In every newsletter, we introduce you new SBTech recruits, covering their professional and personal interests, past experiences, motivations, and goals. This month, we welcome Dimos Adamos, Head of Commercial Legal Affairs and Asaf Doron, VP of R&D.
My approach to both my professional and personal life is that staying in my comfort zone is safe but not exciting. Life is too short and my goal is to get the very best out of it in every way I can.
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I am a certified lawyer from Greece and a member of the Athens Bar Association since 2003. Previously, I was a Senior Legal Counsel at OPAP S.A. (the Greek gaming and betting monopoly), an External Counsel at the Greek Gaming Commission and the Deputy Lead Counsel of the Greek Delegation to the Working Group 'Establishment and Services' of the Council of the European Union (dealing with gaming in the EU).
I completed my undergraduate studies in Law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and hold a Master's Degree (D.E.A.) in Economic and Communication Law from the Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, a Master's Degree (D.E.A.) in Political Science from the Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne and an LL.M. in Corporate and Commercial Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Mount Abu is the only hill station in Rajasthan located 475 km from Jaipur
Tour Mount Abu in Rajasthan
Mount Abu is the only hill station in Rajasthan located 475 km from Jaipur, in the Sirohi district, is the highest peak of the Aravalli range and is known for its Dilwara Jain temples. With coniferous trees and flowering shrubs covering the hillside, the climate in Mount Abu remains quite cool making it the summer capital of Rajasthan.
Attractions in Mont Abu:
Dilwara Temples
Known for their architectural splendour and exquisite stone carvings, the Dilwara temples in Rajasthan are dedicated to Jain Tirthankars.
Nakki Lake
Nakki Lake is a popular tourist attraction located in Mount Abu, Rajasthan. Surrounded by hills, the serene lake is heaven for nature lovers.
Peace Park in Mount Abu is a part of the Brahma Kumaris spiritual establishment. The park is a perfect escapade from a hectic city life to find serenity.
Mount Abu Wildlife Sanctuary
Mount Abu Wildlife Sanctuary, located in one of the oldest mountain ranges in India was declared a wildlife sanctuary in 1980.
Sunset Point, Mount Abu
Sunset Point in Mount Abu is a popular tourist spot. It is a lovely place to capture a picture perfect sunset at the horizon.
Guru Shikhar
Guru Shikhar, located at a height of 1722 metres, is the highest peak of Aravali mountains. Climbing uphill and reaching the peak will offer you a stunning view
Our tours in Mount Abu
Other destinations in Rajasthan
Ranthambore National Park is one of the largest and most famous National Parks in India where you can see the tigers.
Kumbhalgarh in Rajasthan is famous for its magnificent monuments royal chhatris and glorious palaces.
Tour in Bharatpur Rajasthan with private driver. Tour Bharatpur in Rajasthan
Abhaneri is a recommended stop on the way from Agra to Jaipur, a small village famous for the Chand Baori, a spectacular stairwell.

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Wolfgang Hindrichs (* 16. Mai 1933 in Duisburg; † 13. März 2012 in Bremen) war ein deutscher Erziehungs- und Sozialwissenschaftler. Seine Hauptforschungsgebiete waren die Arbeitswelt, Gewerkschaften und Erwachsenenbildung und damit verbunden die Einführung langfristiger Angebote zur politischen Weiterbildung sowie die Erprobung neuer innovativer Ansätze der Praxisforschung.

Arbeit und Leben
Hindrichs studierte in Tübingen Sozialwissenschaften, Theologie und Pädagogik und promovierte bei Walter Jens. Er trat in die SPD ein, hielt aber nach Verabschiedung des Godesberger Programms (1959) Distanz zum offiziellen Kurs der Partei. Hindrichs engagierte sich gegen die Wiederbewaffnung und unterstützte u. a. die algerische Befreiungsbewegung. Als Mitglied des damaligen SDS gehörte er zur linkssozialistischen Opposition gegenüber der Regierung Adenauer. Ende der 1950er Jahre wurden im SDS Auseinandersetzungen um die Herausbildung einer unabhängigen "Neuen Linken" geführt, die sich von der Politik des SPD-Parteivorstands absetzte und sich auf der anderen Seite gegen eine Vereinnahmung des SDS durch der SED nahestehende Vertreter um die Zeitschrift konkret wehrte. Hindrichs galt in diesen Auseinandersetzungen als einer der Köpfe der sog. Mittelgruppe des SDS. Es gelang schließlich, den SDS zu einem Kristallisationspunkt kritischer Sozialisten sowohl innerhalb als auch außerhalb der SPD zu machen. Die SPD-Führung reagierte 1961 mit einem Unvereinbarkeitsbeschluss, der SDS-Mitglieder und -Sympathisanten aus der Partei ausschloss.

Er war neben Peter von Oertzen und Jürgen Seifert Mitbegründer des in den 1960er Jahren entstandenen Elzer Kreis, in dem sich Gewerkschafter und Sozialwissenschaftler zusammengefunden hatten, die sich für demokratische Reformen in der Arbeitswelt engagierten. Als Sozialwissenschaftliche Vereinigung Duisburg e.V. arbeitete die Gruppe später am Konzept einer betriebsorientierten Arbeiterbildung für gewerkschaftliche Basisfunktionäre (Vertrauensleute, Betriebsräte, Bildungsobleute).  Zusammen mit Oskar Negt, Willi Pöhler, Reinhard Hoffmann, Olaf Sund und Reinhard Welteke veröffentlichte Hindrichs sog. Arbeitshefte für die gewerkschaftliche Bildungsarbeit zu Themen wie Die Würde des Menschen in der Arbeitswelt und Industriearbeit und Herrschaft, die großen Einfluss auf die Entwicklung der gewerkschaftlichen Erwachsenenbildung seit den 1960er Jahren haben sollten. Hindrichs entwickelte damals mit anderen die Konzeption der sogenannten "Betriebsnahen Bildungsarbeit".

Mitte der 1960er Jahre wurde Hindrichs wissenschaftlicher Assistent am Lehrstuhl für die Wissenschaft von der Politik an der damaligen Technischen Universität Hannover. Er gehörte zum Gründungsteam der 1972 in Dortmund neuerrichteten Sozialforschungsstelle Dortmund, damals Landesinstitut des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen. Er leitete mehrere empirische Forschungsprojekte zu industriesoziologischen Forschungsthemen dieser Zeit. Streiks und betriebliche Konflikte wurden als wichtige Phänomene der Arbeitswelt nach dem Ende des Wirtschaftswunders thematisiert und in Hinblick auf das in ihnen angelegte Entwicklungspotential betrieblicher und gesellschaftlicher Strukturen untersucht.

1979 wurde Hindrichs an die Universität Bremen zum Professor am Lehrstuhl für Weiterbildung berufen und hat den Studiengang Weiterbildung aufgebaut. Diese Stelle war verbunden mit der Leitung der Akademie für Arbeit und Politik an der Universität Bremen. Direktor der Akademie war Hindrichs in den Jahren 1986 bis 1992. Hier konzentrierte er sich vor allem auf die Erforschung der gewerkschaftlichen Arbeiterbildung und publizierte zu Themen wie "Streiks", "Betriebsräte", "gewerkschaftliche Vertrauensleute" und "Mitbestimmung am Arbeitsplatz". Mitte der 1990er Jahre arbeitete er mit einer Arbeitsgruppe der Sozialforschungsstelle Dortmund an einer Studie des Strukturwandels der Arbeit in der Schwerindustrie des Ruhrgebiets und die damit einhergehende Veränderung der Arbeit der Betriebsräte.
Hindrichs war Gründungsmitglied der Otto Brenner Akademie Hannover (1995).
Schwerpunkt für ihn war auch hier die politische Bildungsarbeit in der Arbeiterbildung.

Wolfgang Hindrichs war verheiratet mit Eva Hindrichs, geb. Hohlfeld.

Schriften (Auswahl)
 Der Wille im Menschenbild der Tragödien des Aischylos und Sophokles. Tübingen 1958.
 (Hrsg./Mitautor) Arbeit und Leben in Niedersachsen. Schriftenreihe.
 Industriearbeit und Herrschaft. 1968, ISBN 3-434-10074-1.
 Die Würde des Menschen in der Arbeitswelt. 1969.
 Die Interessenvertretung der Arbeitnehmer im Betrieb. 1969.
 Der Konflikt um Lohn und Leistung. 1969.
 (mit Willi Dzielak, Helmut Martens, Verena Stanislawski, Wolfram Wassermann) Belegschaften und Gewerkschaft im Streik: Am Beispiel der chemischen Industrie. Campus, Frankfurt am Main/New York 1978, ISBN 3-593-32267-6.
 (mit Willi Dzielak, Helmut Martens, Walter Schophaus) Arbeitskampf um Arbeitsplätze: Der Tarifkonflikt 1978/79 in der Stahlindustrie. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-593-32796-1.
 (mit Hans O. Hemmer) "Nicht Stillstand, sondern Fortschritt in der Sozialpolitik soll unser Kampfruf sein." Grunddaten zur Geschichte sozialer Reformen in Deutschland, 1981.
 Betriebsnahe gewerkschaftliche Bildungsarbeit. In: Dieter Görs (Hrsg.): Gewerkschaftliche Bildungsarbeit: Kontroversen und Konzepte. München/Wien/Baltimore 1982, ISBN 3-541-41521-5.
 (mit Manfred Heckenauer) Sozialist sein in schwieriger Zeit: Jahre der Sammlung und der Neuorientierung (1958–1962). In: Jürgen Seifert, Heinz Thörmer, Klaus Wettig (Hrsg.): Soziale oder sozialistische Demokratie? Beiträge zur Geschichte der Linken in der Bundesrepublik. Freundesgabe für Peter von Oertzen. Marburg 1989, ISBN 3-924800-56-1.
 (mit Hans-Jürgen Duddek, Wolfram Wassermann) Handlungsfeld Betrieb. Zwei Studien über Verhältnisse und Perspektiven gewerkschaftlicher Betriebspolitik am Beispiel der Gewerkschaft NGG, Akademie für Arbeit und Politik an der Universität Bremen. Büro für Sozialforschung, Kassel 1995.
  (mit Uwe Jürgenhake, Christian Kleinschmidt, Wilfried Kruse, Rainer Lichte, Helmut Martens) Der lange Abschied vom Malocher: Sozialer Umbruch in der Stahlindustrie und die Rolle der Betriebsräte von 1960 bis in die neunziger Jahre. Essen 2000, ISBN 3-88474-892-0.

Literatur
 Manfred Dammeyer, Werner Fricke, Wilfried Kruse (Hrsg.): Mitten im Strom: Politik durch Stiften von Zusammenhängen. Festschrift für Manfred Heckenauer zum 60. Geburtstag. Verlag Neue Gesellschaft, Bonn 1986, ISBN 3-87831-433-7.
 Claus Leggewie: "Kofferträger": Das Algerien-Projekt der Linken im Adenauer-Deutschland. Rotbuch, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-88022-286-X.
 Richard Heigl: Oppositionspolitik: Wolfgang Abendroth und die Entstehung der Neuen Linken (1950–1968). Argument, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88619-333-2
 Gregor Kritidis: Linkssozialistische Opposition in der Ära Adenauer: Ein Beitrag zur Frühgeschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Offizin, Hannover 2008, ISBN 978-3-930345-61-8.
 Helmut Martens: Industriesoziologie im Aufbruch? Herausforderungen empirischer Arbeitsforschung im Epochenbruch. Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-89691-662-4.
 Oskar Negt: Soziologische Phantasie und exemplarisches Lernen: Zur Theorie der Arbeiterbildung. Europäische Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 1968.
 Jürgen Seifert, Heinz Thörmer, Klaus Wettig (Hrsg.): Soziale oder sozialistische Demokratie? Beiträge zur Geschichte der Linken in der Bundesrepublik. SP, Marburg 1989, ISBN 3-924800-56-1.

Einzelnachweise

Sozialwissenschaftler
Hochschullehrer (Universität Bremen)
SPD-Mitglied
Deutscher
Geboren 1933
Gestorben 2012
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Retired nurse keeps on caring
Stanley volunteer recognized for contributions to rural health
Jill Schramm
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Rural health volunteer Marilyn Evenson holds an embroidered dish towel from a cabinet of gift store items prepared by hospital auxiliary members at the medical center in Stanley.
STANLEY – Marilyn Evenson's life as a registered nurse revolved around Mountrail County Medical Center and the Mountrail Bethel Home. Retirement has been no different for Evenson, who has been integral to many blood drives, fundraisers and volunteer activities that support the medical community in Stanley.
She was recognized in June with the Outstanding Rural Health Volunteer award at the 2018 Dakota Conference on Rural and Public Health's annual conference in Grand Forks. The award acknowledges contributions made by a community volunteer toward the betterment of rural healthcare.
Evenson said she loves being around the nursing home residents and feels so welcomed by medical center staff that she considers the facility to be her second home.
"It's a good feeling to feel you are a part of it," she said.
Evenson, 80, graduated from Trinity Nursing School in September 1958. Several months later, she returned to the Stanley area, where she grew up, and for the next 53 years worked for the local hospital, clinic and nursing home. During that time, she served as director of nursing, a position she held at the time she retired in 2011.
She recalls working at the former hospital and the newer hospital built to replace it. She remembers when the hospital once delivered 200 babies in a year and surgeries were part of the hospital's regular schedule. No longer are babies born at the Stanley hospital, nor are surgeries performed there, but the hospital continues to fill a critical function in the community and has been expanding its scope in other areas, including the current construction of an assisted living center.
Because of a nursing shortage, Evenson became used to working long hours.
"We were so short of nurses that many times I worked my own shift and would come and work another shift," she said. If not working a shift on the floor, she would help transport ambulance patients to Minot.
Slowing down suddenly in retirement wasn't in her nature. Instead, she found new ways to be involved.
"It was hard to stay away. It was really hard, because that was my life," she said.
She began helping with bingo and fixing hair on Fridays for nursing home residents. She assisted with special events at the home.
She had taught certified nursing assistant courses for a time and years ago, while still working at the hospital, became a blood drive recruiter. As a nurse, she saw the need for an adequate blood bank. Knowing it wouldn't happen without someone's initiative, she made herself available.
"Whenever they couldn't get anybody else, I would just do it. There had to be somebody that had their name as the coordinator on the list," she said.
That wasn't her only reason for stepping up, though.
"I have never been able to donate. That's why I honestly feel I can do this. It's the least I can do," she said. "If I can't donate, at least I can do something."
United Blood Services holds community drives in Stanley about every three months. Evenson reaches out to past donors and seeks new donors to try to recruit 40 to 50 people for a drive. She also assists with the drive by registering the donors and seeing that they get refreshments.
Her veins might be too small to be a donor but her heart for the cause is plenty big as her efforts have led to an estimated 1,500 blood donations over the years.
"Marilyn is an exceptional volunteer," said Teresa Johnson, donor recruiter in northwest North Dakota for United Blood Services. "She would do absolutely anything she could to help her community."
As a blood drive volunteer, Evenson's compassion comes through both in understanding the need and encouraging hesitant donors, Johnson said.
"Without great coordinators such as her, we wouldn't be able to save as many lives as we have," Johnson said. "She's an amazing woman when you think about all the lives she has impacted, not only the blood drives she has worked with but her time working at the hospital in Stanley."
Evenson has volunteered at health fairs and makes and sells handcrafted items for auxiliary fundraisers. She has been active with both the nursing home and hospital auxiliaries, currently serving as president for the hospital auxiliary.
An avid quilter in her spare time, Evenson also participates in her church and with the Golden Age Senior Citizens Club. Her husband died a year ago, but her two sons live at Stanley. She also has a daughter in Tennessee and six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Declining vision is starting to limit some of her activities, but she insists, "I am going to hang in there as long as I can."
"I want to be doing something. I don't want to get up in the morning and sit in a chair," she said, noting her volunteer work gives her both a purpose and a joy. "I think a lot more people would be a lot happier if they would do something like that."
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Planting trees is only a good news story if it's done right
by faster | Dec 25, 2019 | Blog
SNIP: On the one hand, huge amounts of energy are going into reforesting the world. The amount of tree cover is actually rising. The 2011 Bonn challenge aims to bring 350m hectares (864.5m acres) of degraded land into restoration by 2030, and countries have already signed up 170m hectares. A impressive number of sometimes surprising countries have increased their forest cover by more than 20% over the last 25 years: China, Belarus, Chile, France, Greece, India, Iran, Morocco, the Philippines, Spain, Thailand and Turkey. It can really, at moments, seem like some kind of success story.
But the ancient forests, the original, complex, messy forests, continue to disappear, and some of the most enthusiastic signatories to the Bonn challenge have seen some of the worst losses. Argentina, for example, has committed to planting 1m hectares, but meanwhile the ancient Gran Chaco in the north continues to vanish, replaced by huge fields of soy to feed the farm animals of the world.
Cameroon, which holds part of the precious Congo basin rainforest, is offering to create 12m hectares of tree cover by 2030, but since 1990 more than 20% of Cameroon's forests have been cut down to make way for subsistence farmers and now, increasingly, for banana and palm oil plantations, to create products that end up in our supermarket shopping baskets. Nigeria may feel better about itself after pledging to plant a million hectares, but the fact is that over the last 25 years it has lost more than 10 times that amount, more than half its forests. For a number of years it even had the highest deforestation rate in the world, but it was overtaken this year by Ghana, where cocoa bean crops for our chocolate are replacing the rainforests.
And let's not dwell too long on the countries where the rate of loss is just as high and dramatic but are not even bothering to sign up to Bonn such as Bolivia (80,000 square kilometres gone between 1990 and 2015), North Korea (33,000), Paraguay (58,000) and Indonesia (a breathtaking 275,000km – an area larger than New Zealand).
Even the apparently cheering news that global tree cover is growing is less than it seems, explains Tim Rayden of the Oxford Forestry Institute. "There is a big difference between tree cover and forests." A large number of countries, for example, are planning to fill their commitments with commercial plantations – but plantations, which are harvested every 10 years or more regularly, are very much less effective than tropical forests at capturing carbon. He points to recent research where scientists worked out the carbon capture potential of three different reforestation scenarios under the terms of the Bonn challenge. If the 350m hectares of reforestation are all natural forest, they can capture as much as 42 petagrams of carbon. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change believes that to keep global warming below 1.5C 199 petagrams must be removed from the atmosphere this century, so that is a significant contribution from the world's forests.
However, if the trajectory of the plans already submitted carries on, at least 45% of that cover will be commercial plantation. If our natural forests are protected under that scenario, the storage potential will be 16 petagrams. But if we continue to chop into them in the same way that we do at present, the storage potential will dwindle to just three petagrams.
We wipe out whatever is complex and other and difficult to manage, and replace it with nice, easy farms and plantations full of monocultures of pigs and corn and wheat and palm oil. We like things nice and simple and symmetrical and easy to control, that's the problem.


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\section*{Acknowledgements}
R.K.M thanks Nikolai Sinitsyn, Avadh Saxena, Julia Cen, Mikhail Raikh, Wilton Kort-Kamp, and Saikat Banerjee for useful discussions. This work was  supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division, Condensed Matter Theory Program, and the LANL  Center for Nonlinear Studies.
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\section{Non-Hermitian Landau-Zener model}
The non-Hermitian Landau-Zener (nLZ) model can be described by the Hamiltonian
\begin{equation}
{\hat H}_{nLZ}=\begin{pmatrix}
\beta t && g \\ -g^* && -\beta t
\end{pmatrix},
    \label{nLZ}
\end{equation}
where $\pm\beta$ are the two slopes corresponding to two levels and $g$ is the level coupling, which in general is complex. Unlike the Hermitian model the level couplings $g$ and $-g^*$ are negative complex conjugate of each other. The eigen-energies of ${\hat H}_{nLZ}$ are given by
\begin{equation}
E_{nLZ}(t)=\pm \sqrt{\beta^2t^2-|g|^2}.
    \label{ELZ}
\end{equation}
In standard LZ model the eigen-energies are given by $E_{LZ}=\pm \sqrt{\beta^2t^2+|g|^2}$.
\begin{figure}[h!]
\includegraphics[width=0.6\linewidth]{SM1.pdf}
\caption{The eigen-energies of (a) standard LZ model and (b) the nLZ model ($E_{nLZ}(t)$) are schematically shown as a function of time. The blue corresponds to real part of eigen energy while the red corresponds to the imaginary part. }
\label{SM1}
\end{figure}
The eigen-energies $E_{nLZ}(t)$ are shown as a function of time in Fig. \ref{SM1}b together with the eigen-energies for a standard LZ model with parameter $\beta$ and $g$.

The solution of the Schr{\"o}dinger equation for Hamiltonian (\ref{nLZ}) has the form of a $2\times 1$ column vector,
$$
|\phi(t)\rangle=\begin{pmatrix}
a(t) \\ b(t)
\end{pmatrix},
$$
where $a(t)$ satisfies a second order differential equation
\begin{equation}
\ddot{a}(t)+(\beta^2t^2-|g|^2+i\beta)a(t)=0,
    \label{second}
\end{equation}
whose solutions are given by parabolic cylinder functions \cite{parabolic}.

The solution can now be expressed as follows \cite{malla2017}
\begin{equation}
|\phi(t)\rangle=\begin{pmatrix}
a(t) \\ b(t)
\end{pmatrix}=\phi_1\begin{pmatrix}
D_{\nu}(z) \\ -i\sqrt{\nu}D_{\nu-1}(z)
\end{pmatrix}+\phi_2\begin{pmatrix}
D_{\nu}(-z) \\ -i\sqrt{\nu}D_{\nu-1}(-z)
\end{pmatrix},
    \label{linear-comb}
\end{equation}
where $D_{\nu}(z)$ is the parabolic cylinder function, with $\nu=i|g|^2/2\beta$ and $z=\sqrt{2\beta}e^{i\pi/4}t$. Since we are only interested in the dynamics at large times $t\rightarrow \pm \infty$, the  asymptotic behavior of parabolic cylinder functions is good enough for our analysis.
The critical difference between the Hermitian and the non-Hermitian dynamics comes from the phase of $\nu$, which is $-\pi/2$ for the Hermitian case and $\pi/2$ for the non-Hermitian case. This crucial difference leads to the following distinction between LZ and nLZ dynamics.
Assuming the system starts with the upper state, $|a(t\rightarrow -\infty)|^2=1$, the asymptotic solution of $a(t)$ at large positive times is given by $|a(t\rightarrow \infty)|^2=e^{-\pi|g|^2/\beta}$ for the Hermitian model and $|a(t\rightarrow \infty)|^2=e^{\pi|g|^2/\beta}$ for the non-Hermitian model. Similarly, the solution $b(t)$ at large positive times is given by $|b(t\rightarrow \infty)|^2=1-e^{-\pi|g|^2/\beta}$ for the Hermitian model and $|b(t\rightarrow \infty)|^2=e^{\pi|g|^2/\beta}-1$ for the non-Hermitian model.

This exponential dependence in the non-Hermitian model appears due to the anti-Hermitian complex couplings. The conservation law in the Hermitian model describes the common probability law,
$$
|a(t)|^2+|b(t)|^2=1.
$$
The probability of survival is given by  $|a(t\rightarrow \infty)|^2$ while the probability of adiabatic transition is given by $|b(t\rightarrow \infty)|^2$. In the non-Hermitian model, however, there are no such terms, and the exponentially growing nature makes it difficult to call it probability. Nevertheless, in our model, $|a(t\rightarrow \infty)|^2$  and $|b(t\rightarrow \infty)|^2$ correspond to the number of atoms produced in the respective atomic modes.
The conservation law here results from the asymptotic expansion of parabolic cylinder functions,
$$
|a(t)|^2-|b(t)|^2=1,
$$
and agrees with our dissociation mechanism in which atoms are produced in pairs.

\section{Exact solution for the solvable model \label{sec:1}}
To check the CPT symmetry we write down the Schr{\"o}dinger equation for our model (8) in the main text:
\begin{equation}
    i\frac{d}{dt}\begin{pmatrix}
    {\hat a}_{\uparrow} \\ {\hat a}_{\downarrow} \\{\hat b}_{\uparrow}^{\dagger} \\{\hat b}_{\downarrow}^{\dagger}
    \end{pmatrix}=\begin{pmatrix}
    b_1 t+E_1 & 0 & g^* & -\gamma^*\\0 & -b_1 t+E_1 & \gamma^* & g^*\\
    -g & -\gamma & b_2 t+E_2 & 0 \\\gamma & -g & 0 & -b_2t+E_2
    \end{pmatrix} \begin{pmatrix}
    {\hat a}_{\uparrow} \\ {\hat a}_{\downarrow} \\{\hat b}_{\uparrow}^{\dagger} \\{\hat b}_{\downarrow}^{\dagger}
    \end{pmatrix}.
    \label{Schrodinger}
\end{equation}
Equation (\ref{Schrodinger}) must remain invariant under three simultaneous operations:\\
{\it i.} time-reversal (${\hat T}$): change $t\rightarrow -t$, ${\hat a}\rightarrow {\hat a}^{\dagger}$, and
${\hat b}^{\dagger}\rightarrow {\hat b}$;\\
{\it ii.} complex conjugation ($\hat C$): change the imaginary number $i\rightarrow -i$, ${\hat a}\rightarrow {\hat a}^{\dagger}$, and
${\hat b}^{\dagger}\rightarrow {\hat b}$;\\
{\it iii.} parity (${\hat P}$): rename amplitudes ${\hat a}_{\uparrow}\rightarrow -{\hat a}_{\downarrow} $, ${\hat a}_{\downarrow}\rightarrow {\hat a}_{\uparrow}$, ${\hat b}_{\uparrow}\rightarrow -{\hat b}_{\downarrow} $, and ${\hat b}_{\downarrow}\rightarrow {\hat b}_{\uparrow}$. \\
Now, it is straightforward to see that under the $CPT$ operation, equation (\ref{Schrodinger}) remains invariant only when the phase difference between $g$ and $\gamma$ is $n{\pi}$.

Let us consider the $S$ matrix for our 4-level problem corresponding to the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian $H_{4}^{(o)}(t)$. The $S$ matrix refers to the matrix
\begin{equation}
S\equiv U(T,-T)_{T\rightarrow \infty},
    \label{S-def}
\end{equation}
which is non-unitary. The non-unitarity comes from the complex energies near the diabatic level crossings and plays no role in determining the solvability of our model.

Our model has similarity with a particular subclass of  Hermitian multi-state Landau-Zener (MLZ) problems, and the properties of scattering matrices for the Hermitian model are listed in Ref. \cite{Nik2015}, where the parameters $g$ and $\gamma$ are considered real. In the Hermitian model, the transition probability is defined as $P_{ij}=|S_{ij}|^2$, and the probabilities satisfy the conservation of probability law, e.g., $\sum_{j} P_{ij}=1$. Here, $P_{ij}$ refers to the transition probability to find an electron in the $i$-th state at large times $t\rightarrow \infty$ starting from $j$-th state at initial time $t\rightarrow -\infty$.  The exact solution refers to the analytical formula equation (15) in Ref. \cite{Nik2015} for all the transition matrix elements.

In our non-Hermitian case, the coupling parameters $g$ and $\gamma$ satisfy the anti-Hermiticity condition. We argue that the complex gap opening near the level crossing only affects the amplitudes of the scattering matrix elements. At the same time, the phases are still determined by the real part of the eigen-energies. Therefore, the $S$ matrix's form must resemble its Hermitian counterpart. Instead of transition probability, we define $n_{ij}=|S_{ij}|^2$, where $n_{ij}$ refers to the number of atoms produced in the $i$-th mode when the $j$-th mode is initially populated with a single atom.

As discussed in the previous section, the dynamics near each PT-broken phase in a non-Hermitian multi-state Landau-Zener (nMLZ) model can be considered as an individual nLZ transition.
Therefore, our result has similarity with equation (15) of Ref. \cite{Nik2015}. However, we replace $p_1$ with ${\tilde n}_{g}$, $p_2$ with ${\tilde n}_{\gamma}$, $q_1=1-p_1$ with ${\tilde n}_{g}-1$, and $q_2=1-p_2$ with ${\tilde n}_{\gamma}-1$. After making these substitutions we arrive at our exact result equation (16) in the main text. The formula obeys the conservation law of pair production,
\begin{equation}
n_{jj}-\sum_{i}n_{ij}=n_{j}^{(0)}=1,
    \label{n-cons}
\end{equation}
where $n_{j}^{(0)}$ corresponds to the the initial population (single atom) in the $j$-th mode.

\section{Pairwise squeezing of atomic modes \label{sec:2}}
The spontaneous dissociation process is quantum correlated and the atoms are produced in multi-mode quantum squeezed states. To quantify squeezing, we define position operators for the two modes corresponding to different types atoms $A$ and $B$. The position operator reads
\begin{equation}
{\hat X}_{A_{\sigma}B_{\sigma'}}^{(\phi)}=\frac{1}{2}\left[e^{-i\phi}({\hat a}_{\sigma}+{\hat b}_{\sigma'})+ e^{i\phi}({\hat a}_{\sigma}^{\dagger}+{\hat b}_{\sigma'}^{\dagger})\right],
    \label{O1}
\end{equation}
where $\sigma$, $\sigma'$ refer to the spins while $\phi$ is the angle that defines the measured quadrature. It is straightforward to see that the expectation value of operator $X$ is zero, while the expectation value of $X^2$ can be non-zero. We expand the expression for the $X^2$ operator from (\ref{O1})
\begin{equation}
{\hat X^{(\theta)^2}}_{\pm, A_{\sigma}B_{\sigma'}}=\frac{1}{4}\left[e^{-2i\phi} ({\hat a}_{\sigma}^{2}+ {\hat b}_{\sigma'}^{2}+{\hat a}_{\sigma}{\hat b}_{\sigma'}+{\hat b}_{\sigma'}{\hat a}_{\sigma})+
{\hat a^{\dagger}}_{\sigma}{\hat a}_{\sigma}+{\hat a^{\dagger}}_{\sigma}{\hat b}_{\sigma'}+
{\hat b^{\dagger}}_{\sigma'}{\hat a}_{\sigma}+{\hat b^{\dagger}}_{\sigma'}{\hat b}_{\sigma'}\right]+h.c.
    \label{O2}
\end{equation}
At large times $t\rightarrow \infty$, the operators satisfy
\begin{align}
{\hat a}_{\uparrow}(t)=S_{11} {\hat a}_{\uparrow}(t_0) +S_{12} {\hat a}_{\downarrow}(t_0)+S_{13} {\hat b}_{\uparrow}^{\dagger}(t_0)+S_{14} {\hat b}_{\downarrow}^{\dagger}(t_0),\nonumber\\
{\hat a}_{\downarrow}(t)=S_{21} {\hat a}_{\uparrow}(t_0) +S_{22} {\hat a}_{\downarrow}(t_0)+S_{23} {\hat b}_{\uparrow}^{\dagger}(t_0)+S_{24} {\hat b}_{\downarrow}^{\dagger}(t_0),\nonumber\\
{\hat b}_{\uparrow}^{\dagger}(t)=S_{31} {\hat a}_{\uparrow}(t_0) +S_{32} {\hat a}_{\downarrow}(t_0)+S_{33} {\hat b}_{\uparrow}^{\dagger}(t_0)+S_{34} {\hat b}_{\downarrow}^{\dagger}(t_0),\nonumber\\
{\hat b}_{\downarrow}^{\dagger}(t)=S_{41} {\hat a}_{\uparrow}(t_0) +S_{42} {\hat a}_{\downarrow}(t_0)+S_{43} {\hat b}_{\uparrow}^{\dagger}(t_0)+S_{44} {\hat b}_{\downarrow}^{\dagger}(t_0)
    \label{O3}.
\end{align}
Here, $t_0$ corresponds to initial time. The non-zero contribution to $\langle X^2\rangle$ comes from terms proportional to $\langle {\hat a}(t_0){\hat a}^{\dagger}(t_0)\rangle$ and $\langle{\hat b}(t_0){\hat b}^{\dagger}(t_0)\rangle$. The term $\langle {\hat a}(t_0){\hat a}^{\dagger}(t_0)\rangle=1+\langle {\hat a}^{\dagger}(t_0) {\hat a}(t_0)\rangle$ and the second term vanishes since the initial atomic population is zero.

Now we can express the expectation value of $X^2$ with only non-zero terms
\begin{equation}
\langle {\hat X^{(\theta)^2}}_{, A_{\sigma}B_{\sigma'}} \rangle=\frac{1}{4}\left[e^{-2i\phi} ({\hat a}_{\sigma}{\hat b}_{\sigma'}+{\hat b}_{\sigma'}{\hat a}_{\sigma})+
{\hat a^{\dagger}}_{\sigma}{\hat a}_{\sigma}+{\hat b^{\dagger}}_{\sigma'}{\hat b}_{\sigma'}\right]+h.c.
    \label{O4}
\end{equation}

Let us first consider the expectation value of $X^2$ for $A_{\uparrow}$ and $B_{\uparrow}$ modes. Substituting equation (\ref{O3}) in equation (\ref{O2}) we find
\begin{equation}
\langle {\hat X^{(\theta)^2}}_{\pm, A_{\uparrow}B_{\uparrow}} \rangle=\frac{1}{2}\left[Re[S_{11}S_{13}e^{2i\phi}]+ |S_{11}|^2+|S_{13}|^2+|S_{14}|^2\right],
    \label{AB-1}
\end{equation}
where
$$
-2|S_{11}||S_{13}| \leq Re[S_{11}S_{13}e^{2i\phi}]\leq 2|S_{11}||S_{13}|.
$$
 We can obtain the maximum and the minimum value of $\langle {\hat X^{(\theta)^2}}_{\pm, A_{\uparrow}B_{\uparrow}} \rangle$, which are given by
\begin{equation}
    \langle {\hat X^{(\theta)^2}}_{\pm, A_{\uparrow}B_{\uparrow}} \rangle=\frac{(\tilde{n}_{\gamma}-1)}{2}+\frac{1}{2}|(\tilde{n}_{g}\tilde{n}_{\gamma})^{1/2}\pm ((\tilde{n}_{g}-1)\tilde{n}_{\gamma})^{1/2}|^2,
\end{equation}
and we obtain our equation (20) from the main text.
For $\gamma=0$ we recover the two-mode squeezing in the spin-independent atomic dissociation in Ref. \cite{yurovsky}.

Similarly we can obtain equation (21) in our main text by switching $S_{13}$ and $S_{14}$ in equation (\ref{AB-1}).

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The Honorable Dumbass Duncan Hunter: Stupid and Corrupt, a Delightful Combination
Most members of congress are corrupt. Quite a few are stupid. Duncan Hunter, the California Republican now awaiting trial — on charges of "improperly using campaign funds to pursue numerous romantic affairs with congressional aides and lobbyists" — is both. That is terrible news for the country but great news for me personally, because I can always make a little cash writing about alleged congressional cretins like Hunter.
"The Justice Department alleged that Hunter (R-Calif.) and his wife Margaret Hunter illegally diverted $250,000 in campaign funds for personal use, including to fund lavish vacations and their children's school tuition," Politico just recently reported. Hunter's wife has already pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.
The Honorable Dumbass Hunter ("HDH," henceforth) told Politico, "You have criminally political prosecutors in this case on a personal smear campaign. This is the most political case in the world."
Hmmm. We've got more information than has previously been noted in this delightful, sordid affair, HDH, and it doesn't look good for you.
First off, HDH, just for the record, there is an organization for federal lobbyists and it has a Code of Ethics. This provision of the Code would seem to apply to a case of a congressman having sex with lobbyists.
9.1. A lobbyist should not act in any manner that will undermine public confidence and trust in the democratic governmental process.
Secondly, HDH, you should seriously check out this full twitter thread.
Thirdly, HDH, in January, 2010, you reportedly flew to Reno, Nevada, ostensibly to attend a convention for a nonprofit group called Safari Club International. After a brief stop at the convention, you and the lobbyist headed for a ski resort near Lake Tahoe, where you and your gal pal shacked up for a fun-filled weekend on the slopes and ordering room service, according to the prosecution's filing. They say you used campaign funds to rent the car, pay the hotel tab and fly back to Washington.
Feds: Congressman Duncan Hunter used campaign cash for affairs
Lastly, HDH, Safari Club International held its annual convention in Reno, Nevada between January 20 and 23, 2010.
The Safari Club International PAC gave a $2,000 contribution to you on January 22, 2010, which they mistakenly (?) reported as going to your father's campaign committee. Your father's campaign committee closed in 2008, so it's hard to understand such a mistake.
What it looks like, HDH, with all due respect, is that your brief stop at the Safari Club International convention was to pick up a $2,000 PAC check to cover the costs of your weekend tryst with a lobbyist.
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Having grown up in the Caribbean I have the track record to boast many years of experience with these delicious, nutritious, and versatile seeds, so let's get cracking!
On my home island of St.Croix, most people overlook the surplus of coconuts falling from the many trees throughout the neighborhoods and rural areas. Throwing them into the trash or brush piles as waste. Sad, though I for one did not mind, as I quickly formulated a habit of driving around and collecting as many dry, mature coconuts as I could manage. What did I do with all these coconuts you might ask?
Alright, I'll admit it, I was not plotting to take over the world with a diabolical device made of hundreds of coconuts as you may have suspected. Though, I was very busy in my home laboratory cracking and experimenting with what I estimate to have been in the thousands of coconuts by the end of my run. I made coconut milk, coconut oil, coconut flour, coconut candy, coconut spread, you name it I made it. I even experimented with making coconut cheese! Similar to the way you make fresh Paneer. But the coconut cream fat was less cohesive and mostly fell apart. Side note, I left massive piles of coconut husks at a few of my residences, I must confess.
Hold on now, I'm getting a bit ahead of myself though, so let's take a step back. There are many different varieties of coconuts, some are yellow, some green, and some orange with many variations and shades in between. These different colors do not change from one to another as the coconut develops. Rather, the respective varieties all only change from its inherent color to a brownish gray outer layer or husk once fully mature and dry. Young or immature coconuts are harvested for the coconut water that, in recent years, has become all the rave in health food markets. The coconut jelly is also quite delicious, and can only be found in the immature to middle stages of the coconuts development. As the coconut reaches full maturity, this jelly becomes the thick flesh inner layer of the coconut from which the milk, oil and many other coconut products are made. In its mature stage, the coconut encasing is the very tough outer layer known as the husk. This husk protects the seed within and gives the coconut buoyancy in water. This is how the coconut disperses its seed as they float and are taken all around the world via ocean currents.
Now, it is typical to de-husk a mature coconut with a machete in the islands. However, there is another method I'm aware of that I will also share with you. In the Polynesian islands, natives use a traditional method in which a sharpened stick is buried in the ground with the pointy end facing upward. The mature coconut is thrown against this spear and wrenched in order to remove the husk.
Ok, so now that we got a bit of the basics down, let's have a look at the coconut from the Ayurvedic perspective. Coconut has a sweet taste (Rasa), Cooling energy (Virya) and a Sweet post-digestive effect (Vipaka). Coconut pacifies Vata and Pita, but in large amounts, may aggravate Kapha. In general, the action on the doshas is to help mucous secretions.
What is even more interesting is what we find when we take a look at the Sanskrit name for the coconut and the meaning. Kalpa Vriksha. "Kalpa'', brakes down to mean, "all the necessities of life" and "Vriksha", means Tree. Tree of All that is necessary for Life. Sounds about right, The Coconut.
*Suggested uses for coconut milk: Try it in Smoothies, Hot Chocolate, Coffee or Chai Tea. Baking, In a pot of rice, your breakfast cereals, or in place of heavy cream for a delicious Vegan Alfredo.


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Seems like no one uploaded any photo from pre-glow so..
Pre-glow was fun! ...and tiring. hehs.
Whatever i was wearing was so.. awkward.
I seriously felt like i was wearing PJs out onto the streets, taking public transport ._.
Started off with ice breaking games: Fat penguin, polar bear.
Then the first game. Think was something to do with dead ant or something along that line.
ohmygosh! i swear that was so dead tiring especially since it was under the hot 2pm sun.
When it was orange's turn to chase really damn cannot.
9 of us chase the other 5 groups which had more people then us.
Chase until my black-out problem almost happen again. Sighs.
Seriously hate how weak my body is.
We had to eat up the fruits (2 bananas, 2 lemons, 1 watermelon) without using our hands.
As weird and unhygienic as it may sound it was so refreshing that you totally ignore the fact you're digging your face into the fruits and that it's on newspaper.
The lemon was sweet for a lemon and the watermelon really (Y).
I think we really not bad, 2nd to finish!
The third game was something like running man.
Because it was so hot, we decided to just lepak in the cc for awhile before heading out.
The moment we head out is when we got super suay. Everywhere we go sure meet SFs and end up having to run for our lifes.
Orange really super bright, we could see our own reflections from buildings far away.
Ventured to parts of the school that we probably never knew about.
Got caught by our own SF at the stairs, sigh pie.
Pretty much spent the rest of the time running for our lifes again.
We were soooo sweaty that when stephan rest his hand on my shoulder i can feel my shirt getting wet!
and tired, so after hiding at blk 56 level 3, we decided to chiong back to the cc for aircon.
The moment our lift reach ground floor, came out and there was rachel.
Literally ran damn hard to our secret hideout for aircon.
It was so embarrassing, ohgawd.
Totally cannot be bothered after that and we just lay there for aircon.
It finally ended and we were dead beat.
This shall come to a sudden end cause i'm just too lazy to carry on typing.
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Quarantine Circular's sneak release was a pleasant surprise since, after playing the previous Bithell Short, I was more than up for playing a new entry in this sub-series. The characters you'll meet feel like real human (and non-human) beings, with realistic interactions and reactions that will keep you going until the end. You're looking at a couple of hours or so to finish the game, and once you're done, you can do it all over again after activating the developer commentary track to learn more about the game and its development. I had a great time playing this one, and I look forward to the next Bithell Short!
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Biebs managed to rake in an estimated $80 million this year (give or take drug dealer fees, paparazzi hush money, and miscellaneous egg related expenses).
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Updated Apr. 14, 2017 2:22PM ET / Published Nov. 24, 2014 8:41PM ET
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Today, Forbes announced that Justin Bieber is the highest earning young entertainer under 30. During a 12-month evaluation time span, the artist formerly known as Biebs managed to rake in an estimated $80 million (give or take drug dealer fees, paparazzi hush money, and miscellaneous egg related expenses). According to Forbes, despite his recent legal and moral hiccups, Bieber is on the up and up—he has 56.6 million Twitter followers, made bank off of the tail end of his world tour, and is almost done with his anger management classes. Somebody give this man-boy a cookie (or an edible)!
Additionally, the 20-year-old naughty cherub is also reportedly at work on a new album. Plus a long-awaited reunion between Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber's publicity teams seems more than overdue—so at least we hardworking, life-having, grown-ass adults have that happy ending to look forward to. While Bieber appears to have proven that entitled white boys really can have it all (oh, was that not the question?), we've assembled a little list of those who make less than him. Read it and literally weep.
1. President Obama
With a yearly salary of only $400,000 dollars, our president's annual income would hardly cover Bieber's diaper budget. By the implicit laws of capitalism, I'm pretty sure this makes Bieber the new commander in chief. Here's to hot boxing Air Force One and replacing the White House portraits of former presidents with framed Instagrams of Usher and Miranda Kerr.
2. The ghost of Marilyn Monroe
The postmortem yearly income of this sex symbol's estate is dwarfed by the earning power of Bieber's pubescent six-pack, proving once and for all that tweens have absolutely garbage taste and mush for brains. In other news, black and white pin-up shots are now officially less valuable than life-size Tiger Beat tear outs.
3. Tom Brady
In 2013, Brady signed a $57 million dollar deal with the Patriots for being the best at what he does. He is an immensely talented quarterback who has dedicated his entire life to athletic excellence and discipline. If Justin Bieber were Tom Brady's son, Brady would most likely be unable to afford his weekly allowance.
4. You
Not to get personal, but unless the Koch brothers spend their free time scrolling through The Daily Beast entertainment section, you probably make a whole lot less a year than Justin Bieber. Why aren't you as successful as Justin Bieber? Why aren't you as talented as Justin Bieber? Why aren't you as handsome and/or Canadian as Justin Bieber? Do not move on to the next item on this list until you have thoroughly answered these questions.
5. Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep makes an eighth of what Justin Bieber does a year. Meryl fucking Streep. *Drops the mic*


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Top Places in the Tri-State area to Pop The Question
June 3, 2017 Marjorie Motichka
So, you're ready to pop the question. You have the ring, but no idea how to ask her. Let's be honest here; yes, the ring is the most important part, but did you think it wouldn't be a HUGE deal to figure out a fancy way of asking the girl of your dreams to marry you? We're sorry to be the ones to break this to you, but where and how you propose DOES matter and you need to think of something special that she will remember forever.
The location doesn't have to be over-the-top to be special. We talked to a photographer from F2 Photography in Greencastle to get a short list of popular places to propose. She said it perfectly, "It's not always about the spectacular location, but more about the emotional connection." You definitely want it to be special, but it doesn't need to be a whole production, especially if your fiance-to-be isn't the kind of girl that likes to be the center of attention in the middle of everything. Jennifer, of Jennifer Rotz Photography told us, "I have found that my couples get engaged in many unique locations that are unique to them, their relationship, and their story. I don't think there is a one size fits all location for engagements, I believe that most of today's couples try to incorporate the engagement to a special memory or location that holds value to them as a couple." Maybe for her just a walk at Hagerstown City Park, or dinner at your favorite restaurant would be perfect.
If you have no clue where to propose, we can help with some ideas. It definitely needs to be special to both of you, so the place you first met, had your first date, or somewhere you go for an activity you both enjoy would be perfect! We've made up a list of some of the top places to propose to help you think of some good possibilities and maybe give you a new idea for the perfect place to pop the question.
Cunningham Falls
Cunningham Falls State Park is located in the beautiful Catoctin Mountains, and is divided into two unique areas. The William Houck Area located three miles west of Thurmont on Route 77 has the lake, falls and camping area. The Manor Area off Route 15 three miles south of Thurmont has the Scales and Tales Aviary, camping area and the historic Catoctin Iron Furnace.
The Cunningham Falls State Park trail system varies in terrain from short, flat hikes to steep and rocky ascents that will challenge even the experienced hiker. Trail distances vary from .5 mile to 7.5 miles.
High Rock is located just off the Appalachian Trail in Northern Maryland on South Mountain. There is a paved road that leads from Pen-Mar Park to High Rock that is gated from dusk to 9 AM. High Rock has spectacular views on a clear day.
From Interstate 70 at exit 35 take MD 66 North to Cave Town. Turn right on MD 64 and continue north to MD 418 (Ringold Pike) turn right at this intersection. Immediately after crossing into Pennsylvania turn right on Harbaugh Church Rd. A short distance later turn right on Old Pen-Mar Rd. The Appalachian Trail will cross the road with limited parking just past the trail.
The only access to High Rock other than to drive is via the Appalachian Trail from the north or south. The hike from the south, although longer, is not as steep. The trail going either way is steep in spots but once on the ridge the walking is easy.
Renfrew Museum and Park
Renfrew Museum and Park is located at 1010 East Main Street in Waynesboro, PA. Renfrew is a restored farmstead with outbuildings, historic grounds, and miles of nature trails to explore. Renfrew is open dawn to dusk year-round and is free of charge.
Green Grove Gardens
Green Grove Gardens, 1032 Buchanan Trail East in Greencastle, started as a working dairy farm owned by the Martin family. Over the years, the Martins revamped the property with landscaped gardens and water features. The barn was renovated to become an event all, and the original hardwood floors were kept, giving an antique warmth to the building. A deck was added offering views of the nearby Tuscarora Mountains, and much of the 40 acres surrounding the barn were landscaped to become expansive gardens accented with fountains, a pergola, and paved walkways. Green Grove Gardens is also an excellent wedding venue.
Tayamentasachta
Tayamentasachta, 300-408 Leitersburg Road, Greencastle, is a 45-acre environmental center with amenities that include a 19th century farmhouse and barn, natural spring, spring house, log cabin, longhouse, pavilion, and orchard. Locals in the area refer to Tayamentasachta as the School Farm. Walking trails, woodlots, fields, and gardens make it possible for people in and around the community to actively learn integrative concepts between nature and people during a unique and unforgettable learning experience. This natural setting is a beautiful location for engagement pictures.
Martins Mill Bridge
Martins Mill Bridge, 3505 East Weaver Road, Greencastle, is a covered bridge that is a total of 205 feet in length. In 1973 the bridge was rehabilitated after being carried downstream by flood waters during Hurricane Agnes. Steel bracing was added later to stabilize the bridge. In spite of being altered over the years due to destruction and restoration the bridge contains approximately two-thirds of its original timbers. It is one of two covered bridges in Franklin County. The grounds are open from 8:00 AM until sunset and can be accessed by walking.
Hagerstown City Park
The Hagerstown City Park is located in the center of Hagerstown, Maryland at 501 Virginia Avenue, Hagerstown. The park is an historic location and contains a lake in the center. It is home to the Washington County Museum of Fine Art that is directly on the lakefront as well as the Hager House and Museum. The park is in a very industrial area of the city and has a number of paths, recreation areas, and trails. City Park is home to swans and other waterfowl as well as fish.
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, 485 Fillmore St. Harpers Ferry, WV, is considered one of the best walking parks in America. The views are gorgeous, the history fascinating, the restored town a work of historical art. The variety of trails paired with history and the scenery of the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Potomac and Shenandoah river valleys adds up to a unique hiking experience. Harpers Ferry National Historic Park encircles almost 4,000 acres in West Virginia, Maryland and Virginia, and several units of the national park system intersect here. As the mid-point of the 2,178-mile Appalachian Trail, Harpers Ferry is home to the headquarters for the Appalachian Trail. Visitors can also walk along the 184.5-mile-long towpath of Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park by crossing the footbridge over the Potomac River. Harpers Ferry has about 20 miles of hiking trails. The trails vary from easy, riverside strolls to four-mile hikes across Civil War battlefields to eight-mile adventures to the tops of mountains.
Cowans Gap State Park
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Fort Loudon, PA 17224
Cowans Gap State Park 1085-acre park in the beautiful Allens Valley of Fulton County. Prime attractions are a 42-acre lake, large campground, rustic cabins and many hiking trails. Trails vary in difficulty from flat to very steep. State forest land surrounds the park, providing more land for recreation and natural beauty in all seasons.
The park is open every day of the year, sunrise to sunset. However, day use areas close at dusk. The beach, overnight areas, and other areas are open specific seasons and hours.
The most important thing to remember is, make the moment special for both of you! And get the ring from us, of course. If you would like a little more inspiration, check out our "Will You Marry Me?" page on our website. Good Luck and Best Wishes!
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The presentation of the publication as it was featured at the 14th International Conference of Open Source Software Systems (OSS2018).
18. OSSRF: Dimensions & Goals (1) 18 I. Source Code: ● The first dimension of CRF is Health & Well-being and it is related with people. ● In Open Source Software we consider source code (i.e. classes) to be the structural unit of the project. II. Business & Legal: ● The second dimension of CRF is Economy & Society and is related with organization. ● In Open Source Software the norm is voluntary work but, more mature projects are utilizing Open Source Business Models to offer commercial services (be it pro features or support). For those types of projects licensing plays a key role when it comes to commercialization.
19. OSSRF: Dimensions & Goals (2) 19 III. Integration & Reuse: ● The third dimension of CRF is related to place. ● Open Source Software projects usually reuse components of other OSS projects or are being reused themselves. In this spirit, in the third dimension of the Open Source Software Resilience Framework we will be dealing with the aspects of integration and reuse. IV. Social (Community): ● The last dimension of CRF is about Leadership & Strategy and is related with utilizing knowledge from the past to become better and more resilient in the future. ● In Open Source Software both leadership and strategy related processes are usually connected with the community. Knowledge base is the codebase itself, the CVS system, issue trackers etc.
22. OSSRF: Indicators 22 ● The twelve (12) goals are further analyzed to indicators in order to provide a more specific description of the goals. ● For the purposes of this paper we will analyze the indicators related to the goals of the Business & Legal dimension. ● Due to space limitations, we provide the full analysis of the indicators to the following url: http://users.auth.gr/akritiko/ossrf_indicators.html for the intended audience.
23. OSSRF: Indicators - Business & Legal Dimension 23 1. Economic Sustainability a. Donations: 0 (no) or 1 (yes) based on whether the OSS project accepts donations. 0 is considered a non resilient value. b. Commercial features: 0 (no) or 1 (yes) based on whether the OSS project offers commercial features or a pro (paid) version. The indicator was based to the work of . 0 is considered a non resilient value. c. Paid support: 0 (no) or 1 (yes) based on whether the OSS project offers a paid plan for support. . 0 is considered a non resilient value.
24. OSSRF: Indicators - Business & Legal Dimension (2) 24 2. Flexible Licensing a. Level or permissiveness: 0 (all restrictive - i.e. commercial), 1 (persistent i.e. GPL), 2 (all permissive - i.e. BSD). We base the indicator to the of . The indicator is considered non resilient when it is less than 1. b. Level of persistence: 0 (no) or 1 (yes) based on whether there are parts of the project's code or dependencies published under persistent licenses (i.e. GPL). We base the indicator to the of . 1 is considered a non resilient value.
25. OSSRF: Indicators - Business & Legal Dimension (3) 25 3. External Organization Support: 0 (no) or 1 (yes) based on whether the OSS project is supported by an external organization (non profit, governmental or corporate). 0 is considered a non resilient value.
26. OSSRF: Resilience Determination Mechanism 26 ● Starting to the indicators level we will consider an OSS project successful towards a resilience goal when it is considered resilient at least to 50% of the goals ingredients. ● Moving to the dimensions level, an OSS project will be considered successful towards a resilience dimension when it is considered resilient at least to 50% of the goals of the specific dimension. ● Likewise, on a project level, the OSS project is considered resilient when at least two (2) out of four (4) dimension (50%) are considered resilient.
31. Threats to validity 31 ● We should note that OSSRF should be applied to project of a relative maturity in terms of community and age (we would intuitively suggest at least 10 contributors and a maturity of more than a year). Applying it in solo maintained OSS projects, or projects that not yet have reached the proposed maturity may lead to misleading results. ● OSSRF is an adaptation of the City Resilience framework to Open Source Software. Although the structure of the original framework was retained, despite the conceptual similarities that we have already mentioned earlier, the mapping of dimensions, goals and indicators is a product of the subjective lens of the authors.
32. Threats to validity (2) 32 ● Regarding the goals and indicators, some of them are based on metrics available for object oriented source code. Additionally, as far as control version systems are concerned, for the needs of this publication we selected projects that are hosted in Github. ● As far as the scales and their aggregation is concerned, in this preliminary approach we considered each criterion equally important and the threshold for defining a project as resilient or non resilient is 50%. ● Finally, both of the projects analyzed in this paper, were developed in PHP and their domains are close (OKapi was a framework for web applications and WooCommerce is a plugin for a WordPress which is also considered by some a kind of web framework).
33. Future work 33 ● For future work we intend to thoroughly fine-tune the rest of the indicators by testing it to a variety of OSS projects. This will also allow us to investigatehow the OSSRF responds to projects of different age, community size or source code size and complexity. ● We also intend to investigate whether the software domain of an OSS project affects the results of the application of the OSSRF. ● Regarding the framework itself we will experiment with other approached regarding the "Resilience determination mechanism" (i.e. weighted goals). ● In addition we will be extending the OSSRF to be able to work with a variety of control version systems (not only git-like but also Mercurial, SVN, CVS).
34. Future work (2) 34 ● In a similar spirit will would like to experiment with projects of different programming languages (i.e. Java). ● Another challenging idea for future work would be to apply OSSRF to OSS projects that are known to have faced specific stresses or crises in order to identify how those crises relate with the resiliency levels of an OSS project. ● Finally we intend to attempt and request feedback, in the form of a survey, from key players of the Open Source Software international community (lead developers, stakeholders, academics and so forth) about OSSRF.