Our world of technology is rapidly changing. We can compute more, faster. We can analyze incredibly large datasets efficiently and quickly. We can rapidly build applications that communicate in real-time with servers, mobile phones and all kinds of connected devices.
But our technology-led advancements also highlight the rising importance in humanity and ethics along with privacy and security – after all, big data also includes our personal data. As developers, we have an ethical imperative to do our due diligence when creating software – but where and how to start?
At this year's GOTO Copenhagen conference, we'll discuss how to plan, prepare and conquer this Brave New World of software. We'll review how past innovations (and mistakes) lead to incredible new opportunities for all kinds of technologies and how we can prepare ourselves for future advancements. Our speakers are top practitioners helping teams and organizations adopt new tools and technologies including Machine Learning, Serverless and DevOps, and internationally-recognized thought leaders and researchers planning for the Web 3.0.
How can today's engineers take advantage of modern learning methods? What are the main ideas and pitfalls when trying to automate decisions? How can organizations harness the power of machine learning to power their business?
As developers, how do we build inherently secure and maintainable code and infrastructure to protect our data and identities? How do we equip ourselves with tools to withstand intrusive and adversarial attacks and prepare for unforeseen security risks?
IoT, Serverless, Augmented Reality, Machine Learning - there is one platform uniting and connecting it all: mobile devices.
Everything is possible now on mobile devices. And everything is expected to happen on a mobile device. Businesses rely on it and we depend on it. But what are the actual cutting-edge mobile technologies and tools that we need to deliver better apps and satisfy the faster-and-faster time-to-market needs?
If you build it, you run it - but which skills and tools do you actually need to make the transition and run DevOps successfully? And how do we incorporate emerging ideas like Cloud Native, Serverless and Chaos Engineering as the next steps to enable more rapid iteration and better cooperation?
As a natural next step from Cloud's "Not on my machine" mantra, serverless applications offer more cost savings over bare-metal solutions through improved optimization of infrastructure resources. But how do we actually build serverless apps and run them successfully in production?
Everything nowadays seems to be "smart" and connected but are we prepared for the Internet of Things to be the new normal?
IoT no longer just means controlling a device from your smartphone. IoT equals ecosystems – some isolated, some connected, and some ready to be connected in a near future. As more devices communicate with cloud-based systems, our world should be getting smarter but more connected devices also creates new unforeseen risks, with security being the most prevalent.
"Chaos engineering involves running thoughtful planned experiments which teach us how our systems behave in the face of failure. These experiments start with a hypothesis about how things will behave, involve measuring the impact at each step, and result in better understanding of the how the system behaves under duress. From this, we can decide what actions to take to strengthen or mitigate the issue." - Kolton Andrus, Founder and CEO at Gremlin Inc.
Tools won't fix your broken culture. And neither will hiring "a DevOps".
No matter how technical the job is, we still have to interact with other humans. Even after our Agile or Lean implementation or radical DevOps initiative is running, we have to be able to work effectively with people from different disciplines and backgrounds if we are to create truly high-performing teams.
We're witnessing a shift from hierarchical 'command and control' management systems to flatter systems with more individual autonomy and yet despite their benefits, these systems present new and unique challenges. We need to understand the importance of inclusion, diversity, psychology and all facets of working together.
Organizations struggle to scale critical applications every day. Users expect reliability, high availability, and extraordinarily rich user experiences across a wide variety of device and network conditions. But with increased traffic volume and data demands, these applications can become slow, inconsistent or just not work.
Scaling isn't just about handling more users – it's about managing risk and ensuring availability. What technical decisions do we need to make ensure that we can grow from tens of users to hundreds and thousands and provide the same expected quality? What current and emerging architectures, practices and solutions can we leverage to achieve predictable performance and scalability?
In an EDA, are Events the only means of communication between components?
How does an Event Driven Architecture relate to Event Sourcing?
In an Event-Driven system, how can one keep track of cause-and-effect chains?
Software Architecture is as important as ever. Newer distributed architectures like event-driven, microservices and serverless are increasing in popularity and adoption but much of the world still runs smoothly because of solid application architectures. These cohesively coupled monoliths often solve problems in the simplest way and might be the right choice for some organizations. But it still critical for architects to understand how to take existing applications and migrate them to microservices or other service-based architectures.
Understanding these different technologies, trade-offs and practices can directly impact an organization's long-term success. Today's software architects must design, implement and deploy solutions that are both effective and versatile for our changing world of software. Which technologies and practices can help or hinder when dealing with legacy enterprise architectures? How can architects create hybrid architectures that take advantage of both application and distributed architectures?
Is our personal data really that private? Recent scandals like Cambridge Analytica's involvement with the political elections in the US, UK and elsewhere remind us how easy it is for our personal data to be misused.
As developers, we must be ethical with how we store and use users' personal data - users entrust us to keep this information secure and private. New legislation like GDPR is helping ensure we prioritize data privacy but we must also adopt new and more readily-available tools and techniques like encryption and multi-factor authentication to make our apps and services more secure and safeguard data privacy.
"Continuous Delivery is the ability to get changes of all types - including new features, configuration changes, bug fixes and experiments - into production, or into the hands of users, safely and quickly in a sustainable way. Our goal is to make deployments - whether of a large-scale distributed system, a complex production environment, an embedded system, or an app - predictable, routine affairs that can be performed on demand."
"Continuous Delivery is rooted in the ideas of the scientific method. We are trying to allow developers, teams and organisations to work in a more experimental way. That means making small changes, observing the results and adapting to what we learn. So we optimise our development process for fast, efficient, high-quality feedback. This allows us to steer our software projects more effectively and so create higher-quality software faster. Adopt an experimental approach to making change, think in terms of "how can I measure that to understand if it works, or not". Apply this thinking to EVERYTHING that you do, org-structure, team org, technical things, operations, requirements - Everything."
In many ways, Continuous Delivery extends Agile development principles to production and operations but implementing Continuous Delivery is hard. So many tools claim to "implement Continuous Delivery" but in reality, it requires both technology and organizational improvements.
How can we embrace an evolutionary architecture paradigm and a more iterative approach to improving the design of our enterprise systems? How can we evolve into a more high performing organizations trying to always get better? And what patterns should we adopt to increase throughput, stability and quality as we deploy software more frequently?
All organizations and industries are digitizing their presence and solutions but is this really Digital Transformation or just Digital Optimization?
Digital Transformation requires a radical rethinking of how organizations leverage technology to provide new business value, reach new customers and deliver solutions. Adding new features like AI-powered chatbots are simply augmenting existing services. True Digital Transformation requires collaboration across departments and faster application development based on business priorities. Sounds similar to Agile and DevOps right?
Many new technologies in the Cloud Native space can help power Digital Transformation but how can organizations ensure that they are truly transforming and not just optimizing when adopting new tech solutions? And how can we use Agile methodologies and DevOps practices to better respond to changing market dynamics and deliver better solutions faster?


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I am out of ideas, I have a 5 yr old lab that developed allergies about a year ago. We had him allergy tested and started the allergy shots about 2 months ago. This was after he chewed all the hair off his legs and irritated his skin. We have done rounds of antibiotics to get the infection cleared up. We tried 3 types of itch medicines and found one that worked for a while. The hair grew back and things were looking good. The medicine quit working, the allergy shots don't appear to be helping any, now he is back scratching his eye and irritating them, chewing the hair off his legs, scratching till he is out of breath. We have been giving medicated baths every other day. Prior to the allergy testing we tried different foods, grain free to rule out gluten, we tried coconut oil in the food, we made sure we washed his bedding in plain hot water, he is an inside dog so we know it wasn't a heat related flair up. I've spent about $2000 in the last couple of months and I'm not seeing any real improvement. Steroids are the only thing that helps, which are not good long term, and causes him to have to go to the bathroom frequently so he can't make it till I get home from work, before going on the floor (tile floor so cleanup is easy). The vet is running out of ideas too, without taking more extreme measures, which I cannot afford at this point. We tried benadryl and other allergy medicines and no change. Any ideas.


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Mayor Karen Bass Announces Direct Cash Assistance Program
Published On: December 20, 2022Categories: City Hall News, MFLA News, Program News
Mayor Karen Bass joined the Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles today to announce that $1.5 million will be distributed to Angeleno families in need this holiday season through GIVEN, a direct-cash assistance program. The announcement, made in partnership with the City's Community investment for Families Department, comes just after Mayor Bass' historic inauguration as the first woman and the second Black person to serve as mayor of Los Angeles and builds on her campaign promise to advocate for working-class families.
GIVEN is a program of the Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles conducted in partnership with Mayor Bass and the City of Los Angeles' Community Investment for Families Department and its FamilySource centers. Through the initiative, direct cash assistance of $300 will be provided to 5,000 families across Los Angeles who need help with groceries and other necessities as the holidays approach. To kick off the program, Mayor Bass will attend a holiday give-out event on Dec. 16 at the All Peoples Community Center FamilySource center in Southeast Los Angeles.
"I've promised to work on behalf of all Angelenos—and that means making sure low-income families aren't left behind," said Mayor Bass. "I'm proud that GIVEN, one of the first programs launched under my administration, will provide direct and immediate financial assistance to help brighten the holidays for families who are going through a difficult time."
To qualify for cash assistance through GIVEN, families must meet criteria that include residing in the City of Los Angeles, having a household income at or below 80% of the area median income and demonstrating hardship. This is the sixth direct-cash assistance program under the Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles since the pandemic began through which almost $50 million has been distributed to more than 130,000 Angelenos. Anonymous spending data across all programs has shown that a majority of the funding received has been spend on groceries and household essentials. Funding for GIVEN comes from the thousands of generous Angelenos who have donated to the Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles since the pandemic began.
"The Mayor's Fund and the City are leading the nation forward with groundbreaking investments in direct cash assistance programs, because we know they can reduce poverty," said Deidre Lind, president and CEO of the Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles. "We are thrilled that Mayor Bass is doubling down on that investment by launching GIVEN, which will give families the additional resources they need to make ends meet this Holiday season."
The City's FamilySource Centers will administer GIVEN by distributing cards to qualifying families.
"Our FamilySource Centers are the heart of our service delivery system – places where Angelenos in neighborhoods across the city know they can go for the help they need," said Abigail Marquez, General Manager of CIFD, which oversees the facilities. "We are proud to support Mayor Bass' GIVEN program with our network of resources, and help connect families with this important financial lifeline."
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The Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving life for all Angelenos. Uniquely positioned at the crossroads of local government, business, philanthropy and nonprofits, the Fund facilitates communication and collaboration between the public and private sectors to find solutions to Los Angeles' most complex challenges. It was established in 2014 as a permanent resource for Los Angeles residents that spans across mayoral administrations. Information at: www.MayorsFundLA.org.
About Community Investment for Families Department
On December 9, 2020, the Los Angeles City Council voted to create a new department to assist families who were already vulnerable to economic uncertainty before the COVID-19 pandemic and are far more vulnerable now.
The new Community Investment for Families Department (CIFD) was created to establish poverty-reduction goals for the City; play an active role in implementing homelessness prevention programs; oversee the following programs that ensure smart impactful initiatives are taken that will build a path for Los Angeles community residents in need to create financial security with the ultimate goal of ending generational poverty:
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Moorestown, NJ (WTXF) - A curfew is being enforced for kids on Mischief Night and Halloween in Moorestown, New Jersey.
The spooky scene is set for Halloween in one South Jersey neighborhood and yes it's about treats but officials are concerned just as much about the tricks.
"I think most parents will keep their children inside if they know a curfew is enforced," said Michelle Litwack. And that's what many towns hope will happen.
Litwack's daughter Hannah will be dressed as a unicorn. In Moorestown, New Jersey, where they live police remind parents there's a curfew not only for Halloween but the night before known as Mischief Night.
"Last year, our babysitter's car got egged," said Hannah.
Moorestown Police posted on its Facebook page that they want everyone to enjoy Halloween safely. So if you're under 17 you have to be in by 8:30 p.m. for Mischief Night and by 10 p.m. on Halloween night.
"I actually don't like it. We're teenagers. We live once so might as well get the best out of it," said 14-year old Ron O'Connell. He and his friends say they do mischief night every year.
"Get some toilet paper. Ring some doorbells and get out of their quick as we can. It's a lot of fun," said 14-year-old Peter Calleo. But they're not looking to get into any trouble.
"No harm or anything. We always clean up at the end and it's a lot of fun," said Calleo.
Ian Amacher says Halloween is a big deal for his boys 6-year-old Jacob and 5-year-old Lucas who were out playing hockey this evening.
"We usually go around the neighborhood, we have some friends over and basically make a full night out of it," he said. They'll be out dressed as a dragon and transformer bumblebee but dad says the township's curfew isn't an issue for them.
"We're in bed by then anyway so lights are off and candy's done," said Amacher.


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This film was created to launch Nycomed's new intranet – and create a sense of excitement and pride. It also needed to acknowledge the effort and input of employees and build a picture of some of the key functionalities. We created a suite of four films – with the launch film followed by three 'How To' films, exploring particular functions. A voice-over tells the intranet story, leading us through a few of the new functions while a pair of hands magically paint a picture of the scenarios by pulling 'screens' out of thin air. The films were hugely successful in launching Nycomed's new intranet in a visually exciting way, inspiring people and stimulating the urge to explore and participate.
A mix of live action and animation takes us through the launch of Nycomed's intranet.


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Events in the year 1890 in Belgium.

Incumbents
Monarch - Leopold II
Prime Minister: Auguste Marie François Beernaert

Events
 25 May – Provincial elections
 27 May – Belgian National Day is made a legal holiday
 10 June – Belgian general election, 1890
 2 July – Brussels Conference Act of 1890 (anti-slavery convention)
 21 July – first observance of 21 July as Belgian National Day; king lays the foundation stone of the Arcade du Cinquantenaire in Brussels.
 16 to 21 August – Seventh International Eucharistic Congress held in Antwerp, with an estimated 150,000 participants.
 establishment of Sint-Leocollege in Bruges

Publications
 Sylvain Balau, Soixante-dix ans d'histoire contemporaine de Belgique (1815-1884), 3rd edition, with a preface by Charles Woeste (Liège, L. Grandmont-Donders, and Ghent, A. Siffer).
 Prosper de Haulleville, Les nonciatures apostoliques en Belgique depuis 1830
 Paul Fredericq and Henrietta Leonard, The Study of History in Holland and Belgium (Johns Hopkins University Press)
 Iwan Gilkin, La Damnation de l'artiste (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
 Alexis Marie Gochet, Les Congolais: leurs moeurs et usages. Histoire, géographie et ethnographie de l'état indépendant du Congo (Liège, H. Dessain)
 Philippe Kervyn de Volkaersbeke, La Lutte de l'Irlande (Lille, Société de Saint-Augustin)

Births
 1 January – Alphonse Six, footballer
 5 March – Ann Codee, actress (died 1961)
 25 June – Camille Tihon, archivist (died 1972)
 10 October – Jan Vanderheyden, film-maker (died 1961)
 13 November – Oscar Blansaer, Olympic athlete (died 1962)

Deaths
 2 March – Eudore Pirmez (born 1830), politician
 22 March – Désiré de Haerne (born 1804), priest
 11 May – Eugène Albert (born 1816), clarinet maker
 23 May – Louis Artan (born 1837), artist
 5 July – Pierre Van Humbeeck (born 1829), politician
 3 September – Willem Linnig the Younger (born 1842), artist
 22 September – Joanna Courtmans (born 1811), writer
 23 October – Charles Verlat (born 1824), painter
 16 November – Jean Auguste Ulric Scheler (born 1819), philologist
 19 December – César De Paepe (born 1841), syndicalist
 21 December – Eugène Anspach (born 1833), governor of the national bank

References

1890s in Belgium

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SuperKids Software Review of QuickStudy Spanish.
As the title aptly suggests, QuickStudy Spanish offers a quick solution to learning the Spanish language. It does so by immersing the user in the language -- through vocabulary exposure and drills, real-life videos featuring Spanish dialogues with optional English translations, and interactive conversations in which the user must respond appropriately to on-screen characters. With dedicated use of this product, users can expect to develop a basic grasp of the language. They should not, however, expect to become U.N. interpreters.
The main screen for QuickStudy Spanish looks like the lobby of a language studio. From here, students can choose to enter the language lab, the conversation lab or the game room. A grammar guidebook and dictionary provide handy reference, as does a pocket-sized printed phrasebook for last minute consultation. Speech recognition technology allows users to record their own pronunciations and receive instant feedback about their oral language progress.
QuickStudy Spanish was developed with the traveler in mind. Vocabulary is grouped in the following important categories: People, Daily Life, Getting Around, Eating Out, Shopping, Unexpected Events, Traveling, and Going Abroad. Key words and phrases are taught for each category. In addition to providing the basics for communication, traveling advice is included throughout. For example, along the lesson on shopping for clothes, the user is reminded that sizes vary in different countries.
The conversation lab allows the user to test verbal mastery of the language. Here, s/he is placed in typical situations and asked to dialogue with on-screen counterparts. This section features speech recognition technology, which allows the computer to check for appropriate verbal responses and direct the conversation accordingly. The user can choose from a wide variety of situations including checking into a hotel, ordering meals, and visiting a museum.
Finally, the game room lets students drill language skills through fun, interactive games. A video-matching game features short videos, a jukebox plays popular Spanish tunes (La Bamba, La Cucaracha), and the board game "Conquest" pits the user against another player (or the computer) in a mix of vocabulary skills and chance.
This "quick-fix" program does its best to make a potentially tedious endeavor more interesting. It combines animation, video and on-screen guides with straightforward instruction, to keep the user attentively engaged. The virtual conversation section was well-liked by our testers, although they cautioned that it can be temperamental. For best results a quiet room and careful enunciation are required.
QuickStudy Spanish installed with ease. It requires QuickTime 2.1.2 which can be installed from the CD-ROM.
Program navigation is simple. A tutor greets the user from the outset of the program, and provides guidance through much of the program. A detailed 'help' file including valuable guidance and troubleshooting tips is also readily available .
QuickStudy Spanish targets the traveler who has little time and wants to learn usable, conversational Spanish. To this end the program is quite successful, providing instruction and drills in an interesting, well-organized manner. It is definitely not the best choice for the struggling Spanish student who needs extra tutoring, nor is it appropriate for a beginning student hoping to build a complete understanding of the language.
See SuperKids' comparisons with other Spanish software titles, and the Buyers Guide for current market prices of this PC-only program.
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Tram Tales is a mixed-media interactive art installation set inside a tram depot at Gariahat, Kolkata. It was a unique project, aimed at bringing elements from our near or distant past and create them into an immersive experience.
We were invited by the organisers to capture this experience into our camera.


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Obama Nominates UW Alum to Run Peace Corps
From The Washington Times, June 14, 2009
President Obama on Tuesday announced his intention to nominate former Peace Corps volunteer Aaron Williams to run the federal agency.
"America was built on a belief that the best progress comes from ordinary citizens working to bring about the change they believe in," the president said. "Through a lifetime of service, Aaron Williams has embodied the very best of that American ideal. I am grateful for his service and honored to nominate him to direct the critical work of the Peace Corps."
The announcement was made hours before the president was scheduled to throw out the first pitch at Major League Baseball's All-Star game in St. Louis. He also will appear in a video with all five living presidents that spotlights major-leaguers who have performed distinguished service in their communities.
In response to the president's call for Americans to participate in his "United We Serve" initiative, Major League Baseball has dedicated this year's All-Star game and related events to community service.
The Peace Corps was started in the early 1960s when then-Sen. John F. Kennedy challenged University of Michigan students to serve their country by living and working in developing countries. Today, more than 195,000 volunteers have served in 139 host countries.
Mr. Williams is now vice president of international business development for RTI International, a North Carolina-based research group for government and business.
He has more than 25 years of experience in world-wide assistance programs.
Mr. Williams was a senior manager at the U.S. Agency for International Development, at which he established public-private partnerships around the world.
Mr. Williams also has worked in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer from 1967 to 1970, then became a minority-recruitment coordinator and project-evaluation officer at the group's Chicago office.
Mr. Williams, who speaks fluent Spanish, graduated from Chicago State University and has a master's degree in business administration from the University of Wisconsin.
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This journalism flourished during the Arab Spring, and was marked above all by its deep sympathy for genuine movements and revolts that began in 2011. At the time when people lost the fear, and could speak freely, it was vital to hear what they had to say.
The revolutions created unprecedented optimism, and for a brief period we saw that the popular and natural instinct of the mass of people was genuinely open, anti-sectarian and desired above all else social justice and real change.
In No Turning Back, Rania Abouzeid follows the lives of Syrians involved in the revolution from its onset, and traces the tragic decisions, unbearable foreign interference, ferocious regime sieges, division, infighting and the tragic defeat that followed.
Her brave on-the-ground reporting placed her in the thick of the events, often in great personal danger. In the process she reveals in great detail the mechanics of life during wartime, the almost naive sense of hope, followed by the sectarianisation of Syrian society, the process of Islamic radicalisation, destruction at the hands of the regime, exile and the deep sense of betrayal.
This makes a very hard, yet compelling read. What do we learn? Firstly that this was a genuine uprising whose aims, although never clearly defined, sprung from the hopes generated by the Arab Spring.
The early chapters that cover the high point of the revolution, 2011-12, are full of the desire for peaceful change and compelling personal transformation. The later chapters cover the military stalemate, degeneration, depression and defeat.
The characters reveal, in a series of interviews spread over six years, how as the revolutionaries took up the gun they lost control over the fate of the revolution.
One character, who emerged out of the leadership of the 2011 Homs uprising, describes how by refusing to accept Saudi or Qatari patronage his alliance of rebel fighters was first targeted by foreign powers, then eventually destroyed by ISIS. He by chance escapes execution by his Islamic State captors.
Many of his former comrades joined US-funded groups whose main aim was to collect intelligence on Islamist groups, not fight the regime.
Others who had met Rania at the beginning of the revolution, were rounded up in the first waves of mass arrests, and contacted her following their release. Despite the grim details of life in regime prisons hope survived, even as many eventually died under torture or neglect.
Despite some official clearance to report in regime-controlled areas, Rania would eventually be listed as an "enemy" by the regime. Despite this direct threat to her life she still reported on the impact of sectarian kidnappings by rebels of women and children from pro-regime Allawi villages.
Of particular interest to socialists are the sections that cover the split between al-Qaeda and ISIS Salafi movements: al-Qaeda attempted to learn the lesson of its defeat in Iraq by adapting itself to the mass uprising, while the Islamic State considered the revolution as an enemy. Inside this story is the contradictory nature of Islamist movements, and its consequences for any rebellion.
Rania Abousaid's journalism represents some of the best reporting to emerge out of the Arab Spring. Her book is a must-read for those who want to look beyond the chaff of disinformation around Syria.
She shows that journalism at its best is the one that reveals the truth, however unpalatable it may be.


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Deze lijst probeert een zo volledig mogelijk beeld weer te geven van alle militaire (en staatkundige) allianties door de eeuwen heen.

Preromeinse Tijd
 5e eeuw v.Chr. - Delisch-Attische Zeebond
 5de eeuw v.Chr. - Peloponnesische Bond

Romeinse Tijd

Middeleeuwen
 842 - Eed van Straatsburg
 1291 - Zwitsers Eedgenootschap

Renaissance
 23 januari 1579 - Unie van Utrecht
 6 januari 1579 - Unie van Atrecht
 maart 1684 - de Heilige Alliantie

18e eeuw
 1717 - Kortstondige alliantie tussen Engeland, Nederland en Frankrijk tegen Spanje

19e eeuw
 1815 - Heilige Alliantie
 1882 - Drievoudige Alliantie

20e eeuw
 1908 - Triple Entente
 22 mei 1939 - Het Staalpact
 1941 - De geallieerden tegen nazi-Duitsland
 4 april 1949 - NAVO
 1951 - ANZUS
 14 mei 1955 - Warschaupact
 1982 - Regionaal Veiligheidssysteem

21e eeuw
 1997 - GUAM
 2001 - Shanghai-samenwerkingsorganisatie
 2002 - Organisatie voor het Verdrag inzake Collectieve Veiligheid

Militaire


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Lech Stefan Kuropatwiński (4 July 1947 – 20 December 2022) was a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 6,115 votes in 5 Toruń district as a candidate of the Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland list.

Kuropatwiński was also a member of Sejm from 2001 to 2005. He had been the leader of Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland from 2012.

See also
Members of Polish Sejm 2005-2007

References

External links
Lech Kuropatwiński - parliamentary page - includes declarations of interest, voting record, and transcripts of speeches.

1947 births
2022 deaths
People from Włocławek County
Members of the Polish Sejm 2005–2007
Members of the Polish Sejm 2001–2005
Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland politicians


Due to the 100 percent prediction of rain forecast Saturday, the Easter egg hunt planned at Pacific Park by East End Allegiance Our Youth has been pushed back one week.
" It's important that we do something in the community for our youth! We didn't want to cancel the event. Come out for an evening Easter egg hunt! The kids will love it," said EEA President Bridgette Cooper.


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Benjamin Cone, III & Worship
Son of the late recording artist Reverend Benjamin Cone Jr., Benjamin "Benji" Cone III is a singer, worship leader and founder and manager of the gospel choir Worship.
Born in 1974 in Jackson, Mississippi, Cone formed Worship in the living room of his Jackson home in March 1997. The 12-member choir initially sang a cappella because none of its members played instruments. Worship quickly grew to 25 singers and eventually added musicians, including Cone's teenaged son, Christian Jean-Michael, on drums.
Today, the 30-member Worship performs traditional gospel, spirituals and contemporary pieces. Its debut full-length CD, When Praise Meets Worship, was issued in October 2013 on Malaco's Muscle Shoals Sound imprint. It produced gospel radio singles My Hands are Lifted Up, The Race and You Just Don't Know How the Lord Brought Me Out.
In addition to its own CD, Worship has served as the background choir on recordings by Malaco gospel artists Dorothy Norwood, Carolyn Traylor, Bryan Andrew Wilson, Lillian Lilly and others. The ensemble appeared on the late Rev. James Moore's final recording, Live in Detroit—Family and Friends, and on the Messengers' live recording Special Delivery. The 32nd Annual Mississippi Gospel Music Awards named Worship Local Choir of the Year.
Alongside his duties with Worship, Cone continues his father's legacy as spiritual advisor, associate director, songwriter and soloist with the Mississippi Mass Choir. His declarative voice can be heard leading the Mississippi Mass Choir's hit, God Made Me, from its 2010 album Then Sings My Soul. Cone is also Coordinator of Music and Arts for West Point Baptist Church in nearby Hattiesburg
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\section{Introduction}
Quantum phase transitions (QPTs) that happened at the zero
temperature is purely a phenomenon of ground state (GS) transition
driven by external parameters. Traditionally, QPTs are described
in terms of order parameter and symmetry breaking within the
Landau-Ginzburg paradigm which have been extensively studied in
condensed matter physics \cite{Sachdev}. In recent years, QPT has
also attracted a lot of attention in quantum-information science
\cite{Osterloh,Vidal}, in which one of the research focus is the
role of quantum entanglement in characterizing QPTs
\cite{Osterloh,Vidal,Wu,Gu,LAmico07}. More recently, another
concept in quantum information science, i.e., the fidelity has
been put forward to identify QPTs from the perspective of the GS
wave functions \cite {Zanardi06,HTQuan2006}. The GS fidelity is
defined as the overlap between two ground states with only
slightly different values of the external parameters
\cite{Zanardi06} and thus is a pure geometrical quantity. Since no
a priori knowledge of the order parameter is needed, the fidelity
might be a potential universal criteria for characterizing the
QPTs
\cite{Zanardi06,Pzanardi0606130,Buonsante,Chen,MFYang,HQZhou,HQZhou07,Gu07}.
An increasing interest has been drawn in the role of GS fidelity
in detecting QPTs for various many-body systems
\cite{Pzanardi0606130,Buonsante,Chen,MFYang,HQZhou,HQZhou07,Gu07},
since Zanardi and Paunkovic first exploited it to identify QPTs in
the XY spin chain \cite{Zanardi06} where the fidelity shows a
narrow drop at the transition point. Remarkably, the success of
fidelity analysis in dealing with the Bose-Hubbard model \cite
{Buonsante} and spin systems \cite{Chen,MFYang} implies that it
may have practical relevance even for more complicate strongly
interacting systems where no a simple description is possible. The
relation between the fidelity and Berry phase \cite{Zhu} has also
been unveiled in terms of Riemannian metric tensors
\cite{Zanardi07PRL}.

Generally one may expect that the GS fidelity shows an abrupt drop
in the vicinity of the QPT point of the system as a consequence of
the dramatic change of the structure of the GS. This is true for
the first-order QPTs caused by a level crossing of GSs due to the
GS wavefunctions at the different sides of the level-crossing
point are almost orthogonal (orthogonal at the level-crossing
point). However, this is neither an obvious nor a general
conclusion for a continuous QPT where no GS level crossing occurs
and the GS evolves ``adiabatically" in the parameter space
\cite{Gu07,Chen}. Conventionally, QPTs are characterized by
singularities of the ground state energy: first-order QPTs are
characterized by discontinuities in the first derivative of the
energy, whereas second-order ($n$th-order) QPTs are characterized
by discontinuities in the second ($n$th) derivative of the energy.
An important question is whether the singularity of GS energy is
intrinsically related to the GS overlap? Answering this question
is no doubt significant for a deeper understanding of QPTs, and
the validity and limitation of fidelity as a measure of QPTs.

So far the studies of fidelity as a measure of QPTs are based on
the analysis of particular many-body models
\cite{Zanardi06,Buonsante}. The general connection between GS
fidelity and QPTs is not yet well established. In this work, we
shall discuss, in a general framework, how the GS fidelity can be
related to a QPT characterized by non-analyticities of the GS
energy. Our result shows that the singularity and scaling
behaviors of the GS fidelity (or it derivatives) are directly
related to its correspondences of the derivative of GS energy.

Our paper is organized as follows. In section II, we reveal the
general relation between the fidelity susceptibility and the 2nd
order derivative of the GS energy. The subsequent sections are
devoted to two examples which exhibit the 2nd order and
Kosterlitz-Thouless (KT) QPTs, respectively. A summary is given in
the last section.

\section{Fidelity and quantum phase transition}
The general Hamiltonian of a quantum
many-body system undergoing QPTs reads
\begin{equation}
H(\lambda )=H_0+\lambda H_1,  \label{Ham}
\end{equation}
where $H_1$ is supposed to be the driving term with $\lambda $ the
control parameter. In terms of the eigenstates $|\Psi _n(\lambda
)\rangle $ of $H(\lambda )$, the Hamiltonian can be reformulated as $%
H(\lambda )=\sum_0^{\mathcal{N}-1}E_n(\lambda )|\Psi _n(\lambda
)\rangle \langle \Psi _n(\lambda )|,$ where $\mathcal{N}$ is
dimensions of the Hilbert space. The GS fidelity is defined as the
overlap between $ |\Psi _0(\lambda )\rangle $ and $|\Psi
_0(\lambda +\delta )\rangle $, i.e.
\begin{equation}
F(\lambda ,\delta )=\left| \langle \Psi _0(\lambda )|\Psi _0(\lambda +\delta
)\rangle \right| ,
\end{equation}
where $\Psi _0(\lambda )$ is the GS wavefunction corresponding to
the parameter $\lambda $ and $\delta $ is a small quantity
\cite{Zanardi06}. It is obvious that the fidelity is dependent of
$\delta $. The rate of change of fidelity is given by the second
derivative of fidelity\cite{Zanardi06} or fidelity susceptibility
(FS) \cite {Gu07}
\begin{equation}
S(\lambda )=\partial _\delta ^2F(\lambda ,\delta )\mid _{\delta =0}\simeq
2\lim_{\delta \rightarrow 0}\frac{1-F(\lambda ,\delta )}{\delta ^2},
\label{FS}
\end{equation}
which is $\delta $ independent and sometimes a more effective quantity to
detect the QPT.

First we discuss the first order QPT ($1$QPT) which is induced by
GS level crossing.
We assume $E_0(\lambda )<$ $E_1(\lambda )$ for $\lambda <\lambda _c$ with $%
\lambda _c$ being the crossing point where the GS energy level
$E_0$ crosses over the first excited level $E_1$, therefore we
must have $E_1(\lambda )<E_0(\lambda )$ for $\lambda >\lambda _c.$
Explicitly, for the $1$QPT, the GS energy is defined as
\[
E_g(\lambda )=\left\{
\begin{array}{lll}
E_0(\lambda ) &  & \lambda <\lambda _c, \\
E_1(\lambda ) &  & \lambda >\lambda _c.
\end{array}
\right.
\]
The derivative of the GS energy is defined as
\[
\frac{\partial E_g(\lambda )}{\partial \lambda }=\left\{
\begin{array}{lll}
\lim_{\lambda \rightarrow \lambda _c-0}\frac{E_0(\lambda )-E_0(\lambda _c)}{%
\lambda -\lambda _c}=\frac{\partial E_0\left( \lambda \right) }{\partial
\lambda } &  & \lambda <\lambda _c, \\
\lim_{\lambda \rightarrow \lambda _c+0}\frac{E_1(\lambda )-E_1(\lambda _c)}{%
\lambda -\lambda _c}=\frac{\partial E_1\left( \lambda \right) }{\partial
\lambda } &  & \lambda >\lambda _c.
\end{array}
\right.
\]
In general, $\frac \partial {\partial \lambda }E_0\left( \lambda
\right) $ is not equal to $\frac \partial {\partial \lambda
}E_1\left( \lambda \right) ,$ therefore the first derivative of GS
energy for a $1$QPT is not continuous at the transition point.
Accordingly, the GS fidelity at the transition point is defined as
$F(\lambda _c,\delta )=\left| \langle \Psi _g(\lambda _c-\delta
/2)|\Psi _g(\lambda _c+\delta /2)\rangle \right| =\left| \langle
\Psi _0(\lambda _c-\delta /2)|\Psi _1(\lambda _c+\delta /2)\rangle
\right| ,$ therefore we have $\lim_{\delta \rightarrow 0}F(\lambda
_c,\delta )=0$ which means that there appears a sharp drop in the
transition point. It is straightforward that the sudden drop in
the transition point shares the same physical origin with the
discontinuity of the first derivative of GS energy.

Next we consider the continuous phase transition for which the GS
of the Hamiltonian is nondegenerate for a finite system. For the
case of $2nd$ order QPT, there is no level crossing for the GS
energy, therefore we can always represent $E_g\left( \lambda
\right) =E_0\left( \lambda \right)$. The first derivative of the
GS energy is given by $\frac \partial {\partial \lambda }E_0\left(
\lambda \right) =\left\langle \Psi _0(\lambda )\right| H_1\left|
\Psi _0(\lambda )\right\rangle ,$ which is noting else but the
Hellmann-Feynman theorem. It is straightforward to get the second
derivative of GS energy $\frac{\partial ^2}{\partial \lambda^2
}E_0\left( \lambda \right) =\left\langle \Psi _0(\lambda )\right|
H_1\left| \partial _\lambda \Psi _0(\lambda )\right\rangle
+h.c.\text{ .}$ Inserting the identity operator
$\sum_{n=0}^{\mathcal{N}-1}\left| \Psi _n(\lambda )\right\rangle
\left\langle \Psi _n(\lambda )\right| =1$ between $H_1$ and $
\left| \partial _\lambda \Psi _0(\lambda )\right\rangle $, we then
get $ \frac{\partial ^2}{\partial \lambda^2 }E_0\left( \lambda
\right) =\sum_{n=1}^{\mathcal{N}-1}H_{0n}^1\left\langle \Psi
_n(\lambda )\right. \left| \partial _\lambda \Psi _0(\lambda
)\right\rangle +h.c.$ with $ H_{0n}^1=\left\langle \Psi _0(\lambda
)\right| H_1\left| \Psi _n(\lambda )\right\rangle .$ We note that
the term of $n=0$ is not included in the summation because it
gives zero due to $\left\langle \partial _\lambda \Psi _0(\lambda
)\right. \left| \Psi _0(\lambda )\right\rangle +\left\langle \Psi
_0(\lambda )\right. \left| \partial _\lambda \Psi _0(\lambda
)\right\rangle =0.$ Differentiating the eigenequation $H\left|
\Psi _0(\lambda
)\right\rangle =E_0\left| \Psi _0(\lambda )\right\rangle $ with respect to $%
\lambda $ and taking the inner product with $\Psi _n(\lambda )$ yields $%
\left\langle \Psi _n(\lambda )\right| \partial _\lambda H\left| \Psi
_0(\lambda )\right\rangle +\left\langle \Psi _n(\lambda )\right| H\left|
\partial _\lambda \Psi _0(\lambda )\right\rangle =\partial _\lambda
E_0\delta _{n0}+E_0\left\langle \Psi _n(\lambda )\right. \left| \partial
_\lambda \Psi _0(\lambda )\right\rangle .$ Exploiting the hermiticity of $H$
to write $\left\langle \Psi _n(\lambda )\right| H\left| \partial _\lambda
\Psi _0(\lambda )\right\rangle =E_n\left\langle \Psi _n(\lambda )\right.
\left| \partial _\lambda \Psi _0(\lambda )\right\rangle ,$ it follows that
for $n\neq 0,$ $\left\langle \Psi _n(\lambda )\right. \left| \partial
_\lambda \Psi _0(\lambda )\right\rangle ={\left\langle \Psi _n(\lambda
)\right| \partial _\lambda H\left| \Psi _0(\lambda )\right\rangle }/{%
(E_0-E_n)}.$ Therefore, we have
\begin{equation}
\frac{\partial ^2}{\partial \lambda ^2 }E_0\left( \lambda \right)
=\sum_{n\neq 0}\frac{2\left| \left\langle \Psi _n(\lambda )\right|
H_1\left| \Psi _0(\lambda )\right\rangle \right| ^2}{E_0(\lambda
)-E_n(\lambda )}. \label{2dE}
\end{equation}
To see the relation of FS with the second derivative of GS energy,
we rederive the expression of FS \cite {Gu07,Zanardi07PRL} by
expanding the wavefunction $\left| \Psi _0(\lambda +\delta
)\right\rangle $ in the basis of eigenstates corresponding to the
parameter $\lambda $, to the first order, which leads to
\[
\left| \Psi _0(\lambda +\delta )\right\rangle =c\left( \left| \Psi
_0(\lambda )\right\rangle +\delta \sum_{n\neq 0}\frac{H_{n0}^1\left( \lambda
\right) \left| \Psi _n(\lambda )\right\rangle }{E_0(\lambda )-E_n(\lambda )}%
\right) ,
\]
where $c=\sqrt{1+\delta ^2\sum_{n\neq 0}\left| H_{n0}^1\left( \lambda
\right) \right| ^2/[E_0(\lambda )-E_n(\lambda )]^2}$ is the normalization
constant. It follows directly $F(\lambda ,\delta )=c.$ Substituting it back
into Eq. (\ref{FS}), we get
\begin{equation}
S\left( \lambda \right) =\sum_{n\neq 0}\frac{\left| \left\langle \Psi
_n(\lambda )\right| H_1\left| \Psi _0(\lambda )\right\rangle \right| ^2}{%
\left[ E_0(\lambda )-E_n(\lambda )\right] ^2}.  \label{FSR}
\end{equation}

Comparing Eqs. (\ref{FSR}) and (\ref{2dE}), we find that for both
of them the singularities come from the vanishing energy gap in
the thermodynamic limit. However, a divergence does not
necessarily occur in the critical point, for example, for the KT
QPT as we shall discuss later, no singularity arises even the
energy gap tends to zero in the thermodynamic limit as matrix
elements $ H_{n0}^1$ may also vanish simultaneously.
Despite the apparent similarity between Eqs. (\ref{FSR}) and
(\ref{2dE}), we note that fidelity susceptibility cannot be
expressed by the GS energy 2nd derivatives alone \cite{0801.2473}.
Nevertheless, the different power in the denominators in Eqs.
(\ref{FSR}) and (\ref{2dE}) shows that fidelity susceptibility
might be a more sensitive tool to detect critical points because
it can be more singular than the second derivative of GS energy.
Therefore, for the case where the GS energy 2nd derivative is
divergent at the critical point, it is no doubt that the fidelity
susceptibility is divergent too. However, for the case where the
second derivative of GS energy is not divergent, (for example the
3rd-order QPTs and the KT phase transition), it is hard to judge
whether the fidelity susceptibility becomes singular or not at
these critical points just from the relation between Eqs.
(\ref{FSR}) and (\ref{2dE}).

\section{Transverse field Ising model}
To understand the
equivalence of the two approaches in characterizing the quantum
criticality, we first apply them to study a specific example, say,
the transverse field Ising model with the Hamiltonian given by
\begin{equation}
H(\lambda )=-\sum_{i=1}^L\left( \hat{\sigma}_i^x\hat{\sigma}_{i+1}^x+\lambda
\hat{\sigma}_i^z\right)
\end{equation}
where $\lambda $ represents external magnetic field along the $z$
axis and the periodic boundary is assumed. Following the standard
procedure \cite{Sachdev,Lieb}, the model can be diagonalized by
applying Jordan-Wigner transformation which maps the spin model to
a fermion model and then using the Bogoliubov transformation
$c_k=b_k\cos \frac{\theta _k}2-ib_{-k}^{\dagger }\sin \frac{\theta
_k}2$. The result is given by $H=\sum_k\omega _k\left(
c_k^{\dagger }c_k-1\right) $ with $\omega _k=\sqrt{\sin ^2\frac{2\pi k}%
L+\left( \lambda -\cos \frac{2\pi k}L\right) ^2},$ where the summation is
over $k=-M,$ $\cdots ,$ $M$ with the assumption of $L=2M+1.$ The ground
state of $H$ is the vacuum $\left| g\right\rangle $ of $c_k$ given by $%
\left| g\right\rangle =\prod_{k=1}^M\left( \cos \frac{\theta
_k}2\left| 0\right\rangle _k\left| 0\right\rangle _{-k}-i\sin
\frac{\theta _k}2\left| 1\right\rangle _k\left| 1\right\rangle
_{-k}\right) ,$ with the ground state energy $E_0\left( \lambda
\right) =-\sum_k\omega _k$, where $\left| 0\right\rangle _k$ and
$\left| 1\right\rangle _k$ are, respectively, the vacuum and
single excitation of the $k$th mode $b_k$ and $\theta _k$ is
defined by $\sin \theta _k=\sin \frac{2\pi k}L/\omega _k.$ It
follows that the fidelity is given by $F(\lambda ,\delta
)=\prod_{k=1}^M\cos \frac{\theta _k-\widetilde{\theta }_k}2$ with
$\widetilde{\theta }_k=\theta _k\left( \lambda +\delta \right) $
\cite{Zanardi06}. After some very simple algebras, one get $
S(\lambda )=2\frac{1-F(\lambda ,\delta )}{\delta ^2}=\frac
14\sum_{k=1}^M\left( \frac{\partial \theta _k}{\partial \lambda
}\right) ^2. $ In the thermodynamic limit with $L\rightarrow
\infty $, the summation can be replaced by the integral and thus
we get
\[
\frac{\partial ^2}{\partial \lambda^2} e_0\left( \lambda \right)
=-\frac 1{2\pi }\int_{-\pi }^\pi \frac{\sin ^2\varphi }{\left[
\sin ^2\varphi +(\lambda -\cos \varphi )^2\right] ^{3/2}} d\varphi
\]
and
\[
s(\lambda )=\frac 1{16\pi }\int_{-\pi }^\pi \frac{\sin ^2\varphi
}{\left[ \sin ^2\varphi +(\lambda -\cos \varphi )^2\right] ^2}
d\varphi
\]
where $e_0\left( \lambda \right) =E_0\left( \lambda \right) /L$
and $s(\lambda )=S(\lambda )/L$. Both of the above integrals are
divergent when $\lambda =1$. Their singular behavior can be
analyzed in the vicinity
of critical point $\lambda _c=1$ with the asymptotic behavior described by $%
-\partial ^2e_0\left( \lambda \right) /\partial \lambda
^2=-0.31187\ln |\lambda -\lambda _c|+const$ and $\ln s(\lambda
)=-\ln |\lambda -\lambda _c|+const$, respectively.
\begin{figure}[tbp]
\includegraphics[width=3.3in]{fig1.eps}
\caption{(color online) The derivatives $\partial ^2E_0\left( \lambda
\right) /\partial \lambda ^2$ as a function of $\lambda $.}
\label{fig1}
\end{figure}

To get further insight on how the two approaches work, we study
both the scaling behaviors of FS and second derivative of GS
energy. As shown in Fig. 1, we display the second derivatives of
GS energy for different lattice sizes. Despite no real divergence
for finite $L$, it is obvious that the curves exhibit marked
anomalies with height of peak increasing with the lattice size.
The parameter $\lambda _m$ labelling the position of peak
approaches the critical point $\lambda _c=1$ in a way of
$\lambda_m =1- const L^{-1.802}$. The value of peak diverges
logarithmically with increasing lattice size as $ -\partial
^2e_0(\lambda ,L)/\partial \lambda ^2|_{\lambda _m}=0.31132\ln {L}
+const$. By proper scaling scheme, we can fit all the data of
$F=\left[ 1-\exp (\partial ^2e_0/\partial \lambda ^2|_{\lambda
_m}-\partial ^2e_0/\partial \lambda ^2)\right] $ as a function of
$L\left( \lambda -\lambda _m\right) $ for different $L$ into a
single curve as displayed in the inset of Fig. 1. Correspondingly,
the FS exhibits similar scaling behaviors as shown in Fig. 2.
Around the critical point, all the data for different $L$ collapse
into a single curve of $F=\left[ 1-s(\lambda)/s(\lambda_m) \right]
$ as a function of $L\left( \lambda -\lambda _m\right) $. A
related quantity has been used in \cite{HQZhou} to make scaling
analysis for the quantum Ising model. It is
clear that $\partial ^2e_0\left( \lambda \right) /\partial \lambda ^2$ and $%
s(\lambda )$ exhibit similar critical behavior around the critical
point.
\begin{figure}[tbp]
\includegraphics[width=3.3in]{fig2.eps}
\caption{(color online) The fidelity susceptibility as a function
of $ \lambda $.} \label{fig2}
\end{figure}

\section{$XXZ$ spin chain}
Having demonstrated the
equivalent role of the two different approaches in identifying QPT
on the transverse Ising model, we now use this procedure to
understand the more elusive KT-type QPT for which, contrary to the
previous expectation, the GS fidelity and the FS turn out to be
insensitive to QPT in some cases, for example, in the spin
$J_1-J_2$ model \cite{Chen}. We now consider the $XXZ$ model which
provides a further test for the intrinsic relationship between the
derivatives of GS energy and FS. The model is defined by
\begin{equation}
H(\lambda )=-\frac{1}{2}\sum_{i=1}^L\left(
\hat{\sigma}_i^x\hat{\sigma}_{i+1}^x
+\hat{\sigma}_i^y\hat{\sigma}_{i+1}^y +\lambda
\hat{\sigma}_i^z\hat{\sigma}_{i+1}^z\right)
\end{equation}
with $\lambda $ the exchange anisotropy parameter and it is related to $%
-H(-\lambda )$ by a unitary transformation. It is well known that
the model is in a critical phase for $-1\leq \lambda <1$, an
antiferromagnetic phase at $\lambda <-1$, and ferromagnetic phase
at $\lambda >1.$ The QPT at the ferromagnetic isotropic point
$\lambda =1$ is a 1QPT caused by the level crossing of GS. Here we
shall focus on the QPT at the antiferromagnetic isotropic point
$\lambda =-1$ which is known to be of KT type. In the whole
parameter regime the model is integrable. The eigenstate of
$H(\lambda )$ has the form of $\left| \Psi \right\rangle
=\sum_{n_1<\cdots <n_M}a(n_1,\cdots ,n_M)S_{n_1}^{-}\cdots
S_{n_M}^{-}\left| F\right\rangle $ with the coefficients having
the Bethe-ansatz form \cite{MTakahashib}
\[
a(n_1,\cdots ,n_M)=\sum_P\exp [i\sum_\alpha k_{p_\alpha }n_\alpha +\frac
i2\sum_{\alpha <\beta }\theta (k_{p_\alpha },k_{p_\beta })]
\]
where $P$ is any permutation of $(n_1,\cdots ,n_M)$ and the phase
$\theta (p,q)=2\tan ^{-1}\left( \frac{\lambda \sin [(p-q)/2]}{\cos
[(p+q)/2]-\lambda \cos [(p-q)/2]}\right) $. The eigenenergies
$E=-\frac \lambda 2 L +2 \sum_i (\lambda -\cos k_i )$ are
determined by a set of quasi-momentum $p_i$ ($ i=1,\cdots ,M)$ for
$M$ down spins which are the solution of Bethe ansatz equations
(BAEs) $ Nk_i=2\pi I_i-\sum_{j=1}^M\theta (k_i,k_j) $, where $I_i$
are integer or half-odd integer.
\begin{figure}[tbp]
\includegraphics[width=3.6in]{fig3.eps}
\caption{(color online) The fidelity susceptibility and second
order derivative of GS energy for $XXZ$ model as a function of $
\lambda $. The data labelled by $\times$ and $+$ are obtained by
ED and they comply with the data by Bethe-ansatz method exactly.}
\label{fig3}
\end{figure}

By numerically solving the BAEs, we can get the GS state energy
for different sizes of $L$. As shown in Fig.3, we calculate the
$2$nd derivative of GS energy by both Bethe-ansatz and exact
diagonaliztion (ED) methods and the FS by ED. Our numerical
results show that there is no any singularity around the critical
point $\lambda _c=-1$ for both the FS and $2$nd order derivative
of GS energy for different sizes. For the GS energy derivatives,
this is true even in the thermodynamic limit where actually, as
proven in \cite{Yang}, all the $n$th order derivatives of GS
energy are continuous. Thus, in view of its connection to the
derivatives of GS energy, we can understand why the GS fidelity
failed to reproduce quantum critical behavior by the desired
singularities in the critical point for the KT transition. It is
also natural to explain why the finite size scaling of FS has a
clear distinction between noncritical and critical phases because
the GS energies are known to fulfil quite different finite size
scaling in critical or noncritical phase \cite{Hamer,Blote}. The
GS energy in the critical regime fulfills the finite-size
correction $ E_0(\lambda ,L)/L=e_0(\lambda )-\pi \upsilon \left(
\lambda \right) c/6L^2+o(L^{-2}) $ with $c=1$ being the conformal
anomaly number and $\upsilon =\pi \sin \gamma /\gamma $ the
``sound velocity'' for the model \cite{Hamer}. Here $\gamma$ is
defined by $ \lambda=-\cos \gamma$. On the other hand, the
conformal invariance is broken for $\lambda<-1$ and the GS energy
fulfills a different finite size scaling \cite{Blote}. Bearing in
mind that the equivalent role of FS and derivative of GS energy,
we expect that the FS exhibits similar scaling behavior in the
critical regime as its counterpart of derivative of GS energy does
and there is a deviation from the scaling behavior when
$\lambda<-1$. Indeed, the FS has been shown to scale differently
in critical and noncritical phases based on the results by ED
method \cite{Zanardi07PRL}. This feature can be used as an
indicator of KT QPT occurring in this model. Before ending the
discussion, we would like to give a remark to the problem whether
the fidelity approach is suitable to detect the KT transition? As
no rigorous result of the FS even for the exactly solvable model
is available in the thermodynamic limit, therefore this question
is still in a doubtful status \cite{MFYang,0801.2473} and remains
an open problem.

\section{Conclusions}
We have shown the intrinsic relationship of
the fidelity and derivatives of GS energy and revealed their
equivalent role in identifying the QPTs. Within our framework, the
singularities and scaling behavior of fidelity for various systems
can be well understood on general grounds. Through concrete
examples, we display that divergence of the FS or derivatives of
GS energy can be applied to identify the 2nd order QPT, whereas
for the KT transition the criticality is not a sufficient
condition to ensure divergence of the FS or derivatives of GS
energy.

\begin{acknowledgments}
The authors are grateful to M. F. Yang for useful discussions by
correspondence and the referee for bringing our attention to Ref.
\cite{0801.2473}. This work is supported by NSF of China under
Grant No. 10574150, MOST grant 2006CB921300 and programs of CAS.
\end{acknowledgments}

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"We got excellent raises that are retroactive and the members are secure in knowing their pensions and their health plans are intact," Espinosa said.
The United Food and Commercial Workers Locals 371 and 919 met in Southbury and New Haven on Tuesday Thursday to provide members with details of the tentative contract agreement and top have them vote on the tentative contract. "Local 919, which is located in Farmington, represents about 7,000 workers, including cashiers and employees who stock the shelves, while Westport-based Local 371 has about 4,000 members who work in the meat, fish and deli departments.
"The membership walked off the job angry, but they are going back proud," Thomas Wilkinson, Ppresident of the UFCW 371 in Westport, said prior to the vote. "Negotiations are hard … and it seems like it's always been like that in labor relations.""
At the Wyndham Southbury hotel just off Interstate 84, the Westport-based "UFCW Local 371 set up a ballroom to accommodate 550 Stop & Shop workers voting on the contract there. The room erupted in applause as union leaders filed into the meeting, which was closed to reporters."Meanwhile, in New Haven, more than 700 members of Local 919 packed a ballroom at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale.
Espinosa approached the podium before the vote and raised his clenched fists like a victorious prizefighter.
He called what the union achieved "a watershed moment."
"We want to be able to show America, particularly non-union, what a strong union can do," Espinosa said. "You are part of history."
While passions were high on the picket lines, Wilkinson said the decision to end the 11-day strike had to be made because ultimately it would have would have "done harm to both parties ultimately".
"That energy (from the workers) cannot last forever, so it got to a point when a decision had to be made where we came up with a tentative agreement," he said. "If the strike continued, what more would be achieved? What more would've been worthwhile?
"Naturally, if we got everything that we wanted, I don't know how long the company would last," Wilkinson said. "The tone of this negotiation was set very early. They knew where we were coming."
The outcome, he said, is that both sides "can at least say this is a contract where the members are going to feel secure and the company is going to be able to sustain itself into the future," he said.
"We can survive anything except store closings," Wilkinson said.
More than 31,000 Stop & Shop workers in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island went on strike on "April 11, staying off the job for 11 days. They returned to work on" Monday.
Ahold Delhaize, the Dutch company that owns Stop & Shop, said the 11-day strike is expected to lead to losses between $90 million and $110 million.
The highlights of the tentative contract for full- time" and part-time union members of Local 371 includes:
"All workers have a pension plan, and access to college benefits, such as a scholarship program that could provide up to $3,000 a year.
"Health care benefits that include part-time workers, who will get dental, vision, union member disability life insurance, and hearing aid benefit. Full-time workers get full medical and prescription, along with ancillary benefits that will also cover their spouse and dependents.
The increased presence of automation in stores continues to be a hot issue, but Wilkinson said that will come down to the company's decision.
"We know automation is coming," he said. "We've got miles to go in automation. We are only inches into this. ... We have to prepare for it."
Local 919's members are full-time employees and are at or above the top of their wage scale will get an additional $25 per week in their paychecks retroactive to Feb. 24. Their pay will then increase by another $30 per week on Feb. 23, 2020 and then by another $25 per week on Feb. 21, 2021.
Clerks who became full time employees after April 19, 2016 and are at the top of their of their pay scale or above will get an extra $15 per week retroactive to Feb. 24 of this year, followed by a $1,250 bonus at the end of February 2020 and another $15 per week in their pay checks at the end of Feb. 2021.
Local 919 members who work part-time at Stop & Shop also saw smaller pay increases.
Jordan Grice and Alex Soule contributed to this story. luther.turmelle@hearstmediact.com


There is nothing fast about any part of my making process.
The first step involves a visit to the brick plant where I get the clay that I use to make my work. As I drive by the magnificent old bee hive shaped kilns at Shaw Brick in Lantz, Nova Scotia there are endless stacks of bricks and chimney flues made from the rich red clay dug on site. Fine, strong, and wonderfully malleable this is a prince among clays, and one of the most superb earthenware clays in the world. I am truly fortunate to be able to use this gorgeous Nova Scotia clay which is such a pleasure to work with.
Back home in the studio, the making process begins. There is a good deal of thought that goes into a piece before I even touch the clay. Sketching, drawing, and consideration of colour, design, and surface treatments are essential parts of the process. I use several forming techniques; initially either handbuilding from slabs or throwing on the potter's wheel, the forms are then altered from their initial shapes and combined with various other parts in the construction of a single piece. It's a delight to breathe life into this luxurious clay, so open to any form or expression that I suggest.
The next stage is truly sensual. I coat each piece with a luscious slip, a liquid white clay the consistency of melted ice cream. This is done by either dipping the piece in the slip or painting it on the surface with the softest of brushes. Once this voluptuous coating has dried somewhat, to the consistency of a chocolate bar, the decoration process can begin.
I draw my designs through the white slip revealing the red clay body beneath. This sgraffito technique provides a strong outline for the next stage of the process which involves painting numerous colours and materials, each applied with a particular effect in mind. Some are stiff and solid, others melt and flow. Each step is careful and considered, each step has to be carried out when the piece is at exactly the right consistency.
The piece is then slowly dried, fired once, glazed with a profoundly yummy clear glaze, and fired again. The overall effect in the finished piece is one of rich layering, of building up and drawing through, of a complex surface where all the parts relate to the whole. It's a time consuming process taking approximately six weeks from start to finish.
Three decades of practice has taught me how to bring life to this exceptional material, as sturdy as a brick, as sensual as chocolate, and as beautiful as the finest work of art.


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Solitary sandpiper, photo by Andrew Reago and Chrissy McClarren via Wiki Commons
The solitary sandpiper is a medium-sized shorebird with a dagger-shaped bill and lanky greenish-yellow legs. Its upperparts are a dark brown with heavy white spotting throughout. Its underparts are white with light brown streaking on its neck and flanks. Its tail has dark brown down the center with black and white barred edges. It has a white ring around its eyes and dull green legs.
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The solitary sandpiper's typical call is a shrill, whistle-like pee-weet. When it is alarmed or warning others of danger its call is a short, sharp plik.
The solitary sandpiper lives in the northern parts of North America, specifically Canada and Alaska. There, it lives near substantial bodies of water including woodland streams, swamps, ponds, and flooded fields. It migrates south for the winter, crossing across most of the east and central parts of the United States before settling in Central America, the West Indies, and South America. There it stays near streams, pounds, rivers, and marshes.
The solitary sandpiper feeds primarily on insects including beetles, grasshoppers and beetles. It also eats various small crustaceans, spiders, frogs, and worms. It forages by walking along shores and in shallow water, using its bill to probe the water and mud to snatch up prey.
Nesting Behavior
The solitary sandpiper uses nests built by various species of songbirds such as the American robin, gray jay, and rusty blackbird. The nest is usually in a conifer or spruce and can either be old and abandoned, or brand new. The solitary sandpiper female sometimes adds additional soft lining to the nest before laying an average of 4 eggs are a light green or yellow with brown markings. The eggs are likely incubated by both parents for 23 to 24 days before hatching. The young learn to fly and become reasonably independent after 17 to 20 days.
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Gender Bias Goes Indie: Only 25 Percent of Films at Major Festivals Had Female Director, Study Finds
Women represented 29 percent of all directors on independent films — a slight increase from last year's 28 percent
Beatrice Verhoeven | May 17, 2017 @ 7:00 AM
So much for independent film providing a pathway to diversity and gender balance in Hollywood: A new study finds that only 25 percent of narrative movies in major film festivals in 2016-17 had a female director.
According to the 2016-2017 Women in Independent Film report by the Center for the Study of Women in Television & Film, the 23 festivals considered screened an average of six narrative films directed by at least one woman compared with an average of 18 features directed by men.
At the same time, U.S. festivals screened almost twice as many documentaries directed by men as by women in the same time frame — seven directed by women compared to 13 directed by men — even though indie features are often considered to be a starting point for newcomers to the industry providing an opportunity for those with less credits or experience.
Also Read: Hollywood Gender Gap: 2016 Movies Had More Major Female Characters But Fewer Speaking Roles
The study has also found that independent films screened at high-profile film festivals like AFI Fest, Los Angeles Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Palms Springs International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, Telluride Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival, 72 percent of those working in key behind-the-scenes roles were men, while only 28 percent were females.
This represents a historical high with an increase of 3 percent in 2015-2016. Women represented 29 percent of all directors on independent films — a slight increase from last year's 28 percent.
The study also found that women are more likely to direct documentaries than narrative features. Of all films considered, women fared best as producers (32 percent), followed by directors (29 percent), executive producers (29 percent), writers (26 percent), editors (22 percent) and cinematographers (11 percent).
Also Read: 22 Percent Fewer Women Directed 2016's Top 250 Movies, New Study Finds
"The marketplace capital these high-profile festivals bestow on filmmakers and their films cannot be overstated," Dr. Martha Lauzen, executive director of the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, said in response to the findings. "They are an effective and proven apparatus for generating attention. Inclusion in these festivals provides the vital first step in the public life cycle of films with limited marketing resources, and can boost reputation of their directors."
On a positive note, films with at least one woman director had higher percentages of women writers, editors and cinematographers than films with exclusively male directors. On films with at least one woman director, women comprised 74 percent of writers compared to seven percent of women serving as writers on films with exclusively male directors.
The study tracked the sex of directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors and cinematographers working on every U.S. feature-length film screened at the festivals considered. 10,953 credits were considered on 1,472 films.
All Female Directors' Movies From the 6 Major Studios (Photos)
"Money Monster," directed by Jodie Foster for Sony TriStar (in theaters May 13, 2016)
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"Me Before You," directed by Thea Sharrock (in theaters June 3, 2016)
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"Bridget Jones's Baby" directed by Sharon Maguire for Universal (in theaters Sept. 16, 2016)
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"Queen of Katwe," directed Mira Nair (in theaters Sept. 23, 2016)
"Underworld: Blood Wars," directed by Anna Foerster (in theaters Oct. 14, 2016)
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"Unforgettable," directed by Denise Di Novi for Warner Bros. (in theaters in 2016, exact date not yet known)
"Wonder Woman," now in production with director Patty Jenkins for Warner Bros. (in theaters June 2, 2017)
After Elizabeth Banks bowed out, Trish Sie jumped in to direct "Pitch Perfect 3" for Universal (in theaters Aug. 4, 2017)
Mireille Soria is directing "Madagascar 4" for 20th Century Fox (in theaters May 18, 2018)
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Ava Duvernay is set to direct Disney's live-action adaptation "A Wrinkle in Time" (release date TBD)
Oscar winners Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck are returning to co-direct Disney's "Frozen 2" (in theaters in 2018) -- representing a directing duo that's one-half woman.
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Lucia Aniello is signed on to direct Sony and Columbia's "Rock That Body" (in theaters June 23, 2017)
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The number of women directing big-studio films has finally surpassed single digits. Here's the complete list.
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On May 29th, Ashifi Gogo, a Ghanaian was honored as a Champion of Change for his accomplishments as an immigrant entrepreneur and innovator by the White House. Ashifi was honored along with 10 other immigrant innovators and entrepreneur for their development of the US economy and helping to create American jobs.
The Champions of Change programme was created as an opportunity for the White House to feature groups of Americans – individuals, businesses and organizations – who are doing extraordinary things to empower and inspire members of their communities.
Dr. Ashifi Gogo is the CEO of Sproxil, a social enterprise founded in 2008 that empowers consumers in emerging markets with mobile technology to combat the multi-billion dollars counterfeit goo industry. Under his leadership, Sproxil developed its award winning Mobile Product Authentication (MPA) technology which allows consumers to use their mobile phone to verify the authenticity of the products before purchase. At the point of purchase, a consumer will scratch off a part of a security label that will reveal a unique, one time use PIN that is texted a mobile short code number for free. The consumer will then receive a reply from the company's cloud-based system stating that the product is genuine, fake, or even stolen.
In 2010, the company piloted the solution in Nigeria with Merck KGaA's in-market representative using the diabetes treatment drug Glucophage. The pilot was such a success that they have since expanded operations to five countries across three continents (Ghana, India, Kenya, Nigeria and USA). Sproxil now protect products across various industries, including automotive, electrical goods, and textiles and clothing.


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The insanity will continue in 2017
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Cybercrime has become big business. An August 2016 Osterman research survey revealed that 39 per cent of respondent organizations were impacted by ransomware in the preceding twelve months. In the United States, nearly one-third of victims faced data ransom demands of US $500 or less, likely the result of mass automated infection techniques, however some targeted ransomware demands exceeded US $10,000.
Individuals, corporations, hospitals, schools, governments, and law enforcement agencies have all been victimized. The FBI estimated cybercriminals collected $209 million in the first quarter of 2016, suggesting that ransomware is now a $1 billion per year crime.
The frequency and magnitude of security breaches continues to increase at an alarming pace. In 2016, Yahoo disclosed that law enforcement provided the company with data files that a third party claimed was Yahoo user data. Based on a forensic analysis, Yahoo concluded that an unauthorized third party stole data associated with more than one billion user accounts in August 2013. Yahoo indicated that they have not been able to identify the intrusion associated with the breach.
In addition to being the largest breach of this type, the Yahoo hack confirms what security professionals have known for years: Compromises frequently go undiscovered, rendering statistics unreliable. Had a foreign government been responsible for this breach, it is unlikely that it would have been detected.
The 2016 United States Presidential Election generated unprecedented dialog on state-sponsored hacking. It was widely reported that one of the organizations allegedly responsible for hacking the Democratic National Convention (DNC), nicknamed APT28, may be associated with Russian military intelligence. It is risky to base a conclusion solely on publicly available evidence. Democratic National Convention (DNC) email accounts were breached, and malware was apparently spread across DNC computers. While it is certainly possible that the attack was state sponsored, it is also conceivable that APT28 could have been working for a non-nation client, including domestic political opponents.
Security vendors continue to improve anti-malware software and develop products to detect and combat intrusions. Some of these tools can be effective against mass malware campaigns and known malware toolkits, but they have very little impact on bespoke malware developed for targeted attacks. Anyone who feels comfortable with their current anti-malware controls should read the Crowdstrike blog post about the DNC intrusion (https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democratic-national-committee/) for a rare glimpse into the world of advanced persistent threats:
"On many occasions, both the dropper and the payload will contain a range of techniques to ensure the sample is not being analyzed on a virtual machine, using a debugger, or located within a sandbox. They have extensive checks for the various security software that is installed on the system and their specific configurations. When specific versions are discovered that may cause issues for the RAT, it promptly exits. These actions demonstrate a well-resourced adversary with a thorough implant-testing regime that is highly attuned to slight configuration issues that may result in their detection, and which would cause them to deploy a different tool instead."
On the consumer front, things are even worse. Product manufacturers continue to fail at security. Poorly designed IP cameras and routers are being conscripted into botnets by the millions. IoT devices with no meaningful security features are permeating homes and offices. It is only a matter of time until sophisticated threat agents exploit these devices and use them to inject malware, if they have not done so already.
Albert Einstein is said to have defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. It is undisputed that email and web sites are the primary malware delivery vectors, yet we continue to pull data from these sources into the heart of business operations. There are solutions, but most people don't want to hear them; instead they hope for a miracle or magic bullet, or at least to dodge the next ransomware attack. The insanity continues.
Have a security question you'd like answered in a future column? Email eric.jacksch@iticonline.ca
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Great post! Now, more than ever, PR professionals MUST prove ROI in order to keep business and be seen as a legitimate source of investment. Although we all griped at having to learn SPSS, if more PR companies took the time to do that kind of in-depth research, the industry as a whole would benefit.
Since I've gotten over the fantasy of PR not involving math, your post further lets me know why it is very important. I was not a math girl in school growing up. I loved writing more than anything, but I can understand how PR can't dismiss that math is still needed. This gave me a heads up….thank you for this post!
Glad it helped! Actually doing the math might not be a favorite for everyone, but looking at the numbers and being able to show your impact is always fun!
Data and analytics is becoming such a huge part of PR and marketing. It's best for practitioners to get experience with that ASAP. It will definitely help you stand out in your endeavors.


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Shannon Cemetery is highly significant for its association with ethnic history in Giles County, and for the diversity and quality of its memorial art. The cemetery occupies two adjacent ridges overlooking Big Walker Creek; one ridge contains the graves of whites, the other ridge, those of African Americans. The white section was established by settler Thomas Reid Shannon, and its earliest grave is said to be that of one of his daughters who died in 1781. The forms and artistry of the grave markers include uninscribed fieldstones; vernacular tombstones with star designs and other decorations thought to be the work of regional tombstone carver B.F. Spyker; and professionally carved marble and granite monuments that signify the declining geographic isolation of Big Walker Creek Valley as transportation and roadways improved. The African American section of the cemetery, with its rows of small fieldstone markers, was established in the early 19th century. The only inscribed, though undated, tombstone in this section is for Harvey and Caroline Burks. The African American section remained in use until the early 1960s.


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A superbug resistant to all known antibiotics that can cause "severe" infections or even death is spreading undetected through hospital wards across the world, scientists in Australia have warned. Researchers at the University of Melbourne discovered three variants of the multidrug-resistant bug in samples from 10 countries, including strains in Europe that cannot be reliably tamed by any drug currently on the market.
The bacteria, known as Staphylococcus epidermidis, is related to the better-known and more deadly MRSA. It's found naturally on human skin and most commonly infects the elderly or patients who have had prosthetic materials implanted, such as catheters and joint replacements. "It can be deadly, but it's usually in patients who already are very sick in hospital… it can be quite hard to eradicate and the infections can be severe," Howden said.
His team looked at hundreds of S. epidermidis specimens from 78 hospitals worldwide. They found that some strains of the bug made a small change in its DNA that led to resistance to two of the most common antibiotics, often administered in tandem to treat hospital infections. "These two antibiotics are unrelated and you would not expect one mutation to cause both antibiotics to fail," said Jean Lee, a PhD student at Melbourne's Doherty Institute, and co-author of the study.
The researchers said they believe the superbug is spreading rapidly due to the particularly high use of antibiotics in intensive care units, where patients are sickest and strong drugs are prescribed as routine. The World Health Organization has long warned of antibiotic overuse sparking new strains of killer, drug-resistant bacteria. Another Australian study, published last month, suggested some hospital superbugs are growing increasingly tolerant to alcohol-based disinfectants found in handwashes and sanitisers used on hospital wards.


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Toshiba Wins Contract in Mexico to Supply Steam Turbines for Major Thermal Power Plant Retrofit and Modernization Project
TOKYO - Thursday, April 24th 2014 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE) Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502), one of the world's leading suppliers of thermal power generation equipment, today announced that it has been selected to supply thermal power generation equipment for the retrofit and modernization of the Altamira Thermal Power Plant in Tamaulipas State, northeastern Mexico. Under the terms of the contract, Toshiba will supply Isolux Corsán a major constructor of EPC generation plants, with two high-efficiency 165MW steam turbines and related equipment. Altamira is currently equipped with two 158MW steam turbines and generators that Toshiba shipped to Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), Mexico's state-owned electricity utility, in the early 1970's.
CFE, the owner of Altamira, awarded an Isolux Corsán -led consortium, an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the retrofit and upgrade of the plant, including fuel conversion from oil to petroleum coke. Isolux awarded the steam turbine contract to Toshiba on the strength of the company's comprehensive technological and supply capabilities and its extensive experience in Mexico. Toshiba will deliver the equipment in 2016, and the upgraded power plant is scheduled to start commercial operation in 2017.
Mexico currently meets over 70% of its energy needs with thermal power. Under its 2013-2027 Energy Strategy, the country aims to generate cleaner and more efficient energy, and to achieve the balanced generation mix essential for ensuring a long-term, stable and secure power supply. In coming years, this plan, and investments in advanced new power plants, will support Mexico in further strengthening its energy independence.
Toshiba is an established presence in the North American thermal power steam turbine market, and has a reputation for advanced technical capabilities, competitive products and reliable delivery and operation. In the United States and Canada, Toshiba is a market leader in orders received and has supplied over 90 units. In Mexico, too, Toshiba is a major player. Since entering the market in 1973, the company has delivered 23 steam turbines and generators, including equipment for two combined-cycle projects—Valladolid, which started operation in 2006,and 264 CC Centro, now under construction, and geothermal plants.
Toshiba will continue to reinforce its thermal power plant business in North America, including plant retrofits and modernizations, by providing highly efficient and reliable equipment and services.
Project Outline
1. Project:
Retrofit and Modernization Project 258RM CT Altamira Thermal Power Plant in Tamaulipas State, Mexico
2. Owner:
Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE)
3. EPC contractor:
A consortium of Isolux Ingeniería S.A., Isolux de México S.A de CV and Alstom Mexicana S.A. de CV.
4. Site location:
Tamaulipas, Mexico
5. Supply by Toshiba:
Two sets of 165MW steam turbines and related equipment
Midori Hara, +81-3-3457-2100
Corporate Communications Div.
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Il Sultanato di Johor (o talvolta Johor-Riau o Johor-Riau-Lingga o più correttamente Impero Johor) fu un sultanato fondato dal figlio del sultano di Malacca Mahmud Shah di Malacca: Alauddin Riayat Shah II nel 1528.
Johor faceva parte del Sultanato di Malacca prima della conquista portoghese della capitale di Malacca nel 1511.
Al suo apice, il sultanato controllava le attuali Johor, Riau e territori che si estendono dal fiume Klang alla Linggi e Tanjung Tuan, Muar, Batu Pahat, Singapore, Pulau Tinggi e altre isole al largo della costa orientale della penisola malese, le isole Karimun, l'isola di Bintan, Bulang, Lingga e Bungaran, Bengkalis, Kampar e Siak a Sumatra.
Durante l'era coloniale, la parte di terraferma fu amministrata dagli inglesi, e la parte insulare dagli olandesi. Nel 1946, la parte britannica andò a far parte dell'Unione malese. Due anni più tardi, si unì alla Federazione della Malesia. Nel 1949 la parte olandese andò a far parte dell'Indonesia.

Caduta di Malacca e nascita del Sultanato di Johor
Nel 1511 la città di Malacca, capitale del Sultanato di Malacca per mano dei portoghesi, e il suo ultimo sultano Mahmud Shah di Malacca fu costretto a fuggire dal regno. Mahmud Shah fece diversi disperati tentativi per riprendere la capitale, ma furono tutti vani, e provocarono la rappresaglia portoghese che costrinse il sultano a fuggire nel territorio di Pahang. Successivamente il sultano salpò per l'isola di Bintan dove stabilì la sua corte e da dove cercò di riorganizzare le sue truppe allo sbando per sferrare nuovi attacchi contro i portoghesi. Pahang fu poi riconquistato nel XVII secolo dopo anni di contese.
Fondandosi sui territori di Pekan Tua, Sungai Telur, Johor, il Sultanato fu istituito nel 1528 dal sultano Alauddin Riayat Shah II di Johor figlio di Mahmud Shah, insieme alla sua sposa Tun Fatimah.

Come descrive il poema malese Syair Rakis, tra il 1835 e il 1846 Johor fece fronte comune con lo storico nemico, il Sultanato di Aceh, per salvarsi dalle mire olandesi. L'insolita alleanza ebbe successo e Johor riuscì a riprendere possesso del Pahang. L'autore del poema, Raja Pengiran Indera Mahkota, era un lontano parente del sultano di Johor e usò questo evento come esempio di concordia tra stati.

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