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New Islamorada bistro: Chef Michael's
Former Kaiyo chef opens new Islamorada bistro
Ledwith's Chef Michael's promises great food and atmosphere
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Posted - Thursday, March 08, 2012 03:53 PM EST
Chef Michael Ledwith in the kitchen of his new restaurant with the peppered tuna tataki appetizer.(Photo by Claudia Miller)
The culinary rumor mill went into high gear last September when the sign in front of Chanticleer Restaurant in Islamorada was hand-painted, "Gone Fishin'." Owner chef Jean-Charles Berruet had, indeed, retired to enjoy his other passion, fishing, and turned the space over to local chef Michael Ledwith.
A series of humorous hand-painted signs followed with names like Sally's Seashell Supper Club and Aesop's Table, which kept people guessing for months. In January, Ledwith put up his final sign and opened Chef Michael's Restaurant, an American bistro with French flair.
"We were just having some fun with it," Ledwith said. "We decided to make the sign a guerilla marketing ad and changed it every couple of days. We talked about what would be funny and slapped it up there. I painted them myself."
A long-time fixture on the Islamorada dining scene, Ledwith left is five-year stint as executive chef at Kayio about a year ago to pursue his catering company, Hungry Heron of the Keys, with his fiancé, Mary Carrol. The initial business plan did not include opening a restaurant. Instead, they were using Berruet's kitchen facilities for storage and prep for the catering business.
"It fell into our lap," he said. "We had a good relationship with Jean-Charles. He was ready to retire, and I needed a bigger kitchen. Once the word got out that we were here, it was a constant barrage of people asking when we were going to open the restaurant."
The interior of the 40-seat eatery is decorated in a cream and chocolate palette. Works from local artists dot the walls, like swordfish and heron paintings from local artist Pasta Pantaleo. The warm lighting created by candles glowing under beaded shades and melted glass light fixtures over the curved bar creates an inviting atmosphere. A side porch offers al fresco dining.
"It's small, but I like the size," Ledwith said. "It's very personal and intimate. Mary and I can cruise around the dining room and talk to the guests, and it's not overwhelming"
Ledwith devotes much of the menu to the local seafood. He does eight different fish preparations with the type of fish changing daily according to what's fresh and local.
"They are good, simple, classic preparations," he said. "We usually know the source of our fish, the name of the captain and the way it was caught."
One of his signature dishes is the Pontchartrain - the catch of day lightly blackened with crawfish, shrimp and blue crab in a piquant Creole cream.
Also featured on the menu are starters like conch and rock shrimp fritters, peppered tuna tataki and salads topped with their homemade hazelnut vinaigrette.
Other entrees like filet mignon, braised lamb shank, chicken saltimbocca and linguini pomodoro, round out the offerings. Ledwith noted that his bone-in prime rib, available on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday is extremely popular. Entrees range in price from $17 for pasta to $34 for filet mignon.
Ledwith said that business has been brisk with a mix of locals, winter residents and tourists. "It's been steady. Things are going very well."
Chef Michael's Restaurant is located at mile marker 81.6 O/S in Islamorada. Open from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. daily. Call 305-664-0640 for more information or reservations.
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\section{Introduction}
The theory of boundary value problems is experiencing a rapid development. Many methods are used to study this kind of problems such as fixed point theorems, shooting method, iterative method with upper and lower solutions, etc. Third-order differential equation arise in a variety of different areas of applied mathematics and physics, as the deflection of a curved beam having a constant or varying cross, three layer beam, electromagnetic waves or gravity driven flows and so on \cite{Greg}.

Recently, third-order two-point or multipoint boundary value problems have attracted a lot of attention \cite{And,Agar,Bai,Feng1,Feng2,Gros,Guo,Li,Luan,Rach,Yao,Zhao}, and the references therein for related results. Among them, the fixed-point principle in cone has become an important tool used in the study of existence and multiplicity of positive solutions. Many papers that use this method have been published in recent years.\\
In this paper, we are concerned with the following third-order BVP with integral boundary condition
\begin{equation}\label{eq1}
u^{\prime \prime \prime }(t) + f(u(t)) = 0, \ t \in (0,1),
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}\label{eq2}
u(0) = u^{\prime}(0) = 0, \ u(1) = \int_{0}^{1}g(s)u(s)ds,
\end{equation}
where

\begin{itemize}
\item[(H1)] $f\in C([0,\infty),[0,\infty))$;
\item[(H2)] $g\in C([0,1],[0,\infty))$ and $ 0< \int_0 ^1 t^{2} g(t)dt<1.$
\end{itemize}

It is worth mentioning that, in 2013, Francisco. J. Torres \cite{Tor} studied the existence of positive solutions for the following nonlinear third-order three point boundary problem
\begin{equation*}
u^{\prime \prime \prime}(t) + a(t)f(t,u(t)) = 0, \ t \in (0,1),
\end{equation*}
\begin{equation*}
u(0)= 0,\ u^{\prime}(0) = u^{\prime}(1) = \alpha u(\eta).
\end{equation*}
Existence of at least one and two positive solutions are obtained by means of Krasnoselskii's fixed
point theorem and the fixed point index theory.

In \cite{Sun1}, the authors considered the following third-order boundary value problem with integral boundary conditions

\begin{equation*}
u^{\prime \prime \prime}(t) +f(t,u(t),u^{\prime}(t)) = 0, \ t \in [0,1],
\end{equation*}
\begin{equation*}
u(0) = u^{\prime}(0) = 0, \ u^{\prime}(1) = \int_{0}^{1}g(s)u^{\prime}(s)ds,
\end{equation*}
where $f$ and $g$ are continuous functions. By using the Krasnoselskii fixed-point theorem, some sufficient conditions are obtained for the existence and nonexistence of positive solution for the above problem.

In a recent paper \cite{Niu}, by using the well-known Avery-Henderson two fixed-
point theorem, B. W. Niu, J. P. Sun and Q. Y. Ren proved the existence of at least
two positive and decreasing solutions for the following third-order boundary value problem with integral boundary condition

\begin{equation*}
u^{\prime \prime \prime}(t)=f(t,u(t)), \ t \in [0,1],
\end{equation*}
\begin{equation*}
u^{\prime}(0) =u(1)= 0, \ u^{\prime \prime}(\eta)+ \int_{\alpha}^{\beta}u(s)ds=0,
\end{equation*}
where $1/2<\alpha\leq \beta \leq 1$, $\alpha+\beta\leq 4/3$ and $\eta\in (1/2,\alpha]$.

In \cite{Sun2}, Y. Sun, M. Zhao, and S. Li considered the following nonlinear third-order two-point boundary value problem
\begin{equation*}
u^{\prime \prime \prime}(t) + f(u(t)) = 0,\  t \in (0,1),
\end{equation*}
\begin{equation*}
u(0)=u^{\prime\prime}(0) = u^{\prime}(1) =0.
\end{equation*}
Under suitable assumptions on $f$ and by employing a fixed point theorem of cone expansion and
compression of functional type due to Avery, Anderson and Krueger, they established the existence
of at least one positive solution of the above boundary value problem.

Very recently, in 2016, S. Benaicha and F. Haddouchi \cite{Ben} investigated existence of positive solutions of the fourth-order integral boundary value problem
\begin{equation*}
u^{\prime \prime \prime \prime}(t) + f(u(t)) = 0,\  t \in (0,1),
\end{equation*}
\begin{equation*}
u^{\prime} (0) = u^{\prime} (1) =u^{\prime \prime}(0) = 0,\ u(0) = \int_{0}^{1}a(s)u(s)ds.
\end{equation*}
By using the Krasnoselskii's  fixed point theorem, results on existence of positive solutions
are presented.

And, in the same year, inspired greatly by \cite{Tor}, Ali Rezaiguia and Smail Kelaiaia \cite{Rez} investigated the following third-order three point boundary value problem
\begin{equation*}
u^{\prime \prime \prime}(t) +a(t) f(t,u(t)) = 0,\  t \in (0,1),
\end{equation*}
\begin{equation*}
u^{\prime}(0) = u^{\prime}(1) = \alpha u(\eta),\ u(0) = \beta u(\eta).
\end{equation*}
By using Krasnoselskii's fixed point theorem in cones, they generalized the work of Torres \cite{Tor}.

Inspired and motivated by the above recent works, we intend in this paper
to study the existence of at least one positive solution for \eqref{eq1} and \eqref{eq2}  if the nonlinearity $f$ is either superlinear or sublinear.

The rest of this paper is arranged as follows:\\
In Section 2, we present the necessary definitions
and we give some lemmas in order to prove our main results. In particular, we state some properties of the Green's function associated with BVP \eqref{eq1} and \eqref{eq2}. In Section 3, some sufficient conditions are established for the existence of positive solution to our BVP when $f$ is superlinear or sublinear. Finally, two examples are also included to illustrate the main results.\\

\section{Preliminaries}
At first, we consider the Banach space $C([0,1])$  equipped with the sup norm \[\|u\|=\\sup_{t\in[0, 1]}|u(t)|.\]
\begin{definition}
Let $E$ be a real Banach space. A nonempty, closed, convex set $
K\subset E$ is a cone if it satisfies the following two conditions:
\begin{itemize}
\item[(i)]
 $x\in K$, $\lambda \geq 0$ imply $\lambda x\in K$;
\item[(ii)]
$x\in K$, $-x\in K$ imply $x=0$.
\end{itemize}
\end{definition}

\begin{definition}
An operator $T:E\rightarrow E$ \ is completely continuous if it is continuous
and maps bounded sets into relatively compact sets.
\end{definition}
\begin{definition}
$ A $ function $ u(t)$ is called a positive solution of \eqref{eq1} and \eqref{eq2}
if $ u \in C ([0,1]) $ and $ u(t) > 0 $ for all $ t \in (0,1)$
\end{definition}

To prove our results, we need the following well-known fixed point theorem
of cone expansion and compression of norm type due to Krasnoselskii \cite{Kras}.

\begin{theorem}\label{T1}
Let $E$ be a Banach space, and let $K\subset E$, be a cone. Assume that
\Omega_{1}$ and $\Omega_{2}$ are open subsets of $E$ with $0\in \Omega _{1}$,
$\Omega _{1}\subset \Omega_{2}$ and let
\[
A:K\cap (\overline{
\Omega_{2}}\backslash \Omega_{1})\rightarrow K
\]
be a completely continuous operator such that
\begin{itemize}
\item[(a)]
$\left\Vert Au\right\Vert \leq \left\Vert u\right\Vert ,$ $u\in K\cap
\partial
\Omega _{1}$, and $\left\Vert Au\right\Vert \geq \left\Vert u\right\Vert ,$
$u\in K\cap \partial \Omega_{2}$; or
\item[(b)]
$\left\Vert Au\right\Vert \geq \left\Vert u\right\Vert ,$ $u\in K\cap
\partial
\Omega_{1}$, and \ $\left\Vert Au\right\Vert \leq \left\Vert u\right\Vert ,$
$u\in K\cap \partial \Omega_{2}.$
\end{itemize}
Then $A$ has a fixed point in $K\cap (\overline{\Omega _{2}}$ $\backslash $ $
\Omega_{1})$.
\end{theorem}

Consider the two-point boundary value problem

\begin{equation}\label{eq3}
u^{\prime \prime \prime}(t)+ h(t) = 0,\  t \in (0,1),
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}\label{eq4}
u(0) = u^{\prime}(0) = 0, \ u(1) = \int_{0}^{1}g(s)u(s)ds.
\end{equation}

\begin{lemma}\label{l1}
The problem \eqref{eq3}-\eqref{eq4} has a unique solution which can be expressed by
$$ u(t) = \int_{0}^{1} G(t,s) h(s) ds + \frac{t^{2}}{1-\mu} \int_{0}^{1} g(\tau)\left[ \int_{0}^{1}G(\tau,s)h(s)ds\right]d\tau ,$$
where $ G(t,s) : [0,1] \times [0,1]\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is the Green's function defined by
\begin{equation}\label{eq5}
G(t,s)=\frac{1}{2} \begin{cases}s(1-t)(2t-ts-s), & 0 \leq s \leq t \leq 1; \\
(1-s)^2 t^2, & 0 \leq t \leq s \leq 1,
\end{cases}
\end{equation}
and $ \mu = \int_{0}^{1} t^{2}g(t)dt$.
\end{lemma}
\begin{proof}
Rewriting \eqref{eq3} as $u^{\prime \prime \prime}(t)=-h(t)$ and integrating three times over the interval $ [0, t]$ for $ t \in [0,1] $, we obtain
$$ u^{\prime \prime}(t) = - \int_{0}^{t} h(s) ds + A, $$
$$ u^{\prime}(t) = - \int_{0}^{t} (t-s)h(s) ds + A t + B, $$
$$ u(t) = -\frac{1}{2} \int_{0}^{t}( t- s)^{2} h(s) ds +\frac{1}{2} A t^{2} + B t + C, $$
where $A, B, C \in \mathbb{R}$ are constants.
By \eqref{eq4}, we get $ B = C = 0$ and

$$ \frac{1}{2} A = \frac{1}{2} \int_{0}^{1} (1-s)^{2} h(s) ds + u(1). $$
Then
\begin{gather*}
\begin{aligned}
u(t)& =- \frac{1}{2}\int_0 ^t (t-s)^{2} h(s)ds +\frac{t^2}{2}\int_0 ^1(1-s)^{2}h(s)ds + t^{2} u(1) \\
&  =- \frac{1}{2}\int_0 ^t (t-s)^{2} h(s)ds +\frac{t^2}{2}\int_0 ^t(1-s)^{2}h(s)ds +\frac{t^2}{2}\int_t ^1(1-s)^{2}h(s)ds + t^{2} u(1) \\
&=\frac{1}{2}\int_0 ^t[ t^{2}(1-s)^{2} - (t-s )^{2}] h(s)ds +\frac{t^2}{2}\int_t ^1(1-s)^{2}h(s)ds + t^{2} u(1)\\
&=\frac{1}{2}\int_0 ^t s(1-t)(2t- ts -s) h(s)ds +\frac{t^2}{2}\int_t ^1(1-s)^{2}h(s)ds + t^{2} u(1).
\end{aligned}
\end{gather*}

 So
 \begin{equation} \label{eq6}
   u(t)= \int_0 ^1 G(t,s)h(s) ds + t^{2}u(1).
 \end{equation}
 Multiplying \eqref{eq6} by $g(t)$ and integrating the result over the interval $[0,1]$, we obtain
\begin{equation*}
 u(1) =\int_{0}^{1} g(\tau) u(\tau) d\tau = \int_{0}^{1} g(\tau) \Big(\int_0 ^1 G(\tau,s)h(s) ds \Big) d\tau + u(1) \int_{0}^{1} \tau^{2} g(\tau)d\tau,
  \end{equation*}
which implies
\begin{equation*}
 u(1) =\frac{1}{1-\mu} \int_{0}^{1} g(\tau) \left[ \int_{0}^{1} G(\tau,s) h(s)ds \right] d\tau.
\end{equation*}
Replacing this expression in \eqref{eq6}, we get
$$ u(t) = \int_{0}^{1} G(t,s) h(s)ds + \frac{t^2}{1-\mu} \int_{0}^{1} g(\tau) \left[ \int_{0}^{1} G(\tau,s) h(s)ds \right] d\tau.$$
\end{proof}

\begin{lemma}\label{l2} $ G(t,s)$ defined by \eqref{eq5} satisfies
\begin{itemize}
\item[(i)] $ G(t,s) \geq 0 $, for all \ $ t, s \in [0,1];$
\item[(ii)] $ \rho (t) s (1-s)^{2} \leq G(t,s) \leq s(1-s)^{2},$ \  for all \ $ t,s \in [0,1]$,
 where
\begin{equation}\label{eq7}
\rho(t)=\frac{1}{2}\min\{t^{2}, t(1-t)\}=\frac{1}{2}\begin{cases} t^{2},& t\leq \frac{1}{2};  \\
t(1-t), & t \geq \frac{1}{2}.
\end{cases}
\end{equation}
 \item[(iii)] Let $\theta\in ]0,\frac{1}{2}[ $ be fixed. Then\\
$\frac{\theta^{2}}{2}s(1-s)^{2} \leq G(t,s) \leq s(1-s)^{2},$  \ for all \  $(t,s) \in [\theta , 1- \theta] \times [0,1].$
 \end{itemize}
\end{lemma}
\begin{proof}
{\rm (i)} Since it is obvious for $ t \leq s $, we only need to prove the case $s \leq t $.\\
Assume that $ s \leq t $ , then
\begin{equation}\label{eq8}
\begin{split}
 G(t,s) &= \frac{1}{2} s(1-t) (2t - ts -s )\\
  & = \frac{1}{2} s(1-t) [(t-s) + t(1-s)]\\
   & \geq 0.
 \end{split}
 \end{equation}\\
{\rm (ii)} If $ s \leq t $, then from \eqref{eq5} we have
\begin{equation}\label{eq9}
\begin{split}
 G(t,s) &= \frac{1}{2} s(1-t) (2t - ts -s )\\
  & = \frac{1}{2} s(1-t) [(t-s) + t(1-s)]\\
   & \leq  \frac{1}{2} s(1-s) [(1-s) + (1-s)]\\
   & = s(1-s)^{2}.
 \end{split}
 \end{equation}\\
 On the other hand, we have
 \begin{equation}\label{eq10}
 \begin{split}
  G(t,s) &= \frac{1}{2} s(1-t)[(t-s)+t(1-s)]\\
   & \geq \frac{1}{2} s(1-t)t (1-s)\\
    & \geq  \frac{1}{2} t(1-t) s(1-s)^{2}.\\
  \end{split}
  \end{equation}\\
If $ t \leq s $, from \eqref{eq5}, we have
   \begin{equation}\label{eq11}
   \begin{split}
    G(t,s) &= \frac{1}{2} t^{2} (1-s)^{2}  \\
     & \leq  s^{2} (1-s)^{2} \\
      & \leq s(1-s)^{2},\\
    \end{split}
    \end{equation}
    and,
   \begin{equation}\label{eq12}
      \begin{split}
       G(t,s) &= \frac{1}{2} t^{2} (1-s)^{2} \\
        & \geq  \frac{1}{2} t^{2} s (1-s)^{2}. \\
       \end{split}
       \end{equation}\\
From \eqref{eq9}, \eqref{eq10}, \eqref{eq11} and \eqref{eq12}, we have
\[ \rho (t) s (1-s)^{2} \leq G(t,s) \leq s(1-s)^{2},\ \text{for all} \ (t,s) \in [0,1]\times[0,1].\]
{\rm (iii)} It follows immediately from {\rm (ii)}.
\end{proof}

\begin{lemma}\label{l4}
Let $ h(t) \in C ([0,1],[0,\infty )) $ and $ \theta \in ]0, \frac{1}{2}[$. The unique solution  of \eqref{eq3}-\eqref{eq4} is a nonnegative and satisfies
\[ \min_{t\in [\theta, 1-\theta]} u(t) \geq \frac{\theta^2}{2}\Big(\frac{1-\mu +\beta}{1-\mu +\alpha}\Big)\|u\|,\]
where $ \mu = \int_{0}^{1} t^2 g(t)dt$,\ $\beta= \theta^2 \int_{\theta}^{1-\theta}g(t) dt$,\ $\alpha = \int_{0}^{1}g(t)dt$.
\end{lemma}

\begin{proof}
From Lemma \ref{l1} and Lemma \ref{l2}, $ u(t) $ is nonnegative for $ t \in [0,1] $, and we get
\begin{equation}\label{eq13}
\begin{split}
u(t) &= \int_{0}^{1} G(t,s) h(s)ds + \frac{t^2}{1-\mu} \int_{0}^{1}g(\tau)\left[ \int_{0}^{1} G(\tau,s) h(s) ds \right] d\tau \\
&\leq \int_{0}^{1} s(1-s)^2 \left(1+\frac{\alpha}{1-\mu}\right)h(s)ds\\
&= \frac{1-\mu +\alpha}{1-\mu}\int_{0}^{1} s(1-s)^2 h(s)ds.
\end{split}
\end{equation}
Then
\begin{equation}\label{eq14}
\|u\| \leq \frac{1-\mu +\alpha}{1-\mu} \int_{0}^{1} s (1-s)^2 h(s)ds .
\end{equation}

For $ t\in [\theta, 1-\theta] $, we have
\begin{equation} \label{eq15}
\begin{split}
u(t)&=\int_{0}^{1}G(t,s) h(s) ds + \frac{t^2}{1-\mu} \int_{0}^{1}g(\tau) \left[\int_{0}^{1}G(\tau,s) h(s)ds\right]d\tau  \\
&\geq\frac{\theta^2}{2} \int_{0}^{1} s (1-s)^2 h(s)ds + \frac{\theta^2}{1-\mu} \int_{\theta}^{1-\theta} g(\tau)\left[\int_{0}^{1}\frac{\theta^{2}}{2}s(1-s)^2 h(s)ds\right]d\tau   \\
&=\frac{\theta^2}{2}\left[ \int_{0}^{1} s (1-s)^2 h(s)ds + \frac{\beta}{1-\mu} \int_{0}^{1}  s(1-s)^2 h(s)ds\right]\\
&=\frac{\theta^2}{2} \left[ \int_{0}^{1} s(1-s)^2 \left( 1+ \frac{\beta}{1-\mu}\right)h(s)ds\right] \\
&=\frac{\theta^2}{2}\left(\frac{1-\mu +\beta}{1-\mu}\right)\int_{0}^{1} s(1-s)^2 h(s)ds.
\end{split}
\end{equation}
From \eqref{eq14} and \eqref{eq15}, we obtain $$\min_{t\in [\theta, 1-\theta]} u(t) \geq  \frac{\theta^2}{2}\left(\frac{1-\mu +\beta}{1-\mu + \alpha }\right) \|u\|.$$
\end{proof}
Let $ \theta \in ]0, \frac{1}{2}[ $, we define the cone $$K= \left\lbrace u \in C([0,1],\ \mathbb{R}),\ u \geq 0 :  \min_{t\in [\theta ,1-\theta]} u(t) \geq  \frac{\theta^2}{2}\left(\frac{1-\mu +\beta}{1-\mu + \alpha }\right) \|u\| \right\rbrace,$$
and the operator $ A :K \rightarrow C[0,1] $ by
\begin{equation}\label{eq16}
Au(t)= \int_0 ^1 G(t,s)f(u(s))ds +\frac{t^2}{1-\mu}\int_0 ^1 g(\tau)\left[ \int_0 ^1 G(\tau,s)f(u(s))ds \right]d\tau .
\end{equation}
\begin{remark}
By Lemma \ref{l1}, problem \eqref{eq1}-\eqref{eq2} has a positive solution $ u(t)$ if and only if $ u $ is a fixed point of $ A $.
\end{remark}
\begin{lemma}
The operator $ A $ defined in \eqref{eq16} is completely continuous and satisfies $ AK \subset K$ .
\end{lemma}
\begin{proof}
From Lemma \ref{l4}, we obtain $  AK \subset K $. By an application of Arzela-Ascoli theorem $ A$ is completely continuous.
\end{proof}

For convenience, we introduce the following notations
$$ f_{0} = \lim_{u\rightarrow 0^{+}} \frac{f(u)}{u} ,\hspace{2mm} f_{\infty} = \lim_{u\rightarrow +\infty} \frac{f(u)}{u} $$

\section{Existence of positive solutions}
In this section , we will state and prove our main results.
\begin{theorem}\label{T2}
Assume that $ f_{0} = 0 $ and $ f_{\infty} = \infty $ (superlinear). Then the  problem \eqref{eq1} and \eqref{eq2} has at least one positive solution.
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
Since $ f_{0} = 0 $, there exists  $ \rho_1 > 0 $ such that $ f(u) \leq \epsilon u $, for $0 <u \leq \rho_1 $, where  $ \epsilon > 0 $ satisfies
$$\frac{\epsilon (1 - \mu + \alpha)}{1 - \mu } \leq 1 .$$
Thus, if we let $$ \Omega_1 = \{u \in C[0,1]:\|u\| < \rho_1 \} ,$$
then, for $ u \in K \cap \partial \Omega_1$, we have
\begin{equation}\label{eq17}
\begin{split}
Au(t)&= \int_0 ^1 G(t,s)f(u(s))ds +\frac{t^2}{1-\mu}\int_0 ^1 g(\tau)\left[ \int_0 ^1 G(\tau,s)f(u(s))ds \right]d\tau \\
& \leq \int_0 ^1 G(t,s)f(u(s))ds +\frac{1}{1-\mu}\int_0 ^1 g(\tau)\left[ \int_0 ^1 G(\tau,s)f(u(s))ds \right]d\tau \\
&\leq \int_0 ^1 s (1-s)^2 \epsilon u(s)ds + \frac{\alpha}{1-\mu}\int_0 ^1 s(1-s)^2 \epsilon u(s)ds\\
&\leq \frac{\epsilon (1-\mu + \alpha)}{1-\mu}\|u\| \int_0 ^1 s (1-s)^2 ds\\
&\leq \|u\|,
\end{split}
\end{equation}
which yields $$ \|Au \|\leq \|u\|,\ u \in K \cap \partial \Omega_1 .$$
On the other hand, since $ f_\infty =\infty $, there exists $ \hat{\rho}_2  > 0$ such that $ f(u)\geq \delta u$, for $ u >  \hat{\rho}_2 $, where $ \delta >0 $  is chosen so that
\begin{equation*}
\delta \frac{\theta^4}{24}\frac{(1-\mu + \beta)^2}{(1-\mu)(1-\mu + \alpha)}(1-2\theta)\left(\frac{1}{2} +\theta -\theta^2\right)\geq 1.
\end{equation*}
Let $ \rho_2 = \max \left\lbrace 2 \rho_1 ,\frac{2 \hat{\rho}_2 (1-\mu + \alpha)}{\theta^2 (1-\mu + \beta)}\right\rbrace $ and $ \Omega_2 = \left\lbrace u \in C[0,1]: \|u \| < \rho_2 \right\rbrace $. Then $ u \in K \cap \partial \Omega_2 $ implies that
\[ \min _{t\in [\theta , 1- \theta]}u(t) \geq \frac{\theta ^2}{2}\left( \frac{1-\mu +\beta}{1-\mu + \alpha}\right) \|u\|= \frac{\theta ^2}{2}\left( \frac{1-\mu +\beta}{1-\mu + \alpha}\right)\rho_2 \geq \hat{\rho}_2.\]
So, by \eqref{eq16} and for $ t \in [\theta, 1-\theta]$, we get
\begin{equation}\label{eq18}
\begin{split}
Au(t)&= \int_{0}^{1}G(t,s)f(u(s))ds + \frac{t^2}{1-\mu}\int_{0}^{1}g(\tau)\left[\int_{0}^{1}G(\tau,s)f(u(s))ds \right] d\tau\\
&\geq \frac{\theta^2}{2}\int_{\theta}^{1-\theta} s(1-s)^2 \delta u(s)ds+\frac{\theta^2}{1-\mu}\int_{\theta}^{1-\theta}g(\tau)\left[\int_{\theta}^{1-\theta}\frac{\theta^2}{2}s(1-s)^2 \delta u(s) ds \right]d\tau\\
&= \frac{\theta^2}{2}\int_{\theta}^{1-\theta} s(1-s)^2 \delta u(s)ds + \frac{\beta}{1-\mu} \int_{\theta}^{1-\theta}\frac{\theta^2}{2}s(1-s)^2 \delta u(s) ds \\
&= \frac{\theta^2}{2}\delta \left(\frac{1-\mu +\beta }{1-\mu } \right)\int_{\theta}^{1-\theta}s(1-s)^2 u(s)ds \\
&\geq   \frac{\theta^2}{2}\delta \left(\frac{1-\mu +\beta }{1-\mu } \right)\min_{t\in [\theta ,1-\theta]} u(t)\int_{\theta}^{1-\theta}s(1-s)^2 ds \\
&\geq   \frac{\theta^2}{2}\delta \left(\frac{1-\mu +\beta }{1-\mu } \right)\frac{\theta^2}{2}\left(\frac{1-\mu +\beta}{1-\mu +\alpha}\right) \frac{1}{6}(1-2\theta)\left(\frac{1}{2}+\theta - \theta^2\right) \|u\| \\
&= \delta \frac{\theta^4 (1-\mu + \beta)^2}{24(1-\mu)(1-\mu +\alpha)} (1-2\theta)\left(\frac{1}{2}+\theta -\theta^2\right) \|u\| \\
&\geq \|u\| .
\end{split}
\end{equation}
Therefore, $ \|Au\| \geq \|u\|,\ u\in K\cap \partial \Omega_2 $.\\
By Theorem \ref{T1}, the operator  $ A $ has a fixed point in $ K\cap (\overline{\Omega_{2}}  \setminus \Omega_1) $ such that $ \rho_1 \leq \|u\| \leq \rho_{2} $, which is a solution of the problem \eqref{eq1} and \eqref{eq2}.
\end{proof}

\begin{theorem} \label{T3}
Assume that $ f_0 = \infty  $ and $ f_{\infty} =0$ (sublinear). Then the  problem \eqref{eq1} and \eqref{eq2} has at least one positive solution .
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
Since  $ f_{0} = \infty $, there exists $ \rho_1 >0 $ such that $ f(u) \geq \lambda u $, for $ 0 < u\leq \rho_1$,\\ where $ \lambda $ is chosen so that
\begin{equation*}
\lambda \frac{\theta^4 (1-\mu + \beta)^2}{24(1-\mu)(1-\mu +\alpha)} (1-2\theta)\left(\frac{1}{2}+\theta -\theta^2\right)\geq 1.
\end{equation*}
Thus, for $ u \in K \cap \partial \Omega_1 $ with
\begin{equation*}
\Omega_1 = \{u \in C[0,1]:\|u\| < \rho_1\} ,
\end{equation*}
and by \eqref{eq18}, we get
\begin{equation}\label{eq19}
\begin{split}
Au(t)&= \int_{0}^{1}G(t,s)f(u(s))ds  + \frac{t^2}{1-\mu}\int_{0}^{1}g(\tau)\left[\int_{0}^{1}G(\tau,s)f(u(s))ds \right] d\tau\\
&\geq \frac{\theta^{2}}{2}\int_{\theta}^{1-\theta} s(1-s)^{2} \lambda u(s)ds  + \frac{\theta^2}{1-\mu}\int_{\theta}^{1-\theta}g(\tau)\left[\int_{\theta}^{1-\theta} \frac{\theta^{2}}{2} s (1-s)^{2} \lambda u(s)ds \right] d\tau \\
&\geq \lambda \frac{\theta^4 (1-\mu + \beta)^2}{24(1-\mu)(1-\mu +\alpha)} (1-2\theta)\left(\frac{1}{2}+\theta -\theta^2\right) \|u\| \\
&\geq \|u\|.
\end{split}
\end{equation}

Then, $ Au(t) \geq \| u \| $ for $ t \in [\theta , 1- \theta] $, which implies that
\begin{equation*}
\|Au\| \geq \|u\|,\hspace{2mm}u \in K\cap \partial \Omega_1 .
\end{equation*}
Now, we construct the set  $ \Omega_2 $. We have two  possible cases :  \\
Case 1. If $ f $ is bounded. Then there exists $ L > 0 $ such that $ f(u) \leq L $.\\
Set $ \Omega_2 = \{u \in C [0,1]: \|u\| < \rho_2 \} $, where $ \rho_2 = \max \left\lbrace 2\rho_1 , \frac{L(1-\mu +\alpha)}{1-\mu}\right\rbrace $. \\ If $ u \in K \cap \partial \Omega_2 $ , similar to the estimates of \eqref{eq17}, we get
\begin{equation*}
\begin{split}
Au(t) &\leq \frac{L(1-\mu + \alpha)}{1-\mu}\int_{0}^{1}s(1-s)^2 ds \\
&\leq \frac{L(1-\mu + \alpha)}{1-\mu} \leq \rho_2 = \|u\|,
\end{split}
\end{equation*}
and consequently,
$$ \|Au \| \leq \|u\|,\ u \in K \cap \partial \Omega_2 .$$
Case 2. Suppose that $ f $ is unbounded. Because $ f_{\infty} =0 $, so there exists $ \hat{\rho}_2 > 0\hspace{2mm} (\hat{\rho}_2 >\rho_1) $ such that $ f(u) \leq \eta u $ for $ u > \hat{\rho}_2 $, where  $ \eta > 0 $ satisfies \\  $$ \frac{\eta (1-\mu +\alpha)}{1-\mu}\leq 1 . $$
But, from condition \rm{(H1)}, there exists $ \sigma > 0 $ such that $ f(u) \leq \eta \sigma $, with $ 0 \leq u \leq \hat{\rho}_2 $. \\
Set  $ \Omega_2 = \{ u \in C[0,1]: \|u\| < \rho_2 \} $, where  $ \rho_2 = \max \{ \sigma , \hat{\rho}_2\} $.\\
If $ u \in K \cap \partial \Omega_2 $, then we have $ f(u) \leq \eta \rho_{2} $. Similar to the estimates  \eqref{eq17}, we obtain
\begin{equation*}
\begin{split}
Au(t)&\leq \frac{\eta \rho_2 (1-\mu + \alpha)}{1-\mu}\int_{0}^{1}s(1-s)^2 ds\\
&\leq \frac{\eta \rho_2 (1-\mu + \alpha)}{1-\mu} \leq \rho_2 = \|u\|.
\end{split}
\end{equation*}
This implies that $\|Au \| \leq \|u\|$, for  $ u \in K \cap \partial \Omega_2$.\\

Therefore, it follows from Theorem \ref{T1} that $ A $ has a fixed point in $ u \in K \cap( \overline{\Omega_{2}} \setminus \Omega_{1}) $, which is a positive solution of problem \eqref{eq1} and \eqref{eq2} .
\end{proof}

\section{Examples}

\begin{example}Consider the boundary value problem
\begin{equation}\label{eq20}
u^{\prime \prime \prime }(t) + u^{2} e^{u} = 0,\ t \in (0,1),
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}\label{eq21}
u(0) = u^{\prime}(0)= 0,\ u(1) = \int_{0}^{1}s^{4} u(s)ds,
\end{equation}
where $ f(u) = u^{2} e^{u} \in C( [0, \infty), [0,\infty ))$ and $ g(t)= t^{4}\geq 0$,
$ \mu = \int_{0}^{1} t^{2}  g(t)dt = \int_{0}^{1} t^{6} dt = \frac{1}{7} < 1.$ \\
We have
\begin{align*}
\lim_{u\rightarrow 0^{+}} \frac{f(u)}{u}& = \lim_{u\rightarrow 0^{+}} \frac{u^{2} e^{u} }{u} = 0,\\
\lim_{u\rightarrow +\infty } \frac{f(u)}{u} &= \lim_{u\rightarrow +\infty } \frac{u^{2} e^{u} }{u} = +\infty.
\end{align*}
Then, by Theorem \ref{T2}, the problem \eqref{eq20}-\eqref{eq21} has at least one positive solution .
\end{example}

\begin{example}Consider the boundary value problem
\begin{equation}\label{eq22}
u^{\prime \prime \prime }(t) + \sqrt{u} + \ln (1+u) = 0,\ t \in (0,1),
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}\label{eq23}
u(0) = u^{\prime}(0) = 0,\ u(1) = \int_{0}^{1} s^{6} u(s)ds,
\end{equation}
where $ g(t) = t^{6}$ and $ f(u) = \sqrt{u} + \ln (1+u) \in C( [0, \infty), [0,\infty ))$,
so $ \mu = \int_{0}^{1} s^{8} ds = \frac{1}{9} < 1$. We have
\begin{align*}
\lim_{u\rightarrow 0^{+}} \frac{f(u)}{u} &= \lim_{u\rightarrow 0^{+}} \frac{\sqrt{u} + \ln (1+u)}{u} = +\infty,\\
\lim_{u\rightarrow +\infty } \frac{f(u)}{u} &= \lim_{u\rightarrow +\infty } \frac{\sqrt{u} + \ln (1+u)}{u} = 0.
\end{align*}
From Theorem \ref{T3}, the problem \eqref{eq22}-\eqref{eq23} has at least one positive solution .
\end{example}

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Note that, contrary to rumor, there is NO limit of $600 for book royalties. For book royalties, the limit is $10, meaning that if you earned at least $10 in royalties, you should account for this in your tax return. Amazon will have sent the information to the IRS. Most authors can use Schedule C-EZ, but if you earned too much, you need Schedule C instead, and also if you earn enough, you need to file SE (in addition to Schedule C) for self-employment tax (but if you file SE, there is another place to deduct a little on the 1040). You can subtract reasonable business expenses. (If you feel that writing is a hobby, don't go by your feeling: There is a chart on the IRS website that can help you determine whether or not the IRS will agree with you about this.) Note that I'm NOT an accountant or tax attorney, so I'm not qualified to advise you on your taxes. You should consult a qualified tax professional for help. I'm just trying to help you find all of your forms and get you pointed in the right direction, and if you do hire a tax professional, you should try to follow along to ensure that they aren't making any mistakes.
AMEU – UK Digital Services (United Kingdom). It's for print sales even though it says Digital, provided that you see CRTSPACE in the bottom left box.
You may have yet another 1099 if you use Amazon Associates, for example. This 1099 is designated ASSOC in the bottom left box.
How do I know which marketplace corresponds to which 1099? I visited KDP and CreateSpace and totaled up all the payments I received in USD from each marketplace in tax year 2015, and checked these numbers against my 1099's. You should do the same, just to make sure there were no mistakes.
When you log into KDP, click Reports, then click Payments. Next, choose the appropriate marketplace from the dropdown menu. Be sure to look at the Date column, not the Sales Period, and look for 2015.
I think it should schedule E (royalties) not C. Check the instructions on the 1099-MISC Amazon sends out.
Schedule E doesn't seem a good fit given that it seems applicable mostly to minerals, real estate, etc. but it does expressly state it is also for copyright royalties. But as we all know, the tax code and IRS regs are not for the faint of heart. That's why law schools actually have Masters of Law in Taxation (the degree beyond JD). May not matter greatly so long as all the income is reported. But a link to something would be great.
Here is a good thread (it has arguments from both sides): https://kdp.amazon.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=421517&#421517.
However, reading that thread from a few years back, it seems that the language on some of these forms (maybe even the box number on the 1099 in which Amazon reports the royalties) has changed. More recent discussions on the forum also seem to favor C (though authors on the forums also aren't tax professionals). Maybe there is language in the instructions for schedules C and E that will help clarify. Update: Sally's comment (below) brings up the difference between payments and royalties, and how the IRS definition of royalties may differ from how authors tend to interpret this word.
Thanks, Chris. I received my forms in the mail, last year, and didn't know what to make of them this year.
My….goodness. You have to fill in ALL those forms???
Amazon fills them in before they send them to us, but we need to account for them all in our tax returns. If sending in the original forms, this just means adding up the numbers. But when filing electronically, it means uploading data from all these 1099's, so it can get tedious.
Gah…not wrong. Thanks for the info.
QUESTION: isn't there a difference between "royalties" and "payments"?
E.g., don't we get payments when people purchase our books and AZ or CS or another distributor gives us our author's portion each month or quarter?
And, don't we get royalties when people use parts or all of our writing for another purpose?
Furthermore, aren't "royalties" sometimes known as "residuals" if that money turns out to come to the author from replays of episodes of our TV show or a replay of our film on TV or payments from resales of our books in secondary markets?
REBLOGGED and very grateful for this, Chris, and the subsequent discussion, which I suggest you turn into another post once we have this all sorted out!
The instructions for 1099-MISC do mention differences between royalties, payments, and rents.
It appears that the IRS uses the word "royalty" in a different way than authors tend to think of it.
You may be right, what authors typically receive are payments. That may explain why Schedule C seems to be recommended (over Schedule E) for authors on many of the community forums.
Thanks, Chris. I appreciate all your thoughts and info and the discussion you've inspired!
You're welcome. Thank you for your comment. I had forgotten about that distinction in the IRS's language.
When do you send out the 1099-misc? I have not received one this year.
You should have received them in early February. At KDP, you get them online.
Great information! Thanks for sharing this!


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In the center of the wheel, there are three animals symbols of the "Three Poisons": ignorance (the pig), attachment (the bird) and anger (the snake).


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Saturday, 4th March 2017
Torment: Tides of Numenera - The first hour
remakes and sequels
Tides of Numenera is out! It took only 18 years from the release of the cult classic Planescape: Torment for us to finally be able to enjoy the sequel. I already took some steps into the game and wrote about my first hour in the world of Tides of Numenera. But first things first, let's start with Planescape: Torment.
WHAT IS PLANESCAPE: TORMENT?
Planescape: Torment is, simply put, one of the best CRPGs ever released for PC. It was developed using the Infinity Engine (Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale) by Black Isle Studios in 1999. Torment wasn't a commercial success, but it was very well received by critics and gamers alike: it became a cult classic in no time. Also, Planescape: Torment is remembered for being focused on characters and story rather than combat and loot. There is lots of text to read: dialogue, descriptions, quests. If you didn't play it back then, go get it from GOG and search for mods and fixes to play it in widescreen mode.
MY FIRST HOUR IN TIDES OF NUMENERA
The tutorial and the introduction to the world of Numenera and the story of Torment is like walking around in a thick fog. I mena... I wasn't welcomed by common RPG terms like "experience" or "warrior, mage, thief" or "potions". Instead, the game feeds you concepts like the "tides", "cyphers" and the three available classes: Glave, Nano and Jack. For someone that's refreshing, for someone else means learning a new terminology and a few new gameplay mechanics. After all, Tides of Numenera is sci-fi (sort of); this isn't your typical D&D role-playing game! Instead, this new Torment is based on the RPG system called Numenera, created by Monte Cook.
The tutorial tries to explain all this and throws in some story elements. Once again you have (almost) no memory of who you are and where you come from and that fits perfectly with the fact that you, as a player, know nothing of the Numenera world. You're learning about the world as your character walks around and talks to people.
At a first glance, the gameplay feels simplified and, like Planescape: Torment, it's clear from the beginning that the designers put much more effort in the dialogue and the story than anything else. There is a lot of text to read: descriptions of what's happening around you, lines of dialogue, etc. That put me off a little. In an era where anything is shown on the screen, the first scene of the game is just narrative. Ask yourself: am I prepared to read A LOT?
So, after a while, I finished the tutorial, explored a little, talked a lot to a couple of NPCs and to a machine (at least... I think it was a machine) and learned about crises. What is a crisis? It's a situation that requires you to take some action(s) and make choices, not necessarily involving combat. After these few steps in the world of Numenera, I can say that things are evolving in an interesting way. I already made an apparently game-changing choice and I can't predict the consequences of what I just did (and no, I'm not spoilering anything). This gives me hope for the game and makes me want to come back to see what is going to happen.
More on Tides of Numenera in a few days...
WHERE TO BUY IT?
Tides of Numenera is out on the major digital distribution platform. As you probably know it, I'm partial to GOG (it's called Good Old Games for a reason) so... here's the link where you can get Torment: Tides of Numenera on GOG.
Title: Torment: Tides of Numenera
Developer: inXile Entertainment
Publisher: Techland Publishing
Genre: single player RPG
Prequel: Planescape: Torment
Release: February 28th 2017
Designers: Adam Heine, Colin McComb, George Ziets
Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torment:_Tides_of_Numenera
Official site: https://torment.inxile-entertainment.com/

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February 12, 2003 Music » Critics' Picks
Jason Ringenberg with Brian Henneman
Friday, February 14; Off Broadway
By Daniel Durchholz
Listen to the rip-snortin' "Honky Tonk Maniac From Mars," the opening cut from Jason Ringenberg's latest album, All Over Creation, and you'll find it hard to believe that two decades have passed since Ringenberg and his band, the Scorchers, helped birth the alt-country movement with their debut EP, "Fervor," and its shitkicking version of Bob Dylan's "Absolutely Sweet Marie." As far in his past as that landmark effort may be, the Illinois native can still kick up a cowpunk ruckus potent enough to peel paint.
For the most part, though, Ringenberg has been heading in a mellower direction lately. His previous effort, Pocketful of Soul, was a mostly acoustic meditation on the values of hearth and home. The aptly titled All Over Creation is a more ambitious work, ranging from pop and rock to country and folk and boasting an impressive supporting cast, including Steve Earle, Paul Burch, Lambchop and BR549.
When Ringenberg performs at Off Broadway, his opening act will be Brian Henneman (pictured) (of the Bottle Rockets and Diesel Island). Henneman arguably owes his livelihood to Jason and the Scorchers and a few other hard-twangin' bands of so long ago. But it's a good match, because Henneman has always done the tradition proud.
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Chocolate is a very popular snack, but very few people actually know its health benefits. It is amazing what chocolate can do for your health. A savory snack that makes us feel good and is packed with loads of nutrients, it is a bonafide superfood or super snack. Chocolate has an array of benefits. Among these is the fact that it is very good for your skin and its general condition. The skin is an indicator of the general body health and condition. Chocolate can make us look a few years younger than we actually are, something everyone these days wants. Indulging from time to time is therefore beneficial. Whenever you reach out for a bar of chocolate, go for dark chocolate, which has been shown to be the most effective.
Here are 5 benefits of chocolate for your skin that may shock you.
These are nutrients in chocolate that delay ageing. Snacking on chocolate does exactly that. Take it dark, because then it contains more than 70% cocoa, making it the best healthy chocolate. The antioxidants in dark chocolate act on harmful free radicals in skin cells, protecting them from accelerated ageing. This way, it keeps your skin looking young, fresh, and youthful. It is what we all want, not looking a day older than we actually are.
Healthy skin requires an adequate flow of blood. This is important in nourishing and cleansing the skin. With good blood flow, skin is constantly supplied with the nutrients it requires while at the same metabolic waste is removed. A balance is thus maintained keeping the skin functioning at its best. Compounds in cocoa have been shown to improve circulation in the arteries. The result is healthier, supple skin.
Rich in vitamins A, B1, C, D and E. These nutrients are important metabolic intermediates for reactions that take place in skin cells that help keep skin glowing and radiant. They help the skin retain its moisture, protecting the skin from the elements. This keeps skin looking good all year long from summer to winter when the elements are at their harshest.
The sun is a good thing. Sunlight is important for our health. However, the suns rays have Ultraviolet light. On overexposure, UV light is actually harmful to the overall health of the skin. This can be manifested in the form of sunburns and cancers. Dark chocolate contains compounds known as Flavonoids which can protect the skin from the sun and the damage it can potentially cause. Chocolate thus provides protection to the skin, freeing it from blemishes.
It is these fats that keep your skin plump and hydrated. They contribute to the bulk of the skin since they play a part in adipose tissue formation. Adipose tissue is important for insulation, especially during the cold months. It also helps in keeping skin hydrated by retaining moisture content. Skin is thus kept soft and moist.
It is amazing what chocolate can do for your skin. Try it and see for yourself what this healthy snack can do for you. Whenever you crave a sweet, healthy treat, make sure you reach out for some chocolate. Just be careful not to overindulge. Too much of anything may have negative effects.
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Racing To Zero (59 min) is a quick-moving, up-beat documentary that presents new solutions to the global problem of waste. Although waste may create garbage, garbage is in itself a resource, and that is the key. Our film follows the trail of trash and recycling with our guide, Robert Haley, Zero Waste Manager for the City of San Francisco as we travel the city from high to low and look behind-the-scenes at how zero waste can be achieved.
Co-sponsored by Simply Living, the Columbus Free Press, and the Columbus Film Council.
City of the Damned focuses on LGBT rights in the face of the brutal anti-homosexuality bill before the Ugandan Parliament. Although the death penalty has been withdrawn from the bill due heavily to international pressure, punishments are harsh and public opinion remains the biggest threat to the Ugandan LGBT community. The daring non-governmental organization Youth on Rock Foundation is fighting against this stigma by promoting economic empowerment among its members. Najib, YRF's treasurer, sells clothes in Uganda's largest market. He wants to prove that his sexuality does not define him; it's his respect for life, his determination for equality, and his aspirations to become a lawyer and self-respecting Ugandan citizen.
As most of the world moves forward toward gay equality, Russia is seemingly heading backward. Antigay sentiment and legislation are spreading rapidly throughout the country. In 2013, the Russian parliament passed a ban on so-called 'gay propaganda' that effectively makes nearly any public discussion of gay equality a crime.
Q&A with filmmakers Michael Lucas and Stephanie Lincoln following the films.
Admission is $8 or FREE for 2014 CFC/CIF+VF Members, CCAD students and staff.
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8 size small pocket diapers. 4 have been used a handful of times, 4 are new with tags. All in perfect condition.
Asking 9ppd each for 1, or less if you buy more than one, and even less if you buy them all. I can include BG newborn microfiber inserts if you want and if they don't add much to shipping. I do have 6 of the FB Organic inserts, but they're size XS/FY, so not perfect for these pockets.


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Q: How to create text labels with background boxes? I'm trying to create some custom labels for point features in a QGIS point vector layer, and I want to write a python plugin to do it.  We need our labels to be presented with color tinted rectangles behind them (or else!). The labels are long strings, and are created using labeling engine expressions and conditionals.
I thought the easiest way would be to let the user set up labels for the active layer the way they want, and then let my plugin can grab the label text from the features in the layer and use the text strings to create boxes. My problem is I can't find a way to access those text strings in the QGIS API. How are label strings generated by the labeling engine stored in QGIS and how can I get to them?

A: In QGIS 2.0, you can create background rectangles, ovals or custom SVG shapes without the need for a plugin. Just go to Layer Properties | Label | Background section.

If you want to code something. This might be a starting point: http://doc.qgis.org/api/qgspallabeling_8cpp_source.html#l04333

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Revamped Giants defense playing big part in 2-0 start
Sports // NFL
Tom Canavan The Associated Press
Giants outside linebacker Jonathan Casillas (52) celebrates with teammate Janoris Jenkins and Devon Kennard (59) and Olivier Vernon (54) after Jenkins returned a blocked field goal for a touchdown on Sunday.Kathy Willens — The Associated Press
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. >> Spending a lot of money to sign free agents is never a guarantee that it will turn a losing team around. Sometimes, the new people just don't work out. Sometimes, the chemistry never develops.
Two games into the NFL season, the New York Giants' decision to sink more than $100 million into the NFL's worst defense is working out just fine.
The Giants are off to their first 2-0 start since 2009, and the defense has played a major role, allowing a combined 32 points in wins over Dallas and New Orleans (0-2).
Steve Spagnuolo's unit was outstanding Sunday in limiting Drew Brees and the Saints' high-scoring offense to 288 yards in a 16-13 decision that was decided when Victor Cruz hauled in a 34-yard pass to set up Josh Brown's winning 23-yard field goal as time expired.
"I didn't really know what to expect to be honest," said cornerback Janoris Jenkins, who was signed as a free agent, along with defensive end Olivier Vernon and defensive tackle Damon Harrison. "But as spring went on, I started working with guys like DRC (Dominique Rodger-Cromartie) and Eli Apple and the linebackers and we realized that we could have something special."
The last time the Giants faced the Saints, Brees threw for 511 yards and tied a single-game NFL record with seven touchdown passes in a 52-49 win. His longest pass Sunday was 23 yards and New Orleans was limited to 3 of 13 on third down.
Defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul says the defense is a lot better than a year ago.
"It wasn't fifty-plus points," he said. "That's a good quarterback out there and everybody knows that. He was getting rid of the ball quickly and I was getting frustrated out there and those guys, too, were frustrated but we just had to keep our composure and got the job done."
The Saints blamed themselves for a second straight close loss. Their defense forced three turnovers and did not allow a touchdown.
"Don't get me wrong, that's a good defense over there, but they didn't do anything special to stop us," Saints receiver Brandin Cooks said. "We felt like we bit ourselves in the foot so many times, we stopped ourselves on the offensive side."
Things we learned as the Giants improve to 2-0 under new coach Ben McAdoo with a win over the Saints:
THE BIG THREE: There was talk throughout training camp that Eli Manning was going to have a big year if Odell Beckham Jr., rookie Sterling Shepard and Cruz could play together.
The three came through against the Saints, combining for 20 catches for 294 yards. Beckham had eight catches for 86 and drew a pass interference on the final drive. Shepard had eight catches for 117 and caught a third-down pass for 6 yards to keep the final drive alive. Cruz's 34-yard catch came on a third-and-8 on the final drive.
"As long as we continue to understand what each other's best roles are and what our best attributes are, and continue to do them," said Cruz, who had four catches for 91 yards, with his longest of 40 yards, ending in a lost fumble, " I think the sky is the limit for us."
DON'T GET TOO EXCITED: While the Giants are winning, they have outscored their two opponents by a total of four points. They need to improve to get back to the playoffs for the first time since the 2011 season.
And that 2009 team, it won its first five games. It finished 8-8.
BROWN BACK: Brown kicked field goals of 48, 19 and 23 yards in his return after serving a one-game suspension for violating the NFL's personal conduct policy.
"It's good to be back," said Brown who spent the week at home with his daughter. "Long week last week. It was hard to watch the game. It was great to be out there and be able to kick again."
Brown refused to answer questions about his former wife's allegations that he subjected her to domestic violence more than 20 times. No charges were filed relating to his arrest in that May 2015 incident.


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Blair Francey is a 2012 MA Design: Critical Practice graduate at Goldsmiths; when it came to chatting to him about his work here and beyond, we had to resort to Skype, as he has already returned to his native Canada. We had quite a bit to talk about: Blair runs his own design startup, BFDesign, offering branding, print media, consultations and social media planning services. The firm has been going for 4 years and Blair told me he was very pleased with how it was going. He also had good things to say about his time at Goldsmiths, which he called an "eye-opener", expanding his idea about what a designer is and does, and giving him the chance to be around designers from so many different backgrounds and specialties, and…well, here's some of the actual chatting:
Q: Tell me more about your graduation project, "Public Transit Remixed".
A: The more politicians talk about expanding the transit network here in Toronto and the province, the more I realized how little they talked about the actual experience of being on transit. It was always centered around moving people further and faster. So I wanted to approach public transit from the experiential standpoint … what does it mean to ride transit and how can it become more than just jumping on a train to get somewhere? How can it become engaging for everyone, more inclusive, easier to use …
Q: What ideas did you come up with?
A: I looked at what a completely integrated system would look like – what if the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) took over all forms of transit in the city – walking, cycling, ferries, auto-share cars, trams, etc – and created a seamless network accessible through one card?
One idea is to create walking maps that look like the Underground network to encourage people to walk through a city – so instead of saying walk to Bay Street and then down Yonge, you'd say, take the Red line across and change at the Blue line (or something to that effect.) This would also be applied to things like bike maps and signage for cycling so that it becomes easier to navigate through the city streets.
A lot of our subway stations here are single-use buildings that are one level – so why not build them up? Multi-story subway stations would then become community hubs with space on top for shared workspaces (so people didn't have to commute all the way downtown and clog up the subways), or a cafe, or a community centre, or a rooftop garden with an urban farm on it. I basically looked at various aspects of the current system and tried to approach it from a holistic standpoint as opposed to the fragmented way it is at the moment.
Q: How does one go about implementing such ideas? Have you tried pitching them to authorities who could do that?
A: Implementing a concept like the one I've proposed would take a lot of political will-power. Unfortunately we suffer from a consistent lack of political foresight when it comes to transit in Toronto and are currently facing the longest commute times for drivers in all of North America – which is staggering. According to the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) in 2007, we're also losing $3 Billion dollars worth of productivity because of these commute times. I would very much like to talk to people at the TTC and City and see what kind of interest there is in beginning to shift focus and thinking about the design of the network to something like this project, but in all honesty, it's a bit of a long shot that anything like this would get picked up right away. But I think moving forward, the City and Province (and Federal government) need to think about this type of work alongside the infrastructure.
Q: Now, looking at the client list of your firm: most of them are from the field of theatre and performing arts. You have studied playwriting yourself, so you understand both aspects of the story, the art and the branding and marketing of the finished work. Is it an advantage for you to be "one of them" to a certain extent?
A: Yes, I think it is. I started out in theatre and was thinking that was the direction I was headed in and then decided to change careers when I started BFdesign. I think that having worked in theatre certainly influences my work as a designer today – because of the understanding of narrative. It's important that you can visually tell a story for your client and engage them through the design of whatever it is you're selling.
I think there's a bit of a lack of understanding of this in the theatre community … here in Toronto anyway. The bigger musicals seem to get it and London does it pretty well – marketing shows – but time after time I see posters for shows here that are a bit too … 'artsy' if that makes sense. Because we are constantly bombarded with advertising everywhere we go these days you really have to stand out in the crowd. Hollywood does a good job in marketing movies with very interesting and engaging images on posters – I think the theatre community could take a cue from this type of marketing better …
Q: You mentioned that you take a storytelling approach to design. But what is design to you?
A: Design is … a process. It's a reimagining of something that exists or the imagining of something that can enhance our lives (talking in broad strokes here). I see design as a way to better ourselves be it through print, the environment, transit etc. Design tells a story – it has an inherit narrative. We as humans are constantly striving to better ourselves and it's through design that we can achieve this – and so design is an ever-evolving process. We may answer a problem through design but that answer will inevitably offer more questions.
Q: What else would you like to tell people about yourself and your work?
A: That it's awesome! Just kidding. My work is in flux at the moment. I'm taking this year to re-evaluate what it is I want to do in the future as a designer. Graphic design will always be something I'm interested in and will continue to do, but after I completed the MA it gave me a chance to think about what I could be doing beyond the computer. I'm very interested in projects like the public transit one and engaging with communities on a more human-scale.
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Fashion designing is the knack in which the relevance of design and instinctive exquisiteness to attire and embellishments. Fashion design is predisposed by edifying and societal autonomy and has speckled over time and place. Some fashion designers work unaided or as part of a panel. They endeavor to gratify client ardently desire because of the time is requisite to bring a garment onto the souk.
Berlin is the centre of fashion in Germany (prominently displayed at Berlin Fashion Week), while Düsseldorf holds Europe's largest fashion trade fairs with Igedo. Other important centres of the scene are Munich, Hamburg, and Cologne. German fashion is famed for its elegant lines as well as unconventional young designs and the great variety of styles.
Fashion design collection is a range of garments, accessories or products that are designed and produced for sale to retailers or direct to the customer. It is grouped by theme, colour or fabrication, creating a strong fashion statement. This range of items may be inspired by trends and theme. Cultural and social influences are reflecting on design. Designs are usually done for the special occasion or season. Collection is a grouping of outfits that are present for catwalk, online web pages. For the wholesale market, the collection will be shown at trade shows or in-house events. For the general customer designer give their collections on press or magazine by attractive photographs.
A most notable Indian-fashion-designer. He's identified for his work in fashion-industry since 1987, and is another Bollywood-dearest. He got his degree from New York institute of fashion technology, and when came back, realized that there is a huge appeal of designer-wear in India, so he opted for being a dress-stylist and revolutionized the field of fashion in 1987, by opening his very first boutique in India with a name "Ensemble". His own label is named as "Ahilian" and in 1990, established his design studio "Tahiliani Design Studio" in New Delhi. This brand is well-known for artistic and perfect styles. His clothes are sold not only in India but also in London, New York, Tokyo, Dubai and Hong Kong.
If there's one thing that guaranteed Instagram likes all year thus far, it's hair accessories. Whether giant padded headbands or cutesy diamanté clips, the enthusiasm for this outfit add-on shows no sign of slowing down for autumn/winter and the accompanying party season. We were particularly enamoured with the most outré options, like Simone Rocha's crystal tiaras or Alessandra Rich's marabou halos.
The Pantone colour system is an internationally recognized colour referencing system where thousands of shades are numbered. If you want to select your color story, you can use Pantone to develop color standards. Pantone is a color forecasting site. Each color swatch is labeled and categorized with numbers and letters, so you can find your true color easily for designing.
Everyone knows this guy, and I bet you do, too. He's one of the international fashion icons. Yves Saint Laurent became popular as a designer who re-designed menswear into feminine, beautiful garments for women. His name is also closely associated with the phenomenon of 'ready-to-wear' fashion clothing, 'power suits' for women and 'smoking jackets' for men.
Giorgio Armani was born on July 11, in 1934, in Italy. Armani is an iconic and unique fashion designer. His popularity skyrocketed in America in the 1980s with his men's 'power suits'. Armani attracted an enviable fashion following in the 80s with the unstructured jackets and soft trousers in mineral hues. With more than three decades in the business, Armani has enjoyed a longevity as a designer experienced by few others.
Research is a journey of questioning, exploring, conceptualizing and visualizing information generated by observation and investigation. Record the all research information's and creates a rich visual archive which can be used to inspire your designs from theme to final detail. Research is the key direction to good design development. It is actual guideline to start fashion design development process.
Vivienne Westwood, the godmother of punk, is considered one of the most unconventional and outspoken fashion designers in the world. Westwood's fashions woke to fame in the late 1970s when her early designs helped shape the look of the punk rock movement. The highly influential shop changed its name and décor with every collection, and would later be credited for setting off both the punk trend and the new romantic wave. In 1981, Westwood launched her signature collection and has since continued to shock and amuse the fashion world with her hard-core Anglomania.
Over in London, things were distinctly more aggressive: Punk and themes of dissonance could be felt strongly (Brexit, much?), with plenty of tartan, more safety pins than even Johnny Rotten could handle and Vivienne Westwood staging an entire protest about climate change for her show. The strong mood could clearly be felt over the Channel, too, as British designer Sarah Burton's vision for Alexander McQueen this coming season established the poshest and most brilliantly executed iteration on punk we've seen in a long, long time. And talking of being combative, if you don't pick up on the "army" theme of many of the season's biggest shows (Bottega Veneta, Chloé, Miu Miu) and end up buying a pair of combat boots, I'll eat my bucket hat.
Wanderer enlivened looks meets the spectacular fly set styling, and you have gypset, described by striking examples, orientalism and richness of bohemianism. It is one of the greatest design incline for ladies this year, and is absolutely wearable. It is a fun and charming voyage line, starting in the '70s. Zest up your normal work and night closet with a dash of shading and exoticism. Layered tunics with Aladdin pants, oriental-roused embellishments and intense botanical examples, will energize the look.
Fashion design services provide services like trend and color forecasting, market analysis, design concepts and design documentation for manufacturers. This way the manufacturer can contract out the design requirements rather than maintaining an in-house design team. Fashion design services providers can either sell the designs outright or license them out on a royalty basis.
It's rather easy to describe the sporty fashion style: it's sporty! Girls will typically wear some popular sport companies like Adidas or Nike and will always have runner shoes (or similar style shoes) on. They prefer a simple and subtle look that oozes 'sports', with plain colors like white, black, and gray being BIG hits. They won't strive for anything fashionable or flashy and would prefer sweatpants, tight runner pants, and basic tees. Don't forget the ponytail to finish it off!


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Is technology making us stupid?
Here is a list of things I find self evident: pizzas are good, the colour of the sky as seen from the ground in the third planet of the star system Sol can be represented by the RGB hexadecimal code #87CEEB, and whenever a new technology is discovered someone will complain that it is making us stupid/it is unnatural/it should be banned.
Ever since the Internet came along, we have been witness to all sorts of indictments on its intellectual merits. Some are somewhat justified; for example, I believe text-speak to be detrimental to people's ability to communicate with one another (have you ever tried chatting with someone whose vocabulary extends to "OMFG u r stoopid"?) However, new technologies have made our life easier, and have made it possible to access amounts of information like never before. Recently I was re-arranging the books in an old book-case, and was amazed to discover an encyclopaedia, the decadent symbol of a bygone era before Wikipedia and Google.
It would seem like there are those who insist on flogging the line that the Internet is making us somewhat dumber. Take this article by Naomi Alderman in The Guardian. She says:
"And it's not just television that poses a threat to reading, it's the internet too. Of course, using the internet certainly demands literacy. But reading on the internet isn't the same as reading a book. Recent studies have indicated that online reading tends to break down in the face of "texts that require steady focus and linear attention". [...] The Greeks may have replaced their oral traditions with Plato and Aristotle but, though I love computer games, I don't feel that trading the reading culture for Guitar Hero is a fair swap."
While I tend to agree that reading is great, and that there are few things as enjoyable as a good novel, I am baffled by the protestations of the death of the book, and I for one do not feel sentimental or regretful about its eventually inevitable demise. The problem with such wide indictments of new technologies is that they tend to ignore a very simple fact: while we bibliophiles still love the printed word, we have to accept that the tide is turning away from writing, and towards a more rich and democratic experience of expression.
Allow me to formulate this idea a bit more. For centuries, the main manner of communication was the written word. Some few people could read, even fewer could write, and those who could do the former would have a disproportionate influence on the world. Every generation would rely on a few voices to tell its stories, share its dreams, and formulate its goals and ideas. However, when you think about it, this state of affairs is highly elitist. How many valid voices have been lost because they could not communicate to a wider audience? One could be callous and assume that if it cannot be written, then it is not worth it. I answer those with one name, Socrates. We know of his thoughts through Plato's writing (I will not enter the debate of whether Plato accurately conveyed his master's philosophies), and one has to think what would have happened if Plato had not been there to share his thoughts with us.
Similarly, I can think of many people I know whose ideas and understanding of the world seem to be sophisticated and astute, yet have never written a single paragraph worthy of the name. The business of publishing is also inherently elitist, those writing have to jump through several hoops to get their words printed, and even those which are good are read by not many people. Even in the age of the participatory web, those who write tend to be fewer than those who do not. How many voices are being lost to this tyranny of the typeface? Writing requires a special mindset and set of skills that are not shared by all. The fallacy of intellectualism in the last centuries has been to assume that only those with the knack for putting sentences together are worthy of attention. Thankfully, the 20th century has allowed other skills and art-forms to have growing importance in the way we think. The audiovisual arts have a lot of potential to convey complex ideas in efficient an manner. To my mind, I have yet to find a book that describes the political history of the last decade as well as Adam Curtis' excellent documentaries The Power of Nightmares and The Trap.
I recently read an article by Clive Thompson that makes a similar point. He commented that YouTube had the potential to become a new type of communication tool, implying its own rules and languages. He comments:
"What's happening to video is like what happened to word processing. Back in the '70s and early '80s, publishing was a rarefied, expert job. Then Apple's WYSIWYG interface made it drop-dead easy, enabling an explosion of weird new forms of micropublishing and zines. Laptop audio editing did the same thing, giving birth to the mashup and cut-and-paste subgenres of music. Then there's photo manipulation, once a rarefied propaganda technique. Photoshop made it a folk art. [...] Marshall McLuhan pointed out that whenever we get our hands on a new medium we tend to use it like older ones. Early TV broadcasts consisted of guys sitting around reading radio scripts because nobody had realized yet that TV could tell stories differently. It's the same with much of today's webcam video; most people still try to emulate TV and film."
I think there is something true in these words. We should not feel nostalgic about the loss of one form of communication, after all, people still write (you are reading this, are you not?) We should be enthusiastic about the vast range of new technologies that allow us to be able to express ourselves even if we are not able to write that well. Clarity of thought can take many shapes, why should we believe that it can only present itself in black and white?
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Q: Mpdboot: Deprecation Warning I am trying to use the mpdboot command to start 4 processors on which to run my MPI program. I created a mpd.hosts file with 4 nodes (75, 77, 79 and 80). Each of them run python 2.3.4. I also modified the bashrc and cshrc files to ensure that the variables contain the path to the directory of the compiler libraries. I also set up the mpd.conf file and checked that it has rw (600) permissions.
I have copied below the output screen when I run mpdboot
[n@heart]$ mpdboot -n 4 -r ssh
:38: Deprecation Warning: The popen2 module is deprecated.  Use the subprocess module.
n@75's password:xxx
n@77's password:xxx
n@79's password:xxx
n@80's password:xxx
mpdboot_heart.int(err_exit 526): mpd failed to start correctly on heart.int
reason: 0: invalid port from mpd /opt/intel/mpi/2.0/bin/mpd.py:85: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
Killed

PART 2:
I also logged into one of the nodes and tried running mpdboot. Here is the output by doing that
[n@79 ~]$ mpdboot -n 4 -r ssh
n@75's password:xxx
n@77's password:xxx
n@79's password:xxx
n@80's password:xxx
mpdboot_79_0 (mpdboot 499): problem has been detected during mpd(boot) startup at 1 75; output:
Permission denied, please try again.
n@75's password: Permission denied, please try again.
n@77's password: mpdboot_79_0 (mpdboot 515): problem has been detected during mpd(boot) startup at 2 77; output:
Permission denied, please try again.
Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-with-mic,password).
n@77's password: Permission denied, please try again.
Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-with-mic,password).

How should I proceed on this matter?

A: A few points:

*

*You really don't want to use MPD anymore.  That process manager has been deprecated and replaced with the hydra process manager.

*You must be using an old version of MPD (old version of MPICH2) because AFAIK all of those deprecation warnings were fixed as of the 1.1 release.  I doubt you are actually running Python 2.3.4 because I think that those warnings were added to Python in version 2.6.

*With respect to "PART 2", you have a bad ssh configuration.  You need to make sure that passwordless ssh (with ssh keys) works correctly between all hosts.  This will be necessary even if you switch to the hydra process manager, although you may receive a nicer error message in that case.

A: Is mpdboot compatible with such a version of python? That's downright ancient, I didn't know there was even any distribution left that still shipped 2.3. Have you tried with 2.7?


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package openmods.gui.component;

import java.util.List;

import net.minecraft.client.Minecraft;

import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
import com.google.common.collect.Lists;

public abstract class BaseComposite extends BaseComponent {

	protected final List<BaseComponent> components = Lists.newArrayList();

	public BaseComposite(int x, int y) {
		super(x, y);
	}

	protected boolean areChildrenActive() {
		return true;
	}

	public BaseComposite addComponent(BaseComponent component) {
		components.add(component);
		return this;
	}

	private static boolean isComponentEnabled(BaseComponent component) {
		return component != null && component.isEnabled();
	}

	private static boolean isComponentCapturingMouse(BaseComponent component, int mouseX, int mouseY) {
		return isComponentEnabled(component) && component.isMouseOver(mouseX, mouseY);
	}

	protected abstract void renderComponentBackground(Minecraft minecraft, int offsetX, int offsetY, int mouseX, int mouseY);

	protected void renderComponentForeground(Minecraft minecraft, int offsetX, int offsetY, int mouseX, int mouseY) {}

	@Override
	public final void render(Minecraft minecraft, int offsetX, int offsetY, int mouseX, int mouseY) {
		renderComponentBackground(minecraft, offsetX, offsetY, mouseX, mouseY);

		if (!areChildrenActive()) return;

		final int ownX = offsetX + this.x;
		final int ownY = offsetY + this.y;
		final int relMouseX = mouseX - this.x;
		final int relMouseY = mouseY - this.y;

		for (BaseComponent component : components)
			if (isComponentEnabled(component)) {

				component.render(minecraft, ownX, ownY, relMouseX, relMouseY);
			}

		renderComponentForeground(minecraft, offsetX, offsetY, mouseX, mouseY);
	}

	protected void renderComponentOverlay(Minecraft minecraft, int offsetX, int offsetY, int mouseX, int mouseY) {}

	@Override
	public final void renderOverlay(Minecraft minecraft, int offsetX, int offsetY, int mouseX, int mouseY) {
		renderComponentOverlay(minecraft, offsetX, offsetY, mouseX, mouseY);

		if (!areChildrenActive()) return;

		final int ownX = offsetX + this.x;
		final int ownY = offsetY + this.y;
		final int relMouseX = mouseX - this.x;
		final int relMouseY = mouseY - this.y;

		for (BaseComponent component : components)
			if (isComponentEnabled(component)) {
				component.renderOverlay(minecraft, ownX, ownY, relMouseX, relMouseY);
			}

	}

	@Override
	public void keyTyped(char keyChar, int keyCode) {
		super.keyTyped(keyChar, keyCode);

		if (!areChildrenActive()) return;

		for (BaseComponent component : components)
			if (isComponentEnabled(component)) {
				component.keyTyped(keyChar, keyCode);
			}
	}

	// for freezing component list, since element layout may change during listener execution
	private List<BaseComponent> selectComponentsCapturingMouse(int mouseX, int mouseY) {
		ImmutableList.Builder<BaseComponent> result = ImmutableList.builder();

		for (BaseComponent component : components)
			if (isComponentCapturingMouse(component, mouseX, mouseY)) result.add(component);

		return result.build();
	}

	@Override
	public void mouseDown(int mouseX, int mouseY, int button) {
		super.mouseDown(mouseX, mouseY, button);

		if (!areChildrenActive()) return;

		for (BaseComponent component : selectComponentsCapturingMouse(mouseX, mouseY))
			component.mouseDown(mouseX - component.x, mouseY - component.y, button);
	}

	@Override
	public void mouseUp(int mouseX, int mouseY, int button) {
		super.mouseUp(mouseX, mouseY, button);

		if (!areChildrenActive()) return;

		for (BaseComponent component : selectComponentsCapturingMouse(mouseX, mouseY))
			component.mouseUp(mouseX - component.x, mouseY - component.y, button);
	}

	@Override
	public void mouseDrag(int mouseX, int mouseY, int button, /* love you */long time) {
		super.mouseDrag(mouseX, mouseY, button, time);

		if (!areChildrenActive()) return;

		for (BaseComponent component : selectComponentsCapturingMouse(mouseX, mouseY))
			component.mouseDrag(mouseX - component.x, mouseY - component.y, button, time);
	}

}

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Q: How to make slider in/visible in Manipulate? I need your help with making a slider invisible and visible in a Manipulate.
Here is my code:
Manipulate[{},
  {x, 0, 1},
  {y, 0, 1},
  {visible,
    {"only x-slider visible", "only y-slider visible", "both visible"},
    ControlType -> PopupMenu}]

The PopupMenu shows how I want it to function.

A: Here is an option:
Manipulate[{},
  Dynamic@If[visible != "hide x-slider",
             Control[{x, 0, 1}],
             Invisible@Control[{x, 0, 1}]],
  {visible, {"hide x-slider", "show x-slider"}, ControlType -> PopupMenu}]

A: A couple more ways.
PaneSelector, with a blank Row:
Manipulate[{x, y},
 PaneSelector[{True -> Control[{x, 0, 1}], False -> Row[{}]},
   Dynamic[visible != "only y-slider visible"]],
 PaneSelector[{True -> Control[{y, 0, 1}], False -> Row[{}]},
   Dynamic[visible != "only x-slider visible"]],
 {visible, {"only x-slider visible", "only y-slider visible",
            "both visible"}, ControlType -> PopupMenu}]

Dynamic switch between Identity & Invisible:
Manipulate[{x, y},
 Dynamic[If[visible != "only y-slider visible", Identity, Invisible]@
   Control[{x, 0, 1}]],
 Dynamic[If[visible != "only x-slider visible", Identity, Invisible]@
   Control[{y, 0, 1}]],
 {visible, {"only x-slider visible", "only y-slider visible",
            "both visible"}, ControlType -> PopupMenu}]


A daily probiotic pill could be the key to a happy mind as well as a healthy gut, according to new research.
The food supplement named Zenflore has become one of the first 'psychobiotics' available over the counter.
Traditionally, probiotics containing live bacteria and yeasts have been thought to be good for the gut.
Bur they have now been linked to a sense of happiness and a boost in brain power.
Breakthrough research carried out in Ireland three years ago found that bacterial culture bifidobacterium longum 1714 can increase activity in the areas of the brain associated with emotions, learning and memory.
In clinical trials, human guinea pigs taking the bacteria reported being less stressed and anxious.
Zenflore was then created wth the same bacterial strain by Cork-based company PrecisionBiotics.
Director Dr Eileen Murphy said: "We know people are interested in natural options to help them cope with everyday stress.
"The gut-brain axis and more particularly the microbes within the brain-gut axis is one of the most exciting areas of research.
"Indeed, new research is showing that the gut bacteria may play a role in regulating stress responses.
"We have tested Zenflore in placebo-controlled clinical studies in people with everyday stress and we are very encouraged by the results.
"The gut has been called the second brain – there are multiple connections between the gut and the brain including via the vagus nerve.
DR Victoria Manning, a 46-year-old GP, started taking Zenflore following a gallstone operation at the end of July.
She said: "I'm one of these people that worries about everything and I used to take beta blockers to help me calm down as I would get palpitations but since I've been taking Zenflore I've not had to take them.
"I do feel calmer since I started taking Zenflore, previously I would feel anxious and nervous but the butterfly effect has calmed down.
"My sleep has also improved – previously I was waking up once or twice a night. Now I just sleep and I have more energy.
"Come 10pm I am ready for bed.
"I believe Zenflore treats the root cause rather than serving as a sticking plaster.
The findings of the clinical trial were published in 2016 in the Journal Translational Psychiatry.
Advice at NHS Direct states: "There's some evidence that probiotics may be helpful in some cases, such as helping prevent diarrhoea when taking antibiotics, and helping to ease some symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome.
"But there's little evidence to support many health claims made about them. For example, there's no evidence to suggest that probiotics can help treat eczema.
"But for most people, probiotics appear to be safe.


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