You're invited to participate in a unique event at Pioneer Courthouse Square designed to provide connection between people experiencing homelessness and those more fortunate in Portland. Join us for music, art, poetry, and more! This event combines art making, skill building and philanthropy through a direct, humanitarian effort within our community.
EVENT DETAILS: Come to Pioneer Courthouse Square to meet participants, sponsors, and volunteers who have been involved in the Gather:Make:Shelter project over the last 8 months. Hand-painted bowls created by our community will be available for sale; proceeds will be used to provide housing for fellow citizens. There will be music, poetry, and opportunities to discover more through community liaisons who will highlight practical considerations that may help build genuine connections between diverse communities.
About the project: Gather:Make:Shelter is a citywide creative collaboration shepherded by artist Dana Lynn Louis to create a new model of engagement and connection between people experiencing homelessness and those more fortunate in Portland, OR. The project bridges art making, skill building and philanthropy through a direct, humanitarian effort within our community. Learn more about the project by clicking here.


This video is called Joshua Klein: The intelligence of crows.
The intelligence of the corvid family—a group of birds that includes crows, ravens, magpies, rooks and jackdaws—rivals that of apes and dolphins. Recent studies are revealing impressive details about crows' social reasoning, offering hints about how our own interpersonal intelligence may have evolved.


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Texas Protest Flags (U.S.)
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Texas gun control protest flag
Texas "Don't Tread On Me" flag
image by Randy Young, 3 July 2015
An entry into the Second Amendment/Gun Control protest is this Texas flag combining itself with the text from the historical Gonzales Banner of 1835 and replacing the original cannon with a AR-15 M4 assault rifle.
Source of Flags: Texas AR15 M4 Come and Take it at www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NJ4JQ3Q/ref=pe_842990_141957330_em_1p_4_img
Pete Loeser, 2 July 2015
The flag features a black silhouette of an AR-15 / M-16 rifle on the upper white bar of the flag, with the muzzle of the rifle pointing toward the fly. Below it, in the red bar, were the words "COME AND TAKE IT" in white capital serif letters, in reference to the Gonzales Banner from 1835.
Randy Young, 3 July 2015
image by Pete Loeser, 2 July 2015
The Texas "Don't Tread On Me" Flag obviously combines the Texas flag with the Revolutionary War Gadsden Flag. Two variants are available on line, One has the text in black, the other uses gold text. The version above of this Texas Gadsden flag was flown by members of the United Steelworkers on strike at the Motiva plant in Port Arthur, Texas, in February of 2015. Port Arthur is the home of the United States' largest oil refinery.
Source of Flags: "Don't Tread On Me Texas Flag" at www.amazon.com/NEOPlex-Dont-Tread-Texas-Flag/dp/B004GIQ8NK/ref=pd_bxgy_86_img_y

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HFI Creativity Lab
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Fairfield Indoor Farmers Market Fairfield Community Center 209 S. Court St
18jan9:00 am1:00 pmFairfield Indoor Farmers Market9:00 am - 1:00 pm Fairfield Community Center, 209 S. Court St
Fairfield Farmers Market. Fresh locally grown produce, baked goods, gifts, and more. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Fairfield Community Center, 209 S. Court, Fairfield. Saturdays through April 2020.
(Saturday) 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
209 S. Court St
Fairfield Light Tower - Bird Magnet Carnegie Historical Museum 114 S Court St
18jan2:00 pm3:30 pmFairfield Light Tower - Bird Magnet2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Carnegie Historical Museum, 114 S Court St
Fairfield Light Tower - Bird Magnet Sat, Jan 19 | 2:00 PM Carnegie Historical Museum A FAIRFIELD FIRST: One of the nation's first municipal electric street lights had Fairfield as its home.
Fairfield Light Tower – Bird Magnet
Sat, Jan 19 | 2:00 PM
A FAIRFIELD FIRST: One of the nation's first municipal electric street lights had Fairfield as its home. It was erected in Fairfield's Central Park in 1882, only a couple of weeks after installation of Thomas Edison's experimental electric street lamps in New York City. Come learn about this historic structure and the effect it had on the local bird population. Museum Director, artist Mark Shafer, will share its history and how it inspired his most recent work of art. Participants will have an opportunity to take brush in hand and add their personal touch to this whimsical tribute to birding in Fairfield. This art piece will become part of the bird display in the Museum. This will be a "Come & Go" interactive event. Interested individuals can arrive anytime between 2:00 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. Take the elevator to the 3rd floor.
114 S Court St
THE COLOR PURPLE Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts 200 North Main Street
18jan7:30 pm9:30 pmTHE COLOR PURPLE7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts, 200 North Main Street
THE COLOR PURPLE Sat, Jan 18 | 7:30 PM 2016 Tony Award winner for Best Musical Revival 2019-20 Artist Series: Experience the Impact Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts Ticket Information Premium |$69 50 seats located in
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THE COLOR PURPLE hailed as "a direct hit to the heart" The Hollywood Reporter, this joyous American classic conquered Broadway in an all-new "ravishingly reconceived production that is a glory to behold" The New York Times.
With a soul-raising, Grammy Award-winning score of jazz, gospel, ragtime and blues, The Color Purple gives an exhilarating new spirit to this Pulitzer Prize-winning story.
Don't miss this stunning re-imagining of an epic story about a young woman's journey of love and triumph in the American South. Experience the exhilarating power of this Tony-winning triumph that New York Magazine calls "one of the greatest revivals ever."
Party & Paint: Winter Scenes ICON Gallery 58 N. Main St
18jan7:30 pm9:30 pmParty & Paint: Winter Scenes7:30 pm - 9:30 pm ICON Gallery, 58 N. Main St
Sat, January 18 • Party & Paint: Winter Scenes. Beginners and experienced artists alike are invited to join the fun of making a work of art! All art supplies are
Sat, January 18 • Party & Paint: Winter Scenes. Beginners and experienced artists alike are invited to join the fun of making a work of art! All art supplies are included. 7:30 p.m. ICON Gallery, Fairfield. Sign up in advance: (641) 919-6252. $25.
Free Knitter's Clinic. At Home Store 52 N. Main St
19jan2:00 pm4:00 pmFree Knitter's Clinic.2:00 pm - 4:00 pm At Home Store, 52 N. Main St
Free Knitter's Clinic. Bring your questions, a new project idea, or just stop by to knit. For all levels. Every Sunday 2-4 p.m. At Home Store, 52 N. Main St., Fairfield.
Free Knitter's Clinic. Bring your questions, a new project idea, or just stop by to knit. For all levels.
Every Sunday 2-4 p.m. At Home Store, 52 N. Main St., Fairfield. (641) 472-1016. Free!
Irish Music Session Café Paradiso 101 N Main Street
19jan3:00 pm5:00 pmIrish Music Session3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Café Paradiso, 101 N Main Street
Irish Music Session. Stop by for a hot cuppa tae and music from a changing assortment of musicians. Come to play or listen. Free! 3-5 p.m. Cafe Paradiso, 101
Irish Music Session. Stop by for a hot cuppa tae and music from a changing assortment of musicians. Come to play or listen. Free! 3-5 p.m. Cafe Paradiso, 101 N. Main St., Fairfield.
Mike Cantafio and George Foster The Bookhouse 56 E Burlington Avenue
23jan7:00 pm10:00 pmMike Cantafio and George Foster7:00 pm - 10:00 pm The Bookhouse, 56 E Burlington Avenue
Mike Cantafio and George Foster. This talented, energetic duo performs jazz standards and originals. 7 p.m. The Bookhouse, 56 E. Burlington Ave., Fairfield.
Mike Cantafio and George Foster.
This talented, energetic duo performs jazz standards and originals. 7 p.m. The Bookhouse, 56 E. Burlington Ave., Fairfield.
(Thursday) 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
56 E Burlington Avenue
It's a Hootenanny! Community Sing-Along Sondheim Center 200 North Main St
23jan7:30 pm9:30 pmIt's a Hootenanny! Community Sing-Along7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Sondheim Center, 200 North Main St
It's a Hootenanny! Community Sing-Along It's a Hootenanny! Community Sing-Along featuring folk songs from Peter, Paul, and Mary, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Traditional Classics and More. . . Hosted by Chris Busch, Andy
It's a Hootenanny! Community Sing-Along
It's a Hootenanny! Community Sing-Along featuring folk songs from
Peter, Paul, and Mary,
Bob Dylan,
Pete Seeger,
Traditional Classics and More. . .
Hosted by Chris Busch, Andy MacKenzie and Doug Daller
Music by Doug Daller
Thursday, January 23rd at 7:30 pm
at the Sodheim Center for the Performing Arts
Free and Open to the Public!!
Goodwill donations to support the Sondheim!!
THE FRONTMEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts 200 North Main Street
25jan7:30 pm9:30 pmTHE FRONTMEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts, 200 North Main Street
THE FRONTMEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC Sat, Jan 25 | 7:30 PM Voices of Restless Heart, Lonestar & Little Texas Together on Stage 2019-20 Artist Series: Experience the Impact Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts Ticket
THE FRONTMEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC
Voices of Restless Heart, Lonestar & Little Texas Together on Stage
Zone 3 |$34
The stage is a place where they take you on a magical journey to the stories behind the songs. A place where the listener's heart meets the singers' hearts who made the songs famous, leaving audiences spellbound. THE FRONTMEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC delivers a show that is powerful, engaging, and authentic.
Collectively, Larry Stewart; Richie McDonald, and Tim Rushlow have recorded some of the biggest hits of the past three decades on country radio as lead singers of Restless Heart, Lonestar, and Little Texas, respectively. They have collectively sold over 30 million records and had over 30 major hits between them. These songs and many others included in their shows are the soundtrack of a generation.


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Missing 11-year-old in Aurora found safe
By: Deb Stanley
AURORA, Colo. -- Police said a missing 11-year-old has been found safe.
Marcellous Kyle Lard was last seen Tuesday night near his home on East 2nd Avenue, near Sable Blvd., in Aurora.
Police issued an alert for the boy Wednesday morning.
About four hours later, police said the boy was found by a "keen citizen who recognized him today on the news."
*Note, Aurora police initially said the boy's last name was Lark. They have corrected that to say his last name is Lard.
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Kabaka Pyramid
Keron Salmon, known by his fans as Kabaka Pyramid, is an ever-evolving artist that has numerous ways of expressing his creativity. The ability to watch and learn from others around him has made him into somewhat of a Jack-of-all-trades. You can find him at Bebble Rock Studios, in his hometown Kingston, Jamaica, writing lyrics, producing tracks, engineering/recording himself or other artists, mixing songs, editing video/photos, or even learning to play the guitar! His passion for music began at early age when he would change the lyrics to popular songs and record his own version on his mother's tape recorder. What began as a humorous venture was actually a stepping stone for the artist we know today. Reggae music has always been a strong influence on the Kingstonian lyricist, but during high school it was Hip Hop music that captivated him, and you could find him walking to the canteen reciting his favorite Canibus or Inspectah Deck lines. The influence of both genres can be easily detected as he, and other Bebble Rock artists such as Koro-Fyah, seek to find the perfect fusion of the two cultural expressions.
Recently Kabaka Pyramid has been appearing on the Live Music scene in Kingston with live performances at the Manifesto Jamaica Festival 2010, Jaria Reggae Month 2010, Jamaica Vybez, The Next Generation of Reggae, Bands Incoporated (Featured by The Indiggnation Band), and Conversations - just to name a few.
The Conscious musician is a member of Manifesto Jamaica, which is an N.G.O. aiming to empower Jamaican youth through the arts and culture. Representing Manifesto JA, Kabaka has worked with friend and colleague Donisha Prendegast on the "Africa Unite" School Tour spreading the word of Rastafari and the liberation struggle in South Africa. Performing for the kids in school is an important part of Kabaka's vision for his musical career and is always willing to play his part in the movement.
The name "Kabaka" is Ugandan for "King" and Pyramids are thought by the artist to house the mathematical proportions of Universal Laws that are eminent in the creation of this universe. He seeks to embody these laws in his music, spreading truth and higher knowledge to the people who are prepared to listen.
He has just released his "Rebel Music" EP which is free to the public at www.kabakapyramid.bandcamp.com. This project is a fusion of roots rock, reggae, dancehall and hip hop and is intended to show the world where Kabaka Pyramid is looking to take Jamaican music, as well as spread the positive messages of spirituality and conscious evolution that you find whenever he grabs a mic!
"To me....Reggae and Hip Hop go hand in hand....when they procreate, Rebel Music is born! Some believe that each art form must remain pure....I'm not here to oppose. But fusion is the foodstuff of evolution, and evolution is constant - both physically and spiritually" - Kabaka Pyramid
"Kabaka Pyramid is one of the most promising talents I have seen in a while" - Protoje
"It is a tasty mix of roots and early dancehall scented with some hip-hop" - United reggae Magazine on Rebel music
"With a solid list of skills not only in the booth but on the mixing board, and an array of lyrics that preach a message of love, self-awareness and African pride, Kabaka Pyramid is well on his way to a career that should not only lead to greatness but also lead a lot of fans to righteousness" - Aesthetics Now Magazine
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Destiny 2 Corridors of Time: How to get the Savior of the Past emblem
By Austin Wood 2020-01-15T21:30:14Z
Scratch the surface of the Corridors of Time and claim a snazzy emblem
(Image credit: Bungie)
Destiny 2's latest puzzle has left the community at large scratching its head, but the game's top sleuths have worked out enough of its innards to track down a new emblem. Getting the emblem doesn't require a mathematics degree or hours of work, and it's a darn spiffy emblem, so you might as well nab it for yourself. Here's how to get the Savior of the Past emblem inside the Corridors of time.
To access the Corridors of Time, first enter the Sundial Mercury space - not the Sundial playlist - and activate the device rather than talking to Osiris. This will take you back to the Control-esque, Vex-filled annals you visited when saving Saint-14.
To claim the emblem, you'll need to take a specific path to reach the heart of the maze. As Sneaky Beaver explained on Twitter, that path is marked by the glyphs on the pillars in front of the various portals in each chamber. The correct path is:
1. Diamond (with three cuts in it)
2. Clover (looks like a rounded, rotated Plus)
3. Snake (squiggly)
4. Plus (looks like a D-Pad)
5. Hex (two interlocking hexagons)
6. Hex
7. Plus
9. Diamond
10. Clover
11. Snake
Once you reach the final portal, you'll enter a large chamber with a coffin in the middle. If you're anything like me, your first instinct will be to run straight up to the coffin. Well, don't do that, and don't go back into the portal either, otherwise you'll be teleported out Instead, stop at the edge of the inner ring and hit the "Reveal" prompt. This will give you the emblem. Voila! We've still got a lot of puzzle left to solve, but at least it's something.
Austin Wood
As a staff writer and former freelancer, Austin focuses on day-to-day news happenings which serve as the perfect cover-up for his Destiny 2 column. He majored in journalism, loves to hate headlines, and never takes his Switch out of the dock.


Welcome to my new-look website, which coincides with the launch of my consultancy business, All Things IC.
You're welcome to have a look around and I'll guide you through what has changed and what has stayed the same. I hope you find what you're looking for and do please let me know your feedback.
IC stands for internal communication and on this site you'll find my blog. It features hundreds of articles I've written about internal communication, employee engagement, social media and much more. What has changed is the way you can read and find the stories because I've categorised them so they are easier to search.
This means that when you read an article about employee engagement for example, it suggests other articles underneath that you may find interesting.
The name and URL is now All Things IC. Regular readers will know that @AllthingsIC has been my Twitter ID since getting married in 2010 and it's now registered as my company.
I will continue to share free, useful, content via my blog. When I set it up in 2009, I did so with the intention to share useful information with other people interested in internal communication and social media. Feedback from readers shows it has helped them develop personally and professionally, and this is at the core of my business.
Like what you've seen, heard me speak at a conference or read my book contributions and want to work with me in your organisation? Now you can through All Things IC, which draws on my extensive experience.
Every company is different and a one size fits all approach to communication simply doesn't work. I work as a trusted advisor, taking time to understand your culture, engage with your stakeholders and create a tailored plan to enable you to communicate effectively in your organisation. I offer a range of services including training and comms clinics. You can find out more via my work with me page.
Guest writers have been an important part of my blog to date and I'm keen to continue featuring them. See my guidelines and archive if you'd like to contribute.
I've kept my popular resources page, which is packed with information and points you towards some excellent books, courses, people and things to read, and my blogroll.


I hope your Wednesday is doing great. I am obsessed with this dress. It's my favorite dress for spring at the moment. It's so comfy and easy to dress up or dress down. I dressed it pretty casual here but add some heels and some accessories and you're ready for a night out! I also have been loving the "boxer braids" so I decided to finally try them out and I love! They're so much better than just the simple french braids. They will probably become my go to hairstyle this summer and spring.


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Mausoleum for Arafat unveiled
Dignitaries attend ceremony held in Ramallah to honour the late Palestinian leader.
Arafat led the Palestinian struggle for decades
until his death in 2004 [AFP]
Jerusalem burial
The mausoleum is made of glass and beige Jerusalem stone and surrounded on three sides by water.
A piece of train track was also entombed under Arafat's grave.
The water and track are meant to symbolise the temporary nature of the mausoleum, as Palestinians hope to one day bury Arafat in Jerusalem.
In the ceremony Abbas called for Arafat to be buried in Jerusalem, "which he loved, and where he was born, and which our entire people is determined will be the capital of a Palestinian state".
Israel has long refused requests for Arafat to be buried in Jerusalem, citing security concerns.
Museum planned
The Arafat Foundation, set up to preserve the Nobel peace laureate's legacy, has supervised the building of the memorial, which will also include a mosque and a museum.
It is chaired by Nasser al-Qidwa, Arafat's nephew and the former Palestinian representative to the United Nations.
The Arafat museum will exhibit his personal effects, items from his office, presents and documents, al-Qidwa said.
Suffering from stomach pains, Arafat was airlifted to a hospital in Paris, where his wife and daughter lived, before falling into a coma and dying on November 11, 2004.
The precise cause of Arafat's death is still mysterious.
Several Palestinian officials accused Israel of poisoning him although these claims have never been verified.


Dear Father, I lift up Gracianti unto You and humbly ask Your guidance on her mind so that she remembers to settle this recruitment issue. Please also bless her with wisdom and understanding of Your love so that all the things she does in this case are based on her faith in You and please help her to move out from any doubts as if she is in doubt then she will get nothing. Thank You, Father. In Yeshua Hamashiach's name I pray. Amen!
Thank you Soccer gods for the win yesterday.
Thank you Luvaholics for the love that you show each and everyday day on the blog. I pray you all have a great day.
Please pray for my 74 year old mother, she fell and fractured her wrist, she is very sore all over from falling and her wrist hurts very much. Please pray for a quick complete recovery. Thank you. Cheryl d.


Hi folks! I'm happy to announce that Tiny r(E)volution is now offering another e-course session. Almost one year ago Tiny r(E)volution led by Andrew Odom introduced a new concept in tiny house building; an e-Cours(E). With an enrollment of nearly 45 participants the course was enthusiastically received and proved to be a great alternative to those that couldn't or didn't want to attend a more traditional workshop on tiny houses. Spring 2014 is going strong now and summer vacations are looming large. Many are thinking that this is the time to begin their tiny house build. Because of such Tiny r(E)volution is pleased to present another term of Small Home. Big Life.
Small Home. Big Life., a four-week, self-guided course is designed to carry a person through the beginning stages of building a tiny house from the dreaming phase to the drying in of a tiny house. It is even more than that though. Infused with personal experience and anecdote as well as guest interviews and stories, the month features detailed instructions, creative prompts, guest artists, and multi-media examples, that serve to inspire and educate.
So if this sounds like something you'd be interested in, I highly encourage you to check it out and sign up!


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Theodoros Karipidis
Countries Macedonia
Birth 23 May 1979 (Naousa, Naousa, Central Macedonia Region, Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace)
Star sign Gemini
Theodoros Karipidis (23 May 1979) is a Greek businessman known as owner of football club Aris Thessaloniki.
The Karipidis founded the "Karipidis Pallets", pallet manufacturing company in Naousa in 2001 with his sister Irene, using their family expertise in wood processing, primarily focused on the construction industry.The company took part in the Olympic projects of 2004 and 2008 an investment of five million euros completed upgrading its production lines in the plant. The annual production of pallets is 2,000,000€ while the company has more than 250 codes in this product.
In 2014, he bought the supermarket chain Arvanitides in cooperation with Carrefour Marinopoulos.
Dealing with football
On August 6, 2014, she became known that Karipidis assumed the presidency of Veria. In September 2015, he took Inspector debts in Aris Thessaloniki, who was playing for third national category.Because the "yellows" were amateur club in this category, managed to retain the presidency and the group Veria. In the summer of 2016 Aris got back it's professional status after promoting to the Greek 2nd Division and Karipidis became the team's bigger shareholder and owner, after selling the Veria FC shares he owned.
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Discussion in 'iPad General Discussions' started by RAC, Dec 16, 2010.
I still have a lot of experimenting to do but this looks promising.
I purchased a WD My Book World Edition NAS. It has an option to expose Linux via SSH. So far I can log on and view directories on the iPad using an iPad SSH client. I am hoping that I will find a way to use an existing Perl script that I have to copy photos from my camera's SD card to a shared directory on the NAS.
I have two printers on my network with SD card slots that can be read over the network.
Once the files are on the NAS I can use an IPad uPNP client to view the images. In fact WD has an app called WD Photo that seems to work quite well.
It's early days but I think that I can make it work.
I bought the exact same device. I use FileBrowser to access it from the iPad. It reads pictures, video and music by itself. Plus it will get files directly from the computer host.
FileBrowser looks quite good. It copied a file from an SD card on my printer to the NAS. I think that I will still need. script for multiple files though.
Is Photos the only software on the iPad that can read from an SD card?
The more that I look at FileBrowser, the more I like it.
It can be used to copy multiple files and I have suggested that they add a filter mechanisn for the source files. That way you could filter for *.jpg files and copy them to one destination then *.raw files to another destination.
A bonus is also being able to create and manage the destination directories.
It' s not bad for viewing photos as well.
When you use the Camera Connection Kit the image files end up in the "Camera Roll" and in theory are only available to Photos. Apps are starting to appear that can move files in and out of the Camera Roll however, WD Photo for example.
Hmm iVan - I have filebrowser on my iPad and have a configured MyBook World (first edition blue rings) running on a MioNet account.
How did you manage to get it up and running ?
I have the second edition and I didn't install MioNet because it acts like cloud storage and they charge you for it.
First you need to configure MyBook World with a computer. Find the online manual and read the whole thing. Then install the software with the CD that came with the drive. When that's done go to computer/network and there is the drive. All you do is use it like any drive, thumb-drive or flash card. The iPad will see it easily without trouble when you give FileBrowser the proper IP address while setting it up. To find it go through your router info. Set your computer up in FileBrowser and you will also be able to transfer files from the computer to the MyBook World drive remotely from the iPad!
If you want to be a hard user and set security parameters you have to login first in the drive with the user name of "admin". That took some reading for me to find out!!!


Wild Arms 3 Part 3 is on the way! In the meantime, check out my impromptu playthrough of Tetris Attack. This game meant a lot to me as a kid, and got me interested in a way no other puzzle game managed to back then.
Part One has me messing around with various game modes and talking about the correlation between this game and Dragonball Z that I experienced as a teenager.
Part Two has me taking on Versus Mode, which is essentially the campaign mode.
Part Three has me fighting Kamek on Normal mode. You can't fight him on Easy, so I did something I never managed as a kid and reached him on Normal mode. What followed was an epic battle for the ages.


Chickens are a useful addition to any backyard farm.
Chickens are easy to keep and part of a sustainable landscape since organic farming methods support the use of organic fertilizers such as chicken manure tea. Homemade manure tea is a cost-efficient way to ensure that your plants receive all the nutrients that they need to thrive. Chicken manure tea has a high amount of nitrogen, which makes it an excellent choice for heavy feeders and young plants.
Fill a burlap bag, free of holes, rips or tears, three-quarters full with composted chicken manure. Substitute a grain sack for a burlap bag as long as it is in good condition. Do not use fresh chicken manure as it could carry pathogens.
Place a brick on top of the manure inside the bag and close the bag with a piece of rope or garden twine.
Move a trash can to a sunny spot in your yard.
Put the bag with manure into the trash container and fill it to within 6 inches of the top with water. Do not cover the can with a lid. The bag must be fully submerged.
Allow the manure tea to steep for one week. Stir the mixture at least once or twice a day. The tea should resemble a weak ice tea in color.
Remove the bag of manure, allowing as much liquid tea to drip into the can as possible.
Mix four-parts water with one-part manure tea, and put it in a spray bottle. Use as a foliar spray on plants.
Use a smaller bag or even a piece of cheesecloth to make a smaller batch of chicken manure tea.
Add 1 cup of Epsom salts if you are using fertilizer for roses or other sulfur- or magnesium-loving plants.
Wash your hands thoroughly after making manure tea.
Patterson, Susan. "How to Make Chicken Manure Tea Fertilizer." Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/make-chicken-manure-tea-fertilizer-40853.html. Accessed 19 April 2019.


Your personal narrative is the story that shapes your view of the world and directs your behaviors. Your ability to exercise self-discipline and willpower is dependent upon the script you're telling yourself.
A study by Timothy Wilson, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, took a group of college freshmen who struggled academically and felt intellectually inadequate. They were split into two groups; the intervention group were informed that it's common for students to struggle in their freshmen year but improve as they adjust to college life. They also watched videos of upper-class students reinforcing this message.
The goal was to prompt the students to edit their narratives — to reinterpret their negative, self-defeating inner-dialogue. It worked. The students in the intervention group significantly improved in their GPA over the next year, and were less likely to drop out. In the control group (who received no information) 25 percent of students dropped out by the end of their sophomore year, compared with 5 percent in the intervention group.
Every new venture begins this way. Filled with excitement; you feel invincible and unstoppable. You are "green" with a shade of naivety, yet to deal with any major challenges or opposition.
This is where doubt creeps in. You're more informed and gaining more experience, and you encounter information that conflicts with your plans.
As your pessimism grows, the mental struggle and doubt leads to fear. You begin to procrastinate as a coping mechanism. Your self-discipline and willpower become paralyzed.
This stage is crucial for editing your personal narrative. It's the stage where Wilson implemented the intervention for the students. They experienced academic challenges in the "informed pessimism" stage and internalized the negative feedback, convincing themselves they were intellectually sub-par.
4. Crash and Burn (without editing).
If you fail to edit your narrative and reinterpret the negative information, no amount of motivation, willpower, or self-discipline will pull you through the "crises of meaning." A negative script dictating your life will only lead to failure and perpetual struggle. Your unedited story will lead you to crash and burn.
5. Informed Optimism (with editing).
After incorporating new, supportive information into your narrative, you're set on a positive and motivated trajectory. However, your optimism needs to be informed — the new information needs to be valid and true. Using trite affirmations with no grounding in reality only causes more frustration and cripples your performance.
The students from the study were exposed to real accounts from other students. The information was trustworthy. When your optimism is informed, you will truly believe a goal is achievable, and your behaviors will be congruent. Self-discipline and willpower become much easier. Just like the students incorporated other helpful storylines into their own narrative, reading biographies and memoirs exposes you to what is possible, and you're able to adopt their storylines into your own.
Editing your narrative is also a fluid process. Your story is not fixed; it is iterative. A "crises of meaning" may come at any time, or multiple times, in life. Negative scripts and doubt will enter your storyline, and need to be replaced. Adopt a journaling practice. Regular reflection on your narrative will ensure you keep editing it in a way that empowers you to be productive and achieve your goals.
Naive? Cynical? MEANING! (not delusional) Maturing….
Optimism that all is good!
Column 1: Creation's wonder corresponds to young naïveté & favourite things!
Pessimism that all is bad.
Column 2: Separation's trauma & confusion smells like teen spirit.
Crisis of meaning brings us to ask if good > bad?
Column 3: Well, do you know My King?
Crash and burn actually applies to trying to live as if already in column 5; awesome delusion!
Informed optimism (with editing) is column 4 maturing in humility with faith, hope and love.
The response to Thai's article presupposes some knowledge of Crown Heart World in 5 columns.


Analyse the macro-environment — The Future is Here.
Before you can forecast how today's innovations and trends will rise, fall, and change in the future, it is vital you understand the external, uncontrollable, macro environment of today and tomorrow.
If you think of an innovation as a seed, we are examining the ground it is planted in.
If you think of an innovation as a swimmer, we are analysing the water and weather she is swimming in.


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Le diocèse de San Fernando de Apure ( ; ) est un diocèse de l'Église catholique au Venezuela, suffragant de l'archidiocèse de Calabozo.

Territoire

Le diocèse se situe dans l'État d'Apure, il possède un territoire de  avec . Son siège épiscopal est à San Fernando de Apure, où se trouve la .

Histoire
La prélature territoriale de San Fernando de Apure est érigée le  par la bulle  du pape , en prenant sur le territoire du diocèse de Calabozo (aujourd'hui archidiocèse) et du diocèse de , il est à l'origine suffragant de l'archidiocèse de Caracas.

Le , la prélature est élevée au rang de diocèse par la bulle  du pape . Depuis le , il fait partie de la province ecclésiastique de l'archidiocèse de Calabozo.

Évêques

Ángel Adolfo Polachini Rodríguez (1966-1971) nommé évêque du diocèse de Guanare
Roberto Antonio Dávila Uzcátegui (1972-1992)
Mariano José Parra Sandoval (1994-2001) nommé évêque du diocèse de Ciudad Guayana
Víctor Manuel Pérez Rojas (2001-2016)
Alfredo Enrique Torres Rondón (2016-  )

Églises remarquables
Le siège du diocèse est à la  de  de Apure.

On trouve sur le territoire du diocèse l'église appelée le sanctuaire du Nazaréen à Achaguas, que le diocèse avait reconnu sanctuaire diocésain en 1999, et que la Conférence épiscopale du Venezuela reconnaît comme sanctuaire national depuis 2010.

Voir aussi
Liste des juridictions catholiques du Venezuela

Sources
www.catholic-hierarchy.org

Notes et références

San Fernando de Apure
San Fernando de Apure
État d'Apure


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\section{Introduction}\label{sec:introduction}
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\section{System model}\label{sec:systemModel}
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\section{System analysis: coupling and received power}\label{sec:systemAnalysis}
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\section{MIMO communication model}\label{sec:MIMOmodel}
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\section{Transmit design}\label{sec:transmitDesign}
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\section{Numerical results}\label{sec:simulation}
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\section{Conclusions}\label{conclusion}
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\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}

\subsection{Transmitted power, received power and efficiency}

From the circuital model in Fig. \ref{fig:network}, the signal power at the receivers is equal to the power dissipated in the attached loads $z_{\text{l}m}$ ($m=1,\dots,M$). By Eq. \eqref{eq:system}, the voltage across the \ac{UE} ports is given as the sum of the \ac{LoS} propagation and the scattered waves originating from the \acp{UE}, i.e.,
\begin{align}
    \vec{v}_\text{r} = \underbrace{\mat{Z}_\text{rt} \vec{j}_\text{t}}_{\text{LoS}} + \underbrace{\mat{Z}_\text{rr} \vec{j}_\text{r}}_{\text{scattering}}. \label{eq:receivedpower1}
\end{align}

Also, applying Ohm's law at the receiver ports, the received voltage is expressed as
\begin{align}
    \vec{v}_\text{r} = -\mat{z}_\text{l}\vec{j}_\text{r}, \label{eq:Ohmlawreceiver}
\end{align}
where $\mat{z}_\text{l}\in\mathbb{C}^{M \times M}$ is a diagonal matrix with the $m$-th diagonal element equal to the load impedance $z_{\text{l}m}$. We consider that the \acp{UE} are spaced such that the impedance looking into the multiport network is dominated by the antenna's self-impedance $z_0$ and, therefore, we perform a conjugate matching of the self-impedance, i.e.,  $z_{\text{l}m}=z_0^*$ $\forall$ $m$. Introducing \eqref{eq:Ohmlawreceiver} in \eqref{eq:receivedpower1}, the relation between the transmitted and received currents is  given by
\begin{align}
    \vec{j}_\text{r}= -(\mat{Z}_\text{rr} + \mat{I}_{M} z_0^*)^{-1}\mat{Z}_\text{rt} \vec{j}_\text{t}. \label{eq:recCurrents}
\end{align}
With the relation between $\vec{j}_\text{r}$ and $\vec{j}_\text{t}$, the time-averaged power received at the $m$-th \ac{UE} is directly expressed as
\begin{align}
    P_{\text{r}m} = \frac{\Re{-{j}_{\text{r}m}^H {v}_{\text{r}m}}}{2}=\frac{\left|j_{\text{r}m}\right|^2 \Re{z_{0}}}{2}, \label{eq:powerRecieved}
\end{align}
where $j_{\text{r}m}$ and $v_{\text{r}m}$ for $m=1,\dots,M$ are the elements of $\vec{j}_{\text{r}}$ and $\vec{v}_{\text{r}}$, respectively.

On the transmitter side, the primary interest is the time-averaged power delivered to the network, which is given by\footnote{As the impedance matrices are symmetric and have equal diagonal elements, the currents can isolated outside the real part operator.}
\begin{align}
   P_\text{t} &= \underbrace{\frac{\Re{\vec{j}_\text{t}^H \mat{Z}_\text{tt} \vec{j}_\text{t}}}{2}}_{\text{internal}} + \underbrace{\frac{\Re{\vec{j}_\text{t}^H \mat{Z}_\text{rt}^T \vec{j}_\text{r}}}{2}}_{\text{external}} =\frac{\vec{j}_\text{t}^H \mat{R}_\text{P} \vec{j}_\text{t}}{2} \label{eq:powerTransmitted}, \\
   %
   \mat{R}_\text{P} &= \Re{\mat{Z}_\text{tt}-\mat{Z}_\text{rt}^T\left(\mat{Z}_\text{rr}+\mat{i}_M z_0^*\right)^{-1} \mat{Z}_\text{rt}}.
\end{align}

In \eqref{eq:powerTransmitted}, the first term (labeled as internal) is the actual power that the transmitter delivers to the network, which is only impacted by the coupling matrix between the antenna elements in the \ac{LIS}. The second term encompasses the coupling between the inducted currents at the \acp{UE} and the \ac{LIS}, which may be relevant in near-field scenarios where the distance between the users and the transmitter is small. If all the \acp{UE} are placed far enough, then this second term can be neglected.

Finally, to model thermal losses at the transmitter, a loss resistance $r_\text{l}$ is attached to all ports corresponding to the \ac{LIS} antennas. These losses, although usually ignored in \ac{MIMO} works, play a pivotal role in beamforming analysis and design. As the antennas in the \ac{LIS} are very closely spaced, optimal precoders result in very high currents, which leads to significant thermal losses even for very high efficiency antennas \cite{Schelkunoff1943, Harrington1965, gilbert_optimum_1955}. With known currents $\vec{j}_\text{t}$, the thermal losses are given by
\begin{align}
    P_l = \frac{\vec{j}_\text{t}^H r_\text{l} \mat{I}_{M} \vec{j}_\text{t}}{2} = \frac{r_\text{l} \vec{j}_\text{t}^H \vec{j}_\text{t}}{2} \label{eq:thermalLoss}
\end{align}
and, therefore, the radiation efficiency of an isolated antenna can be expressed in terms of its self-impedance and loss impedance as
\begin{align}
    e_r = \frac{\Re{z_0}}{\Re{z_0}+r_\text{l}}. \label{eq:radEffSingle}
\end{align}

\subsection{Antenna modelling and inter-element coupling}
\label{sec:EM}

All the results in the previous subsection are in terms of the impedance matrices of the system. The entries of these matrices depends on the specific physical realisation of the antennas, their distance, and their orientation. As stated before, in this work the antennas are modelled as small dipoles carrying uniform currents. To derive the coupling between them (i.e., the impedance matrix elements), a single radiating antenna positioned at the origin is modelled as a source field $\mat{J}$. The radiated electrical field is then given in terms of the Green's tensor function \cite[Eq. (3-65)]{harrington_time-harmonic_2001} as
\begin{align}
    \mat{E}(\vec{r})&=\iiint_V \mat{G}(\vec{r}-\vec{r}') \mat{J}(\vec{r'}) \dif \vec{r'}, \label{eq:Eint}\\
    \mat{G}(\vec{r}) &= -i\frac{\eta}{2\lambda}\left(\mat{I}_3 + \frac{1}{k^2} \nabla\nabla^T\right) \frac{\e{-i k r}}{r}, \label{eq:Gtensor}
\end{align}
where $\eta$ is the free space impedance, $\lambda$ is the wavelength, $k = 2\pi/\lambda$ denotes the wavenumber, $\vec{r} = \begin{bmatrix} x & y & z\end{bmatrix}^T$ is a distance vector defined by its cartesian coordinates with norm $r = \|\vec{r}\|_2$, and $\nabla = \begin{bmatrix}\pdv{x} & \pdv{y} & \pdv{z}\end{bmatrix}^T$ is the gradient operator.
Since each antenna is a line source of length $l$ carrying a uniform current $j$ along the $z$-direction, the radiated field expression reduces to
\begin{align}
    \mat{E}(\vec{r})&=\int_{-\frac{l}{2}}^{\frac{l}{2}} \mat{G}\left(\vec{r}- \begin{bmatrix}0&0&z'\end{bmatrix}^T\right) \begin{bmatrix}0&0&j\end{bmatrix}^T \dif z',\label{eq:fieldintegral}
\end{align}
which, by assuming the length of the dipole is short, is approximated as
\begin{align}
    \mat{E}(\vec{r}) \approx \mat{G}\left(\vec{r}\right) \begin{bmatrix}0&0&j l\end{bmatrix}^T. \label{eq:eFieldSum}
\end{align}

At a receiver, the voltage across the receiving antenna is given by integration along the line segment of the receiver as
\begin{align}
    v(\vec{r}) =
    -\int_{\frac{-l}{2}}^{\frac{l}{2}} \begin{bmatrix}0&0&1\end{bmatrix} \mat{E}(\vec{r}) \dif z, \label{eq:indVoltage}
\end{align}
which, assuming again a short dipole, can be approximated as
\begin{align}
     v\left(\vec{r}\right) \approx - \begin{bmatrix}0&0&l\end{bmatrix} \mat{G}\left(\vec{r}\right) \begin{bmatrix}0&0&j l\end{bmatrix}^T. \label{eq:indVoltage2}
\end{align}

Finally, dividing \eqref{eq:indVoltage2} by the source current yields the mutual impedance between two antennas separated by the distance vector $\vec{r}$ as
\begin{align}
    z(\vec{r}) =i\frac{l^2\eta \e{-ikr}}{2\lambda r} \left( 1 - \frac{z^2}{r^2} - \frac{i}{k r} - \frac{1}{k^2 r^2} + \frac{i 3 z^2}{k r^3}  + \frac{3 z^2}{k^2 r^4} \right). \label{eq:impfunction
\end{align}

In our proposal, all the \ac{UE} and \ac{LIS} antennas are modelled as small dipoles and, hence, the entries of the impedance matrix $\mat{z}$ in  \eqref{eq:system} are given by \eqref{eq:impfunction}. Similarly, introducing \eqref{eq:impfunction} in \eqref{eq:powerRecieved}, we obtain the received power by an arbitrary user.

A consequence of the infinitesimal antenna model is that the imaginary part of the antenna's self-impedance diverges to $\pm\infty$ depending on the direction of approach. This means that it is practically impossible to perform an impedance matching for an infinitesimal dipole. However, the model can be seen as a discretization of a physical system which could potentially be realised. As such, the model serves to represent an arbitrary design that is theoretically possible while being independent of practical implementation  limitations. For instance, the same technique is observed in \cite{mikki_theory_2007}, where  common antenna designs are split into sets of infinitesimal dipoles while successfully capturing the narrow-band radiation characteristics of the original design.

As shown in \eqref{eq:powerRecieved} and \eqref{eq:powerTransmitted}, the system performance is dominated by the real part of the impedance, whose maximum value is obtained as $\vec{r}\rightarrow\vec{0}$ (corresponding to the value of $z_0$), i.e.,
\begin{align}
    \Re{z_0} = \lim_{\vec{r} \to \vec{0}} \left(  \Re{z\left(\vec{r}\right)}  \right) = \frac{k l^2 \eta}{3 \lambda}. \label{eq:radResistance}
\end{align}
Without any loss of generality, the length of the short dipoles is chosen as to normalize the radiation resistance, and thus $l = \sqrt{\frac{3\lambda}{k \eta}} \approx 0.036 \lambda$.

\subsection{\ac{MF} transmitter}

For the matched filter, we follow the objective of \cite{Joham2005} in maximizing the correlation between the received and transmitted symbol. The diagonal receive filter $\mat{A}$ is set to the identity matrix $\mat{I}_m$ as it does not affect the correlation. The optimization problem is then formulated as
\begin{maxi}[2]
{\mat{B}}{\text{E}\left[ \vec{x}^H \widehat{\vec{x}} \right] = \Tr{\mat{H}\mat{B}}}{\label{eq:MF}}{}
\addConstraint{\Tr{\mat{B}^H \mat{R}_\text{P} \,\mat{B}}} {\leq P_R}
\addConstraint{r_\text{l} \Tr{\mat{B}^H \,\mat{B}}} {\leq P_L},
\end{maxi}
where $P_R$ and $P_L$ are the maximum allowed radiated power and ohmic losses, respectively.
\iffalse Setting the derivative of the Lagrangian function to zero yields
\begin{align}
    \mat{H}^H \mat{H} \,\mat{B} = 2\left( \lambda_1 \mat{R}_\text{P} + \lambda_2 r_l\right) \mat{B}
\end{align}\fi
The \ac{KKT} conditions are given as
\begin{align}
    \mat{B} &= \left(2\mu_1 \mat{R}_\text{P} + 2\mu_2 r_\text{l} \mat{i}_N\right)^{-1}\mat{H}^H, \label{eq:lagrangianDerivative}\\
    P_R&=\Tr{\mat{B}^H \mat{R}_\text{P} \mat{B}}, \label{eq:MFKKT2}\\
    P_L&= r_\text{l}\Tr{\mat{B}^H \mat{B}}, \label{eq:MFKKT3}
\end{align}
where \eqref{eq:lagrangianDerivative} is obtained by setting the derivative of the Lagrangian function with respect to $\mat{b}$ to zero and isolating for $\mat{B}$, and $\mu_1>0$ and $\mu_2>0$ are the Lagrangian multipliers. The three possible solutions are given as follows. The first two options where either $\mu_1 = 0$ or $\mu_2 = 0$ yield the thermal loss constrained and radiated power constrained solutions as
\begin{align}
\evalat*{\mat{B}_\text{MF}}{\mu_1=0}&=\mat{H}^H \sqrt{\frac{P_L}{\Tr{\mat{h}\,\mat{h}^H r_\text{l}}}}, \label{eq:MFLossConstrained}\\
\evalat*{\mat{B}_\text{MF}}{\mu_2=0}&=\mat{R}_\text{P}^{-1}\mat{H}^H \sqrt{\frac{P_R}{\Tr{\mat{h}\,\mat{R}_\text{P}^{-1}\mat{h}^H}}}. \label{eq:MFRadConstrained}
\end{align}

To the best of authors' knowledge, if both $\mu_1 \neq0$ and $\mu_2 \neq 0$, a closed form solution cannot be obtained. Instead, we propose an algorithm which rapidly converges to a solution within a specified precision. To this end, a variable $\alpha = \frac{\mu_2}{\mu_1}$ is defined and inserted into \eqref{eq:lagrangianDerivative}, leading to
\begin{align}
    \evalat*{\mat{B}_\text{MF}}{\mu_1, \mu_2 \neq 0} &= \left(\mat{R}_\text{P} +\alpha r_\text{l} \mat{i}_N\right)^{-1} \mat{H}^H\frac{1}{2\mu_1}. \label{eq:MFalpha}
\end{align}

Using \eqref{eq:MFalpha}, \eqref{eq:MFKKT2} and \eqref{eq:MFKKT3} are rewritten as
\begin{align}
    4 P_R \mu_1^2&=\Tr{\mat{H}\left(\mat{R}_\text{P} +\alpha r_\text{l} \mat{i}_N\right)^{-1} \mat{R}_\text{P} \left(\mat{R}_\text{P} +\alpha r_\text{l} \mat{i}_N\right)^{-1} \mat{H}^H}, \label{eq:MF4}\\
    4 P_L \mu_1^2&= r_\text{l}\Tr{\mat{H}\left(\mat{R}_\text{P} +\alpha r_\text{l} \mat{i}_N\right)^{-2} \mat{H}^H}. \label{eq:MF5}
\end{align}
The optimal value of $\alpha$ is obtained by dividing \eqref{eq:MF4} and \eqref{eq:MF5},
\begin{align}
    \frac{P_L}{P_R} = \frac{r_\text{l}\Tr{\mat{H}\left(\mat{R}_\text{P} +\alpha r_\text{l} \mat{i}_N\right)^{-1} \left(\mat{R}_\text{P} +\alpha r_\text{l}\mat{i}_N\right)^{-1} \mat{H}^H}}{\Tr{\mat{H}\left(\mat{R}_\text{P} +\alpha r_\text{l} \mat{i}_N\right)^{-1} \mat{R}_\text{P} \left(\mat{R}_\text{P} +\alpha r_\text{l} \mat{i}_N\right)^{-1} \mat{H}^H}} \label{eq:MF6}
\end{align}
and solving numerically. As the right hand side of \eqref{eq:MF6} is a monotonically decreasing function in the variable $\alpha$, it is easily solved using numerical methods. Once $\alpha$ is obtained, $\mu_1$ can be determined from either \eqref{eq:MF4} or \eqref{eq:MF5}. Finally, the \ac{MF} beamforming matrix is calculated as in \eqref{eq:MFalpha}.

\subsection{\ac{WMMSE} transmitter}

The \ac{MMSE} transmitter was derived for a single quadratic constraint in \cite{Joham2005}. Later, the authors in \cite{christensen_weighted_2008} showed that maximizing the weighted sum rate is equivalent, from an optimization point of view, to the \ac{WMMSE} problem when the weights are chosen in an optimal way. They also proposed an iterative algorithm for jointly optimizing the \ac{MMSE} beamforming matrix and receive weights. We here follow a procedure similar to that in \cite{christensen_weighted_2008} to derive the \ac{WMMSE}, but including both constraints (radiated power and ohmic losses), as done in the \ac{MF} transmitter,  and introducing some elements from \cite{Joham2005}. Hence, the \ac{WMMSE} optimization problem is formulated as
\begin{mini}[2]
{\mat{A}, \mat{B}, \mat{W}, \beta}{\text{E}\left[ \left\Vert \mat{w}^{\frac{1}{2}} \left(\vec{x} - \frac{1}{\beta} \widehat{\vec{x}}\right)\right\Vert_2^2\right],}{\label{eq:MMSE}}{}
\addConstraint{\Tr{\mat{B}^H \mat{R}_\text{P} \,\mat{B}}} {\leq P_R}
\addConstraint{r_\text{l} \Tr{\mat{B}^H \,\mat{B}}} {\leq P_L},
\end{mini}
where $\mat{W}\in\mathbb{R}^{M\times M}$ is a diagonal weighting matrix, and $\beta$ is a positive constant. As in  \cite{Joham2005}, $\beta$ is used to enforce the powers constraints. To that end, we set the derivative of the Lagrangian function w.r.t. $\mat{B}$ to zero, obtaining
\begin{equation}
     \mat{B} = \beta\underbrace{\left( \mat{H}^H \mat{A}^H \mat{W} \mat{A} \mat{H} + \alpha_1 \mat{R}_\text{P} + \alpha_2 r_\text{l} \mat{I}_N   \right)^{-1} \mat{H}^H \mat{A}^H \mat{W}^H}_{\makebox[0pt]{\text{$\widetilde{\mat{B}}$}}}, \label{eq:optiB}
\end{equation}
with $\alpha_{1,2} = \beta^2\mu{1,2}$, where $\mu{1,2}$ are the Lagrange multipliers for both constraints in \eqref{eq:MMSE}. Then, introducing \eqref{eq:optiB} in the power constraints equations yields
\begin{align}
\beta_L = \sqrt{\frac{P_L}{\Tr{r_\text{l}\widetilde{\mat{B}}^H \widetilde{\mat{B}}}}}  ~~\text{and}~~  \beta_{R} = \sqrt{\frac{P_R}{\Tr{\widetilde{\mat{B}}^H \mat{R}_\text{P} \widetilde{\mat{B}}}}},
\end{align}
and the value of $\beta$ is chosen so that both constraints are satisfied, i.e., $\beta = \min\{\beta_L,\beta_R\}$.

Regarding the values of $\alpha_1$ and $\alpha_2$, the corresponding value for a single power constraint is calculated in  \cite{Joham2005} as $\alpha = \sigma_n^2 \Tr{\mat{A}^H \mat{W} \mat{A}}/P$, where $P$ is the power constraint. Based on this result, we propose an heuristic solution given by
\begin{align}
    \alpha_1 = \frac{\sigma_n^2 \Tr{\mat{A}^H \mat{W} \mat{A}}}{P_R}  ~~\text{and}~~  \alpha_2 = \frac{\sigma_n^2 \Tr{\mat{A}^H \mat{W} \mat{A}}}{P_L}. \label{eq:alphas}
\end{align}
Finally, conditioned on $\mat{B}$, the elements of the diagonal matrices $\mat{A}$ and $\mat{W}$, namely $a_m$ and $w_m$ for $m=1,\dots,M$, are obtained as \cite[eqs. (7) and (38)]{christensen_weighted_2008}
\begin{align}
    a_m &=\vec{B}_{m}^H\vec{H}_{m} \left( \vec{h}_{m}^H\vec{b}_{m}\vec{b}_{m}^H\vec{h}_{m} + r_m \right)^{-1},\label{eq:Adiagonal} \\
    w_m &= 1 +  \vec{b}_{m}^H\vec{h}_{m} r_m^{-1} \vec{h}_{m}^H \vec{b}_{m}, \label{eq:weights}
\end{align}
with
\begin{equation}
    r_m = 1 + \sum_{i=1, i\neq m}^M\left( \vec{H}_{m}^H \vec{B}_{i} \vec{B}_{i}^H \vec{H}_{m} \right). \label{eq:rcovariance}
\end{equation}

With all the variables involved in \eqref{eq:MMSE} defined, the proposed iterative procedure to compute the \ac{WMMSE} transmitter is summarized in Algorithm \ref{alg:WMMSE}.
\RestyleAlgo{ruled}
\begin{algorithm}
  \kwInit{$\mat{a}^0 = \mat{w}^0 = \mat{I}_M$, $n=0$}
   \Repeat{convergence}{
   I. Calculate $\mat{B}^n$ from \eqref{eq:optiB}-\eqref{eq:alphas}\\
   II. Update diagonal elements of $\mat{A}^{n+1}$ using \eqref{eq:Adiagonal} and \eqref{eq:rcovariance}\\
   III. Update diagonal elements of $\mat{W}^{n+1}$ using \eqref{eq:weights}\\
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Q: How do I incorporate friction and mass when analyzing spring motion? Problem 12 of section B of this PDF file reads

Two springs with spring constant k1 and k2 are attached to a body of mass (m) in two different
  configurations in 2 cases (A and B) as shown.

The mass rests on a surface with coefficient of
  friction between the mass and surface as $K$.
  The mass is moved to the right, parallel to the axis of the springs by a distance $d$ (from natural
  lengths of the springs) and is released. The time taken till the body comes to rest in case A is:

The given answer is equal to B but I get it to be less than B.
$$T= 2\pi \sqrt{\frac{m}{k}} $$
But I'm not sure how to incorporate effect of friction and mass.
In case of A, there is a $$ frictional force F = Kmg $$
But how do I relate this to T ?
I referred the pdf link above. I was trying to solve the question. The answer is
$$ T_{a} = T_{b} $$
An alernate way that I just figured is given below. Please clarify -
$For A $ ,$$ -k_{1}d - k_{2}d - Kmg = m\omega_{a} ^2 x $$ $For B$,
$$ -k_{1}d - k_{2}d - Kmg = m\omega _{b}^2 x $$
$$ \omega_{a} = \omega_{b} $$
$$ T=\frac{2Pi}{\omega} $$
$$ T_a=T_b $$
I am not a physics student. So I wanted to understand this conceptually and get the answer from the relevant equations. Also is my approach to the problem correct ?

A: You actually do not need to solve the equation at all in order to determine that, whatever the answer, it must be the same for A and B.
The only difference between A and B is the direction of k1.  However if you look at $F=-kx$ is always a restoring force whose magnitude is proportional to the magnitude of the displacement from equilibrium.  So the mass always experiences a restoring force of the same magnitude regardless of whether k1 is being compressed or stretched.
So in both cases the forces are the same and therefore the time must be the same also.

A: Since both springs are connected effectively in parallel, the both cases will have a same equation of motion. The equation of motion: $ma = F$
$$ \tag{1}
 m \frac{d^2x}{dt^2} = -2kx - f_d.
$$
The variable $x$ is the displacement for the oscillator displacement from its equilibrium position, $m$ the mass, $f_d$ is the dragging or frictional force. It is not easy to model a constant static frictional force, because it is oscillation motion, the displacement $x$ changes sign regularly. It is more convinient to model a dragging force propotional to velocity, $f_d = - b v$, the velocity will take care the sign of the force. Therefore, lets adopt this dragging force model:
$$ \tag{2}
m \frac{d^2x}{dt^2} = -2kx -b v;
$$
where $b$ is the damping coefficient. Write Eq. (2) in standard form of a second order differential equation:
$$ \tag{3}
m \frac{d^2x}{dt^2} + b \frac{dx}{dt} + 2kx= 0;
$$
Scale the equation by mass $m$, and define $\omega_0 = \sqrt{\frac{2k}{m}}$
, $\gamma = \frac{b}{2m}$. We then write the equation as:
$$ \tag{4}
\frac{d^2x}{dt^2} + 2\gamma \frac{dx}{dt} + \omega_0^2 x = 0;
$$
Assume that $\gamma \lt \omega_0$ (the underdamping regime). The solution for Eq. (4):
$$
  x(t) = e^{-\gamma t} \left\{ A \cos (\omega t) + B \sin(\omega t) \right\}.
$$
Where $\omega = \sqrt{\omega_0^2 - \gamma^2}$, A and B are two constnats to be determined by the initial condition: $x(0)$ and $v(0)$, the initial displacement and initial velocity.

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Q: How to transfer audio files directly from Android device to iPhone 5s I have some audio recordings on an Android device that I wish to transfer to my iPhone 5s. I don't get a solution using iTunes.
I have to say that there are a ton of files and i don't want to have copies in the iTunes.

A: There are various ways this can be accomplished. A simple solution would be use a online file sharing service such as Dropbox, Google Drive, Box etc. Simply install the chosen app on your Android device and backup files using chosen service.
This should be straightforward as Android allows file system access in general and there are various 3rd party apps which will allow you to browse the device filesystem.
Once the files are synced (uploaded to the cloud services's server), simply install the iOS counterpart of the same app and access the files. You will not automatically get access to the audio files in your iOS device. However, depending on the container format of the audio files, you may be able to playback them in the cloud service app itself (Dropbox, Google Drive, Box etc.).
However, the most likely case is that you indeed wish to playback the audio files on your iOS device. In that case, it would be advisable to install VLC for Mobile app for iOS and copy over the files using file sharing feature build into iTunes for desktop.
For the aforementioned, you'll need access to a desktop computer. Simply connect your Android device to the computer and copy over the audio files to your computer. Now install iTunes desktop app and connect your iOS device. Make sure you have already installed VLC for Mobile app for iOS. Now select your device within iTunes, select file sharing in the sidebar, click on VLC and drag & drop to copy over the audio files.
This will effectively copy the files into your iOS device. However, the files will be accessible only within VLC for Mobile app. However, it's highly likely that you'll be able to playback them as VLC for Mobile app supports a vast variety of formats.


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Le manuscrit, Cotton Nero A.x, se trouve à la British Library. Il a été publié pour la première fois en 1864 par la Early English Text Society.
The medieval poem "Pearl" was written by someone whose identity we do not know, and is set mostly within a dream. Neither of these facts is unusual in medieval poetry. Authorship is often unclear for works from that period, and dreams were popular as literary devices: then, as now, dreams allow poets to illustrate ideas that might otherwise be inexpressible. The "Pearl" poet used the technique to account for an experience that still seems impossible to describe—the loss of a child.
"Pearl" was written, of course, for a specific audience, and some of its symbols and techniques have become, for contemporary readers, barriers to understanding. The poet relies, for instance, on his readers' detailed familiarity—and presumed sympathy—with the New Testament. The central image of the poem is taken from the Book of Matthew, in which Jesus says that "the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it." The poet's descriptions of the New Jerusalem, where his pearl lives after her earthly death, draw on the Book of Revelation. At one point, the girl delivers a long excursus on the parable of the vineyard, also from the Book of Matthew, in which all the laborers in a vineyard are paid the same amount of money, no matter what time of day they show up, as a way of explaining why a girl of two holds equal status in the New Jerusalem as the longest-lived nun. It's an odd message for a modern reader, who is not likely to doubt the inherent worth of a two-year-old child.
And yet there is something about the very strangeness of the poem that magnifies its emotional power. When we look at a Byzantine mosaic, for instance, we may not grasp the precise meaning of its images without scholarly help—but that remoteness lends such artworks the marvellousness of something just beyond our understanding. In his new translation of "Pearl," Simon Armitage, who is currently the Oxford Professor of Poetry, conveys that feeling of the almost-but-not-quite comprehensible, the feeling that can make medieval art at once eerie and wonderful.
Armitage previously translated "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," one of the three other poems contained in a document known as the Pearl Manuscript. (Its precise shelf mark—the bibliographic index that scholars use to cite rare papers—is London, British Library, MS Cotton Nero A.x., which originally meant that you could find it, in Sir Robert Cotton's library, by locating the bookshelf under the bust of Nero, then scanning for the tenth book on the top shelf.) Armitage has also translated "The Death of King Arthur" (another medieval work) and Homer, and he has adapted Euripides for the stage. But he is a decidedly modern poet—one of his first books is called "Zoom!"—albeit one who is known for his accessibility and his respect for the performative aspect of poetry. He also has a child, a daughter. While the dreamer of "Pearl" never says that the pearl is his daughter, he does explain that "Ho watz me nerre then aunte or nece," meaning that she was closer to him than an aunt or a niece. Something about this connection, perhaps, has pulled Armitage toward the emotional heart of the poem.
In paradys erde, of stryf unstrayed.
at peace in the land of Paradise.
There are more obvious modern cognates to the Middle English that Armitage could have chosen. "Pensyf" relates to the modern word "pensive," etymologically, but semantically it doesn't quite fit. Similarly, Armitage doesn't force three "L" sounds into that second line, the way that it occurs in the original. Instead, the vowels in "lightened" and "strife" chime.
Armitage manages to communicate that "feeling of the real" from across the gulf of centuries. The saddest part of the whole sad poem, for me, is when the dreamer has just caught sight of the girl. He can see "A mayden of menske ful debonere; / Blysnande whyt watz hyr bleant— / I knew hyr well, I hade sen her ere." Armitage picks out that moment of recognition with heartbreaking care, as his dreamer spies "a noble girl, a young woman of grace, / wearing a gown of iridescent white. / And I knew her so well—I had seen her before." First she's a girl; then she's a young woman in a dress; and then the dreamer realizes, with the full knowledge of emotion, not logic, that he "knew hyr well"—even before he can remember where he knows her from.
On the chance that "true sorrow and anguish do lie behind the poem," Armitage offers his translation up "to the memory of the lost pearl, as a tribute to the poetic courage of her father, and as an act of condolence." There is nothing historically contingent about a parent's grief. The term "precious perle," after all, doesn't really say much about pearls; the pearl is just an object the poet finds on the way to describing preciousness.
Strange art of this kind can give voice to the inarticulable—and the difficulty of Middle English makes this paradox particularly clear. For most readers of this new "Pearl," "luf-longyng" will not mean anything at first. But, by the end of the poem, via Armitage's translation ("longing for her") and the unfolding of the allegory, that sad phrase—literally, love-longing—makes emotional sense. Across centuries, across languages, from dreams into waking life: the speech of the heart invites translation of many kinds.
On peut diviser le poème en trois parties : une introduction, un dialogue entre les deux principaux personnages, et une description de la Jérusalem céleste avec l'éveil du narrateur.
Le narrateur, effondré par la perte de sa Pearl, s'endort dans un « erber grene » (« jardin vert ») et commence à rêver. Dans son rêve, il est transporté dans un jardin d'un autre monde. Errant le long d'un cours d'eau, il devient convaincu que le paradis se trouve sur l'autre rive. En cherchant un moyen de le franchir, il aperçoit une jeune fille qu'il reconnaît comme étant sa Pearl. Elle le salue.
Lorsqu'il lui demande si elle est la Pearl qu'il a perdue elle lui répond qu'il n'a rien perdu, que sa Pearl n'est qu'une rose qui s'est naturellement fanée. Il veut traverser pour la rejoindre, mais elle dit que ce n'est pas si simple, qu'il doit se résigner à la volonté et à la pitié de Dieu. Il l'interroge sur son état. Elle lui apprend que l'Agneau a fait d'elle Sa reine.
Il se demande si elle a remplacé Marie comme reine des Cieux. Elle répond que tous sont des membres égaux du corps du Christ et récite la parabole des ouvriers de la onzième heure. Il proteste contre l'idée que Dieu récompense chaque homme à égalité, indifféremment à son dû apparent. Elle répond que Dieu donne le même don de la rédemption du Christ à tous.
Elle l'instruit sur divers aspects du péché, du repentir, de la grâce et de la rédemption. Elle porte la Perle de grand prix parce qu'elle a été lavée dans le sang de l'Agneau, et lui conseille de tout abandonner et d'acquérir cette perle.
Il s'interroge sur la Jérusalem céleste ; elle lui répond qu'il s'agit de la cité de Dieu. Il demande à s'y rendre ; elle dit que Dieu l'interdit, mais qu'il est autorisé à la voir par une dispense particulière. Ils remontent le cours d'eau, et il voit la cité sur le fleuve, décrite en paraphrasant l'Apocalypse, ainsi qu'une procession des bénis. Désespérant de traverser, il plonge dans le fleuve et se réveille dans l'« erber ». Il se résout alors à accomplir la volonté de Dieu.


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Splunk's New Edition Can Run Analytics on iPads
Chris Preimesberger
Machine-data collector and indexer Splunk, which owns one of the more original company names in IT, has launched a non-Adobe Flash version of its enterprise platform that can be used on mobile devices–specifically, the iOS-powered iPad.
Open-source Splunk Enterprise 4.3, available for download since Jan. 10, collects, indexes and harnesses the large amounts of machine data continuously generated by business Websites, applications, servers, networks and mobile devices. The software enables organizations to monitor, search, analyze, visualize and act on massive streams of real-time and historical machine data.
And now IT and business people alike can access all that big-data information on iPads.
New features include the non-Flash user interface; the ability to connect up to 10 times more concurrent users; the ability to access real-time and historical analysis in a single step; and an easier-to-use interface, with dashboards now editable by business users and executives. Users no longer have to edit XML to access dashboards, the company said.
Use-case example: Travel Website Expedia has more than 2,700 users of Splunk, and "being able to provide dashboards on iPads means we can get more data to more people when they want it," said Eddie Satterly, Expedia's senior director of architecture and engineering.
Splunk 4.3 community edition is available now as a free download. You can watch a video on Splunk 4.3 here.
https://www.eweek.com/author/cpreimesberger/
Chris J. Preimesberger is Editor Emeritus of eWEEK. In his 16 years and more than 5,000 articles at eWEEK, he distinguished himself in reporting and analysis of the business use of new-gen IT in a variety of sectors, including cloud computing, data center systems, storage, edge systems, security and others. In February 2017 and September 2018, Chris was named among the 250 most influential business journalists in the world (https://richtopia.com/inspirational-people/top-250-business-journalists/) by Richtopia, a UK research firm that used analytics to compile the ranking. He has won several national and regional awards for his work, including a 2011 Folio Award for a profile (https://www.eweek.com/cloud/marc-benioff-trend-seer-and-business-socialist/) of Salesforce founder/CEO Marc Benioff--the only time he has entered the competition. Previously, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. He has been a stringer for the Associated Press since 1983 and resides in Silicon Valley.


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Carriera

Corse in monoposto
Nel 2018 Andrade debutta in monoposto nella Formula 4 spagnola, gareggiando con il team Drivex School dal secondo round del campionato. La stagione risulta discreta, conclude dodicesimo in classifica piloti con 43 punti.

Il 2019 è un anno molto impegnativo, nel gennaio partecipa con licenza portoghese alla Formula 4 degli Emirati Arabi Uniti con il team Dragon Racing. Andrade riesce a conquistare sei podi e di chiudere quinto in classifica generale. Nel resto della stagione partecipa alla Euroformula Open con il team Drivex, finendo a punti solo nel ultima gara stagionale di Monza. A luglio partecipa anche al round di Spa-Francorchamps della Formula Renault Eurocup.

Il 2020 è l'ultimo anno per il pilota angolano in monoposto, prima di passare al endurance. Tra gennaio e febbraio partecipa alla Toyota Racing Series con il team M2 Competition, mentre ritorna nel Euroformula Open con il nuovo team CryptoTower Racing insieme al pilota cinese Ye Yifei. In entrambi i campionati non riesce a conquistare un podio, nella serie neozelandese chiude sedicesimo, mentre nella serie spagnola chiude quattordicesimo.

Endurance

2021
Andrade si unisce al team russo G-Drive Racing per cominciare la sua carriera nell'endurance. Esordisce nella serie Asian Le Mans insieme a Franco Colapinto e John Falb. La stagione lo vede rivendicare 3 podi in 4 gare e terminare il campionato al terzo posto. Nel resto del anno partecipa con John Falb, Pietro Fittipaldi e Gustavo Menezes alla European Le Mans Series. L'equipaggio conquista un solo podio in stagione, un terzo posto al Red Bull Ring e chiudono ottavi in classifica. Sempre con il team russo partecipa a due gare del WEC, tra cui la 24 ore di Le Mans, nella classe LMP2 come pilota ospite.

2022
Nel gennaio, Andrade corre per prima volta la 24 Ore di Daytona, partecipa alla corsa con il team Tower Motorsport e insieme a John Farano, Ferdinand von Habsburg e Louis Delétraz nella classe LMP2. L'equipaggio si qualifica ottavo e in gara nelle chiude terzo. Nel resto del Campionato IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar partecipa solo nelle gare valide per Endurance Cup. Ottiene il secondo posto nella 6 Ore di Watkins Glen ed vince la Petit Le Mans.

Nel resto del anno corra la sua prima stagione completa del WEC, gareggiando per il Team WRT insieme a Ferdinand Habsburg e Norman Nato. Dopo aver conquistato due podi di classe nella 6 Ore di Monza conquista la sua prima vittoria. L'equipaggio chiude quarto in classifica di classe.

Risultati

Riassunto della carriera

24 ore di Le Mans

European Le Mans Series
(legenda) (Le gare in grassetto indicano la pole position) (Le gare in corsivo indicano Gpv)

IMSA

Risultati nel WEC

* Stagione in corso.

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni


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An "Easter egg" is a hidden message or joke that software developers sneak into their projects.Google has hidden one in its new, high-end Chromebook laptop, the Pixel. One of Google's developer's spilled the beans about it to reviewers at Wired.
Open the Chromebook and tap out this code using Pixel's directional keys: up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right, then B, then A. That combination is actually a "famous" Easter Egg key called the called the "Konami Code." It comes from old-school video games, and was often used to hide extra, secret features in the game.
In the Chromebook's case, it's just a bit of fun. It sets off a light show performed by the device's strip of LED lights, several reviewers report. That might not be enough in itself to justify the Pixel's bigger price tag, but it's a fun all the same.