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LIVE: Ban Ki-moon to address hundreds of young people in Brussels
27 May 2015 – Special guest, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will address young people at an event on the role of youth in the post-2015 agenda.
The event, organised by the European Commission and the United Nations, is called: "Our World, our Dignity, our Future. The post-2015 agenda and the role of youth" and will be hosted at the Palais des Beaux-Arts (BOZAR) from 16h00 to 18h00. It will be livestreamed to audiences across the world (http://un4.me/YouthNow).
2015: a pivotal year for development
Mr Ban's visit is set within the European Year for Development, which showcases Europe's commitment to poverty eradication. While in Brussels, he will – amongst others – be engaged in meetings with the European Commission, Parliament and Council.
2015 is also crucial year for the UN itself, the year in which the post-2015 development agenda will be agreed upon, including the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals.
In this new agenda, the role of youth is central, as they are the future leaders and participants in development. Recognizing this, our young people should therefore be actively engaged in shaping the new development agenda.
Engaging with youth at the BOZAR
To enable this, next week's event will feature an interactive debate between the Secretary-General and Youth Ambassadors, and will be broadcast in selected schools across the European Union.
During the event, a group of young people will get the chance to get involved by asking Mr Ban their most pressing questions on development, the post-2015 agenda and other issues that are priorities for young people.
You will be able to follow the event via the live stream.
What do you think are the most pressing youth issues for the post-2015 agenda? How should young people be involved? Do let us know your comments by tweeting using the hashtag #AskBanKimoon.
To find out more on how the UN is engaging with youth issues, check out the Office of the Secretary General's Envoy on Youth's website, Facebook or Twitter.
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Golf Channel's Mike Ritz, the lead voice for European Tour coverage, recently took three friends on a trip of a lifetime: six of the top links courses in Scotland in six days.
The golfing world was first introduced to Castle Stuart Golf Links, opened in 2009, when it hosted the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open from 2011-13.
As I hope you saw on Golf Channel and NBC, it's where Phil Mickelson won his Scottish the week before he won his British at Muirfield in 2013. Thankfully, the plans are for Castle Stuart to be a part of the new rotation of courses hosting the Scottish Open in the near future. As beautiful and spectacular as Castle Stuart looks on television, it is even more stunning in person.
Once again, I can only gaze in awe at the job Mark Parsinen (Kingsbarns' creator) did in crafting this course and property. Of course, he was not alone in sculpting Castle Stuart. Gil Hanse, the golf course designer for the 2016 Olympics, is the co-course architect on the letterhead.
Stuart McColm, the general manager at Castle Stuart, played a major role in crafting the course and all of the immaculate grounds and stunning clubhouse. He paid such incredible attention to detail -- even making sure the clubhouse's overhangs were "just so" to make sure a setting sun doesn't keep you from enjoying the panoramic view of the Highlands and sea after your round. He also serves as a most gracious host.
A major part of the Castle Stuart experience is the caddies. They are true professionals and greatly enhance your game and entertainment.
Castle Stuart, like Pebble Beach and Royal Dornoch, is one of those courses that leads me to tell people, "If you don't play golf, you're missing out on some of the most beautiful spots in the world."
Castle Stuart has been praised as "the greatest modern links course." I'll go one step further and call it one of the world's greatest links courses, period.
Like any true links, it's firm and fast, bordered by the sea, buffeted by wind, encouraging you to play the game on the ground. American-style golf won't suit you here. Just ask Phil.
Six holes run right along the shore of the Moray Firth. Another two abut Castle Stuart Bay. The sea and the Highlands are visible everywhere, with views of the Kessock Bridge and the Chanonry Lighthouse. And, of course, there's Castle Stuart, itself -- it serves as the stoic background to the beautifully framed par-3 fourth.
The course is challenging, but fair to all handicap levels. Just don't fool yourself by playing from the wrong set of tees. Remember: tee it forward.
One of the wonderful characteristics is that you can see the expanse of every hole from the tee and understand what your options are and what is needed to be successful.
For example, if you want to try to reach the par-5 second in two, your best bet is to hit your drive to the plateau on the upper left-hand side of the fairway. If you want to play it as a three-shot hole, hit your tee ball to the hollow on the lower right-hand side of the fairway to set up an easier lay-up shot with your second. And, of course, try not to be too intimidated with your approach -- as you look at a green that seems to be hanging precariously over the very edge of the sea.
Castle Stuart's third hole is one of the coolest drivable par 4s you'll ever play. It's 305 yards from the tips, 266 from the tees most will play. As you stand on the tee and look at a plateau green that looks like a sliver, with the beach to the right and pot bunkers short, you might rethink your decision and put the driver back in the bag. But, hey, what the heck -- how often are you going to be here? Go for it!
This course offers you things you will rarely see anywhere else -- you'll be gawking at the infinity green at the seventh that appears to flow to the Moray Firth hundreds of feet below. By the way, way over there is Royal Dornoch.
Dunes, gorse, heather, pot bunkers, beach. Choke down, hit it low, keep it out of the wind. Enjoy one of the finest links experiences you'll ever have.
Mike Ritz is the first reporter hired by the Golf Channel and is the last original on-air personality still with the team. Through the years Ritz has covered every Tour extensively and has taken on a variety of jobs. He has anchored Golf Central; hosted dozens of Golf Channel specials and has worked on live tournament coverage as both the play-by-play host and player-interviewer.
The farther north you travel in Scotland, the fewer people you see and the wilder the scenery is. But even in the remotest parts there is golf.


I don't really hate winter. I still get excited when I see snow flakes. We've just seen so many billions and trillions in the last month. And every other poem I looked at about winter was so meaningful. Some days I just can't do meaningful.
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At the end of September, our remaining balance is at 29.84% of our original mortgage that we took out in 2007. That's a reduction of .64%.
Once all of September's payments are applied, we'll have reduced our mortgage balance by about $870 this month. We didn't reach $40k like we had hoped by October 1. We've made some temporary adjustments to our payoff schedule that I'll explain below. Right now, we've got 42 payments left with the adjustments we made. That means our mortgage will be paid off on April 1, 2021.
You might be wondering why the extension in time and increase in the number of payments. Essentially, we're preparing for a potential transition in the future. We don't know all the details on what it will be yet, but we're preparing anyhow. One way of preparing is by piling up some extra cash. Once we're through this time, we'll take all the extra and apply it back to the mortgage. At that point, it will hopefully wipe out the rest of the mortgage or get us very close. For that reason, our large payments will be reduced for the next several months.
I'll be continuing the series that covers our budget. The next category we'll be covering is clothing. How much do you spend on clothing each month? What all does clothing cover? It sounds like an easy one, but we include some items in that category you may not think about.
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Q: Can't move an inline style out to a style sheet? I'm sure this is a dumb question, but I can't move this inner (button) inline style to a style sheet:
<label style='white-space:nowrap; line-height:14px; height:14px; vertical-align:bottom; '>
<input type  = 'button'
       id    = 'sButton2'
       style = 'cursor:pointer; width:30px; height:13px; float:left; margin-bottom:2px; margin-right:12px' >
The quick brown fox
</label>

I've tried this:
<style type="text/css">
#sButton2 { cursor:pointer; width:30px; height:13px; float:left; margin-bottom:2px; margin-right:12px; }
</style>
...
<label style='white-space:nowrap; line-height:14px; height:14px; vertical-align:bottom; '>
<input type  = 'button'
       id    = 'sButton2' >
The quick brown fox
</label>

and this:
<style type="text/css">
.sButton { cursor:pointer; width:30px; height:13px; float:left; margin-bottom:2px; margin-right:12px; }
</style>
...
<input type  = 'button'
       id    = 'sButton1'
       class = 'sButton' >

but neither of these works; no style is applied. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks.
EDIT
Sorry folks, it's midnight, I (was!) just off to bed, and I screwed up the cut-and-paste. The syntax of the style sheet is actually correct - I've fixed it above. Other info:
1- the style sheet is in the head section of a single html file. There are already a couple of jQueryUI ones above it, and I copied the syntax from them;
2 - I think that there is another style applied to the buttons, but I was hoping that #sButton2 would override this;
3 - I can't get even the most trivial style from a style sheet to apply
to the buttons. If I just set the button width, for example, nothing happens, although an inline width works;
4 - it's not browser-specific - seen in F/F, Opera, Chrome;
Thanks again.
EDIT2
Just tried appending a !important to the end of the style sheet, with no change in F/F & Chrome:
...margin-right:12px; !important }

A: <style type="text/css">
#sButton2 { 'cursor:pointer; width:30px; height:13px; float:left; margin-bottom:2px; margin-right:12px' >
</style>

should be
<style type="text/css">
#sButton2 { cursor:pointer; width:30px; height:13px; float:left; margin-bottom:2px; margin-right:12px }
</style>

You need to end the first { with a }, not a >. And the styles are not in quotes, they are simply enclosed in curly braces. You should also look into what is standard for your HTML code. Usually elements are laid out like this:
<input type="button" id="sButton2" />

It is a good idea to follow standards like this.

A: Change
#sButton { 'cursor:pointer; width:30px; height:13px; float:left; margin-bottom:2px; margin-right:12px' >

to
#sButton { cursor:pointer; width:30px; height:13px; float:left; margin-bottom:2px; margin-right:12px }

That should do it.
(remove the ' at the start and the end, and replace the > by a } )

A: your inner style ends with > instead of }
furthermore it should be in your head tag
lastly why are you wrapping your style with single quotes?

A: Stupid question, but are you sure the style sheet is being loaded?  I've seen where people have multiple stylesheets and they're loading the wrong one, or they edited the wrong one.
You might also have an overriding style later in your stylesheet.  Do you have any input styles?  ID should override less specific styles, but there are bugs in some browsers that you might have to work around.
Try using !important
DOH! Yes, as others have said, your problem is the single quotes around your css attributes.

A: <style type="text/css">
    .sButton {
    cursor:pointer;
    width:30px;
    height:13px;
    float:left;
    margin-bottom:2px;
    margin-right:12px
</style>

<input type="button" id="sButton1" class="sButton">

http://jsfiddle.net/charlescarver/aQHyK/

A: # is the correct prefix for IDs (as you actually  use in your second code example), but you shouldn't wrap quotes around the css code. Try it like this:
<style type="text/css">
    #sButton2 { cursor:pointer; width:30px; height:13px; float:left; margin-bottom:2px; margin-right:12px; }
</style>

Executing a validator on the code (which is always a good idea) would have told you all this as well!

A: Fixed, with a lot of help from Firebug (what a great bit of software). The input tag is in a jQueryUI dialog, and was inheriting a 'width:95%' from '#dialog input'. The 'width:30px' in my style sheet was being ignored, until I changed it to 'width:30px !important', in all of F/F, Chromium, and Opera. It was ignored in both the div (#sButton2) and class (.sButton) styles.
I don't understand this. What's the point of inheritance if you can't over-ride it without adding arbitrary !important's? Is css inheritance broken? Isn't !important just admitting that it's broken?
I had originally thought that the entire style sheet was being ignored, because the input button expanded to 95%, and made it look like everything else was being ignored as well. However, I eventually realised that part of the style was actually working - 'cursor:pointer' did show a cursor.
Thanks everybody.

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When state legislators, playing catch-up with crude-by-rail shipments streaming unattended into California, passed some oversight laws this summer, critics said they weren't nearly strong enough to be effective.
On Tuesday, the railroads filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for Eastern California saying at least one of them was illegal interference in their lawful business. The law, Senate Bill 861, was aimed at safety issues.
The railroads say none of that stuff is the business of the state. "Federal law exempts this entire regime," the railroads argue in their suit, and there are already plenty of safeguards on U.S. books regarding the transportation of hazardous materials.
The lawsuit was filed by the Union Pacific Railroad Company, BNSF Railway Co and the Association of American Railroads. It names as defendants the Department of Fish and Wildlife's California Office of Spill Prevention and Response and Attorney General Kamala Harris. The attorney general wrote a letter last week to the Bay Area city of Benicia criticizing the environmental review it conducted of Valero Refining Company's plan to process crude oil from 100 tanker cars a day that would arrive via Roseville and Sacramento.
The much-anticipated report, written by Environmental Science Associates of San Francisco for the city of Benicia, singled out air pollution, "significant and unavoidable," as the sole danger among 11 "environmental resource or issue areas." Overall, it found the environmental threat to be negligible.
The report concluded that oil spills between Roseville and Benicia would occur about once every 111 years. The project would have no impact on agriculture and forestry resources or mineral resources. It would also have less-than-significant impacts on aesthetics, population and housing, public services, recreation and utilities and service systems.
In other words, the assumption is there won't be anything like the tragic accident in July 2013 in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, where 72 tank cars of crude oil exploded, killing 47 people and destroying much of the town's core. On Tuesday, a 100-car train traveling in Saskatchewan, Canada, derailed and burst into flames. Six of the cars contained hazardous materials, two of which were petroleum products. The train derailed less than a mile from the town of Clair (pop. 50), which was evacuated.
California, like states and localities across the nation, are scrambling just to get a handle on how much crude-by-rail is coursing through their jurisdictions, much less assessing what regulations and safety measures need to be put in place. In 2012, only 0.2% of the 598 million barrels of oil arrived by rail in California.
The California Energy Commission (CEC) has said it expects rail to account for a quarter of imports by 2016 as oil production in the West booms, thanks in large part to fracking and other aggressive extraction techniques, and producers look for refiners. And, of course, tar sands oil from Canada looms as Alberta looks to ship the world's dirtiest petroleum product to the Gulf Coast via the controversial Keystone XL pipeline and California via trucks and rail.


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Analysis: Excessive exuberance: Canada home prices boil over as policymakers sit back
By Julie Gordon, Nichola Saminather
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's red-hot housing market has become a bonfire, spurring comparisons to earlier bubbles and prompting calls for cooling measures. But policymakers are standing back, unwilling to intervene for fear of undermining Canada's still-fragile economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
FILE PHOTO: A view shows a sign of a house for sale as a real estate agent shows it to a client, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada June 5, 2020. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi/File Photo
Real estate agents say after months of end users driving sales, investors are again a factor in the market and flipping activity is picking up. In response, desperate buyers are over-extending themselves, paying tens of thousands more than originally budgeted just to get in.
While Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem in February acknowledged "some signs of excess exuberance" in the housing market, he downplayed the need for action.
"Right now the economy is weak, we're just coming out of the second wave. I think we need the support, we need the growth we can get," Macklem said.
The pandemic shift to working from home coupled with rock-bottom mortgage rates and government aid is driving up housing prices around the world - with suburban homes and vacation towns outperforming big cities from Australia to Europe and North America.
In Canada, the average home price jumped 22.8% in January to a record C$621,525 ($490,820). A sharp escalation since November is fueling fears that speculation and so-called FOMO, the fear of missing out, have again taken root.
Graphic: Home price escalation in Canada
Toronto and Vancouver area brokers say it is starting to feel like the height of the last bubble, when regional prices were rising by as much as 6% each month.
"It's on steroids. It really reminds me of 2017," said Nasma Ali, a Toronto agent who sold a home last month for C$1.59 million, C$340,000 over the asking price.
In other markets, like Ottawa and the cottage towns that have boomed as white-collar workers gamble they will not be called back to the office, the frenzy is like nothing agents have ever seen before.
"If you got in four months ago, you just made C$100,000," said Ottawa agent Judy Corriveau of entry-level homes popular with investors.
"As far as investments go, it's a lot better than the stock market ... Unless you got in on GameStop," she said, referring to a Reddit-darling stock that skyrocketed earlier this year.
Mortgage lending has hit record levels and riskier higher-ratio borrowers now make up 23% of new uninsured loans, more than in the 2017 bubble, according to National Bank of Canada. If the flight to smaller cities reverses, a surge of homes could flood the market.
"It seems like policymakers are blowing a pretty big bubble here," said Steve Saretsky, a Vancouver agent and analyst. "You have house prices up 20% in the midst of really high unemployment. It's certainly not a healthy market."
'HEARTBREAKING'
While the Bank of Canada, like other central banks, is unlikely to raise interest rates just to cool housing, experts say policymakers could look at tax measures and tougher lending rules for investors, similar to those imposed by New Zealand's central bank.
"A 40% equity downpayment for a rental purchase is a whole lot more of a stringent requirement than we have here. Those types of things are smart for our domestic regulators to be considering," said Paul Taylor, chief executive of Mortgage Professionals Canada.
Taylor, who represents mortgage brokers and insurers, added that any policy should discourage investors while encouraging owner-occupants, particularly in lower-priced segments popular with first-time buyers.
Housing affordability advocates, meanwhile, are calling for tax changes to target investors and a rethink of an exemption that allows homeowners to pocket all profits from the sale of a primary residence.
But a senior government source said "now is not really the time to be ratcheting anything down," pointing to the ongoing economic pressures.
Canada's residential real estate sector accounted for around 17% of GDP growth in the fourth quarter of 2020 and employment in the sector that includes real estate activity was 5.4% above pre-pandemic levels, with construction jobs up 3.4%.
Broker Corriveau in Ottawa said it is "heartbreaking" to see first-time buyers struggle.
"You don't know if there is going to be that one person who has lost 10 bidding wars and now is going to bid C$50,000 more than necessary just because they want to be done with it."
($1 = 1.2663 Canadian dollars)
Reporting by Julie Gordon in Ottawa and Nichola Saminather in Toronto; Editing by Steve Scherer and Matthew Lewis

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Beginning May 20, Blue Water Wives & Mothers is a special exhibit that celebrates the 24th Annual Cape Cod Maritime Month with some hair-raising, heart rending tales of perseverance at great odds. Dennis women were hearty souls.
The Dennis Maritime Museum is open from May 20 to September 29 on Wednesdays & Fridays, from 1 to 4 p.m.
The museum highlights local sea captains, their ships, their tales and navigational tools. The last graded school in Dennis features an 1860's school room.
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City Watch
Aston Martin: Just Add Hydrogen
Richard Lane | 07 May 2013
It's hitherto unknown whether the hydrogen-powered Rapide S that Aston Martin is racing at this year's 24 Hours of Nürburgring event will set the first ever zero-emissions lap of the notorious Nordschliefe circuit or recreate the equally infamous Hindenburg disaster, albeit on a slightly smaller scale.
The Rapide has, to be fair, recently completed a non-competitve lap (above), and I've been assured by Gonzalo Auil - one of the regional managers at hydrogen experts Alset Global, who have made this attempt possible – that "the latest technologies have proven that compressed hydrogen is no more dangerous than any gasoline tank". It still seems a courageous deed to take an already highly-strung and now potentially volatile race car around the 12.8-mile track that encloses the tiny village of Nürburg, pop.148. That's seventy-three corners and an elevation change of 984-feet, all at speeds approaching 260km/h.
The Aston Martin Hydrogen Hybrid Rapide S, to give it its full name, will use a twin-turbo 6.0-litre V12 that can take either gasoline or hydrogen exclusively, or a mixture of the two for maximum power. It's a unique, relatively inexpensive and altogether more straightforward application of hydrogen mobility in comparison to the ruinously expensive fuel cell technology that we've been promised by various manufacturers for the past thirty years. Auil adds that the actual application of the hydrogen gas is very similar to that of compressed natural gas, which is already relatively widespread.
The Rapide carries 3.23kg of gaseous hydrogen in four super-strength carbon fibre storage tanks, two of which sit next to the driver. In more moderate driving conditions that's enough fuel for a 200-300km range, but at race-pace it will last only a precious few laps. Each time the Rapide pits during the 24-hours the race it will be refuelled firstly with hydrogen and then with gasoline. Somewhat awkwardly, the facilities at the Nurburgring do not permit the replenishing of both fuels simultaneously.
Whilst a hydrogen-powered racecar gives Aston Martin a nice slice of green technology in a portfolio full of heavy drinkers, the real goal is to get this technology into road cars. Auil says it's currently mature enough – although admits that there are still reliability tests to pass - and believes that unlike electric and hybrid cars (which, he adds, will always have their own urban-centric niche), Alset Global's approach focuses more on changing the type of fuel our cars use, rather than the engine.
Estimated conversion costs amount to around 15% of a vehicle's standard value, so a hydrogen hybrid Volkswagen Golf GTI, for example, would cost in the region of £28,750. Considering such a Golf would have 200-or-so miles of driving range with nothing exiting the exhaust pipes except water, on top of the 500-mile gasoline range, Alset's model is hard to dispute.
Aston Martin's impending lap of the 'Ring makes for a stirring headline, but the bigger story here is the potential this technology has to transform the way we use hydrogen. Alset Global is currently working to open up a dialogue with various European governments to garner some political commitment to the hydrogen cause. After all, they can only build the cars, not the infrastructure.
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Have you ever seen a product and think: "Where have you been all my life?" I recently had that moment when I read an article about Nails Inc's spray on nail polish. I love having my nails painted but unfortunately when I do it, only one hand turns out well, and getting a manicure often can be expensive. That's why I can't wait to try a spray on nail polish!
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It is a common practice in Australia for executives, key staff, and business owners to take most of their annual leave over the Christmas / New Year period. Many also tend to accumulate leave entitlements over time, such that when annual leave is taken, the person will often be well and truly stressed and needing a rest.
In management theory terms, the important practice of taking at least 2 weeks leave is known as "sharpening the saw". This term arose out of the classic book "7 Habits of Highly Successful people" by Steven Covey, who argued the need to rest and reflect, before applying oneself back into work issues and problems.
His analogy is stating that the worn out executive or worker is operating from a "blunt saw" or low productivity that serves neither the person nor the organisation. Management studies in the 1980's had already identified that rested workers were able to be more productive, work smarter than harder, and had higher job satisfaction, morale, and well-being.
In 2010, medical knowledge and neuroscience informs us for better how the pay-off goes far beyond these measures to a point where it can dictate the physical, emotional and mental states of health of the person concerned.
For a long time now doctors have noticed a curious phenomenon amongst executives who take holidays after a long stint at work. It is common for executives like this to manifest either flu like illnesses, or chronic fatigue like symptoms for up to the first week of their holidays. These illnesses or symptoms normally appear within days of starting their holiday.
We now know more about this phenomenon. It seems the modern stressed life that many of us shoulder in our workplaces has the effect of putting our nervous systems and brains into a form of "fight or flight" for much of our working life. When we take holidays this effect stops and in our relaxation we stimulate our immune system. Our immune system then may induce these flu-like illnesses or chronic fatigue style tiredness. The body is simply doing maintenance and a cleanup of opportunistic bugs, fungi, toxins etc. and uses illness and fatigue as part of the process.
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\section{Thimble regularization in a nutshell}
\label{sec:basics}

Thimble regularization has been proposed in the broad context of extending
our capabilities to properly define quantum field theories
\cite{Witten}. It has been later applied to lattice field theories as
an attempt to overcome the sign problem \cite{AUthimble, Kiku}. In a
nutshell, it relies on the complexification of the original
degrees of freedom. The functional integral is defined on manifolds which
roughly speaking emerge as the generalization of Steepest Descent (SD)
paths. Not surprisingly, such an approach displays the same virtues of
saddle point evaluation of integrals, i.e. stationary phase and
localization of important contributions.

Morse theory \cite{MorseTHEORY} states that under suitable
(but not so strict) conditions
on holomorphic functions $S(x) = S_R + iS_I$ and $O(x)$
\begin{equation} \label{eq:Morse}
\int_{\cal C} dx \; O(x) \; \mbox{e}^{-S(x)} = \sum_\sigma n_\sigma \,
\mbox{e}^{-iS_I(p_\sigma)} \int_{\mathcal{J}_\sigma} dz \; O(z) \; \mbox{e}^{-S_R(z)}
\end{equation}
where the notation ($S,O$) alludes to a functional integral (even if
there is no normalizing factor $Z^{-1}$).
The content of (\ref{eq:Morse}) has to be understood as follows:
\begin{itemize}
\item the greek index $\sigma$ counts the stationary points
  $p_\sigma$ of the complex function $S(z)$;
\item each (stable) thimble $\mathcal{J}_\sigma$ is the union of
all the Steepest Ascent (SA) paths falling
  into $p_\sigma$ at (minus) infinite time, {\em i.e.} the union of the
  solutions of
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:thimblEQ}
\frac{dx_i}{d\tau} &=& \frac{\partial S_R(x,y)}{\partial x_i} \nonumber \\
\frac{dy_i}{d\tau} &=& \frac{\partial S_R(x,y)}{\partial y_i}
\end{eqnarray}
satisfying $z(\tau=-\infty) = x(\tau=-\infty) + iy(\tau=-\infty) =
p_\sigma$;
\item in the homological sense
${\cal C}=\sum_\sigma n_\sigma \mathcal{J}_\sigma$ and the thimbles
have the same real dimension of the original domain of integration;
\item the coefficients $n_\sigma$ count the intersections of the
  unstable thimbles $\mathcal{K}_\sigma$ with the original domain
  of integration; unstable thimbles are solutions of
  (\ref{eq:thimblEQ}) with $z(\tau=\infty) = p_\sigma$.
\item the imaginary part $S_I$
stays constant on a thimble; on the other side $S_R$ increases along
the SA solutions of (\ref{eq:thimblEQ}), thus ensuring convergence
of (\ref{eq:Morse}).
\end{itemize}

For the following it is useful to remind the reader of a
constructive approach. Near a critical point a field configuration can
be expressed as $\Phi_i = \phi_i-\phi_{\sigma,i}$; the real part of
the action is in turn
$$
S_R\left(\phi\right)=S_R\left(\phi_\sigma\right)+\frac{1}{2}\Phi^T H \Phi+\mathcal{O}\left(\phi^3\right)
$$
where $H$ is the hessian
$$
H_{ij}=\frac{\delta^2S_R}{\delta\phi_i\delta\phi_j}\biggl|_{\phi=\phi_\sigma}
$$
which can be put in diagonal form
$$
H=W\Lambda W^T
\;\;\;\;\;
\Lambda=\mathrm{diag}\left(\lambda_1,\cdots,\lambda_n,-\lambda_1,\cdots,-\lambda_n\right)
$$
once its eigenvalues are known and arranged in the matrix $W$. The
reader should notice the form of the spectrum: there is an equal
number of positive and negative eigenvalues. Half of the eigenvectors
of the Hessian (those corresponding to positive eigenvalues) span
the tangent space at the stable thimble at the critical point: if one leaves
the critical point along those directions integrating the SA
equations, one covers the stable thimble. On the other side, the other
directions take you along the unstable thimble.

At a generic point we lack an {\em a priori} knowledge of the tangent
space. The (local) basis can be nevertheless obtained by transporting
along the flow the basis at the critical point (see
\cite{AUthimble} or \cite{Kiku} for details). By doing this one also
realizes that the relative orientation between the canonical complex
volume form and the real volume form, characterizing the tangent space
of the thimble, contributes a phase to the integral. This is termed
the {\em residual phase} (see \cite{resPHASE} for details).

\section{Thimble regularization for gauge theories}

\subsection{The basic set-up}
We now want to sketch the thimble construction for $\mathrm{SU}(N)$ gauge
theories defined by an action $S[U]$. Going to complex fields means
$$
\mrm{SU}\l(N\r)\ni U=e^{i x_aT^a}\rightarrow e^{i z_aT^a}=e^{i \l(x_a+i y_a\r)T^a}\in\mrm{SL}\l(N,\mbb{C}\r)
$$
with the caveat that
$$
\mathrm{SU}\left(N\right)\ni U^\dag=e^{-i x_aT^a}\rightarrow e^{-i z_aT^a}=e^{-i \left(x_a+i y_a\right)T^a}=U^{-1}\in\mathrm{SL}\left(N,\mathbb{C}\right).
$$
Main ingredient is the Lie derivative
$$
\nabla^af\left(U\right)=\lim_{\alpha\rightarrow 0}\frac{1}{\alpha}\left[f\left(e^{i\alpha T^a}U\right)-f\left(U\right)\right]=\frac{\delta}{\delta\alpha}f\left(e^{i\alpha T^a}U\right)\biggl|_{\alpha=0}
$$
in terms of which we can write the SA equations as
\begin{equation} \label{eq:SAgauge}
\frac{\mrm{d}}{\mrm{d}\tau}U_{\hat{\mu}}\l(n;\tau\r)=\l(i\,T^a\bar{\nabla}_{n,{\hat{\mu}}}^a\overline{S\l[U\l(\tau\r)\r]}\r)U_{\hat{\mu}}\l(n;\tau\r).
\end{equation}
The solutions of these equations display the main properties we
expect. Namely, since $\frac{\mrm{d}}{\mrm{d}\tau}=
\bar{\nabla}_{n,{\hat{\mu}}}^a\bar{S}\,\nabla_{n,{\hat{\mu}}}^a+
\nabla_{n,{\hat{\mu}}}^aS\,\bar{\nabla}_{n,{\hat{\mu}}}^a$ we have that
$$
\frac{\mrm{d}S^R}{\mrm{d}\tau}=\frac{1}{2}\frac{\mrm{d}}{\mrm{d}\tau}\l(S+\bar{S}\r)=\frac{1}{2}\l(\bar{\nabla}_{n,{\hat{\mu}}}^a\bar{S}\,\nabla_{n,{\hat{\mu}}}^a S+\nabla_{n,{\hat{\mu}}}^aS\,\bar{\nabla}_{n,{\hat{\mu}}}^a\bar{S}\r)=\left\Vert\nabla S\right\Vert^2\geq0
$$
and
$$
\frac{\mrm{d}S^I}{\mrm{d}\tau}=\frac{1}{2i}\frac{\mrm{d}}{\mrm{d}\tau}\l(S-\bar{S}\r)=\frac{1}{2i}\l(\bar{\nabla}_{n,{\hat{\mu}}}^a\bar{S}\,\nabla_{n,{\hat{\mu}}}^a S-\nabla_{n,{\hat{\mu}}}^aS\,\bar{\nabla}_{n,{\hat{\mu}}}^a\bar{S}\r)=0.
$$
Lie derivatives obey non-trivial commutation relations
\begin{eqnarray}
\nonumber\l[\nabla_{n,{\hat{\mu}}}^a\,,\nabla_{m,{\hat{\nu}}}^b\r] &=& -f^{abc}\,\nabla_{n,{\hat{\mu}}}^c\,\delta_{n,m}\delta_{{\hat{\mu}},{\hat{\nu}}}\\
\nonumber\l[\bar{\nabla}_{n,{\hat{\mu}}}^a\,,\bar{\nabla}_{m,{\hat{\nu}}}^b\r] &=& -f^{abc}\,\bar{\nabla}_{n,{\hat{\mu}}}^c\,\delta_{n,m}\delta_{{\hat{\mu}},{\hat{\nu}}}\\
\nonumber\l[\nabla_{n,{\hat{\mu}}}^a\,,\bar{\nabla}_{m,{\hat{\nu}}}^b\r] &=& 0
\end{eqnarray}
from which we can get commutation relations for vectors
$V\equiv
V_{n,{\hat{\mu}},a}\nabla_{n,{\hat{\mu}}}^a+\bar{V}_{n,{\hat{\mu}},a}\bar{\nabla}_{n,{\hat{\mu}}}^a$
$$
\l[V,V'\r]_{n,{\hat{\mu}},c}=-f^{abc}\,V_{n,{\hat{\mu}},a}V'_{n,{\hat{\mu}},b}.
$$
Taking $V'_{n,{\hat{\mu}},c}=\bar{\nabla}_{n,{\hat{\mu}}}^c\bar{S}$ we can derive
the equation for transporting a vector $V$ from the
critical point to any point along the flow described by (\ref{eq:SAgauge})
\begin{equation}
\frac{\mrm{d}}{\mrm{d}\tau}V_{n,{\hat{\mu}},c}=\bar{\nabla}_{m,{\hat{\nu}}}^a\bar{\nabla}_{n,{\hat{\mu}}}^c\bar{S}\,\bar{V}_{m,{\hat{\nu}},a}+f^{abc}\,\bar{\nabla}_{n,{\hat{\mu}}}^b\bar{S}\,V_{n,{\hat{\mu}},a}.
\end{equation}
Apparently we collected all the tools needed for the constructive
approach to thimbles we described in the previous section.
In particular, the last equation we wrote would enable us
to transport along the flow the basis of the tangent space at
the critical point. As a matter of fact all this is still void,
because we still miss a proper definition for thimbles.
While till now everything seems to be quite natural, we
soon realize we need new ingredients to generalize the construction of
thimbles in the case of gauge theories.

\subsection{From non-degenerate critical points to non-degenerate critical submanifolds}

Once local gauge invariance is in place, every stationary point of a
gauge-invariant action belongs to a manifold of stationary points and,
in particular, the Hessian is degenerate. The relevant picture is now
provided \cite{AtBott} by generalizing the concept of a
non-degenerate critical point\footnote{The stationary points of
Section \ref{sec:basics} were non-degenerate critical points: the
hessian had no zero eigenvalue.} into that of a
{\em non-degenerate critical manifold} \cite{AtBott}.
A manifold ${\cal N} \subset {\cal C}$ is a non-degenerate critical sub-manifold
of
${\cal C}$ for the function $F: \; {\cal C}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ if:
\begin{itemize}
\item[1.] $d F = 0$ along  ${\cal N}$;
\item[2.] The Hessian $\partial^2 F$ is non-degenerate on the normal bundle $\nu({\cal N})$.
\end{itemize}
If we consider the $A=0$ vacuum of an $SU(N_c)$ Yang-Mills theory ($F$
being given by the action $S$), ${\cal N}^{(0)}$ is given by the complete gauge
orbit associated to $A=0$, the real dimension of such critical
sub-manifold being given by $(V-1)(N_c^2-1)$.

When we complexify, we switch to $SL(N_c,\mbb{C})$ and we get instead
the gauge orbit in the latter. As for non-zero eigenvalues of the
action hessian, we get an equal number of positive and negative
eigenvalues. These are once again associated to the SA and SD flows
described by (\ref{eq:SAgauge}) (and we will be once again left with the
right real dimension of the thimbles).

All in all, the thimble {\em e.g.} associated to $A=0$ for the
$SU(3)$ Yang-Mills action is defined by
$$
{\cal J}_0:=
\left\{
U\in (SL(3,\mathbb{C}))^{4V} \; | \; \;
\exists U(\tau) \; \; \mbox{ solution of Eq.~(\ref{eq:SAgauge})}
\; \; | \; \;
U(0)=U
\; \; \& \; \;
\lim_{\tau\rightarrow - \infty} U(\tau) \in {\cal N}^{(0)}
\right\}.
$$
The meaning of the construction we sketched gets clearer when one
realizes that under $SL(3,\mbb{C})$ gauge transformations
$U_{\nu}(x) \rightarrow \Lambda(x) U_{\nu}(x;\tau) \Lambda(x+\hat{\nu})^{-1}$
$$
(T_a \overline{\nabla}_{x,\nu,a} \overline{S[U]}) \rightarrow
\left(\Lambda(x)^{-1}\right)^{\dag}
(T_a \overline{\nabla}_{x,\nu,a} \overline{S[U]})
\Lambda(x)^{\dag}.
$$
This means that we have the SA covariant only provided
$\Lambda(x)^\dagger=\Lambda(x)^{-1}$,
{\em i.e.} for $SU(3)$ transformations.
This also means that if we take a SA from $A=0$, at any stage we can
perform a gauge transformation and this will take us to a point
starting from which under SD we are going to eventually
land on another point on the gauge orbit of $A=0$
(decided by the gauge transformation we choose). For further
details on the construction we sketched the reader is
referred to \cite{AUthimble}.

\subsection{Pure Yang Mills SU(N): torons and all that}

Thimble regularization is {\em per se} an interesting
subject. Nevertheless, the main motivation for probing it as a
solution of the sign problem is to eventually tackle the investigation
of the QCD phase diagram. It is thus of outmost importance that the
framework we have just sketched is proven to be effective for gauge
theories. Before we mention the results we have already got for simple
toy models, we now discuss a possible application that displays
a few of the subtleties one should be ready to face in the case of
gauge theories.

A somehow artificial sign problem can be encountered by addressing the study
of the Wilson action
$$
S_G\l[U\r]=\beta\sum_{m\in\Lambda}\sum_{{\hat{\rho}}<{\hat{\nu}}}\l[1-\frac{1}{2N}\mrm{Tr}\l(U_{{\hat{\rho}}{\hat{\nu}}}\l(m\r)+U_{{\hat{\rho}}{\hat{\nu}}}^{-1}\l(m\r)\r)\r]
$$
at complex values of the coupling $\beta$. Having in mind the
construction of the thimble attached to the identity, one writes down
the hessian \\

\footnotesize
\vskip-0.8cm
$$
\nabla^b_{m,{\hat{\rho}}}\nabla^a_{n,{\hat{\mu}}}S_G\l[U\r]\bigr|_{U=\mbb{I}}=
\frac{\beta}{2N}\delta^{ab}
{\l[2d\delta_{n,m}\delta_{{\hat{\mu}},{\hat{\rho}}}-\delta_{n,m}+\delta_{n+{\hat{\mu}},m}+\delta_{n-{\hat{\rho}},m}-\delta_{n+{\hat{\mu}}-{\hat{\rho}},m}-\delta_{{\hat{\mu}},{\hat{\rho}}}\sum\limits_{\hat{\nu}}\l(\delta_{n+{\hat{\nu}},m}+\delta_{n-{\hat{\nu}},m}\r)\r]}
$$
\normalsize
 It is easy to realize that the spectrum displays not only the
$(V-1)(N_c^2-1)$ zero modes we discussed above, but also extra
$d(N_c^2-1)$ ones\footnote{d is the dimension the theory lives in.}. This
does not come as a surprise: torons have shown up. There is an
extensive literature on the subject: the reader is referred to
{\em e.g.} \cite{torons} and
references therein for an introduction to the results we will
mention in the following\footnote{We thank A. Ramos for having pointed
out ref \cite{torons} to us.}.
Already for the simple case $d=2$ and $N_c=2$ one
gets a non-trivial case of study and since everything is
known in this setting, we have the chance to validate the results of
a thimble formulation.

Torons can be avoided by moving to a twisted action
$$
S_G\l[U\r]=\beta\sum_P f_P^{\l(t\r)}\l(U_P\r) \;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;
f_P^{\l(t\r)}\l(U_P\r) =
\{f_P\l(z_{{\hat{\mu}}{\hat{\nu}}}U_P\r) \;\mbox{for}\; P\in R_{{\hat{\mu}}{\hat{\nu}}};
\;\; f_P\l(U_P\r) \;\mbox{for}\; P\notin R_{{\hat{\mu}}{\hat{\nu}}} \}
$$
where $f_P\l(U_P\r)$ is the ordinary Wilson action density;
$z_{{\hat{\mu}}{\hat{\nu}}}=z_{{\hat{\nu}}{\hat{\mu}}}^{-1}=\bar{z}_{{\hat{\nu}}{\hat{\mu}}}=e^{2\pi i
  n_{{\hat{\mu}}{\hat{\nu}}}/N}\in Z_N$
is the twist tensor and $R_{{\hat{\mu}}{\hat{\nu}}}$ consists of a particular
set of plaquettes. In our $d=2, N_c=2$ case $R_{{\hat{\mu}}{\hat{\nu}}}$ simply reduces to the
plaquette which is named $P_0$ in figure 1.
Minimum action configuration is now given by the so-called
{\em twist-eater}. The construction of the latter starts with building
the {\em gauge tree} on which the links can be gauged to unity.
\begin{figure}[ht]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.65]{GaugeTreeFIG.pdf}
\caption{The {\em gauge tree} construction for $d=2$.
$P_0$ is the only plaquette which enters the action with a non-trivial
coefficient. $L_{\hat{\mu}}$ and $L_{\hat{\nu}}$ are the ladders on which
links assume non-trivial values $G_{\hat{\mu}}$ and $G_{\hat{\nu}}$ respectively.}
\label{fig:thimble_figure_stokes}
\end{figure}
On the two ladders $L_{\hat{\mu}}$ and $L_{\hat{\nu}}$ links assume
non-trivial values $G_{\hat{\mu}}$ and $G_{\hat{\nu}}$ respectively. These values
are decided by the the twisted commutation relation
$G_{\hat{\nu}} G_{\hat{\mu}}=z_{{\hat{\mu}}{\hat{\nu}}}G_{\hat{\mu}} G_{\hat{\nu}}$ which puts to zero the
contribution to the action coming from the plaquette $P_0$.
It can be shown that the {\em twist-eater} is
the global minimum, unaffected by torons. It is
thus the critical point whose thimble one should naturally
start taking into account.

\section{First applications: SU(N) toy models}

While the previous section referred to a problem ($d=2$ $SU(2)$
Yang-Mills theory) for which we only have plans, we have already
worked out simple toy models like the $SU(N)$ one link models
defined by
$$
S\l[U\r]=-\frac{\beta}{N}\mrm{Tr}\l(U\r) \;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;
Z\l(\beta\r)=\int\limits_{\mrm{SU}\l(N\r)}\mrm{d}U\,e^{\frac{\beta}{N}\mrm{Tr}\l(U\r)}=\sum\limits_{n=0}^\infty\frac{2!\cdots\l(N-1\r)!}{n!\cdots\l(n+N-1\r)!}\l(\frac{\beta}{N}\r)^{Nn}
$$
A natural observable is
$$
\langle\mrm{Tr}\l(U\r)\rangle=\frac{1}{Z}\int\limits_{\mrm{SU}\l(N\r)}\mrm{d}U\,\mrm{Tr}\l(U\r)\,e^{\frac{\beta}{N}\mrm{Tr}\l(U\r)}=N\frac{\de}{\de\beta}
\ln Z
$$
Also in this case the sign problem is artificial (one takes
complex values for $\beta$).
It is important to point out that for $SU(N)$ one finds
exactly $N$ critical points (the elements of the center
$Z_N$). All of them give a contribution to the correct computation
of results, as {\em e.g.} depicted in figure 2 in the case of
$SU(3)$, where $|\beta|=5$ is kept fixed while
$\arg \beta$ is varied.

\begin{figure}[ht]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.65]{OneLinkFIG.pdf}
\caption{Computation of $\langle\mrm{Tr}\l(U\r)\rangle$ at fixed
$|\beta|=5$ for the $SU(3)$ one link model.}
\label{fig:thimble_figure_stokes}
\end{figure}

\section*{Conclusions}

Thimble regularization as a solution of the sign problem is still in
its infancy and there is quite a long way to go before
we can have it working for Lattice QCD. Nevertheless, a formulation
for gauge theories is there and simple toy models have already been
successfully worked out.

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At the end of the thirteenth century, two Genoese brothers with a musical surname embarked on the adventure, fearsome at the time, of finding an alternative spice route. His idea was to arrive in India with two galleys and for that, they had the help of Mallorcan sailors but after crossing the Strait of Gibraltar they did not know about them again. It is possible that they were shipwrecked trying to skirt Africa but there are also those who suggest that their route was to the west, which would have meant opening the door that Christopher Columbus followed. Those pioneers were called Ugolino and Vandino (or Guido) Vivaldi.
It is frequent that the arrival of Columbus to America in 1492 usually tries to cloud with possible trips of previous navigators. It is proven that, in fact, some arrived before, as evidenced by archaeological excavations in the Viking site of L'Anse aux Meadows (Newfoundland, Canada) and references to Vinland. We will not go over the usual argument that it was a very modest settlement (just over half a hundred inhabitants), ephemeral and forgotten.
Other predecessors do not go beyond the mere hypothetical phase, in the case of the so-called prenaut, the sailor who would have informed Columbus of a visit to a new world. He is often identified too cheerfully with a certain Alonso Sánchez de Huelva, although the name does not appear in documents of the time and, in fact, it was the Inca Garcilaso the first to review it in 1609, in his Royal Comments, from stories he had heard circulated from mouth to mouth as a child.
Finally, there are the sensationalist theories that give truthfulness to mere legends such as Saint Brandán's or the last Templars – they could not miss, of course – or even go back in time to antiquity to propose alleged trips by Egyptians, Phoenicians, Romans and, in general, any other civilization whose presence on the other side of the Atlantic is sufficiently bizarre. Counterfeit pieces with hieroglyphic alphabets tend to emerge cyclically.
In that sense, not long ago Erdogan updated the Ottoman claim about it with full conviction and the inevitable map of Piri Reis as a flag despite being proven to have been made in 1513. And there are also those that point to the Chinese fleet of Zheng. He, who existed and made seven trips but always sailing towards the southwest, to the Indian coast of Africa and its surroundings; that is, in the opposite direction to America.
On the other hand, the expeditions that really tried to cross the ocean are usually left in the drawer. Some time ago we talked about an unusual one, which was organized by Abubakari II, king of Mali, anxious to know what was on the other side and that disappeared on the high seas in 1312. But there were more, like those of the British sailors who sailed from Bristol or the Portuguese from the Azores, in both cases in search of those rich islands that the legends placed in the middle of nowhere (Hy-Brasil, Antilia …).
This drive to unravel the secrets of the Atlantic also included, and despite having worse access, Italian navigators; fundamentally of Genoa, one of the maritime powers of the time, being of that origin the two brothers of whom we spoke at the beginning. The trip they starred was really prophetic, even though we barely know the details, as we ignore the data about their lives. We only know that they were engaged in the spice trade, whose negative conjuncture was what spurred them to act.
That bad business started in 1291, when the Mamluk sultan Bahrite Al-Ashraf Khalil snatched San Juan de Acre from the Christians, forcing them to evacuate Tire, Sidon and Beirut and expelling them definitively from the Holy Land. This was a problem for the caravan routes that came from Asia and, consequently, a drastic reduction of the spice consignments, whose demand skyrocketed in parallel to its price. We had to look for alternatives and the only one that seemed to avoid passing through Islamic territory was to open a seaway "ad partes Indiae per mare oceanum".
Several merchants joined to finance two galleys with Tedisio Doria at the helm. The Doria would finance the Portuguese and Spanish explorations two centuries later and, in fact, in Seville a banker of that family, Francesco, worked, who contributed capital for Columbus' voyage. The ships of the Vivaldi were called Allegranza and Sant'Antonio and they carried a total of three hundred sailors plus a couple of Franciscan friars, their pilots being Mallorcan (they climbed on the first scale of the trip, which was in the Balearic Islands).
We said before that it is unknown what the plan was and what was his itinerary since the main historiographical source for this episode are the Annali that Jacobo Doria (uncle of Tedesio) presented to the authorities of Genoa in 1294. It says:
"Tedisio d'Oria, Ugolino Vivaldi and a brother of the latter, together with some citizens of Genoa, started an expedition that nobody until then had ever tried. They equipped two galleys in a splendid way. After supplying them with supplies, water and other necessities, they sent them on their route, in the month of May, to the Strait of Ceuta so that the galleys could sail through the ocean to India and return with useful merchandise. The two brothers mentioned above were on the boats in person, and also two Franciscan friars; all of which truly amazed those who witnessed it, as well as those who heard about them. After the travellers passed through a place called Gozora there was no more news of them. May God watch over them and bring them back healthy. "
There are other references that are those that bring the name of that brother (Vandino), of which Tedisio says that he did not accompany Ugolino on board and that they indicate that they were carrying food for the very long term: no less than ten years. The Book of Conosçimiento (a geographical-literary manual written by a Castilian friar in the second half of the 14th century that describes the world from the point of view of a traveler, following the model of Marco Polo ) mentions the Vivaldi saying that they were shipwrecked in the region of Guinea and that the son of Ugolino was found looking for his father.
Sure enough, that Scion was called Sorleone and had organized a rescue expedition in 1315 by not knowing anything about the two galleys. And he was not the only one because three years before he had already left, led by Lanceloto Malocello, who decided to look first at the Canary Islands, because an island of the Chinijo archipelago was called (and is still called) Alegranza, like one of the galleys. Only that on the way he found an island to which he put his name ( Lanzarote ) and liked it so much that he changed plans on the march, staying to live there for two decades until the aborigines rebelled against the Europeans and had to leave.
The region of Guinea was not what we would today understand as such, but the way to call all Black Africa. The Book of Conosçimiento situates the episode in Magdasor, which could perhaps be Mogadishu (Somalia), taking into account not only the cacophonous resemblance but also that it describes it close to the kingdom of Prester John, traditionally located in the Horn of Africa. This would mean that the Vivaldi managed to double the Cape of Good Hope and sail north through the Indian Ocean.
Now, the Preste Juan was just a willful legend and also that book has a markedly fantastic tone. Not to mention that other details written by the friar seem to indicate rather that he is talking about the Atlantic African coast, since the Senegal River, the Mali Empire, are cited, as well as other places, in the case of Senegambia. Precisely the Gambia River was the scene of a meeting between the Genoese sailor Antoniotto Usodimare (who worked for the Portuguese) and a compatriot who claimed to be a survivor of the Vivaldi crew, although the story of Usodimare reproduces almost point by point the Book of the conosçimiento :
"In the year of 1285, two galleys sailed from the city of Genoa commanded by the brothers Ugolino and Guido Vivaldi ( Hugolinum et Guidum de Vivaldis fratres ) with the purpose of going, on the east ( per Levantum ), to parts of India. These galleys sailed a lot; but when they entered the sea of Guinea ( mari de Ghinoia), one of the galleys broke his helmet, and could not continue sailing further; the other, however, continued through this sea, until he came to a city in Ethiopia called Menam; They were captured and detained by the inhabitants of this city, who are Christians of Ethiopia, subjects of Prester John. The city is located by the sea, near the Gion river. They were so closely detained that none of them managed to return home. "
We see that the year is wrong. All these assumptions and unknowns did not do but enlarge more and more the legend on that trip, which leads to wonder what defeat could follow the ships and what would be its end. We have already said that the galley was not the type of ship suitable for navigating the ocean, for having too much length, a thin hull and triangular sails; the oars would not help too much with the huge Atlantic swell. Thus, things probably never went too far from the coast and this one could betray them.
Since the compass had not yet been invented and they lacked nautical charts of the area to be covered, after passing the Columns of Hercules and making a possible stopover in the Canaries, perhaps they continued sailing parallel to the African coast making sporadic landings. In this way they were able to reach the mouth of the Senegal River, where at least one of the galleys was wrecked, without knowing in what circumstances (in that area there are great shallows, in one of them the famous frigate Medusa ran aground ) or what happened with the other.
If we let imagination go, there are other alternatives: they were able to circumnavigate Africa, which means that the Portuguese Bartolomé Díaz was advanced almost two hundred years ago – and, if they managed to reach India, Vasco de Gama – to get lost in the Indian Ocean, either on the way back … or do it in the Atlantic prow to America, prefiguring what Columbus would do successfully at the end of the 15th century.
Sources: Book of conosçimiento (with notes of Marcos Jiménez de la Espada) / The Book of knowledge of all the kingdoms of the world: the sapiential reading of a book of imaginary journeys (María Jesús Lacarra) / The islands of the end of the world. Representation of the Fortunates in the maps of the medieval West(Kevin R. Wittmann) / The Medieval Expansion of Europe (JRS Phillips) / Columbus (Felipe Fernández-Armesto) / Wikipedia
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For overwhelmed parents of four, we've been pretty social this weekend. The Browns came over Friday. Harrison and Grace love playing with Abigail and Dayton, and it was fun for Sarah and I to talk with Mr. and Mrs. Brown. It's important that we have regular reminders that most people don't discuss feedings and poop 24 hours a day.
Saturday night Grandma and Grandpa Labuta came over for dinner. When Sarah isn't on maternity leave, Grandma Labuta is practically a part-time resident of this place so it was great to have them over. Grandma gave Harrison a bath (sort of retro for him — he's a reluctant shower man nowadays), and Maestro Grandpa Dr. Labuta had a tea party with Grace. We also discussed Grace's recent backward slide in potty training since the twins came along. Is it due to the presence of the twins, or Grandma's absence? We don't know, but Sarah suggesting sending Grace to Grandma's for Potty Training Boot Camp.
One thing I've noticed about entertaining as a family of six is that people don't stay very late. Sarah and I were never the all-night party type, but I think all possibility of such activity is gone until the twins move out. Later, in fact, because at that point Sarah and I will both be working multiple full-time jobs to pay all the college tuition (Note to self: Look into existence of Pokemon scholarships – if they exist, HJ's got a full ride).
Today was the much anticipated visit of Aunt Amy. She fed . . . uh, I dunno, one of the twins. We got to have a little grown-up talk. But HJ and Grace could only be held off so long. So then it was out to the swing set, and a little time sitting under a tree in the back yard, and back in for some hide-and-seek and a (finally abbreviated) game of Sorry.
It was during the game of hide-and-seek that Aunt Amy really took one for the Orwig team. Hiding on the floor of our closet with both kids (from whom I have no idea at that point), someone inadvertently tugged on a wire dangling from a shelf. We have wires dangling all over the house, of course, but this one happened to be attached to a power adapter ("wall brick") that wasn't plugged in. So down it came, like something out of a Home Alone movie or a Road Runner cartoon, casting a rapidly growing shadow over Amy's forehead until – THUNK! – it hit her in the forehead. She was okay, but she must have an impressive lump by now.
The real irony is that as a typical older brother, I might have tried to orchestrate exactly such an event when we were kids (although maybe with something more annoyance-sized than closed-head-injury sized). Here I am 40 years old and it happened by accident.
After a few hours, worn out and bruised, Amy headed home. Our entertaining was done for the weekend, but we found ourselves ready for more.
I'm sure Aunt Amy slept well tonight. If she has any difficulty waking in the morning, though, I hope she'll have one of the doctors take a look at her. That adapter was pretty big.


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from ._hoedown import lib, ffi
from .constants import *
from .utils import to_string

@ffi.def_extern()
def _misaka_blockcode(ob, text, lang, data):
    renderer = ffi.from_handle(lib.misaka_get_renderer(data))
    text = to_string(text)
    lang = to_string(lang)

    result = renderer.blockcode(text, lang)
    if result:
        lib.hoedown_buffer_puts(ob, result.encode('utf-8'))

@ffi.def_extern()
def _misaka_blockquote(ob, content, data):
    renderer = ffi.from_handle(lib.misaka_get_renderer(data))
    content = to_string(content)
    result = renderer.blockquote(content)
    if result:
        lib.hoedown_buffer_puts(ob, result.encode('utf-8'))

@ffi.def_extern()
def _misaka_header(ob, content, level, data):
    renderer = ffi.from_handle(lib.misaka_get_renderer(data))
    content = to_string(content)
    level = int(level)
    result = renderer.header(content, level)
    if result:
        lib.hoedown_buffer_puts(ob, result.encode('utf-8'))

@ffi.def_extern()
def _misaka_hrule(ob, data):
    renderer = ffi.from_handle(lib.misaka_get_renderer(data))
    result = renderer.hrule()
    if result:
        lib.hoedown_buffer_puts(ob, result.encode('utf-8'))

# flags: LIST_ORDERED, LI_BLOCK.
@ffi.def_extern()
def _misaka_list(ob, content, flags, ol_prefix_bytes, data):
    renderer = ffi.from_handle(lib.misaka_get_renderer(data))
    content = to_string(content)
    flags = int(flags)
    is_ordered = flags & LIST_ORDERED != 0
    is_block = flags & LI_BLOCK != 0
    ol_prefix = (
        None if ol_prefix_bytes == ffi.NULL
        else ffi.string(ol_prefix_bytes).decode('utf-8'))
    result = renderer.list(content, is_ordered, is_block, ol_prefix)
    if result:
        lib.hoedown_buffer_puts(ob, result.encode('utf-8'))

# flags: LIST_ORDERED, LI_BLOCK.
@ffi.def_extern()
def _misaka_listitem(ob, content, flags, data):
    renderer = ffi.from_handle(lib.misaka_get_renderer(data))
    content = to_string(content)
    flags = int(flags)
    is_ordered = flags & LIST_ORDERED != 0
    is_block = flags & LI_BLOCK != 0
    result = renderer.listitem(content, is_ordered, is_block)
    if result:
        lib.hoedown_buffer_puts(ob, result.encode('utf-8'))

@ffi.def_extern()
def _misaka_paragraph(ob, content, data):
    renderer = ffi.from_handle(lib.misaka_get_renderer(data))
    content = to_string(content)
    result = renderer.paragraph(content)
    if result:
        lib.hoedown_buffer_puts(ob, result.encode('utf-8'))

@ffi.def_extern()
def _misaka_table(ob, content, data):
    renderer = ffi.from_handle(lib.misaka_get_renderer(data))
    content = to_string(content)
    result = renderer.table(content)
    if result:
        lib.hoedown_buffer_puts(ob, result.encode('utf-8'))

@ffi.def_extern()
def _misaka_table_header(ob, content, data):
    renderer = ffi.from_handle(lib.misaka_get_renderer(data))
    content = to_string(content)
    result = renderer.table_header(content)
    if result:
        lib.hoedown_buffer_puts(ob, result.encode('utf-8'))

@ffi.def_extern()
def _misaka_table_body(ob, content, data):
    renderer = ffi.from_handle(lib.misaka_get_renderer(data))
    content = to_string(content)
    result = renderer.table_body(content)
    if result:
        lib.hoedown_buffer_puts(ob, result.encode('utf-8'))

@ffi.def_extern()
def _misaka_table_row(ob, content, data):
    renderer = ffi.from_handle(lib.misaka_get_renderer(data))
    content = to_string(content)
    result = renderer.table_row(content)
    if result:
        lib.hoedown_buffer_puts(ob, result.encode('utf-8'))

# flags: TABLE_ALIGNMASK, TABLE_ALIGN_LEFT, TABLE_ALIGN_RIGHT,
#        TABLE_ALIGN_CENTER, TABLE_HEADER
@ffi.def_extern()
def _misaka_table_cell(ob, content, flags, data):
    renderer = ffi.from_handle(lib.misaka_get_renderer(data))
    content = to_string(content)
    flags = int(flags)
    is_header = flags & TABLE_HEADER != 0
    align_bit = flags & TABLE_ALIGNMASK

    if align_bit == TABLE_ALIGN_CENTER:
        align = 'center'
    elif align_bit == TABLE_ALIGN_LEFT:
        align = 'left'
    elif align_bit == TABLE_ALIGN_RIGHT:
        align = 'right'
    else:
        align = ''

    result = renderer.table_cell(content, align, is_header)
    if result:
        lib.hoedown_buffer_puts(ob, result.encode('utf-8'))

@ffi.def_extern()
def _misaka_footnotes(ob, content, data):
    renderer = ffi.from_handle(lib.misaka_get_renderer(data))
    content = to_string(content)
    result = renderer.footnotes(content)
    if result:
        lib.hoedown_buffer_puts(ob, result.encode('utf-8'))

@ffi.def_extern()
def _misaka_footnote_def(ob, content, num, data):
    renderer = ffi.from_handle(lib.misaka_get_renderer(data))
    content = to_string(content)
    num = int(num)
    result = renderer.footnote_def(content, num)
    if result:
        lib.hoedown_buffer_puts(ob, result.encode('utf-8'))

@ffi.def_extern()
def _misaka_blockhtml(ob, text, data):
    renderer = ffi.from_handle(lib.misaka_get_renderer(data))
    text = to_string(text)
    result = renderer.blockhtml(text)
    if result:
        lib.hoedown_buffer_puts(ob, result.encode('utf-8'))

@ffi.def_extern()
def _misaka_autolink(ob, link, type, data):
    renderer = ffi.from_handle(lib.misaka_get_renderer(data))
    link = to_string(link)
    is_email = int(type) & AUTOLINK_EMAIL != 0
    result = renderer.autolink(link, is_email)
    if result:
        lib.hoedown_buffer_puts(ob, result.encode('utf-8'))
        return 1
    return 0

@ffi.def_extern()
def _misaka_codespan(ob, text, data):
    renderer = ffi.from_handle(lib.misaka_get_renderer(data))
    text = to_string(text)
    result = renderer.codespan(text)
    if result:
        lib.hoedown_buffer_puts(ob, result.encode('utf-8'))
        return 1
    return 0

@ffi.def_extern()
def _misaka_double_emphasis(ob, content, data):
    renderer = ffi.from_handle(lib.misaka_get_renderer(data))
    content = to_string(content)
    result = renderer.double_emphasis(content)
    if result:
        lib.hoedown_buffer_puts(ob, result.encode('utf-8'))
        return 1
    return 0

@ffi.def_extern()
def _misaka_emphasis(ob, content, data):
    renderer = ffi.from_handle(lib.misaka_get_renderer(data))
    content = to_string(content)
    result = renderer.emphasis(content)
    if result:
        lib.hoedown_buffer_puts(ob, result.encode('utf-8'))
        return 1
    return 0

@ffi.def_extern()
def _misaka_underline(ob, content, data):
    renderer = ffi.from_handle(lib.misaka_get_renderer(data))
    content = to_string(content)
    result = renderer.underline(content)
    if result:
        lib.hoedown_buffer_puts(ob, result.encode('utf-8'))
        return 1
    return 0

@ffi.def_extern()
def _misaka_highlight(ob, content, data):
    renderer = ffi.from_handle(lib.misaka_get_renderer(data))
    content = to_string(content)
    result = renderer.highlight(content)
    if result:
        lib.hoedown_buffer_puts(ob, result.encode('utf-8'))
        return 1
    return 0

@ffi.def_extern()
def _misaka_quote(ob, content, data):
    renderer = ffi.from_handle(lib.misaka_get_renderer(data))
    content = to_string(content)
    result = renderer.quote(content)
    if result:
        lib.hoedown_buffer_puts(ob, result.encode('utf-8'))
        return 1
    return 0

@ffi.def_extern()
def _misaka_image(ob, link, title, alt, data):
    renderer = ffi.from_handle(lib.misaka_get_renderer(data))
    link = to_string(link)
    title = to_string(title)
    alt = to_string(alt)
    result = renderer.image(link, title, alt)
    if result:
        lib.hoedown_buffer_puts(ob, result.encode('utf-8'))
        return 1
    return 0

@ffi.def_extern()
def _misaka_linebreak(ob, data):
    renderer = ffi.from_handle(lib.misaka_get_renderer(data))
    result = renderer.linebreak()
    if result:
        lib.hoedown_buffer_puts(ob, result.encode('utf-8'))
        return 1
    return 0

@ffi.def_extern()
def _misaka_link(ob, content, link, title, data):
    renderer = ffi.from_handle(lib.misaka_get_renderer(data))
    content = to_string(content)
    link = to_string(link)
    title = to_string(title)
    result = renderer.link(content, link, title)
    if result:
        lib.hoedown_buffer_puts(ob, result.encode('utf-8'))
        return 1
    return 0

@ffi.def_extern()
def _misaka_triple_emphasis(ob, content, data):
    renderer = ffi.from_handle(lib.misaka_get_renderer(data))
    content = to_string(content)
    result = renderer.triple_emphasis(content)
    if result:
        lib.hoedown_buffer_puts(ob, result.encode('utf-8'))
        return 1
    return 0

@ffi.def_extern()
def _misaka_strikethrough(ob, content, data):
    renderer = ffi.from_handle(lib.misaka_get_renderer(data))
    content = to_string(content)
    result = renderer.strikethrough(content)
    if result:
        lib.hoedown_buffer_puts(ob, result.encode('utf-8'))
        return 1
    return 0

@ffi.def_extern()
def _misaka_superscript(ob, content, data):
    renderer = ffi.from_handle(lib.misaka_get_renderer(data))
    content = to_string(content)
    result = renderer.superscript(content)
    if result:
        lib.hoedown_buffer_puts(ob, result.encode('utf-8'))
        return 1
    return 0

@ffi.def_extern()
def _misaka_footnote_ref(ob, num, data):
    renderer = ffi.from_handle(lib.misaka_get_renderer(data))
    num = int(num)
    result = renderer.footnote_ref(num)
    if result:
        lib.hoedown_buffer_puts(ob, result.encode('utf-8'))
        return 1
    return 0

@ffi.def_extern()
def _misaka_math(ob, text, displaymode, data):
    renderer = ffi.from_handle(lib.misaka_get_renderer(data))
    text = to_string(text)
    displaymode = int(displaymode)
    result = renderer.math(text, displaymode)
    if result:
        lib.hoedown_buffer_puts(ob, result.encode('utf-8'))
        return 1
    return 0

@ffi.def_extern()
def _misaka_raw_html(ob, text, data):
    renderer = ffi.from_handle(lib.misaka_get_renderer(data))
    text = to_string(text)
    result = renderer.raw_html(text)
    if result:
        lib.hoedown_buffer_puts(ob, result.encode('utf-8'))
        return 1
    return 0

@ffi.def_extern()
def _misaka_entity(ob, text, data):
    renderer = ffi.from_handle(lib.misaka_get_renderer(data))
    text = to_string(text)
    result = renderer.entity(text)
    if result:
        lib.hoedown_buffer_puts(ob, result.encode('utf-8'))

@ffi.def_extern()
def _misaka_normal_text(ob, text, data):
    renderer = ffi.from_handle(lib.misaka_get_renderer(data))
    text = to_string(text)
    result = renderer.normal_text(text)
    if result:
        lib.hoedown_buffer_puts(ob, result.encode('utf-8'))

@ffi.def_extern()
def _misaka_doc_header(ob, inline_render, data):
    renderer = ffi.from_handle(lib.misaka_get_renderer(data))
    inline_render = int(inline_render)
    result = renderer.doc_header(inline_render)
    if result:
        lib.hoedown_buffer_puts(ob, result.encode('utf-8'))

@ffi.def_extern()
def _misaka_doc_footer(ob, inline_render, data):
    renderer = ffi.from_handle(lib.misaka_get_renderer(data))
    inline_render = int(inline_render)
    result = renderer.doc_footer(inline_render)
    if result:
        lib.hoedown_buffer_puts(ob, result.encode('utf-8'))

python_callbacks = {
    # block level callbacks - NULL skips the block
    'blockcode':    lib._misaka_blockcode,
    'blockquote':   lib._misaka_blockquote,
    'header':       lib._misaka_header,
    'hrule':        lib._misaka_hrule,
    'list':         lib._misaka_list,
    'listitem':     lib._misaka_listitem,
    'paragraph':    lib._misaka_paragraph,
    'table':        lib._misaka_table,
    'table_header': lib._misaka_table_header,
    'table_body':   lib._misaka_table_body,
    'table_row':    lib._misaka_table_row,
    'table_cell':   lib._misaka_table_cell,
    'footnotes':    lib._misaka_footnotes,
    'footnote_def': lib._misaka_footnote_def,
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    # span level callbacks - NULL or return 0 prints the span verbatim
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Q: Why my books not arranged in correct shelves (React-Redux)? I am creating a book tracking app that fetches books by ajax and organize them on shelves, i have many components but i have a problem that exists between two of them, AllShelves, and BookShelf, i am so confused, the shelf titles is rendered in the correct order as in shelves array, my problem starts when i try to arrange books on their corresponding shelves, i need shelfName to do that, i filtered my books in mapStateToProps but i ended with books in wrong shelves, when i console logged shelfName in mapStateToProps i got this order
//read
//currentlyReading
//wantToRead

instead of
//currentlyReading
//wantToRead
//read

and even duplicated
These are my components
The first component
import React, {Component} from 'react';
import BookShelf from './BookShelf'

const AllShelves = () => {

   const shelves = [
    {
      title: 'Currently Reading',
      shelfName: 'currentlyReading'
    },
    {
      title: 'Want to read',
      shelfName: 'wantToRead'
    },
    {
      title:'Read',
      shelfName: 'read'
    }
  ];

  return(

    {shelves.map((shelf, index) => {
      return (

{shelf.title}

          <BookShelf
            shelfName={shelf.shelfName}
          />

      );
    })}

 );
}

export default AllShelves;

The child component
import React, { Component } from 'react';
import Book from './Book'
import {connect } from 'react-redux';

let shelfName = '';

const BookShelf = (props) => {

  shelfName = props.shelfName;

  return(

       {props.books.map(book => (
          <Book
            key={book.id}
            book={book}
          />
        ))}

  );
 }

const mapStateToProps = state => {
  console.log(shelfName)//read
                        //currentlyReading
                        //wantToRead
  return {
    books: state.filter(book => book.shelf === shelfName)
 }
}

export default connect(mapStateToProps, null)(BookShelf);

So what is the problem here, why not shelfName items not logged in correct order like titles.

A: Try this: (I simplify some codes and focus on the main problem we need to solve)
import React from "react";
import { connect } from "react-redux";

const BookShelf = props => {
  const shelfName = props.shelfName;
  return
{shelfName}
;
};
const mapStateToProps = (state, ownProps) => {
  console.log(ownProps.shelfName);
  return ({

  });
};
export default connect(mapStateToProps)(BookShelf);

This is the demo: https://codesandbox.io/s/p5jr57vw8j

If you want to access the passed properties inside the mapStateToProps() function, doing it this way. For more information, you could find it here: mapStateToProps(state, [ownProps]): stateProps


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Lightning is one of the most critical factors in communicating via video. We gathered few simple pieces of advice that will help you to show your best during the videoconference.
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