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Correct shielding used on original brake lines for OEM restorers who want exact originality. Includes enough footage to allow you to replace or install shields on your original or replacement brake or fuel lines. The PROP-BLOCK is a precision-machined combination distribution block and adjustable proportioning valve in one. The valve connects to the master cylinder and distributes brake fluid to all four wheels, while the adjustable... Wilwood's stainless steel braided flexline set is manufactured to high quality standards. This premium grade flexline set has been designed for universal applications. The flexline set is required to complete the installation... The PROP-BLOCK is a precision-machined combination distribution block and adjustable proportioning valve in one. The valve connects to the master cylinder and distributes brake fluid to all four wheels, while the adjustable... This new line fastening system will keep your metal lines secure and look great while doing it! Once fastened down with the included hardware, your lines will snap in and out of these clamps for a clean and simple... This new line fastening system will keep your metal lines secure and look great while doing it! Once fastened down with the included hardware, your lines will snap in and out of these clamps for a clean and simple... This new line fastening system will keep your metal lines secure and look great while doing it! Once fastened down with the included hardware, your lines will snap in and out of these clamps for a clean and simple... | Mid | [
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Quick Links Finding outside scholarships can be hard work, but the payoff is great! It is important to know where to begin on your journey to find additional funding for college. First, explore your community. Does your hometown have clubs, organizations, community foundations, fire departments, police departments, or churches that award scholarships? It never hurts to ask! Many organizations give scholarship money to students from local high schools, and often these opportunities are not advertised. Read the 20 Ways to Find College Scholarships. To read this you will need to log in with your SALT account. If you don't have one you can sign up for a free account. Next, check out the page below for scholarship opportunities recommended by us. Also, create an account on scholarship search web services (see list below). Creating an account can help you find scholarships that match your eligibility! Have you been awarded an outside scholarship? If so, congratulations! Your next step is to inform our office about the funds you will be receiving. If your scholarship funds will not arrive at PBA before payment is due, please provide us a letter from the scholarship organization stating the amount they will be sending and if the scholarship should be applied to the Fall semester, the Spring semester, or split between both semesters. If a semester is not specified, the scholarship will automatically be split between Fall and Spring. If you have already received a scholarship check, you can mail it to us or stop by the Financial Aid Office so it can be applied to your account. Please mail all scholarship letters and checks to the following address: $1000 Scholarship Essay Contest 2018 by DustBusterReviews Amount: $1,000 Eligibility: Student must be an Engineering, Healthcare, or Related Graduate from any reputed University that possess a 3.0 minimum GPA and is 18 years of age at time of applying. The student must have a permanent or current living address in either Canada or United States, have no more than two consecutive gap years in their education and have at least 75% attendance. $2,500 College Scholarship Opportunity Amount: $2,500 Eligibility: Must be enrolled at an accredited institution and able to verify enrollment, undergraduates, graduate students, and foreign exchange students welcome to apply, must be 18 years of age or older. A Place for Mom Scholarship Amount: $1000 Eligibility: Student must be enrolled in a college, university, or graduate program in a medical, nursing, or social science related major and must be planning on pursuing a career that involves working with senior citizens. 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Children of an American Veteran Scholarship Amount: $1,500 Eligibility: The legal child (natural or adoptive) of a veteran of any branch of U.S. military service. Must have a 3.0 or higher and enrolled in an accredited community college or undergraduate degree program. Churchill Scholarship Amount: $5800 Eligibility: Student must be a high school, under grad, graduate or student with disabilities in an accredited school that shows interest in their profession and is involved in a professional category as a volunteer or intern. Coupons Plus Deals “Save for Future” Scholarship CRUSH the CPA Exam Amount: $1000 Eligibility: In order to be considered for this scholarship you must be an actively enrolled college student in the last semester of obtaining your accounting degree or a recent graduate with a final cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher who plans on taking the CPA Exam. DECASO Amount: $2500 Eligibility: Open to graduating high school seniors, college undergraduates, and graduate students of any major. Students must be enrolled or planning to enroll at an accredited 2-year, 4-year, or vocational/technical college or university in the U.S. Giva Scholarship Amount: $1,000 Eligibility: All students, regardless of major, currently attending a college or university degree program either full or part-time are eligible and encouraged to apply. The award is for school tuition so the scholarship check will be written out to the student's educational institution. Giva employees, family relatives and vendors are not eligible. Graduate Scholarships Greater than Gatsby Scholarship Amount: $10,000 Eligibility: Student must be currently enrolled in an accredited college or university in the U.S. and is majoring in any type of Art with a proof of identity readily available if chosen as the winner. Green Pal Scholarship Amount: $2000 Eligibility: Applicant must be a high school senior or currently enrolled full-time in an accredited college in the United States with a 3.5 GPA or higher and must be majored in the college of business, economics, or finance. Groove Life Scholarship Amount: $2,000 Eligibility: Students enrolled in an accredited college or university. Scholarship is open to full time students only – 12 or more credit hours at time of deadline. All applicants must be US citizens or permanent residents. Key Thinkers Scholarship Amount: $2,500 Eligibility: Must be 18 years old, a US citizen or permanent resident, cumulative GPA of 3.0, and must be enrolled as a full-time student at an accredited college, university or trade school in the U.S. Kitchen Cabinet Kings Entrepreneur Scholarship Amount: $5000 Eligibility: Any current college student or incoming freshman enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate degree program in a Spring, Summer, or Fall 2019 semester. Student must be enrolled at an accredited American college, university or trade school. Lark's Prediabetes Symptoms Scholarship Amount: $2000 Eligibility: Students who will be enrolled full-time at an accredited college or university during the 2018/2019 academic year, or who are currently enrolled. You may be a current (or just-graduated) high school senior, or a current college/university student. MakeBeCool Scholarship Amount: $1000 Eligibility: Applicants must attend a University, College or High School, be recently graduated or High school Juniors or Seniors, and they must be 18 years old, majoring in Marketing in the USA, have an SAT score of 1150 or an ACT score of 27 and have a 3.5 GPA before graduating. Petkey Photographer Academic Scholarship Amount: $1000 Eligibility: You must be a recently accepted high-school student, undergraduate or graduate student from an accredited college/university in the United States. You must be able to provide proof of your identity if you are chosen as the winner. Qualified ID is a student id, driver’s license or passport. Schochor, Federico and Station, P.A. Scholarship Amount: $5,000 Eligibility: A statement of financial need along with proof of your enrollment in an accredited college or university must be submitted. A letter of recommendation from adviser, professor, or teacher must be provided. Soft inventive Scholarship Amount: $1000 Eligibility: Students enrolled in an accredited college or university in a computer science major with a minimum GPA of 3.5, an SAT score of 1250 or ACT score of 28 and is a legal resident of the United States. Students Affected by Cancer Scholarship Amount: $1,000 Eligibility: Must be enrolled in, or were accepted to, an accredited college/university in the U.S., 3.0 or higher GPA, either current/former cancer patient or stood by a loved one who was diagnosed with cancer. The Sure Oak Scholarship Sleep Titan Scholarship Program Amount: $1,000 Eligibility: All applicants must be 18 years or older, planning or already pursuing a degree at an accredited U.S. post-secondary institution, 3.0 GPA, be a high school graduate or have a GED, and be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident. Sprak Design Graphic Design Scholarship Amount: $500 Eligibility: Students enrolled in an accredited college or university with a major in Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Visual Arts, Graphic Communications, and is a permanent resident of the US or Canada and is at least 18 years old. The 2018 RN-to-BSN Scholarship Amount: $2,500 Eligibility: Applicants must already possess a valid RN license or be on track to graduate from an accredited prelicensure program by the summer of 2019. Only one application entry is accepted per student. The Coachable Scholarship The Law office of Daniel J. Wright Scholarship Amount: $1000 Eligibility: Applicant must be currently enrolled in accredited undergraduate, graduate, or professional program in the U.S. and must show strong leadership within their community and maintain a 2.00 GPA. The Reedsy National Creative Writing Scholarship Amount: $1,000 Eligibility: Must be United States, Canada, or Australia citizens or permanent residents and accepted to, or currently enrolled in an accredited college, university, or graduate program within the United States, Canada or Australia. U.S. Army Health Professions Scholarship Program Amount: Full Tuition, plus a monthly stipend Eligibility: Be a U.S. citizen with a baccalaureate degree from an accredited school. Be enrolled in or have a letter of acceptance or intent from an accredited graduate program located in the United States or Puerto Rico. Maintain full-time student status during the entire length of a health professional program. Qualify as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army Reserve. Varsity Tutors Monthly Scholarship Description Amount: $1,000 Eligibility: Varsity Tutors offers a monthly scholarship contest to students who write the best essay in response to a monthly prompt. The top 5 entries with the most votes will be reviewed by Varsity Tutors and one winner will be chosen. What Photography Gear Annual Marketing Scholarship Amount: $1,000 Eligibility: Students currently enrolled or accepted as a full-time student at a university, college, or trade school. Must be majoring in Marketing, International Business, Advertising, Business management, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Project management, Public relations, etc. Zinda Law Group Scholarship Amount: $1,000 Eligibility: Must be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent U.S. Resident, must be enrolled in an accredited college or university and planning on continuing the next semester, or a high school senior planning on attending college after graduation. Central Florida Foundation In 1996, the first scholarship fund was established at the Central Florida Foundation. Today, we have awarded nearly $1 million in scholarships through nine unique scholarship funds. These scholarship funds were established by generous donors who wanted to create a lasting impact in the community by providing deserving students support toward achieving their educational and professional goals. College Fund of Pinellas County, Inc. The College Fund of Pinellas County, Inc. began helping Pinellas County residents attend college 50 years ago in 1965. From the beginning, our objectives have been to: Raise and distribute funds for the assistance of scholastically-qualified Pinellas County residents who are pursuing a college-level education and who demonstrate a need for substantial financial aid; and Maintain contact with student recipients to support them in their educational pursuits. Community Foundation for Brevard The Community Foundation administers a scholarship program that each year helps local students pursue their dreams and goals at colleges and universities. Scholarships allow our donors to invest in the future by helping deserving students pursue higher education. Student’s benefit from the financial assistance as well as the academic recognition of being a scholarship recipient. Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties The Community Foundation is one of the largest providers of scholarships in the two county region. We have nearly 100 scholarship funds, established by donors who are committed to education, and often named in the memory of a loved one. Together, we have awarded $7.5 million in scholarship grants since 1983, and helped 1,700 students fufill their college dreams. Community Foundation of Sarasota County The Community Foundation of Sarasota County believes an investment in education is an investment in our community's future. We believe that all who wish to further their education and increase future potential for success should have an equal chance to take advantage of the opportunities available to them. This is why we have a scholarship program that each year helps hundreds of students - high school seniors, current college students, and adult learners - go to college, trade school, or technical college. Along, with the support and passion of our donors, we are able to award over $1.6 million in scholarships each year to students from Sarasota, Manatee, Charlotte, and DeSoto Counties. Applicants 24 years of age or older (by December 31, 2016) are considered adult learners and are encouraged to explore the foundation's adult learner scholarship program. Southwest Florida Community Foundation Thanks to our generous donors contributing to over 70 Scholarship Funds at the Foundation we are able to provide students in Southwest Florida the opportunity to apply for College Scholarships. We awarded 98 individual College Scholarships in 2015 to both high school graduates and undergraduate college students resulting in over $500,000 in financial support to individuals. Scholarships are available for high school seniors wanting to continue their education at the vocational/technical school level, university or community college, as well as for undergraduate and graduate students continuing their post-secondary education. | Mid | [
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Resistance 3 The game will retain mostly the same gameplay mechanics as it predecessor albeit with several changes. The weapon wheel from the first Resistance game will be returning after it was excluded from Resistance 2. There will also be new environmental objects such as chimeran plants which explode when shot at. The game will see a mixture of new and old weapons; returning weapons include the Bullseye, Magnum, Shotgun, Auger and Carbine, while one of the new weapons is the Mutator which shoots biological mists causing enemies to eventually explode causing splash damage, as well as a new grenade which is shaped like a food can which releases an arsenal of nails when it explodes. All weapons are upgradeable, and become more powerful the more they are used. In line with the survival theme of Resistance 3, humans are forced to assemble their weapons from whatever scrap they can gather. Frag grenades, for example, are constructed from bean cans with nails attached to them. Capelli Necklace: Joseph Capelli wears a necklace of Chimeran teeth during Resistance 3. Show that you are the resistance, with this authentic replica that symbolizes the battle against the Chimera.* Multiplayer Boost Pack: Allows you to start Resistance 3 multiplayer at Level 5. This also offers immediate flexibility and character customization options from the moment you begin the online competitive game. *Honestly I don't know if that is a real life physical item of for your Avatar or for your Multiplayer Skin. Heads-up. Finally the great one has returned. For it is I, me, FnJimmy. I have played and reviewed the Playstation 3 exclusive from Insomniac Games, Resistance 3. How resistible do you think I will find this game? Watch my review. What could be better than two drunk Jimmys trying to play Resistance 3 on hard? Here's over 50 minutes of our journey through the Insomniac's third installment of this FPS. Don't be a Jimmy! Resistance 3 has been out for a few weeks now and I want to reassure all of you, Team Gouki has played this game. BatRastered and I -of course- have a completely different opinion on this game as to FnJimmy. You're gonna see the GVR soon enough. For now though, you can watch BatRastered and I stumble through one of the final levels of Resistance 3. A Playstation 3 Exclusive! Straight Face. | Mid | [
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Q: codeigniter input fields with same name sorry if its a stupid question but i need a bit of a help. I made a signup form, and i would like to people select 2 phone numbers. If i select hungarian a hungarian phone type input slides down, if he selects ukraine than an ukraine phone input type slides down. here is the html <input type='text' name='telefon' id='magyar' class='input_title' value='<?php echo set_value('telefon'); ?>' /> <input type='text' name='telefon' id='ukran' class='input_title' value='<?php echo set_value('telefon'); ?>' /> <div class='hiba'><?php echo form_error('telefon'); ?></div> magyar = hingarian ukran = ukraine telefon = phone telo_tipus = phoe type my problem is the validation, if i select hungarian and fill it out it says i need to add a phone number but if i select ukraine its ok here is the validation $this->form_validation->set_rules('telefon', 'Telefon', 'required|callback_hasznalt_telefon'); could please someone point out what im missing with the validation? i tried with na=telefon[] but in that case the validation wont work the callback only validates if the phone is taken thats ok but here it is function hasznalt_telefon() { $telefon = trim($this->input->post('telefon')); $query = $this->db->query(' SELECT telefon FROM felhasznalok WHERE telefon = "'.$telefon.'" '); if($query->num_rows() > 0) { $this->form_validation->set_message('hasznalt_telefon', 'Ez a telefonszám már használatban van '); return false; } else { return true; } } A: Your codeigniter code is fine, but your html/javascript is what needs to change. Instead of having two input fields with the same name (which the php script will only read the last one, btw), you should make a select field that changes what input type slides down from the 'telefon' field. I'm not sure what javascript you are using, but in jquery you can have the the input field event bound on selection from the select field. If you need more specific guidance for this, let me know and I'll edit my answer. <select id="telefon_type"> <option>Telefon Type</option> <option value="magyar">Magyar</option> <option value="ukran">Ukran</option> </select> <input type="text" name="telefon" id="telefon" disabled /> $("#telefon_type").bind("change", function() { $("#telefon").removeAttr("disabled"); if ($(this).val() == "magyar") { $("#telefon").bind("focus",function() { // onfocus event for #telefon for magyar }); } else if ($(this).val() == "ukran") { $("#telefon").bind("focus",function() { // onfocus event for #telefon for ukran }); } else { $("#telefon").attr("disabled","disabled"); $("#telefon").val(''); } }); Please note: I have not tested this code. The general idea behind it is that the filter you are running for the telefon field changes based on your selection of the select field. | Mid | [
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× Expand Stuffed squid with white beans and greens at Restaurant Adarra (Photo by Shawnee Custalow) From a Basque-inspired escape in Jackson Ward to comfort food that feels like a warm embrace, we present our collection of the 25 best restaurants in Richmond for 2019. We ate our way through the region, hand-picking new gems that have become a part of our regular dining rotation and revisiting timeless institutions that have remained favorites. On the following pages you will find places that have paved the way and remind us to reflect on the dawn of Richmond dining alongside those that are pushing culinary boundaries, showing us how far it can go. Our list represents restaurants that are doing it right — from service and consistency to memorable meals that conjure memorable moments. With a burgeoning class size, choosing just 25 was a feat. For the sake of narrowing the field, we did not consider counter-service restaurants, spots that don’t offer dinner or ones that opened after July 31, 2019. Sit back and relish these standouts from a crowded, ever-growing and talented field. Come hungry. BEST FOR SHARING 618 N. First St., 804-477-3456 THE CUISINE: Loosely Spanish-inspired small plates. Think pintxos, stuffed squid, roasted olives and jamon Ibérico. KEY FACE: Lyne Doetzer, sommelier and one-half of Adarra’s restaurant power couple along with chef Randall Doetzer, is usually working the floor. Ask her about her favorite bottles. THE MOOD: Intimate and sophisticated, but convivial. BEST FOR: A double date or a night out with a small group of friends so you can order plenty of dishes and split a bottle or two of wine. IDEAL MEAL: Tuna conserva and roasted olives to start, followed by the seasonal fish stew. Pair it with one of the fun, low-intervention Old World or natural wines from Adarra’s frequently changing list. —Laura Sant MOST LIKE TO APPEAR IN BON APPETIT 2939 W. Clay St., 804-308-3497 BEST FOR: An evening when you can dedicate a few hours to a thoughtful adventure through the multicourse tasting menu. THE CUISINE: Strikingly beautiful dishes ebb and flow with the seasons, and everything is executed with flawless attention to detail. Expect to find mushrooms and tinges of Japanese influence. KEY FACES: The gastronomic threesome of culinary prowess — owners Patrick Phelan, the tweezer tycoon; his wife and pastry empress Megan Fitzroy Phelan; and fermentation mastermind Andrew Manning INSIDER TIP: Flock to the patio during warmer months — the bar bites remind you that Longoven can also be cool and casual. WHAT YOU’LL LOVE: How there’s nothing else like it in Richmond. —Eileen Mellon BEST AT SETTING THE STANDARD 2601 W. Cary St., 804-562-0138 THE CUISINE: Serving dishes focused on the freshest ingredients for over 20 years, Acacia is an “eat local” pioneer. KEY FACES: Dale and Aline Reitzer run the back and front of the house, respectively. Dale has nurtured and mentored some of Richmond’s finest culinary talent while continuing to turn out innovative dishes. Aline, founder of Richmond Restaurant Week, consistently delivers top-notch service. BEST FOR: Seafood — soft-shell crabs, crab cakes, ceviche, rockfish and white anchovies with radicchio are favorites. INSIDER TIP: Take advantage of the three-course prix fixe menu ($27 Monday to Thursday all night and 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday), as well as half-price wine by the bottle on Tuesdays. —John Haddad MOST STRIKING PRESENTATION 3103 W. Leigh St., 804-355-5555 THE CUISINE: An alloy of umami and the harvest, showcasing an alchemist’s dexterity with fish. Anchovy puree underscores miso-marinated halibut with crisp cucumber, and sweet onion consommé warms steelhead trout over roasted corn — but don’t expect these specific spellbinders. The kitchen conjures seasonality. THE MOOD: Music flows from above Aloi’s entrance, ushering you inside the exotic bunker where undulating wood ripples through the ceiling and art hangs on dimly lit walls. WHAT YOU'LL LIKE: Eating with your eyes — the plating is gorgeous. INSIDER TIP: Cocktail hour on the secluded rear patio offers discounted tipples, fragrant bowls of mussels, a clutch of airy bone-marrow beignets. —Genevelyn Steele MOST LIKE A CELEBRITY CHEF 3200 Rockbridge St. Suite 100, 804-658-9868 THE CUISINE: Alpine-inspired dishes, including rustic cheese fondue and house-made charcuterie, served in a space that feels more like a trendy big-city restaurant than little old RVA. James Beard Award-nominated chef/co-owner Brittanny Anderson has appeared on “Iron Chef America” and often hosts visiting chefs for special dinners at Brenner. WHAT YOU’LL LOVE: The elegant simplicity. Take the oeufs mayonnaise, literally a hard-boiled egg with house-made mayo — only two ingredients, yet it’s stunningly memorable. INSIDER TIP: Order a glass (or a bottle) of the Le Morget. Blended exclusively for Brenner Pass, this Swiss white is one of a few wines exported from Switzerland. —Piet E. Jones BEST AT BEING EFFORTLESSLY COOL 23 W. Marshall St., 804-269-3689 THE CUISINE: Hearty, seasonal new American fare that pays homage to both Latin American and Southern foodways. KEY FACES: Justin Ayotte, the restaurant’s beverage director and co-owner, and Sophia Kim, Richmond’s hometown hero who graced the national stage by winning the Woodford Reserve Manhattan Experience cocktail competition, are both often found behind the bar. THE MOOD: Cozy and hip. You’ll find friends meeting for a happy hour drink, couples on dates and regulars chatting at the bar. INSIDER TIP: Don't miss their Sunday fried chicken night, with some of the best fried chicken in the city at just $8. DRINK PICK: Anything from the inventive, oft-changing cocktail list. —LS MOST UNDER THE RADAR 27 N. Belmont Ave., 804-358-7467 THE AMBIANCE: A snug dining room with worn wood tables and a prominent eight-seater bar makes dining here an intimate, cozy experience. IDEAL FOR: A date or a solo night at the bar, where you’ll be greeted warmly and tended to unobtrusively, however long you choose to linger. INSIDER TIP: In an effort to be open on Monday so hospitality pros can have a nice repast on their day off, BFS is closed on Tuesday. We always forget, but you don’t have to. BEST FOR: The classics. Tuck into a green salad, simple and right, or the roast chicken, a litmus test for chefs and one that owner Mike Yavorsky nails every time. Served with creamy spoonbread, it’s a menu staple that’s always there when you need it. —Stephanie Ganz MOST LIKELY TO DIVE DEEP 3120 E. Marshall St., 804-325-3426 THE CUISINE: Chef-owner Lee Gregory’s solo venture yields unexpected fruits from Mid-Atlantic seas: smelts, skate and the “trash fish” alewife, a Chesapeake Bay throwback. THE MOOD: A busy port o’ call, minimally outfitted with a token tiki and a bulbous, nautical mirror. Most of the atmosphere comes from the historic building’s bones, which seem to emit the kitchen’s energy as if a secret portal to seafaring delicacies. WHAT YOU’LL LOVE: Brunch sails around the world. Try skate chops with red-eye gravy or a rolled omelet with rock shrimp and tobiko herb salad. DRINK PICK: Pair oysters or ceviche with a stellar Rangpur G&T scented with orange blossoms, or steer toward one of the many low-tannin red wines. —GS FRESHEST FACE OF THE VASAIO EMPIRE 821 W. Cary St., 804-678-9706 THE CUISINE: A beautiful mashup of Jewish and Italian food, from Reubens to broccoletti and provolone sausage with polenta and beans. Dishes tend to be simple, rustic and slightly more veg-forward than sister restaurants Edo’s Squid and Mamma ’Zu. THE MOOD: Lively, casual and intimate, with futuristic decor. WHAT YOU’LL LOVE: Everything is made with such fresh ingredients that the restaurant doesn’t even have a walk-in refrigerator. BEST FOR: When you’re craving something homey. IDEAL MEAL: It’s hard to go wrong, but you can’t beat mussels marinara and a glass of wine at the bar. And when it’s on the menu, don’t sleep on a big plate of their impossibly creamy, tender cabbage (just trust us). —LS MOST LIKELY TO PUSH BOUNDARIES 6400 Horsepen Road, 804-673-2233 THE CUISINE: Light-years beyond your typical Chinese restaurant. BEST FOR: Testing your culinary limits. Where else in Richmond can you order Cantonese delicacies like duck tongue? ALSO BEST FOR: Serving familiar Chinese dishes, authentically. Not everyone seeks the unfamiliar, and Full Kee’s lo mein, chow mein and fried rice dishes deliver accessibility that’s several steps above the norm. INSIDER TIP: Ask questions. During their busy brunch, it can be difficult to determine what the rolling dim sum cart bestows. Service may seem fast-paced, but they will happily reveal what’s inside each delectable dumpling. DON’T MISS: Divine deep-fried spicy soft-shell crab. —PEJ MOST WELL-ROUNDED 1627 W. Main St., 804-353-4060 THE CUISINE: Heritage relies on the bounty of local producers to create an eclectic menu where Chef Joe Sparatta draws heavily on the culinary traditions of Virginia, Italy and Japan. KEY FACES: Joe and his wife and co-owner Emilia Sparatta — a hospitality yin and yang. Lindsey Scheer helms the bar, garnering a 2019 Best Bartender Elby Award for her craft. DON’T MISS: Some of the most cleverly named and curated cocktails. BEST FOR: The overall experience. Unobtrusive, yet all-knowing, the service shines every step of the way, from drinks to dessert. INSIDER TIP: The pasta is made in house, and it’s sublime. Unique ingredients make for memorable, not-so-typical Italian fare. —JH MOST WORTH THE WAIT Edo’s Squid 411 N. Harrison St., 804-864-5488 THE CUISINE: Classic red-sauce Italian heaven: spaghetti all’ amatriciana, whole branzino, and squid salad with white beans and arugula. THE MOOD: Lively and a bit chaotic inside the second-floor, brick-lined eatery — expect a significant wait during peak times. BEST FOR: A date where you’re more interested in eavesdropping on the diners sitting nearby than in hearing what your partner is saying; a group dinner where you can feast family-style on white linen tabletops in the classic Italian manner. IDEAL MEAL: Dinner at the big table with five friends passing around perfectly executed, Italian delights like scungilli salad, broccoletti drenched in olive oil and garlic, penne puttanesca, and shrimp fra diavolo. Oh, and Chianti — lots of Chianti. —LS MOST EGGCELLENT 400 N. 27th St., 804-643-8824 THE CUISINE: Truly seasonal fare with global flair. THE MOOD: Intimate and intricate. From the miniature embellished clothespins on the bread basket to the tiny tasting dishes, every detail is exact and intentional. KEY FACES: Partners in business and life, Michelle and Caleb Shriver are always present. She attentively presides over every aspect of the front of the house, while he rocks it out in the kitchen. INSIDER TIP: Every night from 5 to 10 p.m., they offer a $30 prix fixe menu for three courses. Indulge in the famed Perfect Egg and its crispy rye exterior, then move to a hunk of monkfish with bright and acidic succotash. Find your happy ending in the honey pot, an amalgamation of crunchy and sweet panna cotta with crumbly granola. —Robey Martin MOST LIKELY TO IMPRESS 101 W. Franklin St., 804-649-4629 THE CUISINE: Chef Patrick Willis’ upscale nod to Southern-inspired dining and Virginia ingredients is delivered inside the nearly 125-year-old Jefferson Hotel. BEST FOR: An evening to remember — the grand dining room and white tablecloths scream elegance. The elevated yet approachable menu is topped only by the attentive service. INSIDER TIP: Happy hour diners can indulge in three appetizers for $25 (except in December) such as oysters paired with champagne mignonette, fried deviled eggs and a cheese plate. Start the weekend with $5 Old Fashioned Fridays, and don’t be surprised to spot VCU students and local pols rubbing elbows. KEY FACE: General Manager Chauncey Jenkins sets the bar for RVA hospitality. —PEJ MOST WELCOMING CHEF-OWNER 11800 W. Broad St., Suite 910, 804-364-1111 ORDER: Any naan, though Sunny Baweja, Lehja’s James Beard Award-nominated chef-owner, will tell you the garlic variety is the most popular. Other notable dishes include Pondicherry duck, featuring shredded duck with a hint of peppery spice, and Andhra chicken curry. WHAT YOU’LL LOVE: Ample parking at Short Pump Town Center, uber-knowledgeable service. DRINK PICK: Anything from their impressive wine list, which includes bottles from India. INSIDER TIP: Chaat is a type of savory Indian street fare, and Lehja serves one daily. Ranging from large chunks of blue crab speckled with pomegranate seeds to fried translucent spinach leaves that are lightly dressed, the ever-changing offerings are a must-try. —RM MOST PERSONALITY 626 China St., 804-918-6028 THE CUISINE: Fancy yet soul-baring French fare with a Southern bent that has diners leaning into their plates as if they’re sharing secrets. THE MOOD: L’Opossum’s homoeroticism-meets-1970s-Americana vibe matches Proust’s definition of style: “The revelation of the particular universe which each of us sees but which is not seen by others.” WHAT YOU’LL LOVE: Like an artsy dinner party, escargots and ham biscuits arrive on decorative china placed atop an elaborate, Warhol-print tabletop. INSIDER TIP: Skip OpenTable, which offers limited seatings, and call for reservations. KEY FACE: Cocktail captain William Seidensticker, a quick-witted 25-year industry veteran with a dry sense of humor. —GS BEST STRIP MALL SURPRISE 11645 W. Broad St., 804-360-3336 THE AMBIANCE: A chic and sexy sushi outpost that feels more like SoHo than Short Pump. The dim blue lights, plush seats and metal chopsticks lend to a sleek vibe. BEST FOR: A date who will go halfsies with you on a parade of sashimi and rolls. IDEAL MEAL: Start with tuna tataki, silky ribbons of gently seared ahi drizzled with ponzu sauce, and sake. Order a melange of sashimi and specialty rolls like The Richmond, crisp tempura shrimp and avocado roll topped with eel and sprinkled with roe. WHAT YOU’LL LOVE: Seamless service. Informative without being overbearing, servers guide you through the menu with care. INSIDER TIP: Inquire about daily specials, which recently featured buttery, highly desirable toro tuna. —EM MOST JOIE DE VIVRE 3120 W. Cary St., 804-358-7274 THE CUISINE: Casual, classic French food is served all day long, from croissants with your café au lait for breakfast to croque-monsieurs and French onion soup for lunch to plats du jour that rotate through classic French preparations every evening. THE DECOR: Flooded with natural light and breezes from an open front on nice days, this boisterous and lively spot features a lovely bar, beautiful tile work, fresh flowers and white tablecloths. BEST FOR: Morning meetings, long lunches and romantic dinners. It’s a community meeting spot, and as the light shifts throughout the day so does the vibe. It's a place for everyone, anytime. INSIDER TIP: Can Can dancers kick up their heels on the bar for Bastille Day/Fête Nationale on July 14. —JH BEST USE OF A LAZY SUSAN 11424 W. Broad St., 804-364-1688 THE CUISINE: Szechuan chili oil perfumes the air, wafting from a bowl of hand-pulled Grandma’s Noodles. BEST FOR: Your entire brood. With Lazy Susans, ample room to spread out and portions big enough to share, this is a smart pick for a crowd. YOU’LL LOVE: The cartoonishly large scallion bubble pancakes that bounce to your table joined by a little ramekin of curry dipping sauce. Embrace your inner Wonka as you stare down these silly looking but seriously tasty appetizers. INSIDER TIP: Take your leftover scallion pancake home and use the now deflated flavor balloon to wrap up thinly sliced beef for a quick riff on a Taiwanese classic. —SG BEST FOR TAKING OUT-OF-TOWNERS 111 E. Grace St., 804-912-1560 THE CUISINE: Chef Kevin Roberts and the crew at this Richmond institution give Jewish deli classics a modern spin. WHAT YOU’LL LOVE: Sipping coffee out of diner mugs or drinking a Bloody Miriam rimmed with everything bagel seasoning. WHAT YOU WON’T: That you can’t make reservations. (Though it’s also something you secretly love them for.) BEST FOR: A late breakfast after spending the wee hours rehashing decade-old memories with visiting friends. Perly’s is also a solid go-to birthday spot. ORDER: Where to begin? Latkes. The famed fish board. Matzoh ball soup. Schlubby Fries. A breakfast or deli sammie. Babka. Do it all and live your best Yiddish life. —EM BEST SOUTHERN STYLE 4901 Libbie Mill East Blvd., Suite 175, 804-358-7424 IDEAL MEAL: You’ve come for Walter Bundy’s reimagining of Southern classics, so surrender to the concept via Up South fried green tomatoes with Edwards Smokehouse bacon, or try the Compass Winds sorghum molasses-glazed duck, which Bundy serves with a Hubs peanut-studded rice. And don’t you dare skip dessert. The honey gelato, made using Bundy’s own supply, is worth it. INSIDER TIP: When the weather allows, Shaggy B’s patio is the perfect happy hour hideaway, with dollar oysters on the half shell and $6 classic cocktails. THE AMBIANCE: The devil dwells in the details of Shagbark’s meticulous interior, with its shagbark hickory partitions, sumptuous lighting and deer-antler chandeliers — a nod to the avid outdoorsman in the kitchen. —SG MOST OVERDUE FOR JAMES BEARD LOVE 1012 Lafayette St., 804-358-2011 THE CUISINE: Bold and comforting. Large plates of unctuous pastitsio and No. 5 pasta (the number refers to the pasta’s size), traditional Greek specialties loaded with cheese and noodles. Flaky pastry triangles with various fillings — spinach, spiced ground beef and tart cheese. WHAT YOU’LL LOVE: Stella’s ambiance feels similar to that of a large family gathering. It’s loud, a little cramped and happy. Dishes are super shareable. BEST SEAT IN THE HOUSE: The corner of the bar near the window. Head in for Meze Ora, a happy hour with great specials, and stay to watch the crowds arrive. WHAT YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW: Why matriarch Stella Dikos doesn’t have a James Beard Award nomination yet? We don’t know, either. —RM MOST APPROACHABLE Multiple locations; tazzakitchen.com WHAT TO EAT: The pizzas or anything from their central brick oven. Think charred cauliflower with pops of fresh mint; cast-iron-cooked goat cheese, gooey and tart; or smoked pork nachos. THE AMBIANCE: Chic, modern and edgy. High bar tables in front, low dining tables throughout. Open kitchens with direct views of the action. WHAT YOU'LL LOVE: The Short Pump, Midlothian and Scott’s Addition locations have sizable patios that are perfect for three seasons, thanks to heaters and fans. INSIDER TIP: They have a few locations in the Carolinas, if you happen to be traveling and want a little taste of home. —RM BEST FOR A GLOBAL LUNCH EXPERIENCE 2713 W. Broad St., 804-367-4990 THE CUISINE: Temple explores Laos and its bordering countries with dishes like Guay Teaw Sukhothai, a soupy frenzy that demands your spoon dip back for slurp after slurp of red-lacquered barbecue pork, house-made egg noodles, peanuts and scallions. On a cold afternoon, nothing beats the velvety Jok Gai, a steaming rice congee with a runny egg, crispy dried pork and earthy shiitakes. DRINK PICKS: A sparkling negroni (on tap!) is brightened with a fuschia-hued hibiscus flower. Their Muy Thai Punch and red and white sangrias are fun, fruity and rum-forward, perfect for sipping with something spicy. INSIDER TIP: This smart, quick spot features a ridiculously good midday deal — a $12 boxed lunch complete with appetizer, entree and drink. —SG MOST LIKELY TO FEEL LIKE HOME 415 N. First St., 804-225-7449 THE CUISINE: Soul food with a smile in the heart of Jackson Ward. KEY FACE: Mama herself, Velma Johnson. If you're there when she is, let her share a story about growing up in Richmond. Maybe she'll let a family recipe slip. IDEAL MEAL: Mac and cheese and perfectly flaky and seasoned catfish, or the pork chops that come baked or grilled: order one of each. Finish with a slice of Mama J's homemade cake, especially if there’s lemon or coconut-pineapple on deck. BEST FOR: That Sunday night when you need comfort food to prepare you for the week. 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Twisted cubic In mathematics, a twisted cubic is a smooth, rational curve C of degree three in projective 3-space P3. It is a fundamental example of a skew curve. It is essentially unique, up to projective transformation (the twisted cubic, therefore). It is generally considered to be the simplest example of a projective variety that is not linear or a hypersurface, and is given as such in most textbooks on algebraic geometry. It is the three-dimensional case of the rational normal curve, and is the image of a Veronese map of degree three on the projective line. Definition The twisted cubic is most easily given parametrically as the image of the map which assigns to the homogeneous coordinate the value In one coordinate patch of projective space, the map is simply the moment curve That is, it is the closure by a single point at infinity of the affine curve . Equivalently, it is a projective variety, defined as the zero locus of three smooth quadrics. Given the homogeneous coordinates on P3, it is the zero locus of the three homogeneous polynomials It may be checked that these three quadratic forms vanish identically when using the explicit parameterization above; that is, substituting x3 for X, and so on. In fact, the homogeneous ideal of the twisted cubic C is generated by three algebraic forms of degree two on P3. The generators of the ideal are Properties The twisted cubic has an assortment of elementary properties: It is the set-theoretic complete intersection of and , but not a scheme-theoretic or ideal-theoretic complete intersection (the resulting ideal is not radical, since is in it, but is not). Any four points on C span P3. Given six points in P3 with no four coplanar, there is a unique twisted cubic passing through them. The union of the tangent and secant lines (the secant variety) of a twisted cubic C fill up P3 and the lines are pairwise disjoint, except at points of the curve itself. In fact, the union of the tangent and secant lines of any non-planar smooth algebraic curve is three-dimensional. Further, any smooth algebraic variety with the property that every length four subscheme spans P3 has the property that the tangent and secant lines are pairwise disjoint, except at points of the variety itself. The projection of C onto a plane from a point on a tangent line of C yields a cuspidal cubic. The projection from a point on a secant line of C yields a nodal cubic. The projection from a point on C yields a conic section. References . Category:Algebraic curves | High | [
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U.S. Ambassador to London Woody Johnson has hailed Britain’s departure from the European Union, reaffirming President Trump’s enthusiasm for a free, world-facing United Kingdom and a future trade deal. The written message came in the final hours of Britain’s membership of the EU, when Ambassador Robert ‘Woody’ Johnson noted the historic occasion and expressed his good wishes to the United Kingdom in the next chapter of her national history. Hailing the transatlantic special relationship, the Ambassador said the United Kingdom and the United States would go forward to face global challenges together. Making clear the United States’ support for Britain, Ambassador Johnson wrote: “America shares your optimism and excitement about the many opportunities the future will bring” — one of those opportunities very evidently being the hotly-anticipated future free trade agreement between the two nations. I would like to wish the UK every success as you chart a new path outside of the EU. We share your optimism and excitement about the many opportunities the future will bring. pic.twitter.com/6H216ZalHL — Ambassador Johnson (@USAmbUK) January 31, 2020 A British-American trade deal has been a core part of the Brexit story since before even the 2016 referendum, with the fact that European Union laws and conventions ban its member-states from striking their own trade deals being a sticking point for many Eurosceptics during Britain’s membership of the bloc. This dynamic took on a dramatic turn in the runup to the 2016 Brexit referendum, when then-U.S. President Barack Obama told the British people that Britain would be at the “back of the queue” for a trade deal should it ever dare leave the European Union at the request of then-Prime Minister David Cameron. The intervention in the Brexit debate by President Obama was poorly received by many British voters, and was subsequently credited with helping the public swing behind Brexit. The fact the intervention was manufactured by David Cameron was subsequently revealed and compounded the controversy surrounding it. Confirmed: Cameron Told Obama to Say Brexit Britain Would Be ‘Back of the Queue’ https://t.co/k6QIKSdS6J — Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) July 2, 2018 Attitudes to a trade deal developed markedly under U.S. President Donald Trump, however, who flipped the phrase on its head, telling Britain when it was ready to leave the European Union it would be “at the front of the line” for a deal — something he has frequently repeated since. Ambassador Johnson emphasised this in his Brexit Day note of congratulations, writing: “President Donald J. Trump has long supported the United Kingdom’s decision to withdraw from the European Union. Now that the UK is back in control of its own trade policy, we look forward to achieving a broad Free Trade Agreement that will increase prosperity and create jobs in both our countries.” President Trump’s Ambassador has long been a cheerleader for a free trade agreement between the two countries, and has made clear his determination to see one signed. Speaking in January, Ambassador Johnson said the Trump Presidency and the British government would work “day and night” to facilitate a deal. | Mid | [
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Trump Signs Order Easing Regulatory Enforcement on Businesses President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday directing federal agencies to ease up on businesses that make good-faith attempts to follow agency guidance and regulations during the coronavirus pandemic. The move is the latest effort by the administration to ease the pain on American businesses following an unprecedented downturn that has seen more than 36 million people file for unemployment. It addresses one of the leading demands of the business community, but leaves to congressional Republicans the more complicated task of negotiating greater liability protections for businesses as Congress considers another big-ticket virus-relief bill. Trump’s order would hold back agencies like the Occupational Safety and Health Administration from bringing enforcement actions against businesses that try to keep up with evolving guidance documents. The extent to which the order would provide protection for businesses against pandemic-related liability would be limited—legislation would be needed to guard against lawsuits—but supporters say it would shield companies from fines for civil regulatory violations. The order is likely to draw sharp criticism from Democrats and worker advocates who have accused the Trump administration of prioritizing business protections over public safety. They’ll point out that the order limits federal agencies’ enforcement of various laws and regulations, but doesn’t shield companies from being hauled into court by workers, advocacy groups, and others alleging violations of some of those same laws. The order, for example, anticipates that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is likely to issue more guidance to stem the transmission of the novel coronavirus, and directs agencies to consider whether a business has made a “reasonable attempt” to comply before bringing an enforcement action. The order also would require agencies to review the hundreds of regulations the administration has suspended in response to the public health crisis to see which could be made permanent, according to a statement by the White House Office of Management and Budget. Agencies must use any emergency and good-cause authorities they have to speed up pending rulemakings that could spur economic growth. “And the potential is that you’re going to find regulations that nobody has ever thought of before because you’re going to be doing it yourselves,” Trump told his Cabinet during a meeting Tuesday. “And this gives you great authority to cut regulations.” More Red-Tape Cutting The executive order “will ask agencies to make permanent any deregulation possible, and asks them to look for more ways to deregulate to get the economy going,” acting OMB Director Russell Vought said in a statement. That won’t be quick or easy, according to administrative law scholars. “You basically can’t do any serious deregulation except through the notice-and-comment process,” said Richard Pierce, law professor at the George Washington University Law School. Permanently eliminating any significant regulation requires a lengthy rulemaking process, where agencies must develop a regulatory impact analysis and legal justification, and submit the rule to a public comment period and review by OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. In terms of enforcement, an agency cannot simply disregard a regulation, but the courts have long recognized some measure of discretion in enforcement priorities, legal experts said. Agencies previously have issued written policies of non-enforcement or intentions not to enforce certain requirements. The Environmental Protection Agency, for example, issued a memo on March 26 announcing certain enforcement discretion for noncompliance, saying it would relax its oversight of civil violations such as compliance monitoring and reporting during the public health emergency. “Many of these have been very good, but a presidential call for a wide-scale policy of non-enforcement would send a very strong signal to businesses that the government is not going to come down hard on them as they try to get back up and running,” said a May 5 report coordinated by the conservative Heritage Foundation. The Supreme Court’s 1985 decision in Heckler v. Chaney basically gave a green light to agencies to exercise enforcement discretion, said Cary Coglianese, professor of law and political science at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. “If an agency wants to just de-prioritize enforcement actions against small businesses in the coming months, that would be a pretty straightforward and legally clear path for the administration to take,” Coglianese said. Yet agencies will have to be careful that they don’t require businesses to do something to qualify for that enforcement relief, Coglianese said. One of the issues with the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, now under consideration by the Supreme Court, was telling people they had to apply and meet certain criteria to get enforcement relief. “And that does really begin to look a lot less like just exercising enforcement discretion and more like creating a structured rule,” Coglianese said. “That would be much more vulnerable to challenge.” To contact the reporter on this story: Cheryl Bolen in Washington at [email protected] | Low | [
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Vincent is a short tempered orphan, blessed with a super-human strength and living on the streets of the Ryuuga Ghettos. One fateful day, he is confronted by a man more powerful than himself and recruited into the ranks of GRAVE; a secret anti-terrorist organisation who's members also possess strange abilities. Situations become more complicated when an entity known as the Wrath is awakened and enters Vincent's body. Now having to come to terms with his new and deadly powers, Vincent is thrust head first into a world he never knew existed. However when an ancient, cannibalistic demon surfaces from the shadows of history and leads an army on the world, it falls to the members of GRAVE to stop them and save the world from total annihilation. Armed with a power that had been exiled for a thousand years, can Vincent be the key to the world's salvation or its demise? | Mid | [
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Q: error TS2339: Property 'log' does not exist on type '{ new (): Console; prototype: Console; }' class helloworld { constructor(public message: string){} } var hello = new helloworld('hello vishal'); Console.log(hello.message); I am getting this error at Console.log statement you can see the error clearly in the image i posted below A: You have typo in your script. JavaScript is Case sensitive. Enter: console.log(hello.message); Instead Console.log(hello.message); | Low | [
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SUN MICROSYSTEMS SECURITY BULLETIN: #00102 This information is only to be used for the purpose of alerting customers to problems. Any other use or re-broadcast of this information without the express written consent of Sun Microsystems shall be prohibited. Sun expressly disclaims all liability for any misuse of this information by any third party. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- These patches are available through your local Sun answer centers worldwide. As well as through anonymous ftp to ftp.uu.net in the ~ftp/sun-dist directory. Please refer to the BugID and PatchID when requesting patches from Sun answer centers. NO README information will be posted in the patch on UUNET. Please refer the the information below for patch installation instructions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sun Bug ID : 1040465 1044204 1040334 1047131 1049585 Synopsis : rpc.pwdauthd can be used to gain remote system knowledge Sun Patch ID : 100201-01 Available for: sun3, sun4 SunOS 4.1, SunOS 4.1_PSR_A, SunOS 4.1.1 Checksum of compressed tarfile on uunet: 100201-01.tar.Z = 07797 118 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- README information follows: Patch-ID# 100201-01 Keywords: login rpc.yppasswdd rpc.pwdauthd Synopsis: SunOS 4.1, SunOS 4.1_PSR_A 4.1.1: c2 jumbo patch Date: 15/Jan/91 SunOS release: 4.1 4.1_PSR_A 4.1.1 Unbundled Product: Unbundled Release: Topic: BugID'd fixed for this patch: 1040465 1044204 1040334 1047131 1049585 Architectures for which this patch is available: sun3(x), sun4(c,490,390) Patches which may conflict with this patch: 100138-02 This patch obsoletes patch 100138-02 Obsoleted by: Sys_V_Rel4 Problem Description: This patch contains the bug fixes to four bugs that were reported in relation to C2 security. login contains the bug fix related to password aging. The bug is due to the fact that the utility in libc that is used to read and parse passwd.adjunct does not parse the age field correctly. It always returns an empty field. login uses this utility to get the age field and does nothing with it. Therefore password aging is disabled. passwd does not have this problem because it reads and parses passwd.adjunct itself and uses the actual age field. rpc.pwdauthd contains the bug fix related to not being able to disable remote use of the daemon. It also allows the daemon to generate audit records using its own pseudo-user. rpc.yppasswdd contains the fix for the daemon mysteriously dying. It also allows the daemon to generate audit records using it's own pseudo-user. Modified binaries: /bin/login /usr/etc/rpc.pwdauthd /usr/etc/rpc.yppasswdd INSTALL: ============================================================================= = IF NIS is being run the new binaries need to be installed on all machines = = in the domain. Additionally yppasswdd needs to be started in /etc/rc.local= = edit /etc/rc.local and add in the following lines after the ypbind = = startup statements: = #This starts yppasswd daemon and tells it to look for the passwd.adjunct file rpc.yppasswdd /etc/passwd /etc/security/passwd.adjunct -m ============================================================================= Generically for all systems: *************************************************************************** * The following pseudo-users must be added to /etc/passwd and * * /etc/security/passwd.adjunct before changing any binaries * * This is so the auditing of the rpc.pwdauthd and rpc.yppasswd can occur * * * * /etc/passwd additions: * * * AUpwdauthd:##AUpwdauthd:10:10::: AUyppasswdd:##AUyppasswdd:11:10::: * * * * */etc/security/passwd.adjunct additions: * * * AUpwdauthd:*::::: AUyppasswdd:*::::: * * *************************************************************************** As root: First save the FCS distribution versions as a precaution: # cp /bin/login /bin/login.orig # cp /usr/etc/rpc.pwdauthd /usr/etc/rpc.pwdauthd.orig # cp /usr/etc/rpc.yppasswdd /usr/etc/rpc.yppasswdd.orig It is critical that the following steps be completed in single-user mode, so that the rpc.pwdauthd and rpc.yppasswd daemons are both disabled while the new versions are installed. # shutdown now The new version of the binaries can now be installed. The 4.1 and 4.1.1 versions are identical except for the library version they are expecting to dynamically link to. Substitute either sun3 or sun4 for {arch} and either 4.1 or 4.1.1 for {OS rev} # cp {arch}/{OS rev}/login /bin/login # chown root /bin/login # chmod 4755 /bin/login # chgrp staff /bin/login # cp {arch}/{OS rev}/rpc.pwdauthd /usr/etc/rpc.pwdauthd # chown root /usr/etc/rpc.pwdauthd # chgrp staff /usr/etc/rpc.pwdauthd # chmod 755 /usr/etc/rpc.pwdauthd # cp {arch}/{OS rev}/rpc.yppasswdd /usr/etc/rpc.yppasswdd # chown root /usr/etc/rpc.yppasswdd # chgrp staff /usr/etc/rpc.yppasswdd # chmod 755 /usr/etc/rpc.yppasswdd Double check permissions of the new files. If the permissions are set wrong, or the wrong architecture type is installed, login will not be able to occur except in single user mode (boot -s) Note the example below does not show the size of the binary as the sun3 and sun4 versions are different size. Doing a "file /bin/login" should tell you that it is a: mc68020 demand paged dynamically linked executable not stripped on a sun3, and a : sparc demand paged set-uid executable not stripped on a sun4 # ls -lg /bin/login -rwsr-xr-x 1 root staff # ls -lg /usr/etc/rpc/rpc.pwdauthd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff # ls -lg /usr/etc/rpc.yppasswdd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff Now you can either give a ^D (control D) from single user mode or reboot the machine. This finishes the installation. Brad Powell Sun Microsystems Software Security Coordinator. | Low | [
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Guest Post: GUNS: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Gun ownership and gun control are very controversial topics. If more people own guns then will there be more violence and more crime? If everyone is allowed to own guns then will there be negative consequences? Both of these questions are debateable and each of them has its proponents and opponents. In this article we’ll take a look at some interesting gun statistics from an objective viewpoint. The point is not to argue for or against gun ownership and or gun control. With that said, let’s look at the good, the bad, and the ugly gun statistics. The Good Gun ownership in America – as a percentage of households – has been in a shallow decline since 1960. In 1960 almost 50% of households had a gun. In 2010 that percentage was down to around 40%. Furthermore, the rates of firearm homicide deaths and non-fatal firearm crimes have also been falling steadily. From 1981 to 2010 those rates fell 45 and 75%, respectively. Lastly, the incidence of intentional homicides per 100,000 people is lower in the US than it is in many other countries. h/t @wu_tang_finance In sum, the rates of gun ownership and firearm homicides deaths and non-fatal firearm crimes have been in decline for a while. Furthermore, the intentional homicide rate in the US is relatively low. The Bad The homicide rate in the US is higher than it is in most other developed nations. h/t @gunsenseUSA Moreover, gun ownership per 100 people is higher in the US than it is anywhere else in the world. h/t @wu_tang_finance Unfortunately, mass shooting casualties continue to be a problem for the US. Homicide and gun ownership rates are down in the US, but relative to other countries, they’re still high. In addition, annual mass shooting casualties are on the rise. The Ugly Spending on guns and ammo has risen with the gini ratio – a statistical measure of income inequality. it’s also interesting to note that violent crimes are often committed by the same perpetrators. If the US wants to reduce the incidence of violent crime then it should shift its focus away from incarceration / punishment… …to treatment, rehabilitation, and prevention. There’s no two ways about it – guns are dangerous. That said, it’s not a question of “how many guns are out there?” – it’s a question of who’s holding them. We live in a reactionist society. Often times, we don’t deal with important issues until we have to. If we can take a more proactive stance and concentrate on preventing gun crimes, on reducing the number of repeat offenders, and on the rehabilitation and reintegration of criminals into society then it’s likely that the rate of firearm homicides and the financial burden associated with incarceration would fall. Most of the mass shootings are in locales where people aren't allowed to carry guns for their own protection, e.g. schools and malls posted to prohibit firearms. If those shootings are removed from the total, America looks a lot better than it already does. My wife has essentially zero weapon/gun/firearm/pistol/whatever experience. I have been patiently working on nudging her towards learning the basics. We rented a pistol (9mm) at a range and after some basic coaching was doing pretty good, but the inital noise/recoil was a barrier. So, let's shoot .22! Wrong! If you want a tin foil hat theory on .22, its because its the best way for a new individual to get the "gun experience" with out the recoil and without so much noise. It takes a while to desensatize to those things so that larger calibers can be practiced with and enjoyed. I finally had to hit up my old man (retired) for a brick of .22! Then we got into the whole "shipping ammo" drama ... We've found air rifles or air pistols with the .177 caliber does the same thing in getting people used to a gun. There is zero recoil, and they can enjoy shooting pellets time and again. And those things are really cheap. Gander Mountain had 22LR for sale on its website a couple of times to do, but it was always gone when I tried to order. Luckily I was one of the nutjobs that stocked up. We're still shooting target practice here. If you can severely restrict 22lr for, say, 6 years, you'll knock out 50% of future target shooters. At least, that's what they think. People still get interested as they get older. That's where we need to push. owned by abc. Oh yeah: The Good Gun ownership in America – as a percentage of households – has been in a shallow decline since 1960. In 1960 almost 50% of households had a gun. In 2010 that percentage was down to around 40%. I agree completely! Except I'll take my old (1989) Taurus PT92 over the Beretta cause I can't take that slide mounted safety which is also a major complaint from its military users. But I have found a lot more women who love shooting revolvers instead of semi-autos because the recoil is just one bump instead of the "bang-bing-bonk" recoil you get with a slide slamming back and forth. You don't know what you are talking about. 9 mm can be as lethal, or even more lethal than a 45 ACP, but with less recoil (more control) and 2x the magazine capacity. Give me a Springfield xDM with either Buffalo Bore or Corbon +P 115g hollowpoints and I'll go up against the Jack O'Connor theory anyday of the week. I own both calibers and almost never carry the 45, even though it's a fine caliber. Not knocking it. But your statement is mythological, and factually incorrect. 45 ACP is NOT the gold standard for personal defense as most people think it is, although I would definitely put it in the top-4 or top-5. When I carry, it's usually the gold standard round for one shot threat stops: 357 mag with Federal 357B 125 gr JHP. That's in a hammerless SP101, which is snubby so it's now for the feint of heart. Yeah, 2.75" barrel - reduced muzzled velocity, mean wrist flip. I know. But I don't plan on a 20, 30 foot encounter. The vast majority of firearms-related self defense situations are very up front and personal. It's not going to be the gun range distance, that's for sure. That round though, in a GP100, is going to smoke any other caliber in lethality, given similar shot placement. That's just a fact. 45 isn't even close. And I pray that I never have to fight a shot in anger. Who the hell would want the legal headache and that sitting on their conscious? If I feel the need for a semi-auto it's the XDm 9 mm with Corbon +P's. 19 plus one in the pipe. 9 mm is NOT a 45 on stun. The kinetic energy of a 115 grain +P has a kinetic energy of 450 ft-lbs. The average 230 gr 45 ACP has 415-430 on average. If the "big hole theory" is so valid then why is the Federal .357B the gold standard for handgun lethality in SD situations? The 45 ACP is a fine caliber and you can't go wrong with choosing it (I own one). But to call the 9 mm basically a pea shooter is a bunch of crap. The only true advantage the 45 ACP has is in cold weather situations, where the 45 can carry 230 gr ball, which can more effectively penetrate thick outerwear and still do considerable damage to the threat. That's it. But then I am considering the 357 again with semi-wadcutters in that scenario. Ohh, 3rd carry option? 380 ACP with alternating Buffalo Barnes JHP and Buffalo Bore Cast Hardball. Still beats a punch in the face and packs a whallop better than the average 38 SP. True the 45 is more effective than this, but even a subcompact is large compared to my LCP and when I want to "go light", this combo is pretty fucking deadly in its own right for close-up, face to face (mugging, carjacking) encounters. A cast hardball in the chest cavity or ocular region is going to put someone down. I will always challenge the "45 is better" or worse, "the 45 is best" myth when I see it, if only so that new shooters don't fall into that trap when they can get an equally lethal option that has more capacity, and far more importantly, much greater controllability and compactness than the 45. 9mm ammo has improved considerably over the years. I would not feel at all undergunned carrying a 9, I just choose not to. I prefer .45 for two reasons 1) 9mm may expand but .45 will not shrink 2) talk to any WWII veteran who used his 1911 in anger--to a man they will tell you it's a one shot stopper. I also own a snubby 357. In the right circumstances its a great gun and I do carry it some. However, the noise, concussion, and night blindness caused by its firing erases much if its admitted ft/lb advantage, particularly from a short barrel. And God forbid I had to take a longer shot with it (I agree statistically that is not as likely as a bad breath distance encounter). If an active shooter scenario develops while I'm dining with my family or at the mall I'm far more interested in putting a shot on target quickly to change the guy's mind about continuing his rampage than I am with whether I kill him with the first round. Shot placement is the key and the key to shot placement is the correct gun for the shooter's abilities and regular professional training and practice. Agreed on the snubby. 9 mm is my first choice out in the afternoon to evening precisely because with Fed 357B's it's like staring into the sun after a night shot. But like I explained below, it's a great fit for me and it packs one hell of a whallop for its size. Noise doesn't bother me, and can be an advantage in some cases as it scares the shit out of friends that have stood next to me when I've popped a few rounds off. Disagree with the accuracy issue. That gun is much more accurate that you think. Maybe it's just not "your gun", but that SP is an extension of my arm. PS. I have tried reduced muzzle flash Buffalo Bore's and they seriously reduce flash. But lately I have had a tough time finding them. Buffalo Bore makes GREAT ammo IMO. Sorry, it's often hard to gauge intent from written word as it is in normal conversation. My apologies. It just came off, to me at least, and I guess I was wrong, that I was encountering the Jack O'Conner fanatic Club, if you know what I mean, where every caliber except the 45 ACP bascially sucks. 45 is a fine caliber, which is why I own one. It's just not my first carry choice. I prefer the 9 over the 45 (actually I am 357 during the day, 9 in the evening, and 380 when I have lug something around for a while - That's because the previous poster is right. The muzzle flash of the snubby with a full throated 357B is blinding... and I have shot thousands of those rounds to get a good handle on the muzzle flip). So I carry the 9 in the evening, because I want control. Ironically, my control over the SP101 with full bang 125's is amazing, due to practice and "just chemistry with the piece" as others who have shot it have looked at me and said "what the %$%#$ is wrong with you! That's gonna break your wrist and the perp will beat you to death with your own gun. - But all that practice, and that "natural fit".... It shows you that provided the caliber, loading, and bullet choice are sufficient, the best gun is the one that you shoot best. That's why I didn't knock the 45. It's a great gun overall, and thee great gun in an arsenal for many just as my little wristbreaker SP101 is a "great gun" for ME. if we just moved chicago to canada..then canada would have a high rate of gun crime, come on canada take detroit and philly and that garden spot camden NJ ah heck take the whole state of NJ too. and then you would be number 1 for gun homicides. thats racissst. What gets me is the charade of gun control (background checks, etc.) promoted through the mainstream media for the consumption of the non-gunowners. Case in point: www.armslist.com? We are legally allowed to buy, sell, and trade guns as individuals as if they are baseball cards. Of course (and rightly so), it is illegal to sell a gun to someone you know is a felon or otherwise not legally allowed to own guns, but as I understand the law (I'm in Alabama) there is no legal burden for the seller to do a background check on one they are selling the gun to. In other words, if I've just met you and show you my shiny new toy and you like it so much you make me a nice cash offer on the spot, we can make an old fashioned exchange and move on our merry ways. For the media to even talk about "background checks" is deceptive because it acts like there is not this real and perfectly legal face to face market that exists outside of the dealer network that is burdened with calling in and checking an individual when selling them a gun. How stupid is that? Why even burden the dealers with it when non-eligible gun owners will just buy off of individuals on www.gunbroker.com or www.armslist.com? It's a damn stupid charade . . . At the same time, they are making it more mind bending and complex to be an FFL. Do an FFL search for your area. You'll see the numbers are down.i gave up mine because I just got too nervous about what little nit picky thing I'd forget would put me in hot water with BATFE. It was just a question of, is it worth it? Either have a full time compliance Attorney or risk having my ass resized in a Fed pen? Fuck all that. All the purchases of either rifles or pistols I have made through GunBroker required that a party holding a FFL completed the transaction. The FFL in turn had to submit the info for a bckground check before the gun was delivered to me. When selling a gun, I am required to ship it through a FFL after getting a fax'd copy of his or her license. Of course I am not buying or selling guns for criminal purposes. Obviously if I were I would be buying my guns on the street corner from another crook who stole them in the first place. So, at the end of the day, the non-criminal has to put up with the added nuisance and cost while the crook does not. But I do have that cargo carrier that sticks into the 2" receiver. A neat thing is that I also have an industrial plastic 55 gal. drum with lid and ring that locks tights and cradles perfectly in the carrier. Two ratchet straps keep that barrel so tight to the carrier that I could probablly roll the truck and the barrel would not budge. Perfect water-tight storage and transport for gear and whatever. As a bonus, it can just be rolled off and rolled to wherever. Could have saved my friends life. He walked into a convenince store that happened to be in the middle of a robbery. The clerk and he and one other shopper handed all their belongings to the two 'diverse' teen ['could have been my son'] thugs but the animals shot them anyway. The clerk and other shopped survived. My 24 y.o. buddy died on that linoleum floor that afternoon. You have described my worst nightmare. I feel for you. Raised with firearms. You hope they can help you protect your loved ones and friends. Unfortunately most events happen quicker than they can be used to prevent a bad guy from doing his damage. That doesnt deter me from owning them and being ready. The nightmare of not having one is worse than the nightmare of not being able to get to it. Saddest thing is you defending yourself when you are simply in fear often gets you prosecuted by law enforcement, or worse, sued by the bad guy's family for loss of companionship. So many stories like this including mine. A family member was murdered for $400 with a fire arm during a robbery. Never even came close to catching the animals. I was about as anti gun as you could be in those days. Within a year or so I was robbed and nearly died. That will take the nauseating "we don't need guns" right out of ya. After that I became a legal gun owner. Not long after that I had the good fortune to defend myself and others with a fire arm. That time had I not been armed I would not be here to write this post. There are animals out there that will kill you as easily as they breath. No amount of legislation, debate or wishful thinking will change that. The police are there to mop up after violent crimes have been committed, not prevent them. YOU are the first responder! "I'd love to spit some Beechnut in that dude's eyes and shoot him with my ole 45 Cause a country boy can survive country folks can survive Because you can't starve us out and you can't make us run Cause we'se them ole boys raised on shotguns We say grace and we say m'am if you ain't in to that we don't give a damn" If you included mass shootings by Americans with guns serving overseas they would have an even more convincing argument for banning guns. Alternatively you could just sentence the violent prisoners to work for Academi so thay can pay big$$$ restitution to their victims... save obscene amounts on prison costs... and still let them have their fun. Elite body guards should be required to have violent, multiple conviction prison records and heavy med scripts (so they are better) before being allowed to protect societies weathiest, most influential people. It's amazing how many "liberals" you can't make a dent in talking about economics or government. But take them to the range, put a gun in their hand, and it's a totally different ball game. 90% of them fade from their anti-gun stance after the second magazine. Two months later they've bought their own gun and you see them at the range every now and then, with a big grin on their face as they empty a tray. Sometimes you just gotta know how to relate to people. Even the most die-hard anti-gun people will often change their opinion after they hit the paper a few times. You know what else works with these liberals? Put them in a convenience store where the first guy in line pulls out a gun and shoots the clerk dead, turns and shoots the next customer in the head and then demands that the girlfriend of said customer remove her pants, all the while telling the rest of the patrons that they are next. That really seems to take the gun carrying objection right away from them. Not many of them argue that the cops are "only" 30 minutes away. You're right...most of them are afraid of their own shadow...but then I have 2 obamabot neighbors who both shoot because they lived in a Dem controlled badass city -and hence have seen how bad it can get, own firearms and can shoot...but they absolutely cannot make the connection that the people that they vote for would remove their right to possess firearms in a nanosecond. I find it interesting that those that would discredit the premise behind the second amendment all ways pull out the nuclear option.You know the argument. It runs like this:If the Constitution gives a person the right to own a gun without restriction, then a person should have the right to own an atomic bomb, tank or a RPG. Well, this may come as a surprise to you but in as much as the Supreme Court has deemed a corporation to be a person; privately owned nuclear bombs are strategically placed in and around many of our major cities.They exist in the form of nuclear reactors and they are manned by individuals all of whom are afflicted with the various foibles common in the rest of us.On any given day, an individual or group of individuals could decide for whatever reason to shut the pumps down in one or more of these reactors and they could make those cities uninhabitable for centuries. We run that risk every day simply because we want to keep the lights on. As for tanks and RPGs, they are already in the hands of private individuals working as contract employees for various federal and semi federal agencies such as Black Water and Halliburton. As I recall, Tom Clancy’s wife bought Tom a Sherman Tank for a present one year.Privately owned strategic bombers fly from one air show to the next.I soloed with a B-17 in the air pattern.An acquaintance of mine has five fighter bombers in his hanger and a Mig parked on the tarmac.Privately owned howitzers light up the ridges around Gettysburg every Fourth of July weekend. There is more heavy ordinance in the hands of private individuals than you can imagine.We tolerate this because many people enjoy these bits of living history put on display. I am truly astounded by the general assumption that we can make ourselves safe by making ourselves defenseless. This flies in the face of history.No adequately armed population was ever genocided.They had to be disarmed first.Every disarmament was served up on the pretext that it served public safety. Europe holds itself up as being a shining example of civility and more common sense gun laws.Yet, Europe was the fulcrum of three world wars and is home to Dachau and Buchenwald. The Europeans are very civil until they are not. The three mass killings with the highest death tolls in the United States did not even involve guns.If we take the government’s accounting of events, the most successful mass murderers in American History used box cutters as their weapons of choice.The second used a truck load to fertilizer and the third used a gallon or so of gasoline.Check out the Happy Land Social Club fire. Your automobile poses a far greater threat to you and your family than does the gun owning public. A significant, well armed minority here in the United States believes that the end of the Republic will be ushered in with gun confiscation.Some of these people have taken Solzhenitsyn’s lamentation of how he burned in the camps to heart. Within that minority there is another minority that will resist any effort of confiscation with deadly force.Some estimate that minority to be around three percent of the gun owning population.If that assumption is correct, then we are talking about a swarm of well over a million men and women. Agents and provocateurs serving our enemies are well aware of these numbers. They would like nothing more than to set us against one another.Your inability to properly asses risk may inadvertently light the fuse that starts the next civil war.Unlike that last war, the battle lines will be drawn between our urban and rural populations.Without the willing support of the hinterlands, our cities cannot feed themselves much less keep the lights on. Those that are pushing this agenda are tools of those that would destroy our country. Here here! I am for that up to and including another consenting adult, if that is your bag. In all seriousness, most arguments stem from weakness in all of these issues. We talk about how this firearm or that firearm has a sporting purpose or how they are just like any other semi auto rifle (say, FN FAL versus a Remington 750). Then the NRA will come along and sell us out 90% and brag about the 10% they saved. This whole mythical safe society is just that, a myth. Because it only takes 1 individual to shatter this false sense of safety. Then society tries to rebuild this facade by some new rule that would stop whatever just happened. And on and on, down the road to tyranny we go. I have little doubt as to 'The Tribes' hidden agenda, no need to speak any further on that, but if you truly follow this back as far as you can go you will find things that shock you even more. Do a little research into the orgins of Feminism and how far back that goes and thier goals, I'll give you a hint I can track that back to 1674 anf the petition against coffee - Happy Hunting! I am from Kentucky everyone knows we are bat shit crazy because of the ky long rifle which beat the British. All I can say is since then the civil war ww1 ww 2 is come and get some. Ps I do have a ky long rifle , and my fave pistol is a 1851 navy and my 1911. As for what else I have guess ps I have family friends that's gay and transgendered . Do I agree with ? No . But. It's not my place to judge. Hitler went after the weak the gays the unwanted as much as the Jews. Arm yourselves karl denninger wrote an excellent piece that would destroy this one. Basically, if you take a few inner cities with very 'urban' populations, which also tend to have gang problems, out of the equation, gun crime in this country drops down to almost nothing. Just a handful of inner cities, nearly all of which have very strict gun laws on the book, the crime rate disappears. And why are all these people shooting each other and anyone unlucky enough to be nearby? drug profits. This article fails to mention drug prohibition is THE reason most of these shootings happen. 'the war on drugs is a war on freedom' - Laurance Vance The person who pulls the trigger is to blame. Not guns, not drugs. Not schools, streets, or neighborhoods. These are all inanimate objects. Who pulls the trigger? 58% of the time, that person is a black male betweeen the ages of 14-24, despite being only 1% of the total population. The gun problem in America is: Young black males with guns. There. Said it. Maybe it's not a gun problem after all. B-b-but raycist. I know. I can see. The stats are there for all to see. Don't believe them? Ask a cop. Don't believe them? Purchase a police scanner and listen to the descriptions of the perps in real time. Political Correctness won't let us speak the evidence before our eyes, so we must make any number of excuses involving a myriad of inanimate objects instead of confronting the real problem. Which is: young black males with guns. And the PC regime won't allow anyone to say so, much less act against. Stop and frisk worked, but it was catching too many blacks, so it had go. Zimmerman worked. But he shot a black, so he had to get railroaded. So. Systematically speaking... The Welfare State pops them out too quickly for the Police State to lock them up. Elites are heavily involved in the public-privateering of both these States, so in true Anarcho-tyrannist fashion expect nothing to be done except the further harassment of law-abiding, primarily white, gun owners. Know the risks, and protect yourselves people. And by all means stop parroting the narratives that promote Welfare & Prison State agendas. Tell that to the mother that pops a few caps in an intruder to protect her kids. Furthermore, this one: "The homicide rate in the US is higher than it is in most other developed nations." Needs to be broken down by demographic and region to become understandable. The demographics of it is very enlightening. And then this nugget of feces: "it’s also interesting to note that violent crimes are often committed by the same perpetrators."....."If the US wants to reduce the incidence of violent crime then it should shift its focus away from incarceration / punishment…" Pods, while I support your point, exactly who beside a few of us, gives a flying fuck what the constitution says? Anyone notice that virtually everything they are doing is not in the constitution and when you hear the Supremes explain it, if unconstitutional laws or government actions take place and are not substantially resisted by CONgress, they are de facto amendments and good as constitutional. We can argue about constitutionality all day long, but those imposing on us don't give a fuck. I recommend watching the whole video - I promise it's very direct, short and sweet. My favorite part is about 2:15 ish when, if you slow it down, you can see the woman's leg pass through the planter box. | Mid | [
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Hugh Alexander Pollock Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Alexander Pollock (29 July 1888 – 6 November 1971) was a British publishing editor, who served as a soldier in the Royal Scots Fusiliers in the First World War and in the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps in the Second World War. Married three times, he was the first husband of Enid Blyton, and then Ida Pollock, both writers. Biography Early life Hugh Alexander Pollock was born in Ayr, Scotland, the elder of the two sons of bookseller and publisher William Smillie Pollock (1858–1942) and his wife Jessie Smith McBride. He was educated at Ayr Academy. He and his younger brother Fred worked in his father's business. He joined the British Army, and became a second lieutenant in the 5th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers in May 1912. He married Marion Atkinson in October 1913, at the Hotel Dalblair in Ayr. They had two sons, William Cecil Alexander (1914–16) and Edward Alistair (1915–69). In the First World War, he served with his regiment in Gallipoli, Palestine and France. He was a captain, serving as an adjutant, in September 1915. From December 1915 to May 1916, he had served as commander of the 6th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers on the Western Front. He had been promoted to major, attached to the 12th Battalion, when he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1919. After the war, he served as a temporary captain in the Indian Army. Publisher and marriage to Enid Blyton After leaving the army Pollock moved to England and joined the publishers George Newnes in London. He worked with Winston Churchill in the 1920s, editing Churchill's six-volume narrative history The World Crisis, published between 1923 and 1931. Through Newnes Pollock met Enid Blyton, a writer nine years his junior, after she had been commissioned to write a children's book about London Zoo. Their relationship developed, and shortly after he divorced his estranged first wife he married Blyton at Bromley Register Office in August 1924; the couple spent their honeymoon in Jersey. After their marriage the Pollocks lived in a flat in Chelsea. They moved out of central London in 1926 to live at Elfin Cottage in Beckenham, and then to Old Thatch in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire in 1929. They had two daughters: Gillian Mary (1931–2007), and Imogen Mary (b. 1935). The family moved in 1938, settling in a large house in Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire which was named Green Hedges by readers of Blyton's magazine Sunny Stories. Pollock became a heavy drinker in the late 1930s. His marriage to Blyton came under severe strain, and she had a series of affairs, the most serious being with Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters, a London surgeon, in 1941. Pollock rejoined the Army after the outbreak of the Second World War and worked in the Cabinet Office. He was appointed a major in the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps in November 1940, and was appointed the Commandant of the War Office School for Instructors of the Home Guard in 1940, based at a (now demolished) country house at Denbies in Dorking. Pollock had met aspiring author Ida Crowe, nineteen years his junior, after she submitted in the 1920s her first novel, Palanquins and coloured lanterns, to George Newnes and the firm lost it during six months; Pollock retrieved the book, and it was finally published in the mid-1930s. After years of friendship, Pollock now asked Crowe to join him in Dorking in a secretarial role. During a bungled firearms training session on a firing range, he was hit by shrapnel and Ida contacted Enid, who declined to visit her husband because she was busy and hated hospitals. In May 1942, during Ida's visit to her mother's home in Hastings, a bomb destroyed the house. She escaped unhurt, but her mother was in hospital for two weeks. Pollock paid for Ida to stay at Claridges and he said he had decided to divorce his wife. Pollock was posted to the United States in June 1942 to advise on civil defence. Pollock and Blyton were divorced in 1943. Blyton married her lover Darrell Waters on 20 October 1943, and Pollock and Crowe were married at Guildhall Register Office six days later. After the marriages, Enid changed the surname of their daughters and stopped him from contacting them, and he did not see them again. The only child of his third marriage, Rosemary, was born in 1944. He was a lieutenant colonel in the Royal Pioneer Corps when appointed an Officer in the US Legion of Merit in 1947. Later life Pollock left the Army for a second time after the Second World War with the rank of lieutenant colonel, but found Blyton prevented him returning to his old job at George Newnes, threatening to change her publisher if he was accepted back. She also used her influence to block him from working elsewhere in the publishing business, and he worked in the Cabinet Office. His heavy drinking resumed and he petitioned for bankruptcy in 1950. Meanwhile, his third wife decided to financially support the family writing romances. Her first contemporary romance was published by Mills & Boon in 1952. Being in print with several major international publishers at the same time, she decided to use multiple pseudonyms and she found success as a romantic novelist. It was their daughter's asthma that brought the Pollocks to Cornwall. After it, they lived at various places in England, Ireland, France, Italy, and Switzerland before settling in Malta. Their daughter Rosemary also became a writer from 1969 to 1981. Pollock died at 82, on 8 November 1971 in Malta, and is buried at the military cemetery at Imtarfa. His family returned to England, where his wife died on 3 December 2013, at 105. 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Do video game demos hurt sales of a game? Something i was thinking about recently. I notice that almost all the times I download a demo for a game I end up never buying the actual game. It's not because the demos are bad but either the demo didn't sell me enough on the game or was satisfied with the demo to not need to buy the full version. No I'm pretty sure they help. More times than not, the demo encourages more people to buy the game than it does deter people from buying it. I don't have any concrete stats on this but the mere fact that companies still put out demos makes me think that they work somewhat. I find myself borderline on games a lot and I want a demo that I can play to get a feel for the game and see how well it will run on my pc. I have passed up a lot of games because I was borderline. I have bought many games that I was unsure about because the demo wow'd me. If a demo satisfies me on the game or doesn't impress me... it's not the fault of it being a demo... it's the fault of the game being uninteresting to me. If I had bought the game for any reasonable amount of money and hated it, I'm pretty likely to never buy anything from that developer again. If I play a demo and it's just "meh" I will often continue to check out their stuff because I remember playing it. I also think it's a sign that the company stands behind their game that they are willing to let you sample it and that suggests a stronger title and a better developer. So overall I think demos are a good thing and probably help sales of games. If they didn't, I would wager that they would have gone by the wayside long ago as we have had game demos around for decades now. That's kind of a loaded question. It will hurt the sale of games that suck... but if you a play the demo for a well written (and well developed) game there's no way it could hurt sales. If anything, it would boost sales. Depends on the game. If I play a demo that I have fun with, I usually buy the actual game. If I don't like the demo, I usually don't buy the game. I honestly think it depends on how the demo is set up. | High | [
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Can't get Hawks tickets? Try practice CaptionKristen Smith, 20, Naperville Hilary Higgins/RedEye Kristen Smith, 20, Naperville JERSEY: Dustin Byfuglien, No. 33 (2005-10) Me and my dad are both big Byfuglien fans, so we came here, went to a game, and we both bought matching jerseys. This was two years ago. So 2011. So after he was off the team. Yes. We were just big fans, and we never... Kristen Smith, 20, Naperville JERSEY: Dustin Byfuglien, No. 33 (2005-10) Me and my dad are both big Byfuglien fans, so we came here, went to a game, and we both bought matching jerseys. This was two years ago. So 2011. So after he was off the team. Yes. We were just big fans, and we never... (Hilary Higgins/RedEye) JERSEY: Patrick Kane, Olympics, No. 88 (2007-present, Olympics in 2010) I have lots of Hawks jerseys, and this is actually the newest one I have. I got it because of the Olympic craze a couple years ago, with the United States going pretty far. I wanted a blue one, but I couldn't find a blue... JERSEY: Patrick Kane, Olympics, No. 88 (2007-present, Olympics in 2010) I have lots of Hawks jerseys, and this is actually the newest one I have. I got it because of the Olympic craze a couple years ago, with the United States going pretty far. I wanted a blue one, but I couldn't find a blue... (Hilary Higgins/RedEye) Ray Pecora, 32, Glendale Heights JERSEY: Jeff Hamilton, No. 51 (2006-07) So, I have to be honest … You've never heard of him. I had to look this guy up. This guy played with the team the year before Kane and Toews came. He was their best player. So that shows that I was one of like the 12... Ray Pecora, 32, Glendale Heights JERSEY: Jeff Hamilton, No. 51 (2006-07) So, I have to be honest … You've never heard of him. I had to look this guy up. This guy played with the team the year before Kane and Toews came. He was their best player. So that shows that I was one of like the 12... (Hilary Higgins/RedEye) Luke Biltgen, 26, Crete JERSEY: Bob Probert, No. 24 (1994-02) Probie was my favorite player growing up. I'm a hockey player, and I wore No. 24 and I still wear No. 24 because of Bob Probert. I love the way he played. I love the style of game and all that shit. You've got your fight face on. I... Luke Biltgen, 26, Crete JERSEY: Bob Probert, No. 24 (1994-02) Probie was my favorite player growing up. I'm a hockey player, and I wore No. 24 and I still wear No. 24 because of Bob Probert. I love the way he played. I love the style of game and all that shit. You've got your fight face on. I... (Hilary Higgins/RedEye) Vince Labriola, 26, Wrigleyville JERSEY: Stan Mikita, No. 21 (1958-80) I always had VHS tapes of the Hawks, and I always used to watch those, and [Mikita] was one of the best. It's kind of a bummer that I never got to see him in person, but when I bought a jersey, I figured I would get somebody... Vince Labriola, 26, Wrigleyville JERSEY: Stan Mikita, No. 21 (1958-80) I always had VHS tapes of the Hawks, and I always used to watch those, and [Mikita] was one of the best. It's kind of a bummer that I never got to see him in person, but when I bought a jersey, I figured I would get somebody... (Hilary Higgins/RedEye) Stroll into Johnny's IceHouse West at 2550 W. Madison St. and you'll see a typical hockey facility. It is home to recreational leagues. It has a bulletin board updating visitors on upcoming camps, skill seminars and pickup games. It sells hockey gear and has a skate-sharpening service. It is also free to the public, which is cool if you're a hockey fan who wants to watch one of the aforementioned leagues. "I gotta see them skate in person," Brett Cozzi said at a practice in April. The 19-year-old from Elmhurst has been a Hawks fan all his life, and used to attend games with his father and uncle. "My uncle wasn’t able to get season tickets this year,” Cozzi said, "so it's just great to see them play, see how they work. They're the best team in the world right now. What's not to like?" Indeed. Practice is optional on this particular Wednesday, leaving the ice bereft of the team's stars. The entire team is back the following day. But it's a full house at Johnny's both days, with fans pressed against the glass at ice level on the facility's second floor, and many more seated a floor above in the bleachers. While the players run drills, fans get an up-close view of their size, speed, precision and game planning. "I like to see where they're passing and where they're shooting," said Nate Bastian, 18, of Batavia. Bastian is a hockey player who played most recently in the American West Hockey League. "I just look for little things, like where they're passing the puck, and how they're receiving the puck and stuff like that." "You see all the work, all the preparation for the games, how they practice," said Nicholas Latona, 28, of Midway. "It's what makes them as good as they are right now: preparation." For Chicagoans and suburbanites, Johnny's West is accessible via the CTA and Interstates 290 and 90/94. Then there are Katharina Holst and Anne Neuschwander, who flew in from Germany to catch a few games. They learned about practice while scanning the Blackhawks website. "The atmosphere is relaxed," said Neuschwander, 31. "At a game, there's always a tense atmosphere. This feels very comfortable and a little bit family-like. Up here [in the bleachers], you feel like you're almost down there [on the ice]." "If you want to learn something about hockey, this is the best place to be," said Holst, 29. "You can see them develop plays. Things that you only glimpse on TV, and then the camera moves somewhere else. Sometimes you don't even see how the play starts, or [you just see] the finish. It's interesting to learn about how they try to practice." "When I come out here," said Cozzi, who plays hockey and also works at the Total Hockey store in Elmhurst, "I mainly look for every guy's personal advantage—what makes them good as a player. Stalberg with his speed, Kane with his hands. And then beside that, since I sell a lot of hockey gear, I like to see what guys are wearing." "You get to see more of their personalities," said Jessica Mutert, 28, of the West Loop. "You get to see them goof around. It's low-key. It's not crowded. You're not a thousand feet up." After practice ends, fans wait outside in hopes of collecting autographs from players, many of whom stop to speak with fans. On this day, despite steady rainfall, center Michael Frolik stopped his car to sign, talk and take pictures. "He touched my phone!" one young fan shouted to her friends. She had asked Frolik if he would take a picture with her, and he complied. Among the fans outside was Latona, who likes to stay after practice to meet players. "You get to see who they really are," he said. "Actually talk to them and see that they're normal people like us." Though there is no set practice schedule, fans can monitor it at blackhawks.nhl.com by checking the "Practice Schedule" link at the end of the "Schedule" tab. Most practices begin at 11 a.m. and are open throughout the playoffs, though they are subject to last-minute changes and even cancellation. But as Cozzi says, if you can make it, it's a must for Hawks fans. "You just gotta see how it works outside the game, you know?" he said. "Practice is a huge thing when it comes to the NHL, or any hockey team. You get a chance to see how they operate drills. How they're going about making these picture-perfect passes and these picture-perfect goals. It's just an amazing experience. And it's free, too! So why not?" We're compiling the progression of fans' beards, from Day 1 until the Blackhawks stop playing. Want to join? Tweet your picture to @brithewebguy or email one to [email protected]. Remember to include which day of growth you are sending us. Go Blackhawks! Want more? Discuss this... The Chicago Cubs on Tuesday sought City Hall permission to expand construction hours at Wrigley Field, with bleacher work falling well behind schedule on the team's $375 million ballpark renovation project. On Wednesday night, TBS will air a special episode of "Conan" filmed entirely in Cuba, making it the first American late-night show to broadcast from the island nation since the embargo went into effect in 1962. Host Conan O'Brien will follow in the footsteps of Jack Paar,... | Low | [
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Crews in Superior recently finished repairing the culvert at Barker's Island from the flooding caused by the storms one year ago, almost to the date, but the 2-4 inches of rain that Superior got overnight was enough to cause serious damage for the second year in a row. While I was taking these photos, a resident who lived across the street from the culvert struck up a conversation with me and he suspects that because of the flooding in the culvert his basement flooded again for the second year in row and he is considering legal action against the city for the continued flooding problems. As you can see in the photos below crews are already working to repair the damage which is significantly less than last year. | Mid | [
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Q: How do I convert to UTC? For highstock / highcharts I need the date format to be like this: series: [{ data: [[1331028000000, 5], [1331031600000, 6], [1331035200000, 4]] }] The first number in each array is the date-stamp, I think it is UTC. When I get the data that I need to put into the chart, I get it like this: "2013-06-08T06:00:00.000-07:00" My question is, what format is this? And how should I convert it to what I need for highstock / highcharts. A: Just throw that string into a Date() function and you should get it back as a Javascript Date object. var myDate = new Date('2013-06-08T06:00:00.000-07:00'); To get it back as a formal UNIX timestamp, you just need to convert it back to a number, and divide by 1000 (as there are a thousand ms in a second), but it looks like you're looking for the ms value, not a formal UNIX timestamp. Easiest way would be to use the + prefix operator. var myUnixTimestamp = +myDate; // 1370696400000 | Mid | [
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Teen Mom 3 Returning For Season 2, Says Briana Jejesus Credit: MTV The debut season of Teen Mom 3 is more than half way over, and we're already sad-spiraling. This show is literally the only reason we're able to crawl out of bed on Monday mornings (they're a mother, y'all), and the prospect of it being over is traumatizing to say the least. The good news? Teen Mom 3 is a smash hit, and it looks like MTV is serving up seconds! Teen Mom and Teen Mom 2 each had four seasons (though word on the street is that Teen Mom 2 is coming back for Season 5), so it makes sense that Teen Mom 3 will follow in its predecessors foot steps. In fact, the show's resident sweetheart, Briana Dejesus, spilled the beans and confirmed that Teen Mom 3 will be back for Season 2! "Who's ready for a season 2 of #teenmom3?" Briana tweeted on October 15. "Even if season one isn't even over yet! (; RT @mtv." We're so excited, we just can't hide it! Of course, the MTV Powers That Be have yet to confirm Teen Mom 3's second season, but it's likely that the show will get the green light considering how successful this season has been. The people have spoken! Do you think Teen Mom 3 will come back for a second season? And more importantly, will you tune in? Hit the comments! | Mid | [
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Disability and Access This tour location is approximately 40 minutes from the Channel Terminals and starts at Hardelot Chateau, close to the villages of Condette and Hardelot sur Plage. To start the walk, go to Hardelot Chateau, via the village of Condette (follow sign-posts) and park at the car park (where there is provision for cars, vans and coaches and a café and facilities on site). From the car park entrance, when leaving the castle with the café on the left, turn left on to a dead-end small road (Rue de la Source) with some residential houses and proceed 290m, when on the right there is a track and then an entry (with information board and route indicator) on to the Chemin des Juifs, via a wooden chicane into the Foret Domaniale d'Ecault. Follow the concrete road through the forest and sand dunes until the Jewish memorial is reached after 1.4 km, the first stop on the tour. Disabled Access The Chemin des Juifs is wheel-chair accessible on the concrete roadway. The trail is a round 3 - 4 miles with some steep gradients towards the far end. The site of the camp and memorial at Dannes is easily accessible via a car park leading directly to the cemeery, though the Kreigsmarine is 1km along an un-metalled road and the longer tour route might not be suitable for those with mobility problems, though the visit to the Bunker at Dunnette would be feasible, as it can be accessed directly off a largely tarmacked road and vehicular access is possible. | Mid | [
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Q: Why ban XSS instead of flagging it? Consider a browser that allows an XMLHttpRequest downloaded from foo.net to make requests to bar.net, but attaches a XHR-Origin: http://foo.net (or possibly a more descriptive value like http://foo.net/trustedapp.js). The XHR couldn't touch that header and the server could set rules based on where the XHR-instantiating code comes from. Since the W3C's specification (albeit relaxed with CORS) is more extreme than this, what did they find wrong with this technique? What vulnerabilities exist that truly require an XSS ban? A: There are websites out there, that will not be updated as soon as the first browser supports your proposal. Those sites will not check the XHR-Origin header and are therefore vulnerable. Vulnerability example Let assume you are logged in to your bank. Without logging out, you visit another website. This website sends an XHR-request to your bank to request a JSON response, which is used in the account history view. Yes, this request will have a XHR-Origin header, but if the bank software is not adjusted, it will reveal sensitive data. So it is the responsibility of the browser not to break existing SOP restrictions. Is CORS fully SOP compatible? The CORS specification makes a number of exceptions for which the preflight check is not required. Those are based on situations, in which the SOP was never enforced in the psat (e. g. form submissions). The problem in the current draft is, that it is solely based on the Content-Type header, but web applications tend to ignore it. There was a nice talk by Shreeraj Shah at Blackhat Europe 2012 on HTML5 Top 10 Threats: Stealth Attacks and Silent Exploits | Mid | [
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Wilson NFL Mini Replica Game Football Save 1% on the Wilson NFL Mini Replica Game Football by Wilson at Hit The Ice Box. MPN: YEV-557. Hurry! Limited time offer. Offer valid only while supplies last. Just like the official game ball of the NFL, the NFL Mini Replica looks worthy of playing on Sundays. But with a durable construction and easy grip and size you can kick-off a game any day. Every player, every kick and every touchdown in the NFL and countless NCAA Championship games have been with a Wilson football. We know what it takes to play at the highest level, and we know that 70 years of success is just the beginning. We will never stop improving out technologies or innovating our Product Description & Reviews Just like the official game ball of the NFL, the NFL Mini Replica looks worthy of playing on Sundays. But with a durable construction and easy grip and size you can kick-off a game any day. Every player, every kick and every touchdown in the NFL and countless NCAA Championship games have been with a Wilson football. We know what it takes to play at the highest level, and we know that 70 years of success is just the beginning. We will never stop improving out technologies or innovating our Have questions about this item, or would like to inquire about a custom or bulk order? If you have any questions about this product, contact us by completing and submitting the form below. If you are looking for a specif part number, please include it with your message. | High | [
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Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!magnesium.club.cc.cmu.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!rainbow.ecn.purdue.edu!stamber From: [email protected] (Kevin L. Stamber) Subject: ESPN, the network with a heart... Message-ID: <[email protected]> Keywords: NOT! Sender: [email protected] (USENET news) Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 02:50:38 GMT Lines: 22 Dale Hunter ties the game, scoring his third goal of the game with 2.7 seconds remaining in regulation. You could feel it coming on. "Due to contractual agreements, ESPN will be unable to carry the rest of this game live, so that we may show you a worthless early-season battle between those two pennant contenders, the Cleveland Indians and the California Angels. When the winning goal is scored, we WILL do the grave injustice of breaking into the baseball game -- something reserved only for the deaths of Presidents or the trading of Joe Montana to the Chiefs -- to show you the goal on instant replay. "Aren't you SO lucky to have national coverage of hockey?" It's HEIDI all over again, dammit! Kevin L. Stamber Purdue University PENGUINS 7, DEVILS 0 -- ROLL TRAIN, ROLL! | Mid | [
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Easigo Accident Management Company helps UK drivers. After a car accident, the first point, when picking an accident management company to handle your accident claim, is to consider whether you are being charged for the service and whether you will receive 100% compensation, with no deductions for costs etc. A lot of companies advertise ‘no win no fee’ but this does not mean you get their service for free. You need to select a company such as Easigo Accident Management Company; they never charge the customer and do not keep any of your compensation. Some other accident management companies make you buy an insurance policy; this is no different than paying fees! Easigo Accident Management Company clearly state you never pay any fees and you keep a 100% of the compensation awarded you. They also only handle road accident claims, so are experts in that field. If you have an accident claim, then simply getting injury compensation is only one area of help you need from an accident management company. If your vehicle is damaged, you need it repairing and some other means of transport providing while this is happening. You need an accident management company- such as Easigo Accident Management Company. They will arrange to get your damaged vehicle picked up ( if necessary), taken for repairs, and give you a similar or better replacement to use while this is happening. If your vehicle is still drivable, Easigo Accident Management will arrange for a replacement when yours goes in for repairs. Because Easigo Accident Management file your accident claim directly with the other party’s insurers, you will not be charged an excess- something most insurers do, whether it is your fault or not! It maybe that you prefer a cash in lieu settlement, to getting your vehicle repaired. All repairs are quoted with new parts, so it’s often possible to fix it yourself and pocket the balance. This is not an option your insurers will offer- Easigo Accident Management can do this for you. Compensation awards for road accident claims can often be a confusing area. It is simply wrong for companies to advertise that they can get you so much for a particular injury or that they can get more than someone else. The compensation award for an accident claim is determined by a number of factors (previous health conditions, occupation, your own body’s ability to recover etc To conclude, only use an accident management company which charges no fees and give you a 100% compensation. Do not be misled by inflated compensation claims values. Stick to accident management companies, such as the Easigo Accident Management Company, who are experts in this area. It is likely you may need help with replacement transport, getting your vehicle repaired etc, - these are all services offered entirely free by Easigo Accident Management. | Mid | [
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In spray painting and the like, it is conventional to provide a mask that comprises a body adapted to fit over the mouth and nose of the wearer and be held in position by straps. Such an arrangement includes one or more inlet valves and associated filters through which the wearer inhales and an outlet valve through which the wearer exhales. Where the environment is very contaminated, it is common that there be provided a pair of filters in series at the inlet valves, a cotton or cellulose filter to filter out particles and an activated charcoal filter to filter out solvent vapors. Such filters need to be replaced frequently. As a result, the use of such masks is expensive. Another problem with standard type mask arrangements is that they are unsatisfactory for the wearer who has heavy facial hair because of the inability of the mask to seal around the face or for persons having differently shaped faces. Among the objectives of the present invention are to provide an arrangement for conversion of the conventional safety masks for connection to a source of clean air; which can be readily adapted to conventional safety masks; which is low in cost; which obviates the need for a particle filter; which can be adapted to various types of safety masks; and which can be used in an environment of highly toxic paints. In accordance with the invention, a cap is adapted to be positioned over the conventional filter and is interconnected to the filter. The cap has an opening in a wall thereof, and is connected by a tube to a valve supported by the body of the wearer. The valve includes an inlet for connection to a source of clean air, a first outlet to the tube connected to the opening in the mask and a second outlet for connection to a paint spray gun. | Mid | [
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SS Henry St. George Tucker SS Henry St. George Tucker was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Henry St. George Tucker, a Virginia jurist, law professor, and US Congressman (1815–1819). Construction Henry St. George Tucker was laid down on 25 February 1942, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MCE hull 37, by the Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland; she was sponsored by Miss Dorothy Baskarvill, the daughter of the managing editor of the Baltimore News-Post at the Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, and was launched on 14 May 1942. History She was allocated to American South African Line, Inc., on 8 June 1942. On 8 June 1948, she was laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Beaumont, Texas. On 2 February 1966, she was sold for scrapping to Southern Scrap Material Co., Ltd., along with her sister ships and , for $151,079.79. She was withdrawn from the fleet on 21 July 1966. References Bibliography Category:Liberty ships Category:Ships built in Baltimore Category:1942 ships Category:Beaumont Reserve Fleet | Mid | [
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Re: Finding Max and Min values from string args It seems like the args passed to the Arrays.asList() method was treated like it was a primitive integers. What version of Java are you using? Btw, the main method of your java class should have the String[] as the parameter to make it executable. Hi, my java is java6, I did it in eclipse and I made "String[]" to "Integer[]" for the original starter of the thread 'mortus' because he wanted to find the maximum values of the arguments and line 5 containing "Integer[]" didn't show an error in eclipse with java 6 thx, dhilip Re: Arrays and Collection w.r.t. the question: how can the minimum of a bunch of Strings ever be an int? Know what you're doing before you blindly try to copy a piece of code that you don't understand. Jos this was in an old thread he was asking to find maximum of the arguments given to a class and someone moved this post to a new thread by the time you were hearing to "clubbed to death" (not concerned if it is not from england and it is from hollywood anyways) Re: Arrays and Collection Originally Posted by noobplus this was in an old thread he was asking to find maximum of the arguments given to a class and someone moved this post to a new thread by the time you were hearing to "clubbed to death" (not concerned if it is not from england and it is from hollywood anyways) bunch of Integer[] not Strings Not in your example; they're a bunch of Strings and the Collections.min( ... ) method tries to return a String; you can't weazle yourself out of it: your example was simply as wrong as can be; no excuses. See the API documentation for the Arrays.asList(T ... a) method; it doesn't understand an int[] as a bunch of ints; the work around is to use an Integer[] intarray instead; b.t.w. Eclipse would've told you so. Re: Arrays and Collection Originally Posted by JosAH See the API documentation for the Arrays.asList(T ... a) method; it doesn't understand an int[] as a bunch of ints; the work around is to use an Integer[] intarray instead; b.t.w. Eclipse would've told you so. Jos eclipse didn't ask me to convert it to Integer[] , i updated eclipse yesterday -edited: I mean it gave option only for "String[]" Re: Arrays and Collection Sorry, you were right Jos :) The method that require a parameter to implement the java.lang.Comparable is the Collections.min(...) / Collections.max(...) and not the Arrays.asList(...) method. No need to say sorry; I just want to keep this thread as tidy as possible because the OP of this thread sprays around that much (irrelevant) nonsense that this thread can't be properly answered and closed anymore. Re: Arrays and Collection Originally Posted by JosAH No need to say sorry; I just want to keep this thread as tidy as possible because the OP of this thread sprays around that much (irrelevant) nonsense that this thread can't be properly answered and closed anymore. | Low | [
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Q: Read JSON file in Github Actions I want to read a JSON file and use a property in a string in a Github Actions YAML file. How do I do this? (I want the version of the package.json) A: Use the built-in fromJson(value) (see here: https://help.github.com/en/actions/reference/context-and-expression-syntax-for-github-actions#fromjson) Reading a file dependes on the shell you're using. Here's an example for sh: name: Test linux job on: push jobs: testJob: name: Test runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - id: set_var run: | content=`cat ./path/to/package.json` # the following lines are only required for multi line json content="${content//'%'/'%25'}" content="${content//$'\n'/'%0A'}" content="${content//$'\r'/'%0D'}" # end of optional handling for multi line json echo "::set-output name=packageJson::$content" - run: | echo "${{fromJson(steps.set_var.outputs.packageJson).version}}" Multi line JSON handling as per https://github.community/t5/GitHub-Actions/set-output-Truncates-Multiline-Strings/td-p/37870 GitHub issue about set-env / set-output multi line handling: https://github.com/actions/toolkit/issues/403 | High | [
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Ted Cruz has not only won the state of Utah, but all 40 delegates to boot! BREAKING: Ted Cruz is the projected winner in the Utah GOP caucus. More: https://t.co/OnjnhvzTv2 pic.twitter.com/D5JLFbD8j3 — NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) March 23, 2016 BOOM Shaka-laka!!! The CruzNado ROLLS ON!!! BREAKING: Ted Cruz is the projected winner in the Utah GOP caucus. More: https://t.co/fnK27pQdFS pic.twitter.com/KQAsodfWBa — Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) March 23, 2016 This is with only 15% reported, but Cruz’s lead is so YUUUUGE that they’ve called it anyway: A lot more votes now in Utah GOP: Cruz 12,835 (67%), Kasich 3,518 (18%), Trump 2,840 (15%). — (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) March 23, 2016 God bless you, Utah. You’re putting all those supposed Christian Evangelical states like South Carolina to shame. | Mid | [
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MPs debated the legalisation of the production, sale and use of cannabis today. It came after an online petition drew 220,000 signatures, making it the third most popular petition on Parliament's website. The debate was led by Labour MP Paul Flynn, who explained why he thinks criminalisation of the drug has failed in an exclusive article for the Mirror. And there were spirited speeches from Green MP Caroline Lucas and Lib Dem health spokesman Norman Lamb. Here's a recap of how the debate unfolded. | High | [
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Introduction ============ The emergence and global spread of the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic was a challenge to control in Xiamen city, Fujian Province, China. This is because the city is situated on the southeast coast of China (Figure [1](#F1){ref-type="fig"}), which is a special economic zone and sub-provincial area, whose planning is directly linked with central government, and it receives a large number of overseas visitors and holds various international conferences each year. {#F1} Our prevention and control strategy is different from other countries or regions. The containment strategy was implemented successfully in the early response days and large-scale inoculation with domestic influenza A H1N1 virus cleavage vaccine was conducted rapidly to reduce morbidity. This surveillance data analysis aimed to understand the natural history of this novel influenza A H1N1 and to evaluate the control measures in Xiamen. Accurate determination of epidemiologic parameters can help guide future decision-making for novel infectious diseases. In particular, specific evaluation of control measures such as containment and vaccination against this novel influenza A H1N1 was very important to obtain useful information and experience in controlling an unknown respiratory pathogen. Materials and methods ===================== A confirmed case was defined as a subject with laboratory-confirmed novel influenza A H1N1 virus infection by means of a real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay. We used data from the initial reports of laboratory-confirmed cases to determine the epidemiologic parameters of pandemic H1N1 influenza. The parameters included the incubation period, duration of illness and the reproductive number (R~0~). We evaluated the effectiveness of control measures using descriptive epidemiologic methods. The process of containment was as follows. Suspected cases of fever (≥37.5°C) and acute respiratory symptoms were screened by the Xiamen Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, and were transported to the Designated Medical Observational Station for additional testing. Nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal specimens were collected with the swab technique from all suspect cases who had symptoms resembling those of seasonal influenza, including fever, cough, rhinorrhea, body aches, sore throat, and headache. Specimens were tested for influenza virus at the laboratory with the use of real-time PCR. All positive cases were interviewed to obtain demographic, epidemiologic and clinical information by epidemiologists of Xiamen Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). All close contacts of cases were placed under 7 days\' medical observation by the Community Health Service Centers. Of these, the transmission chain in 23 cases was very clear, and we collected data on their earliest exposure and onset of illness. An immediate epidemiological investigation was carried out by the Emergency Response Department of Xiamen CDC into all outbreaks. All information obtained was reported to the China Information System of Disease Control and Prevention. We were granted access to the China Information System of Disease Control and Prevention data, which included all confirmed cases. We analyzed individual-level data on laboratory-confirmed cases of novel influenza A H1N1 in the province of Fujian, Xiamen, with a reported date of symptom onset between June 14, 2009 and March 22, 2010. This cutoff was chosen because individual-level reporting of cases of pandemic H1N1 influenza in Xiamen was stopped after this date. For these cases, information was available on age, date of symptom onset and, for patients admitted to hospital, the date of admission and discharge. Demographic information was available from the Xiamen Municipal Statistics Bureau. The median incubation period of the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus was calculated using the records of the transmission chain of the primary case and secondary cases by identifying date of exposure and the date of the onset of symptoms (the time between infection and the onset of symptoms) in persons with confirmed cases. The most likely date of exposure was estimated as the midpoint between the earliest and most recent dates of exposure. The duration of illness was estimated from the dates of onset and recovery reported by persons with confirmed 2009 H1N1 influenza using methods similar to those used to evaluate the period of incubation. In an outbreak in one school in Xiamen, we estimated the within-school reproductive number using the principle of exponential growth period to characterize transmission. This analysis was based on the rate of increase in the number of 2009 H1N1 influenza cases among the school students. Results ======= A total of 1414 laboratory-confirmed cases of 2009 H1N1 influenza had reported dates of symptom onset between June 14, 2009 and March 22, 2010. The incidence was 56.79/100,000 (1414/2,490,000). Three persons died (death rate: 0.12/100,000). During the containment phase (June 14-August 31, 2009), 91 cases (6.44%) were identified, and during the community epidemic phase (September 1, 2009-March 22, 2010), 1323 cases (93.56%) were identified, and eight outbreaks occurred. The mean number of cases per month during the community epidemic phase was 6.23 times higher than during the containment phase. The first case occurred on June 14, 2009. The number of new cases fluctuated at a very low level from June 14 to August 31, 2009. The first peak of the epidemic curve occurred on September 2, when students from all over the country returned to their colleges and universities. The second peak of the epidemic curve occurred after the National Holiday, and the cases gradually increased and reached the highest peak in mid-November (Figure [2](#F2){ref-type="fig"}). The first inoculation program with domestic influenza A H1N1 virus cleavage vaccine was launched among primary school and kindergarten teachers, civil servants and medical staff on October 26. The incidence did not significantly decrease. The second and third vaccination programs were carried out among students and teachers in universities, and primary and secondary schools, and the incidence began to drop (Table [1](#T1){ref-type="table"}, Figure [2](#F2){ref-type="fig"}). A total of 296,888 persons were vaccinated. The epidemic curve showed that the control measures of containment and vaccination had a good effect (Figure [2](#F2){ref-type="fig"}). The decreasing trend of positive specimens in influenza surveillance (2009 H1N1 and seasonal influenza, by month and type) from 1 January 2009 to 31 May 2010 showed the first flu pandemic had ceased in Xiamen (Figure [3](#F3){ref-type="fig"}). {#F2} ###### Time of launch and number of inoculations for influenza A (H1N1) vaccinations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Start time of vaccination First\ Second\ Third\ Fourth\ Total (October 26) (November 23) (December 3) (March10) ------------------------------------------- -------------- --------------- -------------- ----------- -------- Target population 49500 57711 106188 83419 296818 Civil servant 19506 2841 \- \- 22347 Medical staff 15418 \- \- \- 15418 Primary school and kindergarten teacher 14515 \- \- \- 14515 Senior school student \- 44144 \- \- 44144 Junior school staff \- 10901 \- \- 10901 Primary school student \- \- 43829 83419 127248 Junior school student \- \- 57307 \- 57307 Other population \- \- 1085 3923 5008 Total 49439 57886 102221 87342 296888 Percentage of cumulative accomplishment % 99.9 100.3 96.3 104.7 100.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- {#F3} All age groups had reported laboratory-confirmed cases of novel influenza A (H1N1) virus. Of the 1414 cases, the mean age of the patients was 16.48 ± 0.31 years (standard deviation 11.66). The peak of morbidity was in the group of children aged 5-9 years old. The age distribution is presented in Figure [4](#F4){ref-type="fig"}. Men (relative risk (RR) = 1.30, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.17-1.45) and persons aged 0-14 years were at greater risk of influenza A. The incidence gradually increased with younger age (*χ*^2^= 950.675, *p*= ∞). Deaths occurred among those aged \> 50 years (Table [2](#T2){ref-type="table"}, Figure [4](#F4){ref-type="fig"}). Overall, 63.2% (893/1414) of cases were students. It is to be noted that the proportion of students rose dramatically, from 37.4% in the containment phase to 64.9% in the community epidemic phase (Table [3](#T3){ref-type="table"}); 51.63% (730/1414) of cases were reported from the Siming and Jimei districts, and 46.5% (327/703) of schools and colleges are located in these two districts. The morbidity in urban areas was lower than in rural areas (RR = 0.56, 95% CI: 0.50-0.62) (Figure [1](#F1){ref-type="fig"}). {#F4} ###### Confirmed cases by age group and sex\--Xiamen City, June 14, 2009-March 22, 2010 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Age group Male\ Rate/100000 Female\ Rate/100000 Total\ Rate/100000 RR (95% CI) (Deaths) (Deaths) (Deaths) ----------- ---------- ------------- ---------- ------------- ---------- ------------- ----------------------- 0-4 90 102.98 53 65.69 143 85.08 1.02 (0.83-1.24) 5-9 182 245.28 128 192.53 310 220.35 2.63 (2.25-3.08) 10-14 138 139.25 97 115.25 235 128.23 1.53 (1.29-1.82) 15-19 168 120.91 78 62.28 246 93.12 1.11 (0.94-1.31) 20-29 162 79.44 171 88.38 333 83.79 Ref. 1.00 30-39 42 20.13 43 20.58 85 20.36 0.24 (0.19-0.31) 40-49 17 9.74 15 8.73 32 9.24 0.11 (0.08-0.16) 50-59 8 4.91 9 (1) 5.75 17 (1) 5.32 0.06 (0.04-0.11) 60-69 7 (1) 9.56 2 5.35 9 (1) 6.47 0.08 (0.04-0.15) Over 70 3 (1) 12.55 1 5.22 4 (1) 7.34 0.09 (0.03-0.24) Total 817 (2) 64.08 597 (1) 49.13 1414 (3) 56.79 Chi X^2^= 950.675, p∞ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CI = confidence interval ###### Confirmed cases by occupation\--Xiamen City, June 14, 2009-March 22, 2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Occupation Jun.14-Aug.31, 2009 Sep.1, 2009-Mar.22, 2010 Total ---------------- --------------------- -------------------------- ------- ------- ------ ------- Student 34 37.4 859 64.9 893 63.2 Various types\ 35 38.5 138 10.4 173 12.2 of employee Worker 5 5.5 109 8.2 114 8.1 Preschooler 5 5.5 78 5.9 83 5.9 Farmer 4 4.4 58 4.4 62 4.4 Unemployment 6 6.6 53 4.0 59 4.2 Teacher 2 2.2 17 1.3 19 1.3 Medical worker 0 0.0 11 0.8 11 0.8 Total 91 100.0 1323 100.0 1414 100.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A total of 23 cases contained sufficient information on earliest exposure and illness onset to estimate incubation periods. The median time from exposure to symptom onset was 2 days (25-75 percentile, 1-3 days). The estimated incubation periods fitted a log-normal distribution (mean 2.33 days, 95% CI: 1.71-2.94 days). The longest incubation period for 2009 H1N1 influenza was defined as 5 days and the 95th percentile was 4.94 days. All cases, including minor, intermediate and severe cases, were hospitalized to isolate the source of infection in the early response days. We selected 333 confirmed cases of 2009 H1N1 influenza with information recorded for hospital discharge and illness onset time. We estimated that the median duration of illness was 7 days (25-75 percentile, 6-9 days), and 95th percentile was 12 days. The shortest and longest duration of illness for 2009 H1N1 influenza was 3 days and 22 days, respectively. The median duration was longer among patients aged younger than 14 years (7.69 days) than among older patients (7.0 days) (*χ*^2^= 22.17, *p*= 0.046). Intervals between onset and resolution of symptoms followed a log-normal distribution (mean duration 7.63 days, 95% CI: 7.38-7.89 days). We estimated the reproductive number of the within-school outbreak at a high school from October 12 to October18. The transmission parameter of the fitted regression line was 0.5776, and multiplied by mean incubation (2.33 days) gave a within-school reproductive number of 1.35 (Figure [5](#F5){ref-type="fig"}). The formula is shown below. Y = e ^ht/the\ mean\ incubation^, according to the regression line y = 0.5776 t = ht/2.33, then h = 1.35. {#F5} Discussion ========== As the pandemic spread, we strictly implemented the containment strategy in the early days to mitigate and control disease in the face of uncertainty of the vector. This period, defined as the \"containment\" phase, ranged from May 1 to August 31, 2009, and included body temperature screening and administration of health questionnaires at international ports of entry, isolation of infected travelers, and quarantine of close contacts. There was no outbreak in the containment phase, and the morbidity was far less than that of the community epidemic phase. It proved that implementation of a containment strategy can significantly decrease morbidity and mortality in the early stage. This was a necessary measure based on considerations of public health ethics, because we could not predict whether the virulence would increase in the future. When all schools reopened in September, an outbreak occurred in many schools and the incidence increased rapidly. This period was defined as \"the community epidemic\" phase and began on September 1, 2009. Influenza vaccination is still considered the best way to prevent the spread of influenza occurrence. The domestic influenza A H1N1 virus cleavage vaccine showed good safety and immunogenicity, and inoculation with one dose of 15 μg vaccine in a schedule of 0 and 21 days induced a satisfactory immune effect in the population aged 12-60 years \[[@B1]\]. On November 24, we sequentially conducted large-scale vaccine immunization four times to reduce morbidity and outbreaks in different groups of people. However, the epidemic curve showed only the second and the third vaccination in students had reduced the peak of the illness significantly. This indicated that students are a high-risk population and that preventive health education in schools should be strengthened. The seasonal peak of influenza in Xiamen has been from February to June for many years. The incidence curve (Figure [2](#F2){ref-type="fig"}) showed a significant decrease from February (after large-scale inoculation among students), indicating that vaccination aided in the reduction of new cases of influenza. Our estimate of mean incubation period (time from infection to onset of symptoms) of 2.33 days was consistent with typical seasonal influenza \[[@B2]\]. Our estimate of the duration of symptoms (median, 7.63 days) was also compatible with that of seasonal influenza. The longest incubation period was defined as 5 days and the 95th percentile was 4.94 days. The recommend of two days shorten should be made for the close contacts under 7 days of medical observation theoretically. In contrast, our low estimate of 1.35 for the basic reproductive number (*R~0~*) was different from the estimate in the United States (1.7-1.8 after adjustment for increasing ascertainment of cases) \[[@B3]\]. Our *R~0~*estimate is a range determined within schools. The reproduction number is usually calculated using a longer period of incidence data and it can be affected by many factors. We chose a school outbreak to calculate the reproduction number for two main reasons. First, the outbreak occurring in a school signified containment failure and the spread of H1N1 in the community. Second, vaccination had not been carried out when the outbreak was first reported. Therefore, the calculation of the reproduction number should be closest to the true value in this natural state of viral spread. The limitation of our analysis was that the laboratory-confirmed cases we analyzed almost certainly represented a small subset of cases of pandemic H1N1 influenza during the period as only laboratory-confirmed cases were analyzed \[[@B4]\]. We did not include infected subjects without symptoms or those with symptoms who did not undergo laboratory testing. The proportion of infected people who were actually identified as cases was needed to estimate the true morbidity and mortality during the community epidemic phase. However, these are likely to be representative because of the strict screening and management of suspect cases of fever during the containment phase. Conclusion ========== On the basis of data from initial laboratory-confirmed cases of pandemic H1N1 influenza, our estimates show that the characteristics of this novel influenza virus were similar to those of seasonal influenza. Our relatively low estimate of *R~0~*indicates that effective use of containment strategies may substantially reduce the eventual size of the pandemic. A series of correct strategies for prevention and control achieved good results. These measures included the principle of \"interception of imported cases\" applied at Xiamen ports, and vaccination of students which effectively attenuated the spread of the influenza pandemic and reduced the epidemic peak. Abbreviations ============= RR: Relative risk; CI: Confidence interval; PCR: Polymerase chain reaction; CDC: Center for Disease Control and Prevention; R~0~: Reproductive number. Competing interests =================== The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Authors\' contributions ======================= JS collected the data, performed the statistical analysis and interpretation. In addition, she prepared and advised the manuscript. JN participated in collection of data. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Authors\' information ===================== Niu Jianjun: male, Chief Technician, Professor, Tutor for graduate, Director of Xiamen Center for Disease Control and Prevention (XMCDC), dedicated to infectious disease control, studying on pathogen, microbiology and molecular epidemiology. Member of American Society for Virology, Executive member of National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis (NAPT), Standing member of Fujian Epidemiology and Hygiene committee, Vice-president of Xiamen Prevention Medicine Association; Corresponding Editor of *Chinese Journal of Preventive Medicine*, member of editorial board of *Occupation and Health*and *Strait Journal of Preventive Medicine*, Supervisor of China-U.S.A. birth cohort study and several programs funded by Chinese Ministry of Health Research Fund and Fujian Natural Science Foundation; Main participant of *the National Eleventh Five-Year Plan*key program for prevention of severe contagious diseases such as AIDS and virus hepatitis supported by the Ministry of Sci-tech of the PRC, National Science Supported Programs and Programs funded by National Natural Science Fund. Visiting scholar to the Australian National University in 2005 and to the Public Health School, Yale University in 2009. 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FILE PHOTO: A U.S. Marine (L) top watches Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers during a training in Helmand province, Afghanistan, July 5, 2017. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani/File Photo Kabul (Reuters) - Die US-Luftwaffe hat nur wenige Tage nach ihrem Abkommen mit den Taliban über einen Truppenabzug aus Afghanistan Stellungen der Extremisten in der südlichen Provinz Helmand angegriffen. Die Taliban-Kämpfer hätten einen Kontrollposten der afghanischen Sicherheitskräfte attackiert, teilte der Sprecher der US-Streitkräfte in Afghanistan, Sonny Leggett, am Mittwoch per Twitter mit. “Dies war ein Verteidigungsschlag, um den Angriff zu unterbrechen.” Die Regierung in Washington sei dem Frieden verpflichtet, die US-Armee werde aber ihre afghanischen Verbündeten verteidigen. Leggett rief die Taliban auf, ihre “nutzlosen Angriffe” zu beenden und ihre Verpflichtungen aus dem am Samstag in Doha unterzeichneten Abkommen einzuhalten. Danach sollen ausländische Truppen binnen 14 Monaten abgezogen werden, wenn die Taliban ihre Zusagen erfüllen und unter anderem eine Waffenruhe einhalten sowie bestimmten militanten Gruppen keinen Unterschlupf gewähren. Außerdem verständigten sich die USA und die Taliban am Wochenende auf einen raschen Gefangenenaustausch zwischen den Extremisten und der afghanischen Regierung. Demnach soll die afghanische Regierung bis zu 5000 Taliban-Kämpfer freilassen, die Extremisten im Gegenzug bis 1000. Allerdings hat der afghanische Präsident Aschraf Ghani, dessen Regierung an den Verhandlungen nicht beteiligt war, dies umgehend zurückgewiesen und erklärt, die USA seien lediglich der Moderator. Bereits vor knapp zwei Wochen hatten die Taliban in einer Vereinbarung mit den USA zugesichert, ihre Gewalt zu verringern und ihre Angriffe nicht zu steigern. Am Montag hatten die Extremisten allerdings erklärt, sie würden wieder wie bisher gegen die afghanischen Sicherheitskräfte vorgehen. So kam es am Dienstag nach afghanischen Angaben zu mehreren Angriffen auf Soldaten und Polizisten, die die Taliban allerdings nicht bestätigten. In Taliban-Kreisen hieß es aber auch, man werde sich gegenüber ausländischen Truppen weiterhin zurückhalten. | Low | [
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Q: JavaScript replace() one html entity with another I want to get some textarea text and replace all bullet point html entities • with ·. The usual approach str.replace(/•/g,"·"); doesn't work. Any advice would be appreciated. A: When you're getting the text value back from the textarea, it has already been converted to its actual character. To do a string replacement on that string, either convert all characters to their html entity counterparts, then proceed with what you're doing or use the character in the regex directly. Here's an example of the second approach. var newText = oldText.replace(/•/g, ""); You can fiddle with an example here. If you want to go with the first approach, see this question and its answers for ways to convert characters in a piece of text to their corresponding html entities. | Mid | [
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Differences in CMV-specific T-cell levels and long-term susceptibility to CMV infection after kidney, heart and lung transplantation. Patients after kidney, heart and lung transplantation differ in their immunosuppressive drug regimens and in susceptibility to infectious complications with cytomegalovirus (CMV). In this study, CMV-specific T-cell responses were characterized in long-term transplant recipients and associated with the frequency of infectious complications. CMV-reactive CD4 T cells from 50 healthy controls, 68 renal, 14 heart and 24 lung transplant recipients were flow cytometrically quantified by the induction of cytokines after specific stimulation. Moreover, the immunosuppressive effect of calcineurin inhibitors on specific T-cell reactivity was quantified in vitro and compared with responses in vivo. Median CMV-specific T-cell frequencies in long-term renal (1.48%; range 0.06-17.26%) and heart transplant recipients (0.90%; 0.13-12.49%) did not differ from controls (1.82%; 0.26-21.00%). In contrast, CMV-specific T-cell levels were significantly lower in lung transplant recipients (0.50%; <0.05-4.98%) and showed a significant correlation with the frequency of infectious episodes (r =-0.57, p = 0.005). The differences within the groups were associated with increasing dosages of immunosuppressive drugs, as exemplified for calcineurin inhibitors that dose dependently reduced specific T-cell reactivity in vitro. In conclusion, monitoring CMV-specific CD4 T cells may serve as a measure for long-term disease susceptibility and may contribute to an improved management of CMV complications after lung transplantation. | High | [
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Beer: Ratings & Reviews More User Reviews: 3.87/5rDev n/alook: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 4 Hit this spot up every summer when the wife and I go for a weekend of relaxation in lake george. This one poured a watery black. Coffee on the nose. It was kind of like drinking a frappacino. Only can taste the coffee. It was very watery, but the flavor was good. Really easy to drink and the low ABV makes it a great session for the fan of the darker brews. O: The mouthfeel really affected the flavor for me on this one; slightly too thin for my liking in regards to a porter. However, the low ABV makes this a great session ale and come winter, I'll probably have it again. | Low | [
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Q: Better practices for catching code mistakes with Ember.js (specifically, messed up variable names) In Ember.js, we use Ember's own object variants which recommend/necessitate using this.get and this.set in order to access object attributes. I (mostly) understand why this is done, and appreciate the consistency and flexibility it adds to the Ember programming experience, but I do feel that I lose out on my IDE's sanity checking. With Jetbrain products (or any good IDE w/ deep analysis and completion) I can usually rely on symbol suggestions to make sure I'm choosing the correct variable name. Entering in strings with ember relies on me to get the name right, and I'm a fallible human. I have a few thoughts regarding possible solutions. Some IDE plugin which does static analysis to suggest the correct string to use An ES6 or alternative transpired language which accesses members the ember way by default Some way of automatically establishing string constants where I need them Some ember debugging setting which at least throws warnings if I try to get a variable which hasn't been defined. I would also find it useful to throw warnings if ember catches me trying to set an attribute to undefined. Hopefully, someone will tell me that one of these solutions exists, something better has been thought of, or my problem isn't really a problem. (An example to illustrate my problem:) In the following snippet const email = this.get('email'); const newInvitation = this.store.createRecord('invitation', {email: email}); I am trying to get the attribute email but the real attribute I meant to get was called emailAddress. When I create the record, I do so with an undefined email field which isn't caught until later in the code. It wasn't terrible to debug, but if I have to manually sift through every line of code every time I misspell something, I'm going to waste a lot of time and be a sad debugging-boy. Help! A: Currently we don't have a good solution for this. However the future looks bright! Currently there is a lot of work going on in the ember-typings repository to build a typescript definition that will allow the typescript language server to give you that completion. This will give you completions for things like this.get('foo') but not for things like this.get('foo.bar') in near future. Also I've build this, which will allow you to omit .get and .set on browsers that support the proxy object. However this is more a proof-of-concept then something you should use in production! If you just want debug messages if you access a property thats null you can use unknownProperty: unknownProperty(key) { console.log('access to unknown property'); } However I sometimes its required to access an unknown property for code like this: if(!obj.get('foo')) { obj.set('foo', 'bar'); } So overall I would recommend you to try out typescript, because thats probably the solution that will give you a good developer experience soon and good support from the community as well. Interesting is also the ES classes RFC, that shows, that ember goes toward standard ES classes and at some point we won't .set and .get at all. Also glimmer integration is going forward, and inside a glimmer component you won't need .set and .get. Also I don't recommend you ember script. I tried it out, but there is basically no-one using it, and no support at all. | Mid | [
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I am sorry that it's been so long since I've talked to you. After a long time with the Tales of Ubernorden, I've decided to take a little break from them. But I have not been resting on my laruels*. Instead, I've been working on a brand new story. This is a Science Fiction story about a space born humanity living and working in a galaxy that hates and fears them, and not entirely without reason. I came up with the story a about a month ago. I liked it enough that I decided to start writing it down. But obviously I couldn't do that and Tales, at the same time. So for now, I'm going to work on that. But don't worry. Tales of Ubernorden is still a world I wish to return to at some point in the future. If you would like to get a look at this new world you can see it here. | Mid | [
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Increased processor demands continue to drive advances in central processing units (CPUs), bandwidth and associated memory devices. A CPU typically includes a die, or microchips, which contain multiple processing units, communications hardware, and a local networking or communications bus. The core logic chipsets (cores) are the components that make up the processor die. The cores comprise the central processing logic of a computing system. A system's core logic typically includes a controller for handling memory functions, a cache for storing instructions, the logic for bus interfaces, and the functions of data paths. A single die can contain hundreds of processor cores. In increasing the number of cores, computer performance also increases, as does the need for more memory. For efficiency considerations, the memory-to-processor core ratio must stay relatively constant. That is, as more processors are added, memory must be proportionally added. The need for higher memory to processor-core ratios is further driven by advances in virtualization. Virtualization makes it possible to run multiple operating systems and multiple applications on the same computer at the same time, increasing the utilization and flexibility of hardware. In one respect, virtualization allows the transformation of hardware into software, including the CPU, RAM, hard disk and network controller, to create a fully functional virtual machine that can run its own operating system and applications just like a physical computer. Virtualization is advantageous because it allows for server consolidation and increased processor accessibility. And thus, virtualization is driving the need for even higher memory to processor-core ratios, and higher memory capacity on servers. The increased processing afforded by virtualization requires the addition of memory to maintain the required ratio. For speed considerations, the preferred way to add memory is to attach main memory directly to the CPU. Performance is increased with data being stored directly in main memory, as opposed to slower, remote memory, e.g., memory on a disk. However, attaching memory directly to the CPU typically imposes a limitation on the total amount of available memory. Attached memory may be inadequate for applications requiring larger memory capacities. Caching is commonly used to speed memory processes. A cache memory is smaller, faster and typically more expensive than main memory. When a CPU requests data that resides in main memory, the processing system transmits the requested data to the processor and also may store the data in a cache memory. When the processor issues a subsequent request for the same data, the processing system first checks cache memory. If requested data resides in the cache, the system gets a cache “hit” and delivers the data to the processor from the cache. If the data is not resident in the cache, a cache “miss” occurs, and the system retrieves the data from main memory. Frequently utilized data thus is retrieved more rapidly than less frequently requested data, and overall data access latency, i.e. time between a request for data and delivery of the data, is reduced. In associative mapping, instead of hard-allocating cache lines to particular memory locations, it is possible to design the cache so that any line can store the contents of any memory location. A cache line is the smallest unit of memory than can be transferred between the main memory and the cache. Associativity improves performance by, in part, enabling multiple concurrent accesses to portions of memory. Relatively large amounts of bandwidth are needed to support associativity, however. On some processor memory architectures, for instance, the x86, there is not enough memory bandwidth (the amount of data that can be carried from one point to another in a given time period) to support a cache with associativity. The inability to support cache access with associativity relegates manufacturers to using other, less efficient forms of memory access and lower performance. Consequently, what is needed is an improved manner of managing memory in a system comprising a processor with directly attached memory. | High | [
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This presentation at the Leopold Museum will be the most comprehensive retrospective exhibition of works by Ferdinand Hodler (1853–1918) in Austria since the artist’s resounding success at the 1904 Secession exhibition. An exponent of Symbolism and Jugendstil, a pioneer of Expressionism, and not least an innovator of monumental painting, Hodler was an important inspiration to numerous artists of Viennese Modernism, such as Gustav Klimt and Koloman Moser, as well as Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele. The presentation focuses on the three main themes of Hodler’s art: landscapes from plein air painting to abstraction, portraits with an emphasis on female depictions, self-portraits, the haunting series of works accompanying the death of his lover Valentine Godé-Darel, as well as his eminent Symbolist figural compositions. Media partner: Back | High | [
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Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and child abuse: is there a relationship? Many of the family psychosocial variables significantly related to child abuse are also significantly related to insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) control. These variables are reviewed, and an increased child abuse risk factor for children with IDDM is discussed. Behavioral indicators of families experiencing difficulty in coping with IDDM are provided. These indicators are associated with both diabetes control and child abuse and should be recognized by diabetes health-care professionals. | High | [
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A healthy baby has been born at a Dallas hospital to a mother who received a uterus transplant. It’s a medical first for the United States, and an important milestone in the battle against infertility. | Mid | [
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<?php /** * Rubedo -- ECM solution * Copyright (c) 2014, WebTales (http://www.webtales.fr/). * All rights reserved. * [email protected] * * Open Source License * ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Rubedo is licensed under the terms of the Open Source GPL 3.0 license. * * @category Rubedo * @package Rubedo * @copyright Copyright (c) 2012-2014 WebTales (http://www.webtales.fr) * @license http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html Open Source GPL 3.0 license */ namespace Rubedo\Backoffice\Controller; use Rubedo\Services\Manager; use Zend\Json\Json; /** * Controller providing CRUD API for the Languages JSON * * Receveive Ajax Calls for read & write from the UI to the Mongo DB * * * @author jbourdin * @category Rubedo * @package Rubedo * */ class ShippersController extends DataAccessController { public function __construct() { parent::__construct(); // init the data access service $this->_dataService = Manager::getService('Shippers'); } } | Mid | [
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Review: “Arsenic and Old Lace” Playwright Joseph Kesserling first dreamed up his play “Arsenic and Old Lace” back in 1939. It was originally conceived as a dark drama based on the true story of a woman by the name of Amy Archer-Gilligan, who took in boarders and then poisoned them for their pensions. However, thanks to the genius of collaborators Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse, they quickly turned the drama into a comedy and created the roles of Abby and Martha Brewster – two elderly aunts – who would do the requisite bumping off. Roping in Boris Karloff as a lunatic killer to play the role of wayward Brewster nephew Jonathan, who is constantly referred to as looking just like Boris Karloff, was a stroke of genius. The show played to rave reviews and the 1944 Frank Capra film of the same name starring Cary Grant was also a massive hit. And in 2017 at the Odyssey, the play has lost none of its luster, thanks to terrific ensemble casting and a deft hand by director Elina de Santos, who never lets the action flag. It’s a joy to watch the pas de deux unfold between the murderous aunts, played to perfection by Sheelagh Cullen and Jacque Lynn Colton. Their sweet, frail demeanors coupled with their genuine desire to help assuage their elderly boarders’ loneliness (by sending them into the next world with some potent elderberry wine), makes it impossible not to fall in love with them. Alex Elliot-Funk as the hapless Teddy Brewster who thinks he’s President Roosevelt, manages to steer his character away from an all too easy caricature, so that his constant trips to “Panama” (aka the cellar), and his endless bounding up and down the stairs yelling “Charge,” are humorous, yet tinged with an element of sadness. Nephew Mortimer Brewster, in the hands of J.B. Waterman, is a study in falling apart as he moves from disbelief to complete apoplexy when he realizes what the aunts are up to. Gera Hermann as the mad murderer Jonathan Brewster is completely up to the task (and a fine Boris Karloff look-alike), when the plot thickens as he returns to the house with his own dead body. As the mayhem ensues with Jonathan and the aunts trying to one-up each other on who has killed the most people, the cast comes together to ratchet up the comedy. Special mention to Michael Antosy as Officer O’Hara who just wants a literally captive Mortimer to listen to the play he’s written. The beautiful tri-level set with period furnishings and props sets the scene perfectly, and subtle lighting and sound make for a wonderful two hours and 20 minutes at the theatre. 1 COMMENT The reviews are sure mixed for this play, I think they did a fine job, particularly Gera Hermann who needs to play Karloff in a tell-all film. Speaking of which, I wonder when they’re going to make a film telling the TRUTH about Boris Karloff? He has more hidden scandals than any celeb ever but he was a master at image control and hiding his exploits (allegedly married 8 or 9 times, alleged affair for fame with Frankenstein director James Whale) while throwing every other actor under the bus. Things started surfacing in 2006, when Canada historian Greg Nesteroff published his findings digging into Karloff’s Canadian past in published in British Columbia History Newsletter, vol. 39, No. 1. Nesteroff remarks on his “first” (?) wife divorcing him on grounds of adultery as he had taken up with the sister of the first theater troupe he wanted to join, and did. I’m not sure how much I can say here but apparently Boris Karloff did anything and everything to get to the top. An alleged disowned son, all this can also be read at the internet movie database under his bio, and that of the films he made with a lot of interesting information. Karloff appropriated the legacy of Lon Chaney, leaving Jr in the dust who then developed his well-publicized alcohol problem; appropriated roles written for Bela Lugosi and/or demanded his roles be sliced to barely more than a mere cameo (Black Friday, The Body Snatcher) after the Lugosi’s Ygor success in Son of Frankenstein which had critics ignoring Karloff’s perfomance. IMDb is really a treasure trove of info but they left out the worst of his scandals. An alleged affair for a cushy lifestyle in a mansion and a plush job with a certain Charles, the realtor of a real estate firm in Canada; meaning while “Saint Boris” would later claim that he was destitute before fame (see his interview in This Is Your Life and how panicked he was on camera that his past would surface!) but Nesteroff’s newsletter tells (almost) all. Cynthia Lyndsey’s book “Dear Boris” also published some interesting stuff: he told her his marriage to the mother of his only known daughter didn’t matter “really” (she writes) and he married her best friend the day after his divorce was final. Yes, a Boris Karloff tell all film is long overdue! Who better to play him than Gera Hermann? We wish the play and Gera continued success! | High | [
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011 Hereafter by Tara Hudson For Amelia, time has all but slowed to a stop as her spirit remains stranded alone in the dark waters of a mysterious river. She knows she’s died, but with no recollection of her past life--or her actual death--she’s trapped in one long continuous nightmare, in which she cannot feel anything or interact with anyone. All of this changes when she tries to rescue a teenage boy, Joshua, from drowning in her river. As a ghost, she can do nothing but will him to live. Yet in a moment of connection, he looks in her eyes and becomes the first person in the world to see that she still exists. When he touches her, Joshua sparks strange and wonderful sensory feelings in Amelia--at first just momentary flashes, then pulses that become ever stronger as he leads her out of the river and into his life. As Amelia and Joshua uncover who she was and the strange circumstances of her death, new problems arise: somehow, Joshua’s grandmother seems to know exactly what is going on between them, and Eli, a ghost enforcer, is hell-bent on destroying their happiness and dragging Amelia back into the spirit world. With every touch and the growing feelings that come with them, Amelia and Joshua begin to wonder if there’s something special not only about Joshua but also the dark river that held her captive for so long. Can there truly be love after death? This is a beautiful story, a beautiful love story between a ghost and a human. After seeing Amelia during his near death accident, Joshua couldn't help but attracted to her. And that's made everything change for Amelia. She was no more wondering around aimlessly. She started to get flash back memories on her past life. She gained back some of the senses that she had lost after her death. Together with Joshua, she found out who she was. Though she did not harm Joshua, but Joshua grandmother's Ruth who was a seer did not trust her and wanted to exorcize her. At the same time, the evil spirit Eli wanted to claim Amelia as his apprentice. Despite all these, Joshua and Amelia's feelings to each other did not change. And I believe it is their innocence love that brings out the power hidden inside Amelia. I admire her courage and strong will to defense herself from surrender to the evil spirit. How many of us can really deny to gain power and take control? Not all ghosts are evil. Just like not all human are good people. I enjoy reading this book very much. Both Amelia and Joshua's characters are well defined. Amelia's thoughts and emotion are well presented throughout the whole story. And the story is very attractive and intriguing. I rate it 4 out of 5 stars. Book Trailer: Note: I receive the ARC of this book from the publisher via Net Gallery. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. | High | [
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The basics Know your system The best way to tune a system is to target the bottlenecks, that is the subsystems that limit the overall speed. They usually can be identified by knowing the specifications of the system, but there are some basic indications: If the computer becomes slow when big applications, like OpenOffice.org and Firefox, are running at the same time, then there is a good chance the amount of RAM is insufficient. To verify available RAM, use this command, and check for the line beginning with -/+buffers: $ free -m If boot time is really slow, and if applications take a lot of time to load the first time they are launched, but run fine afterwards, then the hard drive is probably too slow. The speed of a hard drive can be measured using the hdparm command: $ hdparm -t /dev/harddrive This is only the pure read speed of the hard drive, and is not a valid benchmark, but a value superior to 40MB/s (assuming drive tested while idle) can be considered decent on an average system. If the CPU load is consistently high even when RAM is available, then lowering CPU usage should be a priority. CPU load can be monitored in many ways, like using the top command: $ top If the only applications lagging are the ones using direct rendering, meaning they use the graphic card, like video players and games, then improving the graphic performance should help. First step would be to verify if direct rendering simply is not enabled. This is indicated by the glxinfo command: $ glxinfo | grep direct The first thing to do The simplest and most efficient way of improving overall performance is to run lightweight environments and applications. Remove unnecessary daemons and background what daemons you can in /etc/rc.conf. Compromise Almost all tuning brings drawbacks. Lighter applications usually come with less features and some tweaks may make a system unstable, or simply require time to implement and maintain. This page tries to highlight those drawbacks, but the final judgment rests on the user. Benchmarking The effects of optimization are often difficult to judge. They can however be measured by benchmarking tools Storage devices Device Layout One of the the biggest performance gains comes from having multiple storage devices in a layout that spreads the operating system work around. Having //home/var/usr/lib on separate disks is dramatically faster than a single disk layout where they are all on the same hard drive. Swap Files Creating your swap files on a separate disk can also help quite a bit, especially if your machine swaps frequently or you have less than 8G of RAM. RAID Benefits If you have multiple disks (2 or more) available, you can set them up as a software RAID for serious speed improvements. In a RAID 0 array there is no redundancy in case of drive failure, but for each additional disk you add to the array, the speed of the disk becomes that much faster. The smart choice is to use RAID 5 which offers both speed and data protection. Multiple Hardware Paths An internal hardware path is how the storage device is connected to your motherboard. There are different ways to connect to the motherboard such as TCP/IP through a NIC, plugged in directly using PCIe/PCI, Firewire, Raid Card, USB, etc. By spreading your storage devices across these multiple connection points you maximize the capabilities of your motherboard, for example 6 hard-drives connected via USB would be much much slower than 3 over USB and 3 over Firewire. The reason is that each entry path into the motherboard is like a pipe, and there is a set limit to how much can go through that pipe at any one time.. the good news is that the motherboard usually has several pipes. More Examples Directly to the motherboard using pci/PCIe/ata Using an external enclosure to house the disk over USB/Firewire Turn the device into a network storage device by connecting over tcp/ip Note also that if you have a 2 USB ports on the front of your machine, and 4 USB ports on the back, and you have 4 disks, it would probably be fastest to put 2 on front/2 on back or 3 on back/1 on front. This is because internally the front ports are likely a separate Root Hub than the back, meaning you can send twice as much data by using both than just 1. Use the following commands to determine the various paths on your machine. USB Device Tree $ lsusb -t PCI Device Tree $ lspci -t Partitioning The partition layout can influence the system's performance. Sectors at the beginning of the drive (closer to the center of the disk) are faster than those at the end. Also, a smaller partition requires less movements from the drive's head, and so speed up disk operations. Therefore, it is advised to create a small partition (10gb, more or less depending on your needs) only for your system, as near to the beginning of the drive as possible. Other data (pictures, videos) should be kept on a separate partition, and this is usually achieved by separating the home directory (/home/user) from the system (/). Choosing and tuning your filesystem Choosing the best filesystem for a specific system is very important because each has its own strengths. The beginner's guide provides a short summary of the most popular ones. You can also find relevant articles here. Summary XFS: Excellent performance with large files. Low speed with small files. A good choice for /home. Reiserfs: Excellent performance with small files. A good choice for /var. Ext3: Average performance, reliable. Ext4: Great overall performance, reliable, has performance issues with sqlite and some other databases. Btrfs: Probably best overall performance (with compression) and lots of features. Still in heavy development and fully supported, but considered as unstable. Do not use this filesystem yet unless you know what you are doing and are prepared for potential data loss. Mount options Mount options offer an easy way to improve speed without reformatting. They can be set using the mount command: $ mount -o option1,option2 /dev/partition /mnt/partition To set them permanently, you can modify /etc/fstab to make the relevant line look like this: /dev/partition /mnt/partition partitiontype option1,option2 0 0 The mount options noatime,nodiratime are known for improving performance on almost all file-systems. The former is a superset of the latter (which applies to directories only -- noatime applies to both files and directories). In rare cases, for example if you use mutt, it can cause minor problems. You can instead use the relatime option (NB relatime is the default in >2.6.30) Ext3 Ext4 JFS XFS Reiserfs The data=writeback mount option improves speed, but may corrupt data during power loss. The notail mount option increases the space used by the filesystem by about 5%, but also improves overall speed. You can also reduce disk load by putting the journal and data on separate drives. This is done when creating the filesystem: $ mkreiserfs –j /dev/hda1 /dev/hdb1 Replace /dev/hda1 with the partition reserved for the journal, and /dev/hdb1 with the partition for data. You can learn more about reiserfs with this article. BTRFS Compressing /usr Note: As of version 3.0 of the linux kernel aufs2 is no longer supported. A way to speed up reading from the hard drive is to compress the data, because there is less data to be read. It must however be decompressed, which means a greater CPU load. Some filesystems support transparent compression, most notably btrfs and reiserfs4, but their compression ratio is limited by the 4k block size. A good alternative is to compress /usr in a squashfs file, with a 64k(128k) block size, as instructed in this Gentoo forums thread. What this tutorial does is basically to compress the /usr folder into a compressed squashfs file-system, then mounts it with aufs. A lot of space is saved, usually two thirds of the original size of /usr, and applications load faster. However, each time an application is installed or reinstalled, it is written uncompressed, so /usr must be re-compressed periodically. Squashfs is already in the kernel, and aufs2 is in the extra repository, so no kernel compilation is needed if using the stock kernel. Since the linked guide is for Gentoo the next commands outline the steps especially for Arch. Basically we have got install two packages to get it working: # pacman -S aufs2 squashfs-tools This command installs the aufs-modules and some userspace-tools for the squash-filesystem. Now we need some extra directories where we can store the archive of /usr as read-only and another folder where we can store the data changed after the last compression as writeable: # mkdir -p /squashed/usr/{ro,rw} Now that we got a rough setup you should perform a complete system-upgrade since every change of content in /usr after the compression will be excluded from this speedup. If you use prelink you should also perform a complete prelink before creating the archive. Now it is time to invoke the command to compress /usr: # mksquashfs /usr /squashed/usr/usr.sfs -b 65536 These parameters/options are the ones suggested by the Gentoo link but there might be some room for improvement using some of the options described here. Now to get the archive mounted together with the writeable folder it is necessary to edit /etc/fstab: Now you should be done and able to reboot. The original Author suggests to delete all the old content of /usr, but this might cause some problems if anything goes wrong during some later re-compression. It is more safe to leave the old files in place just to be on the safe side. A bash script has been created that will automate the process of re-compressing (read updating) the archive since the tutorial is meant for Gentoo and some options do not correlate to what they should be in Arch. Tuning for an SSD Ram disks / tuning for really slow disks CPU The only way to directly improve CPU speed is overclocking. As it is a complicated and risky task, it is not recommended for anyone except experts. The best way to overclock is through the BIOS. When purchasing your system, keep in mind that most Intel motherboards are notorious for disabling the capacity to overclock. A way to modify performance (ref) is to use Con Kolivas' desktop-centric kernel patchset, which, among other things, replaces the Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS) with the Brain Fuck Scheduler (BFS). Note: BFS/CK are designed for desktop/laptop use and not servers. They provide low latency and work well for 16 CPUs or less. Also, Con Kolivas suggests setting HZ to 1000. For more information, see the BFS FAQ and ck patches. Verynice Verynice is a daemon, available on AUR, for dynamically adjusting the nice levels of executables. The nice level represent the priority of the executable when allocating CPU resources. Simply define executables for which responsiveness is important, like X or multimedia applications, as goodexe in /etc/verynice.conf. Similarly, CPU-hungry executables running in the background, like make, can be defined as badexe. This prioritization greatly improves system responsiveness under heavy load. Ulatencyd Ulatencyd is a daemon that controls how the Linux kernel will spend its resources on the running processes. It uses dynamic cgroups to give the kernel hints and limitations on processes. Network Graphics Xorg.conf configuration Graphic performance heavily depends on the settings in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. There are tutorials for Nvidia, ATI and Intel cards. Improper settings may stop Xorg from working, so caution is advised. Driconf Driconf is a small utility that allows you to change the direct rendering settings for open source drivers. Enabling HyperZ can drastically improve performance. GPU Overclocking Overclocking a graphics card is typically more expedient than with a CPU, since there are readily accessible software packages which allow for on-the-fly GPU clock adjustments. For ATI users, get rovclock, and Nvidia users should get nvclock in the extra repository. Intel chipsets users can install GMABooster from AUR The changes can be made permanent by running the appropriate command after X boots, for example by adding it to ~/.xinitrc. A safer approach would be to only apply the overclocked settings when needed. RAM and swap Browser profile in tmpfs Relocate the browser profile to tmpfs filesystem, including /tmp, or /dev/shm for improvements in application response as the the entire profile is now stored in RAM. Another benefit is a reduction in disk read and write operations, of which SSDs benefit the most. Use an active management script for maximal reliability and ease of use. Swappiness The swappiness represent how much the kernel prefers swap to RAM. Setting it to a very low value, meaning the kernel will almost always use RAM, is known to improve responsiveness on many systems. To do that, simply add those line to /etc/sysctl.conf: Compcache Compcache, also known as the zram kernel module, creates a device in RAM and compresses it. If you use for swap means that part of the RAM can hold much more information but uses more CPU. Still, it is much quicker than swapping to a hard drive. If a system often falls back to swap, this could improve responsiveness. Zram is in mainline staging (therefore its not stable yet, use with caution). The zramswapAUR package may give better results than compcache. You will have a 50MB swap with higher priority than your regular swap. systemd-arch-units provide a zram.service for Systemd. It create one zram device per cpu/core with a total space equivalent to the RAM available. To enable it on boot, simply run : systemctl enable zram.service This is also a good way to reduce disk read/write cycles due to swap on SSDs. Using the graphic card's RAM In the unlikely case that you have very little RAM and a surplus of video RAM, you can use the latter as swap. See Swap on video ram. Preloading Preloading is the action of putting and keeping target files into the RAM. The benefit is that preloaded applications start more quickly because reading from the RAM is always quicker than from the hard drive. However, part of your RAM will be dedicated to this task, but no more than if you kept the application open. Therefore preloading is best used with large and often-used applications like Firefox and OpenOffice. Go-preload Go-preload is a small daemon created in the Gentoo forum. To use it, first run this command in a terminal for each program you want to preload at boot: # gopreload-prepare program Then, as instructed, press Enter when the program is fully loaded. This will add a list of files needed by the program in /usr/share/gopreload/enabled. To load all lists at boot, add gopreload to your DAEMONS array in /etc/rc.conf. To disable the loading of a program, remove the appropriate list in /usr/share/gopreload/enabled or move it to /usr/share/gopreload/disabled. Preload A more automated approach is used by Preload. All you have to do is add it to your DAEMONS array in /etc/rc.conf. It will monitor the most used files on your system, and with time build its own list of files to preload at boot. Readahead Readahead is a tool that can cache files before they are needed and help accelerate program loading. Boot time Suspend to ram Kernel boot options Some boot options can decrease kernel boot time. The fastboot option usually can take off one second or so. Also, if you see a message saying "Waiting 8s for device XXX" at boot, adding rootdelay=1 can reduce the waiting time, but be careful, as it may break the booting process. Those options are set in /boot/grub/menu.lst or /etc/lilo.conf, depending on which bootloader you use. Custom kernel Compiling a custom kernel will reduce boot time and memory usage, but can be long, complicated and even painful. It usually is not worth the effort, but can be very interesting and a great learning experience. 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Heat generating electronic components are often required to be mounted in association with a heat dissipating structure in order to maintain the component temperature within a desired operating temperature range. The heat dissipating structure may be a separate heat sink provided for the purpose of drawing heat from the component, or an existing structure such as a housing containing and/or supporting the component may also form a heat sink for the component. A particular example of a heat generating electronic component comprises a solid state electronic relay module that may be located within a motor housing. The motor housing may operate as a heat sink, providing a thermal path for heat to travel away from the electronic relay module to an external surface of the housing. The manner in which the electronic relay module is secured to the housing affects various factors including the character of the thermal connection between the module and the housing, the structural stresses exerted on the module due to differences in thermal expansion at the junction between the different parts, as well as affecting the ease of assembly of the module to the housing. Hence, a retention configuration for mounting the module to the housing has typically required a balance between these often conflicting factors. | Mid | [
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Pages chelsea win over West Bromwich Albion by 3-1 scores Coming from behind, Chelsea finally got up and able to beat host West Bromwich Albion (WBA), 3-1 in the Premier League continued on Saturday (04/16/2011). Unfortunately, the victory was marred mandulnya new striker Fernando Torres who descended on the 82nd minute. Strike first, Chelsea's defense off guard. An attack can not be dammed host Chelsea in the 17th minute. Peter Odemwingie with a good kick off the right leg, use of bait Jerome Thomas. Kick the ball towards the middle of Chelsea goalkeeper Peter Cech and failed driven. Chelsea reacted instantly. They try to squeeze from all sides. The result, in the 22nd minute Chelsea equalized thanks to a goal after Didier Drogba utilize WBA mess in front of goal. This goal encouraged "the Blues" to keep pressing. WBA was overwhelmed and had another penalty in the 26th minute. This time, Salomon Kalou, who scored with a left foot shot into the right corner of the goal stab WBA. Chelsea had more control of the game. While the WBA more survive. At the last minute first half, Chelsea added advantage goal by Frank Lampard. This goal came from Chelsea's success took the ball from the opponent. He then gave it to Florent Malouda who was on the right side WBA defense. See Lampard free, he gave the ball to him. Well, Lampard scored the ball into the opponent's goal. The first round came to an end with excellence Chelsea 3-1. Entering the second half, Chelsea again dominant. In fact, had created several chances but failed to convert a goal by Chelsea players. However, WBA was also frequently launch malicious attacks. Plus the defense meeting WBA, Chelsea increasingly difficult to add goals. In the 76th minute, coach Carlo Ancelotti include Yossi Benayoun replaces Frank Lampard. Then, Fernando Torres is inserted in the 82nd minute substitute Didier Drogba. Both are expected to change the situation. Just a minute entry, Torres scored a goal. However, the referee for offside menganulirnya first. Before long, the counter-attack almost ripped the WBA Chelsea goal. Receive cross Carlos Vela, Chris Brunt with gore-free ball into the goal. Luckily, Cech swiftly arrested. Chelsea then increase the intensity of their attacks. However, Chelsea have to be satisfied with the victory 3-1. While Torres's return has not been able to score goals for Chelsea. Composition Players West Bromwich Albion: 1-Scott Carson, 3-Jonas Olsson, 23-Abdoulaye Meite, 20-Nicky Shorey, 12-Steven Reid, 21-Youssuf Mulumbu, 33-Paul Scharner (36-Gonzalo Jara 73), 7-James Morrison (18-Carlos Vela 73), 14-Jerome Thomas (5-Somen Tchoyi 83), 11-Chris Brunt, 24-Peter Odemwingie Chelsea: 1-Petr Cech, 26-John Terry, 4-David Luiz, 3-Ashley Cole, Branislav Ivanovic 2-(17-Jose Bosingwa 63), 12-John Obi Mikel, 8-Frank Lampard (10-Yossi Benayoun 77 ), 5-Michael Essien, 15-Florent Malouda, 11-Didier Drogba (9-Fernando Torres 81), 21-Salomon Kalou | Mid | [
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“I was looking forward to a lot more immigration reform from our current president. I supported him.” On what advice he’d give President Obama, Morales said, “Remember what you promised us. I would just say, be true to yourself because every time you don’t, you give the opposition a lot of ammunition to say, you know, where’s that change that was promised?” Morales appears to still be on board the Hope and Change express, but his candor regarding Obama’s lack of achievement on a key promise is refreshing. | Mid | [
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Set in a Tasmania town, the endearing comedy about two best friends has won fans the world over – thanks, in part, to its escapism ‘There’s no Brexit or Trump’: how Rosehaven became 'the best thing to watch while hungover' Holidays are over, and the nastiness of work, traffic and negotiating life in a big city are creeping back in. But sitting down to watch three episodes of Rosehaven in a row, all the troubles of urban life seem to fall away. Premiering on 30 January, season three of the Australian comedy takes viewers back to the bucolic Tasmanian town where people say hello on the main street; where the hills are green and life unfolds at a slower pace. Speaking with Guardian Australia from Melbourne, the creators and stars Luke McGregor and Celia Pacquola say they didn’t anticipate how successful the show would be. How Tasmania became the gothic muse of Australian film and TV Read more “I remember when we first started doing the show, I thought two [seasons], if we were lucky,” McGregor says. “Three is a something I hadn’t even planned on.” “He’s generally not excited enough,” says Pacquola. The pair finish each other’s sentences and have an easygoing camaraderie that carries over to their on-screen characters: the bubbly Emma, which sparks off McGregor’s more nervy and anxious Daniel. The premise of the show is simple enough: Daniel moves back to his hometown in Tasmania to help his mother with her real-estate business. He is joined by his best friend from the mainland, Emma, who was abandoned by her husband in Bali on their honeymoon. It’s a gentle comedy that focuses on the oddballs in the town, and the relatable, warm and refreshing dynamics of Emma and Daniel’s friendship. Plus, there’s an air of authenticity: not only do McGregor’s parents run a real-estate agency in Tasmania, but Pacquola and McGregor are best friends in real life. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Luke McGregor and Celia Pacquola are best friends in real life. Their relationship to this pig is unknown. Photograph: Michael Brook Since its debut in 2016, the show has become hugely popular and a critical success, and has been sold into US markets via SundanceTV. (The New York Times called it “Charming, gentle” – “brace yourself to fall completely in love”.) So what is it about Rosehaven that audiences love? “People need stuff to watch when they hungover,” says Pacquola. “The next time you are hungover, you should watch it and see if you feel better.” “It’s the best thing to watch when you’re hungover,” McGregor concurs. “No one is really mean, the world doesn’t get in – there’s no Brexit or Donald Trump.” This isolation from the big bad world has been part of its appeal with American critics. “It makes you feel like you’re a million miles away in a very special place,” said one review in the Washington Post. That special place is Geeveston: a tiny town, population 616 in the Huon Valley, where many of the exterior scenes are shot. “Geeveston has really embraced the show … the visitors’ centre has asked for life-sized cutouts of us,” says McGregor. Pacquola adds: “Part of the point of it being a small town is that it’s enclosed. It’s an escape for our characters as well.” We did have a storyline that had reference to a president in it. We removed that Luke McGregor McGregor says the town’s insularity is entirely intentional. “We don’t think about current events when we’re writing. There’s an episode when they go on a road trip, they go in a car together and get lost – and that’s enough of a set-up,” says McGregor. “We did have a storyline that had reference to a president in it. We removed that – we did not want our audience to think about that.” Pacquola concurs: “What we’re good at, and what we’re interested in, is the mundane and the humour in small, silly things.” The pair, who are also gigging standup comics, first worked together on the ABC satire Utopia. Their on-set banter was so good they wondered if they could make a show out of it. “The original idea was me and Luke talking shit in between scenes in Utopia. But we would have to build a storyline around it. The banter is the easiest part. What is time intensive is getting the structure and story right,” says Pacquola. Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘The banter is the easiest part.’ Photograph: ABC Initially their characters were a married couple. “Then we realised it didn’t work and it wasn’t funny,” says McGregor, before Pacquola continues: “And then we thought, ‘Why are we trying to do this?’ It was forced.” One of the refreshing things about Rosehaven is how it depicts male/female friendships. Most television shows – Moonlighting, Friends, Cheers – would ultimately have the characters eventually end up in bed together. The 10 best Australian TV shows of 2018: a picnic, rush hour and outback noir Read more “I think it’s settled that men and women can be friends, but it’s weird you don’t see it depicted much. I have found, though, that platonic friendships when you are in your 30s are increasingly rare. When people are coupling up, these friendships can fall by the wayside. So is there any temptation to get the two characters to fall in love? “If you see Daniel and Emma in a wedding then it’s season 10 and we’ve definitely jumped the shark,” says McGregor. • Rosehaven’s third season premieres on the ABC on 30 January. Seasons one and two are streaming on iView | Low | [
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Another unhappy ending for a flash-sale shopping site. Three months after Gilt Groupe sold for a fraction of its valuation, Amazon has decided to shut down its fashion discount competitor MyHabit, according to a person familiar with the move. Amazon launched the website five years ago near the height of the flash-sale craze, but MyHabit has struggled in recent years as the one-time popular fashion niche has become less popular and Amazon has prioritized other fashion initiatives. Women’s Wear Daily reported employees have been told that the site will shutter at the end of May (subscription). In January, the CEO of MyHabit took on a new role at Amazon as general manager of its new private-label fashion business, according to his LinkedIn profile. An Amazon spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Amazon has quietly launched several of its own fashion brands under names Lark & Ro and Franklin & Freeman. Sources say this division will be a huge focus of Amazon’s fashion business going forward. CEO Jeff Bezos confirmed as much when he recently told Fortune magazine that it was one of the areas inside Amazon where he was spending time. “I think there’s so much opportunity for invention there,” he said. Flash sales, on the other hand, has become an increasingly difficult business in recent years. The model exploded in popularity following the last recession, as designer brands were desperate to sell excess inventory in any way they could. But as the economy rebounded, there was less excess inventory to go around and some brands got smarter about how much inventory they produced. There have also been segments of the fashion industry that have refused to do business with MyHabit, because of the association with Amazon, which some still view as a brand that represents commodity goods. | Low | [
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Q: TCPDF html render not indented I'm trying to display data with TCPDF from my DB which were specifically indented. I use a writeHTMLCell to do so. e.g. : "This should be indented as so : - First bullet - Second one Then the end of the example." But of course, it render the text on a single line. Does anyone know how i can render the text properly ? Thank you very much ! A: With HTML preformatted text requires that you use <pre>. Here is an example: This should be indented as so:
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</pre> Using <pre> tags with the preformatted text block should achieve the result you are looking for. Preformatted text defaults to a monospaced font and can be changed with $pdf->SetDefaultMonospacedFont(). Here is an example with and without <pre>: <?php require_once('tcpdf_include.php'); $pdf = new TCPDF(PDF_PAGE_ORIENTATION, PDF_UNIT, PDF_PAGE_FORMAT, true, 'UTF-8', false); $pdf->AddPage(); $text_sample = 'This should be indented as so: - First bullet - Second one Then the end of the example.'; $y = $pdf->getY(); $pdf->SetDefaultMonospacedFont('helvetica'); $pdf->SetFont('helvetica', '', 14, '', true); $pdf->SetFillColor(255, 255, 255); $pdf->SetTextColor(255, 92, 92); $pdf->writeHTMLCell(190, '', '', $y, $text_sample, 1, 0, 1, true, 'J', true); $pdf->SetTextColor(53,183,41); $pdf->writeHTMLCell(190, '', '', $y+20, '<pre>'.$text_sample.'</pre>', 1, 1, 1, true, 'J', true); $pdf->Output('example.pdf', 'I'); The PDF will contain the following cells: | Mid | [
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Molecular biology of disorders of sex differentiation. Sexual ambiguity can be a difficult and sometimes confusing diagnostic problem in children. Recent developments in molecular biology have provided the opportunity to analyze the gene responsible for testicular determination, SRY, the androgen receptor gene and the gene encoding the cP450 enzyme specific for 21-hydroxylation, CYP21B, whose defects are responsible for congenital adrenal hyperplasia. Southern-blotting studies and PCR analyses of SRY, androgen receptor and CYP21B genes can be routinely used for the direct diagnosis of gonadal dysgenesis, androgen insensitivity syndromes and congenital adrenal hyperplasia, respectively. In sex-reversed XY females, several de novo mutations or deletions in the SRY gene have been reported. Defects in the human androgen receptor cause a spectrum of defects in male phenotypic sexual development associated with abnormalities in the receptor protein. Analyses of the androgen receptor gene structure have identified the causative mutation in some families: mutations that result in large-scale alterations of the structure of the androgen receptor, mRNA or gene mutations that alter the primary structure of the androgen receptor protein and mutations that alter the level of mRNA. The diversity of clinical phenotypes, apparent in 21-hydroxylase deficiency, is paralleled by a considerable degree of mutational heterogeneity in the CYP21 gene locus. Various changes causing severe 21-hydroxylase deficiency have been reported: point mutations, gene conversions and gene deletions. In conclusion, substantial progress has been made elucidating genetic defects causing sex reversal in XY females, the androgen insensitivity syndrome and congenital adrenal hyperplasia. Molecular genetics can also be applied for carrier identification and prenatal diagnosis. | High | [
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Q: Multivalued Dependencies Task We have R(A,B,C) 1 2 3 1 3 2 1 2 2 3 2 1 3 2 3 Question : Which of the following multivalued dependencies does this instance of R not satisfy? BC ↠ A BC ↠ C C ↠ A ✔ A ↠ B Right answer is 4 but why i dont understand please explain A: It doesn't satisfy statement 4 because for every unique combination of A and B, you have to have matching rows with C. To make Statement 4 valid, you'd need a 1 3 3 in your table (since you have a 1 2 3). Good luck. | Low | [
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News and information Apple is making a big, big move The tech giant is going on a hiring spree for some of the best minds in virtual and augmented reality -- and they're hoping it pays big dividends. Apple is stocking up on more talent in augmented reality, showing that the tech giant is becoming more and more focused on the area as competition heats up. Apple hired Zeyu Li from Magic Leap, an augmented reality startup, who could help Apple in the areas of virtual reality and driverless cars. The company also brought in Yury Petrov, who had worked on Facebook’s Oculus virtual reality platform. Apple really went into a hiring frenzy starting in May 2015 when it purchased the augmented reality startup Metaio, according to a Business Insider report. The hiring comes not a moment too soon, as Apple faces stiff competition from Google, which may resurrect Glass, a concept it had all but abandoned earlier. Also, Microsoft is pursuing its HoloLens, and even SnapChat is working on their own augment reality glasses. Apple CEO Tim Cook has called augmented reality “incredibly interesting” in the past. The tech giant has been quite silent on its formal plans in the arena other than hinting at the fact that they have augmented reality projects. The company doesn’t have any publicly available products in contrast to Google, Microsoft and Facebook. The hirings of Petrov and Li show that the company could introduce something to the public sooner rather than later, however. And perhaps all this secrecy portends to a huge announcement down the road — something Apple loves to do. The Financial Times reported back in January that Apple had hundreds of staff working on building prototypes of potential headset configurations. | Mid | [
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UK weighs future carbon pricing options, but Scotland will not abide a national tax it says will stomp on devolved powers By Sara Stefanini The Scottish government would oppose a London plan to replace Europe’s emissions trading market with a national carbon tax, Edinburgh has told Climate Home News, saying it would encroach on devolved powers. Whitehall is weighing up options for either keeping closer links to the European Union’s emissions trading system (ETS) after its exit or building its own measures. If it leaves, it could create a domestic cap-and trade market, and possibly link it to the EU’s, or set a carbon tax. If it’s a softer Brexit, the country could remain in the EU emissions market until the next trading period ends in 2030 – the preferred choice for many businesses and climate advocates. But to remain in the ETS up to 2030, the UK and EU will have to strike an overarching agreement that allows for ties in certain sectors. Negotiations so far have failed to find this kind of common ground. If the UK leaves the EU system, a proposal for a nationwide policy will need to satisfy Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland; the three devolved governments have the power to set their own environment policy, including on climate change. Scotland is waiting to hear more on the UK government’s plans before coming out with a detailed public position. But the government told CHN it would not accept a carbon tax, which would shift accountability for Scotland’s emissions to the treasury department in London. “Scottish ministers have written to the UK government expressing their concern about the lack of clarity on [the] ETS and the impact on stakeholders,” a government spokesperson said, adding that they are urging London to discuss the issue with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. What happens in the next few months will impact the future of the Paris Agreement and the global climate CHN will be there keeping you informed from the inside. If you value our coverage, please consider helping us. Become a CHN patron for as little as $5 per month. We have set up a Patreon account. It’s a simple, safe and easy way for you to become part of a community that will secure and guide our future. Thank you! The Scottish government still believes the most cost-effective way to cut carbon emissions is to remain in the European scheme, because it provides “access to larger markets and protection against carbon leakage,” the spokesperson added. But continued membership depends largely on whether the UK leaves the European Court of Justice’s jurisdiction, as it said it intends to do in a paper laying out Britain’s vision of a future relationship in July. “As our white paper sets out, we are seeking broad energy cooperation with the EU, as part of our commitment to deliver cost-effective, clean and secure energy supplies,” a UK government spokesperson said. “The UK will discuss options with the EU for maintaining robust, equivalent carbon-pricing mechanisms.” The UK is expected to give more details on how an immediate Brexit could affect emissions pricing in the coming weeks, when it releases additional notices on no-deal preparations for different sectors. It published the first batch earlier this month. Until then, the business department is quietly listening to what industries, NGOs and other experts have to say about the ETS, according to a source involved in those discussions. “It’s been a one-sided process of trying to understand stakeholder views on how different options could be implemented … rather than setting out a preferred government approach,” the source said. However, uncertainty about Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish positions adds to concerns that London would struggle to draw up a complex and contentious new carbon pricing system before leaving the EU market. UK energy and clean growth minister Claire Perry told the parliament in March the government would like to remain in the ETS through to 2020. That would coincide with the end of the EU market’s current trading period and the proposed transition period for implementing the Brexit deal. At best, that position leaves the government less than two years to prepare a replacement. That is already a tight window, but it’s luxurious compared to a sharp no-deal departure on March 29, which would yank the country out immediately. “With the carbon market, how do you set that up? This is big, it took us a long time to get the ETS in place,” said Matt Hinde, senior vice president and director of energy, transport and trade at the consultancy Fleishman Hillard in Brussels, and a former UK civil servant. “A tax is simpler, but only when you look at it at first. Are we doing it economy-wide, or just for power generators? What about energy-intensive industries? What about this sector? What about that one?” Get this, and other important climate news, to your inbox – sign up If the UK leaves without an ETS replacement, it could bring the EU’s cornerstone carbon-cutting tool to the “verge of collapse,” said Annalisa Savaresi, an environmental law lecturer at Scotland’s University of Stirling. And this just as the ETS price is rising in response to recently agreed reforms — putting pressure on energy-intensive industries after years of stagnation. In the UK, it would free British industrial factories, power plants and airline flights from obligations to pay for their pollution. (Although power generators would still be subject to a slightly lower national floor price for emissions). In the EU, it could flood the market with unneeded UK pollution permits. “If the UK crashes out with no agreement, that would really cause an Armageddon scenario that everyone wants to avoid,” said Savaresi, who sent a report to the Scottish government in May assessing options for environmental governance after Brexit. Scotland sets 2032 ban on new diesel and petrol cars, funds carbon capture The report urged Edinburgh to stick with the UK if it creates its own carbon pricing scheme to ensure continuity for businesses around the country, since most emissions come from England. Still, state-only carbon markets in the US and Canada show that it could be possible, Savaresi noted. Neither a domestic market nor a tax fits with what stakeholders ranging from power generators to energy-intensive industries to environmentalists really want: ETS membership through 2030, when the new reforms expire. Perry’s confirmation that the government would like to remain until the end of 2020 has not entirely reassured them. For one, the position relies on the UK and EU agreeing an exit deal, which looks more questionable as negotiations enter the final stretch. For another, the uncertainty is already weighing on financial decisions, such as electricity sales that should be based on future fuel and carbon costs, said Simon Henry, EU policy director at the International Emissions Trading Association. “They won’t know what those carbon costs will be,” Henry said. “It could be the EU ETS price, which is easy to hedge because you can buy a carbon allowance for, say, delivery in 2021. Or it could be some other UK carbon pricing scheme, but no one has any idea whether that would happen, what it would look like, or what the levels would be.” Correction: Annalisa Savaresi, is an environmental law lecturer at Scotland’s University of Stirling. Republish this article | Low | [
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208 Duecento Otto , Hong Kong 208 Duecento Otto is a stylish, two-story restaurant located in Hong Kong's original dried seafood and medicine district, Sheung Wan. The restaurant is housed in a former meat storing facility and features a bar on the lower floor and a dining facility on the upper floor. The décor at Duecento Otto is truly spectacular and features solid wooden beams, marble table tops and specially crafted blue and white ceramic tiles which are imprinted with Chinese designs. The menu at 208 Duecento Otto offers classic Italian fare like pizzas, pastas and various antipasti like beef carpaccio and marinated octopus. -Anjeeta Nayar | Mid | [
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# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 EAPI=7 # ebuild generated by hackport 0.6.9999 CABAL_FEATURES="lib profile haddock hoogle hscolour test-suite" inherit haskell-cabal DESCRIPTION="Configure your dotfile deployment with a DSL" HOMEPAGE="https://hackage.haskell.org/package/super-user-spark" SRC_URI="https://hackage.haskell.org/package/${P}/${P}.tar.gz" LICENSE="MIT" SLOT="0/${PV}" KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86" IUSE="" PATCHES=( "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-0.4.0.3-path-0.7.patch ) RESTRICT=test # missing files in tarball RDEPEND="dev-haskell/aeson:=[profile?] dev-haskell/aeson-pretty:=[profile?] dev-haskell/hashable:=[profile?] dev-haskell/mtl:=[profile?] dev-haskell/optparse-applicative:=[profile?] dev-haskell/parsec:=[profile?] dev-haskell/path:=[profile?] dev-haskell/path-io:=[profile?] dev-haskell/text:=[profile?] >=dev-haskell/validity-0.6.0.0:=[profile?] dev-haskell/validity-path:=[profile?] >=dev-lang/ghc-8.0.1:= " DEPEND="${RDEPEND} >=dev-haskell/cabal-1.24.0.0 test? ( dev-haskell/genvalidity dev-haskell/genvalidity-hspec dev-haskell/genvalidity-hspec-aeson dev-haskell/genvalidity-path dev-haskell/hspec dev-haskell/hspec-core dev-haskell/quickcheck ) " | Mid | [
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Metronews a fait le tour de la presse internationale et vous livre le fait divers du jour... Surprise mercredi dernier pour les policiers de Wausau, dans l'Etat du Wisconsin (Nord des Etats-Unis). Alors qu'ils effectuent une patrouille à proximité d'une grange, ils tombent nez à nez sur un jeune homme en train... de prodiguer une fellation à un cheval, rapporte un journal local. Pris en flagrant délit, l'homme de 30 ans ne peut que reconnaître immédiatement la pratique du sexe oral sur l'animal. Pour l'occasion, il s'est accoutré d'un masque et d'un pantalon découpé d'un trou au niveau de l'entrejambe. Une pipe et de la vaseline Aux forces de l'ordre qui l'interrogent, il explique avoir d'abord éveillé le cheval avec sa main. Affirmant mimer ainsi les gestes appris sur une vidéo zoophile qu'il a regardée auparavant. Dans la grange, les policiers retrouvent également une pipe servant à ingérer du cannabis, ainsi qu'un bocal contenant de la vaseline. Retrouvez le fait divers d'hier >> Elle se jette sous un train parce que son mari est pédophile En se rendant dans la foulée à son domicile, les policiers ne trouvent pas de vidéos pornographiques ou zoophiles, mais en revanche une petite quantité de cannabis. L'homme devra désormais faire face à la justice pour relations sexuelles avec un animal ainsi que possession de cannabis. LIRE AUSSI >> RETRO - Les 10 "faits divers du jour" qui vous ont le plus marqués cette année | Low | [
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Uniform Concave Polystyrene-Carbon Core-Shell Nanospheres by a Swelling Induced Buckling Process. We have developed a facile procedure that can create asymmetrical building blocks by uniformly deforming nanospheres into C(∞v) symmetry at low cost and high quality. Concave polystyrene@carbon (PS@C) core-shell nanospheres were produced by a very simple microwave-assisted alcohol thermal treatment of spherical PS@C nanoparticles. The dimensions and ratio of the concave part can be precisely controlled by temperature and solvents. The concavity is created by varying the alcohol-thermal treatment to tune the swelling properties that lead to the mechanical deformation of the PS@C core-shell structure. The driving force is attributed to the significant volume increase that occurs upon polystyrene core swelling with the incorporation of solvent. We propose a mechanism adapted from published models for the depression of soft capsules. An extrapolation from this model predicts that the rigid shell is used to generate a cavity in the unbuckled shell, which is experimentally confirmed. This swelling and deformation route is flexible and should be applicable to other polymeric nanoparticles to produce asymmetrical nanoparticles. | Mid | [
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The theme of this Program Project is to test the application of developing technologies for gene expression profiling (Project 1), proteomics (Project 2) and complex trait genetics (Project 3) to advance our understanding of kidney transplantation in the context of both its clinical problems and the basic biology of transplantation. Our view is that this is a systems biology approach to kidney transplantation. These efforts are supported by a group of collaborators with expertise in all three scientific areas as well as expertise in clinical kidney transplantation and bioinformatics and statistics. The kind of data we will generate will be of two kinds: diagnostic and discovery. The diagnostic component will consist of potentially complex gene and protein expression signatures that will have statistically valid correlations to specific clinical events like acute rejection, chronic allograft nephropathy and long term well-functioning transplants with no rejection. The discovery component will consist of identifying within these complex genomic signatures, specific gene candidates that correlate with transplant events and outcomes. Our hypotheses are: 1) that gene and protein expression signatures can be identified in PBL and kidney transplant biopsies that correlate with biopsy-proven acute rejection and chronic allograft nephropathy, 2) that gene and protein expression profiles provide insights into the molecular pathways involved in both the host immune response and the donor organ's response to transplantation, and 3) that the adequacy of immunosuppression, as defined by the absence of rejection-related gene and protein expression, can be determined by the gene and protein expression profiles. We also propose to examine the possibility that race and sex will influence at least a subset of gene transcripts and proteins expressed post transplant and correlate with outcomes. The first objective of this application will be to integrate data on gene expression profiling in parallel with data generated by proteomics (Project 2) and complex trait genetics (Project 3) to advance a more comprehensive understanding of the molecular basis of clinical kidney transplantation. The second is to establish the requisite proof of principle to design a prospective clinical trial to test the hypothesis that PBL profiles can be used to monitor the efficacy of immunosuppression in 'real-time'. | High | [
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Q: jquery UI Modal Dialog in asp.net usercontrol: Modal Overlay only on Div in UserControl I have an asp.net usercontrol that contains a jQuery UI Dialog Control. All works as expected execpt the grey tranparent overlay (to make the form modal) only appears on the hidden div below the form where the dialog is triggered from. Is it possible to target this overlay to the parent div? or is this not the right solution. I have tried the blockUI plugin (and removing the Dialog style to prevent its overlay showing), but although it "looks" right on screen it disables all the controls including the ones in the dialog popup. Any ideas? Added: Screenshot alt text http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/e0555a0ec5.jpg A: It might be a z-order issue. Can you post a screenshot to make it easier to understand. Also please post the high level HTML you are using on the aspx page. | Mid | [
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Q: RewriteRule: move id article in url I want to move the post id to the last position in the url. Like this: http://www.mysite.com/news/123-post.html to http://www.mysite.com/news/post-123.html Original htaccess RewriteRule ^([^.]+)/([0-9]+)-(.*).html$ index.php?newsid=$2&seourl=$3&seocat=$1 [L] I change to RewriteRule ^([^.]+)/(.*)-([0-9]+).html$ index.php?newsid=$2&seourl=$3&seocat=$1 [L] and paste new url http://www.mysite.com/news/post-123.html in browser but it don't work A: You have swapped news id and seo url parameters. You have to do the same in your rule. This rule (the new one) RewriteRule ^([^.]+)/(.*)-([0-9]+).html$ index.php?newsid=$2&seourl=$3&seocat=$1 [L] should look like this RewriteRule ^([^.]+)/(.*)-([0-9]+).html$ index.php?newsid=$3&seourl=$2&seocat=$1 [L] $2 is now into seourl and $3 is now into newsid. Otherwise, you'll have a problem. Also, you can optimize your rule by making sure seourl does not contain any slash (/) if you want it to be only in same folder and not an entier path RewriteRule ^([^.]+)/([^/]+)-([0-9]+).html$ index.php?newsid=$3&seourl=$2&seocat=$1 [L] | High | [
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American foreign policy often seems to take its cues from 1980s John Hughes movies. We’re the jock kid, whose role in the movie is to protect the smart kid. In turn, he helps us with out homework. The real world is a bit more nuanced than a John Hughes movie, however. Instead of helping with homework, our allies protect our strategic interests as we turn a blind eye to their human rights abuses. Nowhere in the world is that scenario better exemplified than in the oil rich region of the Middle East. In our John Hughes movie, Saudi Arabia is the rich asshole. The country is one of the leading human rights abusers in the world, yet the US is so reliant on their oil reserves that US Presidents have been known to literally play kissy face with its leaders. Then we have Israel, our smart but very complicated friend. Perhaps it’s my Jewish heritage, but unlike many liberals, I don’t view Israel and in particular, Israelis, as two dimensional villains. Even if I were to label Israel as the intruders in the region, the vast majority of living Israelis have known only one home: the state that we currently call Israel. In many ways, the argument that we (rightfully) use to defend Palestinians can be used to defend Israelis; they are fighting for their very literal homes. That being said, the human rights abuses against Palestinians cannot be excused. America’s support of Israel should not be unconditional. We should not be supplying the weaponry. Is it any wonder that people who feel forced to resort to rogue warfare (aka terrorism) turn their sites westward, toward the Sleeping Giant? The Israeli leadership, and particularly Benjamin Netanyahu, seem to feel that they have the US in exactly the position they want us, wrapped around their little fingers. In this video, Netanyahu is caught telling a group of people that we will get out of their way, that we will be “moved in the right direction” and that he has no fear of us. Here it is: While Netanyahu is wrong that 80% of Americans support him, the American support is unwavering, despite the fact that far more Palestinians have been killed or injured in the latest round of attacks than Israelis. Netanyahu was a friend and vocal supporter to Mitt Romney during the last election. It’s extremely rare for a foreign leader, especially of an allied country, to take sides in America’s elections. The political risk is simply too great. But as Netanyahu arrogantly anticipated, the political risk for a sitting American president to turn against Israel is probably greater. Like most regional wars, it’s unlikely the conflict will last much longer. As the skies over Gaza once again quiet, Israel’s version of FEMA will sweep up the debris, while Gaza will lie in rubble. Netanyahu, in the meantime, will try to use the conflict and Iran’s reported ties to Hamas, to sway Americans into a yet another Middle Eastern war. It’s possible, though, that some hope could be on the horizon. Israel is holding an election in January. The former Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, could be jumping into the ring. It’s heavily rumored that before he was forced to resign from the post, he was just two months away from a peace settlement with the Palestinians. However, as things currently stand, Netanyahu, boosted by the military action, is anticipated to win and even if Olmert were to enter the race, it’s unlikely he’d stand a chance. Author: Wendy GittlesonPolitical pundit, small business marketing guru, business blogger -- a true renaissance woman, which apparently makes her really old. By the way, did you know that every time someone mentions impeaching Trump (or shares one of Wendy's articles), an angel gets its wings? Follow Wendy on Twitter or Google Plus. | Mid | [
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whisher We Make Money Not Art recently visited the LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre in Gijón, Spain. The installation that left the strongest impression on [Regine] was the WiFi sightseeing telescope built by Clara Boj and Diego Diaz. Spain is in a situation similar to the USA: A few years ago many municipal WiFi projects launched only to be squashed because of theoretical unfair competition with local utilities. Now commercial projects like WeFi, Whisher, and FON encourage people to “share” their WiFi. Observatorio (Observatory) is designed to provide insight into the current state of local WiFi. It uses a highly directional Yagi antenna to collect wireless access data from the local area. The antenna has a 30deg aperture which is matched to a camera with an identical field of view. The observer sees the camera’s viewpoint with the WiFi data overlaid showing where accesspoints are and whether the AP is open. WMMNA also recommends you check out the WiFi Camera which photographs electromagnetic space. | Mid | [
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[Essential procedure and key methods for survey of traditional knowledge related to Chinese materia medica resources]. The survey of traditional knowledge related to Chinese materia medica resources is the important component and one of the innovative aspects of the fourth national survey of the Chinese materia medica resources. China has rich traditional knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and the comprehensive investigation of TCM traditional knowledge aims to promote conservation and sustainable use of Chinese materia medica resources. Building upon the field work of pilot investigations, this paper introduces the essential procedures and key methods for conducting the survey of traditional knowledge related to Chinese materia medica resources. The essential procedures are as follows. First is the preparation phrase. It is important to review all relevant literature and provide training to the survey teams so that they have clear understanding of the concept of traditional knowledge and master key survey methods. Second is the field investigation phrase. When conducting field investigations, survey teams should identify the traditional knowledge holders by using the 'snowball method', record the traditional knowledge after obtaining prior informed concerned from the traditional knowledge holders. Researchers should fill out the survey forms provided by the Technical Specification of the Fourth National Survey of Chinese Materia Medica Resources. Researchers should pay particular attention to the scope of traditional knowledge and the method of inheriting the knowledge, which are the key information for traditional knowledge holders and potential users to reach mutual agreed terms to achieve benefit sharing. Third is the data compilation and analysis phrase. Researchers should try to compile and edit the TCM traditional knowledge in accordance with intellectual property rights requirements so that the information collected through the national survey can serve as the basic data for the TCM traditional knowledge database. The key methods of the survey include regional division of Chinese materia medica resources, interview of key information holders and standardization of information.' In particular, using "snowball method" can effectively identify traditional knowledge holder in the targeted regions and ensuring traditional knowledge holders receiving prior informed concerned before sharing the information with researcher to make sure the rights of traditional knowledge holders are protected. Employing right survey methods is not only the key to obtain traditional knowledge related to Chinese materia medica resources, but also the pathway to fulfill the objectives of access and benefit sharing stipulated in Convention on Biological Resources. It will promote the legal protection of TCM traditional knowledge and conservation of TCM intangible, cultural heritage. | High | [
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Urgent! Please Comment Today by 4 pm to Stop BLM’s Gruesome Torture of Wild Mares By Carol Walker, Director of Field Documentation, WHFF The BLM has released a Scoping Document on the Warm Springs Herd Management Area in Oregon that proposes spaying wild mares using ovariectomy via colpotomy. Despite massive public outcry and three lawsuits that ultimately stopped the BLM from proceeding with these so-called “experiments” in 2016, they are proposing it again. This is not about controlling a supposedly out of control population of wild horses, this is not about actual data driven scientific research and this is no way, shape or form humane, safe or responsible treatment of the wild horses that the BLM is mandated to manage and protect. This is instead cruel, unsanitary, unethical and lethal torture of wild mares. What kind of monsters propose ripping out the ovaries of wild mares in a BLM holding corral in Burns, Oregon, one of the most dirty and unsanitary places that can be found? Many of these mares and their unborn foals will die, many will suffer horribly, and for what? Spaying of domestic mares is a procedure very rarely done, not using this outdated, obscene method, and is only done in sterile, controlled conditions. Scoping Letter: https://www.wildhoofbeats.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Scoping_Letter_-_May_2018.pdf In 2016 Don Moore, a veterinarian in Colorado commented on the plans for sterilizing wild mares in a holding corral ovariectomy via colpotomy: “This type of trial and error butchery is a violation of the least feasible management clause of the Wild Free Roaming Horses and Burros Act. Mass experimental surgeries performed under these conditions outlined in the proposal, amounts to negligence and abuse. I believe experiments such as this proposal are unethical, inhumane and unwarranted. Any veterinarian(s) who would perform these experiments is in violation of the oath taken as a graduating veterinarian, “above all else, do no harm”. If a veterinarian in private practice performed these procedures in the manner described in this document they would most certainly be reported to and disciplined by the regulatory board of that state. Discipline would likely mean suspension of that veterinarian’s license to practice in that state.” To read his comments in full, go here: https://www.wildhoofbeats.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/DonMooreCommentsOregonSpayProposal.pdf What can you do to help? Say that you oppose the spaying of wild mares under any conditions. Say that the BLM must abandon all research plans that use the sterilization of wild horses and that they must use only humane and safe methods to manage wild horses in the wild on our public lands where they belong. You can email the BLM using this information by 4pm today: Email: [email protected] Subject Line: DOI-BLM-ORWA-B050-2018-0016-EA Spay Feasibility and On-Range Behavioral Outcomes Assessment and Warm Springs Herd Management Area Population Management Plan Letters – postmarked by June 4 Lisa Grant, Wild Horse & Burro Specialist BLM, Burns District Office, Oregon 28910 Highway 20 W Hines, OR 97738 Tel. (541) 573-4555 Previous Related Posts | Mid | [
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Learning points {#Sec1} =============== A diagnosis of CVID can be difficult to make, but physicians from all specialties should suspect this diagnosis in patients with recurrent infections (especially respiratory infections) who have no obvious precipitating risk factors.CVID can be associated with systemic lymphocytic/granulomatous disease. CVID-associated neurological disease is rare but should be suspected in patients with a history of recurrent infections/immunodeficiency and lymphocytic/granulomatous changes on biopsy.GLILD should be suspected in patients with CVID and pulmonary disease. Diagnosis is based on a combination of compatible clinical, radiological and histological features.Exclusion of other pathologies such as malignancy, lymphoma, mycobacterial disease and sarcoidosis should be performed in all cases of suspected CVID-associated neurological disease and GLILD. Background {#Sec2} ========== Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is a primary immune disorder whose principal manifestation is functional abnormality of the B cell lineage. The condition is characterised by hypoglobulinaemia (typically IgG and IgA) and susceptibility to bacterial infections, particularly polysaccharide-encapsulated organisms causing infections of the respiratory tract \[[@CR1], [@CR2]\]. CVID accounts for 90% of symptomatic antibody deficiencies and is known to present at any age \[[@CR2]\]. The disorder is further associated with autoimmune conditions such as autoimmune haemolytic anaemia (AIHA), idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) and autoimmune neutropenia \[[@CR2], [@CR3]\]. Up to 22% of patients with CVID experience a systemic inflammatory/granulomatous form of the condition, characterised by lymphocytic and/or granulomatous infiltration of several organs, most commonly the lungs \[[@CR4]--[@CR6]\]. Granulomatous-lymphocytic interstitial lung disease (GLILD) is a distinct form of interstitial lung disease in patients with CVID. It is diagnosed based on specific clinical/radiological/histopathological features, following the exclusion of other pathologies \[[@CR7]\]. Here we present the case of a patient who presented to the respiratory clinic with a long history of recurrent infections, hypogammaglobulinaemia (on treatment with intravenous immunoglobulin infusions), a preceding diagnosis of Evans syndrome, previously investigated neurological symptoms and a cerebellar lesion that was attributed to neurosarcoidosis, and chronic pulmonary disease which had been extensively investigated for malignancy and infection over several years. A unifying diagnosis of CVID with associated neurological disease, interstitial lung disease (GLILD) and autoimmune haemolytic disease was made, following careful consideration and multidisciplinary review of the clinical, radiological and histological findings in this case. Case presentation {#Sec3} ================= A 50-year-old Caucasian female presented to the neurology clinic with marked cerebellar ataxia. Her medical history included Evans syndrome -- a combination of idiopathic thrombocytopaenic purpura (ITP) and autoimmune haemolytic anaemia (AIHA) diagnosed in her 30s, hypogammaglobulinaemia with recurrent chest infections, and hypertension. The patient underwent extensive investigation for these cerebellar symptoms at that time. CSF analysis was negative for infection, and relevant investigations for demyelinating conditions such as multiple sclerosis (including MRI spine) yielded negative results. MRI Brain showed an abnormal, wedge-shaped, bright signal intensity lesion in the right cerebellar hemisphere, with slight mass effect on the fourth ventricle. The area of abnormality extended through the grey and white matter (Fig. [1](#Fig1){ref-type="fig"}). A cerebellar biopsy was subsequently performed to exclude malignancy. This showed focal infiltration of both the cerebellum and meninges with macrophages and lymphocytes consistent with meningo-cerebellitis. No granulomata were seen, and the infiltrating lymphocytes were predominantly T-cells. Immunohistochemistry demonstrated no evidence of lymphoma. A chest x-ray (CXR) showed linear shadowing in the left midzone and nodular opacification in the right upper and lower zones. A unifying diagnosis of neurosarcoidosis was made on the basis of these clinico-radio-pathological findings. Fig. 1MRI brain imaging. MRI Brain showing high signal in the right cerebellar hemisphere. **a** Coronal FLAIR, arrow with a corresponding abnormal focal area of enhancement shown on the **b** Axial post-gadolinium images. Repeat MRI Brain after 3 months (while the patient was on treatment) shows almost complete resolution of these findings **c** Coronal FLAIR **d** Axial post-gadolinium The patient was treated with corticosteroids and methotrexate, and her symptoms and MRI brain abnormalities resolved within 3 months. This treatment was tapered off over a two-year period as her symptoms had resolved. Aside from intermittent headaches (which were treated with greater occipital nerves blocks), the patient did not experience any further neurological symptoms. Approximately 7 years after her original presentation, she was noted to have pulmonary nodules on a CT thorax performed in a different hospital (Fig. [3](#Fig3){ref-type="fig"}). This scan was performed as she was experiencing symptoms suggestive of recurrent chest infections. These nodules were subsequently followed up (radiologically) over a 1-year-period, and a CT-guided lung biopsy of one nodule showed chronic inflammation (lymphocyte predominant) with no evidence of granulomatous disease. The patient was discharged from the respiratory service in that hospital at that point in time. During this period, she was also noted to have splenomegaly and haemolytic anaemia and was treated with immunosuppressive therapy (prednisolone with other agents e.g. rituximab at different points) for this by the haematology service (Fig. [2](#Fig2){ref-type="fig"}). She was also admitted to hospital around this time with pneumococcal pneumonia and sepsis and was found to be profoundly hypogammaglobulinaemic. Following assessment by the immunology service, she was commenced on immunoglobulin replacement therapy (initially intravenously, later converted to subcutaneous administration). A year later (aged 59) the patient developed parotid gland swelling and underwent sub-mandibular gland biopsy. The biopsy revealed smeared lymphocytes but no evidence of granulomata or malignancy. The patient was diagnosed with 'pseudo-tumour parotiditis secondary to sarcoidosis' and the swelling improved with steroid therapy. Fig. 2Timeline. Relevant medical history and clinical course Approximately 10 years after her initial presentation to the neurology clinic (aged 60), the patient was referred to the specialist Interstitial Lung Disease clinic for management of her sarcoidosis. At the time of clinic, she was relatively asymptomatic with respect to her chest, with no cough or exertional dyspnoea. There was no reported abdominal pain, chest pain, palpitations, reflux symptoms, night sweats or ocular symptoms. She described a flare of chest symptoms associated with splenomegaly some years previously when attempting to wean her steroids. The patient was a never smoker, with no known family history of pulmonary disease or immunodeficiency. She was a retired childcare worker who had no identifiable respiratory risk factors or previous inhalational exposures. At time of her clinic appointment her medications were as follows: *Gammanorm* 8 g weekly subcutaneously, prednisolone 5 mg OD (slow tapering from 80 mg over several months), cyclosporine 200 mg OD, omeprazole 20 mg OD, cholecalciferol 20,000 IU twice weekly, alendronic acid 70 mg weekly, folic acid 5 mg OD, lisinopril 10 mg OD, fluoxetine 20 mg OD and ferrous sulphate 200 mg OD. She reported no known drug allergies. On examination, her weight was 81 kg and her BMI 35. Her pulse rate was 84 bpm and regular, blood pressure 180/100 mmHg, temperature 36.8 °C and oxygen saturations 97% on room air. She was visibly cushingoid. She was clinically euvolaemic. Her cardiac examination was unremarkable. Pulmonary examination revealed some crackles in the right lower zone with no squawks or wheezes. Abdominal examination revealed an enlarged spleen 4 cm below the costal margin. The remainder of the clinical examination was unremarkable. Investigations & results {#Sec4} ------------------------ Blood tests demonstrated a mild anaemia (115 g/L) and thrombocytopenia (110 × 10^9^/L). Serum IgA (0.09 g/L) was low and serum IgG (6.4 g/L) was at the lower end of the normal range (patient was noted to be on immunoglobulin therapy at that time). There was no evidence of infection, while serum ACE (13 U/L), corrected calcium (2.19 mmol/L), liver enzymes, renal profile and autoimmune screen were all unremarkable. Spirometric lung volumes measured in the ILD clinic were within normal range, and stable over a 6-month period. Her FEV~1~ was measured as 2.23 l (114% predicted) and 2.18 l (114% predicted). Her FVC over the 6-month period was 2.55 l (112% predicted) and 2.65 l (113% predicted). FEV~1~/FVC was 85, and 84% at 6-months. Gas transfer and KCO were notably reduced at 48 and 64% predicted respectively. Recent CXR showed no focal abnormalities, but review of previous CXRs showed fluctuating pulmonary nodular changes over a 10-year period. Review of her CT thorax imaging (over a 3-year period) showed fluctuating bilateral parenchymal nodular changes (including fissural nodularity), and areas of ground glass opacification and reticular change. Stable sub-centimetre mediastinal adenopathy and massive splenomegaly (18 cm) were also noted. A PET CT performed during previous evaluation of her pulmonary nodularity showed a right lower lobe pulmonary nodule with low/moderate FDG avidity (Fig. [3](#Fig3){ref-type="fig"}). Fig. 3CT and PET imaging. **a** CT Thorax showing a right lower lobe pulmonary nodule (arrow, June 2016), **b** PET-CT showing the same right lower lobe pulmonary nodule (arrow) and splenomegaly (broken arrow). **c** New left lower lobe pulmonary nodule (broken arrow) and resolving right lower lobe nodule (arrow, July 2016). **d** New left lower lobe nodule (arrow, April 2018) **e** New right lower lobe nodule (arrow, Sept 2019) f) New lower lobe nodules (arrows, Sept 2019) Echocardiogram performed aged 60 was unremarkable, with normal left and right ventricular systolic function and no echocardiographic evidence of pulmonary hypertension. Microscopy of fine needle aspirates, taken 3 years previously from a lung nodule, demonstrated a non-specific infiltrate, predominantly lymphoid in nature, with features consistent with a diagnosis of GLILD (Fig. [4](#Fig4){ref-type="fig"}). Fig. 4Pulmonary and cerebellar histology. Histopathological characteristics supporting a diagnosis of GLILD: **a** the core biopsy of pulmonary parenchyma showing a reticular pattern of fibrosis and interstitial lymphocytic infiltration (H & E, × 100 magnification); **b** at higher magnification, the lymphocytes can be seen to form aggregates giving a nodular appearance. On CD3 immunostaining these lymphocytes proved to be of predominantly T-cell lineage (H & E, × 400); **c** the cerebellar biopsy from the same patient 10 years previously showing lymphocytic infiltration (red dot) with a similar pattern to that seen in the lung biopsy (H & E, × 100) Diagnosis {#Sec5} --------- A diagnosis of CVID with associated GLILD was made following multidisciplinary team review of the clinical, radiological and histological features of this case. Furthermore, re-review of her brain biopsy histology showed focal infiltration of lymphocytes and excluded other pathologies (lymphoma, mycobacterial disease), thereby supporting a retrospective diagnosis of CVID-associated neurological involvement. Discussion & Conclusions {#Sec6} ======================== CVID is a primary immune disorder primarily characterised by humoral immunodeficiency. Patients with the condition are characteristically hypogammaglobulinaemic, with increased susceptibility to bacterial infections \[[@CR1], [@CR2]\]. Splenomegaly may be seen in one third of patients, and previous studies suggest that the presence of AIHA, ITP or splenomegaly may identify patients at risk of developing interstitial pulmonary complications \[[@CR2], [@CR8]\]. No single underlying cause is known, and the condition may be polygenic in origin \[[@CR9]\]. According to the European Society for Immunodeficiences (ESID), patients must fulfill at least one of the following diagnostic criteria in order for a diagnosis of CVID to be made: i.Increased susceptibility to infectionii.Autoimmune manifestationsiii.Granulomatous diseaseiv.Unexplained polyclonal lymphoproliferationv.Affected family member with antibody deficiency \[[@CR10]\]. These clinical features must be combined with a marked decrease in IgG and IgA (more than 2 standard deviations below the normal levels for their age, measured at least twice) with or without low IgM levels, and patients must exhibit a poor antibody response to vaccines or low switched memory B cells. Secondary causes of hypogammaglobulinaemia must be excluded, disease onset must be after the 4th year of life, and profound T-cell deficiency should also be excluded \[[@CR10]\]. The patient in this case fulfills the diagnostic criteria for CVID. Firstly, she experienced recurrent pulmonary infections over a number of years including an episode of confirmed pneumococcal pneumonia. Secondly, this patient had a diagnosis of immunodeficiency with a marked decrease in IgA and IgG levels and was being treated with regular IgG infusions at the time of presentation to the interstitial lung disease clinic. Alternative causes of hypogammaglobulinaemia and immunodeficiency such as haematological malignancy, HIV, or nutritional deficiency were fully investigated and excluded in this case. Thirdly, histological analysis demonstrated lymphocytic infiltration on cerebellar, submandibular and pulmonary biopsies, which is consistent with the histological features of CVID. Finally, the presence of splenomegaly and preceding diagnosis of Evans syndrome support the known association between autoimmune haematological disease and CVID. In this case, the patient previously underwent a cerebellar biopsy that revealed 'meningo-cerebellitis', which was deemed compatible with a diagnosis of neurosarcoidosis in the context of her CXR findings at that time. In retrospect, this histological finding was probably a manifestation of CVID. Neurological associations with CVID are notably rare, and there are a very small number of reported cases in the literature \[[@CR11]--[@CR18]\]. Important differential diagnoses were excluded at the time. In this case, infection, primary malignancy and cerebral lymphoma were excluded following review of CSF and brain biopsy specimens. This patient's CVID-associated neurological disease also responded well to immunosuppressive therapy, which is consistent with the findings of a previously published case report \[[@CR13]\]. Pulmonary involvement is more common than neurological involvement in patients with CVID. Granulomatous-lymphocytic interstitial lung disease (GLILD) is a specific subtype of interstitial lung disease associated with CVID \[[@CR4], [@CR6], [@CR7], [@CR19], [@CR20]\]. Until recently, there has been little consensus on the definition, diagnosis and management of GLILD. In 2017, a consensus document defined GLILD as a distinct clinico-radio-pathological ILD occurring in patients with CVID, associated with a lymphocytic infiltrate and/or granuloma in the lung, and in whom other conditions have been considered and where possible excluded \[[@CR7]\]. Although a CT thorax is required to support a diagnosis of GLILD, there is no specific radiological feature which would be sufficient to confirm this diagnosis. Compatible CT thorax features include solid nodules, ground-glass opacities, hilar and/or mediastinal lymphadenopathy and reticulation \[[@CR7], [@CR21]\]. Rather, a surgical biopsy (preferably a video-assisted thoracic surgical (VATS) biopsy) is needed in combination with compatible clinical and radiological features to confirm the diagnosis \[[@CR7]\]. Similarly, there is no specific histological feature of GLILD, but features of granulomatous inflammation, peribronchiolar lymphoid proliferation, interstitial lymphoid proliferation, and CD4+ T-Cell predominance are all felt to be characteristic of this condition \[[@CR7]\]. Definitive exclusion of other potential pathologies such as mycobacterial infection, organizing pneumonia, malignancy and lymphoma is also a key consideration in the diagnosis of GLILD. Repeated sampling, Ziehl--Neelsen staining and culturing of respiratory specimens (sputum, tissue) excluded mycobacterial disease. A PET CT performed during evaluation of pulmonary nodules showed a nodule in the right lower lobe with low/moderate FDG avidity, and CT thorax scans showed fluctuating parenchymal nodular changes, ground glass opacification and reticular change -- which are characteristic radiological features of GLILD. The patient also had a fine-needle aspirate (FNA) of one of the pulmonary nodules. Histological analysis of this tissue (in addition to the previous brain biopsy tissue) showed no evidence of malignancy, and immunohistochemical staining excluded lymphoma. Mycobacterial disease was also excluded, and there was no histological evidence of granulomas. Histological analysis did however demonstrate non-specific lymphoid infiltration (predominantly T cell type) which is considered to be a typical histological feature of GLILD. As previously mentioned, VATS lung biopsy is described as the biopsy modality of choice for diagnosing GLILD. However, this procedure is invasive and is associated with clinical risk, especially in patients with pre-existing severe lung disease \[[@CR22]\]. In this case, following careful multidisciplinary team review of the clinical features and results of extensive investigation findings (radiological and histological), it was decided that a confident diagnosis of CVID with associated GLILD (and neurological involvement) could be made without the need for further tissue sampling (i.e. VATS biopsy). Differentiating GLILD from sarcoidosis can be extremely challenging, as both conditions share a number of similar clinical, radiological and histological characteristics, such as non-specific pulmonary symptoms, splenomegaly, impaired lung function, interstitial infiltrates and pulmonary nodules on CT Thorax, and lymphocytic/granulomatous inflammation on lung biopsy. Indeed, in this case, the patient had been initially referred to the ILD clinic with suspected sarcoidosis. However, in contrast to sarcoidosis, which is often associated with hypergammaglobulinaemia, the patient's history of primary immunodeficiency favoured a diagnosis of CVID-associated GLILD rather than sarcoidosis. Furthermore, specific radiological features, such as non-upper zone predominant interstitial changes and compatible biopsy features all favoured a diagnosis of CVID-associated GLILD. This case also highlights the challenges facing clinicians in diagnosing rare diseases such as CVID and its systemic manifestations, such as neurological disease and GLILD. Indeed, CVID is associated with a diagnostic delay of over 15 years in 20% of patients \[[@CR2], [@CR20], [@CR23], [@CR24]\]. In this case, there was a period of 10 years between the patient's initial presentation and the final multidisciplinary diagnosis. In addition, this case also emphasises the importance of multidisciplinary team review and cross-specialty collaboration in the diagnosis and management of rare multiorgan diseases such as CVID. CXR : Chest X-ray CT : Computerised tomography CVID : Common variable immunodeficiency DVT : Deep vein thrombosis FEV1 : Forced expiratory volume during first second of expiration FVC : Forced vital capacity GLILD : Granulomatous-lymphocytic interstitial lung disease HRCT : High resolution computerised tomography scan ILD : Interstitial lung disease KCO : Transfer coefficient of the lung for carbon monoxide OD : Once daily VATS : Video-assisted thoracic surgical biopsy **Publisher's Note** Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Not applicable. JEC writing of the manuscript. JS, JRG selection and interpretation of appropriate histology. MP selection and interpretation of appropriate imaging. JD, ST, AJ diagnosis and treatment of patient. JD, ST, AJ, AS, LGS reviewing and editing of manuscript. EPJ supervision of writing, editing of manuscript, selection and interpretation of appropriate imaging, diagnosis and treatment of patient. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Not applicable. All data is available in the manuscript. Not applicable. Verbal and written consent was received from the patient for publication of any clinical information/data pertaining to this case. The authors declare that they have no competing interests. | High | [
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Archive for June, 2010 It looks like more and more cities are stepping up to stop the flow of animals from puppy mills and reduce the pressure on animal shelters and rescue group who deal daily with an overpopulation of domestic animals in our communities. Check out these link: I was reading over the agenda, report and minutes from the March 2, 2010 City of Richmond General Purposes Committee (GPC) meeting on the proposal to ban the sale of dog from Richmond storefronts. This issue has been overdue for discussion, since abandoned and surrendered dogs have been a major issue in Richmond for a very long time. These dogs often come from pet stores, but also come from pet dealers, otherwise known as ‘puppy mills’, selling directly to the public. Some interesting ideas were tossed around by the Richmond City Council and since dogs and cats are abandoned and abused every day in Richmond, we urgently need to address this issue. Some solutions considered by council included: the development and enforcement of regulations for dog breeders; a resolution to the Union of British Columbia Municipalities (UBCM) seeking provincial standards for dog breeding; and amending Richmond’s bylaw so that the keeping of puppies is included in the three dog per household limit. These three ideas have merit in that they address the issue of impromptu ‘puppy mill’ style breeding operations in the home of individual residents. This is definitely needed, and I encourage city council to move forward with these ideas. But the issue of animal overpopulation, surrender and abandonment in Richmond will not be solved until we, as a community, recognize the magnitude and the severity of animal overpopulation in Richmond, shut down the puppy and kitten mill operations, and ensure that all our pets are spayed and neutered. The Human Society of the US has the best statistics in North America on the number of animals that are bred and sold in each year that end up being euthanized in shelters because there are simply too many of them. Approximately 7 million dogs and cats enter animal shelters each year in North America. Of those, about half (3.5 million animals) are immediately euthanized due to the fact that there aren’t enough homes for them all. According the HSUS, 25% of those dogs in shelters are purebred, but in Richmond over 57% of dogs in the Richmond Animal Shelter are purebred dogs. So although I think that dog breeding should be regulated to prevent ‘puppy mill’ style breeding facilities, with 7 million dogs and cats entering shelters every year, should we really be selling animals at all? In fact, we have plenty of animals in shelters, rescue group foster homes, and breed-specific rescue groups to supply Richmond residents for a decade or more. According the GPC meeting minutes, local pet stores sell more than 200 puppies annually and pet dealers sell even more. However, with just one search on Petfinder.com (a database of animals for adoption by local rescue groups), I found that there are currently 798 dogs for adoption in Richmond and the surrounding area! Of those 798 dogs, 53 are puppies. I don’t think we need more dogs or cats being bred and sold in Richmond when we have such a huge number that are already homeless and so many end up at the Richmond Animal Shelter. The costs of pet abandonment and surrender are felt by Richmond’s residents everyday when we pay our taxes to deal with this disturbing and ever-expanding issue of overpopulation. Please contact City Council and encourage them to proceed to legislation to restrict animal sales in Richmond. Well over 798 dogs will thank you. Note: If you have never used Petfinder.com, it’s a wonderful resource for someone looking for a new pet. You can enter your city or postal code and find all the dogs, cats, birds and rabbits for adoption in your area. You can even search for a new pet by age, gender, size, and breed. In addition, Petfinder.com is a wonderful resource for individuals who want to learn more about getting a dog or cat for the first time. Check it out! When an event claims that “there is something for the whole family,” they usually don’t mean for the family dog, cat or rabbit as well as the kids. But I recently found out about one event that you and your whole family are not going to want to miss! On June 19 and 20, rescue groups, breeders, pet product suppliers, veterinarians, trainers and animal experts are gathering at the Hellenic Community Centre in Vancouver to hold the Petnership Trade Show and Lecture Series. And this event really is for the whole family — kids, parents, couples, singles, dogs, ferrets, horses and, yes, even cats! And the entrance fee is just $10 per person, but half-price coupons are readily available at the Richmond Animal Shelter. Your fee is good for both days. The Petnership Project is an effort to share information on holistic health and wellness for your pets — and all pets — including those in shelters and even horses just off the racetrack. In addition, I’m really looking forward to the showcase of rescue groups and the lectures series on everything from teaching children how to safely approach a dog to lectures on “happy, healthy cats” and “pet first aid.” Did you know there is clicker training for cats? You can learn all about that too. The Petnership Project was started by owner, Sandi Hildebrand, about a year ago. She had first-hand experience using holistic pet care and feeding raw food, and was keen to share the new-found information. However, she quickly realized the incredible scope of information that encompassed the holistic pet care, and the opportunity for a trade show and lecture series seemed clear. Hildebrand’s Petnership Project was started just over a year ago; the momentum of this project has increased exponentially as she has met more people and rescue groups who are trying new ways to care for the mind, body and spirit of animals. However, Hildebrand wanted to not just share the information, but also to partner with rescue groups to help them share their message as well. The Petnership Project has partnered with the Richmond Animal Protection Society (RAPS), the Vancouver Orphan Kitten Rescue Association (VOKRA) and New Stride Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation to put on this event. Sonya Kamp, manager of RAPS’ Richmond Animal Shelter, has volunteered much of her time to work with Hildebrand, and to organize a rescue group showcase and shelter dog show. The showcase will feature animal groups from all over the Metro Vancouver area including breed-specific rescue groups like Boxers Without Borders, Westcoast Rottweiler Rescue and TNT Sharpei Rescue. As more cities across North America follow suit with places like South Lake Tahoe, California and Albuquerque, New Mexico to ban the sale of animals from retail outlets, it will be good for the public to know that purebred dogs rescues as well as responsible breeders are good places to search for a purebred dog. But this event isn’t just for dog lovers. Greyhaven Exotic Bird Sanctuary and Vancouver Rabbit Rescue will also be represented along with the RAPS Cat Sanctuary. But more importantly, much of the proceeds from this gathering will be going to RAPS, VOKRA and New Stride Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation, so your attendance means that the stray and homeless animals in Richmond will benefit as well. I hope to see you and meet you there! | Mid | [
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People from outside the major parties who are pursuing elected office are exercising their First Amendment rights, and calling them spoilers is an act of “political bigotry” that should never be tolerated by the American people, civil rights champion and four-time presidential candidate Ralph Nader told “Democracy Now!” Nader’s comments come one week before the 2016 nominees’ first presidential debates, which the Commission on Presidential Debates — a private corporation owned and controlled by the Republican and Democratic parties — announced Friday will exclude both Jill Stein of the Green Party and Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party. “If we had proportional representation, instant runoff voting, all this spoiler stuff wouldn’t be around,” Nader continued. “Everyone has an equal right to run for office. Everyone is going to get votes from one another. So they’re either spoilers of one another or none of them are spoilers.” “You should never tell anybody to shut up,” Nader added. “And when you run for office, it’s free speech, petition and assembly. It’s the consummate use of the First Amendment. But here—it’s a scapegoating. The Democrats could never get over how they couldn’t beat this bumbling governor from Texas, who couldn’t put a paragraph together and has a horrible record.” In the clips below, Nader and “Democracy Now!” host Amy Goodman discuss the system that decides who gets to enter presidential debates — how it formed and how it operates today — and how the “huge, wonderful effort” that Sen. Bernie Sanders launched during the 2016 presidential primary “is now aborted,” as Nader said. “Sanders hasn’t returned a call from me in 18 years,” Nader stated. “He is a lone ranger. He doesn’t like to be pushed into more progressive action than he is willing to adhere to. As a result, millions of his voters now are in disarray. They don’t know where to go.” At length, Nader spelled out what he thinks Sanders should do: It is the time for Senator Sanders to mobilize, as he can, all his supporters around the country with mass rallies to put the heat on both candidates. Is anything wrong with that? He should have a mass rally in the Mall and then spread it all over the country, so you have civic pressure, citizen pressure, coming in on all the candidates to further the just pathways of our society. Why doesn’t he do that? … It isn’t a matter of either/or; it’s a matter of him cutting out from the accolades to Hillary, which he doesn’t like to do—he doesn’t like to be a robot or run around the country that way—and mobilize the citizenry, which will transcend the election and start something effective after the election. —Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly | High | [
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TEHRAN, Mar. 06 (Press Shia Agency) – Leader of the Islamic Revolution has said Sacred Defense was an invaluable cultural heritage which should not be forgotten by the deafening propaganda of the cultural invasion. Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei received a group of Sacred Defense commanders, warriors, and organizers of Rahian-e Noor, state-organized visits by university students and the public alike to border regions where Iran fought an imposed war during 8 years against Iraq’s Baathist Saddam Hussein in the 1980s. Ayatollah Khamenei deemed the visits a measure and a good initiative to present the public with a cornucopia of cultural wealth; “the sole scheme to fight the cultural invasion is to draw upon this wealth of materials of the Sacred Defense and helping cultural production,” he told the meeting. “Resistance will ultimately pay off and the enemy will retreat in ignominy; Sacred Defense is a cultural wealth which should be kept alive, as it contributed to the history of the Revolution during 1980s; why Saddam invaded Iran? They felt that Iran was in a position of weakness; they even predicted the depth of this weakness and purportedly would have dine in Tehran after 3 or 4 days,” he quoted Saddam Hussein, who was ambitious enough to be lured to such escapades. “This is a general rule of the world: that enemies would be embolden if we admit our weakness; in economy of the modern times when they sanctioned us, this was the case. They sanctioned us because they found that Iran’s economy was not in an ideal shape to survive pressures; this was the case when in 1980 Iraq attacked Iran. At that time, Iran was actually and really weak, lacking the logistics and organized army, with no experience of a war,” Ayatollah Khamenei emphasized. Leader denounced the critics of the Sacred Defense who waged attempts to undermine the war years and its values; “such efforts should be systematically prevented; no movie or book may undermine the achievements and culture of the Sacred Defense,” he demanded. “For a strong economy and state, culture should be strong enough to contribute to soft power of a country; cultural production should be improved in order to avoid imports of alien cultural products which would stand cacophonous to indigenous culture; the status quo when unregulated number of books and cultural products are imported is a source of grave concerns, which infested the culture,” Leader lamented. Ayatollah Khamenei reiterated his cultural revolution as a poison by the Western powers to alienate Iranian young generation from their true identity; “cultural traps are far more damaging than conventional war and military threats; the latter makes the nation embrace for pressures, but the former demoralizes young cohort and deprives the country from its energetic minds,” he concluded. | Mid | [
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Delivery : Orange peels contain a wide variety of nutrients and phytonutrients that are very potent in healing many skin conditions. a. Acne be Gone - Orange peels help to clean out your skin by extracting dirt from deep inside the pores. b. Orange Peels for Skin whitening - Orange peels are a natural bleacher and can help lighten dark blotches on the skin and effectively remove them with time. Orange peels help reduce suntans besides deflecting harmful UV rays from attacking skin cells. c. Off with the blackheads - a natural and non-painful way of getting rid of black heads, also unclogs excess oils and dirt clogged within skin pores. d. Say no to wrinkles - The powerful anti-oxidants in oranges fight off oxygen free radicals that deprive healthy skin cells of oxygen by stealing oxygen molecules from them. These free radicals play a significant role in creating wrinkles in skin and also lead to sagging of cheeks. The significant amount of calcium in orange peels is also very effective for protecting against premature aging of the skin. e. Tone your Skin - The abundant vitamin c and anti-oxidants in orange peels maintain the oils of the skin-preventing both very oily and dry skin. Applying orange peels on skin helps remove dead cells, dirt and keeps the skin well moisturized and toned. Additionally, calcium contributes to anti-oxidant production that reverses dry skin into looking healthy and glowing | Mid | [
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So it is fucking ON. There will be carnage, mayhem, glory. Human sacrifices. Check in time bitches! Kilo, you take the conn... __________________ I am the truth, my true essence, my true masculine self ; I am the love, the happiness, the warm hunger and lustful passion of a rich and giving life ; I am the liberator of will, the light bringer, the adventurer and fulfiller of dreams ; I am the brave challenger who faces fear to stand and fight, to reap the glory of victory and the heroism and growth of valiant defeat, never at a loss ; I celebrate in the joy, the sweetness and the divine presence of every living moment in my life. - The Champion That I Am ***Get in the FIELD guysNathan BC Alum First meet up at bar, no drinking for me, health is a focus now. Some cute girls, didn’t approach. Club. Some approaches (all very hot), nearly all blowouts, a few decent responses. As I’m getting deeper and deeper inside my head Mathias says it’s time to change venue. Very good call. First bar, a girl from my class (hot) stops me, but she’s on her way out. Nothing else happens. Second bar, one very cute girl and her friend enters. She’s approached by some dude right away. I stay back, he leaves I tap her on the shoulder as she walk by, she stop and smiles, but I hesitate. POOF GAAAAAAAAAWWWWN!! Third bar, a mixed group. Go in to cute girl, she’s a little drunk, goes ok at first, but dies after a few minutes when I start hesitating. Oh and the friend was a total bitch. Fourth bar, Mathias displays some good game. Some drama happens, the people involved can tell you that story. GOOD - Approached. - Showed up. - Changed venue when not feeling it. THINGS TO IMPROVE - Have a clear plan and goals before going out. - Step the fuck up! Don’t play not to loose. - Play to win. This post purely for educational purposes... for any of you pop culture retards out there, you know who you are... __________________ I am the truth, my true essence, my true masculine self ; I am the love, the happiness, the warm hunger and lustful passion of a rich and giving life ; I am the liberator of will, the light bringer, the adventurer and fulfiller of dreams ; I am the brave challenger who faces fear to stand and fight, to reap the glory of victory and the heroism and growth of valiant defeat, never at a loss ; I celebrate in the joy, the sweetness and the divine presence of every living moment in my life. - The Champion That I Am ***Get in the FIELD guysNathan BC Alum Start at Fridays, have a beer to celebrate the celebration. Go to Berns, like 5 guys in the bar of which a few are personnel chilling out. Chat w them and have some fun, but not really what we are looking for. So we go to södermalm where the social desert fag fest continues. Nice area of the city, don't go here enough. However, same thing here. Go bar hopping a bit. I end up opening like the only girl that was approachabe. She is sitting down, so I talk to her and sit down with her. Tell her a story about how one of the nearby tower buildings is really a gigant phallos, and how the amputatation of the upper third of the planned phallos was a symbol of the masculine oppression of Swedish society. I elaborate and we have some great fun and gags (no pun intended). Zebra shows up and he sits down as well and we get him into the conversation. There is more sexual talk. This was a cool girl. She starts to tell us about how she is on a sex absence mission for a full year, how she only has 2 months left but how penetration does not count if the fucking is not completed. I move so I sit next to her and start explaining about the birds and the bees, what penetration really means etc. Big laughs and fun, I tell her that I would dump her if she did that shit to me. Her two hot friends show up, but Zebra and me keep taking turns to load up the first girl with conversation. I spose we should just have interrupted the other two girls and brought them into our world instead. Would have been a stronger move. However, it was mostly a social fun setting conversation on a slow night we where up to. It felt right then, but then maybe anything could be questioned. During this time Kilo and Jibber has talket to two other girls somewhere else, dunno what happened there. We all later leave and go to another empty bar and end up just hanging out shooting the shit. SummaryI had fun. Like I really focused on having fun, and it was a good step forward. One down, more to go. __________________ I am the truth, my true essence, my true masculine self ; I am the love, the happiness, the warm hunger and lustful passion of a rich and giving life ; I am the liberator of will, the light bringer, the adventurer and fulfiller of dreams ; I am the brave challenger who faces fear to stand and fight, to reap the glory of victory and the heroism and growth of valiant defeat, never at a loss ; I celebrate in the joy, the sweetness and the divine presence of every living moment in my life. - The Champion That I Am ***Get in the FIELD guysNathan BC Alum Wed - D2Start at Fridays. Meet up w the guys. Kilo is being recognized by the bar crew as "the water guy", funny celebrity stuff. Sit down outside and shoot the shit. Two couchsurf girls and their gay friend shows up. They where in town and wanted to go out, so I invited them along. They are positive fun german girls, but the girl that I was in contact with tries to test me with some lame complaints and I just laugh and make fun of her token bullshit. Forget that girl. ;P Then she says something hilarious, she felt like this TGI Friday's bar was very posh, and that she did not feel she fit in. I did not take her serious at first, thought it was some more bullshit she just threw out there, but she was. This is fucking funny, because of all the bar's near the club district this is probably one of the most low key and non posh bars you could hope to find. Well, then you might not love the club we are going to later, it will be more posh than this. We take them with us to the Opera as we leave, but predictably they don't want to wait in line to get in. That was probably for the better, because I doubt they would have had any fun. Anyway, we go in. Pretty good crowd for a wedn. 4 consecutive days of working out. I feel positive and full of energy, hit set after set. Feel good. This is what I have been missing. Energy + full focus on having fun. Have a few good sets and do some bold moves, like stopping girls and just going super direct. Also just chill talked w a hot and fun girl for like 25 min. Deep and wide rapport stuff with some escalation and group stuff mixed in. Read Alexander's article on rapport before going out, and I could definately improve here. I loved that view on what rapport is and why it builds trust, made a lot of sense to me. Talk to some more girls and goof around w the boys, more than me and Kilo we have both Jibber and Whorelord in attendance, among others. Quite a crew, felt very positive. Kilo and me decide to try a few other venues to mix it up, so we leave to hit some bars. Go to two bars that are basically empty, so we use the opportunity to eat the nuts I brought. Gotta have them nuts baby! Hit another bar where we start to challenge eachother. Kilo say's I should step it up, well if you talk the talk you better walk the walk I tell him. Baam, he is in set. Really cute girl, hooks her right infront of two watching chodes orbiting her wo having the guts to open. Half the bar is watching and expecting him to get blown out, but she likes him and things look good - until she sits down with her friend. Dunno what happened there, it looked good. Go to soap bar. Now Kilo challenges me to "step up and show how it should be done". I am already in a great mood. Three girls leaving the bar to go outside. I grab and stop the last one, hold her firmy in place infront of me as I open, super giggle together and keep talking about whatever. Then lock in and pull her over. Probably looked better than it was. There was good attraction, but she never mentally left the concept of "me and my friends where on our way out, so I must follow them". We talk for 6-7 minutes, good fun convo. There is "value", but I still can't get her to forget her friends, so after a while she leaves. Time is up, work tomorrow. On my way out I pull her out of her group where she is standing smoking, give her a hug and then leave. Did not take her number because it would have flaked. SummaryHad a lot of fun. Real deep focus on Me Having Fun. This is my primary goal for the whole 30 days here. Made me feel more at ease and a lot lighter, and thus things came easier. Keep bringing out the fun first, then as that is completely out I can focus more on closing in various forms, but not before that. Fun comes first. I sense the teasing playfulness is about to come back at full strength, which should be good - when that shit is turned on it is one of my strengths. I haven't had it for a while. There is still some "mechanics" to what I am doing at times. Guess you can call it a form of rusted quality. Let all that go and replace it with full congruency. Should not be too hard. Awesome teamwork with Kilo!!! I fucking LOVED the small challenge stuff in there as we had gotten warmed up a bit, it was a clear positive for this night. __________________ I am the truth, my true essence, my true masculine self ; I am the love, the happiness, the warm hunger and lustful passion of a rich and giving life ; I am the liberator of will, the light bringer, the adventurer and fulfiller of dreams ; I am the brave challenger who faces fear to stand and fight, to reap the glory of victory and the heroism and growth of valiant defeat, never at a loss ; I celebrate in the joy, the sweetness and the divine presence of every living moment in my life. - The Champion That I Am ***Get in the FIELD guysNathan BC Alum Me and Mattie-boy decide to go to a free rock consert thing. We hit a bar first around 10-ish. Leave for club hosting the gig around 11-ish. When we get there the guards tell us the event is already over, massive fail. Meet another pick-up guy and we head in to the club anyways. Talk random shit with the guys the entire time there. One cold approach, one bad reaction. On another note. I've started a healthy lifestyle as well, already I can see and feel the difference. WIN! | Low | [
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Sidney, New York Sidney is a town in Delaware County, New York, United States. The population was 5,774 at the 2010 census. The town is at the northwest corner of the county and contains the village of Sidney. History The town was formed in 1801 from the town of Franklin. On April 7, 1801, the town was named "Sidney" in honor of British naval officer Sir Sidney Smith. Geography The north town line, marked by the Susquehanna River, is the border of Otsego County, and the west town line is the border of Chenango County. The village of Sidney, the main settlement in the town, is at the western end of the town along the Susquehanna River. Interstate 88 runs through the northern side of the town, with access from Exits 9, 10, and 11. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and , or 1.33%, is water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 6,109 people, 2,565 households, and 1,641 families residing in the town. The population density was 121.5 people per square mile (46.9/km²). There were 2,987 housing units at an average density of 59.4 per square mile (22.9/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 96.35% White, 0.85% Black or African American, 0.33% Native American, 0.77% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.39% from other races, and 1.28% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.44% of the population. There were 2,565 households out of which 29.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 47.7% were married couples living together, 11.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 36.0% were non-families. 30.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 16.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.35 and the average family size was 2.90. In the town, the population was spread out with 25.4% under the age of 18, 6.5% from 18 to 24, 25.3% from 25 to 44, 23.9% from 45 to 64, and 18.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 90.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 87.0 males. The median income for a household in the town was $30,078, and the median income for a family was $35,351. Males had a median income of $28,168 versus $25,014 for females. The per capita income for the town was $16,335. About 11.1% of families and 14.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 19.9% of those under age 18 and 10.3% of those age 65 or over. Controversy Sidney town supervisor, Robert McCarthy, began an effort to declare a Muslim cemetery of the Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani Dergahi (a Sufi Muslim center) illegal. He was quoted saying that the town board "will be seeking to have these bodies disinterred and stop future burials.". When questioned about the legal basis for town action he responded, "I don't know what the exact law is". On August 12, 2010, the town board voted unanimously to authorize Town Attorney Joseph A. Ermeti to commence with legal proceedings against the Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani Dergah. MSNBC's Keith Olbermann brought instant fame to the small town of Sidney when he announced Bob McCarthy as “The Worst Person in the World” and Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert joked about the residents of Sidney being scared of Muslim vampires. Members of the Sufi Muslim center had contacted and demonstrated to Bob McCarthy that the cemetery was in fact legal (established in 2005 ) and had the permission of the municipal government to establish a cemetery. In addition, both burials were registered with the town. McCarthy forwarded all inquiries to the Town Attorney Joe Ermeti, who delayed response to the Muslim community until October 14, 2010 - the day of Sidney's town meeting. The statement made by Sidney's lawyer and town board said they would not pursue legal charges against the Sufi cemetery, but would also not recognize its legality. McCarthy refused to apologize to the Sufi community and to the town. The Huffington Post published an article detailing the incident which subsequently gained national and international attention. McCarthy still maintained the law was on the side of the Sidney Town Board, while lawyers and Hans Hass, spokesman for the Muslim center, contend otherwise. An official statement was provided by the Muslim center detailing the cemetery issue and legal documentation. Communities and locations in Sidney East Sidney Franklin Depot' Sidney – the Village of Sidney Sidney Center South Unadilla Youngs Notable people Mary Jane Aldrich (1833–1909), temperance reformer and lecturer. Evans Carlson (1896-1947), Marine Corps General, leader of "Carlson's Raiders." References External links Town of Sidney official website Delaware County, New York departments Category:Towns in Delaware County, New York Category:Towns in New York (state) | Low | [
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How To Style Joggers Turn on your JavaScript to view content Is it Friday? It has been a long week as I have two sick kiddos at home and now it looks like I’ve also caught their bug. Let the never ending sick cycle begin! #lifewithtwotots There are so many things going on in today’s outfit post. I’m sure by how you’ve all seen quite a few outfits that I’ve done with Fabletics, from the yoga wear to their more casual line of tennis dresses, Fabletics have a wide range of #Athleisure wear to choose from depending on your personal style. This month, I’m showing you how to transform your jogging outfit into something you can wear out to the streets such as Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid and many fashionista bloggers alike. Jogger Pants are such big part of the Athleisure style and can be worn both as real athletic wear but also as part of a fashion movement to dress up the sporty outfit with heels. I work out in these super comfy and stylish Fabletics Valerie jogger, they are light weight and easy to move in, quite a staple in my active wear collection. To make this workout look more updated, I added the Fabletics Mia bomber jacket with mesh panel back. Turn on your JavaScript to view content You can pretty much throw on any cropped Bomber Jacket over your sports bra to mask the fact that you just did 5 mile run. Accessorizing is the key. Did you notice that the fashion ladies are all wearing heels? Stiletto heels?? Yup, a pair of killer heels shows that you are a #bossgirl who can run with the boys and strut with the girls. I’m wearing my Manolos but any high heeled pumps will do. Now the bag. As a matter of fact, a few weeks ago, my Snapchat fam saw that I borrowed a bag from my mom. This bag is well over 15 years and the reason I’m borrowing it is because I’m seeing a revival of this style. Yes, you see that correctly – the Fanny Pack (or otherwise known as the Belt Bag) I am seeing more and more bloggers wearing them on the streets so if you have one, don’t give it up for charity yet. Now that I’ve showed you some easy tricks on how to transform jogger pants from gym to streets, go ahead and give it try. Let me know if you like this look or not in the comment below!! Sheree, I hope your kids and you feel better soon! Being sick is no fun!! Love how you styled it both ways, the addition of the heels and I love the jacket. You look great! I have not tried the Fabletics but they look quite comfortable too. Have a great weekend! jess xxhttp://www.elegantlydressedandstylish.com Had too much fun last night (see stories) taking a lazy day today to run some errands. If you fellow This content requires JavaScript to be enabled, and the site or browser may be disabling it. Try reactivating it to view this content. Can you child buy fake ID? As modern mothers we must protect our kids, their future, decisions they made. We can help them to become a right person. We should help them to choose college and protect them from underage drinking. Like many other shops, idHurry.com fake ids are threat to the law. This is unaacceptable. It's our job to prevent college kids from buying false documents from this shop. If you are thinking about how to help your child if he been caught with false ID please see a special fake id forum about this. Thanks. | Low | [
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// ============================================================================ // FileName: SIPEvent.cs // // Description: // // Author(s): // Aaron Clauson // // History: // ?? Aaron Clauson Created ([email protected]), SIPSorcery Ltd, London, UK (www.sipsorcery.com). // // License: // BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License, see included LICENSE.md file. // ============================================================================ using System; namespace SIPSorcery.SIP { public class SIPEvent { public SIPEvent() { } public virtual void Load(string eventStr) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } public virtual string ToXMLText() { throw new NotImplementedException(); } } } | Low | [
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#!/bin/bash set -e # fail on any error set -u # treat unset variables as error clone_repos() { echo "__________Clone repos__________" git clone https://github.com/parity-js/jsonrpc.git jsonrpc git clone https://github.com/paritytech/wiki.git wiki git clone https://github.com/paritytech/parity-config-generator } build_docs() { echo "__________Build docs__________" npm install npm run build:markdown } build_config() { echo "_______Build config docs______" yarn install AUTOGENSCRIPT=1 yarn generate-docs } update_wiki_docs() { echo "__________Update WIKI docs__________" for file in $(ls jsonrpc/docs); do module_name=${file:0:-3} mv jsonrpc/docs/$file wiki/JSONRPC-$module_name-module.md done mv parity-config-generator/docs/config.md wiki/Configuring-Parity-Ethereum.md } setup_git() { echo "__________Set github__________" git config --global user.email "[email protected]" git config --global user.name "Devops Team Parity" } set_remote_wiki() { git config remote.origin.url "https://${GITHUB_TOKEN}@github.com/paritytech/wiki.git" } commit_files() { echo "__________Commit files__________" git checkout -b rpcdoc-update-${SCHEDULE_TAG:-${CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME}} git add . git commit -m "Update docs to ${SCHEDULE_TAG:-${CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME}}" git tag -a -f "${SCHEDULE_TAG:-${CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME}}" -m "Update RPC and config docs to ${SCHEDULE_TAG:-${CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME}}" } upload_files() { echo "__________Upload files__________" # this version of git (2.7.4) will dump the token on failure git push -q origin HEAD 2>&1 \ | sed -r "s|(${GITHUB_USER}):[a-f0-9]+@|\1:REDACTED@|g" git push -q -f --tags 2>&1 \ | sed -r "s|(${GITHUB_USER}):[a-f0-9]+@|\1:REDACTED@|g" } RPC_TRAITS_DIR="rpc/src/v1/traits" setup_git clone_repos mkdir -p "jsonrpc/.parity/$RPC_TRAITS_DIR" cp $RPC_TRAITS_DIR/*.rs "jsonrpc/.parity/$RPC_TRAITS_DIR" cd jsonrpc build_docs cd .. cd parity-config-generator build_config cd .. update_wiki_docs cd wiki set_remote_wiki commit_files upload_files | Mid | [
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Drosophila reproductive behavior will be studied using genetic tools. Questions on the control, by the various parts of the nervous system, of different features of courtship will be asked with genetic mosaics (following up our earlier studies). What parts of the dorsal brain must be male to allow the early steps of courtship to be performed? Are intermediate steps of courtship controlled by the brain, and if so, by the same parts? The later steps of courtship are controlled by male thoracic tissues: is the thoracic ganglion critically involved in such control? For female behaviors, which tissues must have a female genotype in order that a mosaic be receptive to courtship and copulation, or be able to carry out the post-copulation rejection behaviors? -- Several behavioral mutants affecting courtship have been characterized by behavioral observation and manipulation. Different mutants influence the early, middle, or late stages of courtship sequence. The causes of these reproductive defects will be analyzed, beginning with studies of mosaics: For instance, where in the fly must a small genetic duplication--carrying the normal allele of a gene involved in aberrant male-female and male-male interactions--be present in order that normal behavior occur? Some of the experiments here, on mutants and mosaics, will concern the possible genetic control of particular neural oscillators--those that drive motor output in the courtship lovesong. Also, we are dissecting the control of copulation--its basic duration, the relationship of that duration to sperm transfer, and the details of actions involved in its termination. -- The various mutants may affect the development or the functioning of the nervous system. In this light, we will analyze conditional alleles of certain of the mutants, to ask which stage of the life cycle is influenced by the genetic variants. -- We are asking several questions on triggers and inhibitions of courtship behaviors, influenced by putative pheromones. These experiments are related, not only to studies of normal males and females, but also very strongly to the investigations of behavioral mutants, and to the behavioral dissection of the brain in genetic mosaics. | High | [
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Q: SAS: How to project sashelp.zipcode coordinates onto maps.states? I would like to plot thousands of zip codes on a US map. The coordinates of sashelp.zipcode are latitude/longitude in degrees, and for maps.states they are unprojected latitude/longitude radians. If I convert the zip code coordinates to radians using: x=atan(1)/45*x; y=atan(1)/45*y; and I draw a map using data states; set maps.states; where state not in (2, 15, 72); x = -x; run; The zip codes are plotted accurately, but of course the map is (slightly) distorted. I'd like to get that plump curvy version of the US map that you get when you project maps.states. I'll confess the gproject procedure is a bit opaque to me. I've tried: data zips; set <dataset with 86,000 zip codes>; where state not in (2, 15, 72, .); function='symbol'; size = .02; text = "dot"; xsys='2'; ysys='2'; hsys='3'; when='a'; color= "%hsv(100,100,100)"; x=atan(1)/45*x; y=atan(1)/45*y; x=-x; run; data states; set maps.states; where state not in (2, 15, 72); run; data combo; set zips states; run; proc gproject data=combo out=comboproj; id state; run; data zipsproj mapproj; set comboproj; if when = "a" then output zipsproj; if when = "" then output mapproj; run; proc gmap map=mapproj data=mapproj anno = zipsproj all; id state; choro state / nolegend levels=1; run; quit; This gives me a sideways US map with all of the zip coordinates out of range (Edit I fixed the range problem by multiplying zip coordinates by -1 as well, but the map is still sideways). What am I doing wrong? Please help! A: The problem you have is that you're not telling the annotate system what kind of coordinates you have. Remember, annotations don't have to only be in the coordinate system of the graph itself - they can also be placed in off-graph locations (such as custom axis labels, custom titles, etc.), and they can be given in percentages instead of actual coordinates (say, coloring the right 20% red and the left 20% green). You use the xsys, ysys, and if you specify height of the character, hsys. 2 means 'absolute, data values'; 3 means 'absolute, percent of graph area'. See this paper for more information on what the coordinate systems are. You also shouldn't be multiplying the state x's by -1, at least not in my setup. Only the zip coord x should be multiplied by -1. But if your setup requires that, of course go ahead and do that. Finally, the map gets turned sideways by GPROJECT when it sees some values in the negative-x side of things. That causes it to make an odd choice when it coes to PARALLEL1/2 (you can see in the log this happening). Eliminate all of the non-US48 states (Guam, Micronesia, etc.) to get to just the lower 48. Here's a final code that works for me: data states; set maps.states; where state not in (2, 15, 72); run; data zips; set sashelp.zipcode; x=-1*x; x=atan(1)/45*x; y=atan(1)/45*y; if state ne 2 and state ne 15 and state lt 60; when='a'; function='symbol'; text='dot'; xsys='2'; ysys='2'; hsys='3'; run; data combo; set zips states; run; proc gproject data=combo out=comboproj; id state; run; data zipsproj mapproj; set comboproj; if when = "a" then output zipsproj; if when = "" then output mapproj; run; proc gmap map=mapproj data=mapproj anno = zipsproj all density=4 ; id state; choro state / nolegend levels=1; run; quit; | Mid | [
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At the end of December, in a major escalation of a conflict with Poland that has been rumbling on for the past two years, the European Commission recommended triggering the so-called Article 7 procedure, the first ever against an EU member state. This followed its criticisms of the Polish government – led, since autumn 2015, by the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party – as posing a threat to the rule of law. The Commission’s original concerns stemmed from a dispute over appointments to, and the functioning of, Poland’s constitutional tribunal, but since last July escalated to include the government’s controversial judicial reform programme. The Commission argued that, as a result of a set of 13 laws passed by the Law and Justice-dominated parliament, the ruling party had undermined the independence of the judiciary which meant that the constitutionality of the country’s legislation could no longer be guaranteed. What is the procedure in practice? Member states are likely to vote on whether to enact Article 7 at an EU General Affairs Council meeting scheduled for the end of February. In the first stage of the procedure the decision on whether the Polish reforms constitute a ‘clear risk of a serious breach of rule of law’ requires the support of 22 of the EU’s remaining 27 members (Poland is excluded from the vote) to move to the next stage. Given that France and Germany have already signalled that they will back the Commission, most other EU states are likely to fall into line, so blocking the Article 7 procedure at this stage would be a huge diplomatic triumph for Law and Justice and Mr Morawiecki. However, a subsequent vote to trigger sanctions against Poland – including, in the worst-case scenario, suspending the country’s European Council voting rights – requires unanimity and the Hungarian government, for one, has made it clear that it will oppose such a move. This formulation does not seem quite right in procedural terms to me, although the substance is the same. The point is that in EU voting at the Council of Ministers level (ie the forum where member state governments decide action) there are different sorts of voting arrangements for different areas and different steps in such a process. 1. On a reasoned proposal by one third of the Member States, by the European Parliament or by the European Commission, the Council, acting by a majority of four fifths of its members after obtaining the consent of the European Parliament, may determine that there is a clear risk of a serious breach by a Member State of the values referred to in Article 2 … 2. The European Council, acting by unanimity on a proposal by one third of the Member States or by the Commission and after obtaining the consent of the European Parliament, may determine the existence of a serious and persistent breach by a Member State of the values referred to in Article 2, after inviting the Member State in question to submit its observations. 3. Where a determination under paragraph 2 has been made, the Council, acting by a qualified majority, may decide to suspend certain of the rights deriving from the application of the Treaties to the Member State in question, including the voting rights of the representative of the government of that Member State in the Council … So there is a three-step process, involving different sorts of ‘qualified majority vote’ (ie a vote where a simple majority of member states supporting the proposition is not enough): Special QMV (4/5 of member states) for establishing that there is a serious risk of a breach Unanimity for determining that there is a breach in fact QMV under usual voting rules for responding to the serious breach against the sinning state concerned . For the purposes of Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union on the suspension of certain rights resulting from Union membership, the member of the European Council or of the Council representing the Member State in question shall not take part in the vote and the Member State in question shall not be counted in the calculation of the one third or four fifths of Member States referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 of that Article. Abstentions by members present in person or represented shall not prevent the adoption of decisions referred to in paragraph 2 of that Article. For the adoption of the decisions referred to in paragraphs 3 and 4 of Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union, a qualified majority shall be defined in accordance with Article 238(3)(b) of this Treaty. Where, following a decision to suspend voting rights adopted pursuant to paragraph 3 of Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union, the Council acts by a qualified majority on the basis of a provision of the Treaties, that qualified majority shall be defined in accordance with Article 238(3)(b) of this Treaty, or, where the Council acts on a proposal from the Commission or from the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, in accordance with Article 238(3)(a). *swoooooons* The POINT in all this is that in the EU a member state has power only by being able to block a decision. If a capital dutifully does what Berlin/Paris and/or the Commission propose, they lose all influence/leverage. An even higher than usual QMV is needed to launch the investigation risk of a serious breach. Why? Because accusing a member state of such a breach of core EU principles is a Big Deal, and not to be taken lightly. Hence the only vote that really matters is a vote by unanimity. Any member state can block! This is why the EU Budget and some other key areas of EU policy are decided this way. Germany of course won’t let everyone else force Germany to pay more into the central Pot. Greeks and Romanians can’t force Germans to pay more money to (say) Greeks and Romanians! So, questions. Which states might swing to support Poland to mount a blocking minority if there is a QMV vote in February to ‘determine’ that there is a serious risk that Poland is in the wrong? And, crucially, if that vote nonetheless passes, will any one member state under a vote by unanimity block completely any determination that there is fact a serious breach? If it in fact looks highly likely there will be at least one member state (say Hungary or even UK – we’re still paying our dues haha) blocking a vote by unanimity any determination against Poland, why go down this route at all? Won’t Brussels end up looking ridiculous? There is of course no chance that a decisive vote by unanimity will be taken at Poland’s expense. Why? Because there will be some member states who think either (a) that the case against Poland in itself is weak, or (b) that they don’t like the precedent being set by Bullying Brussels. Conclusion? As previously argued here, if EU HQ Brussels wants to galvanise Law and Justice and its supporters in Poland, this sort of thing is just the way to do it. It plays straight to deep-rooted Polish senses of grievance/victimhood and so on. Jarosław Kaczynski is a superhuman genius at exploiting this sort of thing. Aleks Szczerbiak gets the last word: The government’s supporters will, on the other hand, continue to vigorously deny that Law and Justice has any plans for ‘Polexit’, while framing the Article 7 debate in terms of a defence of national sovereignty. They will argue that Poland’s dispute with the Commission is a political one and not about the rule of law, while presenting the government as the defender of Polish national interests against the EU political establishment’s interference in the country’s domestic affairs. This narrative not only solidifies Law and Justice’s support among its core voter base, it also potentially casts the government’s opponents in a negative light in the eyes of less politically committed Poles… If the government can persuade Poles to interpret the Article 7 procedure in this way then playing the ‘rule of law’ card could end up backfiring on both the EU political establishment and Law and Justice’s domestic opponents. Don’t threaten something you can’t deliver. You look (and are) weak. Share this page: Comments (1) An excellent example of the EU poking its nose into areas undreamt of only a few years ago. Look forward to the day when the EU intsitutes proceedings against, for example, Member States whose voting arrangements are not basd on proportional representation. Needless to say, the EU would not institute such proceedings, either in the present case or in this hypothetical case if ir was a question of, say, the French or German parliaments/governments. | Mid | [
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Postischemic progression of brain damage is multifactorial. We are analyzing a state in which nature has solved this complex problem. Hibernation with its metabolic, hematologic and cell membrane adjustments permits animals to withstand extremely low blood flow in the brain for protracted periods with no cell loss. Efforts to isolate and identify the mechanisms that regulate the controlled metabolic depression and tolerance of profound brain ischemia that forms the essence of natural hibernation are in progress. In hippocampal slices, hibernation confers robust resistance to hypoxia and glucose deprivation as compared to slices from non-hibernating ground squirrels and rats at 37 degrees C, 20 degrees C and 7 degrees C. These findings indicate that hibernation involves tolerance to an in vitro form of ischemic stress that is not strictly dependent on temperature. Protein synthesis (PS) in hippocampal slices is greatly depressed at the same incubation temperatures. PS in vivo was below the limit of autoradiographic detection in brain sections, and in brain extracts was determined to be 0.04% of the average rate from active squirrels. Further, it was threefold reduced in cell-free extracts from hibernating brain at 37 degrees C, eliminating hypothermia as the only cause for protein synthesis inhibition. PS suppression involved blocks of initiation and elongation and its onset coincided with the early transition phase into hibernation. An increased monosome peak with moderate ribosomal disaggregation in polysome profiles and the greatly increased phosphorylation of eIF2a are both consistent with an initiation block in hibernators. The elongation block was demonstrated by a threefold increase in ribosomal mean transit times in cell-free extracts from hibernators. Phosphorylation of eEF2 is increased, eEF2 kinase activity is increased and protein phosphatase 2A activity is decreased during hibernation which contribute to the elongation block. No abnormalities of ribosomal function or mRNA levels were detected. These findings implicate suppression of PS as a component of the regulated shutdown of cellular function that permits hibernating ground squirrels to tolerate "trickle" blood flow and reduced substrate and oxygen availability. Further study of the factors that control these phenomena may lead to identification of the molecular mechanisms that regulate this state. We have observed phase separation of lipids in cellular membranes in a variety of cells during hibernation. Cholesterol and high-freezing point lipids are segregated into gel-phase domains. Proteins are laterally displaced from these rigidified domains into the more fluid regions of the membrane that are enriched with low-freezing point lipids. When the animal arouses, and the temperature elevates, the gel-phase domains melt and the normal lipid distribution is restored. These changes seem to form a membrane fluidity buffer and participate in the cellular mechanism of temperature acclimation. Growth arrest and DNA damage 34 (GADD34) protein has been observed to increase in hibernation. In active animals this protein complexes with inhibitor-1 (I-1) and protein phosphatase-1 (PP-1). This complex inhibits dephosphorylation of phosphorylase by PP-1, but remains an effective eIF-2alpha phosphatase. During hibernation, the complex is disrupted and eIF-2alpha phosphorylation increases. The studies suggest that a complex containing PP-1, I-1, and GADD34 regulate the initiation of protein translation in mammalian tissues. Arylalkylamine-N-acetyltransferase (AA-NAT) is the rate limiting enzyme for synthesizing melatonin. The AA-NATAkt gene is one of the few specific genes upregulated in hibernation and its elevated expression in the suprachiasmatic nucleus and the medial habenular nucleus suggests that melatonin may play a role in the maintenance of hibernation. | Mid | [
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Differences in expression and activity of beta,beta'-carotene-15,15'- oxygenase in liver and duodenum of cattle with yellow or white fat. Pasture-fed cattle show yellow pigmentation of their fat due to beta-carotene stored in this tissue. beta,beta'-Carotene-15,15'-oxygenase (betaCO) is an enzyme expressed in different tissues, and it cleaves beta-carotene into retinal. We compared the expression and activity of betaCO in duodenum and liver of cattle with pigmented or non-pigmented fat. In the duodenum, in situ hybridizations showed expression of betaCO in epithelial cells and crypts of the mucosa that was similar in animals from pigmented and non-pigmented fat; liver showed diffuse signal at lobules, but pigmented animals showed higher signals near the portal space. Analyses by real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction also showed amplification of mRNA for betaCO in duodenum and liver, with no difference between pigmented or non-pigmented animals. Enzyme activity was similar in the duodenum, but pigmented animals had higher enzyme activity (p = 0.004) in liver. Cattle with pigmented fat had higher expression and activity of betaCO in liver, but its level was not high enough to prevent the storage of beta-carotene in adipose tissues. | Mid | [
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Impact of paper mill wastewater on soil properties and crop yield through lysimeter studies. Paper and pulp industries produce large quantities of wastewater which can have adverse effects on the receiving water systems. In the present study lysimeters were used and filled with different soils replicating natural soil horizons and provided with a leachate collection system. The physico-chemical characteristics of the soil in each lysimeter and the quality of wastewater before leaching were assessed. Treated wastewater was evaluated for crop irrigation, and was categorized according to the irrigation water class 'Increasing Problem to Severe Problem' with respect to salinity and specific ion toxicity. Sandy loam soils showed 96% chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal while clay loam soils removed 99% of COD, and the colour removal in both the cases was found to be 100%. Application of wastewater resulted in an increase of pH value, ranging from 6.2-7.6; the electrical conductivity (ECe) of saturated extracts was found to be 0.6-1.7 dS m(-1), and exchangeable sodium percentage (ESP) ranged from 7.8-11.1% in soils. Similarly, an increase in the organic carbon, available nitrogen, phosphorus and potash content of soils was observed when irrigated with wastewater. Wastewater irrigation showed increased grain and straw yield of jowar, wheat and moong. These results permit successful utilization of pulp and paper mill wastewater for crop production without damaging the soils. | High | [
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was the inaugural year in an ongoing project dedicated to the observation of the sun every time it crossed the horizon and to sharing the awareness of that moment with others. Beginning on Monday evening December 31, 2007, at 4:59 PST, Brenda Hutchinson will ring a bell everyday at sunrise and sunset- indefinitely. Documentation for the first year follows. She invites others to join her wherever you may be and to post to the blog if you wish. Friday, March 14, 2008 I am generating many little bits of media with this project. As it progresses and new people find out about it, the amount of material on the blog is a bit daunting. In an effort to make it easier to check on the progress and to weed out a lot of redundancy, I will post only those events where there is at least one other person involved. No more morning solo meditations. So here is a weekly sample. If you select a tiny movie image, it will blow up to a normal size screen for viewing. March 2 Sunset. Tel Aviv March 4 Sunset. Via Dolorosa in JerusalemI realize that I’ve turned Norman and now his sister Miriam into human lawn ornaments. The bell ringers in every exotic shot. I’m sorry you guys. That was certainly not my intention although it has been very convenient. Thank you. I need to work harder however and ask some other people. Tuesday, March 11, 2008 Dawn's Early LightSince starting this project, I have become conscious of the obvious: the sunrise, like the sunset takes a while. It doesn’t just suddenly get light or dark at the moment the sun crosses the horizon. I have also noticed something interesting and a little less obvious about the moment when the sun crosses the horizon in either direction. “Dawn’s early light” is only the beginning of the prelude to the actual event where the sun comes into view. That early grey morning light that so gradually reanimates our surroundings is just the beginning. What the darkness made still and unfamiliar, that early light instills with color once again. Color. It’s suddenly day and not night, but it’s still early. When that grey becomes rosy, it looks similar to late in the day. Since starting this practice, the first time I saw brilliant color in the sky, I thought I had already missed the sunrise. The sky was blazing with bright pink and orange clouds, but according to the schedule, it was a few minutes before the predicted time. I immediately thought of something someone said about bird watchers. On “If there is a discrepancy between the bird and the bird book, believe the bird”. So I thought, well the chart is off. Upon subsequent examinations, however, I saw that the quality of the light changed very noticeably at the time when the sun was closest to the horizon. As the sun breeched the horizon, much of the color in the clouds and the sky briefly faded to grey and was replaced by a sort of sky-neutral blue. Once the sun crossed the threshold of the horizon, the pink and gold crept back in and softly spread across the sky. The sky was less spectacular than before, but suddenly everything began to brighten. Within a few minutes, it was not early anymore. It occurred to me then that this was much like the sunset in reverse. Not so much the actual colors, but the timing and transformation of the light in the sky and on the surface of the earth. The sunrise took about as long to fill the world with light and color and it did for the sunset to drain it. The rotation of the earth is a constant. The speed of rotation is also steady. We may notice the changing length or position of shadows. Or note the path and direction of the sun or moon as it travels across the sky. Of we concentrate we can sometimes actually see these things change. But the changes are usually gradual. And it’s much easier to track the changes if we have a point of reference. There have been times when I’ve fallen asleep outside in the sun. It’s so nice and warm, and the shade from the nearest tree seems far, far away. Gradually my hand or foot will fall into the shade while the rest of my arm or leg is still in the sun, and chill will spread through me as the shade continues to cover the ground where I am resting. The horizon is one of the most dramatic points of reference that we use to gage the movement of the earth. The progression towards and away from that line is constant and inevitable. But our perception of the changes immediately before and after the horizon passes the sun is accelerated. And once crossed there is no going back. Everything changes dramatically and irrevocably. The finality of crossing a line that marks the end of one thing and the beginning of something else at exactly the same time is elemental. The Hindu goddess Kali embodies that moment of creation and destruction. Let there be light. Birth and Death. Unlike the line between birth and death, we can experience the line between night and day on a daily basis. I don’t quite know how to describe that precise moment where the sun crosses the horizon and how it’s different from what came before and what cones after. It’s not just another point along a gradually changing continuum. The gathering color momentarily fades when the sun touches the horizon, only to reappear once the sun no longer directly shines on the ground. Depending on the direction of the day, the light doesn’t merely fade out and become replaced with darkness. Nor does it simply grow brighter. The light continues to change color as it appears or disappears and illuminates different parts of the sky depending on whether it is below or above the horizon. I’ve noticed the most intense pink colors appear when the sun is below the horizon. Those pink clouds all over the sky appear either just before the sun rises or just after the sun sets. But the actual moment the sun crosses the line- the color often fades and the timing accelerates. NOVEMBER Challenge Facebook Link October Challenge September Challenge August Challenge July Challenge June Challenge 2016 May Challenge 2016 April Challenge 2016 March Challenge 2016 February Challenge 2016 January Challenge Brenda Hutchinson (with another bell) photo by Liz Keim. Texas 2006 Got Bells? Wouldn’t it be great to wake up and hear bells ringing all over the place? Big bells, little bells? Next door and way down the street? Something you could do with your friends or by yourself? Wherever you happened to be at the time. Everyday. Sun up and sun down. Invitation These are my little bells I don’t really collect bells. But when I went around my house looking for them, I found them hanging all over the place. So, this is my bell supply, and I will make sure I have one of these with me wherever I go. Just in case. something new in March Beginning in March, I will only post to the blog every few days. However, I will still be ringing the bell everyday at sunrise and sunset and will post daily on my site at youtubeif you want to see more details. Public Ringing Event #1- DONE! Fat Tuesday, Februrary 5. We did it. Sunrise and sunset by the sea. Anyone else ring today? Where were you? Who came? What happened?Please share your story... PUBLIC RINGING EVENT #2- DONE! Nobody showed up in the morning in the parking lot at The Exploratorium.However, several people wandered by in the evening. It was kind of a staggered affair. After the sunset, we noticed a full moon rising in the west. HAPPY SPRING! Public Ringing Event #3- DONE! A small but enthusiastic audience at the Fossil Fool stage joined in the sunset ringing at this year's Maker Faire on Saturday, May 3. Audience members volunteer to pedal power generating bicycles- otherwise there is no sound. That wasn't a problem this evening. The band was plenty loud. | Mid | [
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Q: Kernel of the induced map of the wedge product Let $A$ be a noetherian ring and let $M$ be a finitely generated $A$-module. Let $F$ be a free $A$-module and let $d: F \to M$ be a homomorphism which maps a basis of $F$ to a minimal set of generators of $M$. Consider the submodule $N$ of $\bigwedge^2 F$ which is generated by the elements $x \wedge y$ where $x \in \ker (d)$. It is clear that $N$ lies the kernel of the induced map $\hat{d}:\bigwedge^2 F \to \bigwedge^2M$. I am interested in the quotient $\ker(\hat{d}) / N$. My question: Are there some results concerning this object? For example in the case where $A$ is a local ring? Is there perhaps some geometric interpretation of it in the case where $A$ is a finitely generated algebra over some field $k$? A: You don't need most of your assumptions to ensure that your quotient is $0$. More generally, we have: (1) If $A$ is any commutative ring, and $f : M \to N$ is a surjective homomorphism of $A$-modules, then the kernel of the induced map $\wedge f : \wedge M \to \wedge N$ is the left ideal generated by $\mathrm{ker} f$ in the exterior algebra $\wedge M$. This ideal, of course, is a graded two-sided ideal, and its $2$-nd graded component (i.e., its intersection with $\wedge^2 M$) is precisely the $A$-linear span of all $x \wedge y$ with $x \in \mathrm{ker} f$ and $y \in M$. You can probably find (1) proven in good algebra texts. The analogue of (1) for tensor powers is Theorem 2.19 in Keith Conrad's Tensor Products II, and (1) follows from said analogue by diagram chasing. I would also expect to see (1) in Bourbaki. (If everything else fails, it is Corollary 80 in my old writeup on tensor powers, but that is barely readable due to my attempts at formalism.) | High | [
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Q: Scanf with a specific format I would like to allow the user to only put input in a specific format.The format: a=1,b=-2,c=3 for example. Spaces are allowed inbetween the commas and the characters.I'm using: if (scanf("a=%lf,b=%lf,c=%lf",&a,&b,&c) == 1) but for some reason it doesn't work. How can I fix it? A: You are converting 3 numbers, the return value should be 3 if all conversions are successful. Also note that %lf ignores spaces before the number. If you also want to ignore spaces around the , and before the = or the a, add a space in the format string: double a, b, c; if (scanf(" a =%lf , b =%lf , c =%lf", &a, &b, &c) == 3) { /* conversion was successful, 3 numbers parsed */ ... } Note however that scanf() will not ignore just space characters, it will ignore and whitespace characters, including newlines, tabs, etc. | High | [
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defmodule CodeCorpsWeb.TokenViewTest do use CodeCorpsWeb.ViewCase test "renders show" do token = "12345" user_id = 1 rendered_json = render(CodeCorpsWeb.TokenView, "show.json", %{token: token, user_id: user_id}) expected_json = %{ token: token, user_id: user_id } assert expected_json == rendered_json end test "renders 401" do message = "Silly wabbit, Trix are for kids!" rendered_json = render(CodeCorpsWeb.TokenView, "401.json", %{message: message}) expected_json = %{ errors: [ %{ id: "UNAUTHORIZED", title: "401 Unauthorized", detail: message, status: 401 } ] } assert expected_json == rendered_json end test "renders 403" do message = "Silly wabbit, Trix are for kids!" rendered_json = render(CodeCorpsWeb.TokenView, "403.json", %{message: message}) expected_json = %{ errors: [ %{ id: "FORBIDDEN", title: "403 Forbidden", detail: message, status: 403 } ] } assert expected_json == rendered_json end test "renders delete" do rendered_json = render(CodeCorpsWeb.TokenView, "delete.json", %{}) expected_json = %{ ok: true } assert expected_json == rendered_json end end | Mid | [
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<?php /** * @link https://craftcms.com/ * @copyright Copyright (c) Pixel & Tonic, Inc. * @license https://craftcms.github.io/license/ */ namespace craft\console\controllers\utils; use Craft; use craft\console\Controller; use craft\db\Table; use craft\helpers\Console; use yii\console\ExitCode; use yii\db\Expression; /** * Updates all users’ usernames to ensure they match their email address * * @author Pixel & Tonic, Inc. <[email protected]> * @since 3.5.8 */ class UpdateUsernamesController extends Controller { /** * Updates all users’ usernames to ensure they match their email address * * @return int */ public function actionIndex(): int { // Make sure useEmailAsUsername is enabled if (!Craft::$app->getConfig()->getGeneral()->useEmailAsUsername) { $this->stderr('The useEmailAsUsername config setting is not enabled.' . PHP_EOL, Console::FG_RED); return ExitCode::UNSPECIFIED_ERROR; } $affected = Craft::$app->getDb()->createCommand() ->update(Table::USERS, [ 'username' => new Expression('[[email]]') ], new Expression('[[username]] <> [[email]]'), [], false) ->execute(); $this->stdout("$affected usernames updated." . PHP_EOL); return ExitCode::OK; } } | Mid | [
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--- abstract: | Recognition of identity documents using mobile devices has become a topic of a wide range of computer vision research. The portfolio of methods and algorithms for solving such tasks as face detection, document detection and rectification, text field recognition, and other, is growing, and the scarcity of datasets has become an important issue. One of the openly accessible datasets for evaluating such methods is MIDV-500, containing video clips of 50 identity document types in various conditions. However, the variability of capturing conditions in MIDV-500 did not address some of the key issues, mainly significant projective distortions and different lighting conditions. In this paper we present a MIDV-2019 dataset, containing video clips shot with modern high-resolution mobile cameras, with strong projective distortions and with low lighting conditions. The description of the added data is presented, and experimental baselines for text field recognition in different conditions. The dataset is available for download at <ftp://smartengines.com/midv-500/extra/midv-2019/>. author: - | Konstantin Bulatov, Daniil Matalov, Vladimir V. Arlazarov Federal Research Center “Computer Science and Control” of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia;\ Smart Engines Service LLC, Moscow, Russia bibliography: - 'bibliography.bib' title: 'MIDV-2019: Challenges of the modern mobile-based document OCR' --- Introduction ============ Usage of smartphones and tablet computers for solving business process optimization problems in enterprise systems, as well as processes in government systems, lead to a new development turn for computer vision systems operating on mobile devices. The increased interest in implementing corporate workflow management using mobile documents processing, and the necessity of entering document data in uncontrolled conditions elevate the requirements for document recognition, entry, and analysis systems which use mobile devices [@mollah_design; @google-doc-10]. The images obtained using mobile cameras have a range of specific properties and distortions, such as low resolution (especially for low-end smartphones and tablet computers), insufficient or inconsistent lighting, blur, defocus, highlights on reflective surfaces of the objects of interest, and others [@arl-small-scale-cameras]. Such properties increase the requirements for mobile optical recognition systems and brings necessity to the development of new methods and algorithms which would be more robust against such distortions. This particularly concerns the models and methods of optical recognition of objects in camera-based environments, autonomous methods which can work in isolated mobile computational systems (and thus dealing with constrained computational power) [@7994570; @Takhirov:2016:EAC:2934583.2934615; @Yanai:2016:EMI:2964284.2967243], and methods for analyzing video stream input in real time [@8270252; @vestnik_integration]. To facilitate the research on these topics adequate open datasets should be created and maintained. A particular interest in the field of mobile computer vision systems is given to the task of identity document recognition [@8283074; @SMART_IDREADER_ICDAR]. Automatic entry of data from identity documents is used in such industries as fintech, banking, insurance, travel, e-government, and in such processes as user identification and authentication, KYC/AML (Known Your Customer / Anti-Money Laundering) procedures and others. Computer vision problems which are associated with automatic identity document entry using mobile devices, include: 1. Determining the document class, type, subtype, or country of issue; 2. Document boundaries detection in an image, or document page segmentation from the background; 3. Per-field document segmentation and layout analysis; 4. Personal photo detection or facial features extraction; 5. Optical character recognition, capturing and recognition of text fields and properties of the document; 6. Video stream analysis in real time; 7. Image quality estimation; 8. Security features detection, optical variable devices analysis (holograms, dynamic color embossing, etc.); 9. Other related tasks. An important issue which comes up in relation to research and scientific publications on the topic of identity document processing is the availability of datasets. Identity documents contain sensitive personal information, so storing, transmitting or otherwise make this data public is impossible. In order to facilitate research in some of the topics mentioned above, the MIDV-500 dataset was introduced [@midv500-arxiv]. The dataset contained video clips of 50 identity documents with different types. Since it’s impossible to create a public dataset of valid and authentic identity documents, the dataset contained mostly “sample” or “specimen” documents which could be found in WikiMedia and which were distributed under public copyright licenses. And thus, although the variability of the documents used in the dataset is comparatively low, the target objects featured in this dataset shared the common identity document features. The MIDV-500 dataset contained 500 video clips, 10 clips per document type. The clips were captured using Apple iPhone 5 and Samsung Galaxy S3 (GT-I9300), the smartphone models which could already be considered obsolete by the time the dataset was published. However, the increasingly common usage of identity document recognition in various business or government processes implies the need to support a wide range of devices, from cheap low-end devices to the “flagship” models. Using each of the two smartphone models, each document was shot in five distinct conditions: “Table”, “Keyboard”, “Hand”, “Partial”, and “Clutter”. The “Table” condition represented the simplest case with the document laying on the table with homogeneous surface texture. The “Keyboard” represented the case when the document lays on various keyboards thus making it harder to utilize conventional edge detection methods, because of the background cluttered with straight edges and text. The “Hand” condition represented the case of a hand-held document. The “Partial” condition had some frames when the document is partially or completely hidden outside the camera frame. Finally, the “Clutter” condition had the background intentionally cluttered with random objects. The conditions represented in MIDV-500 dataset had some diversity regarding the background (“Table”, “Keyboard”, “Hand”, and “Clutter”) and the positioning of the document in relation to the capturing process (“Partial”), however they did not include variation in lighting conditions, significant projective distortions, or a variation in the quality of the camera. Example images of every condition presented in MIDV-500 are illustrated in Figure \[fig:midv500\_samples\]. ![Conditions of the original MIDV-500 dataset [@midv500-arxiv]. From left to right: “Table”, “Keyboard”, “Hand”, “Partial”, and “Clutter”[]{data-label="fig:midv500_samples"}](fig1.jpg){width="\textwidth"} The MIDV-500 dataset has been used to perform research of methods for document type recognition using similarity metric aimed at high classification precision and robustness against projective distortions [@lynchenko2019document], for evaluation of image quality assessment methods and their impact on the document recognition system performance [@chernov2019application], for analyzing the per-frame text field recognition results combination in a video stream [@vestnik_integration] and construction a stopping rule for text string recognition in a video stream [@Bulatov2019]. Even though modern smartphones and tablet computers have camera modules with substantially higher quality, and their computational power have increased drastically, recognition of identity documents in images or a video stream in uncontrolled capturing conditions remains a scientific and technological challenge. In many use cases the documents are captured not by trained personnel, but remotely by document holders who are likely to be performing such capture very rarely and do not have any information about the processing algorithms involved. Thus, such conditions as low scene lighting, high projective distortions, and other complications, lead to a demand of sophisticated processing techniques and methods, even if input images are captured with high-end mobile devices. In this paper we present an extension to the MIDV-500 dataset, called MIDV-2019, which consists of video clips of the 50 original identity documents, but shot with more complex conditions and using high-end smartphone cameras. The two complex conditions targeted in this dataset extension are low lighting and strong projective distortions. The prepared extension is aimed to provide a platform for creating and evaluation of new methods and algorithms, designed to operate in challenging environments. Dataset description {#sec:dataset} =================== As with the MIDV-500 dataset, the new dataset MIDV-2019, presented in this paper, contains video clips of 50 different identity document types, which includes 17 ID cards, 14 passports, 13 driving licences and 6 other identity documents of different countries. The same printed samples which were used as a source of MIDV-500 dataset were also used to prepare MIDV-2019. For each printed document video clips were recorded under two different capturing conditions and using two mobile devices, thus obtaining 4 new video clips per document (200 new video clips in total). New clip identifiers are described in Table \[tbl:new\_conditions\]. Sample images of the added conditions are presented in Figure \[fig:midv2019\_samples\]. Identifier Description ------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DG “istorted” – documents were shot with higher projective distortions, videos were captured using Samsung alaxy S10 (SM-G973F/DS) DX “istorted” – documents were shot with higher projective distortions, videos were captured using Apple iPhone S Max LG “ow-lighting” – documents were shot in very low lighting conditions, video were capturing using Samsung alaxy S10 (SM-G973F/DS) LX “ow-lighting” – documents were shot in very low lighting conditions, video were capturing using Apple iPhone S Max : Clip types added in MIDV-2019[]{data-label="tbl:new_conditions"} ![Conditions of the MIDV-2019 dataset. “Distorted” condition (left) and “Low-lighting” condition (right)[]{data-label="fig:midv2019_samples"}](fig2.jpg){width="\textwidth"} The first new capturing condition introduced in the MIDV-2019 dataset is the “Distorted” condition (clips “DG” and “DX”), in which the documents were shot with strong projective distortions. The requirement for the document recognition systems to be able to operate in uncontrolled condition sometimes lead to the users capturing the documents with high projective distortions – for example, to avoid highlights on the reflective surfaces of the document. The methods which perform preliminary document detection and localization try to rectify the document image prior to processing, however it is important to have a highly distorted dataset of samples in order to assess the limits to the applicability of such methods. For methods which perform text segmentation and recognition without prior rectification [@HE2019107026; @ElBahi2019], and, specifically, the text components of identity documents, such as machine-readable zones [@SkoriukinaMRZ], such capturing conditions may provide a valuable reference. Perhaps the most significant challenge added in the MIDV-2019 dataset is the clips shot in a low-lighting conditions without flash. Such use cases as checking the identity documents in a long-distance travel, using mobile systems to enter identity document data by law enforcement officials, and others, sometimes require the ability to recognize documents with very low ambient light. In the images thus obtained the text is still visible and could be discerned by a human, however modern OCR systems struggle with this task. This is the primary reason for adding the clips “LG” and “LX”, which represents the “Low-lighting” condition, to the MIDV-2019 dataset. The examples of text field images cropped from frames captured in low-lighting condition are presented in Figure \[fig:low\_lighting\_fields\]. ![Examples of text fields cropped from “LG” and “LX” clips[]{data-label="fig:low_lighting_fields"}](fig3.png){width="50.00000%"} All clips were shot in Ultra HD resolution (2160x3840). Each video were at least 3 seconds in duration and the first 3 seconds of each video were split with 10 frames per second. As in the MIDV-500 dataset, for each frame the ideal coordinates of the document’s boundaries were annotated by hand, and if the corners of the document were not visible on the frame, the corresponding coordinate points were extrapolated outside the frame. The provided document coordinates combined with an ideal template segmentation ground truth, which is provided with the original MIDV-500, allow to crop document elements, such as text fields, from each frame, and perform evaluation of algorithms for face detection, text field recognition, as well as full document detection, classification, and segmentation. Evaluation baselines ==================== In order to provide basic baselines for future experiments based on the presented MIDV-2019 dataset we performed text field recognition evaluation using an open-source recognition system Tesseract v4.1.0 [@tesseract-paper]. As in the original paper presenting MIDV-500, four field groups were analyzed: numeric dates, document numbers, machine-readable zone lines, and Latin name components (which contain only Latin characters with no diacritical marks). Only the frames on which the document boundaries laid fully inside the frame were considered. To be consistent with MIDV-500, all fields were cropped with the resolution of 300 DPI (achieved using known physical dimensions of all document types present in the dataset), and for each field a margin was allowed with width equal to 10% of the minimal dimension of the field’s bounding box. Table \[tbl:fields\_total\] lists the number of field images thus extracted from both MIDV-500 clips and from MIDV-2019 clips, grouped by the capturing condition. The first five rows of the table represent conditions in MIDV-500 dataset (“Table”, “Keyboard”, “Hand”, “Partial”, and “Clutter”). The last two rows represent conditions from the new MIDV-2019 dataset (“Distorted” and “Low-lighting”). In Table \[tbl:fields\_accuracy\] the text field recognition accuracy is presented for all aforementioned conditions and grouped by the type of the text field. The comparison of the recognized and correct values was case-insensitive and there were no distinction between the Latin letter “O” and the digit “0”. While given the fixed recognition system the absolute values of the recognition accuracy is of a lesser interest, the main distinction which should be noted is between the capturing conditions. From the seven analyzed conditions the highest quality is achieved in the simplest case – the one with document laying on the table (“TA”, “TS”) with homogeneous background and with the smallest projective distortion. Even though the clips “TA” and “TS” were shot with older smartphone models and with Full HD resolution (1080x1920), the recognition precision for images taken in those conditions turned out to be higher than that of clips “DG” and “DX”, which were shot with higher projective distortions but with Ultra HD resolution (2160x3840). By far the lowest text field recognition accuracy can be seen on the “Low-lighting” clips “LG” and “LX”. Even if shot with high resolution and on modern smartphones, the task of document recognition in such conditions is still a clear challenge and should be addressed by the community. It should be noted that while the recognition accuracy on the “Low-lighting” clips is very low, the accuracy ordering by text field group is mostly the same as for the other conditions. Conclusion ========== In this paper we presented the dataset MIDV-2019 containing video clips of identity documents captured using modern smartphones in low lighting conditions and with higher projective distortions. The paper presents experimental baselines for text field recognition for different capturing conditions and for different field groups presented in the dataset, and the reported result show that the text field recognition in low lighting is still a very challenging problem for modern mobile recognition systems. With the added data the MIDV-500 dataset is expanded by 40%. Authors believe that the provided dataset will serve as a valuable resource for document recognition research community and lead to more high-quality scientific publications in the field of identity documents analysis, as well as in the general field of computer vision. This work is partially financially supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research (projects 17-29-03170 and 17-29-03236). Source images for MIDV-2019 dataset are obtained from Wikimedia Commons. Author attributions for each source image are listed in the description table at <ftp://smartengines.com/midv-500/documents.pdf>. | High | [
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Wouldn’t it be funny if A-Rod was juicing again? I mean, it wouldn’t really be funny, but, it sort of would be…right? Sure, for the integrity of the game of baseball, it wouldn’t be funny it would be a disgrace – but there is a small part that would be funny. I’ll be honest, every time I see him round the bases after hitting a ball outside the park I think to myself “what if he is juicing again?” Sometime I will say that same statement to a few friends who might be around when I see him hit a home run, and we always get into a nice conversation about it. I saw A-Rod hit a homerun the other night against the Texas Rangers on his 40th birthday. During the broadcast they showed his career stats in homeruns, RBIs and runs — all of which made me think, what if this guy would have been clean his whole career? And on top of that, what if he would have been healthier throughout his career? There will always be people who will claim that A-Rod’s numbers come with a huge discrepancy. I am not saying that they don’t, some of them certainly do. But let’s remember that this guy was always a world-class player, even when he was younger in the days before he “beefed up.” The A-Rod in Seattle and Texas was an incredible player and certainly deserved a lot of the accolades he got. The most amazing thing might be the way the Yankees fans have overwhelmingly forgiven him of all the wrong he has done. Now that might be because of the amazing season he has had so far, but still, to see the city rally around this guy has been shocking. It almost seems like as long as he is hitting bombs over the fence and driving runs across the plate that the fans don’t even consider this guy has ever done wrong. Now it doesn’t take long to remember that he certainly has done wrong, but for a short time (mainly, while he is on the field) all of that seems to disappear. I have always had mixed feelings about A-Rod, I used to be a big fan but was so disappointed when he joined the Yankees. I used to really enjoy his play on the field but was disappointed with some of his incidents on the field throughout the years. Oh and then there is the whole taking performance enhancers thing, that too. But I will say that I have mad respect for the old man getting back out there after a big injury and a huge suspension. It could have been easy for the guy to just take the easy way out and stroll into retirement with a ton of money, but he worked his tail off and has had a great comeback season. Let’s see how he finishes it as he tries to help the Yankees make the playoffs (which they are currently in line for). But still, it would be pretty funny to find out if he was juicing again for this season — he probably isn’t, I have no idea — but wow, now that would be a story. Tyler Rollason is a Winder-Barrow High School and University of West Georgia graduate. You can e-mail comments about this column to [email protected]. E-Mail addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for E-Mail notifications. To prevent automated Bots from commentspamming, please enter the string you see in the image below in the appropriate input box. Your comment will only be submitted if the strings match. Please ensure that your browser supports and accepts cookies, or your comment cannot be verified correctly.Enter the string from the spam-prevention image above: Phone* What is four plus two? Remember Information? Subscribe to this entry Submitted comments will be subject to moderation before being displayed. | Mid | [
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Stable synchronized high-frequency signals from the main sensory and spinal nuclei of the pig activated by Abeta fibers of the maxillary nerve innervating the snout. The primary somatosensory cortex of various species including man, monkey, pig and rat is capable of producing high-frequency signals in the 600 Hz range and above with very little latency jitter. We have recently observed such cortical signals for the trigeminal system of the swine. This study determined the projection of the maxillary nerve innervating the snout to the sensory trigeminal nuclear complex in the brain stem and stability of outputs of each nucleus receiving the projection. The snout stimulation activated large-caliber Abeta fibers in the trigeminal nerve with a mean velocity of 64.4+/-2.7 m/s (mean+/-1 S.E.M., six animals) comparable in velocity to the tooth pulp Abeta fibers (57.9+/-3.4 m/s) obtained from the same animals. These afferents activated the main sensory nucleus, and subnuclei oralis, interpolaris and caudalis of the spinal nucleus, as judged by evoked field potential maps superimposed on the histological maps of the trigeminal nuclei from the same animals. Inputs from these fast afferents arrived at all the four trigeminal nuclei almost simultaneously within a span of 0.7+/-0.2 ms (mean+/-1 S.D., seven animals). Evoked high-frequency signals were reproducible with a latency jitter of less than 0.2 ms during the first 4 ms of postsynaptic activity for each of main sensory and spinal nuclei. These results indicate that the snout stimulation activates fast-conducting peripheral afferents which project to all the sensory trigeminal nuclei and produces highly reproducible initial responses nearly simultaneously across the multiple trigeminal nuclei. These outputs from the trigeminal nuclei may play an important role in triggering the stable high-frequency signals in the cortex. | High | [
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New combined tetanus-diptheria-acellular pertussis vaccines for adults: primary care physician attitudes and preferences. Availability of combined tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccines for adults offers a new pertussis prevention strategy for the US. Successful uptake of Tdap vaccine will depend partly on the attitudes and practices of primary care physicians, including their experience with Td boosters. We conducted a mail survey in August 2005 of a national random sample of 399 family physicians (FPs) and 399 general internists (IMs) to assess practices related to Td boosters, clinical experience with pertussis, and attitudes toward a potential Tdap vaccine recommendation for adults. The response rate was 49% (52% FPs, 46% IMs). Among 336 eligible respondents, half reported having clinical experience with pertussis. Most (81%) would recommend Tdap vaccine for their adult patients, and 73% support targeting adults likely to come in close contact with infants. Attitudes toward a potential Tdap vaccine recommendation differed by whether providers stock and administer Td boosters. We conclude that adult primary care providers in the US are likely to recommend Tdap vaccine to their adult patients, in concordance with recent national recommendations. Future research should assess the extent to which barriers impede adoption of Tdap vaccine recommendations. | High | [
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North Korea was behind the massive “WannaCry” cyberattack in May that spread around the world costing billions of dollars, White House Homeland Security Adviser Tom Bossert announced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed Monday. In the article, entitled, “It’s Official: North Korea Is Behind WannaCry,” Bossert wrote that the Hermit Kingdom was the main culprit behind the May 2017 global cyberattack in which computers running Windows were targeted. During the infamous attack, data were encrypted and ransom payment, in the form of bitcoin, was demanded of users if they wanted their data back. “Cybersecurity isn’t easy, but simple principles still apply. Accountability is one, cooperation another,” Bossert's op-ed read. “They are the cornerstones of security and resilience in any society. In furtherance of both, and after careful investigation, the U.S. today publicly attributes the massive ‘WannaCry’ cyber attack to North Korea.” Bossert elaborated at a White House press briefing on Tuesday morning, saying that after "careful investigation," the U.S. made the attribution to North Korea. "We don’t do this lightly," Bossert said during the briefing. "We do so with evidence and with partners." Bossert noted that Canada, New Zealand, Japan and the United Kingdom, and Australia joined the U.S. in denouncing North Korea for the attack. “While victims received ransom demands, paying did not unlock their computers,” the homeland security adviser wrote in his op-ed. “It was cowardly, costly and careless. The attack was widespread and cost billions, and North Korea is directly responsible.” He added that the Department of Homeland Security was not taking the allegation lightly. He said it was based on credible evidence, that the United Kingdom attributes the attack to North Korea and that Microsoft traced the attack to cyber affiliates of the regime. “North Korea has acted especially badly, largely unchecked, for more than a decade, and its malicious behavior is growing more egregious. WannaCry was indiscriminately reckless,” Bossert asserted. “Stopping malicious behavior like this starts with accountability. It also requires governments and businesses to cooperate to mitigate cyber risk and increase the cost to hackers.” He added, “The U.S. must lead this effort, rallying allies and responsible tech companies throughout the free world to increase the security and resilience of the internet.” During the briefing, Bossert said the Trump administration would continue to pressure Pyongyang to curb its ability to mount attacks, and would seek to partner with the private sector to prevent future attacks. He said President Trump "has used just about every lever you can use short of starving the North Korean people to death to change their behavior. So we don't have a lot of room left here to apply pressure to change their behavior. It's nevertheless important to call them out, let them know it's them and we know it's them." Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, released a statement Monday evening regarding the revelation. “I commend the men and women of our Intelligence Community for their strong work in following the evidence and putting forth their assessment of these events, and I urge our international partners to fulfill their responsibilities under the sanctions regimes that are now in place,” he said in the statement. “I look forward to hearing additional details in classified session in the coming days.” Cummings also commented on how the news was released to the public. “President Trump is handling the intelligence assessments regarding North Korea and Russia completely differently, staging an elaborate media roll-out to press on sanctions against North Korea while at the same time discrediting the assessment by these very same intelligence agencies that the Kremlin interfered with our election. Why isn’t President Trump taking these same steps in response to Russia?” The United States in 2014 also formally accused North Korea of hacking Sony Pictures Entertainment over the movie "The Interview," a satirical film about a plot to assassinate North Korea's leader. Fox News' Brooke Singman and The Associated Press contributed to this report. | Mid | [
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Expression of TRAP1 predicts poor survival of malignant glioma patients. TRAP1/Hsp75 (tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated protein 1), a paralogue of the Hsp90 family, has been recently described as a molecular marker and novel therapeutic target in local and metastatic prostate cancer. It has been proved to be associated with tumor invasion and metastasis in various human malignancies. In our study, the protein expression level of TRAP1 in 236 cases of glioma is investigated by immunohistochemistry assay. Statistical analysis was utilized to evaluate the association of TRAP1 with clinicopathological characteristics and prognosis of patients. It was proved that TRAP1 protein expression was increased in glioma compared with that in normal brain tissue. Moreover, TRAP1 immunohistochemical staining was correlated with World Health Organization (WHO) grade and Karnofsky performance score (KPS). Strong positive TRAP1 staining is more frequently detected in glioma of advanced grade or low KPS. It is also demonstrated that TRAP1 could be an independent negative prognostic factor in glioma, for patients with glioma of strong TRAP1 staining tend to have high risk of death. These results proved that TRAP1 is associated with prognosis of glioma, which may also suggest the potential role of TRAP1 in glioma management. | Mid | [
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using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Threading.Tasks; using Uno.UI.Xaml; using Windows.UI.Xaml; namespace Uno.UI.Helpers.Xaml { public static class SetterExtensions { [EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Never)] [System.Runtime.CompilerServices.MethodImpl(System.Runtime.CompilerServices.MethodImplOptions.AggressiveInlining)] // This is normally called from code generated by the Xaml parser public static Setter ApplyThemeResourceUpdateValues(this Setter setter, string themeResourceName, object parseContext) { setter.ThemeResourceName = themeResourceName; setter.ThemeResourceContext = parseContext as XamlParseContext; return setter; } } } | Low | [
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1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a golf club, and more particularly to a golf club having a shock-absorbing effect. 2. Description of the Related Art A conventional golf club 70 in accordance with the prior art shown in FIG. 8 comprises a hollow shaft 71 having a first end provided with a head 72 and a second end provided with a grip 73. However, the shaft 71 is integrally formed without providing any shock-absorbing device, so that when the head 72 hits the golf ball (not shown), the head 72 produces a large shock (see FIG. 9) which is directly transmitted through the shaft 71 to the grip 73, thereby easily shocking and vibrating the grip 73 and the user""s hand. The present invention is to mitigate and/or obviate the disadvantage of the conventional golf club. The primary objective of the present invention is to provide a golf club having a shock-absorbing effect. Another objective of the present invention is to provide a golf club, wherein the connector can absorb and eliminate the shock produced by the head rapidly and actually, thereby preventing the shock from being directly transmitted to the grip so as to protect the user""s hand. A further objective of the present invention is to provide a golf club, wherein the composite layer mounted on a periphery of the combination of the upper rod, the connector and the lower rod has greater strength and stiffness so as to enhance the combination strength of the upper rod, the connector and the lower rod, and to enhance the shock-absorbing effect. In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a golf club, comprising a hollow conical middle tube having a first end provided with a head and a second end provided with a grip, wherein: the middle tube includes an upper rod and a lower rod; the golf club further comprises a connector mounted between the upper rod and the lower rod, so that the upper rod, the connector and the lower rod are combined to form a conical rod; the lower rod of the middle tube has an inner conical hole for insertion of the connector; the connector has a center having a passage co-axial with the middle tube; the connector has a first end provided with a first smaller diameter portion and a second end provided with a second smaller diameter portion; the first smaller diameter portion of the connector has an outer conical portion inserted into the inner conical hole of the lower rod; the first smaller diameter portion has a centring section and a fixing section; the centring section of the first smaller diameter portion is closely positioned in the inner conical hole of the lower rod; the fixing section is a helical groove and is provided with an adhesive, so that the first smaller diameter portion is closely fixed in the lower rod; the second smaller diameter portion of the connector does not have an outer conical portion; the second smaller diameter portion of the connector has a helical groove which is provided with an adhesive, so that the second smaller diameter portion of the connector is inserted into the upper rod of the middle tube, the connector is closely fixed on the upper rod of the middle tube, and the upper rod, the connector and the lower rod are co-axial with each other; the golf club further comprises a composite layer mounted on a periphery of a combination of the upper rod, the connector and the lower rod; and the composite layer consists of a metallic filament and fiber. Further benefits and advantages of the present invention will become apparent after a careful reading of the detailed description with appropriate reference to the accompanying drawings. | Mid | [
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Boonton station Boonton is a NJ Transit station in Boonton, Morris County, New Jersey, United States along the Montclair-Boonton Line. It is located on Main Street, near Myrtle Avenue and I-287. The original 1905 station was built by architect Frank J. Nies who built other stations for the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. Unlike most of his stations which tended to be massive Renaissance structures, Boonton station was built as a simple Prairie House design. The station house is now a bar, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 13, 1977, two years before the establishment of New Jersey Transit and six years before becoming part of their railroad division. Station layout Boonton has one mini-high level side platform. See also Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource (New Jersey) National Register of Historic Places listings in Morris County, New Jersey References External links 1907 post card of Boonton DL&W Station (The Erie-Lackawanna Archives) Main Street entrance from Google Maps Street View Category:NJ Transit Rail Operations stations Category:Railway stations opened in 1905 Category:Former Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad stations Category:Boonton, New Jersey Category:Railway stations in Morris County, New Jersey Category:Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in New Jersey Category:Prairie School architecture in New Jersey | Mid | [
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--- abstract: 'In this paper we study uniform tail-probability estimates in regularized estimation, by making use of the polynomial type large deviation inequality for the associated statistical random fields. The statistical random fields in our model setup may be of mixed-rates type, may not be locally asymptotically quadratic. Our results provide a measure of rate of consistency in variable selection in sparse estimation, and also enable us to verify various arguments requiring convergence of moments of estimator-dependent statistics, such as the expected maximum-likelihood for AIC-type model criteria.' author: - 'Hiroki Masuda[^1] and Yusuke Shimizu[^2]' title: 'Moment convergence in regularized estimations[^3]' --- Introduction ============ Let us begin with some basic facts concerning the parametric $M$-estimation. Given a statistical model indexed by a finite-dimensional parameter $\theta_{0}\in\Theta\subset\mathbb{R}^{p}$ we typically estimate the parameter value by a minimum point $\hat{\theta}_{n}$ of an appropriate continuous contrast function $Z_{n}:\Theta\to\mathbb{R}$. In order to assess the asymptotic performance of $\hat{\theta}_{n}$ quantitatively, we look at the statistical random fields $$\begin{aligned} \mathbb{M}_{n}(u;\theta_{0})=Z_{n}(\theta_{0}+A_{n}(\theta_{0})u)-Z_{n}(\theta_{0}), \label{hm:intro1}\end{aligned}$$ where $A_{n}(\theta_{0})$ denotes the rate matrix such that $|A_{n}(\theta_{0})|\to 0$ as $n\to\infty$, where the components of $A_{n}(\theta_{0})$ may decrease at different rates. As is well-known, the weak convergence of $\mathbb{M}_{n}$ to some $\mathbb{M}_{0}$ over compact sets, the identifiability condition on $\mathbb{M}_{0}$, and the tightness of the scaled estimator $\hat{u}_{n}:=A_{n}(\theta_{0})^{-1}(\hat{\theta}_{n}-\theta_{0})$ make the “argmin” functional continuous for $\mathbb{M}_{n}$: $\hat{u}_{n}\in{\operatornamewithlimits{argmin}}\mathbb{M}_{n}\xrightarrow{\mathcal{L}}{\operatornamewithlimits{argmin}}\mathbb{M}_{0}$. See e.g., van der Vaart [@03]. Further, when concerned with moments of $\hat{u}_{n}$-dependent statistics, such as the mean square error, more than the weak convergence is required. Then the polynomial type large deviation inequality (PLDI) of Yoshida [@06], which estimates the tail of $\mathcal{L}(\hat{u}_{n})$ in such a way that $$\begin{aligned} \sup_{r>0}\sup_{n>0}r^{L}P(\vert \hat{u}_{n}\vert\geq r)<\infty \label{eq:introp}\end{aligned}$$ for a given $L>0$, plays an important role. When $\hat{u}_{n}\xrightarrow{\mathcal{L}}\hat{u}_{0}$ for a random variable $\hat{u}_{0}$, the moment convergence $E[\vert \hat{u}_{n}\vert^{q}]\rightarrow E[\vert \hat{u}_{0}\vert^{q}]$ where $q>0$ holds if there exists $q'>q$ such that $$\begin{aligned} \sup_{n>0}E[\vert \hat{u}_{n}\vert^{q'}]<\infty. \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ Assume that the PLDI (\[eq:introp\]) holds for some $L>q'$. Then we obtain $$\begin{aligned} \sup_{n>0}E[\vert \hat{u}_{n}\vert^{q'}]=\sup_{n>0}\int_{0}^{\infty}P(\vert \hat{u}_{n}\vert^{q'}>s)ds<\infty. \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ Hence the moment convergence follows from the PLDI (\[eq:introp\]). It has been known that the PLDI can be proved under modest conditions when $\mathbb{M}_{n}$ admit a partially locally asymptotically quadratic (PLAQ) structure, which is satisfied for many situations including asymptotically mixed-normal type models under multi-scaling. Here, in the multi-scaling case where the random vector $\hat{\theta}_{n}$ converges at different rates, the PLAQ structure at “first” step takes the form[^4] $$\begin{aligned} \mathbb{M}_{n}(u,\tau;\theta_{0})=\Delta_{n}(\tau;\theta_{0})[u]+\frac{1}{2}\Gamma_{0}(\tau;\theta_{0})[u,u]+r_{n}(u,\tau;\theta_{0}), \nonumber $$ where we are required to verify, among others, the following conditions which are to hold uniformly in “the second- and the subsequent-step” parameter $\tau$, which is regarded as a nuisance parameter in the first step: sufficient integrability of the random linear form $\Delta_{n}(\tau;\theta_{0})$; the non-degeneracy of the possibly random bilinear form $\Gamma_{0}(\tau;\theta_{0})$; and a kind of “non-explosiveness" of the scaled remainder term $(1+\vert u\vert^{2})^{-1}r_{n}(u,\tau;\theta_{0})$, where the $u$-pointwise limit of $r_{n}(u,\tau;\theta_{0})$, whenever exists, typically equals zero. See Section 5 of Yoshida [@06] for the detailed account of the above-mentioned multistep procedures. In many standard statistical models, the form is enough to find the asymptotic distribution of all the components of $\hat{\theta}_{n}$; we call this case [*standard asymptotics*]{}. The purpose of this paper is to prove the PLDI in the bridge and sparse-bridge least-squares estimation for the linear regression model. We will show how the PLDI of Yoshida [@06] can carry over to the “mixed-rates” $M$-estimation where the target statistical random field may have components converging at different rates. See Radchenko [@Rad08] and also Section \[m-general\] for the general framework. In particular, we will mainly deal with the [*sparse asymptotics*]{}, where it may be possible to estimate zero parameters, say $z_{0}=0$, in such a way that $P(\hat{z}_{n}=0)\to 1$, which implies that $R_{n}\hat{z}_{n}=o_{p}(1)$ for arbitrary $R_{n}\to\infty$, so that there is no sensible rate of convergence leading to a non-trivial asymptotic law in estimating $z_{0}=0$. It will be shown that the PLDI criterion of Yoshida [@06] can apply to some mixed-rates cases while it may require some modification when the key PLAQ structure breaks down; it may happen that $r_{n}(u,\tau;\theta_{0})$ diverges in probability. Indeed, most of the existing sparse estimation procedures may fall into this type of asymptotics. Our claims provide a theoretically deeper understanding on the recently highlighted sparse estimation. Finally, we briefly remark the importance of convergence of moments: asymptotic behavior of expcted values of statistics depending on estimators. The PLDI for statistical random fields associated with stochastic process have been studied and applied for example to the information criteria in model selection, and moment convergence for quasi-likelihood and Bayes estimators of diffusion processes; see Uchida and Yoshida [@Uchida01; @Uchida02], Sakamoto and Yoshida [@Sakamoto], and Yoshida [@06] for details. This paper is organized as follows. In Section \[sec:kaf\], we discuss the PLDI conditions for the bridge least-squares estimation of the linear regression model. In particular, we consider the sparse-bridge estimation based on Radchenko [@09]. Section \[sec:moex\] discusses some possible generalizations of the bridge-LSE setting. In Section \[general Bridge\], we consider a generalization of the regularization term in the bridge-LSE contrast function under the linear regression frame work. In Section \[m-general\], we discuss a generalization of the bridge regression model to the general $M$-estimations under mixed-rates asymptotic. We consider the PLDI under such a generaliged model in Section \[LSE-term\]. Section \[special B-L\] again treats bridge-LSE, where the consistency of estimators to the true value of parameters no longer holds. Bridge-LSE in the linear regression model {#sec:kaf} ========================================= In this section we assume that we have a sample $\{(X_{i},Y_{i})\}^{n}_{i=1}$, where $Y_{i}\in \mathbb{R}$ and $X_{i}=(X_{i1},\ldots,X_{ip})\in \mathbb{R}^{p}$, obeying the linear regression model: $$\begin{aligned} Y_{i}=\theta_{0}^{\top}X_{i}+\epsilon_{i},\ \ \ i=1,\ldots,n, \label{eq:1}\end{aligned}$$ where $\theta_{0}$ is a $p$-dimensional true value of parameter contained in the interior of a compact parameter space $\Theta \subset \mathbb{R}^{p}$ and $\epsilon_{1},\epsilon_{2},\cdots$ represent noises. Though not essential, we suppose that the covariate $X$ is non-random; usually $X_{1},\cdots,X_{n}$ are standardized from the beginning, but for brevity we omit the dependence of $X_{i}$ and $Y_{i}$ on $n$ from the notation. Then we consider the bridge-LSE defined to be a minimizer of the contrast function $$\begin{aligned} Z_{n}(\theta)&=\sum_{i=1}^{n}(Y_{i}-\theta^{\top}X_{i})^{2}+\lambda_{n}\sum_{j=1}^{p}\vert \theta_{j}\vert^{\gamma}, \label{eq:2}\end{aligned}$$ where $\lambda_{n}$ denotes the tuning parameter controlling the degree of regularization together with the bridge index $\gamma>0$. Denote by $\hat{\theta}_{n}$ a minimizer of $Z_{n}$ over $\Theta$. Standard asymptotics {#section; Knight and Fu} -------------------- Knight and Fu [@01] studied the “standard" asymptotic behaviour of $\hat{\theta}_{n}$. They assumed regularity conditions including that the noises $\epsilon_{1},\epsilon_{2},\cdots$ are i.i.d. with $E[\epsilon_{i}]=0$ and $E[\epsilon_{i}^{2}]=:\sigma^{2}>0$, $n^{-1}\sum_{i=1}^{n}X_{i}X_{i}^{\top}\rightarrow C_{0}$ for some $C_{0}>0$ and that $n^{-1}\max_{i\leq n}\vert X_{i}\vert^{2}\rightarrow 0$. Then they proved the following results: (Consistency) If $\lambda_{n}/n\rightarrow 0$, then $$\begin{aligned} \hat{\theta}_{n}\xrightarrow{P}\theta_{0}. \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ (Asymptotic laws) If $\lambda_{n}/n^{(1\wedge \gamma)/2}\rightarrow \lambda_{0}\geq 0$, then $$\begin{aligned} \sqrt{n}(\hat{\theta}_{n}-\theta_{0})\xrightarrow{\mathcal{L}}{\operatornamewithlimits{argmin}}(V_{0}),\nonumber\end{aligned}$$ where for $W\sim N_{p}(0,\sigma^{2}C_{0})$, $$\begin{aligned} V_{0}(u):=\left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \displaystyle -2W[u]+C_{0}[u,u]+\gamma \lambda_{0}\sum_{j=1}^{p}u_{j}\operatorname{sgn}(\theta_{0 j})\vert \theta_{0 j}\vert^{\gamma-1}\qquad \ \ \ (\gamma>1),\\ \displaystyle -2W[u]+C_{0}[u,u]\\ \ \ \ \displaystyle +\lambda_{0}\sum_{j=1}^{p}\bigl\{u_{j}\operatorname{sgn}(\theta_{0 j}){\rm I}(\theta_{0 j}\not=0)+\vert u_{j}\vert {\rm I}(\theta_{0 j}=0)\bigr\}\qquad (\gamma=1),\\ \displaystyle -2W[u]+C_{0}[u,u]+\lambda_{0}\sum_{j=1}^{p}\vert u_{j}\vert^{\gamma}{\rm I}(\theta_{0 j}=0)\qquad \qquad \ \ \ (\gamma<1). \nonumber \end{array} \right.\end{aligned}$$ Let $\hat{u}_{n}:=\sqrt{n}(\hat{\theta}_{n}-\theta_{0})$ and $\hat{u}_{0}:={\operatornamewithlimits{argmin}}(V_{0})$. In the following Theorem \[thm;standard\], we will deduce the moment convergence of $\hat{u}_{n}$, in particular $E[f(\hat{u}_{n})]\rightarrow E[f(\hat{u}_{0})]$ where $f:\mathbb{R}^{p}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is any continuous functions of at most polynomial growth, by checking the PLDI conditions \[A1\]–\[A6\] of Yoshida [@06 Theorem 1]. Theorem \[thm;standard\] is concerned with the standard asymptotics, but it is nevertheless new, providing the moment convergence with the associated random fields being not locally asymptotically quadratic. Let $\gamma>0$ and $C_{n}:=n^{-1}\sum_{i=1}^{n}X_{i}X_{i}^{\top}$. Suppose that $\lambda_{n}/n^{(1\wedge \gamma)/2}\rightarrow \lambda_{0}\geq 0$ and that followings hold. $$\begin{aligned} \epsilon_{1},\epsilon_{2},\cdots\ are\ i.i.d.\ with\ E[\epsilon_{i}]=0\ and\ \forall k>0,\ E[\vert \epsilon_{i}\vert^{k}]<\infty; \label{ass:1.1}\end{aligned}$$ $$\begin{aligned} \exists \delta>0,\ \exists C_{0}>0,\ \sup_{n>0}\bigl(n^{\delta}\vert C_{n}-C_{0}\vert\bigr)<\infty; \label{ass:1.2}\end{aligned}$$ $$\begin{aligned} \sup_{n>0}\sup_{i\leq n}\vert X_{i}\vert<\infty. \label{ass:1.3}\end{aligned}$$ Then for any $L>0$ there exists a constant $c_{L}>0$ for which $$\begin{aligned} \sup_{n>0}P(\vert \hat{u}_{n}\vert \geq r)\leq \frac{c_{L}}{r^{L}},\ \ r>0. \label{conclusion}\end{aligned}$$ In particular, for every continuous $f:\mathbb{R}^{p}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ of at most polynomial growth, $$\begin{aligned} E[f(\hat{u}_{n})]\rightarrow E[f(\hat{u}_{0})].\nonumber\end{aligned}$$ \[thm;standard\] To conclude (\[conclusion\]), we will check the conditions $[A1]$–$[A6]$ of Yoshida [@06 Theorem 1]: - $\Xi:=\Theta \times \mathcal{T}$, where $\mathcal{T}$ is arbitrary sets. - $\xi_{0}:=(\theta_{0},\tau_{0})\in K\subset \Xi$, where $\xi_{0}$ is a true value of parameter and $K$ is arbitrary fixed sets. - $\mathbb{U}_{n}(\xi_{0}):=\bigl\{u\in \mathbb{R}^{p}:\ \theta_{0}+n^{-1/2}u\in \Theta \bigr\}.$ - $\mathbb{M}_{n}(u,\tau;\theta_{0}):=Z_{n}\bigl(\theta_{0}+n^{-1/2}u,\tau\bigr)-Z_{n}(\theta_{0},\tau).$ - $\mathbb{Y}_{n}(\theta,\tau;\xi_{0}):=-n^{-1}\bigl(Z_{n}(\theta,\tau)-Z_{n}(\theta_{0},\tau)\bigr)\xrightarrow{P} \mathbb{Y}_{0}(\theta,\tau;\xi_{0}).$ - [PLAQ (partially locally asymptotically quadratic) structure:]{} $\forall (u,\tau)\in \mathbb{U}_{n}(\xi_{0})\times \mathcal{T},\ \exists \Delta_{n}(\tau;\xi_{0})\in \mathbb{R}^{p}:{\rm random},\ \exists \Gamma_{0}(\tau;\xi_{0})\in \mathbb{R}^{p}\times \mathbb{R}^{p}:{\rm random},\ \exists r_{n}(u,\tau;\xi_{0})\in \mathbb{R}:{\rm random},$ $$\begin{aligned} \mathbb{M}_{n}(u,\tau;\theta_{0})=\Delta_{n}(\tau;\xi_{0})[u]+\frac{1}{2}\Gamma_{0}(\tau;\xi_{0})[u,u]+r_{n}(u,\tau;\xi_{0}). \label{eq:5.1} \end{aligned}$$ - $\alpha\in(0,1),\ U_{n}(r,\xi_{0}):=\bigl\{u \in \mathbb{R}^{p}:\ r\leq \vert u\vert \leq n^{(1-\alpha)/2}\bigr\}.$ $[A1]\ \ \exists \nu_{1}>0,\ \forall L>0,\ \exists c_{L}>0:{\rm constant},\ \forall r>0,$ $$\begin{aligned} \sup_{\xi_{0}\in K}\sup_{n>0}P\Big(\sup_{(u,\tau)\in U_{n}(r,\xi_{0})\times \mathcal{T}}\frac{\vert r_{n}(u,\tau;\xi_{0})\vert}{1+\vert u\vert^{2}}\geq r^{-\nu_{1}}\Big)\leq \frac{c_{L}}{r^{L}}. \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ $[A2]\ \ \forall L>0,\ \exists c_{L}>0:{\rm constant},\ \forall r>0,$ $$\begin{aligned} \sup_{\xi_{0}\in K}P\Bigl[\bigl\{\omega:\ r^{-\nu_{1}} \vert u\vert^{2}> \Gamma_{0}(\tau;\xi_{0})/4[u,u],\ \forall(u,\tau)\in \mathbb{R}^{p}\times \mathcal{T}\bigr\}\Bigr]\leq \frac{c_{L}}{r^{L}}. \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ $[A3]\ \ \forall \xi_{0}\in K,\ \forall \theta\in \Theta,\ \forall \tau \in \mathcal{T},\ \exists \chi(\xi_{0}):{\rm positive\ random\ variable},\ \exists \nu=\nu(\xi_{0})>0,$ $$\begin{aligned} \mathbb{Y}_{0}(\theta,\tau;\xi_{0})=\mathbb{Y}_{0}(\theta,\tau;\xi_{0})-\mathbb{Y}_{0}(\theta_{0},\tau;\xi_{0})\leq -\chi(\xi_{0})\vert \theta-\theta_{0}\vert^{\nu}. \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ $[A4]$ $$\begin{aligned} \alpha\in(0,1),\ \nu_{1}\in(0,1),\ \alpha \nu<\nu_{2},\ \beta\in[0,\infty),\ 1-2\beta-\nu_{2}>0. \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ $[A5]\ \ \exists c_{L}>0:{\rm constant},\ \forall r>0,$ $$\begin{aligned} \sup_{\xi_{0}\in K}P\big\{\chi(\xi_{0})\leq r^{-(\nu_{2}-\alpha \nu)}\big\}\leq \frac{c_{L}}{r^{L}}. \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ $[A6]\ \ \forall L>0,\ M_{1}:=L(1-\nu_{1})^{-1},$ $$\begin{aligned} \sup_{\xi_{0}\in K}\sup_{n>0}E\Big[\Bigl(\sup_{\tau \in T}\vert \Delta_{n}(\tau;\xi_{0})\vert \Bigr)^{M_{1}}\Big]<\infty; \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ $\forall L>0,\ M_{2}:=L(1-2\beta-\nu_{2})^{-1},$ $$\begin{aligned} \sup_{\xi_{0}\in K}\sup_{n>0}E\Big[\Bigl(\sup_{(\theta,\tau)\in\Theta\times\mathcal{T}} n^{1/2-\beta}\big| \mathbb{Y}_{n}(\theta,\tau;\xi_{0})-\mathbb{Y}_{0}(\theta,\tau;\xi_{0})\bigr| \Bigr)^{M_{2}}\Big]<\infty. \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ Note that we use some different notations from the original Yoshida [@06 Theorem 1]. In this case, we do not have the parameter equivalent to $\tau$, so we omit the notations. We have [$$\begin{aligned} \mathbb{M}_{n}(u;\theta_{0})&=Z_{n}\Bigl(\theta_{0}+\frac{u}{\sqrt{n}}\Bigr)-Z_{n}(\theta_{0})\nonumber \\ &=\sum_{i=1}^{n}\Bigl\{\Bigl(\epsilon_{i}-\frac{X_{i}^{\top}}{\sqrt{n}}u\Bigr)^{2}-\epsilon_{i}^{2}\Bigr\}+\lambda_{n}\sum_{j=1}^{p}\Bigl(\Bigl| \theta_{0 j}+\frac{u_{j}}{\sqrt{n}}\Bigr|^{\gamma}-\bigl| \theta_{0 j}\bigr|^{\gamma}\Bigr)\nonumber \\ &=-\sum_{i=1}^{n}\frac{2}{\sqrt{n}}\epsilon_{i}X_{i}[u]+\frac{1}{2}(2C_{0})[u,u]+(C_{n}-C_{0})[u,u]\nonumber \\ &\ \ \ +\lambda_{n}\sum_{j=1}^{p}\Bigl(\Bigl| \theta_{0 j}+\frac{u_{j}}{\sqrt{n}}\Bigr|^{\gamma}-\bigl| \theta_{0 j}\bigr|^{\gamma}\Bigr).\nonumber\end{aligned}$$ ]{}and the PLAQ structure [(\[eq:5.1\])]{} with [$$\begin{aligned} &\Delta_{n}(\theta_{0})=-\sum_{i=1}^{n}\frac{2}{\sqrt{n}}\epsilon_{i}X_{i}; \label{eq:benc1}\\ &\Gamma_{0}(\theta_{0})=2C_{0}; \label{eq:bench6}\\ &r_{n}(u;\theta_{0})=(C_{n}-C_{0})[u,u]+\lambda_{n}\sum_{j=1}^{p}\Bigl(\Bigl| \theta_{0 j}+\frac{u_{j}}{\sqrt{n}}\Bigr|^{\gamma}-\bigl| \theta_{0 j}\bigr|^{\gamma}\Bigr). \label{eq:bench66}\end{aligned}$$ ]{}From $\lambda_{n}/n\rightarrow0$, (\[ass:1.1\]) and (\[ass:1.2\]), we obtain for any $\theta\in \Theta$ [$$\begin{aligned} \mathbb{Y}_{n}(\theta;\theta_{0})&:=-\frac{1}{n}\bigl(Z_{n}(\theta)-Z_{n}(\theta_{0})\bigr)\nonumber \\ &=-\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^{n}\bigl\{\epsilon_{i}-(\theta-\theta_{0})^{\top}X_{i}\bigr\}^{2}+\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^{n}\epsilon_{i}^{2}-\frac{\lambda_{n}}{n}\sum_{j=1}^{p}\bigl(\vert \theta_{j}\vert^{\gamma}-\vert \theta_{0 j}\vert^{\gamma}\bigr)\nonumber \\ &=\sum_{i=1}^{n}\frac{2}{n}\epsilon_{i}X_{i}[\theta-\theta_{0}]-C_{n}[\theta-\theta_{0},\theta-\theta_{0}]-\frac{\lambda_{n}}{n}\sum_{j=1}^{p}\bigl(\vert \theta_{j}\vert^{\gamma}-\vert \theta_{0 j}\vert^{\gamma}\bigr) \nonumber \\ &\xrightarrow{P}-C_{0}[\theta-\theta_{0},\theta-\theta_{0}]=:\mathbb{Y}_{0}(\theta;\theta_{0}).\nonumber $$ ]{}We get $\mathbb{Y}_{0}(\theta;\theta_{0})\leq -\lambda_{\min}(C_{0})\vert \theta-\theta_{0}\vert^{2}$ where $\lambda_{\min}(C_{0})$ denotes the minimal eigenvalue of the $C_{0}$. Since $C_{0}$ is deterministic, we notice from Yoshida [@06 Theorem 3(a)] that we only need to check conditions $[A1],\ [A4],\ [A6],\ [B1]$ and $[B2]$:\ $[B1]\ \ \Gamma_{0}(\tau;\xi_{0})$ is deterministic and positive-definite uniformly in $\tau\in\mathcal{T}$ and $\xi_{0}\in K.$\ \ $[B2]\ \ \exists \chi=\chi(\xi_{0})>0$ : non-random, $\exists \nu=\nu(\xi_{0})>0,\ \forall \theta\in \Theta,$ $$\begin{aligned} \mathbb{Y}_{0}(\theta;\theta_{0})\leq -\chi \vert \theta-\theta_{0}\vert^{\nu}. \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ Apparently $[B1]$ holds from (\[ass:1.2\]) and (\[eq:bench6\]), and also $[B2]$ holds with $\chi(\theta_{0})=\lambda_{\min}(C_{0})$ and $\nu(\theta_{0})=2$, so that it remains to verify $[A1],\ [A4]$ and $[A6]$. First, we will verify $[A1]$. From (\[eq:bench66\]), we have $$\begin{aligned} \sup_{u\in U_{n}(r,\theta_{0})}\frac{\vert r_{n}(u;\theta_{0})\vert}{1+\vert u\vert^{2}}&\leq \sup_{u\in U_{n}(r,\theta_{0})}\Bigl(\frac{\vert u\vert^{2}}{1+\vert u\vert^{2}}\vert C_{n}-C_{0}\vert \Bigr)\nonumber \\ &\ \ \ +\sup_{u\in U_{n}(r,\theta_{0})}\Big\{\frac{\lambda_{n}}{1+\vert u\vert^{2}}\Big| \sum_{j=1}^{p}\Bigl(\bigl| \theta_{0 j}+\frac{u_{j}}{\sqrt{n}}\bigr|^{\gamma}-\bigl| \theta_{0 j}\bigr|^{\gamma}\Bigr) \Big|\Big\}. \label{2.12}\end{aligned}$$ Let us fix $\beta$ such that $0\vee(1/2-\delta)\leq \beta<1/2$. Then, $$\begin{aligned} \vert C_{n}-C_{0}\vert=n^{\beta-1/2}n^{1/2-\beta-\delta}\bigl(n^{\delta}\vert C_{n}-C_{0}\vert\bigr).\nonumber $$ Let $\nu_{2}>0$, $\alpha\in(0,1)$ and $\xi>0$ be such that $1-2\beta>\nu_{2}>2\alpha$ and $0<\xi<(2\alpha/(1-\alpha))\wedge 1$. Note that these parameters meet $\beta-1/2+(1-\alpha)\xi/2<0$. Then for the first term of the right-hand side of (\[2.12\]), we get $$\begin{aligned} \sup_{u\in U_{n}(r,\theta_{0})}\Big(\frac{\vert u\vert^{2}}{1+\vert u\vert^{2}}n^{\beta-1/2}\vert u\vert^{\xi}\vert u\vert^{-\xi}\Big)&\leq n^{\beta-1/2}n^{(1-\alpha)\xi/2}r^{-\xi}\lesssim r^{-\xi}, \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ where $f(x)\lesssim g(x)$ denotes there exists a constant $c$ such that $f(x)\leq cg(x)$. Hence, we obtain from (\[ass:1.2\]), $$\begin{aligned} \sup_{u\in U_{n}(r,\theta_{0})}\Bigl(\frac{\vert u\vert^{2}}{1+\vert u\vert^{2}}\vert C_{n}-C_{0}\vert \Bigr)\lesssim r^{-\xi}. \label{300}\end{aligned}$$ Next we consider the second term of the right-hand side of (\[2.12\]). When $\gamma>1$, for any $j\in \{1,\ldots, p\}$ we have on $U_{n}(r,\theta_{0})$ from the Taylor expansion, [$$\begin{aligned} \Bigl| \bigl| \theta_{0 j}+\frac{u_{j}}{\sqrt{n}}\bigr|^{\gamma}-\bigl| \theta_{0 j}\bigr|^{\gamma}\Bigr| &\leq \frac{\gamma \vert u_{j}\vert}{\sqrt{n}}\int_{0}^{1}\Bigl| \bigl| \theta_{0 j}\bigr|+\bigl| \frac{u_{j}}{\sqrt{n}}s\bigr|\Bigr|^{\gamma-1}ds \nonumber \\ &\leq \frac{\gamma \vert u_{j}\vert}{\sqrt{n}}\int_{0}^{1}\Bigl| \bigl| \theta_{0 j}\bigr|+n^{-\alpha/2}s\Bigr|^{\gamma-1}ds \lesssim \frac{\vert u_{j}\vert}{\sqrt{n}}.\nonumber\end{aligned}$$ ]{}Hence, we obtain [$$\begin{aligned} \sup_{u\in U_{n}(r,\theta_{0})}\Big\{\frac{\lambda_{n}}{1+\vert u\vert^{2}}\Bigl| \sum_{j=1}^{p}\Bigl(\bigl| \theta_{0 j}+\frac{u_{j}}{\sqrt{n}}\bigr|^{\gamma}-\bigl| \theta_{0 j}\bigr|^{\gamma}\Bigr)\Bigr|\Big\} &\lesssim \frac{\lambda_{n}}{\sqrt{n}}\sup_{u\in U_{n}(r,\theta_{0})}\Big(\frac{1}{1+\vert u\vert^{2}}\sum_{j=1}^{p}\vert u_{j}\vert\Big) \nonumber \\ &\lesssim \frac{\lambda_{n}}{\sqrt{n}}\sup_{u\in U_{n}(r,\theta_{0})}\Big(\frac{\vert u\vert}{1+\vert u\vert^{2}}\Big) \nonumber \\ &\lesssim \frac{\lambda_{n}}{\sqrt{n}}\frac{1}{r}. \label{eq:teylor}\end{aligned}$$ ]{}On the other hand, when $\gamma \leq 1$, we easily get for any $j\in \{1,\ldots,p\}$ $$\begin{aligned} \Bigl| \bigl| \theta_{0 j}+\frac{u_{j}}{\sqrt{n}}\bigr|^{\gamma}-\bigl| \theta_{0 j} \bigr|^{\gamma}\Bigr|\leq \Bigl| \frac{u_{j}}{\sqrt{n}}\Bigr|^{\gamma},\nonumber\end{aligned}$$ so that we get [$$\begin{aligned} \sup_{u\in U_{n}(r,\theta_{0})}\Big\{\frac{\lambda_{n}}{1+\vert u\vert^{2}}\Bigl| \sum_{j=1}^{p}\Bigl(\bigl| \theta_{0 j}+\frac{u_{j}}{\sqrt{n}}\bigr|^{\gamma}-\bigl| \theta_{0 j}\bigr|^{\gamma}\Bigr)\Bigr|\Big\} &\leq \frac{\lambda_{n}}{n^{\gamma/2}}\sup_{u\in U_{n}(r,\theta_{0})}\Big(\frac{1}{1+\vert u\vert^{2}}\sum_{j=1}^{p}\vert u_{j}\vert^{\gamma}\Big)\nonumber \\ &\lesssim \frac{\lambda_{n}}{n^{\gamma/2}}\sup_{u\in U_{n}(r,\theta_{0})}\Big(\frac{\vert u\vert}{1+\vert u\vert^{2}}\Big)\nonumber \\ &\lesssim \frac{\lambda_{n}}{n^{\gamma/2}}\frac{1}{r}. \label{301}\end{aligned}$$ ]{}Let $\nu_{1}\in (0,\xi)$ fix. Then, from (\[2.12\]), (\[300\]), (\[eq:teylor\]) and (\[301\]), we have for any $L>0$ $$\begin{aligned} \sup_{n>0}P\Bigl(\sup_{u\in U_{n}(r,\theta_{0})}\frac{\vert r_{n}(u;\theta_{0})\vert}{1+\vert u\vert^{2}}\gtrsim r^{-\nu_{1}}\Bigr)\lesssim \frac{1}{r^{L}}.\nonumber $$ We conclude that $[A1]$ holds, and $[A4]$ also holds with taking the parameters as above. Second, we will verify $[A6]$. From (\[eq:benc1\]), let $\Delta_{n}(\theta_{0})=\sum_{i=1}^{n}(-2/\sqrt{n})\epsilon_{i}X_{i}=:\sum_{i=1}^{n}\chi_{ni}$. Then by using Burkholder’s inequality and Jensen’s inequality we obtain for $N_{1}=L(1-\nu_{1})^{-1}\geq 2$ [$$\begin{aligned} \sup_{n>0}E\Bigl[\bigl| \Delta_{n}(\theta_{0})\bigr|^{N_{1}}\Bigr]&\leq\sup_{n>0}E\Bigl[\ \max_{j\leq n}\ \Bigl| \sum_{i=1}^{j}\chi_{ni}\Bigr|^{N_{1}}\Bigr]\nonumber \\ &\lesssim \sup_{n>0}E\Bigl[\ \Bigl(\sum_{i=1}^{n}\chi_{ni}^{2}\Bigr)^{N_{1}/2}\Bigr]\nonumber \\ &\lesssim \sup_{n>0}E\Bigl[\ \frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^{n}\bigl| \epsilon_{i}X_{i}\bigr|^{2\cdot N_{1}/2}\Bigr]\nonumber \\ &=E\bigl[\vert \epsilon_{1}\vert^{N_{1}}\bigr]\cdot \sup_{n>0}\Big(\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^{n}\vert X_{i}\vert^{N_{1}}\Big)<\infty. \label{eq:bench10}\end{aligned}$$ ]{}The last boundedness of (\[eq:bench10\]) follows from (\[ass:1.1\]) and (\[ass:1.3\]). Moreover, we get for any $\theta \in \Theta$ $$\begin{aligned} &\sum_{i=1}^{n}\frac{2}{n}\epsilon_{i}X_{i}[\theta-\theta_{0}]-C_{n}[\theta-\theta_{0},\theta-\theta_{0}]\xrightarrow{P}-C_{0}[\theta-\theta_{0},\theta-\theta_{0}]; \nonumber \\ &\qquad \qquad \quad \qquad \frac{\lambda_{n}}{n}\sum_{j=1}^{p}\bigl(\vert \theta_{j}\vert^{\gamma}-\vert \theta_{0 j}\vert^{\gamma}\bigr)\xrightarrow{P}0.\nonumber\end{aligned}$$ Since $(a+b)^{k}\lesssim a^{k}+b^{k}$ where $a,b\geq0$ and $k\geq1$, we have for $N_{2}=L(1-2\beta-\nu_{2})^{-1}\geq 2$ [$$\begin{aligned} &\ \ \ \sup_{n>0}E\Big[\sup_{\theta\in \Theta}\Bigl(n^{1/2-\beta}\Big| \sum_{i=1}^{n}\frac{2}{n}\epsilon_{i}X_{i}[\theta-\theta_{0}]-C_{n}[\theta-\theta_{0},\theta-\theta_{0}]+C_{0}[\theta-\theta_{0},\theta-\theta_{0}]\Big| \Bigr)^{N_{2}}\Big] \nonumber\\ &\lesssim \sup_{n>0}\Bigl(n^{-\beta N_{2}}E\Bigl[\Bigl|\sum_{i=1}^{n}\frac{1}{\sqrt{n}}\epsilon_{i}X_{i}\Bigr|^{N_{2}}\Bigr]\Bigr)+\Bigl\{\sup_{n>0}\bigl(n^{1/2-\beta-\delta}n^{\delta}\vert C_{n}-C_{0}\vert\bigr)\Bigr\}^{N_{2}}<\infty. \label{eq:bench11}\end{aligned}$$ ]{}Further, we obtain [$$\begin{aligned} \sup_{n>0}E\Bigl[\sup_{\theta\in \Theta}\Bigl\{n^{1/2-\beta}\Big| \frac{\lambda_{n}}{n}\sum_{j=1}^{p}\bigl(\vert \theta_{j}\vert^{\gamma}-\vert \theta_{0 j}\vert^{\gamma}\bigr)\Bigr|\Bigr\}^{N_{2}}\Bigr]\lesssim \sup_{n>0}\Bigl(\frac{\lambda_{n}}{n^{1/2+\beta}}\Bigr)^{N_{2}}<\infty. \label{eq:bench12}\end{aligned}$$ ]{}From [(\[eq:bench10\]), (\[eq:bench11\]) and (\[eq:bench12\])]{}, we conclude that $[A6]$ holds.$\Box$ We could deal with random design $(X_{i})$. Assume for simplicity that $(X_{i})$ and $(\epsilon_{j})$ are independent. Then in order to conclude (\[conclusion\]), we need to change [(\[ass:1.2\])]{} and [(\[ass:1.3\])]{} into [(\[ass1.5\])]{} and [(\[ass:1.4\])]{}, respectively: $$\begin{aligned} \exists \delta>0,\ \exists C_{0}>0:{\rm constant},\ \forall k>0,\ \sup_{n>0}E\big[\big| n^{\delta}(C_{n}-C_{0})\big|^{k}\big]<\infty. \label{ass1.5}\end{aligned}$$ $$\begin{aligned} \forall k>0,\ \sup_{n>0}\sup_{i\leq n}E\big[\vert X_{i}\vert^{k}\big]<\infty. \label{ass:1.4}\end{aligned}$$ $\Box$ For all $i\in\{1,\ldots.n\}$, let $\widetilde{X}_{i}:=C_{n}^{-1/2}(X_{i}-\bar{X})$ where $\bar{X}:=n^{-1}\sum_{i=1}^{n}X_{i}$ and $X_{1},\ldots, X_{n}$ are not necessarily standardized. Then $n^{-1}\sum_{i=1}^{n}\widetilde{X}_{i}\widetilde{X}_{i}^{\top}=I_{p}$ where $I_{p}$ is a $p\times p$ diagonal matrix. This implies that if $X_{i},\ldots,X_{n}$ are standardized from the beginning such that $C_{n}=I_{p}$, (\[ass:1.2\]) and (\[ass1.5\]) automatically hold. $\Box$ \[rem:standardized\] Sparse asymptotics {#sec:radch} ------------------ In this section, we deal with the situation: $$\begin{aligned} \theta_{0}=(z_{0},\rho_{0})=(z_{0,1},\ldots,z_{0,p_{0}},\rho_{0,1},\ldots,\rho_{0,p_{1}}),\nonumber\end{aligned}$$ where $z_{0,k}=0$ and $\rho_{0,l}\not=0$ for any $k\in\{1,\ldots,p_{0}\}$ and $l\in\{1,\ldots,p_{1}\}$. Then we can rewrite the linear regression model (\[eq:1\]) and the contrast function (\[eq:2\]) as follows: $$\begin{aligned} &\qquad \qquad \qquad \qquad Y_{i}=\rho_{0}^{\top}X_{i}^{(\rho)}+\epsilon_{i},\ \ \ i=1,\ldots,n;\nonumber \\ &Z_{n}(\theta)=Z_{n}(z,\rho)=\sum_{i=1}^{n}\big(Y_{i}-z^{\top}X_{i}^{(z)}-\rho^{\top}X_{i}^{(\rho)}\big)^{2}+\lambda_{n}\sum_{k=1}^{p_{0}}\vert z_{k}\vert^{\gamma}+\lambda_{n}\sum_{l=1}^{p_{1}}\vert \rho_{l}\vert^{\gamma},\nonumber\end{aligned}$$ where $X_{i}^{(z)}:=(X_{i,1},\ldots,X_{i,p_{0}})$ and $X_{i}^{(\rho)}:=(X_{i,p_{0}+1},\ldots,X_{i,p_{0}+p_{1}})$. Denote by $\hat{\theta}_{n}=(\hat{z}_{n},\hat{\rho}_{n})$ a minimizer of $Z_{n}$ over a compact parameter space $\Theta_{0}\times \Theta_{1} \subset \mathbb{R}^{p_{0}}\times \mathbb{R}^{p_{1}}$. We here consider the “sparse-bridge” estimation, where $P(\hat{z}_{n}=0)\rightarrow 1$. Suppose $\gamma\in(0,1)$ and let $$\begin{aligned} \Upsilon:=\frac{\gamma}{2}\{{\rm sgn}(\rho_{0,1})\vert \rho_{0,1}\vert^{\gamma-1},\ldots,{\rm sgn}(\rho_{0,p_{1}})\vert \rho_{0,p_{1}}\vert^{\gamma-1}\} \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ and $B_{0}$ be the $p_{1}\times p_{1}$ submatrix located in the bottom right corner of the matrix $C_{0}$. Then Radchenko [@09] proved the followings: - The sparse consistency of $\hat{z}_{n}$: $$\begin{aligned} P(\hat{z}_{n}=0)\rightarrow 1\ {\rm if}\ \lambda_{n}/n^{\gamma/2}\rightarrow \infty\ {\rm and}\ \lambda_{n}/n\rightarrow 0.\nonumber \end{aligned}$$ - The asymptotic behaviour of $\hat{\rho}_{n}$: - $\sqrt{n}(\hat{\rho}_{n}-\rho_{0})\xrightarrow{\mathcal{L}} N_{p_{1}}(-\lambda_{0}B_{0}^{-1}\Upsilon,\sigma^{2}B_{0}^{-1})$ if $\lambda_{n}/n^{\gamma/2}\rightarrow \infty$ and $\lambda_{n}/\sqrt{n}\rightarrow \lambda_{0}\geq 0;$ - $n\lambda_{n}^{-1}(\hat{\rho}_{n}-\rho_{0})\xrightarrow{\mathcal{L}} -B_{0}^{-1}\Upsilon$ if $\lambda_{n}/\sqrt{n}\rightarrow \infty$ and $\lambda_{n}/n\rightarrow 0.$ We will consider the moment convergence of $\sqrt{n}(\hat{\theta}_{n}-\theta_{0})$. With regard to the asymptotic law of the non-zero parameter $\rho$, we only consider the case (i), where the asymptotic distribution is non-degenerate. To this end, we will make use of the multistep-PLDI argument of Yoshida [@06] where: at the first step, we derive a PLDI for the random fields associated with the zero parameter $z$ ($z$-PLDI), with regarding the non-zero parameter $\rho$ as a nuisance parameter (hence we derived a uniform-in-$\rho$ PLDI); at the second step, we derive a PLDI for the random fields associated with the non-zero parameter $\rho$ ($\rho$-PLDI) with plugging-in the estimator $\hat{z}_{n}$. At the first step, however, if $\lambda_{n}/n^{\gamma/2}\rightarrow \infty$, it is not appropriate to look at $u\mapsto Z_{n}(z_{0}+n^{-1/2}u,\rho)-Z_{n}(z_{0},\rho)$, since the regularization term $$\begin{aligned} u\mapsto \lambda_{n}\sum_{k=1}^{p_{0}}\Big| \frac{u_{k}}{\sqrt{n}}\Big|^{\gamma} \nonumber \end{aligned}$$ diverges pointwise; then, we can not effectively use the region $U_{n}(r,\theta_{0})=\bigl\{u \in \mathbb{R}^{p_{0}}:\ r\leq \vert u\vert \leq n^{(1-\alpha)/2}\bigr\}$ (see the proof of Theorem \[thm;standard\]). Likewise, it is trivial that any rescaling of the form $u \mapsto q_{n}\{Z_{n}(z_{0}+n^{-1/2}u,\rho)-Z_{n}(z_{0},\rho)\}$ is not helpful. Hence we will take a modified route, bypassing a direct application of Yoshida [@06]. We establish conditions for the $z$-PLDI in the following Theorem \[thm;adfoc\] by utilizing the special nature of the least-squares term. Let $\gamma\in(0,1)$. Suppose that $\lambda_{n}/n^{\gamma/2}\rightarrow \infty$, $\lambda_{n}/n\rightarrow 0$, [(\[ass:1.1\])]{}, [(\[ass:1.3\])]{} and $$\begin{aligned} \exists D_{0}>0,\ D_{n}\rightarrow D_{0}, \label{bn}\end{aligned}$$ where $D_{n}$ is the $p_{0}\times p_{0}$ submatrix located in the upper left corner of the matrix $C_{n}$. Moreover, we suppose $$\begin{aligned} \sup_{n>0}\Big|(\lambda_{n}/n^{\gamma/2})^{-1/2}n^{-1/2}\sum_{i=1}^{n}(X_{i}^{(z)}\otimes X_{i}^{(\rho)})\Big|<\infty. \label{ass:2.1}\end{aligned}$$ Then for any $L>0$ there exists a constant $c_{L}>0$ for which $$\begin{aligned} \sup_{n>0}P\big(\vert \sqrt{n}\hat{z}_{n}\vert \geq r\big)\leq \frac{c_{L}}{r^{L}},\ \ r>0. \nonumber $$ \[thm;adfoc\] This Theorem equivalents to the direct corollary of the following Theorem \[thm;3.1\], so that we omit the proof. $\Box$ If $X_{i},\ldots,X_{n}$ are standardized from the beginning such that $C_{n}=I_{p}$, (\[ass:2.1\]) holds. See Remark \[rem:standardized\] for details. $\Box$ Following Theorem \[thm:zoro\] ensures the moment convergence of $\big(\sqrt{n}\hat{z}_{n},\sqrt{n}(\hat{\rho}_{n}-\rho_{0})\big)$ by using the multistep-PLDI argument. Let $\gamma\in(0,1)$. Suppose that $\lambda_{n}/n^{\gamma/2}\rightarrow \infty$, $\lambda_{n}/\sqrt{n}\rightarrow \lambda_{0}\geq 0$, [(\[ass:1.1\])]{}, [(\[ass:1.3\])]{}, [(\[bn\])]{} and $$\begin{aligned} \exists \delta>0,\ \exists B_{0}>0,\ \sup_{n>0}(n^{\delta}\vert B_{n}-B_{0}\vert)<\infty, \label{bnn}\end{aligned}$$ where $B_{n}$ is the $p_{1}\times p_{1}$ submatrix located in the bottom right corner of the matrix $C_{n}$. Moreover, we suppose that $$\begin{aligned} \sup_{n>0}\Big| \frac{1}{\sqrt{n}}\sum_{i=1}^{n}(X_{i}^{(z)}\otimes X_{i}^{(\rho)})\Big|<\infty. \label{ass:2.2}\end{aligned}$$ Then for any $L>0$ there exists a constant $c_{L}>0$ for which $$\begin{aligned} \sup_{n>0}P\big(\vert \sqrt{n}\hat{z}_{n}\vert\wedge \vert \sqrt{n}(\hat{\rho}_{n}-\rho_{0})\vert \geq r\big)\leq \frac{c_{L}}{r^{L}},\ \ r>0. \nonumber $$ In particular, for every continuous $f:\mathbb{R}^{p}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ of at most polynomial growth $$\begin{aligned} E\big[f\big(\sqrt{n}\hat{z}_{n},\sqrt{n}(\hat{\rho}_{n}-\rho_{0})\big)\big]\rightarrow E[f(0,\hat{v}_{0})], \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ where $\mathcal{L}(\hat{v}_{0})=N_{p_{1}}(-\lambda_{0}B_{0}^{-1}\Upsilon,\sigma^{2}B_{0}^{-1}).$ \[thm:zoro\] This Theorem also equivalents to the direct corollary of the following Theorem \[thm,ezj\], so that we omit the proof. $\Box$ Discussion on generalization {#sec:moex} ============================ In principle, any existing $M$-estimation procedure based on a contrast function $\mathbb{M}_{n}$ may have its regularized counterpart. We want to extend the structure of the random fields to subsume a broader class of $M$-estimation inducing the statistical random fields entailing a mixed-rates asymptotics, for possibly dependent data and regularization types other than the bridge. In Section \[general Bridge\], we will extend Theorem \[thm;adfoc\] and \[thm:zoro\]. Section \[m-general\] discusses a generalization of the model setup where we no longer assume the linear regression model structure (\[eq:1\]) and the bridge-LSE contrast function (\[eq:2\]), and then we consider the PLDI under such a generalized model in Section \[LSE-term\]. Generalization of the regularization term {#general Bridge} ----------------------------------------- We consider the linear regression model (\[eq:1\]) where the true parameter $\theta_{0}=(z_{0},\rho_{0})=(0,\rho_{0})\in \Theta_{0}\times \Theta_{1}$. Consider a class of contrast functions of the form $$\begin{aligned} Z_{n}(\theta)=Z_{n}(z,\rho)=\sum_{i=1}^{n}(Y_{i}-z^{\top}X_{i}^{(z)}-\rho^{\top}X_{i}^{(\rho)})^{2}+\sum_{j=1}^{p}\mathfrak{p}_{n}(z_{j}), \label{genelarization}\end{aligned}$$ where $\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\cdot)$ is a non-negative and non-random function such that $\mathfrak{p}_{n}(0)=0$; though not specific, we may think of $\sum_{j=1}^{p}\mathfrak{p}_{n}(z_{j})$ as a regularization term. In the present setting, it is possible to derive the $z$-PLDI by making use of the special nature of the least-squares term. Assume that the contrast function is [(\[genelarization\])]{}. In addition to [(\[ass:1.1\])]{}, [(\[ass:1.3\])]{} and [(\[bn\])]{}, we suppose that $$\begin{aligned} &\sup_{n>0}\Big| q_{n}^{-1/2}n^{-1/2}\sum_{i=1}^{n}(X_{i}^{(z)}\otimes X_{i}^{(\rho)})\Big|<\infty. \label{eq:qntensol}\end{aligned}$$ where $q_{n}$ is a positive sequence. Moreover, we suppose the following conditions on $\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\cdot):$ $$\begin{aligned} \inf_{\vert u\vert\geq r}\sum_{k=1}^{p_{0}}\mathfrak{p}_{n}\Big(\frac{u_{k}}{\sqrt{n}}\Big)\geq q_{n}f(r), \label{eq:40}\end{aligned}$$ where $f(r)$ is a positive function such that $f(r)\rightarrow \infty$ as $r\rightarrow \infty$. Then for any $L>0$ there exists a constant $c_{L}>0$ for which $$\begin{aligned} \sup_{n>0}P\big(\vert \sqrt{n}\hat{z}_{n}\vert\geq r\big)\leq \frac{c_{L}}{f(r)^{L}},\ \ r>0. \label{eq:100}\end{aligned}$$ \[thm;3.1\] For $u\in \mathbb{R}^{p_{0}}$, we have [$$\begin{aligned} \mathbb{M}_{n}(u,\rho;\theta_{0})&=Z_{n}\Bigl(\frac{u}{\sqrt{n}},\rho\Bigr)-Z_{n}(0,\rho) \nonumber \\ &=\sum_{i=1}^{n}\Bigl[\Bigl\{\epsilon_{i}-\frac{u^{\top}}{\sqrt{n}}X_{i}^{(z)}-(\rho-\rho_{0})^{\top}X_{i}^{(\rho)}\Bigr\}^{2}-\bigl\{\epsilon_{i}-(\rho-\rho_{0})^{\top}X_{i}^{(\rho)}\bigr\}^{2}\Bigr]\nonumber \\ &\ \ \ +\sum_{k=1}^{p_{0}}\mathfrak{p}_{n}\Big(\frac{u_{k}}{\sqrt{n}}\Big) \nonumber \\ &=-\sum_{i=1}^{n}\frac{2}{\sqrt{n}}\bigl\{\epsilon_{i}-(\rho-\rho_{0})^{\top}X_{i}^{(\rho)}\bigr\}X_{i}^{(z)}[u]+D_{n}[u,u]+\sum_{k=1}^{p_{0}}\mathfrak{p}_{n}\Big(\frac{u_{k}}{\sqrt{n}}\Big). \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ ]{}Define $$\begin{aligned} S_{n}^{\rho}:=\sum_{i=1}^{n}\frac{2}{\sqrt{n}}\bigl\{\epsilon_{i}-(\rho-\rho_{0})^{\top}X_{i}^{(\rho)}\bigr\}X_{i}^{(z)}. \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ Since $Z_{n}(z,\rho)\geq Z_{n}(\hat{z}_{n},\hat{\rho}_{n})$ for any $(z,\rho)\in \Theta_{0}\times \Theta_{1}$, $Z_{n}(0,\hat{\rho}_{n})-Z_{n}(\hat{z}_{n},\hat{\rho}_{n})\geq 0$ implies $\sup_{\rho \in \Theta_{1}}(1/q_{n})\bigl\{Z_{n}(0,\rho)-Z_{n}(\hat{z}_{n},\rho)\bigr\}\geq 0$. Therefore, we get for $\hat{u}_{n}=\sqrt{n}\hat{z}_{n}$ [$$\begin{aligned} P\bigl(\vert \hat{u}_{n}\vert \geq r\bigr)&\leq P\Big[\sup_{\rho\in \Theta_{1}}\sup_{\vert u\vert \geq r}\Big\{-\frac{1}{q_{n}}\Bigl(Z_{n}\Bigl(\frac{u}{\sqrt{n}},\rho\Bigr)-Z_{n}(0,\rho)\Bigr)\Big\}\geq 0\Big] \label{mnkn} \\ &\leq P\Bigl\{\sup_{\rho\in \Theta_{1}}\sup_{\vert u\vert \geq r}\Big(\frac{S_{n}^{\rho}}{q_{n}}[u]-\frac{D_{n}}{q_{n}}[u,u]\Big)\geq \frac{1}{q_{n}}\inf_{\vert u\vert \geq r}\sum_{k=1}^{p_{0}}\mathfrak{p}_{n}\Big(\frac{u_{k}}{\sqrt{n}}\Big)\Bigr\}\nonumber \\ &\lesssim P\Bigl\{\sup_{\rho\in \Theta_{1}}\Big| \frac{1}{\sqrt{q_{n}}}S_{n}^{\rho}\Big|^{2} \geq \frac{1}{q_{n}}\inf_{\vert u\vert \geq r}\sum_{k=1}^{p_{0}}\mathfrak{p}_{n}\Big(\frac{u_{k}}{\sqrt{n}}\Big)\Bigr\} \label{eq:eqmk}\end{aligned}$$ ]{}because the quadratic function $S_{n}^{\rho}/q_{n}[u]-D_{n}/q_{n}[u,u]$ has the maximum value $(1/4q_{n}){S_{n}^{\rho}}^{\top}\\ D_{n}^{-1}S_{n}^{\rho}\lesssim \vert q_{n}^{-1/2}S_{n}^{\rho}\vert^{2}$. Therefore, from (\[eq:40\]) and using Markov’s inequality, we get $$\begin{aligned} P\bigl(\vert \hat{u}_{n}\vert\geq r\bigr)&\lesssim P\Bigl(\sup_{\rho\in \Theta_{1}}\Big| \frac{1}{\sqrt{q_{n}}}S_{n}^{\rho}\Big|^{2}\gtrsim f(r)\Bigr)\nonumber \\ &\lesssim f(r)^{-L}\Bigl\{\Big|\sum_{i=1}^{n}\frac{1}{\sqrt{nq_{n}}}\bigl(X_{i}^{(z)}\otimes X_{i}^{(\rho)}\bigr)\Big|^{2L}+q_{n}^{-L}E\Bigl[\Big|\sum_{i=1}^{n}\frac{1}{\sqrt{n}}\epsilon_{i}X_{i}^{(z)}\Big|^{2L}\Bigr]\Bigr\}.\nonumber $$ The first term of the right hand side is bounded under (\[eq:qntensol\]), and by using the same argument as in (\[eq:bench10\]), we obtain [$$\begin{aligned} \sup_{n>0}E\Bigl[\Big|\sum_{i=1}^{n}\frac{1}{\sqrt{n}}\epsilon_{i}X_{i}^{(z)}\Big|^{2L}\Bigr]\lesssim E\bigl[\vert \epsilon_{1}\vert^{2L}\bigr]\cdot \sup_{n>0}\Bigl(\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^{n}\vert X_{i}^{(z)}\vert^{2L}\Bigr)<\infty.\nonumber\end{aligned}$$ ]{}Hence we get the $z$-PLDI (\[eq:100\]). $\Box$ In Theorem \[thm;3.1\] we assumed (\[eq:40\]), but it is rather restrictive. For example, SCAD (Fan and Li [@21]) and the seamless $L_{0}$-regularization (Dicker et al. [@08]) which approximates the (technically unpleasant) $L_{0}$-loss, do not satisfy (\[eq:40\]) (see Remark \[rem:scadselo\] for details). To derive to the $\rho$-PLDI under the contrast function having such bounded regularization terms, we need some additional conditions on $\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\cdot)$. The following Theorem \[thm,ezj\] is an extension of Theorem \[thm:zoro\]. Assume that the contrast function is [(\[genelarization\])]{}. In addition to [(\[ass:1.1\])]{}, [(\[ass:1.3\])]{} and [(\[ass:2.2\])]{}, we suppose that $$\begin{aligned} \exists \delta>0,\ \exists B_{0}>0,\ \exists D_{0}>0,\ \sup_{n>0}(n^{\delta}\vert B_{n}-B_{0}\vert+n^{\delta}\vert D_{n}-D_{0}\vert)<\infty. \label{dnn}\end{aligned}$$ Moreover, we suppose the following conditions on $\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\cdot)$[:]{} $$\begin{aligned} \exists\beta\in (0,1/2),\ \forall a\in \mathbb{R},\ \sup_{n>0}\frac{1}{n^{1/2+\beta}}\mathfrak{p}_{n}(a)<\infty; \label{eq:mathfrak}\end{aligned}$$ $$\begin{aligned} \exists \kappa\in(0,2],\ \forall a\not=0,\ \forall b\in \mathbb{R},\ \exists c_{a,b}>0:{\rm constant},\nonumber\\ \limsup_{n\rightarrow \infty}\Big| \mathfrak{p}_{n}\Big(a+\frac{b}{\sqrt{n}}\Big)-\mathfrak{p}_{n}(a)\Big|\leq c_{a,b}\vert b\vert^{\kappa}. \label{eq:202}\end{aligned}$$ Then for any $L>0$ there exists a constant $c_{L}>0$ for which $$\begin{aligned} \sup_{n>0}P\big(\vert \sqrt{n}\hat{z}_{n}\vert\wedge \vert \sqrt{n}(\hat{\rho}_{n}-\rho_{0})\vert \geq r\big)\leq \frac{c_{L}}{r^{L}},\ \ r>0. \label{1}\end{aligned}$$ In particular, for every continuous $f:\mathbb{R}^{p}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ of at most polynomial growth, we have $$\begin{aligned} E\big[ f\big(\sqrt{n}\hat{z}_{n},\sqrt{n}(\hat{\rho}_{n}-\rho_{0})\big)\big]\rightarrow E[f(0,\hat{v}_{0})], \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ where $\mathcal{L}(\hat{v}_{0})$ is an asymptotic law of $\sqrt{n}(\hat{\rho}_{n}-\rho_{0})$. \[thm,ezj\] Let $\sum_{i=1}^{n}(Y_{i}-z^{\top}X_{i}^{(z)}-\rho^{\top}X_{i}^{(\rho)})^{2}=:M_{n}(z,\rho)$. As the first step, we derive the $z$-PLDI without supposing (\[eq:40\]). In general, however, $$\begin{aligned} \inf_{\vert u\vert\geq r}\sum_{k=1}^{p_{0}}\mathfrak{p}_{n}\Big(\frac{u_{k}}{\sqrt{n}}\Big)\geq 0 \label{eq41}\end{aligned}$$ holds since $\mathfrak{p}_{n}$ is a non-negative function, so that we notice $$\begin{aligned} P(\vert \hat{u}_{n}\vert \geq r)\leq P\Big[\sup_{\rho\in \Theta_{1}}\sup_{\vert u\vert \geq r}\Big\{-M_{n}\Big(\frac{u}{\sqrt{n}},\rho\Big)+M_{n}(0,\rho)\Big\}\geq 0\Big]\nonumber\end{aligned}$$ holds from (\[mnkn\]). Hence, for ensuring the $z$-PLDI, we only need to establish $$\begin{aligned} \sup_{n>0}P\Big[\sup_{\rho\in \Theta_{1}}\sup_{\vert u\vert \geq r}\Big\{-M_{n}\Big(\frac{u}{\sqrt{n}},\rho\Big)+M_{n}(0,\rho)\Big\}\geq 0\Big]\leq \frac{c_{L}}{r^{L}}. \label{eq:50}\end{aligned}$$ We have [$$\begin{aligned} -M_{n}\Bigl(\frac{u}{\sqrt{n}},\rho\Bigr)+M_{n}(0,\rho)&=\sum_{i=1}^{n}\frac{2}{\sqrt{n}}\epsilon_{i}X_{i}^{(z)}[u]-\sum_{i=1}^{n}\frac{2}{\sqrt{n}}(X_{i}^{(\rho)}\otimes X_{i}^{(z)})[\rho-\rho_{0},u]\nonumber \\ &\ \ \ -\frac{1}{2}(2D_{0})[u,u]+(D_{0}-D_{n})[u,u], \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ ]{}and the PLAQ structure with [$$\begin{aligned} &\Delta_{n}(\rho;\theta_{0})=\sum_{i=1}^{n}\frac{2}{\sqrt{n}}\epsilon_{i}X_{i}^{(z)}-\sum_{i=1}^{n}\frac{2}{\sqrt{n}}(X_{i}^{(\rho)}\otimes X_{i}^{(z)})(\rho-\rho_{0}); \label{eq:ezdelta}\\ &\Gamma_{0}(\theta_{0})=2D_{0};\nonumber \\ &r_{n}(u;\theta_{0})=(D_{0}-D_{n})[u,u].\nonumber $$ ]{}From (\[ass:1.1\]) (\[dnn\]) and (\[eq:mathfrak\]), we obtain for any $(z,\rho)\in \Theta_{0}\times \Theta_{1}$ [$$\begin{aligned} \mathbb{Y}_{n}(z,\rho;\theta_{0})&:=-\frac{1}{n}\bigl(Z_{n}(z,\rho)-Z_{n}(0,\rho)\bigr)\nonumber \\ &=\frac{2}{n}\sum_{i=1}^{n}\{\epsilon_{i}-(\rho-\rho_{0})^{\top}X_{i}^{(\rho)}\}z^{\top}X_{i}^{(z)}-D_{n}[z,z]-\frac{1}{n}\sum_{k=1}^{p_{0}}\mathfrak{p}_{n}(z_{k})\nonumber \\ &\xrightarrow{P}-D_{0}[z,z]=:\mathbb{Y}_{0}(z;\theta_{0}).\nonumber $$]{} We get $\mathbb{Y}_{0}(z;\theta_{0})\leq -\lambda_{\min}(D_{0})\vert z\vert^{2}$. Therefore, it remains to verify \[A1\], \[A4\] and \[A6\] of Yoshida [@06 Theorem 1]. Take $\beta,\ \nu_{2},\ \alpha,\ \xi$ and $\nu_{1}$ as in the proof of Theorem \[thm;standard\]. We know these parameters satisfy $[A4]$ and (\[eq:mathfrak\]). Since $$\begin{aligned} \sup_{u\in U_{n}(r,\theta_{0})}\Big(\frac{|u|^{2}}{1+|u|^{2}}|D_{n}-D_{0}|\Big)\lesssim r^{-\xi}\nonumber\end{aligned}$$ holds from the same argument as in (\[300\]), we easily get \[A1\]. Second we will establish \[A6\]. Note that $\Theta_{1}\subset\mathbb{R}^{p_{1}}$ is a compact set. From (\[ass:2.2\]), (\[eq:ezdelta\]), and using the same argument as in (\[eq:bench10\]), we get for $N_{1}=L(1-\nu_{1})^{-1}\geq 2$ $$\begin{aligned} \sup_{n>0}E\Bigl[\sup_{\rho\in\Theta_{1}}\bigl| \Delta_{n}(\rho;\theta_{0})\bigr|^{N_{1}}\Bigr]<\infty. \label{eq:ezn2}\end{aligned}$$ Moreover, we get for any $(z,\rho)\in \Theta_{0}\times \Theta_{1}$ $$\begin{aligned} &\frac{2}{n}\sum_{i=1}^{n}\{\epsilon_{i}-(\rho-\rho_{0})^{\top}X_{i}^{(\rho)}\}z^{\top}X_{i}^{(z)}-D_{n}[z,z]\xrightarrow{P}-D_{0}[z,z];\nonumber \\ &\qquad \qquad \qquad \qquad \ \frac{1}{n}\sum_{k=1}^{p_{0}}\mathfrak{p}_{n}(z_{k})\xrightarrow{P}0\nonumber\end{aligned}$$ since we have [(\[ass:1.1\])]{}, [(\[ass:2.2\])]{}, (\[dnn\]) and (\[eq:mathfrak\]). Hence, we obtain for $N_{2}=L(1-2\beta-\nu_{2})^{-1}\geq 2$ [$$\begin{aligned} &\ \ \ \ \sup_{n>0}E\Bigl[\sup_{(z,\rho)\in \Theta_{0}\times \Theta_{1}}\Bigl\{n^{1/2-\beta}\Big| \frac{2}{n}\sum_{i=1}^{n}\{\epsilon_{i}-(\rho-\rho_{0})^{\top}X_{i}^{(\rho)}\}z^{\top}X_{i}^{(z)}-D_{n}[z,z]+D_{0}[z,z]\Bigr|\Bigr\}^{N_{2}}\Bigr]\nonumber\\ &\lesssim \sup_{n>0}\Bigl(n^{-\beta N_{2}}E\Bigl[\Bigl|\sum_{i=1}^{n}\frac{1}{\sqrt{n}}\epsilon_{i}X_{i}^{(z)}\Bigr|^{N_{2}}\Bigr]\Bigr)+\sup_{n>0}\Bigl\{n^{-\beta}\Big| \sum_{i=1}^{n}\frac{1}{\sqrt{n}}\bigl(X_{i}^{(z)}\otimes{X_{i}^{(\rho)}}\big)\Big|\Bigr\}^{N_{2}}\nonumber \\ &\ \ \ +\sup_{n>0}\bigl(n^{1/2-\beta-\delta}n^{\delta}\vert D_{0}-D_{n}\vert\bigr)^{N_{2}}<\infty. \label{eq:yuukai}\end{aligned}$$ ]{}Further, we get from (\[eq:mathfrak\]) [$$\begin{aligned} \sup_{n>0}E\Bigl[\sup_{(z,\rho)\in \Theta_{0}\times \Theta_{1}}\Bigl(n^{1/2-\beta}\Big| \frac{1}{n}\sum_{k=1}^{p_{0}}\mathfrak{p}_{n}(z_{k})\Bigr|\Bigr)^{N_{2}}\Bigr]<\infty. \label{eq:j1}\end{aligned}$$ ]{}From [(\[eq:ezn2\])]{}, [(\[eq:yuukai\])]{} and [(\[eq:j1\])]{}, we conclude that \[A6\] holds. Therefore we obtain (\[eq:50\]), hence the $z$-PLDI. Next we consider the $\rho$-PLDI, using the multistep-PLDI argument of Yoshida [@06] where plugging-in the estimator $\hat{z}_{n}$: [$$\begin{aligned} \mathbb{M}_{n}(v;\theta_{0})&=Z_{n}\Bigl(\hat{z}_{n},\rho_{0}+\frac{v}{\sqrt{n}}\Bigr)-Z_{n}(\hat{z}_{n},\rho_{0})\nonumber \\ &=-\sum_{i=1}^{n}\frac{2}{\sqrt{n}}\epsilon_{i}X_{i}^{(\rho)}[v]+\frac{1}{2}(2B_{0})[v,v]+\sum_{i=1}^{n}\frac{2}{\sqrt{n}}(X_{i}^{(z)}\otimes X_{i}^{(\rho)})[\hat{z}_{n},v]\nonumber \\ &\ \ \ +(B_{n}-B_{0})[v,v]+\sum_{l=1}^{p_{1}}\Big\{\mathfrak{p}_{n}\Big(\rho_{0 l}+\frac{v_{l}}{\sqrt{n}}\Big)-\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\rho_{0 l})\Big\},\nonumber\end{aligned}$$ ]{}where $v\in \mathbb{R}^{p_{1}}$. We have the PLAQ structure [(\[eq:5.1\])]{} with [$$\begin{aligned} &\Delta_{n}(\theta_{0})=-\sum_{i=1}^{n}\frac{2}{\sqrt{n}}\epsilon_{i}X_{i}^{(\rho)}+\sum_{i=1}^{n}\frac{2}{\sqrt{n}}(X_{i}^{(z)}\otimes X_{i}^{(\rho)})\hat{z}_{n};\nonumber \\ &\Gamma_{0}(\theta_{0})=2B_{0};\nonumber \\ &r_{n}(v;\theta_{0})=(B_{n}-B_{0})[v,v]+\sum_{l=1}^{p_{1}}\Bigl\{\mathfrak{p}_{n}\Big(\rho_{0 l}+\frac{v_{l}}{\sqrt{n}}\Big)-\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\rho_{0 l})\Bigr\}. \label{eq:ezrhorm}\end{aligned}$$ ]{}Moreover, we obtain for any $\rho\in \Theta_{1}$ [$$\begin{aligned} \mathbb{Y}_{n}(\rho;\theta_{0})&:=-\frac{1}{n}\bigl(Z_{n}(\hat{z}_{n},\rho)-Z_{n}(\hat{z}_{n},\rho_{0})\bigr)\nonumber \\ &=\sum_{i=1}^{n}\frac{2}{n}\epsilon_{i}X_{i}^{(\rho)}[\rho-\rho_{0}]-B_{n}[\rho-\rho_{0},\rho-\rho_{0}]\nonumber \\ &\ \ \ -\sum_{i=1}^{n}\frac{1}{n}(X_{i}^{(\rho)}\otimes X_{i}^{(z)})[\rho-\rho_{0},\hat{z}_{n}]-\frac{1}{n}\sum_{l=1}^{p_{1}}\big\{\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\rho_{l})-\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\rho_{0 l})\big\}\nonumber \\ &\xrightarrow{P}-B_{0}[\rho-\rho_{0},\rho-\rho_{0}]=:\mathbb{Y}_{0}(\rho;\theta_{0}).\nonumber $$ ]{}We get $\mathbb{Y}_{0}(\rho;\theta_{0})\leq-\lambda_{\min}(B_{0})|\rho-\rho_{0}|^{2}$. Therefore, it remains to verify \[A1\], \[A4\] and \[A6\] of Yoshida [@06 Theorem 1]. Take $\beta,\ \nu_{2},\ \alpha,\ \xi$ and $\nu_{1}$ as in the argument of the above $z$-PLDI. Then, from [(\[eq:ezrhorm\])]{} we have [$$\begin{aligned} \frac{\vert r_{n}(v;\theta_{0})\vert}{1+\vert v\vert^{2}}&\leq \frac{\vert v\vert^{2}}{1+\vert v\vert^{2}}n^{\beta-1/2}n^{1/2-\beta-\delta}\bigl(n^{\delta}\vert B_{n}-B_{0}\vert\bigr)\nonumber \\ &\ \ \ +\frac{1}{1+\vert v\vert^{2}}\Big| \sum_{l=1}^{p_{1}}\Bigl(\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\rho_{0 l}+\frac{v_{l}}{\sqrt{n}})-\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\rho_{0 l})\Bigr)\Big|.\nonumber $$ ]{}We only need to consider the second term of the right hand side. We obtain from (\[eq:202\]) that for any $l\in \{1,\ldots,p_{1}\}$ there exists a $\kappa\in (0,2]$ such that $$\begin{aligned} \Big|\mathfrak{p}_{n}\Big(\rho_{0l}+\frac{v_{l}}{\sqrt{n}}\Big)-\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\rho_{0l})\Big|\lesssim \vert v_{l}\vert^{\kappa},\nonumber\end{aligned}$$ so that we have $$\begin{aligned} \frac{1}{1+\vert v\vert^{2}}\Big| \sum_{l=1}^{p_{1}}\Bigl(\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\rho_{0 l}+\frac{v_{l}}{\sqrt{n}})-\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\rho_{0 l})\Bigr)\Big|\lesssim |v|^{\kappa-2}.\nonumber $$ Since we can take $\alpha\in(0,1)$ such that $2-\kappa>\xi$ (note that $0<\xi<(2\alpha/(1-\alpha))\wedge1$), we get $\sup_{v\in V_{n}(r,\theta_{0})}|v|^{\kappa-2}\lesssim r^{-\xi}$, where $V_{n}(r,\theta_{0}):=\{v\in\mathbb{R}^{p_{1}}:r\leq|v|\leq n^{(1-\alpha)/2}\}$. Hence, we conclude that for any $r>0$, $$\begin{aligned} \sup_{n>0}P\Bigl(\sup_{v\in V_{n}(r,\theta_{0})}\frac{\vert r_{n}(v;\ \theta_{0})\vert}{1+\vert v\vert^{2}}\gtrsim r^{-\nu_{1}}\Bigr)\lesssim \frac{1}{r^{L}}.\nonumber $$ Second we will establish $[A6]$. Note that for all $k>0$, $E[|\hat{z}_{n}|^{k}]\rightarrow0$ is ensured by $z$-PLDI. Through the same procedure as in [(\[eq:ezn2\])]{}, we have for $N_{1}=L(1-\nu_{1})^{-1}\geq 2$ $$\begin{aligned} \sup_{n>0}E\Bigl[\bigl| \Delta_{n}(\theta_{0})\bigr|^{N_{1}}\Bigr]<\infty. \label{eq:ez355}\end{aligned}$$ Moreover, from [(\[ass:1.1\])]{}, [(\[ass:2.2\])]{}, [(\[dnn\])]{} and (\[eq:mathfrak\]), we get $$\begin{aligned} &\sum_{i=1}^{n}\frac{2}{n}\epsilon_{i}X_{i}^{(\rho)}[\rho-\rho_{0}]-B_{n}[\rho-\rho_{0},\rho-\rho_{0}]-\sum_{i=1}^{n}\frac{1}{n}(X_{i}^{(\rho)}\otimes X_{i}^{(z)})[\rho-\rho_{0},\hat{z}_{n}]\nonumber \\ &\xrightarrow{P}-B_{0}[\rho-\rho_{0},\rho-\rho_{0}]; \nonumber \\ &\qquad \qquad \qquad \qquad \ \frac{1}{n}\sum_{l=1}^{p_{1}}\big\{\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\rho_{l})-\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\rho_{0 l})\big\}\xrightarrow{P}0. \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ Hence, we get for $N_{2}=L(1-2\beta-\nu_{2})^{-1}\geq 2$ [$$\begin{aligned} &\sup_{n>0}E\Bigl[\sup_{\rho\in \Theta_{1}}\Bigl\{n^{1/2-\beta}\Big| \sum_{i=1}^{n}\frac{2}{n}\epsilon_{i}X_{i}^{(\rho)}[\rho-\rho_{0}]-B_{n}[\rho-\rho_{0},\rho-\rho_{0}]\nonumber \\ &\ \ \ -\sum_{i=1}^{n}\frac{1}{n}(X_{i}^{(\rho)}\otimes X_{i}^{(z)})[\rho-\rho_{0},\hat{z}_{n}]+B_{0}[\rho-\rho_{0},\rho-\rho_{0}]\Bigr|\Bigr\}^{N_{2}}\Bigr]<\infty; \label{eq:ezrh}\\ &\sup_{n>0}E\Bigl[\sup_{\rho\in \Theta_{1}}\Bigl\{n^{1/2-\beta}\Big| \frac{1}{n}\sum_{l=1}^{p_{1}}\big\{\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\rho_{l})-\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\rho_{0 l})\big\}\Bigr|\Bigr\}^{N_{2}}\Bigr]<\infty. \label{eq:eqezrh}\end{aligned}$$ ]{}From [(\[eq:ez355\])]{}, [(\[eq:ezrh\])]{} and [(\[eq:eqezrh\])]{}, we conclude that $[A6]$ holds. $\Box$ The SCAD penalty (Fan and Li [@21]) satisfies (\[eq:mathfrak\]) and (\[eq:202\]) since $$\begin{aligned} \mathfrak{p}_{n}(\theta_{j})=\left \{ \begin{array}{l} \displaystyle \qquad \ \ \ \ \ n\lambda_{n}|\theta_{j}|\qquad \qquad \ \ \ \ \ (|\theta_{j}|\leq\lambda_{n}),\\ \displaystyle \frac{-n(\theta_{j}^{2}-2a\lambda_{n}|\theta_{j}|+\lambda_{n}^{2})}{2(a-1)}\qquad (\lambda_{n}<|\theta_{j}|\leq a\lambda_{n}),\\ \displaystyle \qquad \ \ \frac{n(a+1)\lambda_{n}^{2}}{2}\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ (|\theta_{j}|>a\lambda_{n}), \end{array} \right. \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ where $a>2$ is an additional tuning parameter. Let $\lambda_{n}\leftarrow n^{\beta-1/2}$ where $\beta$ is the same as in the proof of Theorem \[thm,ezj\]. Then the sparse consistency and the asymptotic normality of $\hat{\rho}_{n}$ hold. (\[eq:mathfrak\]) follows easily, so that it remains to show (\[eq:202\]). We have $$\begin{aligned} \mathfrak{p}'_{n}(\theta_{j})=\lambda_{n}n\Big\{{\rm I}(\theta_{j}\leq \lambda_{n})+\frac{(a\lambda_{n}-\theta_{j})_{+}}{(a-1)\lambda_{n}}{\rm I}(\theta_{j}>\lambda_{n})\Big\}, \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ where $\theta_{j}>0$. Hence when $n$ is large enough, for any $\xi>0$ and $\zeta\in \mathbb{R}$, $$\begin{aligned} \Big|\mathfrak{p}_{n}\Big(\xi+\frac{\zeta}{\sqrt{n}}\Big)-\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\xi)\Big|&\leq \frac{|\zeta|}{\sqrt{n}}\int_{0}^{1}\Big|\mathfrak{p}'\Big(\xi+\frac{\zeta}{\sqrt{n}}t\Big)\Big|dt\nonumber \\ &\leq \lambda_{n}\sqrt{n}|\zeta|\int_{0}^{1}I\Big(\xi+\frac{\zeta}{\sqrt{n}}t\leq \lambda_{n}\Big)dt\nonumber \\ &\ \ \ +\sqrt{n}|\zeta|\int_{0}^{1}\frac{\big\{a\lambda_{n}-(\xi+(\zeta/\sqrt{n})t\big)\big\}_{+}}{a-1}I\Big(\xi+\frac{\zeta}{\sqrt{n}}t>\lambda_{n}\Big)dt\nonumber\\ &\lesssim |\zeta|.\nonumber\end{aligned}$$ Similarly, we get the same estimation for $\xi<0$. The seamless $L_{0}$-regularization (Dicker et al. [@08]) given by $$\begin{aligned} \mathfrak{p}_{n}(\theta_{j}):=\frac{2n\lambda_{n}}{\log2}\log\Bigl(\frac{\vert \theta_{j}\vert}{\vert \theta_{j}\vert+\tau_{n}}+1\Bigr) \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ also satisfies (\[eq:mathfrak\]) and (\[eq:202\]). For the sparse consistency and the asymptotic normality of $\hat{\rho}_{n}$, we may set $\lambda_{n}\leftarrow n^{\beta-1/2}$ and $\tau_{n}\leftarrow n^{-3/2}$. Then (\[eq:mathfrak\]) follows easily. In order to ensure (\[eq:202\]), we use the equation $$\begin{aligned} |\log(1+x)-\log(1+x')|=\Big|\int_{0}^{1}\frac{ds}{1+x'+s(x-x')}(x-x')\Big|\nonumber\end{aligned}$$ where $x,x'>0$. We can show (\[eq:202\]) by $x\leftarrow (\xi+\zeta/\sqrt{n})/(\tau_{n}+\xi+\zeta/\sqrt{n})$ and $x'\leftarrow \xi/(\tau_{n}+\xi)$. $\Box$ \[rem:scadselo\] Generalization to general mixed-rates $M$-estimation {#m-general} ---------------------------------------------------- Now let us consider the general sparse $M$-estimation of an additive regularization type: $$\begin{aligned} Z_{n}(\theta)=Z_{n}(z,\rho)=M_{n}(\theta)+\sum_{j=1}^{p}\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\theta_{j}), \label{hm:Zn}\end{aligned}$$ where the regularization term $\sum_{j=1}^{p}\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\theta_{j})$ is the same as in Section \[general Bridge\]. Note that we are no longer assuming the linear regression model structure (\[eq:1\]) and also no longer assuming any specific form of the random function $M_{n}:\Theta=\Theta_{0}\times\Theta_{1}\to\mathbb{R}$, while we keep setting $\theta=(z,\rho)$ with zero and non-zero true values for $z$ and $\rho$, respectively. That is, we presuppose that $\theta_{0}=(z_{0},\rho_{0})\in\Theta^{\circ}$ with $z_{0k}=0$ and $\rho_{0l}\ne 0$. We define $\hat{\theta}_{n}=(\hat{z}_{n},\hat{\rho}_{n})$ to be any minimizer of $Z_{n}$ over $\Theta\subset\mathbb{R}^{p}$, supposed to be compact. A typical way to establish the consistency is to verify that $\sup_{\theta\in\Theta}|Z_{n}(\theta)-Z_{0}(\theta)|\stackrel{P}{\to}0$ for some function $Z_{0}$ taking its minimum uniquely at $\theta=\theta_{0}$; for brevity of presentation, we here assume that $Z_{0}$ is non-random. Under the compactness condition of $\Theta$ and an appropriate identifiability condition, it is usually not so difficult to verify the consistency; as a matter of fact, we can directly deduce the consistency from Theorem \[Rad08\_lem1\] below. Put $\hat{\eta}_{n}=\hat{\rho}_{n}-\rho_{0}$, and let $s_{n}$ be a positive real such that $s_{n}\to 0$. Let $$\begin{aligned} G_{n}(z,\eta):=s_{n}\left\{Z_{n}(z,\rho_{0}+\eta)-Z_{n}(0,\rho_{0})\right\} \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ (typically $s_{n}=1/n$). Obviously we have $G_{n}(z,\eta)\ge G_{n}(\hat{z}_{n},\hat{\eta}_{n})$ for each $(z,\eta)$. We now state two general results from Radchenko [@Rad08] in rather simplified forms. Suppose the following conditions: - $(\hat{z}_{n},\hat{\eta}_{n})=o_{p}(1);$ - There exist positive constants $\kappa$, $\delta$, $\xi$ and $\nu$ for which $G_{n}(z,\eta)-G_{n}(0,0)=A_{n}(z,\eta)-B_{n}(z,\eta)$ where $\delta\ge\kappa$, $\delta>\nu$, $P\{A_{n}(\hat{z}_{n},\hat{\eta}_{n})\gtrsim|\hat{z}_{n}|^{\kappa}+|\hat{\eta}_{n}|^{\delta}\}\to 1$, and $[B_{n}(\hat{z}_{n},\hat{\eta}_{n})]_{+}=O_{p}(n^{-\xi}|(\hat{z}_{n},\hat{\eta}_{n})|^{\nu})$. Then $n^{\delta\xi/\{\kappa(\delta-\nu)\}}\hat{z}_{n}=O_{p}(1)$ and $n^{\xi/(\delta-\nu)}\hat{\eta}_{n}=O_{p}(1)$. \[Rad08\_lem1\] Theorem \[Rad08\_lem1\] can be used for establishing the “correct” convergence rate of $\hat{\rho}_{n}$ and a “preliminary” convergence rate of $\hat{z}_{n}$ (both of which are $\sqrt{n}$ in case of the bridge-LSE of the linear regression model). To establish the sparse consistency $P(\hat{z}_{n}=0)\to 1$, the following result is tailor-made. Suppose the following conditions: - $\hat{\eta}_{n}=o_{p}(1);$ - There exists a positive constant $\kappa>0$ for which $P\{G_{n}(\hat{z}_{n},\hat{\eta}_{n})-G_{n}(0,\hat{\eta}_{n})\gtrsim|\hat{z}_{n}|^{\kappa}\}\to 1$. Then $P(\hat{z}_{n}=0)\to 1$. \[Rad08\_thm2\] In our setting , we have $$\begin{aligned} G_{n}(z,\eta)&=s_{n}\left\{M_{n}(z,\rho_{0}+\eta)-M_{n}(0,\rho_{0})\right\}\nonumber \\ &\ \ \ +s_{n}\Big\{\sum_{k=1}^{p_{0}}\mathfrak{p}_{n}(z_{k})+\sum_{l=1}^{p_{1}}\big\{\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\rho_{0l}+\eta_{l})-\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\rho_{0l})\big\}\Big\}, \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ and hence $G_{n}(0,0)\equiv 0$. We also have $$\begin{aligned} G_{n}(z,\eta)-G_{n}(0,\eta)=s_{n}\left\{M_{n}(z,\rho_{0}+\eta)-M_{n}(0,\rho_{0}+\eta)\right\}+s_{n}\sum_{k=1}^{p_{0}}\mathfrak{p}_{n}(z_{k}). \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ We further suppose that both $\hat{z}_{n}$ and $\hat{\rho}_{n}$ are consistent, hence the condition (a) in Theorems \[Rad08\_lem1\] and \[Rad08\_thm2\] are fulfilled, and also that $\epsilon_{n}^{-1}(\hat{\rho}_{n}-\rho_{0})=O_{p}(1)$ for some $\epsilon_{n}\downarrow 0$; as in the bridge-LSE case, quite often we have $\epsilon_{n}^{-1}=\sqrt{n}$ for independent samples. Let us briefly consider the condition (b) of Theorem \[Rad08\_thm2\]. Assume that $M_{n}$ is smooth in $\Theta^{\circ}$, with itself and its partial derivatives admitting continuous extensions to the boundary ${\partial}\Theta$. We will proceed with setting $$s_{n}=\epsilon_{n}^{2}; \nonumber$$ for example, this is the case for the bridge-LSE where $s_{n}=\epsilon_{n}^{2}=n^{-1}$. For each $(z,\eta)$ the Taylor expansion gives $$\begin{aligned} G_{n}(z,\eta)-G_{n}(0,\eta)&=s_{n}{\partial}_{z}M_{n}(0,\rho_{0}+\eta)[z]+\frac{1}{2}s_{n}{\partial}^{2}_{z}M_{n}(w,\rho_{0}+\eta)[z,z]+s_{n}\sum_{k=1}^{p_{0}}\mathfrak{p}_{n}(z_{k}) \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ for a $w$ lying in the segment connecting zero and $z$. Let us consider the standard case where the condition (b) is fulfilled with $\kappa=2$. The condition (b) follows on verifying that there exists a positive constant $a_{0}$ such that, with the obvious notation $w_{n}$, $$\begin{aligned} s_{n}{\partial}_{z}M_{n}(0,\rho_{0}+\hat{\eta}_{n})[\hat{z}_{n}]+\frac{1}{2}s_{n}{\partial}^{2}_{z}M_{n}(w_{n},\rho_{0}+\hat{\eta}_{n})[\hat{z}_{n},\hat{z}_{n}]+s_{n}\sum_{k=1}^{p_{0}}\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\hat{z}_{nk})\ge a_{0}|\hat{z}_{n}|^{2} \label{hm:eq1}\end{aligned}$$ with probability tending to $1$. It is usual (in ergodic case) that the quadratic term tends to a positive-definite constant matrix. For example, it suffices for the condition (b) to assume that $$\frac{1}{2}s_{n}{\partial}^{2}_{z}M_{n}(w_{n},\rho_{0}+\hat{\eta}_{n})=C_{0}+o_{p}(1) \label{hm:eq2}$$ for some $C_{0}>0$, and that $$s_{n}{\partial}_{z}M_{n}(0,\rho_{0}+\hat{\eta}_{n})[\hat{z}_{n}]+s_{n}\sum_{k=1}^{p_{0}}\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\hat{z}_{nk})\ge H_{n}|\hat{z}_{n}|^{2}, \label{hm:eq3}$$ where $H_{n}$ is a random variable such that $H_{n}+\lambda_{\min}(C_{0}) \ge \epsilon_{0}$ with probability tending to $1$ for some $\epsilon_{0}>0$ (it is allowed that $H_{n}\stackrel{P}{\to}\infty$). Then the probability that the left-hand side of is bounded from below by a quantity $\epsilon'_{0}|\hat{z}_{n}|^{2}$ for some $\epsilon'_{0}>0$ tends to $1$, ensuring the condition (b). Thus $P(\hat{z}_{n}=0)\to 1$ can be deduced. The non-degeneracy assumption is quite standard. The assumption more or less puts restrictions on the regularization function $\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\cdot)$. Having concluded that $P(\hat{z}_{n}=0)\to 1$ and that $\epsilon_{n}^{-1}(\hat{\rho}_{n}-\rho_{0})=O_{p}(1)$, we proceed to the asymptotic-distribution result. To be precise, we will apply Radchenko [@Rad08 Theorem 1], with which we may assume that we beforehand knew the true value zero of $z$. Define the random function $$\mathbb{M}_{n}(u,v):=Z_{n}(\epsilon_{n}u,\rho_{0}+\epsilon_{n}v)-Z_{n}(0,\rho_{0}). \label{hm:eq4}$$ Write $\mathbb{M}_{n}^{0}(u,v)=M_{n}(\epsilon_{n}u,\rho_{0}+\epsilon_{n}v)-M_{n}(0,\rho_{0})$, and let $$\begin{aligned} \alpha_{n}f_{n}(u)&:=\sum_{k=1}^{p_{0}}\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\epsilon_{n}u_{k}), \nonumber\\ \beta_{n}g_{n}(u,v)&:=\mathbb{M}_{n}^{0}(u,v)+\sum_{l=1}^{p_{1}}\{\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\rho_{0l}+\epsilon_{n}v_{l})-\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\rho_{0l})\} \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ for positive reals $\alpha_{n}$ and $\beta_{n}$ satisfying that as $n\rightarrow \infty$ $$\beta_{n}=o(\alpha_{n}); \label{hm:eq5}$$ note that it is the condition that separates the mixed-rates asymptotics from the standard one; normally, we have $\alpha_{n}\to\infty$ and $\beta_{n}\equiv 1$ in the sparse asymptotics. Then we have $$\mathbb{M}_{n}(u,v)=\alpha_{n}f_{n}(u)+\beta_{n}g_{n}(u,v). \nonumber$$ Write $\hat{u}_{n}=\epsilon_{n}^{-1}(\hat{z}_{n}-z_{0})=\epsilon_{n}^{-1}\hat{z}_{n}$ and $\hat{v}_{n}=\epsilon_{n}^{-1}(\hat{\rho}_{n}-\rho_{0})$, then by the definition we have $\mathbb{M}_{n}(\hat{u}_{n},\hat{v}_{n})\le\mathbb{M}_{n}(u,v)$ for each $(u,v)$. Now, by means of Radchenko [@Rad08 Theorem 1], we can conclude that $$(\hat{u}_{n},\hat{v}_{n})\stackrel{\mathcal{L}}{\to}(0,\hat{v}_{0})\nonumber $$ by verifying the following two conditions: (i) $(f_{n}(\cdot),g_{n}(\cdot,\cdot))\stackrel{\mathcal{L}}{\to}(f_{0}(\cdot),g_{0}(\cdot,\cdot))$ in $\mathcal{C}(K_{0}\times K_{1})$ for every compact sets $K_{0}\subset\mathbb{R}^{p_{0}}$ and $K_{1}\subset\mathbb{R}^{p_{1}}$; (ii) $u\mapsto f_{0}(u)$ has a.s. unique minimum at $u=0$, and $v\mapsto g_{0}(0,v)$ has a.s. unique minimum at $v=\hat{v}_{0}$. In our case, these amounts to proving the following: - The regularization function $\mathfrak{p}_{n}:\mathbb{R}\to[0,\infty)$ (with $\mathfrak{p}_{n}(0)=0$) is continuous; - There exists a continuous limit $$f_{0}(u):=\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{1}{\alpha_{n}}\sum_{k=1}^{p_{0}}\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\epsilon_{n}u_{k}), \nonumber$$ has a.s. unique minimum at zero; - There exists a limit $g_{0}$ such that $g_{n}(\cdot,\cdot)\stackrel{\mathcal{L}}{\to}g_{0}(\cdot,\cdot)$ in $\mathcal{C}(K_{0}\times K_{1})$ for every compact sets $K_{0}\subset\mathbb{R}^{p_{0}}$ and $K_{1}\subset\mathbb{R}^{p_{1}}$; - $v\mapsto g_{0}(0,v)$ has a.s. unique minimum at $v=\hat{v}_{0}$. Concerning (c): the weak convergence of $$g_{n}(u,v)=\frac{1}{\beta_{n}}\mathbb{M}_{n}^{0}(u,v)+\frac{1}{\beta_{n}}\sum_{l=1}^{p_{1}}\{\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\rho_{0l}+\epsilon_{n}v_{l})-\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\rho_{0l})\}, \nonumber$$ we require the existence of a continuous limit process of the deterministic part: $$g_{0}^{\natural}(v):=\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{1}{\beta_{n}}\sum_{l=1}^{p_{1}}\{\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\rho_{0l}+\epsilon_{n}v_{l})-\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\rho_{0l})\}. \nonumber$$ We may separately consider the random part: there exists $m_{0}(\cdot,\cdot)$ such that $\mathbb{M}_{n}^{0}(\cdot,\cdot)/\beta_{n}\stackrel{\mathcal{L}}{\to}m_{0}(\cdot,\cdot)$ in $\mathcal{C}(K_{0}\times K_{1})$ for every compact sets $K_{0}\subset\mathbb{R}^{p_{0}}$ and $K_{1}\subset\mathbb{R}^{p_{1}}$, typically $(u,v)\mapsto m_{0}(u,v)$ being a quadratic function. Now we have the correspondence $g_{0}(0,v):=m_{0}^{0}(0,v)+g^{\natural}_{0}(v)$, which is to has a.s. unique minimum point $\hat{v}_{0}$. Now we make a few comments on derivation of the PLDI associated with the random field under . In principle, we may proceed with mimicking the arguments that we have applied to the bridge-regression model: first we look at the zero parameter $z$ with regarding $\rho$ as nuisance one, and then at the non-zero parameter $\rho$ with plugging-in $\hat{z}_{n}$. Recall that in the case of the linear regression model in Section \[sec:radch\], the LSE term of the $\mathbb{M}_{n}$ had a “well-behaved” upper bound (\[eq:eqmk\]) based on which we could make use of completing square to perform the direct application of the Markov inequality for the $z$-PLDI. This way might not be directly applicable to general $\mathbb{M}_{n}$. Nevertheless, as in (\[eq41\]) the trivial bound $$\inf_{|u|\ge r}\lambda_{n}\sum_{k=1}^{p_{0}}p_{n}(\epsilon_{n}u_{k})\ge 0 \nonumber$$ would still make sense. Proceeding as in the proof of Theorem \[thm,ezj\], we see that verification of $(z,\rho)$-PLDI reduces to that of the PLDI of the form $$\sup_{n>0}P\Big[\sup_{|(u,v)|\ge r}\{-g_{n}(u,v)\}\ge 0\Big]\lesssim r^{-L}, \nonumber$$ since $$\begin{aligned} \sup_{|(u,v)|\ge r}\{-\mathbb{M}_{n}(u,v)\}\ge 0 &\iff \sup_{|(u,v)|\ge r}\{-\beta_{n}g_{n}(u,v)\}\ge \inf_{|(u,v)|\ge r}\alpha_{n}f_{n}(u) \nonumber \\ &\ \Longrightarrow \sup_{|(u,v)|\ge r}\{-\beta_{n}g_{n}(u,v)\}\ge 0. \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ The function $-\beta_{n}g_{n}(u,v)$ is typically PLAQ, thereby making it possible to apply the general criterion of Yoshida [@06]. Generalization of the LSE term {#LSE-term} ------------------------------ Assume that the contrast function is [(\[hm:Zn\])]{} where $M_{n}$ is a $\mathcal{C}^{3}$ random function. In addition to [(\[eq:mathfrak\])]{} and [(\[eq:202\])]{}, we suppose that $$\begin{aligned} &\ \ \exists \delta>0,\ \exists \Gamma_{0}(\rho;\theta_{0})>0: nonrandom,\ \forall k>0,\nonumber \\ &\sup_{n>0}E\Big[\sup_{\rho\in\Theta_{1}}\Big(n^{\delta}\Big|\frac{1}{n}{\partial}_{z}^{2}M_{n}(0,\rho)-\Gamma_{0}(\rho;\theta_{0})\Big|\Big)^{k}\Big]<\infty; \label{LSE-second}\end{aligned}$$ $$\begin{aligned} \forall k>0,\ \sup_{n>0}E\Big[\sup_{(z,\rho)\in\Theta_{0}\times\Theta_{1}}|{\partial}_{z}^{3}M_{n}(z,\rho)|^{k}\Big]<\infty; \label{LSE-third}\end{aligned}$$ $$\begin{aligned} \forall k>0,\ \sup_{n>0}E\Big[\int_{\Theta_{1}}\Big|\frac{1}{\sqrt{n}}{\partial}_{z}M_{n}(0,\rho)\Big|^{k}d\rho\Big]<\infty; \label{LSE-first}\end{aligned}$$ $$\begin{aligned} \forall k>0,\ \sup_{n>0}E\Big[\int_{\Theta_{1}}\Big|\frac{1}{\sqrt{n}}{\partial}^{2}_{z\rho}M_{n}(0,\rho)\Big|^{k}d\rho\Big]<\infty; \label{LSE-partial}\end{aligned}$$ $$\begin{aligned} &\exists \chi=\chi(\theta_{0})>0: nonrandom, \exists \nu=\nu(\theta_{0})>0, \exists \overline{M}_{0}(z,\rho)\geq \chi|z|^{\nu}, \exists \beta\in(0,1/2), \forall k>0,\nonumber \\ &\ \ \ \ \ \sup_{n>0}E\Big[\sup_{(z,\rho)\in\Theta_{0}\times\Theta_{1}}\Big\{n^{1/2-\beta}\Big|\frac{1}{n}(M_{n}(z,\rho)-M_{n}(0,\rho))-\overline{M}_{0}(z,\rho)\Big|\Big\}^{k}\Big]<\infty; \label{LSE-Y}\end{aligned}$$ $$\begin{aligned} &\ \exists \delta>0,\ \exists \Gamma_{0}(\theta_{0})>0: nonrandom,\ \forall k>0,\nonumber \\ &\sup_{n>0}E\Big[\Big(n^{\delta}\Big|\frac{1}{n}{\partial}_{\rho}^{2}M_{n}(\hat{z}_{n},\rho_{0})-\Gamma_{0}(\theta_{0})\Big|\Big)^{k}\Big]<\infty; \label{LSE-secondrho}\end{aligned}$$ $$\begin{aligned} \forall k>0,\ \sup_{n>0}E\Big[\sup_{\rho\in\Theta_{1}}|{\partial}_{\rho}^{3}M_{n}(\hat{z}_{n},\rho)|^{k}\Big]<\infty; \label{LSE-thirdrho}\end{aligned}$$ $$\begin{aligned} \forall k>0,\ \sup_{n>0}E\Big[\Big|\frac{1}{\sqrt{n}}{\partial}_{\rho}M_{n}(\hat{z}_{n},\rho_{0})\Big|^{k}\Big]<\infty; \label{LSE-firstrho}\end{aligned}$$ $$\begin{aligned} &\exists \chi=\chi(\theta_{0})>0: nonrandom,\ \exists \nu=\nu(\theta_{0})>0,\ \exists \overline{M}_{0}(\rho)\geq \chi|\rho|^{q},\ \exists \beta\in(0,1/2),\ \forall k>0,\nonumber \\ &\sup_{n>0}E\Big[\sup_{\rho\in\Theta_{1}}\Big\{n^{1/2-\beta}\Big|\frac{1}{n}(M_{n}(\hat{z}_{n},\rho)-M_{n}(\hat{z}_{n},\rho_{0}))-\overline{M}_{0}(\rho)\Big|\Big\}^{k}\Big]<\infty. \label{LSE-Yrho}\end{aligned}$$ Then the PLDI [(\[1\])]{} holds. In particular, for every continuous $f:\mathbb{R}^{p}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ of at most polynomial growth $$\begin{aligned} E\big[ f\big(\sqrt{n}\hat{z}_{n},\sqrt{n}(\hat{\rho}_{n}-\rho_{0})\big)\big]\rightarrow E[f(0,\hat{v}_{0})], \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ where $\mathcal{L}(\hat{v}_{0})$ is an asymptotic law of $\sqrt{n}(\hat{\rho}_{n}-\rho_{0})$. We will derive $z$-PLDI by mimicking the argument of the proof of Theorem \[thm,ezj\]. The Taylor expansion gives $$\begin{aligned} -M_{n}\Big(\frac{u}{\sqrt{n}},\rho\Big)+M_{n}(0,\rho) &=-{\partial}_{z}M_{n}(0,\rho)\Big[\frac{u}{\sqrt{n}}\Big]-\int_{0}^{1}(1-s){\partial}^{2}_{z}M_{n}\Big(\frac{u}{\sqrt{n}}s,\rho\Big)ds\Big[\frac{u}{\sqrt{n}},\frac{u}{\sqrt{n}}\Big] \nonumber \\ &=-\frac{1}{\sqrt{n}}{\partial}_{z}M_{n}(0,\rho)[u]-\frac{1}{2}\Gamma_{0}(\rho;\theta_{0})[u,u] \nonumber \\ &\ \ \ +\int_{0}^{1}(1-s)\Big\{-\frac{1}{n}{\partial}_{z}^{2}M_{n}\Big(\frac{u}{\sqrt{n}}s,\rho\Big)+\Gamma_{0}(\rho;\theta_{0})\Big\}ds[u,u]. \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ For the PLAQ structure, we set $$\begin{aligned} \Delta_{n}(\rho;\theta_{0})&=-\frac{1}{\sqrt{n}}{\partial}_{z}M_{n}(0,\rho); \label{LSE-Delta} \\ r_{n}(u,\rho;\theta_{0})&=\int_{0}^{1}(1-s)\Big\{-\frac{1}{n}{\partial}_{z}^{2}M_{n}\Big(\frac{u}{\sqrt{n}}s,\rho\Big)+\Gamma_{0}(\rho;\theta_{0})\Big\}ds[u,u]. \label{LES-r}\end{aligned}$$ Moreover, we obtain for any $(z,\rho)\in \Theta_{0}\times\Theta_{1}$ $$\begin{aligned} \mathbb{Y}_{n}(z,\rho;\theta_{0}):=-\frac{1}{n}(Z_{n}(z,\rho)-Z_{n}(0,\rho)) &=-\frac{1}{n}\big(M_{n}(z,\rho)-M_{n}(0,\rho)\big)-\frac{1}{n}\sum_{k=1}^{p_{0}}\mathfrak{p}_{n}(z_{k})\nonumber \\ &\xrightarrow{P}-\overline{M}_{0}(z,\rho)=:\mathbb{Y}_{0}(z,\rho;\theta_{0}).\nonumber\end{aligned}$$ We get $\mathbb{Y}_{0}(z;\theta_{0})\leq -\chi\vert z\vert^{\nu}$ from (\[LSE-Y\]). Therefore, it remains to verify \[A1\], \[A4\] and \[A6\] of Yoshida [@06 Theorem 1]. Take $\beta,\ \nu_{2},\ \alpha$ and $\xi$ as in the proof of Theorem \[thm;standard\]. From (\[LES-r\]), we have $$\begin{aligned} r_{n}(u,\rho;\theta_{0})&=\int_{0}^{1}(1-s)\Big\{-\frac{1}{n}{\partial}_{z}^{2}M_{n}(0,\rho)-\frac{1}{n}\int_{0}^{1}{\partial}_{z}^{3}M_{n}\Big(\frac{u}{\sqrt{n}}st,\rho\Big)dt\Big[\frac{u}{\sqrt{n}}s\Big]\nonumber \\ &\ \ \ +\Gamma_{0}(\rho;\theta_{0})\Big\}ds[u,u], \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ and then $$\begin{aligned} \frac{|r_{n}(u,\rho;\theta_{0})|}{1+|u|^{2}}&\lesssim \frac{|u|^{2}}{1+|u|^{2}}n^{\beta-1/2}n^{1/2-\beta-\delta}\Big(n^{\delta}\Big|-\frac{1}{n}{\partial}^{2}_{z}M_{n}(0,\rho)+\Gamma_{0}(\rho;\theta_{0})\Big|\Big) \nonumber \\ &\ \ \ \ +\frac{|u|^{2}}{1+|u|^{2}}\frac{|u|}{n\sqrt{n}}\int_{0}^{1}\int_{0}^{1}\Big|{\partial}_{z}^{3}M_{n}\Big(\frac{u}{\sqrt{n}}st,\rho\Big)\Big|dtds. \label{LSE-r2}\end{aligned}$$ We have $|u|/n\sqrt{n}\leq r^{-(\alpha+2)/(1-\alpha)}$ on $U_{n}(r,\theta_{0})$ so that we can estimate the second term of the right-hand side of (\[LSE-r2\]) such that $$\begin{aligned} &\ \ \ P\Big\{\sup_{(u,\rho)\in U_{n}(r,\theta_{0})\times \Theta_{1}}\Big(\frac{|u|^{2}}{1+|u|^{2}}\frac{|u|}{n\sqrt{n}}\int_{0}^{1}\int_{0}^{1}\Big|{\partial}_{z}^{3}M_{n}\Big(\frac{u}{\sqrt{n}}st,\rho\Big)\Big|dtds\Big)\geq r^{-\nu_{1}}\Big\} \nonumber \\ &\lesssim(r^{-\nu_{1}+\frac{\alpha+2}{1-\alpha}})^{-L}E\Big[\sup_{(u,\rho)\in U_{n}(r,\theta_{0})\times \Theta_{1}}\Big(\int_{0}^{1}\int_{0}^{1}\Big|{\partial}_{z}^{3}M_{n}\Big(\frac{u}{\sqrt{n}}st,\rho\Big)\Big|dtds\Big)^{L}\Big].\nonumber\end{aligned}$$ Let us take $0<\nu_{1}<\xi\wedge(\alpha+2)/(1-\alpha)$, then from (\[LSE-second\]) and (\[LSE-third\]), we get for any $r>0$ $$\begin{aligned} \sup_{n>0}P\Big(\sup_{(u,\rho)\in U_{n}(r,\theta_{0})\times \Theta_{1}}\frac{|r_{n}(u,\rho;\theta_{0})|}{1+|u|^{2}}\gtrsim r^{-\nu_{1}}\Big)\lesssim \frac{1}{r^{L}}. \label{eq:LSEA1}\end{aligned}$$ Second, we will establish \[A6\]. From (\[LSE-first\]), (\[LSE-partial\]), (\[LSE-Delta\]) and using Sobolev’s inequality, we can estimate for $N_{1}=L(1-\nu_{1})^{-1}$ $$\begin{aligned} \sup_{n>0}E\Big[\sup_{\rho\in\Theta_{1}}|\Delta_{n}(\rho;\theta_{0})|^{N_{1}}\Big]&=\sup_{n>0}E\Big[\sup_{\rho\in\Theta_{1}}\Big|\frac{1}{\sqrt{n}}{\partial}_{z}M_{n}(0,\rho)\Big|^{N_{1}}\Big] \nonumber \\ &\lesssim \sup_{n>0}E\Big[\int_{\Theta_{1}}\Big|\frac{1}{\sqrt{n}}{\partial}_{z}M_{n}(0,\rho)\Big|^{N_{1}}d\rho\Big]\nonumber \\ &\ \ \ +\sup_{n>0}E\Big[\int_{\Theta_{1}}\Big|\frac{1}{\sqrt{n}}{\partial}^{2}_{z\rho}M_{n}(0,\rho)\Big|^{N_{1}}d\rho\Big]<\infty.\nonumber $$ Further, from (\[eq:mathfrak\]) and (\[LSE-Y\]), we obtain for $M_{2}=L(1-2\beta-\nu_{2})^{-1},$ $$\begin{aligned} \sup_{\xi_{0}\in K}\sup_{n>0}E\Big[\Bigl(\sup_{(\theta,\tau)\in\Theta\times\mathcal{T}} n^{1/2-\beta}\big| \mathbb{Y}_{n}(\theta,\tau;\xi_{0})-\mathbb{Y}_{0}(\theta,\tau;\xi_{0})\bigr| \Bigr)^{M_{2}}\Big]<\infty. \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ We conclude that \[A6\] holds, hence the z-PLDI. Next we consider the $\rho$-PLDI. $$\begin{aligned} &\ \ \ \ Z_{n}\Big(\hat{z}_{n},\rho_{0}+\frac{v}{\sqrt{n}}\Big)-Z_{n}(\hat{z}_{n},\rho_{0})\nonumber \\ &={\partial}_{\rho}M_{n}(\hat{z},\rho_{0})\Big[\frac{v}{\sqrt{n}}\Big]+\int_{0}^{1}(1-s){\partial}^{2}_{\rho}M_{n}\Big(\hat{z}_{n},\rho_{0}+\frac{v}{\sqrt{n}}s\Big)ds\Big[\frac{v}{\sqrt{n}},\frac{v}{\sqrt{n}}\Big] \nonumber \\ &\ \ \ +\sum_{l=1}^{p_{1}}\Big\{\mathfrak{p}_{n}\Big(\rho_{0l}+\frac{v_{l}}{\sqrt{n}}\Big)-\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\rho_{0l})\Big\} \nonumber \\ &=\frac{1}{\sqrt{n}}{\partial}_{\rho}M_{n}(\hat{z}_{n},\rho_{0})[v]+\frac{1}{2}\Gamma_{0}(\theta_{0})[v,v]\nonumber \\ &+\int_{0}^{1}(1-s)\Big\{\frac{1}{n}{\partial}_{\rho}^{2}M_{n}\Big(\hat{z}_{n},\rho_{0}+\frac{v}{\sqrt{n}}s\Big)-\Gamma_{0}(\theta_{0})\Big\}ds[v,v]+\sum_{l=1}^{p_{1}}\Big\{\mathfrak{p}_{n}\Big(\rho_{0l}+\frac{v_{l}}{\sqrt{n}}\Big)-\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\rho_{0l})\Big\} \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ For the PLAQ structure, we set $$\begin{aligned} \Delta_{n}(\theta_{0})&=\frac{1}{\sqrt{n}}{\partial}_{\rho}M_{n}(\hat{z}_{n},\rho_{0}); \label{LSE-Deltarho} \\ r_{n}(v;\theta_{0})&=\int_{0}^{1}(1-s)\Big\{\frac{1}{n}{\partial}_{\rho}^{2}M_{n}\Big(\hat{z}_{n},\rho_{0}+\frac{v}{\sqrt{n}}s\Big)-\Gamma_{0}(\theta_{0})\Big\}ds[v,v]\nonumber \\ &\ \ \ +\sum_{l=1}^{p_{1}}\Big\{\mathfrak{p}_{n}\Big(\rho_{0l}+\frac{v_{l}}{\sqrt{n}}\Big)-\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\rho_{0l})\Big\}. \label{LES-rrho}\end{aligned}$$ From (\[LSE-Yrho\]), we obtain for any $\rho\in \Theta_{1}$ $$\begin{aligned} \mathbb{Y}_{n}(\rho;\theta_{0})&:=\frac{1}{n}\big(-Z_{n}(\hat{z}_{n},\rho)+Z_{n}(\hat{z}_{n},\rho_{0})\big) \nonumber \\ &=-\frac{1}{n}\big(M_{n}(\hat{z}_{n},\rho)-M_{n}(\hat{z}_{n},\rho_{0})\big)-\frac{1}{n}\sum_{l=1}^{p_{1}}\big(\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\rho_{l})-\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\rho_{0l})\big)\nonumber \\ &\xrightarrow{P}-\overline{M}_{0}(\rho)=:\mathbb{Y}_{0}(\rho;\theta_{0}).\nonumber\end{aligned}$$ and $\mathbb{Y}_{0}(\rho;\theta_{0})\leq -\chi\vert \rho\vert^{q}$. Therefore, it remains to verify \[A1\], \[A4\] and \[A6\] of Yoshida [@06 Theorem 1]. Take $\beta$, $\nu_{2}$, $\alpha$, $\xi$ and $\nu_{1}$ as in the argument of the above $z$-PLDI. From [(\[LES-rrho\])]{}, we have $$\begin{aligned} &\ \ \ \ r_{n}(v;\theta_{0})\nonumber \\ &=\int_{0}^{1}(1-s)\Big\{\frac{1}{n}{\partial}_{\rho}^{2}M_{n}(\hat{z}_{n},\rho_{0})+\frac{1}{n}\int_{0}^{1}{\partial}_{\rho}^{3}M_{n}\Big(\hat{z}_{n},\rho_{0}+\frac{v}{\sqrt{n}}st\Big)dt\Big[\frac{v}{\sqrt{n}}s\Big]-\Gamma_{0}(\theta_{0})\Big\}ds[v,v] \nonumber \\ &\ \ \ +\sum_{l=1}^{p_{1}}\Big\{\mathfrak{p}_{n}\Big(\rho_{0l}+\frac{v_{l}}{\sqrt{n}}\Big)-\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\rho_{0l})\Big\}, \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ so that $$\begin{aligned} \frac{|r_{n}(v;\theta_{0})|}{1+|v|^{2}}&\lesssim \frac{|v|^{2}}{1+|v|^{2}}n^{\beta-1/2}n^{1/2-\beta-\delta}\Big(n^{\delta}\Big|\frac{1}{n}{\partial}^{2}_{\rho}M_{n}(\hat{z}_{n},\rho_{0})-\Gamma_{0}(\theta_{0})\Big|\Big) \nonumber \\ &\ \ +\frac{|v|^{2}}{1+|v|^{2}}\frac{|v|}{n\sqrt{n}}\int_{0}^{1}\int_{0}^{1}\Big|{\partial}_{\rho}^{3}M_{n}\Big(\hat{z}_{n},\rho_{0}+\frac{v}{\sqrt{n}}st\Big)\Big|dtds. \nonumber \\ &\ \ +\frac{1}{1+|v|^{2}}\Big|\sum_{l=1}^{p_{1}}\Big\{\mathfrak{p}_{n}\Big(\rho_{0l}+\frac{v_{l}}{\sqrt{n}}\Big)-\mathfrak{p}_{n}(\rho_{0l})\Big\}\Big| \nonumber $$ From (\[eq:202\]), (\[LSE-secondrho\]) and (\[LSE-thirdrho\]), we can use the same method as in the estimation of (\[eq:LSEA1\]). Apparently \[A6\] holds since we have (\[eq:mathfrak\]), (\[LSE-firstrho\]), (\[LSE-Yrho\]) and (\[LSE-Deltarho\]), hence we obtain the claim. $\Box$ Special case of the Bridge-LSE {#special B-L} ============================== Again we consider the bridge-LSE. Here we consider the case of $\lambda_{n}/n\rightarrow \exists\lambda_{0}>0$. Knight and Fu [@01] proved the convergence of $\hat{\theta}_{n}$ in their Theorem 1: $$\begin{aligned} \hat{\theta}_{n}\xrightarrow{P}{\operatornamewithlimits{argmin}}_{\theta\in\Theta}\Big\{(\theta-\theta_{0})^{\top}C_{0}(\theta-\theta_{0})+\lambda_{0}\sum_{j=1}^{p}|\theta_{j}|^{\gamma}\Big\},\nonumber $$ where the consistency of $\hat{\theta}_{n}$ to the true value of parameter no longer holds. Then we assume that $$\begin{aligned} {\operatornamewithlimits{argmin}}_{\theta\in\Theta}\Big\{(\theta-\theta_{0})^{\top}C_{0}(\theta-\theta_{0})+\lambda_{0}\sum_{j=1}^{p}|\theta_{j}|^{\gamma}\Big\}=:(z_{0}',\rho_{0}')=(0,\rho_{0}')\in \Theta_{0}'\times\Theta_{1}'\subset\mathbb{R}^{p_{0}'}\times\mathbb{R}^{p_{1}'}. \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ We can rewrite the linear regression model (\[eq:1\]) and the contrast function (\[eq:2\]) to $$\begin{aligned} &\qquad \qquad \qquad \ \ \ \ Y_{i}=z_{0}^{\top}X_{i}^{(z)}+\rho_{0}^{\top}X_{i}^{(\rho)}+\epsilon_{i},\ \ \ i=1,\ldots,n;\nonumber \\ &Z_{n}(\theta)=Z_{n}(z,\rho)=\sum_{i=1}^{n}\big(Y_{i}-z^{\top}X_{i}^{(z)}-\rho^{\top}X_{i}^{(\rho)}\big)^{2}+\lambda_{n}\sum_{k=1}^{p'_{0}}\vert z_{k}\vert^{\gamma}+\lambda_{n}\sum_{l=1}^{p'_{1}}\vert \rho_{l}\vert^{\gamma},\nonumber\end{aligned}$$ where $z_{0}$ and $\rho_{0}$ are the true-value vectors corresponding to $z_{0}'$ and $\rho_{0}'$, respectively. Note that $X_{i}^{(z)}$ and $X_{i}^{(\rho)}$ are $p_{0}'$ and $p_{1}'$ dimensional vectors respectively. Denote the estimator associated with $Z_{n}$ by $\hat{\theta}_{n}=(\hat{z}'_{n},\hat{\rho}'_{n})$. In the present model setting, we will prove the PLDI of $\hat{u}_{n}:=\sqrt{n}\hat{z}'_{n}$ and the sparse consistency: $$\begin{aligned} P(\hat{z}'_{n}=0)\rightarrow 1.\nonumber\end{aligned}$$ We will prove the PLDI of $\hat{u}_{n}$, but this is almost the same as in Theorem \[thm;3.1\]: $p_{0}\leftarrow p'_{0}$, $\mathfrak{p}_{n}(u_{k}/\sqrt{n})\leftarrow \lambda_{n}|u_{k}/\sqrt{n}|^{\gamma}$, $q_{n}\leftarrow \lambda_{n}/n^{\gamma/2}$, $f(r)\leftarrow r^{\gamma}$. Hence, in addition to the conditions of Theorem \[thm;3.1\], we can easily deduce that we need $$\begin{aligned} \sup_{n>0}\Big|(n^{-(1-\gamma/4)}\sum_{i=1}^{n}(X_{i}^{(z)}\otimes X_{i}^{(z)})\Big|<\infty \nonumber $$ to derive the PLDI. For the sparse consistency, we check the conditions (a), (b) of Radchenko [@Rad08 Theorem 2]. Apparently, (a) $\hat{\eta}'_{n}:=\hat{\rho}'_{n}-\rho'_{0}=o_{p}(1)$ holds, so that it remains to verify (b). To this end, we establish (\[hm:eq1\]). Let $$\begin{aligned} G_{n}(z,\eta):=\frac{1}{n}\left\{Z_{n}(z,\rho'_{0}+\eta)-Z_{n}(0,\rho'_{0})\right\}. \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ Then, we have [$$\begin{aligned} G_{n}(\hat{z}'_{n},\hat{\eta}'_{n})-G_{n}(0,\hat{\eta}'_{n})&=-\frac{2}{n}\sum_{i=1}^{n}\{\epsilon_{i}+z_{0}^{\top}X_{i}^{(z)}-(\hat{\rho}'_{n}-\rho_{0})^{\top}X_{i}^{(\rho)}\}X_{i}^{(z)}[\hat{z}'_{n}]\nonumber \\ &\ \ \ +\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^{n}X_{i}^{(z)}{X_{i}^{(z)}}^{\top}[\hat{z}'_{n},\hat{z}'_{n}]+\frac{\lambda_{n}}{n}\sum_{k=1}^{p'_{0}}|\hat{z}'_{nk}|^{\gamma}. \label{mis2}\end{aligned}$$ ]{}The sum of the first and third terms in the right-hand side of (\[mis2\]) is bounded: [$$\begin{aligned} &\ \ \ -\frac{2}{n}\sum_{i=1}^{n}\{\epsilon_{i}+z_{0}^{\top}X_{i}^{(z)}-(\hat{\rho}'_{n}-\rho_{0})^{\top}X_{i}^{(\rho)}\}X_{i}^{(z)}[\hat{z}'_{n}]+\frac{\lambda_{n}}{n}\sum_{k=1}^{p'_{0}}|\hat{z}'_{nk}|^{\gamma}\nonumber \\ &\gtrsim O_{p}(|\hat{z}'_{n}|n^{-1/2})+O_{p}(|\hat{z}'_{n}|\sqrt{d_{n}}n^{-1/2})+|\hat{z}'_{n}|^{\gamma}, \label{mis3}\end{aligned}$$ ]{}where $d_{n}:=\lambda_{n}/n^{\gamma/2}$. On the other hand, when $n$ is large enough, the second term of the right-hand side of (\[mis2\]) is also bounded: $$\begin{aligned} \frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^{n}X_{i}^{(z)}{X_{i}^{(z)}}^{\top}[\hat{z}'_{n},\hat{z}'_{n}]\geq \frac{\lambda_{\min}(C_{0})}{2}|\hat{z}'_{n}|^{2}. \label{mis4}\end{aligned}$$ Hence from (\[mis3\]), (\[mis4\]) and making use of $\sqrt{n}\hat{z}'_{n}=O_{p}(1)$, we get [$$\begin{aligned} G_{n}(\hat{z}'_{n},\hat{\eta}'_{n})-G_{n}(0,\hat{\eta}'_{n})&\gtrsim O_{p}\big(|\hat{z}'_{n}|(1+\sqrt{d_{n}})n^{-1/2}\big)+|\hat{z}'_{n}|^{2}+|\hat{z}'_{n}|^{\gamma} \nonumber\\ &\gtrsim |\hat{z}'_{n}|^{2}\Big[1+\frac{1}{|\hat{z}'_{n}|^{2-\gamma}}\Big\{1+O_{p}\Big(|\sqrt{n}\hat{z}'_{n}|^{1-\gamma}\frac{1+\sqrt{d_{n}}}{n^{1-\gamma/2}}\Big)\Big\}\Big]\nonumber \\ &\gtrsim |\hat{z}'_{n}|^{2}\Big[1+\frac{1}{|\hat{z}'_{n}|^{2-\gamma}}\Big\{1+O_{p}\Big(\frac{1}{\sqrt{d_{n}}}\Big)\Big\}\Big]\nonumber \\ &\gtrsim |\hat{z}'_{n}|^{2}\Big[1+\frac{1}{|\hat{z}'_{n}|^{2-\gamma}}\big\{1+o_{p}(1)\big\}\Big]\nonumber \\ &\gtrsim |\hat{z}'_{n}|^{2}.\nonumber\end{aligned}$$ ]{}As a result, we can establish (b) as $\kappa=2$: $$\begin{aligned} P\{G_{n}(\hat{z}'_{n},\hat{\eta}'_{n})-G_{n}(0,\hat{\eta}'_{n})\gtrsim|\hat{z}'_{n}|^{2}\}\rightarrow1.\nonumber\end{aligned}$$ This means $P(\hat{z}'_{n}=0)\rightarrow1$. 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6)*(-60 + 30 + 4*q + 13*q - 26*q). -54*q**2 - 180*q Expand -188*m - 157*m + 214*m + (-2 + 4 - 1)*(5*m - 3*m - 3*m) - 4*m + 3*m + 3*m. -130*m Expand (1 - 1 + a)*(-2*a + 2*a - 3*a)*(0*a**3 + 2*a**3 - 3*a**3). 3*a**5 Expand (4*n**2 + 6*n**2 - n**2)*(1 - 14*n - 23*n + 3*n). -306*n**3 + 9*n**2 Expand h**3 + 2*h**3 - 2*h**3 + 0*h - h**3 + 0*h + (2*h - 5*h + 4*h)*(-2*h**2 - h**2 + h**2) + (-3*h**2 + 1 - 1)*(-19 + 5*h + 19). -17*h**3 Expand (-38*b - 41*b + 83*b)*(-49*b - 80*b**2 + 49*b). -320*b**3 Expand (19*q**3 - 40*q**3 + 20*q**3 - 6*q**2)*(1 + q - 1). -q**4 - 6*q**3 Expand m**4 + 0*m**4 + m**4 + (-m**2 + 2*m**2 + m**2)*(-27*m + 9*m - 20*m)*(0 + 3 - 5)*(-2*m - 2*m + 3*m). -150*m**4 Expand (7*x - x - 3*x)*(-11*x + 3*x + 4*x). -12*x**2 Expand (-2*d**2 + 3*d**2 - 3*d**2)*(-4 + 6 - 3)*(-459*d + 459*d + 32*d**2). 64*d**4 Expand (-1 + 2 - 8)*(5*f**5 - 2*f**5 + 0*f**5 + (3*f - 2*f + 0*f)*(3*f**4 + f**4 - f**4)). -42*f**5 Expand (-2 + 2 - 2*v**2)*(30 - 14 + 33)*((4 - 5 - 1)*(2 - 4 + 0) + 3 - 3 + 1) + 17 - 17 + 8*v**2. -482*v**2 Expand 0 - 2 + 1 + 4*o + (-2*o - 5 + 5)*(-4 + 3 - 2)*(-4 + 0 + 3). -2*o - 1 Expand (-4*t**5 + 0*t**5 + 2*t**5)*(-35 - 8 + 3 - 36). 152*t**5 Expand 2*m + 0 + 0*m + 1 + (-5 + 13 + 12)*(-7 - 7*m + 7). -138*m + 1 Expand (0 + 0 - 2)*(44 - 15 + 1)*(-2 + 2 + 3*m). -180*m Expand (0 + 1 + 0)*(2*z**4 + 2*z**2 - 2*z**2 + (z**2 - 3*z**2 + 4*z**2)*(z**2 - 1 + 1) + z**4 - 20*z**4 + 3*z**4). -12*z**4 Expand (3*p + 5*p - 2*p)*(3*p - 4*p + 4*p)*(5 - 7*p - 5). -126*p**3 Expand -80*s**2 - 153*s**2 + 77*s**2 + (-s - 2*s + 2*s)*(-2*s + 2*s - 2*s). -154*s**2 Expand (0*a - 2*a - a + (3 - 3 + 1)*(a - 4*a + 2*a))*(a**3 + 5*a**3 - 4*a**3 - a - a**3 + a + (2*a - a - 3*a)*(3*a**2 - 8*a**2 - 2*a**2)). -60*a**4 Expand (m**2 + 0 + 0 + 8*m - 8*m - 6*m**2 + (-3*m - 2*m + m)*(-2*m + 3*m - 3*m))*(2*m**2 + 1 - 1). 6*m**4 Expand 21*j - 10*j - 8*j + (2 - 2 - 2)*(-5 + j + 5) - 3*j - 1 - 2 + 4. -2*j + 1 Expand -13*q**2 + 13*q**2 + 7*q**5 + (-q**4 - 3*q**4 + q**4)*(8*q - 2*q + 13*q). -50*q**5 Expand (z**3 - 2870 + 2870 + 23*z)*(z - z - 2*z**2). -2*z**5 - 46*z**3 Expand (2 - 3 + 3 + 3*p)*(p**2 - 3*p**2 + p**2)*(2 - 3 + 2)*(106 + 72 - 833). 1965*p**3 + 1310*p**2 Expand (-1 + 1 + 1)*(-16*o + 41 - 14*o + 32*o)*(0 + 0 + 2 - 2 + 1 - 1 + 5 - 5 - 1 + (-1 - 1 + 3)*(2 - 5 + 2)). -4*o - 82 Expand (-85 + 15 - 77)*(-5*n + n + 2*n)*(-4*n - 2*n**2 + 4*n). -588*n**3 Expand (11 - 15 - 7*g + 4*g + 6*g**2)*(2*g**2 + 3*g - 3*g). 12*g**4 - 6*g**3 - 8*g**2 Expand (-1 + 4 - 1)*(4*i**5 - 6*i**5 + i**5) - 10*i - 2*i**5 - 2*i + 7*i. -4*i**5 - 5*i Expand (-u**3 + 4*u**3 - u**3)*(-4*u + 3*u + 0*u) - 28*u**4 + 15*u**4 + 282*u + 11*u**4 - 2*u**2. -4*u**4 - 2*u**2 + 282*u Expand 2*y - 2*y + 2*y**2 + (-2*y**2 - 3*y + 3*y)*(-3 + 0 + 2) + (-3 + 0 - 3)*(-37 + y**2 + 37) + 2*y**2 + y**2 - 5*y**2. -4*y**2 Expand -13*f**4 - 15*f**4 + 5*f**4 + (0 + 0 + 2)*(-f**4 + 2*f**4 - 3*f**4). -27*f**4 Expand (46 - 5 + 21)*(-5*x + 0*x - 2*x). -434*x Expand -i - 2*i**4 - 4*i - 235*i**2 + 232*i**2 + (5*i**4 - 2*i**4 - 2*i**4)*(3 - 3 - 1). -3*i**4 - 3*i**2 - 5*i Expand (-3*l**3 + l**3 + l + 0*l)*(-2*l + 1 - 1) - 15606 - 556*l**4 + 15606. -552*l**4 - 2*l**2 Expand -3 + 2*l + 3 + l - 3*l + 0*l + (-1 + 1 + l)*(0 - 4 + 2) - 3*l + l + l - 2 + 2*l + 2 - 4*l + 2 - 2 - 6*l + 2*l + 3*l. -6*l Expand 4*t + 6*t - 2*t + (2 + t - 2)*(-4 + 6 + 2)*(-1 + 0 + 3). 16*t Expand (2 - 2*l**2 - 2)*(-3 - 2*l + 3) - 5*l - l**3 + 5*l - 59238 + 59238 + 265*l**3. 268*l**3 Expand (-7 + 7 + 8*t**4)*(-t + 4*t - 5*t + 4*t - 2*t - 3*t + (3 - 5 + 1)*(0*t + 2*t - 4*t) - t + 10*t + 0*t). 64*t**5 Expand (66*k**2 + 109*k - 1 - 143*k**2 + 75*k**2 - k**3)*(k - 3 + 3). -k**4 - 2*k**3 + 109*k**2 - k Expand (-3*o**2 + 5*o**2 - o**2 + 8*o)*(0*o**2 + 0*o**2 - o**2 + (-5*o + o + 2*o)*(163 - o - 163)). o**4 + 8*o**3 Expand (-2*u + 1 - 1)*(-1 - 2*u + 1) + 12 - u**2 - 12 + (3*u + 2 + 2*u - 3*u**2 - 4*u)*(-2 + 0 + 5). -6*u**2 + 3*u + 6 Expand 60*x**2 + 64*x**2 - 127*x**2 + 53 + (2*x + 3 - 3)*(4*x - x - 5*x). -7*x**2 + 53 Expand (2 + 0 - 6)*(-3*p + 2*p - 3*p)*(4*p + 6*p + 6*p). 256*p**2 Expand 5*w - w - w - 7 + 0 - w + 2*w + (2 + 3*w - 2)*(7 + 0 + 0 + (1 + 2 - 1)*(4 - 1 - 1)). 37*w - 7 Expand (4*z - 2*z - 4*z)*(2*z**4 + 0*z**4 - z**4) + (z + 3*z - 3*z)*(-2*z**4 - z**4 + 2*z**4) + (z + 3*z - 3*z)*(-1315*z + 42*z**4 + 1315*z). 39*z**5 Expand (0 - 2*u + 0)*(260*u + 49*u**3 - 48*u**3 - 81*u). -2*u**4 - 358*u**2 Expand (237 + 131 - 127)*(-4*j**2 - 2*j**5 + 4*j**2). -482*j**5 Expand (-4*k - 3*k + k)*(5 - 4*k - 1 - 5) + (3 + 1 - 5)*(2*k**2 - 4 + 4). 22*k**2 + 6*k Expand (-149 + 149 - 7*z)*(-7*z - 7 + 7). 49*z**2 Expand 40*p**3 - 40*p**3 - 21*p**5 + (-5*p**4 - 6*p**2 + 6*p**2)*(-2*p + p - p). -11*p**5 Expand (-5*y + 0*y + 2*y)*(0 + 1 + 1)*(436*y + 436*y - 2*y**2 - 898*y). 12*y**3 + 156*y**2 Expand 17754*x**2 + 473*x**5 - 17754*x**2 + (-2*x**4 + 2*x**2 - 2*x**2)*(x + 1 - 1). 471*x**5 Expand 404*t**2 - 1054 + 529 + 1375*t**2 + 525 + (4*t - 5*t + 3*t)*(-3 + 3 - t). 1777*t**2 Expand (-5 + 10*k + 4 + 4)*(-1 + 4 - 5). -20*k - 6 Expand (2*w - 3*w - w)*(0*w - 2*w + 0*w) + 2*w - 2*w + w**2 - w**2 + 0*w**2 + 0*w**2 - 10*w - 15*w**2 + 10*w - 4*w**2 + 2 - 2 - 2*w - w**2 + 4*w - w**2. -17*w**2 + 2*w Expand (3*u**3 + u**2 - u**2)*(-1 + 100*u + 33*u + 16*u). 447*u**4 - 3*u**3 Expand (30*u + 40*u - 87*u)*(-5 + 4 + 0)*(-3 + 1 + 4)*(4 - 4 - 3). -102*u Expand 349*t**5 - 52*t**2 - t**3 + 5*t**3 - 347*t**5 + t**5 + t**3 - t**3 + (0 + 2 - 4)*(-t**5 - 3*t**5 + 2*t**5). 7*t**5 + 4*t**3 - 52*t**2 Expand -3*d**5 + d**5 - 7*d**5 + (-3*d**3 + d**3 + 0*d**3)*(-5 + 5 + 4*d**2) - d**2 + d**2 - 2*d**5 + (-2*d - d**3 + 2*d)*(-3*d**2 + 2*d**2 + 2*d**2). -20*d**5 Expand 13*s - 27*s + 4 + 16*s + 0*s - s - s - 2*s - s + 0*s + 1 + s - 1 + (2 - 2 - 2)*(0 + 0 + 2*s) + 2*s + s + 0*s + (4 - 1 - 4)*(s + 2*s - 2*s). -4*s + 4 Expand -35*s**4 + 9*s**4 + 13*s**4 + (2*s - 2*s - 3*s)*(7*s**3 - s**3 - 8*s**3). -7*s**4 Expand (10*j - 81 + 81)*(0 + j + 0 - 1). 10*j**2 - 10*j Expand ((d - d - 2*d**2)*(-4 + 10*d + 4) + 2*d**3 - 4*d**3 + d**3)*(4*d - 4*d + 2 - 3*d + 2*d**2). -42*d**5 + 63*d**4 - 42*d**3 Expand -3*n**2 - 2 - 7*n**2 + 5*n**4 - 6*n**4 - n**2 - 3*n**4 + n**2 + (-n**3 - n**3 + n**3)*(-3*n + 4*n + n) + 5*n**4 - 4*n**4 + | Mid | [
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