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cutting edge cycling by hunter allen and stephen cheung. human kinetics 280pp illus. £12.99 (£11.99 e-book)
a stunning amount of money is spent, perhaps unwisely on occasion, on replacing perfectly good componentry on bicycles with stuff that would make your bank manager wince, purely in the interests of going a bit faster. for the mindful equation equates light weight with less to push in a forward direction, therefore justifying the alarming number that has just arrived at the bottom of the credit card bill. the logic is understandable but somewhat flawed, for light weight really only makes a real difference when gravity is to blame; in other words, riding uphill. most of us are well enough educated to comprehend the fact that heavier bicycles and/or riders have a tendency to descend at a faster rate than the light bulbs.
bring the intrusive subject of momentum to bear, and those fewer grams might conceivably bring disadvantages. bring any object up to speed, and though the rate of acceleration will vary according to drag and the mass that requires to be accelerated, once at cruising speed, the heavier object is likely to cruise more easily. the rider of the less weight challenged bicycle will require to input more energy to maintain speed than that of the heavier rider/bicycle combination, even if they were quicker to reach the desired velocity.
there's also the not inconsiderable problem of air resistance, one of the main reasons why time trial bicycles tend to favour a front wheel with a deep flange rim, is to smooth out the airflow before it meets those thrashing legs. the solid rear wheel creates more of a flywheel effect because the air has been well and truly disturbed as to render the aerodynamic properties somewhat null and void. take all the foregoing into consideration and the only logical conclusion is that, if you want to go faster than the guy next to you, one who is likely to be on a similar standard of cycle, you're going to have to train that body to be more efficient. succinctly put, that's where the nub of cutting edge cycling resides today.
cycle manufacturers spend an inordinate amount of pounds/dollars and hours having their bicycles wind tunnel tested, a process that undoubtedly has a dubiously favourable effect on the swooping carbon fibre eased from the mold. however, the wind in the real world rarely swoops past in one constant direction (at least, it doesn't on islay), surely rendering at least a portion of all that testing just a tad academic? related to track cycling, that wind testing may have some practical useability, but additionally, so does that of registering power output and methods of improving same. for conditions on the track are of a more finite sphere of control. if the guy who won the last 4,000m pursuit did so on an average power output of 850 watts, then an average output of 900 watts has pretty much got them beat.
the road is a whole different box of skittles, incorporating as it does various road surfaces, often wildly varying inclines and a wind resistance that knows not whether it's coming or going. theoretically the guy with the higher power output still has victory in his favour, but there are so many other factors involved such as lactic acid build-up, efficient fat burning, carbohydrate storage and a myriad of other bits and bobs bringing effect to bear on who crosses the line first. making changes to this - human physiology - is where the cutting edge is at present. if you think i am mistaken, take into account the the principal bicycle purveyors of the world seem concentrated on lobbying the uci to legalise the homologation of disc brakes for competition. so while hunter allen and stephen cheung have produced 280 pages of ways to make yourself faster, the bikebuilders are intent on improving ways to stop.
i do not wish to give the impression that i'd already figured just what cutting edge cycling was all about before i started reading. in retrospect (in other words, by the end of page one) all seems glaringly obvious, but i will confess that i thought we were about to be immersed in a dissertation regarding the properties of high modulus carbon fibre allied to the old chestnut, vertically compliant but laterally stiff.
the authors, however, both well-respected in their particular fields (allen is a renowned cycling coach, cheung is a sports scientist) have scant regard for the chattels of burnt plastic. in fact, they have few in mind for certain aspects of the modern heart-rate monitors:
"In looking at the features list of heart rate monitors (HRMs), we see that manufacturers appear to be in an arms race to load as many bells and whistles into the watches as possible. Some of the more dubious and unnecessary features include the following:
Body mass index calculator. The equation is weight (in kilograms) divided by height (in meters) squared, but your BMI does not change significantly day to day unless you suddenly lose weight by cutting off an arm. Use an inexpensive calculator instead.
Fitness tests built into the HRM. These tests promise to calculate your aerobic fitness by taking your heart rate, usually at rest, and then comparing it with equations built into the HRM memory. The problem is that these tables are generalized estimates based on other people.
Calorie counters. These counters are typically based on your heart rate along with other inputs such as gender and estimated maximum heart rate, so take these data with a grain of salt. However, a counter in HRMs or cycling computers will give you ballpark values that may be useful as estimates if weight control is a concern."
cutting edge cycling is one of the most comprehensive and clearly explained books on the subject of training the body for its intended purpose i have had the pleasure to review. i cannot vouchsafe for the veracity of the information contained within; i rarely wear so much as a watch when out riding let alone a heart rate monitor or, heaven forbid, a power meter, but the authors' collective intelligence and logic as regards current physiological thinking seems as close to infallible as it is possible to be. books, by their very nature, and currently even e-book versions as reviewed here, tend to be written in stone. several have only just reached publication when along comes an alternative order as the result of continuing research.
that, however, is something that will plague such volumes till the end of time.
this is not a book that will necessarily fill the gap between getting to bed and lights out, but it is considerably less convoluted than some of its peers. disappointingly, many of the illustrations seem suprlus to requirements, though it's possible they may fulfil the function of a visual break from the ceaseless scientific explanations and discourse. a photograph of mark cavendish punching the air as he leads across the line, captioned as "Whether they strive to be victorious at elite levels or to achieve faster personal bests, cyclists turn to science for new ways to improve performance by even the smallest margin " seems a mite incongruous and pointless. subsequent images do little to improve this state of affairs. however, there are several clearly defined tables and graphs to support and elucidate the often densely-packed narrative.
i confess that i will be very unlikely to put any of the contents into practice; i'm just not that kind of cyclist. but for those who have a desire, need or employment to go as fast as their bodies will allow, i doubt you need look much further than this.
cutting edge cycling by hunter allen and stephen cheung can be ordered or downloaded from the human kinetics website


> here. Have Scott discussed these signs elsewhere?
I noticed your request for links yesterday. I am not deliberately ignoring you! However for some unexplained reason I can't get the site search engine to produce any search results for Scott Creighton?
Best if you specifically ask M Stower for links. He seems to keep meticulous track of SC's musings.
I believe (seem to recall from links posted here) that SC started threads on several other forums as well.
However, you ought be familiar with this later thread where the issue was further discussed with some considerable sensible contribution from yourself , M Stower and R Avry Wilson in particular on the subject. I think Sc makes some comment about it within.
It seems to me that ordinal numbers in hieratic need not necessarily be only dates. As per Gardiner excerpt posted by Martin above. It seems given the nature of the complicated project of constructing RC's that block order would be a major consideration. However maybe in conjunction with nfr might be an approved "perfect" on such a date??? I am interested in your thoughts.


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Q: Fitting plot and data to an equation If I have the following data:
data={{2, 66.7635}, {Log[300]/Log[10], 69.9679}, {Log[600]/Log[10],
  71.54}, {3, 72.2428}, {-2.30103, 54.0023}, {-(Log[60]/Log[10]),
  55.1941}, {-(Log[20]/Log[10]), 56.0038}, {-1,
  56.9497}, {-(Log[6]/Log[10]), 57.305}, {-(Log[10/3]/Log[10]),
  57.7213}, {-(Log[2]/Log[10]), 58.2489}, {-2.30103,
  54.0367}, {-(Log[60]/Log[10]), 55.1157}, {-(Log[20]/Log[10]),
  56.1704}, {-1, 56.7117}, {-(Log[6]/Log[10]),
  57.2506}, {-(Log[10/3]/Log[10]), 57.7097}, {-(Log[2]/Log[10]),
  58.1068}}

Which looks like this plotted:

I have two questions:
1) How can I fit and plot the fit of this data based on the following equation?
:
where Tf'_ref=57.2506 , q_ref=0.166667 and c1 and c2 are the fitting parameters. Also, notice that data is Tf' vs Log q in the equation. "Log" in the equation refers to based 10 logarithm and not to natural logarithm.
2) How can I find the values of c1 and c2 which are the fitting parameters.
The fitting (orange line) is supposed to look like this (done in excel):

with fitting parameters c1=9.43903909249581 and c2=23.1214485816819
EDIT: I tried using NonLinearFitModel like this: Table[{NonlinearModelFit[data, Logqref - ((c1*(data[[i, 2]] - Tfref))/(c2*(data[[i, 2]] - Tfref))), {{c1, 8.6}, {c2, 17.2}}, x]; }, {i, 1, 11}] but this does not work. The reason I tried this is because data[[i, 2]] represents Tf' in the equation. Here Logref=Log10[0.16667]
EDIT2: When I do it in Excel c1=9.43903909249581 and c2=23.1214485816819. When I put this parameters into the equation they seem to fit the equation very well as well. Since the parameters found by @Bob Hanlon seems to fit the data very well as well, 3) How can I know what is the best parameters to fit and how could mathematica also find the parameters I found in excel, which seems to have a lower sum of errors squared?

A: Clear["Global`*"]

data = {{2, 66.7635}, {Log[300]/Log[10], 69.9679}, {Log[600]/Log[10],
    71.54}, {3, 72.2428}, {-2.30103, 54.0023}, {-(Log[60]/Log[10]),
    55.1941}, {-(Log[20]/Log[10]), 56.0038}, {-1,
    56.9497}, {-(Log[6]/Log[10]), 57.305}, {-(Log[10/3]/Log[10]),
    57.7213}, {-(Log[2]/Log[10]), 58.2489}, {-2.30103,
    54.0367}, {-(Log[60]/Log[10]), 55.1157}, {-(Log[20]/Log[10]),
    56.1704}, {-1, 56.7117}, {-(Log[6]/Log[10]),
    57.2506}, {-(Log[10/3]/Log[10]), 57.7097}, {-(Log[2]/Log[10]),
    58.1068}};

EDIT:
eqn = ((log10q - Log10[qref]) == c1*(Tfp - Tfpref)/(c2 + (Tfp - Tfpref)));

Solve the equation for Tfp to obtain the model
model = Tfp /. Solve[eqn, Tfp][[1]] // FullSimplify

(* Tfpref + c2 (-1 + (c1 Log[10])/((c1 - log10q) Log[10] + Log[qref])) *)

const = {Tfpref -> 57.2506, qref -> 0.166667};

Substituting the constants into the model
model2 = model /. (const // Rationalize) // FullSimplify

(* 286253/5000 +
 c2 (-1 + (c1 Log[10])/((-6 + c1 - log10q) Log[10] + Log[166667])) *)

Using NonlinearModelFit with a constraint on the parameters
nlm = NonlinearModelFit[data,
     {model2, c1 > 5, c2 > 5}, {c1, c2}, log10q];

param = nlm["BestFitParameters"]

(* {c1 -> 9.29797, c2 -> 22.629} *)

nlm["ParameterTable"] // Quiet

confidInterval = Thread[{c1, c2} -> Around@*Interval /@
    nlm["ParameterConfidenceIntervals"]]

(* {c1 -> Around[9.297969154154664, 1.0182007406816869`],
    c2 -> Around[22.62894607083057, 3.89519370692895]} *)

Plot[nlm[log10q],
 {log10q, Min[data[[All, 1]]], Max[data[[All, 1]]]},
 Epilog -> {Red, AbsolutePointSize[4], Point[data]},
 Frame -> True,
 Axes -> False,
 GridLines -> Automatic,
 GridLinesStyle -> Lighter[Gray, .8],
 FrameLabel -> (Style[#, 14, Bold] & /@
    {HoldForm@Log10["q (K/s)"],
     Row[{Subscript[T, f'], " (", Degree, " C)"}]})]

A: Your example is a Table of nonlinear fits rather than applying NonlinearModelFit to all the data at once.
Two issues in using NonlinearModelFit in your case:
1) your equation gives Log[q] in terms of Tf whereas NonlinearModelFit needs an equation for the output, in this case Tf, in terms of the input, i.e., Log[q].
2) the Tf values in your data extend below the reference temperature, so unless C2 is large enough, the fit could divide by zero somewhere in the range of temperatures in your data.
For issue 1), you could either reverse the order of your data, fitting Log[q] in terms of Tf, or rewrite your equation to give Tf in terms of Log[q]. For issue 2), NonlinearModelFit may require specifying initial guesses for C1 and C2.
Here's how to use NonlinearModelFit by rewriting your equation, using logq to refer to Log[q]:
expr = Simplify[Tf /. Solve[
   PowerExpand@Log[q/qRef] == (C1 (Tf - TfRef))/(
    C2 + (Tf - TfRef)), Tf][[1]] /.
Log[q] -> logq /. {TfRef -> 57.2506, qRef -> 0.166667}]

To fit to your data, I use initial guesses of 10 for the parameters:
fit = NonlinearModelFit[data, expr, {{C1, 10}, {C2, 10}}, logq]

To get fit parameters:
fit["BestFitParameters"]

and to plot:
Show[ListPlot[data], Plot[fit[logq], {logq, -3, 3}]]

Comparing the fit with the data isn't as close as the Excel plot you provide. Is it possible the reference q value is for log base 10, i.e., Log10[q] in your equation?

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My wife and I decided to take a weekend float/fishing trip on the beautiful Greenbrier River, again. I say again because we attempted a trip earlier in the year on the northern part of the Greenbrier. We put in during a thunderstorm, and the rain never ceased. I felt as if I should start collecting animals two by two. We ended up paddling 21 miles that day in what was supposed to be a three-day relaxing weekend. We were prepared with dry bags, rain gear, plenty of zip-locks. Even though we stayed relatively dry, we thought it best to do the trip in one day since the river has a history of rising rapidly and potentially stranded boaters. We look back and can now laugh, but at the time, we were afraid we were going to start growing gills.
The Greenbrier is one of the only undammed rivers left in our part of the country. The second trip started on a Friday afternoon after raining all day. Expecting the worst, we were prepared for anything nature would send our way (if there is such a state of readiness). We proceeded to our drop-off point near Anthony, WV. Once we loaded our Mad River Teton, dressed in our rain gear, we set out for relaxing weekend, although the look on my wife's face was that of deja vu. As if by some miracle, the rain stopped, the clouds began to break and the sunshine even came out. Much to our amazement, this was the beginning of a great weekend.
We decided to paddle around 7 miles that afternoon, set up camp, and stay there and relax for the rest of the day and the next day as well. The campsite was opposite a great rock cliff. During the evening, we could hear the hawks and even the eagles, screeching in search of their prey. We spent some time in the cool river, soaking up the surroundings. The fishing wasn't as good as I had hoped, but this is understandable since the rain of the previous couple of days made for some murky water. Even with the popularity of this river among weekenders, we were virtually alone, with the exception of the occasional canoe quietly floating by.
On our last day, we packed our boat and proceeded downstream to the take out at a rather slow pace. I finally found a nice fishing hole and spent some time playing the game of cat and mouse. I caught a few, enough to satisfy my need to fish. As we neared the end of our relaxing journey, we were joined on the river by many day-trippers on a Sunday afternoon float. We pulled out at Caldwell, WV, packed our gear, and unfortunately, entered reality again. I must say, we will be back. And even if I don't catch a thing, it will all be worthwhile.
Just one bit of additional advice, we went during the month of August and had no problem with hitting bottom. However, this is rare. We even had a couple of Class II rapids, but the were easily navigable. Usually we would have to drag (I hate even thinking about that) our canoe in several spots.
Well, if you are rich and like to through money away, you can stay at the five star Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs. But there are also more affordable ways to go. There are several bed and breakfasts near White Sulphur. There are also motels in White Sulphur, nearby Lewisburg or in Covington, VA.
The directions are very simple. From points west of the Virginia/West Virginia state line, drive east on I-64. For points east of the state line, drive west on I-64.


We performed genome-wide model dependent and independent analyses on a simulated data set of 400 families segregating for a rare disorder. Regions on chromosomes 1, 3, and 5 were consistently indicated across the various analyses performed. Follow-up analyses included stratification for locus heterogeneity and clinical phenotype and studies of gene x gene and gene x environment interaction. The region around D1G024 was most notable, showing strong association and linkage with the trait. We also identified regions D3G043-46 and D5G037-39 by strong linkage and association findings and region D1G001-09 by linkage analysis. A complex statistical interaction was suggested between D1G024, D3G046 and environmental factor 1. This report suggests that traditional methods of analysis can be implemented to analyze and describe the mechanisms that may underlie the more complex genetic disorders.


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Super Bowl Show Performer Red Hot Chili Peppers Pile On Praise For Bruno Mars
Bruno Mars, left, performs during the halftime show of the NFL Super Bowl XLVIII football game between the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014, in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP2014)
Bruno Mars performs during the halftime show of the NFL Super Bowl XLVIII football game Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014, in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Veteran rockers Red Hot Chili Peppers had nothing but good things to say about Bruno Mars' performance at Sunday night's Super Bowl.
In an open letter after the show, the band's bassist, Flea, called Mars a "super talented young man" and thanked him for inviting them to be part of the gig.
The flashy, high-energy show brought in the largest viewership in the history of the big game. According to Nielsen data, Mars not only topped last year's 111 million for Beyonce's show, but also beat the record set by Madonna, Nicki Minaj and M.I.A in 2012.
Not bad for the 28-year-old artist who barely hit the national stage a handful of years ago and who had skeptics wondering if he would be able to pull it off successfully.
In his letter, Flea also dropped a bombshell, stating that the band mimed their entire performance – except vocals which were sung life. The longtime rocker said it was made clear to them that the drums, bass and guitar would be pre-recorded.
"I understand the NFL's stance on this, given they only have a few minutes to set up the stage, there a zillion things that could go wrong and ruin the sound for the folks watching in the stadium and the t.v. viewers," he wrote.
Flea said the band has had a stance since the late 1980s that they would not mime playing – even recalling a performance at "The Top of the Pops" program in the U.K., where they refused to mime properly by playing bass with shoes and jumping around.
As for Sunday's performance, the bassist said they had a lot of discussions regarding what they should do and felt that with live vocals they could bring the spirit and freedom of their performance live.
"I met and spoke with Bruno, who was a beautiful dude, a real talented musician, and we worked out something that seemed like it would be fun," Flea wrote.
Mars has not yet responded to the praise from the Hall of Fame rock band.
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VOL. 10 | NO. 17 | Saturday, April 22, 2017
Riding New Wave
In RegionSmart world, leaders learn to love their neighbors
By Don Wade
RegionSmart Gets City Lover Peter Kageyama
NYC Parks Commissioner Joins RegionSmart
Transit Options Vital to Regions, Expert Says
RegionSmart Speaker to Highlight Suburban Retrofitting
Editorial: Realistic Regionalism And the Road Ahead
In 2007, about a half-dozen Memphis companies came together to found the Urban Land Institute Memphis chapter. It was a fine start. Six years later, ULI Memphis was convening a group of mayors from the tri-state area and, at least initially, trying very hard to make it informal and non-threatening.
"We went to them and said, `If y'all get to know each other, it's a good thing,'" said ULI Memphis director Anna Holtzclaw. "If you want to get together and drink beer and eat barbecue, that's a good thing.
"They decided to be more responsible."
Which isn't to say that shared responsibility has never happened over beer and barbecue. But the Mid-South Mayors' Council meets six times a year with topics such as workforce development, education and transportation as focal points. Last year, the council hosted the first annual RegionSmart – a summit aimed at demonstrating the layered powered of regional collaboration.
The second RegionSmart is being held on April 27 at the Halloran Centre for Performing Arts & Education. This year's agenda: area workforce development, transportation and land use. Registration, which is $125, opens at 8:30 a.m. The programming begins at 9 a.m. and runs until 5 p.m., with a reception to follow. Visit regionsmart.org/register to register in advance. The Memphis Daily News is a sponsor of the event.
Last year's summit brought in several heavy-hitters as speakers. This year's will do the same and retrofitting suburbia and sustainable transportation planning are two of the subjects. But Holtzclaw's favorite moment from the 2016 summit was a more casual one between two women working and living in different states, attending this event in Downtown Memphis.
It seems the mayor of a small town in Arkansas was telling another woman who lived in Hernando, Mississippi, but commuted to work in Memphis, about the park her town was about to build. The woman from Hernando not only said she would be there to help, but that she would bring other volunteers with her.
It was good old-fashioned neighborliness, across many miles and state lines. No government meetings required, no unwieldy committees convened.
Six-year-old Lily Little hula-hoops at A Day of Merrymaking in Overton Park, a park citizens have defended for decades.
(Memphis News File/Andrew J. Breig)
That story, Holtzclaw says, fits in perfectly with the message from one of RegionSmart's main speakers this year: Peter Kageyama, author of "For the Love of Cities: The Love Affair Between People and Their Places."
Kageyama recognizes that cities have to be mindful of budgets and expenses while also providing the essentials – everything from police protection and fire service to fixing potholes. Recognizes it, but doesn't belabor it.
"People appreciate you for that," Kageyama said. "They don't love you for that. There's no emotional return on investment for fixing potholes."
Memphis, for example, is buzzing about its ambitious projects – from the Greenprint to Chisca on Main to Central Station to Crosstown Concourse; that's where passion pushes progress.
"We can get wrapped up in finances," Kageyama said. "And we tend to think of ourselves as intellectual creatures. I don't think that's true. We're emotional creatures. We make emotional decisions. And then we're smart enough to rationalize them: `I bought that red sports car because …'
"We may disagree to what extent love matters (in terms of cities), but when people, pets or plants are loved, they thrive."
OPEN MINDS, OPEN ARMS
The second annual RegionSmart will start with Dr. Jim Johnson from UNC Chapel Hill laying out, as he did last year, the demographic trends shaping not only America but the Mid-South.
"He talked about the graying and browning of America and that's also true in Germantown and Memphis," said J.T. Malasri, principal of Malasri Engineering and a ULI advisory board member.
Those two demographic realities are having, and will continue to have, a profound effect going forward. As Malasri notes, every city or town has a set tax base. And infrastructure, like the population, will age and need more care. And that costs money.
It is a shared challenge even if cities and towns are working out of their own budgets. So individual communities, and the region, benefit from bringing in more business and revenue. Sounds basic, but competition is real, too, and perhaps even more so fear of competitors can be real.
Overton Square, a retail, entertainment and arts district in Midtown, is enjoying its second incarnation and drawing a new generation of patrons.
"The fact RegionSmart is happening and was a huge success last year shows a slight paradigm shift," Malasri said.
"There are certainly hurdles. Some suburbs feel that they can function alone without Memphis," said David Bradford, a senior principal with SSR, a Memphis engineering and consulting firm, and also a part of ULI. "But RegionSmart kind of opens everybody's minds up. They're not just concerned about their own little sandbox where they play."
Collaboration and regionalization can be about as big as you want to make it. Kageyama notes that Memphis is part of a megaregion with Atlanta and Charlotte, North Carolina, and he sees benefits to that for the Bluff City when trying to lure industry and business to the southeastern United States.
"That's cool because if you and Atlanta and Charlotte are in competition against Hong Kong and Shanghai, it's a bit more of a fair fight," he said.
But the thrust of the summit is around the tri-state area. Regionalism for that purpose, Bradford says, goes as far west as Little Rock, Arkansas, as far to the east as Jackson, Tennessee, as far north as the Tennessee-Kentucky line, and as far south as Grenada, Mississippi.
"That's still a pretty big region," Bradford said.
More of the focus, however, falls on Shelby, Fayette and Tipton counties in Tennessee, Crittenden County in Arkansas, and DeSoto, Marshall, Tate and Tunica counties in Mississippi.
The Greenprint, of course, literally spreads the idea of regionalism. It's a 25-year plan to create 500 miles of greenway trails and 200 miles of bicycle paths across the three states. And it's a likable, even lovable, kind of project.
Meantime, there is also a growing shift back to the urban core – new development of all shapes and sizes bringing people into Midtown and Downtown to work, play, live.
Jessica Reeves, 34, an attorney in the Memphis office of Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis LLP, and who grew up here, just moved back to town in 2013 after working in the firm's Nashville office.
"I chose to relocate," she said. "I saw a big change in the city just in three years – the energy, the passion. The Overton Square project, the Crosstown project, Shelby Farms (expanding) … people are starting to feel a love for Memphis."
"WE" BIGGER THAN "I"
The Mayors' Council includes everyone from Memphis' Jim Strickland and Shelby County's Mark H. Luttrell to the mayors of Marion, Arkansas, Walls, Mississippi, and Covington, Tennessee.
Justin Hanson, 37, is the mayor of Covington.
"We have three states surrounding the largest city in Tennessee," he said. "The more times we cross those state lines, the better off we'll be."
He jokingly says his own town is on the "west coast of Tennessee," notes that it's home to people who work in Memphis, but that there are also people who live in Memphis and work in Covington.
He's optimistic about the future, hopeful about what becomes of the 4,100-acre, $106 million Memphis Regional Megasite located mostly in nearby Hardeman County, but he also remains mindful about running the town day to day.
"You think a mayor's job is difficult?" he asks. "Wait till somebody's garbage doesn't get picked up."
It's true. It's also, as Kageyama points out, not what makes residents passionate about a place.
The bigger picture of progress must go deeper, be more emotional. This is perhaps especially so for millennials, who have their own opinions on workforce development, education, land use, transportation and any other topic you care to name.
"Millennials might want green transportation," Bradford said. "Carpooling, biking."
Said Reeves: "I meet a lot of millennials not from here. Whether it's Teach for America or other things that bring them to Memphis, a lot are staying. It's an affordable city and there are great spaces here that do compete with larger cities. But there's also still work to do and they want to feel a purpose for what they're doing."
And then there's this: Kageyama says studies show that two-thirds of millennials first choose the place they want to live, then the place they want to work.
"That's not logical," he said, "but their attitude is, `that feels like me, that nurtures the kind of person I want to be.'"
So there is momentum for collaboration at several levels. And the more towns, counties and cities that once viewed each other only as competitors can see each other as partners, the more opportunity there is for broader, larger, and more sustainable progress.
It's an adjustment that creates, in Kageyama's view, a new dynamic: "friendenemies."
Said Holtzclaw: "I like what one mayor said: `If a business can't move into my county, I sure as hell want it in the county next-door as opposed to going to Indianapolis, Houston or Charlotte.'
"I said last year, we're trying to change the definition of 'we,'" she added. "And 'we' means all of us in the Mid-South."
Beer and barbecue optional.


I went down to one of Castle's filming locations today (interior) and totally didn't think I could get in but I did, right up to the production line.
I only saw one continuous take before I left for work but it was one continuous take featuring Katherine freaking Beckett so I'll take it.
So here's what's up: Filming was at 506 S. Grand (Biltmore Hotel). The setting appears to be a fundraiser for the reelection of Angela Martin's gay State Senator husband on The Office/HRG on Heroes, Jack Coleman as Senator William H. Bracken. Beckett was unaccompanied, in a hurry, bypassed the regular security line, stopped to talk briefly to a female police officer, and proceeded. Shot ended there.
And that's pretty much all the plot I have for you. Her stand-in (Lisa?) had a short black jacket on so I was having Always flashbacks and her long dark hair was curled like Beckett's. Also very pretty. Stana herself was wearing what at a distance appeared to be a knee-length satin dark blue trenchcoat and skinny pants. I realize now that I didn't look at her shoes but they had be heels or boots with a heel because she was fiercely bouncing through that shot.
More of Stana's stand-in. Also, more patriotism.
I have a clearer shot of the top of the banner but the composition is so embarrassingly off because it was the last shot I took while afore mentioned crew guy was asking me to stop taking pics. This shows more.


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Ex-Thunderbirds blueliners Slavin, Olofsson get first taste of NHL
From carpooling together as Colorado Thunderbirds and joking about sending clearing attempts into rink ceilings to making their NHL debuts one day apart last month, it's been quite a ride so far for Gustav Olofsson and Jaccob Slavin.
The defensemen, who are such close friends that Olofsson was a groomsman in Slavin's wedding last summer, add this memory to a long list of them.
"I work out with him so I know he's more than deserving," said Olofsson, whom the Minnesota Wild dressed for a Nov. 19 game at Boston. "We've been buddies ever since I came to Colorado six years ago and our families are really close.
"It was a special moment for both of us after playing college together (at Colorado College) and also with the T-Birds back in the day. We've been alongside each other, pushing each other along the way. We always keep each other in mind and make sure we're not slacking."
Added Slavin, whom the Carolina Hurricanes dressed against Toronto on Nov. 20 for the first of a six-game call-up, "We're best buds, so it was really cool when he told me about the possibility he was going to play the night before I was going to play. We're both pretty excited about it."
Slavin also potted his first NHL goal Dec. 8 in Dallas.
The trips to the NHL were not without speed bumps for Olofsson (a second-round pick, 46th overall, in the 2013 NHL draft) and Slavin (a fourth-round pick, 120th overall in 2012).
Olofsson's family made a hat trick of moves during his youth – from their native Sweden when he was six to Northern California, back to Sweden, then to the Denver area. Hockey and family bonds (he is the oldest of Hakan and Ulrika's three sons, including Fredrik, a former T-Bird himself now playing at the University of Nebraska-Omaha) helped with his transitions, which included three seasons with the Thunderbirds, a year in the United States Hockey League (USHL), a year at Colorado College and seeing his first pro season (2014-15) end after one game because of a shoulder injury.
Olofsson's second NHL game on Nov. 28 included an added bonus.
"My dad and grandpa (visiting from Sweden) got to see the second game in St. Paul (Minn.)," he said. "They were five hours away in Omaha watching my brother play and they just decided to drive up. I rarely see (my grandpa) during the year so for him to get to see that, it was pretty special."
Slavin, who is the third of Robert and Wendi's five children, said his road map included an important lesson – how to deal with disappointment.
"My first year of Midgets, I didn't make the 16U team and got put on the 15U team," he said. "At the time, I thought I was good enough to make the 16 team, but it was one of the best things for me because I played every situation on the 15s. I was able to grow and develop as a player. The next year, I thought I should make the 18 team, but I ended up not making that one as well. It definitely is a process, but it's helped me where I am now."
After two seasons apart – Olofsson played 18U for the T-Birds then for Green Bay (USHL), while Slavin went to Chicago (USHL) in 2011-13 – the duo shared the 2013-14 season at Colorado College. Midway through the 2013-14 campaign, they represented Sweden and Team USA, respectively, at the IIHF World Junior Championship.
"It's pretty special to see these two incredibly talented young men, who happen to be the best of friends, reach their goal of playing at the highest level in the world," said Angelo Ricci, the T-Birds' director of hockey operations and 16U coach. "Jaccob and 'Goose' are the epitome of hard work. They each have a terrific hockey brain, positive attitudes and a high compete level.
"As they continue to get stronger and more comfortable with the pro style of the game, I believe they will have a very long run in the NHL."
— Chris Bayee
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Taking Liberties With… Gustav Olofsson


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The Elephant, the Tiger and the Cellphone
India is a place that I haven't seen enough of, and don't know enough about. But at least I'm lucky enough to have been there twice. And let's face it, you could spend a lifetime exploring India and not see it all – it's a big place!
"The Elephant, the Tiger and the Cellphone" has been sitting on my bookshelf for far too long (since my last trip to India in fact), but I finally got into reading it this year, and I am really glad that I did. Shashi Tharoor is a former UN diplomat, so he knows India, having grown up and spent much of his life there, but he also has enough of an outsider's view that he doesn't assume too much knowledge of the country for the international reader like me.
The book is a series of fairly short and easy to read essays on all of the major subjects of Indian life – politics, religion, history, economics, and of source cricket. What is clear is that the writer has his own opinions on Indian life, and although he loves his country and is very proud of it, he is honest about the good and bad of India in the 21st century. Although this is a forward-looking book, some of my favourite parts were about Indian history – the campaign for independance and the people who led it, the pain of partition, and the politics since then. I've always known a little about Gandhi, but not so much about Nehru and others, and I think my next non-fiction reading might be to find out more about them.
If the book has a central message, I think it's the great diversity of India. When I was there, I was astonished by the profusion of languages as I travelled around, and wondered how a country could stay bound together without a single common language. But perhaps that question says more about me than India; we struggle with division in Northern Ireland, even though it's not that big and there aren't that many of us. And Scotland isn't much better these days…
His answer to that question is that India is at its best when it embraces the diversity that spans languages, religions, castes, ethnic types – pretty much everything. India is proud of its democracy, the massive exercise that ensures that votes are gathered from every corner of the country, and rightly so. And it's proud of its secular society, where prime ministers, politicians, cricketers, and celebrities come from all of the different faiths.
India will be the most populous nation on earth before too long, and with its combination of science and technological leadership, and a massive diaspora of Indians all over the world, it's a culture that we need to take notice of.
I really enjoyed this book, and it makes me want to find out more about a country that I have even greater respect for now.
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Van Morrison at the Odyssey
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Tonight I got to see and hear Van Morrison live at the Odyssey. What a great night 🙂
He hasn't changed since the last time I saw him – he still has no interest in talking (the only words he said all night were to thank the audience, and to get the audience to applaud the band). But he lets his music do the talking for him. As I remember from before, he leads his band all the way – waving at them, pointing, talking to them, directing the music. And he loses himself in it too, the head nodding, and applauding some of the solos.
But what made this concert special was that he doesn't have a new album to sell this time round. So instead of new songs the audience doesn't know, this was mainly old songs that we did know. But not as we know them. His band included a trombone and saxaphone, plus a part time trumpet and keyboard player (an odd combo I thought). So it went from having the feel of a jazz quartet when he joined in on his sax, to a solid horn section backing up the rest of the band (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, drums and more percussion) with brass stabs. As always, the arrangements were really good, with some really subtle details on muted trumpet and tinkly piano. He started with a great, really fresh version of brown eyed girl with very jazzy horns. My immediate thought was "Wow – he's still got it. Michael Buble or Jamie Cullum could be singing that arrangement". And I was really pleased about that, because Van is getting on a bit, but he can still do it. Other classics were Gloria, Tupelo Honey, Moondance, Sometimes we cray, and Have I told you lately. And others I can't think of right now. All of them reworked and sounding fresh, and unpredictably performed by Van himself, when he gets stuck on a line or a word and uses his voice as an instrument, repeating whatever it is again and again. He's also very unsentimental with his own songs – a lot of them end very suddenly, with no gradual run down at all.
I've got no pictures, because they would have been awful from my phone, because the staff were telling peopple off for taking them, and because I know Van hates that sort of thing. I fully expect to have sore neck in the morning from sitting at an angle for two and a half hours. But I don't care. I still thank Van Morrison is great.
(And his daughter was pretty good too as a support act – she can sing!)
PS: Double Usefulness also enjoyed the gig, and you can read his review here. It's probably better than mine ; )
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Q: Bind the closing of a first modal to the opening of a second modal So when the first modal (this.$avatarModal) is closed, I would like a second modal (this.$modaldata) to open.:
The following sequence works however there are issues with the scrolling of the second modal not functioning:
    this.$avatarModal.modal('hide');
    this.$modaldata.modal('show');

As a solution to the scrolling issue, the dev on github are recommending to bind the event. However the following code, using .on does not work (the second modal does not open.
    this.$avatarModal.modal('hide');
    this.$avatarModal.on('hidden.bs.modal', function () {
      this.$modaldata.modal('show');
});

However, If i replace the show event with an alert, the alert opens:
    this.$avatarModal.modal("hide");
    this.$avatarModal.on('hidden.bs.modal', function () {
      window.alert('hidden event fired!');
});

This tells me that all the commands here are working, however having the 'show' method within the .on('hidden'... event does not seem to work.
Is there a reason for this incompatibility and how I can correctly open up the second modal after the first modal closes?


With your dental health, as well as with your physical health, accidents and sudden aches and pains happen. When trauma to your teeth, gums, jaw or face occur or if sudden, severe or persistent pain is present, you should see your dentist right away. An underlying infection may be present or the damage due to the accident can cause further damage if not promptly treated. Dental emergencies are very common. A dental emergency is one in which the patient's tooth or teeth are at risk of being lost, there is much bleeding and/or there is severe, inhibiting pain. What are the top 5 dental emergencies dentists see?
Sports, accidents, falls and biting hard objects all have the potential to crack, fracture and break teeth. Broken teeth are the most common dental emergencies. Fortunately, a broken tooth can be easily fixed by a dentist using dental bond. If you brake a tooth, locate the pieces and carefully clean them as well as the tooth. If the tooth was broken due to impact or trauma to the mouth, nose or face, apply a cold compress on the area to reduce the swelling.
If your tooth gets knocked out, it is important to find the tooth and go to the dentist immediately. If you wait too long for a dentist to put your tooth back it, it will die and will need to be replaced by an implant and crown. It is estimated that you have an hour-long window to reinsert your tooth before it is lost and unusable. If you lose a tooth, gently wash it off with cold water and try to reposition it back in your mouth, gently biting down to hold it in place. If you're not able to place it in your mouth, place the tooth in some milk. Don't set it in water.
Nobody likes a toothache. The pain is persistent and sometimes it's so severe it can affect the patient's chewing and speaking. Toothaches are considered dental emergencies not only because of the inhibiting pain they can cause, but because the pain can be a symptom of infection of the tooth pulp. If left untreated, the patient will continue to be in pain, the tooth can decay and will need to be extracted and the infection can follow the roots and destroy and weaken the bone of the jaw. Before going to the dentist, brush and floss your teeth and take an Aspirin-free pain reliever such as Tylenol.
Braces are a common orthodontic dental alignment treatment commonly found in teens and some adults. Braces have metal wires and brackets that can become lose and brake. A broken metal wire is sharp and can cause injury to the inside of the cheeks, gums and the tongue. The broken part of the braces will need to be promptly removed and replaced by a dentist or orthodontist to prevent further damage and irritation. Before going to the dentist or orthodontist, cushion the edge of the broken piece to avoid additional injury to the mouth.
Sometimes the bonding that fills in cavities can become lose and get dislodged, causing the tooth to become exposed to pressure, air, cold and heat. This exposed part of the tooth will be extremely sensitive so pain is often accompanied when a filling is lost. Similarly, if a tooth is covered by a crown, it becomes sensitive. When a crown comes off, the same sensitivity to air, pressure, heat and cold occurs. To maintain the stability and integrity of the tooth, it is important that you see the dentist as soon as possible. If you find the crown, rinse it off and bring it with you. Dental emergencies are things nobody enjoys. They are painful and can result in lost teeth and more severe dental issues. If you have a dental emergency, contact us at Apple Tree Dental immediately.


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Random Drug & Alcohol Testing November 16, 2017 Labour & Employment
Drug and Alcohol Testing: What Evidence Does an Employer Need to Establish a Random Testing Policy?
Labour and Employment Newsletter – Autumn 2017
Many employers want to establish drug and alcohol testing policies in their workplace. However, there have been a number of challenges to such policies, and many of these challenges have succeeded. The Alberta Court of Appeal recently provided guidance on a key aspect of such policies, specifically the evidence employers need to create a valid drug and alcohol testing policy. This newsletter sets out the latest on the requirements of a valid policy.
In 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada (the "SCC") released a significant decision on the validity of drug and alcohol testing in the workplace. In Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, Local 30 v. Irving Pulp & Paper Ltd., 2013 SCC 34 ("Irving"), the SCC decided that employers have to show "sufficient evidence" of an existing problem with drugs or alcohol in their workplace to justify a random testing policy. The Employer then has to balance the need to address that problem with the employees' right to privacy. There is no exact definition of what constitutes "sufficient evidence" so, in each case, employers have struggled to implement testing policies.
The Alberta Court of Appeal recently provided guidance on this issue in Suncor Energy Inc. v. Unifor Local 707A, 2017 ABCA 313 ("Suncor"). This case sets out what evidence is necessary to justify a random testing policy.
In 2012 Suncor implemented a random drug and alcohol testing policy for safety-sensitive positions at two locations in the Fort McMurray area. The Union representing many employees there ("Unifor") grieved this policy, claiming that it violated the privacy rights of its members. A three-person arbitration board heard the grievance in 2013. Suncor led evidence showing that it had based the policy on information about safety across the entire workplace (both unionized and non-unionized employees). Unifor argued that Suncor did not have sufficient evidence of a problem as it did not have evidence of a problem specific to the bargaining unit.
The majority of the board agreed with Unifor. It found that Suncor had not provided enough evidence to prove that there was a general substance abuse problem within the bargaining unit as its evidence related to the entire workplace. The majority stated that the evidence presented by Suncor was "unparticularized" and "unspecific", and did not show a link between drug/alcohol use within the bargaining unit and the safety incidents on site.
The dissenting opinion criticized the majority's decision as inappropriately narrowing the focus of the issue to the bargaining unit in question, rather than considering problems within the workplace as a whole. The dissent found that there was clear evidence of safety issues within Suncor's workplace.
Suncor challenged the arbitration decision in the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench. The reviewing judge found a number of errors, including that the arbitration board failed to strike the appropriate balance between workplace safety and employee privacy. The Court overturned the arbitration decision.
Unifor appealed. The Alberta Court of Appeal held that the arbitration board should have considered Suncor's evidence of substance abuse across the entire workforce. It held that evidence of a general problem in the workplace was sufficient basis to introduce a drug and alcohol testing policy, and that the employer did not have to have evidence of a problem in the bargaining unit per se.
Lessons for Employers
The SCC's decision in Irving required that employers have "sufficient evidence" of a substance abuse problem in their workplace in order to randomly test employees in safety-sensitive positions. This decision was not specific, though, about what evidence related to safety incidents on site involving drugs and alcohol that an employer has to have when creating a random testing policy. Employers now have guidance about what evidence they need to successfully implement a policy, including that they do not have to distinguish between union employees, non-unionized employees and contract employees when presenting evidence of safety incidents and substance abuse.
An employer must, of course, balance workplace safety issues with the privacy rights of their employees when implementing a drug and alcohol testing policy.
It remains challenging to establish a random drug and alcohol testing program, but employers now have a clearer picture about what evidence they need.
DISCLAIMER: This newsletter is for information only; it is not legal advice. We urge you to consult legal counsel before acting on the information provided.
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BTS to become 1st Korean nominee to perform at upcoming Grammy Awards
K-pop sensation BTS, which earned a nomination from this year's Grammy Awards, is set to perform at music's biggest night in the United States next week, the event's organizers have said.
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The Recording Academy on Sunday (U.S. time) announced the full performers lineup for the 63rd Grammys. BTS is among 22 listed musicians, including Dua Lipa, Roddy Ricch, Taylor Swift, Cardi B, Billie Eilish, Megan Thee Stallion and Post Malone, that will perform at the event this coming Sunday.
It is the first time that a South Korean artist will perform at the Grammys as a nominee.
BTS is nominated for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the Grammy Awards in the first nod to an all-Korean pop music act.
"It's going to be dynamite! Watch BTS bring the fire set the night alight at the Grammys," the Recording Academy said in its Twitter posting, citing the lyrics of BTS' hit song "Dynamite."
In 2019, the septet made their first Grammys appearance as presenters at the show and joined American rapper Lil Nas X to perform his record hit "Old Town Road," with lines from the remix "Seoul Town Road."
Over the past two years, the group has emerged as one of the world's most popular boy bands since its debut in 2013 and earned a nod from the Grammys, one of the most coveted music awards in the U.S.
Last year, its first English-language song "Dynamite" debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100, becoming the first song by any Korean artist to top the U.S. weekly singles chart.
Members of BTS have said they are dreaming of performing as a stand-alone act and winning a prize at the Grammy Awards.
This year's Grammy Awards ceremony will be held this coming Sunday, but the exact format of the show is not yet determined. (Yonhap)
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Q: Why $\frac{|Ap+Bq+C|}{\sqrt{A^2+B^2}}$ is the shortest distance from a point$(p,q)$ to a line equation $Ax+By+C=0$? I want to show the statement
"Let $(h,k)$ be a point on a line  $Ax+By+C=0$  prove that $\sqrt{(h-p)^2+(k-q)^2}$ $\geq$ $\frac{|Ap+Bq+C|}{\sqrt{A^2+B^2}}$" is true.
I do try to prove it with contradiction.
Proof Suppose $(h,k)$ is a point on the line $Ax+By+C=0$
and $\sqrt{(h-p)^2+(k-q)^2}$ $<$ $\frac{|Ap+Bq+C|}{\sqrt{A^2+B^2}}$
Consider In coordinate system, Draw a right triangle from point$(a,b)$ and any two points on the line

And now I stuck with this step how to show it contradicts.
Could you help me please?
Do you have any ideas to prove it?
Thank you very much.

A: The line through the origin orthogonal to $AX+BY+C=0$ is $-BX+AY=0$ and their intersection is given by
$$A\frac A B Y+BY+C=0 \iff (A^2+B^2)Y=-BC \\\iff Y_0= -\frac{BC}{A^2+B^2} \quad X_0=-\frac{AC}{A^2+B^2}$$
therefore
$$d_0=\sqrt{X_0^2+Y_0^2}=\frac{|C|}{\sqrt{A^2+B^2}}$$
Now, with reference to a point $P=(x_P,y_P)$ in the coordinates $x$ and $y$, let consider the translation such that $P\equiv O$ in the coordinates $X$ and $Y$

*

*$X=x-x_P$

*$Y=y-y_P$
then we have
$$Ax+By+C=0 \iff AX+BY+(Ax_p+By_p+C)=0$$
and therefore
$$d_P=\frac{|Ax_p+By_p+C|}{\sqrt{A^2+B^2}}$$
since the distance is independent from the reference system.

A: Suppose $(x_{0},y_{0})$ lies on the line i.e. $Ax_{0}+By_{0}+C=0$
$$
\frac{\left|Ax+By+C\right|}{\sqrt{A^{2}+B^{2}}}=\frac{\left|A(x-x_{0})+B(y-y_{0})\right|}{\sqrt{A^{2}+B^{2}}}
$$
The right hand side of the equation is dot product between vectors $A\hat{i}+B\hat{j}$ and $(x-x_{0})\hat{i}+(y-y_{0})\hat{j}$ divided by length of the first vector.

A: Rewriting the line equation as $y=\left(\frac {-A}{B}\right)x-\frac {C}{B}$, we can write the direction vector as ${B \choose -A}$.
Through the point $(x,y)$, if we draw a new line perpendicular to the given line, we will get an intersection point, say $(x_0, y_0)$.
Then we use the dot product of vectors:$\left({x \choose y}-{x_0 \choose y_0}\right)\cdot{B \choose -A}=0$$\Rightarrow B^2(x-x_0)^2=A^2(y-y_0)^2$$\Rightarrow(y-y_0)^2=\frac{B^2}{A^2}(x-x_0)^2.\qquad(1)$
Also, by substituting $y_0=\frac{-Ax_0-C}{B}$ into $B(x-x_0)=A(y-y_0)$ which is from the previous dot product, we can get $x-x_0=\frac{A(Ax+By+C)}{A^2+B^2}.\qquad(2)$
Finally, by substituting $(1)$ and $(2)$ into $\sqrt{(x-x_0)^2+(y-y_0)^2}$ which represents the wanted shortest distance, we would get the desired result.

A: Algebraically:
Notice that
$$Ax+By+C=0\land Aa+Bb+C=0\implies A(x-a)+B(y-b)=0.$$
So with $\tilde x:=x-a,\tilde y:=y-b$ and squaring,
$$\tilde x^2+\tilde y^2\ge\frac{(A\tilde x+B\tilde y)^2}{A^2+B^2},$$
and after simplification this is equivalent to
$$(B\tilde x-A\tilde y)^2\ge0,$$ which is true.

A: Since $Aa+Bb+C=0$, the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality gives
\begin{align}
|Ax+By+C| &= |(Ax+By+C)-(Aa+Bb+C)| \\
&= |A(x-a)+B(x-b)|\\
&\le \sqrt{A^2+B^2}\sqrt{(x-a)^2+(y-b)^2}.
\end{align}

A: The special case $A=0,\,B=1$ is trivial, and other cases reduce to this through a combination of rotation (changing the coordinate system) and scaling (changing how the line is described within a given coordinate system).


The City of Columbia's Sewer Utility has contracted Ace Pipe Cleaning to reline ageing sewer lines as part of its 2018 Inflow and Infiltration Rehabilitation Project, which has an estimated investment of US$2.7 million.
The project will rehabilitate approximately 16.8 km of sewer line using cured-in-place pipe using steam to expand and cure the liner in the host pipe, as well as rehabilitating 275 maintenance holes and 300 lateral connections.
Due to the complexity and age of the city's 1,047 km gravity sewer system, the utility undertakes sewer modelling to plan rehabilitation projects on a priority basis to prevent inflow and infiltration issues.
An interested parties meeting for the project initially took place in December 2017, with the public hearing following in February 2018.
The project is anticipated to be completed, weather permitting, in August 2019.
For more information visit the City of Columbia website.
First published 4 December 2018.


Took a look from the backyard. Surprisingly clear. A bit lost for a moment. Ah, Lyra, straight up. What was that to the right/west? Looked for Cygnus—found it. Swept right again. It must be Hercules. Ah yes, found the keystone. Then Aquila. With Altair. Tarazed looked red! Weird. And I can never remember the name of the other... [ed: Alshain.] No obvious Milky Way. The long grass was soaking wet.


The finish is more distressed, sometimes dirty, giving the collection a rustic feel, and hand painted in a warm palette. As with all Chelsea Textiles' furniture, the styles are completely authentic, in this case sourced in antique markets in the English countryside and Provence, south of France. The attention to detail makes the pieces almost indistinguishable from their original inspirations, while their meticulous hand-finished craftsmanship ensures their becoming future antiques for generations to come.


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Key changes propel Butler women's basketball to historic start
Whitney Jennings brings the ball down the court during a game this season. Jennings leads the Bulldogs in 3-point field goals this season. Jimmy Lafakis/Collegian file photo.
ANDREW FAVAKEH | STAFF REPORTER | dfavakeh@butler.edu
If you want to understand how the Butler women's basketball team's season is going, look no further than the last two games. Against Providence on Jan. 18, Butler lost their first game in Big East play, but not before lasting three overtimes and losing four starters to foul trouble. And in the last game versus fifth-place Creighton, Butler won 75-43, the team's largest margin of victory in Big East play since joining the conference in 2013.
At 16-2 and 6-1 in conference, this is the best 18-game start to a season in Butler program history. Last season, the team ended 15-17 overall and 6-12 in conference. Two years ago, they were 6-25 overall and 2-16 in conference. Before this season's success was an identity crisis.
Three transfers became eligible over the offseason, meaning the key players in place would have to undergo some sort of role change. Each player would have to share the ball more. The changes weren't limited to offense, either. There was also an entirely new defense to grasp.
But the upperclassmen were intent on turning the program around. Sick of the close losses — Butler lost three of four games within five points last season — they embodied a motto: finish. This season, they are squeaking out the close ones, winners of the only two games within five points.
Ask coach Kurt Godlevske and he'll attribute their success to one word: experience.
Butler lost only three seniors to graduation this offseason, and with eleven upperclassmen currently on the roster, they have the necessary experience to close the door on tight Big East games.
"We were so close in so many games last year that one of their mottos is that we finish," Godlevske said. "That's what they came up with because they felt like they had the same opportunity last year as this season, but they didn't close out those games."
Younger teams can struggle with grasping drastic changes, whereas an experienced team can actually leverage change to their advantage.
Butler's scoring defense ranks fourth in the country and leads the Big East. The Bulldogs are holding opponents to just 52.1 points per game. In comparison, the next closest team is Georgetown, who averages 57.7 points per game.
What makes defense Butler's calling card? This team is employing different defensive schemes from prior years. Before, they forced the ball to the middle, whereas now they force the ball to the baseline. Thus far, forcing baseline has worked because Butler uses the sideline as an extra defender, blocking the dribbler's line of vision.
"We really changed our entire defensive scheme around from rotations to where we force the ball, which is something we've been practicing," redshirt senior guard Whitney Jennings said. "It's what we focus the most on defensively."
Simply put, implementing change is the driver for Butler's ability to wreak havoc defensively, as they lead the Big East in steals with 11.7 per game.
"We've really emphasized communication this year," senior guard Michelle Weaver said. "It's what makes us successful, everybody trusting each other, putting whatever they have on the defensive end and communicating."
Another reason for the high steal total? Weaver, who is fourth in Division I in steals this season.
"[She does] the things you can't teach," Godlevske said. "She just has a real knack for knowing when to make the right play at the right time defensively. She's become a defensive monster. She's constantly changing the game with either deflections or getting steals."
Aside from garnering steals, this team has a knack for rebounding the basketball with tenacity, first in the Big East with a 75.2 percent defensive rebounding percentage. That was not the case last season when they had a 70.5 percent defensive rebounding percentage — fifth in the Big East.
While the defensive side has been key to the team's success, the offense has seen its fair share of roadblocks, none more significant than how defenses have taken to guarding senior forward Tori Schickel.
After a 63-41 win against Xavier on Jan. 11, Musketeers coach Brian Neal told Godlevske post-game that Schickel was Xavier's number one priority. Heck, the only priority.
But double-teaming Schickel leaves other players open, such as Jennings, who leads the team in 3-point field goals. In the Xavier game, the senior guard splashed four triples on her way to 20 points.
Xavier is not the only team to swarm Schickel.
"It's been game strategy, where it became a style as to who's going to impose their will," Godlevske said. "We've been really deliberate that we're making sure we're getting the right shot in the right situation. And because of the way teams are defending us we've had to be very specific in those areas."
Of course, the double-teams coincide with a decrease in scoring for Schickel, from 16.4 points per game last year to 12.4 currently. Schickel's ability to pass out of double-teams, though, has been commendable, involving Jennings as well as other players.
"They're sending so many people at her trying to stop her," Jennings said of Schickel. "We all just really benefit from that because if they're sending two at her, that means somebody else is open. Tori and I have really been able to click well and we may not be scoring as much, but we don't need to."
The decision to double-team Schickel and the team's added depth has proven to be a lethal combination to defenses. The scoring is distributed more evenly this season. Last season, four players — Jennings, Schickel, junior guard Kristen Spolyar and Weaver — accounted for 82 percent of the scoring, while this season, those same four players combine for only 69 percent of the scoring.
The main reason for the even scoring distribution is the addition of key transfers. Redshirt junior guard Katherine Strong has started 16 of 18 games, providing 7.2 points per game on 48.2 percent shooting. Last season, the Bulldogs lacked a secondary scorer in the backcourt, and this year, Strong has filled that role with vigor.
Redshirt sophomore guard/forward Naira Caceres, on the other hand, isn't a scorer, averaging 3.8 points on 35.1 percent shooting. What she does well, though, is provide a mismatch to anyone defending her. Beating bigs off the bounce and posting smaller guards up, Caceres is a tough matchup off the pine.
Overall, winning has not only allowed the players to move freely on the court but also, and perhaps more importantly, spread contagious vibes throughout the locker room.
"The girls are able to let their guard down and be who they are, be a little freer," Godlevske said. "We're able to have a very positive player-coach relationship."
By being committed to change and finishing what they started, the veterans have carried out their newfound motto and garnered success. And nearing a stretch run which buried them last season — from Jan. 26 to Feb. 11 they lost six in a row — that may be enough fuel for the engine.
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Pittsburgh has been at the epicenter of jazz since the 1930s when all the great big bands of the era would stop in the city, for as long as a month, to perform on their way from New York City to Chicago. The significant number of Jazz Legends who got their start in Pittsburgh is due, in part, to this exposure. Over the past century, cultural diversity coupled with robust philanthropic support for the Arts in the Pittsburgh region has laid the foundation for jazz to flourish and has produced many of the greatest Jazz Masters the world has ever know. This recording celebrates some of the Pittsburgh musicians, composers and arrangers that have helped bring jazz into the 21st century.


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Instruct Mr. Baker or a family member to record urinary output.
Catheterize for residual urine, as appropriate.
Implement intermittent catheterization, as appropriate.
overdistention and providing for complete emptying.
Provide enough time for bladder emptying (10 minutes).
stress or anxiety can inhibit relaxation of the urinary sphincter.
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Instruct the client in ways to avoid constipation or stool impaction.
Impacted stool may place pressure on the bladder outlet, causing urinary retention.
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by obstruction of the bladder neck by an enlarged prostate gland.
Describe the rationale behind management, therapy, and treatment recommendations.
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making it more susceptible to infection from bacterial growth.
the correlation between his enlarged prostate and urinary difficulties. A transurethral resection of the prostate is scheduled in 2 weeks.
The NOC # for desired outcomes and the NIC # for nursing interventions are listed in brackets following the appropriate outcome or intervention.
other physical conditions could explain his symptoms?
Mr. and Mrs. Baker for this surgery?
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Parking Lot Transforms into a One-of-a-Kind Sustainable Park
Public & Cultural
Hoboken Southwest Park
Design Team:
Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects and Planners
Eco-Promenade Pavers with Series finish in three special-order colors
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Permeable pavers set the stage at this community-oriented urban park while mitigating local flooding.
As part of an extensive resiliency plan to mitigate flooding in a Hoboken neighborhood, the team at Starr Whitehouse was challenged with designing a space that would transform a one-acre parking lot into a one-of-a-kind park. Starr Whitehouse Principal, Stephen Whitehouse noted that "Hoboken's citizens wanted their new Southwest Park to relieve local flooding and provide diverse experiences around a central community gathering space." With the commitment to sustainability at the core of this project, Starr Whitehouse, along with a team of engineers, designers and support from Unilock, set out to craft a resilient, community-oriented urban park.
Influence:
The selection of design elements for this project were influenced by the end goal of creating a vibrant and livable space, while meeting the City of Hoboken's demand for sustainability. The design needed to integrate green infrastructure, capable of managing large quantities of water from intense rain events. Permeable pavers became a key element of the design to ensure this requirement was met. Functionality, performance and available design options were all factors that were considered when making product decisions. Availability of paver shapes, colors, and textures were a key driver in product selection, so as to achieve a design that could play off of the surrounding architecture.
The resulting design of Hoboken Southwest Park employs three coordinated systems to reduce the negative effects of stormwater runoff, one of which is permeable pavers that allow for water infiltration through the pavers joints throughout the park. Unilock worked with the team at Starr Whitehouse to choose a permeable paver to incorporate into this system. "The shapes, colors, and finishes of Unilock permeable pavers provided many design options for the park plaza and paths," says Stephen Whitehouse. Eco-Promenade was chosen because of its ability to redirect rainwater back into the subbase and detention system through the open-graded joint material, while keeping it away from sewer systems. The herringbone paving pattern was achieved with the plank shape paver and uses Series finish in three special-order colors. The colors play on the building hues in the neighborhood creating an interesting and vibrant space for all to enjoy. "Open now over two years," says Stephen Whitehouse, "the park's distinctive pavement still looks and performs as the design intended."


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'Russian Mob' Turncoat Arrested in Slaying of US Rapper
Posted byRussian_Village	 April 29, 2013 Leave a comment on 'Russian Mob' Turncoat Arrested in Slaying of US Rapper
WASHINGTON, April 29 (By Carl Schreck for RIA Novosti) – A Soviet-born gangster who became a prolific informant against Eurasian crime groups in the United States has been arrested on suspicion of ordering the murder of an American rapper known as "Lil Phat."
Mani Chulpayev, a confessed pimp and career criminal who testified against gang members in New York City's predominantly Russian-speaking Brighton Beach neighborhood, has been arrested for allegedly conspiring with three other men to kill rapper Melvin Vernell III, who was shot dead outside an Atlanta hospital last year, local authorities told RIA Novosti on Monday.
"The alleged motive for the murder was drugs and other 'business' dealings in which the suspects were involved," the office of Atlanta's district attorney, Paul Howard, said in a statement provided to RIA Novosti.
Vernell, 19, was shot repeatedly on the evening of June 7, 2012, as he sat in an Audi A7 in a parking ramp at Northside Hospital's Women's Center in Atlanta, where his child was about to be born, according to local media reports.
Howard told WSB television in Atlanta that the two alleged gunmen, who hail from Alabama, tracked the rapper with a Global Positioning System immediately prior to gunning him down.
"He was stalked by these two hit men," Howard told the station. "It was planned."
Chulpayev is suspected of ordering the slaying, WSB television reported. He was arrested in Florida on April 12, and two of the other three suspects have also been taken into custody, the district attorney's office said.
Chulpayev's arrest comes on the heels of an investigation by local television stations in Houston and Atlanta that tracked down several clients of the convicted gangster's car business in Atlanta. They said Chulpayev sold them expensive cars that he was unable to provide the title for.
Howard, the district attorney in Atlanta, told WSB television Sunday evening that two days prior to Vernell's murder, the rapper told police that Chulpayev had leased him a stolen BMW.
George Plumides, whom the television station identified as Chulpayev's lawyer, did not respond to a telephone request for comment left with his receptionist Monday. He told WSB, however, that his client has an alibi and was broken up over the rapper's murder.
"Mani had nothing against this kid and grieved when he found out he was killed," Plumides was quoted as saying.
Chulpayev reportedly arrived in New York City with his family from Soviet Uzbekistan in the late 1980s and quickly took up a life of crime with small-time Brighton Beach gangs known as "brigades" that were made up primarily of fellow immigrants from the Soviet Union.
After his arrest in 1998, he cooperated with federal authorities and admitted to engaging in a range of felonies, including trafficking women from the former Soviet Union to work as prostitutes in the United States, protection rackets targeting small businesses, and a variety of financial scams.
He testified to being "the money handler and the scheme organizer" for a crime group that US authorities called the "Gufield-Kutsenko Brigade," The New York Times reported in 2002.
"I came up with the scams," Chulpayev testified, the Times reported.
Chulpayev's decision to turn state's evidence, which led to dozens of convictions of members of Eurasian crime groups in the United States, so impressed authorities that he was granted time served for his admitted crimes in 2002.
In handing down the sentence, US federal judge Nina Gershon called Chulpayev's crimes "chilling and inhuman" but said he proved to be "one of the most valuable witnesses in the history of the government's battle against Russian organized crime," the New York Daily News reported at the time.
Terms such as "Russian organized crime" and "Russian mob" are umbrella terms commonly used in the United States to refer to fragmented crime networks hailing from former Soviet republics, even if their members are not ethnic Russians or do not hold Russian passports.
Yvette Jones, a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office in Atlanta, told RIA Novosti that it is unclear what citizenship Chulpayev holds but that "we know he is not a US citizen."
Chulpayev became a protected witness after testifying against his fellow gang members, but he pleaded guilty in 2005 to conspiring to steal automobiles, change their identification numbers and resell them.
Once again, however, federal prosecutors noted his willingness to serve as a turncoat in the case and asked that his sentence be cut by around three years.
"Chulpayev promptly sat down with the FBI to discuss his role and the role of others in the stolen car conspiracy," prosecutors wrote in the motion requesting a lighter sentence. "Through his information, agents were able to more fully identify and ultimately apprehend two other participants in the racket."
He also provided crucial evidence against a South Carolina woman convicted in 2006 of paying $50,000 to a man to have her former lover killed, prosecutors noted in the motion.
It was not immediately clear Monday how much time in prison Chulpayev served for the stolen-car scam.
An individual facing murder charges in the United States should not expect much of a reward for cooperating in the investigation, said Mark Galeotti, an expert on Russian crime networks and a professor at New York University.
"Murder – and especially from someone who may seem to be a serial recidivist – is treated very seriously," Galeotti told RIA Novosti. "Unless he has some quite extraordinary new information to trade for a deal, I'd not expect to see much lenience."
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 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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package ghidra.app.util.bin.format.pdb2.pdbreader.msf;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.RandomAccessFile;

import ghidra.app.util.bin.format.pdb2.pdbreader.PdbByteReader;
import ghidra.app.util.bin.format.pdb2.pdbreader.PdbException;
import ghidra.util.exception.CancelledException;
import ghidra.util.task.TaskMonitor;

/**
 * This class represents the the Multi-Stream Format File used for Windows PDB files.
 *  We have intended to implement to the Microsoft PDB API (source); see the API for truth.
 *

 *  Derived classes represents the real formats.  The file format represents a kind of
 *  file system within a file and is based upon pages in order to try to optimize
 *  disk I/O and system update.  There was also a mechanism to allow for ping-ponged
 *  commit for file updates.  Our implementation is only used for reading the file
 *  format; it is not intended to write or modify an existing file.  Much work would
 *  need to be done to create a version with those capabilities.
 *

 * The file format consists of a first page that contains identifying header information
 *  that consists of an ID string, and limited parameters needed for pointing to
 *  directory information and the Free Page Map.  We do not use the latter information.
 *

 * Note that the API (source) description on indicates that the original tools could
 *  have been built with different parameter sets, which also impacts the page size
 *  and other parameters for the format.  We intended to create a reader that is capable
 *  of reading any of these files.
 *

 * The file header generally contains the following information, but their sizes on disk
 *  depends on whether this is a file of the older or newer format.  Generally, the fields follow:
 *

 *      Field          Description      Size on Disk Old   Size on Disk New   Java Type
 *      ID               ID "string"           42              29               byte[]
 *                         identifying
 *                         old vs. new
 *      ID padding       Padding between        2               3               N/A
 *                         ID and next
 *                         field
 *      Page Size        Power-of-2 page        4               4               int
 *                         size used
 *      Free Page Map    Page Number of         2               4               int
 *                         current free
 *                         page map
 *      Number of Pages  Number of pages        2               4               int
 *                         currently used
 *                         in the file
 *      Serialized       Sequence of page
 *        info about       numbers
 *        directory
 *        stream:
 *         -Directory    Num of bytes          4+4              4               int
 *           Length      + (opt addr field)
 *         -Page number  Page number that      2+2              4
 *                         contains page
 *                         numbers for the
 *                         stream; see note
 *                         below regarding new!
 *

 * The file directory is stored in stream 0, which has its information persisted in
 *  the header as described above.  However, for the newest format, the page (pointed
 *  to in the header) for the directory stream has an extra level of indirection.  The
 *  page contains page numbers, whose pages contain contain page numbers for the
 *  directory stream.  Note that the page numbers listed on any of these pages have
 *  the following format on disk:
 *

 *      Field          Description      Size on Disk Old   Size on Disk New   Java Type
 *      Page Number    Page Number             2+2              4               int
 *                     + (opt addr field)
 *

 * The directory stream contain StreamTable information, which is serialized into the
 *  directory stream as follows:
 *

 *   numStreams
 *   streamLength[numStreams]
 *   serializedStream[numStreams]
 *

 * Note that the StreamTable parsed from the directory stream does not have the most
 *  up-to-date information about stream 0 (the directory stream); the up-to-date
 *  version of stream 0 is what was persisted in the header.  So after the StreamTable
 *  has been deserialized from the directory stream, the stream 0 information in the
 *  StreamTable gets overwritten with the stream 0 that we had already obtained.
 *

 * @see MsfFileReader
 * @see MsfStream
 * @see MsfDirectoryStream
 * @see MsfFreePageMap
 * @see MsfStreamTable
 */
public interface Msf extends AutoCloseable {

	/**
	 * Returns the filename
	 * @return the filename
	 */
	public String getFilename();

	/**
	 * Returns the TaskMonitor
	 * @return the monitor
	 */
	public TaskMonitor getMonitor();

	/**
	 * Check to see if this monitor has been canceled
	 * @throws CancelledException if monitor has been cancelled
	 */
	public void checkCanceled() throws CancelledException;

	/**
	 * Returns the page size employed by this {@link Msf}
	 * @return page size
	 */
	public int getPageSize();

	/**
	 * Returns the number of streams found in this {@link Msf}
	 * @return number of streams
	 */
	public int getNumStreams();

	/**
	 * Returns the file reader
	 * @return the file reader
	 */
	public MsfFileReader getFileReader();

	/**
	 * Closes resources used by this {@link Msf}
	 * @throws IOException under circumstances found when closing a {@link RandomAccessFile}
	 */
	@Override
	public void close() throws IOException;

	/**
	 * Returns the {@link MsfStream} specified by {@link Msf}
	 * @param streamNumber the number of the Stream to return.  Must be less than the number
	 *  of streams returned by {@link #getNumStreams()}
	 * @return {@link MsfStream} or {@code null} if no stream for the streamNumber
	 */
	public MsfStream getStream(int streamNumber);

	//==============================================================================================
	// Package-Protected Utilities
	//==============================================================================================
	/**
	 * Returns the value of the floor (greatest integer less than or equal to) of the result
	 *  upon dividing the dividend by a divisor which is the power-of-two of the log2Divisor
	 * @param dividend the dividend to the operator
	 * @param log2Divisor the log2 of the intended divisor value
	 * @return the floor of the division result
	 */
	static int floorDivisionWithLog2Divisor(int dividend, int log2Divisor) {
		return (dividend + (1 << log2Divisor) - 1) >> log2Divisor;
	}

	//==============================================================================================
	// Abstract Methods
	//==============================================================================================
	/**
	 * Method that returns the identification byte[] required by this format
	 * @return the minimum required number
	 */
	abstract byte[] getIdentification();

	/**
	 * Returns the offset (in bytes) of the PageSize within the header
	 * @return the offset of the PageSize within the header
	 */
	abstract int getPageSizeOffset();

	/**
	 * Deserializes the Free Page Map page number from the {@link PdbByteReader}
	 * @param reader {@link PdbByteReader} from which to read
	 * @throws PdbException upon not enough data left to parse
	 */
	abstract void parseFreePageMapPageNumber(PdbByteReader reader) throws PdbException;

	/**
	 * Deserializes the value of the number of pages in the MSF
	 * @param reader {@link PdbByteReader} from which to read
	 * @throws PdbException upon not enough data left to parse
	 */
	abstract void parseCurrentNumPages(PdbByteReader reader) throws PdbException;

	/**
	 * Method to create the following components: StreamTable, FreePageMap, and DirectoryStream.
	 */
	abstract void create();

	/**
	 * Method to set parameters for the file based on version and page size
	 * @throws PdbException upon unknown value for configuration
	 */
	abstract void configureParameters() throws PdbException;

	/**
	 * Method to get the size of the page number (in bytes) when serialized to disc
	 * @return the page size (in bytes)
	 */
	abstract int getPageNumberSize();

	//==============================================================================================
	// Class Internals
	//==============================================================================================
	/**
	 * Returns Log2 value of the page size employed by this MSF
	 * @return the Log2 value of the page size employed by this MSF
	 */
	int getLog2PageSize();

	/**
	 * Returns the the mask used for masking off the upper bits of a value use to get the
	 *  mod-page-size of the value (pageSizes must be power of two for this to work)
	 * @return the mask
	 */
	int getPageSizeModMask();

	/**
	 * Returns the number of pages found in sequence that compose the {@link MsfFreePageMap}
	 * (for this {@link Msf}) when on disk
	 * @return the number of sequential pages in the {@link MsfFreePageMap}
	 */
	int getNumSequentialFreePageMapPages();

	/**
	 * Returns the page number containing the header of this MSF file
	 * @return the header page number
	 */
	int getHeaderPageNumber();

	/**
	 * Returns the stream number containing the directory of this MSF file
	 * @return the directory stream number
	 */
	int getDirectoryStreamNumber();

	//==============================================================================================
	// Internal Data Methods
	//==============================================================================================
	/**
	 * Returns the number of pages contained in this MSF file
	 * @return the number of pages in this MSF
	 */
	int getNumPages();

	/**
	 * Returns the first page number of the current Free Page Map
	 * @return the first page number of the current Free Page Map
	 */
	int getCurrentFreePageMapFirstPageNumber();

	/**
	 * Performs required initialization of this class, needed before trying to read any
	 *  Streams.  Initialization includes deserializing the remainder of the header as well
	 *  as stream directory information
	 * @throws IOException on file seek or read, invalid parameters, bad file configuration, or
	 *  inability to read required bytes
	 * @throws PdbException upon unknown value for configuration
	 * @throws CancelledException upon user cancellation
	 */
	void deserialize() throws IOException, PdbException, CancelledException;

}

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Inheriting the Holocaust
The effects of that night – and of all the traumatic Holocaust experiences our parents lived through – are more than just a legacy
By LINDA F. BURGHARDT
A sign in German and Polish is seen at Auschwitz. (photo credit: REUTERS)
How many people still hold the memory of snow in Vienna on Kristallnacht? Not the ordinary kind of white, wet snow that falls from the sky, but something different; something soft and fluffy and ethereal that came floating down from the upstairs windows of Jewish homes all over the city on that night of destruction, exactly 80 years ago today, a night that plunged the world into chaos. The breaking glass of storefronts made sharp, crashing noises as howling mobs of Nazis made them shatter and fall, but the feathers that sailed gently, softly, silently to earth and blanketed the streets below held a seething violence of their own. My newly married parents huddled in a dark corner of their second-floor bedroom as two SS men booted open the door to their home, grabbing my father by the back of his collar and pulling him out of my mother's arms.
"You will come now with me," one said, his voice quiet, almost silky, in the darkness.
My father turned to put up his hands, willing them not to tremble. "And why?" he said.
"You are a Jew, no?"
My mother reached for him but the second officer pulled out a knife and ran toward her, pushing her down to the floor and leaping not onto her, as she'd feared, but onto the featherbed, slashing and tearing into the plump quilts and pillows and throwing them out the window. My father was led away and out the door and down the stairs and into the writhing mob and the street littered with an unholy mix of feathers and glass, leaving my mother to sob alone in her torn and broken home, a home in which all solace and comfort and safety had been destroyed. How do I know this? My father told it all to me over and again, sometimes even with a touch of glee.
"I am here," he said. "You are here. See? I outwitted Hitler."
I didn't learn until many years later how that happened, or that 30,000 other Jewish men throughout Germany and Austria were also arrested that night.
Weeks after Kristallnacht, my father said, as my mother ran from police station to police station, she finally learned he had been sent to Dachau, a concentration camp near Munich, almost 300 miles away. Like all the wives and mothers, she was desperate to get him out. Few men had come home, and some who did so arrived in a box. A pile of ashes. A severed hand, still wearing a wedding ring.
She never told us what she traded to get him back, but she traveled to Munich and returned to Vienna with what she wanted and in less than a month she and my father had escaped, leaving all their possessions, their livelihood, their language, their families and their belief in goodness behind.
By the time I was born, nearly a decade later and safe in New York, my mother had already been informed through the Red Cross that both her parents had been murdered in Auschwitz. But for many years she could still not see a feather float by without pulling me close. It wasn't until I had been an adult for a decade or more that I understood how odd it was that even though I had never been to Vienna, had never even seen a Nazi, I felt as if it had all happened to me, that I'd been in the apartment that night and through the weeks and months of hatred and violence.
Psychologists have long known, of course, that severe and prolonged trauma can live on in its victims long after the actual events end, but what I and other members of the so-called Second Generation – the children of Holocaust survivors – continue to experience has only very recently been explained. Epigenetic scientists like Siddhartha Mukherjee and Rachel Yehuda call this inter-generational transmission of trauma.
They say we were born with physical scars from traumatic events that our parents endured before we were even conceived. Their experiments demonstrate how epigenetic changes in our parents' genes, such as stress characteristics that cannot be turned off, came to us through biological information passed down genetically and that we have literally inherited the Holocaust.
We know now that many more people are likely to fully recall the snow in Vienna on Kristallnacht than were physically present for the event. The effects of that night – and of all the traumatic Holocaust experiences our parents lived through – are more than just a legacy, they are a physical presence in our bodies, living on through us and through the genetic inheritance we pass on to our own children and to theirs.
The writer is the scholar-in-residence at the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County, N.Y.


the thrill of it all - moments of joy in the wedding chaos: Briana and Andrew's wedding - At The Heads, Barwon Heads.
Briana and Andrew's wedding - At The Heads, Barwon Heads.
Barwon Heads is a special place. The people who made 'Sea Change' knew it, Cadel Evans knows it and Briana and Andrew know it. Their stunning seaside wedding started in the now famous caravan park and continued along the foreshore for nuptials by the river. We contested a southerly gale before everyone hit the Verve Clicquot, by the beach, at the gorgeous restaurant 'At The Heads'. Cheers.