It is the most famous hike in South America, perhaps the world; it is said to be life changing. Making the four-day trek on the Inca Trail through the Sacred Valley to the spectacular lost city of Machu Picchu is said to be the perfect travel combination of the excitement of the journey and the joy of the destination. It is an experience that is both arduous and awe-inspiring.
In two weeks our flight will take us from Los Angeles to Lima, Peru and then on to Cusco, located near the Urubamba Valley where the snow capped Andes Mountains gives way to the lush Amazon jungle. It's also not far from Lake Titicaca, not that that's important, I just wanted to get the word 'Titicaca' into the conversation.
The 'us' on this trip include, of course my hiking buddy and good friend, Patrick 'Trail Boss' Michael, newbie Steven 'Yogi' Bernardy, a friend of Patrick's' since childhood and Steven's son, Graydon (No Nick Name Yet), a recent graduate of University of San Francisco, who is headed to Med School.
Ironically, we arrive in Peru on Columbus Day and since Columbus' explorations led to the subsequent colonization of the New World and specifically to nefarious Spanish Conquistador Francisco Pizzaro and his three barbaric brothers' conquering of the Incas, it is not a particularly joyous day in Peru. They celebrate Columbus Day in South America with the same enthusiasm the British celebrate the 4th of July in England.
Our first order of business upon arriving in Cusco, the ancient capital of the Inca Empire which sits at 11,000 feet in elevation, will be to 'acclimate' to the altitude; as our four-day hike will take us to nearly 14,000 feet. Below is a graphic that's been haunting me ever since I saw it . . .
Day 1 is about 7.5 miles of slightly up-hill hiking, that evening we will sleep in a tent and have no shower facilities.
Dreaded Day 2, as you can see by the graphic, has a lot of 'up' in the 5.5 miles we cover going over 'Dead Woman's Pass' (more on that later) – it is by far our toughest day. We will try to keep in mind that getting there is half the fun! We sleep in a tent that night and have showers, but there is no hot water. I suspect we all may be a bit 'gamey' after two days of no hot showers.
Day 3 is a little up and a lot of down, covering about 8.5 miles; our tent accommodations do have warm water showers after the hike – for a price.
Day 4 is only three fairly flat miles, but we'll be getting up between 4:00 – 5:00 a.m. so that we can see the sun rise over Machu Picchu. The remainder of Day 4 will be spent exploring the lost city with our guide. At the end of the day we will board a bus that will take us to the train station where we will head to the Sacred Valley. The Sacred Valley is a collection of small towns and archaeological sites that offers both a glimpse into daily Peruvian life as well as a full picture of the accomplishments and operation of the once-glorious Inca Empire.
After a night's stay there we will head back to Cusco and try to find all the things we left there before we embarked on our hike. We will spend the night and then leave for home the following morning.
It shouldn't surprise any of you to know that there are no cell towers, Wi-Fi or any other kind of connectivity along the Inca Trail, so this will be the last blog you'll get from me until I'm back in some form of civilization. I promise to take notes with a pencil and pad (if I still remember how to use them) at the end of each day and get them into the blog when time and connectivity allow.
I know that some of our readers have been to Machu Picchu, so please let me know if there is anything I should make sure to see or anything I should make sure to avoid. Thank you!
As I recently mentioned, my first job after college was as the advertising and marketing director for an upscale condominium development in Fair Oaks, California. Why they hired me, I'll never know. My only experience in either field consisted of placing a want ad to sell my 1965 Renault, a car that featured a push-button gear shift. It was so under-powered that Bob used to ask me whether I put it in "puree" or "blend" to climb up a hill. I suppose that my ability to craft an ad that actually resulted in its sale did take a certain amount of talent. And being part Irish gives me a significant leg up when it comes to shoveling out the blarney. I suspect, however, that they hired me because I was willing to work for peanuts. I learned a lot during my tenure at that job – newspaper ad positioning, how to write copy that lured in customers, how to drink coffee for 8 hours straight. But mostly, I learned about people.
My office was upstairs from the sales office and since they had the coffee pot I wandered down to sit with them quite often. Have I mentioned that my boss was 400 miles away? Anyway, there were three wizened sales people who were kind enough to take me under their wing and teach me a bit about real estate and what people look for when they're searching for a new home. I spent a lot of time listening to them transfix customers with their "spiel". I thought I had developed a sense for who was a "buyer" and who was a "tire kicker" until the day an older couple (probably younger than me now!) walked in to the office. They were both wearing overalls; he had a cowlick and she was devoid of make-up with a shock of unruly gray curls. They had literally just walked in "off the farm". I went back up to my office while the saleswoman took them out on tour. When she returned I said, "Boy, that must have been a waste of time; they couldn't possibly afford to buy in here." Which shows just how judgemental and stupid I was. They signed the papers that day for the biggest, most expensive unit we had, with magnificent views of the American River.
I have been thinking about that incident a lot lately – how I judged people by their outward appearance before I bothered to learn anything about them as individuals. It was a very good lesson to learn early in life and it helped me in my subsequent career as a Human Resources professional. Not that I don't judge people any more. I have plenty to say about the Kardashians without ever having met any of them and I'm pretty sure that my impressions are spot on. But it seems to me that we as a society are increasingly judging people using broad stereotypes. Black, white, Hispanic, cops, youth, Christians, gays, Democrats, Republicans…the list goes on and on. When did that happen? Or, more importantly, why? I'm not sure there is any one answer and certainly it would take someone above my pay grade (which is $0) to figure it out. If I had to guess I'd say it has something to do with the advent of 24 hour cable news and the internet, both of which derive income by staking out corners in the far reaches of an ideology and then catering to people who reside there. My experience tells me that the vast majority of Americans judge people as people, regardless of their race, creed, religion, sexual preference or whether they drink Chardonnay or Budweiser. But these days it seems my Facebook feed is bombarded with posts, or more accurately re-posts, of some half-truth that generalizes and paints an ugly picture of some group. As a rule of thumb, any group that has "Occupy" or "Tea Party" in its name is not going to provide a completely truthful analysis. I'm on Facebook less and less because of this problem and will be un-friending people who continue to "share" those posts. I don't even want to think about how much more vitriolic social media will become as we inch toward the 2016 election. And you'd best believe that the people who are running the campaigns will count on the masses to spread the half-truths to further their cause.
So I say we just STOP! Let's not be manipulated by people who have an agenda. Let's refrain from posting or forwarding information that is partisan or with an obvious bias. Let's not lump everyone into an amorphous group – let's think about people as the individuals that they are. Except when it comes to contractors. Given my recent experience with our bathroom remodel, they deserve every bad thing ever said about them.
How Long Can We Do This?
While Suzanne was enjoying the cooler environs of Nipomo and I was trying to sneak into Russia, this past August marked a small blog milestone – our 4-year anniversary. Those of you who have been with us for the entire ride may remember that our blog started in August 2011 – we certainly don't remember back that far! Initially it was a way to use social media to drive visitors to our ill-fated tribute poem writing business, Red Posey. The blog was then entitled Morning News in Verse and we would follow a USA Today newspaper format by writing four rhyming stanzas about topical news – one stanza each about Headlines, Business, Sports and Entertainment. Suzanne and I would alternate publishing a poem EVERYDAY! That everyday thing lasted for about two months, when we realized that it was occupying way too much of our life – like all of it; so we cut back to twice a week. Every once in a while we would deviate from the poetic format, as deviates are wont to do, and write prose about various subjects. An example of this occurred in September of 2011, the 10th anniversary of 9/11, when Suzanne wrote a moving piece entitled, Small Moments – A 9/11 Tribute, which received a large number of hits and many great comments – it is still to this day, probably the most visited blog in our archives. We eventually noticed that our number of blog hits and comments would increase when we scrapped the iambic pentameter and just wrote prose, not like pros, but prose nonetheless. While we immediately noticed the increase in interest when we scraped the poetry format, it took us until March of the next year to officially change our content and format to what it is currently. And since we weren't rhyming any more we changed our name – not to Morning News Without Verse, but to 'From A Bird's Eye View', a name borrowed from a newspaper column our mother wrote for the Novato Advance back when our dad was owner, editor and publisher of that paper in the 1940 and 50s.
We continued to post a blog twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays, until July 2012. Then, either sensing that we were running out of ideas or audience, or both, we switched to our current schedule of every Monday morning. Whether the deadline was everyday, twice a week or once a week, I am happy to report that we have not missed a scheduled posting since starting this back in August 2011; I guess that's due in part to our father's newspaper blood coursing through our veins, where missing a deadline just isn't an option.
Over these past four years we have published over 300 blogs, which have generated over 25,000 'views' and nearly 1,000 comments (A special thank you to those who comment and let us know that our words don't just fly off into cyber space). Our biggest day came last December when 388 people clicked on Suzanne's 'A TRIBUTE TO MY FIRST BEST FRIEND' about her friend Leslie Sherman. And if you Google 'From a Bird's Eye View blog', you will find about 530 results over 12 pages – we are fortunate enough to be found . . . on the first page!!!
I've been lucky enough to visit a lot of remarkable places and meet a number of interesting people; and I am thankful for staying awake in English class long enough to understand how to put a sentence together without dangling a modifier . . . most of the time. But the best part of all this is working with my sister, Suzanne. While our styles are a bit different, we enjoy reading and editing each other's posts prior to publishing (OK, she edits mine a whole lot more than I edit hers!), discussing subject matter, travel schedules and just plain catching up with each other on a much more regular basis than before we started writing together.
So as we try to avoid breaking our arms from patting ourselves on the back, we'd mostly like to thank you loyal 'bird watchers' for tuning in. As you know, we have written about everything from the ridiculous to the sublime (mostly me the ridiculous and Suzanne the sublime), so thank you for tolerating the expression of our thoughts, opinions and experiences.
How long can we do this? As long as you keep reading, we'll keep writing.


Thrush is a common bacterial infection of the frog of a horse's foot. The infection "eats away" at the tissues of the frog, sole and heel and if untreated will eventually result in loss of foot structure, increasing sensitivity, progressive lameness, and bleeding.
The causative agent is a common anaerobic bacterium that thrives in the low oxygen environment of the deep clefts surrounding the frog and heel areas. The microbes causing thrush are opportunistic and are commonly found in soil contaminated with moist organic material.
High humidity or wet environments predispose horses to thrush. Once the organisms begin dividing in the frog sulci, the stage is set for a progressive invasion and subsequent infection of the frog tissue.
Blocking oxygen flow to the tissue of the frog and surrounding areas creates an environment for thrush to develop. Oxygen can be blocked to the foot tissue from packed debris, foot pads, boots, or the application of grease and oils to the foot.
Strong astringents such as formaldehyde, copper sulfate, and chlorine are caustic to live tissue. These chemicals denature the proteins in the external layer of the tissues and thereby reduce the ability of oxygen to penetrate.
The exudate associated with thrush is usually black in color and characteristically has a highly unpleasant odor. Infection of the frog and surrounding tissues often leads to lameness.
4) Proper nutrition and supplementation can create denser and healthier frog and sole tissue that is more resistant to infection.
If the horse develops thrush, provide the horse with a clean and dry environment to stand. Clean the bottom of the foot and frog area by removing any debris and wash the area thoroughly. Do not utilize a thrush remedy that contains caustic chemicals such as turpentine, formaldehyde, copper sulfate, or chlorine. Hoof disinfectants containing tame iodine are ideal. "Sugardine" treatments utilizing sugar-betadine solutions packed into the frog sulci have been found to be effective in many cases. Surgical debridement of affected frog tissue is sometimes necessary.


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Clark, W.S. & Kirwan, G.M. (2019). White-fronted Falconet (Microhierax latifrons). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (retrieved from https://www.hbw.com/node/53209 on 25 April 2019).


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My alarm clock went off way too early. As I was shutting it off, I couldn't help thinking, "but I just fell asleep". Anyway, I got up and started to wake the kids up. This is usually a 30 minute ordeal.
I was really feeling for water, and luckily I had left a glass of it on my husband's dresser last night. I really got excited about this because I didn't have to fumble my way downstairs to get some right away. Once I drank it, I felt the difference. I felt more energized and awake. This helped me get downstairs to start the day.
I was pretty energetic as I made 4 grilled sandwiches, a turkey-egg salad sandwich, scrambled eggs, packed snacks and lunches. I was pretty proud of myself. Got the kids ready to go and already thinking about dinner, I told my husband I was going to make a trip to the grocery store to pick up a few things. I usually make 3 to 5 trips a week to the grocery store. I know...right?!
The husband is not doing well this morning and feels really dizzy and unbalanced. He drank his vinegar water and felt a little better. As I was going to drop the kids off, he was going to stay and changed his mind. I told him that it was a good idea to come with me as the fresh air would do him some good. Later, at the grocery store, he mentioned that the fresh air made a world of difference and he was feeling much better.
Once again, a quick trip to a store took a lot longer than expected. We got into a very rousing conversation with another shopper about cheese and it quickly turned to other topics including fasting. Like many people, she was quite surprised at our level of energy and that we were able to grocery shop without being tempted. It was an honest conversation, and I did not hold back in telling her that there are many times that you do want to quit, you feel awful and you question your sanity. She was quite intrigued and said that we had sparked a curiosity in her. We bid each other goodbye and carried on with our shopping.
Many people ask how I can grocery shop and cook dinners while fasting. To tell the truth, I am okay. I have clarity when I am in the grocery store. I don't give in to impulse purchases and dinners have been thought about, so I am exact with the ingredients I require and how I am going to prepare the dishes.
Spent the afternoon working and drinking tea. BTW, I've been urinating like a racehorse. This is a good thing, as it shows I am not dehydrated.
Picked up the kids from school. Dinner is all planned out and feeling relaxed. I have a little bit of energy, but nowhere near what I had yesterday late in the day.
Continued doing work until I prepared dinner. Towards the end of preparing dinner, I had to work quickly through it, as I could feel another wave of unwellness coming on. That feeling comes in waves. One minute you feel awesome and the next minute you feel awful. When I get that feeling, I get something to drink. It seems to ease the discomfort. Anyway, dinner for the kids was another hit. I know when dinner is a hit, because they compliment the meal and always ask for seconds.
The evening was spent doing work. Still working on our campaign and the ads that need to be submitted.
Later in the evening, I had a glass of fairly cold water. I was surprised to find that I enjoyed it (as I can't stand cold water) and it went down well. Will try to take my shower before bed and call it a night.
P.S. Did not end up taking that shower and just fell straight into bed.
Day 11, here we come.
Thank you for reading and don't forget to share your fasting experience.


The global crop protection market consists of pesticides or agrochemicals, seeds, and genetically modified (GM) crops. The North America Pesticides Market is estimated to grow from $13,245.3 million in 2014 to $17,695.5 million by 2019, at a CAGR of 6.0% from 2014 to 2019.
Pesticides protect plants from attack by various pests. The control pests ensure better yield and a good harvest. Herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, are different types of commonly used pesticides.
Presently, pesticides are the only effective means to protect crops and plants from being contaminated or destroyed by pests. Although pesticides are used on almost all crops, certain crops which are more prone to pests or which are valuable in terms of revenue cannot be expected to be grown at a significant yield without pesticides. Rice, wheat, and corn, fruits and vegetables, sugarcane, and cotton are few such crops. The increased use of pesticides in region, for the protection of these crops is projected to result in the growth of the North American pesticides market.
Several companies such as Bayer CropScience Ltd. (Switzerland), Monsanto Company (U.S.), The Dow Chemical Company (U.S.), and Arysta LifeScience (U.S.) are investing in this market, in order to gain higher profits and increase their share in the North American pesticides market. These companies are adopting numerous market strategies including innovative product development, partnerships, mergers & acquisitions, and expansion of existing facilities.
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The global pesticides market, which is a part of the crop protection market, includes insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, and others. The pesticides market in North America has witnessed high growth in the recent years, due to factors such as the high cost of seeds, modern production practices, new product offerings, and the new species of pest. In addition, the ease of application and increased availability of pesticides are also projected to drive the North American pesticides market in the coming years.
The agrochemicals industry has been experiencing an increase in the number of patents and new product registrations, which is expected to drive the North American pesticides market. There are over 1,400 pesticide active ingredients that have been registered and about 1,055 active ingredients are in use across the globe.
The North American pesticides market is estimated to grow from $13,245.3 million in 2014 to $17,695.5 million by 2019, at a CAGR of 6.0% from 2014 to 2019. The cereals & grains segment of the market has high growth potential, and is projected to witness substantial growth in the near future. This segment contributed the largest market share of 38.0% to the North American pesticides market in 2014.
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Angelina Jolie criticises ex Brad Pitt in latest magazine interview
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Angelina Jolie, who is currently promoting her new Maleficent sequel, recently did a magazine shoot for Harper's Bazar in which she chose to attack her ex-husband Brad Pitt for not allowing her to move overseas with her children.
In the interview, Angelina Jolie was asked if she ever considered relocating overseas. She said she would love to live overseas but cannot take her children with her because the law requires that they remain in the country their father also chooses to live, which is currently the United States. When Jolie's children are 18, they would be free to live with her anywhere they please.
Jolie then went on to explain how she had a hard time in high school because of her alternative punk style and that she has lots of scars, both emotional and physical, from her life. She then proceeded to take another jab at her ex-husband in the magazine interview, saying that her children helped her through the pain of the divorce.
The widely publicised divorce of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt has been ongoing since 2016 when they shocked the world with their plans to split. Before that, they were affectionately referred to as 'Brangelina' a blending of both their names as they were touted as the latest Hollywood power couple that everyone loved to watch succeed.
It now seems that the divorce is finally reaching the end stages and that closure is on the horizon for Angelina. This is despite the brief period in 2017 when it was speculated that the couple would get back together after going through 'spiritual counselling'.
It is now revealed that the terms of the divorce have been more or less agreed upon and the final paperwork is weeks away from being submitted.
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How NYC prepared for HOPE count — Should yellow cabs have surge pricing? — Cuomo PSC power play
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It's been a long week — heck, it's been a long month. And none of the skirmishes that emerged in January — bail reform, budget battles and legislative unions — are even close to peak chaos.
At least we can take a short respite in junk food, our raucous friends and dueling political spots from New York billionaires during the oddity of a Patriots-free Super Bowl this Sunday.
No, actually you can't, says New York's Department of State, which Thursday blasted out a press release using the upcoming game to warn New Yorkers their TVs could fall over and kill them.
At least 400 kids have died since 2000 for furniture "tip-overs," so if you weren't stressed enough about your party, you should also inspect your home, anchor your furniture, ditch your homemade shelving and keep your eyes, not on the game, but on your and others' children at all times. This is the "best way to ensure your home is prepared for a safe, fun evening," said Secretary of State Rossana Rosado.
Great tips (you should probably do these), but wow, the DOS's Division of Consumer Protection certainly knows how to set a mood. In New York at least, we will never truly relax.
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WHERE'S ANDREW? In Albany with no announced public schedule.
WHERE'S BlLL? One WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show in the morning.
QUOTE OF THE DAY "Yes I will, number one. And number two, I won't have a security detail. If the city's safe, the mayor shouldn't have a security detail with him. He should be walking the street by himself." — Brooklyn Borough President and former cop Eric Adams when asked if he'd carry a firearm as mayor.
WHAT CITY HALL'S READING
"EARLIER THIS MONTH, 11 days before thousands of volunteers would fan out across New York City to count people sleeping on the city's streets, subways, parks and other public places, a senior de Blasio administration official sent out a time-sensitive request. Marian Moorer, associate commissioner at the Department of Social Services, asked non-profit agencies if they could find more rooms where homeless people could be placed ahead of the January 27th event. The Homeless Outreach Population Estimate, or the HOPE count, as it is known, is a federal requirement that has been conducted annually in New York since 2005. Changes in the tally are taken as a measure of how successfully the city is helping some of the most vulnerable populations—the homeless who reject traditional shelters and often struggle with mental health issues and substance use.
"In advance of HOPE we would like for your teams to bring on additional stabilization capacity," Moorer wrote in a January 16th email obtained by WNYC/Gothamist. The associate commissioner requested that providers respond within four hours with the number of beds they would be able to add, at which locations, and how much they would cost the city.
"They do this mad rush for beds at the last minute to skew the count," said one outreach provider, who didn't have authorization to speak publicly. "It's a way to game the count." Another provider said the request was a common practice used ahead of HOPE counts, including during the Bloomberg administration." WNYC's Mirela Iverac
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"NEW YORK STATE should provide more money for rental vouchers to help house the 80,000 homeless people in New York City, lawmakers said Thursday. New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson and City Councilman Stephen Levin, both Democrats, made nearly 90 recommendations to prevent homelessness and increase access to long-term housing. The most significant recommendation calls on the state to increase the amount of money for rental vouchers. The vouchers now provide a maximum of $1,580 a month for a two-bedroom home. The council's plan calls for the amount to be increased to $1,951, which is the market rate in the city." Wall Street Journal's Katie Honan
"NEW YORK CITY should consider allowing yellow cabs to use some of the same strategies as the ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft, including so-called surge pricing when demand is high, a government panel is set to recommend. If the idea is implemented, New York could become one of the first cities in the United States to allow cabs to raise prices at certain times. It would be a significant change in a city where regular riders can typically predict how much a taxi trip will cost. The recommendation will be unveiled on Friday as part of a broader plan to rescue the city's taxi industry from financial crisis, according to a draft obtained by The New York Times. The biggest element of the plan will be a proposal to create a public-private fund worth as much as $600 million to bail out thousands of drivers who became trapped in exploitative loans while buying medallions, the city-issued permits that let them own their cabs." New York Times' Brian M. Rosenthal
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GOV. ANDREW CUOMO is once again looking to expand his authority over the state's utility companies. After several high-profile tussles with utilities last year over outages and gas supplies, Cuomo slipped language into his budget proposal that would give the Department of Public Service — the staff arm of the statutorily independent Public Service Commission that Cuomo effectively controls — sweeping investigative, punitive and negotiating authority when electric, gas, cable or water companies step out of line. Cuomo's proposal shifts authority away from the Public Service Commission and to the Department of Public Service staff, allowing the agency to move more quickly to probe utility actions, threaten penalties and negotiate settlements without first getting commission approval.
Under state law, the PSC is set up to be independent of the executive and serves the formerly legislative function of rate-setting. But as POLITICO has documented, Cuomo controls its agenda. He selects the chair of the commission, who also leads the department, from its members. By shifting more authority to the department, which is more fully under his control, Cuomo is continuing to consolidate his power over utility regulation in the state. POLITICO's Marie J. French
"ALL THE STUDENTS at Paideia School 24 know Bryan Boyd. His popularity at the Yonkers elementary school is a testament to his longevity; He's taught there for 20 years. But he also has something in common with many of his students that sets him apart from most of his colleagues: His race. Boyd, who is black, was one of seven teachers of color at the elementary school last year, according to state data. Of those, he was the only male. Those teachers made up a quarter of the 28 total who work there, a much lesser share than the three quarters of Yonkers students who are black or Hispanic. 'Everybody knows me from pre-K to sixth grade just based on who I am,' Boyd said. 'I'm honored, I guess, in some ways that they do know who I am. I think I'm respected by the students and the parents and staff.' In public schools across New York, the number of minority students is on the rise, long ago surpassing half the total student population and fueled by major urban districts where as many as nine out of 10 students are not white." USA Today Network's Jon Campbell
WHY THEY'RE LEAVING NEW YORK: "A bipartisan pair of state lawmakers on Thursday announced a plan to examine why people are moving out of New York. Republican Sen. Jim Tedisco and Democratic Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara, in a statement, pointed to the most recent Census figures that showed New York's population dropped by 76,790 residents in the previous year. The lawmakers plan to launch an online questionnaire and then hold a series of roundtable discussions to address the issue and meet with various sectors of the state's economy. 'The elephant in the room that our state government's not talking about is why New York State is number one for highest population loss in the nation? "I love New York!" is New York's slogan….' Tedisco said." Spectrum's Nick Reisman
OFF THE MARKET: The listing for Lily Pond, the Mount Kisco home Cuomo shared with his ex, Sandra Lee, has expired.
MORE WOMEN ARE HOLDING POLITICAL OFFICE — But Not Everywhere: Five Thirty-Eight breaks down state electeds gender data. New York's legislature ranks 15th highest with 32.4 percent women. Nevada is the only state where women lawmakers are the (slight) majority.
#UpstateAmerica: A Buffalo-area CBD shop is making a CBD-infused wing sauce for the Super Bowl because of course they are.
TRUMP'S NEW YORK
ATTORNEY GENERAL TISH JAMES sued the Trump administration over a new rule requiring plans in state Obamacare exchanges to separately bill and collect payments of at least $1 for abortion services. James joined six other state attorneys general in filing the lawsuit against HHS Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma. The AGs contended that the rule issued last month is "incompatible with the [Affordable Care Act's] requirement of equitable access to health care and disproportionately affects states — like New York, California, Maine, Oregon, and Vermont — that are committed to ensuring access to comprehensive reproductive health care by requiring health plans to provide abortion coverage." POLITICO's Shannon Young
... 2020 VISION ...
"DEMOCRAT Adam Schleifer's campaign said he has $1 million on hand for his bid to replace longtime Rep. Nita Lowey, who is retiring this year. That's the most that has been announced by any of the candidates running in a crowded party primary for a reliably blue congressional district. 'Since our launch two months ago, we've received an outpouring of support from across the district,' Schleifer said in a statement. Schleifer, 38, of Chappaqua had more than $700,000 cash on hand as of the end of 2019 but has now exceeded the million mark, according to his campaign." Journal News Mark Lungariello
"ERIE COUNTY DEMOCRATS Thursday backed former Grand Island Supervisor Nate McMurray to run for the 27th Congressional District seat left vacant by the resignation of former Rep. Chris Collins." Buffalo News' Harold McNeil
AROUND NEW YORK
— Reports of "subway surfing" increased in 2019, and transit officials say it's probably a bigger and deadlier problem than number show.
— Four upstate and seven Native American casinos said their sports books expect standing-room only crowds on Super Bowl Sunday.
— A coalition of business groups are against legislation to reclassify workers in the so-called gig economy.
— A panel commissioned to fix part of the BQE officially recommended closing some of it to traffic, in a report the group released via The New York Times. Flashback to three weeks ago when POLITICO first reported the same thing.
— Just two of seven candidates running for Queens borough president qualified for city matching funds.
— COLUMN: Why is Tesla hiring 'hundreds' when its solar business is still sluggish?, Buffalo News' David Robinson asks.
— A report from a state bar association committee has backed the legalization of marijuana in New York, and the full bar association on Friday is due to consider it.
— Cuomo wants to increase funding for a program that offers grants for security measures taken by not-for-profit organizations and expand it to include places of worship.
SOCIAL DATA BY DANIEL LIPPMAN
HAPPY BIRTHDAY: CNN's Clarissa Ward is 4-0 … David Plotz is 5-0 … Dylan Byers of NBC News (hat tip: Ben Chang, filing from Paris) … former Rep. Gregory Carman (R-N.Y.) is 83 … Martha MacCallum, anchor of "The Story with Martha MacCallum" on Fox News … Michael Kempner, CEO of MWW, is 62 … Mike Rabinowitz, managing director at BerlinRosen … Christine Romans, co-anchor of CNN's "Early Start" … Katherine Miller of BuzzFeed … Tim Naftali ... Sarah Blackwill, senior producer for NBC's "Meet the Press" … Heather Riley … Treasury's Tricia McLaughlin … (was Thursday): Lizzie Grubman … Jared Isenstein (h/ts Jewish Insider) … former Rep. Floyd Flake (D-N.Y.) turned 75
MEDIAWATCH — Joe Goldstein is taking on a new Metro health care beat for the New York Times. He most recently has covered law enforcement for the paper.
— "Ex-Deadspin Writers Reunite for Super Bowl Blog Sponsored by a Tech Company," by The Daily Beast's Max Tani and Andrew Kirell: "The irreverent 'Unnamed Temporary Sports Blog Dot Com' is underwritten by a password-security company and features not-so-subtle digs at Deadspin's bosses."
— "The Atlantic made Rahm Emanuel a contributing editor. Then, suddenly, he wasn't," by WaPo's Erik Wemple
MAKING MOVES — Will Mitchelson will be starting at the Department of Treasury on Monday as director of scheduling and advance. He previously was the deputy director of advance for DHS. … Maria Comella is going to start the public affairs shop at CLEAR — "a new function that will lead the company's communications and government affairs efforts," she said in a note to friends and colleagues. She's a Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo alum. ...
… Sara Farnsworth will be COS for the corporate responsibility team at JP Morgan Chase, helping lead the firm's policy and philanthropy. She is moving back from San Diego, where she was most recently an executive for the San Diego Padres. She's also a Clinton and Obama alum. (h/t POLITICO Playbook)
SPOTTED — Per Morning Money: "Wednesday evening, hosted by Tim Geithner at Warburg Pincus HQ in mid-town Manhattan: Ben Bernanke, Tim Geithner and Hank Paulson with authors and research assistants on soon-to-be-released Yale Press book 'First Responders: Inside the US Strategy for Fighting the 2007-2009 Global Financial Crisis.'"
MUCH-AWAITED recommendations from a commission tasked with reforming the city's convoluted property tax system call for a dramatic restructuring of a process that's been widely criticized, but long avoided by politicians. The report — released Thursday after months of delay by the commission formed by Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Corey Johnson in 2018 — sheds some light on what changes may look like to a system that's been widely chastised as opaque and unfair for homeowners across the city. The proposed overhaul, which would yield groups of winners and losers, is likely to face political pushback. The re-shifting of the property tax burden would benefit many owners of modest homes who pay more than their fair share under the current system. Homeowners such as de Blasio — who owns two homes in Park Slope, with some of the lowest effective tax rates in the city — will see their property tax bills go up. POLITICO's Janaki Chadha
"THE WARNING from the New York City building inspector was blunt. The facade of the apartment building in the Bronx was crumbling and a corner was separating. The playground outside a day care center in the building had to close immediately. That was in 2001. Nineteen years later there is still a three-foot gap in the brick facade and the playground, for the center's 50 children between 2 and 4 years old, is still off limits. The building's owner has ignored at least 19 violations, failed to pay $49,000 in fines and has not shown up for seven hearings on the dangerous conditions. Yet the city has been unable to force the owner to make any repairs. Instead, a 150-foot stretch of scaffolding that envelops the front of the building was put up in 2011 to protect pedestrians — and remains there today." New York Times' Matthew Haag
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THE HOME TEAMS, BY HOWARD MEGDAL
The New York Red Bulls added right back Mandela Egbo. The English international will help solidify New York's defense.
Knicks point guard Elfrid Payton was suspended for shoving Jae Crowder of the Memphis Grizzlies Wednesday night. If Frank Ntilikina isn't healthy enough to play Saturday, you, yes you, might be the point guard for the Knicks against the Pacers.
The day ahead: The Nets welcome the Bulls. A pair of intra-state men's hoops games features Siena at Iona and Marist at Niagara.
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CAMBRIDGE, U.K.—Horizon Discovery Group plc and U.K. biotech Centauri Therapeutics Limited have come together to establish Avvinity Therapeutics, an immuno-oncology joint venture. The new joint venture unites Horizon's capabilities and experience in gene editing, immunology, oncology and drug discovery with Centauri's Alphamer technology in a proprietary platform geared toward discovering and developing novel immuno-oncology therapeutics for both solid tumors and leukemias.
The Alphamer technology is based on chemically synthesized molecules that redirect naturally occurring antibodies in the human immune system to target pathogens or cancer cells. One end of the molecule binds a cell-surface target on a pathogen or cancer cell using an aptamer, while the other end presents specific epitopes that attach to circulating antibodies, which leads to cell death and recruitment of T cell-mediated pathways to clear the pathogen or cancer cell from the body. These molecules can target cancers driven by both wild-type ("normal") gene overexpression and mutant ("abnormal") gene overexpression, and their short half-life in the body means reduced toxicity and side effects.
Per the terms of the agreement, Horizon will out-license certain background intellectual property related to its translational genomics and drug discovery platforms, in addition to investing up to £5.3 million (approximately $7.46 million) over two tranches—the first tranche of £2.5 million is already committed, and the second will be committed at the company's discretion, based on the progress of three development programs. For its part, Centauri will license background intellectual property and expertise related to its Alphamer technology to the joint venture, which will have exclusivity for the field of oncology for an initial three-year period that can be extended via the issue of further equity concurrently with the raising of new investment.
"By combining Horizon's deep understanding of the genetic basis of cancer alongside its gene editing, drug discovery and emerging immuno-oncology toolbox, with Centauri's unique Alphamer technology and knowledge of its use, we have created an exciting new company to spearhead Horizon's move into targeted therapeutic development," Dr. Darrin M. Disley, CEO and president Research Biotech of Horizon Discovery Group plc, said in a press release. "We are confident this joint venture will break new ground in the development of immunotherapies, and bring significant value creation to Horizon shareholders. "The establishment of Avvinity is in line with our hybrid Research Biotech strategy to not only work with partners but also take advantage of the therapeutic upside potential of the most exciting new areas of personalized and genomic medicine in a risk-managed way."
Centauri and Horizon will jointly manage Avvinity, and based on the investment of intellectual property, technology and the first tranche of funding, Horizon will own 33 percent of Avvinity's equity, representing 50 percent of the most-preferred class of voting shares. Once the second tranche of funding is completed, Horizon will own 49.99 percent of Avvinity's equity, representing 50 percent of the most-preferred class of voting shares. The joint venture will be managed within Horizon as part of its Research Biotech business.
Neither company will be obliged to provide further funding to the joint venture, though both Horizon and Centauri will retain pre-emption rights and can choose to participate in future funding rounds. Subject to the achievement of key development milestones, Avvinity intends to raise significant new external investment to take its drugs into clinical trials, at which time the value of Horizon's stake in the business would be highly material.
Dr. Mike Westby, CEO of Centauri, commented that: "Alphamers are an entirely novel way to target disease and represent an exciting new approach for recruitment of host immunity. At Centauri, we have invested to build the Alphamer platform and assembled the drug discovery expertise necessary to exploit the platform in infectious diseases. Through this joint venture with Horizon, we look forward to applying our combined know-how and capabilities to develop Alphamers as important new immuno-oncology medicines, particularly for cancer indications that have proven intractable to date."
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You know what inspiration is? It's someone who lets you know life will go on and something beautiful can be waiting….waiting when you least expected it.
Today marks the Winter Solstice and the end of the Mayan calendar, signifying new beginnings and rebirth. It's also my first year without hosting a winter solstice celebration with friends in fifteen years, and I'm coming to the realization that yes, like with so many things that have been culminating this year, it is time to allow the evolution to occur. Deep breath.
Things are changing. But I am still myself at the core.
I had a really beautiful yoga practice this morning. Very similar to yin yoga, this class I'm in is more about stillness, breath and deep stretching of the body rather than sweating through sun salutations. Now, don't get me wrong, I love the feeling after a good ashtanga session, but it's not where I am right now. Yin yoga and similar is gorgeously conducive to emotional and physical healing and the most therapeutic gift I can give myself.
I am preparing for another transformation, another evolution. In a month I will be 39. I hold my ground in knowing who I am – the generosity of my heart, my willingness to trust rather than be cynical, the way I unapologetically wear my heart on my sleeve, and how I am fiercely protective of those close to me. I will take this with me into the coming year.
In the meantime? It's the little things that heal me – from the winter greens that are happily growing in my garden, to the winter snowdrop buds peeking out of the ground, to the pretty red in the trees, to the way I felt on my bike today heading home from the grocers, to this simple happiness talking with my friend Rachel at breakfast today over biscuits and chocolate milk, to the way I felt my mind shift midway into my yoga practice. The gratitude I feel? It's an easy kind of bliss. It gives me strength.
Courage is not the towering oak that seems storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.
always amazed at how fast the chard grows…time to find a new recipe…ideas??
my kale grows much better in pots – less pests and i can use my raised beds for other veggies that need more room…i'm looking forward to making the classic kale, garlic, & white bean soup – perfect for cold winter days.
Beautiful. So ready for change. So ready for the next chapter.
Although winter is my least favorite season, I do like the New Year and the fresh beginning it brings.
I use Swiss chard as a substitute for kale in the white bean soup.


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THERE's something odd about our solar system.
It's barely 10 per cent the size of our Sun. But an analysis of its trajectory gives it an extremely high likelihood of having recently passed through the solar system's Oort cloud — a cloud of trillions of icy rocks at the edge of the Sun's gravitational influence.
But the research does not only explain the odd behaviour of our outer solar system. It also suggests why Neptune and Uranus are the uncommonly small size they are.
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Talks Democratizing Time Series Forecasting for Any Industry
Democratizing Time Series Forecasting for Any Industry
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Optimizing Pre-Trained Transformers in Conversational AI for Faster Inference, Better Accuracy
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In the talk, it is explained how good quality and efficient forecasting using SigOpt, and, in particular, the hyperparameter search and optimization capabilities within the solution. Special care is done explaining how the knowledge of the business allows a better design of the forecasting pipelines. Also, it is explained how specially designed machine learning architectures allow a better and more efficient hyperparameter search process. During this talk, Pablo will also discuss applications of time series forecasting to various industries, including forestry and retail.
Pablo Zegers was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1968. He received his Bachelor in Industrial Engineering degree and his Professional Industrial Engineer certification from the Pontificia Universidad Católica, Chile, in 1992, his Master of Science degree from The University of Arizona, USA, in 1998, and his Doctor of Philosophy degree, also from The University of Arizona, in 2002. He started to work as a professor at the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences of the Universidad de los Andes, Chile, in 2002 and left the university as an Associate Professor in 2017. He was the Academic Director of that College from 2006 to 2010, and its Interim Dean for a brief period at the end of 2010. During his stay at the university he led, or was part of, the teams that designed the strategic plan of the college, created Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, renovated the academic curricula of all the departments of the college, hired tens of professors, and reorganized the administrative structure of the college. As a teacher, his main achievement was advising more than 90 engineering students through their final engineering thesis. He has many publications whose topics range from the use of the mathematical theory of information theory in artificial intelligence to the design of algorithms that found thousands of binary stars in the Magellanic Clouds that orbit our galaxy. His interests are information theory, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and neural networks.
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Bellwether is a picture-perfect community. Nothing bad ever happens in this safe and friendly little town...until six-year-old Amy Draft goes missing. As the investigation into her disappearance progresses, Amy's parents come under the speculation and scrutiny of their once close-knit neighborhood. Things are not what they seem and Amy's disappearance is only a glimpse of what lurks below the community's ideal facade.
Find out the conclusion of this gripping story in the upcoming production of Bellwether, presented by the York College Theatre Department March 1-4. John Baker, associate professor of communication, directs this thrilling show that explores the human response to tragedy and the dark side of relationships.
For the York College students who will visit Haiti over spring break, the service-learning trip will be an adventure and a chance to gain hands-on, international experience.
For Associate Professor of Biology Milton Eckhart and his family, it will be a homecoming.
Eckhart will return to Haiti with a group of 17 American volunteers for an 8-day medical mission trip in March. Seven of the team members are from York College.
After nearly a year of traveling the globe to serve in countries from Nepal to Swaziland, Hannah Gund '16 has returned to the U.S. with a renewed passion for ministry and a message for American Christians: Wake up! God is doing amazing things far beyond our borders!
Gund participated in the World Race, a program offered by Adventures in Missions (AIM), which sends teams of young adults to 11 countries in 11 months. Racers work with a network of local churches and nonprofits that are feeding the hungry, rescuing those trapped in slavery, caring for orphans, and healing the sick in heart and body.


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Echo: Teenage angst in a fairytale setting
Echo by Francesca Lia Block
For anyone who's ever read Francesca Lia Block before, you'll know what to expect here. Riddled with teenage angst, fairytale settings and dense, poetic language, Echo provides another glimpse into the mind of tortured, restless adolescence. As always, Block's novel stands outside any particular genre; is it fantasy or drama? Poetry or prose? Magic realism or something else entirely? As always, her trademark style is the use of her intoxicating language, which again defies description, but is best compared to fantasist Patricia McKillip. Like McKillip, reading Block for the first time is always a little confusing, for the language is layered so thickly over narrative and character that it's difficult to keep track of what's happening and who it's happening to.
This is especially true in the case of Echo, as the story is not just about this young woman attempting to find her place in the world, but concerns the myriad of friends, lovers, parents and predators that full her life, who are all given their own intertwining stories. For some, her techniques may come across as weak and pretentious. I don't consider myself qualified enough as a critic to make any assessment on the skill of the writing; such things all come down to a manner of taste, and I can only attest that I like it!
Echo is a young woman born to a stunningly beautiful woman and an artist who only has eyes for her. Feeling suffocated by her angelic mother, Echo goes in search of vindication elsewhere, finding temporary fulfillment in the arms of a string of lovers, drugs and alcohol, dead-end jobs and painful beauty regimes — all the time searching for something to give her purpose and meaning. On the way she meets a range of characters; her lover Smoke who sacrificed everything to save the life of his daughter Eden, the vampiric Nina and Mark who set their sights on Echo, and of course her own parents who must deal with their failing battle against cancer.
Alongside fantasy elements such as angels, vampires and fairies are serious issues such as drugs, sex, prostitution and anorexia, all of which are intertwined into a twisted, fairytale version of Los Angeles that Block paints as both a paradise and a hellish dungeon. Continuously haunted by the memories of the angel who saved her from the ocean, Echo finally must find completion in the discovery of her true self and in making peace with her inner demons.
A risk here is of the story being all style and no substance, made especially confusing by having to keep track of Block's secondary characters and the changing points of view. When it comes to a writer as unique as Block, this all comes down to personal taste and whether her writing style appeals to you personally. If analysed carefully, it is true that there is very little meat to the story; as always Block is more interested in personal development and word-play. However, I do feel that this is not Block's best work, for several reasons.
As mentioned, there are too many characters vying for the spotlight and as such cannot make an impact on the reader due to the short amount of time each is given. With this in mind, the amount of time in which the story takes place is also rather muddled; Eden goes from an infant to a teenager within the space of a few paragraphs, though none of the other characters seem to age or change in any significant way during this time passage. Finally, Echo herself is a rather frustrating heroine. There is nothing truly tragic about her life (though she has enough presence of mind to admit this to herself), and so her self-abuse comes across as rather self-pitying. Her long line of failed romances gets tedious after awhile — by the time we get to Valentine, I'd had enough. Finally, I also felt it was a little strange that Echo's journey of self-discovery ends with her falling into the arms of yet another boy; wouldn't it been more true to the novel's purpose to have Echo simply be happy with herself?
And yet for all of this, the first thing I did once I'd finished the book was turn to the start and read it all again. Despite its flaws, there is something undeniably attractive about Francesca Lia Block's books. Try one and see for yourself.
April 15th, 2010. Rebecca Fisher´s rating: 3 | Francesca Lia Block | Stand-Alone, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | no comments |
REBECCA FISHER, with us since January 2008, earned a Masters degree in literature at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Her thesis included a comparison of how C.S. Lewis and Philip Pullman each use the idea of mankind's Fall from Grace to structure the worldviews presented in their fantasy series. Rebecca is a firm believer that fantasy books written for children can be just as meaningful, well-written and enjoyable as those for adults, and in some cases, even more so. Rebecca lives in New Zealand. She is the winner of the 2015 Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best SFF Fan Writer.


I began by modeling some poodles out of a mixture of fondant and gumpaste. I did very basic body structure then used my garlic press to make the fur and a toothpick to transfer rows of it onto the poodles. These sat for several weeks to dry. I began working on the bowl and plate so that they would also have time to harden. I picked a plate and bowl in our kitchen, coated them with plastic wrap and sprinkled with corn starch. I rolled out sheets of the fondant mixture and used coils to make the edges appealing.
Next, I created a cake board, out of foam core and strips of fondant to cover the surface. I mixed some vodka with few browns and started painting the food coloring onto the new floor until I achieved a desired darkness. I made a basic stacked cake, three tiers, 12″ rounds. I think it was chocolate with oreo cookie buttercream.
I started to decorate the bottom cake by rolling out a HUGE piece of white fondant and attach pink squares to it to make a tablecloth like pattern. It was extremely difficult to actually drape that onto the cake without losing squares, but I managed with the help of my husband. The spaghetti was just lightly colored buttercream which I squirted out of a pastry bag with a small round tip. The "meatballs" were actually small, chocolate covered caramel balls, which is beat up a little so that they would be perfectly round, and would have some texture. I melted some seedless raspberry jam and mixed it with the balls to make the sauce.
I was actually surprised at how well it worked. The last touch was a little placard that read Menu and Happy Birthday. My daughter LOVED her cake and it's definitely been one of my favorites to do.
This is a beautifull cake, so well crafted, you know what you are doing for sure, I'm a self taught cake decorator, I took correspondence calsses and just kept on, and is been 30 years in the making and when I see such lovely work, I have to make a coment. Congratulations is awesome work!
This is just too cute! How did you come up with the Oodles of Noodles and Poodles?? Is this a kid's book or just things your daughter likes? If it is not a book – it should be – adorable! and so much fun!
I personally think this is SO creative. What inspired you to do this design, and what made you think to use the materials that you did? My mom's cake is on this website and she loves to cook and so do I. i just thought you did a REALLY good job and don't stop making cakes no matter what anyone says! You are very talented and I just love you're cake! Well Done!!!


Claire Sandy, with a background in the fashion and interior sectors, set up Japanesey in February 2004 as a means of bridge-building between Japan and the UK. She has now been joined by Mari Takahashi and Manami Shimazaki who bring their native language skills and extensive networks to the team. With varied client bases in both countries and using our merchandising, business matching and consultancy experience, we seek to dispel the 'mystery' of the Japanese market and open it up to smaller brands including independent designers and craftspeople. We also act as co-ordinators for JETRO, the Japanese External Trade Organisation, providing consultancy services to small and medium sized Japanese companies hoping to export to the UK.


The season is ending and not because of the ending year. The last chance to catch some nice pikes.
During the Christmas days I found some rest and went fishing. The weather was still much to warm for this time of the year. Nevertheless the conditions for a comfortable fishing look different. Cloudy and foggy days are the standard and occasionally the sun wins the fight.
I don't have much to tell about the last days. The fishing was average. I had a good amount of bites and also caught some fish but nothing really spectacular. Unfortunately the pikes are not getting bigger and so the hope stays that all those little bastards getting bigger next year. Hopefully!!
I'm running out of words so let the pictures finish the story. I wish you all the best for 2016!!!
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Q: Tensor Networks with Julia and implementing given Hamiltonian I have this Hamiltonian: (ref: https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.5843)

I want to solve this Hamiltonian by using tensor networks. I wanted to make the implementation with ITensors, Julia. However, I am having difficulties with writing this into the desired format.
given here: https://itensor.github.io/ITensors.jl/stable/tutorials/DMRG.html
Yet, more importantly, Julia-ITensors lib gives an error as this Hamiltonian is not Hermitian. Is there any suggestion for me to solve this type of hamiltonians?
Any other languages/libs that can do this? any help will be appreciated. I am stuck.
Thanks in advance

A: As far as I know, ITensor library asks to write the Hamiltonian in Hermitian form. You have to obtain the analytical Hamiltonian correctly first to solve the error.
As for the question of another lib, I know TenPy, it doesn't require you the write Hamiltonian in Hermitian form.

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Q: C++ friend Operator<<(ostream os, obj objName) I have a question concerning the operator<< overload. I need to use one in my homework to return the content of a vector. I think that my operator method works, however I have completely no idea how to call it in another class.
Here's my operator in my ColonneCartes.cpp class:
ostream& operator<<(ostream & os, const ColonneCartes & p_colonneCartes)
{
     for (int i = 0; i < myVector.size(); i++)
     {
          os << myVector.at(i).getValue();
     }

     return os;
};

I'm trying to call it from another class to show it in the console and I didn't find out how to do it yet.
My second question is about returning in my operator the content of a vector object and I wanted to know if there's a another way than using a loop like this one to return the content?
Thanks a lot!

A: The console you are refering to is called standard output (stdout). In C++, using streams to output to the stdout, you should use the std::cout object from iostream header.
Suppose you have a colonneCartes object of type ColonneCartes, then, in order to output its myVector to stdout, write:
#include <iostream>
...
std::cout << colonneCartes;

The operator<< you wrote is what enables objects of type ColonneCartes to be used after the <<.


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(CBS4) – Shawn Parcells, owner of an autopsy service that was spotlighted in a 2018 CBS4 investigation, has been arrested by authorities in Kansas and charged with theft and criminal desecration. Parcells surrendered Friday morning at the Shawnee County Sheriff's Department in Kansas, according to a local news report.
"That's great, that's very good," said Patty Evans of Littleton when she learned of the arrest.
In December 2017, after her husband died, Evans paid Parcells and his National Autopsy Service $3,550 to perform an autopsy on her late husband. She repeatedly called the company seeking her husband's autopsy report but never got anything aside from excuses.
Nine months after David Evans' death, CBS4 contacted Parcells about the missing report. He claimed "The report is actually done" but said he did not have correct contact information for Patty Evans to get her the information. He asked CBS4 to provide him her contact info. The contract Parcells had Evans sign months earlier had both her correct phone number and mailing address.
"I mean I don't know if an autopsy was done at this point," said the frustrated widow. As of Friday morning, Evans said she never received her husband's autopsy report.
Reporter Angie Ricono of Kansas City TV station KCTV broke the story of Parcell's Friday arrest. She reported, "More than 20 families from all over the country claim Shawn Parcells is an incompetent fraud, saying the Kansas man lied to them." Ricono reports more than 20 families across the country said they paid Parcells for autopsies but they were never completed.
The charges filed by the Kansas Attorney General relate to autopsies Parcell performed in 2014 and 2015.
The sad part is, is that Patty Evans could have hired a Colorado pathologist, privately. When I was a coroner and declined to do an autopsy, I offered that there were other county pathologists that would perform the autopsy if they really wanted one. Too bad the county coroner did not give her that option.