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Lavender is more versatile than you may know. Tanya Kern of Dancing Light Ranch makes salves and lotions from the essential oils in the flowers, which can do more for us than make us smell nice. She tells me that in addition to being a calming agent, lavender heals burns and is a powerful antiseptic.
It's mid-afternoon in July and I'm looking down the rows of light purple, transfixed on the bees bobbing and buzzing between the plants. Tanya and Don Kern are harvesting; they cut lavender and tie it in bunches. The French Gros Bleu and Grosso varieties as well as the English Royal Velvet are the top three lavenders you can find at the ranch and at their booth at the Hollywood Farmers Market.
The couple is modest about what they do. "It's really low maintenance," Tanya tells me.
After gathering information from them, though, I learn that they have deeply embedded themselves in the processes necessary to make lavender and life flourish naturally. The Kerns work calmly, free of pesticides and in tune with the cycles of nature. Their lavender is not organically certified, but it's truly natural.
They don't use sprays, which means that there is a lot of weeding involved in the care of the plants. Tanya points out that people often forget the importance of not using pesticides with lavender because they aren't always consuming it. In addition to general concern for the Earth, it's important not to contaminate lavender with sprays because it's going under people's pillows and being made into salves and lotions that they rub all over their bodies.
In addition to being pesticide free, the Kerns also collect rainwater which they use to water the lavender, their garden and for all the animals in their care; including Dancing Light, the horse that bears the ranch's namesake and the numerous dogs that can be seen running around. Tanya and Don have a small garden, complete with a Cascadia flag. I'm happy they are dedicated to our bioregion.
Early summer is the time for fresh lavender, but you'll be able to get dried lavender all year round. Don tells me that it keeps its scent for six months after it has been picked and shows me how to release the aroma by pressing one small bud between the thumb and forefinger. It's pungent.
In the spring, they also sell berry plants, hops and herbs. Check out what they have to offer on Saturday at the Hollywood Farmers Market. You can also buy directly from their website at
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Q: The perturbation of non-Hamiltonian algebraic vector fields In this question, we are interested in the number of limit cycles which appears in the following perturbational system:
\begin{equation}\cases{
x'=y -x^{2}+\epsilon P(x,y)  \\
y'=-x+\epsilon Q(x,y) }
\end{equation}
where $P$ and $Q$ are polynomials of degree $n$. The unperturbed system (i.e, $\epsilon=0$) is not a Hamiltonian vector field, so we multiply the above vector field by the integrating factor
"$e^{-2y}$". After this multiplication, the (new) unperturbed system is a Hamiltonian vector field with Hamiltonian \begin{equation}
 H(x,y)=e^{-2y}(y-x^{2}+1/2)
\end{equation}
The unperturbed system has a unique singularity at the origin, which is of center type. The region of closed orbits surrounding the center is $\{(x,y)|0\leq H(x,y) \leq 1/2\}$.
According to the theory of Abelian integrals and its relation to the second part of the Hilbert 16th problem, the number of limit cycles of the perturbed system is (equal to and ) closely related to the number of zeroes of the following integral function $I:[0,\;1/2]\to \mathbb{R}$:
\begin{equation}
I(c)=\int_{H^{-1}(c)} e^{-2y}(Pdy-Qdx)
\end{equation}
I have been motivated by a famous result of A. Varchenko about the finiteness of the number of the zeros of abelian integrals of polynomial perturbation of polynomial Hamiltonians (which is proved in [1]). Hence, I have the following two questions:
Questions:

*

*Assume that $P$ and $Q$ are fixed (given) polynomials. Is it true that either $I$ is identically zero, or it has only a finite number of zeros? Is there an explicit formula for the function $I(c)$? Or at least can we compute $\lim_{c \to 0} I(c)$?

*If the answer to the above question is affirmative, can we control the number of zeroes of $I$, in terms of the degree of polynomials $P,Q$?

Note 1: The proof of Varchenko is essentially based on algebraic geometry.
In fact, they consider the polynomial perturbation of polynomial Hamiltonian systems. (Please see page 5, section 3.5 of this  paper. But in this particular question, the non-algebraic integrating factor $e^{-2y}$ destroys the algebro-geometric feature of the problem. So how can one remedy this problem?
Note 2: As a possible resolution to avoid the non-algebraic term $e^{-2y}$, we consider the following approach, which can be applied for every algebraic perturbation of algebraic vector fields, where the unperturbed system has a band of closed orbit (center). But note that it is not a Hamiltonian vector field, and we have a non-algebraic integrating factor.
Consider the polynomial vector field $$\begin{cases} x'=P+\epsilon A\\ y'=Q+\epsilon B \end{cases}$$
where the unperturbed system has a band of closed orbit.
We assume that there is a straight line $\ell$ parametrized by a real parameter $h\in \mathbb{R}$ with the following property:
Periodic orbits of the unperturbed system intersect $\ell$ transversally and  $s'(h) \neq 0$ for all $h$ where $s(h)$ is the slope of the unperturbed vector field at point $h$. This is opposite to the concept of "isocline". For example, this is the case for the Liénard vector field
\begin{equation}\cases{
x'=y -x^{2}+\epsilon P(x,y)  \\
y'=-x+\epsilon Q(x,y) }
\end{equation}
when $\ell$ is the $x$ axis. But it is not the case for the isocline $y$ axis.
We take a point $h \in  \ell$. By $p(h)$, we mean the value of the  Poincaré return map $p$ at $h$. Hence $p(h) \in  \ell$ is the first  return map for the orbit starting at $h \in \ell$. WLOG we may assume that the orientation of the solution curve is anti-clockwise. Consider the simple closed curve $\gamma$ consisting of the solution curve $h \to p(h)$  and the part of the straight line $p(h) \to  h$. If $p(h) \neq h$, then the integral of $\int_{\gamma} \kappa_{g} \neq  2\pi$ , since two different points of the line $\ell$ has different slopes. (This is a consequence of  the Gauss–Bonnet theorem). So for $\epsilon$ sufficiently small, the above  curvature integral is $2 \pi$ if and only if $p(h)=h$.
Now we compute the integral of the curvature:
$$T(h)=\int_{\tilde{\gamma}}(\frac{(P+\epsilon A)(Q_{x}+\epsilon B_{x})+(Q+\epsilon B)(Q_{y}+\epsilon B_{y})}{P^2+Q^2})dx -(\frac{(Q+\epsilon B)(P_{y}+\epsilon A_{y})+(P+\epsilon A)(P_{x}+\epsilon A_{x})}{P^2+Q^2})dy$$
where $\tilde{\gamma}$ is the same as $\gamma$, but we remove the straight line $p(h) \to h$. (Similar to the orbit in this picture, which starts from $r_{0}$ and ends to the $p(r_{0})$).
The above integral is equal to $2\pi +\epsilon c(h) + O(\epsilon^2)$, where $c(h)$ is the following:
$$c(\alpha)= \int_{\alpha} (\frac{(AQ_{x}+PB_{x}+BQ_{y}+QB_{y})(P^2+Q^2)+2AP+2BQ}{{(P^2+Q^2)}^2})dx-\int_{\alpha}(\frac{(BP_{y}+QA_{y}+AP_{x}+PA_{x})(P^2+Q^2)+2AP+2BQ}{{(P^2+Q^2)}^2})dy$$
where $\alpha $ is the closed orbit of the unperturbed system starting  at $h$
Now in the integral $c(h)$, we do  not have any non-algebraic term.

So this would possibly imply that the zero set of $c(h)$ is  equal to the zero set of  $I(h)$  where  $I(h) $ is  the standard  abelian integral  $I(h)= \int_{\alpha(h)} Ady-Bdx$. Because both zero sets are corresponding points of generating limit cycles.

Is the latter statement true? Is the computation of $c(h)$ correct? Does this situation make facilities for computations of abelian integrals to count the number of generating limit cycles?
Reference
[1] Arnol'd, V. I.; Gusejn-Zade, S. M.; Varchenko, A. N., Singularities of differentiable maps. Volume II: Monodromy and asymptotics of integrals Translated from the Russian by Hugh Porteous, (English) Monographs in Mathematics, 83. Boston, MA etc.: Birkhäuser Verlag, pp. viii+492 (1988), MR0966191, Zbl 0659.58002.

A: This  paper contains  a conjecture  and a partial result about the abelian integral under discussion :"Computer-assisted techniques for the verification of the Chebyshev property of Abelian integrals"

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CMS asks Congress to help improve care for dual eligibles
The CMS has submitted a series of legislative ideas to Congress they say would better coordinate care for people eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid. These beneficiaries tend to be sicker and more expensive to manage.
The first idea is to make permanent a demonstration on retroactive Medicare Part D coverage for low-income beneficiaries.
Currently, low-income beneficiaries are assigned at random to a qualifying Part D plan, which is reimbursed based on the standard Part D prospective payment, regardless of how many services were used during this period. The demo, which ends next year, pays plans a rate closer to actual costs incurred. The CMS claims the pilot has both saved money and not imposed any burden on duals.
The next idea is to ease cost and simplify the message in marketing materials created by state and federal officials regarding dual eligible special needs plan (D-SNP).
The agency also wants the authority to streamline how dual health plans appeal denied claims.
Finally, the agency wants to limit the ability to change plans via special enrollments. Currently, the CMS is required to maintain a special enrollment period for full-benefit dually eligible beneficiaries. This recommendation would narrow situations in which a dual could switch plans beginning in 2019.
"Efficient use of the Part D special enrollment for dual eligible beneficiaries reduces aggressive marketing targeted to low-income beneficiaries, improves incentives to make investments in and provide care coordination for high-cost, often vulnerable beneficiaries," the CMS said. It also "reduces the administrative burden on health plans from beneficiary fluctuations between plans numerous times throughout the year."
Dually eligible beneficiaries made up 20% of the Medicare program and 15% of the Medicaid program in 2012. However, they accounted for 34% of Medicare expenditures and 33% of the Medicaid spending that year, the last available data, according to the CMS.
"A lack of alignment and cohesiveness between the programs can lead to fragmented or episodic care for Medicare-Medicaid enrollees and misaligned incentives for both payers and providers, resulting in reduced quality and increased costs to both programs and to enrollees," CMS said in a report submitted June 18 to Congress.
Together these beneficiaries cost states and the federal government $306 billion in 2012. Duals tend to have fragmented care experiences, leading to higher use of health services.
By 2016, there were 11.7 million dually enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid, according to the agency.
Health plans praised the requests overall. "Work now to be done is in advancing integration," said Dr. Cheryl Phillips, president and CEO of the SNP Alliance, a trade organization. "Each of these represents needed incremental steps in that forward direction."
The changes would make it easier for insurance companies to coordinate care for duals, said Kristine Grow, spokeswoman for America's Health Insurance Plans. "By integrating their care and support, we are better equipped to care for the whole person, make short-term investments to improve their long-term health, and optimize every dollar spent on their care," she added.
Advocates were mixed in their opinions. They supported the goal of better integration but said the ideas must be implemented carefully. For instance, integrated marketing materials must be at a low reading level as many duals suffer cognitive impairments, said Leena Sharma, senior policy analyst at Community Catalyst's Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation.
There has been criticism that some dual enrollee mailing materials sent out in the past were too difficult to understand.
Georgia Burke, an attorney with the nonprofit Justice in Aging was concerned about limiting special enrollment opportunities for duals. The CMS already is planning to pursue a related rule and those efforts should be studied before they are codified into law Burke said.

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Q: How to access XMLList nodes in AS3 I am working with an XML list at the moment, which looks like this:
<feature type="startLocation" value="1" x="15" y="3"/>
<feature type="startLocation" value="1" x="15" y="4"/>
<feature type="startLocation" value="1" x="15" y="5"/>
<feature type="startLocation" value="1" x="15" y="6"/>
<feature type="startLocation" value="1" x="15" y="7"/>
This is the ActionScirpt code which parses this XMLList (named this.dropLocationsXML):
public function dropUnit()
{
    var numX:int;
    var numY:int;
    var feature:XMLList;
    trace(this.dropLocationsXML);
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    {
        feature = this.dropLocationsXML.child(i);
        numX = -16 + (feature.@x)*35;
        numY = 4 + (feature.@y)*35;
    }
}

Now when I try to access this XMLList using the child() function, I end up with an empty XMLList.
The same thing is true for when I try to use this.dropLocationsXML[1], and the valueOf() method.
As you can see I only need to extract the x and y attributes from each of the feature tags. The trace() statement gives the XML output shown above.
Does anyone know how to access the root nodes of the XML lists, so that I can use the x and y attributes?

A: for each (var x : XML in dropLocationsXML.feature) {
    trace("xml: "+x.@type);

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Economists idolize freedom, says Glaeser, and since he teaches at Harvard, his thinking will influence the next generation of political leaders. But, there are other ideas about freedom.
1. People can rank things they want in order.
2. Economists create an equation that describes these preferences, called a utility function.
3. People are better off when utility goes up.
He acknowledges that each of these assumptions are contested, and they are, some hotly. But he asserts that this amounts to a fundamental belief in freedom.
One of the principle challenges to this chain of propositions involves the assumption that welfare is improved when utility increases. It comes from A Theory of Justice, by John Rawls, who proposes a completely different method of gauging the value of change. Rawls' ideas are complicated, but even economists question whether mere increase in options contributes to welfare. If you aren't the principle purchaser of staples at your house, you may well find yourself flummoxed staring at the toilet paper selection at your grocery store and reach for the cell to call for help.
The notion of the utility function is attractive for a simple reason: you can do mathematics with equations. You can gather data, fit it to curves, integrate and differentiate and create models, and offer authoritative counsel based on those models. And that, indeed, is what happened. Economists created their models, gave their counsel, influenced politicians and conditioned the public to accept an entirely new regulatory regime. We know how that worked out.
There is a deeper issue here, though. What exactly is this freedom that revolves around choices of things to buy? What is it about the state that makes it the enemy of freedom?
Underlying Glaeser's argument is an unspoken assumption about human beings. They are atomistic, fully existing without regard to the other members of the society in which they find themselves. They distrust the authority of others, including the state. They rebel. They want stuff, and they want to be left alone. This set of ideas has won the day. It's hard to find a politician even among liberals, who questions them.
By valuing freedom above all else, Glaeser minimizes the value of the State. He does not consider the close relationship between individual freedom and organized authority. Without organized authority, how free can an individual be?
John Dewey offers another perspective in this highly readable paper presented to the Harvard Tercentenary. First, he explains how the dominant ideas arose. He agrees that the state was authoritarian, interested only in preserving its power and the power of the rich people who controlled it. Its authority was bolstered by an equally authoritarian Church. The people who controlled these institutions worked together to crush popular demands for change as societies evolved. The conception of the paramount individual became the opposition. That led to broad rejection of the role of the state and its authority in the affairs of regular people.
He describes the dangers of extreme individualism.
The individualistic movement has tended to identify the exercise of freedom with absence of any organized control, and in this way, it has in fact identified freedom with mere de facto possession of economic power.
To speak baldly, it is a plain falsehood that the advances which the defenders of the existing regime point to as justification for its continuance, are due to mere individualistic initiative and enterprise. The truth is that individualistic initiative and enterprise have sequestered and appropriated the fruits of collective cooperative intelligence.
Dewey's "cooperative intelligence" is the method of organized science. Dewey says that the same principles that produced an understanding of the physical universe can be applied to creating forms of government that will advance individual freedom as well. Science teaches that some theories are better than others, that the test is outcomes, not ideology, and that careful observation and applied intelligence will lead to better understanding of the material world. In the same way, Dewey says, applying that cooperative intelligence will lead to more human freedom and a better society.
It sounds like a real democracy, doesn't it? Not a democracy that idolizes wealth and grants it unbridled power, but one that values the input of all citizens in selecting goals and the means to achieve those goals.


The Wolfberry Eco-Tourism Industrial Park in Bainang County, Shigatse, southwest China's Tibet has an area over 15,000 mu (100 hectares) and a total investment of 298 million yuan (45 million US dollars). Its main purpose is wolfberry cultivation, making dried wolfberries and wolfberries tea leaves, and the research and development and deep processing of wolfberry enzymes. Right now, the picking period has already begun for a portion of the wolfberries in the park.
Because the planting season does not begin until April, only a few trees have produced fruit that can be picked right now, but they cannot enter the market until this time next year, when their quality and yield will have significantly improved.
Why choose to plant wolfberries 4,000 meters above sea level on the snowy plateau? One official person in charge said, "We have been conducting agricultural research and development in Tibetan regions, for example on pastureland grass, fruit, etc., and the results found that Tibet is particularly suited to planting wolfberries. They don't require greenhouses and can be planted directly outdoors. Because the plateau doesn't have air pollution, the quality of the wolfberries grown here can be first or second in the world. We can grow a very good quality wolfberry."
After a survey here Ffrom August 7 to 9, experts concluded that the quality of the Tibetan wolfberry is unique due to the unique geographical location and climate conditions here. A decrease in wolfberry plant diseases and insects combined with the pollution-free high plateau means the area is suitable to the development of wolfberry cultivation, and wolfberries can be chosen for high-end markets.


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			this.cluster = cluster;

			calculateEuclideanDistance();
		}

		/**
		 * @return x
		 */
		public double getX() {

			return this.x;
		}

		/**
		 * @return y
		 */
		public double getY() {

			return this.y;
		}

		/**
		 * @return identifier
		 */
		public String getIdentifier() {

			return this.identifier;
		}

		/**
		 * @return cluster
		 */
		public Cluster getCluster() {

			return this.cluster;
		}

		/**
		 * @return euclideanDistance
		 */
		public double getEuclideanDistance() {

			return this.euclideanDistance;
		}

		/**
		 * Calculate the Euclidean distance.
		 * Called when a new DataPoint instance is added to a Cluster,
		 * or when the Centroid is recalculated.
		 */
		public void calculateEuclideanDistance() {

			euclideanDistance = Math.sqrt(
				Math.pow((getX() - getCluster().getCentroid().getX()), 2.0) +
				Math.pow((getY() - getCluster().getCentroid().getY()), 2.0));
		}

		/**
		 * Test the Euclidean distance calculation method.
		 *
	   	 * @param centroid
	   	 * @return euclideanDistance
		 */
		public double testEuclideanDistance(Centroid centroid) {

			return Math.sqrt(
				Math.pow((getX() - centroid.getX()), 2.0) +
				Math.pow((getY() - centroid.getY()), 2.0));
		}
	}

	/**
	 * A Cluster (in the Cluster Analysis domain) relates to more than one DataPoint, and one Centroid.
	 *
	 * Class Cluster holds four variables:
	 * - identifier (or name),
	 * - centroid (reference),
	 * - sumOfSquares, and
	 * - dataPoints (as a collection or an array).
	 */
	private static class Cluster {

		/**
		 * Variables.
		 */
		private String identifier;
		private Centroid centroid;
		private double sumOfSquares;
		private Vector dataPoints;

		/**
		 * Default constructor.
		 *
		 * @param identifier
		 */
		public Cluster(String identifier) {

			// Pass the parameters.
			this.identifier = identifier;
			this.centroid = null; /* Will be set later via setCentroid(). */
			this.dataPoints = new Vector();
		}

		/**
		 * @param identifier
		 */
		public void setIdentifier(String identifier) {

			this.identifier = identifier;
		}

		/**
		 * @param centroid
		 */
		public void setCentroid(Centroid centroid) {

			this.centroid = centroid;
		}

		/**
		 * @return identifier
		 */
		public String getIdentifier() {

			return this.identifier;
		}

		/**
		 * @return sumOfSquares
		 */
		public double getSumOfSquares() {

			return this.sumOfSquares;
		}

		/**
		 * @return centroid
		 */
		public Centroid getCentroid() {

			return this.centroid;
		}

		/**
		 * @return dataPoints
		 */
		public Vector getDataPoints() {

			return this.dataPoints;
		}

		/**
		 * @return dataPoints (size)
		 */
	    public int getNumberOfDataPoints() {

			return getDataPoints().size();
	    }

		/**
		 * Calculate the Sum of Squares.
		 * Called from Centroid.
		 */
		public void calculateSumOfSquares() {

			// Establish the Sum of Squares.
			double _sumOfSquares = 0.0;

			// Establish the Sum of Squares.
			int size = getDataPoints().size();

			// Loop through existing DataPoint instances within this Cluster.
			for (int i = 0; i < size; ++i) {

				// Accumulate it.
				_sumOfSquares += ((DataPoint)getDataPoints().elementAt(i)).getEuclideanDistance();
			}

			// Save it.
			this.sumOfSquares = _sumOfSquares;
		}

		/**
		 * Get a reference to a DataPoint instance in the dataPoints collection (if it exists).
		 *
		 * @param index
		 */
		public DataPoint getDataPoint(int index) {

			/* Cast it first! */
			return (DataPoint)this.dataPoints.elementAt(index);
		}

		/**
		 * Add a new DataPoint instance to the dataPoints collection.
		 *
		 * @param dataPoint
		 */
		public void addDataPoint(DataPoint dataPoint) {

			/* This will trigger a call to calculateEuclideanDistance() in (DataPoint.java). */
			dataPoint.setCluster(this);

			/* Add it locally. */
			getDataPoints().addElement(dataPoint);

			/* Update sumOfSquares. */
			calculateSumOfSquares();
		}

		/**
		 * Remove a DataPoint instance from the dataPoints collection (if it exists).
		 *
		 * @param dataPoint
		 */
		public void removeDataPoint(DataPoint dataPoint) {

			/* Remove it. */
			getDataPoints().removeElement(dataPoint);

			/* Update sumOfSquares. */
			calculateSumOfSquares();
		}
	}

	/**
	 * A Centroid is calculated using an equation,
	 * which in turn divides the sample space for each dimension into equal parts.
	 * depending on the "numberOfClusters" parameter (as predetermined in ClusteringAlgorithm.java).
	 *
	 * Class Centroid holds three variables:
	 * - two Cartesian (spacial) coordinates (x, y), and
	 * - cluster (reference).
	 */
	private static class Centroid {

		/**
		 * Variables.
		 */
		private double x, y;
		private Cluster cluster;

		/**
		 * Default constructor.
		 *
		 * @param x
		 * @param y
		 */
		public Centroid(double x, double y) {

			// Pass the parameters.
			this.x = x;
			this.y = y;
			this.cluster = null; /* Set later. */
		}

		/**
		 * Calculates/recalculates the Centroid's position within a Cluster.
		 * Called from ClusteringAlgorithm.java.
		 */
		public void calculate() {

			// Get a reference to the current number of Cluster points.
			int numberOfDataPoints = getCluster().getNumberOfDataPoints();

			double _x = 0.0;
			double _y = 0.0;

			// Reset the positions array.
			for (int i = 0; i < numberOfDataPoints; ++i) {

				// Update the current x value.
				_x += getCluster().getDataPoint(i).getX();

				// Update the current x value.
				_y += getCluster().getDataPoint(i).getY();
			}

			// Update the coordinates.
			setX(_x / numberOfDataPoints);
			setY(_y / numberOfDataPoints);

			for (int i = 0; i < numberOfDataPoints; ++i) {

				// Calculate the new Euclidean Distance for each DataPoint instance in the Cluster reference.
			    getCluster().getDataPoint(i).calculateEuclideanDistance();
			}

			// Recalculate SumOfSquares for the Cluster reference.
			getCluster().calculateSumOfSquares();
		}

		/**
		 * @return cluster
		 */
		public Cluster getCluster() {

			return this.cluster;
		}

		/**
		 * @param cluster
		 */
		public void setCluster(Cluster cluster) {

			this.cluster = cluster;
		}

		/**
		 * @return x
		 */
		public double getX() {

			return this.x;
		}

		/**
		 * @return y
		 */
		public double getY() {

			return this.y;
		}

		/**
		 * @param x
		 */
		public void setX(double x) {

			this.x = x;
		}

		/**
		 * @param y
		 */
		public void setY(double y) {

			this.y = y;
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Variables.
	 */
	private Cluster[] clusters;
	private Vector dataPoints = new Vector();
	private double sumOfWCSS;

	/**
	 * Additional properties.
	 */
	private static final boolean DEBUG = true;
	private static final String INFILE = "ClusteringAlgorithm.in";
	private static final String OUTFILE = "ClusteringAlgorithm.ans";

	private static int numberOfIterations = 0;
	private static int numberOfDataPoints = 0;
	private static int numberOfClusters = 0;

	private static File inFile;
	private static File outFile;
	private static PrintWriter printWriter;
	private static Scanner scanner;

	/**
	 * Default constructor for the k-Means Clustering algorithm.
	 */
	public ClusteringAlgorithm() {

		try {

			// Print the class name.
			// System.out.println(this.getClass().getName());

			inFile = new File(INFILE);
			FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(inFile);

			scanner = new Scanner(fis);
			scanner.useLocale(Locale.US);

			// Used for keeping track of the current line number.
			int lineNumber = 1;

			/*
			 * Checksum: see whether the collection object is already loaded with data from the
			 * text file as per assignment requirements.
			 * If this is the case, then it is better that we reset the collection.
			 */
			if (!dataPoints.isEmpty()) {

				dataPoints.clear();
				dataPoints = null;
				dataPoints = new Vector();

				if (DEBUG)
					System.out.println("Collection (dataPoints) initialized with (" +
						dataPoints.size() + " records).");
			}

			/*
			 * Read the data file.
			 */
			if (fis != null) {

				if (DEBUG)
					System.out.print("Loading... ");

				try {

					while (scanner.hasNextLine()) {

						/*
						 * Line 1 defines the "size" of the dataPoint collection.
						 */
						if (lineNumber == 1) {

							// Establish numberOfDataPoints.
							numberOfDataPoints = Integer.parseInt(scanner.nextLine().trim());

							// Move on.
							++lineNumber;

						} else if (lineNumber == 2) { /* Line 2 defines numberOfClusters. */

							// Establish numberOfClusters.
							numberOfClusters = Integer.parseInt(scanner.nextLine().trim());

							// Move on.
							++lineNumber;

						} else if (lineNumber == 3) { /* Line 3 defines numberOfIterations. */

							// Establish numberOfIterations.
							numberOfIterations = Integer.parseInt(scanner.nextLine().trim());

							// Move on.
							++lineNumber;

						} else { /* Lines 4-9 define DataPoint entries. */

							StringTokenizer tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(scanner.nextLine().trim());

							double x = 0.0;
							double y = 0.0;
							String identifier = null;

							while (tokenizer.hasMoreTokens()) {

								identifier = tokenizer.nextToken().trim();
								x = Double.parseDouble(tokenizer.nextToken().trim());
								y = Double.parseDouble(tokenizer.nextToken().trim());
							}

							dataPoints.add(new DataPoint(x, y, identifier));

							// Move on.
							++lineNumber;
						}
					}
				}
				catch (NoSuchElementException e) {

					e.printStackTrace();
				}
				catch (NumberFormatException e) {

					e.printStackTrace();
				}
				finally {

					System.out.println("Complete.");

					if (DEBUG)
						System.out.println("Collection (dataPoints) size after importation " +
							dataPoints.size() + ".");

					if (fis != null)
						fis.close();
					fis = null;

					if (scanner != null)
						scanner.close();
					scanner = null;
				}
			}
		}
		catch (FileNotFoundException e) {

			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		catch (EOFException e) {

			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		catch (StreamCorruptedException e) {

			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		catch (IOException e) {

			e.printStackTrace();
		}

		// Init the clusters array based on numberOfClusters (or parameter "k").
		this.clusters = new Cluster[numberOfClusters];

		for (int i = 0; i < numberOfClusters; ++i) {

			clusters[i] = new Cluster("Cluster[" + i + "]");
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Calculate the Sum of Within-Cluster Sums of Squares.
	 */
	private void calculateSumOfWCSS() {

		// Establish a Sum of Within-Cluster Sums of Squares temp value.
		double _sumOfWCSS = 0.0;

		// Loop through existing Cluster instances.
		for (int i = 0; i < this.clusters.length; ++i) {

			// Accumulate it.
			_sumOfWCSS += this.clusters[i].getSumOfSquares();
		}

		// Save it.
		setSumOfWCSS(_sumOfWCSS);
	}

	/**
	 * @return clusters (as a Vector instance)
	 */
	public Vector[] getClusters() {

		// Establish a temporal "clusters" collection.
		Vector _clusters[] = new Vector[this.clusters.length];

		for (int i = 0; i < clusters.length; ++i) {

			// Copy each dataPoints from each Cluster instance.
			_clusters[i] = clusters[i].getDataPoints();
		}

		// Return it as an array of Vector.
		return _clusters;
	}

	/**
	 * @param sumOfWCSS
	 */
	public void setSumOfWCSS(double sumOfWCSS) {

		this.sumOfWCSS = sumOfWCSS;
	}

	/**
	 *  Sets the starting (initial) Centroid (x, y) coordinates - start of step 1.
	 */
	private void initializeCentroids() {

		/*
		 * kn = (round((max - min) / k) * n) + min; where (n) = 0 to k - 1.
		 */
		double x = 0.0, y = 0.0;

		// Loop through each Cluster index in this Clustering Algorithm instance.
		for (int idx = 1; idx <= clusters.length; ++idx) {

			// Recalculate both (x, y).
			x = (((getXMAX() - getXMIN()) / (clusters.length + 1)) * idx) + getXMIN();
			y = (((getYMAX() - getYMIN()) / (clusters.length + 1)) * idx) + getYMIN();

			// Establish a new Centroid.
			Centroid centroid = new Centroid(x, y);

			// Update the Centroid (circular reference).
			this.clusters[idx - 1].setCentroid(centroid);

			// Update its number to reflect the current Cluster number.
			centroid.setCluster(this.clusters[idx - 1]);
		}
	}

	/**
	 * @param index
	 *
	 * @return cluster
	 */
	public Cluster getCluster(int index) {

		return this.clusters[index];
	}

	/**
	 * @return dataPoints
	 */
	public Vector getDataPoints() {

		return this.dataPoints;
	}

	/**
	 * @return sumOfWCSS
	 */
	public double getSumOfWCSS() {

		return this.sumOfWCSS;
	}

	/**
	 * @return x (MAX)
	 */
	public double getXMAX() {

		double x = ((DataPoint)getDataPoints().elementAt(0)).getX();

		for (int i = 0; i < getDataPoints().size(); ++i) {

			DataPoint point = (DataPoint)getDataPoints().elementAt(i);

			x = (point.getX() > x) ? point.getX() : x;
		}

		return x;
	}

	/**
	 * @return y (MAX)
	 */
	public double getYMAX() {

		double y = ((DataPoint)getDataPoints().elementAt(0)).getY();

		for (int i = 0; i < getDataPoints().size(); ++i) {

			DataPoint point = (DataPoint)getDataPoints().elementAt(i);

			y = (point.getY() > y) ? point.getY() : y;
		}

		return y;
	}

	/**
	 * @return x (MIN)
	 */
	public double getXMIN() {

		double x = ((DataPoint)getDataPoints().elementAt(0)).getX();

		for (int i = 0; i < getDataPoints().size(); ++i) {

			DataPoint point = (DataPoint)getDataPoints().elementAt(i);

			x = (point.getX() < x) ? point.getX() : x;
		}

		return x;
	}

	/**
	 * @return y (MIN)
	 */
	public double getYMIN() {

		double y = ((DataPoint)getDataPoints().elementAt(0)).getY();

		for (int i = 0; i < getDataPoints().size(); ++i) {

			DataPoint point = (DataPoint)getDataPoints().elementAt(i);

			y = (point.getY() < y) ? point.getY() : y;
		}

		return y;
	}

	/**
	 * Invoke (or call) the k-Means Clustering algorithm.
	 */
	private void invoke() {

		// Set the starting (initial) Centroid (x, y) coordinates - start of step 1.
		initializeCentroids();

		// Establish a DataPoint index.
		int idx = 0;

		// Add a DataPoint instance to this cluster.
		loop: while (true) {

			for (int i = 0; i < clusters.length; ++i) {

				// Add a DataPoint at (idx) to this Cluster.
				clusters[i].addDataPoint((DataPoint)getDataPoints().elementAt(idx));

				// Move on.
				idx++;

				// If we have reached capacity.
				if (idx >= getDataPoints().size()) {

					break loop;
				}
			}
		}

		// Calculate (E) for all the Cluster instances.
		calculateSumOfWCSS();

		// Recalculate Cluster Centroids - start of step 2.
		for (int i = 0; i < this.clusters.length; ++i) {

			this.clusters[i].getCentroid().calculate();
		}

		// Recalculate (E) for all the clusters.
		calculateSumOfWCSS();

		// For each numberOfIterations.
		for (int i = 0; i < numberOfIterations; ++i) {

			// Enter the loop for each Cluster instance.
			for (int j = 0; j < clusters.length; ++j) {

				// Pick the first element of the first cluster.
				for (int k = 0; k < this.clusters[j].getNumberOfDataPoints(); ++k) {

					// Get the current Euclidean/Manhattan distance for Cluster[j].
					double distance = this.clusters[j].getDataPoint(k).getEuclideanDistance();

					Cluster cluster = null;
					boolean found = false;

					// Call the testEuclideanDistance() method for all Cluster instances.
					for (int l = 0; l < clusters.length; l++) {

						// Check whether the last distance is > the present distance.
						if (distance >
							this.clusters[j].getDataPoint(k).testEuclideanDistance(this.clusters[l].getCentroid())) {

							// Record the Euclidean distance.
							distance = this.clusters[j].getDataPoint(k).testEuclideanDistance(this.clusters[l].getCentroid());

							// Found!
							cluster = clusters[l];
							found = true;
						}

					} // For (l) looping through different Clusters for matching a DataPoint.

					// Add a DataPoint to the Cluster and execute calculateSumOfWCSS().
					if (found) {

						cluster.addDataPoint(this.clusters[j].getDataPoint(k));

						this.clusters[j].removeDataPoint(clusters[j].getDataPoint(k));

						for (int m = 0; m < this.clusters.length; ++m) {

							this.clusters[m].getCentroid().calculate();

						} // For (m) recalculating centroids for all clusters.

						// Recalculate (E) for all the Clusters.
						calculateSumOfWCSS();

					} // A DataPoint is found: is eligible for transfer between Clusters.

				} // For (k) looping through all DataPoint instances of the current Cluster.

			} // For (j) looping through all Clusters.

		} // For (i) numberOfIterations.
	}

	/**
	 * @param args (arguments passed via command prompt)
	 */
	public static void main(String[] args) {

		// Init the k-Means Clustering algorithm.
		ClusteringAlgorithm kMeans = new ClusteringAlgorithm();

		// Invoke k-Means.
		kMeans.invoke();

		// Establish the current Clusters (as an array of Vector).
		Vector[] clusters = kMeans.getClusters();

		// Loop through all the Cluster sets.
		for (int i = 0; i < clusters.length; ++i){

			// Establish the current Cluster instances (as a Vector of Clusters).
			Vector _clusters = clusters[i];

			// Display (print) all Cluster identifiers.
			System.out.println("---- " + kMeans.getCluster(i).getIdentifier());

			// Display (print) all Cluster DataPoints.
			Iterator iterator = _clusters.iterator();

			while (iterator.hasNext()){

				// Get the current DataPoint.
				DataPoint point = (DataPoint)iterator.next();

				// Display it.
				System.out.println(point.toString());
			}
		}
	}
}


text:
<?php

namespace AppBundle\Form\Transaction;

use Symfony\Component\Form\AbstractType;
use Symfony\Component\Form\FormBuilderInterface;
use Symfony\Component\OptionsResolver\OptionsResolver;
use Symfony\Component\Form\FormEvents;
use Symfony\Component\Form\FormEvent;
use Symfony\Component\Form\Extension\Core\Type\TextareaType;
use LibBundle\Form\Type\EntityTextType;
use AppBundle\Entity\Transaction\SaleOrder;
use AppBundle\Entity\Master\Customer;
use AppBundle\Entity\Master\VehicleModel;

class SaleOrderType extends AbstractType
{
    public function buildForm(FormBuilderInterface $builder, array $options)
    {
        $builder
            ->add('codeNumberOrdinal')
            ->add('transactionDate', 'date')
            ->add('quotationNumber')
            ->add('purchaseOrderDate', 'date')
            ->add('purchaseOrderNumber')
            ->add('deliveryDate', 'date')
            ->add('invoiceRegistrationName')
            ->add('isOffTheRoad')
            ->add('vehicleBrand')
            ->add('vehicleSerialNumber')
            ->add('vehicleColor')
            ->add('isWorkshopNeeded')
            ->add('vehicleOptionalInfo', TextareaType::class)
            ->add('vehicleAccessoriesInfo', TextareaType::class)
            ->add('vehicleOtherInfo', TextareaType::class)
            ->add('quantity')
            ->add('unitPrice')
            ->add('isCash')
            ->add('isLeasing')
            ->add('leasingTerm')
            ->add('leasingMonthlyNominal')
            ->add('downPayment')
            ->add('deliveryAddress', TextareaType::class)
            ->add('note')
            ->add('financeCompany')
            ->add('customer', EntityTextType::class, array('class' => Customer::class))
            ->add('vehicleModel', EntityTextType::class, array('class' => VehicleModel::class))
        ;
        $builder
            ->addEventListener(FormEvents::PRE_SET_DATA, function(FormEvent $event) use ($options) {
                $saleOrder = $event->getData();
                $options['service']->initialize($saleOrder, $options['init']);
            })
            ->addEventListener(FormEvents::SUBMIT, function(FormEvent $event) use ($options) {
                $saleOrder = $event->getData();
                $options['service']->finalize($saleOrder);
            })
        ;
    }

    public function configureOptions(OptionsResolver $resolver)
    {
        $resolver->setDefaults(array(
            'data_class' => SaleOrder::class,
        ));
        $resolver->setRequired(array('service', 'init'));
    }
}


Joining Cuckfield Dental Practice in 2016, Sam is now enjoying training for her Dental Nursing qualification and keen to learn new skills.
Calm and friendly towards the patients, she likes getting to know them in a caring environment, and helping to ensure they all feel at ease and have a comfortable experience.
Outside the surgery Sam enjoys spending time with her family, socialising with friends, and shopping. She also loves running, keeping fit, and travelling with her partner.


Namakkal is also known as Namagiri . It is now becoming a very important centre all over India for egg production, truck building and education,though Namakkal is synonymous with Lord Anjaneya to the people of Tamilnadu.
Sri Aanjaneya in the temple is 18 feet tall and graces with a Japamala in hand and a sword in the waist. The eyes of the idol, in constant guard and respect, are fixed – in a straight line- at the lotus feet of Sri Laksmi Narasimha at the hill temple while Hanuman's legs are firmly fixed on the earth. The super imposing figure of Anjaneya is left open; the sky is the roof. People offer 'vadai malai' and flowers to Lord Anjaneya.
The other Anjaneya is on the banks of 'Kamalalaya' the temple tank. This one is an art of exemplary beauty. Anjaneya is in Digambara temple (with sky as the roof) facing and worshipping Lord Lakshmi Narasimha and the Saleegramam.


text:
Le syndrome de Richter est la survenue d'un lymphome de haut grade au cours d'une leucémie lymphoïde chronique. Il s'observe dans 3 à 10 % des cas.
L'apparition d'un syndrome de Richter classe immédiatement la LLC en stade C de la classification de Binet.
Il a été décrit en 1928 par le pathologiste américain M.N. Richter.

Physiopathologie
La transformation d'une leucémie lymphoïde chronique en syndrome de Richter serait favorisée par l'inactivation du TP53 et de CDKN2A. La mutation du NOTCH1 pourrait également jouer un rôle.

Traitement

Plusieurs combinaisons de chimiothérapie sont proposées : oxaliplatine-fludarabine-cytarabine-rituximab, cyclophosphamide-vincristine-doxorubicine-dexaméthasone ou rituximab-cyclophosphamide-vincristine-doxorubicine-prednisolone, toutes donnant une durée de rémission courte.

La greffe de moelle doit être proposée, quand cela est possible, dès la rémission atteinte.

Notes et références

Hémopathie maligne
Syndrome en hématologie

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


text:
Two teens shot to death after altercation on city's north side
Ed Flynn
Teens shot to death Wednesday afternoon on north side
MILWAUKEE (WITI) -- Two teenagers, a 19-year-old male and a 17-year-old female, were shot to death at an apartment building near 27th and Vliet St. on Milwaukee's north side Wednesday afternoon, March 12th. A third person, a 21-year-old man, is in custody.
FOX6 News has learned there was an argument between a 39-year-old maintenance man and the three individuals. The argument escalated and eventually, one person was beating the maintenance man with a baseball bat while the other two held the man down. That's when the maintenance man pulled out a gun and shot the victims.
The maintenance man is being treated for injuries at a hospital. Police say he is cooperating with investigators.
Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn says someone captured video of the assault and shooting. It is now being reviewed as evidence in this case.
FOX6 News spoke with Joseph Hearns Jr. -- who says he is related to the 19-year-old man shot and killed.
"The young man was my nephew's son, and (the female was) his baby's mother," Hearns said.
Hearns came to the scene on Wednesday -- looking for answers.
"I heard so many sides of it so I`m not sure what to believe at this point," Hearns said.
FOX6 News spoke with a man who heard the fight from a nearby furniture store. He didn't want to talk with FOX6 on camera, but says he ran when he heard screaming. When he got to the stairwell, he says he saw the 17-year-old and the 19-year-old on the ground.
That man says he recognized the shooter as a maintenance worker he's spoken with before. He says the man was waving a gun, looking confused -- his face bloody.
"We don`t know what precipitated the assault. We don`t know every detail of it. We do know that the maintenance man did sustain injuries and we did capture the assault on him on video. The video also captured the shooting," Chief Flynn said.
Chief Flynn says the investigation continues, and says this case will be reviewed by the District Attorney's Office in the coming days.


TEHRAN, Apr. 07 (MNA) – Iranian Minister of Energy Reza Ardakanian announced on Sunday that Iraq has cleared 90 percent of its electricity dues to Iran.
TEHRAN, Apr. 07 (MNA) – Iraqi Minister of Electricity Louay Al Khateeb said that his country is optimistic about developing electricity cooperation with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
TEHRAN, Apr. 07 (MNA) – Iran's Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian, who was scheduled to attend Berlin Energy Transition Dialgoue 2019 on April 9-10, has canceled his trip to Germany, due to the current situation caused by the massive nation-wide floods, a senior official said.
TEHRAN, Apr. 03 (MNA) – Iran's Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian has announced that the country's wetlands have been revived after the recent rainfalls, while the water level in Lake Urmia, northwest of Iran, has increased by 32 centimeters.
TEHRAN, Mar. 12 (MNA) – Iran's Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian was confirmed to have held a phone conversation with Russia's Minister of Energy Alexander Novak for further coordination of the 15th Iranian-Russian Joint Commission.
TEHRAN, Mar. 06 (MNA) – Iranian minister of energy Reza Ardakanian said Tue. that the country is mulling over plans to connect its power grid to Russia through the Republic of Azerbaijan.
TEHRAN, Feb. 27 (MNA) – Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, leading a high-ranking politico-economic delegation, arrived in Tehran on Wednesday morning to hold talks with senior Iranian officials. Pashinyan was welcomed by Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian at Mehrabad International Airport.
TEHRAN, Feb. 24 (MNA) – Iranian Minister of Energy Reza Ardakanian urged ministries to establish necessary cooperation and coordination in line with increasing capacity of new energies in the country.
TEHRAN, Feb. 19 (MNA) – Iran's Minister of Energy Reza Ardakanian said that Iran's joining to Eurasian market at the current condition that the country faces tough sanctions is a giant task.
TEHRAN, Feb. 08 (MNA) – Iranian Minister of Energy Reza Ardakanian said on Fri. that Islamic Republic of Iran will build power plant in neighboring Iraq.
Energy min. Ardakanian visits Hamedan prov.
HAMEDAN, Feb. 06 (MNA) – Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian visited Hamedan province on Wed. Feb. 6 in order to study water and power situation as well as inauguration of some development projects in this province. During his visit, Ardakanian said, "this year, a number of 8,200 development projects would be implemented across the nation in various water, wastewater and electricity sectors.
TEHRAN, Feb. 02 (MNA) – Minister of Energy Reza Ardakanian said that Islamic Republic of Iran moved up 24 ranks in terms of generation of electricity in the past forty years.
TEHRAN, Jan. 02 (MNA) – Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian said on Tuesday that the electricity generation capacity in Sistan and Baluchestan province is set to reach 2,685 megawatts by March 2021.
TEHRAN, Dec. 31 (MNA) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Mon. that his government is taking measures to increase power transfer with the region and other countries.
TEHRAN, Dec. 28 (MNA) – Iraqi President Barham Salih in a meeting with Iranian minister of energy has called for expansion of bilateral cooperation, particularly in energy and water.
TEHRAN, Nov. 28 (MNA) – Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian has arrived in the Russian capital city of Moscow to visit his counterpart and other Russian officials.
TEHRAN, Nov. 11 (MNA) – Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian said that the country is determined to add 3000 MW of renewable energy by the year 2021.
TEHRAN, Nov. 02 (MNA) – The 18th Iran International Electricity Exhibition (IEE) was inaugurated in Tehran today morning in the presence of 442 domestic companies and 70 leading foreign firms.
TEHRAN, Oct. 24 (MNA) – Minister of Energy Reza Ardakanian said that Islamic Republic of Iran, Republic of Azerbaijan and Russian Federation are negotiating for synchronizing the electricity grid.
TEHRAN, Oct. 02 (MNA) – Iranian contractors in the electricity sector have a high priority for Syria, said the Syrian Electricity Minister Mohammed Zuhair Kharboutli in a meeting with Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian in Tehran on Tuesday.
TEHRAN, Oct. 02 (MNA) – Energy ministers of Iran and Syria met in Tehran on Tuesday, discussing the status of bilateral ties and signing a Memorandum of Understanding to further expand cooperation.
TEHRAN, Sep. 03 (MNA) – Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani-Fazli called for officials to follow the issue of water transfer from Sea of Oman, Southern Iran.
TEHRAN, Aug. 25 (MNA) – The second and third phases of Parand combined-cycle power plant located in the suburbs of capital Tehran were inaugurated by Iran's Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian on Saturday.
TEHRAN, Aug. 25 (MNA) – Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian said Sat. that Iran has resumed electricity supplies to neighboring countries after it overcame its domestic power shortage.
TEHRAN, Aug. 13 (MNA) – Minister of Energy Reza Ardakanian said that a trilateral talk is underway between Iran, Armenia and Azerbaijan for exporting electricity to Russia.
War over water could burn the Middle East: energy min.
TEHRAN, Jul. 28 (MNA) – The Iranian Minister of Energy Reza Ardakanian says that institutionalizing fighting over water debate in Middle East could ignite massive wars that could burn the entire region.
Iran to build 540-MW power plant in Sistan and Baluchestan prov.
TEHRAN, Jul. 20 (MNA) – Minister of Energy Reza Ardakanian said that a 540-megawatt power plant will be constructed in Sistan and Baluchestan province later o August 6.
TEHRAN, Jul. 13 (MNA) – Iranian Minister of Energy Reza Ardakanian said that huge investment will be made in the field of generating more solar power in the country.
TEHRAN, Jun. 20 (MNA) – A UN-backed high-level conference on water cooperation kicked off this morning in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, attended by a large number of countries including Iran.
TEHRAN, Jun. 19 (MNA) – Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian said Tue. that Iran expects €4 billion foreign finance from international development banks to fund the country's water and electricity projects.


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Grey's Anatomy	2005–
Category: Drama, Romantic
Stars: Ellen Pompeo, Chandra Wilson, James Pickens Jr., Justin Chambers
7.6 IMDB Rating	721,006 Views
Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper are both brilliant physicists working at Cal Tech in Pasadena, California. They are colleagues, best friends, and roommates, although in all capacities their relationship is always tested primarily by Sheldon's regimented, deeply eccentric, and non-conventional ways. They are also friends with their Cal Tech colleagues mechanical engineer Howard Wolowitz and astrophysicist Rajesh Koothrappali. The foursome spend their time working on their individual work projects, playing video games, watching science-fiction movies, or reading comic books. As they are self-professed nerds, all have little or no luck with women. When Penny, a pretty woman and an aspiring actress from Omaha, moves into the apartment across the hall from Leonard and Sheldon's, Leonard has another aspiration in life, namely to get Penny to be his girlfriend.
Criminal Minds	2005
The cases of the F.B.I. Behavioral Analysis Unit (B.A.U.), an elite group of profilers who analyze the nation's most dangerous serial killers and individual heinous crimes in an effort to anticipate their next moves before they strike again.
Category: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Stars: Matthew Gray Gubler, Kirsten Vangsness, A.J. Cook
1080p 2005–20208.4
Supernatural	2005–2020
Two brothers follow their father's footsteps as hunters, fighting evil supernatural beings of many kinds, including monsters, demons and gods that roam the earth.
Category: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Jim Beaver
1080p 1989–8.7
The Simpsons	1989–
Category: Animation, Comedy
NCIS : Naval Criminal Investigative Service
NCIS : Naval Criminal Investigative Service	2003–
The cases of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service's Washington, D.C. Major Case Response Team, led by Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs.
Category: Action, Crime, Drama
Stars: Mark Harmon, David McCallum, Sean Murray, Pauley Perrette
The Walking Dead	2010–
Sheriff Deputy Rick Grimes wakes up from a coma to learn the world is in ruins, and must lead a group of survivors to stay alive.
Category: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Stars: Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Danai Gurira, Andrew Lincoln
The Vampire Diaries	2009–2017
The lives, loves, dangers and disasters in the town, Mystic Falls, Virginia. Creatures of unspeakable horror lurk beneath this town as a teenage girl is suddenly torn between two vampire brothers.
Stars: Paul Wesley, Ian Somerhalder, Kat Graham, Candice King
Family Guy	1999–
Hawaii Five-0	2010
Steve McGarrett returns home to Oahu, in order to find his father's killer. The Governor offers him the chance to run his own task force (Five-0).
Stars: Alex O'Loughlin, Scott Caan, Daniel Dae Kim, Grace Park
NCIS: Los Angeles	2009–
The Naval Criminal Investigation Service's Office of Special Projects takes on the undercover work and the hard to crack cases in LA. Key agents are G. Callen and Sam Hanna, streets kids risen through the ranks.
Stars: Chris O'Donnell, LL Cool J, Daniela Ruah, Barrett Foa
In the mythical continent of Westeros, several powerful families fight for control of the Seven Kingdoms. As conflict erupts in the kingdoms of men, an ancient enemy rises once again to threaten them all. Meanwhile, the last heirs of a recently usurped dynasty plot to take back their homeland from across the Narrow Sea.
Ex on the Beach Sverige
Ex on the Beach Sverige	2015–
Det är dags för en historisk säsong. Följ våra stjärnors dramatiska och spännande kärleksliv i ett sommarljuvt Sverige.
Category: Reality
Stars: Johannes Ulmefors, Andrijano Mijanovic
The 100	2014–
Set ninety-seven years after a nuclear war has destroyed civilization, when a spaceship housing humanity's lone survivors sends one hundred juvenile delinquents back to Earth, in hopes of possibly re-populating the planet.
Category: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Stars: Eliza Taylor, Bob Morley, Marie Avgeropoulos, Lindsey Morgan
The Harper brothers Charlie and Alan are almost opposites but form a great team. They have little in common except their dislike for their mundane, maternally cold and domineering mother, Evelyn. Alan, a compulsively neat chiropractor and control-freak, is thrown out by his manipulative wife Judith who nevertheless gets him to pay for everything and do most jobs in the house. Charlie is a freelance jingle composer and irresistible Cassanova who lives in a luxurious beach-house and rarely gets up before noon. Charlie "temporarily" allows Alan and his son Jake, a food-obsessed, lazy kid who shuttles between his parents, to move in with them after Alan's separation/divorce. The sitcom revolves around their conflicting lifestyles, raising Jake (who has the efficient, caring dad while having a ball with his fun-loving sugar uncle who teaches him boyish things), and bantering with Evelyn and various other friends and family. Other fairly regular characters include Charlie's cleaning lady Berta and his rich, self-confessed stalker neighbor Rose who often sneaks in to spy on Charlie.
HD 2005–20138.8
The Office	2005–2013
A mediocre paper company in the hands of Scranton, PA branch manager Michael Scott. This mockumentary follows the everyday lives of the manager and the employees he "manages." The crew follows the employees around 24/7 and captures their quite humerous and bizarre encounters as they will do what it takes to keep the company thriving.
Category: Comedy
Stars: Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, Leslie David Baker
Modern Family	2009
Told from the perspective of an unseen documentary filmmaker, the series offers an honest, often-hilarious perspective of family life. Parents Phil and Claire yearn for an honest, open relationship with their three kids. But a daughter who is trying to grow up too fast, another who is too smart for her own good, and a rambunctious young son make it challenging. Claire's dad, Jay, and his Latina wife, Gloria, are raising two sons together, but people sometimes believe Jay to be Gloria's father. Jay's gay son, Mitchell, and his partner, Cameron, have adopted a little Asian girl, completing one big -- straight, gay, multicultural, traditional -- happy family.
Category: Comedy, Romantic
Stars: Ed O'Neill, Sofía Vergara, Julie Bowen
Paradise Hotel	2005–
Follows a group of single people live in a luxurious hotel resort, competing to see who can stay in the hotel the longest.
Category: Reality, Romantic
Stars: Paulina Danielsson, Natacha Peyre, Rebecca Simonsson
HD 2013-20188.3
The Originals	2013-2018
A family of power-hungry thousand year old vampires look to take back the city that they built and dominate all those who have done them wrong.
Stars: Joseph Morgan, Daniel Gillies, Claire Holt
The Flash	2014–
After being struck by lightning, Barry Allen wakes up from his coma to discover he's been given the power of super speed, becoming the Flash, fighting crime in Central City.
Category: Action, Adventure, Drama
Stars: Grant Gustin, Candice Patton, Danielle Panabaker, Carlos Valdes
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Since 2010 Little St. Simon's Island has been teaming up with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to monitor bat populations using AnaBats. As a bat is foraging, it emits a high-pitched "feeding buzz" inaudible to the human ear. An AnaBat is a device that detects and records these sounds. Each species emits calls at a unique frequency, which has allowed researchers to determine the species that are present on the island. Of the sixteen species in Georgia, Little St. Simon's Island is host to six of them.
Some of the bats on LSSI are cave roosting bats, while others are tree roosting bats. In the summer cave roosting bats can roost in houses, under dock pilings, or other similar structures. Tree roosting bats roost under loose tree bark or in hollow trees. One species, the northern yellow bat, roosts almost exclusively in Spanish moss! During the summers of 2012 and 2013, University of Georgia graduate student, Craig Bland was studying roosting and foraging habitat preference of the northern yellow bat. This bat is fairly uncommon and little is known about its natural history. Before Craig and his technicians Bronson Curry and Lauren Austin started mist netting for the study, there were only two other documentations of the northern yellow bat on LSSI.
To study habitat preference of bats, first you need to catch them. Craig, Bronson, and Lauren set up huge mist nets over ephemeral pools on the north end of the island. The bats would then fly into the nets as they were foraging for insects and drinking water from the pools. Once the team captured a northern yellow bat they applied a permanent wing band and then used surgical glue to attach a radio transmitter, which eventually fell off. The next day, the team set out using telemetry to track the bat to its day roost. After the bat left, the team took measurements of the roosting sites, in hopes of better understanding the habitat needs of northern yellow bats.
Occasionally, when the ephemeral pools on the north end of the island dried up, the team would have to get creative. One of the few consistent, alligator-free watering holes on the island was the LSSI swimming pool. The team caught hundreds of bats over the pool during the two-year study, only one of which was a northern yellow bat. The nights were far from wasted though. Each bat captured was identified by species, gender, age, forearm length, wing damage and reproductive status. Georgia DNR biologist Trina Morris still visits LSSI each summer to mist net over the pool to collect data and monitor for the elusive northern yellow bat!


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Last Thursday Comcast confirmed it would acquire DreamWorks Animation for $3.8 billion. Comcast anticipates the deal to go into effect by end of year. DreamWorks Animation will become part of Comcast's NBCUniversal portfolio and current CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg will vacate that role. Katzenberg had been eyeing an opportunity for some time (a 2014 acquisition by Hasbro fell through). Spun off from DreamWorks SKG in 2004, DreamWorks Animation suffered a shaky 2015 with several box office flops and company layoffs.


Bob Woodward visited "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" on Monday to talk about his Trump tell-all book, which comes out Wednesday but has already rocked politics and media, thanks to bombshell details that have leaked.
Some of the more startling tales in "Fear: Trump in the White House" involve the things Woodward says administration officials have tried and failed to do to protect Trump from himself. And in a preview of the lengthier conversation posted to Twitter, Colbert and Woodward talked about one such example — the profane insult attributed to Trump's ex-lawyer, John Dowd, that marks the book's final sentence.
According to Woodward, Dowd, who resigned as Trump's lawyer in March, came to that salty conclusion after a January practice interview to prepare Trump for an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller.
"That's true. And that's part of the problem," Woodward replied.
On #LSSC tonight: @StephenAtHome asks @realBobWoodward "WHAT MAKES YOU AFRAID" in terms of things he observed at The White House while researching his book #Fear.
Performing at the White House Correspondents' Dinner is no easy task. You have to be a roast master to an incredibly tough room, not all of whom can take a joke. If you do poorly, well, at least it's on C-SPAN. If you do well, it's almost as thankless a gig as hosting the Oscars, and you might still earn the ire of politicians and the media. "The Daily Show" correspondent Michelle Wolf found that out the hard way this week when she joked about White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. But if you think Wolf was tough, look back at how personalities like Stephen Colbert, Don Imus and Larry Wilmore handled the evening. Here are more outrageous moments that shocked the crowd at the annual "Nerd Prom."
Before the Correspondents' Dinner was broadcast on CSPAN, Gerald Ford brought a little bit of Hollywood into the proceedings. He opened his remarks by saying, "I'm Gerald Ford, and you're not," a nod to Chevy Chase's "Weekend Update" catch phrase on "SNL" while impersonating Ford.
For years the WHCD had been hosted by people like Jay Leno, Bob Hope and Ukraine-born comic Yakov Smirnoff. But in 1996, radio shock jock Don Imus made everyone in Washington fair game for roasting. He started by asking why a folder on his podium was just left "lying around," a swipe at Hillary Clinton and the Whitewater investigation. He even insulted Newt Gingrich's lesbian half-sister and Joe Biden's hair transplant.
Stephen Colbert was only rising as a comedian in 2006, so he got away with a massive gambit: performing in front of George W. Bush in character as his trademark Republican pundit and blowhard, "Stephen Colbert." For a while it looked like he even had the President fooled. "We're not so different," Colbert said in faux-admiration. "We're not brainiacs on the nerd patrol." It was cutting satire laced in irony that ultimately left Bush visibly upset.
In 2010, Jay Leno was looking like the bad guy in the NBC debacle that wrestled "The Tonight Show" away from Conan O'Brien. So for what would be his fourth time hosting the WHCD, Leno played it safe and recycled some gags that he had already done on air. "If you took all the money the Republicans have spent trying to stop health care, and all the money Democrats have spent trying to get health care, we could afford health care, you know that?" His material didn't go great the first time around, and he bombed even harder in front of the press crowd.
Barack Obama made the idea of Donald Trump running for president such a joke that many believe it might've been the reason he ultimately decided to throw his hat in the ring. Obama first teased that Trump, more than anyone, was happy to put the birther conspiracy to rest. "He can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter, like, did we fake the moon landing? What happened in Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac?" Obama then talked up Trump's "credentials," specifically how he chose to fire Gary Busey on "The Celebrity Apprentice." "These are the decisions that would keep me up at night."
Host Cecily Strong found out that Obama proved to be a tough act to follow. He would trot out his tightest 20 minutes each time the Correspondents' Dinner rolled around. And though Key & Peele were a formidable duo, there's nothing better than the real thing. Keegan-Michael Key played his famous character, Obama's anger translator Luther, speaking for the actual President in a brief sketch. "Hold on to your lily-white butts!"
Former "Daily Show" correspondent Larry Wilmore admitted he "lost the room early" in his WHCD set. But he sparked the most outrage when he got real with Obama. "Mr. President, if I'm going to keep it 100: 'Yo, Barry, you did it, my n--. You did it," Wilmore said to wrap up his speech.
While President Trump declined to attend the WHCD for the second year in a row, in 2018 he sent White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders in his place... and comedian/host Michelle Wolf didn't let her off easy. Wolf called Sanders a liar and she compared her to Aunt Lydia in the dystopian "The Handmaid's Tale." But her joke that created the biggest stir was this one: "I actually really like Sarah. I think she's very resourceful. She burns facts, and then she uses the ash to create a perfect smoky eye. Maybe she's born with it, maybe it's lies. It's probably lies." Many journalists in attendance criticized Wolf for attacking Sanders' appearance, but Wolf pushed back on that interpretation.


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Crank up the Hearse: Frank Cagle delivers eulogy for Common Core
By - on March 4, 2015
Common Core is on its last legs in Tennessee. Who, oh who, could have possibly seen this coming? Try here, here, (scroll to bottom), and here.
Loyal readers of RTP have long known Common Core was a bad/dumb idea, promoted by millions of dollars from Bill Gates and the Frist Family. The original diagnosis of its impeding demise came almost exactly one year ago, when conservative House Republicans staged a revolt over Common Core on the floor of the House, much to the surprise and embarrassment of Leadership and the Guv. Four days later, Rocky Top Politics was born and the LP hasn't been the same since.
But it takes time and a lot of wasted tax dollars to bring the ship about. Jamie Woodson has been knocking down $325,000+ in salary at S.C.O.R.E. and has hired an entire staff of overpaid, underqualified sycophants who gather each day to chant the Common Core mantra in the hopes it will improve its chances of success. Meanwhile, conservative Republicans in the General Assembly have been systematically taking Common Core apart piece-by-piece and now stand on the verge of replacing it entirely with standards and curriculum designed and approved by Tennesseans – which is what should have happened in the first place.
But now no less personage than Cagle the Curmudgeon Columnist has stood to offer a benediction so that everyone can get to the church hall for casseroles and post-mortems.
It's a pity the proponents of Common Core decided to drink the Kool-Aid, lock arms and march in lockstep. It produced the attitude that the education standards were perfect and anyone who suggested improvements or changes was anti-education or some sort of Neanderthal.
They lost some of their natural allies, like some teachers and superintendents, who had concerns that were ignored. The Common Core group — the business community, Gov. Bill Haslam and groups like SCORE — mishandled it badly. I have never seen so much talent and money squandered for so little result. It was a monumental failure and I don't believe they understand to this day how badly they blew it.
You spend $200,000 on a lobbyist and then get ambushed on the House floor, losing with 80-some-odd votes against you, and you didn't see it coming? It was the most dramatic example of the ineptness of the effort.
Yep. Just like RTP has been telling folks for a year now. But we're always glad to get some affirmation, even from Frank.
Now let's bury that sucker.


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Home > News > Newsmakers > Texas ERS, PAAMCO to Seed Emerging Hedge Funds
Newsmakers June 27, 2018
Texas ERS, PAAMCO to Seed Emerging Hedge Funds
The joint venture, called PAAMCO Launchpad, aims to pump in $3 billion.
The Employee Retirement System of Texas and the Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company (PAAMCO) have teamed to build a co-investment platform that will seed emerging hedge funds.
The partnership, dubbed PAAMCO Launchpad, will boost the growth of emerging managers. PAAMCO, a $30 billion fund of funds, and the $28 billion Texas state pension program are looking for managers with the most promise in the EM arena. The venture is looking to pump in $3 billion to help these fledgling hedge funds.
The joint venture also allows the Texas pension system to expand its $1 billion emerging manager program, which aims to boost its EM investments to roughly 10% of its outsourced portfolio.
Hedge fund veteran Andrew Gitlin will head the joint endeavor, with Jeff Willardson, PAAMCO's head of portfolio solutions, running the due diligence procedure. Gitlin's 30 years of hedge fund experience includes pioneering a seeding platform in 1992 with DKR Capital, a firm he founded in his early days after leaving Chase Manhattan Bank.
He said that the Texas-PAAMCO undertaking "offers an intriguing value proposition that can unlock the potentially superior performance and private equity-like benefits embedded in early-stage hedge fund investing." Gitlin told CIO that by its fifth year, the plan will consider "recycling assets into new managers" and hopes to see the seeded managers "running robust healthy firms that can stand on their own."
The program is also not looking to assist emerging hedge funds in any specific sector, instead focusing on performance opportunity.
One of Texas's portfolio managers, Panayiotis Lambropoulos, will lead the PAAMCO Launchpad efforts for his fund. He said that the model "has the potential to be an industry standard" for discovering and investing in emerging hedge fund managers.
The Employee Retirement System of Texas could not be reached for comment.
Tags: Emerging Markets, Hedge Funds, PAAMCO, PAAMCO Launchpad, Texas ERS
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Top quotes by Bill de Blasio
I think Bloomberg's broad vision of the environment in New York City is something I agree with. I broadly stand with his vision for how to deal with climate change and prepare for future weather events. Votes: 23
While this has been a private part of my family's life, it is now clear a media story will soon emerge. My father tragically ended his life while battling terminal cancer in 1979. Votes: 20
Everyone I knew was a Red Sox fan. Living up there in 1967 - the Impossible Dream season - that moment was incredibly compelling. I just naturally gravitated to the team. Nineteen seventy-five was arguably the greatest World Series of all time. Votes: 19
I have a bold plan to break from the Bloomberg years, and end the 'Tale of Two Cities' by providing real opportunity to all New Yorkers, no matter where they live. Votes: 18
There are families of every kind. I think a lot of people are struggling to make sense of their identity in a very complicated world. Votes: 13
I think small business is struggling in New York City. It's a fantastic market, it's a very appealing market, there's lots of opportunity, at the same time it's a very difficult place to build a small business. Votes: 12
Clearly, Mayor Bloomberg did some things right. I think he did a very good job on public health. He did a very good job on environment. I think he was right to achieve mayoral control of education. I don't think he then applied it the right way. Votes: 10
I've always had a very positive relationship with the municipal labor unions - a respectful relationship. Votes: 10
If we can have a fast food restaurant on almost every corner, then we can certainly have a garden. Votes: 10
My wife and family, to say the least, are the center of my life; they are my grounding. I don't want to sound schmaltzy, but they are my inspiration and you name it. Votes: 9
I didn't set out with the notion of running for elective office; it sort of grew over time. And I honestly at times questioned if progressive change can be effected through elected office. Votes: 8
A holistic solution to income inequality is going to take a lot of work, but every time you prove that one of the strands is achievable and that it has a positive impact on people's lives you take another step towards proving the bigger theory of the case. Votes: 8
I think unionization is good public policy. I think when families secure their economic future, that's good for everyone. Votes: 7
I love the MLB app, because I'm a pretty obsessed baseball fan. Votes: 7
I have my loyalty to the team of my youth. Everyone I knew was a Red Sox fan. The team that I grew up with was constantly the underdog but managed to prevail. Votes: 7
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Q: How do emitted photons in a moving light clock keep moving sideways with the clock when photons have no mass and therefore no inertia? I have yet to read or hear a plausible explanation for how vertically emitted light waves/photons, coherent ones like from a laser, are able to keep moving horizontally with a moving light clock so that they trace out a zig-zag path when light has no mass and therefore no inertia, which is what keeps a dropped ball on a train moving horizontally with the train. Why would the light pulse keep moving sideways during the time it's in the middle area of the light clock apparatus as if it were a physical object subject to inertia? The light waves obviously wouldn't be propagating on a slant, because they weren't emitted on a slant, so the photons would have to be pushed/pulled along perpendicular to their direction of propagation. What force or property would be moving a photon sideways as it propagates vertically? Isn't it true that it's an impossibility of physics for vertically emitted massless photons to behave exactly like a physical object dropped inside a moving train?

A: The light moves on a slant because it is emitted on a slant.
The wave propagates perpendicular to its lines of constant phase, which in a stationary laser are parallel to the aperture, say:
$$ \phi(x, z, t) = k_zz-\omega t$$
Note that:
$$ \frac{\partial \phi}{\partial x} = 0 $$
Lines of constant phase are all parallel to $\hat{x}$.
Now boost in the $+x$ direction
$$ \phi(x', z', t') = k'_zz'+k'_xx' -\omega't' = kz-\omega'[\gamma(t-vx/c^2)] =  \phi(x, z, t) $$
..and so on. Basically phase is a Lorentz scalar:
$$ \phi = k^{\mu}x_{\mu} = \frac{\omega}c ct - \vec k \cdot \vec r $$
so the boost introduces a phase ramp in the $x'$-direction.
Well all know from antenna theory that phase ramps slant the beam.

A: Just follow your own logic in another direction and you will see that your conclusion is nonsense. Imagine the light clock is stationary, so that according to your intuition the laser is 'pointing straight up and down'. Now imagine that you coast past that stationary clock in a spaceship. Because you are moving, the straight-up-and-down path in the frame of the clock is an angled one in yours. That has nothing to do with inertia, or physical forces. Indeed, go further and forget about the light. Just 'imagine' a trajectory that is straight-up-and-down in the frame of the clock and you will find that it is an angled trajectory in your frame. If you struggle to follow what I say, let me know and I will extend my answer to spell it out with an example.

A: A laser pointer is shaped as a small cylinder, and the light is generated inside this cylinder. Suppose someone in the train points the cylinder straight up.
Now suppose someone else is standing on the ground outside as the train goes by.
And suppose the train passes from left to right.
The onlooker finds that a light wave starting at the bottom of the laser pointer moves up and also moves to the right, which it has to do in order to stay inside the cylinder which is moving to the right. Eventually this light wave gets to the top of the laser pointer. It then carries on going in the direction it was moving in already, namely up and to the right.
You get the same effect if the cylinder was shooting tennis balls upwards, or anything else.

A: Once emitted, light travels in a straight line. In the moving light clock thought experiment, the light is emitted (from the point of view of an observer who sees the clock under motion) in a diagonal direction (so yes, the light is emitted in a slant). It remains in this direction until it hits one of the mirrors. After reflection, the light ray again travels in a straight line.
To see that it is emitted in a slant, consider the reference frame of the moving light clock. In this frame, the light is emitted in the vertical direction and thus has velocity $(0, v)$. If the clock is moving to the right with velocity $u$ relative to you, then the velocity of the light particle in your reference frame is, disregarding relativistic corrections, given by $(u, v)$. So the light ray moves diagonally at all times in your reference frame. This is also exactly the same reason why massive objects travel in a slant (as seen from the platform) when dropped from a moving train. There is no force dragging or pulling the particle in the horizontal direction. In  the reference frame of the platform, it was already emitted with some velocity component in the horizontal direction.
You ask a very interesting question of why light travels in a straight line if it is massless and thus should carry no momentum. The answer is that light actually carries momentum, even if it is massless. The definition of momentum given in Newtonian mechanics, $\mathbf{p} = m \mathbf{v}$, is not fundamental: it is the low-velocity limit of the relativistic definition of momentum. You might have seen that Einstein's formula is $E = mc^2$. This is only valid for static bodies. For particles under movement, the formula is
\begin{equation}
 E^2 = m^2 c^4 + |\mathbf{p}|^2 c^2
\end{equation}
Light travels at the speed of light and thus Newtonian approximations do not apply: the momentum of a photon is not given by $m \mathbf{v}$. Instead, by plugging in $m = 0$ in the last equation, we correctly obtain that the photon has linear momentum of magnitude $E/c$. The fact that photons travel in straight lines can then be understood as a conservation of momentum, as happens for massive bodies.

A: You are standing on a railroad track.  A train is moving (relative to you) along the track.  Bob, Carol, Ted and Alice are all moving parallel to the train, all at different speeds (and at speeds other than the train's speed).
Now consider your frame, the train's frame, Bob's frame, Carol's frame, Ted's frame, and Alice's frame.  If the light travels vertically in any one of those frames, it travels diagonally in all the others.
You claim that it should travel vertically in your frame.  What makes you so special, compared to Bob, Carol, Ted or Alice?