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Monthly passenger levels at Changi drop slightly in August 2020
by Andrew 22 September 2020, 15:57 22 September 2020, 15:58
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Changi Airport sees its first monthly passenger decline since airlines began re-adding services in mid-2020
Singapore Changi Airport has released its operating statistics for August 2020, with a small drop in passengers through its terminals to 84,300, a 2% fall compared to July 2020, as overall demand stagnated despite an increase in flight volumes.
Overall with just 2,700 passengers per day this remains a low total, equivalent to a 98.6% reduction compared to August 2019, though it remains a significant improvement on the airport's worst ever month in May 2020, when only 780 passengers passed through the facility per day.
Cargo tonnage at the airport on the other hand had its best month since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in August, reaching over 71% of normal levels, though like passenger throughput this too now appears to have plateaued to a 'temporary new normal'.
Total aircraft takeoffs and landings, including both passenger and freight flights, have continued to progressively increase since April 2020, with a 6% monthly increase recorded for August 2020, however these remained nearly 83% lower than usual.
Passenger totals
Here's how the number of passengers passing through Changi Airport looked so far in 2020 compared to the same months in 2019.
(x 1,000) 2020
(x 1,000) Change
January 5,660 5,950 5.2%
February 5,130 3,450 32.8%
March 5,630 1,650 70.7%
April 5,580 25.2 99.5%
May 5,410 24.5 99.5%
June 5,820 48.2 99.2%
July 5,910 86.0 98.5%
August 5,900 84.3 98.6%
Year to date 45,040 11,318 74.9%
The year got off to a good start with the airport seeing a 5% passenger increase in January 2020 compared to the same month the previous year. That was commensurate with a 4% increase in passenger traffic seen at the airport during 2019.
Flight cancellations as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak then resulted in a one-third drop in passengers for February 2020, falling further in March 2020 and finally bottoming out at the record lows seen for April and May 2020.
With small upticks in both June and July 2020, a small fall has now been recorded for August 2020, with overall traffic remaining down by 98.6% on normal levels. For the year to August 2020, 75% fewer passengers have used Changi compared to the same period in 2019.
Cargo totals
Here's how the air freight tonnage at Changi Airport looked so far in 2020 compared to the same months in 2019.
Cargo totals (tonnes)
January 171 157 8.4%
February 137 147 7.6%
March 185 149 19.1%
April 156 95.8 38.8%
May 172 103 40.0%
June 162 112 31.0%
July 170 119 30.1%
August 169 120 28.9%
Year to date 1,322 1,002 24.1%
The falloff in cargo volumes at the airport came through a little later than for passenger traffic, as dedicated freighter services remained and airlines began operating cargo-only services with their passenger aircraft.
Indeed Singapore Airlines continued to fly three passenger aircraft with only cargo on board for every passenger flight it operated in July 2020.
This helps the airline to earn some revenue and helps to address the significant shortage in cargo capacity that has been brought about by the almost complete lack of passenger flights, which typically carry 75% of SIA's annual cargo in the underfloor holds.
August 2020 saw a small increase in cargo at Changi, the fourth consecutive month with additional freight passing through. At 120,000 tonnes this has plateaued somewhat over recent months, however it is by far the best performing sector for the airport at only 29% less than usual levels based on 2019 data.
Takeoffs and landings
Here's how the number of aircraft takeoff and landings Changi Airport looked so far in 2020 compared to the same months in 2019.
January 32.7 33.4 2.2%
February 29.9 26.2 12.3%
March 32.4 16.2 49.9%
April 31.5 3.87 87.7%
May 31.7 4.47 85.9%
June 31.4 4.78 84.8%
July 32.4 5.25 83.8%
August 32.4 5.56 82.8%
Year to date 254.4 99.8 60.7%
In August 2019 there were 32,400 aircraft movements at Changi, an average of 1,045 takeoffs and landings each day, or 44 per hour.
That has fallen significantly with only 5,560 takeoffs and landings in August 2020, equivalent to 179 aircraft movements on average per day, just around 7 per hour.
Takeoffs and landings are a fraction of usual levels, but did increase again in August 2020. (Photo: Singapore Airlines)
On the positive side it is a 6% increase compared to July 2020 and a 44% increase compared to April 2020, which holds the record for the lowest ever monthly aircraft movements total in the airport's history.
Why are passenger volumes dropping?
This slight fall in passenger totals for the airport is a little surprising when viewed against a 12% increase in passenger flights from Singapore Airlines for August 2020 compared to July 2020.
A significant impact on the recent improvement in passenger numbers has been the continual expansion of transit passenger approvals for SIA Group carriers through Changi Airport, which were lifted to their highest level to date in mid-August 2020, encompassing 37 valid origin points globally.
SIA rolls out almost global transit approval through Changi
Transit passenger volumes may now be falling slightly as the bulk of people still travelling home have now been able to do so between April and July 2020.
Many of those heading back home to Singapore, or from Singapore to their home countries, may have now have completed those journeys.
Some airlines planning to add or scale up passenger flights at Changi during August 2020 also did not do so, including Lufthansa. The German carrier planned an ambitious three times weekly Frankfurt connection during the month, but in fact dialled back to a single weekly flight.
Turkish Airlines has also recently reduced its flight volumes at the airport.
In the meantime Singapore Airlines continues to increase its passenger flying programme, with 12% more flights planned in September 2020 and another 23% more in October 2020, from a combination of frequency increases and newly reinstated routes like Surabaya and Johannesburg.
It will therefore be very interesting to see whether this apparent end to passenger volume increases through Changi is a temporary one when the airport releases its September 2020 statistics next month.
SIA's Sep – Nov 2020 schedule
As transit passengers gradually get where they need to be and some airlines reduce flight volumes at Changi, the passenger increases we've seen over recent months have stopped, at least temporarily.
Most international borders remain closed and leisure travel is still off the cards. Plans for tourist 'green lanes' with low risk countries also don't appear to be making much headway, and may not materialise this year.
Unfortunately with a long COVID-19 recovery and strict global travel restrictions in force, including a ban on visitors in Singapore itself for the time being, passenger numbers remain at less than 2% of usual levels.
Changi handled around 2,700 passengers per day in August 2020, many of whom were in transit. (Photo: Changi Airport)
On the cargo side, volumes have nudged higher than 70% of their usual pre-COVID level, though like passenger totals this now also seems to be reaching a peak. On the plus side, the total number of takeoffs and landings at the airport continues to increase from a low point in April 2020.
It will now almost certainly be 2021 before Changi Airport starts to see anything resembling normal passenger volumes, even with only two of its four terminals operating.
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The Wanted's Surprise U.S. Hit
It's been a full decade since the end of the last great wave of boy bands, and even then, the most successful of the bunch were of the American variety. So the sudden cross-Atlantic success of British quintet The Wanted with their song "Glad You Came" (which surged into Billboard's Top 40 Pop Chart a couple weeks ago) feels unlikely and deliciously random. Why, then, a guy might fairly ask, haven't superior recent singles by JLS or One Direction similarly stormed our airwaves?
Maybe The Wanted are just really cute, sweet guys – even by boy band standards?
Last night, fresh from a tour date in Las Vegas and en route to more dates in Canada and then back to the U.K., the group made their American "late night debut" on Chelsea Lately, all five of them piled up onto Chelsea Handler's guest couch fielding questions about, y'know, their British accents and whether they are "of age". The group came across wide-eyed and friggin' adorable – in stark contrast to the residual tackiness of Chelsea's show (I'm kind of a fan). When Chelsea told 18-year-old Nathan he looked a little like Justin Bieber, he blushingly replied "if someone did something horrible to his face, possibly." O. M. G. So damn cute.
"Glad You Came", which debuted at the top of the UK singles chart last summer, is the lead single from the band's sophomore album Battleground. The single's available for download here, but neither Battleground, nor the group's 2010 self-titled debut have gotten a U.S. release yet. Sadface. Get happy! Watch the video:
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Alana Joli Abbott – Author Interview
by Jeremy Mohler | Jul 12, 2016 | interview | 0 comments
Alana Joli Abbott has recently joined Outland Entertainment's as Editor in chief, but you've probably heard her name long before this new gig. Be it for her novels, her interactive games or her award winning game writing, Alana continues to amaze us with her talent. Let's try and find out more from Abbott herself!
Who's Alana Joli Abbott?
Starting off with an existential question like that? This interview's going to be a stumper! I guess I'm a writer, editor, mother, wife, martial artist, and lapsed musician. I'm passionate about stories and the way that telling stories—and consuming stories—shapes the world we live in. Being a mom has changed the way I see storytelling happening around me, because I look at what stories I'm feeding my kids, and what stories they're taking in from the world around them. There's so much power in the way we tell our truths and our fictions, and I try to make sure I'm always on the side of using that power for good!
What was the first thing you ever wrote? Was it a school assignment or something you did on your free time?
The first thing I have a concrete memory of writing was a school assignment in third grade, but it was also fan fiction. It was a short story based on a comic book that my mom had kept from when she was a kid about a group of children and their dog. (Not Peanuts or I'd remember the title!) I inserted myself into their world and wrote a story about playing baseball with them. (I didn't play baseball. That's where the fiction comes in.) I think there might have been a rainstorm. Not too long after that I wrote an epic episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, based on the cartoon, because I followed that devotedly, on my father's electronic typewriter. We didn't get a computer until the next year or two, and sometime in there I started writing a really long Star Wars piece that's now long gone. At the time, I was sure that LucasFilm would somehow discover me and publish it in the Expanded Universe. My first "original" novel was a riff on the Indiana Jones pulp style archeologist adventures featuring an Egyptologist with powers she'd gotten from a scarab staff, which I wrote as part of a contest in the old Disney Adventures magazine. As part of a project in for my gifted and talented class, I submitted it out to publishers and learned for the first time how the submission/rejection process goes. It was a definite learning experience!
When the moment came, did you need someone else uttering "You are a writer." or did you know it already?
I don't think I ever needed that validation, but I also don't remember a time when I wasn't receiving it. I was very lucky to have teachers who supported me throughout elementary school, allowing me to put on a play I'd written, starring members of my class, for the grade below us. In high school I had friends who would read my short stories and trade fiction set in the world I'd created back and forth with me. I didn't realize at the time how exceptional that was, but it definitely established in me that this was something I could do, and would always do, professionally or not.
From novels, to comics passing through short fiction, games, interactive novels and numerous articles, we can say you've tried nearly every front of the creative and factual side of writing.
Among these different experiences what striking disparities do you notice from the creative point of view? And how about the actual writing approach?
The big question is about interactivity: if other people are involved in the storytelling, you have to leave room for them to tell their own stories, despite the fact that you're the one writing it. So with the interactive novels and roleplaying games, there's a lot of leaving doors open and thinking about multiple options for every scenario. I don't ever get the feeling that I know the main characters of the story very well, because the main characters are the players. The story has to be about them, and I'm just creating the window dressing. Pretty extensive dressing, but dressing nonetheless. The story is a vehicle for their adventure, not my own vision. The writing format reflects that, too, most significantly in the interactive novel apps I write, which are written in a programming language called ChoiceScript. That's much, much different from writing in straight prose!
By contrast, with my fiction I almost always start from the characters and then figure out what's going on with them. The characters propel that story forward, so I get to know them very well, and it's the motivations of my own characters who drive the plot.
Articles, of course, have completely different rules, and usually start from the research, even in (sometimes especially in) the short blog posts I do. If the data or history doesn't support the article I thought I was going to write, I have to figure out a different angle. I call this kind of work analysis-synthesis writing: take apart the information from other sources and then put it together in a new and different way that's interesting to my audience.
Do you have a favorite project? Why that one in particular?
There's always some project I'm super excited about, and I'm proud of a lot of the work that I've done, but the story I've written that's closest to my heart is "Nomi's Wish," which was very loosely based on two true events: one, a trip my sister and I took to the Isle of Man (where neither of us fell into the Chasms), and two, a wish that was given to me by Naomi Lewis, this amazing writer and translator of fairy tales who I worked with when I was an in-house editor in Detroit. Over a phone conversation, she told me she sometimes gave young people she liked a wish, and she gave me one. (I used it, and it came true, though whether that's to the credit of the wish, I can't say!)
My second favorite might be "Don't Let Go," which was published in the now-out-of-print Ransom: The Anthology. I'd always wanted to tackle the Tam Lin story, and I ended up liking my version quite a bit. It might be part of a larger world in which this sort of fairy thing happens more frequently, but none of those stories have been finished yet.
You've recently release "Choice of the Pirate", your third interactive novel game for Choice of Games. How did you decide to enter this gamified format of novel?
I was approached by the publisher for Choice of Games, because he knew me, through friends, as a game writer and a fiction writer; having both backgrounds is incredibly helpful for writing interactive novels! On the one hand, the prose has to be really strong; on the other hand, there has to be a lot of room for the player to experience the story the way they want to, which means the story can't dominate over the player's choices. The juxtaposition of both skill sets sounded like a lot of fun, and it has been! I don't mind telling you it's also the most challenging kind of writing that I do (and probably the format of that the fewest people are familiar with!). But when I phrase it, "Oh, yes, I had an app come out this year," people get very excited thinking I'm a video game designer. I suppose that technically I am, but it's very different from what people expect from video games as well! It's really this niche format that's wonderful to play with and work in, and I hope that a lot of people keep getting excited about it.
This methodology resembles a lot the "Choose your own Adventure" books. Were you a fan of these growing up?
I read so many of them! I think a lot of us who work in gaming came from that background. There was one I remember very specifically about finding a hidden utopia—maybe Shangri-La?—where you couldn't find the city except by paging through the book. There was no in-story route to get there, and it was only by sheer persistence that I got to it. It was both rewarding and kind of a cheat! But it stuck with me.
One might say your fiction work delves mostly on fantasy and sci-fi backgrounds. Do you agree with that?
Oh gosh, yes. I wrote Showdown at Willow Creek for Choice of Games as a non-fantastical interactive novel and didn't realize how much I relied on fantastical elements to move me through a story and to help design my worlds! A friend of mine who playtested Choice of the Pirate said, on first run-through, "Why does my pirate have magic?" And I said, "Because magic is awesome. Now play." Storytelling doesn't need magic or futuristic science to work, but isn't it more fun if it's there?
Is there a reason why you're more drawn towards these genres?
I read pretty exhaustively in science fiction and fantasy and always have, and most of my favorite stories (books or films) have either an SFF element or an SFF atmosphere. I realized a few years back that one of my favorite childhood books, The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope technically isn't SFF; it's historical, and the faeire court involved in the tale isn't technically magical, just a dispossessed group of humans. But it's a Tam Lin story, which gives it the flavor of fantasy, even if it technically doesn't fit. My other very favorite books that have always stuck with me are A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle and Crown Duel by Sherwood Smith. I think that's a pretty good window on how my worldview on storytelling got shaped.
You've done quite an extensive research in Mythology. How did you first enter this world?
Don't all kids get into Egyptology at some point? That was the entry point for me, and then in high school the drama club at some point assigned Greek gods and goddesses to all the usual suspects. But it wasn't until college that I realized this was actually a field of study that was valued in an academic sphere. My creative writing prof, Mark Vecchio, taught a course called "Mythic Imagination" that I waited far too long to take. The impact of that course on my outlook and writing cannot be overstated. After I graduated, I went first as a student and then later as a teaching assistant on Mark's study tours (which he still offers as OCaptain Tours), and through those I studied Arthurian/British, Irish, and Greek mythology in the actual locations where those stories were birthed. Once you start seeing stories in the landscape, you don't stop. I now live within 20 or so miles of Sleeping Giant mountain and Tuxis Island, both of which have giant legends from the local Quinnipiac people (often much filtered through the Puritan worldview that recorded them). Like many places in England, my area of New England is a land of giants, and though I don't entirely know the significance of that, it feels significant, deep into the earth around me.
Moving to another very relevant theme nowadays, diversity in writing is one of your battles. How do you feel about the efforts that have been made in this area these past few years?
It's so nice to have someone give me credit for that, when really I feel on the periphery of the people doing the really important work! I care very deeply about representation in fiction, because, for one, it's boring to read the same old stories about the same old characters retold with different hair colors or different towns but the same basic tropes. (Of course, after having just talked about how much I love Tam Lin retellings, I probably contradict myself a bit!) I don't think there's anything wrong with loving stories that fit into the traditional pattern. I love a lot of farmboy-becomes-hero stories. But I think there are so many other possibilities out there for stories that don't share the same basic assumptions about the world as that farmboy destined for greatness. And that's just from my own selfish perspective. It's so much more important to value representation for readers who don't see themselves reflected on the covers of novels. I was very lucky to come of age when Alanna: The First Adventure was on the bookshelves of my library's budding YA section. I think I cut my hair to look like the character on the book jacket, and while I didn't have copper hair or purple eyes, I saw my name (differently spelled) and a face that could have been mine right on the jacket of my favorite book. That's an experience that a lot of kids don't have, especially given how miserable the stats are when it comes to children's books featuring protagonists of color right on the cover. And this is all just tip of the iceberg stuff. I can't recommend enough good articles on this topic, so I'll link to just a few.
That said, I'm a white female writer and I know I come from a position of privilege. As much as I try to be inclusive and critical of colonialist viewpoints in my fiction, I am sure I mess up. I remember when I was working on Cowboys and Aliens 2 and one of the commenter called me out on using the word "yella" to mean coward, thinking it was a slur against the Asian railroad workers. Having grown up with Western movies, it never even occurred to me that someone could read it that way! I did some research and found out that the term came from a different root—but sometimes, that's not what's relevant. The way that people perceive what's written is what they bring to the story, and it's important not to create a situation where readers feel alienated by a story they love. I just keep trying to fail better the next time.
Do you think we've achieved any real progress? Would you say more in terms of gender or race equality?
I want to believe that there's been progress, but I think that the news lately would tell me that it's a tough hope to hold onto. And just in games and SFF there's been this backlash, especially over the Internet, against inclusivity. I want to believe that the reason the backlash is occurring is because there has been progress made that some of the Old Guard don't like. But the fact that it's there means that the struggle has to continue, and we've all got to keep fighting the good fight so that those undertold stories can reach a wider audience.
And how about the backstage: do you agree that the works we get are a reflection of the lack of diversity of the actual writers?
I think less the writers than on the in house side, honestly. There are many, many excellent writers from all walks of life: race, gender, class, sexuality. One of the big problems, as Daniel José Older has written about (in one of my links above) is that the gatekeepers of writing tend to lack diversity. I know that Lee & Low books and Simmons College have a scholarship for further study in children's literature for "students from diverse backgrounds." To carry the metaphor, it's not just the people backstage, but also the people producing the show. I'm not pointing fingers here, because there are a lot of reasons this situation is what it is (and I certainly want to keep my own job!), but I think if we really want diverse books, we have to have diverse agents, editors, publishers, filmmakers, directors, showrunners, Broadway creators… the list goes on and on.
Then I get all bogged down in it and think, let's just tell each other some stories! I want to hear them all.
Thank you, Alana, for sharing a little bit of your world with us!
P.S.: Check out all the other interviews with illustrators, writers, game-designers and other authors!


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What is Advanced Threat Protection ?
As cybercriminals learn and adapt and cyberattacks become increasingly sophisticated every day, cybersecurity technology has evolved to keep up and anticipate potential threats and attacks that could pose a risk to companies, governments, and other organizations. But even with security protection technology anticipating the actions of bad actors, new and unknown attacks can still occur, especially if an organization doesn't have the right advanced security controls in place.
Advanced threat protection (ATP) is defined as an array of security solutions that defend against complex malware and cyberattacks that target sensitive data. ATP technology can help an organization adapt to the ever-changing strategies of cybercriminals and better anticipate and prevent costly security breaches.
What makes a threat "advanced?"
A threat or attack is considered advanced when attackers have unlimited resources or tools to carry out the attack and maintain access to a network, have access to continued funding to adapt the attack as needed, or if the attack is specifically created to target a specific organization, among other instances.
To understand how to defend against advanced threats, it's important first to understand what they are and how they can impact your organization.
An advanced persistent threat (APT) is defined as an attack in which an unauthorized person or group stealthily gains access to an organization's network and remains there undetected for an extended amount of time. APT attacks are often carefully coordinated and customized to target a specific company and use malware that can bypass or dodge common security protections. These attacks are a prime example of a malicious attack that requires equally sophisticated security technology to prevent and mitigate.
Once the attacker has gained access to the network, usually by phishing or installing malware, they can view company files, conversations, data, and other sensitive material. By going undetected for an extended period of time, from weeks or months to years in some cases, the attacker can gather significant amounts of company data to use for myriad malicious purposes.
What are the most common tactics of advanced threat attacks?
Phishing, sending links from a seemingly trusted source to gain access to company credentials or information, is the most common method for APT attackers to gain access to an internal network.
Installing malware, once access has been granted, helps cyberattackers burrow within the network, monitor activity, and collect company data.
Password cracking helps attackers gain administrative access and have free roam of the network.
Creating a backdoor ensures attackers have a way back into the network.
While roughly 2/3 of the world's small- and medium-sized businesses are now experiencing cyber attacks, 45% still feel that their cybersecurity posture is "ineffective." 39% still do not have an incident response plan in place
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The average financial cost of a data breach is $3.86m
How can you defend against advanced threats?
While some industries and businesses are larger and more valuable targets for advanced threats, all businesses should be aware of preventive measures they can take as these attacks become more prevalent.
The ATP landscape is evolving as cyberattacks become more sophisticated. Sandboxing protection, which inspects suspicious files, is crucial for ATP, but this technology has historically been stored in legacy hardware within a data center and doesn't protect an ever-increasing remote workforce.
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Tribes Hope for Post-Scandal Era
By Paul Singer and Rachel Van Dongen
Posted April 9, 2007 at 5:53pm
Three years after the outlines of the ongoing Jack Abramoff scandal were first bared, American Indian tribes that gave the now-disgraced superlobbyist millions of dollars to represent them are still paying a high price in Washington, D.C., a handful of lobbyists said in recent interviews.
Lobbyists who now work with tribes said that the dual taint of casino money and the Abramoff scandal have combined to make lawmakers wary of associating themselves publicly with American Indian tribes.
Heather Sibbison, head of the Indian practice at Patton Boggs, said tribes are still trying to shake the stigma.
"Since the advent of Indian gaming, Congress as a whole has been much more hesitant to act to help Indian tribes, and since Abramoff that dynamic has worsened," she said. "Clearly in the last Congress the political backlash seemed to discourage federal decision-makers from making appropriate substantive decisions."
Lobbyists said it has been harder to get Members to sign on to letters or introduce legislation on behalf of tribes due to lingering concerns about the reputation of American Indian lobbying.
"I think that all of Indian country was impacted negatively" by Abramoff, said one lobbyist who works for tribes but asked not to be named. "You know that because the opponents of some Indian priorities were giddy about the prospect of pushing through harmful legislation."
But those opponents largely were unsuccessful in efforts such as treating Indian tribes as corporations under campaign finance laws and toughening restrictions on gaming by amending the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.
And the tribes' lobbyists were optimistic that in the Democratic-led Congress more attention would be paid to nongambling priorities such as health care and education.
They argued that the 2006 elections ushered out the scandal and that Democrats often are friendlier to American Indian tribes as their members tend to be Democratic voters.
"Politically, the scandal was a means to an end, to tie this around the Republicans' head. The tribes were not going to be politically safe until that election was over," said one lobbyist.
"I think this year is going to be an opportunity to play offense for the tribes," the lobbyist added.
Rich Gold, a partner at Holland & Knight, said "issues like sovereignty and government-to-government relations are in a more favorable climate than they were under a Republican majority."
With the diversification of tribal economies in areas such as agriculture, energy and real estate, tribes simply have more varied interests before Congress than preserving their rights to operate casinos.
"It really has become more like representing a state, with the typical diversity of interests of a state," Gold said.
Mary Pavel, a partner at Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Endreson & Perry, a firm that specializes in Indian law and lobbying, agreed. "The scope of issues they care about has changed somewhat," she said, adding that things like Medicare Part D affect tribal health care reimbursements.
"It used to be that we could visit two committees, the Appropriations and the Indian committee," Pavel said. "Now we have to go see Finance, Ways and Means, Interior … there are just more issues."
Pavel said that the 110th Congress appears to offer opportunities for action on tribal health care and other issues that have been overshadowed by gaming for several years. House Natural Resources Chairman Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) and Senate Indian Affairs Chairman Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) "want to do health care, trust resource issues, education … they don't want to talk about gaming," she added.
The Abramoff scandal "hasn't affected how people treat me up on the Hill," Pavel added. "I come in on the coattails of my client."
Although they are spending less money overall on lobbying efforts, tribal clients are still wagering big on the Washington game, according to federal lobbying records.
In lieu of Abramoff and Greenberg Traurig, they have hired top Washington firms such as Sonosky, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Cassidy & Associates, Holland & Knight, Ietan Consulting and Barnes & Thornburg.
Sonosky is a good example of the steady growth of American Indian lobbying despite the Abramoff debacle, since they almost exclusively work with tribal clients.
In 2002, their Lobbying Disclosure Act reports tallied $120,000 in lobbying receipts from tribes and eight clients paying less than $10,000 in each half of the year. In 2006, the firm posted $560,000 in tribal lobbying receipts and more than a dozen clients conducting less than $10,000 in lobbying business each half.
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the number of organizations lobbying on "Indian/Native American Affairs" rose from under 200 in 1998 to 426 in 2002, dropping back to 279 last year.
Individual tribes, however, are spending far less money than the millions of dollars that were paid to Abramoff at the height of his power in 2003. The actual amount of money paid to Abramoff by the tribes is even higher as much of it was funneled through associates and nonprofits and wasn't publicly reported.
The Mississippi Band of Choctaws, for instance, paid Abramoff $1.7 million in 2003, according to lobbying records, but paid Barnes & Thornburg a fraction of that at $280,000 in 2006, and spent $120,000 with Capitol Resources.
The Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe shelled out $2.2 million in 2003 to Greenberg Traurig and spent just $80,000 on lobbying with Holland & Knight and $160,000 with Ietan Consulting in 2006.
The Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians spent $1.08 million in 2003 on Abramoff's lobbying services and $280,000 for Akin Gump to represent them in 2006.
Nancy Conrad, the press secretary for the California-based tribe, said that the tribe has been especially focused on its state-based legislative activities, such as renewing a gambling compact last summer with California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R).
"I think that we continue to be interested and active in Washington, but there's no real hot issue right now," Conrad explained.
Although the Agua Caliente band has just 423 members, it has 2,400 people on staff and a variety of properties, including two casinos, two hotels, a golf resort and a protected habitat area. Thus, it has a variety of interests before the federal government.
"We always want to keep an eye on legislation coming around the pike," Conrad explained. "We could be taken by surprise."
"Obviously, there was a lot of disappointment and I think a lot of people were taken advantage of," she said of the Abramoff scandal. "It wasn't just tribes taken advantage of. It was just a sad chapter."
Don Pongrace, chair of the tribal issues group at Akin Gump, said that while he does not doubt that some Members of Congress have shied from tribes in the wake of the Abramoff scandal, "The change in Washington the tribes may be feeling or that certain lobbyists may have conveyed is as much a reflection of the change in Washington generally towards lobbyists and the differences that occur in any period in political transition," rather than a specific rejection of the tribes themselves.


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Report: China heads to low-carbon future
China's increasingly ambitious and committed approach to climate change and low-carbon development is explored in a new report released today ahead of the State Visit to the UK by Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The Government is reportedly hoping to agree major infrastructure deals during President Xi's visit, including for a new nuclear plant at Hinkley Point in Somerset. But the delegations will also be discussing how the UK and China can work together on other aspects of the latter's low-carbon transition, such as wind, solar and tidal power.
Isabel Hilton, CEO and Editor of chinadialogue, said: "Many in the West simply don't understand the extent to which the Chinese Government is betting the farm on a transition towards a low-carbon economy.
"China is not only committed to addressing serious environmental impacts including air pollution and climate change in its own country, it is also committed to becoming a global leader geopolitically.
"The speed and ambition of China's move towards low-carbon development is impressive, and it creates major opportunities for countries like the UK. China is actively looking to us for expertise in many aspects of the low-carbon society, including energy saving, renewables, low-carbon urban planning and carbon trading."
British exports of low-carbon goods and services to China already stand at an estimated £800 million per year. But its green development paradigm appears to offer UK plc significant opportunities for expansion.
In a speech to the OECD earlier this year, Premier Li Keqiang said: "China may buy core technologies, key parts and components and energy-saving and environmentally friendly equipment from developed countries." And a recent article in the state-owned China Daily newspaper observed that China is looking for expertise to help it use energy more efficiently, improve its renewable energy industry, construct "green" buildings and develop carbon capture and storage.
Richard Black, Director of the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) said it was not clear that the UK government grasped the breadth of the opportunities on offer.
"Virtually all the talk is around the Hinkley and Bradwell nuclear deals; and although the delegations are talking about issues such as wind, solar and tidal power, the government isn't choosing to highlight the fact," he said.
"If UK firms don't leap in here, someone else surely will, because all the signals show that China is open for business.
"And when you think that China has rapidly gone from being a country that was literally building a coal-fired power station per week to one that's building an equivalent amount of clean energy capacity per week, that's a lot of business."
China's domestic energy transformation is complemented by a marked change of stance on the UN climate negotiations, the importance of which was highlighted by Lord Deben, Chairman of the Committee on Climate Change, the Government's statutory advisor.
"The significance of China's commitment to tackling climate change and low-carbon development, particularly ahead of this December's critically important climate talks in Paris, cannot be overstated," he said.
"One of the key differences between the Paris summit and the failed Copenhagen talks in 2009 is the serious engagement of major players like China and the US ahead of the talks.
"We also need to understand that suggestions that anything the UK does to tackle climate change is pointless because 'the Chinese are building a new coal fired power station every week' are lazy and outdated claims, and simply don't reflect reality."
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Injuries to Bundy and Harvey hurt Orioles in more ways than one
Joshua Sadlock
Baltimore Orioles, Features, Opinions & Predictions
Dylan Bundy and Hunter Harvey — right-handed starting pitchers drafted out of high school in 2011 and 2013, respectively — began the season ranked one, two atop the Baltimore Orioles' prospect pool. Bundy has thrown 22.0 innings in 2015. Most likely, he will finish the season with the same innings total after being shut down with a shoulder injury. Harvey has not logged a single inning after breaking a bone in his leg during Spring Training and then developing elbow soreness. The 20-year-old was shut down last season after just 87.2 innings with a flexor mass strain. Harvey does appear likely to work his way back to the mound by the end of the year, and has begun a throwing program.
The constant battle with injuries that Bundy and Harvey have faced — Bundy has already undergone Tommy John surgery after the 2012 season — puts the Orioles in an extremely tight spot. This is a franchise that has had no success whatsoever in developing starting pitching since Mike Mussina made his debut all the way back in 1991. That was 24 years ago.
In the current Orioles' rotation, only Kevin Gausman can truly claim to have been developed by the Orioles from draft to big leagues. Chris Tillman was a trade acquisition, Ubaldo Jimenez a free agent, and Wei Yin Chen and Miguel Gonzalez were established international names from Taiwan and Mexico. The Orioles have shown no ability to draft and develop starting pitching in well over two decades, and it has made for a constant struggle to field a competitive rotation. Zach Britton and Brian Matusz, both high draft picks struggled mightily in the starting rotation, but have found success in the bullpen. Jake Arrieta was given up on and traded for Scott Feldman. Arrieta oozed potential with the Orioles, but they could not harness it. He is now 20-10 in his past 43 starts for the Chicago Cubs with a 2.59 ERA.
Scott Feldman went 5-6 with a 4.27 ERA in 15 starts for the Orioles. Cool.
The Orioles are a team that cannot afford to see their young starting pitching prospects shrivel up in the minor leagues. This is a team one or two bad years away from beginning the vicious cycle of rushing pitchers to the Majors or being stuck with retreads like Bruce Chen and Kevin Millwood. Offense was never the problem as the losses piled up from 1998 to 2012. It was always pitching, especially the starting variety. Even the current iteration of the rotation appears to be getting by mainly on smoke and mirrors.
The Orioles went all in on starting pitching in the first round of the draft from 2011 to 2013. Those drafts landed Bundy, Gausman, and Harvey. Of the three, only Gausman has come close to sticking in the Major Leagues. The Orioles cannot afford to see two-thirds of those picks fail. There should now be serious concerns about Bundy's status going forward. Same goes for Harvey, with his slight frame. Loading up on pitching also left the Orioles very thin on positional talent. If Bundy and Harvey do not pan out, it will hurt the Orioles two-fold. When you neglect one area of your farm system in favor of another, you cannot afford to see picks go wasted.
These injury struggles also hurt the Orioles in another, more short-term way. Last year the Orioles were able to trade Eduardo Rodriguez for Andrew Miller. Only time will tell whether trading an entire career of Rodriguez for two months of Miller was a bad idea, hindsight being 20-20, of course. With their top two prospects injured, and the system very thin in the hitter department, the Orioles are unofficially out of the running for any big name starting pitching, something desperately needed as the Orioles try to make a second consecutive playoff appearance for the first time since 1997. It may also prove difficult for the Orioles to pull a minor move like the Miller trade because of the uncertainty surrounding Bundy and Harvey.
There may be trade value in Tyler Wilson, Mike Wright, or Mychal Givens — three pitchers who have all seen time with the Orioles this season. Wilson and Wright may need to figure more prominently in the Orioles' plans beyond this season if there is no progress made by the more highly rated prospects. It is hard to see the Orioles being willing to pull the trigger on a deal that ships out any of these three given the level of unknown with Bundy and Harvey.
Then, there is the impending free agency of Chen to consider. Chen is having the best season of his career, and will not come cheap. It becomes that much more difficult to allow Chen to walk with a cloudy future for Bundy and Harvey. Tillman and Gonzalez are serviceable arms, but one or both of them could have been replaced by a healthy Bundy or Harvey.
Injuries to top prospects are unavoidable, but for the Orioles it sadly appears to be a trend, at least when it comes to Dylan Bundy and Hunter Harvey. It will never be fully understood whether rushing Bundy to the big leagues in 2012 led to his demise. Maybe it did, or maybe he was just a ticking time bomb. At 6′-4″ and 175 pounds, Harvey may not be suited for the rigors of starting pitching at the professional level. That too, remains to be seen. These injuries hurt the Orioles' long-term plan, but the ripple effects also have an impact in the here and now. The Orioles have no real trade chips to get the starting pitcher they so desperately need to stay in contention. They could also be hamstrung into overpaying for Chen. There are no real impact bats waiting in the minors to help what has been an anemic offense.
The injuries to Bundy and Harvey seem bad on the surface, and they are. Go beneath the surface, however, and the influence of these injuries may continue to haunt the Orioles for years to come. Bundy and Harvey, drafted just two years apart, will always be linked inextricably in Baltimore Orioles history. Let's just hope that history comes at the Major League level.
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Jeff Jul 15, 2015
Not sure I understand the lake of offence your referring to. Yes the injuries in the minors have hurt, but there are trade chips that can be moved, Chris Davis, and Matt Wieters.
Joshua Sadlock Jul 16, 2015
I could see them moving one of those two if things really start going south at the start of the second half. Coincidentally, what do you think of Davis in RF? He's got the athletic abilities to do it, but his outfield instincts just don't seem to be there.


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Luxury Boutique Hotel Opens in Small Town, Golden Colorado
Following an extensive renovation and total rebranding under its new owners, The Dove Inn is now open in Golden, Colorado. Denver-based entrepreneurs Libby and Regan Foster updated the historic Victorian house, keeping the home's classic historic elements intact while introducing contemporary décor and modern-day amenities. The couple aims to provide an intimate visitor experience in the heart of the historic mountain town.
"Hospitality is something we are passionate about and we have always been committed to creating a welcoming atmosphere in our own home," said Libby Foster, co-owner of The Dove Inn. "We hope to bring that experience of personalized, at-home hospitality to the masses by revamping the fading concept of bed-and-breakfasts, into a self-service community approach, appealing to a new generation of travelers."
The home, built in 1866 by Golden politician and meat purveyor, Ebenezer T. Osborne, is one of the town's original structures. It's served a number of purposes – from a single-family home to a boarding house – before becoming the new Dove Inn:
Victorian-Meets-Modern Design
To create a new kind of Inn experience for their guests, the Fosters completely re-branded and renovated a 19th Century bed-and-breakfast to portray an updated, Victorian-meets-modern aesthetic. Design enthusiasts in their personal lives, as well, the Fosters first cut their teeth in the construction and design realms when they built their own home from shipping containers in 2016, which received attention and acclaim from noteworthy national media including Dwell Magazine and Good Morning America.
Throughout the common areas and 10 styles of rooms, guests see the Fosters' personal touches via a curated selection of antique and new pieces, including a handmade belt fan from Woolen Mill Fan Company; gold-finished hand lights; vintage soaking tubs, which date back to 1909; and more.
On a larger scale, barricading walls were removed on the main floor to create a spacious great room, and steel beams were installed to support the original, rustic brick walls from the 1800s. Bathrooms were re-tiled and renovated to feature marble countertops. Victorian-style trim and panel molding were added to the dining room, living room and staircase; and wood from vintage doorways has been repurposed into shelving in the dining and living room.
Today's Inn Experience
The new Dove Inn aims to accommodate all kinds of guests through a personalized, behind-the-scenes approach to service. Guests can cozy up in one of 10 rooms, including three suites, a studio, and several historic designs, offering varying layouts and amenities. For example, the Aspen Suite features an electric fireplace and cozy queen canopy bed; the Castle Rock Studio is an extra-large suite with a stylish kitchen for extended stays; and the Carriage House boasts a Chippendale desk from the 1700s and spectacular views of Golden from its outdoor entrance.
In lieu of limited breakfast hours, traditional of a bed-and-breakfast, a more independent experience will be available, with offerings such as local breakfast burritos; and Nitro cold-brew coffee and kombucha on-tap. A centerpiece of the great room area is a custom-built coffee bar, that encourages guests to slow down, come together and learn something new. For each of the several brewing methods available, video tutorials can be found on a tablet mounted right to the bar. Convenient grab-and-go breakfast options are also available for guests on the go.
In the Heart of Golden, Colorado
The property, located at 711 14th Street, Golden, CO, 80401, boasts an authentic mountain feel, true to the historic town. The inn's convenient location on Main Street offers a launch pad for its guests to the great outdoors and downtown areas. This includes access to renowned restaurants and breweries, as well as outdoor activities like hiking and biking; river tubing and kayaking; mountain climbing and skiing.
The Dove Inn strives to support local businesses and provide guests with a place where they feel like they are a part of the Golden community. To enhance the local feel, The Dove Inn serves Colorado-made foods to its guests, including Two Leaves Tea, EVOL burritos and gluten-free pastries from Crumbles Bakery. In addition to food, Colorado-made offerings make their way to the guest rooms, including local, natural bath products in 100 percent recyclable packaging.
"At the end of the day, the town is what sold us," Regan Foster, co-owner of The Dove Inn, said. "We decided to purchase The Dove Inn because of Golden's strong sense of community, easy access to the outdoors and its quaint, mountain-town feel, all just a few minutes from Denver. Our goal is to welcome guests from both near and far, and to show them a piece of what makes this such a special place."
The Dove Inn is now open at 711 14th Street, Golden, CO, 80401. For more information or to book a reservation, visit www.TheDoveInn.com.
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Bethesda's Katie Ledecky added four more wins to her ever growing collection of titles. In a four-day TYR Pro Swim Series meet January 9-12 at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, the 21 year-old swimming superstar won the 200 freestyle, 400 meter individual medley, 400 meter freestyle, and the 1500 meter freestyle.
Ledecky has won five Olympic gold medals and 14 world championship gold medals, the most in history by a female swimmer. She is expected to add to her collection of gold medals at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Games.


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Q: Show that $\nabla\cdot (\nabla f\times \nabla h)=0$ Show that $$\nabla\cdot (\nabla f\times \nabla h)=0,$$
where $f = f(x,y,z)$ and $h = h(x,y,z)$.
I have tried but I just keep getting a mess that I cannot simplify. I also need to show that
$$\nabla \cdot (\nabla f \times r) = 0$$
using the first result.
Thanks in advance for any help

A: We use $\nabla f =(f_x,f_y,f_z)$ and $\nabla h=(h_x,h_y,h_z)$. For the cross product we have $(a,b,c) \times (u,v,w)=\hat{i} (bw-cv)+\hat{j}(cu-aw)+\hat{k} (av-bu) $, alternatively written this is expressed $(a,b,c) \times (x,y,z) = (bw-cv,cu-aw,av-bu)$ but this is exactly the same. Here $a,b,c,u,v,w$ are not meant to mean anything special but are just to illustrate the point.
Using this information we calculate $(\nabla f\times \nabla h)$:
$$(\nabla f\times \nabla h)=\hat{i}(f_yh_z-f_zh_y)+\hat{j}(f_zh_x-f_xh_z)+\hat{k}(f_xh_y-f_yh_x)$$
Now for the dot product $\nabla \cdot (\nabla f\times \nabla h)$ we repeatedly use the product rule to obtain:
$$\nabla \cdot (\nabla f\times \nabla h)= \frac{\partial}{\partial x}(f_yh_z-f_zh_y)+\frac{\partial}{\partial y}(f_zh_x-f_xh_z)+\frac{\partial}{\partial z}(f_xh_y-f_yh_x)$$
$$=(f_{yx}h_z+f_yh_{zx}-f_{zx}h_y-f_zh_{yx})+(f_{zy}h_x+f_zh_{xy}-f_{xy}h_z - f_xh_{zy})+(f_{xz}h_y+f_xh_{yz}-f_{yz}h_x-f_yh_{xz})$$
Now $f_{yz}=f_{zy}$ etcetera assuming that $f$ and $h$ are twice continuous differentiable. Upon close inspection we see that all the terms cancel to give
$$\nabla \cdot (\nabla f\times \nabla h)=0$$
If we consider $r$ to be the radial vector then this is irrotational (from vector calculus). Then it is a result from vector calculus that there exists function $\phi$ such that $r=\nabla \phi$. Then
$$\nabla\cdot (\nabla f\times r)=\nabla\cdot (\nabla f\times \nabla \phi)=0$$
by the previous result.

A: While we're here having fun, you can prove this easily enough with geometric calculus.  Instead of using the cross product, we use the wedge product instead and Hodge duality.
$$\nabla \cdot (\nabla f \times \nabla h) = \nabla \cdot [-i (\nabla f \wedge \nabla h)] = -i [\nabla \wedge (\nabla f \wedge \nabla h)]$$
Using the product rule, we get
$$\nabla \cdot (\nabla f \times \nabla h) = -i [(\nabla \wedge \nabla f) \wedge \nabla h - \nabla f \wedge (\nabla \wedge \nabla h)]$$
But $\nabla \wedge \nabla g = 0$ for any scalar field $g$, so the result is zero.
You might be thinking this is exotic and strange.  It's not.  To show you this, let's move the $i$ back into our products to get something straight out of vector calculus.
$$-i [(\nabla \wedge \nabla f) \wedge \nabla h - \nabla f \wedge (\nabla \wedge \nabla h)] = (\nabla \times \nabla f) \cdot \nabla h - \nabla f \cdot (\nabla \times \nabla h)$$
You might be accustomed to seeing $\nabla \times \nabla g = 0$, which yields the same conclusion as above.
Now then, note that the vector $r = \nabla \frac{1}{2} |r|^2$.

A: $$\nabla f\times\nabla h\\=\left(\left(\hat{x}\frac{\partial}{\partial x}+\hat{y}\frac{\partial}{\partial y}+\hat{z}\frac{\partial}{\partial z}\right)f\right)\times\left(\left(\hat{x}\frac{\partial}{\partial x}+\hat{y}\frac{\partial}{\partial y}+\hat{z}\frac{\partial}{\partial z}\right)h\right)\\=\left(\hat{x}\frac{\partial f}{\partial x}+\hat{y}\frac{\partial f}{\partial y}+\hat{z}\frac{\partial f}{\partial z}\right)\times\left(\hat{x}\frac{\partial h}{\partial x}+\hat{y}\frac{\partial h}{\partial y}+\hat{z}\frac{\partial h}{\partial z}\right)\\=\begin{vmatrix}\hat{x}&\hat{y}&\hat{z}\\\frac{\partial f}{\partial x}&\frac{\partial f}{\partial y}&\frac{\partial f}{\partial z}\\\frac{\partial h}{\partial x}&\frac{\partial h}{\partial y}&\frac{\partial h}{\partial z}\end{vmatrix}\\=\left(\hat{x}\frac{\partial f}{\partial y}\frac{\partial h}{\partial z}+\hat{y}\frac{\partial f}{\partial z}\frac{\partial h}{\partial x}+\hat{z}\frac{\partial f}{\partial x}\frac{\partial h}{\partial y}\right)-\left(\hat{x}\frac{\partial f}{\partial z}\frac{\partial h}{\partial y}+\hat{y}\frac{\partial f}{\partial x}\frac{\partial h}{\partial z}+\hat{z}\frac{\partial f}{\partial y}\frac{\partial h}{\partial x}\right)$$$$=\left(\hat{x}\tfrac{\partial f}{\partial y}\tfrac{\partial h}{\partial z}+\hat{y}\tfrac{\partial f}{\partial z}\tfrac{\partial h}{\partial x}+\hat{z}\tfrac{\partial f}{\partial x}\tfrac{\partial h}{\partial y}\right)-\left(\hat{x}(\tfrac{\partial f}{\partial z}\tfrac{\partial h}{\partial y})(\tfrac{\partial y}{\partial z}\tfrac{\partial z}{\partial y})+\hat{y}(\tfrac{\partial f}{\partial x}\tfrac{\partial h}{\partial z})(\tfrac{\partial z}{\partial x}\tfrac{\partial x}{\partial z})+\hat{z}(\tfrac{\partial f}{\partial y}\tfrac{\partial h}{\partial x})(\tfrac{\partial x}{\partial y}\tfrac{\partial y}{\partial x})\right)$$$$=\left(\hat{x}\frac{\partial f}{\partial y}\frac{\partial h}{\partial z}+\hat{y}\frac{\partial f}{\partial z}\frac{\partial h}{\partial x}+\hat{z}\frac{\partial f}{\partial x}\frac{\partial h}{\partial y}\right)-\left(\hat{x}\frac{\partial f}{\partial y}\frac{\partial h}{\partial z}+\hat{y}\frac{\partial f}{\partial z}\frac{\partial h}{\partial x}+\hat{z}\frac{\partial f}{\partial x}\frac{\partial h}{\partial y}\right)=\vec{0}$$
Hence
$$\nabla\bullet\nabla f\times\nabla h=\nabla\bullet\vec{0}=0$$
We have furthermore
$$\nabla\times(\nabla f\times\nabla h)=\nabla\times\vec{0}=\vec{0}$$
Then concerned to $\nabla\bullet\nabla f\times\vec{r}=0$ , $\vec{r}\times\nabla h=\vec{0}$ is REQUIRED, that means $\vec{r}//\nabla h$ !! :))

A: Suppose everything is smooth: consider an arbitrary smooth simply connected domain $D\subset \mathbb{R}^3$, divergence theorem reads:
$$
\iiint_D \nabla \cdot (\nabla f\times \nabla h) \,dV = \iint_{\partial D} \nabla f\times \nabla h\cdot d\mathbf{S} = \iint_{\partial D} \nabla f\times \nabla h\cdot\mathbf{n} \,dS
$$
Since everything is smooth, we can use triple product to switch positions:
$$
\iint_{\partial D} \nabla f\times \nabla h\cdot\mathbf{n} \,dS = \iint_{\partial D} \nabla h\times \mathbf{n}\cdot \nabla f\, dS =
\iiint_D\Big(\nabla h\cdot \nabla\times(\nabla f) - \nabla f\cdot \nabla \times(\nabla h)\Big)dV = 0
$$
by the curl of an irrotational vector field is always zero. For $D$ is arbitrary, then
$$
\nabla \cdot (\nabla f\times \nabla h) = 0.
$$
Looks like cheated though, but the intuition behind is that:

The cross product of two irrotational vector fields: $\mathbf{v} = \nabla h\times\nabla f$, must be perpendicular to both on any surface they span: $\mathbf{v}\perp \nabla h$ and $\mathbf{v}\perp \nabla f$, hence it is a solenoidal (rotational or harmonic) vector fields, and have zero divergence.

A: Introducing the Levi-Civita symbol, we have
\begin{align*}
\nabla \cdot (\nabla f \times \nabla h)
&= \epsilon^{ijk} \frac{\partial}{\partial x^{i}} \left( \frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial x^{j}} \frac{\partial h}{\partial x^{k}} \right) \\
&= \epsilon^{ijk} \left( \frac{\partial f}{\partial x^{i} \partial x^{j}} \frac{\partial h}{\partial x^{k}} + \frac{\partial f}{\partial x^{j}} \frac{\partial h^2}{\partial x^{k} \partial x^{i}} \right)
\end{align*}
But since $\epsilon^{ijk}$ is anti-symmetric and $\partial^2 / \partial x^{i}\partial x^{j}$ is symmetric,
$$ \epsilon^{ijk} \frac{\partial f^2}{\partial x^{i} \partial x^{j}} \frac{\partial h}{\partial x^{k}}
= -\epsilon^{jik} \frac{\partial f^2}{\partial x^{j} \partial x^{i}} \frac{\partial h}{\partial x^{k}}, $$
this quantity vanishes as it is identical to its negative. Similar argument applies to the second term, yielding
$$ \nabla \cdot (\nabla f \times \nabla h) = 0. $$
Finally, note that $\mathrm{r} = \nabla (\frac{1}{2} r^2) $. Then the second identity follows.
I guess this solution is equivalent to Muphrid's answer, but I am not sure as I know nothing on the Hodge dual (which replaces Levi-Civita pseudotensor in context-free description).

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Q: Proving the probability triple resulting from the extension theorem is complete One of the exercises in the textbook I'm using for self-study on measure-theoretic probability theory is as follows:

Prove that the extension $(\Omega, \mathcal{M}, \mathbf{P}^*)$ constructed in the proof of [the extension theorem] must be complete, meaning that if $A \in \mathcal{M}$ with $\mathbf{P}^*(A) = 0$, and if $B \subseteq A$, then $B \in \mathcal{M}$.

Some background on definitions first:

*

*$\mathbf{P}^*$ is defined as the outer measure generated by $\mathbf{P}$ on all the subsets of $\Omega$, and it's been proven that $\mathbf{P}^*$ is monotonic on every subset of $\Omega$.

*$\mathcal{M}$ is, in turn, defined as $\{ A \subseteq \Omega\ \mid\ \forall E \subseteq \Omega : \mathbf{P}^*(E) = \mathbf{P}^*(EA) + \mathbf{P}^*(E \overline{A}) \}$. Since $\mathbf{P}^*$ is proven to be subadditive, we can replace the predicate with $\mathbf{P}^*(E) \geq \mathbf{P}^*(EA) + \mathbf{P}^*(E \overline{A})$ which is sometimes easier to show.
So, here's the proof of the lemma in the exercise:
\begin{align*}
\forall E \subseteq \Omega\ :\ &\mathbf{P}^*(EB) + \mathbf{P}^*(E\overline{B}) \leq \qquad (\text{by monotoniciy and } EB \subseteq B) \\
& \mathbf{P}^*(B) + \mathbf{P}^*(E\overline{B}) \leq \qquad (\text{by monotonicity and } B \subseteq A) \\
& \mathbf{P}^*(A) + \mathbf{P}^*(E\overline{B}) = \qquad (\text{by the lemma condition}) \\
& \mathbf{P}^*(E\overline{B}) \leq \mathbf{P}^*(E) \qquad (\text{by monotonicity and } E\overline{B} \subseteq E).
\end{align*}
So, to sum it up, we have $\forall E \subseteq \Omega : \mathbf{P}^*(E) \geq \mathbf{P}^*(EB) + \mathbf{P}^*(E \overline{B})\quad\blacksquare$
The problem with this proof that I immediately see is that I haven't used the condition of $A \in \mathcal{M}$ (or I truly missed where I used it implicitly). Is it really not necessary, or have I done a mistake somewhere?


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Q: Bulk insert copy sql table with golang For the context, I'm new to go and I'm creating a program that can copy tables from Oracle to MySQL.
I use database/sql go package, so I assume it can be used for migrating any kind of database.
To simplify my question I'm coping on the same MySQL database table name world.city to world.city_copy2.
with my following code, I ended up with the same last values in all the rows in the table :-(
do I somehow need to read through all the values inside the loop? what is the efficient way to do that?
package main

import (
    "database/sql"
    "fmt"
    "strings"

    _ "github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql"
)

const (
    user   = "user"
    pass   = "testPass"
    server = "localhost"
)

func main() {
    fmt.Print("test")
    conStr := fmt.Sprintf("%s:%s@tcp(%s)/world", user, pass, server)
    db, err := sql.Open("mysql", conStr)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err.Error())
    }
    defer db.Close()
    err = db.Ping()
    if err != nil {
        panic(err.Error())
    }

    rows, err := db.Query("SELECT * FROM city")
    if err != nil {
        panic(err.Error()) // proper error handling instead of panic in your app
    }

    columns, err := rows.Columns()
    if err != nil {
        panic(err.Error()) // proper error handling instead of panic in your app
    }

    // Make a slice for the values
    values := make([]sql.RawBytes, len(columns))

    // rows.Scan wants '[]interface{}' as an argument, so we must copy the
    // references into such a slice
    scanArgs := make([]interface{}, len(values))
    for i := range values {
        scanArgs[i] = &values[i]
    }
    // that string will be generated according to len of columns
    placeHolders := "( ?, ?, ?, ?, ? )"

    // slice will contain all the values at the end
    bulkValues := []interface{}{}

    valueStrings := make([]string, 0)

    for rows.Next() {
        // get RawBytes from data
        err = rows.Scan(scanArgs...)
        if err != nil {
            panic(err.Error()) // proper error handling instead of panic in your app
        }
        valueStrings = append(valueStrings, placeHolders)
        bulkValues = append(bulkValues, scanArgs...)
        //

    }
    stmStr := fmt.Sprintf("INSERT INTO city_copy2 VALUES %s", strings.Join(valueStrings, ","))
    _, err = db.Exec(stmStr, bulkValues...)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err.Error())
    }
}

A: I have checked out the docs of the library, and it seems that the problem here is that bulkValues keeps the address of the pointer so when scanArgs changes, bulkValues also changes to latest value of that scanArgs.
You need to use the values variable to get the values like below:
func main() {
    fmt.Print("test")
    conStr := fmt.Sprintf("%s:%s@tcp(%s)/soverflow", user, pass, server)
    db, err := sql.Open("mysql", conStr)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err.Error())
    }
    defer db.Close()
    err = db.Ping()
    if err != nil {
        panic(err.Error())
    }

    rows, err := db.Query("SELECT * FROM city")
    if err != nil {
        panic(err.Error()) // proper error handling instead of panic in your app
    }

    columns, err := rows.Columns()
    if err != nil {
        panic(err.Error()) // proper error handling instead of panic in your app
    }

    // Make a slice for the values
    values := make([]sql.RawBytes, len(columns))

    // rows.Scan wants '[]interface{}' as an argument, so we must copy the
    // references into such a slice
    scanArgs := make([]interface{}, len(values))
    for i := range values {
        scanArgs[i] = &values[i]
    }
    // that string will be generated according to len of columns
    placeHolders := "( ?, ?, ?, ?, ? )"

    // slice will contain all the values at the end
    bulkValues := []interface{}{}

    valueStrings := make([]string, 0)
    // make an interface to keep the record's value
    record := make([]interface{}, len(columns))
    for rows.Next() {
        // get RawBytes from data
        err = rows.Scan(scanArgs...)
        if err != nil {
            panic(err.Error()) // proper error handling instead of panic in your app
        }
        valueStrings = append(valueStrings, placeHolders)
        for i, col := range values {
            // you need to be carefull with the datatypes here
            // check out the docs for details on here
            record[i] = string(value)
        }
        bulkValues = append(bulkValues, record...)
    }
    stmStr := fmt.Sprintf("INSERT INTO city_copy2 VALUES %s", strings.Join(valueStrings, ","))
    _, err = db.Exec(stmStr, bulkValues...)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err.Error())
    }
}

You can also find the example of the documentation here.
Note: There might be more efficient ways to copy database from psql to mysql but this answer only gives a quick solution for this particular issue that you are having.


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Fantastic Ingenuity to be Found at Fire & Ice 2021
Glass art by Jennifer Benson
The secret is out about the great art to be found at the Macon Arts Alliance's Fall ceramic and glass art exhibition. Julie Wilkerson, Executive Director of Macon Arts Alliance spoke to me about Fire & Ice 2021 and explained why Georgia is very important for ceramic artists all over the world.
There are many unique ceramic pieces for sale, including these quirky salt and pepper shakers in the shape of a cat
"People buy Georgia red clay from here and ship it all over the country and all over the world," Wilkerson explains, "We [also] have a lot of ceramic artists, a lot of potters, and a lot of them are really good."
Fire & Ice 2021 has its roots in the long running "Fired Works" that takes place in the Spring. That event will celebrate its seventeenth anniversary next year.
"2019 was the first [time we had a Fall event]," Wilkerson says, "We [also] did it in November 2020...and it did better than the 2019 show and this one has already done better than last year's show."
Ceramic art by Glenn Dair
There have been significant additions to the event this year to highlight the many pieces of glass art that are prevalent at Fire & Ice. Bryan Beck of Blazing Paddles Studio LLC and stARTup Studios gave a free glassblowing demonstration on Saturday, November 13th that had the crowds entranced.
"This is the first year we had the glassblowing which I think is a great addition because it kind of brings attention to the glass [art]...too," says Wilkerson.
Bryan Beck of Blazing Paddles Studio demonstrating glassblowing with Yen-Ting Chiu assisting him.
While this event will take place until next weekend, there will be much less ceramic and glass art to view and purchase the longer you wait. There is no entry fee for Fire & Ice 2021 though there is a suggested donation of $5.
Fire & Ice 2021 will be open from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. through Saturday, November 20th.
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