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Quiz: Can You Name These U.S. Cities from Three Clues?
Can You Name These U.S. Cities from Three Clues?
By: Isadora Teich
Is your mind a road map of America's great cities? The United States of America has a population of over 325 million people. It is the third most populous country on earth, following China and India. In this large country, the vast majority of people live in major cities. Whether it's the East Coast, the West Coast or somewhere in the middle, about 80% of all Americans work and live in urban areas, or in suburbs directly surrounding them. This is where it is easiest to find work, which is what attracts many Americans from rural areas. In fact, the overall population in urban areas is rising, while that in rural areas has fallen.
Despite not being as densely populated or large in area as other cities in the Americas or Eurasia, many American cities are global icons that have had a huge influence on the world. When it comes to finance, tech, art, media and culture, many American cities have set global standards for decades. Some of these places are even currently on the cutting edge. All across this country are massive centers of art, medicine, commerce, food and more.
If you think you know America's cities like the back of your hand, take a crack at this quiz!
This city is in a desert, is famous for its casinos and is full of luxury resorts.
Las Vegas, Nevada, sits in the Mojave desert. It's 4-mile-long Vegas Strip is famous for its 24-hour casinos, entertainment options and elaborate displays.
This city is known for Hollywood, celebrity sightings and intense traffic.
Los Angeles is the commercial, cultural and financial center of Southern California. It is a world-famous center of film and television production.
This city is the largest in America by population, it's the home of Broadway theater, and it is on the East Coast.
New York City is the largest city in America, with over 20 million people living in its metropolitan area. New York City also has the largest foreign-born population density of any city on Earth.
___________ is known for clam chowder, cream pie and a very distinctive accent.
Boston is one of the oldest cities in America. It is located in Massachusetts.
This city is in Texas, is known for its arts district, and is where JFK was assassinated.
Dallas is the ninth most populous city in the U.S., with a population of roughly 1.3 million people. It is a commercial and cultural hub.
__________ is the location of the White House, home to many free museums and the capital of the U.S.
Washington, D.C., is the seat of American federal government. It is part of no U.S. state and bordered by Maryland and Virginia.
This city is on Lake Michigan, has an iconic skyline and is known for deep dish pizza.
Chicago is located in the state of Illinois. It is the largest city in the Midwest.
This city is known for its year-round fog, cable cars and being a center of hippie culture in the '60s.
San Francisco is a small city located in Northern California. It is famously hilly and expensive to live in.
______ is located in the Pacific Northwest, is known for tech and boasts the home of Starbucks.
Both Amazon and Microsoft are headquartered in Seattle. This city of roughly 700,000 is located in Washington State.
This city is a state capital, located by the Rocky Mountains and known for beer.
Denver is the capital of Colorado and a city with Old West roots. In this city, more beer is brewed daily than in any other city in the U.S.
___________ is known for its live music scene, tacos and parks.
Austin Texas, is the home of the South by Southwest music festival. It is the state capital of Texas.
This city is known for its tech scene, is located in California and is one of the largest cities in America.
San Jose, California, has a population of over 1 million, making it the tenth most populous city in America. It is surrounded by Silicon Valley's rolling hills.
This city is a state capital, played an important part in the Civil Rights Movement and has one of the largest metropolitan areas in the U.S.
Atlanta is the capital of Georgia and has a metropolitan area population of over 5 million people. This makes it one of the largest metropolitan areas in America.
This city sits on the East Coast, is a historic seaport and is famous for its seafood and crab cakes.
Baltimore is the largest city in Maryland. It is not part of any county - it's the largest independent city in America.
This city is known for cheesesteaks, the Liberty Bell and the Mummers.
Philadelphia is located in the state of Pennsylvania. An important historic city, it still has many buildings and sites left from the days of our founding fathers.
_______ is the largest city in the South by population, fourth largest in the country, and known for Tex-Mex cuisine.
Houston is a large metropolis in Texas. It is known for being a home to both NASA and the Houston Grand Opera.
This city is known as "The Big Easy," is famous for its Cajun cuisine and is known for Voodoo.
New Orleans is a famous melting pot of French, African and American culture. It's famous for its live music and Mardi Gras celebration.
This city is on the Pacific Coast, close to the Mexican-American border and known for its beaches.
San Diego is a Southern California city with a population of over a million. It is famous for its year-round warm weather.
This city is known for being eco-friendly, is located in the Pacific Northwest and is a foodie hot spot.
Portland is the largest city in Oregon. It is famous as a hip cultural hub with a thriving arts scene.
This city is not a state capital, but it is one of the smaller cities in the U.S. and known as one of the "Twin Cities."
Minneapolis is the largest city in Minnesota and forms "The Twin Cities" with neighboring Minneapolis capital St Paul. It is known for its parks and lakes.
_________ is a state capital, known for its German village area and has one of the largest public universities in the country.
Columbus, Ohio, is the third most populous state capital in the U.S. It is home to Ohio State University, which is the third largest public university in the country, by enrollment.
This city is known for its Cuban influence, colorful buildings and beaches.
Miami is on Florida's southeastern tip. It is famous for the South Beach neighborhood, which is home to beautiful beaches and popular nightclubs.
This city is on the American-Canadian border, is the birthplace of Motown and is in the Midwest.
Detroit is the largest city in Michigan. Its nickname is "Motor City."
This city is one of the biggest in the South, is the home of the Alamo and is known for its long River Walk.
San Antonio is the seventh most populous city in the U.S. It is in Texas and has over 50 golf courses.
__________ is one of the most populous cities in the Midwest, hosts the Indy 500 and is sometimes called "Circle City."
Indianapolis is the largest city in Indiana. One of its nicknames is "The Crossroads of America," because it is within a day's drive of the majority of the U.S. population.
This city is located in the South, world famous for its music and home of the Grand Ole Opry.
Nashville is located in Tennessee. It's the home of numerous famous music venues and a historic town for country, blues and rock music.
This city is a state capital, often shortened to OKC and known for its cowboy culture.
Oklahoma City is the capitol and largest city of Oklahoma. It has a population of over 600,000.
This city is in the South, is home to the NASCAR Hall of Fame and is a commercial hub.
Charlotte is the largest city in North Carolina. It is the 17th most populous city in America.
This city is a state capital, is famously hot and has a massive metropolitan area population.
Phoenix, Arizona, is the largest capital city in the country. It is the only state capital with a population exceeding one million people.
________ is on an island, is a major gateway to the U.S. and is where you can find Pearl Harbor.
Honolulu is the capital and largest city of Hawaii. It is a major international business hub.
This city is in the South, blues and rock & roll are said to have originated here and Elvis Presley's mansion is here.
Memphis, Tennessee, sits on the Mississippi River. It's a famous music city where icons such as Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash recorded.
This city is home to the Gateway Arch, sits along the Mississippi River and is famous for barbecue.
St. Louis is an independent port city in Missouri. It is the cultural and economic center of the Greater St. Louis area, which is home to over 2 million people.
________ is a high elevation city, it is known for its Mormon roots and is known for its punk scene.
Salt Lake City is the capital and largest city of Utah. The headquarters of the Mormon Church can be found there.
This city is in Florida, is large by area, and is known for its waterfront pubs and seafood restaurants.
Jacksonville, Florida, is the largest city in the contiguous U.S. by area. It sits along the Atlantic Coast of Northeastern Florida.
___________ sits on the Kansas-Missouri border, has a strong jazz heritage and is known for barbecue.
Kansas City is the largest city in Missouri. This city is prominent part of jazz history.
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Credit Suisse Q2 net revenue up 11% to 6.2B Swiss francs
Thursday, 30. July 2020 07:04
Credit Suisse Group AG announced on Thursday its net revenue in the second quarter of 2020 went up by 11% in comparison to the same period last year to land at 6.2 billion Swiss francs. Its net income mounted by 24% to 1.2 billion Swiss francs year-on-year, while its operating expenses increased by 2% to 4.34 billion Swiss francs.
The group also reported its net revenue in the first half of 2020 came in at 12 billion Swiss francs, up by 9% compared to the same time last year, while its net income stood at 2.5 billion Swiss francs, marking an increase of 47% to the first six months of 2019. The operating expenses fell by 2% to 8.35 billion Swiss francs.
"Having achieved strong results in the first half of the year, we would like to take this opportunity to reaffirm our strategy and to announce several structural changes, which we will implement going forward. The changes should allow us to extract significant potential to improve effectiveness and efficiency, navigate the current environment with the necessary far-sightedness, and to unlock additional growth potential in the future to the benefit of our clients," Chief Executive Officer Thomas Gottstein said.
Related Links: Credit Suisse Group
Breaking the News / JR

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What started out looking like being a small hash eventually turned into more than 20 hashers and 8 dogs raring to go! With Twin Peaks playing Hash Cash we were soon all ready for the hares speech. Woodpecker said a few words about his hash next week but also informed us that Mother Woodpecker has sadly passed away.......aged 99!!!! Looks like we'll have Mr Woodpecker around for a good long time yet then! RIP Mother Woodpecker.
Usual instructions from the hares, fish hooks, long short splits and of course, a sweetie stop. Onto check over the road where there was a lot of loitering going on, eventually the trail was called on on by Cathusalem followed closely by Tuned In.
It was another glorious sunny Sunday on woodbury common, for a joint hash between Exeter and Taunton, about 20 of us from Exeter arrived, various excuses were heard for absences from the lame family BBQ, to the partly believable swine flu! Chip Shop arrived rather huffy and puffy in lycra ..... under the guise of cycle training (we would all respect him more if he just admitted..... he just likes wearing lycra!!). Mr Hyde arrived with another hoard of new children - it is rumoured he might have a change of name to Pied Piper .... one would presume he does have the consent of the parents involved?? The Taunton hare gave instructions regarding the hash, and we were off .... to the sound of a rather loud hunter bugel that was the signature tune for the next 100 minutes.
Despite the previous days weather and a bad forecast some 30 hashers arrived at White Cross CP in the sunshine. Chip Shop informed us that actually most of the hash had been laid by Jekyll and Hyde, although as it turned out....you'd never have known, Jekyll didn't seem to be able to find the trail any better than the rest of us at times!
We were told it was laid in flour on the left...........no, right, with some fish hooks and a sweetie stop. There were warnings of a very slippery steep slope further into the trail, so any children or pregnant people could circumnavigate this if needs be. We set off coming to a standstill again about 10m further down the car park while there was a lot of loitering while the trail was being checked out.
Don't forget, this Saturday is the A2B hash starting from Hare and Hounds CP, Putts Corner, Sidbury. The trail this month is being laid by Stat Nav and Radiohead. For the A2B virgins, the trail is usually about 10 miles for the longs and about 7-8 for the shorts, with 2 beer stops along the way. We meet at 12.30 for a 12.45 start. Hope to see you there.
Lovely sunny day today here in Whimple where 24 hashers gathered in readiness for the great sweat. Three hares were responsible for creating todays mess, all of which passed the buck to the other for a negative comments, as if our three hares deserve the same. We were graced today by the arrival of the Harrison Family who had come all the way from, wait for it, Whimple, nice to see you Harrisons. Also Gary, a new hasher turned up sporting a Newcastle United Football shirt covered in tear stains, never mind hopefully they will bounce back into the Premier League soon.


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\section{Introduction}

\label{sec:sec1}Dual-core systems, featuring intrinsic nonlinearity in
parallel cores coupled by linear tunneling of wave fields, find their
realizations in various physical settings. Well-known systems of this type
in optics are twin-core fibers \cite{twin}-\cite{Snyder} (see also an early
review \cite{Wabnitz}) and Bragg gratings \cite{Mak}, as well as double
planar waveguides with the second-harmonic-generating intrinsic nonlinearity
\cite{Mak-chi2}. Similar settings for matter waves are represented by
two-layer Bose-Einstein condensates \cite{Arik}-\cite{Santos}. A fundamental
physical effect in nonlinear symmetric dual-core systems is the \textit
symmetry-breaking bifurcation} (SBB), alias the phase transition, which
destabilizes symmetric modes and gives rise to asymmetric ones. In nonlinear
optics, the SBB was studied in detail for continuous-wave (spatially
uniform) states \cite{Snyder} and solitons \cite{dual-core,Mak} in twin-core
fibers \cite{exact,Laval}, \cite{Maim}-\cite{1996} and Bragg gratings \cit
{Mak} with the Kerr (cubic) nonlinearity, as well as for solitons in
double-core waveguides with the quadratic \cite{Mak-chi2} and cubic-quintic
\cite{Lior} nonlinearity. The SBB\ was studied too for matter-wave solitons
in two-layer BEC settings \cite{Arik,Warsaw}.

The self-focusing cubic nonlinearity gives rise to the SBB of the \textit
subcritical} type (alias the phase transition of the first kind) for
solitons in the symmetric dual-core system. The bifurcation of this type is
characterized by originally unstable branches of emerging asymmetric modes,
which at first extend backward (in the direction of weaker nonlinearity),
and then turn forward, retrieving the stability at the turning points \cit
{bifurcations}. In this case, the system demonstrates a bistability and
hysteresis in a limited interval, characteristic to phase transitions of the
first kind. If the dual-core system is equipped with a periodic potential
(lattice) acting in the direction transversal to the propagation coordinate,
the character of the SBB changes to \textit{supercritical} above a certain
threshold value of the lattice's strength \cite{Warsaw}. The supercritical
bifurcation (alias the phase transition of the second kind) gives rise to
stable branches of asymmetric modes going in the forward direction \cit
{bifurcations}. The SBBs belong to this type\ too in the twin-core Bragg
grating, and in quadratically nonlinear waveguides \cite{Mak,Mak-chi2}.

In addition to numerical analysis of symmetric, antisymmetric and asymmetric
soliton modes in dual-core system with the intrinsic cubic nonlinearity \cit
{dual-core,anti}, the bifurcation point was found in an exact analytical
form \cite{exact}, and the emerging asymmetric solitons were studied in
detail by means of the variational approximation (VA) \cit
{Laval,Maim,Pak,1996}. The latter method is relevant for studies of solitons
in many models originating in nonlinear optics and related fields \cite{VA},
while the possibility to find the exact bifurcation point is a feature
specific to particular systems.

The nonlinear response in optical media may feature spatial nonlocality,
which means that the local change of the refractive index induced by the
light beam depends on the distribution of the light intensity in a vicinity
of a given point \cite{ScienceNonlocal,ReviewNonlocal}. The nonlocality
arises when the nonlinear optical response involves mechanisms such as heat
diffusion, as analyzed theoretically \cite{Krolik} and demonstrated
experimentally \cite{MotiPRL,Canberra}, molecular reorientation in liquid
crystals \cite{AssantoPRL1, AssantoPRL2}, atomic diffusion \cit
{SuterPRA,KrolikPRL,YePRA}, etc. The fields of nanophotonics and
plasmonics also give rise to effective nonlocalities, due to
light-matter interactions occurring in these media on deeply
subwavelength scales \cite{nano,Romania}.

Nonlocal nonlinearities are known in other physical media, including
plasmas \cite{plasma} and self-gravitating photonic beams
\cite{Rivlin}. Long-range interactions play an important role in
dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) too \cite{DD}, and nonlocal
gravity-like interactions can be induced in BEC by means of laser
illumination \cite{quasi-gravity}.

The nonlocality, which introduces a new spatial scale, namely, the
correlation radius (denoted below as $\sqrt{d}$), may drastically alter
nonlinear excitations in optical systems, due to the interplay of $\sqrt{d}
with other natural scales. In particular, the nonlocality changes the
character of interactions between solitons \cite{AssantoOL}, and it
suppresses the beam's collapse and transverse instabilities \cit
{KonotopPRE,OBangPRE}. The nonlocality also accounts for the formation of
new types of soliton modes \cite{YeOLTwin,YeOLBending}. However, to the best
of knowledge, the influence of nonlocality on the performance of optical
couplers has not been reported yet. In particular, new effects may be
expected due to the competition of $\sqrt{d}$ with the coupling length,
i.e., the interplay of nonlocal and local interactions. This is the
objective of the present work.

We consider the formation of solitons in a planar dual-core waveguide, in
which the nonlocal nonlinearity of the thermal type acts in both cores,
while the coupling between them remains linear and local, as the heat
diffusion does \ not transfer energy across the gap separating the
waveguides. Similar to couplers with the local nonlinearity, the nonlocal
model gives rise to three types of solitons, \textit{viz}., symmetric,
antisymmetric and asymmetric ones. However, the nonlocality significantly
affects the symmetry-breaking phase transition (SBB) for solitons, as well
as stability of the emerging asymmetric solitons, which are basic properties
of nonlinear couplers: at a critical value of the $\sqrt{d}$, the SBB
changes its character from sub- to supercritical. Taking into regard the
potential that nonlinear couplers have for various application to photonics,
such as all-optical switching \cite{switch,Wabnitz}, the use of the
nonlocality for the control of the soliton dynamics in these systems may
help to expand the range of the applications. While our analysis is
performed in terms of the thermal nonlinearity in optical waveguides, the
results may plausibly apply to other dual-core physical systems which
feature the nonlocal nonlinearity.

The paper is organized as follows. The model is formulated in Section II,
and analytical results are reported in Section III. These results are
obtained by means of the VA for solitons in the case of weak nonlocality
(small $\sqrt{d}$), and, on the other hand, the SBB is also investigated (in
fact, for antisymmetric solitons) in the opposite limit of the
ultra-nonlocal nonlinearity, in terms of a coupled system for
``accessible solitons" [the Snyder-Mitchell (SM) model \cit
{ScienceNonlocal}]. In particular, the exact bifurcation point is
found for the SM system. The results for the small correlation
radius explicitly demonstrate the shift of the SBB point to larger
values of the soliton's power, and the trend to the transition of
the subcritical bifurcation into the supercritical one, while the
findings reported for the ultra-nonlocal system help to apprehend
the general situation. Numerical results, which provide the full
description of solitons in the nonlocal dual-core system for
moderate values of the correlation radius, are presented in Section
IV. In the case of the weak nonlocality, these results verify the
analytical results produced by the VA. The paper is concluded by
Section V.

\section{The model}

\label{sec:sec2} The propagation of optical beams along axis $z$ in the
planar dual-core waveguide with the intrinsic self-focusing nonlinearity of
the thermal type \cite{Krolik,ReviewNonlocal} is described by the system of
linearly coupled nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (NLS) equations for complex field
amplitudes $u$, $v$ in the two cores, and respective local perturbations $m,n
$ of the refractive index:
\begin{subequations}
\label{uvmn}
\begin{gather}
iu_{z}+\frac{1}{2}u_{xx}+mu+v=0, \\
iv_{z}+\frac{1}{2}v_{xx}+nv+u=0, \\
m-dm_{xx}=|u|^{2}, \\
n-dn_{xx}=|v|^{2},
\end{gather
where $x$ is the transverse coordinate, the coupling constant [the
coefficient in front of terms $v$ and $u$ in Eqs. (\ref{uvmn}a) and (\re
{uvmn}b), respectively] is scaled to be $1$ (accordingly, the coupling
length is also $\sim 1$), and $d$ is the squared correlation radius of the
nonlocality. In fact, $d$ controls the competition between the length scales
determined by the nonlocal and local interactions in the system.

Stationary solutions to Eqs. (\ref{uvmn}) with propagation constant $b$ are
looked for as
\end{subequations}
\begin{subequations}
\label{stat}
\begin{gather}
u\left( z,x\right) =e^{ibz}U(x),v\left( z,x\right) =e^{ibz}V(x), \\
m=m(x),n=n(x),
\end{gather
with real functions $U(x)$ and $V(x)$ obeying the following equations:
\end{subequations}
\begin{subequations}
\label{UV&mn}
\begin{gather}
-bU+\frac{1}{2}U^{\prime \prime }+mU+V=0, \\
-bV+\frac{1}{2}V^{\prime \prime }+nV+U=0, \\
m-dm^{\prime \prime }=U^{2}, \\
n-dn^{\prime \prime }=V^{2}.
\end{gather
Equations (\ref{uvmn}) conserve the total power,
\end{subequations}
\begin{equation}
P=P_{u}+P_{v}\equiv \int_{-\infty }^{\infty }|u|^{2}dx+\int_{-\infty
}^{\infty }|v|^{2}dx.  \label{P}
\end{equation
Obviously, symmetric [$U(x)=V(x)$] and antisymmetric $[U(x)=-V(x)]$ modes
have $P_{1}=P_{2}$, while asymmetric ones can be characterized by parameter
\begin{equation}
\Theta =\frac{P_{2}-P_{1}}{P_{2}+P_{1}},  \label{Theta}
\end{equation
which takes values $-1<\Theta <+1$.

Parallel to Eqs. (\ref{uvmn}), it is relevant to consider the ultra-nonlocal
model, taken in the form of two linearly coupled SM equations \cit
{ScienceNonlocal},
\begin{subequations}
\label{SM}
\begin{gather}
iu_{z}+\frac{1}{2}u_{xx}-\frac{1}{2}P_{u}x^{2}u+v=0, \\
iv_{z}+\frac{1}{2}v_{xx}-\frac{1}{2}P_{v}x^{2}v+u=0,
\end{gather
where $P_{1,2}$ are the powers defined as per Eq. (\ref{P}). Actually, Eqs.
\ref{SM}) correspond to the version of Eqs. (\ref{uvmn}c) and (\ref{uvmn}d)
with spatially averaged right-hand sides. To the best of our knowledge, the
SM coupler was not considered before, while the extreme nonlocality
postulated in the SM model per se finds realizations and applications in
diverse optical \cite{SM-optical} and optomechanical \cite{SM-optomech}
settings.

\section{Analytical results}

\subsection{The variational approximation for the weakly nonlocal system}

To apply the VA to the present system, we note that, in the case of weak
nonlocality ($d\ll 1$), Eqs. (\ref{UV&mn}c) and (\ref{UV&mn}d) yield, in the
first approximation, $m=U^{2}+d\left( U^{2}\right) ^{\prime \prime }$, and
n=V^{2}+d\left( V^{2}\right) ^{\prime \prime }$ \cite{Krol}. The
substitution of this approximation into Eqs. (\ref{UV&mn}a) and (\ref{UV&mn
b) leads to a system of two coupled equations with nonlinear-diffraction
terms:
\end{subequations}
\begin{subequations}
\label{UV}
\begin{gather}
-bU+\frac{1}{2}U^{\prime \prime }+U^{3}+dU\left( U^{2}\right) ^{\prime
\prime }+V=0, \\
-bV+\frac{1}{2}V^{\prime \prime }+V^{3}+dV\left( V^{2}\right) ^{\prime
\prime }+U=0,
\end{gather
which may be derived from the Lagrangian with density
\end{subequations}
\begin{eqnarray}
\mathcal{L} &=&\frac{1}{4}\left[ \left( U^{\prime }\right) ^{2}+\left(
V^{\prime }\right) ^{2}\right] +\frac{b}{2}\left( U^{2}+V^{2}\right) -\frac{
}{4}\left( U^{4}+V^{4}\right)   \notag \\
&&+d\left[ U^{2}\left( U^{\prime }\right) ^{2}+V^{2}\left( V^{\prime
}\right) ^{2}\right] -UV.  \label{L}
\end{eqnarray}

The ansatz for soliton solutions may be naturally chosen a
\begin{equation}
\left\{ U(x),V(x)\right\} =\left\{ A,B\right\} \mathrm{sech}\left(
x/W\right) ,  \label{ans}
\end{equation
where $A$ and $B$ are amplitudes of the two components, and $W$ is their
common width. The substitution of the ansatz into density (\ref{L}) and
evaluation of the integrals yields the corresponding Lagrangian
\begin{gather}
L\equiv \int_{-\infty }^{+\infty }\mathcal{L}dx=\frac{A^{2}+B^{2}}{6W
+b\left( A^{2}+B^{2}\right) W  \notag \\
-\frac{1}{3}\left( A^{4}+B^{4}\right) W+\frac{4d\left( A^{4}+B^{4}\right) }
15W}-2ABW.  \label{Leff}
\end{gather
This Lagrangian can be more conveniently rewritten in terms of the total
power $P$, see Eq. (\ref{P}), and \textit{power imbalance} $Q=P_{1}-P_{2}$
\begin{equation}
2\left( A^{2}+B^{2}\right) W\equiv P,~2\left( A^{2}-B^{2}\right) W\equiv Q,
\label{PQ}
\end{equation
as follows
\begin{gather}
2L=\frac{P}{6W^{2}}+bP-\frac{P^{2}+Q^{2}}{12W} \\
+\frac{d}{15}\frac{P^{2}+Q^{2}}{W^{3}}-\sigma \sqrt{P^{2}-Q^{2}},
\end{gather
where $\sigma =1$ for symmetric solitons and asymmetric ones generated from
them by the SBB, and $\sigma =-1$ for antisymmetric solitons. The
corresponding Euler-Lagrange equations are $\partial L/\partial W=\partial
L/\partial Q=\partial L/\partial P=0$, i.e.
\begin{gather}
-\frac{P}{W}+\frac{P^{2}+Q^{2}}{4}-\frac{3d}{5}\frac{P^{2}+Q^{2}}{W^{2}}=0,
\label{W} \\
Q\left( -\frac{1}{6W}+\frac{2d}{15W^{3}}+\frac{\sigma }{\sqrt{P^{2}-Q^{2}}
\right) =0,  \label{Q} \\
b=\frac{P}{6W}-\frac{1}{6W^{2}}-\frac{2dP}{15W^{3}}+\frac{\sigma P}{\sqrt
P^{2}-Q^{2}}}  \label{k}
\end{gather}

Equation (\ref{k}), which determines the propagation constant, $b$, is
detached from Eqs. (\ref{W}) and (\ref{Q}). Equation (\ref{Q}) yields either
$Q=0$, which corresponds to symmetric and antisymmetric solitons, or
\begin{equation}
-\frac{1}{6W}+\frac{2d}{15W^{3}}+\frac{1}{\sqrt{P^{2}-Q^{2}}}=0
\label{asymm}
\end{equation
for asymmetric ones. Further, the expansion of Eqs. (\ref{W}) and (\ref{k})
for small $d$, i.e., the weak nonlocality, yield
\begin{equation}
W\approx \frac{4}{P}+\frac{3d}{5}P,~b\approx \frac{1}{32}P^{2}+\sigma -\frac
d}{192}P^{4},  \label{small-d}
\end{equation
which predicts that, naturally, the nonlocality makes the soliton wider, for
given total power $P$. This is confirmed by the numerical solutions, as
shown below.

The most essential point is to find the critical power $P_{\mathrm{bif}}$,
at which the asymmetric solitons bifurcate from the symmetric ones. This
value is determined by a system of equations (\ref{W}) and (\ref{asymm}), in
which one should set $Q=0$. Further, using the assumption of the weak
nonlocality, i.e., small $d$, the ensuing solution for $P_{\mathrm{bif}}$\
can be expanded up to order $d$, which yield
\begin{equation}
P_{\mathrm{bif}}=2\sqrt{6}+\left( 24\sqrt{6}/5\right) d.  \label{bif}
\end{equation
Note that, at $d=0$, Eq. (\ref{bif}) gives $P_{\mathrm{bif}}(d=0)=2\sqrt{6}$
\cite{1996}, which may be compared to the known exact result \cite{exact},
\left( P_{\mathrm{bif}}\right) _{\mathrm{exact}}=8/\sqrt{3}$, the relative
error being $0.0\allowbreak 57$.

The VA predicts, as per Eq. (\ref{bif}), the \emph{increase} of the
soliton's power at the bifurcation point due to the weak nonlocality. To
compare the prediction with the numerical findings, we take the slope of the
$P_{\mathrm{bif}}(d)$ dependence at $d=0$, for which Eq. (\ref{bif}) yields
\begin{equation}
\left[ \frac{d(P_{\mathrm{bif}})}{d(d)}|_{d=0}\right] _{\mathrm{variational
}=24\sqrt{6}/5\approx \allowbreak 11.758.  \label{VA}
\end{equation
On the other hand, the same slope obtained from the numerical solution (see
the next section) is
\begin{equation}
\left[ \frac{d(P_{\mathrm{bif}})}{d(d)}|_{d=0}\right] _{\mathrm{numerical
}\approx 10.867,  \label{num}
\end{equation
the relative error of the VA prediction being $0.075$ (see Table 1).

It is also possible to find another critical power, $P_{\mathrm{th}}$, which
corresponds to the turning point (i.e., the stabilization threshold for
asymmetric solitons) on the dependence of the asymmetry parameter, $\Theta
\equiv Q/P$ [see Eq. (\ref{Theta})], on total power $P$. To this end, one
should obtain a dependence between $\Theta $ and $P$, eliminating $W$ from
Eqs. (\ref{W}) and (\ref{asymm}), and identifying $P_{\mathrm{th}}$ from
condition
\begin{equation}
\frac{dP}{d\Theta }=0.  \label{theta}
\end{equation
In the limit of $d=0$, the result produced by the VA is known \cite{1996}
\begin{equation}
\left( P_{\mathrm{th}}\right) _{d=0}=3\cdot 6^{1/4}\approx 4.\,\allowbreak
695,  \label{Pth}
\end{equation
the corresponding value of the asymmetry at the critical point being $\Theta
_{\mathrm{th}}=1/\sqrt{3}$. On the other hand, the numerically found
threshold power at $d=0$ i
\begin{equation}
\left[ \left( P_{\mathrm{th}}\right) _{d=0}\right] _{\mathrm{num}}\simeq
4.548,  \label{numTh}
\end{equation
hence the relative error produced by the comparison of Eqs. (\ref{Pth}) and
\ref{numTh}) is $0.031$ (see Table 1).

Further, the expansion of Eqs. (\ref{W}), (\ref{asymm}) and (\ref{theta})
for small $d$ yields the following prediction for the slope of curve $P_
\mathrm{th}}(d)$ at $d=0$
\begin{equation}
\left[ \frac{d(P_{\mathrm{th}})}{d(d)}|_{d=0}\right] _{\mathrm{variational}}
\frac{16}{5}\cdot 6^{3/4}\approx 12.268,  \label{VA2}
\end{equation
while the numerically found counterpart of this value is
\begin{equation}
\left[ \frac{d(P_{\mathrm{th}})}{d(d)}|_{d=0}\right] _{\mathrm{num}}\simeq
13.827,  \label{num2}
\end{equation
hence the respective relative error is $0.127$ (see Table 1).
\begin{table}[tbp]
\caption{The comparison between the VA-predicted characteristics of the
symmetry-breaking bifurcation, in the local and weakly nonlocal systems, and
their numerically found counterparts.
\begin{tabular}[t]{|l|c|c|c|}
\hline
Parameter & VA & Numeric & $\frac{\text{VA-Numer}}{\text{VA}}$(\%) \\ \hline
$P_{\text{th}}|_{d=0}$ & $4.6953$ & $4.5484$ & $3.13$ \\ \hline
$P_{\text{bif}}|_{d=0}$ & $4.8989$ & $4.6188$ & $5.72$ \\ \hline
$\frac{d(P_{\mathrm{th}})}{d(d)}|_{d=0}$ & $12.2681$ & $13.8270$ & $-12.71$
\\ \hline
$\frac{d(P_{\mathrm{bif}})}{d(d)}|_{d=0}$ & $11.7575$ & $10.8666$ & $7.58$
\\ \hline
\end{tabular
\label{tab:tb1}
\end{table}

Finally, we note that the relation
\begin{equation}
\frac{d(P_{\mathrm{th}})}{d(d)}|_{d=0}>\frac{d(P_{\mathrm{bif}})}{d(d)
|_{d=0},  \label{>}
\end{equation
see Eqs. (\ref{VA2}) and (\ref{VA}), suggests that $P_{\mathrm{th}}$ and $P_
\mathrm{bif}}$ will eventually \emph{merge} into a \emph{single}
critical/threshold value, which implies the transition from the subcritical
bifurcation to the supercritical one, as confirmed by numerical results
displayed below.

\subsection{The coupler for ``accessible solitons" (the
Snyder-Mitchell model)}

In the opposite case of the ultra-nonlocal nonlinearity, substitution (\re
{stat}a) transforms coupled SM equations \cite{ScienceNonlocal} and
Eq. (\ref{P}) into their stationary versions:
\begin{subequations}
\label{SMstat}
\begin{gather}
-bU+\frac{1}{2}U^{\prime \prime }-\frac{1}{2}P_{u}x^{2}U+V=0, \\
-bV+\frac{1}{2}V^{\prime \prime }-\frac{1}{2}P_{v}x^{2}V+U=0,
\end{gather
\end{subequations}
\begin{equation}
P_{u}=\int_{-\infty }^{\infty }U^{2}(x)dx,~P_{v}=\int_{-\infty }^{\infty
}V^{2}(x)dx.  \label{PP}
\end{equation
In spite of the apparently simple form of Eqs. (\ref{SMstat}) and (\ref{PP
), it is not possible to find exact solutions for asymmetric solitons. A
solution can be obtained, by means of the WKB approximation, in the limit
case of the strong asymmetry, $P_{v}\ll P_{u}$. In this case, the $U$
component is tantamount to the ground-state wave function of the harmonic
oscillator (HO), with the corresponding HO length $L_{u}=P_{u}^{-1/4}$,
eigenvalue of the propagation constant $b=-\sqrt{P_{u}/2}$, and amplitude
\begin{equation}
U(x=0)=\pi ^{-1/4}P_{u}^{5/8},  \label{U}
\end{equation}
while the weak $V$ component develops a broad shape, with a small amplitude,
$V(x=0)\approx -\sqrt{2/\pi }P_{v}^{3/4}P_{u}^{-1/8}$, and large width,
L_{v}\approx 2\sqrt{\sqrt{P_{u}}/P_{v}}$. The wave function of the $V
-component can be written in a relatively simple explicit WKB form
in the ``resonant" case,
\begin{equation}
P_{v}=P_{u}/\left( 2\left( 2N+1\right) \right) ^{2},  \label{R}
\end{equation}
with large integer $N$, when the $(2N)$-th energy eigenvalue in the shallow
HO potential (assuming that $N=0$ corresponds to the ground state) in the $V
-component is matched to the ground-state eigenvalue of the HO in the $U
-component
\begin{gather}
V(x)=-\sqrt{\frac{2}{\pi }}\left( \frac{P_{v}^{3}}{\sqrt{P_{u}}-P_{v}x^{2}
\right) ^{1/4}  \notag \\
\times \cos \left\{ \frac{1}{2}\sqrt{P_{v}}\left[ \frac{\sqrt{P_{u}}}{P_{v}
\arcsin \left( \sqrt{\frac{P_{v}}{\sqrt{P_{u}}}}x\right) +x\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt
P_{u}}}{P_{v}}-x^{2}}\right] \right\} ,  \label{WKB}
\end{gather
at $x^{2}<\sqrt{P_{u}}/P_{v}$, and $V(x)=0$ at $x^{2}>\sqrt{P_{u}}/P_{v}$
[if resonance condition (\ref{R}) does not hold, the WKB expression (\re
{WKB}) needs a correction around the edge points, $x^{2}=\sqrt{P_{u}}/P_{v}
].

It follows from Eq. (\ref{SMstat}b) taken at the inflexion point ($V^{\prime
\prime }=0$) closest to $x=0$ that the strongly asymmetric mode has \emph
opposite signs} of $U(x=0)$ and $V(x=0)$ (as written in the above formulas),
i.e., this asymmetric state develops from the \emph{antisymmetric} one. The
respective point of the antisymmetry-breaking bifurcation can be found in an
exact form. To this end, a solution to Eqs. (\ref{SMstat}) near the
bifurcation point is looked for a
\begin{equation}
\left\{ U(x),V(x)\right\} =\pm U_{0}\exp \left( -\frac{1}{2}\sqrt{\frac{P}{2
}x^{2}\right) +\delta U(x),  \label{delta}
\end{equation
where the propagation constant and amplitude of the lowest unperturbed
antisymmetric mode, with total power $P$ (in both components), ar
\begin{equation}
b=-1-(1/2)\sqrt{P/2},  \label{b}
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
U_{0}=\pi ^{-1/4}\left( P/2\right) ^{5/8},  \label{U0}
\end{equation
cf. Eq. (\ref{U}), and an infinitesimal antisymmetry-breaking perturbation,
\delta U(x)$, obeys the equation following from the substitution of
expression (\ref{delta}) into Eqs. (\ref{SMstat}) and (\ref{PP}) and
subsequent linearization:
\begin{subequations}
\label{dU}
\begin{gather}
\left( 1-b\right) \delta U+\frac{1}{2}\delta U^{\prime \prime }-\frac{1}{4
Px^{2}\delta U=U_{0}\left( \delta P\right) x^{2}\exp \left( -\frac{1}{2
\sqrt{\frac{P}{2}}x^{2}\right) , \\
\delta P\equiv U_{0}\int_{-\infty }^{+\infty }\exp \left( -\frac{1}{2}\sqrt
\frac{P}{2}}x^{2}\right) \delta U(x)dx.
\end{gather}

A relevant solution to inhomogeneous equation (\ref{dU}a) can be found as
\end{subequations}
\begin{subequations}
\label{d}
\begin{eqnarray}
\delta U &=&\left( \delta _{0}+\frac{1}{2}\delta _{2}x^{2}\right) \exp
\left( -\frac{1}{2}\sqrt{\frac{P}{2}}x^{2}\right) , \\
\delta _{0} &=&\frac{U_{0}\delta P}{3\sqrt{P/2}-4},~\delta _{2}=-\frac
4U_{0}\delta P}{3\sqrt{P/2}-4}.
\end{eqnarray
Finally, substituting expressions (\ref{d}) into Eq. (\ref{dU}b) and
canceling $\delta P$ as a common factor, the self-consistency
condition yields a simple exact result for the total power at which
the increase of
the spontaneous breaking of the antisymmetry occurs: $P_{\mathrm{cr}}^
\mathrm{(antisymm)}}=8$.

\section{Numerical Results}

\label{sec:sec4} Numerical solution of Eqs. (\ref{UV&mn}) was performed by
means of the standard relaxation method. As predicted by the VA, three
soliton families, symmetric, asymmetric, and antisymmetric ones, persist in
the nonlocal system. The numerically found relation between the total power,
$P$, and propagation constant $b$ for symmetric and antisymmetric solutions
is shown in Figs. \ref{fig:fig1}. It is seen that $b$ monotonically grows
with $P$ at a fixed value of the nonlocality range, $\sqrt{d}$[which implies
that the solitons may be stable in terms of the Vakhitov-Kolokolov (VK)
criterion \cite{VK}], and $b$ decreases with $d$ at fixed $P$. Both these
properties are correctly predicted by the VA, see Eq. (\ref{small-d}). The
fact that all the curves originate, at $P=0$, from the same point, is
obvious, as it immediately follows from Eqs. (\ref{UV&mn}) that
\lim_{P\rightarrow 0}b(P)=\sigma \equiv \mathrm{sgn}\left( UV\right) $.

\begin{figure}[tbph]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.6\textwidth]{Fig1.eps}
\hspace{0\textwidth}
\caption{(Color online) Total power $P$ versus the soliton's propagation
constant, $b$, at different fixed values of the squared nonlocality
correlation radius, $d$, for symmetric solitons in the model based on Eqs.
\protect\ref{uvmn}). The inset shows a typical soliton profile. For
the antisymmetric solitons, $b$ is shifted by $\Delta b=-2$. All
quantities are plotted in arbitrary dimensionless units.}
\label{fig:fig1}
\end{figure}

Proceeding to numerically found asymmetric solitons, in Fig. \ref{fig:fig2
(a) we plot the respective $P(b)$ curves for for different fixed values of $d
$. As in the local system, asymmetric modes appear through the SBB when the
total power exceeds the threshold value, $P_{\mathrm{th}}$. Note that the
threshold, as well as the value of the total power at the bifurcation point,
$P=P_{\mathrm{bif}}$, significantly grow with $d$ [see Fig. \ref{fig:fig2
(b)], in accordance with the prediction of the VA given by Eqs. (\ref{Pth})
and (\ref{VA}). Further, the $P(b)$ curves change their shape with the
growth of the nonlocality radius: At small $d$, the slope, $dP/db$, is
initially negative (which definitely implies the instability, according to
the VK criterion \cite{VK}), going over to $dP/db>0$ with the further
increase of $b$. With the increase of $d$, the segment with the negative
slope shrinks, and disappears at $d>0.05$.

The change in the shape of the $P(b)$ characteristics is directly related to
the switch of the SBB from sub- to the supercritical type (in other words,
the switch from the symmetry-breaking phase transition from the first to
second kind) \cite{bifurcations}, as shown in Fig. \ref{fig:fig2}(c), where
P=P_{\mathrm{th}}$ determines the turning points of the $\Theta (P)$ curves,
and their unstable portions with $d\Theta /dP<0$ precisely correspond to the
segments with $dP/db<0$ in Fig. 2(b), both being confined to $P_{\mathrm{th
}<P<P_{\mathrm{bif}}$. Accordingly, the type of the SBB is subcritical, with
$P_{\mathrm{th}}<P_{\mathrm{bif}}$ at $d<0.05$, and supercritical, with $P_
\mathrm{th}}\equiv P_{\mathrm{bif}}$, at $d>0.05$. The merger of $P_{\mathrm
th}}$ and $P_{\mathrm{bif}}$ into the single value at $d>0.05$ is clearly
observed in Fig. \ref{fig:fig2}(b). Recall that, as mentioned above, the
trend to the merger of the two critical powers was predicted by the VA, see
Eq. (\ref{>}).

It is relevant to compare this result with the transition from the
subcritical SBB for solitons into the supercritical bifurcation under the
action of the periodic potential \cite{Warsaw}. Although the models are very
different (the one considered in Ref. \cite{Warsaw} is local), a common
feature is the introduction of a specific spatial scale---the nonlocality
range in the present model, $\sqrt{d}$, or the lattice period in the local
model---which is a factor accounting for the change of the character of the
SBB.

\begin{figure}[tbph]
\centering\subfigure{\label{fig:Fig.2a}\includegraphics[width=0.4
\textwidth]{Fig2_a.eps}}\hspace{0pt}\subfigure{\label{fig:Fig.2b
\includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{Fig2_b.eps}}\hspace{0pt}\newline
\subfigure{\label{fig:Fig.2b}\includegraphics[width=0.4
\textwidth]{Fig2_c.eps}}\hspace{0pt} \caption{(Color online) (a)
Total power $P$ versus propagation constant $b$ for asymmetric
solitons at different values of the squared nonlocality radius, $d$.
The inset shows a typical soliton profile. (b) The dependence on
nonlocality $d$ of the total power, $P_{\mathrm{bif}}$, at which the
symmetry-breaking bifurcation gives rise to asymmetric solitons, and
of the threshold power, $P_{\mathrm{th}}$, at which the pair of
stable and unstable asymmetric solitons emerge subcritically. (c)
The bifurcation diagram accounting for the creation of the
asymmetric solitons from the symmetric ones. In panels (a) and (c),
dashed curves depict unstable portions of the asymmetric-soliton
families [the border between stable and unstable (dashed) parts of
the symmetric-soliton family in Fig. 2(c) corresponds to $d=0.01$].
All quantities are plotted in arbitrary dimensionless units.}
\label{fig:fig2}
\end{figure}

The stability of the solitons was tested by means of systematic simulations
of Eqs. (\ref{uvmn}), starting with perturbed initial conditions,
u(x,z=0)=U(x)(1+\rho (x)),v(x,z=0)=V(x)(1+\rho (x))$, where $U(x),V(x)$ is a
stationary solution, and $\rho (x)$ is a small-amplitude random function. As
expected, it has been found that the solid portions of the curves in Figs.
\ref{fig:fig2}(a) and \ref{fig:fig2}(c), with $dP/db>0$ and $d\Theta /dP>0$,
carry stable solitons, while the dashed segments, with $dP/db<0$ and
d\Theta /dP<0$, represent unstable solutions. Thus, the increase of the
nonlocality radius, $\sqrt{d}$, gradually eliminates the instability region
for the asymmetric solitons, making them completely stable in the case when
the SBB is supercritical, i.e., at $d>0.05$.

It is relevant to explore the evolution of the two species of unstable
solitons in the dual-core system, \textit{viz}., asymmetric ones belonging
to the segments of the $\Theta (P)$ curves with the negative slope [i.e.,
\Theta <\Theta (P_{\mathrm{th}})$, that exist at $d<0.05$], which are
represented, for example, by point B in Fig. \ref{fig:fig2}(c), and
symmetric solitons with $P>P_{\mathrm{bif}}$, sampled by point D in Fig. \re
{fig:fig2}(c). Figure \ref{fig:fig3}(a) displays the result for the unstable
asymmetric soliton, which demonstrates long-lived oscillations, initiated by
the instability, and eventual relaxation into a stable soliton with almost
the same power but higher asymmetry, $\Theta >\Theta (P_{\mathrm{th}})$,
which belongs to the stable branch of asymmetric modes in Fig. \ref{fig:fig2
(c). Further, Fig. \ref{fig:fig3}(b) demonstrates that the instability of
the symmetric soliton leads to its spontaneous rearrangement into an
asymmetric one, with nearly the same total power.

\begin{figure}[tbph]
\centering
\subfigure{\label{fig:Fig.3a}\includegraphics[width=0.
\textwidth]{Fig3_a.eps}}\hspace{0\textwidth} \subfigure{\label{fig:Fig.3b
\includegraphics[width=0.7\textwidth]{Fig3_b.eps}}\hspace{0\textwidth}
\caption{(Color online) (a,b): The evolution of perturbed unstable
solitons corresponding, respectively, to points B and D marked in
Fig. 2(c) (weakly asymmetric and symmetric solitons) is shown in
terms of amplitudes of both components, and asymmetry measure
(\protect\ref{Theta}). Both examples pertain to $d=0.01$. All
quantities are plotted in arbitrary dimensionless units.}
\label{fig:fig3}
\end{figure}

We have also studied the stability and evolution of antisymmetric solitons
for different strengths of the nonlocality in the model based on Eqs. (\re
{uvmn}) (the stability of the antisymmetric solitons in the model of the
coupler with the local nonlinearity was studied, in a numerical form, in
Ref. \cite{anti}). In contrast to the asymmetric solitons, where the
nonlocality leads to the transition from the subcritical SBB to the
supercritical bifurcation, and thus enhances the stability of the asymmetric
solitons, it has been found that the stability of the antisymmetric ones is
weakly affected by the nonlocality: the stability region slightly expands
under the action of the nonlocality, without dramatic changes.

\section{Conclusion}

\label{sec:sec5} We have introduced the nonlocal generalizations of
the standard model of the nonlinear directional coupler. The system
can be built, in particular, as a dual-core optical waveguide made
of a material with thermal nonlinearity. By means of the VA
(variational approximation) and systematic numerical analysis, we
have found that the relatively weak nonlocality shifts the SBB
(symmetry-breaking bifurcation) of solitons to larger values of the
total power, and eventually changes the character of the SBB from
subcritical to the supercritical (i.e., the corresponding phase
transition of the first kind goes over into the transition of the
second kind). Thus, the nonlocality of the cubic nonlinearity
enhances the stability for the asymmetric solitons, and eventually
leads to their stabilization in the whole existence domain, while
only slightly affecting the stability of antisymmetric solitons. For
the consideration of the opposite case of the ultra-nonlocal
nonlinearity, the coupler based on the SM (Snyder-Mitchell) model
was introduced. In that case, the phase transition leads to the
spontaneous breaking of the antisymmetry of the corresponding
two-component ``accessible solitons". The exact transition point was
found, and the strongly asymmetric states were found by means of the
WKB approximation.

The analysis reported in this paper can be extended in other directions. In
particular, as concerns nonlocal dual-core systems in other physical
contexts, it may be quite interesting to study the SBB and asymmetric
solitons in the case when the nonlocal interactions act between the cores,
an important example being a two-layer dipolar BEC \cite{Santos}. The
symmetry-breaking point can be easily found for the respectively modified SM
coupler model. A challenging extension is to construct two-dimensional
solitons in dual-core systems, where they may be stabilized against the
collapse by the nonlocality of the nonlinearity.

\section*{Acknowledgements}

F. Ye acknowledges the support of the National Natural Science Foundation of
China (Grant No. 10874119). B.A.M. appreciates hospitality of the Department
of Physics at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and of the Department of
Physics at East China Normal University (Shanghai).

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Gadisar Lake is one of the most famous tourist attractions in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, North India. Its charm lies in the fact that it was the only source of water for the Jaisalmer city in the olden days. The Gadisar Lake is a good place to sit, relax and admire the beauty of nature.
nearby places The Gadisar Lake is located on one of Jaisalmer's main roads.
A manmade basin, the Gadisar Lake in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan was constructed by Raja Rawal Jaisal, the first ruler of Jaisalmer. In the later years Maharaja Garisisar Singh rebuilt and restore the lake.
Gadisar Lake tours transports you into a different world altogether. You feel captured in a pleasurable time warp.
Artistically carved Chattris, Temples, Shrines and Ghats enclose the banks of Gadisar Lake Jaisalmer. Situated towards the south of Jaisalmer city the entrance to the Gadisar Lake or Garsisar Tank is through a wonderful and attractively carved yellow sandstone archway that is known as the Tilon-Ki-Pol.
Rare migratory birds stop for a drink at the lustrous Gadisar Lake that reveals the richness of the charming sandstone banks; enjoy a boat ride on the lake or just sit on any of the Ghats and see the yellow sandstone banks change shades of ochre with the setting sun, a wonderful view that you would not miss for the world.
The peaceful Gadisar Lake Lake springs to life during the annual Gangaur celebrations. The view of the Jaisalmer Fort from the Gadisar Lake is breathtaking.
Attractions of Gadisar Lake
Major attractions of Gadisar Lake are Lake and birds.It is not an oasis but a water conservation tank made around 1400 A.D. by the maharaja of Jaisalmer, Maharwal Gadsi Singh. Outside the city walls this structure acts as a reservoir that controlled the entire supply of water to the arid city!
This place was selected because it had a certain amount of declivity already and it automatically retained some of the rainwater. If you are lucky and venture out in winters, you might get to see a variety of migratory birds. Due to its closeness to Bharatpur, some of the birds get attracted to this place also.
Gadisar Lake is surrounded by Wide Varities of temples and shrines.In later years it became more of a pilgrimage spot. The beautiful gateway that arches across the road down to the Lake was built by royal courtesan named Tillon in the end of 19th century, known as Tillon Ki prol (Gate of Tillon). Lord Vishnu's statue was installed in the year 1908 A.D. or the gate by the courtesan & declared Krishna Temple to save it from demolition by the Maharawal.
Presently the lake is no longer used for the purpose it was built for, but still retains a lot of rain water. The Gadisar Lake can be visited any time of the day, though it is best to go early in the morning and watch the sun rise. The local people at Gadisar sell bread to nourish the hungry catfish in the lake.
There is also a Desert Culture Centre, a museum located near the lake which preserves the culture, heritage, history, traditional art and music of the region, since its foundation in 1997. It was founded by N.K Sharma, a teacher, historian and author of "The Golden City", a well-known book on Jaisalmer.
Location of Gadisar Lake
Gadisar Lake is situated near 'Tillon ki Gate' in Jaisalmer.
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Thoughts on "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
I watched the 1945 black and white film "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and it reminded me of some serious questions. The film a perfect portrayal of Oscar Wilde's famous tale of a handsome young man, living in 1886 London, who looked at a picture painted of him and said sadly that while he would age, the picture would forever remain young. He added that he would give anything, even his soul, if the opposite happened, that he remained young while the picture aged. While he was a virtuous young man, his devious friend, played very well by George Sanders, tempts him repeatedly to spend his life in pleasure. He does so. As he performs one evil act after another, his portrait changes. It becomes more and more hideous, while he remains young. One of the great performances in the film is by Angela Lansbury looking very young and beautiful, and singing delightfully. She was nominated for her performance for an Academy Award and deserved it, but did not get it. I also read the book and enjoyed it immensely.
Oscar Wilde wrote the book. He was a gay man during a period in England when homosexuality was considered both a civil and religious crime, an abomination to God, a destruction of one's soul. He was imprisoned for behavior he could not control. I feel that Wilde felt that the theological underpinnings of the community's abhorrence to homosexuality were wrong, and that his book prompts us to ask fundamental questions, such as the following.
Does the Bible clearly prohibit homosexuality and, if it does, was the prohibition made only for the ancient age when it was promulgated, but like the laws of sacrifices and slavery, allowed, even encouraged, to change when society becomes enlightened? This is what the sage Maimonides said about sacrifices in his Guide of the Perplexed 3:32. Is there an after-life that one could lose by bad acts? The Hebrew Bible makes no mention of it. Is there a soul? Again, no mention of a soul is in the Hebrew Bible; the term nefesh currently used for soul in Modern Hebrew means a person, as in Leviticus 2:1 where a nefesh offers a sacrifice. What is "sin"? The current notion of the term is that it is an act that can mar a person's soul and can affect a person's life in the hereafter. But, again, this concept is not in the Hebrew Bible, which in the Bible focuses on this world. A het means "missing the mark." It encourages a person who missed the mark to correct the behavior, not to agonize about the hereafter, beat his heart, and say prayers.
As I watched the film, I felt that Wilde was raising these questions and that he was mocking the notions of most people. These notions, he is telling us, are as bizarre as the idea that a picture can portray a person's soul.
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New York (January 22, 2013) — E&A Industries, a privately held company based in Indianapolis, recently purchased Lyssé®, a New York based apparel company specializing in body-slimming fashions. Terms for the deal are undisclosed.
In 2010, Lyssé® (www.lysse.com) burst on to the American fashion scene with a ready-to-wear line featuring all-in-one torso, tummy and thigh control with style. Within three years, Lyssé® became a go-to item for fashionistas searching for an effortlessly sleek, sophisticated look. Fortified with the company's revolutionary four-way stretch, hidden control panel and tagless comfort, the bottoms eliminate "the roll" and lend a streamlined appearance with incredible comfort and control.
A stand-alone in the ready-to-wear shapewear market, Lyssé® combines this control with highly stylized designs in cotton/spandex, Ponte and stretch velvet. The company plans to expand the line beyond leggings and accelerate growth through increased North American and international distribution.
CoView Capital, Inc., an investment banking firm specializing in mergers, acquisitions, and private placements, advised Lyssé® on the transaction. CoView Capital is based in New York City.
Based in Indianapolis, Indiana, E&A Industries (www.eaindustries.com) is a privately held corporation that specializes in turning great products into great brands. E&A is not a private equity firm and does not seek to "buy and flip" companies; rather, E&A is an operator of companies and a partner to ownership groups working to achieve long term value creation through a disciplined yet unique management style. E&A consists of a diverse and talented team of experienced entrepreneurial operators who work with company founders and family run businesses to accelerate growth. E&A's unique management style allows it to remain fluid while continually driving value creation and maximizing a company's potential over the long term.
As a recent example, E&A's unique management style is evidenced with Udi's Gluten Free Foods. Utilizing innovative consumer engagement platforms and a non-traditional industry approach to sales and marketing, E&A was able to drive Udi's from 2009 sales of $6 million to a run rate of $100 million by May of 2012. Similarly over the past 30 years, E&A has driven a CAGR in excess of 20% at virtually all of the companies in which it has invested.
E&A's current portfolio includes Lyssé®, Con-Tech Lighting, and Ultra Solutions. Past portfolio successes include Dynaloy (divested to Eastman Chemical, Inc.), Gilchrist & Soames (divested to Swander Pace Capital), and Car Brite (divested to Valvoline).


A spa day, fashion show and guest speakers highlight the month.
This college will kick off Women's History Month with events such as documentary screenings, a fashion show and a book discussion, throughout March, beginning with an opening ceremony 9:30-10:40 a.m. Wednesday in the Fiesta Room of Loftin Student Center.
Dr. Jothany Blackwood, vice president of academic success, will speak on the importance of women's leadership in higher education and society during the opening session.
Dr. Lisa Zottarelli is the chair of the Women's History Month Committee this year.
"The month is a great time for us to celebrate the contributions that women have made to society and appreciate them," Zottarelli said.
Three documentary films will be played in rotation 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Thursday in the craft room of Loftin.
The films are "Abuelas: Grandmothers on a Mission," a Spanish documentary about Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a human rights organization looking to find children who were stolen and illegally adopted during the Argentine Dirty War; "Rights & Wrongs: The Story of Women in Islam," a documentary exploring the past and present conditions of Muslim women and the myths and misunderstandings about their roles in Islam; and "Saving Face," a documentary about acid attacks on women in Pakistan and their fight for justice against their attackers.
These documentaries were picked because of the subject matter and the representation of women and hardships that they face all over the world, Zottarelli said.
Pamper Our Women Day brings free massages, nail polish stations, smoothies and more the following week from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. March 9 in the Fiesta Room of Loftin.
Dr. Cynthia Teniente-Matson, president of Texas A&M San Antonio, will speak on women in leadership roles 9:25-10:40 a.m. March 10 in Room 218 of the nursing complex.
During the event, the recipients of the 2016 Women-In-History Month Ann Richards Endowed Scholarship also will be announced.
Two documentaries will be showing on rotation 8 a.m.-4 p.m. the same day in the craft room of Loftin.
The films are "Mothers of Bedford," a documentary about mothers in prison and their life with their families while inside, and "Service: When Women Come Marching Home," a documentary about the hardships that some women in service face after leaving the military.
Students will model clothes donated to the Magic Closet, which provides students with professional business attire for job interviews.
The Women's History Month SAC Book Club will be discussing Rebecca Skloot's "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" 9:30-10:40 a.m. March 24 in Loftin.
"We're hoping that those who attend have read the book and we can have a discussion over it. If people haven't read it, then they have a chance to learn a bit about it and see if they want to pick it up for themselves," Zottarelli said.
The month will end with a Women's Health Fair 10 a.m.-1 p.m. March 31 in the Fiesta Room of Loftin.
For more information, call 210-486-0998 or student life at 210-486-0128.


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Experts Beg Americans To Take Coronavirus Seriously Or Face Further Disaster
President Donald Trump did not appear overly concerned Wednesday about the resurging coronavirus pandemic. "I think we're going to be very good with the coronavirus. I think that at some point that's going to sort of just disappear, I hope," he said in an interview with Fox Business.
The White House claims the president is the "most informed person on the planet," but Trump's comments conflict with increasingly urgent warnings from health experts — including those in Trump's administration — that the virus is spreading at alarming rates and that, without immediate intervention, Americans will continue to get sick and die.
"I would not be surprised if we go up to 100,000 cases a day if this does not turn around," Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, said Tuesday.
Earlier this week, a high-ranking official at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a stunning warning that, in the emerging second spike of coronavirus infections, it was essentially too late to test and isolate cases. "We have way too much virus across the country for that right now," said Dr. Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director of the CDC, on Monday.
"This is really the beginning," Schuchat said of the recent U.S. surge. "I think there was a lot of wishful thinking around the country that, hey, it's summer, everything's going to be fine, we're over this. And we are not even beginning to be over this. There are a lot of worrisome factors about the last week or so."
Numbers across the country are skyrocketing, particularly in states that had begun to reopen businesses and activities.
In the last 24 hours, Arizona saw a spike of 4,878 cases of COVID-19 and 88 deaths — on the same day Vice President Mike Pence visited the state. Houston intensive care units are currently shifting resources to address a patient overflow, and Louisiana saw its greatest spike in cases in over three months.
A handful of states ― Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Tennessee and Utah ― recorded their highest infection rates, and as of last Saturday, 32 states experienced a surge in cases the week prior.
A taco shop in Los Angeles closed both of its locations on Sunday after overwhelming antagonism from customers who refused to wear masks. On Sunday morning, several videos went viral after unhinged white women all across the country were filmed throwing tantrums at places like Trader Joe's and Starbucks when asked to mask up. In Denver, a 16-year-old ice cream shop employee was reportedly spat on by a similarly outraged anti-mask vigilante, and at a store in Charlotte, North Carolina, a woman refused a complimentary mask handed to her by an employee and instead spat her chewing gum into it.
"The ones that don't want to wear a mask should have every right not to wear one if they don't feel like they want to wear one," Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) said on Wednesday, and North Carolina Republicans are pulling out all the stops to actually make wearing a mask illegal.
More than 200 people in West Virginia have been asked to self-quarantine after one Planet Fitness gym-goer exposed them all to COVID-19. Experts have implored young people ― like the many in South Carolina who now make up more than half of the state's cases ― to take the virus more seriously.
A Washington, D.C., socialite hosted a catered dinner, tested positive shortly after the event and has now infected an unknown number of attendees, most of whom were unmasked.
The CDC called out American Airlines for returning to full capacity bookings, and as the European Union prepares to reopen its borders, it has banned Americans from visiting Europe as the virus rages.
If anything, the stark state numbers don't illustrate the true nature of the problem. "The official tally of deaths due to COVID-19 represent a substantial undercount of the true burden," Dan Weinberger, an epidemiologist at Yale School of Public Health and a lead author of a study published on Wednesday, told CNBC.
In the face of these outbreaks, the demand for COVID-19 tests has quickly outpaced the supply of testing kits and the ability to actually process them, resulting in a slower turnaround and an overall backlog of untested kits.
I think there was a lot of wishful thinking around the country that, hey, it's summer, everything's going to be fine, we're over this. And we are not even beginning to be over this. Dr. Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
This has led to some states reversing early reopening phases. In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced Wednesday that 19 counties would need to shut down all indoor operations after cases rose 43% in two weeks.
The new virus surge is essentially the worst of both worlds: The economic disaster that resulted from the shutdowns affected millions, but officials apparently didn't use the time to sufficiently prepare to keep the virus at bay. Absent more financial assistance, economic indicators could continue to plummet. Unless Congress passes Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (D-Mass) proposed eviction moratorium, the number of unhoused people in America will reach unprecedented levels.
Many elected officials are reversing the course on their reopening phases, hoping it's not too little and too late.
Newsom, as well as New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D), said Wednesday that restaurants would not open for indoor seating. New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) announced that the state would hold off on its second phase of reopening ― which included bars and movie theaters ― until at least July 15.
While elected officials continue to tinker with reopening plans, public health experts like Fauci and Schuchat say that until there's a vaccine ― which isn't likely to happen in 2020 ― the best way to avoid contracting or passing along the virus remains simple: practice social distancing (especially in congregate settings), wash your hands often and thoroughly, and wear a damn mask.
Health experts continue to warn that too many elected leaders across the country have naively allowed nonessential businesses to reopen — practically jumping up and down to warn of the growing disaster that, despite Trump's wishful thinking, will not just go away.
This surge "is going to be very disturbing," Fauci said.
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of rhubarb leaves grown at alley's edge.
stench on even the stillest cold winter day.
Mary Redman is a retired high school English teacher who currently supervises student teachers for two universities in Indianapolis. She postponed her writing habit in order to work full time and raise three children. As such, she might be considered an emerging poet–however late-blooming. An active member of the Writers Center in Indianapolis, Mary has taken classes with former Indiana Poet Laureate, Shari Wagner and with poet, Kyle Craig. She has had poems published in Flying Island, Three Line Poetry, Red River Review, and Poetry Quarterly.


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Q: How to make scale_y_log10 with labels of trans_format in bold? Based on the answers I read on this question: Bold axis label in ggplot
I still have the output with y axis labelled bold but the exponents not math formated? How can I modify this code  to be bold:
scale_y_log10(breaks = trans_breaks("log10",function(x) 10^x),
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Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines
Increasing women's control over assets and encouraging them to set goals leads to increased decision-making for women in households.
Ashraf, Nava, Dean Karlan, and Wesley Yin. "Female empowerment: Impact of a commitment savings product in the Philippines." World Development 38.3 (2010): 333-344.
Ashraf, N., Karlan, D., & Yin, W. (2010). Female empowerment: Impact of a commitment savings product in the Philippines. World Development, 38(3), 333-344.
Ashraf, Nava, Dean Karlan, and Wesley Yin. "Female empowerment: Impact of a commitment savings product in the Philippines." World Development 38, no. 3 (2010): 333-344.
Nava Ashraf
Dean Karlan
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Women's empowerment is becoming a more widely sought policy goal, both as an end in and of itself and a means to achieve other development goals. Previous research shows that women who receive microfinance funds tend to invest in education, housing, and nutrition. It has been assumed that such income transfers to women increase female empowerment. In this paper, authors evaluate this assumption and seek to establish a causal relationship between income transfers to women alone and female empowerment (i.e., increase in status, bargaining and decision making power in the household). Specifically, they examine whether having financial control over a commitment savings product (accessible only by the person whose name is on the account and according to pre-determined savings goals) increases women's decision making power and female empowerment.
Commitment savings products positively affect household decision-making power for women, women's self-perception of savings behavior, and consumption decisions that favor women's preferences.
The women who were initially less empowered in this study experienced the largest gains in decision-making ability and bargaining power. They experienced increased financial savings and control over assets, whereas no change was detected among women who exhibited above average decision-making power at the beginning of the study.
Married women reported the strongest improvements in decision-making power, measured as the control they exerted over important financial decisions made in their households like expensive purchases, giving assistance to family members, or number of children. The marketing intervention where individuals only received information on saving money had a smaller, but significant, positive effect with regard to decision-making power among women.
Purchases of female-oriented durables such as washing machines, sewing machines, electric irons, and kitchen appliances represent another measure of female empowerment/decision making power. Purchases of these items increased in households where female participants exhibited below average decision-making power at the beginning of the study and received the commitment savings product.
There was no change in the purchase of female-oriented durables in households in which women initially exhibited above average decision-making power or women who received the marketing intervention rather than the savings commitment device. In households where men received either the savings or the marketing intervention, there was no change in purchases of female-oriented durable goods.
Increasing women's control over assets through commitment savings products leads to larger gains in women's decision-making power than just targeting women through marketing, although both are important influences.
In short, women can increase their decision-making and bargaining power within households through increased control over assets. These findings are particularly acute for married women who are the least empowered relative to other women.
This study randomly assigned 3125 clients of a rural bank, the Green Bank of Caraga in the Philippines, to three groups: one group received the option to open a commitment savings account accessible only by the individual client, in which the bank account would not mature until a pre-specified goal is reached; the second group received one-on-one marketing about the importance of saving for a goal; the third group, the control, received no new bank account or targeted marketing. Baseline and follow-up surveys analyzed household decision-making power through decisions over purchases related to female-oriented durables, expensive items, market goods, assistance to family members, schooling of children, use of family planning, and recreational and personal use of money.
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This is a super simple and no fuss white quinoa and avocado salad. Just a few ingredients for a nutritious lunch or side dish. Quinoa is a gluten free grain like seed that is easy to digest. It is considered a superfood because of its high protein content as well as being a good source of fiber, magnesium, and calcium. Avocados contain essential fatty acids which are considered to be good fats.
You may add any other vegetables or dressing to the quinoa before plating.
I'd try this out. I do love my avocados.
I really love avocado! I normally just eat it plain, on toast or in salads – I've never really make a dish with it. They're starting to go out of season here, but maybe I can give this a try before I stop purchasing them.
I've never tried quinoa but I love avocado! I am pinning this to try.
2 of my favorite things combined! I don't cook very often, but I will definitely give this recipe a try!
Avocado has a lot of benefits. I am searching for some foods to combine with and glad I came over this post. I need to check the Quinoa if available in the nearest grocery.
It's really easy to make! It's a simple recipe and I would love to make it one of these days. I love how versatile avocado and quinoa is!
Love that you toasted the quinoa prior to cooking it! I have never thought of that! Thanks for the awesome tip!
This looks like a simple and really delicious recipe! I iam always looking for new quinoa recipes, so adding this to my list. Thanks!
This looks delicious! We love quinoa and we definitely incorporate this into our meals with some fried plantains and kidney beans. YUM!
The Quinoa and Avocado Salad looks good! I am not too keen on avocados, but I think if it is altogether like this I will like it.
I love simple recipes! I know a lot of people that would love it if I served this.
The beauty lies in its simplicity. Just a purely satisfying salad that can be enjoyed as it is or provide a base for other ingredients too.


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Some so called dramatic/big names can be choose from reason of fear - to keep their illusion of intangibility. To arouse feelings within others which says " Do not play with me." "Keep distance". I think that serious, sometimes scary names have it´s foundation of fear or effort to be admired I...
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Data capital is becoming as important—or more important—than physical capital in the modern business world. But most of a database administrator's time is spent on maintenance, not innovation. Autonomous automation provides an opportunity to say goodbye to repetitive tasks and instead use new skills in data modeling, end-to-end service level management, data security, and application tuning.
For most of human history, we have assigned value based on tangible goods, such as crops, raw materials, property and merchandise. Tangible assets are still an important part of global commerce, but data is starting to surpass them in terms of business value.
In the 1970s, about 80% of assets held by S&P 500 companies were hard-assets capital, according to research by Ocean Tomo. Today, close to 90% of assets held by S&P 500 companies are intangible, digital assets—i.e., data capital.
Digital native companies, such as Facebook and Airbnb, are pure "data capital" companies, but even traditional sectors such as manufacturing and retail are transitioning to more data-driven models that rely less on inventories and buildings and more on technology and data.
This transition to emphasize data over tangible goods has put the role of the database administrator (DBA) in the spotlight. As organizations build strategies and infrastructure around data capital, they will be relying more on DBAs to extract data and apply it in unique ways that result in competitive differentiation.
Fortunately for DBAs, automation is allowing them to reduce the amount of time they spend on maintenance tasks so they can expand their role around the growing value of data.
Today, DBAs spend most of their time on configuration and tuning of systems, networks and storage; database provisioning and patching; backups, H/A and disaster recovery; and database optimization.
Automation can take over these tasks so DBAs can concentrate on high-value work that supports business goals and innovations that use data capital. These include system architecture, planning and data modeling; data security and lifecycle management; application-related tuning; and end-to-end, service-level management.
Let's take a closer look at these four skills and what they mean for DBAs.
With so much data coming in and more on the way, businesses will need data wranglers and lots of strategically built data architectures. DBAs will be spending more time focused on architecting solutions and designing good data models, which are important because good models simplify database tuning, improve time-to-market, and reduce costs and project creep.
Automation will make it possible to provision systems in seconds without waiting on other teams. This will allow DBAs more time to work closely with business users, at the beginning of new projects, to deeply understand how they use data, which is key to determining the best model.
Automation can make database security more effective and less time-consuming. For example, patching, encryption, threat detection and other actions that improve protection can be automated.
This level of automation provides better, more proactive security while also drastically reducing hands-on management and shifting through noise. Businesses receive an average of 17,000 security alerts a week. Only 19% of these alerts are reliable, and only 4% are actually investigated.
Automating the fundamentals of security allows DBAs more time to focus on the aspect of security that are unique and critical to their enterprise, such as locking down user privileges and the discover and protection of sensitive data.
Business leaders will look to DBAs to determine what database cloud service they should have, and DBAs will be responsible for end-to-end, service levels. To get to know what cloud service providers offer in terms of availability, security, performance and scalability, take advantage of trial accounts. This is also a way to become familiar with provisioning and using a cloud environment.
With automation, it's possible for database patching to happen in a rolling fashion, so that the DBA can aim to have applications continue to operate without errors and within the specified response-time objections while this patching happens.
As with other skills, DBAs should take time to understand the business process and what's important to each process owner they work with. There's no point making an improvement that no one will care about.
This will require DBAs to work more closely with developers to help improve the end-user experience. A persistent challenge that DBAs can help address is stopping developers from re-inventing the wheel in their application code. Become an advocate for database features and functionality that can improve the agility of application teams.
Considering how important data is becoming and how automation is changing DBA work, one could say that we are entering a golden age for DBAs. Their role will no longer be about simply creating and maintaining databases. Rather, executives and LOB leaders will come to rely on DBAs to identify, gather and apply data to build up data capital—that is, a unique product, service or process that sets the company apart and creates long-term value.
Maria Colgan is a Master Product Manager at Oracle Corporation and has been with the company since version 7.3 was released in 1996. Maria's core responsibility is creating material and lectures on the Oracle Database and the best practices for incorporating it into your environments. She is also responsible for getting the feedback from our customers and partners incorporated into future releases of the product.
Prior to this role; she was the product manager for Oracle Database In-Memory and the Oracle Database query optimizer. Maria is the primary author of the SQLMaria blog https://sqlmaria.com and a contributing author to the Oracle Optimizer blog https://blogs.oracle.com/optimizer/.


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Plus ça change, plus c'est la caneck, caneck….
November 25, 2011 Texlibris Leave a comment
The Last Lonestar Showdown
On Thursday of last week, college football fans around Texas and many from around the nation gathered around the flat screen to watch the final episode in the third longest running rivalry in college football. After this season, the two teams are unlikely to encounter each other again in the regular season as the Aggies head toward the Southeastern Conference and the Longhorns lock up annually with their heartland foes.
But even as the sports scene in Texas changes fundamentally, so much remains the same. The University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University remain the two flagship institutions of our state, and when it comes to teaching, learning and research, the two schools remain ever so closely aligned.
And our libraries are united in their determination to advance the core educational missions of the two universities. The University of Texas System and the Texas A&M University System have united to fund and operate a common storage facility on property owned by Texas A&M. There all the universities in both systems will be able to preserve their print copies in a shared resources in common facility that will ensure the preservation of the "long tail" of scholarly research while freeing up valuable central library space on every campus. Full sets of journals now accessed electronically—such as JSTOR—will have their archive print instantiation in Bryan, Texas.
At the same time, the two flagships continue to work together to harness the power of digital technologies in support of research. Combining their own powerful (but separate distinct) holdings of first century books from Mexico with other examples from Mexican partners, Spain, Brown University, Tulane, Harvard and elsewhere, the Los Primeros Libros project will eventually enable scholars around the globe to access and study all of the 200+ surviving examples of printing in the Western Hemisphere.
So, as both schools rewrite the lyrics to their fight songs, where each disparages the other in the early stanzas, the librarians will resume the collaboration that makes their combined collections one of the state's most important assets.
Hook 'em / Gig 'em
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Conference at UT Austin to feature experts on digital libraries
February 24, 2010 Texlibris Leave a comment
This spring, on May 17-18, the Texas Digital Library (TDL) will be hosting the 2010 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL) at The University of Texas at Austin. In its fourth year, TCDL provides a forum for TDL members and others to explore issues related to digital libraries and digital scholarship.
The TCDL 2010 conference theme is Collaboration, and the conference program will be packed with experts speaking on issues of partnership and cooperation in the service of advancing scholarly communication.
The TDL is especially excited to announce its two keynote speakers for the event: Dr. Leslie Carr, of the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, and Dr. Reagan Moore, from the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Many people seem to believe that Luffy should be much stronger than the other Supernovas because he received training from an expert teacher like Silvers Rayleigh.
While this is true to an extent, there are reasonable arguments as to why the likes of Kid and some others may be able to match him, or come close.
With what we learned from Rayleigh, intense high level fights are the way to elevate your Haki to the next level.
However, the New World is an unforgiving sea, so rushing in to many battles is a high risk high reward situation. The risk is severe injury or death, but the potential reward is exponential growth. We know from the Vivre Cards that Kid threw himself in to many fights, lost an arm, has numerous scars and could've lost his life as well as his friends lives. But since he still lives, he's likely reaped the rewards of that high risk situation and has grown significantly. At the same time, he's also probably trained in between fighting.
In contrast Luffy's training with Rayleigh was a low risk high reward situation. The tutorship of Rayleigh was a huge advantage that allowed amazing growth, but at the same time it probably lacked the danger level and intense battles that Kid and the other Supernovas may have had. He fought many strong animals, but we can see that Luffy had no additional scars post timeskip aside from Akainu's so his life wasn't ever at severe risk.
The reason that Luffy wanted training was because he wanted to reduce the risk of his crew mates dying by growing stronger to be able to protect them, as well as allowing them time to get stronger as well. Whereas Kid took the chance. So, if eventually we do find out that Luffy and Kid are close in power, it doesn't mean that Luffy's training was useless as some people have said, it's just that Kid had a more risky but just as effective alternative.
Looking at things logically, Luffy will have rivals close to his strength in his generation even at the end of the story.
Roger himself had Whitebeard that was equal to him, as well as Shiki and Big Mom who stood close behind.