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Dennis Swinnen (* 7. August 1993 in Lier, Belgien) ist ein deutsch-belgischer Eishockeyspieler, der seit 2021 beim Herner EV in der drittklassigen deutschen Oberliga Nord unter Vertrag steht.

Karriere
Dennis Swinnen, der in Belgien geboren wurde, aber auch die deutsche Staatsbürgerschaft besitzt, spielte zunächst für die U16-Mannschaft des Kölner EC in der Schüler-Bundesliga. 2008 wechselte er in die DNL-Mannschaft der Kölner, wo er die nächsten Jahre spielte. Sowohl als Schüler als auch im DNL-Team der Kölner wurde er in dieser Zeit jeweils zum wertvollsten Spieler der Saison gewählt. Während der Spielzeit 2011/12 wechselte er rheinabwärts zum Krefelder EV. Wurde er auch dort zunächst überwiegend in der DNL eingesetzt, so konnte er sich in der Folgesaison im Oberliga-Team der Krefelder etablieren. 2013 wechselte er zum Oberliga-Aufsteiger Grefrather EG, wo er aber nur eine Saison spielte. Da er für die Saison 2014/15 kein Förderlizenzvertrag von den Krefelder Pinguinen erhielt,
verließ er anschließend erstmals in seiner Spielerkarriere das Rheinland und heuerte im Sommer 2014 bei den Lausitzer Füchsen in Weißwasser an, bei denen er einen Zweijahresvertrag unterschrieb. Kam er in seiner ersten Saison beim sächsischen Traditionsverein auf wenig Eiszeit und drei Tore, konnte er sich im folgenden Jahr weiterentwickeln und erzielte in der Saison 2015/16 schon 12 Treffer. So lief er auch in der folgende Saison für Weißwasser aufs Eis und war von Saisonbeginn an einer der Leistungsträger seiner Mannschaft. Am Ende der Hauptrunde war Swinnen mit 52 Punkten und 28 Toren sowohl bester Scorer als auch Torschützenkönig seines Teams, erreichte mit selbigem die direkte Playoffs-Qualifikation und landete mit diesem Wert auch im Torschützenranking der Liga auf Platz 3. Damit erfüllte sich ein Traum des Belgiers nach einem Engagement in der höchsten deutschen Eishockeyliga DEL und er wechselte für die folgende Spielzeit zum DEL-Team ERC Ingolstadt. Sein DEL-Debüt gab er am 22. September 2017 beim Spiel des ERC in Schwenningen. Insgesamt lief er in dieser Saison in 43 Spielen für die Oberbayern auf das Eis, konnte sich jedoch nur am 14. Januar 2018 im Spiel gegen die Düsseldorfer EG als Torschütze auszeichnen. Bereits nach einer Spielzeit verließ er Ingolstadt wieder und kehrte in die DEL2 zurück, wo er bis zum Ende der Saison 2019/20 für die Bietigheim Steelers auf dem Eis stand. Aufgrund von Verletzungen konnte er dort sein ganzes Potential nicht entfalten. Im Juni 2020 wurde er von den Dresdner Eislöwen verpflichtet und stand dort bis zum Ende der Saison 2020/21 unter Vertrag. Anschließend wechselte er zum Herner EV in die drittklassige Oberliga Nord.

International
Für Belgien nahm Swinnen im Juniorenbereich an der U-20-Weltmeisterschaft 2013 in der Division II teil.

Mit der Herren-Nationalmannschaft spielte Swinnen bei den Weltmeisterschaften der Division II 2012 und 2014, wobei 2012 der Aufstieg von der B- in die A-Gruppe der Division II gelang.

Erfolge und Auszeichnungen
 2012 mit Belgien Aufstieg in die Division II, Gruppe A, bei der Weltmeisterschaft der Division II, Gruppe B

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Einzelnachweise

Eishockeynationalspieler (Belgien)
Eishockeyspieler (Lausitzer Füchse)
Eishockeyspieler (ERC Ingolstadt)
Eishockeyspieler (SC Bietigheim-Bissingen)
Eishockeyspieler (Dresdner Eislöwen)
Belgier
Deutscher
Geboren 1993
Mann

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I took the XP Deus metal detector to the Iron Pit. The Iron Pit has become the proving grounds for all my metal detectors.
The Deus p-owned the Iron Pit!
I have said that I have hunted the Iron Pit until there were no signals left except ferrous signals. Then I took the Tesoro Compadre and was floored that I was able to get a few non-ferrous targets out of the Iron Pit.
Well today, after work, I hit the Iron Pit with the Deus. In essence and for all practical purposes, the Iron Pit has become a live site again, with LOTS of non-ferrous signals.
I even managed to get a silver earring!
Not pictured are about a dozen pull tabs and beaver tails that were invisible to my other detectors.
This was so loud and clear, a deaf man could have found it.
Getting non-ferrous targets from an iron-infested site with the Deus was like taking candy from a baby.
I used the Deus Fast program that came installed from the factory. I am so excited at the prospect of gridding the Iron Pit with the Deus and seeing what amazing goodies I missed before.
Oh, and I only took the targets that were easy to extract. I left many signals that were deep and will wait for me and the Sampson T-handle digger.
I went metal detecting with my Tesoro Compadre this morning. My intent was to clean an area at the park of any pull tabs within the first five inches of ground.
A quick Google search reveals that this ring probably dates to the 40's or early 50's. Some people suggest this ring may have come from a cereal box.
At any rate, rings are very personal relics and a ring like this always makes me wonder about the person who wore it. They also had Junior Stewardess rings for girls (it was the 50's after all!) but I believe this ring may have belonged to a girl because a Girl Scout camp stood for many years where I found this ring. I wonder if the person who got this ring as a child is still alive. I wonder if they remember getting this ring and if they sometimes wish they hadn't lost it.
I think it's a very cool ring.
I continue on my quest for gold. I have decided to hunt for gold until I fill a gallon container with pull tabs and other mid tone targets. I am hoping to find a gold item before I fill the container with stuff but I am alarmed at how quickly it's filling up! I am digging an average of 40 mid tone signals per hour.
Meanwhile, I keep finding interesting stuff while digging for gold. Today at lunch, I returned to the Iron Pit. The Iron Pit is the name I've given the honey hole I found last Summer. Anyway, as I was scanning for mid tones, I got a foil signal on the AT Pro. The Target ID (TID) was 45 and the depth was two inches. I dug up an old zinc or lead bell emblem that may have been part of a tag.
Later, I got a mid tone with a TID that jumped from 49 to 50 and back. The AT Pro said the target was six inches deep. I began to dig the hole and just below the surface, I found a tiny tennis racquet charm. It looked pretty nice and silvery and I could see that it had a stamp. When I got to the car, I looked at it with my loupe and sure enough, the mark said sterling.
I am not surprised the charm read lower than a nickel. First, tiny silver can read like that. Second, with all the rusty iron at the Iron Pit, I expect the detector to get confused.
So this makes me wonder about how many countless treasures I've missed in the year I've been detecting because I haven't been digging mid tones consistently. Heck, for the first eight months or so I downright ignored all mid tones.
And yes, I have to say it one more time: The Iron Pit doesn't stop giving!
I found yet another ring today. I hunted with my good friend Patton from the Friendly forum and at one point we were joined by another friend and hunter from the Friendly, Stevouke.
I was hunting with the CZ-3D and toward the end of the hunt, I got a nickel signal. It was a repeatable high tone that sounded deep. The pinpoint verified that the target was six inches deep. I was expecting an old nickel but instead, I found a ring at the bottom of the hole.
The ring looked to be made from gold so I immediately looked for markings. The first thing I noticed was a 1/500. I didn't need to look anymore. I knew this was a gold plated ring. The complete marking reads: 1/500 10K R.G.P. –>M-H.
Seems like a lot of information for a plated ring.
1/500 gold. Does that mean his great-great-great-great grandpa was 100% gold?
The mystery to me is; if gold is so stable, why do gold plated rings turn to muck under the ground?
This ring retains the gold plating on the inside of the ring but it's all gone from the outside.
At any rate, I like that the CZ-3D gives a high tone on 90% of nickels and on about 40% of the square pull tabs, and since gold often comes in at those readings, I think more rings are on my future.
While hunting the ghost town (now plowed under), the guy who invited us told me about Date Nails. It seems that the railroad companies would put a special nail on the railroad ties to date them with the purpose of knowing when to replace them. I had never heard of this before and I thought it was very neat. We walked along the railroad tracks looking at old discarded ties looking for date nails. The oldest we found were from 1929. How cool is that!?
In 1929 a worker nailed this to the railroad tie.
B) The ring was in the dirt for I don't know how long so the abrasions may have come from that.
Anyway. The thing that got resolved beyond doubt was what kind of stone it is. It is a ruby.
Now, where do I sell it?
After looking at the markings for a while it suddenly became clear what they say: HONG KONG.
Although I see no evidence of plating, I will count this ring as plated as I believe that's what this is.
I am hunting with the V3i on Best Data. The 22.5kHz frequency and the 7.5 kHz frequency lined up but the 2.5kHz frequency was off on the rejected negative VDI range. When I pinpointed, the dominant frequencies were the 22.5kHz and the 7.5kHz very much even while the 2.5kHz was a small green bar. The ring was about six inches deep, which tells me it was dropped a while ago. I didn't break the ring, I think it was a lawnmower casualty.
I ordered my gold test kit and it's here (less than $20 U.S. dollars with shipping).
It includes acid to test silver and platinum.
The reason why I needed this test kit is that last year I found two items that I believed were silver but had no markings.
The heart shaped locket cover particularly bothered me because even though the detector reads it as a dime, when you drop it, it doesn't sound like the silver rings I have.
So I tested them this morning and I was surprised to find that the locket cover tested as 80%-90% silver. The ring tested at 90%-100% silver. I also tested my gold rings just to practice.
No more relying on Pawn Shops to test my stuff!
Acid acid on the wall, is this bling or is this gold?


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\section{Introduction}

It is well known that bright spatial solitons in optical media are supported
by the balance between the self-focusing nonlinearity and diffraction. A
great deal of attention has also been recently attracted to more special
cases, when the diffraction is subject to various forms of \textit{managemen
}, so that the diffraction coefficient gradually vanishes or periodically
changes its sign~\cite{management}. In particular, it was shown in Ref.~\cit
{Zhong} that related to such a setting with a vanishing diffraction
coefficient is another recently proposed class of models, in which stable
bright solitons are supported by the interplay of the ordinary diffraction
and self-defocusing nonlinearity, whose local strength grows at
r\rightarrow \infty $ at any rate faster than $r^{D}$, where $D$ is the
spatial dimension \cite{Barcelona}.

A physically important realization of the effectively weak diffraction,
which may therefore be sensitive to corrections that are usually negligible,
is the setting corresponding to the \textit{supercollimation} in photonic
crystals. This setting was demonstrated experimentally \cite{experiment} and
studied in detail theoretically \cite{theory}-\cite{xu}. Similar situations,
and the possibility of the existence of solitary waves in them, were also
analyzed in other photonic media, such as waveguiding arrays \cite{arrays},
cavities \cite{cavity}, and chains with the quadratic nonlinearity \cit
{quadr-array}. Furthermore, it was proposed that similar schemes may be
implemented as well for acoustic waves in sonic crystals \cite{sonic-crystal
, and in Bose-Einstein condensates loaded into optical lattices \cite{BEC}.

The smallness of the diffraction coefficient near the supercollimation point
suggests that the corresponding model should be extended by adding nonlinear
corrections to the diffraction term in the usual nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger
(NLS) equation. Such a generalization of the NLS equation was proposed in
Ref. \cite{xu}. In the framework of the generalized model, new properties of
spatial solitons were predicted---in particular, the existence of a maximum
total power, above which solitary beams do not exist, as well as inelastic
interactions between the beams. The objective of the present work is to
extend the model proposed in Ref. \cite{xu}, and study basic properties of
solitary waves in the extended system. The main modifications, in comparison
with the previously studied model, are that we propose the most general
nonlinear-diffraction terms which agree with the Hamiltonian structure of
the extended NLS equation (the term introduced in Ref. \cite{xu} cannot be
derived from a natural Hamiltonian), and that these general terms depend on
two irreducible parameters, rather than a single parameter, which was the
case in Ref. \cite{xu}.

The extended model is introduced in Section II, where we also present a
variational approximation (VA) \cite{VA} for the study of fundamental
solitary waves in this model, and some additional analytical results.
Numerical results for the shape and stability of the solitons, including the
comparison with predictions of the VA and interactions between solitons
forming out-of-phase and in-phase pairs, are reported in Section III. The
paper is concluded by Section IV.

\section{The model and analytical framework}

Our aim is to derive a general NLS model including different contributions
to the nonlinear diffraction. This is done by developing an extended version
of the model proposed in Ref. \cite{xu} for the description of the
supercollimation in photonic crystals.
We aim to extend the model by using a Lagrangian formulation that produces
terms similar to the one introduced in Ref. \cite{xu}, along with additional
terms invoked by the underlying Lagrangian/Hamiltonian structure.

Our starting point is the Lagrangian density for an extended NLS equation
including the nonlinear diffraction in a general form, $\mathcal{L}=\left(
i/2\right) (q^{\ast }q_{\xi }-qq_{\xi }^{\ast })-\mathcal{H}$, where $q$ is
the local wave amplitude, the asterisk stands for the complex conjugation,
\xi $ is the propagation distance, $\eta $ is the transverse coordinate in
the planar waveguide, and the Hamiltonian density is
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{H}=|q_{\eta }|^{2}-\frac{1}{2}|q|^{4}-\frac{\beta }{2
|q|^{2}|q_{\eta }|^{2}-\frac{\gamma }{4}\left[ \left( {q^{\ast }}\right)
^{2}q_{\eta }^{2}+q^{2}\left( {q_{\eta }^{\ast }}\right) ^{2}\right] ,
\label{H}
\end{equation
with real coefficients $\beta $ and $\gamma $. Varying the Lagrangian,
L=\int_{-\infty }^{+\infty }\mathcal{L}d\eta $, gives rise to the
generalized NLS equation
\begin{equation}
iq_{\xi }+q_{\eta \eta }+|q|^{2}q-\frac{\beta }{2}\left( |q|^{2}q_{\eta \eta
}+q^{\ast }q_{\eta }^{2}\right) +\frac{\gamma }{2}\left( q^{\ast }q_{\eta
}^{2}-2q|q_{\eta }|^{2}-q^{2}q_{\eta \eta }^{\ast }\right) =0.  \label{ele}
\end{equation
This constitutes an extension of Eq.~(3) from Ref. \cite{xu}. In particular,
the term $-\left( \beta /2\right) q^{\ast }q_{\eta }^{2}$, which did not
appear in Ref. \cite{xu}, emerges along with its counterpart, $-\left( \beta
/2\right) |q|^{2}q_{\eta \eta }$, that accounted for the nonlinear
diffraction in Ref. \cite{xu}, in the framework of the self-consistent
Lagrangian/Hamiltonian formulation. Additionally, the terms proportional to
\gamma $, which were absent in the equation adopted in Ref. \cite{xu},
represent contributions to the nonlinear diffraction at the same order as
the terms $\sim \beta $, hence they should be included too. The remaining
terms in Eq. (\ref{ele}) correspond to the ordinary NLS equation.
Dynamical invariants of Eq. (\ref{ele}) are the Hamiltonian,
H=\int_{-\infty }^{+\infty }\mathcal{H}d\eta $, momentum $M=i\int_{-\infty
}^{+\infty }q_{\eta }^{\ast }qd\eta $, and the total power (norm), which we
define a
\begin{equation}
P\equiv \pi ^{-1/2}\int_{-\infty }^{+\infty }|q(\eta )|^{2}d\eta .  \label{p}
\end{equation}

It is relevant to mention another equation including the nonlinear
diffraction, which was derived as a continuum limit of the discrete Salerno
model \cite{Zaragoza} (see also Ref. \cite{additional})
\begin{equation}
iq_{\xi }+\left( 1-m|q|^{2}\right) q_{\eta \eta }+2\left( 1-m\right)
|q|^{2}q=0,  \label{Zara}
\end{equation
with parameter $m$ taking values $0\leq m<1$. In fact, it is the same
equation as the one proposed in Ref. \cite{xu}, with $\beta \equiv m/\left(
1-m\right) $. As shown in Ref. \cite{Zaragoza}, Eq. (\ref{Zara}) conserves
the norm and Hamiltonian
\begin{eqnarray}
P_{m} &=&\int_{-\infty }^{+\infty }\left[ \ln \left( 1-m|q|^{2}\right)
\right] d\eta , \\
H_{m} &=&\int_{-\infty }^{+\infty }\left[ \left\vert q_{\eta }\right\vert
^{2}+2\left( \frac{1}{m}-1\right) |q|^{2}+\frac{2}{m^{2}}\ln \left(
1-m|q|^{2}\right) \right] d\eta .
\end{eqnarray
However, for the purpose of modeling optical media, these norm and
Hamiltonian do not seem natural, unlike those given by Eqs. (\ref{p}) and
\ref{H}), therefore Eq. (\ref{ele}) provides, arguably, a more appropriate
model than Eq. (\ref{Zara}).

Following the lines of Ref. \cite{xu}, we do not include the fourth-order
linear diffraction, that would be represented by a term $\sim q_{\eta \eta
\eta \eta }$ in Eq. (\ref{ele}), assuming that the equation applies to
relatively broad beams, and our objective is to focus on effects of
nonlinear diffraction. Further, as in Refs. \cite{Zaragoza} and \cite{xu},
we focus here on the case of $\beta >0$, which implies that the nonlinear
diffraction competes with its linear counterpart, as in the opposite case a
nonlinear enhancement of the diffraction does not lead to particularly
noteworthy effects.

A straightforward virial estimate demonstrates that Eq. (\ref{ele}) with
\beta >0$ gives rise to a supercritical collapse (catastrophic
self-compression of the wave field) \cite{Berge}; the collapse will be
arrested if the fourth-order linear diffraction is included too. In other
words, it is a \textit{weak collapse}, so called because only a small part
of the total power (norm) of the field is involved into the
self-compression, the rest being scattered away (the collapse is called
\textit{strong}, involving an essential part of the total power, in the
\textit{critical case}, which is driven, for instance, by the quintic
self-focusing term in the one-dimensional NLS equation \cite{Berge,Kuz}).

Stationary solutions to Eq.~(\ref{ele}) are sought in the usual form, $q(\xi
,\eta )=e^{ik\xi }Q(\eta )$, where $Q(\eta )$ is a real function satisfying
the ordinary differential equation
\begin{equation}
-kQ+\frac{d^{2}Q}{d\eta ^{2}}-\frac{1}{2}\left( \beta +\gamma \right) \left[
Q^{2}\frac{d^{2}Q}{d\eta ^{2}}+Q\left( \frac{dQ}{d\eta }\right) ^{2}\right]
+Q^{3}=0.  \label{Q}
\end{equation
Rescaling the field amplitude and coordinate a
\begin{equation}
Q\equiv \sqrt{k}\tilde{Q},~x\equiv \sqrt{k}\eta  \label{Qx}
\end{equation
casts Eq. (\ref{Q}) into a normalized form,
\begin{equation}
-\tilde{Q}+\frac{d^{2}\tilde{Q}}{dx^{2}}-\frac{1}{2}(\beta +\gamma )k\left[
\left( \frac{d\tilde{Q}}{dx}\right) ^{2}\tilde{Q}+{\tilde{Q}}^{2}\frac{d^{2
\tilde{Q}}{dx^{2}}\right] +\tilde{Q}^{3}=0,  \label{Qtilde}
\end{equation
which is more appropriate for the analysis, as it contains a single free
parameter, $(\beta +\gamma )k$. Accordingly, the $P(k)$ dependence,
following from Eqs. (\ref{p}) and (\ref{Qx}), takes the form o
\begin{equation}
P=\sqrt{k}\tilde{P}\left( \left( \beta +\gamma \right) k\right) ,
\label{tilde}
\end{equation
where $\tilde{P}\equiv \pi ^{-1/2}\int_{-\infty }^{+\infty }\left( \tilde{Q
(x)\right) ^{2}dx$ is considered as a function of $\left( \beta +\gamma
\right) k$. Further, it follows from Eq. (\ref{tilde}) that the \textit
cutoff} value of the propagation constant, $k_{\mathrm{co}}$, which is a
border of the soliton stability region according to the VK criterion,
dP/dk=0$, is determined by the equation $\tilde{P}+2\left( \beta +\gamma \right)
k_{\mathrm{co}}\tilde{P}^{\prime }\left( \left( \beta +\gamma \right) k_
\mathrm{co}}\right) =0$ (the prime stands here for the derivative). It
follows from here that the cutoff value of the power, $P_{\max }$, above
which the solitons do not exist (see the top right panel in Fig. \ref{WA}
below), together with the corresponding soliton's peak power and width (that
represent, respectively, the largest peak power and smallest width that
stable solitons may have), depend on the nonlinear-diffraction parameters as
follows:
\begin{eqnarray}
k_{\mathrm{co}} &=&C_{k}\left( \beta +\gamma \right) ^{-1},~P_{\max
}=C_{P}\left( \beta +\gamma \right) ^{-1/2},~  \notag \\
A_{\max }^{2} &=&C_{A}\left( \beta +\gamma \right) ^{-1},~W_{\min
}=C_{W}\left( \beta +\gamma \right) ^{1/2},  \label{co}
\end{eqnarray
where numerical found constants are $C_{k}\approx 0.66$, $C_{P}\approx 2.35
, $C_{A}\approx 1.28$, and $C_{W}\approx 2.42$. For comparison, it is
relevant to mention that in the model based on Eq. (\ref{Zara}) the cutoff
value of the propagation constant,
\begin{equation}
k_{\mathrm{co}}=\left( 1-m\right) /m\equiv \beta ^{-1},  \label{Aragon}
\end{equation
bounds the \emph{existence}, rather than stability, of the solitons \cit
{Zaragoza}. Note that Eq. (\ref{Aragon}) reveals the same scaling of $k_
\mathrm{co}}$ vs. $\beta $ as Eq. (\ref{co}) demonstrates for $k_{\mathrm{co
}$ vs. $\left( \beta +\gamma \right) $.

Numerical solutions obtained with the help of Eq. (\ref{Qtilde}) are
produced in the next section.
Before turning to that, we present the VA for soliton solutions. This
approach is well known to produce relevant predictions for many dynamical
effects exhibited by solitons \cite{VA}, such the influence of phase
modulations on the formation of solitons \cite{Andrei}. To this end, we
adopt the Gaussian ansatz with amplitude $A$ and width $W$,
\begin{equation}
Q(\eta )=A\exp \left[ -\eta ^{2}/\left( 2W^{2}\right) \right] ,
\label{Gauss}
\end{equation
which is relevant for small values of the propagation constant $k$ [see Fig.
\ref{Qfig}) below]. With the increase of $k$, the numerically found solution
develops a peakon-like shape, hence we expect the VA to fail at larger $k$.

Inserting the ansatz (\ref{Gauss}) into the Lagrangian density corresponding
to Eq. (\ref{Q}),
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{L}_{Q}=-kQ^{2}-\left( \frac{d{Q}}{d\eta }\right) ^{2}+\frac{\beta
-\gamma }{2}Q^{2}\left( \frac{d{Q}}{d\eta }\right) ^{2}+\frac{1}{2}Q^{4},
\end{equation
we calculate the effective Lagrangian,
\begin{equation}
L_{\mathrm{eff}}\equiv \int_{-\infty }^{\infty }\mathcal{L}_{Q}d\eta =-\sqrt
\pi }kA^{2}W-\frac{\sqrt{\pi a}}{2}\frac{A^{2}}{W}+\left( \beta -\gamma
\right) A^{4}\frac{\sqrt{2\pi }}{16W}+\frac{1}{2}\sqrt{\frac{\pi }{2}}A^{4}W,
\label{Leff}
\end{equation
where $A^{2}$ may be replaced by the total power (\ref{p}) corresponding to
ansatz (\ref{Gauss}), which is $P=A^{2}W$. This substitution yields
\begin{equation}
\frac{4}{\sqrt{\pi }}L_{\mathrm{eff}}=-4kP-\frac{2P}{W^{2}}+\frac{\beta
-\gamma }{2\sqrt{2}}\frac{P^{2}}{W^{3}}+\sqrt{2}\frac{P^{2}}{W}.  \label{eff}
\end{equation
Then, the Euler-Lagrange equations associated with stationary solutions
within the framework of the VA are given by
\begin{eqnarray}
\frac{\partial {L_{\mathrm{eff}}}}{\partial {P}}=0 &\Rightarrow &-4k-\frac{
}{W^{2}}+\frac{\beta -\gamma }{\sqrt{2}}\frac{P}{W^{3}}+2\sqrt{2}\frac{P}{W
=0, \\
\frac{\partial {L}_{\mathrm{eff}}}{\partial {W}}=0 &\Rightarrow &\frac{1}{W}
\frac{3(\beta -\gamma )}{8\sqrt{2}}\frac{P}{W^{2}}-\frac{1}{2\sqrt{2}}P=0.
\end{eqnarray
Eliminating $P$ here, we arrive at an equation for the width,
\begin{equation}
8kW^{4}+6[k(\beta -\gamma )-2]W^{2}-(\beta -\gamma )=0.  \label{bi}
\end{equation
Obviously, this equation can be solved analytically. For instance, the
physical solution for $\beta =\gamma $ is $W^{2}=3/(2k)$.

In what follows below, the linear stability of the solitary-wave solutions
is analyzed by means of numerical methods, with the aim to identify
parameter regions where the solutions are dynamically stable or unstable. To
this end, we consider perturbations of the stationary solutions in the form
of $q(\xi ,\eta )=\left[ Q(\eta )+\varepsilon \left( v(\eta )+iw(\eta
)\right) \right] e^{ik\xi }$, with an infinitesimally small perturbation
amplitude $\varepsilon $. Upon the substitution of this into Eq. (\ref{ele})
and linearization, we obtain the following equations:
\begin{eqnarray}
v_{\xi }=kw-w_{\eta \eta } &-&\beta \left( -Q^{2}w_{\eta \eta }+Q_{\eta
}^{2}w-2QQ_{\eta }w_{\eta }\right)  \notag \\
&-&\gamma \left( 2QQ_{\eta }w_{\eta }-3Q_{\eta }^{2}w+Q^{2}w_{\eta \eta
}-2QQ_{\eta \eta }w\right) -Q^{2}w,  \notag \\
w_{\xi }=-kv +v_{\eta \eta } & + &\beta \left( -Q^{2}v_{\eta \eta
}-2Q_{\eta \eta }Qv-Q_{\eta }^{2}v-2QQ_{\eta }v_{\eta }\right)  \notag \\
&+&\gamma \left( -2QQ_{\eta }v_{\eta }-Q_{\eta }^{2}v-Q^{2}v_{\eta \eta
}-2QQ_{\eta \eta }v\right) +3Q^{2}v,  \label{stability}
\end{eqnarray
which can be written in a symbolic form as $v_{\xi }=-\hat{L}_{1}w,\ w_{\xi
}=\hat{L}_{2}v$, with accordingly defined operators $\hat{L}_{1,2}$. Looking
for the stability eigenvalues $\lambda ,$ so that $v(\xi ,\eta )=e^{\lambda
\xi }\tilde{v}(\eta ),\ w(\xi ,\eta )=e^{\lambda \xi }\tilde{w}(\eta )$, we
arrive at the linear-stability problem in the form of $\lambda ^{2}\tilde{v
=-L_{1}L_{2}\tilde{v}$, and $\lambda ^{2}\tilde{w}=-L_{2}L_{1}\tilde{w}$.
The solution of the linear stability problem is reported in the following
section.

A well-known necessary stability condition relevant to fundamental solitary
waves in models with the self-focusing nonlinearity is given by the VK
criterion \cite{VK}-\cite{Kuz}, $dP/dk>0$.
It is shown below that this criterion applies to the
present model, being also sufficient for the stability of the solitons.

\section{Numerical results}

We now turn to numerical solutions, and their comparison with results of the
VA. Fig. \ref{Qfig} presents the numerically obtained solutions of Eq. (\re
{Qtilde}) as a function of the propagation constant, $k$, for $\beta =1\
and $\gamma =1$ in Eqs. (\ref{Q}) and (\ref{Qtilde}). To obtain these
solutions, the Newton's method was used for solving the respective
boundary-value problem, with vanishing (i.e., homogeneous
Dirichlet) boundary conditions and the
derivatives calculated by means of the centered-finite-difference
approximation. Our initial guess for small $k$, i.e., small values of the
coefficient in front of the nonlinear-diffraction terms in Eq. (\ref{Qtilde
), was $\tilde{Q}(x)=\sqrt{2}\mathrm{sech}~x$, i.e., the stationary solution
of the NLS equation, and we used the parametric continuation in $k$ (for
each subsequent step in $k$, the previous solution was used as the initial
guess). Naturally, it is observed that, as $k$ increases, the nonlinearity
plays a more significant role and the relevant solution becomes narrower
(i.e., with a smaller width) and taller (with a larger amplitude).

\begin{figure}[tbp]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=.6\textwidth]{Q.eps} \includegraphics[width=.
\textwidth]{Q_k01.eps} \includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{Q_k01_d.eps}
\includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{Q_k05.eps} \includegraphics[width=.
\textwidth]{Q_k05_d.eps}
\caption{(Color online) The top panel shows a sequence of solution profiles
$Q$) obtained with the increase of $k$ (recall $\protect\eta $ is the
spatial coordinate). The middle and bottom panels display the profile of $Q
, and the corresponding eigenvalues of the linear stability problem, for
k=0.1$ and $k=0.5$, respectively (accordingly, the former soliton is stable,
while the latter one is not). In this figure and below, the results are
displayed for $\protect\beta =1,\protect\gamma =1$, unless otherwise noted.}
\label{Qfig}
\end{figure}

Figure \ref{WA} presents basic properties of the numerically obtained
solutions, and the comparison with their counterparts produced by the VA.
Particular characteristics of the soliton solutions that are displayed here
are the amplitude, total power, and full width at half maximum (FWHM) [the
total power is defined according to Eq. (\ref{p}), cf. Eq. (\ref{tilde})].
It is observed that, as expected, the VA is accurate for small values of $k
; however, it does not provide an adequate description for sharply-peaked
solutions at larger $k$, and it does not predict either the existence border
for the solitons, that corresponds to the the largest possible value of the
total power, $P=P_{\max }$, nor the stability-cutoff value of the
propagation constant, $k=k_{\mathrm{co}}$, which are evident in the top
right panel of Fig. \ref{WA}. However, as shown above, these values can be
found in the exact analytical form given by Eq. (\ref{co}), which is
unrelated to the VA. In fact, the wave packets suffer collapse at
P>P_{\max }$. It is relevant to mention that curves $A(k)$ and $P(k)$, which
are displayed in the left and right top panels of Fig. \ref{WA}, are
qualitatively similar to the respective dependences reported in the inset to
Fig. 2(d) and Fig. 2(b) of Ref. \cite{xu}, for the equation which is
tantamount to Eq. (\ref{Zara}).

Two squared eigenvalues which, for sufficiently large $k$, give rise to
instabilities are also shown in Fig. \ref{WA}, as a function of $k$. It
should be kept in mind that there is always a vanishing eigenvalue in the
system due to the phase (gauge) invariance. At $k>k_{\mathrm{co}}=0.33$,
when the monotonicity of the power of the solution changes, two eigenvalue
pairs turn positive (i.e., $\lambda ^{2}>0$), leading to instability, in
accordance with the VK criterion and with analytical results (\ref{co}).
Thus, the sharp-peaked solutions found at large $k$ are unstable.

\begin{figure}[tbp]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{Amplitude.eps}
\includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{Power.eps} \includegraphics[width=.
\textwidth]{hhw.eps} \includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{lambda2.eps}
\caption{(Color online) Characteristics of the soliton family with $\protec
\beta =1,\ \protect\gamma =1$: The left top panel shows the amplitude vs. $k
, the right top is the power vs. $k$, the bottom left is the FWHM vs. $k$,
and the bottom right panel displays the two squared eigenvalues that
determine the instability of the solitary waves. The dashed and solid (blue)
lines represent, respectively, the predictions of the variational
approximation and numerical results. The vertical dotted (red) line marks
k=0.33$, at which the numerically found total power reaches its maximum, the
solitons being unstable at $k>0.33$, in the precise agreement with the VK
criterion and with Eq. (\protect\ref{co}). }
\label{WA}
\end{figure}

Predictions of the stability analysis are confirmed by direct numerical
simulations of the evolution of perturbed solitary waves. In the top left
panel of Fig. \ref{stabilityFig}, one observes that, despite adding
perturbations, the solution remains intact for small $k$ (where the solitary
waves are linearly stable). On the contrary, the self-focusing instability,
leading to the above-mentioned \textit{weak collapse}, which involves a
small part of the total power at the center of the beam, and splits the rest
into diverging jets, is evident for a narrower solution with a larger
amplitude (i.e., a larger $k$) in the top right panel of Fig. \re
{stabilityFig}. Strictly speaking, the collapse per se is not correctly
described by Eq. (\ref{ele}), as it does not include the fourth-order linear
diffraction (which would ultimately prevent it); however, the equation is
adequate to describe the evolution of the beam \emph{towards }the collapse.

As mentioned before there are two unstable eigenvalues when $k>0.33$. One of
them corresponds to an odd eigenmode, and the other one to an even
eigenmode with a positive amplitude at the center. Numerical simulations
show that, for $k>0.33$, the stationary soliton perturbed by the odd
eigenmode will end up in the weak collapse, see the top right panel in Fig.
\ref{stabilityFig}). On the other hand, with the even perturbation, the
dynamics differ for different signs of the perturbations. The stationary
soliton with the even-eigenmode perturbation added to it will collapse, see
the middle left panel in Fig. (\ref{stabilityFig}). On the other hand, under
the action of the perturbation with the opposite sign, the solitary wave
tends to lower its amplitude by emitting small bursts of radiation and
ultimately relaxing into a breather, as is illustrated by the middle right
panel of Fig. (\ref{stabilityFig}).
 Finally,
the observation of the effects of the different parameter variations
in the bottom panels of Fig. (\re
{stabilityFig}) leads to the conclusion that a higher value of $\gamma $
induces earlier collapse, while the opposite effect is observed with the
increase of $\beta $.
\begin{figure}[tbp]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=.45\textwidth]{k03.eps} \includegraphics[width=.4
\textwidth]{k04_b1r1_odd.eps} \includegraphics[width=.4
\textwidth]{k04_b1r1_P_even.eps} \includegraphics[width=.4
\textwidth]{k04_b1r1_N_even.eps} \includegraphics[width=.4
\textwidth]{k04_b2r0_even.eps} \includegraphics[width=.4
\textwidth]{k04_b0r2_even.eps}
\caption{(Color online) Contour plots of the evolution of $|q|$ with an
initial perturbation of amplitude $0.001$. The top left panel: a stable
soliton at $k=0.3,\ \protect\beta =1,\ \protect\gamma =1$. The top right
panel: an unstable soliton perturbed by the odd eigenmode at $k=0.4,\
\protect\beta =1,\ \protect\gamma =1$. The middle left panel: the stationary
soliton plus the even perturbation for $k=0.4,\ \protect\beta =1,\ \protec
\gamma =1$. The middle right panel: the unstable soliton minus the even
perturbation for $k=0.4,\ \protect\beta =1,\ \protect\gamma =1$. The bottom
left panel: the unstable soliton plus the even perturbation for $k=0.4,\
\protect\beta =2,\ \protect\gamma =0$. The bottom right panel: the unstable
soliton plus the even perturbation for $k=0.4,\ \protect\beta =0,\ \protec
\gamma =2$.}
\label{stabilityFig}
\end{figure}

The above simulations started with the input in the form of sech beams. On
the other hand, the VA was based on the Gaussian ansatz (\ref{Gauss}),
therefore it is relevant to test the evolution of solitons generated by the
Gaussian input with parameters predicted by the VA. A typical example, for
parameters belonging to the stability region, is displayed in Fig. \re
{Gaussian_input}. One can observe that small (radiation)
jets are shed off at the
initial stage of the evolution---obviously, with the intention to adjust the
Gaussian to the exact solitonic shape--- followed thereafter by the stable
propagation of the resulting wave.
\begin{figure}[tbp]
\centering\includegraphics[width=.45\textwidth]{Gaussian_k01.eps}
\caption{(Color online) The same as in Fig. \protect\ref{stabilityFig}, but
for the soliton generated by the Gaussian waveform predicted by the VA, at
k=0.1,\ \protect\beta =\protect\gamma =1$.}
\label{Gaussian_input}
\end{figure}

Finally, we consider the interaction of two solitary beams, for the basic
cases of in-phase and $\pi $-out-of-phase soliton pairs (i.e., mutually
attracting and repelling ones) . The initial in-phase and out-of-phase pairs
without a relative tilt (i.e., the solitons with zero relative velocity)
were built using two well separated copies of a stationary soliton produced
by the Newton's method for $k=1$, while parameters $\beta $ and $\gamma $,
which account for the nonlinear-diffraction terms in Eq. (\ref{ele}), were
varied within boundaries of the stability regime. We observe that, in the
presence of these terms, the repulsive interaction in the out-of-phase
configuration does not change dramatically. However, the two parameters
affect the interaction in different ways. In particular, the increase of
\beta $ leads to a decrease in the strength of the repulsion (or attraction)
between the solitons, while the increase of $\gamma $ produces the opposite
effect, see Figs. \ref{interaction} and \ref{interaction_critical}.

While the repulsion, leading to the separation of the solitons in Fig. \re
{interaction}, does not reveal any surprising findings, the attractive case
is far more interesting. The nonlinear-diffraction terms lead to the loss of
elasticity of the collisions between NLS solitons, and their eventual merger
into a single pulsating beam. Furthermore, it is possible to identify two
different outcomes of the interaction in this case: The merger may lead to a
\textit{subcritical} scenario, i.e., the appearance of a non-collapsing
robust pulson, that may slowly relax into a stable stationary soliton
through weak radiation losses,\textbf{\ }or a \textit{supercritical} one,
which ends up collapsing. These two cases are represented, respectively, by
the middle and bottom panels in Fig.~\ref{interaction_critical}. In the
subcritical case, it is observed that the merger into the stable pulson is
delayed by the terms $\propto \beta $, or accelerated by the ones $\propto
\gamma $, but the merger happens, eventually. On the other hand, in the case
shown in the bottom row of Fig. \ref{interaction_critical}, the
supercritical merger, leading to the collapse, occurs at $\beta =0.12,\gamma
=0$, while no collapse happens at $\beta =0,\gamma =0.12$
In the latter case, more radiation is observed to be emitted in the course
of the merger, which, in turn, reduces the total power of the emerging
pulson, eventually rendering it subcritical. This is a remarkable feature,
which is uncommon in models that we are aware of.

\begin{figure}[tbp]
\par
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=.45\textwidth,]{outofphase_b0r0.eps}
\end{center}
\par
\centering
\includegraphics[width=.45\textwidth]{outofphase_b06r0.eps}
\includegraphics[width=.45\textwidth]{outofphase_b0r06.eps}
\caption{(Color online) The repulsive interaction between out-of-phase
solitons. The top panel is for $\protect\beta =0,\protect\gamma =0$, the
bottom left for $\protect\beta =0.6,\protect\gamma =0$, and the bottom right
for $\protect\beta =0,\protect\gamma =0.6$, respectively.}
\label{interaction}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[tbp]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=.45\textwidth]{inphase_b0r0.eps}
\end{center}
\par
\centering
\includegraphics[width=.45\textwidth]{inphase_b008r0
\includegraphics[width=.45\textwidth]{inphase_b0r008}\\%k004_gamma1.eps}
\includegraphics[width=.45\textwidth]{inphase_b012r0
\includegraphics[width=.45\textwidth]{inphase_b0r012
\caption{(Color online) The panels display the interaction of two
in-phase solitons. The top panel shows periodic elastic collisions
of the soliton pair in the integrable NLS equation, with
$\protect\beta =0,\protect\gamma =0 $ (in fact, this pattern
corresponds to a breather solution of the NLS
equation \protect\cite{breather}). The middle left and right panels are for
\protect\beta =0.08,\protect\gamma =0\ $and $\protect\beta =0,\protect\gamma
=0.08$, respectively. The bottom left and right panels pertain,
respectively,
to $\protect\beta =0.12,\protect\gamma =0$, and $\protect\beta =0,\protec
\gamma =0.12$.} \label{interaction_critical}
\end{figure}

\section{Conclusion} The objective of
this work was to introduce a generalized model which accounts for phenomena
of nonlinear diffraction within the one-dimensional NLS equation from the
perspective of the self-consistent Lagrangian/Hamiltonian formulation. The
so obtained model contains two independent parameters, $\beta $ and $\gamma $
in Eq. (\ref{ele}). The immediate motivation for the development of the
model is the application to nonlinear photonic crystals in a vicinity of the
supercollimation point, as suggested by Ref. \cite{xu}. In the framework of
the proposed general equation, we have developed a systematic analysis of
the fundamental solitary waves, using the VA (variational approximation),
exact analytical results (wherever possible), and numerical methods, which
corroborate our analytical observations for individual solitons and produce
new results for their pairwise interactions. In particular, it has been
demonstrated that the VK stability criterion is valid for the solitons in
the present model, and the solitons exist only up to a maximum value of the
power. The solitary-wave family consists of stable and unstable parts, the
border between which, $k_{\mathrm{co}}$, and the corresponding largest value
of the total power of the solitons, $P_{\max }$, along with the largest peak
power and smallest width that the stable solitons attain, were found in the
exact form, as written in Eq. (\ref{co}). Interactions between pairs of
identical solitons were studied by means of direct simulations. It has been
demonstrated that the merger of in-phase solitons may lead to the formation
of a robust pulson, if the nonlinear diffraction is not too strong;
otherwise, the emerging beam collapses. On the other hand, the out-of-phase
waves always repel each other and separate, with the interaction timescales
altered by the nonlinear diffraction effects.

We expect that such a generalized model may hold promise for future
explorations, especially if tuned to experimental data for relevant
photonic crystal structures, so that the relative strength of
the parameters considered herein can be evaluated in realistic
settings. On the other hand, it would be particularly relevant
to extend the present considerations to other regimes including
the ones pertaining to self-defocusing nonlinearities, or to
higher-dimensional photonic crystals (possibly with either
sign of the nonlinearity). Such studies will be deferred to
future publications.

\acknowledgments PGK gratefully acknowledges M. Solja\v{c}i\'{c}
for originally bringing this problem to his attention, as
well as Ref.~\cite{xu} and for helpful discussions on this theme.
PGK also gratefully acknowledges support from the National
Science Foundation under grant DMS-0806762. PGK and BAM also
acknowledge support from the Binational Science Foundation
under grant 2010239.

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The French number 1 won her first ever Grand Slam tournament on Saturday, July 6th 2013 after completely outplaying Sabine Lisicki with 1-6 and 4-6.
It was Bartoli's second Wimbledon final in her career and she finally wanted the win the trophy. She reached the Wimbledon final in 2007 when she lost to Venus Williams. She also reached the French Open semi-final in 2011.
On her journey to this year's final, the French defeated Elina Svitolina, Christina McHale, Camila Giorgi and Karin Knapp in the fourth round. In the quarterfinal, she defeated No.17 seed Sloane Stephens in straight sets with 6-4 and 7-5. She also dominated the semi-finals where she beat Kirsten Flipkens with 1-6 and 2-6 to reach her second Wimbledon final.
Marion Bartoli was determined and dominated the final against Lisicki straight from the beginning. Bartoli broke Lisicki in game 4 with a consistent and strong serve and broke her again in game 6. Lisicki was fighting with her nerves and never settled in the game. The first set was finished 1-6 for Bartoli after just 30 minutes. Lisicki took a 5 minute break to cool off in the locker room. She only delivered 54% of her first serves. .
The German tried to push harder in the second set, but Bartoli was too strong. The French completey outplayed Lisicki and secured 3 three break points. Lisicki was literally on the verge of a meltdown. The French clearly dominated the game and broke the German again in game 12. However, Lisicki came back, just like many times before. She raised her game and finally broke Bartoli in game 15. Bartolli, however, took the set and secured her first ever Grand Slam victory after 1h and 21 minutes.
Lisicki was a great runner-up, but was clearly overwhelmed about the situation. However, she will have a bright future. The men's final between Murray and Djorkovic will take place on Sunday, July 7th. Wimbledon final tickets are still available.


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Take about 4 cups of cauliflower and divide it into small pieces.
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Tone in Writing: Teach Students How to Identify Tone and Use it Effectively in their Own Writing.
After teaching students how to write for an audience and with a purpose, how to effectively evaluate point of view, and how to maintain personal voice, I felt good about myself. I called my dad and told him what a smart son he had. Then I realized my students had no idea how to effectively use tone in writing. In shock, I called my dad, advised him to uninvite me to Thanksgiving dinner, and cancelled the appointment with my spiritual advisor. I was way too stressed.
I had work to do. I had to devise a lesson plan that helped students use tone in writing. Here's what I came up with.
Write the following definition of tone on the board (courtesy of Susan Geye, Mini Lessons For Revision, a true inspiration): "Tone is a particular way of expressing feelings or attitudes that will influence how the reader feels about the characters, events, and outcomes. Speakers show tone more easily than writers because they can use voice tone, gesture, and facial expressions. A writer must use words alone."
Show sample passages. I recommend two to three from familiar pieces of literature with similar themes. If you wish to cut and paste, try these: How to Organize a Hot Dog Eating Contest and Unforgettable Independence Day Celebrations.
Assign students in to groups of 3-4.
Give each group a card with one of the following tone words written on it: sadness, courage, tension, sympathy, love, happiness, pride, sarcastic, excitement, hate, fear, anxiety. Encourage thesaurus use.
Invite each group to write a description of a dog walking in the park, conveying the attitude on the card. They may not use the word written on the card in their description.
When writing is complete, instruct students to determine which tools were used to show tone in writing.
Instruct each group to read the description.
Instruct class members to guess the tone.
Instruct successful writers to share their tools with the class.
If using this lesson for revision, invite students to read through their rough draft and ask: Did you demonstrate tone in your writing? How do you know? What tone did you convey?
Instruct students to highlight at least one passage to rewrite in order to enhance the effectiveness of their tone in writing.
Share rewrites with the class.
Writing that lacks focus confuses readers. Student writing lacks focus because they rarely have a purpose, do not know how to make a point, and write to an imaginary, non-existent audience. End their pointless meanderings with these simple lesson plans.


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Pałac w Żelazowie – wybudowany w XVII w. w Żelazowie.

Położenie
Pałac położony jest w Żelazowie – wsi w Polsce, w województwie dolnośląskim, w powiecie świdnickim, w gminie Strzegom.

Historia
Pałac przebudowany po 1820 r.; od frontu posiada portyk ośmiokolumnowy - po dwie kolumny w rzędzie, który wieńczy balkon. Obiekt jest częścią zespołu pałacowego, w skład którego wchodzą jeszcze: park powstały po 1830 r. oraz dom ogrodnika z około 1800 r.

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 Rezydencje ziemi świdnickiej, zespół redakcyjny: W. Rośkowicz, S. Nowotny, R. Skowron, Świdnica 1997, s. 88.

Pałace w województwie dolnośląskim
Zabytki w gminie Strzegom
Pałac


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Cringely: Spreading FUD about TechNet
Interesting example of the fine art of FUD from pseudonymous columnist Robert X. Cringely. He takes a reader email about a problem searching TechNet, then extrapolates to say that Microsoft is removing value from TechNet to hobble small IT consultants so it can extract more revenue from that part of the market.
Um. Interesting theory, Mr. Cringely. Care to pass the tin foil?
All joking aside, Cringely's fundamental argument stems from a badly constructed straw man. He claims that "TechNet appears to be broken." What he actually says is that TechNet returns no results for a particular search string: "1010"+"perfctrs.dll"+"perflib". What he does not say is that if you search without the quotation marks or the pluses, the search returns some very relevant results, namely articles in the Knowledge Base at support.microsoft.com about the relevant events in the error log.
There is also a factual error. Cringely implies that we just recently changed the search engine behind TechNet, and that this was a move intended to "hobble TechNet and in so doing hurt its small to medium sized customers." In fact, the new search engine has been in place since July, and provides search results for all of Microsoft.com.
The confusion about the search is forgiveable. We used to expose the big seams in our corporate web site by scoping searches by default, so that if you searched for something in a site (say the Windows site), you only got results if the content lived in the Windows site. TechNet's scope happened to extend to the Knowledge Base, hence the customer's statement that we used to return results. The big change from the customer perspective is that if you search anywhere on the site, you get results from everywhere on the site by default, broken down into categories. But we don't interpret quotation marks and plus signs the same way Google does, so if you use the same search string in both search engines, you get different results.
But taking this misunderstanding about search functionality and blowing it up to say we're out to screw our customers is fearmongering, at best.
Here are a few tips for searching Microsoft.com effectively so that you don't fall prey to the same problems that Cringely had:
Provide more words than just the name of the product about which you have a question.
Try to avoid using extra punctuation, particularly extra quotes and plus signs.
Search results are returned in categories. If you're looking for a download, it will be right at the top of the list, followed by troubleshooting info, product info, resources for technologists and developers, training and book info, resources for partners and other business professionals, information from our product newsgroups, and information about Microsoft the corporation. If any of the categories found more than three results for your search query, you can click to see the full list of results for that category.
If all else fails, the Advanced Search allows you to pick more explicit search options, including excluding words, focusing in on only one search category, or looking only at a specific site. There's also help available.
Finally, if all else fails, it's possible we don't have the content—but one of our partners does. In that case, you could do worse than to use the Microsoft-focused search at Google.
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How we operate >
DairyNZ chairman Jim van der Poel was elected onto the Fonterra board in 2002 and stepped down in 2014. Jim also served on the board of New Zealand Co-operative Dairies Ltd.
In 2000, Jim was appointed to the foundation board of DairyNZ's predecessor organisation, Dexcel, and was elected as Dexcel's chairman in 2003. Jim was a farmer-elected director on DairyNZ's first board in 2007 and stepped down in 2009. He was re-elected to the DairyNZ board in 2013.
Previously, Jim was an inaugural director on the Fonterra Shareholders Fund and has won a number of industry awards including the AC Cameron Award, 2002 Nuffield Scholarship, Sharemilker of the Year and Dairy Exporter Primary Performer Award.
Jim and his wife Sue live in Ngahinapouri in the Waikato and have farming interests in Waikato, Southland, Canterbury and the United States.
Position: Chair


After 30 years of restoration work, the belfry is scheduled to reopen in July 2015 with built-in museum spaces and the chance to rediscover a superb panoramic view.
With 365 steps, a height of 87 metres and 49 bells, the belfry has experienced and left its mark on history; its reopening will enable visitors not only to travel through time to the origins of its original construction and to understand its role in the different periods it has traversed, but also to make a vertical journey and discover the region from up high.
The museum experience is arranged thematically: history of the belfry, UNESCO heritage site listing, bells, restoration, etc.
Different types of visits and activities will be offered to the public, some aimed at specific sectors of the public. At the heart of the various exhibition spaces is a museum setting that combines traditional and modern approaches. Besides the architecture, the panoramic views, the objects borrowed from local Mons residents' personal collections relating to the belfry and the museum panels, visitors' journeys through the belfry are enhanced by multimedia and new technologies.
Visitors can also take a glass elevator up to the final stop – the panoramic level. The descent via elevator includes pre-programmed pauses at each level, so that visitors can take in the main points of interest on each level of the belfry.
Situated in the heart of Mons, it will make an excellent starting point for exploring the city's various cultural and tourist attractions.


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German National Team
General German national team thread
Discussions on international matches played by Germany's senior national team and youth teams.
Should Joachim Löw remain the German coach?
Yes, he is a great coach.
Yes, because at the moment there's not many options.
No, he should resign as Germany needs a new direction.
No, he should be fired as he's doing a terrible job.
Re: General German national team thread
by nm462272 » Thu May 25, 2017 1:36 pm
America USA wrote: Lol at me being labeled an ultra right nut job for being in favor of patriotism and national pride. I like to describe myself as a left leaning centrist and to set the record straight I DO NOT support the right wing party in my nation and I most certainly DON'T support the oompah loompah who won last November on a mere technicality.
It's sad that any expression of national pride is considered to be "bad" in Europe these days. Guess that's what years upon years of political indoctrination in schools does. You can be Patriotic without being a hateful asshole. Also just because some idiot wants you to wear the national flag and you do so doesn't mean you're supporting him/her. No one has property rights over national symbol!
no one is labeling you anything... Europeans have seen what ultra-nationalistic sentiment can lead to... you can be proud of your country, but outright displays of that pride in daily life make some uncomfortable
by America USA » Thu May 25, 2017 1:39 pm
ramsej84 wrote: I am not the biggest fan of int football but this is not a friendly tournament or the qualifies.. so...
I don't think that refusing a call from one's NT is that smart...
The tournament is not a long one, max five games.
I am in search for a new NT to follow... my favourites are Polska and Hrvatska
This is what I've been saying all along. I don't like international friendlies one bit but this tournament is just not a mere friendly. It's like the UEFA Super Cup/DFL Super Cup and Club World Cup of International football. If you think this tournament is useless then so are the other three club tournaments of a similar nature.
I agree that there's an excess of football matches right now but this Cup is only five games long and actually has something to play for. I'd say get rid of meaningless friendly games that come during the season rather than an international Cup trophy which is played in off season. If a professional elite player makes excuses for such a short duration of a tournament, I'm sure as hell gonna judge their professionalism, integrity and pride for the country. Doing something like this a couple of decades ago would be considered blasphemous.
Again I'd like to reiterate that I've got no problem with selecting young players to test them but not selecting even a single WC winner and no one with proven international football pedigree sends a very defeatist message.
Also for the part in bold, my German ancestry can't be changed so I'm stuck with supporting them!
Welcome to the dying Continent my friend
We'll I'd say that's a bit extreme and far fetched thing to say.
by Roonzil » Thu May 25, 2017 2:05 pm
No one is calling you extreme right. I'm saying that in some EUROPEAN countries nationalism is frowned upon. And to give you a history lesson...that's not bc of "indoctrination" but bc we had an exciting time of "nationalism" between 1940 and 1945.
But I can imagine that if you don't grow up with that history you might mistake jt for "political correctness" or sth.
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She's beauty, she's grace, if u tell her she only watches football for the attractive players she'll punch u in the face.
Total ho for Thiago
Roonzil
by PunkCapitalist » Thu May 25, 2017 2:06 pm
Roonzil wrote:
America USA wrote: ^ **** countries
I'm speechless...
I'm not surprised when your username is literally America USA
Ever thought that this kind of nationalism is frowned upon in quite a few European countries?
NT football is bullcrap. I'd rather they have an NT month at the end of a season and get qualies out of the regular season schedule. **** us over every year...
Haha I've always liked the Dutch. They seem to be the most... Advanced (no offense to the patriotic members) culture in (probably) the world. The less... Marred in senseless stuff? I don't know how to put it. Maybe just the most liberal.
by RedQueen » Thu May 25, 2017 2:07 pm
Löw has made it clear from the get-go that he wasn't going to call up players who have played the last two tournaments (WC and Euros) as key players. That obviously includes Özil. There's no indication whatsoever that he even considered calling up Özil. With Reus it's different; he would have preferred to have Reus in the squad but Reus said he spent the last three summers in rehabs and he feels he needs a genuine holiday. Personally I don't know whether this isn't a mistake. He's barely been with the national team in the past four years and he wants to play the WC next year. Not only is he barely integrated in the team; it's also that Löw highly values loyalty. He mentioned more than once that one reason he kept calling Podolski was that Poldi never declined a call for dubious reasons. Reus will be 29 next summer, he's barely played with the team and it's not like there's no competition in his position.
Don't know the situation with Sané; sounds like he has trouble breathing and surgery is necessary to resolve the issue. We can replace Sané; most likely Bellarabi will be called up instead.
E: Oh, about not selecting a single WC winner; Draxler and Ginter were in the WC winning squad.
"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!" - Red Queen, Alice - Through the Looking-Glass
RedQueen
^ I like your post. But let's be honest Draxler and Ginter hardly played any part in the WC tournament. I'm talking about a couple of guys who played an important part in the win. Kroos/Muller, Kroos/Ozil, etc.
And your assessment of the Reus situation is spot on. He has not won anything with Germany and this was his time to shine. He's finally fit for an international Cup tournament and has the chance to prove himself with the NT. But he rather prefers to "rest." Also I don't see him playing next year if someone else outperforms him.
In a 4231 Reus can only play LW, ST or AM. All those spots are preoccupied. LW is Draxler, ST is either Gomez or Timo or Schurrle and AM is either Muller, Ozil or Kroos.
Also Sane has chickedned out. There's no other way of putting this. If he had an injury that jeopardizes his ability to move then yes I'd agree. Also after Sane I have a funny feeling the Draxler is going to do something similar.
America USA wrote: ^ I like your post. But let's be honest Draxler and Ginter hardly played any part in the WC tournament. I'm talking about a couple of guys who played an important part in the win. Kroos/Muller, Kroos/Ozil, etc.
Reus Is several orders of magnitude better than Draxler. Barring injury or willful exclusion, he should be Germany's LW without a doubt. The "perfect" German XI according to individual club performances as of these past two seasons, according to me, would be:
Reus-Werner-Müller
Kroos-Weigl-Gündogan (maybe Khedira for Weigl or Özil in there somewhere)
Hector(meh)-Hummels-Boateng-Kimmich
^ Reus is hardly integrated in the team. That could go against him. Plus who knows if Mario Gotze comes back strong next season and stakes a claim for the WC spot.
by ramsej84 » Thu May 25, 2017 3:12 pm
squad to choose from:
GK. Neuer - Ter Stegen - Leno - Trapp
DF. Kimmich - Henrichs - Hector - Plattenhardt - Boateng - Hummels - Sule - Howedes - Mustafi - Tah - Rudiger - Ginter
CM. Khedira - Kroos - Weigl - Gundogan - Can - Rudi - Demirbay - Demme - Goretzka
AM. Draxler - Reus - Muller - Oezil - Sane - Younes - Reus - Bellarabi - Brandt - Schurrle - Gnabry - (Goetze)
F. Gomez - Werner - Stindl - Volland - Wagner
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ramsej84 wrote: squad to choose from:
AM. Draxler - Reus - Muller - Oezil - Sane - Younes - Reus - Bellarabi - Brandt - Schurrle - (Goetze)
Who's Younes? :-/
Amin Younes, plays for Ajax (formerly at BMG)
Orban and Klostermann from Leipzig are also on Löw's radar. Gnabry, too.
Whether Reus will be ahead of all the youngsters capable of playing LW remains to be seen. A lot can happen in a year's time; just look at Werner.
by MUTU » Thu May 25, 2017 3:45 pm
Why didn't you mention your favourite German RB?
I still hope that Germany win the Confederations Cup it would be a huge confidence booster for all the players involved. I hope Low gets his tactics right against tough teams like Chile and Portugal and the three dark horses.
Will be rooting for the Germans. Go Deutschland!
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The Western Cape underlined its value as a world class call centre destination, taking home 13 of a possible 20 Awards at the BPeSA National Awards Ceremony held in Port Elizabeth.
"The national awards are an important part of the call centre calendar, acknowledging those individuals and companies who have made a significant contribution to the industry both locally and internationally," says Sipho Zungu, CEO of BPeSA Western Cape.
Fusion Outsourcing followed up an impressive showing at the recent BPeSA Western Cape Awards taking home three awards on the night; Best Offshore Customer Service – Enterprise, HR Internal and Offshore BPO Centre – Enterprise.
Zungu says for any company to win three awards in such a competitive environment is a fantastic achievement and is testament to their hard work and commitment.
Other winners of the night included; Exigent Limited (Offshore Customer Service – Emerging and Best Offshore BPO Centre – Emerging), Direct Channel Holdings (Support IT - Individual), Old Mutual (SA Customer Service), Contact Centre Dynamics & Distinct Solutions (Trading Provider - Emerging), Metropolitan Health Corporate (Technical Innovation Internal), 1Stream (Technical Innovation - Vendor), Shell Global CSC Cape Town (Non Technical Innovation - Internal), Full Circle South Africa (Non Technical Innovation - Vendor) and HomeChoice (Best Outbound Campaign).


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Noel Gallagher: 'Performing with Damon Albarn was like John Lennon playing with Eric Clapton'
NME Mar 26, 2013 11:10 am GMT
(left to right) Damon Albarn, Noel Gallagher and Graham Coxon performing on stage during their Teenage Cancer Trust gig, at the Royal Albert Hall in London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Saturday March 23, 2013. Photo credit should read: Yui Mok/PA Wire
Ex-Oasis man also confirms that he won't be curating Teenage Cancer Trust concerts in 2014
Noel Gallagher has described his performance with Damon Albarn as like "John Lennon playing with Eric Clapton".
The pair performed 'Tender' together at the Teenage Cancer Trust gig run over the weekend at London's Royal Albert Hall with Graham Coxon and Paul Weller. You can watch the performance below. Speaking about the collaboration in this week's issue of NME, Gallagher said: "I think it's great for music fans. It's like when you hear about John Lennon playing with Eric Clapton or…well I don't know what the equivalent is. It won't change anybody's life but people could say they were there."
Before the performance, the ex-Oasis man had joked that he wanted to play 'Tender' with Albarn because it was "easy" to play on guitar. He added: "I suggested that we do 'Tender' for various reasons. It's a fucking great song. It's a piece of piss to play on guitar. It's got four chords in it. And more importantly the crowd loves it."
Gallagher, who curated the week long shows in Roger Daltrey's absence, also confirmed that The Who frontman will back to pick up the baton next year. To read more about the collaboration, Gallagher's thoughts on Oasis and his hopes for a knighthood, pick up a copy of this week's NME, which is on newsstands now or available digitally.


So you've set up a twitter feed on your site – sweet. Now all your peeps can see how excited you are about the new limited edition Witney Houston EP you've been listening to. But then you post a link – or a reply to a fellow twitterati member and those handy auto links you've become so used to aren't there. Bummer duuude – lets fix that.


Dawson River Festival Dawson River Towns (Baralaba, Moura, Theodore and Taroom) combine to present the Dawson River Festival. This combined event was designed to attract tourists to the area was first held in September 2011. Each town hosts an event on the Dawson River on one weekend of the year.
Additional information and programs will be added to this page soon.


The winter season has hit Morocco this year with full force as heavy rains and floods invaded numerous southern cities and towns, causing numerous deaths and leading to a severe damage in the country's infrastructure.
At least 40 people have reportedly been killed in the floods so far, while more than 200 have been rescued. Others, meanwhile, remain missing as search and rescue teams have been dispatched to look for them in hard to reach areas. The unprecedented downpour also gravely harmed the country's agricultural sector, destroyed tens of buildings and led to the collapse of bridges, in addition to completely isolating several neighbourhoods.
As soon as the crisis hit the northern African country, Moroccan Red Crescent teams were ready to provide relief and rescue services to affected families and individuals through the organisation's local committees and through maintaining close contact with the central headquarters. Six hundred volunteers were mobilised and 50 local intervention teams were formed to respond to the emerging needs, as the organisation's warehouses were opened for the distribution of relief items such as blankets, mattresses, and hygiene kits aimed to 1,100 families.
The National Society has also been collaborating with health, civil and military bodies to coordinate in relief services and in the delivery of food and non-food items, and in the provision of first-aid, transport and psycho-social support.
"Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Malika, the chairperson of the organisation, has requested the mobilisation of all available resources to respond to the needs of people who were most affected by the floods in several parts of the country," the Moroccan Red Crescent Society said in a released statement.
The first relief operations took place in the provinces of Ouarazate and Tinghir where 700 families were targeted. The Moroccan Red Crescent has also put under its disposal its basic preparedness stock, which is part of its contingency plan, to provide 2,100 families with basic urgent needs.
Meanwhile, the National Society's volunteers got involved in providing medical services and organising health awareness and prevention campaigns in cooperation with several medical bodies. First aid posts were also set up to provide basic health services.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has been closely following up on the situation in Morocco, and has mobilised its operations teams to provide the necessary support for the Moroccan Red Crescent. The Federation has also allocated a Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) of 245,000 Swiss francs to procure and distribute food and non-food items to refill the basic stocks of the Moroccan National Society, and to provide essential services including first aid and psycho-social support.
This year's unprecedented downpour surpassed 200 millimetres and led to the rise of water levels in rivers and in the flooding of valleys, an unfamiliar phenomenon which the country has not witnessed since the 1980s.


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Utah State University - » Hundreds resign from LDS church in response to new LGBT policy
Hundreds resign from LDS church in response to new LGBT policy
By Katherine Taylor
katherinedtaylor.com
Hundreds of people gathered at Salt Lake City's City Creek Park on Saturday in a mass resignation from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to protest new church rules regarding gay marriage and the rights of children of gay couples.
With help from volunteer lawyers and notaries of the public, members of the LDS church wrote their resignation letters; after marching together past the temple, members put their letters in a mailbox by Temple Square.
Ashley Wilkinson, a mother of four, stood at the mailbox, holding it open as they dropped their letters in.
"I sent my resignation email after the announcement. I just didn't want to wait; I had to do it that night," Wilkinson said. "But I wanted to come to be supportive and listen and be a part of the march."
Like many others attending, Wilkinson had been inactive in the church, but never chose to officially resign until the church's new policy was revealed. The new rules, spelled out in an updated version of a policy manual intended for lay leaders and leaked online earlier this month, stipulates that children living in a same-sex household may not receive baptisms or blessings until they are 18, and only then if they disavow their gay parents' relationship.
"I never really saw the point of having my name removed until the policy. It was drawing a line in the sand," Wilkinson said. "I was married to a gay man for 13 years. We have four kids. We've been divorced for five years, and he's my best friend."
Organizers of the event emphasized that it was meant to show those leaving the church and those affected by the church's new policy that they are not alone.
"I hope that this event can offer support to those struggling with this faith transition, let them know they aren't alone and that they still have community," said Lauren McNamara, who helped organize the event. "I want them to see the support they have in the community, member and nonmember alike, who recognize that this is hard, and are coming to stand with them and show their love."
Alexandra Johnson, a recent Utah State University graduate, mailed her resignation letter in response to the new policy.
"I stopped going when I was fifteen15, and I've been meaning to do this for a long time," Johnson said. "This was just the really, really giant straw that broke the camel's back."
According to Jolene Mewing, a leader of the Utah chapter of Marriage Equality USA, the policy has already impacted families. After seeing the pain this policy has caused in her community, Mewing decided to resign from the church.
"This is going to pit the children against the gay parent," Mewing said at the event. "It's going to cause so much conflict in the homes. I already know of one parent here who has been disavowed — since this announcement — by two of his daughters. It's that serious, and it's that sad. One minute it's 'I love you dad,' and the next minute, 'I choose my church over you, dad.' This is causing real pain."
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The Million Dollar Homepage is a website conceived in 2005 by Alex Tew, a student from Wiltshire, England, to raise money for his university education.
The home page consists of a million pixels arranged in a pixel grid; the image-based links on it were sold for US$1 per pixel in blocks. The purchasers of these pixel blocks provided tiny images to be displayed on them, a URL to which the images were linked, and a slogan to be displayed when hovering a cursor over the link.
The aim of the website was to sell all of the pixels in the image, thus generating a million dollars of income for the creator.
Launched on 26 August 2005, the website became an Internet phenomenon. On the 1st January 2006, the final 1,000 pixels were put up for auction on eBay. The auction closed on 11 January with a winning bid of $38,100 that brought the final tally to $1,037,100 in gross income.
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EA and Maxis has released a 2.0 patch for its popular city builder, SimCity. The patch is said to fix a number of issues, but users internet-wide are reporting that the patch causes more issues than it fixes.
The patch was said to fix things like issues with the transit system, high population building issues, and allowed users to now pump water from nearby rivers. While those things appear to be fixed, a thread on Reddit has popped up that tells a different story.
"This patch has created more bugs than it has fixed", said one Redditor. The list of new issues being reported is quite staggering actually. After the patch, sewage issues seem to run rampant, along with random phantom sounds from objects, buildings get stuck in construction, and even increased random game crashes.


Around 2009, co-founders Brooke Wang and Rev. Portia Mather-Hempler were captured by a frequent phrase Rev. Erik Swanson would use. It was about his desire for Westhope Presbyterian Church to be "a contemplative center for Silicon Valley." Deeply curious about what he meant by this, the three began praying together to listen to what the Holy Spirit was stirring in the midst of Westhope Presbyterian Church. Soon, they expanded the praying circle to others also intrigued by this call. Out of this listening came a vision of a center that would offer spiritual direction and retreats to those who longed for spiritual depth in Silicon Valley. After about a year of praying together and with the blessing of Westhope, the Center was officially birthed. This praying group became the Discernment Board. Over the years the Center has continued to grow and establish itself not only for retreats and spiritual direction, but also as a community for spiritual directors to connect and deepen their practice.  We remain deeply grateful to Westhope Presbyterian Church whose contemplative life naturally supports and celebrates this ministry.


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