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Dilip Kumar discharged from hospital
HomeDilip Kumar discharged from hospital
Press Trust Of IndiaUpdated: September 27, 2013 7:36 am IST
Dilip Kumar was admitted to the hospital last Sunday (September 15, 2013)
Legendary Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar, who was recuperating at the Lilavati Hospital here, was discharged on Thursday (September 26, 2013), following improvement in his condition.
The 90-year-old thespian was kept in the intensive care unit (ICU) for ten days after he suffered a myocardial infarction (heart attack) on September 15. The veteran actor had undergone a heart surgery 14 years ago.
"He is better and hence it was decided to take him home," sources close to the actor told PTI.
Born as Muhammad Yusuf Khan, he later adopted the film name of Dilip Kumar.
In a career spanning over six decades, Dilip Kumar starred in a variety of films including romantic, drama, comedy and socio-historic. He was crowned as the 'Tragedy King of Bollywood' for playing a doomed lover on screen in Devdas, Madhumati and Ganga Jamuna.
His other memorable films include Naya Daur, Mughal-e-Azam, Ram Shyam, Kranti, Mashaal, Baabul' and Jogan. His last film was Qila in 1998.
The actor was honoured with the Padma Bhushan in 1991 and Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1994 for his outstanding contribution to Indian cinema.
Also, he was awarded the Nishan-e-Imtiaz, the highest civilian award conferred by the government of Pakistan in 1998.
Mumbai: Legendary Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar, who was recuperating at the Lilavati Hospital here, was discharged on Thursday (September 26, 2013), following improvement in his condition.
In a career spanning over six decades, Dilip Kumar starred in a variety of films including romantic, drama, comedy and socio-historic. He was crowned as the'Tragedy King of Bollywood' for playing a doomed lover on screen in Devdas, Madhumati and Ganga Jamuna.
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The results of the Global Energy Architecture Performance Index Report 2017 reveal nuances in the transitions of the world's energy systems. While advanced European economies still hold many of the top ranks on the EAPI, countries outside this peer group are amply represented. This suggests that any country has the potential to provide secure, affordable and sustainable energy to its population, regardless of the size of its economy, its level of advancement, geographical region or exporter status. In fact, examining the history and ongoing transitions of some of the EAPI's high performers, as well as those of countries that have made big step changes in performance over the past eight years, indicate commonalities among all their differences. These take form in three principles of energy-sector governance. Under these principles, the paths the countries take to steer their sectors through transition are marked by differences. These differences, in turn, highlight that every country needs a tailored approach to suit its unique context while seeking to fulfil the same ultimate goal: namely, a more sustainable, affordable, secure and inclusive energy system.
Underneath the perceived inertia of the global energy system, the EAPI highlights some significant movements of individual countries and reveals progress on the energy transition. Similarly, it calls attention to the challenges countries continue to face. Energy architecture is large and complex, and enormous legacy systems remain in place. The scale and complexity involved will require that stakeholders take an incremental approach, particularly if they are to manage the economic impact of writing down legacy assets. The transition continues to require sustained efforts and deep collaboration between the public and private sectors over the long term, in order to evolve energy systems for the better.
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No Mind No Money is London-based band Beach Baby's debut album. The lo-fi four piece combines garage rock influences with an 80's-esque style to create tracks that are both loud and melancholy. "Limousine" kicks of the album with very synth-pop instruments alongside dark lyrical content. It reflects that careless, self-destructive, youth culture adequately. "You cut your arm just to watch it bleed," lead singers Ollie and Lawrence half-sing half-whine.
No Mind No Money is the type of album you would listen to while wearing a leather jacket on the beach and being sad. Look out for a tracklist full of being too broke, not being sober enough, self-loathing, but definitely looking hot while you do it. Listening to "No Mind No Money," you can't help but bob your head along, the mangled but bold guitar solos add an element of grit that is missing in other places in this album. Beach Baby shows promise, packed with all the angst of heavier bands and all the potential for making sing-along pop songs, they just need to define themselves more clearly and purposefully in where they want to make those things come together.


Last December our group held our first ForteCon, a three-day small conference/workshop on coding in Forte. You can see a summary of the topics covered in ForteCon2018 on our public GitHub resources folder.
Ab initio quantum chemistry is an emerging computational area that is fifty years ahead of lattice gauge theory…and a rich source of new ideas and new approaches to the computation of many fermion systems.
I recently read this paper (Wilson, K. G. Ab Initio Quantum Chemistry: a Source of Ideas for Lattice Gauge Theorists. Nuclear Physics B – Proc. Suppl. 1990, 17, 82–92) and found it extremely interesting. The article begins by saying that Wilsons had switched his field of research from lattice gauge theory to computational quantum chemistry. One of the reasons for this change, Wilson says, is ancestral, adding an interesting explanatory note in which he acknowledges discussions with his father, E. B. Wilson. The second reason he reports is the lack of sources of inspiration in his field.
In his paper Wilson discusses the benefits of using Gaussian basis functions compared to numerical grids, the emphasis of quantum chemistry on analytic approaches rather than stochastic methods, and "the status of my efforts to ease the programming burden using the C++ programming language".
In just a few pages, Wilson summarizes with extreme clarity the state-of-the-art in quantum chemistry (in 1989). He provides a very clear description of the major challenges in this field, and succinctly analyzes purpose and limitations of some of the most important methods used in quantum chemistry.
I think this article is a little gem and recommend it especially to those interested in the history of physics and quantum chemistry. I hope you will enjoy reading it!
A photo of the group in front of the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry at the University Georgia. We were there to attend the 2016 Psi4 developers workshop. Kevin, Sam, Wallace, and Francesco gave talks on parallel CASSCF, new data structures for sparse CI, valence virtual orbitals, and the Wick&d project.
Here is a photo of Jeff, Kevin, Sam, and Francesco at the Sci-Mix poster session of the San Diego ACS meeting.
I recently watched an interesting interview of Freeman Dyson in which he recalls a meeting with Enrico Fermi. During the meeting they discussed calculations done by Dyson, but Fermi was skeptical of the model used to produce the data. Hence, Fermi quoted von Neumann: "With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." Today I found this article, which actually does fit the shape of an elephant with four complex parameters.
Our new espresso machine (SAECO Via Venezia) and coffee grinder (Cuisinart Supreme Grind™ Automatic Burr Mill) have arrived! We'll be happy to serve you an espresso or a cappuccino when you visit us.
Tensor product methods and entanglement optimization for ab initio quantum chemistry. This review of tensor product approximations in quantum chemistry by Szalay et al. was just posted on arXiv. At times a bit formal, this is a nice introduction to the topic.
In Search of a Rational Dressing of Intermediate Effective Hamiltonians. This is a paper on intermediate Hamiltonian theory, an approach to deal with the intruder state problem in effective Hamiltonian theories. From the abstract: The intermediate effective Hamiltonians are designed to provide M exact energies and the components of the corresponding eigenvectors in the N-dimensional model space, with N > M. The effective Hamiltonian is not entirely defined by these N × M conditions, and several dressings of the Hamiltonian matrix in the model space are possible.
Appointing silver and bronze standards for noncovalent interactions: A comparison of spin-component-scaled (SCS), explicitly correlated (F12), and specialized wavefunction approaches. A systematic investigation of the accuracy of non-covalent interaction predicted with various quantum chemical methods by Burns and co-workers. From the abstract: After examination of both accuracy and performance for 394 model chemistries, SCS(MI)-MP2/cc-pVQZ can be recommended for general use, having good accuracy at low cost and no ill-effects such as imbalance between hydrogen-bonding and dispersion-dominated systems or non-parallelity across dissociation curves. Moreover, when benchmarking accuracy is desirable but gold-standard computations are unaffordable, this work recommends silver-standard [DW-CCSD(T**)-F12/aug-cc-pVDZ] and bronze-standard [MP2C-F12/aug-cc-pVDZ] model chemistries, which support accuracies of 0.05 and 0.16 kcal/mol and efficiencies of 97.3 and 5.5 h for adenine·thymine, respectively.


The Stuart Weitzman brand was named after the designer. He's known for his embellished wedges. Rumors swirled that Weitzman created a pair of $1 million dollar shoes for an A-list celebrity. This rumored shoe is covered in platinum gold and real diamonds. Weitzman has the most expensive shoes in the world, climbing upwards of $3 million dollars. The materials he uses to create his shoes are so unique and rare and is what makes his shoes so expensive.


Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) unveiled a proposal on March 8 to break up Silicon Valley's leading tech conglomerates, a move she argued would promote competition and prevent tech giants from crowding out competitors, reported Bloomberg.
Warren, a vocal critic of Wall Street and an antitrust advocate, maintained that she would select regulators who will unwind "anti-competitive tech mergers" such as Amazon's recent purchase of Whole Foods and Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp. The 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful further claimed that although Microsoft was correctly sued for violating anti-monopoly laws in the 1990s, this event enabled companies such as Google and Facebook to emerge and limit competition through proprietary marketplaces and mergers.
Warren's far-reaching legislative proposal targets tech giants that earn a global annual revenue of $25 billion or more, forcing Google and Amazon to relinquish their current dominance in online commerce. The break up would also prevent Amazon from controlling which products to feature or advertise more prominently.
Carl Szabo, Vice President of the e-commerce trade group NetChoice, contends that Warren is wrong to claim that tech markets lack competition, reports Reuters. "Never before have consumers and workers had more access to goods, services and opportunities online," he argues.
Senator Warren's decision to use $25 billion in annual revenue as a baseline is noteworthy, given how current antitrust laws primarily depend on ambiguous indicators such as market share and evidence of price gouging.


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Лучо́са (Лучеса; устар. Лучёса; ) — река в Белоруссии, левый приток Западной Двины. Протекает в Витебском и Лиозненском районах Витебской области, впадает в Западную Двину в пределах города Витебска.

Происхождение названия
Название Лучосы, согласно В.Н. Топорову, балтского происхождение и имеет аналог в виде названия литовско-латышской реки, также притока Двины Laukesa (по-латышски - Laucesa). Корень в этих названиях связан с др.-лит. laukas "светлый, сияющий" и далее ведет к индоевропейскому leuk- с тем же значением.

Согласно раннему (1912) мнению А. Шахматова, название реки Лучоса должно быть сопоставлено с кельтским гидронимом Lutosa и объясняется из кельтского lutâ, loth «ил», «глина» в сочетании с кельтским деминутивным суффиксом -es-, -os-.

Описание

Берёт начало из озера Зеленского около деревни Бабиновичи Лиозненского района. Высота истока — несколько выше 154,1 м над уровнем моря.

Длина реки составляет 90 км. Ширина 20—30 м, в низовьях до 60 м. Средний расход воды недалеко от устья — 21,4 м³/с. Средний уклон реки — 0,3 м/км.

Площадь водосбора составляет 3510 км². Водосбор находится в пределах Лучосской низины, изрезан речными долинами, ложбинами и котловинами. Долина трапецеидальная, шириной 400—600 м, в верховьях невыраженная. Берега преимущественно крутые, местами обрывистые. Пойма (шириной 300—500 м) прерывистая, чередуется по берегам, более развита на левобережье.

Река замерзает в начале декабря до конца марта. В половодье среднее превышение уровня воды над меженью в нижнем течении составляет 6,2 м, максимальное 9,9 м (по данным 1956 года).

Основные правые притоки — Черница, Суходровка, Ворле, левые — Ордышевка, Серокоротнянка, Оболянка, Черничанка.

В бассейне реки расположены озёра Городно, Серокоротня, Кичино, Ситнянское.

На левом берегу у деревни Бароники (Бороники) и на правом у деревень Мяклово и Шапуры находятся археологические памятники — городища, селища и курганный могильник.

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Литература

Притоки Западной Двины
Реки Витебского района
Реки Лиозненского района

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My name is Shanon Rice. I am a stay at home mother. I am originally from Muscle Shoals, AL. I left there in 2001 to attend Faulkner University where I met my husband, Brint. We have been married since 2003 and now live in Alexander City, AL. We have three kids, Lily, Barrett, and Kason, whom I homeschool. We currently attend Wetumpka Church of Christ. I first spent a week at Backwoods when I was 18 years old. I have been back every summer since then! I have been on the Backwoods Board of Directors since 2003. My summers are spent working at BCC where I manage the kitchen. I love camp and I love watching what it can do in a person's life. I love spending my summers there and I love that my children are growing up there around Christian friends.


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Leclerc's brother secures Venturi FE rookie test
By AutoSport
The Venturi ABB FIA Formula E team will field Arthur Leclerc - younger brother of 2019 Ferrari Formula 1 racer Charles Leclerc - alongside Norman Nato at the Marrakech rookie test.
Leclerc is a member of Venturi's 'Next Gen' development scheme and was the first driver to sample its VFE-05 Gen2 car during the private manufacturer testing period in early 2018.
He also drove the team's Gen1 challenger at the Ales circuit in southern France last year.
"I'm honoured to be selected by Venturi and as a Monegasque, it's particularly special for me," said Leclerc.
"I will dedicate myself completely to the team in their quest to optimise the Venturi VFE-05 and I'm very grateful for the opportunity to drive this outstanding car again.
"Formula E is a pioneering, inventive and young championship, and one in which I am very keen to play an active part.
"I'm fortunate to be involved in it at such an early stage in my career and I want to thank Gildo [Pastor, Venturi president] and Susie [Wolff, team principal] for believing in me."
Last season was Leclerc's first in car racing following a truncated karting career.
He finished fifth in the 2018 French Formula 4 championship with two wins and one pole position.
"Arthur has shown promise in karting and F4 and I'm looking forward to seeing how he gets on in Marrakesh," said Wolff.
"Both he and Norman, alongside Simona [de Silvestro, Venturi test driver], will both play a very valuable role at this early stage of the season where critical development can take place.
"We took home some key learnings in Ad Diriyah, we have plenty of work ahead over the coming races, rookie tests like these give the team important opportunities to improve."
Nato is Venturi's reserve driver for the 2018/19 season. His participation in the Marrakech test that follows this month's race was revealed with his new role was announced in December.
Juncadella and Marciello to test for HWA
Daniel Juncadella and Raffaele Marciello will drive in the Marrakech test for HWA.
Juncadella, the Mercedes-affiliate squad's test and development driver, will get his second FE outing of the campaign.
He drove HWA's Venturi-powered car in place of Stoffel Vandoorne on the final day of pre-season testing at Valencia.
Marciello's appearance in Marrakech will be the first time he has driven an FE car.
The 2018 Blancpain GT Sprint Cup champion has long been linked with HWA and is a regular Mercedes sportscar driver.
"We are pleased to announce Raffaele and Daniel as our test drivers for Marrakech," said HWA team principal Ulrich Fritz.
"Raffaele has been closely associated with our team for a long time. In recent years, he has shown his class in GT racing.
"Prior to that, he was European Formula 3 champion with one of our engines in 2013.
"With his experience, I am confident that he will provide us with valuable input at the test.
"The same obviously goes for our official test and development driver, Dani."