User Group calls for transparency over customer upgrade path to HANA product.
SAP must clarify whether or not customers will have to take the unusual step of paying a new license fee to upgrade to S/4 HANA, according to its UK & Ireland User Group.
Released in February, S/4 is the latest version of SAP's Business Suite, and the German ERP giant boasts that customers are "voting with their wallets" by moving to it.
Most of its 1,300 users have adopted the product during a "promotion" period ending 31 December, which allows customers of existing Business Suite versions to obtain an on-premise license for S/4 at no additional cost.
However, the UK&I SAP User Group says that usually, customers who have paid maintenance fees on an on-premise product get to upgrade to the next version for free.
Vice chairman Paul Cooper tells IT Pro: "Most people's expectation would be if they're paying maintenance, they've never had to pay for an upgrade before or additional license fees for an upgrade before, so they wouldn't be expecting to do it this time around.
The argument is that users' maintenance fees fund SAP's R&D efforts, so they should not have to pay to upgrade to a product their money helped create.
While anyone who upgrades before 31 December will not have to worry about this, it could prove an issue for customers who see S/4 further along their roadmaps.
An SAP spokesman told IT Pro that S/4 should not be considered a new version of Business Suite, but added that users' views would be taken into account on pricing.
"SAP S/4HANA is a new product and not a successor of SAP Business Suite," the spokesman said. "It delivers simplified, optimised and extended capabilities, as well as building the core of our customers' digital transformation programmes.
Should SAP provide better incentives to upgrade?
Perhaps one reason for the offer is SAP's desire for customers to adopt HANA products, with Constellation Research founder Ray Wang calling it "the future of the SAP platform".
SAP's UK & Ireland MD, Cormac Watters, says as much himself, telling IT Pro: "That's the core of that whole digital framework, so it is really big. It's the hub, the centre, the core."
With this in mind, Wang says he was surprised that SAP has not announced any incentives to drive adoption among its UK&I users - the majority of whom are not greenfield customers.
"I was expecting the UK&I MD to announce programmes that spur people to build stuff on top and they didn't do that," he says.
He believes money-off offers are not the most powerful motivators to adopt new products, though.
"There're different types of incentives – there's money but the non-monetary ones are more powerful. If you did something awesome, I'm going to sit you down with the CEO for an hour – that's very cool," he says.
But the user group says that an incentive already exists in the form of a free upgrade to those paying maintenance fees, and SAP should make it clear whether or not that will continue to be offered.
One S/4 adopter IT Pro met at the conference was Hillarys, a blinds fitting firm.
Head of ICT Julian Bond says HANA was "non-discountable", but he managed to find savings elsewhere.
"As ever you always have to negotiate hard with SAP, you need to bundle the stuff together, you need to go at the right time of year, and your partner is key to helping you do that - we got an attractive deal," he says.
But he also points out that S/4 isn't a complete product yet either - meaning those taking advantage of the early bird promotion will not get full functionality.
He is moving to the "barest essentials" Hillarys needs - ERP and CRM sitting on HANA, which S/4 offers - but others might want different features to be live before they consider moving.
Putting this into context, S/4 was only released in February, and already has plenty of customers - SAP's global VP of S/4 HANA, Sven Denecken, says: "We have more than 1,300 customers who voted with their wallets and it's not a question of if but when they are going to go to S/4".
But Chris Houlder, principal BI architect at RS Components, does not plan to adopt S/4 until 2019/20, though he says the product would benefit the firm.
"There's always interest in whatever SAP does, we look at it seriously," he says. "Are we ready for S/4 in our business for our ERP system? Not now. With our ERP it is a bit different to our BI – it's mission critical.
Elsewhere, Newcastle University will not move until Simple Finance is on version 3.0 of S/4.
The cloud, according to Constellation Research's founder, Wang, is where SAP wants people to end up because it can earn more money that way.
But SAP's Watters tells IT Pro he wants customers to decide where to run S/4 if they do eventually adopt it.
"I don't get overly worried about it," he claims. "I know it's available in the cloud, I know it works in the cloud, I think the customer needs to pick.
But the user group and analyst Wang see it differently.
Cooper believes SAP must provide clarity to customers who are not sure whether their maintenance payments entitle them to a free upgrade to S/4 in 2016.
Wang, on the other hand, believes SAP can attract more S/4 customers - or HANA customers - by helping them with creative incentives, like migration assistance for those considering moving to the cloud.
"A lot of it really comes down to a perception that the existing SAP base is focused on maintenance, they are focused on keeping the lights on, not on doing new stuff," he says.


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Sissala chief weeps over introduction of Free SHS
Thu, 12 Nov 2020 Source: www.ghanaweb.com
Paramount Chief of Pulima and Gandwaii Traditional Area of the Sissala West District in the Upper West Region, Kuoro Osman Deiwa has given an emotional testimony about the government's Free Senior High School policy.
Speaking at a meeting with the president at the Jubilee House on Wednesday, November 11, 2020, the chief who was moved to tears described the impact of the policy as unimaginable.
"The introduction of the Free Senior High School policy has touched a raw nerve of struggling parents like myself that I'm struggling not to be emotional about the impact of that policy," was how he began his testimony.
According to the chief, President Akufo-Addo by his decision to introduce the Free SHS policy will have his name forever engraved in the history books of the nation.
"Mr President, when you eventually leave office as the Constitution envisions, please note that your name will be captured in history books as the only President that has given Ghanaian school children all at once to cultivate and nurture their brains for future leaders to come and harvest for the growth of Ghana."
Kuoro Osman Deiwa who was full of praise for the President also lauded Akufo-Addo for introducing other policies such as the Planting for Food and Jobs that has directly benefited his people.
"Your Excellency, on behalf of the people of the Upper West region and for that matter the Sissala land, we the chiefs here say thank you for the Planting for Food and Jobs", he said.
He also told the president how the One Constituency, One Ambulance policy was helping to save lives in his area.
"Just recently, there was a gory accident, but for the timely intervention of the Ambulance Service, the story would have been different."
The chief however lamented the state of road networks within the Sissala area but admitted that the situation would have been different had it not been for the COVID-19 pandemic that has stalled work on roads in the area.
He thus appealed to the President to see to the fixing of roads such as the Wa-Tumu-Bolgatanga highway to ease the suffering of commuters as well as the Tumu-Gwollu trunk road in honour of the late President Hilla Limann and the Tumu-Welembelle-Kojokwale road.
The President in his response to the chief thanked him and his people and assured them of fixing the issue of roads in the area whiles underscoring that some of the roads are already on the drawing board. Akufo-Addo thus asked for the support of the people of Sissala in the upcoming December 7 polls.

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PRESSING QUESTIONS: UNITE Magazine, based in Nashville
Interview with Publisher Joey Amato
Geographic coverage area: Nashville, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Virginia
Staff size and breakdown: More than editors, writers, and contributors
Physical dimensions of publication: 8.5" x 11"
Key demographics: Men and women aged 30-55
Print run: Varies by location
Website: www.unitemag.com
PPQ: What part of UNITE Magazine is the most popular?
Amato: The most popular part of UNITE is our covers. People love the various celebrities we were able to feature in our publication.
PPQ: Who came up with the name and what is the inspiration for it?
Amato: I did and it was just a word that I thought of when looking at various aspects of the community. Within our own community, we tend to ridicule, tease, bully and divide. So I thought UNITE would be a great name to bring all areas of the LGBT community together.
PPQ: What challenge has your publication had to overcome?
Amato: The move to digital is definitely a challenge, as well as increased competition from other local (non-LGBT) lifestyle publications. As the LGBT community becomes more welcomed, there is less of a need for LGBT-specific venues, so many people just visit mainstream locations. When it comes to ad dollars, these venues don't necessarily need to target one specific niche in a city.
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Amato: I would like to see our brand open in more mid-size cities across the country.
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Amato: No I don't. I see myself as an entrepreneur who saw a need and filled it within my community.
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Marc Chagall, Le Cirque (The Circus), from Cirque, 1967, M501
Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985)
Le Cirque (The Circus), from Cirque, 1967, M501
Mourlot 501
Circus Series
Color lithograph on Arches paper
Sheet:
20 5/16 in x 14 15/16 in (51.7 cm x 38 cm)
Numbered from the edition of 50 in the lower left margin.
This work is hand-signed by Marc Chagall (Vitebsk, 1887 - Saint-Paul, 1985) in the lower right margin.
This work is in excellent condition.
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Historical Description
Marc Chagall's Le Cirque (The Circus), from Cirque, 1967 is one of the eye-catching lithographs from Chagall's Circus series. Publisher and art dealer Ambroise Vollard loved the circus and commissioned a production of circus graphics, for which Chagall executed a series of gouaches in the late 1920s. Chagall was a circus enthusiast himself, and his assistant Charles Sorlier noted Chagall's childlike pleasure in watching the performers. When speaking of circus performers and clowns, Chagall said, "Their colors and make-up draw me towards other psychic deformations, which I dream of painting" (Mourlot 216). When Vollard died in 1939, the artist stopped working on the project, although circus motifs frequently appeared in his work after that time. Chagall eventually started working on the series again with encouragement from Tériade, who published the thirty-eight lithographs of the series in 1967. Capturing the dynamic energy of the circus and its lively performers, this work is a masterpiece any Chagall enthusiast would admire.
Marc Chagall's Le Cirque (The Circus), from Cirque, 1967 is a particularly complex lithograph from the Cirque series, featuring a multi-layered composition of dynamic figures and bright colors. The figures of the audience and performers overlap each other and blend into one collective image of the circus. A large head in profile floats in the upper left corner with a violin, while the figure of a clown plays a horn at the right border of the image. Both figures tower over the outline of spectators near them, and the lack of perspective makes for a dreamlike composition that denies the logic of scale. Such visual amalgamation of circus performers and spectators alludes to the practical need for both performers and spectators in a successful circus. The large white sphere surrounded in a thick navy-blue halo further contributes to the dreamlike quality of the image, as it remains unclear what it represents. For instance, it could be a spotlight, the moon, or simply another pictorial invention of the artist that does not represent anything in particular. Thus, Marc Chagall's Le Cirque (The Circus), from Cirque, 1967 captures the flurry of movement and excitement at the circus, evoking the dynamic energy between performers and spectators.
Created in 1967, Marc Chagall's Le Cirque (The Circus), from Cirque, 1967 is a color lithograph on Arches paper. This work is hand-signed by Marc Chagall (Vitebsk, 1887 - Saint-Paul, 1985) in the lower right margin. Numbered from edition of 50 in the lower left margin.
Catalogue Raisonné & COA:
Marc Chagall's Le Cirque (The Circus), from Cirque, 1967 is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the sale of the work).
Gauss, Ulrike. Marc Chagall: The Lithographs. The Sorlier collection. Edited by Ulrike Gauss et. al. New York: Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 1999. Listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonné no. 501.
Mourlot, Fernand. The Lithographs of Chagall, vol. II 1957-1962. Monté Carlo, 1960. Listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonné no. 501.
A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany this artwork.
About the Framing:
Framed to museum-grade, conservation standards, Marc Chagall's Le Cirque (The Circus), from Cirque, 1967 is presented in a complementary moulding and finished with silk-wrapped mats and optical grade Plexiglas.
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Home Uncategorized Airbnb Says "Hello LA" With A Five Day Interactive Event
Airbnb Says "Hello LA" With A Five Day Interactive Event
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Arts District pop-up (Lake Bell)
The Viper Room pop-up (Moby)
Venice pop-up (Anjelica Huston)
The Grove pop-up (Molly Sims)
Hollywood Forever pop-up (James Franco)
Airbnb has something to say to our fair city: Hello.
The San Francisco-based company has skyrocketed to the top of the community marketplace dog pile, giving folks the world over access to cheapish lodging in over 33,000 cities. The gist is thus: anyone can log on and list their house—ranging from a room in a shared apartment to entire castles, depending on the city—for rent. It's kind of like buying concert tickets off of a StubHub-esque site: say you're looking to travel to London, but you don't want to pay the sticker price for a hotel. Travelers can log onto Airbnb and peruse photos of available lodging in a variety of neighborhoods, but a bit of sifting is required to find the deals (an entire home in Covent Garden is listed at $182 per night, while a private room in a flat is listed at a high $132).
This weekend, the company is hosting the event "Hello LA" as a means by which to introduce itself to us. "Airbnb is an access point to hyperlocal experiences," said Emily Joffrion, Director of Airbnb's Consumer Communications. "When we were looking at L.A. and thinking what we love so much about it, it came down to diversity and culture, which is spread around city. There are micro-cultures wrapped around vast neighborhoods, and each neighborhood has a specific flavor and identity. It's a city where local knowledge gives you access to incredible experiences, which is why we're so similar."
The Hello LA event, which starts today and ends October 1st, revolves around five pop-up listings in five different L.A. neighborhoods. "Los Angeles is a car culture, and it can be very difficult for people to get from one area to another," Joffrion said. "The reason we picked five pop-ups was to enable locals in those neighborhoods to interact without having to leave. It wouldn't have done L.A. justice to do one big event; we looked at the geography and saw that as an advantage."
The different listings were co-designed by celebrities (James Franco, Moby, Lake Bell, Anjelica Huston, Molly Sims) and HGTV's Emily Henderson, and each space comes with its own slew of accompanying events (most of which are open to the public). Moby's pop-up, for example, is located at The Viper Room, which will host a Silent Frisco dance party on Saturday the 28. Franco's Hollywood Forever pop-up will host a night of art and music on Monday, September 30.
Coveted booking rights for each pop-up were granted to a few Angelenos who entered an online contest, the rules of which included writing a love letter to L.A. in 140 characters or less. (You can see a list of Airbnb's favorite submissions below.) "When it comes down to it, we really wanted this to be a celebration of L.A.," Joffrion said.
To see all of this weekend's pop-up locations and RSVP for events, visit Airbnb's Facebook page.
140-Character Love Letters To L.A.:
1. Succulants & Sycophants, Palms & Palm Readers, Trails & Trailblazers, Dreams & Dreams Realized.
2. Hipsters dine Rodeo. Posh hike Malibu. Surfers skate Hollywood. Coexist.
3. L.A. – a mesmerizing caricature drawn from ten million ink-starved pens
4. L-ove, O-bservatory, S-un, A-rchitecture, N-ationalities, G-etty, E-ntertainment, L-akers, E-ats, S-hopping
5. Cohesive chaos/Burns Angelenos' souls causing/Calm composed quiet
6. You'll never ever be bored…unless you're boring.
7. Japanese girl can marry German boy and live happily ever-after!
8. On the 5: Bottle blondes, punks and cons, ideologists, Scientologists
9. Open roofs, open skies, open bars, open minds, endless possibilities.
10. Yoga on the beach, superman on the corner, only in LA
11. Surfing on Saturday, Snowboarding on Sunday & Brunch 24/7
12. red carpets, white sands, green mountains, blue skies, blacktops=happiness
13. LA – A kaleidoscope dream; eclectic yet serene.
14. Proudly serving you the best looking waiters in the country. Sallie Patrick – Hollywood dreams, both realized and broken, haunt and inspire me.
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China's new popular coffee brand Luckin Coffee may just become another unicorn on the country's tech scene in half a year.
Luckin Coffee started trial operations at the beginning of this year and has undertaken aggressive expansion. It opened 40 stores in the week of June 5. Until now, it has opened more than 500 stores in 13 cities. During an interview in early May, funder and CEO Qian Yazhi, former COO at UCAR, one of China's biggest car rental services, said the company had served more than 1.3 million customers and sold around 5 million cups.
The company defines itself as part of China's "new retail" trend, combining e-commerce platform and brick and mortar stores. After placing orders online, customers can choose to either pick them up in nearby stores or have them delivered within 30 minutes which will only be possible if there is a sufficient number of stores in the region.
The more exciting appeal of Luckin Coffee for many customers, however, is its promotion strategy. Customers will receive coupons if they top up a certain amount money at their Luckin Coffee accounts. For instance, customers will receive 5 cups of free coffee when they pre-pay for 5 cups of the same or higher value.
Qian said the company didn't have a clear schedule yet regarding when the company would profit, saying they are ready to run at a loss for a relatively long period of time.
Coffee consumption in China has been rising. Coffee consumption grows 15% annually and the market is expected to reach RMB 1 trillion in 2025. Before Luckin Coffee, other "new retail" coffee brands have also started to gain grounds in China. Coffee Box (连咖啡), a coffee delivery platform, raised RMB 158 million in series B+ funding.


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Giant eruption reveals 'dead' star
ESA /	Science & Exploration /	Space Science /	Integral
An enormous eruption has found its way to Earth after travelling for many thousands of years across space. Studying this blast with ESA's XMM-Newton and Integral space observatories, astronomers have discovered a dead star belonging to a rare group: the magnetars.
X-Rays from the giant outburst arrived on Earth on 22 August 2008, and triggered an automatic sensor on the NASA-led, international Swift satellite. Just twelve hours later, XMM-Newton zeroed in and began to collect the radiation, allowing the most detailed spectral study of the decay of a magnetar outburst.
The outburst lasted for more than four months, during which time hundreds of smaller bursts were measured. Nanda Rea from the University of Amsterdam led the team that performed the research. "Magnetars allow us to study extreme matter conditions that cannot be reproduced on Earth," she says.
Magnetars are the most intensely magnetised objects in the Universe. Their magnetic fields are some 10 000 million times stronger than Earth's. If a magnetar were to magically appear at half the Moon's distance from Earth, its magnetic field would wipe the details off every credit card on Earth.
This particular magnetar, known as SGR 0501+4516, is estimated to lie about 15 000 light-years away, and was undiscovered until its outburst gave it away. An outburst takes place when the unstable configuration of the magnetic field pulls the magnetar's crust, allowing matter to spew outwards in an exotic volcanic eruption. This matter tangles with the magnetic field which itself can change its configuration, releasing more energy. And this was where Integral came in.
Integral observations
Only five days after the big eruption, Integral detected highly energetic X-rays coming from the outburst, beyond the energy range that XMM-Newton can see. It is the first time such transient X-ray emission has been detected during the outburst. It disappeared within 10 days and was probably generated as the magnetic configuration changed.
Magnetar outbursts can supply as much energy to Earth as solar flares, despite the fact they are far across our Galaxy, whereas the Sun is at our celestial doorstep. There are two ideas as to how a magnetar forms. One is that it is the tiny core left behind after a highly magnetic star has died. But such magnetic stars are very rare, with just a few known in our Galaxy. Another suggestion is that during the death of a normal star, its tiny core is accelerated, providing a dynamo that strengthens its magnetic field, turning it into a magnetar.
Currently most astronomers favour the first idea but as yet they have no conclusive proof. "If we could just find a magnetar in a cluster of highly magnetic stars, that would prove it," says Rea.
So far only 15 magnetars in total are known in our Galaxy. SGR 0501+4516 is the first new soft gamma repeater, one of the two types of magnetars, discovered after a decade of searches. So, astronomers continue to search for more, waiting for the next giant eruption. As for their newly discovered SGR 0501+4516, the team has been granted time to return and observe it again next year with XMM-Newton. Now they know where to look, they hope to detect the object in a quiescent state, rather than in outburst, so that they can study the calm after a big storm.
Notes for editors:
The first outburst of the new magnetar candidate SGR 0501+4516 by N. Rea, G.L. Israel, R. Turolla, P. Esposito, S. Mereghetti, D. Gotz, S. Zane, A. Tiengo, K. Hurley, M. Feroci, M. Still, V. Yershov, C. Winkler, R. Perna, F. Bernardini, P. Ubertini, L. Stella, S. Campana, M. van der Klis, P.M. Woods, was published yesterday in the online version of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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A new safe cycle path opened this month, crossing Bermondsey Street from Leathermarket Street to Tanner Street, so cyclists can easily get from Waterloo to Jamaica Road along quieter back roads.
The new route, named Quietway 14, will ultimately run all the way to Deptford and was officially opened by London Walking and Cycling Commissioner Dr Will Norman and Southwark Councillor Richard Livingstone.
Local residents can now get around with less stress using pedal power only and without having to run the gauntlet of London's motors. Even though most of us are attracted to London for its busy communities, fast paced life, there's still a strong desire to enjoy the quieter and more natural side of life too, especially activities like cycling, lazy Sundays and some space away from the hurly burly. This is never more true than here on Bermondsey Street which enjoys its newfound gentrified reputation and village-like community. Healthy living is very much on our agenda and the arrival of Quietway 14 threading through the heart of the area is a bonus.
There are plenty of local bike specialists so if you live or work nearby and have not yet caught the bug this may be the spur you have been waiting for.
Machine Cycling Cafe on Tower Bridge Road provide a range of bikes, repairs and accessories as well as exceptionally good coffee.
Fully Charged Electric Bike Shop at the corner of Bermondsey Street have a massive range of electric bikes (eBikes) even ones that can fold up and be carried – so if you think a little bit of motorised help might be needed, the choice is there.
On Your Bike just beside London Bridge, down in the arches of The Vaults, has a full compliment of bikes, clobber and boasts operating one of London's largest bike rental fleets as well as a same day bike fix turnaround service.
If a customised, stylish bike is more your thing then you should look up Druid Cycles on Roper Lane just off Druid Street who also give regular bike maintenance workshops and are a not for profit community interest company.
At the far end of the planned Quietway 14 route, or indeed the original Quietway 1 that runs all the way to Greenwich, is the quality Cycles UK who have a team of expert bike fitters and consultants to make sure the bike you buy for yourself or your family is the right one and set up perfectly for best use.
There's no excuse now is there? And if you're worried about the cash outlay there are lots of options for deferring payments or maybe you could even consider cancelling that gym subscription instead, within just a matter of months your bike will have paid for itself.


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"Doing less, does it faster" - Using Compressive Sensing and Parallel Spectroscopy for Fast Quantum Materials Discovery (91)
Quantum simulation with atoms and photons (90)
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Photoemission from Solids (88)
X-ray Lasers using a Plasma Medium: Tabletop Beams Got Brighter than Synchrotrons (87)
Intriguing results at the LHCb experiment: the flavour anomalies strengthen (86)
Magnetic vortices: into the third dimension (85)
AMS-02, the Cosmic Ray Observatory - 10 Years on the International Space Station (84)
Gravitational waves: an update (83)
Taming light at the nanoscale with DNA (82)
Superconductivity – Current State, Records, and new Frontiers (81)
Advanced Niobium-Tin superconductors for the Future Circular Collider (80)
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What we learned about the Proton from HERA
Christoph Grab, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich
One of the main physics goals of the experiments H1 and ZEUS, operating at the HERA ("Hadron Electron Ring Anlage") collider at DESY (Hamburg) was the detailed investigation of the proton substructure up to the highest attainable energies [1]. HERA follows the tradition of the "Rutherford Scattering Experiments" and uses pointlike leptons to probe the substructure of the composite object proton. Unlike in earlier fixed target experiments, colliding beams (electrons1 at 27.6 GeV and protons up to 920 GeV) produced centre-of-mass energies up to 319 GeV, extending the available kinematic regions by orders of magnitude. After successful operation for over a decade (1992 - 2007), the HERA collider was finally shut down on 1.7.2007.
The experiments have produced a wealth of results of highest scientific interest. Besides studies of the proton structure as described herein, detailed investigations of the theory of strong interactions (Quantum Chromodynamics QCD), heavy quark physics, searches for phenomena beyond the standard model and many others have been performed (see [1]). Analyses of the accumulated data still continues, and further results will continue to emerge in the future. Not only will these results become an integral part of future physics text books, but they also are of imminent relevance for the physics studies at the "Large Hadron Collider" (LHC) at CERN.
1 HERA operated with both lepton charges, however in the following the generic name "electron" is used to denote both electron and positron.
Figure 1a: Schematic representations of electron proton scattering processes, as viewed in the quark parton model (see text), where the incoming pointlike e scatters on one of the constituents of the composite proton. Neutral current processes ep → e'X (top) are mediated by photons or Z-bosons, and charged current processes ep → νX (bottom) by W-bosons.
Figure 1b: Graphical displays of measured events in the experiments. In the H1 neutral current event (left) the electron scattered at large angles e' is well visible, whereas in the charged current event (right), the neutrino escapes undetected, and only the remnants of the broken up proton (the hadronic final state X) are measured.
Figure 2: Measured reaction rates (cross sections) for neutral (NC, blue) and charged (CC, red) current processes as a function of the scaling variable Q2, for both e+p and e-p scattering [3]. The overlaid curves are theoretical predictions, based on standard model calculations.
2 Inelastic Electron - Proton Scattering
When colliding high energetic electrons with protons through inelastic scattering, the proton breaks up in the reaction. The relevant processes are electroweak interactions, which are either neutral current (NC: ep → e'X) or charged current (CC: ep → νX) reactions. A neutral photon or Z-boson is exchanged in NC, whereas in CC a charged W± boson is exchanged producing a neutral, undetected neutrino, as illustrated in Figure 1 (full details on the formalism can be found e.g. in [2]).
Experimentally, the kinematics of the reactions are determined by measuring either the scattered lepton e' (NC case) or all the hadronic particles X emerging from the broken up proton (CC case). One of the most important Lorentz variables used for the description of the reaction kinematics is the squared momentum transfer of the exchanged boson (γ, Z, W), denoted by Q2 = -q2 = -(k - k')2, where k, k' are the four-momenta of the incoming and scattered electron. The attainable "spatial" resolution available to probe the composite proton can therefore be characterised by the scale Q = |q|, i.e. λ≈ (200MeV/|q|) fm, which at HERA reaches the level of 10-18 m.
In general terms, the cross sections for ep-scattering, which describe the reaction rates, are determined by the electroweak interactions using the couplings of the pointlike electrons, the properties of the exchanged bosons (γ, Z,W), and a set of inelastic structure functions Fi. These Fi are the quantities of interest here, as they are the functions that parametrise the composite structure of the proton and need to be determined by experiment.
Precise measurements of the ep-scattering rates determined by the H1 and ZEUS experiments are summarised in Figure 2 as a function of the scaling variable Q2, for both neutral and charged current interactions [3]. They illustrate some of the main features of these electroweak processes. In NC reactions (blue), photon exchange is the dominating process at small scales Q2, and Z-exchange becomes sizeable only at high Q2. In CC reactions (red) the heavy mass of the exchanged W-boson strongly suppresses the reaction rate already at low Q2. When in the high Q2 regime the masses of Z and W bosons (91.2 and 80.4 GeV) become less relevant in comparison with the reaction scales Q2, both the NC and CC rates become similar in size, illustrating the unification of electromagnetic and weak interactions.
Figure 3: Measured reaction rates (reduced cross sections) for neutral current processes, as a function of the scaling variable Q2 for different values of x, the proton momentum fraction carried by the partons. These results represent the combined analysis of H1 and ZEUS. Scaling violations, i.e. a Q2 - dependence of the rates, are clearly observed. The curves represent the description, based on the theory of strong interactions (see [4]).
3 The Proton Structure
In the so-called quark parton model (QPM), the proton is described as a composite object, made of valence quarks (two up and one down quark), sea quarks (pairs of up, down, strange, charm and bottom quark-antiquarks) and the gluons, which serve as the mediating carriers of the strong force binding the quarks within the proton. Within the QPM, ep-scattering is described by an incoherent sum of elastic scattering of the exchanged bosons (γ, Z, W) on these partons in the proton. Within this QPM framework, the abovementioned generic proton structure functions Fi are directly related to combinations of the so-called parton distribution functions xqi(x), referred to as "PDFs". These PDFs describe the probability that a certain parton i carries a fraction x of the total proton momentum, and thus characterise the proton structure at the parton level. Precise measurements of these Fi therefore allow a determination of the PDFs.
In the framework of the theory of strong interactions (QCD), the functions qi(x) depend also on the reaction scale, and this Q2 - dependence can be accurately described by evolution equations (see e.g. [2]). However, the x-dependencies of the PDFs can only be determined from the experimental data, using elaborated fitting procedures, as performed by various groups. Herein, the individual PDFs as extracted by the HERA working group based on HERA data only are discussed. Measurements from a variety of other experiments, such as from fixed target, proton-antiproton scattering or from neutrino experiments can also contribute information on the PDFs.
The combined H1 and ZEUS measurements of the reaction rates are shown in Figure 3 as a function of the scaling variable Q2 for different x values. They are presented here in form of so-called reduced cross sections σγ, which are directly proportional to the dominant structure function F2 associated to pure photon exchange. Using the QPM picture, these data provide direct sensitivity to the valence quark content of the proton at high x, and to sea quarks and gluons at low x values. Demonstrating the explicit Q2 -dependence of the NC processes in Figure 3 not only confirms "scaling violations", but also illustrates the level of precision reached by the HERA experiments, spanning over four orders of magnitude in (x,Q2), seamlessly extending the previous fixed target regime (indicated by the squares). It is a remarkable achievement of the theory of strong interactions (QCD), that the calculations (red curves) are able to describe all the data so accurately over this huge kinematic range.
These precise data allowed the "HERA structure function working group" to extract the individual parton distribution functions xqi(x) for the various partons of the proton [4], as shown in Figure 4. Prominently visible are the valence quark contributions (the down quark xdv and the twice as frequent up quarks xuv), peaking around x ≈ 1/3. This corresponds to the naive expectations, in which the total proton momentum is equally shared among the three valence quarks. However, when considering lower values of x, i.e. smaller momentum fractions, the sea quarks (xS) and the gluons (xg) (both downscaled by a factor of 20 for visibility in the figure) increase substantially and become completely dominant. This means, that at low x the proton appears to literally "boil with gluons"!
Finally, one can ask the obvious question "Are the quarks themselves again composite objects?" In analogy to the discovery of the proton charge radius in the 1950s, an extended quark charge would modify the standard model cross sections accordingly. The precise comparison of the Q2-dependence of the measured ep cross sections to the ones predicted by the standard theory revealed no deviations up to the largest Q2-values of ≈ 20000 GeV2 available at HERA (see [1] and also Figure 2). Thus, there is no indication of a quark substructure apparent down to a scale of order of 10-18 m.
In summary, even though not all data have been completely analysed yet, HERA has already allowed to push the knowledge about the parton momentum distributions in the proton to an unprecedented high precision. Among others, an unexpected substantial increase of gluons at low momentum fractions was observed. Overall, the theory describes the features of inelastic electron proton scattering very well in all details, which can be considered a great success of the theory of electroweak and strong interactions.
Figure 4: Parton distribution functions of the proton (PDFs labelled "HERAPDF0.2") as obtained by the HERA Structure Functions Working Group [4], at a scale of Q2 = 10 GeV2. The PDFs (solid lines) are shown separately for the gluon (xg), the sea quarks (xS), (both scaled down for visibility by a factor of 20), and the valence quarks up xuv and down xdv. The uncertainties are indicated by the coloured bands.
[1] Details about the experiments and their numerous results can be found at www-h1.desy.de for the H1 and at zeus.desy.de for the ZEUS collaborations.
[2] "Deep inelastic scattering", R. Devenish and A. Cooper-Sarkar, Oxford Univ. Press 2004.
[3] H1 and ZEUS Collaborations: Contributions to the Int. Conference QCD2009, March 2009, Moriond, France; see e.g. moriond.in2p3.fr/QCD/2009/Proceedings09/Placakyte.pdf.
[4] Technical details of the measurements can be found e.g. in Eur. Phys. J. C 30 (2003) 1, for H1; in Eur. Phys. J. C 49 (2007) 523, for ZEUS. The figures shown here are the latest results, presented at the Int. Conference DIS2009, April 2009, Madrid, Spain (see V. Radescu for HERA at www.ft.uam.es/DIS2009 ).
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Thomas Candy (13 December 1804 - 26 February 1877) was an English educator with a lifelong association to India, who made lasting contributions to the lexicography, orthography, and stylistics of the Marathi language.

Thomas Candy (together with his twin brother George) was born in England on 13 December 1804. After being educated in Indian languages at the Magdalene College in Oxford University, both were appointed Quartermasters in the armies of the British East India Company. They arrived in India in 1822, and primarily served as translators in several Infantry Regiments of the Company. During the 1830s, the brothers lent valuable assistance to Captain James Thomas Molesworth in the compilation of the English-Marathi dictionary. Although this project suffered a delay due to Molesworth's return to England in 1836 due to ill health, it was pushed to completion by Thomas during the years 1840-1847.

George had left the army in 1838 and become a Christian Missionary. He is the author of an early Christian pamphlet in Marathi, titled 'ख्रिस्ती धर्म कसा उत्पन्न झाला आणि कसा पृथ्वीवर वाढला (The Origin and Growth of Christianity on Earth, 1832)'. George subsequently returned to England in 1854.

After the completion of the English-Marathi dictionary, Thomas (who remained in India until his death) devoted his energies to the creation of Marathi textbooks in sundry school subjects, as well as Marathi translations of several English treatises, such as the Indian Penal Code and the Indian Civil Procedure Code. He also advised and corrected the work of several other English-Marathi translators. During the late 1860s, he was appointed Chief Government Translator by the British Government.

Thomas newly introduced the use of punctuation marks in Marathi, which was written without them until the mid-nineteenth century. His manual on this subject, titled 'विरामचिन्हांची परिभाषा (The Terminology of Punctuation Marks)' proved influential in the widespread dissemination of this practice. Thomas Candy's works have had a substantial cumulative effect on the style of non-fiction Marathi writing prevalent in the late nineteenth-century.

Throughout his life, Thomas served in several capacities as an educator, notably as Superintendent of Poona Sanskrit College, Superintendent of Schools in the southern region, and Principal of the Deccan College. He died in the town of Mahabaleshwar, in Maharashtra, India on 26 February 1877.

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CBCC 39: Rogue & Remy - Ring of Fire
Rogue & Gambit" by Kelly Thompson. This is the episode we've all been waiting to dive into. The last batch of shows have all been about context, filling out the nooks and crannies to Rogue & Remy's relationship, so we can get down to the delightfully dirty business of shipping the greatest X-Men couple. Have we gone too far? We dunno. Kelly Thompson's work on these characters have made us true believers, and we're thrilled to continue to explore their dynamic using "Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love" by Drs. Gottman and Abrams as our guide.
Issues covered in this episode: "Rogue & Gambit" No. 1 - 5, written by Kelly Thompson, illustrated by Pere Pérez, colored by Frank D'Armata, and lettered by Joe Caramagna.
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Complementing these one-time survey studies are the longitudinal real-world studies that have shown correlations over time from childhood viewing of media violence to later adolescent and adult aggressive behavior [ 3132333435 ]; for reviews see [ 42733 ].
One valid remaining question is whether the size of this effect is large enough that one should consider it to be a public health threat. First, a subsequent stimulus that arouses an emotion e.
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We, as a whole, have glorified this violence so much that movies such as "Natural Born Killers" and television shows such as "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" are viewed as normal, everyday entertainment.
In conclusion, I hope that this information given can help show the problems with television violence. Nor are we arguing the censorship of violence. The first amendment states freedom of speech, this is the biggest reason for television stations to continue delivering violent programs to are homes through television sets.
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While meta-analyses are good of obtaining a summary view of what the research shows, a better understanding of the research can be obtained by examining a few key specific studies in more detail.
In the typical paradigm, randomly selected individuals are shown either a violent or non-violent short film or TV program or play a violent or non-violent video game and are then observed as they have the opportunity to aggress. Are they barking like the innocent dog on Blue's Clues, or are they pretending to be in a fighting stance ready to punch the bad guy?
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This story happened in my 1996 Piper Malibu Mirage, and my wife and our 16-year-old son were with me. He was doing his homework in the back. We were flying from Chino in Southern California to Reno, Nevada, for his pole-vaulting invitational in January.
Winter over the Sierras can make for an interesting flight. We departed at 10 a.m., which would have us arriving by noon, and the winds weren't forecast to pick up until after 1 p.m. Given the expectation of turbulence and winds, we decided to fly up the west side of the Sierras near Sacramento and then shoot directly over the northern part of Lake Tahoe to come into Reno. I figured I could monitor the NorCal Approach frequency handling Reno and listen to the pilot reports of turbulence. If it was too excessive, my plan was to not even go over the Sierras but to land at Sacramento and spend the night. Sacramento was rainy with a 3,000-foot overcast and 10 miles visibility.
I filed IFR, climbed to FL220, and remained in visual conditions with only small little pockets of chop throughout the first two hours. As we approached the Sierras, the controller said there had not been too many complaints.
Since there were limited reports of turbulence in the area and I was still over the western edge of the Sierras, I began a gradual descent and started pulling back the power. My son packed away his table and books and we all cinched our seatbelts tight, just in case.
By the time I was at 17,000 feet, the power was back to 20 inches and the engine was running cool. I was coming up to TRUCK intersection and the NorCal controller said he had just received a report of severe turbulence about 12 miles north of the Reno/Tahoe International Airport. Aircraft were beginning to report severe turbulence taking off to the south, also about 10 to 12 miles. He asked me if I had the airport in sight, which I did, and said he thought that the turbulence would be less rough near the airport, which lies in the middle of a valley surrounded by mountains and hills. There had been no reports on left downwind legs, and he asked if I wanted to cross over the field and do a left downwind approach. Since I could clearly see the airport in the distance, I said this seemed like a good approach. He cleared me to descend to 9,000 and proceed direct to Reno, expecting a left downwind approach.
The power was back, the gear was down, and I started a gradual descent, keeping the airspeed below 120 KIAS the entire way. This was going well. We had experienced only light to moderate chop, and we were going to make our destination of Reno.
As I neared the runways at Reno, flying directly perpendicular to my intended landing runway, a lone cloud sat directly over the airport at about 10,000 or 11,000 feet. It didn't seem big, was definitely not a cumulus cloud, didn't seem too far around, and wasn't very high. I didn't think anything of it since I would be safely below it by at least 1,000 to 2,000 feet. As I neared the cloud it started to get bumpy, and I told everyone to make sure they were buckled tight. I turned off the autopilot and allowed the airplane to float over the waves, if we were going to hit any. I also began pulling the power back even more as I didn't care if we lost pressurization being at 9,000 feet now.
Right underneath the western edge of the cloud, I immediately hit a wall of rising air and it drove the vertical speed indicator to 2,500 fpm in an instant. We were pushed into the cloud and tossed around violently. I watched the altimeter and airspeed indicator to make sure my speed didn't pick up too much and to make sure I still had some good distance between us and the ground. The altimeter read 11,000 feet, but had read 9,000 an instant before. My attitude was all over the place, and I was doing everything I could to maintain some semblance of straight-and-level flight. I pulled the power back to idle and watched the airspeed yo-yo from 100 to 130 KIAS. The G500 PFD flashed Fail twice, meaning it couldn't get accurate attitude information.
We were out of control, in a cloud, and I was just hoping we could get in the clear without losing part of the airplane so I could get an attitude reference the old-fashioned way—with my eyes.
After what seemed like five minutes but probably was only 30 seconds of terror, we made it to the other side of the cloud, into the clear, and I could see we were right side up, going about 100 KIAS and still at about 11,000 feet. I told the NorCal controller that we encountered severe and possibly extreme turbulence but that I didn't think any damage was done and no one was hurt. My wife, sitting next to me in the right seat, had her head in her hands and was praying, which was good because she was doing everything she could to remain calm. I told the controller I wanted direct to the airport, and he asked if I could cancel IFR and said he could clear me direct if I would.
We landed relatively uneventfully, and when we got out, I asked the lineman where the designated spot to kiss the ground was.
I looked up at the lone cloud, which did not look the least bit menacing, and found out later that it was a rotor cloud. Some of my friends who fly regularly in the mountains said they give these clouds a very wide berth and would rather encounter severe turbulence than be tossed around in a rotor cloud.
So, what did I learn from this experience? With my wife and son on board, if I hear "severe," I'm turning to my alternate. A nice dinner and a beer in Sacramento followed by an early morning flight to Reno would have been fine. Second, I am thankful that I had the conversation with the owner of the FBO at Chino about cinching tight the seatbelts and slumping down in the seats when encountering severe turbulence. My son said his books were actually hitting the ceiling in the back. Pulling back the power and extending the landing gear helped me to reduce the indicated airspeed to a crawl, which I'm sure saved us during our rotor cloud encounter.
Two days later, we departed Reno before 9 a.m. in calm winds. We made it home having only hit small pockets of light chop along the way. That night, while watching the news, we learned that Vice President Joe Biden was in town that day for a speech, and because of the winds at Reno, he diverted to Fallon. My wife looked at me and said, "The vice president, with all his great equipment and pilots, chose not to land at Reno, but you did?"
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Sanctuary - The Story of Ayuba
Ayuba
"They have no one else to help them but me."
Ayuba Azagwu is currently sheltering 58 people in his house.
Sounds pretty tight, right? Ayuba has nine rooms and one toilet - it can't be the most comfortable of living arrangements.
But actually 58 people is nothing. It's peanuts. It's nowhere near the most people this remarkable man has sheltered at one time. He's had 136 people in there before.
And he doesn't have to do it. He's not duty bound. As far as he's concerned, it's just the right thing to do.
Let's rewind a bit and give you some context. Whilst living in his village, Goza, in Nigeria, Ayuba heard that Boko Haram, a Nigerian militant group, were becoming active in his area. Not wanting to wait until his village was actually under attack, Ayuba left before many of his neighbours and managed to find a property in the Wulari community of Maiduguri.
"I arrived in Maiduguri alone and ... started to try and settle the place for my people to come and stay."
Ayuba was clever enough (and, let's be honest, rich enough) to get out ahead of the violence. Many others were not so lucky. Boko Haram swept into the village, burning everything before them and driving out the inhabitants. Ayuba lost three houses in the inferno, all of which he had built himself.
That's when the families started arriving in Maiduguri. The first family he invited into his home, he owed a favour to, he housed them in order to repay a debt. But then came a second family and a third. He couldn't turn them away. Not his own people. Soon Ayuba was sharing his property with well over 100 others.
"Many of the people here are from my own village and I know them. Many of their belongings have perished in the fire. My belongings perished also. They had no one else to help them but me. In the village I helped and it's an obligation for me to help now."
It's a pretty bleak situation. Ayuba made his money as a farmer but he can't plant crops with Boko Haram still a constant security threat and even if he could, guess how he used to afford to buy the seeds? That's right, rent from the property he's now giving away for free.
It's a situation that's taking a toll on Ayuba - both financially and physically.
"I now have a kidney issue and an ulcer. I think maybe it's been caused by stress."
Maybe? Yeah, I guess having everything you own burnt to the ground, your family chased from their home and then generously giving away your one source of income because you feel duty-bound to help your neighbours might cause some stress.
It's definitely a possibility.
And deep down in my heart, this story makes me feel so small and humbled. Because to be honest I'm not sure if I could have done the same. To give up my privacy, my autonomy; to cut off the one financial lifeline I had - just because it was the right thing to do.
I can't truly say whether I'm capable of that level of generosity and grace.
Ayuba can though. He's losing everything, bit by bit, so that others can get back on their feet and start to rebuild. Can a solution be found before there's nothing left for him to give?
"We ask that people pray for us, so our lives can return to normal and we can go back to our old life which is better than what we have here."


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Q: Can I add suffix in urlMapping for HttpPost in RestResource I'm having an apex class like this:
@RestResource(urlMapping='/api/v1')
global without sharing class MyRestService {
 @HttpGet
 global static List<sObject> getDataById() {...}
 @HttpPost
 global static List<sObject> createData() {...}
}

While @HttpGet method still uses the urlMapping as above, I want to add more suffixes for urlMapping in @HttpPost method (For example: '/api/v1/createData'). How could I achieve this case? Thank you!

A: You can specify a wildcard in order to allow the class to respond to all suffixes:
@RestResource(urlMapping='/api/v1/*')

You can then determine the resource by reading the value from RestContext:
String resourceUri = RestContext.request.requestUri;

And from there, you can determine what you want to do. For example:
switch on RestContext.request.requestUri.removeStart('/api/v1/') {
  when 'createData' {
    createData();
  }
  when 'deleteData' {
    deleteData();
  }
  when else {
    respondAsBadRequest();
  }
}

You could also do other things, like using an interface class for dynamic programming. Really, the sky's the limit depending on your skill level.

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A: This smacks of theft! Check your cubbyholes. They may also have helped themselves to your spare change.
Q: Regarding the Lincoln MKC owner who didn't get a loaner car, as a judge, I would side with the owner because Lincoln in its brochure (and in its TV commercials, as well) creates the expectation of this type of luxury car service. While not delivering the service may not be outright fraud, it is certainly poor customer relations, to say the least.
R.E., La Grange Park, Ill.
A: The court of public opinion would concur.
Q: I have a 2010 Chrysler Sebring convertible with a broken motor for the top, so I am unable to use the convertible. I took my car to my local dealer and have been waiting for a motor since May 26. I have now involved Chrysler and they are still unable to locate a motor. How is this possible? Do you have any suggestions for me? It is almost the end of convertible season and this is so disheartening for me.
L.H., Bedford Hills, N.Y.
A: We did some poking around, but also came up empty-handed. The best we could find was offers of used motors on eBay.
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J.N., Crown Point, Ind.
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England Must Look After Stokes During Ashes, Says Nasser Hussain
London, Dec 3 : Former England captain Nasser Hussain said on Friday that the team has to look after all-rounder Ben Stokes during the 2021/22 Ashes in Australia.
He added that Stokes should play the first Test at The Gabba on December 8 as he can match Australia step by step.Stokes is making a comeback to competitive Cricket after taking a mental well-being break in July as England will be aiming to regaining the urn in Australia for the first time since 2010/11 during the five-match series in December and January.
"There is no question that England must look after Ben Stokes during this Ashes, but as long as he comes through his mental and physical tests, he must play at the Gabba next week.An away Ashes is more demanding than anything else in Cricket because of the conditions, opposition, crowds and travel.
"And Covid restrictions have added an extra element.If you are not fully up for the fight, Australia is not the place to be," wrote Hussain in his column for Daily Mail on Friday.
"Coach Chris Silverwood and England director Ashley Giles have said they will not rush Ben back.That is the right approach.They have to show a duty of care to someone who has not played since July because of his broken finger and to protect his mental wellbeing.
"But in an iconic series when you need your toughest characters and the type of cricketer who will stand toe to toe with the Australians, Stokes is a must-pick for Brisbane on Wednesday," added Hussain.
The 53-year-old believes that when Stokes is around the England team, the effect of his presence rubs well on the side as well as captain Joe Root.
"Root will have Jos Buttler one side of him and on the other he will want his talismanic figure, the man who will constantly be urging him to take the aggressive option.That man is Stokes.
Root can be conservative and, yes, there will be times when he has to 'sit in' against Australia.But England's attitude changes when Stokes is around.
"Just look at the type of players who have succeeded against Australia.Ian Botham, Kevin Pietersen, Andrew Flintoff and, lest we forget, Stokes himself so famously at Headingley in the last Ashes.They never took a backward step.So Joe Root will be desperate to have Stokes in his side at the Gabba."
Hussain wants England to keep Stokes at number six in the batting order as it would be beneficial in getting the rhythm back.
"I would bat Stokes at six at the Gabba.I always find it a little odd for batters to come in after an all-rounder, so the time has come for Ollie Pope or Jonny Bairstow to bat at five followed by Stokes and then Buttler.And if he doesn't play now, when will Stokes get into nick? They are playing all five Ashes Tests back to back and there will be no other warm-up opportunities for him.He can take time to get back into the rhythm of batting, so it won't be easy.The sooner he starts playing, the quicker he will be up to speed."
At the same time, Hussain has cautioned England on making Stokes bowl a lot with his medium-pace.
"Where England have to be very careful is in limiting the overs Stokes bowls.That can be difficult because whatever Stokes does, he does it full-on.So Root and Silverwood will have to be very strict, talk to the medical people and Stokes himself.If it means restricting him to 10 overs a day, so be it.
"This lad has missed so much Cricket and the rain in Queensland means he hasn't even been able to get much time in the two warm-up games.So much of batting is a mental challenge, but bowling is very much a physical one and we know Ben won't ease himself into the workload.The last thing we need is for him to be going into his 15th over of the day at the Gabba and his body snapping."
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import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Observable';
import { Http } from 'angular2/http';

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export class Config {

    private _config: Object
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    private _configCustom: Object

    constructor(private http: Http) {
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                .map(res => res.json())
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                        .map(res => res.json())
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                            console.error(error);
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"Do you know who I'm?", my great grandmother asked looking into my eyes. A small chuckle went around the room that echoed with boisterous energy from the aunts and children that surround her bed. Perhaps they knew the answer, as did the old lady. I played with the idea of being honest with her, that my being a non-local and only occasionally travelling to the hometown on vacation every few years would be an excuse enough. But the more I looked at her, it ran through like flashes, the younger version of this old lady, which looked a lot like my grandma. "Go kiss her hand, she is your Nani", Ammi would hush me up and say whenever we saw her at social gatherings. I would go up to her and kiss her hand in respect. She never asked if I knew her and politely enquired about how I was. "Ofcourse, Badi Nani Ma I know who you are", I murmured half confidently. She fell into silence for a good few minutes. And we thought the conversation has ceased much to my relief.
"I'm very content, I have everything I wanted and a good life. Now I want to just rest in peace", she said looking up at the fan that hardly rotated. At 17, I didn't quite know what contentment was but she looked contend. She looked ready to meet the earth. We absorbed the silence that her words had created, everyone stood still, including me, which I had never learned before. The silence was broken by the foot steps of her daughter in law, who walked in with a plate of aloo kheema and roti. The potatoes were mashed and the roti mashed to dough consistency with water. The symphonic aroma of spices now over powered every other smell even that of my ittar. "She still likes her food spicy and won't eat khichdi" said the daughter in law complainingly. Khichdi being subtly spiced rice and lentils dish that's often given to patient as it's filling and easier to digest.
My grandma and I pulled her up to a sitting position. As her daughter in law started to feed her with her hands, her face brightened up, savouring each bite slowly in her almost toothless mouth. I thought she'll nibble daintily as someone preparing to meet the earth would, but if there was something she could still look forward too, it was the food. Perhaps, we would have got along quite well had she more time left to live.
Aloo Kheema is a rustic meat and potato dish usually made in most parts of Northern India. Aloo refers to potatoes but kheema is a general term for mince meat of any type, goat meat being the most common. The recipe follows the simple Indian trinity of red onions, garlic and spices. Anything, that's rustic and made on regular basis in Indian homes is made sans a strict recipe, specially when it comes to spices. When we make it at home, I alternative between simply being generous with ground garam masala to sometimes when I feel like, I'll bring out all the whole spices like cinnamon, cardamom - black and green, cloves, bay leaves and star anise. Usually though, I'll opt for a middle route, cinnamon and bay leaf sizzled in ghee and just the right pinch of garam masala.
Once the spices sizzle add the onions and cook them until translucent. Tip in the ginger and garlic paste.
Add in the turmeric, red chilly and coriander powder. Once the spices cook out a bit (around a minute), add the mince meat and potatoes. Let them brown a little for around 3-4 minutes.
Finally, add the tomatoes and give it a good mix. Generally I find that two large tomatoes create enough moisture to cook the meat and potatoes in but if you find it particularly dry, add a splash of water to keep things moving.
Cover and cook until the meat is cooked through and potatoes are fork tender. Add the garam masala and cook for another minutes.
Serve with roti, naan or pita bread. Garnish with coriander leaves and lemon wedges.
I loved your story about your Nani... I would give anything to kiss my Nani's hand one more time. I love Kheema and can't wait to try your version. I'd also love to see your version of Khichdi, maybe sometime in the future, you can post that recipe. Thank you for sharing your story, and this recipe.
Thanks for mentioning the Khichdi - I'm excited someone would be interested in the recipe, I love it! And thank you for your kind comment.
A tasty combination and droolworthy dish. I particularly like the picture of the spices.
My goodness... I must make this for Eric. He loves all lamb dishes, but with all of these spices he's sure to go crazy over it.
How beautiful Kulsum! Felt like I was in the room with you and your great-grandmother. I miss mine,she loved food and life too!
Thanks Rose. It's strange because I hardly know her but even then (when I didn't cook) I connected her memories with food.
So true about rustic everyday recipes, that they have no standard recipe. The spicing changes with seasons and moods, each family adds a signature to these.
I cook alu keema with fat red chillies or fat green chillies sometimes and love it.
Nani's are the best! Reading your story reminded me of mine and how much I miss her!! This mince looks so flavorful and your photography is stunning!
Dear K, Im thrilled with this recipe. I just tried it and my home is filled with the delicious aroma. Simply amazing. Thank you.
What a lovely memory. I too felt I was in the room with your family.