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Andrew Selous: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what account his Department took of the requirements of section 17 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 when deciding to post giro cheques for local housing allowance to tenants at multi-occupancy addresses; how many such giro cheques have been stolen; and if he will make a statement. [261693]
Jonathan Shaw [h olding answer 9 March 2009]: Section 17 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 places a duty on authorities, including local authorities, to consider the likely crime and disorder implications of the functions that they carry out.
Local housing allowance is normally paid direct into bank accounts so the instances of issuing local housing allowance cheques should be minimal. Not being able to open a suitable bank account was accepted under the safeguards as grounds for reverting to payment of local housing allowance to the landlord, particularly in the case of people living in housing in multiple occupation.
We do not collect any statistical information from local authorities specifically on instrument of payment fraud. However, the potential for fraud is expected to be very small given the drive for direct payment into bank accounts and the provisions of the safeguards which allow for reverting to payment of local housing allowance to the landlord in certain circumstances. We are closely monitoring how the scheme is working in practice and will undertake a review during the first two years of national operation.
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Jim Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when he plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne Central of 5 November 2008, regarding Brian Hold. [264253]
Jonathan Shaw: A reply was sent to the hon. Member on 27 November 2008.
Pensioners: Carer's Allowance
Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 23 February 2009, Official Report, column 43W, on carer's allowance, if he will estimate the cost of extending payment to all those of pension age assessed as eligible; and if he will make a statement. [260422]
Jonathan Shaw: The increase in annual carer's allowance expenditure as a result of the extension described would be around £950 million.
It should be noted that unless major changes to rules on how carer's allowance is treated within pension credit were to be introduced, the overall Exchequer cost of such a measure would be smaller due to the offsetting reduction in pension credit expenditure.
1. £950 million figure is the annual cost using 2008-09 benefit rates and August 2008 Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study data to produce a caseload estimate.
2. The figure is rounded to the nearest £50 million.
Pensioners: Invalidity Benefits
Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many of those receiving a state pension were sent an incorrect notification of their state pension entitlement for 2008-09 owing to an error in the calculation of invalidity addition. [260129]
Ms Rosie Winterton [holding answer 2 March 2009]: There was no error relating to the calculation of invalidity additions for entitlement to state pension for the year 2008-09. An error has occurred with regard to notifications of state pension entitlement for 2009-10. It is estimated that around 45,000 state pension customers may have received an incorrect notification. This is 0.29 per cent. of the total number of notifications.
1. This estimate includes customers living in Northern Ireland
2. The total number of notifications issued this year was 15.3 million.
Pensioners: Social Security Benefits
Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will estimate the annual cost to the Exchequer of (a) imputing one pound per week of income from each £1,000 of capital for pensioner applicants for means-tested benefits and (b) abolishing the imputation of income from capital for such applicants; and if he will make a statement. [250399]
Ms Rosie Winterton [holding answer 22 January 2009]: In pension credit the first £6,000 of capital is fully disregarded (£10,000 for those in care homes). For each
£500 (or part of £500) above this level we assume notional income at a rate of £1. There is no upper capital limit in pension credit.
Receipt of the guarantee credit passports recipients onto full housing benefit and council tax benefit.
In housing benefit and council tax benefit there is a capital limit of £16,000, which means that people with capital above this level will not normally qualify for benefit. Capital of £6,000 or less is ignored (£10,000 for those in care homes). For those customers who have reached the age to qualify for pension credit notional income is assumed on capital between £6,000 and £16,000 at a rate of £1 per week for each £500 or part of £500.
The tariff income formula is not intended to represent any rate of return that could be obtained from investing capital. It provides a simple method of calculating the weekly contribution that people with capital in excess of £6,000 (£10,000 for those in care homes) are expected to make from their resources to help meet their normal living costs.
As there is no link with actual market rates, tariff income rules are not adjusted when interest rates change. If you were to calculate an implicit rate for pensioners, based on capital of £6,500 it would be 0.8 per cent.
In answer to part (a) of the question, abolishing the current capital disregard and assuming notional income at a rate of £1 for each £1,000 of capital or part of £1,000 for pension credit, housing benefit and council tax benefit would save the Exchequer approximately £70 million per year (2008-09 prices). However, pensioners with savings of less than £6,000 would be worse off. Removing the current disregards would mean that all those pensioners with modest savings, who currently have no income assumed from capital, would see their benefit reduced. Retaining the current disregards and calculating national income based on bands of £1,000 above the level of the disregard would cost the Exchequer approximately £170 million per year (2008-09).
In answer to part (b) abolishing the tariff income rules, but retaining the upper capital limits in housing benefit and council tax benefit, would cost approximately £550 million per year (2008-09 prices).
These estimates have been calculated using the Policy Simulation Model (PSM) which uses data from the Family Resources Survey (FRS). Estimates are subject to sampling and modelling uncertainty.
Redundancy: Cumbria
Mr. Jamie Reed: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people have been made redundant in (a) Cumbria and (b) Copeland constituency in the last six months. [263801]
Kevin Brennan: I have been asked to reply.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated March 2009:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking how many people have been made redundant in (a) Cumbria and (b) Copeland constituency in the last six months. (263801)
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) compiles labour market statistics for local areas from the annual Labour Force Survey (LFS) and the Annual Population Survey (APS), following International Labour Organisation (ILO) definitions. However, these sources are not designed to estimate the number of redundancies over a six month period at the geographic levels requested.
Winter Fuel Payments
Mrs. May: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether his Department is conducting a review into how cold weather payments are calculated. [252974]
Kitty Ussher: The cold weather payment scheme is reviewed every year in the summer. The Met Office will consider all representations from Members of Parliament relating to the suitability of postcode to weather station links. Any changes are then made for the following winter. In addition to this, there has also been an internal review of these processes conducted by the Permanent Secretary of DWP.
Winter Fuel Payments: Lancashire
Rosie Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) how much he expects to pay to pensioner households in West Lancashire constituency in winter fuel payments in 2008-09; [261963]
(2) what estimate he has made of the number of households in West Lancashire constituency which will receive the (a) £250 and (b) £400 winter fuel payment in 2008-09. [261964]
Ms Rosie Winterton: In winter 2006-07, the latest winter for which we have information, my Department made 11,720 winter fuel payments to households in the constituency of West Lancashire with a member aged 60-79; and 2,890 winter fuel payments to households in the constituency of West Lancashire with a member aged 80 or over. I expect similar numbers of winter fuel payments to be paid in 2008-09.
Expenditure on winter fuel payments in the parliamentary constituency of West Lancashire in 2006-07 was £3.4 million. Actual expenditure data are not yet available for 2008-09 and forecasts of benefit expenditure are not produced below national level.
1. Figures rounded to the nearest 10.
2. Parliamentary constituencies and local authorities are assigned by matching postcodes against the relevant ONS postcode directory.
3. A small number of these households receive amounts higher than the usual rate for the household, where the household includes more than two individuals each entitled to payments at half of the usual household rate.
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Children, Schools and Families
Building Schools for the Future
Annette Brooke: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families when he plans to announce decisions on bids for funding under the Buildings Schools for the Future programme made by
local authorities in response to his Department's request for bids relating to proposed capital projects which could be brought forward to 2009-10. [263377]
Jim Knight [holding answer 13 March 2009]: We have not invited local authorities to bid to bring forward Building Schools for the Future (BSF) funding, because the strategic planning that underpins BSF means it is not a suitable programme to act as a fiscal stimulus. BSF typically involves the building of entire new schools; so design and planning need care and time. Accelerating the construction would curtail this planning and would thereby jeopardise the quality and transformational nature of the programme. We are however working with partnerships for schools to simplify procedures and accelerate delivery, and the procurement process has already been accelerated and costs reduced.
On 3 March, we announced allocations to authorities and schools of schools capital from other programmes brought forward from 2010-11 into 2009-10, to act as a fiscal stimulus and to bring investment benefits early to pupils and staff. Dorset was allocated advances totalling £12.0 million, of which £9.0 million is for the local authority, and £3.0 million for schools as an advance of devolved formula capital to be used by schools for their local priorities.
Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families which local education authorities (a) have commenced projects under the Building Schools for the Future programme, (b) have been given approval for schemes but have yet to start and (c) have not been given approval for schemes. [263657]
Jim Knight: The formal start of projects in BSF is the meeting between the local authority, DCSF and Partnerships for Schools (PfS) known as the remit meeting.
Please see following list:
Local authorities which have commenced BSF projects
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Lutheran World Relief receives $250,000 grant to fund COVID-19 programs for Venezuelan refugees in Peru
BALTIMORE, Sept. 25, 2020 — The Center for Disaster Philanthropy has awarded a $250,000 grant to Lutheran World Relief to fund its ongoing COVID-19 programming serving Venezuelan refugees and migrants in Peru.
The grant, which comes from the CDP's COVID-19 Response Fund, will support Lutheran World Relief's initiative with local organizations in Peru to improve access to psychosocial and livelihoods recovery services and to provide crucial COVID-19 information for Venezuelan refugees and migrants living there.
The approximately 860,000 Venezuelans living in Peru, about 90 percent in Lima, are a particularly vulnerable population due to their precarious legal status, lack of social networks and limited access to services. Throughout the pandemic, Lutheran World Relief and its partners have been sending public health messages and other essential information to Venezuelan refugees through the VenInformado digital platform, accessible through Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. To build resilience and mitigate the economic insecurity of refugees and migrants during and after the pandemic, the project will expand the VenInformado platform to provide virtual resources for guidance on income generating activities through links to online resources, including job referral services and vocational training tutorials.
Lutheran World Relief will lead the expansion of VenInformado's reach, technical capabilities and available services for the refugee and migrant population, and work with local partner, Encuentros, to select a group of up to 205 migrants and refugees who are most at risk and eligible for enrollment in an online, in-depth course on entrepreneurship and vocational training. This course will include seed money and mentoring to help Venezuelans learn new skills and start small businesses that will generate sustainable incomes.
Another local partner in Peru, the Center for Psychosocial Care (CAPS), has partnered with Lutheran World Relief to manage the mental health and psychosocial services activities, offering input on how to expand the VenInformado platform to include key resources on how to cope with emotional trauma, and provide links to information on where to find services. The initiative will also provide counseling services for some of the most vulnerable as they deal with the emotional impacts of the pandemic.
About the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP)
The Center for Disaster Philanthropy's mission is to leverage the power of philanthropy to mobilize a full range of resources that strengthen the ability of communities to withstand disasters and recover equitably when they occur. CDP manages domestic and international Disaster Funds on behalf of corporations, foundations and individuals through targeted, holistic and localized grantmaking. For more information, visit: http://disasterphilanthropy.org.
About Lutheran World Relief
Founded in 1945, Lutheran World Relief collaborates with local partners to grow inclusive and climate resilient rural economies, reduce poverty, and respond to emergencies and humanitarian crises. Lutheran World Relief works in concert with Corus International, an ensemble of faith-based organizations working together in the world's most fragile settings to deliver the holistic, lasting solutions needed to overcome the interconnected challenges of poverty, health care access and climate change.
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Chance favours the prepared mind: CS student Richard Xie brings AI to real estate
During his inaugural lecture at the University of Lille in 1854, the French microbiologist and chemist Louis Pasteur said, "In the fields of observation chance favours only the prepared mind."
Pasteur's reflection is as true today as it was more than a century and a half ago. Those who observe the world keenly with minds that have been primed by experience and education will see novel ideas to pursue, original opportunities to explore.
One such individual is Richard Xie, an enterprising undergraduate student at the Cheriton School of Computer Science, who has brought artificial intelligence to real estate with his team at their company Manorlead and is working towards a metaverse for real estate.
The Manorlead story, however, began when Richard was in elementary school.
"My dad got into real estate around the time I was ten years old," he recalls. "As a kid I would help him set up the open house signs when he had properties to show and I collected them afterwards. Later, when I was 13, I was helping him with real estate contracts. A contract has a lot of legal terms and I didn't understand them at the time, but the more involved I became the more I learned and the more I understood how real estate works. But I also saw how real estate sometimes doesn't work' the rigidness and inefficiencies in the industry."
Even though Richard obtained his real estate licence at age 18, the inspiration to launch Manorlead, a novel way to buy a property, didn't fall into place until he had a few co-op placements — work opportunities that gave him not only real-world experiences but perhaps even more importantly the confidence to launch a business.
"During my second co-op placement I worked as an AI software developer at the National Bank of Canada," he said. "I worked with other interns and an AI lead at National Bank to build an app that provided financial advice using AI. It was then that it hit me — building an AI tool being used at a bank didn't require a large team of senior software engineers. It was created by a small, but enthusiastic team."
Richard also saw how Airbnb was changing hospitality, and how Uber was disrupting the taxi industry. He wondered if similar technology could be brought to real estate. "Buying and selling properties is something we can change for the better," he said. "All these things came together and gave me the inspiration to launch Manorlead."
Manorlead — a team of software engineers, real estate agents, and mortgage specialists — has been in operation for more than a year now, and its AI technology has helped people buy and sell more than $100 million of real estate.
"We've built the Manor AI platform and a mobile app for both iOS and Android devices," Richard explains. "Once you've downloaded the app you can begin to search for new developments and residential listings, though we've focused mostly on new developments — preconstruction or unbuilt properties such as condos that are typically sold to buyers before or during their construction."
The Manorlead app includes various features that serve as an asset management platform for real estate. It has an integrated mortgage and payment calculator that helps buyers determine how much money they need to save for a down payment and what their monthly mortgage payment will be. "The app also has a school area boundary feature that lets people see if a property they're considering falls within a school's catchment area," Richard said. "No other platform does this."
In the coming weeks, Manorlead will have a new feature that lets buyers track the value of their preconstruction property. "If you're buying a unit in a preconstruction development, you're buying at a projected price, what the unit will cost in, say, 2025," Richard said. "The way many people decide if a condo is worth buying is seeing if the unit's value will exceed the 2025 price, which the website's value-tracking function will allow them to do. Ultimately, it will be built up like Wealthsimple or Robinhood, apps that let you buy stocks and to track your portfolio from your smartphone. We want to provide that same experience for real estate — to easily buy property using your phone and to check how much your real estate portfolio is worth."
The app also has an upcoming recommender system, which will use AI to predict preferences. "Based on a user's search behaviour, the recommender system will suggest new developments and floor plans based on preferences and financial needs."
But Richard's grand goal for his company, admittedly a few years away, is to create what he calls the Manor Metaverse, a full AI-driven experience coupled with 3D virtual reality to imagine, interact with, and buy real estate.
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"Let's say you're interested in buying a unit in a condo in downtown Toronto that hasn't been built yet. You put on VR goggles and say, 'I'd like to check some new units in the downtown area.' You then see a virtual Manorlead advisor appear who takes you along with your family through property options. And you have a slider that lets you picture what the development will look like in five years. And not just the one you're considering. Others that will be built, too."
"That's the customer-focused experience we would like to move towards. This is Manorlead's vision and it's attainable. We're at the stage where we're seeking funding, so we think we can fully realize this experience soon."
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Examining the effects of a Daily Writing Intervention on Perceived Social Support and Depressive Symptoms
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Clinical depression is an illness that affects millions of people worldwide (Kessler et al., 2003; Weissman et al., 1996). It accounts for a large portion of health burden worldwide and greatly impacts the lives of many individuals, both directly and indirectly. Due to its widespread prevalence and large, negative impact, there has been much research examining its causes, as well as viable treatment options. It has been demonstrated that one important factor related to depressive symptomatology is low perceptions of social support (e.g., Grav, Hellèzen, Romild, & Stordal, 2011; Lakey, Drew, & Sirl, 1999). According to Coyne's (1967a) interpersonal theory of depression, individuals with depression tend to view themselves as having little social support, which results in excessive reassurance seeking behaviours. This means that they excessively seek reassurance from others about whether they care for them or not. At the same time, individuals with depressive symptoms tend to view the reassurance that they receive as insincere. The theory also proposes that individuals with depression are then likely to be rejected by important others, which may lead to actual decreases in available social support. Although there has been an abundant amount of research on treatment options for depression, national and international surveys have shown that only a small proportion of individuals with depressive symptoms actually seek or receive treatment for their symptoms (e.g., Layous, Chancellor, Lyubomirsky, Wang, & Doriaswamy, 2011). Furthermore, most treatments are aimed at addressing depressive symptoms rather than specific vulnerability factors, such as perceived social support. Such interventions might be helpful in the absence of clinical levels of depressive symptoms. Thus, the studies in this dissertation aimed to examine an alternative or supplementary intervention. Specifically, the intervention was designed to increase perceptions of social support by having individuals write about instances of received social support on a daily basis for four days. This intervention was delivered in an online format, which allows for easy access for individuals interested in using this intervention in the future. This dissertation project includes one quantitative and one qualitative study to examine the intervention in two samples of undergraduate students. The purpose of these two studies was to help to establish a base line of evidence to help determine if the writing intervention is a viable option for the relief of depressive symptoms, and to conduct an initial examination of the possible process of effectiveness of this intervention.
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Kowalski, Kent; Lawson, Karen; Kalynchuk, Lisa; Prime, Steven
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Brachial plexus injury in newborns
Klumpke paralysis; Erb-Duchenne paralysis; Erb's palsy; Brachial palsy; Obstetrical brachial plexus palsy; Birth-related brachial plexus palsy; Neonatal brachial plexus palsy; NBPP
The brachial plexus is a group of nerves around shoulder. A loss of movement or weakness of the arm may occur if these nerves are damaged. This injury is called neonatal brachial plexus palsy (NBPP)
The nerves of the brachial plexus can be affected during a difficult delivery. Injury may be caused by:
The infant's head and neck pulling toward the side as the shoulders pass through the birth canal
Stretching of the infant's shoulders during a head-first delivery
Pressure on the baby's raised arms during a breech (feet-first) delivery
There are different forms of NBPP. The type depends on the amount of arm paralysis:
Brachial plexus palsy most often affects only the upper arm. It is also called Duchenne-Erb or Erb-Duchenne paralysis.
Klumpke paralysis affects the lower arm and hand and is much less common.
The following factors increase the risk of NBPP:
Breech delivery
Larger-than-average newborn (such as an infant of a diabetic mother )
Infant of a diabetic mother
A fetus (baby) of a mother with diabetes may be exposed to high blood sugar (glucose) levels throughout the pregnancy.
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Difficulty delivering the baby's shoulder after the head has already come out (called shoulder dystocia)
NBPP is less common now that delivery techniques have improved. Cesarean delivery is used more often when there are concerns about a difficult delivery. Although a C-section reduces the risk of injury, it does not prevent it. A C-section procedure also carries other risks.
NBPP may be confused with a condition called pseudoparalysis . This is when the infant has a fracture and is not moving the arm because of pain, but there is no nerve damage.
Pseudoparalysis
A fractured clavicle in the newborn is a broken collar bone in a baby that was just delivered.
Symptoms can be seen right away or soon after birth. They may include:
No movement in the newborn's upper or lower arm or hand
Absent Moro reflex on the affected side
Moro reflex
A reflex is a type of involuntary (without trying) response to stimulation. The Moro reflex is one of many reflexes that are seen at birth. It norm...
Arm flexed (bent) at elbow and held against body
Decreased grip on the affected side
A physical exam most often shows that the infant is not moving the upper or lower arm or hand. The affected arm may flop when the infant is rolled from side to side.
The Moro reflex is absent on the side with the brachial plexus palsy.
The health care provider will examine the collarbone to look for a fracture. The infant may need to have an x-ray taken of the collarbone.
Gentle massage of the arm and range-of-motion exercises are recommended for mild cases. The infant may need to be seen by specialists if the damage is severe or the condition does not improve in the first few weeks.
Surgery may be considered if some strength has not returned to the affected muscles by the time the baby is 3 to 9 months old.
Outlook (Prognosis)
Most babies will fully recover within 3 to 9 months. Those who do not recover during this time have a poor outlook. In these cases, there may be a separation of the nerve root from the spinal cord (avulsion).
It is not clear whether surgery to fix the nerve problem can help. Nerve grafts and nerve transfers are sometimes tried in specialized centers with expertise in managing NBPP.
In cases of pseudoparalysis, the child will begin to use the affected arm as the fracture heals. Fractures in infants heal quickly and easily in most cases.
Complications include:
Abnormal muscle contractions (contractures) or tightening of the muscles. These may be permanent.
Permanent, partial, or total loss of function of the affected nerves, causing paralysis of the arm or arm weakness
When to Contact a Medical Professional
Call your provider if your newborn shows a lack of movement of either arm.
Taking measures to avoid a difficult delivery, whenever possible, reduces the risk of brachial plexus palsy in newborn babies.
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Executive summary: Neonatal brachial plexus palsy. Report of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' Task Force on Neonatal Brachial Plexus Palsy. Obstet Gynecol . 2014 Apr;123(4):902-904. PMID: 24785634 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24785634 .
Liu RW, Thompson GH. Musculoskeletal disorders in neonates. In: Martin RJ, Fanaroff AA, Walsh MC, eds. Fanaroff and Martin's Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine . 10th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Mosby; 2015:chap 105.
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Воли́нське воєво́дство () — адміністративна одиниця в історії Литви та Польщі.
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 Волинське воєводство (1921—1939) — адміністративна одиниця Польської республіки.

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The International Falls–Fort Frances Border Crossing connects the cities of International Falls, Minnesota and Fort Frances, Ontario, at the Fort Frances–International Falls International Bridge.

The US port of entry was established in 1895, when the city of International Falls and its post office were established.  However, significant cross-border traffic didn't occur until after the dam across the Rainy River was completed in 1905.  In 1912, the Fort Frances–International Falls International Bridge was completed.  It was built by the Minnesota and Ontario Paper Company, and featured a railroad track and two vehicular lanes.  Cars and trucks must cross the tracks at grade on both ends of the bridge.

See also
 List of Canada–United States border crossings

References

Canada–United States border crossings
1895 establishments in Minnesota
1895 establishments in Ontario
International Falls, Minnesota
Fort Frances
Buildings and structures in Koochiching County, Minnesota


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Obviously, I've let the side down by being too reserved and considered.
I promise to provide more opportunities in the future.
Yeah I didn't draw that.
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I was thinking similar thoughts.
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Robert Parry – How War Propaganda Keeps on Killing
A key reason why American foreign debacles have been particularly destructive mostly to the countries attacked but also to the United States is that these interventions are always accompanied by major U.S. government investments in propaganda. So, even when officials recognize a misjudgment has been made, the propaganda machinery continues to grind on to prevent a timely reversal.
In effect, Official Washington gets trapped by its own propaganda, which restricts the government's ability to change direction even when the need for a shift becomes obvious.
After all, once a foreign leader is demonized, it's hard for a U.S. official to explain that the leader may not be all that bad or is at least better than the likely alternative. So, it's not just that officials start believing their own propaganda, it's that the propaganda takes on a life of its own and keeps the failed policy churning forward.
It's a bit like the old story of the chicken that continues to run around with its head cut off. In the case of the U.S. government, the pro-war or pro-intervention "group think" continues to run amok even after wiser policymakers recognize the imperative to change course.
The reason for that dilemma is that so much money gets spread around to pay for the propaganda and so many careers are tethered to the storyline that it's easier to let thousands of U.S. soldiers and foreign citizens die than to admit that the policy was built on distortions, propaganda and lies. That would be bad for one's career.
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This can be anything from reviewing accounts, to reconnecting with former clients. Use this time to clear the backlog, so when the busier months draw near, you can approach them with a clutter-free calendar.
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Slow months can give you the chance to update your website, and ensure that it's meeting your customers' needs. This is especially important if you're planning a significant redesign, or the addition or removal of certain features.
Major website changes can be jarring for customers, and could serve as a deterrent. As such, making big changes during a busy time of year can be a costly decision. However, when business is slower, you can afford to make more drastic alterations, while simultaneously dedicating time to handling the queries of affected customers.
With your new and improved website, you'll be in a better position to interact productively with your audience, drive greater sales volumes, and even make changes to the core functionality of your business. This is especially useful if you're pursuing a new source of collaboration or funding, as it enables you to present a polished representation of what your business offers.
Consider giving your website a makeover, create an online store, or make another needed change. You'll be surprised at how it'll benefit your business once busier times come around!
Since there should be fewer demands for your time during the summer, this is a great opportunity to set aside time for yourself. Whether you take a vacation, try a new hobby, or simply spend quality time with friends and family, it's important to make time for yourself.
No matter how successful your business is, everyone needs some time off. Due to this, consider how you can make time for yourself, while still trying to improve your business.
The anticipation of a slow spell can often be disheartening. However, while the summer is often a difficult time for small businesses, there is plenty you can do to make the most of that empty time.
Devise a plan so that you can make the most of this period, and use your time wisely. After all, the more your business grows, the rarer these brief respites will be, so be productive with this down time while you have it.
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However, there is little room for error, as the consequences of insecure systems and information are almost always costly and distracting.
The challenge now for senior security specialists is to develop an ongoing dialogue with the board about the importance of information security in the context of organizational goals.
Information is the engine of global enterprise, and fit-for-purpose information security is fundamental to managing global enterprise risk. The regulatory environment, especially the requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley, has pushed security onto the board's agenda.
Users are waking up to security rights and expectations, causing public-facing organizations to tighten privacy policies. And the commercial imperative for information security is gaining momentum as more companies outsource or offshore operations and demand full mobility of their staff.
First, they are driven by results rather than activity.
Second, they earn credibility by candidly educating company management about security risks and basing their security investment on realistic assessments of risk.
Third, they are committed to independent standards and to measuring their departments' compliance with those standards.
Recognizing that security should form part of overall business risk management, many organizations are now structuring and managing information security as part of operational risk management.
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Q: set dropdown value in other component i create this dropdown component :
<mat-form-field appearance="outline">
    <mat-label>{{formTitle| translate}} *</mat-label>
<mat-select [(value)]="itemId">

        <mat-form-field class="mat-form-field-fluid" appearance="outline">
            <mat-label>{{'GENERAL.TITLE' | translate}} *</mat-label>
            <input (keyup)="getValues($event.target.value)" matInput [placeholder]="'GENERAL.TITLE' | translate">
        </mat-form-field>

    <mat-progress-bar *ngIf="loading" class="mb-2" mode="indeterminate"></mat-progress-bar>
    <mat-option  (click)="emitdata(item.key)" *ngFor="let item of values" [value]="item.key">
        {{item.value}}
    </mat-option>
</mat-select>

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export class SearchableDropdownComponent implements OnInit {

    @Input() url: string;
    @Input() formTitle: string;
    @Output() selectedId = new EventEmitter<number>();
    @Input() itemId: number;

    loading = false;
    values: KeyValue[];
    title: string;

    constructor(
        private searchService: SearchableDropDownService,
        private cdRef: ChangeDetectorRef) {
    }

    ngOnInit(): void {
        this.getValues(null);
    }

    emitdata(event): void {
        console.log(event);
        this.selectedId.emit(event);
    }

    getValues(event): void {
        this.cdRef.detectChanges();
        this.loading = true;

        let model = {} as SendDateModel;
        model.page = 1;
        model.pageSize = 60;
        model.title = event;

        this.searchService.getAll(this.url, model).subscribe(data => {
            this.values = data['result']['records'];
            this.cdRef.detectChanges();
            this.loading = false;
        });

    }
}

and i used it in components :

   <kt-searchable-dropdown [itemId]="304" [formTitle]="'COURSE.COURSE_GROUP'" [url]="url"></kt-searchable-dropdown>

i pass to dropdown 304 item for pre selected it in dropdown . but it not pre-selected item 304 in dropdown .
how can i set the 304 item selected in dropdown?

A: As you are taking the ItemId using Input() you can always use ngModel to implement two way data binding.
For e.g. in your case :
    <mat-select [(ngModel)]="ItemId">
    <mat-option *ngFor="let item of values"  [value]="item.key">{{item.value}}</mat-option>
  </mat-select>

So, basically it will get binded in two way with variable contain data and will remain selected as you load the component.
You can read more about two way data binding here.
Update
ngModel should work. You have not wrongly implemented but its not correct way also.
Your selected value only will come from [(ngModel)].
so your
[(value)]="itemId"

should be
[(ngModel)]="itemId"

complete code will be :
<mat-select [(ngModel)]="ItemId">
    <mat-option *ngFor="let item of values"  [value]="item.key">{{item.value}}</mat-option>
  </mat-select>

Try not to declare any div or component after mat-select if not necessary or debug one by one if its bugging to your component or not.

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Cannington Manor Provincial Park is an historic park in the RM of Moose Mountain in the south-east corner of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. An aristocratic English colony was established at the site in 1882 by Captain Edward Michell Pierce. It became a provincial park in 1986.  Cannington Manor is located west and north of Highway 603.
The Colony is 16 kilometres south-east of Moose Mountain Provincial Park, and  south of Moosomin.

Captain Pierce established an agricultural college and attracted remittance men as students for £100 a year. The intention of the college was to instruct these bachelor sons of wealthy families to farm and homestead in the last best west. The brothers Ernest, Billy, and Bertie Beckton constructed "Didsbury", ranch house within Cannington Manor colony.

The cultural and recreational life emulated English upper class society. Thoroughbred racing, polo matches, theatrical plays, fox hunting, billiards, soccer, and tennis were all enjoyed by the colony students and settlers. This was a contrast to the neighbouring homesteaders who were barely eking out a living proving their land and making improvements to earn land title grants from the Dominion Government.

Soon a dairy, a school/town hall, blacksmith, Moose Mountain trading company store, Harold Fripp flour mill, C.E. Phipps Land Titles Office,  carpenter shop, and Mitre hotel were built to support a burgeoning community which soon reached 200 residents.

Demise of colony
Captain Pierce, the founder of the community died on 20 June 1888. C.E. Phipps established the land titles office here in 1889 and moved to Oxbow in 1891. Spencer Page was the colony's first teacher in 1889 before turning to politics in 1894. Louis Kent the second teacher in Cannington Manor started his duties in 1894 and passed on in 1896.  Robert Bird the Moose Mountain trading company store keeper moved to British Columbia in 1898. Ernest Maltby postmaster and his wife Mary arrived in 1892 and then also moved in 1901 to British Columbia.

Between 1901 and 1902, the CPR regional branch line was constructed  south of the village rather than through the village. During a time of travel by horseback this distance was detrimental to the growth of the community. The passing of the founder, a few years earlier, a drought and low grain prices soon made it unfeasible for settlers to continue the lifestyle at Cannington Manor.

Historic sites
The park is composed of two separate parcels of land. Firstly, a 15-hectare parcel contains archaeological remains of the village and several replica buildings. A 1920s one-storey, wood-frame schoolhouse serves as the park's visitor reception centre near the entrance. All Saints Anglican Church, built in 1884 and still in use, is near the centre of the village site, but it is not on park property. The church is on the Canadian Register of Historic Places.

A second, 32-hectare parcel, which is located three kilometres west of the village site, consists of a farmyard and 2 ½-storey wood-frame house and remnant walls of two stone outbuildings. The house, built in 1888, is known as the Humphrys/Hewlett House and it too is on the Canadian Register of Historic Places. The buildings were formally recognised on 26 May 1986 and were put on the Register on 1 November 2006.

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See also
List of protected areas of Saskatchewan
List of historic places in rural municipalities of Saskatchewan
The French Counts of St Hubert, Saskatchewan
Tourism in Saskatchewan

References

External links
Cannington Manor Provincial Park - official site
Letters from Cannington Manor, Assiniboia, North West Territories ...

Provincial parks of Saskatchewan
Museums in Saskatchewan
Living museums in Canada
Moose Mountain No. 63, Saskatchewan
Division No. 1, Saskatchewan


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Another Kamala Harris Aide Suddenly 'Quits' as More Democrats Abandon Unlikely 2024 Nominee
Written by Kyle Becker
Another Kamala Harris aide is quitting her post. The Vice President's senior advisor and chief spokesperson, Symone Sanders, is leaving by the end of the year, according to Axios.
"Why it matters: The VP has faced an onslaught of criticism in her first year centered on her leadership and staff, adding to the suggestion, she's not the Democratic Party's preferred nominee for 2024," Axios reported.
"The backdrop: Sanders was seen as one of the central staffers for Harris as a candidate and is known to be personally trusted by Harris herself / the staffer most frequently (or visible) by her side," the report added.
As reported at Becker News earlier, the White House has descended into open rebellion after a Kamala Harris hit piece on the Bidens was published by CNN. The bitter feud claimed another casualty: The Vice President's Communications Director Ashley Etienne.
"Kamala Harris's communications director Ashley Etienne is leaving the vice president's office after reports staff are in-fighting and her boss is being sidelined," the Daily Mail reported.
"Etienne, a former staffer to Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama, joined Harris' team shortly after the election," the report said. "At the time she said she would stay only a year. Vanity Fair first reported the news."
Etienne is leaving in December to "pursue other opportunities," the White House told the publication.
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CNN claimed its hit piece came from "nearly three dozen former and current Harris aides, administration officials." The Democratic operatives, donors and outside advisers "spoke exclusively to CNN." The entire piece smacks of a torrent of leaks from inside the Harris inner circle.
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The CNN piece appears to make a cryptic warning that Biden may get the political '86' if it fails to yield to the Harris camp's demands. (Lest anyone should forget, there were 25th amendment mentions prior to the 2020 'election'.)
"She's a heartbeat away from the presidency now," the piece adds. "She could be just a year away from launching a presidential campaign of her own, given doubts throughout the political world that Biden will actually go through with a reelection bid in 2024, something he's pledged to do publicly and privately. Or she'll be a critical validator in three years for a President trying to get the country to reelect him to serve until he's 86."
Meanwhile, there has been serious talk going around Washington D.C. that Kamala Harris may soon find herself "pursuing other opportunities" so the Biden team can get her out of the White House.
Fox News' Chad Pergram, who I know would not repeat idle gossip and would only report Capitol Hill developments with strong corroboration, recently told Jesse Watters there were "whispers" that "high profile confirmation hearings" may soon be coming to the House of Representatives.
As Watters points out, the House of Representatives does not typically confirm presidential nominees — that job is usually handled by the Senate. It does confirm vice presidential nominees, however.
Amidst the leak war between Harris's team and Biden's team, Chad Pergram pointed to the conjecture about the uncertain future of Kamala Harris, given such events at the botched introduction on the White House.
Chad Pergram, who is an avid buff of Congressional process and mechanics, disclosed that he received a message from a well-informed insider that told him he should familiarize himself on the process to confirm a "vacancy for the Vice President in the Senate and in the House."
The mainstream media reacted to the report as Fox News ginning up 'speculation' over Kamala Harris's future. But such reports did not originate with Fox News. After CNN's recent exposure of the Biden-Harris rift (that Becker News has been reporting for months), the Daily Mail reported there was talk of the White House seeking a Supreme Court seat for Harris to get her out of their hair.
"Harris' approval rating has plunged even further than Biden's in recent months, with rumors swirling that the president is considering appointing her to the Supreme Court as a backdoor method of selecting a new VP," the Daily Mail reported.
Members of Kamala Harris's inner circle are not even waiting for the vice president to be pushed out of the White House. It looks like they are taking it upon themselves to get out while they still can.
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From 10:00 I will present the research project in auditorium A @ Sønderhøj 30, Viby, Denmark.
The presentation is the formal end of the research project. I will present the upcoming e-book "WordPress in the Classroom" – and how the research project helped writing the book.


Compared with yesterday the temperature this morning was quite mild. However a breeze came up after lunch which made me realise the trees were dropping leaves. The green foliage has changed to brown and gold.
Darren started removing the tent tie-down ropes and steel pegs around 9.00AM and by 10.00 enough of the staff had been coerced to move the three tent sections and pack them away ready for the next boat.
Somehow this seemed to excite Nick.
Some natural light on the stern has revealed the red panels and sign-writing look very good.
After assisting with the removal of the tent my next task was to fit the chrome vents to the bow water and diesel tanks. Without the breather pipes to the tanks we would possibility (probably for the water tank) suffer an airlock.
Then Andy supplied a headlamp and horn which I fitted after lunch.
Darren requested a photo of Waiouru at night showing the cratch and navigation lights.
Late this afternoon we were informed the crane would arrive after lunch tomorrow to move Waiouru into the cut. Another milestone!
Amazing milestone, Brilliant. Bet you thought at times this would never happen. I am really looking forward to meeting you out on the cut.
I must admit I never though I'd be able to discipline myself to write every day!
Likewise I enjoy reading your blog. congratulations on another milestone. You will now need to change the photo at the top of your blog to show Waiouru in all her new glory!
If the weather is kind tomorrow I'll attempt to take a banner photo after Waiouru goes into the cut.
She is a proper bobby dazzler!
Your blog has been superb.
What a moment Tom&Jan, I've really enjoyed following the evolution of your boat, and I'm looking forward to her further adventures once afloat. See you out on the 'water road' in 2013!


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\section{Introduction}

 At high temperature ($T$) and density ($\rho$),
  hadronic matter is expected to undergo  a phase
  transition to the
  quark-gluon plasma.
 The order parameter characterizing the transition
 is the chiral quark condensate $\langle \bar{q}q \rangle$, the
 absolute value of which decreases as ($T$,$\rho$) increases.
  Numerical simulations of quantum chromodynamics (QCD)
 on the lattice
  are actively pursued to determine the
  precise nature of the transition at finite $T$ \cite{ukawa}
 and various model calculations  have been done
 to look for the observable signature of the phase transition.

In this talk, I  will concentrate on one of the
 interesting critical phenomena  associated with the
 QCD phase transition, namely the spectral change of hadrons,
 in particular the mass shift of  light vector-mesons ($\rho$, $\omega$
 and $\phi$) in nuclear matter at zero $T$.
 The vector mesons are unique in the sense that
  they decay into lepton
 pairs ($e^+ e^-$ and $\mu^+ \mu^-$) which can be detected experimentally
 without much disturbance by  complicated hadronic interactions.

 In section 2, I will review the current knowledge of the
 quark condensate in medium. In section 3, various approaches to
 calculate the vector meson masses in nuclear matter are summarized.
 Experimental possibilities to detect the spectral change
 are discussed in section 4.  Concluding remarks are given in section 5.

\section{Quark condensates in nuclear matter}

  The medium modification of the quark condensate
 has been calculated since then
 by various methods (lattice QCD, chiral perturbation
 theory, Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model etc). See an overview \cite{review}.
 By these studies, it turned out that
  there is one noticeable difference between the
 behavior of $\langle \bar{q} q \rangle$ at finite $T$ (with $\rho =0$)
  and that at finite
 $\rho$ (with $T=0$):  In the former case, the significant change of
 the condensate can be seen only near the critical point
 $T\sim T_c$ \cite{GL}.  On the other hand,  in the
 latter case,
 $O(30 \%)$ change of $\langle \bar{q} q \rangle$
 could be seen even in normal nuclear-matter density. This
 observation is based on the following formula in the
 fermi-gas approximation (independent particle approximation)\cite{DL}
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{condrho}
{\langle \bar{u}u \rangle \over \langle \bar{u}u \rangle_{0}}
  \simeq  1- {4\Sigma_{\pi N}\over f_{\pi}^2m_{\pi}^2}
 \int^{p_{_F}} {d^3p \over (2\pi)^3} {M_N \over E(p)} \ \ .
\end{eqnarray}
Here $m_N (m_{\pi})$ is the nucleon (pion) mass, $f_{\pi}$ is the pion decay
 constant,  $\Sigma_{\pi N} = (45 \pm 10) $MeV is the $\pi N$ sigma term,
 and $E(p) \equiv \sqrt{p^2 + M_N^2}$.  $\langle \cdot \rangle $
 and $\langle \cdot \rangle_{0}$ denote the expectation value
 in nuclear matter and that in the vacuum respectively.
 The integration for the nucleon momentum $p$ should be taken
  from 0 to the
 fermi momentum  $p_{_F}$.
 At normal nuclear matter density ($\rho=\rho_0=0.17/{\rm fm}^3$),
 the above formula gives (34$\pm$8)\% reduction of the
 chiral condensate from the vacuum value.
 In Fig.1,
${\langle \bar{u}u \rangle / \langle \bar{u}u \rangle_{0}}$ as
 well as the strangeness condensate
$ {\langle \bar{s}s \rangle / \langle \bar{s}s \rangle_{0}}$
  are shown in the linear density approximation
 \cite{QM91}, where the uncertainty of $\Sigma_{\pi N}$
  is considered.
 Estimates taking into account the fermi motion and
 the nuclear correlatons show that these
 corrections at $\rho = \rho_0$
 are less than the above uncertainty  \cite{Ko94}.

 Unfortunately, the condensate itself is not a direct observable
 and one has to look for physical quantities which are measurable and
 simultaneously
 sensitive to the change of the condensate.
 The masses of light vector-mesons are the leading candidates
 of such quantities.

\section{Vector mesons in nuclear matter}

Let's   consider $\rho$, $\omega$ and $\phi$  mesons propagating inside
 the nuclear matter.
 Adopting the same fermi-gas approximation with (\ref{condrho}) and taking
 the vector meson at rest (${\bf q}=0$),
 one can generally write the mass-squared shift  as
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{massshiftf}
\delta m^2_{_V} \equiv m^{*2}_{_V} - m^2_{_V} = 4 \int^{p_F}
  {d^3 p \over (2 \pi)^3  }  {M_{_N} \over E(p)}  f_{VN}({\bf p}),
\end{eqnarray}
where $f_{VN}({\bf p})$ denotes the vector-meson (V) -- nucleon (N)
 forward scattering amplitude
 in the relativistic normalization, and $m_V^* (m_V)$ denotes the
 vector meson mass in nuclear matter (vacuum).
 Here, we took spin-isospin average for the nucleon states
 in $f_{VN}$.
 If one can calculate $f_{VN}({\bf p})$ reasonably well in the range
 $0 < p < p_{_F}=270$ MeV
 (or $1709\ {\rm MeV} < \sqrt{s} < 1726\ {\rm MeV} $ in terms of the
 $V-N$ invariant mass), one can predict the mass shift.
 Unfortunately, this is a difficult task:
  $f_{VN}({\bf p})$ is not a  constant
  in the above range since there are at least two
 s-channel resonances $N(1710), N(1720)$ in the above interval
 and two nearby resonances $N(1700)$ and $\Delta(1700)$.
  They all couple to the $\rho-N$ system \cite{PDG}
 and give  variation
 of $f_{VN}({\bf p})$ as a function of $p$ in principle.
 From this reason,  one should develop
   other methods to estimate
 $\delta m_V^2$ without
 refering to the detailed form of $f_{VN}({\bf p})$.
 We will briefly review two
of such approaches
  in the following subsections, namely the QCD sum rules
 and  effective theories of hadron.

\subsection{QCD sum rules}

 The  QCD sum rules (QSR) for vector mesons in nuclear matter
 were first developed by Hatsuda and Lee \cite{HL}.
 In their approach,  one
 starts with  the retarded current correlation function in
nuclear matter,
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{correlator}
\Pi_{\mu \nu} (\omega , {\bf q})
=i \int d^4x e^{iqx}  \langle {\rm R} J_{\mu}(x) J_{\nu}(0) \rangle \ \ ,
\end{eqnarray}
where  $q^\mu \equiv (\omega , {\bf q})$ and
 ${\rm R} J_{\mu}(x) J_{\nu}(0) \equiv
  \theta(x^0) [J_{\mu}(x), J_{\nu}(0)]$ with the source
currents $J_\mu$ defined as $J_\mu^{\rho,\omega}
={1\over2}(\bar{u}\gamma_\mu u \mp \bar{d}\gamma_\mu d)$
($- (+)$ is for the $\rho^0 (\omega)$-meson) and
 $J_{\mu}^{\phi} = \ \bar{s} \gamma_{\mu} s$.
  Although there are two independent
invariants in medium (transverse and longitudinal polarization),
 they coincide  in the limit  ${\bf q} \rightarrow 0$
 and reduce to
 $\Pi_{\mu \mu}/(-3\omega^2) \equiv \Pi$.
 $\Pi $ satisfies the following dispersion
relation,
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{dispersion2}
{\rm Re} \Pi (\omega^2) =
 {1 \over \pi} {\rm P} \int_0^{\infty} du^2
{ {\rm Im} \Pi(u) \over u^2-\omega^2} + ({\rm subtraction}).
\end{eqnarray}
In QSR, the spectral density ${\rm Im} \Pi$
 is  modeled with several
phenomenological parameters, while  ${\rm Re} \Pi$
  is calculated using the
operator product expansion (OPE).
 The phenomenological parameters are then  extracted
by matching the left and right hand side of (\ref{dispersion2})
 in the asymptotic region $\omega^2 \rightarrow - \infty $.
 The density dependence in the OPE side is solely determined by the
 density dependent condensates which are evaluated from
 low energy theorems or from the parton distribution of the
  nucleon \cite{HL}.

 In the medium,  we have three kinds of structure in the spectral density:
 the resonance poles,
  the continuum and the Landau damping contribution.
 For ${\bf q} \rightarrow 0$, the last contribution
 is calculable {\em exactly}
 and behaves like  a pole at $\omega^2=0$ \cite{HL,BS}.
  In total,  the hadronic spectral function looks as
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{phen}
 8 \pi {\rm Im} \Pi(u > 0^-)  =
 \delta(u^2) \rho_{sc}+F^* \delta(u^2-m_V^{2*})
+(1+\frac{\alpha_s}{\pi})\theta(u^2-S_0^*)
  \equiv  \rho_{had.}(u^2) ,
\end{eqnarray}
with $\rho_{sc} = 2 \pi^2 \rho /\sqrt{p_F^2 + M_N^2} \simeq
 2 \pi^2 \rho /M_N$.  $m_V^*$, $F^*$ and $S_0^*$
 are the three phenomenological
 parameters in nuclear matter to be determined by the sum rules.

Matching the OPE side
 and the phenomenological side via the dispersion relation
in the asymptotic region $\omega^2 \rightarrow - \infty$,
 we can
  relate the resonance  parameters to the density dependent condensates.
 There are two major procedures for this matching, namely
 the Borel sum rules (BSR) \cite{SVZ} and the
  finite energy sum rules (FESR) \cite{PIV},
 which can be summarized as
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{sumrules}
\int_0^{\infty}& ds\ W(s)& \ [\rho_{had.}(s) - \rho_{_{OPE}}(s) ]  =0 ,\\
  & W(s)  =&  s^n \ \theta(S_0 -s)  \ \ \  ({\rm  FESR}),
   \ \ \ \ \ \ \ e^{-s/M^2}  \ \ \  ({\rm \ BSR}).
\end{eqnarray}
Here the spectral function $\rho_{had.}(s)$ stands for eq.(\ref{phen}).
 $\rho_{_{OPE}}(s)$ is a hypothetical imaginary part of
 $\Pi$ obtained from OPE.

 To make  quantitative analyses of spectral
 parameters, the stability analysis
 based on the  Borel transform is more suitable than FESR.
 Since the Borel mass $M$ is a fictitious parameter introduced
 in the sum rule, the physical quantities should be insensitive to
 the change of $M$ within a Borel interval $M_{\min} < M < M_{\max}$;
 namely the principle of minimum sensitivity (PMS) is used.
 One can accomplish this insensitivity by choosing
 $S_0^*$ suitably at given density.
 In Fig. 2, the  Borel curves for the $\rho (\omega)$ meson
 for three different values of baryon density are shown with $S_0^*$
 chosen to make the Borel curve as flat as possible in the interval
 $ 0.41 {\rm GeV}^2 < M^2 < 1.30 {\rm GeV}^2$. The upper (lower)
 bound of the Borel interval is determined so that the power (continuum)
 correction after the Borel tranform does not exceed 30 $\%$ of
 the lowest order term in OPE.

  By making a linear fit of the result,  one obtains \cite{HL}
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{mass-shift}
{m_{\rho,\omega}^* \over m_{\rho,\omega}} & = &  1- (0.16 \pm 0.06)
{\rho \over \rho_0}, \\
\label{threshold-shift}
\sqrt{{S_0^* \over S_0}} & = & 1- (0.15 \pm 0.05)
 {\rho \over \rho_0}, \\
\label{F-shift}
{F^* \over F} &  = & 1- (0.24 \pm 0.07) {\rho \over \rho_0},
\end{eqnarray}
and
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{mass-shift2}
{m_{\phi}^* \over m_{\phi}}  =  1- (0.15 \pm 0.05)\  y\
{\rho \over \rho_0},
\end{eqnarray}
where $y$ is the OZI breaking parameter in QCD defined
 as $y=2\langle \bar{s}s \rangle_N/ \langle \bar{u}u + \bar{d} d \rangle_N$
 with $\langle \cdot \rangle_N$ being the nucleon matrix element.
 $y$ takes the value
 $0.1 - 0.2$ \cite{HL}.
  The decrease in eqs. (\ref{mass-shift},\ref{mass-shift2})
 is dictated by the density dependent
  condensates $\langle \bar{q} q \rangle$,  $\langle (\bar{q} q)^2 \rangle$
 and  $\langle \bar{q} \gamma_{\mu} D_{\nu} q \rangle$.
 The errors in the above formulas are originating from the uncertainties
 of the density dependence of the these condensates.
 The contribution of the
  quark-gluon mixed operator with twist 4, \cite{HL} which may
   possibly weaken the mass shift, is neglected in the above.
   Shown in Fig.3 is the mass shift given in
 eqs. (\ref{mass-shift},\ref{mass-shift2}) with possible
 theoretical uncertainties.

 Some sophistications of the QSR analyses by Hatsuda and Lee
 have been done later by several authors.

\noindent
(i) Asakawa and Ko have introduced  a more realistic
 spectral function  than (\ref{phen})  by taking into account
 the width of the $\rho$-meson and the effect of the collisional
 broadening due to the   $\pi - N - \Delta -\rho$
 dynamics \cite{ASKO}.  By doing the similar QSR analysis as above,
 they found that the negative mass shift
  persists even in this realistic case.  The width of the
 rho meson in their calculation  decreases as density increases, which
implies that the phase space suppression from the $\rho \rightarrow 2 \pi$
 process overcomes the collisional broadening at finite density.
 Further examination of this interplay between the mass shift and
 the collisional broadening is important in relation to the future
 experiments. Also, finite temperature generalization of the Asakawa-Ko's
 calculation should be  done.

\noindent
(ii) Monte Calro based error analysis was applied to the
 Borel sum rule by Jin and Leinweber \cite{JL} instead of the
 Borel stability or PMS analysis employed in \cite{HL}.
 They found
 $ m_{\rho,\omega}^*/ m_{\rho,\omega} =  1- (0.22 \pm 0.08)
(\rho /\rho_0)$ and
 $m_{\phi}^* /m_{\phi} =  1- (0.01 \pm 0.01)
(\rho / \rho_0)$, which are consistent with
 eqs. (\ref{mass-shift},\ref{mass-shift2}) within
 the error bars.

\noindent
(iii) Koike analysed an {\em effective} scattering amplitude $\bar{f}_{VN}$
 defined as   $\delta m^2_{_V} \equiv {\bar f}_{VN} \cdot \rho $
 using the QSR in the vacuum \cite{Koike}.  Although his original calculation
 predicting ${\bar f}_{VN} > 0$ is in error as was pointed out in
 ref.\cite{HL,JL}, revised calculation gives a consistent result with
 eqs. (\ref{mass-shift},\ref{mass-shift2}) within the error bars \cite{Koike2}.
 Note here that ${\bar f}_{VN}$ does not have
  direct relation to the scattering length at zero
 momentum $f_{VN}(0)$.

\subsection{Effective theories}

 There have been  many attempts so far to calculate the
 spectral change of the vector mesons using effective theories of QCD.
 The first attempt by Chin \cite{chin}
 using the quantum hadrodynamics (QHD)
 shows increasing $\omega$-meson mass
 in medium due to a process  analogous to the Compton scattering;
\begin{eqnarray}
 \omega + N
  \rightarrow \omega + N.
\end{eqnarray}
  For the $\rho$-meson, similar but more sophisticated calculations
 taking into account  $\Delta$-resonance and in-medium pion
 show a slight increase of the $\rho$-meson mass \cite{herman}.
  In these calculations, only the
  polarization of the Fermi sea (the particle-hole excitations)
 was considered. Also their predictions are
 different from the general assertion by Brown and Rho claiming
 that all the hadron masses except for pion should decrease \cite{BR}.

  On the other hand, Saito, Maruyama and Soutome, and
  Kurasawa and Suzuki \cite{KS}
   have realized that
  the mass of the $\omega$-meson is affected substantially
 by the vacuum polarization of the nucleon in medium
\begin{eqnarray}
 \omega \rightarrow N^* \bar{N}^* \rightarrow \omega,
\end{eqnarray}
 where  $N^*$ is the nucleon
  in nuclear matter which has smaller effective mass than that in the vacuum.
  They show  that the vacuum polarization  dominates over the
 Fermi-sea polarization in QHD  and leads decreasing
 vector meson mass. This conclusion was later confirmed by several
 groups \cite{PW} and was generalized for the $\rho$ and $\phi$ mesons
  \cite{HS}.
  Jaminon and Ripka has also reached a similar conclusion
  by using a model of vector mesons coupled to  constituent quarks
  \cite{JR}.

  Saito and Thomas have examined a rather different
 but comprehensive model (bag model combined with QHD)
 and
 found  decreasing vector-meson masses \cite{ST};
 $ m_{\rho,\omega}^* / m_{\rho,\omega}  \sim   1- 0.09
(\rho / \rho_0)$.
  The spectral shift
 of the quarks inside the bag induced by the existence of
 nuclear medium plays a key role in this approach.

   Basic idea common in the approaches predicting the
 decreasing mass may be summarized as follows.
 In nuclear matter, scalar ($\sigma$) and vector ($\omega$)
 mean-fields are induced by the  nucleon sources.
  These mean-fields give back-reactions
 to the nucleon propagation in nuclear matter and modify
  its self-energy. This is an origin of the effective nucleon mass
 $M_N^* < M_N$ in  the relativistic
 models for nuclear matter.
  The same mean-fields should also affect the propagation of
  vector mesons in nuclear medium.
 In QSR, the quark condensates act on the quark propagator
 as density dependent mean-fields.
  In QHD, the coupling of the mean-field with the vector
 mesons are taken into account through the short distant
  nucleon
  loop with the effective mass $M_N^*$.
  In the bag-model, the mean fields outside the bag
 acts on quarks confined in the
 bag and change their energy spectrum.

 Let us show here that one can understand the
 negative mass shift of the vector mesons in a simple
 and intuitive  way in the context of QHD.
 More quantitative discussion will be given in the later section.
  After renormalizing infinities in the vacuum loop,
  the density-dependent part of the
 Dirac-sea polarization
 to the vector-meson propagator is approximately  written as
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{Zfactor}
D(q) \simeq {1 \over Z^{-1} q^2 - m_V^2} = {Z \over q^2 - Z m_V^2} ,
\end{eqnarray}
where $Z$ being the finite wave-function renormalization constant
 in medium.  The pole position is thus obtained as $m_V^* = \sqrt{Z} m_V$.
 Because of the current conservation, only the
 wave function part of the propagator is modified in medium.
 Since the effective mass of the nucleon decreases in medium
 ($M_N^*/M_N < 1$), physical
 vector mesons have more probability to be in
 virtual baryon$-$ anti-baryon
  pairs compared to that in the vacuum.  This means
 $Z < 1$, which leads to $m_V^* /m_V \equiv Z  < 1$ \cite{PW,HS}.
\begin{eqnarray}
M_N^*/M_N < 1 \ \ \  \rightarrow \ \ \  Z < 1 \ \ \  \rightarrow \ \ \
  m_V^*/m_V \equiv Z   < 1 \ \ \ .
\end{eqnarray}

\section{Experiments}

How one can detect the spectral change of vector mesons  in experiments?
 One of the promising ideas
 is to use heavy nuclei and produce vector mesons in
  $\gamma -A$ or $p-A$ reactions.
 Suppose one could create a vector meson at the center
 of a heavy nucleous. (It does not matter whether it is created  at the
 nuclear surface or at the center as far as the produced
 vector mesons run through the nucleous before the hadronic decay).
It is easy to see that the number of lepton pairs decaying inside the
 nucleous $N_{in}(l^+l^-)$ and that outside the nucleous
 $N_{out}(l^+l^-)$ are related as
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{NN}
{N_{in}(l^+l^-) \over N_{out}(l^+l^-)}  \sim
{ 1 - e^{- \Gamma_{tot} R} \over e^{- \Gamma_{tot}R} } \ \ ,
\end{eqnarray}
where $\Gamma_{tot}$ denotes the total width of vector mesons
 ((1.3fm)$^{-1}$, (23fm)$^{-1}$ and (45fm)$^{-1}$ for $\rho$, $\omega$ and
 $\phi$, respectively) and $R$ being the nuclear radius.
 Eq.(\ref{NN}) shows that even the $\phi$ meson has considerable
 fraction of $N_{in}/N_{out}$ if the target nucleous is big enough.

 There exist already some proposals to look for the mass shift of
 vector mesons in nuclear medium  \cite{SE}.
 One is by Shimizu et al. who  propose an experiment
 to  create $\rho$ and $\omega$
 in heavy nuclei using coherent photon - nucleus reaction and
  subsequently  detect the lepton pairs from $\rho$ and $\omega$.
 Enyo et al. propose to create $\phi$ meson in heavy nuclei
 using the proton-nucleus reaction and
 to measure kaon pairs as well as the lepton pairs.
 By doing this, one can study not only the mass shift
but also the change of the leptonic vs hadronic branching ratio
$r = \Gamma(\phi \rightarrow e^+ e^- ) /\Gamma (\phi \rightarrow K^+ K^- )$.
 Since $m_{\phi}$ is very close to $2m_{K}$ in the vacuum,
 any modification of the $\phi$-mass or the $K$-mass changes
 the ratio $r$ substantially as a function of mass number of
 the target nucleous.
  Similar kinds of experiments are also planned
 at GSI.

 There are also on-going  heavy ion experiments at SPS (CERN) and AGS (BNL)
 where  high density matter is likely to be formed.
 In particular, CERES/NA45 and HELIOS-3 at CERN
   reported enhancement of the
  lepton pairs below the $\rho$ resonance \cite{ceres,helios},
  which may not be explained
 by the conventional sources of lepton pairs.
 If this phenomena is real, low mass enhancement  of the lepton pair
  spectrum
 expected by the mass shift of the vector mesons could be a
  possible explanation \cite{ceres2}.
  In nuclear collisions at  higher energies (RHIC and LHC),
  hot hadronic matter or possibly the quark-gluon-plasma
 with low baryon density are expected to be formed.  In such cases,
 double $\phi$-peak structure proposed by Asakawa and Ko \cite{theory}
 as well as  the spectral change of $\rho$, $\omega$ and scalar
 mesons \cite{HKL}
will be a distinct signal of the chiral restoration in QCD.

\section{Concluding remarks}

The spectral change of the elementary excitations in medium
 is an exciting new possibility in QCD.
 By studying such phenomenon, one can learn the structure
 of the hadrons and the QCD ground state at finite $(T, \rho$)
 simultaneously.   Theoretical approaches such as the QCD sum rules
 and the hadronic effective theories
 predict that the  light vector mesons ($\rho$, $\omega$ and $\phi$)
 are sensitive to the partial restoration of chiral symmetry
 in hot/dense medium.  These mesons are good
 probes experimentally, since they decay into lepton pairs which penetrate
 the hadronic medium without loosing much information.
  Thus, the lepton pair spectroscopy in QCD will tell us a
 lot about the detailed structure of the hot/dense matter, which
 is quite similar to the soft-mode spectroscopy
 by the photon and neutron scattering experiments in solid state physics.

\vspace{1cm}

\centerline{{\bf Acknowledgements}}

\vspace{0.4cm}

This work was supported by the Grants-in-Aids of the Japanese Ministry
 of Education, Science and Culture (No. 06102004).

\vspace{2cm}

\centerline{{\bf Figure Captions}}
\begin{description}

\item [Fig.1]
The light quark condensates in N=Z nuclear matter in the
 linear density approximation.
  Theoretical uncertainty of the $\pi N$ sigma term is
  taken into account. We take $y = 0.12$  for
  the OZI breaking parameter, where
 $y \equiv 2\langle \bar{s}s \rangle_N/ \langle \bar{u}u + \bar{d} d \rangle_N$
 with $\langle \cdot \rangle_N$ being the nucleon matrix element.

\item [Fig.2]
 Borel curve for the $\rho(\omega)$ meson mass.
 Solid, dashed and dash-dotted lines
 correspond to $\rho/\rho_0$ = 0, 1.0 and 2.0 respectively. $S_0^*(\rho)$
 determined by the
 Borel stability method at each density is also shown in GeV$^2$ unit.
The Borel window is chosen to be $0.41 {\rm GeV}^2 < M^2< 1.30 {\rm GeV}^2$.

\item [Fig.3]
 Masses of $\rho, \omega$ and $\phi$ mesons
 in nuclear matter predicted in the QCD sum rules.
  The hatched region shows  theoretical uncertainty.

\end{description}

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