nutrients help the immune system fight cancer and cellular degeneration. In some findings, spirulina has helped reduce oral cancer tumors in laboratory rats, and may thus provide a big medical breakthrough in cancer treatment.
Cardiovascular benefits
Spirulina has the ability to reduce the bad cholesterol LDL in the body helps prevent the onset of cardiovascular diseases, such as hardening of the arteries and strokes. It also helps lower blood pressure. While not clinically proven, spirulina may also protect against allergic reactions and liver infection.
Supports digestive system
Research confirms spirulina promotes digestion and bowel function. It suppresses bad bacteria like e-coli and Candida yeast and stimulates beneficial flora like lactobacillus and bifidobacteria. Healthy flora is the foundation of good health and it increases absorption of nutrients from the foods we eat, and helps protect against infection. Spirulina builds healthy lactobacillus, aiding assimilation and elimination and relieving constipation.
In 1994, a Russian Patent was awarded for spirulina as a medical food to reduce allergic reactions from radiation sickness. 270 Children of Chernobyl consuming 5 grams a day for 45 days (donated by Earthrise Farms), lowered radionuclides by 50%, and normalized allergic sensitivities. Today we are subject to an onslaught of toxic chemicals in our air, water, food and drugs. Our bodies need to continually eliminate these accumulated toxins. Spirulina has a completely unique combination of phytonutrients - including chlorophyll, phycocyanin and polysaccharides, that can help cleanse our bodies.
How to Take Spirulina
Spirulina is now commercially available in tablet or powder form. Some health tonics contain spirulina as part of their ingredients. A simple daily regimen for spirulina involves taking a 500mg tablet four to six times daily.
Sources for these forms of spirulina are normally laboratory-grown. Harvesting spirulina from more natural settings has posed a challenge because of possible contamination from toxic substances that cannot be removed from the product. Hopefully, more eco-friendly and safer ways to cultivate the algae can eventually be developed and perfected.
Spirulina Herb Notes / Side Effects
There are two species, Arthrospira platensis and Arthrospira maxima.
Macroalgae, Phytoplankton, Spirulina
AIDS/HIV, arthritis, athletic nutrition, enhancing natural cleansing and detoxification, supporting cardiovascular function and healthy cholesterol, strengthening the immune system, improving gastrointestinal and digestive health, reducing cancer risks with antioxidant protection, general and long term health.
Precautions and Contraindications
While it has a very high nutritional value, spirulina may also cause some side effects. Some individuals may suffer from allergic reactions to this algae, including rashes, hives, and difficulty breathing. Some commercial versions of spirulina supplements may have also been contaminated with toxic substances during production. It is therefore absolutely critical to buy spirulina only from reputable sources.
People with the rare metabolic condition phenylketonuria (PKU) are not able to metabolize the amino acid phenylalanine, and therefore should avoid taking spirulina. Likewise, people with autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, or lupus should not take spirulina, as it could stimulate the immune system and worsen the condition. Spirulina may also counteract the effectiveness of certain medicines, such as prednisone, which are commonly used for treating asthma and other inflammatory diseases.
While spirulina may appear safe at large doses, healthy adults should seek a doctor's advice for the right dosage.
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The royal college of physicians of London, portraits. Gordon Wolstenholme, M.R.C.P. Pp. 468. 1964. London: J. & A. Churchill Ltd. 75s. BJS 1964; 51: 718-719.
Ungeloäste Probleme der Chirurgie Hermann Krauss zum 65. Geburtstag. 10¾ × 7½ in. Pp. 292+xvi, with 75 illustrations. 1964. Stuttgart: Georg Thieme. DM.60. BJS 1964; 51: 719-719.
Principles and practice of plastic by surgery. Arthur J. Barsky, M.D., D.D.S., New York; Sidney Khan, M.D., F.A.C.S., New York; and Bernard E. Simon, M.D., New York second edition. 9¾ × 7 in. Pp. 783. Heavily illustrated. 1964. London: McGraw‐Hill Publishing Co. Ltd. £14. BJS 1964; 51: 719-719.
Atlas of biliary tract surgery. Frank Glenn, M.D. 14½ × 10 in. Pp. 145. Illustrated. 1964. London and New York: Macmillan Co. £5 15s. BJS 1964; 51: 719-719.
Ultrasound as a diagnostic and surgical tool Douglas Gordon, M.B., D.M.R., D.M.R.D. 8¾ × 5¾ in. Pp. 413+xii. Illustrted. 1964. Edinburgh: E. & S. Livingstone Ltd. 63s. BJS 1964; 51: 719-719.
Cancer of the stomach. William H. ReMine, M.D., M.S., F.A.C. James T. Priestley, M.D., M.S., F.A.C.S. Joseph Berkson, M.D., D.Sc., and member of the Mayo Clinic.9¾ × 6½ in. Pp. 255+x, with 88 illustrations. 1964. London: W. B. Saunders Co. Ltd. 80s. 6d. BJS 1964; 51: 719-719.
A follow‐up study of head wounds in world war ii A. Earl Walker, M.D. Seymour Jablon, M.A. 9× 5½ in. Pp. 202+x. Illustrated. 1961. V.A. Medical Monograph. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office. $1.75. BJS 1964; 51: 719-720.
Surgery for Nurses James Moroney, M.B., Ch.B., F.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.R.C.P. (Lond.) Consultant Surgeon, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool, and Clatterbridge General Hospital, Cheshire. Ninth edition. 8½ × 5½ in. Pp. 792+xii, with 602 illustrations. 1964. Edinburgh: E. & S. Livingstone Ltd. 37s. 6d. BJS 1964; 51: 720-720.
Book notices. BJS 1964; 51: 720-720.
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Commercial EVE Mattresses - How Do They Sleep At Night?
Having worked extensively on stage and a playing a lead role on two television dramas in Australia, I relocated to London hoping to expand on my experience. Completing my Masters at Mountview, I have since worked on a variety of stage projects as well as featuring roles in Sky and Halifax advertising campaigns.
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295 Theresia este un asteroid din centura principală, descoperit pe 17 august 1890, de Johann Palisa.
Legături externe
295 Theresia în JPL Small-Body Database
295 Theresia în baza de date a Minor Planet Center
Diagrama orbitei asteroidului 295 Theresia (JPL)
Centura de asteroizi
Obiecte astronomice descoperite în 1890
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The 209th Ariane Mission – VA209 – will deliver two communications satellites to their desired transfer orbits. Astra 2F will provide commercial communications Coverage of Europe, Africa and the Middle East, wile the Indian GSAT-10 covers India and adjoining regions and also provides Navigation Capabilities. It will be the 65th launch of the powerful Ariane 5. The launch site will be ELA-3 at the Guiana Space Center, French Guiana. It will be the 5th Ariane 5 launch of 2012.
The Countdown for a Launch of the Ariane 5 Rocket begins 11 hours and 30 minutes before the launch window opens. At L-7:30 final electrical checks will be made before Fueling starts just under 5 hours to liftoff. 90 Minutes into LOX and LH2 Tanking, the Vulcain Main Engine is being chilled down by the supercold propellants. 1 hour and 10 minutes prior to launch, final checks of all communication connections and telemetry links are conducted to ensure all Ground Tracking Stations are ready to support the mission. The Vehicle will be placed in a stable configuration for T-7 Minutes and Holding. The Launcher can remain in this configuration throughout the launch window. At T-7 Minutes and Counting, the Synchronized Sequence begins. Computers are watching all parameters of the vehicle and ground support equipment as final reconfigurations are made to put the Ariane in a launch configuration. Should any system show an off-nominal performance, the Computers will automatically recycle all systems to their T-7-Configuration to back out of the automated sequence. 4 Minutes prior to launch, all tanks of the first and second stage are being pressurized for flight. 1 Minute before T-0, the vehicle switches to onboard power. 30 Seconds before Ignition, Water begins flowing into the Flame Trenches. Hydrogen aspiration of the Vulcain engine starts 18 seconds before it is ignited. The Cryogenic arms that are used for critical connections including fuel lines are retracted. 4 seconds before the Ignition Sequence commences, the Handoff to Ariane's onboard computers occurs and the Guidance System enters its flight mode one second later.
At T-0, the Vulcain Engine Ignition Sequence begins. Three pyrotechnic devices are used to ignite the main engine which reaches flight thrust at T+4.5 seconds. Engine performance is being monitored before the Solid Rocket Boosters are ignited at T+7.05 seconds. Liftoff occurs just a quarter of a second later. The two Solid Rocket Boosters provide 92% of total thrust at blastoff. The launcher climbs vertically for 6 seconds before the pitch maneuver begins which puts the rocket into the proper trajectory that is required to reach the targeted Main Engine Cutoff point.
_After 2 minutes and 21 seconds of powered flight, the SRBs burn out and are jettisoned to fall back to Earth and into the Atlantic Ocean. Immediately after SRB jettison, the onboard computers calculate the precise trajectory that is required to recover from minimal transients that are nominal for the SRB Phase. That course correction is conducted in real time by swivalling the main engine. The next Event is Payload Fairing Jettison. The Fairing is used to protect the Payloads from thermal loads during atmospheric flight. When heat levels are at an acceptable level, the fairing is jettisoned by pyrotechnically initiated separation tubes. Separating the fairing as early as possible increases ascent performance. At 9 minutes into the flight, the Vulcain Engine shuts down for first stage cutoff. Stages #1 and #2 separate from each other and the second stage with its HM-7B engine continue powered flight after the engine ignites. The first stage falls back to Earth and impacts off the coast of Africa in the Gulf of Guinea. The second stage will make its first burn before final engine cutoff. Afterwards, the stage re-orients itself to the proper attitude to release the first payload, which is the bigger of the two Satellites, Astra 2F. When the first Spacecraft Separation is successful, the coast phase continues with more orientation maneuvers and the separation of the Sylda 5. This is a fairing like object that is used to install two payloads on top of the rocket. The first payload is mounted atop the Sylda and the second satellite is hidden beneath it until the first payload is released. With Sylda Separation, the path is clear to jettison the second and final payload, GSAT-10, into its targeted orbit. The second stage continues its mission for several minutes during which it performs reorientation maneuvers and avoidance firings. After second stage passivation, Ariane's mission is complete. The two satellites will then be in a geostationary transfer orbit that will be optimized when the spacecraft fire their individual engines to reach a precise position.
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Marina Stavropoulou was born in Athens in 1969, is a member of the Athens Bar Association since 1992, Attorney at the Supreme Court. She specializes in national and EU competition law, commercial law, intellectual property law and administrative law.
She has offered legal services in a permanent basis at the Legal Service of the Hellenic Competition Commission being, among others, responsible for litigating before the Athens Administrative Court of Appeal and the Council of State, in order to uphold the decisions of the Hellenic Competition Commission. She also served as Director of the Directorate of Legal Services of the Hellenic Competition Commission, having extended responsibilities, including the representation of the Competition Commission before national and international institutions, collecting and evaluating data and evidence, drafting and evaluating reports on antitrust and merger cases, inspections of undertakings (dawn raids) and participation at meetings at the European Council , the European Commission (Directorate General for Competition), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the International Competition Network (ICN).
Marina Stavropoulou has also great experience in providing assistance to private clientele regarding issues relating to EU and national competition law, competition compliance and compatibility of agreements and business practices with European and national competition law in all sectors.
Over the past two decades she has presented rich scientific activity, inter alia, participating in scientific meetings and events, writing and publishing articles and studies, lecturing at training seminars for managers and lawyers on national and EU competition law issues. Marina began her professional career with an internship (stage) in the European Commission in Brussels. She has been consultant at the Greek Regulatory Authority for Energy (RAE) and scientific collaborator at the Greek Centre of European Studies and Research (EKEM) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and has worked in major law firms specializing in commercial law and competition law.
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Alcohol consumption often leads to poor decision-making. Drinking even a small amount of alcohol can affect one's motor skills. Drunk driving is a serious offense in Florida, and officers act swiftly when erratic drivers disrupt our roadways. If you've been charged with driving under the influence, it's critical to retain a Lake County DUI lawyer as soon as possible. Katz & Phillips lawyers are well-versed in DUI matters, and we will forcefully defend you against any impaired-driving charge.
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We've found 13 cheap Saturn LS for sale under $3000 by owners, dealers, and some others at auction. Most of these LS deals were manually chosen especially to help people with low budget to buy or find an affordable Saturn LS priced for less than $3000 dollars. These vehicles weren't automatically fetched from data feeds scattered through the web. If you are selling a used car at a cheap price and would like to list it here for FREE, please create an account. At Autopten, we are constantly seeking for those car dealers and dealerships selling the cheapest Saturn LS in USA to promote and help them to get in touch with buyers interested in buying them for $3000 or less.
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The Glorious Qur'an in its teachings is like the sun that illuminates the world and fills it with warmth, strength and activity.
From the Preserved Tablet, the Glorious Qur'an was revealed in two stages. First, it was sent as a whole to Bayt al-`Izzah (The House of Honor), the exalted house of worship located in the heavens. This exalted house, also known as al-Bayt al-Ma`mur, is a heavenly house situated directly above the Ka`bah, a place of worship for angels. This first revelation took place on Laylat al-Qadr (or the Night of Power) in the month of Ramadan.
Explaining the wisdom behind the first descent of the Glorious Qur'an on the firmament facing the world, Imam Abu Shamah states that it aimed at demonstrating the exalted majesty of the Glorious Qur'an and at the same time inform the angels that it was the last scripture meant to be sent down for the guidance of the people of this earth.
It was reported that the first verses revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) were the beginning verses of Surat al-`Alaq. According to Sahih al-Bukhari, 'A`ishah (may Allah be pleased with her) narrates that the very first revelations came to the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) through true dreams. Thereafter began an inner urge to worship in seclusion and meditate.
These verses were revealed first. Thereafter, a period of three years passed without any further revelation. This is known as the period of Fatrat Inqita` Al-Wahi (or pause from revelation). After three years, the same angel who had visited the Prophet (peace be upon him) in the Cave of Hira' appeared before him between the sky and the earth and read to him the verses of Surat Al-Muddaththir. Thereafter, the process of Wahi (revelation) continued again.
You may have noticed that the titles of various chapters of the Glorious Qur'an denote them to be Makki (or Meccan, Makkan, Makkiyyah) or Madani (Medinan, Medinite, Madaniyyah). It is essential to understand the exact connotation of these terms. Most the Glorious Qur'anic commentators believe that a Makki verse is that which was revealed before the Prophet's arrival in Al-Madinah after his migration from Makkah. Others purport that Makki verses are those that were revealed in the city of Makkah and Al-Madani verses are those that were revealed in Al-Madinah.
Why was the Glorious Qur'an Revealed Gradually?
1. The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was unlettered (ummi). He could not read or write, hence if the entire Glorious Qur'an had been revealed at one time it would have been difficult to remember and document. On the other hand, the Prophet Musa (peace be upon him) was well-lettered and so the Torah was revealed to him as a complete scripture at one time.
2. If the entire Glorious Qur'an had been revealed all at once, immediate compliance of all its commands would have become obligatory and this would have contradicted the wisdom of gradualness that is of the objectives of the Shari`ah.
3. The Prophet (peace be upon him) was subject to torture on a daily basis. That Jibril (peace be upon him) came, again and again, with the words of the Glorious Qur'an, made his stand against these tortures bearable and gave strength to his heart.
This event is the Sha'n or Sabab of revelation behind the verse mentioned above. The background of revelation is, therefore, very important in the exegesis of the Glorious Qur'an. There are many verses the meaning of which cannot be correctly understood unless the circumstances underlying their revelation are known.
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Pasquale Galluppi, italijanski filozof in pedagog, * 2. april 1770, Tropea, † 13. december 1846, Neapelj.
Med letoma 1831 in 1846 je bil profesor filozofije na Univerzi v Neaplju.
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Stanley Metcalf: Great-grandfather admits airgun killing
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-humber-48584698
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Image caption Stanley Metcalf, six, died after being hit by a pellet from a gun
A man has admitted killing his six-year-old great-grandson who was shot with an air rifle.
Stanley Metcalf died in hospital after being hit in the abdomen by a pellet from the gun in Sproatley, near Hull, on 26 July.
Albert Grannon, of Church Lane, Sproatley, pleaded guilty to manslaughter at Hull Crown Court.
The 78-year-old had shown "no real remorse for what happened" until the guilty plea, Humberside Police said.
He also admitted possessing an air rifle without holding a firearms certificate along with the charge of manslaughter by gross negligence.
Grannon listened to the proceedings through a headset with sentencing adjourned until 2 July at Sheffield Crown Court.
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In August, an inquest heard Stanley was visiting family at the time he was shot.
Stanley was found injured at the house at about 16:00 BST and pronounced dead later that day at Hull Royal Infirmary.
Image caption The boy was shot in the abdomen with the air rifle, an inquest heard
Hull Coroner's Court was told a post-mortem examination had revealed the cause of death as "an airgun projectile wound to the abdomen".
No details of the offence were given during Monday's court hearing, with Grannon granted conditional bail.
Judge Peter Kelson QC told him: "This case, while tragic, is very serious and it's entirely possible that a prison sentence will follow and you must prepare for that."
'Inseparable' twins
Det Insp Rebecca Dickinson, who led the investigation, said: "I am pleased that Albert Grannon has finally admitted his guilt and faced up to the enormity of his actions.
"Up to now he has shown no real remorse for what happened."
In a statement following Stanley's death, his family described him as a "loving, caring and beautiful boy" who was "vibrant and full of energy".
Det Insp Dickinson added: "Stanley has a twin, Elsie. They were inseparable.
"I can only imagine what she will feel like now and when she reaches any milestones in her life, knowing that she should be sharing them with Stanley."
Air gun licensing
Some firearms, shotguns and rifles may be licensed and are held on a firearm or shotgun certificate
Low-powered air weapons are not licensed in England and Wales unless they are of a type declared "specially dangerous" by the Firearms (Dangerous Air Weapons) Rules 1969
An air weapon is "specially dangerous" if it is capable of discharging a missile with kinetic energy in excess of 6ft lbs for an air pistol or 12ft lbs in the case of other air weapons
Source: Home Office
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Stanley Metcalf: Man in court over pellet gun death
Stanley Metcalf: Pellet gun death boy 'shot in abdomen'
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Frodshams Solicitors
ELEANOR JANE GRIFFIN (Deceased)
Notice ID: WAR1773876
9th July 2020 to 8th August 2020
Pursuant to the Trustee Act 1925 any persons having a claim against or an interest in the Estate of the above named, late of Colliers Croft Care Home 161 Clipsley Lane St Helens WA11 0JG, who died on 19/11/2019, are required to send written particulars thereof to the undersigned on or before 10/09/2020, after which date the Estate will be distributed having regard only to the claims and interests of which they have had notice.
Cowley Chambers 22 Cowley Hill Lane St Helens WA10 2AD
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I got to do some more work on the crypt this weekend. I have gotten the top painted and wanted to paint the whole thing but never got the time. I am also trying my hand at rust for the first time so we will see how that turns out! Hopefully this weekend I can get the entire thing painted! I added the faux metal pieces to the top because I thought it would look cool and just wanted to add some decorative detail to it. I am going to make them stand off from the top instead of laying flat on it once I get some longer screws.
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One of the larger buildings and lots available on High exposure Highway 8 in the Scandinavian town of Lindstrom.
Parking lot, signage and a second pole building.
Secondary building for storage, or additional rental income.
Loading dock area on the front East part of the building. Warehouse, retail, manufacturing. A lot of options.
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Rear of the building formally used as a roller rink.
Side patio area of past restaurant tenant.
Professional sign with space for a multiple of Tenants.
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Ex-officer jailed for Syrian war crimes after landmark German trial
Ex-colonel Anwar Raslan sentenced on 27 charges
Worked for the security services of the Assad government
Gained asylum in Germany before being arrested in 2019
The trial initially focused on state-sponsored acts of torture during the war in Syria
Syrian doctor's trial opens in Frankfurt next week
COBLENCE, Germany, Jan. 13 (Reuters) – A German court on Thursday sentenced a former Syrian intelligence officer to life imprisonment for murder, rape and crimes against humanity, delivering the first-ever state-backed torture conviction during the civil war in Syria after a historic trial.
Anwar Raslan was found guilty on 27 of 58 counts of murder, rape and sexual assault committed in a Damascus prison run by a unit of the security services of President Bashar al-Assad he headed.
The 58-year-old man, a colonel when he defected from the Syrian opposition in 2012 and who, according to prosecutors, was granted asylum in Germany two years later, had denied all charges.
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The Assad government denies torturing prisoners.
The trial was conducted under German universal jurisdiction laws, which allow courts to prosecute crimes against humanity committed anywhere in the world.
Prosecutors backed by the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) had gathered evidence since 2016 from nearly 50 Syrian torture survivors living in Germany and others based elsewhere in Europe, said the ECCHR – an NGO founded by lawyers in 2007 -.
Mariam Alhallak, whose son died during questioning by government agents after being kidnapped from Damascus University in 2012, the year after the war began, welcomed the verdict.
"It means a lot to me because I have a feeling that justice is being served," she told the court in the city of Koblenz in western Germany, part of a group of Syrian mothers holding photos of children they say were killed or tortured in Syria. government facilities.
"It is a small step towards justice, we hope: to be held accountable to all those who committed violations, including the criminals who killed my son.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet hailed what she called "a historic leap forward" in the pursuit of justice for the grave human rights violations perpetrated in Syria.
"This is a clear example of how national courts can and should close accountability gaps for such crimes wherever they are committed," she said in a statement from Geneva, urging them other States to use the same principles of extraterritorial jurisdiction.
Anwar R, a former Syrian officer in the intelligence agency of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad arrives at the Koblenz Higher Regional Court ahead of the verdict of his trial for crimes against humanity, including torture and murder in Koblenz, Germany, January 13, 2022. Anwar R. was sentenced to life imprisonment by the court. Thomas Frey / Pool via REUTERS
Inside the courtroom, Raslan, clad in a black jacket and wearing glasses and a white mask, gave a brief wry smile as he waited for the verdict to be read after a police officer removed his handcuffs.
Syrian human rights lawyers said he defected to Turkey before moving in 2014 to Germany, where he contacted police saying he feared former colleagues could take his life. He was arrested by German authorities in 2019.
"CRUELTY CONTINUES"
The verdict against Raslan, which will give hope to survivors of atrocities committed during the war after failed attempts to create an international tribunal for Syria, was the second delivered in the trial, which began in April 2020 .
Last year, another former member of the Syrian intelligence services was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison for encouraging the torture of civilians.
"The trial demonstrates that responsibility for the heinous atrocities of the Assad regime is possible (…) if national prosecutors and judges choose to act," said Eric Witte of the Open Society Justice Initiative, who supported several witnesses in the case.
"As much as we welcome the outcome of this trial, we must also remember that the cruelty of crimes proven in court continues to this day in Syria.
A second trial of a Syrian doctor suspected of crimes against humanity, including torturing prisoners in a military hospital in the city of Homs in 2011 and 2012 and killing one by lethal injection, opens in Frankfurt next week.
At the UN Security Council, Russia and China have vetoed attempts by Western powers to refer the Syrian crisis to the International Criminal Court, leaving survivors of torture and chemical weapons attacks with limited options to seek justice.
But some of the estimated 800,000 Syrians living in Germany have opposed the Koblenz trial, saying it discourages defections of Syrians who may have more evidence of government crimes, after Raslan was encouraged by senior officials opposition to change sides.
"It is natural that Syrians have different views on how to seek justice," Witte said. "Some want an amnesty and save the trial of Bashar al-Assad and his senior officers."
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Fighting Militants in Pakistan: Who Is In Charge?
RSIS Commentary is a platform to provide timely and, where appropriate, policy-relevant commentary and analysis of topical issues and contemporary developments. The views of the authors are their own and do not represent the official position of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, NTU. These commentaries may be reproduced electronically or in print with prior permission from RSIS and due recognition to the author(s) and RSIS. Please email: [email protected] for feedback to the Editor RSIS Commentary, Yang Razali Kassim.
No. 268/2016 dated 31 October 2016
Fighting Militants in Pakistan:
Who Is In Charge?
By James M Dorsey
A lethal attack on a Pakistani police academy in Quetta, the provincial capital of Baluchistan, highlights the country's power struggle over policy towards militant Saudi-backed Islamist groups nurtured by the Pakistan military and intelligence service. It also spotlights China's willingness to accommodate Pakistani ambivalence towards militants.
THE OCTOBER attack on a police academy in Quetta that killed 61 cadets and wounded some 170 others, the worst such incident since an assault in December 2014 on a military school in Peshawar, has exacerbated tensions between the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the military, and the country's intelligence service, the Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI).
The attack occurred barely two months after a bombing virtually wiped out Baluchistan's legal elite and less than two weeks after senior government officials, including Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, clashed with military commanders and intelligence leaders over counterterrorism policy. Sharif and his ministers warned their military and intelligence counterparts that Pakistan risked international isolation if it failed to implement a national counterterrorism action plan adopted in the wake of the attack in Peshawar two years ago. The civilians' warning included the fact that the military and intelligence service's selective crackdown on militants puts US$46 billion in Chinese infrastructure investments at risk.
Crucial Chinese Link
Pakistan constitutes a crucial link in China's One Belt, One Road initiative designed to link the Eurasian land mass through infrastructure, transportation and telecommunications. The Baluch port of Gwadar is key to the maritime and land links China is trying to create that would give it geopolitical advantage, theoretically more secure routes for the import of badly needed resources and export of Chinese goods, and help Beijing develop economically the strategic but restive north-western Chinese province of Xinjiang.
Baluchistan is also crucial because it borders on Iran and constitutes a potential battleground for proxies of Saudi Arabia and Iran in their bitter struggle for regional hegemony. This province is also historically a key territorial conduit for the opposing forces in Afghanistan and their respective insurgency campaigns.
In a blunt statement during the meeting of civilian and military leaders leaked to Dawn newspaper, Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry noted that Pakistan's closest ally, China continued to block, at the request of the Pakistani military and the ISI, sanctioning by the United Nations of Masood Azhar, a leader of UN-designated Jaish-e-Mohammad, but Beijing was increasingly questioning the wisdom of doing so. Jaish-e-Mohammed has long served as a proxy in Pakistan's dispute with India over Kashmir.
Azhar was arrested in the aftermath of the Peshawar attack but released in April 2016. Azhar was long held in Indian prison on charges of kidnapping foreigners in Kashmir but was freed in 1999 in exchange for passengers of a hijacked Indian Airlines flight. Jaish-e-Mohammed was responsible for a 2001 attack on the Indian parliament among other incidents. The group was however conspicuously absent from a list of groups, issued earlier this month by the State Bank of Pakistan, whose accounts were frozen as part of the government's selective crackdown on militants.
Among those accounts was Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, the group the government blames for the latest attack in Quetta. A Lashkar spokesman told The Wall Street Journal that the group had aided the Islamic State, which claimed responsibility. Analysts doubt whether the freezing of accounts will have much effect. They note that most of the funds available to militant groups are either not in bank deposits or, if they are, not in accounts belonging to the groups' leaders.
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi is an offshoot of Sipah-e-Sabaha, a Saudi and Pakistani-backed Sunni supremacist, anti-Shiite group. Like Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Sipah-e-Sabaha is banned but is allowed to operate under a different name, Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat. In interviews, Sipah-e-Sabaha leaders said the military and intelligence was advising them in the framework of the national action plan to tone down their inflammatory anti-Shiite language but to maintain their basic policy.
Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat leader Ahmad Ludhyvani, a meticulously dressed Muslim scholar whose accounts are among those blocked, speaking in his headquarters in the city of Jhang, amid protection by Pakistani security forces, noted that Sipah, as the group is still commonly referred to, and Saudi Arabia both opposed Shiite Muslim proselytisation even if Sipah served Pakistani rather than Saudi national interests.
"Some things are natural. It's like when two Pakistanis meet abroad or someone from Jhang meets another person from Jhang in Karachi. It's natural to be closest to the people with whom we have similarities… We are the biggest anti-Shiite movement in Pakistan. We don't see Saudi Arabia interfering in Pakistan," Ludhyvani said to the author of this Commentary over a lunch of chicken, vegetables and rice.
The freezing of accounts is the latest incentive for Lashkar-e-Jhangvi to strike out. Much of the group's leadership has been killed in what the government called encounters with security forces and independent analysts assert were executions.
The latest Quetta attack was likely also designed to exacerbate the differences between Pakistan's government and its military and intelligence as well as within Sipah itself between those who favour following the government's advice to tone down its anti-Shiite language and more militant factions.
The violence in Quetta puts Pakistan's military and intelligence as well as Saudi Arabia between a rock and hard place. The Pakistani military sees militants as a key part of its anti-India policy while Saudi Arabia finds them useful in its struggle with Iran. Those interests are now bouncing up against both Pakistan and Saudi Arabia's need to ensure that Chinese interests are not threatened by their various shadow wars as well as their need to distance themselves from assertions of involvement in political violence.
James M Dorsey PhD is a Senior Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and co-director of the University of Wuerzburg's Institute of Fan Culture.
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War in the Caucasus: One more effort to shape a new world order
By James M. Dorsey Fighting in the Caucasus between Azerbaijan and Armenia is about much more than deep-seated ethnic divisions and territorial disputes. It's the latest clash designed, at least in part, to shape a new world order. The stakes for Azerbaijan, backed if not egged on by Turkey, are high as the Azeri capital's Baku International Sea Trade Port seeks to solidify its head start in its competition with Russian, Iranian, Turkmen and Kazakh Caspian Sea harbours, to be a key node in competing Eurasian transport corridors. Baku is likely to emerge as the Caspian's largest trading port. An Azeri success in clawing back some Armenian-occupied areas of Azerbaijan, captured by Armenia in the early 1990s, would bolster Baku's bid to be the Caspian's premier port at the crossroads of Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe. The Caspian is at the intersection of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR) from China to Europe via Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia a
The Caspian Sea as Battleground
Credit: Southfront Second Karabakh War as Cause or Consequence? James M. Dorsey Populated at the time by fluent Hebrew speakers, the Israel desk of Armenia's foreign ministry waited back in 1991— in the immediate wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union—for a phone call that never came. The ministry was convinced that Israel, with whom Armenia shared an experience of genocide, were natural allies. The ministry waited in vain. Israel never made the call. That shared experience could not compete with Armenia's Turkic nemesis, Azerbaijan, with which it was at war over Nagorno‑Karabakh, a majority ethnic‑Armenian enclave on Azerbaijani territory. "The calculation was simple. Azerbaijan has three strategic assets that Israel is interested in: Muslims, oil, and several thousand Jews. All Armenia has to offer is at best several hundred Jews," said an Israeli official at the time. Azerbaijan had one more asset: close political, security, and energy ties to Turkey, which was suppo
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In our last blog post, we discussed the different ways in which the body is affected by heat. We concluded by warning our readers against the dangers of overheating, noting that a 1993 study advised medical professionals to monitor heatstroke victims for several months after the incident, due to its severity.
You may take pause at the suggested recovery time. Several months? Isn't this more along the lines of the recovery time needed for a broken bone? It's a long time, yes, but researchers have examined exertional heat stroke for decades. Many, many studies have found the body experiences severe stress, which can cause issues with the nervous system, cardiovascular system, liver, muscles and even the brain.
Although this blog post provides a somber look at the effects of heat stroke, it's not meant to "scare" you out of exercising this summer. By all means, go out and enjoy the sunshine! We simply want to warn you against overdoing it and having to take too much off. Use caution, stay hydrated, and you can enjoy being outdoors.
According to a 2007 study in the Journal of Sport Rehabilitation, exertional heat stroke (EHS) occurs "when a person's metabolic heat production, coupled with environmental conditions, overpowers the body's ability to dissipate heat." That's science-talk for saying your body can't cool itself. The body likes to stay at a temperature of 98.6°F (37℃), and it has several mechanisms to ensure it stays there, which include sweating and moving blood to the surface of the skin.
However, when these mechanisms aren't enough, the body cannot regulate core temperature. This results in stress that can damage internal organs. If this stress is not mitigated, it can eventually be fatal.
Heatstroke is the most extreme version of overheating, and if the victim does not take steps to cool off immediately, it can lead to coma and even death. Common symptoms are dizziness, drowsiness, confusion, staggering, aggressiveness, feeling "cold," a sudden reduction in sweat-rate, and extreme thirst.
When the body overheats, blood is shifted to the surface of the skin. In extreme heat, as much as 25 percent of the body's blood can end up going to the skin instead of to exercising muscles and to organs like the intestines, kidneys and liver. This, coupled with the rise in core temperature, can cause internal damage.
One of the most common symptoms of overheating is "feeling cold," despite obvious indications otherwise. As your central nervous system is disrupted from the stress, it goes a little haywire. The cold feeling you get is the result of conflicting signals between your nerves and your brain. This is also the reason you can get confused or aggressive when you overheat.
Liver: Several studies, ranging in time from 1972 to 2006, have found that heatstroke often causes liver damage in runners. A 1980 study by the Canadian Medical Association reported hospitalization due to liver damage in at least one runner who suffered heatstroke during a 10k. It took four months for the runner to recover. In 1972, scientists published a paper in Human Pathology, which found the liver takes between nine days and two months to recover in most heatstroke victims.
Heart and cardiovascular system: Two studies, in 1999 and 2001, (Intesive Care Medicine and International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging, respectively) found that heatstroke can cause small tears in the myocardium heart tissue, although these effects are rare. Luckily, the 2001 study also found almost no irreversible long-term damage to the heart.
Muscular system: Crossfiters may have heard of "rhabdo," which stands for rhabdomyolysis, or muscle-cell destruction. Sometimes caused by severely overusing the muscles in a workout (like Crossfit, if not done properly), this dangerous condition is also a serious side-effect of heatstroke. The bad news for endurance athletes is that rhabdomyolysis can result in a chronic reduction in lactate-threshold. A 1997 study in the Journal of Neurology found that heatstroke victims reached their lactate threshold in a significantly shorter period of time than a control group. (Lactate threshold is the point at which the body cannot remove lactate build up as fast as it is produced. In general, a higher lactate threshold will allow for greater endurance performance.) Luckily, even if a person experiences rhabdomyolysis, the muscular system can recover relatively quickly in about four weeks.
Heat tolerance: Heat tolerance, or the body's ability to dissipate excess heat, can be damaged during heat stroke. In fact, a "heat tolerance test," (in which a person walks or jogs on a treadmill for 1 – 2 hours in a hot room) is used by many organizations, including the Israeli Defense Forces and the U.S. Army and Air Force, to test whether a recruit is able to return to fighting. Although there is no scientific way of predicting how long an individual's heat tolerance will be affected, studies have documented heat intolerance lasting everywhere from three weeks to five years. Most sports medical professionals, however, believe one month is enough time for most heat stroke victims to recover.
Knowing the dangers of heatstroke, victims must act fast to repair the damage. In all of the instances listed above, the severity of the injury was highly correlated with the amount of time it took to cool the victim.
We'll say that again because it's so important: Every study we've listed above concluded that cooling the victim was the most important step to mitigating damage to organs.
If you think you or a training partner are suffering from heatstroke, it's absolutely imperative to cool off as quickly as possible. If you're near indoors, go inside immediately. Take a cold shower or ice bath. If you're outside, get in a shady area and remove excess clothing. Apply cold water or ice packs to areas such as under the arms, on the neck or on the back.
Step 1: Do not work out for a week, and avoid the heat as much as possible. Your ability to withstand heat is greatly compromised, so it's imperative to avoid overheating.
Step 3: When you feel up for it, take a "heat test." Ideally, a test is performed under medical supervision, but you can't see a physician, try walking on a treadmill for 20 minutes to get your blood moving. If that goes well, keep walking, but don't go for more than an hour.
Step 4: Take it easy. It will take at least a month in almost every situation to recovery from heat stroke. During that month, you shouldn't attempt any hard workouts, and you shouldn't attempt to workout in the heat. Easy, indoor workouts are the best.
Recover will be unique to your physiology and the extent of the damage.
Again, this post isn't meant to scare you off from summer exercise. Instead, it's an advisory warning. Do not overdo it because the consequences can be very severe. Instead, use caution, and you'll have a great summer of outdoor activities!
Important Note: The above should not be construed as medical advice. Contact your physician before starting any exercise program or if you are taking any medication. Individuals with high blood pressure should also consult their physician prior to taking an electrolyte supplement. Overdose of electrolytes is possible, with symptoms such as vomiting and feeling ill, and care should be taken not to overdose on any electrolyte supplement.
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Kesaputta (Kalama Sutta: sometimes called 'The Buddha's Charter of Free Inquiry').
Buddhist talk: 'Living a Meditative Life', by Ajahn Sumedho, given at the 2005 Buddhist Publishing Group Summer School. 55 minutes.
Bhante Bodhidhamma's talk begins with a short meditation then goes on to explore the nature of self as experience.
A talk by Ajahn Sumedho. Loving-kindness (Metta) to oneself and others is one of the major teachings of Buddhism. 72 minutes.
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A clearly exasperated BBC journalist, Frank Gardner issued a bitter tweet last weekend due to the fact that he was left sitting on a plane at Heathrow whilst officials located his wheelchair. It seems that it took staff at the airport well over 70 minutes (that was when Gardner tweeted) to locate it. Some estimates say it was long as 100 minutes before it was found.
Gardner said that it was not the first time his wheelchair had got "lost" at Heathrow. Readers with long memories might remember that Just about Travel has written before about how the airport can treat disabled people. This is despite the fact that Heathrow – and a number of other UK airports – signed up to a CAA sponsored programme on how those with disabilities should be treated.
A little later over the weekend, Gardner met Heathrow CEO, John Holland Kaye, and talked about disability and problems getting through airports and onto planes. He said afterwards that he had just spent "one of the most constructive hours of my life." But how many of us would be able to have the clout that Gardner obviously has and be able to speak to an airport CEO within 24 hours?
After the meeting, Holland Kaye said Heathrow would aim to help disabled passengers off the plane within 20 minutes of landing. An "aim" is not the same as a guarantee and until another high-profile flyer with disabilities has a problem it is unlikely that we will know if that "aim" is being realised.
Personal wheelchairs, I am told, become integral to the user. The familiarity of your own space and knowing what you can and cannot do brings comfort. The thought that a wheelchair might be personally lost is an unpleasant thought as I found out a few years ago when a colleague flew out of Heathrow and her wheelchair couldn't be found for loading.
After the event, the BBC reported that Holland Kaye said that disabled passengers stranded on planes at Heathrow would not receive compensation for the delay. Perhaps if there were compensation, Heathrow and other airports might be a little more efficient!
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Four years after Congress passed the first comprehensive rewrite of federal tax law in three decades, a proposal is pending that would return the United States to having one of the highest corporate tax rates in the industrialized world. Rates would rise by one-third, and the increase would come as retail and other sectors of the economy are still working to recover from the recession brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Under the proposal, the corporate tax rate would increase to 28 percent from its current 21 percent, and the majority of the revenue raised would go to President Biden's infrastructure plan.
While retailers have long supported infrastructure improvements, an Ernst & Young study commissioned by NRF shows the negative impacts of the tax hike would significantly exceed the positive effects of infrastructure spending. Gross domestic product, wages, consumption and investment would all decline, and over 700,000 jobs would be lost. The study warns that the recovery remains fragile and that some sectors, including retail, leisure and hospitality, remain below pre-pandemic employment levels.
Why it matters to retailers
Retailers benefit from few of the tax incentives, deductions and credits that reduce taxes for other businesses, and consequently pay one of the highest effective tax rates of any industry – at or close to the full statutory corporate income tax rate. That is why NRF strongly supported the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which eliminated a wide range of corporate tax breaks and used the money saved to lower rates for all businesses, large and small alike. With the tax rate lowered to 21 percent from the previous 35 percent, the savings for retailers was estimated at $171.4 billion over 10 years.
Retailers have invested the savings in their businesses and employees, both creating jobs and increasing wages and benefits. Improved wages and benefits cannot be rescinded if Congress takes back the tax cut, and the competitiveness of the retail industry makes it difficult to pass along higher taxes in consumer prices, particularly in the current economy. Instead, the tax increase could force retailers to eliminate jobs, close their least-profitable stores and cut back on investments in ecommerce capability needed to meet the shift to online shopping brought by the pandemic.
NRF advocates for corporate tax reform
NRF was a leading supporter of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and is fighting equally hard to preserve its benefits. In a letter to leadership of House and Senate tax-writing committees, NRF said retailers rely heavily on the nation's roads, rails and ports to move billions of dollars in merchandise each year and consider infrastructure improvement "an essential need." However, it is "critically important" that funding options for infrastructure "should not have a worse impact on the economy than the benefits that infrastructure spending is expected to bring."
NRF commissioned the EY study as a key part of its efforts to show lawmakers the impact of the proposed tax increase.
The study found raising the corporate tax rate to 28 percent would cause net declines in consumption of 0.2 percent, GDP of 0.3 percent, wages of 0.5 percent and investment of 0.8 percent – billions of dollars in impact even after allowing for any increase in economic activity created by infrastructure spending. An estimated 730,000 jobs would be lost.
When state and local taxes are included, the total corporate tax rate in the United States would come to 32.5 percent if the federal rate were increased to 28 percent, according to the study. That compares with 25 percent in China, the United States' biggest economic competitor, and 23.5 percent among nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Even at the current federal rate, NRF member retailers already pay a total effective tax rate between 22.5 percent and 29.9 percent when state and local incomes taxes are included, according to an NRF survey.
Despite claims that the tax increase would not affect families with annual income below $400,000, the study found about a third of the burden of the economic impact would fall on workers through job losses and lower wages.
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Outsource Your Business $5 at a Time
March 31, 2010 by Shawn Collins
I came across fiverr this past weekend from a Tweet by @jimkukral, and I became instantly addicted.
If you're not familiar with fiverr, it is a marketplace where people are willing to provide all sorts of goods and services for $5.
Some things I've gotten from fiverr so far are this cartoon drawn from a photo, a 10-second voiceover from a British guy to introduce the Affiliate Thing podcast, and a plug for my blog on somebody's Facebook profile.
fiverr is similar to other services online where you go through a third party to get something, and the funds are not released to the seller until you sign off on the project.
There are lots of fun, random listings, like a guided walking tour of London, a voodoo doll out of a piece of clothing from an ex, and a temporary Facebook girlfriend.
But there are also lots of offerings to leverage in business, such as creating short videos, banner design, and cold calling leads.
Poke around and try it – some of the cheapest outsourcing around, especially if you don't know about Mechanical Turk.
My Sites are in the Rackspace Cloud
I moved all of my sites over to Rackspace years ago, because I repeatedly heard great things about them. While I was very happy all around, they were pretty pricey.
So recently, I made the move to Rackspace Cloud servers, and I like this arrangement a lot since I just pay for what I use.
Rackspace Cloud enabled me to select a size for the cloud server and OS, and then the server was online in minutes.
I'm really digging this server flexibility where I can ramp up and down from 1-50 servers, and it's always pay as I go.
Best of all, they've got the same "fanatical service" as I came to expect and rely on with Rackspace. 24/7 for real – I love that since I seem to only have issues in the middle of the night.
Check out the Rackspace Cloud if you're unhappy with the pricing and/or service from your current host.
Social Media Book
Internet Marketing from the Real Experts is not solely about social media. There are 130 articles in Internet Marketing from the Real Experts, and 14 of those articles are about social media.
The book has 88 authors, and in addition to the social media coverage, there are articles on affiliate marketing, email, search engine marketing, legal issues, productivity, and more.
Here are the titles and authors of the items on social media in Internet Marketing from the Real Experts:
3 Social Media Marketing Tips for Affiliates by Brent Csutoras
5 Ways to Keep WordPress Running Smoothly by Karen Jackie and Dana Rockel
Flogging—Will Your Blog Be Outed? by Jason Dodd
Four Great Tools for Twitter Marketing by Ian Fernando
How Social Networks Validated the Soft-Sell by Brian Littleton
How to Build Your Message with Twitter by Murray Newlands
How to Effectively Blog for Branding and Monetization by Andrew Wee
Improve Your Blog Earnings by Zac Johnson
Introduction to Podcasting by Shawn Collins
Leveraging LinkedIn to Expand Your Brand by Wade Sisson
Online_Charles_44254 is in Charge of your Brand? by Brian Littleton
Ten Ways to Promote Facebook Business Pages by Mari Smith
The Power of Guest Posting by Eric Schechter
Who Owns and Controls Your Content? by Deborah Carney
Most of the articles are 500 words or less and you can read through them in about 3 minutes each.
Since marketers don't want fluff, these articles are designed to get to the point quick.
Filed Under: Affiliate Resources
Jeremy Pepper at the Audience Conference 2009
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Jeremy Pepper, a public relations specialist, was a speaker at the first Audience Conference on Friday, November 6, 2009 in New York City.
Jeremy's bio: Work in PR/Comm/Marcom. Have lived and worked in Detroit, Scottsdale/Phoenix, Tucson, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and San Francisco Bay Area. Have a dog. He's great.
Get details on the Audience Conference at http://www.theaudienceconference.com/.
More Audience Conference audio available at http://geekcast.fm/archives/category/audience-conference/.
CEO of Pepperjam Parent Company on Undercover Boss
Michael Rubin, the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of affiliate network Pepperjam's parent company, GSI Commerce, will star in this Sunday's episode of the CBS reality series "Undercover Boss."
The episode will be broadcast on CBS at 9:00 PM EST on Sunday, March 21, 2010.
The show follows executives as they slip anonymously into the rank and file of their companies to examine the inner workings.
Previous executives featured have included Waste Management (Larry O'Donnell, President and C.O.O.), 7-Eleven (Joseph M. DePinto, President and C.E.O.), Hooters (Coby G. Brooks, President and C.E.O.), and White Castle (Dave Rife, Owner/Executive Board Member).
More details at http://www.pepperjamnetwork.com/blog/2010/03/16/undercover-boss/.
Words That Work by Frank Luntz
Words That Work by Frank Luntz is one of my favorite business books.
You may know Frank Luntz from TV appearances around election time. He has a dial system that reflects how voters react to the words of political candidates.
Frank Luntz has also worked with dozens of Fortune 500 companies to fine tune the use of words in their messaging.
The subtitle of Words That Work really says it all: "It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear".
The book is excellent for anybody in the business of communicating. As a marketer, the case studies and tips are priceless.
In the first chapter, Frank Luntz the ten rules of successful communication (the book goes into detail on each of these rules):
Simplicity: Use Small Words
Brevity: Use Short Sentences
Credibility is As Important As Philosophy
Consistency Matters
Novelty: Offer Something New
Sound and Texture Matter
Speak Aspirationally
Provide Context and Explain Relevance
Anyhow, I'd highly recommend Words That Work as a great primer on using words that have the most impact, whether it be to customers or colleagues.
Frank Luntz will be delivering the keynote address at Affiliate Summit East 2010 on August 16 in New York City.
Filed Under: Affiliate Managers, Affiliate News, Affiliate Resources, Affiliate Summit
History of the Advertising Tax
The advertising tax (née Amazon tax, affiliate tax, and Internet tax) issue is a threat to affiliate marketers across many states these days, but where did this legislative menace originate?
For the uninitiated, the advertising tax is essentially a plan to tax any Internet transactions from merchants who have affiliates in a given state.
The origins of the advertising tax were among the dubious achievements of disgraced former New York state governor, Eliot Spitzer, back in November 2007.
After an uproar, Spitzer backed down on the plan. But then he started working on it again just before the hooker scandal that bounced him from office.
I had hoped his departure from state government would take the plan to scapegoat affiliates with it.
But his successor, David Paterson, was interested in the plan, too.
And so, the wheels on this runaway train of bad legislation were back on, thanks to Governor Paterson, though his political life appears to be short lived, too.
Maybe the next Governor of New York can reverse this poorly conceived legislation, which has proven to worsen state budgets and deter business.
Video: Advertising Tax
Frank Roche at the Audience Conference 2009
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Frank Roche, who is a writer, businessman and well known expert on HR matters, was a speaker at the first Audience Conference on Friday, November 6, 2009 in New York City.
He is the author of Know HR, co-owner of iFractal LCC with Sarah Chambers, and a regularly-featured speaker on HR matters. He presented at WorldatWork's 2007 national conference on "HR Consulting or Corporate: Which is the Right Choice for You?" He was named One of the Top 25 HR Influencers in 2007 by HR World Magazine.
Internet Marketing Legal Issues Book
Internet Marketing from the Real Experts is not really a legal book. There are 130 articles in Internet Marketing from the Real Experts, and 9 of those articles are about legal issues that impact affiliate marketers.
The book has 88 authors, and in addition to the legal coverage, there are articles on affiliate marketing, email, search engine marketing, social media, productivity, and more.
Here are the titles and authors of the items on legal issues in Internet Marketing from the Real Experts:
Advertiser Liability for Affiliate Spam – Anne Mitchell
Affiliate Marketing in the Regulators' Cross-Hairs – Thomas A. Cohn
Compliance in Advertising – Stacey Sicard
Finance Affiliates: Compliance 101 – Brad Norton, ESQ
Legal Issues Surrounding Sweepstakes and Games of Skill – David O. Klein
Privacy Is Good Policy – David Klein
Reduce Fraud Risk Through Your Affiliate Agreement – David Naffziger
The TOS that Bind – Janet Attard
Using Trademarks in Affiliate Marketing – Mark Rosenberg
Video: Internet Marketing Legal Issues Book
ShoeMoney System Theme Song Contest
March 9, 2010 by Shawn Collins
There is a theme song contest for the ShoeMoney System, a program from Jeremy (ShoeMoney) Schoemaker that helps new affiliates learn how to make money online.
Jeremy has posted a video about the ShoeMoney System theme song contest that features some unique vocal styling.
Highlights include some auto-tune work and a Miley Cyrus cover.
In order to enter, just upload your ShoeMoney System theme song and post the URL in the comments on ShoeMoney's blog post about the contest.
He will accept submissions until March 26th and then he will have a final vote off for the winner, who will receive $1,000.00 cash.
Video: $1000 ShoeMoney System Theme Song Contest
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Ultra Haptics and Leap Motion Join Forces
Ultrahaptics and Leap Motion, the world leaders in mid-air haptics, contactless interfaces and hand tracking technologies, this week announced a strategic deal which will combine their expertise and create the world's leading spatial interaction company.
The combination of teams and their technologies will accelerate innovation and enhance commercial applications. This means both improving current solutions and driving new forms of contactless interactive products.
Commenting on the announcement, Ultrahaptics CEO, Steve Cliffe, said:
"We are building a company to support the changes between human and machine interaction that will define the 21st century. Together, Ultrahaptics and Leap Motion products have the opportunity to be at the global epicentre of spatial interaction. Taking a holistic view of this exciting market, not only can we continue to create two hugely significant technologies, but we can max out the potential of combining them – proving that one plus one really can make three!
"With this deal, we'll combine some of the best minds in human-computer interaction. We will be better placed to leverage our customer contacts and expand the vertical stack of immersive technologies, just as the applications which benefit from our collective strengths are moving into the mainstream."
The potential of haptic tech to be used in interactive advertising is substantial. Leap Motion raised $94 million in investments previously and was almost acquiredby Apple. Will this partnership lead to significant adoption of their technology and a real revenue stream?
Research validates the Positive Impact of OOH on Advertisers' KPIs
A series of new reports from the Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA) use attribution data to help brands understand the effectiveness of out of home (OOH) in a full media strategy.
Using attribution data, Rick Wilson, Associate Professor of Marketing at Texas State University, analyzed 45 case studies from a range of markets across the US to establish the impact of OOH on advertisers' key performance indicators (KPIs). Cases included in the analysis were compiled by OAAA member companies.
The analysis found that OOH media provides for a positive and significant lift in campaign KPIs for consumers exposed to OOH media during an advertising campaign.
In Wilson's process of assigning credit to the medium, or attribution, he focused on four primary KPIs:
Store Visits – OOH boosted store visitation at a range of 50% to 127%
Purchase Consideration – OOH increased purchase consideration by an average 6% to 20%
Purchase Intent – OOH increased purchase intent by 10% to 35%
Ad Recall – OOH elevated ad recall by as much as 13% to 66%
"The OOH industry's embrace of digital technology and its synergy with mobile advertising allow it to be easily integrated into media plans," commented Wilson. "Using GPS data from mobile phones and geofenced OOH media locations, advertisers can understand the incremental lift in KPIs for consumers exposed to a campaign's OOH media compared to those who were not."
OOH Grocer Measurement Effectiveness
This footfall attribution analysis, conducted by location intelligence and measurement company Cuebiq, found consumers exposed to an OOH campaign for a national grocer across three markets (Atlanta, Knoxville, and Portland) visited the grocer's stores at a 118 percentgreater rate than those consumers who did not see the OOH ads. Additionally, the report found 43 percentof consumers exposed visited a store within three days of seeing an OOH ad.
The Power of OOH: QSR Attribution Study
This attribution study, which analyses 13 creative messages for a major quick service restaurant on 57 billboards across three markets (Dallas, San Antonio, and Birmingham), found the OOH campaign increased footfall by 10 per cent. The full study, conducted by InMobi, offers additional performance KPIs, such as location and demographic profiles.
"Each of these brands was interested in better-understanding insights about the impact of OOH exposure," said Freitas. "The lift in foot traffic, specifically, was impressive and offers quantitative proof of OOH's effectiveness."
Political Advertising to Hit $10 billion in 2020 According to Researchers
According to the a recent report GroupM, spending on political advertisements is projected to hit a new high in 2020, surging $3.6 billion above the most recent presidential campaign year.
In 2018 political spending was "shockingly high," according to Brian Wieser, global president of business intelligence at GroupM. "There's just generally more activity in a presidential year than a nonpresidential year, so whatever the 2018 number was, 2020 was going to be bigger."
Political spending in 2018 accounted for $2 billion, or 2%, of total digital ad spending in the U.S., according to the GroupM report.
JCDecaux Rolls out new OOH metrics in APAC region
JCDecaux Singapore, this week announced the launch of new audience measurement metrics for out-of-home media. For the first time, advertisers will have information on the unique audience and reach for out-of-home media assets with the new Streetside Audience Measurement (SAM) that utilises mobility intelligence.
In contrast to existing out-of-home measurements which are built upon research studies on commuters' personal accounts of their mobility patterns, SAM is based on real-time mobile analytics. SAM distils mobility insights to offer advertisers an overview of all travel patterns, taking into consideration the mobility patterns of both motorists and pedestrians throughout the day. The data garnered also incorporates the distinct characteristics of out-of-home media, such as viewing distance and the orientation of advertising faces at bus stops. The result is more accurate and relevant data that has been captured from all audience segments and updated frequently to support strategic planning.
Advertisers can expect campaign KPIs such as Opportunity to See (OTS), Unique Audience, Reach based on unique individuals and Frequency of Exposure for standard bus stop networks and large format billboards along the expressway.
Ad Agencies to Join the Fight Against the Climate Crisis
The advertising industry in London are joining forces on 25th June to advance the sector's response to the climate crisis. People from different agencies have written an open letter and organised the summit. The summit was triggered. by campaign group Extinction Rebellion, who wrote an open letter to the ad industry, urging it to act on climate destruction.
The Climate Crisis Summit will address how the advertising industry can help limit global warming to 1.5°C by 2030 and will provide an opportunity to get practical about tackling the climate crisis.
Those interested in attending the event can sign up here.
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Q: XSLT for inserting the original XML into HTML code tag I have an XML file with an external xsl-stylesheet linked to it. The file looks somewhat like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/transform.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<test>
<foo />
</test>
I want to copy the entire source code of the untransformed XML into a <code> tag. I can use <xsl:copy-of> to copy the entire xml tree, but the XML in the code wouldn't be visible in the browser since <xsl:copy-of> turns the original XML to actual tags instead of escaped text.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="*">
<html>
<body>
<code>
<xsl:copy-of select="/"/>
</code>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Expected output:
<html>
<body>
<code>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/transform.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<test>
<foo />
</test>
</code>
</body>
</html>
Is this transformation possible?
Notes:
*
*I don't care whether or not the XML processing instructions (e.g. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
or <?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/transform.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>) are displayed.
*I'm looking for an XSLT solution, don't suggest using a javascript that reinserts the XML inside the code tag as text.
*This XSLT will be applied by a browser. I don't care about browser compatibility, if it works in at least one of Firefox or Chrome then it's fine for me.
*It would be better if the code gets pretty printed or if it preserves whitespaces, but this is optional.
A: Using Evan Lenz stylesheet xml-to-string.xsl will achieve what you want.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:import href="xml-to-string.xsl"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<code>
<xsl:call-template name="xml-to-string">
<xsl:with-param name="node-set" select="/"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</code>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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Павлі́вська сільська́ ра́да — адміністративно-територіальна одиниця та орган місцевого самоврядування в Богодухівському районі Харківської області. Адміністративний центр — село Павлівка.
Загальні відомості
Павлівська сільська рада утворена в 1918 році.
Територія ради: 55,01 км²
Населення ради: 2 042 осіб (станом на 2001 рік)
Територією ради протікає річка Мерла.
Населені пункти
Сільській раді підпорядковані населені пункти:
с. Павлівка
с. Кручик
с. Миролюбівка
Склад ради
Рада складається з 16 депутатів та голови.
Голова ради: Тарасенко Петро Андрійович
Секретар ради: Рогова Наталія Петрівна
Керівний склад попередніх скликань
Примітка: таблиця складена за даними сайту Верховної Ради України
Депутати
За результатами місцевих виборів 2010 року депутатами ради стали:
За суб'єктами висування
За округами
Примітки та джерела
Адміністративний устрій Богодухівського району
Сільські ради Богодухівського району
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Single Log Out (SLO) is a concept parallel to the Single Sign On (SSO) concept: if a user can seamlessly establish sessions with a number of services, there should also be a way to seamlessly terminate such sessions.
However, there is a number of gotchas in SLO - including issues like temporarily unreachable services, and terminating application-level sessions derived from the original session. Please refer to the upstream Shibboleth Project documentation on SLO Issues for further information.
No configuration is necessary and on Shibboleth SP implementations version 2.5.0+, SLO works out of the box.
The only work required for basic functionality to work is adding a Logout button to the application pointing to the initiator (see the section on Initiating Single Logout below).
Changing the list of SLO protocol bindings supported (and their order of priority).
Switching between asynchronous (default) and synchronous mode.
Setting asynchronous="false" would make the flow return back to the SP (this otherwise only happens for the SOAP binding which cannot be done asynchronously).
Changing the list of bindings and their order affects which SLO protocol gets used - the first binding that is also advertised in the IdP metadata gets used.
Please see the relevant section in the IdP installation manual.
SP-initiated SLO will not work: the SP will report an error message saying that the IdP is not advertising SLO endpoints in the metadata - and would revert to local logout only.
IdP-initiated logout (terminating just the session at the IdP) would still work on IdPs version 2.4.0+ (assuming the profile handler is enabled, which holds for configuration file templates shipped with 2.4.0+ - but the handler might not be enabled if the IdP is running with configuration files created by an earlier version of the IdP software).
Note also that if the logout page has not been branded, the user would end up on a page that very clearly says "This page must be branded" - so do not advertise the SLO endpoint URLs in federation metadata and do not advertise the Logout URL to the users unless you have branded the page.
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Specification for high strength structural bolts from M16 to M36.
Specification for carbon and alloy steel bolts, screws and studs.
Specification for carbon and alloy steel set screws.
Specification for carbon and alloy steel nuts with specified proof loads.
Specification for carbon and alloy steel nuts without specified proof loads.
Specification for prevailing torque type steel hexagon nuts.
Specification for stainless steel bolts, screws and studs with high tensile properties.
Specification for medium and high tensile structural steel.
Specification for steel for spring washers.
Specification for heat treated self tapping screws.
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#include "analog.h"
static __IO uint16_t adc_readings[10];
/**
* This function configures IO, clocks, and ADC, including self calibration.
* The ADC is configured to perform auto sampling, updating an array
* of readings using DMA transfers.
*/
void ANALOG_Config(void) {
ADC_InitTypeDef adci;
DMA_InitTypeDef dmai;
// Enable clocks
RCC_AHBPeriphClockCmd(ADC_POWER_AHB, ENABLE);
RCC_APB1PeriphClockCmd(ADC_POWER_APB1, ENABLE);
RCC_APB2PeriphClockCmd(ADC_POWER_APB2, ENABLE);
// Configure the pins as analog inputs
CONFIG_pins(pins_adc, ADC_PINS_NUM);
// configure ADC
ADC_StructInit(&adci);
adci.ADC_Resolution = ADC_Resolution_12b;
adci.ADC_ContinuousConvMode = ENABLE;
adci.ADC_ExternalTrigConvEdge = ADC_ExternalTrigConvEdge_None;
adci.ADC_DataAlign = ADC_DataAlign_Right;
adci.ADC_ScanDirection = ADC_ScanDirection_Upward;
ADC_Init(ADC1, &adci);
// configure channels
ADC_ChannelConfig(ADC1, ADC_Channel_0, ADC_SampleTime_239_5Cycles);
ADC_ChannelConfig(ADC1, ADC_Channel_1, ADC_SampleTime_239_5Cycles);
ADC_ChannelConfig(ADC1, ADC_Channel_2, ADC_SampleTime_239_5Cycles);
ADC_ChannelConfig(ADC1, ADC_Channel_3, ADC_SampleTime_239_5Cycles);
ADC_ChannelConfig(ADC1, ADC_Channel_4, ADC_SampleTime_239_5Cycles);
ADC_ChannelConfig(ADC1, ADC_Channel_5, ADC_SampleTime_239_5Cycles);
ADC_ChannelConfig(ADC1, ADC_Channel_6, ADC_SampleTime_239_5Cycles);
ADC_ChannelConfig(ADC1, ADC_Channel_7, ADC_SampleTime_239_5Cycles);
ADC_ChannelConfig(ADC1, ADC_Channel_8, ADC_SampleTime_239_5Cycles);
ADC_ChannelConfig(ADC1, ADC_Channel_9, ADC_SampleTime_239_5Cycles);
// get calibration
ADC_GetCalibrationFactor(ADC1);
// Set up DMA for circular buffer mode
ADC_DMARequestModeConfig(ADC1, ADC_DMAMode_Circular);
ADC_DMACmd(ADC1, ENABLE);
ADC_Cmd(ADC1, ENABLE);
// wait for the ADRDY flag is set
while( !ADC_GetFlagStatus(ADC1, ADC_FLAG_ADRDY));
ADC_StartOfConversion(ADC1);
DMA_DeInit(DMA1_Channel1);
dmai.DMA_PeripheralBaseAddr = (uint32_t)ADC_DMA_ADDR;
dmai.DMA_MemoryBaseAddr = (uint32_t)adc_readings;
dmai.DMA_DIR = DMA_DIR_PeripheralSRC;
dmai.DMA_BufferSize = 10;
dmai.DMA_PeripheralInc = DMA_PeripheralInc_Disable;
dmai.DMA_MemoryInc = DMA_MemoryInc_Enable;
dmai.DMA_PeripheralDataSize = DMA_PeripheralDataSize_HalfWord;
dmai.DMA_MemoryDataSize = DMA_MemoryDataSize_HalfWord;
dmai.DMA_Mode = DMA_Mode_Circular;
dmai.DMA_Priority = DMA_Priority_High;
dmai.DMA_M2M = DMA_M2M_Disable;
DMA_Init(DMA1_Channel1, &dmai);
DMA_Cmd(DMA1_Channel1, ENABLE);
}
/**
* Access the readings that are updated automatically using DMA (this is not polling)
* @param channel The channel number from which to retrieve the reading
* @return The most recent ADC reading for the requested channel
*/
uint16_t ANALOG_get_voltage(int channel) {
if(channel < ADC_PINS_NUM)
return adc_readings[channel];
else
return 0xFFFF;
}
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The Vox MV50 Clean mini electric guitar amplifier head ushers in a new level of professional-quality tones and convenience for guitarists chasing high-headroom clean tones. The MV50 Clean utilizes a Nutube in the preamp section for true tube performance, sound, and feel. But the kicker is that it does it all in a package that weighs just over a pound and fits in the palm of your hand. If you're looking for a tone that works as well for clean styles as it does as a pedal platform, the MV50 Clean is the mini guitar head of your dreams.
Vox knows a thing or two about great tube clean tones. Their combo amplifiers have been one of the defining clean guitar amps since the 1960s. It's with that in mind that they voiced their MV50 Clean mini electric guitar amplifier head. Thanks to the tube-based preamp, this tiny powerhouse delivers rich and sparkling sounds with a huge amount of headroom. This amp is a perfect tonal partner if you're in need of an amp for jazz, old-school country, or other cleaner styles. And it's an ideal option for players needing a neutral pedal-platform amp.
In a world of great-sounding digital options, it's always refreshing to find groundbreaking technology that still adheres to the "tubes are better" mentality. Vox knows this as well as any amplifier company and has been integrating real tube tone into their digital and analog amps for years. The MV50 Clean 50-watt mini electric guitar amplifier head follows suit with a Nutube located in its preamp section. This delivers the punchy feel and rich overtones you'd expect from anything bearing the Vox logo.
For an electric guitar amplifier head that pushes 50 watts of power, the Vox MV50 Clean is about as small as they come. By utilizing their Nutube technology and a Class D power section, Vox is able to cram enough power and tone into this amp to power any electric guitar speaker cabinet, even at performance volumes. Not gigging lately? The cab-emulated line/headphone output sounds fantastic for practice, at-home playing, and recording. And Vox puts it all into an amp head that comes in at just a touch over a pound.
Weighs a little over 1 lb.
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When your roof is damaged by a storm, your first priority should be to get it fixed. Unfortunately, when major weather disturbances hit areas like Florida, the people that come to your door are not always the best choice. Rather than hiring just anyone, it's better to do some research and hire local Sarasota roof companies that have made a name for themselves to ensure you get quality work and good customer service.
In the neighborhood, Mother Nature's wrath was on full display; windows were broken and roof shingles were pierced by last week's tornado-producing storms.
But those looking for a quick fix may be disappointed by some opportunistic contractors canvassing their neighborhood who may be gone the next week.
The Better Business Bureau recommends people do their research on companies before they sign contracts. But it can be very difficult sorting out the good companies from the bad, which prey on the elderly and sometimes even come from out-of-state to the promise of a damaging storm.
"They'll say they're local and they don't have any references for any work they've done in the area," Calderon said.
What is your business address? If the company has a PO Box, or doesn't have a local address, they probably aren't a local company.
Can I have some references for work you have done in this area? Local companies should have plenty of projects you can see in the Sarasota area.
What kind of warranty do you offer? Fly-by-night contractors looking to make quick money probably won't have a comprehensive warranty and good customer service to redeem that warranty.
Before signing any contracts, it's important to know who will be doing the work. Even when you're desperate to get your roof fixed, taking a little time to investigate can make a big difference in the long run. Contact Roofing by Curry today if you have roof repairs that need to be done. You can trust us with your project because we've been in the business for the past three decades, and our commitment to quality has earned us an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau.
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10 Best Live TV Streaming Services in 2023
Technology, Top 10 By BCC / February 4, 2022
Last updated on January 25th, 2023 at 6:34 pm
With the intervention of smart TV technology, the whole TV watching experience has changed 360-degree. Today, you no longer need a cable connection, wait for your favorite show to air, or even a TV set to watch a movie or show.
Thanks to the live TV streaming services, you can now watch TV on any device without a cable network. Using the internet connection, live TV streaming solutions allow you to play any show, movie, channel, or live event on your mobile, computer, or a big TV screen anytime.
Today, several live TV streaming services are offering high-quality entertainment on your demand. You simply have to find the best service provider, and you will never get bored. Here we have reviewed the top 10 live TV streaming service providers that can entertain you:
10 Best Live TV Streaming Services to Have Fun in 2023
While searching for the best live TV streaming solutions, we end up exploring many free, paid, regional and upcoming services. But based on the pure entertainment and performance basis, we found these services the most appropriate for 2023:
1. Hulu + Live TV
Service Rating: 4.9/5
Compatible Platforms: Windows, MacOS, Apple TV, Android, Roku, Chromecast, etc.
Popular Shows: Modern Family, Succession, The Good Doctor, Pam & Tom, etc.
Price: Starts at $69.99 per month
Hulu + Live TV is the dynamic live TV streaming service offering the best movies, shows, sports, and 75+ live TV channels. You will also get endless sports fun on ESPN+ and adorable cartoons on Disney+ support. Hulu users can personalize their profiles and custom TV lineups with an easy Live Guide. In addition, you can record live TV with 50 hours of DVR storage and catch up on live sports from pro leagues anywhere.
Hulu streams over 75+ live and on-demand TV channels, including news, cartoons, news, and more.
Allows you to watch Hulu on two screens simultaneously.
Unlimited entertainment with Disney+ to watch Marvel, Star Wars, Nat Geo, etc.
Supports many college and pro league sports events from UFC, MLB, NBA, and more.
Live stream from many popular TV channels like HBO Max, CINEMAX, etc.
AI-based content suggestions.
The book shows on-demand.
Affordable.
Channels aren't organized properly.
2. YouTube TV
Compatible Platforms: Apple TV, Roku, PlayStation, LG, Samsung, Android, iOS, etc.
Popular Shows: Voice, Chopped, The Daily Show, Young Sheldon, etc.
As you might have already guessed, YouTube TV is a premium live TV streaming service by YouTube. You can enjoy over 85+ channels, numerous live shows, and events on YouTube TV. It has the ability to air multiple live shows that you can record using the unlimited cloud DVR storage space. You also get 6 accounts per household that you can share with your family or roommates.
YouTube TV lets you stream live and local news or shows from popular channels like CBS, FOX, HGTV, and more.
This live TV streaming service is available nationwide in the United States.
Unlimited storage space to build your personal library to watch offline.
Provides accurate personal recommendations based on your preferences.
Add-on sports package to access NFL, RedZone, and 6 more sports networks.
Unlimited recording space.
Only 2 weeks trial period.
Many popular channels are missing.
3. HBO Live
Compatible Platforms: Android, iOS, and Amazon Fire
Popular Shows: Game of Thrones, Sex and the City, Succession, Mare of Easttown, etc.
Price: Starts at $9.99 per month
No live TV streaming list is complete without HBO Live. It is the online platform to access all the classic HBO shows and movies on your mobile or computer. HBO Live is a dedicated platform to watch all the HBO series when they are being aired on television. You can also watch HBO on the go as this platform works well with Android and iOS mobile devices. So, if you don't want to miss classic American shows, go get HBO Live.
Watch original HBO series anytime and anywhere.
Ability to play on three devices simultaneously.
Supports all mobile devices, including Android and iOS.
Allows you to manually adjust the quality of the video.
Award-winning shows.
Real-time news updates.
Limited channel support compared to other live TV streaming services.
4. Sling TV
Compatible Platforms: Android, iOS, Apple TV, Amazon Fire, etc.
Popular Shows: Shameless, Lexx, The Good Place, Psych, Black Sails, etc.
Price: Starts at $35 per month
Sling TV is a perfect live TV streaming service when you want to watch more TV for less. It provides live content along with some on-demand videos. You will also get the option to add-ons to your supplement base package to watch more shows, news, sports, and other programs. It is a cordless solution that can eliminate the need to get cable connections.
Works on "a la carte" streaming model that offers personalized subscription options.
You can record your favorite shows using DVR storage.
Its interface is a bit different from other live TV solutions, with more similarities to an on-demand streaming service.
Local channels and live sports events.
Only available in the US.
Not good for multiple users.
Compatible Platforms: Windows, Android, iOS, LG, Samsung, etc.
Popular Shows: Selection Day, Bird Box, and many kids' special shows.
Netflix doesn't need any introduction. Today, you will be living under the rock not to have heard of Netflix. Anyway, it is the best live TV streaming service that offers a wide range of TV shows, anime, documents, and more. You can watch Netflix shows as many times as you want without any ads. Plus, Netflix uses AI to suggest popular content based on your preferences. For full money value, Netflix is the best platform.
Netflix produces several original shows and movies that you will find nowhere else.
Allows you to create a separate profile for children free with your membership.
Simply download the shows, and you can watch them online while traveling.
Netflix provides an ad-free experience.
Interesting shows.
4K ultra HD video quality.
Offline support.
Slow rendering of non-Netflix shows.
Don't have live TV or sports broadcasts.
Compatible Platforms: iOS, Android, LG, Samsung, Windows, etc.
Popular Shows: The Good Housewife, Suits, Office, The Big Bang Theory, etc.
Price: Starts at 12.99 per month.
Just like Netflix, Amazon Prime needs no introduction. Today, Prime is the best place to watch the latest movies, TV shows, and original content. In fact, during the lockdown, many movies were directly released on Amazon Prime. Once you get an Amazon Prime subscription, you can also get a special discount and one-day delivery options on the Amazon store. Overall, getting an Amazon Prime subscription is a sweet deal for you.
On Prime Video, you can find shows and movies from different channels, including eros now, Manorama, etc.
Amazon also creates original and exclusive content on its live TV streaming platform.
Prime membership also offers ad-free music, fast delivery, and many exclusive deals.
Blue Ray's quality videos are streamed on Amazon Prime.
A huge content library.
High-quality videos.
Can't download content.
Not compatible with all platforms.
7. Apple TV Plus
Compatible Platforms: iOS, Android, MacOS, Apple TV, etc.
Popular Shows: The Morning Show, Ted Lasso, SEE, Servant, Mythic Quest, Dickinson, etc.
Apple TV Plus is a popular American live TV streaming service owned by Apple. It provides a wide range of original series and movies under the Apple Originals flagship. You can avail of this subscription service from Apple's website or download the Apple TV app. On Apple devices, the app is downloaded by default, but other smart TV models and video-game console users can also download it.
High definition video broadcasting quality on all screen sizes.
Streams award-winning Apple Originals on your mobile or TV.
With an Apple TV Plus subscription, you will get access to Apple Music for free.
Apple Arcade brings more than 200 fun games without ads.
Ability to share your Apple TV Plus subscription with your friends and family.
Exclusive original programs.
Multiple streaming options.
It doesn't support recording.
Can't stream your local TV channels.
8. TVPlayer
Compatible Platforms: Windows, Android, Nintendo Switch, iOS, MacOS, Xbox One, etc.
Popular Shows: Friends, Mom, Man With a Plan, etc.
TVPlayer is a UK-based live TV streaming service owned by Alchimie. Though, now it is available in the US, Spain, and other European nations. It provides a web browser and application interface to play your favorite shows on a big as well as small screen. TVPlayer supports 12+ live and on-demand TV channels, including Yummy, Moove, Luxe TV, Moods, Big Name, and more.
TVPlayer premium allows you to select channels on-demand from a vast library.
You can watch it on any device or use Airplay and Chromecast to stream on a TV screen.
Premium users get to watch their favorite channels with no preloaded ads.
Attractive interface.
Supports all devices.
Limited local channels.
Available on selected locations.
9. CBS All Access
Compatible Platforms: Android, iOS, MacOS, LG, etc.
Popular Shows: Star Trek: Discovery, The Good Fight, The Twilight Zone, etc.
CBS All Access is another popular American live TV streaming service. It is the perfect platform to explore the best drama and movies. The service package also includes many live sports and local news air. CBS All Access is a good streaming service for home users who want to watch good drama or sports events at affordable rates.
With CBS All Access subscription, you will get access to many other channels, including MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, etc.
High-quality video content that you can watch on any device.
You can explore CBS original shows and movies at first.
Access to over 12,000 CBS shows.
Special discount for students.
A limited number of live streaming channels.
No recording option.
10. Sony Crackle
Compatible Platforms: Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android, etc.
Popular Shows: The Real Ghostbusters, Hell's Kitchen, Charlie's Angels, etc.
If you are looking for high-quality video and content at affordable rates, Sony Crackle is the best live TV streaming service. It can even stream the popular Netflix, Hulu, or HBO Max content. However, Crackle is right now only available in the US. It is not even available in Latin American and Canadian territories. However, it works on all the leading operating systems and devices.
There's a Watch Later option to check a show or movie on your watch later list.
Crackle offers parental controls so your kids can watch the programs under your supervision.
You can enable captions for movies and television shows available in foreign languages.
On-demand content.
The free version is also available.
Limited content for kids.
No live TV streaming.
Let's Live Stream Now?
Live TV streaming services are a better replacement for traditional cable TV. It allows you to watch your favorite shows on multiple devices, without ads, and even book content on-demand.
So, simply get a subscription for the best 10 live TV streaming services to raise the entertainment standards in your life. We hope you find this post helpful, and for more similar content, please follow us on social media platforms.
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In this first episode of the Oral Health Matters Podcast, Dr. Ellie explores what it means to have a healthy mouth and why oral health is important.
In this episode of the Oral Health Matters Podcast, Dr. Ellie explores a few common dental treatments. She takes an in-depth look at what works, what doesn't, and why.
Copyright 2018 Dr. Ellie Phillips, all rights reserved.
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One of largest cultural magnets in the world has welcomed yet another Film Festival, this time with Albanian talent at the forefront. With nineteen movies running for six prizes, the three-days long festival of young cinematic artists has given a rare chance for Albanian talent to represent itself, giving the diverse jury of the festival a hard time.
"It is quite challenging and a great sacrifice to pull out a festival in the biggest world center. We are a small nation but posses great artists, which makes up for dignifying representation"- said New York General Consulate Bekim Sejdiu, of the Albanian Young Filmmakers Festival. The Movie "Weekend", directed by Ergys Lubonja, has been awarded "The Best Short Film" at the festival, which lasted for three days in New York, U.S. The festival concluded on December 1st. "The Best Script" on the other hand was awarded to "Death of Grandfather Trifoniot" with screenplay's authorship of Xhoslin Rama who was the movie's director while the "Best Director" went for "Acropolos" directed by Blerdi Malushi.
In this festival of young artists, there were a few special prizes. One such of "Best Lead Actor" went to Bislim Muçaj for his role in the movie "Silence" by Bekim Guri; "Best Lead Actress on the other hand was awarded to Lyra Xhoci for her performance on the movie "Hope" by ValonJakupaj, and "Best Documentary" was reserved for "Recyclable Life" by Blerina Gjoce.
The festival was welcomed by the Kosovo consulate in New York, Bekim Sejdiu. "This is the second film festival taking place in New York during November. It's my pleasure to be here on behalf of Kosovo and congratulate organizers on their magnificent work. It is quite challenging and a great sacrifice to pull out a festival in the biggest world center. We are a small nation but possesses great artist, that makes up for dignifying representation," Sejdiu stated.
The best selected movies out nineteen running ones, have been evaluated by a jury of: Kosovar director Arta Kallaba (Jury's President), Ermia Babamusta (founder of Peace Action Foundation) and the publicist Violeta Mirakaj.
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Q: Read data (as USB data) from PC when Android device is connected to PC
I am working on a project where we are developing an Android app to read data from an RFID chip in an USB. The Android app works fine, reads the RFID data when the USB(with the RFID chip) is connected to the Android device. But I want to test the app when the Android device is connected to the PC, and mock the USB data(RFID data) from the PC. Is it possible? Has anyone tried this?
Thank you
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MT-PLAN Frequently Asked Questions
Montana's 30 million acres of public lands are
the cornerstone of our state's outdoor heritage
Make your contribution and
get with the PLAN!
Legal access to public lands is essential for present and future generations of all recreationists. The Montana Public Lands Access Network (MT-PLAN) is a new program to facilitate collaboration among recreationists, private landowners, and land management agencies to enhance public access throughout the state.
MT-PLAN is a voluntary contribution account and grant program administered by the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC). DNRC will award grants to eligible groups to acquire public lands access easements across private lands to inaccessible or hard-to-access public lands for recreational purposes. Your
donation of $1.00 or more will go directly into the MT-PLAN account and help finance easements that improve public access to public lands.
Donations can be made here on the DNRC website, or on the websites of Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks and the State of Montana. Donations made electronically will include a small processing fee. You can also contribute by writing a check payable to the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. If paying by check, please include "MT-PLAN" in the memo section. Checks should be mailed to Montana DNRC, PO Box 201601, Helena, MT 59620-1601.
More scenic hikes. More places to hunt, fish or kayak,
or ride. Better access to Montana's public lands.
How much is it worth to you?
Montana House Bill 597, introduced by Representative Alan Doane (R) HD 36, passed with overwhelming bi-partisan support in the 65th Legislature and was signed in law by Governor Steve Bullock. The law creates the Montana Public Land Access Network (MT-PLAN) which consists of a voluntary contribution account and grant program administered by the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC) to acquire public land access easements and create public access enhancement projects to provide public access to public land for recreational purposes. The bill was widely supported by a diverse range of landowners and sportsmen groups for its innovative approach in using a "carrot instead of a club" to provide incentives for increasing public access across private land to public land that would otherwise be inaccessible. The MT-PLAN grant program is DNRC's first public access grant program aimed at increasing public access to not only state trust land, but all public land in Montana. It provides a framework for cooperation and coordination among individuals and organizations to enhance public access to our public land.
The Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC) offers grant funding to eligible public access proposals for the acquisition of public access easements or enhancements across private land to inaccessible or difficult to access public land for recreational purposes. The Montana Public Land Access Network (MT-PLAN) is funded by private donations through the DNRC and Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP). Donations of $1 or more can be made through department websites, the State of Montana website, an authorized wildlife conservation and combination license vendor, or through direct donations to the DNRC. The DNRC will work with successful project applicants and landowners to negotiate the terms of the access easement or enhancement project. Easements may be for a term no less than three (3) years and up to permanent access in perpetuity. The DNRC will hold and enforce public access easements granted under the MT-PLAN.
Land and Landowner Eligibility Criteria
An individual or organization may apply to DNRC for a grant to pay for costs associated with an access project that secures public access through private land to public land as defined in Section 15-30-2380, MCA for which there is no other legal public access, or to enhance existing access to public land. The costs of the grant must include payment to the owner of private land who allows public access. Grants may not be made to pay costs associated with litigation related to public access, or to acquire public access easements where public access has been unlawfully restricted or where legal public access is currently contested.
Public access easements or enhancement projects are eligible for MT-PLAN if the public land they access are open to general recreational uses compatible with the land the project accesses.
Public access easements or enhancement projects are eligible for MT-PLAN if the public land they provide access to cannot be legally accessed by:
Public road, right-of-way, or easement;
Public water;
Adjacent federal, state, county, or municipal land that is open to public use; or
Adjacent private land that allows for public access.
Public access easements or enhancement projects are not eligible for MT-PLAN if the public land they provide access to are restricted or closed to general recreational use by the land management agency that owns, manages or has legal control of the public land.
If the public access easement or enhancement project would provide access to state trust land, as defined in MCA 77-1-101, the easement must provide access for all lawful purposes to the state trust land.
Public access easements or enhancement projects may not provide access to a previously inaccessible parcel of land if that parcel is leased state land under Title 77, chapter 1 of Montana Code Annotated, and the lessee is not the landowner granting access to the parcel.
Public access easements or enhancement projects may have a term that ranges from no less than three (3) years up to permanent access in perpetuity. A termed easement that is awarded a grant creates no expectation of access after the term expires.
The DNRC shall make recommendations to the State Board of Land Commissioners (Board) regarding grant applications received prior to award. A grant must be approved by the Board before it is awarded and disbursed.
A public access easement that is awarded a grant must be held and enforced by the DNRC for the duration of the term.
The DNRC shall report the details of approved MT-PLAN grants to the legislative auditor.
MT-PLAN public access easements or enhancement projects must be made available for the entirety of the year for all general recreational uses compatible with the land.
A MT-PLAN public access easement or enhancement project does not convey to the public any right to hunt or otherwise recreate on the private land through which they are allowed to pass to reach public land.
The location of the MT-PLAN public access easement or enhancement project will be published on a map located on the DNRC website, and made available to the public for the length of the contract term.
The MT-PLAN public access easement or enhancement project area will be signed by DNRC with MT-PLAN signs to identify participation in the MT-PLAN program. Signs must remain in place for the entire length of the contract term.
DNRC and successful MT-PLAN applicants will enter into cooperative agreements (contracts) that will outline the terms of the public access easement or enhancement project.
Upon execution of the contract, payment will be made to the landowner for the public access easement or enhancement project.
Violation of the contract terms may result in DNRC not paying the landowner and/or enforcing the contract with the full force of the law.
The costs of the grant must include payment to the owner of private land who provides a public access easement across private land to public land.
A landowner participating in the MT-PLAN program will be paid according to the terms negotiated in the contract for the public access easement or enhancement project with the DNRC.
Payments received by landowners for easements providing public access to public land are exempt from taxation, according to Section 15-30-2110, MCA and subject to provisions in the Internal Revenue Code.
The grant program is funded by private donations to the MT-PLAN account. Donations are collected in a state special revenue account, which is statutorily appropriated. Funding amounts and cycles vary depending on voluntary contributions to the MT-PLAN account.
Applications are now being accepted and will be evaluated on a rolling basis. Contact Jessica Hoag, Public Access and Rec Use Manager at the DNRC via phone at (406)444-5760 or email [email protected] for application materials.
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Tim Witherspoon
"Terrible" Tim Witherspoon (born December 27, 1957) is a retired American boxer who was twice world heavyweight champion. Tim spends his time betwwen the USA and UK where he is proving to be a very popular figure on the after dinner circuit.
Early in his career, Tim Witherspoon briefly worked as a sparring partner for Gerry Cooney. "I lasted three days," Witherspoon said. "When I bloodied his nose, they told me to take a walk."
In 1983, Witherspoon fought Larry Holmes for the World Heavyweight Championship and lost by a twelve-round split decision. In 1984, he defeated Greg Page by a twelve-round majority decision to win the vacant WBC Heavyweight Title. He lost it in his first defense, dropping a twelve-round majority decision to Pinklon Thomas. In 1986, Witherspoon defeated Tony Tubbs by a fifteen-round majority decision to win the WBA Heavyweight Title. He successfully defended it with an eleventh-round TKO of Frank Bruno, but lost it in his second defense when he was stopped in the first round by James (Bonecrusher) Smith.
Tim is a very charismatic character and a real great choice for Dinner functions and corporate events. Tim is available in The UK for After Dinner speaking, meet and greet TV & Radio.
Boxing Speakers for Hire in the UK and Europe
Laughter UK provide Boxing Speakers for a wide variety of events such as, corporate events, sportsmans dinners, golf days, awards ceremonies, comedy and curry nights, theatre shows, pub & club entertainment, and many many more. We cover all areas of the UK including Lancashire and Cumbriain the North West of England. Laughter UK will be able to help you make the best choice of Boxing Speakers for your event. Our Boxing Speakers include the following personalities and more. Click on a link to view more information about any of our Boxing Speakers. Book a Boxing Speaker and have a laugh and enjoy their memories.
Sugar Ray Leonard
Nigel Benn
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Glen McCrory
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To book your after dinner boxing speaker call 01524 733 310
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LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Discovery Book by Laurens Valk is a complete beginner's guide to building and programming robots using the newest EV3 kit from LEGO. This is the follow up to his bestselling LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 Discovery Book. Laurens is a MINDSTORMS Community Partner and has years of experience building and testing MINDSTORMS robots. LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Discovery Book is a full-color 352 page book that features instructions for building 6 robots that can move, respond to their environments and even talk! With more than 100 building and programming tasks, you will be able to apply what you've learned to invent your own robots.
LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Discovery Book will be available in May 2014. It is available in print or ebook formats for $27.95-$34.95 and can be pre-ordered now from No Starch Press.
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The adidas Yeezy Boost 350 v2 "Beluga 2.0" releases on November 25th, 2017 for $220. It is the second version of the adidas Yeezy Boost 350 v2 "Beluga" colorway which originally released on September 24th, 2016 for $220. Read the articles below for further release details and price information.
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As the higher education landscape shifts with emerging tech like AI to improve the learning experience, educators need to ensure the technology they choose—from projectors to VR devices—supports their students' needs. Read on to learn what the future of EDU may look like for distributed, international classrooms.
A recent interview with a top Udacity leader suggested that the company is moving away from massive open online courses (MOOCs) and toward a different model of learning.
Salwa Muhammad is vice president of admissions and Udacity Connect at Udacity, an online education platform. Her focus of interest is on informal and experiential learning outside of the classroom and in online spaces. Prior to her work at Udacity, she was the program director of international internships and careers at Wellesley College. In this interview, Muhammad discusses her thoughts on the role that technology plays in international higher education and the future of the field.
Q: What do you think the future holds for higher education, and how will international higher education, specifically, be affected?
A: Udacity is an online education company focused on lifelong learning. Given the low completion rates of free online courses (i.e., MOOCS) across the board, Udacity began offering its paid Nanodegree programs in late 2014, providing microcredentials that connect learning to jobs. The average Nanodegree program takes 6-9 months (approximately 10-15 hours per week) to complete, in subjects including self-driving cars, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, robotics, machine learning, data science, digital marketing, and mobile and web development. In addition to Nanodegree coursework, students receive personalized services such as one-on-one coaching, moderated forums, project reviews, and career and job-placement support. More than 53,000 students are enrolled in Udacity Nanodegree programs and thousands of graduates have secured jobs. Udacity Nanodegree programs are built with, and recognized by, industry leaders including Google, Facebook, IBM Watson, Nvidia, Mercedes Benz, and AT&T.
The future of higher education is promising, provided that educators align with employers and help to connect learning to jobs. U.S. and international higher education institutions alike will benefit from the changing landscape if their services better meet students' needs. Removing the geographic barriers of higher education by making it available online will help usher in a new era of global education, global students, and global citizens. But there must be an alignment of the skills taught with the skills needed. And learning must be lifelong, not confined to a four-year undergraduate program.
Q: As technology steadily becomes a bigger part of international higher education, do you believe that technology will not only change the pedagogy but will also shape what is and is not taught?
Technology should scaffold, not define, learning. Educators build the foundation and structure of learning, and then choose the technologies that best support their curriculum design and delivery. A pencil and paper can be useful for conveying certain concepts, while a programmable mini-supercomputer can be the right tool to teach a very different set of skills. This leads to mindful use of technology in the classroom.
At Udacity, we utilize technology as a distribution platform and put our classroom online. More students can access our curriculum because of technology, and it also affords them flexibility in when, where, and how they learn. Technology is either central or tangential to everything we teach. Technology, as a teaching tool, is only as useful as how easy it is to adopt and how many students find it helpful.
On the other hand, technology is changing that landscape and is the biggest catalyst for change in the workforce. Technology has helped each generation get different and better jobs. We focus on teaching students how to use the most useful technology to do their jobs. While we use technology to be better teachers, we also adapt to our students' needs in parallel with the roles that are in high demand with employers.
Q: As someone who has worked, studied, and lived in such a diversity of places-from Bangladesh to Saudi Arabia to Uganda-in your experience, what's the biggest misconception that people abroad have about U.S. higher education? And, conversely, what's the biggest misconception that U.S. colleges and universities have about students coming from abroad?
One big misconception about U.S. higher education that many people have is that there is a linear path to the best jobs through the highest-ranked schools. While the schools are publicly ranked (and by multiple different sources), the students are not, and having a good grade-point average from a top school doesn't guarantee them a job in their field at the end. To get their dream jobs, graduates have to be well-rounded with professional networks and experience and realize that most career paths don't go in a straight line.
U.S. universities are prone to developing misconceptions about international students by simply labeling everyone as "international," which is far too simplistic and can even be harmful. It's important not to generalize students based on the continents or countries they come from, the languages they speak, or their religions.
"International" encompasses so many different aspects of a student's culture, background, and aspirations that are important to take into account. We have the tendency to find a rule book or manual to help navigate studying abroad. However, if we flip roles and ask ourselves how we would write a guidebook for studying in the United States, we are very aware of the diversity within the United States and wouldn't necessarily have rules. The most important thing we can do is to put ourselves in someone else's shoes and understand that it is impossible to know all the intricacies of a culture, other than our own. But respect, interest, and mutual understanding go both ways.
International students are unwittingly given the huge responsibility in U.S. colleges and universities to represent their countries, cultures, and, sometimes, even entire continents and educate everyone else. Your sense of identity is heightened and you have to pick a box. Am I Muslim enough to represent the religion? Do I identify as being Bangladeshi? Can I really be considered as American when I travel abroad now after spending most of my life here in the United States? I wrestle with these questions even now, but I had to make a choice very quickly when I first arrived in the United States as an international student. I had to learn what the stigmas were and how to navigate and advocate for myself. I remember reasoning with myself that this was the diversity tax of being allowed to be an international student in a foreign country.
We can help to ease this burden by not expecting international students to fit into our need of figuring out cultures within parameters we are comfortable with. We can examine existing practices of having student orientation based on ethnicity or assess the purpose of having cultural centers and academic centers at higher education institutions. We need to better understand whether these student services are aligned with how our international students want to be represented and supported, rather than retrofit these students into our own preconceived notions of their roles and responsibilities based on why and how we value diverse cultures.
Removing the geographic barriers of higher education by making it available online will help usher in a new era of global education, global students, and global citizens. But there must be an alignment of the skills taught with the skills needed. And learning must be lifelong, not confined to a four-year undergraduate program.
Copyright NAFSA: Association of International Educators, Jan./Feb. 2018. This interview has been condensed for brevity. This interview has been condensed for brevity.This article was written by Lisa Schock from International Educator and was legally licensed through the NewsCred publisher network. Please direct all licensing questions to [email protected].
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\section{Introduction}
Let $f = f(x_1, \dots, x_n)$ be a $C^\infty$ function on an open subset $U \subset \mathbf{R}^n$.
Then $f$ is called a {\it Nash function} on $U$ if $f$ is analytic-algebraic on $U$,
i.e. if $f$ is analytic on $U$
and there exists a non-zero polynomial
$P(x, y) \in \mathbf{R}[x, y]$, $x = (x_1, \dots, x_n)$,
such that $P(x, f(x)) = 0$ for any $x \in U$ (\cite{Nash}\cite{Shiota}\cite{BCR}).
If $U$ is semi-algebraic, then,
$f$ is a Nash function if and only if $f$ is analytic and the graph of $f$ in
$U\times\mathbf{R} \subset \mathbf{R}^{n+1}$
is a semi-algebraic set (\cite{BCR}).
For a further significant progress on global study of Nash functions, see \cite{CRS04}.
An analytic function $f$ on $U$ is called {\it transcendental} if it is not a Nash function.
Then in this paper we show that,
for any transcendental function, it is impossible to algebraically derive
its derivatives by using linearity and Leibniz rule (product rule)
finite times, even by using any $C^\infty$ function.
In fact an analytic function $f$ is a Nash function if and only if its derivatives
$\frac{\partial f}{\partial x_1}, \dots, \frac{\partial f}{\partial x_n}$ are computable algebraically (Theorem \ref{characterization-theorem}).
For example, for the transcendental function $f(x) = e^x$, the formula
$$
\frac{d}{dx}e^x = e^x
$$
is never proved algebraically but is proved only by a \lq\lq transcendental" method.
The statement above is formulated in terms of K{\" a}hler differential exactly.
We begin by the simple example of Nash function $f(x) = \sqrt{x^2 + 1}$ of one variable.
Then $f^2 - (x^2 + 1) = 0$. By differentiating the both sides of the relation, we have
$2f'f - 2x = 0$ where $f' = \frac{df}{dx}$. Here we have used Leibniz rule three times to get $(f^2)' = 2f'f$, $(x^2)' = 2x$ and $1' = 0$ by setting $dx/dx = 1$.
Then we have $f'(x) = \frac{x}{f(x)} = \frac{x}{\sqrt{x^2 + 1}}$.
If we suppose $c' = 0$ for a constant function $c$, then the usage of Leibniz rule is counted to be twice.
In general, let $f$ be a Nash function on $U \subset \mathbf{R}^n$. Then there is a non-zero polynomial
$P(x, y) \in \mathbf{R}[x, y]$, $x = (x_1, \dots, x_n)$ such that $P(x, f(x)) = 0$ for any $x \in U$.
We pose the condition that $\frac{\partial P}{\partial y}(x, f(x))$ is not identically zero on $U$.
The condition is achieved by choosing $P$ which has the minimal total degree or the minimal degree on $y$,
among polynomials $P$ satisfying $P(x, f(x)) = 0$ on $U$.
Then, by using Leibniz rule in several times, we have
$$
\frac{\partial P}{\partial x_i}(x, f(x)) + \frac{\partial P}{\partial y}(x, f(x))\frac{\partial f}{\partial x_i}(x) = 0, \quad (1 \leq i \leq n).
$$
Therefore we have
$$
\frac{\partial f}{\partial x_i}(x) = - \ \frac{\partial P}{\partial x_i}(x, f(x))\ \big{/} \ \frac{\partial P}{\partial y}(x, f(x)), \quad (1 \leq i \leq n).
$$
By our assumption that $f$ is a Nash function on the assumption on $P$,
$\frac{\partial P}{\partial y}(x, f(x))$ is a Nash function, which is not identically zero.
The problem on differentiations reminds us the problem on integrations.
Note that the partial derivatives of Nash functions are Nash functions, while
the integrals of Nash functions need not be Nash functions. This fact was one of reason to introduce the class of elementary
functions in classical calculus.
For related results, say, Liouville's theorem on integrals of elementary functions, etc., refer \cite{Rosenlicht} for instance. There
the theory of differential fields play significant role likewise in the present paper
(Proof of Theorem \ref{characterization-theorem}).
Then the {\it Leibniz complexity} of $f$ is defined as the minimal number of usages of Leibniz rules to compute the total differential $df$ algebraically.
Nash functions are characterized by the finiteness of Leibniz complexity (\S \ref{Algebraic computability of differentials}, Theorem \ref{characterization-theorem}).
In general it is a difficult problem to determine the exact value of the Leibniz complexity for a given Nash function.
In \S \ref{Estimates on Leibniz complexity}, we provide general observations and
estimates on Leibniz complexity of Nash functions using the binary expansions (Proposition \ref{estimate-2})
and
discuss their relations with known notions on
complexity of Nash functions (\cite{Ramanakoraisina}\cite{CRS01}).
In \S \ref{Algebraic differentiation of Nash manifolds}, we generalize Theorem \ref{characterization-theorem} to
Nash functions on an affine Nash manifold (Theorem \ref{characterization-theorem2}),
by using the global results on Nash functions
(\cite{CRS96}\cite{CS00}\cite{CRS04}).
In the last section \S \ref{Appendix}, as an appendix, we recall known results which are necessary in this paper.
\section{Algebraic computability of differentials}
\label{Algebraic computability of differentials}
Let ${\mathcal E}(U)$ (resp. ${\mathcal O}(U)$, ${\mathcal N}(U)$)
denote the set of all $C^\infty$ functions (resp. analytic functions, Nash functions) on an open subset
$U \subset \mathbf{R}^n$.
Regarding ${\mathcal E}(U)$ as an $\mathbf{R}$-algebra, we take the space
$\Omega_{{\mathcal E}(U)}$ of K{\" a}hler differentials of ${\mathcal E}(U)$
and the universal derivation
${\boldsymbol{d}} : {{\mathcal E}(U)} \to \Omega_{{\mathcal E}(U)}$.
In fact, for any $\mathbf{R}$-algebra $A$, $\Omega_A$ can be constructed as follows:
First consider the free $A$-module ${\mathfrak F}_A$
generated by elements ${\boldsymbol{d}}f$, for any $f \in A$, regarding as just symbols.
Second consider the sub-$A$-module
${\mathfrak R}_A \subset {\mathfrak F}_A$ generated by all relations of algebraic derivations:
$$
\boldsymbol{d}(h + k) - \boldsymbol{d} h - \boldsymbol{d} k, \ \boldsymbol{d}(\lambda \ell) - \lambda \boldsymbol{d}\ell, \ \boldsymbol{d}(pq) - p\boldsymbol{d} q - q\boldsymbol{d} p,
$$
$h, k, \ell, p, q \in A, \lambda \in \mathbf{R}$. Third we set
$\Omega_A = {\mathfrak F}_A/{\mathfrak R}_A$ and define
$\boldsymbol{d} :
A \to \Omega_A$ by mapping each
$f \in A$ to the class of $\boldsymbol{d} f$ in ${\mathfrak F}_A/{\mathfrak R}_A$.
If $B$ is any $A$-module and $D : A \to B$ is any derivation, i.e. $D$ is an $\mathbf{R}$-linear map satisfying
$D(g h) = gD(h) + hD(g)$ for any $g, h \in A$, then there exists a unique $A$-homomorphism
$\rho : \Omega_A \to B$ such that $D = \rho\circ \boldsymbol{d}$.
Suppose $U$ is connected.
Consider the set $S \subset {\mathcal N}(U)$ of non-zero Nash functions i.e. Nash functions which are
not identically zero on $U$. Then $S$ is closed under the multiplication.
Let ${\widetilde{\mathcal E}}(U) = {\mathcal E}(U)_{S}$ denote the localization of ${\mathcal E}(U)$ by $S$.
We consider the space $\Omega_{\widetilde{{\mathcal E}}(U)}$ of K{\" a}hler differentials of
the $\mathbf{R}$-algebra ${\widetilde{\mathcal E}}(U)$.
\
Then we have:
\begin{Th}
\label{characterization-theorem}
Let $U$ be a semi-algebraic connected open subset of $\mathbf{R}^n$. Then
the following conditions on an analytic function $f \in {\mathcal O}(U)$ are equivalent to each other:
\\
{\rm (1)}
$f$ is a Nash function on $U$.
\\
{\rm (2)}
There exists a non-zero Nash function $g \in {\mathcal N}(U)$ such that
$$
g\left(\boldsymbol{d} f \ - \ \sum_{i=1}^n \frac{\partial f}{\partial x_i}\boldsymbol{d} x_i\right) = 0,
$$
in the space $\Omega_{{\mathcal E}(U)}$ of K{\" a}hler differentials of ${\mathcal E}(U)$.
\\
{\rm (3)}
$$
\boldsymbol{d} f \ = \ \sum_{i=1}^n \frac{\partial f}{\partial x_i}\boldsymbol{d} x_i,
$$
in the space $\Omega_{{\widetilde{\mathcal E}}(U)}$ of K{\" a}hler differentials of ${\widetilde{\mathcal E}}(U)$.
\\
{\rm (4)}
There exist $f_1, \dots, f_n \in {\widetilde{\mathcal E}}(U)$ such that
$$
\boldsymbol{d} f \ = \ \sum_{i=1}^n f_i\boldsymbol{d} x_i,
$$
in the space $\Omega_{{\widetilde{\mathcal E}}(U)}$ of K{\" a}hler differentials of ${\widetilde{\mathcal E}}(U)$.
\stepcounter{Cor
\noindent{\it Proof\,}:\ \
(1) $\Rightarrow$ (2) :
Let $f \in {\mathcal E}(U)$ be a Nash function and $P(x, y)$ be a non-zero polynomial satisfying
$P(x, f) = 0$ and $\frac{\partial P}{\partial y}(x, f) \not= 0$.
Then, by taking K{\" a}hler differential on both sides of the polynomial equality $P(x, f) = 0$,
we have in $\Omega_{{\mathcal E}(U)}$,
\begin{eqnarray*}
0 & = & \boldsymbol{d}(P(x, f)) = \sum_{i=1}^n \frac{\partial P}{\partial x_i}(x, f)\boldsymbol{d} x_i +
\frac{\partial P}{\partial y}(x, f)\boldsymbol{d} f
\\
& = & \sum_{i=1}^n \left(- \frac{\partial P}{\partial y}(x, f)\frac{\partial f}{\partial x_i}\right)\boldsymbol{d} x_i
+ \frac{\partial P}{\partial y}(x, f)\boldsymbol{d} f
\\
& = & \frac{\partial P}{\partial y}(x, f)\left( \boldsymbol{d} f - \sum_{i=1}^n \frac{\partial f}{\partial x_i}\boldsymbol{d} x_i \right),
\end{eqnarray*}
and that $\frac{\partial P}{\partial y}(x, f)$ is a non-zero Nash function on $U$.
\\
The implications (2) $\Rightarrow$ (3) $\Rightarrow$ (4) are clear.
\\
(4) $\Rightarrow$ (1) :
Suppose $f$ is not a Nash function on $U$ and
$\boldsymbol{d} f - \sum_{i=1}^n f_i\boldsymbol{d} x_i = 0$ in $\Omega_{\widetilde{\mathcal E}(U)}$.
Since $f$ is not a Nash function, there exists a point $a \in U$ such that $f \in {\mathcal F}_{\mathbf{R}^n, a}
\subset
Q({\mathcal F}_{\mathbf{R}^n, a})$ is not algebraic. Here
${\mathcal F}_{\mathbf{R}^n, a} = {\mathcal E}_{\mathbf{R}^n, a}/{\mathfrak m}^\infty_{\mathbf{R}^n, a}$ is the $\mathbf{R}$-algebra of
formal series, $M = Q({\mathcal F}_{\mathbf{R}^n, a})$ is its quotient field and
the Taylor series of $f$ at $a$ is written also by the same symbol $f$.
Moreover, we have $\boldsymbol{d} f - \sum_{i=1}^n f_i\boldsymbol{d} x_i = 0$
in the K{\" a}hler differentials $\Omega_M$ of $M$,
via the homomorphism $\widetilde{\mathcal E}(U) \to M$ defined by taking the Taylor series.
Then, in the free $M$-module ${\mathcal F}_M$
generated by elements
$\{\boldsymbol{d} h \mid h \in M\}$,
$\boldsymbol{d} f - \sum_{i=1}^n f_i\boldsymbol{d} x_i$ is a finite sum of elements of type
$$
a(\boldsymbol{d}(h + k) - \boldsymbol{d} h - \boldsymbol{d} k), \ b(\boldsymbol{d}(\lambda \ell) - \lambda \boldsymbol{d}\ell), \ c(\boldsymbol{d}(pq) - p\boldsymbol{d} q - q\boldsymbol{d} p).
$$
Here $a, h, k, b, \ell, c, p, q \in M, \lambda \in \mathbf{R}$.
Now we take the subfield $L \subset M$ generated over the rational function field $K = \mathbf{R}(x)$ by
$f, f_i (1 \leq i \leq n)$
and those $a, h, k, b, \ell, c, p, q$ which appear in the above expression of
$\boldsymbol{d} f - \sum_{i=1}^n f_i\boldsymbol{d} x_i$:
$L = K(f, h_1, \dots, h_m)$, which is a finitely generated field over $K$ by $f$ and for some
$h_1, \dots, h_m \in M$.
Then we have
$\boldsymbol{d} f - \sum_{i=1}^n f_i\boldsymbol{d} x_i = 0$ also in $\Omega_{L}$.
Take any non-zero element $u \in L$ and fix it.
Since $f$ is transcendental over $K$ in the usual sense,
we can define a derivation $D_0 : K(f) \to L$ on the extension field $K(f)$ over $K$ by $f$,
by $D_0(x_j) = 0, 1 \leq j \leq n, D_0(f) = u$.
In fact we can set $D_0(f) \in L$ freely.
Then we define a derivation $D_1 : K(f, h_1) \to L$, $D_1\vert_{K(f)} = D_0$ as follows:
If $h_1$ is transcendental over $K(f)$, then we set $D_1(h_1) = 0$. If
$h_1$ is algebraic over $K(f)$, then we set $D_1(h_1)$ as the element in $K(f, h_1)$
which is determined by the algebraic relation of $h_1$ over $K(f)$ and $D_0$.
In fact, if
$\sum_{k=0}^m a_k h_1^{m-k} = 0, \ a_k \in K(f), $ is
a minimal algebraic relation of $h_1$ over $K(f)$, then we would have
$$
\sum_{k=0}^m D_0(a_k) h_1^{m-k} + \left(\sum_{k=0}^{m-1} (m-k) a_k h_1^{m-k-1}\right) D_1(h_1)= 0.
$$
Since $\sum_{k=0}^{m-1} (m-k) a_k h_1^{m-k-1} \not= 0$ by the minimality assumption,
$D_1(h_1)$ is uniquely determined by
$$
D_1(h_1) = - \left(\sum_{k=0}^m D_0(a_k) h_1^{m-k}\right) \big{/} \left(\sum_{k=0}^{m-1} (m-k) a_k h_1^{m-k-1}\right).
$$
Here it is essential that we discuss derivations over a field.
Thus we extend $D_1$ into a derivation $D = D_m : L \to L$ by a finitely number of steps.
Note that we need not to use Zorn's lemma to show the existence of extension of derivation.
Then by the universality of
the K{\" a}hler differentials, there exists an $L$-linear map
$\rho : \Omega_{L} \to L$ such that
$\rho\circ \boldsymbol{d} = D : L \to L$. Here $\boldsymbol{d} : L \to \Omega_L$ is the universal derivation.
Then we have
$$
0 = \rho\left(\boldsymbol{d} f - \sum_{i=1}^n f_i\boldsymbol{d} x_i\right) = D(f) = u.
$$
This leads to contradiction with the assumption $u \not= 0$.
Thus we have that $f$ is a Nash function.
\hfill $\Box$ \par
\begin{Rem}
{\rm
If $U$ is not connected, then Theorem \ref{characterization-theorem}
does not hold.
In fact, let $U = \mathbf{R} \setminus \{ 0\}$ and set $f(x) = e^x$ if $x > 0$ and
$f(x) = 1$ if $x < 0$.
Then $f \in {\mathcal O}(U)$ and $f \not\in {\mathcal N}(U)$.
However the condition (2) is satisfied if we take as $g$ the non-zero Nash
function
on $U$ defined by $g(x) = 0 (x > 0), g(x) = 1 (x < 0)$.
}
\enr
\section{Estimates on Leibniz complexity}
\label{Estimates on Leibniz complexity}
Let $U \subset \mathbf{R}^n$ be a connected open subset.
For a Nash function $f \in {\mathcal N}(U)$,
we define the Leibniz complexity of $f$ by the minimal number of
terms corresponding to Leibniz rule for $g(\boldsymbol{d} f - \sum_{i=1}^n \frac{\partial f}{\partial x_i}\boldsymbol{d} x_i)$
in the free ${\mathcal E}(U)$-module ${\mathfrak F}_{{\mathcal E}(U)}$
among all expressions for all non-zero $g \in {\mathcal N}(U)$.
The definition is based on the statement (2) of Theorem \ref{characterization-theorem}.
We do not care about the number of terms corresponding to linearity of the differential.
Moreover we will do not count the term generated by the relation $\boldsymbol{d}(1\cdot 1) - 1\boldsymbol{d}(1) - 1\boldsymbol{d}(1)$.
Therefore we use the relation $\boldsymbol{d}(c) = 0$ for $c \in \mathbf{R}$ freely.
Let ${\mathrm {LC}}(f)$ denote the Leibniz complexity of $f$.
First we show general basic inequalities:
\begin{Lem}
For $f, g \in {\mathcal N}(U)$, we have
{\rm (1)} $\mbox{\rm {LC}}(f + g) \leq \mbox{\rm {LC}}(f) + \mbox{\rm {LC}}(g)$,
{\rm (2)}
$
\mbox{\rm {LC}}(fg) \leq \mbox{\rm {LC}}(f) + \mbox{\rm {LC}}(g) + 1.
$
\stepcounter{Th
\noindent{\it Proof\,}:\
Let $h\boldsymbol{d} f \in {\mathfrak R}_{{\mathcal E}(U)}$ (resp. $k\boldsymbol{d} g \in {\mathfrak R}_{{\mathcal E}(U)}$)
be expressed using the terms of Leibniz rule minimally i.e. $\mbox{\rm {LC}}(f)$-times (resp.
$\mbox{\rm {LC}}(g)$-times), for a non-zero $h \in {\mathcal N}(U)$ (resp.
a non-zero $k \in {\mathcal N}(U)$), except for the term $\boldsymbol{d}(1\cdot 1) - 1\boldsymbol{d}(1) - 1\boldsymbol{d}(1)$.
Then $hk\boldsymbol{d}(f + g) = k(h\boldsymbol{d} f) +h(k\boldsymbol{d} g) \in {\mathfrak R}_{{\mathcal E}(U)}$ is expressed using
Leibniz rule at most $\mbox{\rm {LC}}(f) + \mbox{\rm {LC}}(g)$ times. Therefore we have (1). Moreover,
by using Leibniz rule once, we have
$$
hk\boldsymbol{d}(fg) = hk(g\boldsymbol{d} f + f\boldsymbol{d} g) = kg(h\boldsymbol{d} f) + hf(k\boldsymbol{d} g)
$$ in $\Omega_{{\mathcal E}(U)}$.
Then, using Leibniz rule $\mbox{\rm {LC}}(f) + \mbox{\rm {LC}}(g)$ times, we compute $\boldsymbol{d} f$
and $\boldsymbol{d} g$, and thus $\boldsymbol{d}(fg)$. Therefore we have (2).
\hfill $\Box$
\
By the definition of Leibniz complexity, we have the affine invariance:
\begin{Lem}
\label{affine-isom}
Let $f \in {\mathcal N}(U)$ and $\varphi : \mathbf{R}^n \to \mathbf{R}^n$ be an affine isomorphism.
Then $f\circ\varphi \in {\mathcal N}(\varphi^{-1}(U))$
satisfies $\mbox{\rm {LC}}(f\circ\varphi) = \mbox{\rm {LC}}(f)$.
\stepcounter{Th
\noindent{\it Proof\,}:\
By the definition of Leibniz complexity
$h(\boldsymbol{d} f - \sum_{i=1}^n \frac{\partial f}{\partial x_i}\boldsymbol{d}(x_i))$ is zero in $\Omega_{{\mathcal E}(U)}$
by using Leibniz rule $\mbox{\rm {LC}}(f)$-times, for a non-zero $h \in {\mathcal N}(U)$.
Let $x' = (x_1', \dots, x_n')$ be new affine coordinate system on $\mathbf{R}^n$ defined by $x' = \varphi^{-1}(x)$.
Then
$(h\circ\varphi)(\boldsymbol{d} (f\circ\varphi) - \sum_{i=1}^n \frac{\partial f}{\partial x_i}\circ\varphi \boldsymbol{d}(\varphi_i))$ is zero
in $\Omega_{{\mathcal E}(U)}$ by using Leibniz rule $\mbox{\rm {LC}}(f)$-times.
Since we do not count the usage of Leibniz rule for $\boldsymbol{d}(c)= 0, c \in \mathbf{R}$, we have that
$(h\circ\varphi)(\boldsymbol{d} (f\circ\varphi) - \sum_{i=1}^n \frac{\partial f\circ\varphi}{\partial x'_i} \boldsymbol{d}(x'_i))$ is
zero in $\Omega_{{\mathcal E}(U)}$ by using Leibniz rule the same $\mbox{\rm {LC}}(f)$-times.
Note that $h\circ\varphi \in {\mathcal N}(U)$ is non-zero. Therefore we have $\mbox{\rm {LC}}(f\circ\varphi) \leq \mbox{\rm {LC}}(f)$.
Similarly, we have $\mbox{\rm {LC}}(f) = \mbox{\rm {LC}}((f\circ\varphi)\circ\varphi^{-1}) \leq \mbox{\rm {LC}}(f\circ\varphi)$. Thus we have the required equality.
\hfill $\Box$
\
In general it is a difficult problem to determine the exact value of the Leibniz complexity even for an
polynomial function.
\begin{Ex}
{\rm
Let $n = 1$. $\mbox{\rm {LC}}(x + c) = 0$.
$\mbox{\rm {LC}}(x^2 + bx + c) = 1$. $\mbox{\rm {LC}}(\sqrt{x^2 + 1}) = 2$.
Let $n = 2$. For $\lambda \in \mathbf{R}$, we have
$$
{\mathrm {LC}}(x_1^2 + x_2^2 + \lambda x_1x_2) =
\left\{
\begin{array}{ccc}
1 & {\mbox{\rm if}} & \vert \lambda\vert \geq 2
\\
2 & {\mbox{\rm if}} & \vert \lambda\vert < 2.
\end{array}
\right.
$$
In fact,
$x_1^2 + x_2^2 + \lambda x_1x_2 = (x_1 + \frac{\lambda}{2}x_2)^2 + (1 - \frac{\lambda^2}{4})x_2^2$.
Moreover $x_1^2 + x_2^2 + \lambda x_1x_2 = (x_1 + \alpha x_2)(x_1 + \beta x_2)$
for some $\alpha, \beta \in \mathbf{R}$
if and only if $\vert \lambda\vert \geq 2$.
}
\ene
Let $n = 1$ and write $x = x_1$.
Then we have $\mbox{\rm {LC}}(x^0) = \mbox{\rm {LC}}(1) = 0, \mbox{\rm {LC}}(x) = 0, \mbox{\rm {LC}}(x^2) = 1, \mbox{\rm {LC}}(x^3) = 2, \mbox{\rm {LC}}(x^4) = 2$.
For example we calculate $\boldsymbol{d}(x^4) = 2x^2\boldsymbol{d}(x^2) = 4x^3\boldsymbol{d} (x)$ by using Leibniz rule
twice, and we can check that it is impossible to calculate $\boldsymbol{d}(x^4)$ by using Leibniz rule
just once.
\
To observe the essence of the problem to estimate the Leibniz complexity,
let us digress to consider \lq\lq the problem of strips\rq\rq. Let
$k$ be a positive integer. Suppose we have a sheet of paper having width $k$
and, using a pair of scissors, we make $k$-strips of width $1$. We may cut several sheets of the same width
at once by piling them. Then the problem is to minimize the total number of cuts.
Clearly it is at most $k-1$.
Now we show one strategy for the problem.
Consider the binary expansion of $k$:
$$
k = 2^{\mu_r} + 2^{\mu_{r-1}} + \cdots + 2^{\mu_1},
$$
for some integers $\mu_r > \mu_{r-1} > \cdots > \mu_1 \geq 0$. We set $\mu = \mu_r$. Then
{\it the number of digits} (\lq$1$\rq\ or \lq$0$\rq)
is given by $\mu + 1$, while $r$ is {\it the number of units}, \lq$1$\rq, appearing in the binary expansion.
Then first we cut the sheet into $r$ sheets of width $2^{\mu}, 2^{\mu_{r-1}}, \dots, 2^{\mu_1}$
by $(r-1)$-cuts. Second divide the sheet of width $2^{\mu}$ into sheets of width $2^{\mu_{r-1}}$
by $\mu - \mu_{r-1}$-cuts. Third divide the piled sheets of width $2^{\mu_{r-1}}$ into sheets of width $2^{\mu_{r-2}}$
by $\mu_{r-1} - \mu_{r-2}$-cuts, and so on. Iterating the process, we have sheets of width $2^{\mu_1}$,
which we divide into strips of width $1$ by $\mu_1$-cuts finally.
The total number of cuts by this method is given by $\mu + r - 1$.
\begin{Lem}
\label{estimate-of-monomial}
For a positive integer $k$, we have
$$
\mbox{\rm {LC}}(x^k) \leq \mu + r - 1.
$$
\stepcounter{Th
\noindent{\it Proof\,}:\
In general, the process of cutting of a pile of sheets of width $\ell$ into those of width $\ell'$ and $\ell'' = \ell - \ell'$ respectively
is translated into, for a constant $\lambda$,
$$
\boldsymbol{d}(\lambda x^\ell) = \lambda\boldsymbol{d}(x^\ell) = \lambda x^{\ell''}\boldsymbol{d}(x^{\ell'}) + \lambda x^{\ell'}\boldsymbol{d}(x^{\ell''}).
$$
Here we use Leibniz rule just once and the linearity of the derivation.
A piling is realized by just the distributive law of the module structure.
Therefore the method described above in the strip problem implies
the estimate of Leibniz complexity.
\hfill $\Box$
\begin{Lem}
For $f \in {\mathcal N}(U)$ and a natural number $k \geq 1$, we have
$
\mbox{\rm {LC}}(f^k) \leq \mbox{\rm {LC}}(f) + \mbox{\rm {LC}}(x^k).
$
\stepcounter{Th
\noindent{\it Proof\,}:\
If $f$ is a constant function, then $\mbox{\rm {LC}}(f^k) = 0$, so the inequality holds trivially.
We suppose $f$ is not a constant function.
By definition, for some non-zero $g \in {\mathcal N}(\mathbf{R})$,
$g\boldsymbol{d}(x^k)$ is deformed into $g\,kx^{k-1}\boldsymbol{d} x$ in
$\Omega_{{\mathcal E}(\mathbf{R})}$ using Leibniz rules $\mbox{\rm {LC}}(x^k)$-times.
Using the same procedure, $(g\circ f)\boldsymbol{d}(f^k)$ is deformed into $(g\circ f)kf^{k-1}\boldsymbol{d} f$ in
$\Omega_{{\mathcal E}(U)}$ using Leibniz rules $\mbox{\rm {LC}}(x^k)$-times.
Note that $g\circ f$ is non-zero in ${\mathcal N}(U)$.
Moreover, using Leibniz rules $\mbox{\rm {LC}}(f)$ times, $h(g\circ f)kf^{k-1}\boldsymbol{d} f$ is deformed into
$h(g\circ f)\sum_{i=1}^n kf^{k-1}(\partial f/\partial x_i)\boldsymbol{d} x_i$ for some non-zero $h \in {\mathcal N}(U)$.
Since $g\circ f$ is non-zero, $h(g\circ f)$ is non-zero.
\hfill $\Box$
\begin{Rem}
{\rm
The estimate in Lemma \ref{estimate-of-monomial} is, by no means, best possible.
For example, let $k = 31$. Then $31 = 2^4 + 2^3 + 2^2 + 2^1 + 2^0$.
Therefore $r = 5$ and $\mu = 4$. So the estimate gives us that $\mbox{\rm {LC}}(x^{31}) \leq 8$.
However
$\mbox{\rm {LC}}(x^{31}) \leq 6$. In fact, since $32 =2^5$, we have by Lemma \ref{estimate-of-monomial},
$$
x\boldsymbol{d}(x^{31}) = \boldsymbol{d}(x^{32}) - x^{31}\boldsymbol{d}(x) = 32x^{31}\boldsymbol{d}(x) - x^{31}\boldsymbol{d}(x) = 31x^{31}\boldsymbol{d}(x),
$$
by using Leibniz rule $6$ times. Then algebraically we have $\boldsymbol{d}(x^{31}) = 31x^{30}\boldsymbol{d}(x)$.
}
\enr
\
As above, we consider \lq\lq the problem of strips\rq\rq\ starting from several number of sheets, say, $s$,
having width $k_s$, $k_{s-1}$, and $k_1$ respectively. Then we have
\
\begin{Lem}
\label{estimate-1}
Let $p = p(x) = a_{s}x^{k_s} + a_{s-1}x^{k_{s-1}} +\cdots + a_1x^{k_1} \in \mathbf{R}[x]$
be a polynomial function of one variable, where
$a_j \not= 0\, (1 \leq j \leq s)$ and $k_s > k_{s-1} > \cdots > k_1 \geq 0$.
Regarding the binary expansion, let $\mu$ be (the number of digits of $k_s$) $- 1$, and
$r_j$
the number of units of $k_j$, $1 \leq j\leq s$.
Then, by using Leibniz rule $\mu + \sum_{j = 1}^s (r_j - 1)$-times and linearity, and by supposing $\boldsymbol{d}(c) = 0, c \in \mathbf{R}$, we have
$\boldsymbol{d}(p) = (dp(x)/dx)\boldsymbol{d}(x)$ in $\Omega_{{\mathcal E}(U)}$.
In particular we have
$$
\mbox{\rm {LC}}(p) \leq \mu + \sum_{j = 1}^s (r_j - 1).
$$
\stepcounter{Th
\noindent{\it Proof\,}:\
Let $\mu = \mu_t > \mu_{t-1} > \cdots > \mu_1 \geq 0$ be
all of the exponents appearing in the binary expansions of $k_s, k_{s-1}, \dots, k_1$.
First, by using Leibniz rule $\sum_{j = 1}^s (r_j - 1)$-times, we modify $\boldsymbol{d}(p)$
into a linear combination of $\boldsymbol{d}(x^\ell), \ell = 2^\mu = 2^{\mu_t}, 2^{\mu_{t-1}}, \dots, 2^{\mu_1}$.
Second, by using Leibniz rule $\mu - \mu_{t-1}$-times, we modify $\boldsymbol{d}(x^\ell), \ell = 2^\mu$ into
$\boldsymbol{d}(x^{\ell'}), \ell' = 2^{\mu_{t-1}}$. Repeating the procedure, we modify $\boldsymbol{d}(p)$ into
a multiple of $\boldsymbol{d}(x^\ell), \ell = 2^{\mu_1}$. Finally, by using Leibniz rule $\mu_1$-times,
we modify $\boldsymbol{d}(p)$ into a multiple of $\boldsymbol{d}(x)$.
\hfill $\Box$
\
We estimate the Leibniz complexity for a polynomial of $n$-variables.
Let $p(x) = p(x_1, \dots, x_n) \in \mathbf{R}[x_1, \dots, x_n]$.
We set $p(x) = \sum b_\alpha x^\alpha, b_\alpha \in \mathbf{R},$ by
using multi-index $\alpha = (\alpha_1, \dots, \alpha_n)$ of non-negative integers.
It is trivial that $\mbox{\rm {LC}}(p)$ is at most the total number of multiplications of variables:
$$
\sum_{b_\alpha \not= 0} \max\{ \vert \alpha\vert - 1, \ 0\}.
$$
Instead we consider the number
$$
\sigma(p) := \sum_{b_\alpha \not= 0} \max\{ \#\{ i \mid 1 \leq i \leq n, \alpha_i > 0\} - 1, \ 0\},
$$
which is needed just to separate the variables on differentiation, and we try to save the additional usage
of Leibniz rule.
Suppose that, by arranging terms with respect to $x_i$
for each $i, 1 \leq i \leq n$,
$$
p(x) = a_{i,s(i)}x_i^{k_{i,s(i)}} + a_{i,s(i)-1}x_i^{k_{i,s(i)-1}} +\cdots + a_{i,1}x_i^{k_{i,1}},
$$
where $a_{i,j}$ is a non-zero polynomial of $x_1, \dots, x_n$ without $x_i$,
$(1 \leq j \leq s(i))$, and $k_{i,s(i)} > k_{i,s(i)-1} > \cdots > k_{i,1} \geq 0$.
The maximal exponent $k_{i,s(i)}$ is written as ${\mbox {\rm deg}}_{x_i}p$,
the degree of $p$ in the variable $x_i$.
For the binary expansion of ${\mbox {\rm deg}}_{x_i}p$,
let $\mu_i$ denote (the number of digits of ${\mbox {\rm deg}}_{x_i}p$) $- 1$.
Moreover let $r_{ij}, 1 \leq j \leq s(i)$ denote the number of units of
the exponent $k_{ij}$
for the binary expansion.
Then we have
\begin{Lem}
\label{estimate-2}
{\rm
By using the linearly, $\boldsymbol{d}(c) = 0, c \in \mathbf{R}$, and Leibniz rule
\\
$\sigma(p) + \sum_{i=1}^n \left(\mu_i + \sum_{j = 1}^{s(i)} (r_{ij} - 1)\right)$-times,
we have
$\boldsymbol{d}(p) = \sum_{i=1}^n (\partial p(x)/\partial x_i)\boldsymbol{d}(x_i)$ in $\Omega_{{\mathcal E}(U)}$.
In particular we have the estimate
$$
\mbox{\rm {LC}}(p) \leq \sigma(p) + \sum_{i=1}^n \left(\mu_i + \sum_{j = 1}^{s(i)} (r_{ij} - 1)\right).
$$
}
\stepcounter{Th
\begin{Rem}
{\rm
We have, for any polynomial $p(x) = \sum b_\alpha x^\alpha$,
$$
\sigma(p) + \sum_{i=1}^n \left(\mu_i + \sum_{j = 1}^{s(i)} (r_{ij} - 1)\right)
\ \leq \ \sum_{b_\alpha \not= 0} \max\{ \vert \alpha\vert - 1, 0\}.
$$
and in almost cases the inequality is strict.
}
\enr
\noindent
{\it Proof of Lemma \ref{estimate-2}.}
\\
By applying Leibniz rule to each term of $p$,
$\boldsymbol{d}(p)$ is deformed into a sum of forms $a_{i,j}\boldsymbol{d}(x_i^{k_{i,j}})$
with the differential of one variable $x_i$ and a function $a_{i,j}$ of other variables.
For this process we need to use Leibniz rule $\sigma(p)$-times.
Then $\boldsymbol{d}(p)$ is the sum of the form
$$
a_{i,s(i)}\boldsymbol{d}(x_i^{k_{i,s(i)}}) + a_{i,s(i)-1}\boldsymbol{d}(x_i^{k_{i,s(i)-1}}) +\cdots + a_{i,1}\boldsymbol{d}(x_i^{k_{i,1}}),
$$
($i = 1, \dots, n$). By Lemma \ref{estimate-1}, for each $i = 1, \dots, n$,
the form is deformed into
$\frac{\partial p}{\partial x_i}\boldsymbol{d} x_i$ by using Leibniz rule $\mu_i + \sum_{j = 1}^{s(i)} (r_{ij} - 1)$.
Thus we have the estimate.
\hfill $\Box$
\
Now we give an upper estimate of Leibniz complexities for Nash functions by
those for polynomial functions in terms of its polynomial relation.
Let $f \in {\mathcal N}(U)$ be a Nash function on a connected open subset $U$ of $\mathbf{R}^n$.
Let $P(x, y) = P(x_1, \dots, x_n, y)$ be a polynomial such that
$P(x, f(x)) = 0$ on $U$ and $\frac{\partial P}{\partial y}(x, f(x))$ is not identically zero.
We set $x_0 = y$. Suppose that, by arranging with respect to $x_i$
for each $i, 0 \leq i \leq n$,
$$
P(x, y) = a_{i,s(i)}x_i^{k_{i,s(i)}} + a_{i,s(i)-1}x_i^{k_{i,s(i)-1}} +\cdots + a_{i,1}x_i^{k_{i,1}},
$$
where $a_{i,j}$ is a non-zero polynomial of $x_0, x_1, \dots, x_n$ without $x_i$,
$(1 \leq j \leq s(i))$, and $k_{i,s(i)} > k_{i,s(i)-1} > \cdots > k_{i,1} \geq 0$.
For the binary expansion,
let $\mu_i$ (resp. $r_{ij}, 1 \leq j \leq s(i)$)
be (the number of digits of ${\mbox {\rm deg}}_{x_i}P$) $-1$
(resp. the number of units of $k_{ij}$), $0 \leq i \leq n$, respectively.
Write ${\mbox {\rm deg}}_{x_i}P$ the degree of $P$ with respect to $x_i, 0 \leq i \leq n$
and use the same notation $\sigma(P)$ as in Lemma \ref{estimate-2} for the polynomial $P$ of
$n+1$ variables.
\begin{Prop}
\label{estimate-3}
Under the above notations, we have the estimate
$$
\mbox{\rm {LC}}(f) \leq \sigma(P) + \sum_{i=0}^n \left(\mu_i + \sum_{j = 1}^{s(i)} (r_{ij} - 1)\right).
$$
In particular we have
$$
\mbox{\rm {LC}}(f) \leq \sigma(P) + \sum_{i=0}^n\{ ({\mbox {\rm deg}}_{x_i}P +2)(\log_2({\mbox {\rm deg}}_{x_i}P) - 1) \} + n + 1.
$$
\stepcounter{Th
\begin{Ex}
{\rm
Let $n = 1, f = \frac{1}{\sqrt{x^2 + 1}}$ and $P(x, y) = y^2 - x^2 - 1$. Then $\sigma(P) = 0,
\mu_0 = \mu_1 = 1$ and $r_{ij} = 1$. Therefore the first inequality gives us
that $\mbox{\rm {LC}}(f) \leq 2$ as is seen in Introduction.
}
\ene
\noindent
{\it Proof of Proposition \ref{estimate-3}.}
\\
We write the right hand side by $\psi$ of the first inequality.
By Lemma \ref{estimate-2}, we have, by using Leibniz rule $\psi$-times,
$$
\boldsymbol{d}(P(x, y)) = \sum_{i=1}^n \frac{\partial P}{\partial x_i}(x, y)\boldsymbol{d} x_i + \frac{\partial P}{\partial y}(x, y)\boldsymbol{d} y,
$$
modulo several linearity relations and $\boldsymbol{d} c, c \in \mathbf{R}$ in ${\Omega}_{{\mathcal E}(U\times \mathbf{R})}$.
Then, substituting $y$ by $f$, we have that
$$
0 = \boldsymbol{d}(P(x, f)) = \sum_{i=1}^n \frac{\partial P}{\partial x_i}(x, f)\boldsymbol{d} x_i + \frac{\partial P}{\partial y}(x, f)\boldsymbol{d} f,
$$
in $\Omega_{{\mathcal E}(U)}$, therefore that
$$
\frac{\partial P}{\partial y}(x, f)\left( \boldsymbol{d} f - \sum_{i=1}^n \frac{\partial f}{\partial x_i} \boldsymbol{d} x_i\right) = 0,
$$
in ${\Omega}_{{\mathcal E}(U)}$,
by using Leibniz rule at most $\psi$-times. Thus we have the first inequality.
The second equality is obtained from the first equality combined with the inequalities derived by the definitions:
$$
2^{\mu_i} \leq {\mbox {\rm deg}}_{x_i} P < 2^{\mu_i+1}, \ s(i) \leq {\mbox {\rm deg}}_{x_i} P + 1, {\mbox{\rm \ and }} \ r_{ij} \leq \mu_i,
$$
$(1 \leq j \leq s(i), 0 \leq i \leq n)$.
\hfill $\Box$
\
In \cite{Ramanakoraisina}, the complexity ${\mathrm{C}}(f)$ of a Nash function $f$ is defined as the minimum
the total degree ${\mbox {\rm deg}} P$ of non-zero polynomials $P(x, y)$ with $P(x, f) = 0$.
Moreover we define
$$
{\mathrm{S}}(f) := \min\{ \sigma(P\circ \psi) \mid P(x, f) = 0, {\mbox {\rm deg}} P = {\mathrm{C}}(f), \
\psi {\mbox{\rm \ is an affine isomorphism on\ }} \mathbf{R}^{n+1} \},
$$
i.e. the minimum of the number $\sigma$ for any defining polynomial $P$ of $f$ with minimal total degree
under any choice of affine coordinates.
We can regard ${\mathrm{S}}(f)$ a complexity for the separation of variables in differentiation of $f$.
Then we have the following result:
\begin{Cor}
Let $f \in {\mathcal N}(U)$ be a Nash function on a connected open set $U \subset \mathbf{R}^n$.
Then we have an estimate on the Leibniz complexity $\mbox{\rm {LC}}(f)$ by
the Ramanakoraisina's complexity ${\mathrm{C}}(f)$ and another complexity ${\mathrm{S}}(f)$,
$$
\mbox{\rm {LC}}(f) \leq {\mathrm{S}}(f) + (n+1)({\mathrm C}(f) + 2)(\log_2\!{\mathrm C}(f) - 1) + n+1.
$$
\stepcounter{Th
\noindent{\it Proof\,}:\
Since
${\mbox {\rm deg}}_{x_i}P \leq {\mathrm C}(f) \, (0 \leq i \leq n)$ we have the above estimate by Proposition \ref{estimate-3}
and Lemma \ref{affine-isom}.
\hfill $\Box$
\
Naturally we would like to pose a problem to obtain any lower estimate of Leibniz complexity.
\section{Algebraic differentiation on Nash manifolds}
\label{Algebraic differentiation of Nash manifolds}
Let $U$ be a connected semi-algebraic open subset of $\mathbf{R}^n$ and $M \subset U$
a Nash submanifold (\cite{BCR}\cite{Shiota}). Suppose $M$ is a closed connected subset in $U$.
We consider the quotient $\mathbf{R}$-algebra ${\mathcal N}(U)/I$ by the ideal $I$ of ${\mathcal N}(U)$
consisting of Nash functions on $U$ which vanish on $M$.
Note that $I{\mathcal O}(U)$ is a prime ideal in ${\mathcal O}(U)$ and,
locally formally prime, i.e. for each $a \in U$,
the ideal $I_a$ in the formal algebra ${\mathcal F}_{\mathbf{R}^n, a}$ generated by $\{j^\infty h(a) \mid h \in I\}$
is prime.
Since ${\mathcal N}(U)$ is Noetherian (\cite{Risler}\cite{Mostowski}),
$I$ is generated by a finite number of Nash functions
$g_1, \dots, g_\ell \in {\mathcal N}(U)$ over ${\mathcal N}(U)$.
An element $[f] \in {\mathcal O}(U)/I{\mathcal O}(U)$ is called {\it Nash} if
there exists a polynomial $P(x, y) = a_m(x)y^m + a_{m-1}(x)y^{m-1} + \cdots + a_1(x)y + a_0(x) \in \mathbf{R}[x, y]$
satisfying that at least one of $a_m([x]), a_{m-1}([x]), \dots, a_1([x]), a_0([x])$ is not zero in ${\mathcal N}(U)/I$
and that $P([x], [f]) = 0$ in ${\mathcal O}(U)/I{\mathcal O}(U)$.
The condition is equivalent to that $[f]$ is algebraic over $\mathbf{R}(x)$ via the composition
$\mathbf{R}(x) \hookrightarrow {\mathcal O}(U) \to {\mathcal O}(U)/I{\mathcal O}(U)$ of natural homomorphisms.
Also the condition is equivalent to that $[f]$ is algebraic over ${\mathcal N}(U)/I$ via the natural homomorphism
${\mathcal N}(U)/I \to {\mathcal O}(U)/I{\mathcal O}(U)$.
Then there exist a non-zero polynomial $P(x, y)$ and
$h_j \in {\mathcal O}(U), 1 \leq j \leq \ell$ such that
$$
P(x, f(x)) = \sum_{j=1}^\ell h_j(x)g_j(x),
$$
for any $x \in U$ and that $\frac{\partial P}{\partial y}(x, f) \not\in I{\mathcal O}(U)$.
By differentiating both sides of the relation by $x_i$, we have that
$$
\frac{\partial P}{\partial x_i}(x, f(x)) + \frac{\partial P}{\partial y}(x, f(x))\frac{\partial f}{\partial x_i}
= \sum_{j=1}^\ell g_j(x) \frac{\partial h_j}{\partial x_i}(x) + \sum_{j=1}^\ell h_j(x) \frac{\partial g_j}{\partial x_i}(x),
$$
so that
$$
\frac{\partial P}{\partial y}([x], [f])\left[\frac{\partial f}{\partial x_i}\right] = - \frac{\partial P}{\partial x_i}([x], [f]),
$$
in ${\mathcal E}(U)/(I + \langle \partial g_1/\partial x_i, \dots, \partial g_\ell/\partial x_i\rangle_{{\mathcal E}(U)})$,
for $1 \leq i \leq n$. Note that $\frac{\partial P}{\partial y}([x], [f])$ is non-null in ${\mathcal O}(U)/I{\mathcal O}(U)$
and algebraic over ${\mathcal N}(U)/I$.
We consider the space
$\Omega_{{\mathcal E}(U)/I{\mathcal E}(U)}$ of K{\" a}hler differentials of
${\mathcal E}(U)/I{\mathcal E}(U)$. Note that
$$
\Omega_{{\mathcal E}(U)/I{\mathcal E}(U)} \cong
\Omega_{{\mathcal E}(U)}/({\mathcal E}(U)dI + I\Omega_{{\mathcal E}(U)}),
$$
as an ${\mathcal E}(U)/I{\mathcal E}(U)$-module.
For the set $S$ of non-zero Nash elements in ${\mathcal O}(U)/I{\mathcal O}(U)$,
$({\mathcal E}(U)/I{\mathcal E}(U))_S$ denote the localization of ${\mathcal E}(U)/I{\mathcal E}(U)$ by $S$.
Then we have:
\begin{Th}
\label{characterization-theorem2}
Let $U$ be a connected semi-algebraic open subset of $\mathbf{R}^n$ and
$I$ a ideal in ${\mathcal N}(U)$.
Suppose that $I{\mathcal O}(U)$ is prime in ${\mathcal O}(U)$ and
moreover locally formally prime, i.e. for each $a \in U$,
the ideal $I_a$ in the formal algebra ${\mathcal F}_{\mathbf{R}^n, a}$ generated by $\{j^\infty h(a) \mid h \in I\}$
is prime. (For example, $I$ is the ideal of Nash functions
vanishing on a connected closed Nash submanifold
$M \subset U$.)
Then the following conditions on $[f] \in {\mathcal O}(U)/I{\mathcal O}(U)$ are equivalent to each other:
\\
{\rm (1)}
$[f]$ is Nash.
\\
{\rm (2)}
There exists a non-zero Nash element $[g] \in {\mathcal O}(U)/I{\mathcal O}(U)$ such that
$$
[g]\left(\boldsymbol{d} [f] \ - \ \sum_{i=1}^n \left[ \frac{\partial f}{\partial x_i}\right] \boldsymbol{d} [x_i]\right) = 0,
$$
in the space $\Omega_{{\mathcal E}(U)/I{\mathcal E}(U)}$
of K{\" a}hler differentials of ${\mathcal E}(U)/I{\mathcal E}(U)$.
\\
{\rm (3)}
$$
\boldsymbol{d} [f] \ = \ \sum_{i=1}^n \left[ \frac{\partial f}{\partial x_i}\right] \boldsymbol{d} [x_i],
$$
in the space $\Omega_{({\mathcal E}(U)/I{\mathcal E}(U))_S}$ of K{\" a}hler differentials of
$({\mathcal E}(U)/I{\mathcal E}(U))_S$.
\\
{\rm (4)}
There exist $\alpha_1, \dots, \alpha_n \in ({\mathcal E}(U)/I{\mathcal E}(U))_S$ such that
$$
\boldsymbol{d} [f] \ = \ \sum_{i=1}^n \alpha_i \boldsymbol{d} [x_i],
$$
in the space $\Omega_{({\mathcal E}(U)/I{\mathcal E}(U))_S}$.
\stepcounter{Cor
\noindent{\it Proof\,}:\
(1) $\Rightarrow$ (2): Suppose (1). Then we have
\begin{eqnarray*}
0 & = & \boldsymbol{d}(P([x], [f])) = \sum_{i=1}^n \frac{\partial P}{\partial x_i}([x], [f])\boldsymbol{d} [x_i] +
\frac{\partial P}{\partial y}([x], [f])\boldsymbol{d} [f]
\\
& = & \sum_{i=1}^n \left(- \frac{\partial P}{\partial y}([x], [f])\left[\frac{\partial f}{\partial x_i}\right]\right)\boldsymbol{d} [x_i]
+ \frac{\partial P}{\partial y}([x], [f])\boldsymbol{d} [f]
\\
& = &
\frac{\partial P}{\partial y}([x], [f])\left(\boldsymbol{d} [f] - \sum_{i=1}^n \frac{\partial P}{\partial x_i}([x], [f])\boldsymbol{d} [x_i] \right),
\end{eqnarray*}
in $\Omega_{{\mathcal E}(U)/I{\mathcal E}(U)}$, and $\frac{\partial P}{\partial y}([x], [f])
\in {\mathcal O}(U)/I{\mathcal O}(U)$ is non-zero and algebraic over ${\mathcal N}(U)/I$.
\\
The implications (2) $\Rightarrow$ (3) $\Rightarrow$ (4) are clear.
\\
(4) $\Rightarrow$ (1): Suppose (4) and $[f]$ is not Nash.
Then, by Lemma \ref{known-characterization2}, there exists a point $a \in U$ such that
$[f]$ is transcendental in ${\mathcal F}_{\mathbf{R}^n, a}/I_a$
via the $\mathbf{R}$-algebra homomorphism $\varphi : {\mathcal N}(U)/I \to {\mathcal F}_{\mathbf{R}^n, a}/I_a$, where
$I_a$ is the ideal in the formal power series ring ${\mathcal F}_{\mathbf{R}^n, a}$ generated by $g_1, \dots, g_\ell$.
Let $K = Q(\varphi({\mathcal N}(U)/I))$ be the quotient field of the image of ${\mathcal N}(U)/I$ by $\varphi$.
Moreover let $L = K([f], [h_1], \dots, [h_m])$ be the extended field of $K$
which is generated by all elements which appear in the relation
$\boldsymbol{d} [f] - \sum_{i=1}^n \alpha_i \boldsymbol{d} [x_i] = 0$ in $\Omega_{{\mathcal F}_{\mathbf{R}^n, a}/I_a}$.
Then the relation holds also in $\Omega_L$.
Let $u$ be any non-zero element of $L$.
We extend the zero derivation $0 : K \to L$ to $D_0 : K([f]) \to L$ by setting $D_0([f]) = u$,
for the given non-zero element $u \in L$.
Moreover we extend $D_0$ to a derivation $D : L \to L$.
Then for an $L$-homomorphism $\rho : \Omega_L \to L$ we have $D = \rho \circ \boldsymbol{d} : L \to L$.
Then we have
$$
0 = \rho\left(\boldsymbol{d} [f] - \sum_{i=1}^n \alpha_i \boldsymbol{d} [x_i]\right) = D([f]) = u.
$$
This leads a contradiction. Thus we have (1).
\hfill $\Box$
\
For a Nash element $[f] \in {\mathcal O}(U) / I {\mathcal O}(U)$,
we define the Leibniz complexity of $[f]$ by the minimal number of
terms corresponding to Leibniz rule for $[g] \left( \boldsymbol{d} [f] - \sum_{i=1}^n \left[ \frac{\partial f}{\partial x_i} \right] \boldsymbol{d} [x_i] \right)$
in the free ${\mathcal E}(U) / I {\mathcal E}(U)$-module ${\mathfrak F}_{ {\mathcal E}(U) / I {\mathcal E}(U) }$
among all expressions for all non-zero Nash element $[g] \in {\mathcal O}(U) / I {\mathcal O}(U)$.
The definition is based on the statement (2) of Theorem \ref{characterization-theorem2}.
We do not care about the number of terms corresponding to linearity of the differential.
Moreover we will do not count the term generated by the relation $\boldsymbol{d}([1\cdot 1]) - [1]\boldsymbol{d}([1]) - [1]\boldsymbol{d}([1])$.
Therefore we use the relation $\boldsymbol{d}([c]) = 0$ for $c \in \mathbf{R}$ freely.
Let ${\mathrm {LC}}([f])$ denote the Leibniz complexity of $[f]$.
Similarly to Proposition \ref{estimate-3} we have:
\begin{Prop}
\label{estimate-4}
Under the situation of Theorem \ref{characterization-theorem2},
let $P(x, y)$ be a polynomial such that $P(x, f) \in I{\mathcal O}(U)$
and $\frac{\partial P}{\partial y}(x, f) \not\in I{\mathcal O}(U)$.
Then we have
$$
\mbox{\rm {LC}}([f]) \leq \sigma(P) + \sum_{i=0}^n \left(\mu_i + \sum_{j = 1}^{s(i)} (r_{ij} - 1)\right).
$$
\stepcounter{Th
\section{Appendix}
\label{Appendix}
We recall known basic results used in this paper.
\begin{Lem}
\label{known-characterization}
Let $U \subset \mathbf{R}^n$ be a semi-algebraic open subset and
$f \in {\mathcal O}(U)$ be an analytic function on $U$.
Then the following conditions are equivalent to each other:
\\
{\rm (1)}
$f$ is a Nash function on $U$, i.e.
there exists a non-zero polynomial $P(x, y)$ such that $P(x, f(x)) = 0$ for any $x \in U$.
\\
{\rm (2)}
The graph of $f$ in $U\times\mathbf{R} \subset \mathbf{R}^{n+1}$
is a semi-algebraic set.
\\
{\rm (3)}
For any $a \in U$, the Taylor series $j^\infty f(a)$ of $f$ at $a$ is algebraic in the
of formal power series algebra ${\mathcal F}_{\mathbf{R}^n, a} = \mathbf{R}[[x - a]]$ over
the polynomial algebra $\mathbf{R}[x - a] = \mathbf{R}[x]$, in other word, there exists a non-zero polynomial
$P(x, y)$ such that $j^\infty P(x, f)(a) = 0$.
\\
{\rm (4)}
For any connected component $U'$ of $U$,
there exists a point $a \in U'$ such that the Taylor series $j^\infty f(a)$ of $f$ at $a$ is algebraic in the
of formal power series algebra ${\mathcal F}_{\mathbf{R}^n, a} = \mathbf{R}[[x - a]]$ over
the polynomial algebra $\mathbf{R}[x - a]$.
\stepcounter{Th
\noindent{\it Proof\,}:\
The the equivalences (1) and (2) are well-known (see for instant \cite{BCR}).
The implications (1) $\Rightarrow$ (3)
$\Rightarrow$ (4) are clear. To show the implication (4) $\Rightarrow$ (1),
suppose (4). Note that the number of connected components of $U$ is finite.
Let $U_1, \dots, U_r$ are all connected components of $U$. Let $1 \leq i \leq r$.
Then there exists $a_i \in U_i$ such that
$f$ is expressed by the Taylor series at $a_i$ in a neighborhood $W \subset U_i$ of $a_i$ and
there exists a non-zero polynomial $P_i(x, y)$ such that $P_i(x, f(x)) = 0$ for any $x \in W$.
Since the function $P_i(x, f(x))$ is analytic on $U_i$ and $U_i$ is connected, $P_i(x, f(x)) = 0$ for any $x \in U_i$.
Then it suffices to take $P = \prod_{i=1}^r P_i$ to get (1).
\hfill $\Box$
\
The following characterization is proved using the extension theorem due to Efroymson or its
generalization \cite{CS00}:
\begin{Lem}
\label{known-characterization2}
Let $U \subset \mathbf{R}^n$ be a connected semi-algebraic open subset and
$I \subset {\mathcal N}(U)$ be an ideal.
For any $f \in {\mathcal O}(U)$ the following conditions are equivalent to each other:
\\
{\rm (1)}
$[f] \in {\mathcal O}(U)/I{\mathcal O}(U)$ is Nash
{\rm (}See \S 4 {\rm )}.
\\
{\rm (2)}
For any $a \in U$, the Taylor series $j^\infty f(a)$ of $f$ at $a$ is algebraic in
${\mathcal F}_{\mathbf{R}^n, a}/I_a$,
in other word, there exists a polynomial $P(x, y) \in \mathbf{R}[x, y], {\mbox {\rm deg}}_yP > 0$, which possibly depends on $a$,
such that $j^\infty P(x, f)(a) \in I_a$, where
$I_a$ is the ideal in ${\mathcal F}_{\mathbf{R}^n, a}$ generated by $\{j^\infty h(a) \mid h \in I\}$.
\\
{\rm (3)}
There exists a Nash function $g \in {\mathcal N}(U)$ such that $[g] = [f] \in {\mathcal O}(U)/I{\mathcal O}(U)$.
\stepcounter{Th
\noindent{\it Proof\,}:\
The implication (1) $\Rightarrow$ (2) is clear.
\\
(2) $\Rightarrow$ (3):
Let ${\mathcal I}$ be the finite ideal sheaf generated by $I$ in the sheaf ${\mathcal N}_U$ of Nash functions.
Then $f$ defines a section of the quotient sheaf ${\mathcal N}_U/{\mathcal I}$. By the extension theorem (\cite{CRS96}\cite{CS00})
in non-compact case, there exists $g \in {\mathcal N}(U)$ which defines the same section of ${\mathcal N}_U/{\mathcal I}$ with that defined by $f$.
Therefore $f - g \in {\mathcal O}(U)$ defines a section of ${\mathcal I}{\mathcal O}_U$, the ideal sheaf generated by ${\mathcal I}$ in the sheaf ${\mathcal O}_U$ of analytic functions. Then $f - g \in I{\mathcal O}(U)$, by Cartan's theorem A for real analytic functions (\cite{Cartan}).
Thus we have (3).
\\
The implication (3) $\Rightarrow$ (1) is clear.
\hfill $\Box$
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