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var _ = require('underscore'),
FileModel = require('./file.model.js'),
FileListView = require('./files.view.js'),
App = {};
$ = require('jquery');
jQuery = $;
window.jQuery = jQuery;
global.jQuery = jQuery;
var bootstrap = require('bootstrap');

App.bootstrap = bootstrap;
App.init = (function() {
  var path = window.location.pathname || "",
  id, model;
  // replace last trailing /
  path = path.replace(/\/$/, "");
  path = path.split('/');
  id = _.last(path);

  // Always have FileListView as the bottom view in the stack
  var listView = App.listView = new FileListView().render();

  if (!path || !id){
    return;
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  if (id === 'new'){
    console.log("Navigating to new file");
    // Show create new page
    return listView.listenToOnce(listView.collection, 'sync', function(){
      // Only show create new page once the list collection has loaded - prevent double render
      return listView.showFileView(new FileModel());
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  model = new FileModel({ _id : id });
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      listView.showFileView(model);
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Letters from San Francisco – Its a Nerd's Life!
I spent a weekend marred by illness and dissertation blues in San Francisco recently. While all the plans for my big getaway with Nirbheek did not quite pan out, the letters I saw on the streets were a source of constant delight! Since, I wasn't carrying my camera on the trip, it was Instagram all the way. After all, there is nothing like useless filters to make crappy phone pictures look exciting.
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We talk to...Evie Robinson (Sheffield United)
Women's Football WPL Division 1 Midlands News - 17 Feb 2018
Sheffield United are having a fantastic first season in the FA Women's Premier League following promotion and their 2-1 win over Radcliffe Olympic on Sunday stretched their unbeaten run in the league to 14 games and put them firmly in the Midlands Division One title race.
We talked to United defender Evie Robinson who praised the team's resilience in coming from behind to beat one of their fellow high fliers in the table and insisted that the future is very bright at the club:
WSS: That was a great result for your team on Sunday, how tough a game was it against a team that was in good form?
ER: It was a tough game for the team and Radcliffe put up a good fight throughout to battle for second place in the league. It felt as though we were stuck in second gear during the first half but the girls persevered and stepped it up in the second half showing our good form. It was a hard game to watch from the bench injured.
WSS: It was the best possible time to score a winning goal though, with Sophie Bell keeping her cool from the penalty spot. How good a feeling was it when her kick hit the back of the net?
ER: It was a great feeling with a massive sigh of relief from everyone. Sophie was very composed and handled the pressure very well!
WSS: Just how resilient did the team have to be after going a goal behind in the first half?
ER: It is easy to put your head down when you are in a losing position, especially when it is a frustrating and tough game. Nevertheless, the girls did a good job at pulling together in the second half, showing our resilience and how we work well as a team.
WSS: That result takes you up to second place in the table, and fourteen league games unbeaten, are the team doing better than you would have anticipated at the start of the season?
ER: I think we entered the season a little into the unknown as we were into a new league and had new players in the squad, myself being one of them. With this in mind, from the start of pre-season training, the whole team had the same goal to win the league and we have pushed together to try and achieve this.
WSS: Your manager Carla Ward has achieved a lot in the game during her playing career, has it been a big boost to the team to have someone of her experience in charge?
ER: Wardy's experience with coaching and as a player in women's football has been a great asset to helping our team grow stronger. She is passionate about helping players improve and the club progressing.
WSS: This week you take on Long Eaton United, who you have not played so far, what kind of game are you expecting against them?
ER: Although Long Eaton are lower in the league than us, we try not to go into any games with set expectations of teams. We will approach the game with a winning mindset and hopefully play our game.
WSS: You are in what is starting to look like a three horse race for the title and still have to play TNS and Loughborough before the end of the season, is the belief growing that you can still win the league?
ER: We are in good form and winning ways, so I think we can be confident.
WSS: Sheffield United have made great progress in the last few years and you have adapted well to a new league this season, just how far do you believe that the club can potentially go?
ER: Hopefully with growing support, the club can continue to progress onwards and upwards. Progressing to Super League level would be great and help to promote SUFC and women's football in Sheffield.
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Enjoy a leisure train ride aboard the Belmont Express.
Choose one of four wagons and relax as you take a ride through the Midway and take in all the sights Belmont Park has to offer!
The Belmont Express is a mini-express train manufactured by Wattman Train & Trams. The train is equipped with a low gear differential to enable you to pull four loaded wagons easily. The Belmont Express can carry up to 16 passengers and travels the perimeter of the park and down the midway, offering an additional ride option for our youngest guests. The ride is also equipped with a smoke stack that shoots fog and all the bells and whistles a train has!


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Q: Nginx location to find images in the root directory I inherited a web project from a client who threw a bunch of images and PDF files in the root directory of their site so they could easily send links to those images/files to their clients.
Moving the site to a new server, so the links set previously still need to work, but I'd love to clean this up a bit. There are hundreds of these files just loose in the root.
Ideally, I'd like to move all of the loose images/files to a directory (let's call it "stuff" for now) and then write an Nginx directive to redirect.
Something like this:
location = / {
    location ~* \.(gif|jpg|jpeg|pdf)$ {
        rewrite ^(.*) https://example.com/stuff/$1 last;
    }
}

but obviously Nginx won't allow a nested location block inside an exact match block.
Is it possible to find ONLY certain file types (by extension) but ONLY in the root directory?
Forgive me if this is obvious. This is a bit outside my wheelhouse. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

A: Your two location blocks are in direct conflict. location = / matches only requests for the https://www.example.com/ URL, nothing else. This means that no request matching the nested location directive never enters the block.
However, the following approach should work:
location ~* ^/[^/]+\.(?:gif|jpg|jpeg|pdf)$ {
    root /var/www/stuff;
    try_files $uri =404;
}

One does not need nested locations here.
What this configuration means is that for the files with particular extensions in root directory, we set the root directory for serving the files to /var/www/stuff, and then we try to send the file using try_files. If file is not found, 404 error is sent.
The ?: in the regular expression match is optional, it is simply a slight optimisation telling nginx not to capture the value inside parentheses to a local variable.

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Q: Calling a java method, in Python, using Jython. I have a Java class called matrixMult() with two methods, one populates a Matrix with 1's and 0's, and the other receives 3 arrays, multiplies 2 of them, and returns the result in an array.
import java.util.Timer;

public class matrixMult {

//Method to populate Matrices with 1's and 0's//
public static int [][] populatingMatrices(int A [] [])
{
    for (int i = 0; i < A.length; i++)
    {
        for (int j = 0; j < A[0].length; j++)
        {
            if (i == j)
            {
                A[i][j] = 1;
            }
            else
            {
                A[i][j] = 0;
            }
        }
    //Returns Matrix populated with 1's and 0's//
    }return A;
}

//Method to multiply Identity Matrices//
public static int [][] mmm (int a [][], int b [][], int c [][])
{
    int nr;
    int nc;

    nr = nc = a.length;

    for (int i = 0; i < nr; i++)
    {
        for (int j = 0; j < nr ; j++ )
        {
            for (int k = 0;k < nr ;k++)
            {
                c[i][j] = c[i][j] + a[i][k] * b[k][j];
            }
        }
    }
    return c;
}

}
Then, I wrote a python script, where I'm importing "matrixMult". I want to create 3 multidimensional arrays, populate 2 of them using the method populatingMatrices(), multiply them using the mmm() method and time how much was the operation.
import timeit
import matrixMult

#matrixMult Object#
a = matrixMult()

listA = [[]]
listB = [[]]
listC = [[]]

#Populating matrices#
a.populatingMatrices(listA)
a.populatingMatrices(listB)
a.populatingMatrices(listC)

#Timing the Matrix Multiplication#
start_time = timeit.default_timer()
listC = a.mmm(listA,listB,listC)
elapsed = timeit.default_timer() - start_time

print elapsed

Once I've got my timings, the plan is to plot it using Gnuplot, and compare the cost of three different operations (Linear, Quadratic and cubic).
When I try to run the python scrip through the command line I get this error:
File "mmmPY.py", line 20, in <module>
listC = a.mmm(listA,listB,listC)
at matrixMult.mmm(matrixMult.java:40)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:
    at  sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorIm
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)

java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 0

My guess is that the arrays are empty, and they're not getting populated with the populatingMatrices() method.
Does anybody find a way to fix it? It's safe to say I'm a noob in Python and not the best java programmer, but I really can't get my head around this.
Thanks again for your help!

A: I think its all about your lists that send from
#Populating matrices#
a.populatingMatrices(listA)
a.populatingMatrices(listB)
a.populatingMatrices(listC)

are not initialized with a length so when java controls it, it sees 0 as length then throws java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 0


It's hard to believe that I'm now over halfway through my stay in Nicaragua. This past week, we started back on the east side of the Ducuale footbridge. The east side is the lower of the two landings and a five-minute walk from the community center across the Ducuale Grande vehicular bridge.
block work for the east side of the bridge.
We started off the week with formwork for the east tower of the concrete masonry unit (CMU) block and tied the rebar within the towers. By Wednesday, we finished the CMU for the east tower. I took an inventory of all the rebar that remained to be bent and the material on-site and realized we needed more, so I ordered it to be delivered the next day.
We laid out the transition beam excavation for the community volunteers and they started on the east transition beam excavation. But the rains started mid-morning and the volunteers were forced to stop. Ivan, Carlos, Esteban, and I worked on bending rebar at the community center on the covered porch for the remainder of the day. The team tied the transition beam rebar, and the community finished the transition beam excavations. From there, we poured the concrete within the east tower CMU.
The team sifts the sand for the mortar and mixes it by hand only using the fine uniform sand. I can now add masonry to the list of skills I've learned during my stay.
The masons Carlos and Ivan are two non-volunteers on site, as is Esteban, the construction manager for Bridges to Prosperity. Esteban coordinates material orders for us and the other bridges within the region and works on-site with us when he can. Carlos, Esteban's son, is 22 and lives in Condega with his girlfriend and 4-month-old son. Ivan is 36 and lives in a small community outside of Condega with his wife and three daughters. He rides his bike 45 minutes to work and, if it raining hard in the evening, often stays overnight in the community center. In addition to this bridge project, Ivan also works as a mason building homes, as well as tending a farm with cows, horses, and corn.
We hire a cab driver who lives in Ducuale Grande to get to and from Condega. I asked him what he does when the river floods, and he said he parks his cab on the Condega side and swims across to get to and from home. One evening this week, on my way home, I shared a cab ride with a woman who was on her way to the hospital. She would not have been able to swim across the river in her condition.
Last week was Nicaragua's Independence Day. Nicaraguans celebrate by setting off loud booming fireworks (bombas). The bombas started around 4 a.m. The first time I heard this, I thought it was a gunfight in the street!


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HOOD – Lighting Up the Arts & Entertainment District
+ By Tom Levine + Photos by Marie Machin
Five years ago, The Light House homeless prevention support center vacated a set of row houses on West Street for a new, purpose-built space on Hudson Street in Parole. Since its founding as a homeless shelter in 1989, it has evolved. It is a journey, not a destination, providing a roadmap for people to rebuild their lives. Not only does it provide transitional housing at Hudson Street, but also, more importantly, tools and support to help clients gain confidence and achieve long-term security.
Shortly after the Hudson Street building opened, Elizabeth Kinney, The Light House's executive director, met Chef Linda. Vogler, who worked at DC Central Kitchen. Also founded in 1989, DC Central Kitchen offers a revolutionary approach to feeding the hungry. Its keystone is a culinary training program, which now serves as a model for The Light House. Kinney and Vogler recently graduated their thirteenth class. Graduates leave with skills, certifications, and self-confidence that enable them to land and hold jobs in local restaurants and catering firms. Baroak, on West Street, where Chef Teddy Folkman has proved that mussels and blue cheese go well together, employs several graduates who are working in the kitchen and the front of the house. Baroak's general manager, Jason Bacci, says they bring just what the restaurant is looking for: "They are skilled, have great attitudes, and are very dependable."
Vogler points with pride to Sheila Elgammal, a recent graduate. Elgammal learned about the culinary program while residing at The Light House. "[The program] exceeded my expectations," she says. In Elgammal, Vogler saw a student who went above and beyond, not only for her own growth, but to support her classmates. The examination for the ServSafe certification, a nationally recognized credential in the food industry, is like a final exam for the program. It may be the hardest test, and it is not unusual for students to take it several times before passing. Vogler would have been rightly proud of Elgammal had she only passed on her first attempt, but she also spent hours tutoring a struggling classmate who also passed.
If you had just spent four years teaching culinary skills, what would you want to do next with your program? What if you owned that building on West Street? Might you just decide to open a restaurant, a bistro, or a café? Guess what? That's what's happening.
Barring any of the unexpected delays and detours that can derail any renovation of a hundred-year-old building, The Light House Bistro will be open for business by early summer 2016. Architectural plans, contributed by Cho Benn Holback + Associates of Baltimore, have been completed, city permits and licenses have been secured, and Brown Construction has been busy keeping the renovations on track.
There is much to be excited about with this new venture. People who need the opportunity and are committed to working for it will get invaluable on-the-job training. The food will be enticing. It will have a full bar, and there will be music. Vince Iatesta and his Annapolis-based Ceremony Coffee Roasters, which is rated in the top twenty nationally, will oversee the coffee bar. His brother David, whose local company has built furniture for people like Oprah (well, not like Oprah, but in fact Oprah) is designing all the interior surfaces, including custom woodwork, gratis.
Moreover, Annapolis will have another culinary milieu where people can go to eat, drink, listen to live music, peruse art, and hang out. The Annapolis Arts and Entertainment District has been burning brighter from both ends recently, and this will certainly help to light up the middle. █


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Review: Come Rhyme with Me 31/05/13
June 25, 2013 Editor Lettie McKie
– reviewed by Lettie McKie –
Come Rhyme with Me: a tasty combo!
The literary world is full of wining combinations. Boarding school stories and wizardry, pride and prejudice, Shakespeare and the iambic pentameter; but one pairing that you would definitely not expect is spoken word poetry and Caribbean food. For the last three years, however, that is what poets Dean Atta and Deanna Rodger have been serving up regularly in London with resounding success (so much so that a year ago they opened up a sister show in Brighton).
Tickling their guests' literal and metaphorical taste buds, they have developed a popular night of poetic entertainment where the acts are presented as courses in a meal. After open mic Appetizers three feature acts are carefully selected to represent starter, main course and dessert. When asked about the event Dean said:
'It's about bringing people together, good food and company. We're so happy that we've established an entertaining event that we would want to come to ourselves. People come and then come back with all their friends, its celebratory and definitely not just for poets!'
Dean's description proved accurate at this upbeat, intimate and friendly night. He and his co-host Deanna make another successful combination, having natural onstage chemistry, cracking jokes and putting the audience at their ease. It's plain they are both very confident performers and their double act is a delight to watch in itself. They built a comfortable rapport with the audience despite the distraction of the steaming plates of grilled chicken and the added complications created by a very small stage isolated by a thick red curtain.
Catering for a variety of poetic palates …
The open mic 'Poetry tapas' was fast paced and welcoming with a variety of seasoned open mic performers and first timers. The Wizard of Skill, probably the most dedicated open mic'er in London, was particularly good. His poem 'dear diary' was an effervescent stream of consciousness, raising concerns about political issues he feels strongly about, weaving thoughts together with his own unique blend of imagery and wisecracks. Feisty Gemma Rogers played a hilarious song on her ukulele about trying, and failing, to remain on the wagon. She is a natural storyteller, immediately making a connection to the audience and her witty lyrics were very easy to relate to. First time open mic'er Amy showed great promise with a raw poem full of quick quips and good rhymes. She delivered a poem about getting into the London poetry scene, but to improve she could tap into a more wide reaching subject matter finding her own stories to tell. Another first time open mic performance by Nairobi was very funny, and she deserves bonus points for successfully rhyming ' overrated' with 'emaciated', in a poem about being bored with conventional attitudes to female beauty.
Serving up some deliciously smooth spoken word …
After the break the courses continued with the three featured acts in a row. This format choice was particularly successful, as it completely kept the audience's attention, which can sometimes be difficult when too many poets are included. By keeping the open mic to 6 places and then moving onto the feature acts, Dean and Deanna have created a night that runs smoothly and keeps people engaged.
Yrsa Daley-Ward was the starter with a carefully constructed, gentle and passionate set. The depth and breadth of her imagery was particularly interesting, she has a great ability to describe things in such detail that you can almost feel, taste and see them. Haunting lines stood out to be remembered and she used musical back drops to create an immersive and focused atmosphere during some of her pieces.
Paul Lyalls, the meaty main, had a completely different style and take on poetry in general. He introduced his poetry with funny stories and told us that he is the only poet to have an official Latin motto: 'seize the afternoon'! His comedic style was generally effective, but sometimes it detracted from the poetry itself because he talked so much during the set. His poetry is also quite conversational, so sometimes it was hard to distinguish between the pre-amble and the poem. One of his best poems was a pastiche of the Lord's Prayer, changing the allusions from God to the fashion industry.
The dessert was Simon Mole who effortlessly delivered an impassioned and professional set. His poem about coping with the death of a close friend was particularly compelling. He also used music as a back drop to this work and combined it with an image rich, abstract poem which was sensitive and heartfelt. His poems are witty and charming, he takes overlooked details of everyday life, like making bread or cycling down the street and focuses in on them like a photographer.
And the overall flavour?
Come Rhyme with Me is a regular and popular night because it combines a relaxed, friendly atmosphere with great food, a dynamic hosting duo, slick format and high quality line up.
The next London show is this Friday June 28th with Mike Galsworthy, Kayo Chingonyi, Peter Hayho and Sarah Redington.
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We are very excited to announce the live demonstrations that will take place at the 2017 ITS European Congress.
This year's demonstrations will push the boundaries of modern mobility. Think hybrid bikes, satellite communication and vehicle connectivity and inperoperability – just to mention a few! Prominent ITS companies will showcase their newest services and technologies. Those who visit the demonstration area will be given the opportunity to experience and learn about modern mobility possibilities first hand.
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Obama voted against the flag-burning amendment, unlike Hillary. That puts him IMO in a much better category for civil freedoms.
I'll have to take a hard look at Obama should he be the Dem nominee - he might be pretty strong on civil liberties - at least the 1st and the 4th-6th protections.
The other key is his foreign policy. I only wish he were actually in the Senate when the Iraq vote was taken so I could have seen whether he took the chicken-out dont-want-to-look-soft-on-defense approach like Hillary, Kerry and others did. He said he wouldn't have voted for war, but that's easy to say. This issue is going to be far harder to gauge.
Blue-Dress dems just cannot stand to let every vote count.
Which party fought to stop the recounts in Florida in 2000?
And he was so damn critical of Hillary's vote on the Iran resolulution when he didn't even bother to show up to vote. That is an indication of just how critical he vote that really was.
I believe McCain is far more dangerous than Giuliani or Huckabee in the foreign policy area.
I believe that he very well might provoke a war with Iran, for instance.
A person's vote on the War in Iraq (the authorization to use force) would have very little influence on whether I would vote for him/her.
I think Rudy and Hucks are just as capable of provoking a war with Iran as McCain.
What's wrong with a war on Iran? There are a lot of people there unhappy with their government... we would probably be greeted as libertarians.
I thought Huckabee's position was that he would open up face-to-face negotiations with Iran to resolve the issues.
Would it not be provocation for Iran to close the Straits of Hormuz -- you know, your Kobayashi Maru test of interventionist foreign policy?
we would probably be greeted as libertarians.
Just to make this a slam dunk, we should probably enlist the help of the Liberians.
The United States, as the world's only superpower, is less vulnerable to military defeat. But it is more vulnerable to the animosity of other countries.
American foreign policy needs to change its tone and attitude, open up, and reach out. The Bush administration's arrogant bunker mentality has been counterproductive at home and abroad. My administration will recognize that the United States' main fight today does not pit us against the world but pits the world against the terrorists.
That example is Iran provoking.
We're talking U. S. doing something stupid and provoking a confrontation.
Ergo, it takes two to tango.
So is it your belief that his "gates of hell" talk is just that - talk - for political consumption. I might be willing to buy that.
I wish he had showed up and voted against it, but the vote was 76-22 and he went on the public record as opposing the resolution. The fact that he missed the vote is, for all intents and purposes, a technicality.
As for the 2002 Iraq vote, Obama made contemporaneous public statements opposing the AUMF. Sure, it's one thing to publicly come out against the war when you're a U.S. Senator and another when you're an Illinois State Senator, so it's not a perfect fit. But there's at least some evidence that he wouldn't have been a chicken-out war opponent: the fact that he stood up and opposed the war at a time when the vote was in the future and the war was relatively popular.
He didn't really mince words with those statements, either.
Let's not make excuses for Obama.
He didn't show up to vote.
It took some nerve for him to be critical of Hillary, when apparently he didn't feel the vote was important enough for his presence.
That's the problem. Not too many, and certainly not the media, are all that critical with Obama. But they hammer the hell out of the other candidates.
I know. There are 2 reasons for it - both related I would imagine.
classicman -- If Obama had showed up for the vote and the final tally had been 76-23, what would the difference have been?
If someone wants to vote for Obama but they don't feel like going out, and the final tally is just one different, I'm sure that won't matter much either. That should be his platform!


Community land trusts are in vogue, a bright spot in a mostly grim housing landscape. The nonprofit, community-run organizations steward land to provide housing or community resources that are affordable in perpetuity, as Oksana Mironova detailed for UO in 2014. For the final Housing Brass Tacks event of 2017, Mychal Johnson and Monxo López of South Bronx Unite and the Mott Haven-Port Morris Community Land Stewards outlined the benefits of land trusts and why and how they're implementing the model in their Bronx neighborhood.
That stewardship can result in affordable housing, commercial spaces, farms, or any number of community assets intended to benefit both current and future generations. "The root idea of the community land trust is that the value of the land is created socially by us all," said López.
How it works A CLT typically acquires land through purchase, foreclosure, or donation from a private individual or local government. The trust separates ownership of the land from ownership of the property on top of it. The community-controlled corporation owns the land, and leases out parcels to private persons or businesses, typically for a term of 99 years. The lessees own whatever is on top of the land, but the property has certain restrictions to keep it affordable and responsive to community needs, such as income eligibility and resale stipulations.
The trust is governed by a board of directors, usually composed of: one-third leaseholders or prospective leaseholders of the CLT, one-third residents of the CLT catchment area who are not leaseholders, and one-third public representatives such as community development experts, funders, nonprofit service providers, politicians, and other stakeholders. This tripartite structure is important, ensuring that a broader community supports the CLT and has a stake in its success. The corporation's bylaws establish membership requirements, voting rights, and other decision-making controls.
Depending on their context and mission, CLTs can vary widely in terms of purpose, size, persons served, legal structure, bylaws, taxation, and other aspects. The nearly 500-page manual produced by the National Community Land Trust Network (now Grounded Solutions Network) is a practical guide to starting and operating a CLT—from forming an organizing committee and choosing the geographical area to serve, to incorporating under state law, to the lease structure for the property on top of it.
From England's Garden Cities to Palestine's agricultural cooperatives, "common ownership of land, individual ownership of the buildings, and a long-term ground lease tying the interests of the parties together" isn't a new idea, writes John E. Davis in The Community Land Trust Reader. The advent of a community land trust, with open membership and accountability to people not directly living on the land in question, came about in the 1960s. The first modern CLT was established in Lee County, Georgia, in 1969 by a group of Black sharecroppers seeking to create a collective farm. The coalition that established New Communities, Inc. included civil rights leaders Slater King and Charles Sherrod, and land trust advocate Robert Swann. Influenced by Georgism and a trip to Israel to see the kibbutzim and moshim established on Jewish National Fund land, the group purchased nearly 6,000 acres in southwest Georgia to establish a cooperative agricultural community. Then the largest piece of Black-owned property in the US, the farm was sold in the 1980s due to drought and debt. (New Communities was later part of a successful lawsuit charging the USDA with racial discrimination against African American farmers, it was reestablished in a new form in 2011.) In 1972, Swann and colleagues penned The Community Land Trust: part field guide, part instruction manual. The CLT idea took seed and slowly spread across the country.
Here, there, and maybe someday everywhere There are more than 200 active CLTs nationwide today. Most provide affordable homeownership opportunities in suburban and rural places, but CLTs are increasingly being seen as an answer to the urban problems of gentrification and displacement. One of the best-known urban CLTs is the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, which organized in the late 1980s to "establish community control over a critical mass of the 1,300 parcels of abandoned land that had come to characterize the neighborhood," according to Dudley Neighbors, Inc. The CLT covers 62 acres and through its mission of "development without displacement" has built 225 new homes and established an urban farm and other neighborhood assets. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, the Fideicomiso de la Tierra del Caño Martín Peña has allowed for upgraded infrastructure and improved housing conditions while maintaining affordability and preventing displacement in an informal settlement along a polluted river. By implementing the CLT through a partnership with the government before any canal improvements began, the more than 15,000 neighborhood residents avoided displacement and gained participation in the decision-making process.
The only fully operational CLT in New York City is Cooper Square, established in 1991 after more than three decades of political organizing by residents originally protesting a 1959 urban renewal plan. The CLT encompasses nearly 400 units in 24 buildings scattered on the Lower East Side. The buildings themselves are managed by a mutual housing association, a form of nonprofit resident-controlled cooperative housing. A 2007 study of the Cooper Square CLT by Tom Angotti and Cecilia Jagu found that "the success and survival of the Cooper Square CLT were made possible by decades-long political organizing and support from local government that drastically reduced land and financing costs": the combination of grassroots mobilization and local political support was key.
Mott Haven and Port Morris, at the southernmost end of the Bronx, practically hug Randalls Island and Manhattan. The two neighborhoods have a large population, nearly all Black or Hispanic, but practically the entire waterfront is ringed with industrial and manufacturing use. That industry is the reason that the Mott Haven-Port Morris Community Land Stewards, formed in 2016, have focused their burgeoning CLT efforts on green space and community facilities. "We're a peninsula community of 90,000 people that have no access to the water that surrounds us," said Johnson, pointing to the high asthma rates and poor health caused by the prevalence of heavy industry. The group is looking to establish community-owned public spaces to improve quality of life using community land trusts. "We're trying to create opportunities and create solutions from the ground up," said Johnson.
The CLT provides a mechanism for deciding what to do with the land, said López; right now that focus is on addressing environmental, economic, and social injustice by taking community ownership of of public land that isn't providing public benefit.
Power In Place The group first set its sights on turning a former health clinic on West 140th Street into a permanently affordable, community-controlled space for local nonprofits and cultural organizations. Seeking to turn the vacant, city-owned property into the H.E.Arts Community Center (health, education, and the arts), the Mott Haven-Port Morris Community Land Stewards worked with City College architecture students on the potential rehabilitation and programming of the building. The group envisions that the CLT would get title to the land while South Bronx Unite would have the lease to the building.
The H.E.Arts Center is just one piece of their effort to take ownership of underutilized spaces and create new community-owned assets. Earlier this year, the group won an award from the Design Trust for Public Space to support Power In Place: Building Community Wealth and Well-Being in Mott Haven-Port Morris, which will use asset mapping and community-driven neighborhood planning to explore the potential of the CLT as a model for public space.
The project has three main components: First, to build an interactive GIS platform to map the assets, networks, and obstacles in the neighborhood. This digital map will be used as a community organizing tool to bring together activists, residents, and experts. Second, to compile the many disparate plans and design schemes that have been made for the neighborhood. Mott Haven-Port Morris has been a "credit farm for colleges and universities," said López, and they want to bring together and evaluate the work to see if they can develop a community-driven master urban development plan. "There is a lot of information, a lot of renderings, a lot of good research that is all fragmented," he continued. "There is no global vision." Finally, with the help of a graphic designer, to package the information into a neighborhood plan the CLT can use to lobby elected officials.
The neighborhood, which has a median household income of about $19,000, is seeing a wave of development and speculation, with new luxury apartments and hotels under construction. Establishing the CLT not only creates community-owned spaces that are shielded from the real estate market, but creates an organized community to resist displacement and proactively put forward its own development agenda. "We can make sure that participation from the community is essential to planning going forward," said Johnson. Mott Haven-Port Morris's "of and for and by the community" approach could become a model for other neighborhoods.
"There's been a lot of momentum and traction on CLTs, and I think we're at a really important pinnacle right now," said Johnson. In July 2017, the city announced a $1.65 million grant to support the development of community land trusts. The grantees are Cooper Square CLT, to expand its portfolio; the East Harlem/El Barrio CLT, to rehabilitate low-income, city-owned rental housing to be owned and operated as a CLT; the Interboro CLT, a new group created by four local nonprofits to promote affordable homeownership in Queens and Brooklyn; and the New York City Community Land Initiative (NYCCLI), a four-year-old advocacy group for CLTs, to support capacity-building for nine organizations, including the Mott Haven-Port Morris Community Land Stewards. (NYCCLI is also a partner in the Power In Place project.) At its final meeting of 2017, the City Council approved legislation that will allow CLTs to enter into regulatory agreements with the city, making them eligible for local tax exemptions. With these organizations addressing diverse housing options — with regard to tenure, geography, and income levels — the next few years will be an exciting time to test the potential of a variety of CLT types in New York City.
New York City isn't alone. From Baltimore to San Francisco, Chicago to Albuquerque, there is a groundswell of interest in combating the omnipresent pressures of high housing costs, the financialization of housing, and displacement. One possible solution? Make private property into community property.
My Great Aunt Dora Maxwell lived in a land trust hi rise apartment building on Henry Street in Brooklyn, NY starting in the late 1950s or early 1960s. A Socially Responsible Award is named after her in Credit Union Industry.


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Tramvia o Ferrocarril Econòmic de Manresa a Berga (originalment en castellà, Tranvía o Ferrocarril Económico de Manresa a Berga) era la societat, creada el 1881, que va construir i explotar la Línia Manresa-Berga-Guardiola de via estreta, també coneguda popularment com a carrilet Manresa-Berga o el carrilet, que va circular entre Manresa i la colònia Rosal a Olvan primer (1885), i fins a Guardiola de Berguedà més tard (1904), i que va deixar de circular entre 1972 i 1973. Els promotors i principals accionistes d'aquesta societat foren els industrials de l'alt Llobregat, principalment els amos de les colònies tèxtils del Bages i Berguedà.

El ferrocarril va solucionar i abaratir els problemes de transport de primeres matèries (cotó) i producte manufacturat (teixit) de les colònies tèxtils. A partir de 1904, en connectar amb la zona minera i del ciment de l'alt Berguedà, va esdevenir també el mitjà de transport per al carbó de les mines de Fígols, el ciment de la fàbrica Asland de Castellar de n'Hug i la fusta generat en aquesta zona, alhora que abaratia el cost del carbó del Berguedà que les fàbriques tèxtils consumien quan el cabal del riu no abastava a produir l'energia necessària per a la maquinària. En el seu plantejament com a tramvia també va constituir el principal mitjà de transports de passatgers en una època en què mancaven alternatives, i en una zona que encara avui està infradotada de mitjans de transport públics.

Història
Tot i que s'havien presentat diversos projectes anteriors per obrir una línia de tren partint de Manresa seguint el curs del Llobregat cap al nord, la línia va néixer del projecte presentat a Corts el 7 de desembre de 1879 pel diputat provincial Marià Puig i Valls, amb ample de via de 750 mm i un pressupost d'1.500.000 pessetes, i que va ser aprovat el 25 d'abril de 1880. La subhasta de la concessió fou celebrada el 25 d'abril de 1881, i s'atorgava al Sr. Marià Puig i Valls, la concessió seria per a 60 anys i les obres havien de començar al cap de tres mesos i estar acabades al cap de dos anys.

El nom que va prendre la societat a la qual es va atorgar l'explotació de la línia fèrria era Tranvía o Ferrocarril Económico de Manresa a Berga (TFEMB). Just al cap d'un mes es van reunir els accionistes que van escollir els membres del Consell d'Administració: Pau Sedó, Antoni Rosal, Baltasar de Bacardí, Josep Pons, Manuel Roig, Jaume Soldevila, Marià Regordosa, Pere Badia, Victorià Feliu, Agustí Rosal, Josep Monegal i Antoni Pons. Es nomenà Marià Puig i Vall, autor del projecte i director general de la societat, el qual assumí el compromís de construir la via en el termini de dos anys.

El Consell d'Administració, fins al traspàs de la línia a la companyia dels Catalans l'any 1919, era controlat pels grans industrials cotoners de les colònies del Llobregat, especialment pels Pons (colònia Pons) i els Rosal (colònia Rosal). També eren accionistes els propietaris de colònies tèxtils com els germans Soldevila (colònia Soldevila de Balsareny), Antoni Teixidor i Bassacs (cal Bassacs), Josep Monegal i Nogués (l'Ametlla de Casserres), els germans Viladomiu (Viladomiu Vell), Pau Sedó (Colònia Sedó) i una llarga llista d'amos de fàbriques de riu, tals com les de Sallent o el Pont de Vilomara. Marià Puig i Valls, autor del projecte va ser nomenat director general de la societat.

El 4 de juliol de 1919 es fusiona l'empresa Tranvía o Ferrocarril económico de Manresa a Berga amb la Companyia General dels Ferrocarrils Catalans (CGFC) juntament amb els Camins de Ferro del Nord-est d'Espanya (entre Martorell i Barcelona) i el Ferrocarril Central Català (entre Martorell i Igualada). La CGFC la formaren, però, el FC Central Català i els Camins de Ferro del Nord-est, per integració mútua de les dues societats. Amb el Tranvía o Ferrocarril Económico de Manresa a Berga, que no desaparegué, hi signaren un acord d'explotació conjunta. El 17 de maig de 1946 caducà la concessió de la línia Manresa-Olvan, que passà a ser explotada per la Jefatura de Explotación de Ferrocarriles por el Estado.

El servei ferroviari entre Manresa i Guardiola de Berguedà es va tancar entre 1972 i 1973. La crisi, la millora del transport per carretera i la generalització dels vehicles particulars van fer que el servei deixés de ser rendible i necessari. La construcció de l'Embassament de la Baells, que afectava de ple al traçat de la línia, va servir com a motiu perquè el 2 de maig de 1972 circulés l'últim servei entre les estacions de Guardiola de Berguedà i Olvan-Berga. L'últim trajecte de passatgers entre Olvan-Berga i Manresa es va el 30 de juny de 1973 i només va restar des d'aleshores en servei per a mercaderies el tram entre Manresa i Sallent per al transport de sals potàssiques.

Locomotores
Les quatre primeres locomotores que va comprar la companyia l'any 1883 eren alemanyes, de la firma Lokomotivfabrik Krauss & Co. de Munic, i foren batejades amb els noms de Manresa, Berga, Sallent i Sampedor. L'any 1888 la companyia encarregà a la mateixa empresa un prototipus nou, les Berga. Les primeres locomotores Berga foren fabricades per la mateixa empresa alemanya entre 1887 i 1890. En ampliar-se la línia ferroviària amb el tram Olvan-Guardiola, l'empresa ferroviària va encarregar més locomotores a la societat barcelonina Navegación e Industria, que es van fabricar als tallers de Nuevo Vulcano amb llicència de l'empresa alemanya. Entre 1902 i 1911 es van posar en circulació onze noves locomotores construïdes per La Maquinista Terrestre y Marítima de Barcelona.

Les màquines de vapor van continuar circulant fins als anys cinquanta, quan la línia ja havia passat a l'Explotación de Ferrocarriles por el Estado (EFE), i aleshores foren substituïdes per les noves locomotores dièsel. Només restà en funcionament fins a l'any 1969 la locomotora "Berga" número 34, llogada a Carbones de Berga, S. A. Les màquines dièsel van suposar una millora pel que fa tant a la reducció de la duració del trajecte com a la disminució de les avaries.

Anècdotes
Quan el 1908 el Rei Alfons XIII va visitar la comarca del Berguedà, va viatjar en un vagó especial, propietat de Josep Pons i Enrich, l'amo de la colònia Pons. Aquest vagó es deixava en una via morta de l'Estació mentre ell no el necessitava. Aquest fet ens fa veure clarament la gran importància que tenia el personatge dintre de la Companyia del ferrocarril.

Vegeu també
 Companyia General dels Ferrocarrils Catalans
 Línia Manresa-Berga-Guardiola

Referències

Bibliografia

Ferrocarrils de via estreta a Catalunya
Història contemporània de Catalunya
Companyies de tren catalanes

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Muzułmanin ma pięć obowiązków, zwanych pięcioma filarami islamu (Arkan ad-din, Arkan-al-Islam). Są one traktowane bardzo poważnie przez wyznawców głównego nurtu tej religii (sunnitów, szyitów i charydżytów), natomiast wiele ugrupowań religijnych pochodzenia szyickiego (np. alewici czy alawici) uważa je tylko za zalecenia, symbole i niekoniecznie się do nich stosuje.

Filary islamu

Filary islamu sunnickiego
Pierwszy filar – szahada – włącza formalnie do wspólnoty. Często wymagana jest obecnie obecność imama (choć przyjęcie islamu jest wyłącznie sprawą między wiernym a Bogiem), jednak jeśli to nie jest możliwe (np. na łożu śmierci) – nie ma takiego obowiązku. Na niektórych stronach internetowych proponuje się przyjęcie islamu przez internet poprzez przeczytanie szahady i kliknięcie potwierdzenia. Olbrzymia większość autorytetów religijnych nie zgadza się jednak z tym podejściem. Ponadto islam (według większości teologów) przyjmuje każdy przed narodzeniem – dopiero po nim ludzie się od niego odwracają – szahada jest więc formalnym potwierdzeniem wiary dla muzułmanina i powrotem na łono islamu dla konwertyty.

Pozostałe cztery filary powinny być wypełniane przez każdego muzułmanina i są formą okazywania wiary. Tylko osoby, które przyjęły islam tuż przed śmiercią, nie muszą ich wypełnić. Czasem jako nieoficjalny, szósty filar podaje się dżihad. Z tą interpretacją nie zgadza się większość teologów – szczególnie jeśli chodzi o "mały dżihad" – wojnę z niewiernymi (ponadto znaczna część z nich twierdzi, że nie ma żadnych podstaw do niego po okresie podbojów islamskich w VII wieku). Co do "dużego dżihadu" – walki z własnymi słabościami – nie jest on filarem wiary, ale głównie na jego podstawie Bóg będzie sądził muzułmanów w dniu Sądu Ostatecznego.

Filary islamu sunnickiego:
 Wyznanie wiary (شهادة, szahada) – Nie ma bóstwa oprócz Boga jedynego, a Mahomet jest Jego prorokiem. Pojawiają się też tłumaczenia, gdzie słowo "bóstwo" zastąpione jest przez słowo "Bóg", a "Boga jedynego" zastąpione jest słowem "Allaha". Są to błędne tłumaczenia szahady. Słowa Allah (oznaczające Boga w religii monoteistycznej) używają też chrześcijanie mówiący językiem arabskim.
 Modlitwa (صلاة, salat) – odprawiana pięć razy dziennie z twarzą zwróconą w stronę Mekki.
 Jałmużna (زكاة, zakat) – określoną część swojego majątku muzułmanin ma obowiązek oddawać biednym.
 Post (صوم, saum) – w ciągu dziewiątego miesiąca roku muzułmańskiego (ramadanu), muzułmanie muszą powstrzymywać się od jedzenia i picia od wschodu do zachodu słońca.
 Pielgrzymka do Mekki (حج, hadżdż) – muzułmanin musi ją odbyć przynajmniej raz w życiu, jeśli pozwala mu na to sytuacja materialna.

Filary islamu szyickiego

Imamizm
Filary islamu imamickiego uwzględniają pięć Usul al-Din i dziesięć Furu al-Din, tzn. wierzenia i praktyki islamu:

 Tawhid – Monoteizm: Wiara w jedyność Boga
 Adl – Boska sprawiedliwość: wiara w sprawiedliwość Boga
 Nubułłah – Proroctwo
 Imamat – Sukcesja po Mahomecie
 Mi'ad – Dzień Sądu Ostatecznego i Zmartwychwstania

W dodatku do pięciu filarów, szyici imamici uwzględniają dziesięć obowiązkowych praktyk zwanych artykułami wiary:

 Salat – obowiązkowa modlitwa odprawiana pięć razy dziennie, z twarzą zwróconą w stronę Mekki
 Saum – post
 Zakat – jałmużna
 Chums – jałmużna
 Hadżdż – pielgrzymka do Mekki
 Dżihad – codzienna walka z samym sobą (np. przeciwko grzeszeniu), rzadziej walka zbrojna
 Amr-bil-Maruf – żyć podług tego, co dobre i sprawiedliwe
 Nahi Anil Munkar – zabraniać tego, co złe
 Tawalla – okazywać miłość wobec dobra
 Tabarra – potępiać i okazywać nienawiść wobec zła

Ismailizm
Szyici ismailici posiadają siedem filarów wiary:

 Walajah (dosłownie "Kuratela") – miłość wobec Boga, proroków, imamów i duʻāt (misjonarzy).
 Tawhid – monoteizm, wiara w jedyność Boga.
 Salat – obowiązkowa modlitwa odprawiana pięć razy dziennie, z twarzą zwróconą w stronę Mekki. W odróżnieniu od muzułmanów sunnickich, szyickich imamitów i innych ismailitów, nizaryci wierzą, iż forma modlitwy jest ustalana i może być zmieniona przez żyjącego imama (zobacz Aga Chan).
 Zakat – jałmużna.
 Saum – post.
 Hadżdż – pielgrzymka, różnie rozumiana przez poszczególne gałęzie ismailizmu. Jedne grupy odbywają ją do Mekki, inne jak np. Druzowie, rozumieją ją metaforycznie i w ogóle nie pielgrzymują fizycznie nigdzie.
 Dżihad – codzienna walka z samym sobą (np. przeciwko grzeszeniu), rzadziej walka zbrojna.

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Viewpoint: How the tail wags the dog in ultracold atomic gases
Eric Braaten, Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210 USA, and and Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
February 2, 2009 •et; Physics 2, 9
Recent calculations of the properties of ultracold atoms have revealed how two-body interactions at very short distances determine essential properties of many-body systems.
Illustration: Alan Stonebraker
Figure 1: (a) In the BEC limit, all the atoms are in pairs with different spins (blue and red balls) that are bound together into diatomic molecules (grey circles) that form a Bose-Einstein condensate. In some of the diatomic molecules, the pairs are very close together (highlighted boxes). (b) The unitary limit is intermediate between the BEC and BCS conditions. (c) In the BCS limit, a tiny fraction of the atoms form very large Cooper pairs (grey circles). A small fraction of the atoms are very close together (highlighted boxes).(a) In the BEC limit, all the atoms are in pairs with different spins (blue and red balls) that are bound together into diatomic molecules (grey circles) that form a Bose-Einstein condensate. In some of the diatomic molecules, the pairs are very clos... Show more
Figure 1: (a) In the BEC limit, all the atoms are in pairs with different spins (blue and red balls) that are bound together into diatomic molecules (grey circles) that form a Bose-Einstein condensate. In some of the diatomic molecules, the pairs are very close together (highlighted boxes). (b) The unitary limit is intermediate between the BEC and BCS conditions. (c) In the BCS limit, a tiny fraction of the atoms form very large Cooper pairs (grey circles). A small fraction of the atoms are very close together (highlighted boxes).
The development of the field of ultracold atoms has opened up new frontiers in both few-body and many-body physics. Of particular interest are universal aspects that apply equally well not only to various species of atoms, but also to other types of particles with short-range interactions. In the current issue of Physical Review A, Shizhong Zhang and Anthony Leggett of the University of Illinois report their derivations of some remarkable properties of ultracold atomic gases that exploit interesting connections between few-body and many-body physics [1].
A many-body system of atoms has many length scales. The length scales associated with the number density and the temperature are the typical separation of the atoms and their typical deBroglie wavelength, respectively. In addition to these many-body length scales, there are length scales associated with the interactions between the atoms, most of which are comparable to or smaller than the range of interatomic interactions. An important possible exception is the scattering length as, which is the strength of s-wave (isotropic) scattering, the dominant scattering mode at very low energies. The scattering length can be large compared to the range of the interatomic interactions. If it is large, the atoms have universal properties. There is a well-behaved but nontrivial limit in which the range is taken to zero while as remains nonzero. This "zero-range" limit captures the universal aspects of systems of fermions with two spin states. The universal features apply to any fermionic atom for which the scattering length of the two spin states is much larger than the range of interatomic interactions. They also apply to the neutron, which has two spin states, despite the range of the interactions between neutrons being smaller by six orders of magnitude.
Zhang and Leggett call the universal many-body system the "two-component ultracold Fermi gas along the BEC-BCS crossover." It is sometimes referred to more concisely as the strongly interacting Fermi gas. The ground state of this system is a superfluid, but the mechanism for superfluidity is completely different in the two weakly interacting limits. In the BEC (Bose-Einstein condensate) limit, the scattering length goes to zero through positive values (as→0+) and we have a gas of bosonic diatomic molecules with weak repulsive interactions [Fig. 1(a)]. In the BCS (Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer) limit, the scattering length approaches zero through negative values (as→0-) and we have a gas of fermionic atoms with weak attractive interactions [Fig. 1(c)]. In the BEC limit, the mechanism for superfluidity is the condensation of diatomic molecules, while in the BCS limit, it is the formation of Cooper pairs. Despite the dramatic difference between these two mechanisms, there is a smooth crossover between them as as increases from 0+ to +∞, jumps discontinuously to -∞, and then increases to 0-. In particular, there is a well-behaved unitary limit as as→±∞ [Fig. 1(b)]. This limit is particularly interesting, because the system is so strongly interacting that the interactions provide no length scale.
The universal zero-range limit is relevant to experiments on ultracold atoms, because at the extremely low number densities and temperatures that can be achieved in cold trapped atoms, the many-body length scales are large compared to the range of interatomic interactions. A unique feature of ultracold atoms is the possibility of controlling the interaction strength experimentally. In particular, by tuning the magnetic field in the region near a Feshbach resonance, the scattering length can be varied over its entire range, from its off-resonant value through ±∞ and back to its off-resonant value. The use of Feshbach resonances to study the strongly interacting Fermi gas has been one of the major thrusts of experimental cold atom physics in the last decade.
Zhang and Leggett [1] derive some remarkable universal properties of the strongly interacting Fermi gas. They show that several of its important properties depend on the number density n and temperature T only through a dimensionless function h(n,T,as) that has a smooth unitary limit as as→±∞. They derive the rate of change of the total energy per particle with respect to the inverse scattering length while n and the entropy are held fixed:
where kF=(3π2n)1/3 is the Fermi wave number. This implies that E/N and other thermodynamic functions can be determined from h by integration. Zhang and Leggett also showed that several other important properties of the system can be expressed as h multiplied by a factor that is entirely determined by two-body physics, including (i) the interaction energy per particle, (ii) the rf spectroscopy shift, which is the shift in the radio-frequency signal required to change the spin state of an atom, and (iii) the rate for the photoassociation of pairs of atoms into a diatomic molecule using a laser beam. What these quantities have in common is that they are sensitive to the presence of pairs of atoms with different spins whose separations are much smaller than the many-body length scales and the scattering length. Thus the function h is a measure of the density of pairs with small separations.
The existence of this function h that plays such a central role in the strongly interacting Fermi gas was first realized by Shina Tan in 2005. Tan showed [2] that the momentum distribution in an arbitrary state of the system has a large-momentum tail of the form C/k4, where k is the wave number and C, which is called the contact, is the same for both spin states. He derived an expression for the total energy of the system that implies item (i) above as a simple consequence. Tan then derived a more general result [3] than Eq. (1) that applies not only to homogeneous states but also to any state of the system, including few-body states:
where the contact C is the same quantity that appears in the asymptotic momentum distribution. The contact is the integral over the system of the contact density, which is proportional to the number of pairs of atoms with different spins that are close together. Tan's results reveal that this number is much larger than one might expect. The number in a small volume scales like (volume) 4/3 instead of like (volume) 2 as one might expect. In a later paper, Tan derived a virial theorem (that is, a relationship between kinetic and potential energy) for atoms trapped in a harmonic potential [4] and it also involves the contact.
Tan's first two papers were almost completely ignored for several years and were not published until 2008 [2,3]. One contributing factor to the delayed appreciation for Tan's work was that he derived his universal results from the many-body Schrödinger equation by using novel methods involving generalized functions that he invented specifically for this problem. Zhang and Leggett, apparently unaware of Tan's work, derived their results independently using more conventional methods of many-body physics. The first published paper that recognized the importance of Tan's work was by Punk and Zwerger [5], who showed that the rf spectroscopy shift was proportional to dE/das-1. This result was derived independently by Baym, Pethick, Yu, and Zwierlein [6]. In 2008, Tan's universal relations were rederived by Braaten and Platter using methods of quantum field theory [7] and by Werner, Tarruell, and Castin using less formal methods [8]. Werner, Tarruell, and Castin also derived independently the result on the photoassociation rate.
The universal relations discovered by Shina Tan and the applications that were subsequently derived [1,5,6,8] are beautiful illustrations of the interplay between few-body physics and many-body physics. They involve quantities that can be expressed in a factored form, with one factor involving many-body physics and the other involving only two-body physics. They exploit the analytic solution of the two-body problem in the zero-range limit. There may be important generalizations of these universal relations for which the few-body factors involve three or more particles. The three-body factors may be calculable using the exact numerical solutions of the three-body problem in the zero-range limit.
S. Zhang and A. J. Leggett, Phys. Rev. A 79, 023601 (2009)
S. Tan, Ann. Phys.323, 2952 (2008)
S. Tan, Ann. Phys. 323, 2971 (2008)
M. Punk and W. Zwerger, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 170404 (2007)
G. Baym, C. J. Pethick, Z. Yu, and M. W. Zwierlein, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 190407 (2007)
E. Braaten and L. Platter, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 205301 (2008)
F. Werner, L. Tarruell, and Y. Castin, arXiv:0807.0078
Eric Braaten carried out his graduate work in theoretical high-energy physics at the University of Wisconsin, receiving his Ph.D. in 1981. After postdoctoral positions at University of Florida and Argonne National Laboratory, he took a faculty position at Northwestern University in 1995, where he conducted ground-breaking research on quantum chromodynamics. He moved to Ohio State University in 1995, where he has branched out into the field of ultracold atoms. Dr. Braaten was awarded the Humboldt Research Prize in 2009, and is now visiting the Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics at Bonn University. He continues to work on both low-energy and high-energy problems in elementary particle physics and on both few-body and many-body aspects of ultracold atoms. Dr. Braaten was chosen as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2000 and named an Outstanding Referee in 2008.
Universal properties of the ultracold Fermi gas
Shizhong Zhang and Anthony J. Leggett
Phys. Rev. A 79, 023601 (2009)
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Actor Facing 10-Year Prison Sentence for Using Prop Pellet Gun on Movie Set in NJ
Hombre Sinnombre March 26, 2016
Actor and comedian Carlo Goias, who uses the stage name Carlo Bellario, is facing hard time in prison after being arrested and charged with felony possession of a firearm. If found guilty Goias will be facing a ten-year prison sentence because of a prior record… the only problem? The gun was a toy and Goias was filming a movie.
It all started when Goias was playing the body guard of a drug dealer in an unfinished film for a low-budget film company. In the scene, Goias pretended to shoot his gun out of the window of a car that is involved in a car chase in a residential neighborhood. Apparently, several neighbors were unaware that the film was shooting in their neighborhood and called to report the event to the police. Later that day the police arrived and arrested Goias for being in possession of an Airsoft gun .
The actor spent four days in prison as his friends and family scraped together the $10K bail needed to have him released.
The District Attorney then offered Goias a plea deal that would have sent him to prison for up to a year, but now he faces a much harsher penalty — up to 10 years in prison, for his supposed "crime."
"I was shooting a movie — I wasn't committing a crime intentionally," Goias recently told The Associated Press. "Robert De Niro doesn't ask Marty Scorsese is if he has gun permits. We're actors. That's for the production company to worry about."
Jef Henninger, Goias's defense attorney, said his client is innocent based on his intent, which was to act in a movie, not commit a crime.
"Our fight is really with New Jersey's gun law and the fact that we have person after person getting arrested and worrying about going to prison," Henninger said. "There has to be a safety valve that prosecutors have, so these cases can be quickly dealt with."
The AP reports that "some state lawmakers say the case highlights the need for New Jersey to change its gun laws." The fact that only "some" lawmakers in New Jersey understand this is evidence that the state government has completely lost control of its ability to reason logically.
Goias faces hard time in prison for carrying a child's toy that shoots a plastic ball while working on a movie! The state of New Jersey has become fascist nanny-state where the citizens are no longer running things. Instead they are subject to the whim of lawmakers and overly-aggressive lawyers.
The Garden State seems ripe for revolution. It's time for New Jersey to re-embrace the Bill of Rights.
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WCEL Releases Legal Toolkit for Fighting Trans Mountain
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A Cabinet order under the provincial Environment and Land Use Act, a court order to set aside the project's environmental assessment certificate, an order to vary provisions of the B.C. Environmental Assessment Act, and a new set of approval processes and conditions are the four best legal options for the new British Columbia government to oppose the Kinder Morgan pipeline, West Coast Environmental Law advises this week in an eight-page brief.
The province's new NDP/Green alliance has pledged to "immediately employ every tool available to the new government to stop the expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline, the seven-fold increase in tanker traffic on our coast, and the transportation of raw bitumen through our province," WCEL notes, citing the agreement between the two legislative caucuses.
That decision prompted the Victoria-based legal team to summarize the best legal options available: tools that can be deployed immediately, and approaches most likely to survive legal and political challenge.
"It's time for B.C. to hit the 'pause' button on Kinder Morgan, uphold its obligations to Indigenous peoples, and properly assess the project's impacts—before it's too late," write WCEL staffers Jessica Clogg, Eugene Kung, Gavin Smith, and Andrew Gage.
"The legal approaches laid out here are, in our view, the most reasonable, logical, and moral options to ensure that Trans Mountain does not jeopardize the environment, Indigenous rights, and public health."
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Q: WPF and ADO.NET EF - error I keep getting this error:
Microsoft.Practices.Composite.Modularity.ModuleInitializeException was unhandled
  Message=An exception occurred while initializing module 'DiagrammerModule'.
    - The exception message was: An exception has occurred while trying to add a view to region 'MainRegion'.
    - The most likely causing exception was was: 'System.ArgumentException: The specified named connection is either not found in the configuration, not intended to be used with the EntityClient provider, or not valid.
   at System.Data.EntityClient.EntityConnection.ChangeConnectionString(String newConnectionString)
   at System.Data.EntityClient.EntityConnection..ctor(String connectionString)
   at System.Data.Objects.ObjectContext.CreateEntityConnection(String connectionString)
   at System.Data.Objects.ObjectContext..ctor(String connectionString, String defaultContainerName)
....

The connection string is stored in app.config and looks like this:
<connectionStrings>
    <add name="DBEntities" connectionString="metadata=res://DataAccessLayer/EntityDataModel.csdl|res://*/EntityDataModel.ssdl|res://*/EntityDataModel.msl;provider=System.Data.SqlServerCe.3.5;provider connection string="Data Source=|DataDirectory|\DB.sdf;Password=password;Persist Security Info=True"" providerName="System.Data.EntityClient" />
  </connectionStrings>

where DataAccessLayer is the name of the DLL that holds the model and the entities.
What is wrong with that code?
Thanks for help.

A: Looks like data context constructor can't find connection string in configuration file. Check file is copied to application output directory, and have name {your-WPF-applicaiton-name}.exe.config (not {your-DLL-contains-data-context}.dll.config).

A: From the link you provided, it indicates:
The "*" is replaced with the name of the DLL that contains the file.
So make sure you replace all instances of "*" as follows:
<connectionStrings>
  <add name="DBEntities" connectionString="metadata=res://DataAccessLayer/EntityDataModel.csdl|res://DataAccessLayer/EntityDataModel.ssdl|res://DataAccessLayer/EntityDataModel.msl;provider=System.Data.SqlServerCe.3.5;provider connection string="Data Source=|DataDirectory|\DB.sdf;Password=password;Persist Security Info=True"" providerName="System.Data.EntityClient" />
</connectionStrings>


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Q: C# Memory mapped files not working while debugging in visual studio I am stuck with a strange behaviour within Visual Studio 2015.
I have one solution with two executable projects that read and write some data using a Memory Mapped File. The projects are set to run at different timings (Project1 first and then Project2 after some seconds of delay)
Project1 creates a Memory Mapped File with the following line:
MemoryMappedFile.CreateNew("testmmf", 2000, MemoryMappedFileAccess.ReadWrite);

Project2 access the same MMF with:
MemoryMappedFile.OpenExisting("testmmf");

After that both applications start to share some vars / strings / structs.
If I start the solution from Visual Studio with "Start Without Debugging" button everything is working fine.
If I manually start the compiled executables (both release or debug) outside Visual Studio everything is working fine.
However, if I start the solution with the normal "START" button (both in release or debug mode) I receive a

"FileNotFoundException"

from the second project.
I already tried with "GLOBAL" and "LOCAL" file namespace but things have not changed at all.
Has someone already run into this problem?
Thanks for any help.


President Donald Trump reaffirmed his support for America's intelligence agencies on July 17, amid a media firestorm following his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki.
The occasion marks at least the sixth time the president has affirmed his support for the intelligence agencies' assessment that Russia meddled in the U.S. election. The most recent instance took place at the summit with Putin. Trump said that he has "great confidence in my intelligence people" but noted that the Russian leader expressed an "extremely strong and powerful" denial of the allegations.
In March this year, Trump said that "the Russians had no impact on our votes whatsoever, but certainly there was meddling." In November last year, Trump said, "I'm with our agencies" on Russian election meddling. And in January and July 2017, he said, "I think it was Russia" that meddled in the election.
Despite the multiple affirmations of his faith in the intelligence agencies, major media outlets seized on a single word from Trump's response to a question at the summit in Helsinki in order to advance a narrative that Trump didn't stand up for America.
The president said that he thought he had made himself clear at the summit, but, upon seeing the media backlash while on his way back to Washington, he decided to review the transcript and the video of the press conference. He discovered that one word in his comments on Russia was not what he meant to say.
"The sentence should have been 'I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be Russia,'" Trump said on July 17, correcting the word "would" to "wouldn't" from his statement from the day before.
Trump pointed out that his administration is taking active steps to defend against future attempts to meddle in elections, in contrast to the Obama administration, which gave a stand-down order when informed about Russia's meddling attempts before the 2016 election.
In May last year, Trump signed an executive order directing the government to strengthen and review the cybersecurity of the U.S. government and critical infrastructure, according to the White House.
The Department of Homeland Security is leading the effort to improve election security. The agency is helping 34 states and 52 local and county governments by conducting cybersecurity on an ongoing basis. DHS has also conducted on-site vulnerability assessments in 16 states by request.
In addition to protecting against election meddling, the White House has also punished Russia via a series of sanctions and expulsions since last year.
The administration sanctioned Russian individuals and entities in February, April, and June this year, according to the White House. These measures were on top of sanctions and trade controls issued in 2017.
In March last year, the White House sanctioned several Russian individuals and entities for hacking and election interference. That month, Trump ordered the expulsion of 60 Russian intelligence officers from the United States. The administration has also sanctioned a total of 100 individuals and entities in response to Moscow's occupation of Eastern Ukraine and Crimea, and several others for violating the Iran and North Korea sanction regimes.
Trump is also garnering support from America's allies to deter Russia's geopolitical ambitions. The president said that he had convinced NATO allies to spend billions more on defense. The president's administration has also "increased funding for the European Deterrence Initiative, providing billions to increase United States troop readiness in Europe, deter Russian aggression, and help defend our NATO allies," the White House said in a statement.


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ABC Cancel's Marvel's Inhumans Series
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ABC Television Network has chosen to cancel the new Marvel show, Marvel's Inhumans, after ratings and the box office open didn't give what they were expecting.
Marvel's Inhumans had a rough start for a series, as it was strangely funded partially by IMAX and subsequently premiered the first two episodes within theaters, two weeks before the TV premiere date. In the box office, Marvel's Inhumans got $3.5 billion, which was not the only disappointing aspect, as critics also had negative views.
"After the Royal Family of Inhumans is splintered by a military coup, they barely escape to Hawaii where their surprising interactions with the lush world and humanity may prove to not only save them, but Earth itself."
The show focused around Black Bolt who was the commanding King of the Inhumans.
As of right now the other Marvel series, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., has yet to be cancelled or renewed. We'll keep you informed as a decision is made.
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The award-winning and critically acclaimed Williamson began his professional career in writing in 1988. As a freelance writer, Williamson has been featured in the Worcester Telegram, Worcester Monthly, North Shore Living, Artscope and Blues Wire. Before taking the job as A&E Editor at Worcester Magazine in 1998, he had been a regular contributor to that publication since 1993. Over the years he has written about everything from art and entertainment to sports and politics. He lists Sonny Rollins, B.B. King, Laura Nyro and Waylon Jennings among his favorite interviews.
Williamson is also the author of The Jazz Worcester Real Book, that features bios, profiles and compositions of 100 local musicians such as Jaki Byard, Barbara Carroll, Don Fagerquist, Steve Davis and Tony Zano. Released by Worcester Publishing Ltd., it is available through our Website: worcestermag.com.
Reflecting his ability to play a wide variety of musical styles, Williamson is also a working musician who has shared stages with many of the world's most popular and finest musicians, including Sleepy LaBeef, Alan Dawson and Joan Osborne. His jazz credits include gigs with Rich Greenblatt, Jack Pezanelli, Dick Odgren and Emil Haddad.
Williamson's chromatic harmonica styling can be heard on She's Busy's Strange Bedfellows, Valerie and Walter Crockett's Moonbone and Emily's Angel, Mike Duffy's Destined to be a Rumor, and the Movie Channel's station ID, "Try a Little TMC."
His own CD release, Chromatic Swing, features jump blues and standards from the Swing era. In his review of the album, Scott McLennan from the Worcester Telegram said, "Chromatic Swing is Williamson's voice coming through loud and clear. The disc is a cooking session of Swing era gems associated with the likes of Count Basie, Benny Goodman and Harry 'Sweets' Edison. It's a likable fusion of jazz and blues traditions made possible by a cast of strong and colorful players."
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Have you seen the latest information about Alzheimer's disease and Vitamin E?
A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association indicates that high levels of Vitamin E may cause a less rapid decline in functional capabilities in people with early Alzheimer's.
Among patients with mild to moderate AD, 2000 IU/d of alpha tocopherol compared with placebo resulted in slower functional decline. There were no significant differences in the groups receiving memantine alone or memantine plus alpha tocopherol. These findings suggest benefit of alpha tocopherol in mild to moderate AD by slowing functional decline and decreasing caregiver burden.
Dr. Denis Evans, a professor of internal medicine at Rush University, who wrote an editorial accompanying the new study, cautioned against extrapolating the results to anyone without mild to moderate Alzheimer's.
What relevance does this have to my explorations in wellness? Well, faithful readers will recall that I am obsessed with fat-soluble vitamins. I've written about them a few times, like here, and here and here. But most of those pieces focus on Vitamins A, D, and K2, to the exclusion of Vitamin E.
The rage against dietary fat of the 1980s that still persists has largely gutted our diets of these vitamins.
We've tended to get them in their precursor form, supplemental / enrichment form, or not at all.
And there HAVE GOT TO BE effects from that.
Now, I'm not saying a low-fat diet causes Alzheimer's disease. I am in no way qualified to make such a claim.
But, if you have read or heard any of Dr. David Perlmutter's work, it may well be that you have heard him correlate fat intake with the presence of neurological dysfunction. And, unlike me, he is a world-class neurologist.
The Anti-Alzheimer's Trio: It's become one of my staples of conversation, and it should become one of the staples of your diet. When it comes to eating "memory food" there is no better trio of items to fight Alzheimer's and dementia than grass-fed beef, avocados, and coconut oil. This group of high-fat, brain-smart foods are a staple of the Grain Brain diet, and should work their way into your weekly meal plan as well.
So, there you go. My obsession with fat-soluble vitamins remains robust. And although I have focused almost maniacally on A, D, and K2, after this recent research, I promise to give Vitamin E a little blog love, too.


Good ham and bean soup can be an economical use of leftover ham or a tasty way to utilize ham hocks.
If you happen to have a can of beans handy that you would like to use for your ham and bean soup, then by all means go for it. The typical bean used in ham and bean soup is the great northern bean or navy bean. Both of these beans are small, white beans and their flavor matches well with ham.
Pick over the beans. Spread the beans out on a cookie sheet and check for small stones. Remove any small stones and broken or discolored beans.
Wash the beans. Rinse the beans under cool running water to remove any dust.
Soak the beans overnight. While soaking the beans is not strictly necessary, it does reduce overall cooking time. Just place the beans in a bowl and cover with cool water.
Quick soak method. Place the beans in a pot and cover with water. Bring to a boil for 2 minutes. Then cover tightly and remove from the heat. Let rest for one hour.
Discard the water. Whether you use the long or quick soak method, you should drain the soaking water from the beans before using them in your soup.
Once the beans are prepared, you can then use them in your soup. You might be wondering if it is absolutely necessary to soak beans before using them in your soup. The answer is no, you do not. Although soaking does reduce cooking time and it does give the beans a more consistent texture. I suggest using the quick soak method because it is effective and will get your beans ready for dinner tonight. But if have the time to use the overnight soak method, you will find that the beans, once in the soup, will be fully cooked sooner.
Prepare the beans as described above. I suggest using the quick soak method.
In a stockpot or a large pot, heat the oil over a medium flame.
Add the garlic, onions, carrots, and celery.
Reduce the flame to medium low and slowly cook the vegetables until the onions are translucent, stirring occasionally.
Add the vegetable or chicken stock and the ham bone or ham hock and the diced ham.
Add the beans to the soup.
If you are using a ham hock, remove it from the soup and remove the meat from the bone. Add the meat from the bone to the soup.
Test the beans for doneness by tasting some of them. They should be very soft to the tooth.


Travel with Thomas from Jerusalem to England in this exciting conclusion to the Merlin's Immortals series.
Thomas is finally in the Holy Land and reunited with Sir William, but is forced to travel on his own from the coast through Nazareth, and finally to Jerusalem. The road is a dangerous one—especially to a lone traveler. Bandits masquerade as slaves, traitors appear to be allies, and once again, Thomas doesn't know whom to trust. He must rely on his own resources to discern friend from foe, and to finally discover the final key to the Druids' master plan before returning home to expose them.
Back in England, a final storm is brewing against Thomas, for the Druids are much more powerful than the Orphan King can even imagine.
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AG Wilson Launches Anti-drug Initiative
The program launch was held at Mauldin High School with representatives from the student government as well as school and district leadership.
George Barrett, left, executive chairman of the board, Cardinal Health, Inc., Dr. Joseph Mastandrea, chairman of the board, Miami-Luken, Inc., John Hammergren, chairman, president, and CEO, McKesson Corporation, J. Christopher Smith, former president and CEO, H.D. Smith Wholesale Drug Company, and Steven Collis, chairman, president, and CEO, AmerisourceBergen Corporation, are sworn in before they testify during a hearing of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, about the opioid epidemic, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, May 8, 2018 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Drug supply firm execs say they didn't cause opioids crisis
WASHINGTON (AP) — Top executives of the nation's leading wholesale drug distributors told Congress under oath Tuesday that their companies didn't help cause the nation's deadly opioid epidemic, drawing bipartisan wrath that included one lawmaker suggesting prison terms for some company officials...
NYC mayor backs plan to open supervised injection sites
NEW YORK (AP) — New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday threw his support behind a plan to open supervised injection sites for illegal drug users as part of a pioneering yet controversial effort to combat fatal overdoses. Dozens of supervised injection sites have opened in Canada, Europe and...
In this April 26, 2018 photo, David Humes stands outside Legislative Hall, the state capitol building, in Dover, Del. Humes, whose son died from a heroin overdose in 2012, has been pushing for an opioid tax in Delaware, which did not increase funding for addiction treatment in 2017 as it struggles to balance its budget. "When you think about the fact that each year more people are dying, if you leave the money the same, you're not keeping up with this public health crisis," he said. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)nydi
Drugmakers push back against lawmakers' calls to tax opioids
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Facing a rising death toll from drug overdoses, state lawmakers across the country are testing a strategy to boost treatment for opioid addicts: Force drug manufacturers and their distributors to pay for it. Bills introduced in at least 15 states would impose taxes or fees on...
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FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2007 file photo, Prince performs during halftime of the Super Bowl XLI football game in Miami. Minnesota prosecutors are planning an announcement Thursday, April 19, 2018, in their two-year investigation into Prince's death. Prince was found alone and unresponsive in an elevator at his Paisley Park estate on April 21, 2016. An autopsy found he died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 times more powerful than heroin. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prince thought he was taking a common painkiller but instead ingested a counterfeit pill containing the dangerously powerful drug fentanyl, a Minnesota prosecutor said Thursday as he announced that no charges would be filed in the musician's death. Carver County Attorney Mark...
Drug overdose deaths decline after years of steady increases
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — State health officials say the number of accidental drug overdose deaths in Rhode Island declined in 2017 after years of steady increases. There were 323 deaths last year, down from 336 in 2016. That's about a 4 percent decrease. Health Department Director Nicole Alexander-...
S Carolina a step closer to medical marijuana legalization
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina is a step closer to becoming the latest state to allow the legalization of marijuana for treatment of critically ill patients. The Senate Medical Affairs Committee on Thursday approved a measure approving the use of medical marijuana. It now goes to the full...
President Donald Trump speaks at Manchester Community College in Manchester, N.H., Monday, March 19, 2018. Trump is in New Hampshire to unveil more of his plan to combat the nation's opioid crisis. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Trump calls for death penalty to 'get tough' on drug pushers
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Embracing the tough penalties favored by global strongmen, President Donald Trump on Monday brandished the death penalty as a fitting punishment for drug traffickers fueling the opioid epidemic. The scourge has torn through the rural and working-class communities that in...
Attorney General Jeff Sessions and first lady Melania Trump listen as President Donald Trump speaks at Manchester Community College in Manchester, N.H., Monday, March 19, 2018, to unveil more of his plan to combat the nation's opioid crisis. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
The Latest: Trump wants PR effort on dangers of drugs
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and opioid drug addiction (all times local): 3:15 p.m. President Donald Trump is declaring the need for a nationwide public relations effort to convince Americans, and particularly children, to not start using drugs. He announced a new...