How about this for a way to start the day? Chris sent a small gift for Lucy. And as everybody knows, the best things don't just come in small packages. They come in small Tiffany Blue packages. Plus it was, you know, a gift from her soon to be husband. Don't worry Vanessa from HCTBeauty was on hand to unsmudge the make up after the tears.
Trevor, Lucy's father, told me that he's lived a lot of his life in a house with women. What with his wife and daughters well, I get the idea that I saw him in one of his favourite places….
As I said, there's a lot to get through – so I think we'll just fast forward to the "wow" bit.
(You may recognise Andrea who is sitting on the priceless antique sideboard. Here's her wedding at the Knowle last year. And here she is on the cover of a magazine…).
You can imagine the look on Chris's face as she appeared like a vision over the famous bridge at Turkey Mill. Or maybe you can't. Let me help you….
I mentioned earlier that Lucy and Chris had booked Turkey Mill back when it was an open air venue. Since then they have spent a few pounds on a gorgeous orangery. It was my first time working here since they put the roof on. Do I like it? Any venue where the light does this is right up there with the best in my book.
Really, on a slightly overcast day, the light is soft and beautiful throughout the room and it's an absolute pleasure to work there. Especially watching things like this.
Now normally I don't post "empty room" pictures. I always make sure that every detail is there for the couple but since we're posting lots of pictures. How about this?
There are lots of lovely places for photographs at Turkey Mill. As a photographer I'm almost falling over myself with the lake and the waterfall and the the rose garden and the trees and…well, sometimes it's worth going if not the extra mile then at least the extra couple of hundred yards. The light started "kicking off" and everything was gorgeous and I suggested we take a late afternoon stroll to the end of the lake. Right down the bottom there's a safety "keep out" rope. Cross over this and there's a really boggy area. It was worth it for three reasons.
1. Lucy couldn't make it through the mud in high heels. So her new husband got to carry her.
2. When we got there, the late afternoon sun was just hitting the boathouse giving these amazing colours.
Three great looks in 5 minutes. Worth a little mud on my shoes.
When I got back I found 20 ladies who had been on the Hen Night ready for their picture. Well, I say "ready"…..it took a couple of goes. And I say "20". It started with 4 and then more and more people remembered they had actually been there.
Fortunately none of the people in that picture saw the stag pictures which were displayed in the last place they would look….
I have loads (and loads) more pictures but if I don't stop now then Lucy and Chris won't see them before their honeymoon! One last shot – and don't forget to leave your messages for them below.
A superb shoot Jonathan, the venue and the weather help but add your skill and attention to detail and it all comes together to produce memories that will last a lifetime.
An amazing day captured in stunning photos!
The pictures are fabulous ! It was such a super day and Marjan and myself are still getting a buzz from it back here in Holland. Tom and Marjan.


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American Literature's Aesthetic Dimensions
Edited by Cindy Weinstein and Christopher Looby
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Rethinking the category of aesthetics in light of recent developments in literary theory and social criticism, the contributors to this volume showcase the interpretive possibilities available to those who bring politics, culture, ideology, and conceptions of identity into their critiques. Essays combine close readings of individual works and authors with more theoretical discussions of aesthetic theory and its relation to American literature. In their introduction, Weinstein and Looby argue that aesthetics never left American literary critique. Instead, the essay casts the current "return to aesthetics" as the natural consequence of shortcomings in deconstruction and new historicism, which led to a reconfiguration of aesthetics.
Subsequent essays demonstrate the value and versatility of aesthetic considerations in literature, from eighteenth-century poetry to twentieth-century popular music. Organized into four groups—politics, form, gender, and theory—contributors revisit the canonical works of Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Stephen Crane, introduce the overlooked texts of Constance Fenimore Woolson and Earl Lind, and unpack the complexities of the music of The Carpenters. Deeply rooted in an American context, these essays explore literature's aesthetic dimensions in connection to American liberty and the formation of political selfhood.
Contributors include Edward Cahill, Ivy G. Wilson, June Ellison, Dorri Beam, Christopher Castiglia, Christopher Looby, Wendy Steiner, Cindy Weinstein, Trish Loughran, Jonathan Freedman, Elisa New, Dorothy Hale, Mary Esteve, Eric Lott, Sianne Ngai
This indispensable book recuperates questions of beauty, form, sensuousness, and taste after they have been largely discarded by the politically engaged criticism of the last two to three decades. Understandably wary about a renewal of the aesthetic as the absolute horizon of interpretation, Weinstein and Looby—and their contributors—make a compelling case for reintegrating formalism and historicism. I can think of no other collection with similar richness and revisionary scope; its appearance marks a watershed in the study of American literature. Michael T. Gilmore, Brandeis University
This collection, superbly edited and introduced, is a major contribution to current debates about literature, politics, and aesthetics and to our understanding of the relationship between the critical past and present. Samuel Otter, author of Philadelphia Stories: America's Literature of Race and Freedom
Containing work by some of the finest contemporary U.S. literary scholars, and by marshalling their insights toward a common goal—recuperating the aesthetic—this volume provokes an energetic critical conversation. James Davis, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
This is a book that deserves to be read by all who are, like its contributors, 'disenchanted with disenchantment' and looking to formulate whatever might come next... Jacob Brogan, College Literature
Ambitious... An invaluable read for students of American literature. Wilson Kaiser, Edward Waters College, Journal of American Studies of Turkey
Introduction, by Cindy Weinstein and Christopher LoobyPart 1: Aesthetics and the Politics of FreedomLiberty of the Imagination in Revolutionary America, by Edward Cahill
The Writing on the Wall: Revolutionary Aesthetics and Interior Spaces
Stephen Crane's Refrain, by Ivy G. Wilson
Lyric Citizenship in Post 9/11 Performance: Sekou Sundiata's the 51st (dream) state, by June EllisonPart 2: Aesthetics and the Representation of SexualityAesthetics Beyond the Actual: The Marble Faun and Romantic Sociability, Christopher Castiglia
Henry James, Constance Fenimore Woolson, and the Figure in the Carpet, by Dorri Beam
Sexuality's Aesthetic Dimension: Kant and the Autobiography of an Androgyne, by Christopher Looby
From Hawthorne to Hairspray: American Anxieties About Beauty, by Wendy SteinerPart 3: Aesthetics and the Reading of FormWhen is Now? Poe's Aesthetics of Temporality, by Cindy Weinstein
Reading in the Present Tense: Benito Cereno and the Time of Reading, by Trish Loughran
What Maggie Knew: Game Theory, The Golden Bowl, and the Critical Possibilities of Aesthetic Knowledge, by Jonathan Freedman with an addendum by Nan Zhang Da
Upon a Peak in Beinecke: The Beauty of the Book in the Poetry of Susan Howe, by Elisa NewPart 4: Aesthetics and the Question of TheoryWarped Conjunctions: Jacques Rancière and African American Twoness, by Nancy Bentley
Aesthetics and the New Ethics: Theorizing the Novel in the Twenty-First Century, by Dorothy Hale
Postwar Pastoral: The Art of Happiness in Philip Roth, by Mary Esteve
Perfect Is Dead: Karen Carpenter, Theodor Adorno, and the Radio; or, If Hooks Could Kill, by Eric Lott
Network Aesthetics: Juliana Spahr's The Transformation and Bruno Latour's Reassembling the Social, by Sianne NgaiAfterword
Cindy Weinstein is professor of English at the California Institute of Technology and the author of The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature: Allegory in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction and Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. She is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe and coeditor, with Peter Stoneley, of A Concise Companion to American Fiction, 1900–1950.
Christopher Looby is professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of Voicing America: Language, Literary Form, and the Origins of the United States and editor of The Complete Civil War Journal and Selected Letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson. With Christopher Castiglia, he is the coeditor of a special issue of ESQ on "New Approaches to Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century American Literature" and wrote the introduction to Robert Montgomery Bird's Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself.
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Damen Services installs bespoke bridge simulator for the Royal Bahamas Defence Force
25 / 02 / 2019 Published in category: Defence & Security
Damen in cooperation with VSTEP Simulation has completed a project to build and install a NAUTIS Full Mission Bridge Simulator with Alphatron Marine equipment for the Royal Bahamas Defence Force. In the last week of January, the site acceptance tests were successfully completed at the RBDF's base at Coral Harbour, after which Senior Lieutenant Origin Deleveaux, the officer responsible for training at the RBDF, inspected the simulator and declared it ready for training.
The simulator forms part of the Sandy Bottom project wherein Damen has delivered a total of nine vessels across three classes and refitted two existing corvettes. At the same time, Van Oord has been undertaking an upgrade of the RBDF bases and infrastructure. The bridge simulator replicates the complete bridge for maximum realism and has been configured so that that it can be used for training personnel on all four vessel types. While they all share common systems and other characteristics, they also have their differences when it comes to certain controls. To accommodate this the simulator has removeable steering consoles and the touch screen panels adjust to reflect the data relevant to each vessel type. Changing from one to another can be done in just a few minutes.
Not only does the simulator exactly reproduce the dynamics of each vessel in a wide range of conditions, but also a great deal of work has gone into digitally recreating the geography of the whole of The Bahamas, an area of 13,878 km2, including nine detailed ports. Enhancing the detail of the existing charting involved a year of taking pictures and videos down to the smallest islands and inlets. As a result the simulator reproduces almost every physical detail including radar as well as visual imagery, right down to individual navigation lights.
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Based in Rotterdam, VSTEP is well-known for its state-of-the-art DNV certified simulators, which facilitate training in compliance with all design criteria, class and IMO requirements. The RBDF's system will train existing personnel and new cadets in an efficient, flexible and economical way. By maximising the preparedness of the crews it will increase both operational effectiveness and on board safety. The training simulations include situations which are difficult or dangerous in real life, as well as ship handling and manoeuvring, and various other operations that crew can expect to undertake in their domestic waters.
"We will continue supporting the RBDF as they integrate the simulator into their training programme," says Damen Services Project Engineer Janneke van Loo, who oversaw the handover. "As for maintenance, it does not require much and VSTEP can access the system remotely from Rotterdam and perform diagnostics and install software patches and upgrades as required. Should the RBDF wish to add any more vessels to the system, the necessary development work should take only 6 to 8 weeks."
Damen and VSTEP have an ongoing relationship, with the latter supplying its equipment to 360-Control, a training centre specialising in tug and OSV training located in Ijmuiden that is part of the Damen group. With this successful delivery of the RBDF bridge simulator, Damen has demonstrated its ability to deliver such systems as a turnkey package to third parties and provide comprehensive support to ensure that all their benefits are fully realised.
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The UK has officially announced that it the country is in recession. The worst in 11 years.
The country's economic output shrank by 20.4% in the second quarter of 2020, the worst quarterly slump on record, pushing the country into the deepest recession of any major global economy.
This crash in GDP in the April-June period, compared with the first quarter, is the worst since quarterly records began in 1955. Industries most exposed to government lockdown measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic— services, production and construction — saw record drops.
"Today's figures confirm that hard times are here," UK finance minister Rishi Sunak said in a statement. "Hundreds of thousands of people have already lost their jobs, and sadly in the coming months many more will. But while there are difficult choices to be made ahead, we will get through this, and I can assure people that nobody will be left without hope or opportunity."
Among the remaining G7 economies, the decline in GDP is also expected to be less severe than in Britain. Canada's statistics agency said it expects second quarter GDP to shrink 12% on the previous quarter, while economists surveyed by Reuters predict a 7.6% quarter-on-quarter contraction in Japan.
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Three Reasons Representative Democracy Doesn't Work
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In representative democracies, voters ostensibly control the state through the politicians they vote for.
However, most representative democracies fall far short of this goal. Three of the reasons for the trouble are the problems of scale, bundling, and omission. I will explore these three problems below and argue that privatization and decentralization can ameliorate them.
The viability of meaningful political representation withers as the ratio of representatives to voters decreases. There are 435 members in the House of Representatives in a country of 328 million people. This means that each member "represents" an average of 755,000 people. How exactly does one person represent the federal legislative preferences of 755,000 diverse people? How do two senators embody the will of 600,000 Wyomingites, let alone all the Californians and Texans? Scale alone renders American democracy to a great extent meaningless, and yet this is almost never talked about.
The second problem with representative democracy is the issue known as "bundling." Suppose candidate Smith is running against candidate Jones. Smith has his policies, and Jones has his. But what if you, the voter, like some of Smith's policies and some of Jones's? There is no picking and choosing Smith's position on issue X and Jones's position on issue Y as there is at a buffet or at the supermarket (market institutions). We're left with rigid, take-it-or-leave-it, package deals. Walter Block contrasts the flexibility of the market with ham-fisted democracy:
The dollar vote occurs every day, the ballot box vote only every two or four years. The former may be applied narrowly, to a single product (e.g., the Edsel) while the latter is a "package deal," an all or none proposition for one candidate or the other. That is, there was no way to register approval of Bush's policies in areas 1, 3, 5 and 7, and for Clinton in 2, 4, 6, and 8. People were limited to choosing one or the other in the last presidential election.
In society outside the state (the market), no one can force you to pay for something you don't want, or to go without something you're willing to pay for. And the free rider problem has been addressed here.
The third problem can be called "omission." Presidential, gubernatorial, and congressional elections typically revolve around only a handful of issues. But the state intervenes in nearly every aspect of our lives. If candidate Smith and candidate Jones spend their campaigns battling it out over, say, the income tax rate, environmental regulation, and school vouchers, who will "represent" the voters who care about the central bank, the welfare state, foreign policy, the debt, etc.?
Whenever the candidates agree on or simply ignore issues, as is necessarily the case for the vast majority of issues at stake in any given election, voting is largely useless in affecting these issues. At best, the citizen can vote for the candidate they hope will better address the ignored topic (in the event that it is addressed at all).
The problem of omission doesn't just apply to controversial policies shunned by the bipartisan establishment. It applies to topics simply not interesting enough to be prominent on the campaign trail: volumes of arcane regulation, obscure federal agencies, military bases people don't know exist in countries they've never heard of, etc.
What Is to Be Done? Privatization.
Notice how none of the above critiques mention lobbying, fraud, or corruption. Even if representative democracy were squeaky clean, it would be a mess. Then, what is to be done?
The first solution is privatization. Functions, resources, and perceived moral authority currently held by the state can instead be distributed among its competing institutions: the nuclear family, the extended family, the church, businesses, fraternal organizations, private schools and universities, clubs, charities, etc.
The critical difference is that adults only participate in these institutions voluntarily and to the extent that they choose to, in contrast to their interactions with the state (i.e., taxation, conscription). This freedom of association encourages detailed responsiveness on the part of these organizations toward the people who finance and sustain them.
Additionally, decentralization can ameliorate the unresponsiveness of the state by increasing accountability. The smaller (both in terms of geographic area and population) and more numerous the political units, the greater extent to which the rulers and the ruled are in the same boat.
If the political and bureaucratic decisions of Springfield are made by people living in DC, the decision-makers don't need to live with the consequences of their own decisions to the same extent. But if all of Springfield's political decisions are made in Springfield, the politicians and bureaucrats will have to lie in whatever bed they make. To a greater extent, if the rulers want to live well, their subjects have to live well.
Decentralization doesn't just increase accountability. When a political unit is geographically smaller and less populous, the people within it are more likely to have similar worldviews, cultures, religions, languages, etc.
Where there are mosaics of many tiny states, each state can be closely tailored to the particular preferences of each locality without forcing distant and different peoples to live under the same rule. In contrast, enormous political units, by their sheer expansiveness, are more likely to encompass various bitterly opposed camps who will vie for zero-sum control of the same state apparatus.
Privatization and decentralization offer liberty, accountability, and harmony where the state offers phony representation and compulsion.
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What is a random event in probability?
A concept of an event is an extremely important in the Theory of Probabilities. Actually, it's one of the fundamental concepts, like a point in Geometry or equation in Algebra.
First of all, we consider a random experiment - any physical or mental act that has certain number of outcomes. For example, we count money in our wallet or predict tomorrow's stock market index value. In both and many other cases the random experiment results in certain outcomes (the exact amount of money, the exact stock market index value etc.) These individual outcomes are called elementary events and all such elementary events associated with a particular random experiment together form a sample space of this experiment.
More rigorously, the sample space of any random experiment is a SET and all individual elementary events (that is, the individual results of this experiment) are ELEMENTS of this set.
Now we can consider not only an individual elementary event, like exact amount of money in a wallet, but a combination of such elementary events. For instance, we can consider the result of our money counting experiment to be less than $5. This is a combined event that consists of elementary events $0, $1, $2, $3 and $4. This and other combinations of elementary events is called a random event.
Using our SET terminology, a random event is a SUBSET of a SET of all elementary events (in other words, a SUBSET of a sample space). Any such SUBSET is called a random event.
In Theory of Probabilities there is a concept of probability associated with each elementary event. If the number of elementary events is finite or countable, this probability is just a non-negative number and the sum (even infinite sum in case of countable number of elementary events) equals to 1.
The probability associated with any random event is a sum of probabilities of all elementary events that comprise it.
What is the sample space of flipping a coin?
What is the probability of obtaining a "3" on one roll of a die?
What is the sample space of rolling a 6-sided die?
If you draw one card from a deck of cards, what is the probability that it is a heart or a diamond?
You roll a balanced die two times. Is the second roll independent of the first roll?


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Inquests in Hull
High Court orders new inquest into death of Hull woman Sally Mays as 'fresh' evidence emerges
Sally Mays died in 2014 after being turned away from a mental health facility despite being suicidal
Sally Mays killed herself after she was turned away by Humber NHS Foundation Trust's crisis team. (Image: Angela Mays)
A new inquest will take place into the tragic death of Hull woman Sally Mays after 'fresh evidence' emerged.
Sally Mays, 22, who had mental health issues, died at home in Hull in 2014 after being refused admission to hospital.
Her parents Angela and Andy have fought for the last seven years for improvements to be made and lessons to be learnt from Sally's death.
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Sally took her own life in July 2014 after two nurses from Humber NHS Foundation Trust's crisis team refused to admit her to hospital following a 14-minute assessment at Miranda House in Hull despite being a suicide risk.
An eight-day inquest in 2015 heard Sally, who had emotionally unstable personality disorder, died from an overdose and mechanical asphyxia after Yorkshire Ambulance Service took 99 minutes to reach her west Hull flat.
Now the High Court in London has ordered a new inquest into her death, the BBC reports.
During a hearing on Wednesday, Bridget Dolan QC, on behalf of Sally's parents, said a conversation between one of Ms Mays' care coordinators and a consultant psychiatrist on the day she died was "knowingly withheld" from the original inquest in October 2015.
Sally Mays killed herself after she was turned away by Humber NHS Foundation Trust's crisis team. Sally dressed for her prom (Image: Angela Mays)
She said the discussion revealed "a clear opportunity" to reverse the decision not to admit Sally.
Ms Dolan told the court hearing there was a "real possibility" the coroner's conclusion would have been "differently framed" if the withheld material had been available and examined.
The inquest in Hull heard Sally asked to be admitted to hospital as her mental health deteriorated in the last few days of her life. Three nurses from her community team and her psychotherapist recommended a short stay in hospital in line with her care plan.
However, nurses Paddy McKee and Gemma Pearson refused to admit her after carrying out what Professor Marks described as a "lamentable" assessment.
Instead, they called police when Sally started banging her head off a wall and tried to strangle herself in her distress.
However, police officers knew Sally needed to be in hospital to keep her safe and had a "stand-up fight" with the two nurses outside Miranda House to persuade them to change their minds. But they were forced to take Sally home when the nurses refused to reconsider.
The coroner at the time, Professor Paul Marks, said the decision not to admit Ms Mays constituted "neglect" which bore "a direct causal relationship to her death later that evening".
He said that she had been admitted following an initial assessment she "would have survived and not died when she did".
A further missed opportunity to save her life came from the 69-minute delay to an ambulance arriving at Sally's flat after her 999 call was not categorised appropriately, the coroner said.
Following the inquest in 2015, coroner Prof Marks ruled the failure to admit Sally to hospital was neglect and said: "For the avoidance of doubt, had Sally been admitted, she would not have died that day."
However, Lady Justice Simler, sitting with Mrs Justice May and Judge Thomas Teague QC - the chief coroner for England and Wales - said it was "necessary and desirable in the interests of justice" to quash the inquest and order a fresh one.
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In her ruling, the judge concluded that "fresh" and "relevant" evidence was now available and that a new inquest was "likely to lead to additional findings of fact being made".
Speaking after the ruling, Ms Mays' mother, Angela told the BBC: "All we've ever wanted is a full and fearless investigation into the facts of what happened to Sally in her final hours. This has yet to be achieved."
A spokesperson for the Trust said it accepted the High Court decision and would assist the coroner with the new inquest but was unable to comment further due to the ongoing legal process.
Sally's mum Angela previously expressed concerns no lessons had been learnt after the death of police officer Sharon Houfe.
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She was horrified after learning of the failings which led to the death of Sharon - bearing chilling similarities to her own daughter's plight.
An inquest in December 2018 heard how PC Houfe, 43, had been seen three times in four days and had contact with Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust mental teams eight times in six days just before her death.
The inquest in Hull heard how there had been a catalogue of "missed opportunities" to refer PC Houfe to a psychiatrist or the crisis team before her death on April 29, 2016.
Mrs Mays said shortly after Sharon's inquest: "It was an enormous sense of sadness and frustration to read what happened to Sharon Houfe.
"The trust just doesn't seem to be much further forward and there are other cases similar to Sal and Sharon.
"It is all very well that people are being encouraged to speak about mental health but there is little point if the help is not there."
A date for the new inquest into Sally's death has yet to be fixed.
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Planetary Society Offers $50,000 Prize for Asteroid Tagging Designs
Today at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, The Planetary Society announced the launch of their Apophis Mission Design Competition, which invites participants to submit designs for a mission to rendezvous with and "tag" a potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroid. Tagging may be necessary to track an asteroid accurately enough to determine whether it will impact Earth, and thus help facilitate the decision whether to mount a deflection mission to alter its orbit. The Planetary Society is offering $50,000 in prize money for the competition.
Apophis is an approximately 400 meter near-Earth object (NEO), which will come closer to Earth in 2029 than the orbit of our geostationary satellites. On that pass, the asteroid will be gravitationally perturbed to an unknown orbit, one that could cause it to hit Earth in 2036.
"While the odds are very slim that this particular asteroid will hit Earth in 30 years, they are not zero, and Apophis and other NEOs represent threats that need to be addressed," said Rusty Schweickart, Apollo astronaut, head of the Association for Space Explorers NEO committee.
Bruce Betts, The Planetary Society's Director of Projects said, "With this competition, we hope not only to generate creative thinking about tagging Apophis, but also to stimulate greater awareness of the broader near-Earth object threat."
Very precise tracking may be needed to determine the probability of a collision in 2036. Such precise tracking may require "tagging" the asteroid, perhaps with a beacon -- a transponder or reflector -- or some other method. Exactly how an asteroid could best be tagged is not yet known, nor is it obvious. "Learning how to do this is the point of the competition," added Betts.
The Planetary Society is "betting" $50,000 that someone will devise an innovative solution to the problem. The prize money was contributed and competition made possible by Dan Geraci, a member of The Planetary Society Board of Directors, together with donations from Planetary Society members around the world. Geraci stated, "The time scale may be unknown, but the danger of a near-Earth object impact is very real. We need to spur the space community and indeed all people into thinking about technical solutions."
The Planetary Society is conducting this competition in cooperation with the European Space Agency (ESA), NASA, the Association of Space Explorers (ASE), the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and the Universities Space Research Association (USRA). The Society will present the winning entries to the world's major space agencies, and the findings of the competition will be presented at relevant scientific and engineering conferences.
If Apophis passes through a several hundred-meter wide "keyhole" in 2029, it will impact Earth in 2036. While current estimates rate the probability of impact as very low, Apophis is being used as an example to enable design of a broader type of mission to any potentially dangerous asteroid.
The competition design scenario asks participants to imagine that Earth-based observations of Apophis made over the coming years are not sufficient to know whether the asteroid will or will not pass through the 2029 keyhole, and that a better orbit determination is needed to know if a deflection mission is required. The competition requires that the tagging mission be designed to return information fast enough so that by the year 2017 space agencies could determine whether they need to send a mission to deflect the asteroid from the keyhole.
See Apophis Competition rules.
Teams or individuals intending to submit a proposal should submit a Notice of Intent to Propose by March 1, 2007. The deadline for proposals is August 31, 2007.
The Apophis Mission Design Competition is open to anyone from any country. Proposals may be submitted by individuals or teams. The competition is open to teams from academia and industry as well as student and private groups, and to government groups or individuals not using government salaries to support their participation in the Contest (see rules for details).
$50,000 in prize money will be awarded. The judges will determine how to distribute the award money among one or more prize winners. At least $25,000 will be awarded to the first prize winner. At least $5,000 is reserved for the best submission received from a student team (who is not precluded from winning the first prize), in which all substantive work was performed by current students (high school, undergraduate, or graduate), with no more than two faculty advisors. Remaining prize money may be distributed as honorable mention awards.
Additionally, the first prize winner, or one member of the first prize winning team, will receive award travel, including transportation, food, and lodging, to attend a future major science or engineering conference to present their results.
The Apophis Mission Design Competition Committee includes Bruce Betts, Director of Projects, The Planetary Society; Daniel Durda, Planetary Scientist, Southwest Research Institute; Louis Friedman, Executive Director, The Planetary Society; Lewis Peach, Chief Engineer, USRA; Russell "Rusty" Schweickart, Apollo astronaut and Association of Space Explorers NEO Committee Chairman; and Simon "Pete" Worden, Director, NASA Ames Research Center.
Since The Planetary Society's inception in 1980, the organization has donated well over a quarter million dollars to asteroid research, about half of which was awarded through Gene Shoemaker Near Earth Object Grants to amateur observers, observers in developing countries, and professional astronomers around the world.
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FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla., February 12, 2019 – Woundtech, the leading provider of technology-enabled wound care management, launched a new more interactive website. The redesign is focused on better articulating Woundtech's services, addressing patients, insurance companies and providers. The website redesign also highlights how Woundtech heals wounds 33% faster than traditional woundcare service providers. Woundtech's services lead to 95% reduction in re-admission rates, 95% healing rates, 99% reduction in expensive Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) for wounds, and 95% reduction in Negative Pressure Wound Therapy devices.
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Woundtech is disrupting the wound management industry by bypassing the clinic and focusing more on personalized, precision care given to patients. A patient-centric approach to providing healthcare leads to less stress on the patient, faster healing and lower total cost overall. Woundtech's solutions provide significantly better outcomes for all parties involved.
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화엄사 대웅전 앞에 동·서로 서 있는 쌍탑 가운데 서쪽에 자리하고 있는 탑으로, 동탑이 아무런 조각이 없는 반면 서탑에는 조각과 장식이 가득하다. 2단의 기단(基壇) 위에 5층의 탑신(塔身)을 세운 모습이다.
아래층 기단 각 면에는 안상(眼象) 속에 12지신상(十二支神像)을 방향에 따라 배치하였고, 윗층 기단은 각 면 모서리와 가운데에 기둥 모양을 본떠 새겼으며, 나뉜 두 면에는 8부신중(八部神衆)을 조각하였다. 탑신의 몸돌과 지붕돌은 각각 하나의 돌이며 몸돌에는 각 층 모서리에도 기둥 모양을 본떠 새겨 두었다. 1층 몸돌 4면에는 4천왕상(四天王像)을 조각 배치하였다. 지붕돌은 각 층마다 밑면에 5단의 받침을 갖추고 처마밑은 수평이 되게 하였다. 머리장식으로는 2층의 단이 있는 받침 위로 보주(寶珠:연꽃봉오리모양의 장식)가 놓여 있다.
석탑의 형태는 높고 가파르면서도 상하의 체감비율이라든지, 지붕돌을 경쾌하게 처리한 수법 등이 잘 조화되어 우아한 기품을 지니고 있다. 특히 아래층 기단의 12지신상 조각은 석탑에서 흔하지 않은 예의 하나이다. 위·아래층 기단과 1층 몸돌 세 곳에 나타난 조각상은 그 배치에 보다 신중을 기하였고, 특히 12지신·8부중·4천왕 모두 불교의 수호신적 기능을 지닌 조형물이라는 점에서 탑 안에 모셔진 사리를 보호하려는 의도가 강하게 나타나고 있다.
조각상을 각 부분에 새긴 점이나, 지붕의 조형이 보다 유연한 느낌을 주는 점 등으로 보아 통일신라 후기인 9세기 경에 만들어진 것으로 짐작된다. 석탑 남쪽으로는 안상과 연꽃이 조각된 배례석이 놓여 있다.
This five-story stone pagoda, one of the twin pagodas, is located in the west in front of the main sanctuary of Hwaeomsa Temple. While the eastern pagoda has no sculptures, the western one is full of decoration and sculptures. This pagoda consists of the two-tier stylobate and the five-story main body. Engraved on each facet of the lower stylobate are panel decorations wherein the statues of twelve zodiacal animal deities were placed in each direction. Carved at the corners and center of the facet of the upper stylobate is a pole pattern, so the facet is divided by two. Standing statues of the Eight Guardian Warriors are carved by dividing into two facets. Each of the core stones and roof stones is composed of one stone, and the core stone for each story has small pole patterns at each corner. Carved and placed on the four facets of the core stone for the first floor are standing statues of the Four Guardian Kings. The roof stone is furnished with a five-step cornice at each story, and the eaves are horizontal. The top ornament has a two-layer prop; on top of that is a splendid bead shaped like a lotus bud. The pagoda has a form that gives a dignified impression, showing the light technique of the roof stone and the well-balanced decreasing ratio from top to bottom. In particular, it is a rare case of having the lower stylobate sculpted with twelve zodiacal animal deities in stone pagodas. The carvings shown in the upper and lower stylobates and the core stone at the first floor were carefully arranged. Especially, the engravings of twelve zodiacal animal deities and the Eight Guardian Warriors and the Four Guardian Kings, which all have the function of guardian spirit in Buddhism, were intended to protect the sarira enshrined in the pagoda. Judging from the carvings and the flexible construction of the roof stones, the pagoda is believed to have been built around the 9th century of the late Silla Era. Standing south of the pagoda is the salutation stone with engravings of panel decoration designs on the side and lotus flower on the upper side.


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Q: Simplicial simple homotopy vs. cellular simple homotopy I recently started reading up on simple homotopy theory. Here is a question I stumbled upon.
In his 1938 Paper Simplicial Spaces, Nuclei and m-Groups Whitehead introduced the notion of elementary expansions and elementary collapses of simplicial complexes. Essentially a simplicial complex $K'$ is obtained from $K$ through an elementary collapse, by removing two simplices $p$ and $q$ from $K$ such that:

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*$p$ is a maximal simplex of $K$.

*$q < p$ is a (maximal, proper) free face of $p$ (i.e. not contained in any other simplex but itself and $p$).

An elementary expansion is the obvious inverse operation. There are topological realizations of these operations, with the collapse given by "pushing the free face onto the others". Lets call a map of simplicial complexes a simplicial simple homotopy equivalence, if it is homotopic to the composition of such maps.
Later on he decided that CW-complexes were a more convenient setting to work in (Simple Homotopy Types), and this was where he developed the now famous results on whitehead torsion. This is the setting that most of the following material (such as Cohens Book A course in simple homotopy theory) are presented in and probably most familiar to most topologists. By a cellular simple homotopy equivalence, I mean a map of CW-complexes as in 3.
It seems to me, that it is somewhat folklore knowledge, that the second setting is a generalization of the prior in the following sense:

Let $K$,$K'$ be abstract simplicial complexes and $f:|K| \to |K'|$ a map between their realizations. Then $f$ is a simplicial simple homotopy equivalence, if and only if it is a cellular simple homotopy equivalence, with respect to the obvious $CW$-structures on $|K|$ and $|K'|$.

Is this even true?
I imagined this would be a simple consequence of the simplicial approximation theorem, but couldn't figure out an easy proof. I also skimmed most of the papers from the time period I could find on the matter, but didn't really get a satisfying answer.
If yes, I would be really thankful for a reference, or a sketch of a proof.

A: Turns out I should have read the original material Simplicial Spaces, Nuclei and m-groups a little more carefully. It was in there all along. I'm still supprised nobody ever explicitly stated this though. But I guess it was such common knowledge at the time that nobody bothered.
My question can be rephrased in the following way. For a simplicial complex $K$ (all complexes are taken to be finite)  denote by $E_S(L)$ the set of inclusions of simplicial complexes $L \to K$ that are homotopy equivalences, modulo the equivalence relation generated by $L\to K \xrightarrow{s} K' = L\to K' \implies L \to K \sim L \to K'$ for $s$ a composition of (simplicial) elementary expansions (this actually has set size). This is the description Siebenmann chooses in Infinite Simple Homotopy Types. Further denote by $E_C(K)$ the obvious analogon in the CW setting. The latter of course is just the underlying set of the geometric description on the Whiteheadgroup $WH(X)$ as it is constructed in Cohens simple Homotopy Theory for example. As both equivalence relations identify homotopic maps and using the standard mapping cylinder arguments, my question rephrases to:
What is the Kernel of the obvious forgetful map $E_S(L) \to E_C(L) = WH(L) \cong  WH( \pi_1(L))$ for $L$ connected. Here I mean kernel in the sense of pointed sets, as the lefthandside will only a posteriori be a group (one could of course bother with proving its a group first..).
The way Whitehead proved in Simple Homotopy Types that the last isomorphism is injective, is effectively by transforming  each inclusion $L \to K$ to the form $ L \to K' = L \cup \bigcup e_i^n \bigcup e_i^{n+1}$ through cellular simple expansions and collapses $(n \geq 1)$. The corresponding element in $WH( \pi_1(L))$ is then given by $ \pi_{n+1}( K', K'^{n} \cup L) \to \pi_n(K'^n \cup L, L)$. Explicitly one checks using Hurewicz theorem and universal coverings that this is in fact an isomorphism of free $\mathbb Z (\pi_1(L))$ modules, with basis given by the cells $e_i$. One then shows, that all the elementary matrix operations making the corresponding matrix trivial on the $WH(\pi_1(L))$ side have an analogue on the simple homotopy side, proving injectivity.
What was known to me when I asked the question, was that this works in the cellular category, i.e. with cellular simple equivalences. It turns out, before passing to the cellular setting, Whitehead did the analogous proof in the simplicial world, which turns out to require a lot more technical arguments, but it is completely done in 1 and the statement is implicitly proven in the proof of theorem 20 there.
Very roughly, one first proves that subdivisions are simplicial simple equivalences, so that one can work in the p.l. category instead. Here one has the p.l. mapping cylinder see 1). The attachment of a p.l. cell along a p.l. boundary map, is then to be understood as taking the cylinder along the boundary and then gluing the cell on top of it. (I guess this circumvents problems with pushouts in the p.l. category). He then shows that the same simplicifactions as in the cellular setting are valid in the p.l. setting using such cylinders and simplicial approximation, thus, showing that $E_S(L) \to WH(\pi_1(K))$ and hence $E_S(L) \to E_C(L)$ has trivial kernel.
In particular this gives a positive answer to my original question.

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Beach Boys to reunite with Brian Wilson?
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The Beach Boys reunion tour that has been mooted for some time looks increasingly likely to come to fruition.
Beach Boy Al Jardine has said that a show featuring him, Brian Wilson and Mike Love is being considered to mark the group's 50th anniversary. Apparently he's pushing for a full tour to take place, with David Marks stepping into to complete the core line-up. Love, Jardine and Bruce Johnston have continued to tour as The Beach Boys over the years, without Brian, who wrote and arranged their most enduring songs.
Mike Love first raised the possibility of a "full" reunion (original band members Dennis and Carl Wilson are both deceased) in an interview with the Las Vegas Sun last month, but he subsequently made an about-turn, saying: "At this time there are no plans for my cousin Brian to rejoin the tour…We have had some discussions of writing and possibly recording together, but nothing has been planned…I..felt the need to clarify that there are no current 'reunion' tour plans."
Jardine's more recent comments contradict Love, asserting that a reunion is on the cards after all:
"We're definitely doing at least one show – you heard it first. It's a big deal. I don't know where it will be yet, but it'll probably be free. Golden Gate Park was mentioned, as was the [National] Mall in Washington DC and the north shore of Chicago by the beach".
"I want to see a 100-date anniversary tour," he continues. "I want to go all around the world, but if this is the way it has to be, then so be it. We're going to have to rehearse one hell of a show. My point is, if we're going to rehearse and make this such a wonderful show, we should take it on the road. It's the next logical step and it disappoints me that the other guys don't see it that way. I mean, it really bothers me. I know Live Nation has their fingers crossed we'll hit the road. We've got one show definite, so at least we've got our foot in the door."
Brian Wilson, who is about to release a solo album of Gershwin interpretations, has yet to confirm or deny any such plans.
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Human Rights Coalition Urges Congress to Reject Funding for Abuses in DHS Appropriations
The Honorable Richard C. Shelby, Chairman
Senate Committee on Appropriations
The Honorable Patrick J. Leahy, Vice Chairman
The Honorable Shelley Moore Capito, Chairman
Senate Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Homeland Security
The Honorable Jon Tester, Ranking Member
The Honorable Rodney P. Frelinghuysen, Chairman
House Committee on Appropriations
The Honorable Nita M. Lowey, Ranking Member
Kevin W. Yoder, Chairman
House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Homeland Security
Lucille Roybal-Allard, Ranking Member
Re: Appropriators must reject DHS's transfer and reprogramming requests into custody operations; DHS's systemic rights abuses and violations of congressionally imposed funding limits and transparency obligations demand greater oversight
Dear Senators Shelby, Leahy, Capito, Tester, and Representatives Frelinghuysen, Lowey, Yoder and Roybal-Allard:
Reports indicate that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stands poised to approach your Committee with demands for immense sums of reprogrammed and/or transferred funds into its custody operations,[i] asking for forgiveness rather than permission after dramatically overspending its appropriated budget in ways both morally reprehensible and fiscally irresponsible. We urge you to assert your authority to deny these demands and stem the rights abuses they would fund by imposing consequences for DHS's reckless behavior.
Now is not the time to treat the appropriations process as business as usual. Immigration detention facilities are filled with parents who have been torn from their children at the border,[ii] the administration is seeking judicial consent to expand the jailing of asylum-seeking families in unlicensed facilities,[iii] and medical negligence continues to result in deaths in custody.[iv] It has been reported that DHS is now contemplating the extraordinary measure of shifting tens of millions of dollars of funds from the Coast Guard to jail asylum-seeking families during criminal prosecutions for illegal entry.[v] DHS is reported to be in talks with the United States Navy about the construction of tent cities that could hold as many as 47,000 people, eying abandoned airfields, a former naval weapons station, and military training facilities.[vi]
Long before these most recent efforts to expand the detention system, DHS proved itself unable and/or unwilling to provide for the safety of those it detains and to responsibly shepherd U.S. taxpayers' dollars. DHS has been warned repeatedly of inappropriate conditions and oversight, abuses, and criminally negligent government conduct in its massive detention system by a vast spectrum of actors—civil society organizations,[vii] DHS's own Inspector General,[viii] the Homeland Security Advisory Council,[ix] the Advisory Committee on Family Residential Centers,[x] and the Government Accountability Office.[xi] Yet DHS has failed to advance any meaningful reform.[xii] And now, the agency is moving to more than double its existing bed capacity all for the purpose of implementing an Executive Order that even administration officials agree is almost certain to run afoul of existing law.[xiii]
Under its current leadership, DHS has systemically violated spending limits and reporting obligations in appropriations law and report language. We urge you to consider this recent history as you contemplate anticipated reprogramming and transfer requests. In the mere three months since passage of the Fiscal Year 2018 spending bill, ICE has wildly overspent its appropriated budget for detention operations and systemically violated reporting obligations. Here are only a few examples:
Flagrant disregard for appropriated funding levels for custody operations: The March 2018 spending bill appropriated sufficient funds to support an average daily population of 40,354 individuals.[xiv] Because the agency had already significantly overspent its previous appropriation, the funded amount should have required the agency to reduce the number of detention beds in use to below that number by the end of fiscal year 2018.[xv] Yet a mere two months after the omnibus was signed into law, ICE reported to the media an average daily population of 41,134.[xvi] This number is almost certainly higher today and continuing to grow, given ICE's announcement in early June that it had secured approximately 1,600 beds in Bureau of Prison facilities to use for civil immigration detainees.[xvii]
Failure to make public a list of detention facilities: The joint explanatory statement accompanying the March 2018 spending bill requires ICE to "make public a full list, updated monthly, of all facilities in use for detention of adults and/or children, including the average daily population, the type of contract, the governing detention standards, and the complement of on board medical and mental health personnel."[xviii] ICE has not made this list public. Legal service providers endeavoring to provide representation or know your rights presentations to immigrants in detention are forced to resort to google news alerts to figure out where immigrants are held in detention and in what numbers. Faith-based groups interested in establishing visitation programs for asylum seekers and immigrants in detention must rely on word of mouth to identify where the need exists. This level of transparency—a simple list of facilities—should be the minimum required of a detention system that is so costly and impactful, and it speaks volumes that ICE refuses or is unable to comply with that minimum.
Failure to abide by reporting requirements regarding inspections and deaths in detention: The 2018 joint explanatory statement also requires ICE to publicly post all final inspections reports within 60 days of the inspection and reports of all in-custody deaths within 30 days.[xix] Since passage of the bill, ICE has not publicly posted any inspection reports.[xx] Although there have already been four deaths in detention since the bill's passage,[xxi] and more than 30 days has passed in three of the four cases, ICE has posted only cursory press releases announcing the deaths on its website.[xxii] These failures of transparency are deeply concerning, especially when considered in light of findings by independent medical professionals that egregiously insufficient provision of medical care in ICE custody regularly contributes to unnecessary deaths.[xxiii]
Failure to provide congressionally required protections against sexual abuse in custody: The 2018 joint explanatory statement provided a May 22nd deadline for ICE to report to Congress its plan to achieve full compliance with the requirements of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA). According to ICE's own website, however, approximately 10% of those individuals in custody—more than 4,000 people—are jailed in facilities that lack PREA protections.[xxiv] This constitutes an outright abdication of ICE's basic obligation to protect those in its custody, made more alarming by recent revelations that more than 1,000 allegations of sexual abuse in ICE custody were filed between 2010 and 2017.[xxv]
Widespread disregard for congressionally imposed obligations regarding detainee access to phones, counsel, and visitation services: In addition to reporting obligations, the 2018 joint explanatory statement instructs ICE to take several basic steps to ensure access to legal and social services while in detention. These obligations include, for example, the provision of "independent and timely access to all facilities for the purpose of providing representation, legal education, and programming, and for purposes of monitoring and visitation…." ICE's violations of the spirit and letter of these obligations are systemic. The undersigned organizations can attest through our own experiences and reports received from colleagues that immigration attorneys are regularly unable to reach their detained clients by phone, and organizations attempting to provide visitation and/or legal orientation programming are chronically stymied in their efforts by ICE either flat-out rejecting access or putting onerous restrictions on access. Two specific examples illustrate this system-wide problem:
In May 2018, ICE denied the request of a group of 40 volunteers associated with the non-profit organization Freedom for Immigrants to provide regular visitation programming at the Plymouth County Correctional Center in Massachusetts. The group had been requesting access for visitation via emails and voicemails since November 2017 and was finally denied access via a phone conversation with a representative of ICE's Boston Field Office. No reason was provided for the denial.[xxvi]
A religiously affiliated organization, the D.C. Detention Visitation Network, has been requesting access to provide visitation to people detained in the Immigration Centers of America detention center in Farmville, Virginia for more than a year. On March 29, 2018, ICE's Community Relations Officer for the Fairfax Field Office emailed the group with a formal denial of access to the facility, with no reason provided for the denial.
This list represents the tip of the iceberg; DHS's abuse of power in the operation and management of its detention system goes deep. Your Committee has the authority and the legal and moral obligation to stop the commission of further abuses by DHS.
We urge you to immediately:
Deny all requests for the reprogramming or transfer of funds into ICE's detention and enforcement accounts;
Implement stronger and more effective oversight mechanisms to hold DHS accountable to congressionally imposed limits; and
Cut funds for enforcement and detention operations for Fiscal Year 2019.
With questions or concerns, please contact Heidi Altman at the National Immigrant Justice Center at 312-718-5021 or haltman@heartlandalliance.org.
American Immigration Council
Detention Watch Network
Immigrant Legal Resource Center
National Immigrant Justice Center
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
Project on Government Oversight
Women's Refugee Commission
John Kelly, Acting Inspector General
Office of Inspector General, Department of Homeland Security
[i] Section 503 of Title V of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2018, Public Law No. 115-141, places limits on the transfer and reprogramming of funds within the Department. Generally, the Act limits the transfer of funds from no more than 5 percent of any one program's budget to augment existing programs in an amount no greater than $5,000,000 or 10 percent of another program's budget, whichever is less. However, this same provision prohibits the use of transferred funds for the increase of funds "for any program, project, or activity for which funds have been denied or restricted by Congress."
[ii] Tal Kopan, CNN, "DHS: 2,000 children separated from parents at border," June 16, 2018.
[iii] Defendant's Memorandum of Points and Authorities in Support of Ex Parte Application for Relief from the Flores Settlement, Flores v. Sessions, Case No. CV 85-4544-DMG (C.D.Cal. June 21, 2018)
[iv] Human Rights Watch et al., Code Red: The Fatal Consequences of Dangerously Substandard Medical Care in Immigration Detention (June 2018).
[v] Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, "Trump administration plans to use Coast Guard money to pay for border enforcement," June 22, 2018.
[vi] Philip Elliott and W.J. Hennigan, Time, "Exclusive: Navy Document Shows Plan to Erect 'Austere Detention Camps," June 22, 2018.
[vii] See, e.g., Detention Watch Network and National Immigrant Justice Center, Lives in Peril, How Ineffective Inspections Make ICE Complicit in Immigration Detention Abuse (2015); National Immigrant Justice Center, Freedom of Information Act Litigation Reveals Systemic Lack of Accountability in Immigration Detention Contracting (Aug. 2015).
[viii] See, e.g., Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General, OIG-18-32 Concerns about ICE Detainee Treatment and Care at Detention Facilities (Dec. 11, 2017); Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General, OIG-18-53 Immigration and Customs Enforcement Did Not Follow Federal Procurement Guidelines When Contracting for Detention Services (Feb. 21, 2018).
[ix] See Homeland Security Advisory Council, Report of the Subcommittee on Privatized Immigration Detention Facilities (Dec. 1, 2016).
[x] See Advisory Committee on Family Residential Centers, Report of the DHS Advisory Committee on Family Residential Centers (Sept. 30, 2016).
[xi] See, e.g., Government Accountability Office, GAO-16-231 Additional Actions Needed to Strengthen Management and Oversight of Detainee Medical Care (Feb. 29, 2016); Government Accountability Office, GAO 15-153 Additional Actions Needed to Strengthen Management and Oversight of Facility Costs and Standards (Oct. 10, 2014).
[xii] See U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Fiscal Year 2019 Congressional Budget Justification; see also Human Rights First, Judge and Jailer: Asylum Seekers Denied Parole in Wake of Trump Executive Order (Sep. 2017).
[xiii] Eliana Johnson, Annie Karni, and Nancy Cook, Politico, "Hasty immigration order gives way to West Wing tensions," June 22, 2018.
[xiv] Committee on Appropriations, House Democrats, FY2018 Omnibus Appropriations Act: Summary of Appropriations Provisions (Mar. 2018).
[xv] Id.
[xvi] Sarah N. Lynch, Kristina Cooke, Reuters, "U.S. sending 1,600 immigration detainees to federal prisons," June 7, 2018.
[xvii] Id.
[xviii] See Division F, Joint Explanatory Statement, Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018, Public Law No. 115-141 (incorporating and assigning the same weight to language in the House Report 115-239).
[xix] See id.
[xx] ICE does post some inspection reports on its online FOIA library; the most recent inspection posted is from an inspection of the Cibola County Correctional Center from January 9 – 11, 2018.
[xxi] Since passage of the bill, Mr. Huy Chi Tran passed away on June 12th, Ms. Roxana Hernandez on May 25th, Mr. Ronald Cruz on May 15th, and Mr. Gourgen Mirimanian on April 12th. ICE's press releases announcing each of these deaths are maintained on the website of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, online here.
[xxii] ICE posts some of the reports released subsequent to detainee death reviews on its FOIA library, online here.
[xxiii] Human Rights Watch et al., Code Red: The Fatal Consequences of Dangerously Substandard Medical Care in Immigration Detention (June 2018).
[xxiv] See U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, PREA Fact Sheet, last accessed June 23, 2018.
[xxv] Alice Speri, The Intercept, "Detained, then Violated: 224 Complaints Reveal a Staggering Pattern of Sexual Abuse in Immigration Detention. Half of Those Accused Worked for ICE," Apr. 11, 2018.
[xxvi] Written documentation of these two denials is on record with the National Immigrant Justice Center. To view please email Heidi Altman at haltman@heartlandalliance.org.
June 26, 2018 Dispatches
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Dismantling Detention
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The Edge browser is also affected by CVE-2016-7282 and CVE-2016-7281, along with an information disclosure flaw (CVE-2016-7206) whose existence has also been made public. Microsoft has patched a total of 11 flaws in Edge with the critical bulletin MS16-145.
Another critical bulletin is MS16-146, which resolves one information disclosure and two remote code execution vulnerabilities in Windows graphics components. A serious remote code execution weakness has also been fixed in Windows Uniscribe with the MS16-147 bulletin.
The bulletin that patches the largest number of security holes is MS16-148. It addresses 16 privilege escalation, information disclosure, security feature bypass, arbitrary code execution, and DLL sideloading flaws in Office, including Office for Mac.
The important bulletin MS16-155 also addresses a publicly disclosed vulnerability, namely an information disclosure bug in the .NET framework (CVE-2016-7270). The other important bulletins each fix one or two security holes in the Common Log File System (CLFS) driver, the kernel and various other Windows components.
One of the critical bulletins covers Flash Player, in which Adobe patched 17 vulnerabilities on Tuesday, including a zero-day exploited in targeted attacks.
Users have been reminded that starting with February 2017, security bulletins will be replaced by the Security Updates Guide, where they can view and search vulnerability information in a single online database.


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GOA Says Joe Biden's Gun Plan Could Bankrupt the Firearms Industry
Written by Jake Dima, Daily Caller Published: 24 November 2020
"[Biden's plan] means that gun manufacturers could ultimately be put out of business through frivolous lawsuits," GOA's Erich Pratt said in a phone interview. "It's totally irresponsible, imagine holding Ford or GM responsible for the damage caused by hit-and-run drivers."
President-elect Joe Biden's gun control plan, which in part seeks to remove liability protections on firearm manufacturers and dealers, could bankrupt major players in the weapons industry, two advocates said.
The former vice president's "Plan To End Our Gun Violence Epidemic" seeks to repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce In Arms Act, which affords firearms dealers and manufacturers legal protection against lawsuits that may result from the misuse of weapons or ammunition sold to the public. Such a measure would effectively leave dealers and sellers vulnerable to wrongful death and injury lawsuits that target the weapon, rather than the perpetrator, senior vice president of the Gun Owners of America Erich Pratt told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
"[Biden's plan] means that gun manufacturers could ultimately be put out of business through frivolous lawsuits, Pratt said in a phone interview."It's totally irresponsible, imagine holding Ford or GM responsible for the damage caused by hit-and-run drivers. We wouldn't tolerate that and yet that's exactly the type of legal theory they're trying to put on gun manufacturers."
Kevin Jamison, a Missouri self-defense lawyer and firearms trainer, said "The guys pushing these lawsuits, they don't care if they win. They care if they can force these companies to hemorrhage money. They are in the business of putting gun companies out of business."
Remington Arms Company, which has been producing firearms since 1816, went bankrupt in late September after the corporation was sued by the families of the victims involved in the deadly 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting, according to Fox Business. The gunman used a Bushmaster, a sub-company of Remington, AR-15 during the shooting, Fox reported…
Pratt said the country will be seeing "more" of these lawsuits and he added that Remington's bankruptcy "was the desired intent" of the legal procedure. Jamison called the theories behind the gun litigation "absurd" and said the lawsuits have been allowed to continue even under the Commerce In Arms Act because of misguided courts.
"They've gotten away with it because the courts have indulged these absurd theories of law," the gun lawyer said. "It's a disaster. It has been very bad the last few years, yes, but it's going to be the death of mom and pop and gun shops — individually-owned gun shops — and some of these companies."
Pratt sees the potential for America's gun industry as a whole to crumble under the weight of litigation that could result from Biden's plan.
"The idea of the left would be 'oh sure you can have a Second Amendment right, too bad you just can't find any guns that are being produced and manufactured,'" he said.
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Quantum Tunnel Answers: Turning light into matter
Hello everybody, I am very pleased to have received a question from two people I know very well Martin del Campo and Gaby R. They have contacted Quantum Tunnel with the following question:
Breit and Wheeler proposed in 1934 that it should be possible to turn light into matter by smashing together two particles of light to create an electron and a positron – the simplest method of turning light into matter ever predicted. I would like to know if some day could be possible to demonstrate this idea?
Well Gaby and Martin, thanks a lot for the question and I bet this was triggered by the mention of Breit and Wheeler in recent weeks. As you rightly mention, Gregory Breit and John Wheeler proposed the mechanism in a Physical Review A paper entitled "Collision of two light quanta" (PRA 46, 1087; 1934). Although the mechanism was presented about 80 years ago, the difficulty in preparing the gamma rays to be collided has been a great issue to overcome. Back in 1997, researchers of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center managed to carry out a multi-photon Breit-Wheeler process: They used a stacked way to crate the electrons and positrons using high energy photons that were generated using electrons. So the idea was to a certain extent demonstrated back in 1997, but the production of the electron-positron pair in one single shot is yet to be seen.
The difficulties have now deterred persistent physicists and I am pleased to tell you that efforts continue. In particular, the researchers Pike, Mackenroth, Hill and Rose, from Imperial College London published a paper in Nature Photonics called "A photon-photon collider in a vacuum hohlraum" (Nat. Phot. 8, 434; 2014). By the way a Hohleaum is a cavity whose walls are in radiative equilibrium with the radiant energy within it, the word comes from German and it means "cavity" or "hollow room". In their paper they present the design of a novel photon–photon collider where a gamma-ray beam is fired into a hohlraum. The theoretical simulations in the paper suggest that this setup can produce about 105 Breit–Wheeler pairs in a single shot. If that is the case, the setup could provide the trail to a first realisation of a photon–photon collider and demonstrate the mechanism that Breit and Wheeler talked about.
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1 thought on "Quantum Tunnel Answers: Turning light into matter"
truthspew November 29, 2014 at 9:18 pm
I'm really interested in the light to matter route since if you follow it out you get replicators as in Star Trek. Imagine that.


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Преподаватель иностранного языка неязыкового вуза: вчера и сегодня
Молодой ученый. 2011. Т. 2. № 11. С. 168-170.
Малинина И. А.
Research target: Education
Keywords: профессионально-ориентированное обучение иностранному языкукомпетентностный подходсобственные технологии обученияанализ собственной педагогической деятельностиповышение квалификациисамообразование взрослыхповышение квалификации взрослых
Чего ждут в России от профессионального образования
Блинов В. И., Артамонова М. В. Вопросы образования. 2012. № 1. С. 291.
The article is devoted to a new type of educational programs that are formed at the intersection of higher and secondary education. Education as an institute is seen as an instrument of social stratification of society. The authors analyze the major developments of education as an institute, for instance differentiation between of academic and vocational educational programs and the creation of programs of production a "Homo habilis" — a skilled performer. Changes in the vocational education system are considered in the light of the introduction of the new educational standards FSES 2011 (Federal State Educational Standards).
Система повышения квалификации сотрудников малых и средних предприятий в современной Германии
Шпилев Д. А. Вестник Вятского государственного гуманитарного университета. Серия: Филология и искусствоведение. 2011. № 1. С. 75-79.
Опыт проектной деятельности в реализации компетентностного подхода при обучению языку специальности
Васильева Ю. С., Щемелева И. Ю. В кн.: Homo Loquens: актуальные вопросы лингвистики и методики преподавания иностранных языков (2010). Вып. 2. СПб.: НИУ ВШЭ (Санкт-Петербург), 2010. С. 190-201.
Актуальные вопросы правового регулирования обучения персонала
Кузнецов Д. Л. В кн.: Актуальные проблемы трудового законодательства в условиях модернизации экономики. М.: Юстицинформ, 2012. С. 160-179.
Training Strategies and Skill Development Amid Weak Institutions: Evidence from Russia
Marques II I. Political Science. PS. Высшая школа экономики, 2017. No. WP BRP 52/PS/2017.
How do firms decide between different strategies for acquiring highly skilled workers? Ronald Coase (1937) famously argued that firms face trade-offs between "making" required inputs within the firm and contracting with outside actors to "buy" them. Similar trade-offs abound in deciding between in-plant training and outsourcing to either public or private, third parties. Existing theory on firms' training strategies is premised on the ability of firms to solve a fundamental commitment problem, which retards cooperation between firms and other actors. Only with a strong civil society – employers' associations and labor unions –or free, transparent and efficient market mechanisms is cooperation possible. Contemporary Russia presents a puzzle to this work. On the one hand, firms increasingly make costly co-investments with state-run schools and outsource training to private third-parties. On the other hand, civil society and judicial institutions are weak in Russia, making it difficult for firms to punish counterparties, at the same time that its markets have failed to fully make the transition to free and transparent capitalism. This paper argues that absent strong civil society and free, transparent markets, firms can overcome commitment problems and work with third-parties so long as their regional governments have strong state capacity and are politically accountable. The former assures firms that central, regional authorities can monitor school officials and private-third parties to ensure agreements are honored, while the latter creates incentives for regional authorities to do so. These theories are tested on original survey data covering 690 firms in 12 Russian regions.
Андрагогические особенности обучения иностранному языку в группах повышения квалификации
Змеёва Т. Е. В кн.: Иностранный язык в национальном исследовательском университете: новые задачи и ценностные ориентации. Сборник статей по материалам межвузовской научно-методической конференции, 2011. Н. Новгород: Нижегородский филиал НИУ ВШЭ, 2011. С. 40-45.
Проблемы и перспективы развития образования в России: сборник материалов XIV Международной научно-практической конференции
Новосибирск: Новосибирский государственный технический университет, 2012.
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Компетентностное управление развитием техникума в современных условиях
Салимова А. Ф., Штанов С. Н. М.: Спутник+, 2011.
The Problem of Social Inclusion and Evaluation of Adult Literacy in Russia
Popov D., Kuzmina Y. Sociology of Education. ssoar-405412. Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS), 2014
In the paper Russian results of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competency (PIAAC) are analyzed and compared to the data from the OECD countries. In the focus of the research is the concept of "participation in society" proposed by the developers of the PIAAC. The results show that "social inclusion" and "success" measured in the PIAAC through peoples' individual achievements are not always connected with high level of competence in Russia. There is a large proportion of people in the group of respondents with the lowest level of literacy, who are "included" and "successful" (at least according to formal criteria). This distinguishes Russia from the OECD countries with developed economies.
Профессионализм современного педагога: методика оценки уровня квалификации педагогических работников
Дикова М. Д., Шадриков В. Д., Карпов А. В. и др. М.: Логос, 2011.
Создание, приобретение и выбор партнеров: стратегии обучения среди российских компаний
Маркес Второй И. Институциональные проблемы российской экономики. WP1. НИУ ВШЭ, 2017. № WP1/2017/05.
Средства формирования профессиональной компетенции будущего учителя математики при реализации нового стандарта высшей школы
Седова Н. С. Экономика образования. 2011. № 6. С. 99-109.
Поддержание изменений в университетах. Преемственность кейс-стади и концепций
Кларк Б. Р. М.: Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2011.
University Admission In Russia: Do the Wealthier Benefit from Standardized Exams?
Prakhov I., Yudkevich M. M. Education. EDU. Высшая школа экономики, 2012. No. 04.
This paper examines the impact of family income on the results of the Unified State Examination (the USE) and university choice in Russia. We argue that, even under the USE, which was introduced instead of high school exit exams and university-specific entrance exams, entrants from wealthy households still have an advantage in terms of access to higher education, since income positively affects USE scores through the channel of a higher level of investment in pre-entry coaching. Moreover, richer households make more effective decisions about university. We have found positive and significant relationships between the level of income and USE results for high school graduates, with an equal achievement before coaching. We subsequently propose that students from the most affluent households do invest more in additional types of preparation (pre-entry courses and individual lessons with tutors), and those extra classes provide a higher return for children from this particular income group. Finally, we show that holding the result of the USE equal, students with good and fair marks from wealthy families are admitted to universities with higher average USE score than those from poorer families. As a result, we can observe that income status is a factor that significantly influences enrollment to university.
Материалы 77-й Международной научно-технической конференции ААИ «Автомобиле- и тракторостроение в России: приоритеты развития и подготовка кадров»
Кн. 14: Секция 14. Развитие образовательного процесса на основе современной системы интерактивного обучения в условиях модернизации образования. М.: МГТУ «МАМИ», 2012.
Большая чеховская игра
Шапиро Н. А. Литература. Учебно-методический журнал для учителей словесности. 2011. № 14. С. 27-29.
2D:4D Asymmetry and Academic Performance: Evidence from Moscow and Manilа
Nye J. V., Androushchak G., Desierto D. et al. Education. EDU. Высшая школа экономики, 2011. No. 01.
Exposure to prenatal androgens affects both future behavior and life choices. However, there is still relatively limited evidence on its effects on academic performance. Moreover, the predicted effect of exposure to prenatal testosterone (T) - which is inversely correlated with the relative length of the second to fourth finger lengths (2D:4D) - would seem to have ambiguous effects on academic achievement since traits like confidence, aggressiveness, or risk-taking are not uniformly positive for success in school. We provide the first evidence of a non-linear relationship between 2D:4D and academic achievement using samples from Moscow and Manila. We find that there is a quadratic relationship between high T exposure and markers of achievement such as grades or test scores and that the optimum digit ratio for women in our sample is lower (indicating higher prenatal T) than the average. The results for men are generally insignificant for Moscow but significant for Manila showing similar non-linear effects. Our work is thus unusual in that it draws from a large sample of nearly a thousand university students in Moscow and over a hundred from Manila for whom we also have extensive information on high school test scores, family background and other potential correlates of achievement. Our work is also the first to have a large cross country comparison that includes two groups with very different ethnic compositions.
Роль деловых игр в формировании профессиональных компетенций на занятиях по английскому языку
Жунич И. И., Ткачева Н. Л. Вып. 1: Содержание профессиональной подготовки по иностранным языкам в неязыковом вузе: современные тенденции, актуальные проблемы, пути решения: доклады и материалы Международной научно-практической конференции. М.: Логос, 2012.
Описание графика как способ профессионально направленного обучения иностранному языку в нелингвистическом вузе
Успенская Е. А., Шмаль М. В. Альманах современной науки и образования. 2011. № 3(46). С. 171-181.
Institutions and the Allocation of Talent
Natkhov T. V., Polishchuk L. Economics. EC. Высшая школа экономики, 2012. No. 15.
Institutions affect investment decisions, including investments in human capital. Hence institutions are relevant for the allocation of talent. Good market-supporting institutions attract talent to productive value-creating activities, whereas poor ones raise the appeal of rent-seeking. We propose a theoretical model that predicts that more talented individuals are particularly sensitive in their career choices to the quality of institutions, and test these predictions on a sample of around 95 countries of the world. We find a strong positive association between the quality of institutions and graduation of college and university students in science, and an even stronger negative correlation with graduation in law. Our findings are robust to various specifications of empirical models, including smaller samples of former colonies and transition countries. The quality of human capital makes the distinction between educational choices under strong and weak institutions particularly sharp. We show that the allocation of talent is an important link between institutions and growth.
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