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Q: Search Queries for Gerrit I am doing some basic search queries for Gerrit but could not find anything much.
I want a gerrit query which can fetch the list based on multiple authors  or based on created and updated date.
I am doing the following query in java but need a query which can fetch list based on multiple authors
gerritApi.changes().query("project:" + "Test-Project"+"+"+"status:merged").get();

A: To search for all opened changes from AUTHOR-1 or AUTHOR-2 do the following:
curl --request GET --user USER https://GERRIT-SERVER/a/changes/?q=\(owner:AUTHOR-1+OR+owner:AUTHOR-2\)+AND+status:open

Or in java:
gerritApi.changes().query("(owner:AUTHOR-1 OR owner:AUTHOR-2) + AND status:open").get();

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Running a product line is like conducting a symphony. You have to be able to coordinate a lot of different pieces and make them all fit together smoothly.
In that spirit, I want to share with you the 5 biggest mistakes I made when starting my first handbag company… along with some simple ways to avoid them.
When I first started out with my handbag company I was in the dark about pretty much everything, and it seemed that I was the only one who didn't know it.
I believed I could rely on my intuition and creativity, but I lacked the experience to tell me whether or not my instincts were even remotely correct. As a result, I was flying blind.
I soon learned that having a successful product line requires more than being a great designer.
Here are the 5 biggest mistakes that transformed me from a struggling designer to a successful Entreprenette!
What's the one thing every business needs to survive?
And money comes from margins – knowing how to properly cost and price your products through every stage of production and distribution.
When I first started out, I had no idea how to determine my costs. And because of it, my margins were so thin that products that should have been selling at a generous profit were, instead, losing money.
My business was on life support – and I barely had enough cash to keep the doors open.
When I finally learned the right formula, my margins immediately increased by 250%. My profits increased overnight, and I finally had the money to pay sales reps, hire employees and grow the business.
The first thing you want to do is calculate your cost of good sold – or COGS. This does not include marketing, overhead, rent, or salary……nothing else but the three steps below.
List out all the raw materials that you use for each item you make.
Add in the cost of any freight costs for getting the raw materials to your production facility.
Add in the labor charge for the item.
Total these up and you've got your actual COGS price.
a. In order to make a profit (and not give it away like I was), follow this simple formula. It will leave with you enough revenue to cover your overhead and generate a healthy profit on top.
It's been said that a name is everything. My second mistake was not taking care of mine.
When I started my first handbag company, I trademarked the name, "Sarah Shaw Handbags". Unfortunately, instead of registering the trademark personally, I did so under my corporation. Therefore, the corporation owned the TM, not me.
When things went south later on, I closed the company and decided to keep the trademark… it was my own name after all. Or so I thought. Turns out that I didn't legally own it.
Because the TM was owned by the corporation and not by me, my investors threatened to sue me over the use of the name "Sarah Shaw Handbags". And as a result of this HUGE mistake, I no longer have the legal right to use my own name!
Maintain your TM under your name, not your corporate name.
This will ensure you have control over your IP if your company ever closes, changes hands or if you take on partners or investors.
You can license the use of the trademark to your corporation to use for $1/year.
Pop quiz: do you know what the most valuable skill any Entreprenette can have?
Because if you can't get people to buy your fabulous products, then making money will be… well… impossible.
And this brings me to my third deadly sin… not knowing how to sell.
While I had no shortage of courage, I lacked a clear and concise sales pitch. I didn't know how to guide the sale – and I certainly didn't know how to close.
Instead, I was hesitant, unprepared and unprofessional. And it showed. Buyers didn't take me seriously, and my sales really were terrible.
Understand that every effective sales pitch must be short and to the point. Buyers don't have time to waste, so you not only must be compelling, but you've also got to do it quickly.
As with anything else, practice makes perfect. Before you pick up that phone, perfect your pitch with a friend. Then when that moment arrives to do it for real, you'll be ready to seal the deal.
Someone once told me that you are nothing without the right marketing strategy. Without it, no one will know who you are.
Unfortunately for me, when I started my first line, not only wasn't I doing any marketing… I didn't even know I should be doing it.
Buyers wouldn't respond to my cold calls, because they didn't understand what I was offering and why it was a benefit to their customers. I was spending a ton of time working the phones with almost nothing to show for it.
I finally decided that it was time to get a marketing strategy.
At the time, my design studio was in the downtown Los Angeles garment district. So I strolled into the designer showrooms in the California Mart, figuring that someone – or something – would show me the way.
Create a line sheet or catalog for buyers to look through. Make sure to include style numbers, wholesale prices, descriptions of your products and professional photos (no iPhone shots…).
Know your target audience – and then market the stores they shop at.
Focus your marketing materials on the needs and desires of your target audience. Your buyers are in the business of selling to these people, and they're looking for products that will do it.
Market research is important… it's always smart to know the current trends, what your market is buying and who your target customers are.
But there's something to be said for good, old-fashioned creativity and intuition.
And this was my fifth mistake: not trusting my vision.
When I started my first line, I knew exactly what I wanted to design and how I wanted to manufacture it. As my handbags began to sell and demand increased, I knew that if I just trusted my gut, I would be successful.
But success brought the peanut gallery… And it wasn't long before sales reps, business partners and investors were all offering their 2 cents about what I should or shouldn't be designing.
Since I was fairly new to the business, I caved in to their advice and ended up knocking off some trending styles.
The new line didn't sell, and I was emotionally crushed.
But it was a worthwhile lesson, because in that moment, I learned to trust myself – and to never design anything that either didn't feel right or didn't fit my aesthetic.
Customers buy from you because of your design esthetic!
Simple. Trust your gut. While running a product line requires many skills that are fairly cut and dry, sometimes you just have to go with what feels right to you.
Because after you've calculated your margins, filed your trademark, perfected your sales pitch, and created your marketing strategy… what's left is your customers.
And they don't care about any of that stuff. They buy from you because of your design aesthetic. So make sure you use it.


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Finances on the Brink - SCOUT eh!
Scouter Joseph has written an updated report about Scouts Canada's finances. Read "Beyond the Crossroads".
Scouts Canada's 2004 Annual Report stated that, as of August 31, Scouts Canada was in debt $1.8 million to an undisclosed bank. That borrowing, we are informed by Scouts Canada, is on an unsecured line of credit that may be drawn upon to a maximum of $1.9 million. The report also discloses a Accounts Payable and Accrued Liabilities of $1.5 million. These figures are shown under the heading "Current Liabilities".
The previous year, the Annual Report showed no bank debt at all. Accounts Payable and Accrued Liabilities were $771,000.
This is a pretty big change in the financial picture. To get a better idea of what is happening, SCOUT eh! member Joseph Grittani, an accountant, took on the task of analyzing the past five years of Scouts Canada financial statements, boiling them down into a short, easy-to-understand report.
It is very clear from the analysis that Scouts Canada continues to face a particularly stringent financial situation and that they do not seem to be taking the problem seriously. Their draft Strategic Directions list some desired outcomes ("all councils operating in the black"), but no substantial strategies to meet these outcomes. They propose some minor tinkering, but this is not enough for a deep and fundamental problem.
Already, money in internally restricted funds, such as the Jamboree fund, has been spent on operating expenses (read: staff salaries). What's next? Will they cash in the Scout Brotherhood fund? Will they keep selling camps to keep the money flowing?
Crossroads: A Report on the Finances of the National Operation and Where to go From Here [pdf] by Joseph Grittani.


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North Carolina Man Dies After Being Struck by Ocean Wave
Katherine Rodriguez
A North Carolina man has died after a powerful ocean wave struck his head while he was on the beach with his family.
Lee Dingle, a father of six, was playing with three of his children when a powerful wave hit him. The force of the wave pounded Lee's head into the ground and broke his neck, WTHR reported.
"Some heroes – including our kids – tried to save him, but it wouldn't have mattered what they did," Lee's wife Shannon wrote on Twitter. "His body couldn't recover from the initial injury."
Some heroes – including our kids – tried to save him, but it wouldn't have mattered what they did. His body couldn't recover from the initial injury.
— Shannon Dingle (@ShannonDingle) July 20, 2019
His throat also swelled up from the impact, depriving Lee's brain of the oxygen needed to recover.
Oak Island Water Rescue said in a Facebook post that it, other agencies, and bystanders tried to provide life-saving support to Lee within minutes of the accident. But despite their efforts, Lee died one day later.
Lee served as president of Atlas Engineering in Raleigh, North Carolina, a firm which specializes in fixing buildings with structural damage, according to the facility's website.
Atlas Engineering senior partner Tom Caldwell said he had recently received the promotion to president just two weeks before he died, WSLS reported.
Lee also left behind his wife and six children, including four adopted children and one disabled child.
Friends of the family created a GoFundMe page to offset the costs of funeral expenses for the family and other bills. As of Monday afternoon, the page has raised more than $167,000 in two days.
EnvironmentHealthPre-ViralGoFundMeLee DingleNorth CarolinaOak Island Water RescueoceanShannon Dingle

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Fred Trends Westward, Increasing Rain Chances in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Mary K
Mary K Published: August 14, 2021
As we suspected, the track and forecast of Fred have certainly changed a few times. Fred has weakened, which means the system is an open wave. However, some restrengthening is likely.
As we suspected, the track and forecast of Fred have certainly changed a few times. Fred has weakened, which means the system is an open wave. However, according to the National Weather Service Birmingham, "some restrengthening is likely, and Fred is forecast to re-develop into a tropical storm before it makes landfall. Uncertainties in the track and intensity remain."
The cone of uncertainty as shifted has Fred has trended in a westward direction. This means that landfall could take place between Panama City, Florida, and Biloxi, Mississippi. We will continue to monitor this system for any potential impacts to our coverage areas.
Impacts for Central Alabama from the National Weather Service Birmingham:
What: Breezy winds with gusts of 30-35 mph
Where: Mainly across the south
When: Tuesday
Flooding:
What: Increasing threat of heavy rainfall, but widespread flooding is not anticipated at this time
Where: Much of Central Alabama
When: Monday night and Tuesday
James Spann, ABC 33/40, and Townsquare Media Tuscaloosa Chief Meteorologist mentioned that for the "inland parts of Alabama, the heaviest rain should come Tuesday over the eastern half of the state, with amounts of 1-3 inches possible. Totals will be lower over the western counties of the state." With the possible thread of heavy rains, Spann noted that "For now, the threat of significant flooding doesn't look especially high, but a few isolated issues are possible."
Jim Stefkovich, Meteorologist for the Alabama Emergency Management Agency, said that "wind gusts of 40-60 mph are possible over the southern half of the state, beginning near the coast Monday morning and spreading inland Monday night into Tuesday morning."
As Grace churns along its path over Hispaniola and Cuba, it could be in the Gulf of Mexico in five days. Townsquare Media is closely monitoring Grace for any possible impacts to the United States.
(Source) Click here to follow the Facebook Page for James Spann. For more from the National Weather Service Birmingham, click here. For more from the Alabama Emergency Management Agency, click here.
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Mamadou Sarr, né le  à Martigues, est un footballeur français qui évolue au poste de défenseur central à l'Olympique lyonnais.

Biographie
Fils de l'international sénégalais Pape Sarr, Mamadou est né à Martigues, alors que son père évoluait à Istres.

Carrière en club
Mamadou Sarr a grandi dans le Nord-Pas-de-Calais — son père ayant fait une grande partie de sa carrière au RC Lens — et va ainsi débuter sa carrière footballistique à l'Étoile Sportive de Saint-Laurent-Blangy, avant de rejoindre le club de Lens.

Sarr intègre ensuite le centre de formation de l'Olympique lyonnais, à la faveur d'un déménagement familial dans la ville où ses parents se sont rencontrés.

Lors de la saison 2021-22, à seulement 16 ans, il s'impose comme titulaire avec l'équipe des moins de 19 ans rhodanienne. Il joue ainsi un rôle central dans l'épopée lyonnaise en Coupe Gambardella, buteur en quart contre Strasbourg puis en demie contre Troyes, il brille surtout par son abatage défensif et son leadership, aux côtés de joueurs comme  ou , notamment lors de la finale victorieuse au Stade de France face à Caen.

Il signe son premier contrat professionnel avec l'Olympique lyonnais en .

Carrière en sélection
Sélectionnable avec le Sénégal, Mamadou Sarr choisit néanmoins la France pour ses premières sélection en équipe de jeune, récupérant même le brassard de capitaine à plusieurs occasions avec les moins de 17 ans. En , il est sélectionné avec l'équipe de France pour l'Euro des moins de 17 ans 2022 organisé en Israël. Il est titulaire lors de cette compétition continentale, où la France se qualifie pour la finale après une séance de tirs au but face au Portugal, à la suite d'un score nul de 2-2 à la fin du temps réglementaire.

Style de jeu
Formé comme défenseur central, Sarr joue également occasionnellement au poste de milieu défensif au cours de sa jeunesse à Décines.

Palmarès

Références

Liens externes

Footballeur français
Naissance en août 2005
Naissance à Martigues
Joueur de l'Olympique lyonnais

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To enable the feature, you will need to setup a group and assign individual locations/rooms under it. The parents will only see the group location (i.e. toddler room). Running in the background the system knows you have the multiple locations/rooms and automatically handles the load balancing. You can decide if you want the children checked-in sequentially between the rooms, or balanced where children are only assigned to another room when the first one has reached capacity. You can also choose to keep family members together during the assigning process. You determine the capacity caps and decide if you want to continue or stop check-in when capacity is reached.


01 — "Lord of the Rings" – Dutch, FIRST print 1956-1957 with dust jackets!
Click on covers for a larger and full image of the books.
THE chance for the real Tolkien collector: the complete Dutch first printing of "In de Ban van de Ring"("The Lord of the Rings"). Complete with dust jackets.
The Dutch translation (1956 – 1957) was the first translation of the LotR. Only 3.000 copies of the set of three books were printed. And that makes the Dutch version even more rare than the UK version (3.500 copies).
NB: In part 1 Tolkien's initials are J.J.R. instead of J.R.R.
It's pretty hard to get a complete set with dust jacks. Most of them have gone lost in the more than 50 years of their existence.
For their age, the three books are in good conditions. The dust jackets have some little damage (see photo's). What you see is what you get.
The price for this set is EUR 450,00 (plus costs of shipping).
If you want to buy this special set, please contact me. And, if you want more photographs, please let me know.
02: The complete series of History of Middle Earth + Index.
A complete series of the HarperCollins editions (13 books, including the Index).
Price for the complete set of thirteen books is EURO 200,00 plus costs of shipping.
The famous argo recording (A Demetriou production – ZPL 1196/9) of Nicol Williamson reading The Hobbit. Box with four LP's, recorded in 1974 and an eight pages booklet with The synopsis, Recording the hobbit, Tolkien and the hobbit and Nicol Williamson.
The price for this 4Lp-set is EUR 50,00 (plus costs of shipping). If you want to buy this special set, please contact me. And, if you want more photographs, please let me know.


Mammogram images help your doctor spot cancerous changes in your breast. When those changes are found, they can be treated. That means mammograms could help save your life.
Since mammograms play such an important role in a woman's health, it's equally important for women to find mammogram providers they can trust. You can find that, right here in Asheboro, at Randolph Health.
In our Breast Center, we offer two types of mammograms: screening mammograms and diagnostic mammograms.
Mammogram screenings can be used to check for breast cancer in women who have no symptoms of the disease. The results of these tests could help your doctor to find cancers early, when they are a little easier to treat.
Mammogram screening schedules vary from woman to woman, depending on her risk factors. But the American Cancer Society (ACS) recommends that women start talking with their doctors about breast cancer screening by the time they reach age 40. And women ages 45 to 54 should have mammograms every year, the ACS notes.
During a screening mammogram, a qualified technologist will position your breast on the machine and apply compression from the machine. The compression spreads out the breast tissue so that all of the tissue appears in the mammogram. You should expect pressure from the compression, and women who have sensitive breasts may feel discomfort.
When screening mammograms highlight an area of concern, diagnostic mammography is a prudent next step. The goal of diagnostic mammography is to pinpoint the exact size and location of the breast abnormality.
The machines we use for diagnostic mammography are the same as those we use for screening tests, but the approach is different. In diagnostic mammography, additional views of the breast are taken, as opposed to the two views typically taken with screening mammography.
When your diagnostic mammogram is complete, your technician will share the results with you before you head home. If your diagnostic mammogram didn't indicate that you have breast cancer, you might be asked to return for a follow-up mammogram in six months. But if the diagnostic mammogram suggested that your breast changes could be due to cancer, you might be referred for a breast mammogram or a breast biopsy.
Our technicians are compassionate professionals with a gift for clear communication. They'll explain your results in words you can understand, and you'll have a chance to ask all of your questions.
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With 2D digital mammography, we are able to see is a single, flat image. With a 3D mammogram, multiple images of the breast tissue are obtained, which are then combined into one image set.
Studies have shown that 3D mammography reduces callback rates in breast screenings by up to 40% and it also has a 40% increased sensitivity for detecting small invasive cancers when they are still at a size and stage where they can be effectively treated.
The advantage of breast tomosynthesis, particularly in women with dense breast tissue, is that the radiologist can scroll through the dense tissues and find smaller abnormalities that might be hidden on the standard 2D mammogram.
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3D mammography may be particularly helpful for women with dense breast tissue on their mammograms and those with a significantly increased risk of breast cancer (a strong family history of breast cancer and/or ovarian cancer or women with the breast cancer gene). 3D mammography may allow the radiologist (the physician who interprets the mammogram) to detect smaller cancers and ones that would otherwise be hidden in the dense breast tissue.
3D mammography is a giant leap forward in mammogram technology. Screening mammography with x-ray film became widely performed in the U.S. in the 1980s. Digital mammography became available in the early 2000s. Breast tomosynthesis (3D mammography) is the first step forward since digital. It allows the radiologist to be more accurate and fewer women are called back from their screening mammogram.
Do not schedule your mammogram for the week before menstruation, especially if you have a tendency to feel tenderness during this time. Generally, the week after your cycle is the best time to have a mammogram.
Do not wear deodorant, talcum powder or lotion under your arms or on your breasts on the day of the exam, as they can appear on your mammogram and complicate the results.
Before the exam, you will be asked to remove all jewelry and clothing from the waist up. You will be given a gown that opens in the front.
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\section{Introduction}
\label{intro}
When a simple liquid or a binary mixture is confined in a porous
material which has a very low density ($1$--$5\%$) of spatially fixed
impurities, such as in an aerogel, the coexistence region in the phase
diagram is substantially narrowed. This result has been obtained in a
broad class of experimental studies, such as vapor--liquid coexistence
of $^4$He\cite{won90} and Nitrogen\cite{won93}, binary mixtures of
isobutyric acid--water\cite{zhu96} and $^3$He--$^4$He\cite{kim93},
etc.  In all of these studies, the coexistence curve was shown to
change dramatically when the system was confined in a low concentration
silica aerogel.

Recent theoretical efforts have been aimed to understand the above
mentioned behavior. These include mean--field type studies of
the Random Field Ising model\cite{mar91}, a liquid state approach using
the Ornstein--Zernike equations\cite{pit95} and numerical simulations
of a modified version of the Blume--Emery--Griffiths model\cite{fal95}.
A very successful approach was initiated by Donley and Liu\cite{don97}.
In this reference, the authors introduce a free energy functional that
takes into account the interactions that arise from the contact between
the system molecules and the aerogel.  By minimizing this free energy
they obtain a coexistence curve which is in rough qualitative agreement
with the experimental results. Moreover, the authors go beyond this
mean field type approach by using a parametric form of the equation of
state, combined with linear interpolation techniques. Although this new
approach yields better results than the previous mean field treatment,
it is not conclusive since other parametric models may give different
results. Moreover, as the authors point out correctly, it is very
important to study the role of the fluctuations.

In this paper, we go beyond the mean field approach and numerically
determine the phase diagram of the model introduced in \cite{don97}
by using Monte Carlo methods.  In this model, one considers a scalar
field $m({\bf r})$ and writes down a Hamiltonian which includes bulk
terms plus surface terms coming from the interaction with the aerogel:
\vspace{0.2cm}
\begin{eqnarray} \label{hc}
{\cal H} &=& \int_{V} dV \left[ \frac{\theta}{2} m^2({\bf r}) +
\frac{\chi}{4} m^4({\bf r}) \right. \nonumber \\
&& \left. - H m({\bf r}) + \frac 1 2  | \nabla m({\bf r}) |^2 \right]
\nonumber \\
&& + \oint_{S} dS \left[ -H_1 m({\bf r}) +\frac {\cal G} 2 m^2({\bf r}) \right]
\end{eqnarray}
The bulk terms, the first volume integral, is the usual
Ginzburg--Landau model for a scalar concentration field $m({\bf r})$
used in binary phase--transitions. The additional term given by the
surface integral represents the superficial stress\cite{nak83} in the
neighborhood of gel.  Here, the volume $V$ is the available volume for
the fluid and the surface $S$ is the set of fluid points in contact
with the gel.  The parameters for this model are: $\theta$, which is
related to the temperature; $\chi$ which sets the width of the
coexistence curve; the external field (playing the role of the chemical
potential) $H$; the surface field $H_1$; and the surface enhancement
parameter ${\cal G}$.

We have performed Monte--Carlo simulations of the lattice version of
the above Hamiltonian in order to find its phase diagram.  We consider
a three-dimensional simple cubic lattice with periodic boundary
conditions. In this lattice, we simulate the presence of the aerogel by
considering that $N_G$ out of the $L^3$ lattice sites belong to a gel
structure generated in a way to be explained in detail later.  We call
these sites ``gel sites".  In the remaining sites (the ``field sites")
we consider the scalar variable $m_i$ ($i=1,\dots,N=L^3-N_G$)
representing the fluid density field.  The gradient term of eq.(1) is
discretized in the usual way:
\begin{equation}
| \nabla m({\bf r}) |^2 \rightarrow \sum_{\mu=1}^3(m_i - m_{i_\mu} )^2
\end{equation}
where $(i_1,i_2,i_3)$ stands for the set of right--nearest--neighbors
sites to site $i$.  However, the presence of the gel has the effect
that in this expression for the gradient: only those neighbor sites
which are actually field sites contribute to the sum.  Accordingly, we
introduce a set of indexes, $O_{i_\mu}$ defined to be equal to 1, when
the site $i_\mu$ is a field site, or 0, when the site $i_\mu$ is a gel
site. The gradient term becomes then:
\begin{equation}
| \nabla m({\bf r}) |^2 \rightarrow \sum_{\mu=1}^3 O_{i_\mu}(m_i - m_{i_\mu} )^2
\end{equation}
For the sake of clarity in notation we have ordered the $N$ field
points such that, from $1$ to $N_B$ we have ``pure bulk" field sites
(i.e. those which are not in contact with the gel) and from $N_B+1$ to
$N$ we have $N_S$ ``surface" field sites, (i.e. those in contact with
the gel, $N_S=N-N_B$). With this convection in mind, the lattice
version of the Hamiltonian (eq.(1)) can be written as:
\vspace{0.2cm}
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{hl}
{\cal H} &=& \sum_{i=1}^{N} \left[t m_i^2 + u m_i^4 - h m_i \right. \nonumber \\
&& +\left. \frac 1 2 \sum_{\mu=1}^{3} O_{i_\mu} ( m_i - m_{i_\mu} )^2
\right] \nonumber \\
&& +\sum_{i=N_B+1}^{N} \left[ -h_1 m_i +g m_i^2 \right]
\end{eqnarray}

\begin{figure}[t]
\vspace*{6.5cm}
\special{psfile=fig1.eps
hscale=50 vscale=50}
\caption{\label{fig1}
Three dimensional gel structure with a concentration of $4\%$,
generated by a realization of the DLCA process, in a lattice with $L=32$
and periodic boundary conditions.}
\end{figure}

Where, $t$, $u$, $h$, $h_1$ and $g$ are parameters obtained by suitable
rescaling of the continuum values $\theta$, $\chi$, $H$, $H_1$, ${\cal G}$,
respectively.  The gel sites in this lattice form a periodic fractal
structure generated by a diffusion--limited--cluster--aggregation
(DLCA) process\cite{mea83,kol83}, which mimics the aggregation process
that form silica gels.  The algorithm proceeds as follows\cite{has94}:

Let us consider the starting configuration of the gel as a collection of
aggregates (clusters) containing one particle
each, the total number of particles
is $N_G$. At a later time, one obtains a
collection of $N_a$ aggregates, the $i$-th aggregate containing $n_i$ gel
particles, so that
\begin{equation}
\sum_{i=1}^{N_a} n_i = N_G
\end{equation}
The aggregates evolve in the following way:
an aggregate $i$ is chosen at random according to a probability $p_{n_i}$
which depends on the number of particles $n_i$ that it contains, given by
\begin{equation}
p_{n_i}= \frac {n_i^{\alpha}} {\sum_i n_i^{\alpha}}
\end{equation}
with $\alpha=-0.55$.
Then a space direction is chosen at random among the six possible
directions and the cluster is moved by one lattice step in that
direction (we use periodic boundary conditions). If the cluster does
not collide with any other cluster the algorithm continues by choosing
again another cluster at random and moving it. If instead a collision
occurs, the two colliding clusters merge into a new cluster formed by
sticking together the colliding clusters. The process is repeated until
a single cluster remains in the system.  The resulting fractal
dimension of the clusters is $D_F=1.9\pm 0.1$ which is close to the
expected value $D_F=1/\alpha\approx  1.78$.  In Fig.(\ref{fig1}), we
can see a picture of a fractal gel structure obtained using this DLCA
process.

\section{The method}
We use the average value of the field as the order parameter
$\langle M \rangle$:
\begin{equation}
\langle M \rangle =\left\langle \frac{1}{N} \sum_{i=1}^{N} m_i\right\rangle
\end{equation}

\begin{figure*}[t]
\vspace{7.5cm}
\special{psfile=fig2.eps hscale=100 vscale=75 voffset=-30}
\caption{\label{fig2}
Hysteresis loops, $\langle M \rangle$ versus $h$, for two cases: The gel
case ($\diamond$) with a concentration of $c=4\%$ and the no gel case ($+$),
both for a parameter value $t=-1.26$.
The two vertical lines show the actual value
$h$ where the transition take place, in each case, $h=-0.18$ in
the gel case, and $h=0$ in the no gel case. Note the presence of
little steps in the lower branch in the gel hysteresis loop.
}
\end{figure*}

where, for fixed gel structure, averages are performed with respect to
the distribution ${\rm e}^{-{\cal H}}$. For a given gel structure representative
configurations are obtained by the use of the Monte--Carlo method applied
to the lattice Hamiltonian (\ref{hl}). We have used the simple Metropolis
algorithm: a field value $m_i$ is proposed to change to a new
value $m_i'$ chosen randomly from a uniform distribution in $(m_i-\delta,
m_i+\delta)$ for given $\delta$. The new value $m_i'$ is accepted with a
probability given by $\min[1,{\rm e}^{-\Delta{\cal H}}]$, with $\Delta{\cal H}= {\cal H}'-{\cal H}$
is the change in the Hamiltonian implied by the proposed change.
The order parameter $\langle M \rangle$ is computed as an average over
different field configurations. An additional average has been performed with
respect to 10 different gel structures.

To find the phase diagram, i.e.
the dependence on the ``temperature" $t$ of
the order parameter $\langle M \rangle$, we take
fixed values for the system parameters $u$, $g$ and $h_1$,
and vary the ``temperature" $t$. For each value of the
temperature $t$ we compute the hysteresis loop by using the Monte--Carlo
method varying
the external field $h$ from $+h^0$ to $-h^0$ and vice-versa.
We first start at a sufficiently high value for $h^0$ (see later)
and compute $\langle M \rangle^0$. Next, by keeping the
same final configuration for the density field,
the external field is lowered
by an amount $\Delta^0$ to $h^1=h^0-\Delta^0$ and compute the
corresponding value for the order parameter $\langle M \rangle^1$.
Then the field is changed to $h^2=h^1-\Delta^1$ and
so on until we arrive at $-h^0$. The process is reversed by
increasing in a similar way the external field
to reach again $+h^0$.

In order to determine accurately the hysteresis loop,
we do not take a constant value for $\Delta^i$ but we take:
\begin{equation}
\Delta^i=\Delta^0 \frac {\Delta^{i-1}}
{\sqrt{(h^i-h^{i-1})^2+(\langle M \rangle^i-\langle M \rangle^{i-1})^2
\alpha^2}}
\end{equation}
where $\alpha$ is an additional scale control parameter.
This means that we control the length along the
hysteresis curve allowing us to have smooth hysteresis curves.
Two typical results for the hysteresis loops are shown in Fig.(\ref{fig2})
for the cases of no gel and a gel filling 4\% of the lattice points.
In the no--gel case, the hysteresis loop is symmetrical around $h=0$ and
one can read directly the equilibrium values for $\pm \langle M \rangle$ by
taking the values at $h=0$. When the gel is present, we determine the
equilibrium values for $\langle M \rangle$ by demanding that the
Gibbs free energy in the two phases is equal.
The Gibbs free energy can be obtained by integration of the general
relation\cite{hua87}:
\begin{equation}
\langle M \rangle=-\frac {\partial G}{\partial h}
\end{equation}
By integrating along the upper curve of the hysteresis loop we obtain:
\begin{equation}\label{gfe}
G^{(1)}(h)=G(h^0)-\int_{h^0}^h \langle M \rangle dh
\end{equation}
whereas from the lower part of the hysteresis loop:
\begin{equation}\label{gfei}
G^{(2)}(h)=G(-h^0)-\int_{-h^0}^h \langle M \rangle dh
\end{equation}

The equilibrium values for $\langle M \rangle$ are read from the
hysteresis loop at the value of the external field $h$ such that
$G^{(1)}(h)=G^{(2)}(h)$. In order to compute those values for the free
energy, according to (\ref{gfe}) and (\ref{gfei}) we need to know
the values of $G(h^0)$ and $G(-h^0)$. For this, we use a sufficiently
large value for $h^0$.
For such a large external field, the mean
field is a good approximation, in such a way that the Gibbs free--energy
can be replaced by just the internal energy ${\cal H}$. So
we take $G(\pm h^0) \approx {\cal H}(\pm h^0)$. We have taken $h^0=10$.
In order to check the validity of mean field for this value of $h^0$ we
have compared the resulting average $\langle M \rangle^0$ obtained in
the simulation with the mean field value obtained from minimizing the
Hamiltonian ${\cal H}$ for the same value for $h^0$. Both results agree
within 1\%.

In Fig.(\ref{fig3}) we plot the results of the numerical integrations
(\ref{gfe}) and (\ref{gfei}) both for the no-gel case and for one gel
configuration of porosity 96\% for a value of the parameter
$t=-1.26$. As expected, in the no gel case, $G^{(1)}(h)$ and $G^{(2)}(h)$
coincide for $h=0$. In the gel case, we read from this curve the
corresponding value for $h\approx -0.18$. Using this value, we
obtain from the upper and lower curves of the hysteresis loops,
see Fig.(\ref{fig2}), the corresponding values for $\langle M \rangle$.

We have found that this method can be used efficiently
far enough from the critical point. Near the critical point, the numerical
errors produce a large uncertainty in the numerical integrations and it is
difficult to accurately determine the required value of the external field.
In those cases, we have taken simply an average of the lower and upper branches
of the hysteresis loop as the values for $\langle M \rangle$.
For temperatures above the critical one, there is no hysteresis loop.

\begin{figure*}[t]
\vspace{7.5cm}
\special{psfile=fig3.eps hscale=100 vscale=75 voffset=-30}
\caption{\label{fig3}
The Gibbs free--energy $G(h)$ versus $h$ obtained by integration, Eqs.
(\ref{gfe},\ref{gfei}), from the hysteresis curves in Fig.(\ref{fig2}), in the
gel case ($\diamond$) and the no gel case ($+$). From these curves we deduce the
necessary value for the external field $h$, where  the first-order
transition takes place.
}
\end{figure*}

\section{Phase Diagram}
We present in this section the phase diagram as a function of the parameter
$t$ for three different cases: (i) the no--gel situation,
(ii) a gel case with a porosity of 88\% and (iii) a gel case with a porosity
of 96\%.
\begin{figure*}[t]
\vspace{7.5cm}
\special{psfile=fig4.eps hscale=100 vscale=75 voffset=-30}
\caption{\label{fig4}
Phase diagrams, in the gel ($\diamond$), $c=12\%$, and no gel
(continuous line) cases.
}
\end{figure*}
We use in all the cases a lattice with $L^3=32^3$ sites and
the common Hamiltonian parameter values
$u=0.5$, $h_1=4$ and $g=1$. For the factors controlling the step size
for the variation of the external field we take
$\alpha=3$, $\Delta^0=0.05$.
The initial values for  the hysteresis loop is $h^0=10$.
In the gel cases, we have taken averages with respect to 10 gel structures.
By following the method described in the previous
section, we obtain for each temperature two values for the
order parameter $\langle M \rangle$. These are plotted in Fig.(\ref{fig4})
and Fig.(\ref{fig5}) for a porosity of 88\% and 96\%, respectively.
In these figures, we can see clearly
the narrowing of the coexistence region when
the gel is present. For smaller porosity (larger fraction of the gel)
the narrowing is more pronounced as observed in the experiments and
in accordance with the results of mean field theory.
Although, as mentioned at the end of the previous section, numerical
errors become large near the critical point, we conclude from the
figures that
the critical temperature is lowered when the gel is present. Again, the
reduction in the critical temperature is larger for smaller porosity.
\begin{figure*}[b]
\vspace{7.5cm}
\special{psfile=fig5.eps hscale=100 vscale=75 voffset=-30}
\caption{\label{fig5}
Phase diagrams, in the gel ($\diamond$), $c=4\%$, and no gel (continuous line) cases.
Note in the gel case that we have included some points ($+$), corresponding to
the steps found in the hysteresis loops.
}
\end{figure*}
However, we note that in the simulations where the gel is present, we
have found some steps in the lower curve of the hysteresis loop, as we
can see for instance in Fig.(\ref{fig2}), which could be interpreted as
signaling a second transition.  We have plotted in the phase diagram
additional points corresponding to the steps in the hysteresis loops.
The location of those points depends strongly on the particular
realization of the DLCA process to generate the fractal gel structure.
This shows up in the large error bars for these points in the
Fig.(\ref{fig5}).

The phase diagram obtained in this paper is qualitatively similar to
that observed experimentally\cite{won90}:  the coexistence region in
presence of gel is narrowed and shifted  with respect to the non--gel
situation.  There are marks of a second transition which also show up
in the mean field studies of reference (\cite{don97}) and also in other
simulations of the Lennard--Jones fluid\cite{pag96}, although it has
not been reported in experimental studies.

\acknowledgements
We wish to thank T. Sintes for several discussions about
DLCA methods. A.C. thanks Andrea Liu for many useful discussions and for
sharing unpublished results with us.

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Originally Posted by alan
We do of course know that many but not all Roman towns and villas were being abandoned or reduced to semi-rural status by the 400s. But they may still have remained in the general area of high Romanisation until the Anglo-Saxons made them have to chose to be overlorded or flee west. The Romanised area is essentially lowland England. A starting point is to look at where Latinate Romano-Britains were located just before the Anglo-Saxons started to conquer them
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...wns.villas.jpg
That is the macro picture. However, it may have been even more a case of pockets of people hanging on to Roman ways, I recently read about one such group just on and beyond the western border of Wiltshire where there are a lot of Romano-British sub/post Roman inscriptions in a small area. That might be the kind of way pockets survived.
And keep in mind there were 0 Roman samples in this A-S study. Like Alan and others said, it's extremely difficult to accept that after 200 years of La Tene (450-200 BC), 200 years of Belgae (~200 BC–43 AD), and 400 years of Romans (43-410 AD) there is no detectable genetic legacy. I can't accept that.
It's like going to a 19th century graveyard in in the Old West e.g. Dodge City, Kansas or Tombstone, Arizona and finding no evidence for Native Americans existing during this period.
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35% English/14% Welsh/15% Scot/11% Ulster Scot/5% Irish
14% German/3% Scandi-Finn/2% French & Dutch/1% India
Be more concerned about seeking the truth than winning an argument.
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Originally Posted by jadegreg
English Migrants from the late 19th Century onwards, particularly if testers were from Aberdeen itself.......that influx would have avoided the 'cut-off' criteria for inclusion in the PoBI study. Wasn't there a large Flemish and Dutch presence in Aberdeen?
I remember reading that there was a kind of plantation of English people in lowland Aberdeenshire in the later Medieval era which left a major trace - the local 'Doric' Scots dialect has links to Yorkshire (I think) dialect. Aberdeenshire had until then been a late lowland bastion of Gaelic. So the genetics of rural aberdeenshire were likely radically changed towards the end of the Medieval era. There had of course previously been 'norman' land owners but they seem to have had little impact on the language of the ordinary people.
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the most roman elements would have largely cremated (as of course did some Celts in SE England) until the late roman era when inhumation re-emerges as the norm. Nevertheless, you would think that the French iron age signal would appear at least in some localities in late roman and sub roman non cremated burials of latinate britons. I strongly suspect that though urban life had badly declined by 400AD they would still have remained in the locality as concentrations of latinate Britons. If you read St. Patrick's confession of soon after it reads like a fully functioning Roman latinate society. Patrick was clearly captured from somewhere that was fully romanised, not Scotland and not likely Wales IMO. I tend to think he was captured from either north Somerset/Gloucestershire. It is likely that prior to Anglo-Saxons perhaps the whole villa zone was to an extent latinate and especially the area around the old civitas and colonia (where hotspots of very romanised populations might be expected). https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...wns.villas.jpg
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Originally Posted by MitchellSince1893
It's like going to a 19th century graveyard in in the Old West e.g. Dodge City, Kansas on Tombstone, Arizona and finding no evidence for Native Americans existing during this period.
Well, we haven't seen a PCA of all the samples from the Patterson paper, so said genetic information may be hiding in there. From my limited grasp of the G25 graphs (North & NW Europe), it would suggest that there is a subtle 'continental shift' from MIA to LIA, but I'm probably wrong......
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Amazing how little the later Celtic zones of Wales, Cornwall and Devon being affected by the Roman influx. It almost looks like if the Romano-British were either easier prey or did adapt and assimilate more willingly to the Anglo-Saxons, or probably both. These regions were largely free from intensified Roman influence:
Generally more tribal and clanish people resisted both Germanics and Slavs better - like in the Balkans too, the Romance population largely disappeared, but Vlachs and Albanians did much better. Probably something similar happened in Britain. The more centralised and culturally advanced a people is, the harder they can reorganise themselves after a collapse, because they need to take several steps back to achieve an effective lower level organisation.
Most Romans didn't just play urbanites one day, just to fall back being mountain shepherds which defended their clans a week later...
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Actually looking at the modern map of french IA in Britain, you can see, despite several important counties being unmapped, that there is a general correlation between the most Romanised areas and Higher French IA. Whether that correlation equals causation is another matter because that is essentially lowland zone England - the same area the A-S had most impact. History repeating itself simply because it was the most favourable land and climate.
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Indeed, the same area being more intensively, primarily settled by
- Urnfielders
- Hallstatt settlers
- La Tene Celts
- Romans
- Anglo-Saxons
- Normans
- Many continental later migrants
And many of those could have brought a roughly similar, more continental ancestral component, with Anglo-Saxons sticking out the most. Even the Danelaw affected the Northern part of this English landscape.
Oftentimes such kind of overlapping settlement rather causes the earlier layer being greatly reduced. I woulnd't go as far as to equate the Eastern, Tisza Puszta region of Pannonia, Hungary, with that part of England, but still: Generally speaking, it wasn't always good to live in the most favourable hotspots, because the next invaders wanted to sit in the same place. Whereas if living behind three forests, you might have had a harder life usually, but when invaders came, your chances of being largely left alone were definitely better.
That's also what we see in parts of Ireland. "The most Irish" are not necessarily the best parts of the country to live in. This could mean, just could, we have not the evidence, that a lot of the preceding layers being simply swallowed by the newcomers.
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Originally Posted by JonikW
I think the paper will shed more light of one kind or another in the next few weeks. While Gretzinger seemed to say the French input was post Anglo-Saxon it's interesting that Sayer, who also worked on the paper, felt it came with the Franks. As always, we've got a lot of exciting stuff to discuss ahead.
OK, I think I've got to the bottom of the IA French conundrum now: how Gretzinger's view that the French IA signal inexplicably diffused through England AFTER the Anglo-Saxon period can be reconciled with Sayer's view that it arrived WITH the Franks (the puzzle, at least as far as I was concerned, was that both men worked on the same paper).
I've just been looking at a map that I'd overlooked because I'd thought it simply pinpointed the location of the English sites mentioned in one of the charts that I posted earlier, which had included the locations of samples on the continent. I won't post the actual image now because I'm extremely keen to stick within fair usage and I've shared several already. My sincere apologies for overlooking it; in my defence I had a pretty mad weekend…
As I understand it, the map shows samples from nine of the studied sites where there are associated Frankish artefacts (distribution of Frankish finds is included as a faded tone over the top of the map). These sites broadly span the studied area of England apart from the outliers in Cornwall (a shame because I'd like to see those in particular here). Basically it shows that the green IA French signal is significant in some of the southern Anglo-Saxon sites studied (sites south of the Thames).
In particular that's the case for Rookery Hill (where the green component looks not much under 50 percent of the total ancestry), then Apple Down, Eastry, Buckland and to a lesser extent Worth Matravers, a site in Dorset that also has red CNE but at a slightly lower level than the green (at Apple Down, Eastry and Buckland, red is the biggest single component and is well over 50 percent at Buckland). The French component is even found at Hatherdene Close, Cambridgeshire, at a low level (somewhere around 5 percent from what I can see from the tiny pie charts within the map), but it appears to be absent at Polhill in Kent, RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, Ely in Cambs, Oakington in Cambs, and West Heslerton in North Yorkshire.
Apple Down (just over a quarter French ancestry as far as I can see) is arguably in an area well known for Frankish objects, as are Buckland and Eastry, although those artefacts also spread through some of the areas of highest CNE ancestry on the map. Worth Matravers - in Dorset, so as might be expected - has the most blue WBI British ancestry (looks about 75 percent to me) but WBI is also pretty significant at many other sites including Eastry (on average it's about a quarter of total ancestry for those other sites). WBI is still present but at equally low levels at two of the sites with the most CNE, Lakenheath and Polhill (both look to be in the 5 percent WBI range to me).
So in short, Gretzinger must be specifically interested in the issue of why the French signal only reached today's elevated levels in England above the Thames after the Anglo-Saxon period (it was present in the studied Anglo-Saxon sites south of the Thames, as I've said). That must be what he hopes to get to the bottom of with Reich.
Sayer, on the other hand, must be looking at the French component they've identified in the southern Anglo-Saxon sites (relatively close geographically to Francia and also well known for some of the Frankish finds) and concluding that it must have arrived with the Franks and only gradually diffused northwards from those areas in later centuries (at last reaching as high as 43 percent in today's East Anglia).
So from all that, I'd say that in favour of the Frankish theory might be the fact that all the more northerly sites exhibit the WBI component from the native Britons; but while the southern sites have WBI too, they have French IA that the northerly sites lack. If that IA French was actually pre-Anglo-Saxon and didn't arrive with the Adventus Saxonum, we might logically expect to find it alongside the WBI component further north too.
But for fans of the Gaulish theory here, we'd arguably expect the impact of those IA Gaulish migrations to be bigger in the south anyway (although personally I'd expect it to at least show up at low levels in the northern samples here if it really was the source of the green component).
Who knows; perhaps we'll end up with a compromise model when the work's completed, with the French IA component being assessed as having arrived at many places and many times, with the Gauls, the Franks and the later Medieval and post-Medieval French all having contributed a share.
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That's true and I think you are right. The highland zone of britain (including Dumnonia) was only extent ku superficially Romanised. Roads, military aside. it's striking that the people Glidas criticised as being barbaric warlords all come from the littlr Romanised west, despite the fact that the British zone at the time he wrote stretched much further east into the middle of southern England (a much more Romanised area). His admiration of Ambrosius Aurelius as last of the Romans shoes that he was somewhat biased towards the Romanised latinate section of the population. The most likely associations point to him being active in mid south England around Wiltshire and Gildas says that his parents had been been killed in the Anglo-Saxon onslaught which points even further east given the date he wrote in.
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UNITED KINGDOM: FORMER TAKE THAT SINGER GARY BARLOW SPEAKS ABOUT HIS NEW SINGLE 'LOVE WON'T WAIT'
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Title: UNITED KINGDOM: FORMER TAKE THAT SINGER GARY BARLOW SPEAKS ABOUT HIS NEW SINGLE 'LOVE WON'T WAIT'
Summary: LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM (APRIL 28, 1997) (RTV - AVAILABLE ALL) GARY BARLOW (SOUNDBITE ENGLISH ) SAYING "IT CAME ABOUT IN ABOUT OCTOBER LAST YEAR, I GOT A CALL FROM MY AMERICAN RECORD COMPANY AND THEY SAID I'VE GOT A SONG, I WANT TO PLAY IT TO YOU, SO I WAS LISTENING, "LOVE WON'T WAIT", I LIKE THIS, I COULD DEFINITELY DO A GOOD JOB OF THIS, SO I SAID YES, THAT'S GOOD NEWS. AND THEY SAID THE GOOD NEWS GETS BETTER, IT'S WRITTEN BY MADONNA .... I SAID SO RIGHT, I'LL GET GOING NOW THEN, I'LL GET STARTED NOW". BARLOW (SOUNDBITE ENGLISH ) SAYING "THE VIDEO, I WANTED TO GET... THE THEME FOR THE ALBUM IS... THE ALBUM'S CALLED OPEN ROAD. THE THEME FOR IT IS NATURAL SETTINGS, BECAUSE THE MUSIC'S QUITE, THERE'S A LOT OF ACOUSTIC PLAYING ON THE ALBUM, GUITAR AND PIANO AND DRUMS, I WANTED TO GET QUITE A NATURAL FEEL. SO MOST OF THE VISUALS FOR THE ALBUM SLEEVE IS NATURAL SETTINGS, OPEN SKIES AND OCEAN VIEWS AND THINGS LIKE THAT, SO I WANTED TO GET IN SOME WAY THE SHOT OF THE OPEN ROAD. WE FOUND THIS AMAZING ROAD IN FRANCE, IT JUST GOES OFF INTO INFINITY, IT'S AMAZING
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Story Text: Former Take That singer-songwriter Gary Barlow has followed up his chart-topping debut solo single "Forever Love" with a second single. An album is due out on May 26th.
Whilst Barlow penned a string of hits for Take That, the new single, "Love Won't Wait", is not his own composition but the work of another pop superstar - Madonna herself.
"It came about in October last year," Barlow told Reuters. "I got a call from my American record company and they said I've got a song, I want to play it to you". Barlow listened to the song over the telephone, liked it instantly and agreed that he wanted to record it. Only then was the author's identity revealed.
The album, "Open Road" embraces different musical styles ranging from acoustic tracks and ballads to uptempo numbers.
But both his music and his future live show represent a move away from Barlow's work with Take That to a stripped-down approach where the songs hold centre stage.
Take That were famous for their elaborate costumes, lighting and dance routines, which used to whip their young female fans into a frenzy.
"How can I compete with a show like that," Barlow said, "I want to strip it back to the bare essentials, not to save money but to illustrate the kind of artist I am now".
Barlow - who is only 26 years old - has already scaled the heights of a musical career that began ten years ago.
He won a prestigious Ivor Novello award for his song "Pray" in 1994 and was dubbed "Songwriter of the Year" - an honour he shares with the likes of Elton John, George Michael and Eric Clapton.
He has been nominated once again this year in four different categories for his song "Back for Good", which took Take That to number one in the British charts and notched up a top-ten entry in the United States.
Take That disbanded in a blaze of publicity over a year ago after band member Robbie Williams rebelled against the group's clean-cut image and hopped on stage at an Oasis concert drinking champagne from the bottle.
Both Williams and Mark Owen have launched their own solo careers - Williams' second single reached number two in the British charts when it came out two weeks ago.
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Everything You Need to Know About Universal Shopping Carts
People have been tossing around the phrase "universal shopping cart" for a few years now. Here's how it's playing out today.
In the beginning, there was e-commerce. Then, there were online shopping aggregators — "discovery" apps and sites that brought together dozens of sellers in one place. As the space got more and more crowded, some of those startups began adding "universal shopping carts" to differentiate their offerings from the pack.
What are universal shopping carts?
The concept behind a universal shopping cart is pretty simple: It allows customers to browse products on a site like Lyst or an app like Keep, add products from multiple merchants (say, Saks Fifth Avenue and Net-a-Porter) in one cart, and check out in one fell swoop. From a technical standpoint, that means syncing up with all those retailers' inventory systems to make sure that the item in question is still available in the right size and color at any given point — all while making transactions easy and secure. That's a tall order, but the hope is that if a startup nails it, they'll become a shopper's go-to destination and reap the benefits of taking a cut of every sale. Plus, a universal cart could, in theory, reduce the risk of basket abandonment, since shoppers aren't hopping from one site to the next to make their purchases.
Who's doing them?
Last August, the e-commerce aggregator Lyst launched its universal shopping cart, a feature it had been working on developing for a long time before its release. Lyst signs a contract with merchant partners, which gives it access to their inventory in real time; the startup's technology does all the legwork from there, so it's no extra burden on the seller. It does mean that Lyst's "universality" is only as large as the roster of e-commerce companies it's working with through this feature — at present, that's more than 300,000 multi-brand and mono-brand sites, according to founder and CEO Chris Morton. Sure, not quite universal, but pretty good.
Note that the feature isn't exactly obvious to users as they're browsing products on Lyst. Items are denoted as "Express Checkout," meaning shoppers can purchase them directly through Lyst rather than through a third-party site. When you head to checkout, Lyst shows what products are coming from what retailers, and what their various shipping and returns policies are — but despite their different origins, all of the products can all be purchased at the same time.
The social shopping app Keep, meanwhile, launched its own "OneCart" feature in July. This one, which the company has been aggressively marketing as "truly" universal, gives customers the ability to shop anywhere on the web and put products into one basket. Users hit a "web" button to open up a browser within the app; as they look through products, "Keep" and "Buy" buttons hover over the screen. Buying sends the shopper to checkout immediately, while "keeping" an item allows the user to add it to one of his or her wishlists within the app. When the shopper's ready, she can go back and check out all the products she's found. We've tested it out, and the whole process is pretty smooth.
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A young startup called Cosmic Cart has also been tackling the universal shopping cart, earning it an investment from Target along the way. Cosmic Cart's differentiating factor is its focus on appealing to publishers along with consumers: Rather than using affiliate links, which risk readers losing interest in the content along the way, publishers can use a tool to quickly tag products that are available for sale with a purchasing widget. Shoppers sign up with Cosmic Cart, and when they find products they like, they can add it to their shopping cart, which appears as a sidebar. Checkout takes place right on the publisher's page.
And publishers certainly are interested: Last February, Glamour hopped on board the universal shopping train with its Shop Glamour app powered by the e-commerce site AHAlife.
How successful have they been?
Of course, the real measurement of how well universal shopping carts work is how effectively they boost conversion rates — are people buying more items in one go? Are they abandoning carts less? It's not entirely clear. Lyst has certainly built its partnerships to an impressive volume, and Morton says they're growing that list at a clip of about two to three new partners per week. Recently the team signed Lane Crawford, China's biggest department store, so clearly retailers are open to testing it out; if Lyst makes things as easy for them as it claims to, why not?
Morton declined to comment on exact sales figures or conversion rates, noting that universal checkout does seem to be showing higher conversion rates, in some cases five times better. It's unclear how many cases that is, but there we have it. Cosmic Cart and Keep's own products are a bit young to be able to tell definitively how much they improve sales, if at all.
So what's the future?
It's a little early to tell. The tricky thing about universal shopping carts is that they deprive retailers of creating their own branded shopping experience, which may not appeal to those most protective of their image. For others, the promise of increased conversion rates and the potential to appeal to consumers looking for easy shopping solutions may be enough to outweigh that downside.
Investors, meanwhile, seem to be on the side of the universal shopping carts. Just this month, the startup Two Tap raised a $2.7 million seed round from an impressive list of investors including Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, SV Angel and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. Two Tap stores users' credit card and shipping information, allowing them to add products to a single cart across affiliate retailers. According to TechCrunch, the startup reports that it can increase conversion rates on mobile by anywhere from 6 to 10x, good news for the mobile commerce space that's heating up. If that's true, it's definitely worth keeping this kind of product on your radar.
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Tricia (165): I kept hearing how amazing the Renoun Skis were, but there wasn't a good size and flex for me so I had to wait nearly a year to get on them. Fortunately, the Z-90 arrived in a 165 length. It is a gorgeous ski. The white and gold limited edition graphics are classic and rich-looking; the build quality lives up to its appearance.This really is a premium ski in every way.
I skied the Z-90 Limited for a full day at Northstar before heading into work. I skied sweet corduroy first thing in the morning, then got into some bumps, and later dealt with scraped-off icy stuff. The one thing that stood out was that the more I put into them, the more they gave back.
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Insider tip: Trust the skis, they won't let you down.
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The 174 and 180 lengths will give most stronger, heavier skiers the best ride. The shorter lengths, especially the 157, may still be a bit strong for lighter skiers. They are a bit stiff over a very short length. But, for a bigger, stronger person, the 157s are an absolute blast on groomers! These skis are not inexpensive, but if you're looking at the likes of Kästle or Stöckli, Renoun should be on your short list, too.
Who is it for? The advanced intermediate to expert skier who wants a phenomenal ride and has the money to back it up.
Who is it not for? Um, let me think, no, can't think of anyone who shouldn't at least give these a try.
Intermediate tip: If you have the opportunity to get one ski that will up your game, this may be it.
Philpug: Where the earlier Endurance 98 released easily out of a turn and had to be held on firmer snow, V3.0 holds much better on hard snow and windpack; with the tail following the tip smoothly, it can be released at will and do what the previous versions could yet not be as susceptible to wheelieing out of a turn. The Endurance 98 V3.0 could be that Western one-ski quiver that many believe the Z-90 is for the East.
What about HDT? Like any technology, the more transparent it is, the better it is doing its job. Yes, due to Renoun's Hyper Damping Technology, the Endurance 98 V3.0 is one of the smoothest skis in the category. See the full review HERE.
Who is it for? Chargers (this ski will run); those who want a 98-ish one-ski quiver.
Who is it not for? Like most premium boutique skis, the price of entry is high.
Other skis in class: DPS Alchemist Cassiar 94, Kästle FX95 HP, Kästle MX99, Stöckli Stormrider 97.
Philpug: The Citadel 106 is the ski that Cyrus has wanted to build since the moment he decided that he wanted to build skis. I will stop the accolades before I mutter the words that the Citadel is the compilation of a lifelong endeavor or the pinnacle of Cyrus's work...because no one in their mid-20s has completed a lifelong endeavor. The Citadel is Cyrus's technological tour de force, it has the basis of an aspen core, Titanal in key structural areas on the ski, carbon integrated and double the HDT than any of Renoun's other models. This sounds cool and all, but what does it all mean -- or do?
Light and damp is one of the toughest balances to achieve in ski design, but with Renoun's HDT it is much more achievable. The Citadel has everything you would expect from a ski with its price tag: it feels light but doesn't ski light, it is stable yet nimble. In mixed conditions where most other carbon-based skis get jostled around, the HDT keeps the Citadel calm on the snow and completely connected without the nervousness that carbon can have or neutered like an overly damp slug. Here is the announcement and long-term discussion of the Citadel.
Who is it for? Those with deep pockets. These are not cheap but they are well worth it.
Who is it not for? Lesser skiers could get taken for a ride; you need to bring your A-game.
Insider tip: Play with mount points, it is definitely back from where the mark says.


The perfect start for the Ohio Bobcats came to an end Saturday at The Convo, falling to the visiting Eastern Carolina Pirates by a 76-68 final.
Ohio started the game out fast, going on an 11-0 run to start the game with combined scoring by Lexie Baldwin and Quiera Lampkins. However, Eastern Carolina was able to claw its way back into the game in the first half, even taking a 30-25 lead, which forced an Ohio timeout.
Shae Nelson made a pullup jump shot for ECU with less than a minute remaining in the half to pull them ahead 32-30 at the intermission.
The second half remained a dog fight between each team, as the lead changed four times in the first six minutes of action. With Ohio leading 49-48 with just under 10 minutes to go in the game, it was once again Nelson who delivered, hitting three consecutive 3-pointers to propel the Pirates to an eight-point advantage, all in the span of under a minute of play.
Trailing by eight, the Green and White (6-1) were never quite able to recover from their deficit, only shortening the lead to as much as seven for the remainder of the second half.
Kiyanna Black led the way for Ohio scoring 17 points, despite shooting just 4-19 from the floor. Three more Bobcats had double-digit scoring for Ohio despite the loss, as Lexie Baldwin and Kat Yelle each yielded 14 points. Lampkins lead Ohio with seven total rebounds.
Jada Payne led Eastern Carolina (7-2) in scoring, shooting six of 11 from the field and tallying 22 points. However, it was shooting guard Shae Nelson who made the difference in the game with her 9-0 run in the second half.
For Ohio, it will get more than a week off before its next contest, when it plays host to James Madison in The Convo on Dec. 15.


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Milton Kraus (* 26. Juni 1866 in Kokomo, Indiana; † 18. November 1942 in Wabash, Indiana) war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker. Zwischen 1917 und 1923 vertrat er den Bundesstaat Indiana im US-Repräsentantenhaus.

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Milton Kraus besuchte die öffentlichen Schulen seiner Heimat. Nach einem anschließenden Jurastudium an der University of Michigan in Ann Arbor und seiner 1887 erfolgten Zulassung als Rechtsanwalt begann er in der Stadt Peru in diesem Beruf zu arbeiten. Während des Spanisch-Amerikanischen Krieges von 1898 stellte er eine Kompanie aus Kriegsfreiwilligen auf.

Politisch war Kraus Mitglied der Republikanischen Partei. Bei den Kongresswahlen des Jahres 1916 wurde er im elften Wahlbezirk von Indiana in das US-Repräsentantenhaus in Washington, D.C. gewählt, wo er am 4. März 1917 die Nachfolge des Demokraten George W. Rauch antrat. Nach zwei Wiederwahlen konnte er bis zum 3. März 1923 drei Legislaturperioden im Kongress absolvieren. In diese Zeit fiel der Erste Weltkrieg. In den Jahren 1919 und 1920 wurden der 18. und der 19. Verfassungszusatz ratifiziert. Dabei ging es um das Verbot des Handels mit alkoholischen Getränken und die bundesweite Einführung des Frauenwahlrechts.

Im Jahr 1922 unterlag Milton Kraus dem Demokraten Samuel E. Cook. Nach seinem Ausscheiden aus dem US-Repräsentantenhaus arbeitete er im Handwerk. Er starb am 18. November 1942 in Wabash und wurde in Peru beigesetzt.

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