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Every good story has a "surprising twist"
Written by Tom Broad
Everyone loves a great story with a happy ending. In Becky Berry's case, her dream to expand and reopen her beloved Atascocita branch of the Harris County Library is coming true.
The "surprising twist" is that the million-dollar expansion includes a much-needed community room that will carry her name.
Harris County's commissioners unanimously approved naming the Atascocita branch conference room after Berry during their May 11 meeting.
"Becky Berry has been a force of nature by herself to get her Atascocita neighbors engaged in the Atascocita branch," District 2 Commissioner Adrian Garcia said during the meeting. "I move that we name the room she advocated for in her honor. Ms. Berry, congratulations."
The court voted unanimously to name the soon-to-be constructed room the Becky Berry Conference Room.
"I was totally surprised to learn I was even being considered for the honor of having my name on the new meeting room," Berry told The Tribune. "I feel very emotional knowing I am being recognized for something I believe in so strongly and have worked for more than 25 years. Our library serves so many purposes and is so important to the community."
Berry's advocacy for a community room named in her honor caps a 25-year journey in which she first championed simply for a library that Atascocita could call its own.
"Friends of the Atascocita Library (FOAL) first took root in 1986 when a now deceased Atascocita resident and retired educator, Odell Dreyer, envisioned a library to serve the fast-growing Atascocita area," Berry recalled. "FOAL was founded and incorporated in 1991, fundraising began and a groundbreaking was held in 1994 with the library finally opening on May 5, 1996."
Berry and her group spent three years selling engraved bricks for the covered porch walkway, selling children's handprints for the outside library walls, conducting fashion shows, luncheons, book sales, even golf tournaments, so that, by groundbreaking time, they presented a check for $20,000 to the county to purchase books.
Since then, Berry and FOAL have raised $23,000 to purchase computers, $5,000 to install a security camera system plus upkeep and $23,000 to purchase the LED color sign which displays the library's programs and activities.
"Becky Berry has led the effort during COVID to continue the branch's programs both online and curbside," Garcia said. "Since 2007, she has worked consistently to promote the expansion of the facility. We are so grateful to have such an engaged, committed member of our community like Ms. Berry."
District 4 Commissioner Jack Cagle recalled the brief time the Atascocita branch was in his district.
"I spent a pleasant afternoon speaking about Alexander the Great one time," Cagle recalled. "I am delighted to join you in this resolution, Commissioner Garcia."
Berry found out she was on the May 11 agenda when Beth Krippel, the Atascocita Branch manager told her.
"I had no idea she had been advocating for the room name," Berry said. "I watched it twice the next day. It was moving to hear Commissioner Garcia offering such complimentary remarks, and it was nice to see Commissioner Cagle remember the short time we were in Precinct 4 when he spoke at an FOAL meeting."
Krippel, the Atascocita Branch manager, has worked with Berry for 16 years.
"Her support for our mission and goals has never wavered," she said. "That she has given time and resources to the library for 25 years is devotion to a volunteer position that is rarely seen."
With the expansion approval timed during the Branch's 25th anniversary, Krippel detailed Berry's service to the library and explored the procedures to have the new meeting room named in her honor.
The million-dollar expansion was included in the Capital Improvement Program (CIP) approved by Harris County Commissioners Court in their 2020-21 fiscal year budget and comes just in time for the Branch's 25th anniversary.
"With no community center in Atascocita, our library serves multiple purposes — voting booths during elections, space for community meetings and multiple library and community programs," said Berry.
Construction bids are under review with the county. Groundbreaking will occur in late summer with the ribbon cutting occurring in mid-2022.
Even with a community room named in her honor, this is no time for Becky Berry to slow down.
"As soon as the needs have been assessed, FOAL will begin fundraising efforts to provide tables and chairs for the new room. Donations have started to come in and may be designated for 'Meeting Room.' Completion of the expansion will be exciting," she said.
"Friends and neighbors of Ms. Berry, tip your hat to her," Garcia said as he concluded his remarks. "Thank her. Congratulate her. We couldn't have done this without her advocacy."
The library is located on Pinehurst Trail Drive near FM 1960 in Atascocita and is one of 26 branches of the Harris County Public Library.
Most Harris County library branches, including the Atascocita, Kingwood and Octavia Fields branches, have opened for limited hours, hcpl.net.
Checks can be sent to FOAL, 19520 Pinehurst Trail Dr., Humble 77346. Anyone can join FOAL. Tax deductible membership levels range from $5 to $25 and additional donations are always welcome, Berry said. Membership includes a newsletter, postcard reminder of book sales and special events, and opportunities to volunteer for book sales and serve as officers and committee chairs, foal.ws.
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Besides being a proud graduate of The University of Nebraska-Lincoln and, therefore, a Cornhusker, I am retired from Memorial Hermann. I am a correspondent and columnist for Lake Houston's hometown paper, The Tribune, as well as a director of the Lake Houston Redevelopment Corporation, a member of the board of the Humble Area Assistance Ministries, and Volunteer Extraordinaire for the Lake Houston Area Chamber.
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The Vehicular Epic (V.E.) is an open-source vehicle emulator based around intense gameplay, programmed in an epic, unreal style. Players can fully customize their own vehicles/maps and submit them to the game for others to use. There's also multiplayer support, though port-forwarding or a VPN service is required.
Remember to extract the game's folder from its compressed format to your computer before trying to start playing.
Nice game... actually the first playable JavaFX 3D game with actual content.
How was the performance? My system's pretty good, but I fear the game's going to be slow (or fail) on older computers.
I had around 20-40 FPS and some stuttering in the camera flow (the game itself was fluent, only the movement of the camera was strange – is this intentional?).
My computer is pretty old (dual core 2.6 Ghz CPU), but the game ran fine. JavaFX runs well if you have OpenGL 3.0 support (on Linux for my part).
Another strange thing: The menu is a bit slow and the selected entry is flickering?!
I also had a look at your source code because I am considering which graphics engine I am going to use for future projects. I found was a bit messy with methods called "pp" or "pl"
But all in all – well done!
works fine for me, there is a way to exit from a game and go back to menu from ingame ?
Good job. I advise you to use a versioning system (GIT, Subversion) to help developers to follow the changes in your source code. Moreover, packaging it as a Netbeans project is a bad idea to me, Netbeans generates tons of files, why not using a build tool like Gradle, Ant or Maven? Instead of packaging your game as an "executable" JAR, you should rather package it as a complete software with all necessary dependencies, it would be helpful for GNU Linux users as only a few distros (Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu) support OpenJFX (JavaFX) and numerous end users have no JRE installed on their machines. Drive your game easier to install if you want to target non technical end users and not only Java programmers. Good luck.
Nice work, no crashes so far, tough it complained (in the console) about being unable to load sound files from within the jar when simply running it. Otherwise it ran fine, still the selected menu entry is flickering a bit (or rather the border around it), see my previous post.
Is it intentional that there are no textures at all in the game? Also the graphics look a bit pale and dull.
What are your experiences with JavaFX? I think it isn't really suited for games, especially not 3D games. In my next game I'm gonna use either LibGDX or JMonkeyEngine.
Where are some textures, to check for sure? I tested the game on a HD 6450, on which other JavaFX apps run fine with all graphical features. I mean, there are no image textures at all, but all of the shapes are properly colored and lighted. No errors in command line, except those with the music files, but thats my fault as I saw in the readme.
Also, the LOD makes those triangles on the ground appear and disappear all the time… maybe let them fade in and/or set the LOD distance higher?
Nearly all of the track pieces should be textured. Many of the vehicles have textures as well. Also there should be image textures in the game's 'images' folder.
Alright, I've investigated a bit more.
There are actually images in the folder, and I also had a look at the source code. I think that the paths to your images are not working, at least on Linux.
And that seems to be the culprit.
Performance is still good, even on larger maps.
And one last thing: In this "Underwater" map there's weird flickering of the graphics everywhere, no matter if inside the water or not.
Many thanks for the help. For the next build, I've implemented the FileInputStream technique as you said, so hopefully the image loading issue's resolved.
I also changed the audio loading order so on Linux, you can still hear your vehicle, even when multiple vehicles are in a match.
Glad to see you're still working on this!
Though the jump wasn't high enough to go through the ring!
My original F-22 model swapped with a high-quality .FBX version.
My original Desert Humvee model swapped with a high-quality .3DS version.
My original Koenigsegg model swapped with a high-quality Agera.
Adding extra game modes (if they make good gameplay).
Accepting all user-submitted vehicles and maps! If you've built something and it's ready-to-go for V.E., feel free to submit it!
I've already updated some of it for the current build. Hopefully, everything will be renamed by the next build.
Awesome to see that you're so motivated and you're continuing to work on this!
That's amazing! It was provoking brain cancer if I tried to browse your code otherwise.
I can only agree with @Archive .


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The man found the deadly Sunday, a bullet in his head, died in an apartment on rue André Baillon in Forest, said Thursday the Brussels prosecutor. A weapon was found on the scene. No suspects were arrested. An autopsy was performed on Thursday. The police of the zone Brussels South was called by the service 100 Sunday around 12H55 for the evacuation of a sick person. According to the doctor on the spot, this was a purely medical case. The man, a 47-year-old municipal employee, was transferred to the Erasme hospital. In the course of the afternoon the doctors told the police that he had actually been shot. It was in the head. The victim died in brain death on Monday. The Brussels public prosecutor has been informed of the facts. A security perimeter has been placed around the apartment. The scientific laboratory of the federal police and a medical examiner were required. The prosecutor and the investigating judge went on the spot. The investigating judge was initially seized by the charges for murder.
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Pakistan would ensure the Indians remain on the mat by pulling off another win, Pak skipper declared on the eve of the match.
Pakistan would ensure the Indians remain on the mat by pulling off another win in the second ODI in Rawalpindi on Saturday, a confident Inzamam-ul Haq declared on the eve of the match.
The Pakistan skipper said his team was in good form and secure in the fact that it had the mental toughness needed to win games under pressure.
"We are in good form and have the mental toughness needed to handle pressure. That has made the difference," he said.
Inzamam said tomorrow's match was a very important one from Pakistan's point of view as a victory would not only see them go 2-0 up in the five-match series but also put added pressure on the Indians in the remainder of the rubber.
"It is a very important game for us. If we go 2-0 up, then the Indian team would be put under increased pressure and we will have the advantage in the next three matches," the 35-year-old batsman said.
Inzamam said his team had gained confidence in chasing big scores because of the experienced it had gained over the last few years.
"For chasing big scores you need confidence and the boys have become confident after gaining good experience in playing one-day cricket.
"We are playing good cricket at the moment and would continue to do so," he added.
"In one-day cricket, it is difficult to say who is the favourite. The team that plays better on the day wins. But we have gained a lot of confidence after winning the Karachi Test," he said.
Inzamam, however, did not feel that the match here would be another tall-scoring one as was the case at Peshawar when India made 328 and Pakistan were 311 for 7 in 47 overs when the game was called off because of poor light conditions.
"I do not think it will be a tall-scoring game. It is a grafting kind of wicket."
He said the team was making a conscious effort to cut down on the extras it was conceding. "We are trying to cut down on no-balls and wides. Hopefully we will bring them down here," he said.
Pakistan conceded three wides and six no-balls at Peshawar while India's tally was two (both no-balls).
Inzamam also said his bowlers needed to try and restrict the Indians from scoring big again as it was not easy to chase big scores often.
Inzamam came out in full support of youngster Shoaib Malik batting at number three.
"Shoaib has scored 1,090 runs batting at number three. He has been among our most successful batsman in ODIs recently. Anyway one-dayers call for flexibility in the batting order. I myself come in at 4, 5 or 6 depending on the situation. It's our aim to send batsmen at their best batting positions."
The Pakistan captain also said the Powerplays had increased the interest in the game. "It's better to finish it off in the first 20 overs. But definitely the powerplay concept has increased interest," he said.


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The Genome of Your Pet Fish Is Extremely Weird
November 8, 2020 by Buddy Guy in News, Science, Science / Environment | Comments Off on The Genome of Your Pet Fish Is Extremely Weird
Humans have domesticated a large number of animals over their history, some for food, some as companions and protectors. A few species—think animals like rabbits and guinea pigs—have partly shifted between these two categories, currently serving as both food and pets. But one species has left its past as a food source behind entirely. And, in another rarity, it ended up serving not so much as a companion but as a decoration.
This story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for technology news, tech policy analysis, reviews, and more. Ars is owned by WIRED's parent company, Condé Nast.
We're talking goldfish here, and we've now gotten a look at their genome. And it's almost as weird as the fish themselves are.
It's worth stopping for a moment to consider just how weird they are within the realm of domestication. They started out just as slightly colored variants of a carp that is otherwise used entirely for aquaculture. We've completely removed them from the food chain and turned them into pets, but they're not the sort of pets that we interact with like a dog or cat, or even a guinea pig. Largely, they just sit there and look decorative. And in the process of making them even more decorative, we've bred a lot of varieties that are far less functional as fish.
There's also a bit of odd history here, too. While we call them goldfish pretty generically, most of what we have are not the actual golden goldfish. After their domestication in China (and later move from garden ponds to indoor tanks), gold-colored fish ended up reserved for the emperor, so they're still fairly rare. In the meantime, we've bred strains with multiple tails, strains that lack dorsal fins, and more.
That's likely to do some weird stuff to the fish, genetically. But it turns out they were pretty weird to start with.
Even the process of reporting the genome turned out to be kind of odd. It was first reported back in May, when a group described the genome of a goldfish and compared it to its ancestor, the common carp. But the analysis was pretty minimalistic. Then, this week, a huge consortium dropped an analysis of not only a strain of goldfish but 185 different strains. Plus 16 different wild carp genomes for comparison. While the goldfish genome is only 1.8 billion base pairs long (1.8 Gibases), the raw sequence required to do all of this ran out to 4.3 trillion bases. It's an astonishing effort.
But because some other group published the data already, the researchers published it in PNAS using a route that only puts it through informal peer review. There doesn't seem to be anything problematic with the paper that would cause it to fail peer review, but publishers typically want novel results, and this apparently wasn't new enough.
Most animals have two sets of similar chromosomes, one each from their mother and father. In humans, there are 23 chromosomes, and we have two of each, meaning we each carry 46 of them. In both goldfish and the carp they were derived from, there are 25 chromosomes, but each fish carries 100 of them—instead of two copies, they have four, or rather two sets of two. Apparently, the lineage that produced the carp is a hybrid of two closely related lineages (possibly separate but closely related species).
Consequently, unless some copies of the genes have been deleted or disabled by mutation, the fish should have four copies of them. But there are some specific cases where they don't, such as DNA repair genes, where one set of copies has been eliminated. And in a lot of tissues, one or the other set of genes is more active, but there's no obvious and consistent pattern of which of the sets it is. So we're not at the point where we really understand what's happening with the fishes' four sets of genes, but the answer is not likely to be simple.
The fish were only isolated recently and have undergone pretty serious selection for unusual features—just check out the pictures in Wikipedia's list of goldfish strains. Many of the genetic variants underlying these physical traits are likely to be recent and have been selected as the only variant present in the strain. This creates what's called a "selective sweep" in which the variant, and any others that happen to be near it when it arose, are the only ones present in a population.
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Chinatown prequel in the works with Robert Towne And David Fincher
by Sean P. Aune | November 19, 2019November 19, 2019 9:30 am EST
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Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown. Or at least its prequel.
According to Deadline, Netflix has struck a deal with Robert Towne and David Fincher to work up a pilot script for a prequel to 1974's Oscar-winning Chinatown. Towne won an Academy Award for his script to the original, so this is definitely a world he knows and understands.
Reportedly, the prequel will follow a younger version of Jake Gittes – played by Jack Nicholson in the original – in the years before he got involved in the story of the film. The series would reportedly would be set in the earlier part of the 1930s Los Angeles which was a less than a savory time period in the city's history.
Fincher has established himself as an asset to Netflix over the past several years. He was the creator behind House of Cards and he currently oversees Mindhunter for the company. He is already working on Mank, which will tell the story of the battles between Orson Welles and screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz during the production of Citizen Kane.
Fincher may direct the Chinatown pilot should the project move forward.
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Q: What is a good way to maintain/pass state across in "Chain of Responsibility" pattern? For any chaining implementation for puposes like piping (similar to Java servlet filter chain), if I need to, how do I pass context between filters?/steps?
Also, does it violate the design principle because now I am introducing states and coupling the chain steps using states. (One chain step depends on another step that introduces an attribute)
Should I be considering some other pattern to do the needful?

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Sandia Work at the Heart of Next Generation Nuclear Reactor
A team of Sandia National Laboratories researchers working on the reactor at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility is testing materials to make the next generation of fusion reactors, in the quest to develop more carbon-free energy sources.
These magnetic confinement fusion reactors, called tokamaks, use magnetic fields to shape plasma into a donut shape that generates power from nuclear fusion. DIII-D is the largest such facility currently operating in the Department of Energy complex. Tokamaks create high heat and particle fluxes that can cause significant erosion of the reactor wall materials. If these materials contaminate the core plasma, it could make it impossible to bring the reactor to a temperature high enough to start stable, safe fusion.
Jonathan Coburn is one such researcher, part of a team of Sandians that collaborates with DIII-D to test and develop much needed specialized fusion materials for the hot fusion plasma environment.
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"Plasma-material interactions deal with what effects the ions and electrons from the plasma have on a material and vice versa," Coburn explained. "Magnetic confinement fusion devices use very strong magnetic fields to generate and then confine the plasma, and so all of these ions and electrons are interacting and producing fusion energy. Inevitably, you have exhaust from the plasma that ends up impacting the walls of your vessel."
The different plasma-facing components of such a reactor are made of materials like tungsten, carbon and beryllium, which interact differently when irradiated by ions and electrons.
Jonathan and the team perform physical and computational experiments to test material erosion, macroscopic damage, gas retention, and recrystallization for tungsten samples after those high-energy interactions. Not only must the team figure out how the materials are damaged by the fusion environment, it must also understand how the energetic byproducts of these plasma interactions are retained in the exposed material.
Now, all of this work to make fusion power generation safer and more reliable is being incorporated into the next generation of tokamak reactors. The best example is the ITER tokamak being constructed in France. ITER, meaning 'the way' in Latin, is the largest such reactor ever constructed. For 50 megawatts of input heating power, ITER will be able to generate 500 megawatts of output power. The team's work is going to impact that project and help ensure ITER's success in producing safe, reliable net fusion energy.
"A lot of the earlier work that was done on DIII-D contributed greatly to the overall design of the ITER tokamak," Jonathan said. "It's pretty exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do these high-level, high-stakes experiments for the DOE and to advance fusion energy sciences. It's just a really satisfying feeling for sure."
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How Urban Farming Saved a Dallas Community
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In an impoverished community in South Dallas, urban farming is growing not only fresh food but new opportunities for residents.
The community of Bonton suffers daily from the effects of urban poverty, such as a lack of access to fresh, healthy food that's affordable. In fact, it takes a three-hour, round-trip bus ride just to reach the nearest grocery store.
Daron Babcock was drawn to this downtrodden community, where he now oversees one of the largest urban farms in the United States. And Bonton Farms doesn't just offer produce to the community but also jobs, nutrition programs, cooking classes, and more.
This all couldn't have been accomplished without support from the Stand Together Foundation.
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Q: NodeJS Async ForEachOf - Stuck in infinite loop? I'm completely stumped here. I've got a piece of NodeJS code and I'm using the Async library's forEachOf function. The code should loop through each item in result1, create a tempNode object from it, and then construct & send a SQL query (I'm using the mysql package for the .query function). Once this comes back, it should add this information to the tempNode and add to the returnObject array.
The problem is that processing appears to hang as soon as the callback() function is reached. I can put a console.log statement anywhere before callback() and verify that everything's coming through OK (the SQL query works, for example), but it never executes the resolve code (No error is displayed either). It also doesn't seem to go through the loop again, as I've tried logging the value of 'x', but I only ever get one output of '0'.
Here's the code snippet. It's inside a function that returns a promise, hence the resolve and reject.
var returnObject = [];
    if (result1.length !=0) {

    // ! This forEachOf gets stuck !
    async.forEachOf(result1, function(o_1, x, callback) {
        let tempNode = {
            NODE: result1[x].node,
            FIELDS: [
                {"ID": result1[x].id },
                {"SITE": result1[x].site }
            ]
        }
        // Construct model query using the node identifier
        var q_model = `SELECT model FROM *TABLE* WHERE name = '${result1[x].node}'`;

        // Second query to determine the BTS model
        mysqlPooler.query(q_model, function(err,result2,fields) {

            if (result2.length !=0 && result2) {
                tempNode.FIELDS.push({"MODEL":result2[0].model});
                returnObject.push(tempNode);
            }
            else {
                reject("ERROR: No MODEL");
            }
            console.log(result2);
            // Done processing this iteration
            callback();

            });

    }), function(err)
        console.log(err);
        resolve (returnObject);
         }
    }
    else
    {
        reject("ERROR");
    }

Thanks in advance!!

A: The problem is that there was an extra ")" near the very end, and a missing "{" right before the callback function definition. The last few lines need to be changed to:
}, function(err)
  {
  console.log(err);
  resolve (returnObject);
  });
}
else
{
  reject("ERROR");
}

Basically, the behavior can be explained by the fact that the third argument (ie, the callback function) to async.ForEachOf() function was undefined, due to improper brackets/formatting. Thus it seems like it didn't know what to do when the loop was finished!


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Зада́ча о кёнигсбе́ргских моста́х (, , ) — старинная математическая задача, в которой спрашивалось, как можно пройти по всем семи мостам центра старого Кёнигсберга, не проходя ни по одному из них дважды. Впервые была решена в статье, датированной 1736 годом, математиком Леонардом Эйлером, который доказал, что это невозможно, и по ходу доказательства изобрёл эйлеровы циклы. Решение Эйлером задачи о кёнигсбергских мостах явилось первым в истории применением теории графов, но без использования термина «граф» и без рисования диаграмм графов.

История

В центре Кёнигсберга (ныне Калининград) на реке Прегель (ныне Преголя) находятся два острова: Кнайпхоф (ныне остров Иммануила Канта) и Ломзе (ныне Октябрьский остров). На берегах Прегеля к северу от острова Кнайпхоф расположен Альтштадт, к югу — Форштадт. Были построены мосты через Прегель, соединяющие эти четыре района. На рисунке справа показан центр Кёнигсберга на карте 1652 года с обозначениями: А — Альтштадт, Б — Кнайпхоф, В — Ломзе и Г — Форштадт.

История строительства мостов Кёнигсберга

Семь первых мостов центра Кёнигсберга, соединяющие Альтштадт, Кнайпхоф, Ломзе и Форштадт, были построены в указанные ниже годы в следующем порядке. Номера мостов в порядке их постройки показаны на рисунке справа.

1. Лавочный мост (1286)

Первый мост Кёнигсберга датируется 1286 годом. Соединил Альтштадт и Кнайпхоф. Принадлежал городу Альтштадт и обеспечивал городу легкий доступ к рынкам Кнайпхофа.

2. Зелёный мост (1322)

Второй мост Кёнигсберга построен в 1322 году. Соединил Кнайпхоф с Форштадтом и обеспечил легкий доступ к удалённым районам. Мост назывался Зелёным из-за зелёных волн, которые служат фоном герба Кнайпхофа.

3. Рабочий мост (1377)

В XIV веке на востоке Форштадта была скотобойня. Чтобы облегчить транспортировку мяса, в 1377 году между Кнайпхофом и Форштадтом был построен третий мост.

4. Кузнечный мост (1397)

в 1397 году в северо-восточной части Кнайпхофа был построен четвёртый Кузнечный мост, который начинался недалеко от кузнечных мастерских в Альтштадте.

Если по этим четырём мостам нарисовать граф, то он будет эйлеровым, то есть все четыре моста можно обойти по одному разу по замкнутому маршруту, начиная с любого места. Жители могли совершать такие прогулки.

5. Деревянный мост (1404)

На острове Ломзе заготавливали древесину, и пятый мост между Альтштадтом и Ломзе, построенный между 1400 и 1404 годами, облегчил доставку древесины.

6. Высокий мост (1506)

Шестой мост был построен в 1506 году, чтобы соединить Ломзе и Форштадт.

7. Медовый мост (1542)

Седьмой из мостов Эйлера, соединивший оба острова, был завершен в 1542 году. Он был построен жителями Кнайпхофа для прохождения на северный берег, минуя два моста из Кнайпхофа, контролируемые Альтштадтом. Согласно легенде, Кнайпхоф передал бочку меда Альтштадту, чтобы получить разрешение на строительство моста.

Итак, в 1542 году все семь мостов Кёнигсберга, рассмотренных Эйлером, были на месте. Теперь жители не могли обойти все мосты за один раз.

История задачи

Возникновение раздела математики теория графов связано с математическими головоломками, и некоторое достаточно продолжительное время теория графов была «несерьёзна» и целиком связана с играми и развлечениями. Такая судьба теории графов повторяет судьбу теории вероятностей, также сначала находившей себе применение только в азартных играх.

Жители Кёнигсберга играли в своего рода игру: как пройти по всем городским мостам так, чтобы маршрут не пролегал ни по одному из них дважды. «Как я слышал, — писал Леонард Эйлер, — некоторые отрицают, что это можно сделать, другие сомневаются, но никто не подтверждает такой возможности.»

История публикации статьи Леонарда Эйлера

Леонард Эйлер, выдающийся швейцарский, прусский и русский  и , академик Петербургской академии наук заинтересовался этой игрой. История публикации знаменитой статьи Леонарда Эйлера «Решение одной задачи, связанной с геометрией положения», написанной в связи с этим, имеет следующие известные по современным публикациям этапы:
 сначала  Эйлер представил статью на Конференции Петербургской академии наук;
 затем в 1736 году Эйлер, в рамках своей научной переписки, отправил два следующих письма:
  — письмо , австрийскому астроному и математику, от 13 [24] марта 1736 года, Петербург. Это письмо целиком посвящено задаче о кёнигсбергских мостах;
  — письмо , немецкому политическому деятелю и астроному, от 3 [14] апреля 1736 года, Петербург. В конце этого письма идёт речь об основных идеях статьи;
 в 1741 году в Санкт-Петербурге наконец вышла статья Эйлера на латинском языке с датой 1736 года:

Leonhardus Eulerus. Solutio problematis ad geometriam situs pertinentis / Commentarii academiae scientiarum Petropolitanae. 8 (1736). 1741. P. 128—140.

В переводе:

Леонард Эйлер. Решение одной задачи, связанной с геометрией положения / Труды Петербургской академии наук. 8 (1736). 1741. С. 128—140.

Поскольку выход статьи Леонарда Эйлера «Решение одной задачи, связанной с геометрией положения» из печати датируется 1736 годом, а также этим годом датируются оба упомянутых выше письма, этот год мировым математическим сообществом назначен датой рождения раздела математики теория графов.

Современное решение задачи

Формулировка задачи

Задача о кёнигсбергских мостах разными авторами формулируется по-разному.

1. Маршрут произвольный

В связи с этими мостами был поставлен вопрос, можно ли совершить по ним прогулку так, чтобы пройти по каждому из этих мостов, причём ровно по одному разу.

Для жителей Кёнигсберга существовала своего рода игра: найти такой маршрут прогулки по городу, который бы проходил через каждый из показанных на рисунке мостов ровно один раз.

2. Маршрут должен быть замкнутым

Задача состояла в следующем: найти маршрут прохождения всех четырёх частей суши, который начинался бы с любой из них, кончался бы на этой же части и ровно один раз проходил по каждому мосту.

3. Замкнутые маршруты должны начинаться в каждой части города

Фактически требуется найти четыре маршрута обхода кёнигсбергских мостов, начинающиеся в четырёх частях города.

Вопрос заключался в том, можно ли совершить прогулку таким образом, чтобы, выйдя из дома, вернуться обратно, пройдя в точности один раз по каждому мосту?

Построение графа задачи

Современное решение задачи о кёнигсбергских мостах начинается с построения графа задачи (см. рисунок справа):
 вершины графа — это четыре части центра Кёнигсберга, на которые разделён город двумя рукавами и протокой реки;
 ребра графа — это семь мостов в центре города;
 концевые вершины рёбер — это части центра Кёнигсберга, соединённые этими мостами.

Задачу о кёнигсбергских мостах можно переформулировать в терминах теории графов следующим образом:
 существует ли в графе задачи о кёнигсбергских мостах эйлеров цикл или хотя бы эйлерова цепь?

Теоремы Эйлера

Начнём с определений, перейдём к теоремам и закончим следствиями:
 эйлерова цепь — последовательность рёбер (соседние рёбра имеют общую вершину), которая обходит все рёбра графа по одному разу;
 эйлеров цикл — замкнутая эйлерова цепь.

Следующие две теоремы впервые появились в статье Леонарда Эйлера о кёнигсбергских мостах:
 первая теорема Эйлера, 1736. Граф с двумя или более вершинами имеет эйлеров цикл тогда и только тогда, когда в каждую вершину входит чётное число рёбер;
 вторая теорема Эйлера, 1736. Граф с двумя или более вершинами имеет единственную эйлерову цепь тогда и только тогда, когда ровно в две вершины входит нечётное число рёбер.

Из этих двух теорем можно вывести три следствия:
 если граф с двумя вершинами, в которые входит нечётное число рёбер, имеет эйлерову цепь, то эти две вершины — начальная и конечная вершины цепи;
 граф с двумя или более вершинами имеет эйлерову цепь тогда и только тогда, когда либо в каждую вершину входит чётное число рёбер, либо ровно в две вершины входит нечётное число рёбер;
 задача о кёнигсбергских мостах не имеет решения, поскольку в графе этой задачи нечётную степень имеют четыре вершины.

Решение задачи по Леонарду Эйлеру

Формулировка задачи

Леонард Эйлер в своей знаменитой статье сформулировал задачу о семи кёнигсбергских мостах следующим образом:

2. Эта задача, как мне сказали, довольно хорошо известна и связана вот с чем. В городе Кёнигсберге, в Пруссии, есть остров, называемый Кнайпхоф; река, окружающая его, делится на два рукава, что можно увидеть на рисунке. Рукава этой реки пересекают семь мостов а, b, с, d, e, f и g. В связи с этими мостами был поставлен вопрос, можно ли совершить по ним прогулку так, чтобы пройти по каждому из этих мостов, причём ровно по одному разу.

Решение задачи

Леонард Эйлер сформулировал свой метод следующим образом (см. рисунок выше):

4. Весь мой метод основан на надлежащих обозначениях для отдельных прохождений мостов. Я использую заглавные буквы А, В, С, D для обозначения отдельных областей, на которые река разделяет сушу. Таким образом, если некто движется из области А в область В через мост а или b, то я обозначаю прохождение моста символом АВ.

На современном языке это означает, что схеме мостов города соответствует граф, представляющий собой:
 четыре вершины  по обозначениям четырёх частей центра города;
 вершины соединены семью рёбрами-мостами  по обозначениям семи мостов.
Достаточно современное и простое решение Леонардом Эйлером задачи о кёнигсбергских мостах выглядит следующим образом. Только следует иметь в виду, что Эйлер современной терминологии не знал, термин «граф» не использовал, называл ребро «мостом», а вершину — «областью» или «буквой» и не рисовал современные изображения графов.
 «Таким образом, становится очевидным, что если можно пройти по семи мостам, причём по каждому из них ровно по одному разу, то этот маршрут будет изображаться восемью буквами».
 «…я разработал правило, по которому можно легко решить — как для этой задачи, так и для всех подобных задач, — может ли быть осуществлено такое расположение букв.
«8. Чтобы вывести подобное правило, я рассматриваю некоторую конкретную область , в которую может вести произвольное число мостов  и т. д. Из этих мостов сначала я рассмотрю конкретный мост , ведущий в область . Если путешественник пройдёт по этому мосту, то он либо находился в области  до того, как прошёл по этому мосту, либо окажется в области  после этого. Поэтому чтобы обозначить этот проход по мосту, как описано выше, необходимо, чтобы один раз возникла буква .»
 «Если в область  ведут три моста, например , и путешественник проходит по всем трём мостам, то буква  будет встречаться в описании его движения по мостам дважды независимо от того, начинался его маршрут из  или нет. Точно так же, если в область  ведут пять мостов, то буква  должна встретиться при описании его движения три раза. И когда количество мостов — произвольное нечётное число, то если увеличить его на единицу, половина полученного числа показывает, сколько раз должна встретиться буква .»
 «9. Следовательно, в случае с кёнигсбергскими мостами, поскольку на остров  ведут пять мостов , необходимо, чтобы буква  встретилась в описании движения по этим мостам трижды. Кроме того, дважды должна встретиться буква , так как в область  ведут три моста, и буквы  должны встретиться по два раза каждая. Поэтому в последовательности из восьми букв, с помощью которой описывается рассматриваемый маршрут, проходящий через семь мостов, буква  должна встретиться три раза, а каждая из букв  — по два раза. Такого, однако, в последовательности из восьми букв быть не может. Таким образом, ясно, что подобная прогулка по семи мостам Кёнигсберга невозможна.»

Обобщение решения задачи

Решая задачу в общем виде, Леонард Эйлер попутно доказал, что для любого графа число вершин с нечётным количеством рёбер чётно:
 «Вначале я отмечу, что все количества мостов», ведущих в области, «сложенные вместе, дают удвоенное число всех мостов. Причина состоит в том, что при таком подсчёте каждый мост считается дважды, с тем чтобы все мосты, ведущие в данную область, были учтены, ибо каждый мост ведёт в две области, которые он соединяет.
 17. Из этого наблюдения вытекает, что сумма [чисел] всех мостов, ведущих в каждую область, есть чётное число, так как половина этой суммы есть в точности число мостов. Поэтому не может случиться так, чтобы среди чисел мостов, ведущих в любую область, в точности одно было нечётным; не может также случиться, чтобы нечётных чисел было три, пять и т. д. Следовательно, если числа мостов», ведущих в области, «суть нечётные числа, их сумма чётна.»

В конце статьи Леонард Эйлер записал общие выводы для любого графа вполне современным языком:

20. Значит в каждом возможном случае следующее правило позволяет непосредственно и без труда выяснить, можно ли осуществить прогулку по всем мостам без повторений:

Если имеется более двух областей, в которые ведет нечётное число мостов, можно заявить с уверенностью, что такая прогулка невозможна.

Если, однако, имеются только две области, в которые ведет нечётное число мостов, то прогулка осуществима при условии, что она начинается в одной из этих двух областей.

Если, наконец, нет ни одной области, в которую ведет нечётное число мостов, прогулка с требуемыми условиями осуществима, причём начинаться она может в любой области.

Следовательно, с помощью этого правила поставленная задача может быть полностью решена.

См. также
 Задача о ходе коня
 Теория графов
 Эйлеров цикл
 Топология
 Мосты Калининграда
 Задача коммивояжёра

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  Содержит оригинальный латинский текст писем и перевод на русский язык Ю. Х. Копелевич (письмо к Маринони) и Т. А. Лукиной (письмо к Элеру).
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Теория графов
Занимательные задачи
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Математические задачи
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TURNING RED STATES MARXIST RED
by Cliff Kincaid
The Alabama win for Barack Obama's candidate Doug Jones confirms our thesis that Obama is running the Democratic Party and the anti-Trump resistance.
Obama, who recently compared President Trump to Hitler, recorded a robocall in support of the Alabama Democrat, calling him a "fighter for equality, for progress." His notion of progress means suppressing the white vote and inciting black voters, who now believe by a margin of 72 percent that Trump should be impeached.
The grassroots of the Tea Party, evangelical Christians and conservative Catholics in Alabama, couldn't match the "Brown is the New White" strategy of Obama's political strategist and operative Steve Phillips. Analyst Trevor Loudon discussed Phillips' leftist background and association with Obama during his talk at our November 10 conference about Obama's plan for a one-party socialist state.
As America's first Marxist president, Obama's job isn't done and he will not rest until a complete Marxist takeover is complete. His mentor, communist Frank Marshall Davis, taught Obama that blacks have a "reason to hate" white people. But other minorities and constituency groups will also have to be mobilized. Looking at what happened in both Virginia and Alabama, where the Republicans were defeated with Obama's help, the former president's return to Marxist power politics has to be seen as a development that could not only result in the Democratic Party taking control of Congress, but impeaching Trump.
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State Department Made Deal with Hillary Clinton to Keep Call Log, Schedules Secret
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today released new U.S. Department of State documents showing former Secretary Hillary Clinton and her then-Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin were permitted to remove electronic and physical records under a claim they were "personal" materials and "unclassified, non-record materials," including files of Clinton's calls and schedules, which were not to be made public. The documents show the Obama State Department records would not be "released to the general public under FOIA."
The new records also show that Huma Abedin was allowed to take five boxes of "physical files" out of the State Department that include records described as "Muslim Engagement Documents."
Judicial Watch obtained the reports about the records from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for:
Any and all DS-1904 (Authorization for the Removal of Personal Papers and Non-Record Materials) forms completed by, or on behalf of, any of the following individuals:
Former Secretary Hillary Clinton
Former Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills
Former Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin
Former Deputy Chief of Staff Jacob Sullivan
The documents include a list of official and personal calls and schedules that Clinton removed, which carry a special notation that the documents were not to be made public records. The notation is on an addendum to a DS-1904 signed by Clarence N. Finney Jr., then-director of the Office of Correspondence and Records, who was the reviewing officer. (Judicial Watch has a pending request for the deposition of Finney in separate litigation concerning Clinton emails and the Benghazi terrorist attack.):
NOTE: The Secretary's call log, grid and schedules are not classified, however, they would not be released to the general public under FOIA. They are being released to the Secretary with this understanding. [Emphasis in original]
Electronic copy of "daily files" – which are word versions of public documents and non-records: speeches/press statements/photos from the website, a non-record copy of the schedule, a non record copy of the call log, press clips, and agenda of daily activities
Electronic copy of a log of calls the Secretary made since 2004, it is a non-record, since her official calls are logged elsewhere (official schedule and official call log)
Electronic copy of the Secretary's "call grid" which is a running list of calls she wants to make (both personal and official)
16 boxes: Personal Schedules (1993 thru 2008-prior to the Secretary's tenure at the Department of State.
29 boxes: Miscellaneous Public Schedules during her tenure as FLOTUS and Senator-prior to the Secretary's tenure at the Department of State
1 box: Personal Reimbursable receipts (6/25/2009 thru 1/14/2013)
1 box: Personal Photos
1 box: Personal schedule (2009-2013)
The originals of some Clinton documents were retained, such as the call logs and schedules. For other records, including material that predates Clinton's tenure, there is no indication that a copy was made. The most significant of these are her personal correspondence and gift binders, which could reflect Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative ties.
Through its previous investigations Judicial Watch made public numerous examples of Clinton's schedule being broadcast via email through her unsecure, non-government server (for example, see here, here, here and here.)
The records uncovered by Judicial Watch also contain a list of materials removed by Clinton accumulated by Robert Russo, Clinton's then-special assistant, including PDFs of Clinton's "correspondence in response to gifts … thank you and acknowledgements," as well as other records.
The documents indicate that Clinton removed a physical file of "the log of the Secretary's gifts with pictures of gifts."
The receipt of gifts by federal employees in the Executive Branch is regulated:
A "prohibited source" [of gifts] under the regulations is one who seeks official action from the employee's agency; one who does business or seeks to do business with the agency; one whose activities are regulated by the employee's agency; one whose interests may be substantially affected by the performance or nonperformance of the employee's official duties; or an organization a majority of whose members fit any of the above categories.
A gift is given "because of" the employee's official position if it would not have been offered "had the employee not held the status, authority or duties associated with his Federal position." Gifts that are "motivated by a family relationship or personal friendship" may therefore be accepted without limitation.
"We already know the Obama State Department let Hillary Clinton steal and then delete her government emails, which included classified information. But these new records show that was only part of the scandal. These new documents show the Obama State Department had a deal with Hillary Clinton to hide her calls logs and schedules, which would be contrary to FOIA and other laws," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "When are the American people going to get an honest investigation of the Clinton crimes?"
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Sugihara ist der Familienname folgender Personen:

 Aiko Sugihara (* 1999), japanische Turnerin
 Chiune Sugihara (1900–1986), japanischer Diplomat
 Sugihara Sōsuke (1913–1983), japanischer Archäologe
 Teruo Sugihara (1937–2011), japanischer Golfer
 Yuune Sugihara (* 1969),  japanischer Rockgitarrist und Violinist, bekannt als Sugizo

Sugihara bezeichnet außerdem:

 (25893) Sugihara, ein Asteroid des Hauptgürtels


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Escape to Virtual Reality Arcade
1054 Centenary Blvd (Street View)
Pac-Man is living language, a logomotive being. His body is a sigil built from くち, the Hiragana for "mouth;" as such, his flesh is code that executes his only impulse. He moves ceaselessly forward through hazy, phosphene labyrinths, oscillating between fleeing from the entities that occupy its corridors, and devouring them himself. These ghosts are trapped in an endless cycle of rebirth, as is Pac-Man himself; that is, assuming the player has the time and tokens.
Surprisingly, the ecosystem that exists beneath the arcade cabinet's glass remains relatively mysterious to this day. Pac-Man was one of the first games to organize its players into developing and sharing competitive strategies, resulting in guides that emerged not as official Namco products, but rather, as the fruits of personal discipline and oral tradition. Scholars note that players studying the ghosts over time have never actually come to a consensus on their deceptively simple behavior. The ghosts have somehow remained unpredictable in 2019, despite limited technological parameters, deterministic architecture, and years of player research.
Adept pacmancers seeking true mastery of the game inevitably reach Level 256- a number that any programmer would immediately note is two to the eighth power- the largest numeric value that eight bits can represent. Players who achieve this milestone find one hell of an anomaly waiting for them: a jumbled mess of letters and numbers resulting from total computational breakdown where their next challenge should be. The memory buffer of the arcade cabinet can't handle a nine-bit level count, and produces a schizogontal labyrinth that is both unsolvable and unintelligible.
In his paper Dots Fruit Speed and Pills: The Happy Consciousness of Pac-Man for the Journal of Cultural Research, Dr. Alex Wade compares this moment of reckoning to the Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges:
"The unconventionality of the maze is held in the premise that there is precisely no exit from the labyrinth. This is seen when the grid resets after Pac-Man has eaten the last dot of one level and it is interminably replaced by another identical in content (if not strictly form), ad infinitum. This structure is therefore closer to a Borgesian labyrinth, from which there is no exit, the escape route acting as 'one of the free sides' which 'leads to a narrow hallway which opens onto another gallery identical to the first and to all the rest.'
However, as is well known in videogame lore, level 256 of Pac-Man, the so-called 'spilt screen' level, is fundamentally different from all of the preceding levels in that the space that it revealed was unknown - even to the developers at Namco- as it was believed that the game was too difficult to be 'beaten' and would continue forever. However, the legendary level 256 "Displays the left half of the maze correctly, but the right half is a jumbled mess of randomly colored letters, numbers, and symbols [resulting in] a confusing series of open areas, tunnels, one-way intersections, lone walls, and pass-throughs—all invisible to the player."
Namco's ignorance of this final level 'labyrinth of symbols' when assumed to have fallen into chaos, or nonsense, makes it difficult, or impossible, in normal play to traverse the final level to turn the level count of the machine over. This is in distinction to the player of Space Invaders or Asteroids, who can, hypothetically at least, carry on forever. 'There is no final victory waiting for Pac- Man, only an empty half maze full of ghosts… there is nothing left to do but sacrifice Pac-Man to a hungry ghost.' This is entirely consistent with the Borgesian labyrinth where the hero dies just a few leagues from where he was born, in a manner befitting of the withering of Pac-Man 'my body will sink endlessly and decay and dissolve in the wind.'"
The notion of eternity in an impossible, bifurcated labyrinth of choices between left and right joining birth and death, of smoky lights and ravenous spirits, should be familiar to anyone who has studied myth and spiritual traditions as the afterlife described in the Bardo Thodol, marketed in the United States as the Tibetan Book of the Dead. The book is a series of instructions for recently deceased spirits, who must navigate a series of colorful corridors of light on their journey to either reincarnation or enlightenment. Though it would be irreverent to consider a book as holy as this a strategy guide for dying, its recommendations and structure are not unlike those dispersed from the shelves of Waldenbooks in the 1980s.
During the fourth night after death, the spirit passes through the realm of Preta-loka, where the pretas (often translated as "hungry ghosts") reside. These beings, which exist across numerous Buddhist myth traditions and beyond, are described as "footless beings with wide mouths and swollen bellies," insatiable and endlessly tormented by their inability to ingest. They will devour anything, including their fellow dead, due to their inability to overcome attachment to worldly delights.
Much academic work relates Pac-Man's insatiability to the rise of consumerism and capitalism- the bottomless nature of desire under the present economic order- though it is not difficult, with a step just beyond the traditional scholarly lens, to see even older models of human suffering in Pac-Man's doomed sojourn toward satiation. The highest-possible score simply could never be represented in worldly integers. Perhaps we, too, are trapped in the Preta-loka. No, that would be too simple an illusion to escape, too obvious, too procedural.
There is also the possibility that, through Pac-Man, children worldwide during the 80s and 90s seized control of a subsection of the afterlife for twenty-five cents a play, damning the souls of the recently deceased to be reborn as millennials; and, furthermore, that the results of this glitch were entirely in accord with dharma.
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First Thursday Meeting Notes: Community Catalysts
Thursday, July 13, 2017 10:00 am – 12:00 am
Participants: Carla Bagby, Aruna Bhuta, Prakash Bhuta, Susan Hales, Judy Krueger, Diane Lloyd.
Prop I – Aruna reported that Proposition I (to legalize police profiling) is still alive and may be on the November ballot. A westside group is leading this campaign and Judge Cooney may wait until Prop I passes to decide if it is constitutional. However, we can't wait until the vote, because if it passes, it will be too late for us to take action.
PJALS will launch a door-to-door campaign in August, and train activists on how to talk to voters (July 29). Voter numbers are critical and pledge cards will be used for follow-up calls at election time. The FUSE Immigration Group will also participate.
For this and all elections, Aruna and Prakash recommend that we check to see if our votes were counted by going to: spokane.county.org, then go to the link for "track your ballot."
AHCA – We discussed waiting for the CBO to come out with the financial report on the following Monday for a Senate vote. (Note: Much has changed since our meeting.)
Upcoming Local Elections – The School Board election is important because changes are coming (6th grade to middle school and changes to Special Ed and the curriculum re religion and sex-ed). School Board candidate Wiser is supported by the Spokesman-Review. He is the Vice President of CHAS.
Brean Beggs is campaigning door-to-door to continue on the City Council, with the slogan: "Brean Beggs is progressive. Vote for me."
Special Election for U.S. Senate – Manka Dhingra, Democrat, is running for the midterm open seat for the 45th Legislative District (Redmond area) so anyone knowing voters in her district is encouraged to contact them. Judy said another Senator needs to be replaced because he is now part of the Trump team, recruited to work on environment issues.
Elections in November – Lisa Brown will announce she is running for Cathy McMorris Rodgers seat. Judy reports Lisa has strong Union support. Ben Stuckart turned over his campaign funds to local election candidates, but all agreed that Lisa has a broad network for campaign fundraising.
Carla reported that the Spokane County Democratic Party is recovering from financial problems. Andrew Biviano is trying to get donations, but the party is still split between Hillary and Bernie supporters. Some party officials have made no donations and the unions are threatening to pull support for the local Party altogether. Carla will email Andrew and ask, "What's going on?"
All agreed we need some unity! We talked about the new yard signs (available at Kizuri for $20) serving as conversation starters. Challenges: The majority do not know American history and vote based on what works for them personally, and the voters' guide is so confusing.
What can we do? Our Goal: Informed and involved voters.
Find places where we can educate on the issues.
Farmers' Markets (5th & Browne – Saturdays, Downtown – Tuesdays, Perry Street – Thursdays)
The State Fair (Diane suggests joining the Democratic Party booth.)
Unity in the Community (Riverfront Park – August 19th)
Susan will research and report back.


Exhibition and art fair in Espacio V!
Tonight I am participating in a group show and market! The opening is at 20:00, in Calle Vitoria, 6, Espacio V, Valencia, with the Gabinete de Hygiene group!
We will be there on Friday from 17:00-21:00, and Saturday from 12:00-14:00/ 17:00-21:00 with an art fair aswell, so come along and see us!
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Our first day together we spent touring around Yellowknife on our bicycles. The weather was absolutely beautiful so it made for an awesome, relaxing tour. We cruised into Old Town, checked out the Woodyard, Houseboat Bay, had lunch at the historic WildCat Cafe, climbed up Pilot's Monument, and made our way back home for some patio beverages to recharge. We sat out and soaked up the sun on the patio while we watched our "foxy" neighbours scurrying around all evening.
The next morning we had another blue sky so we decided to take advantage of it and hit up Ingraham Trail to do a bit of hiking. We went on a beautiful and leisurely hike to Cameron Falls and we had the whole trail to ourselves! On our way back to town, we stopped at Madeline Lake for a picnic lunch to enjoy some more natural beauty. That evening, we treated ourselves to a delicious dinner at one of our favourite spots in town, The Woodyard restaurant at NWT's first and only brewery.
On Saturday, we learned more about the 'then and now' of the North at the Prince of Wales Northern Hertiage Centre Museum. Going along with the historical theme, that evening we strolled down to Old Town for the NWT Mining Heritage Society's 7th Annual Beer Barge Festival! Before Yellowknife had highway access, most freight coming into the city came in on barges across Great Slave Lake. This means that in the winter when the lake was frozen over, supplies were diminishing in the city so spring breakup and the arrival of the first barge of was kind of a big deal. Although it carried various important materials (such as construction material, furniture, vehicles, mining equipment, etc.), arguably the most important cargo was the town's supply of alcohol. Hence, the first barge was affectionately named the Beer Barge and was certainly cause for celebration! So that night, we took it to the dock for food, drinks, live music, and (of course) dancing!
The following Sunday, it was Dad's turn to be celebrated – it was Father's Day! We went out to our favourite brunch spot, Twin Pine Diner, and then drove out to Prelude Lake. We figured what could be a more appropriate Father's Day activity than floating out on the lake on a pontoon for some fishing and BBQing! We were lucky to have another absolutely gorgeous blue sky which made for the perfect day out on the water.
The line up through Somba Ke Plaza for the free Aboriginal Day fish fry.
Free Aboriginal Day fish fry.
Enjoying the delicious fresh fish, corn, bannock and beans at Somba Ke Plaza for Aboriginal Day.
Somba Ke Plaza for Aboriginal Day.
Our neighbour gathering goods for the fam just outside our condo.
& Shine for some evening entertainment.
Our final day together in the Knife, we decided that all this trip needed was some more amazing weather and relaxation so we put on our sunglasses and walked over to Somba K'e Civic Plaza for some Aboriginal Day celebrations. The North Slave Metis Alliance was serving up a fresh fish fry and homemade bannock for the whole city to enjoy! The festivities also included vendors with homemade crafts and goods, performances by jiggers and musicians, and more family fun. Once we got our fill of delicious fresh fried fish and soaked in some traditional performances, we decided to load up our rods and ride our bikes down to Old Town to try our hands at some fishing from the dock in Back Bay. In the evening, Franklin Avenue was closed off to traffic to host a Street Festival with street food, live music, street art, and downtown store sales. We wrapped up our night together relaxing on the patio and watching our furry neighbours scurry about.
It was such a beautiful week to experience some Yellowknife summer fun!
Great picture story of family's trip to Yellowknife in June. Lots of memories for sure!


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First come, first bred
By BES Press Office
Max Planck Institute for Ornithology press release.
Arriving early in the breeding area is crucial for successful reproduction in non-migratory birds find research published in Journal of Animal Ecology.
Arrival of blue tits. Photo by Gilsenan et al.
In birds, timing of arrival in a breeding area influences who ends up breeding and who does not. This aspect of behaviour, well-known in migratory birds, has now been studied for the first time in a non-migratory species, the blue tit.
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Germany found that arrival time in the breeding area was an individual-specific and fitness-relevant trait for this resident bird species, as early-arriving individuals were more likely to breed in that year. The study suggests that it might be worthwhile to consider migration on different scales, not only as movements over thousands of kilometres to wintering grounds, but also more generally as movements between breeding and non-breeding sites.
For migratory birds, early arrival in spring in the breeding area increases the likelihood of getting a mate and/or a high-quality territory, and therefore increases breeding success. However, early-arriving birds may face harsher environmental conditions that might offset the benefits, as they lead to a higher mortality risk. For non-migratory or year-round resident species, the timing of arrival in the breeding area and its effect on reproductive success has not been considered previously, perhaps because it is assumed that most individuals stay in the local area also during the non-breeding season.
The blue tit is a partial migrant in the northern part of its range but is considered to be non-migratory in the rest of Europe. In a study site in Southern Germany, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology installed a self-designed, custom-built automated monitoring system that registered all visiting blue tits throughout the year.
Individuals could be "followed" because they carried a "Passive Integrated Transponder" (PIT-tag). The PIT tag is a tiny tag with an individual code that is activated externally by a scanning device present in 16 feeders and all 277 nest boxes in the study area. With this setup, the researchers could record the date, time, and identity of every PIT-tagged blue tit visit and thus estimate the arrival date of all adult individuals in the study site.
After breeding ended in June, blue tits stopped visiting the nestboxes for several months. Many individuals were first registered again either at a feeder or at a nestbox in autumn (between August and October). Another arrival peak occurred in winter (January-March).
"The data suggest that some individuals may have been true residents, staying in the study site during winter, while others left the area during the non-breeding season
– says Carol Gilsenan, first author of the study.
Difference in arrival date of former pair members explained the occurrence of divorce
Although arrival dates were highly variable between individuals – spanning roughly eight months –, the researchers were surprised to find that the same individuals arrived around the same time each year. Generally, males arrived earlier in the breeding area than females, and birds that bred together arrived around the same time in the study site. However, a previous study of the research group showed that blue tits did not patiently wait for their mate from last year to return: if the former partner did not arrive within about a week after their own arrival, the probability of divorce strongly increased. "In a short-lived species such as the blue tit, individuals that would decide to wait for their former partner to return may risk not breeding at all," explains Gilsenan.
The researchers found that early-arriving individuals had a higher chance to breed and that the timing of arrival predicted several aspects of the birds' breeding success. How far the blue tits went outside the study site and where they stayed during the winter months remains unclear, but Bart Kempenaers, lead author of the study, is convinced: "Our study suggests that many if not most blue tits are leaving the breeding area during the non-breeding season despite being referred to as resident. Migrants and non-migrants may then differ mostly in how far they move." Whether studying the seasonal movements of individuals of non-migratory species will further break up the dichotomy between "resident" and "migratory" species remains to be seen.
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Gilsenan, C, Valcu, M, Kempenaers, B. Timing of arrival in the breeding area is repeatable and affects reproductive success in a non‐migratory population of blue tits. J Anim Ecol. 2020; 00: 1– 15. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13160
Carol Gilsenan
Department of Behavioural Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics
Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen
Phone: ++49 (0)8157 932-320
Email: cgilsenan@orn.mpg.de
Prof. Dr. Bart Kempenaers
Email: b.kempenaers@orn.mpg.de


So many songs are written about people who are not relatives of the writer, nor are they famous outside their own territory, yet they have done something that warrants a song to be written about them. This week's track was written about Lorraine Hansberry, one of four children born in Chicago in 1930 and who, in her brief life became a Playwright.
When she was eight, her father, who was a successful real estate broker, moved his family to a suburb on the south side of Chicago. It was a predominantly white area and the black Hanberry family were not best welcomed. Lorraine's best known work was called A Raisin in the Sun, which was story of her family's battle against the racial segregation she encountered in her new homeland area.
In 1951 she became a staff member at the Black newspaper called Freedom under the guidance of Paul Robeson. Whilst there she met and became close friends with Nina Simone. It was here in 1957 that she wrote A Raisin In the Sun. Two years later it was on Broadway and that achievement led to the first play written by an African-American woman to be produced on Broadway. Her next play, and as it turned out, her last, was called To Be Young, Gifted and Black which she never finished. Sadly Lorraine died of pancreatic cancer in January 1965 aged just 34.
The title of that unfinished work became a song that Nina Simone, along with Weldon Irving, wrote as a tribute to her. It could almost have been an autobiographical song for the lady born Eunice Kathleen Waymon. She was generally considered a child prodigy as she was playing the piano at the age of four and then studying classical music at the Juilliard School of Music in New York when she was in her last year of high school.
Nina's version, which featured Boris Gardner on bass failed to chart in the UK and only reached number 76 stateside. The big UK hit version was a top five hit in 1970 for Bob Andy and Marcia Griffiths as Bob & Marcia. They dropped the 'To Be' from the title and became just, Young Gifted and Black. Both were successful solo reggae singers in their native Jamaica but it was producer Harry J who brought them together to record their reggae version of it. The following year they had one follow up with the number 11 hit Pied Piper. After that, both resumed their own careers with Marcia later becoming a member of Bob Marley's Wailers.


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What is a pacemaker
Jeffrey L. Williams
cardiologist"s guide for patients and care providers
by Jeffrey L. Williams
Published 2013 by CreateSpace in North Charleston, SC .
Cardiac pacemakers,
Statement Jeffrey L. Williams
LC Classifications RC684.P3 W55 2013
OCLC/WorldCa 1001883655, 856568604
An essential companion for both the aspiring and practising electrophysiologist, The EHRA Book of Pacemaker, ICD and CRT Troubleshooting assists device specialists in tackling both common and unusual situations that that they may encounter during daily practice. Taking a case-based approach, it examines pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators and cardiac resynchronisation therapy. Robert G. Johnson, C. Allen Bashour, in Critical Care Medicine (Third Edition), Bradycardia and Complete Heart Block. In the early postoperative period, bradycardia is managed with epicardial wires and an external low heart rate remains a problem, a permanent pacemaker .
The electrical pacemaker, as every device, can present alterations in its operation. In these cases the electrocardiogram is the first tool with which we have to detect them. The dysfunctions of pacemakers can be classified in disorders of the stimulation (generation or transmission of the stimulus), or the sensing (absence or bad detection of. Pacemaker batteries, which are lithium iodide cells that typically have a lifespan of 7 to 8 years, now often weigh less than 30 g. They are usually implanted .
The true beginning of the concept of a pacemaker began over years ago. In the late s, Luigi Galvani discovered that he could cause contraction of a frog heart simply by passing an electrical current through the heart. This concept was further realized nearly years later with the first successful resuscitation of a child by Guilliame de Boulogne utilizing electricity. Pacemaker‐mediated tachycardia (PMT), also referred to as endless‐loop tachycardia or ELT, is an abnormal state caused by the presence of an accessory conducting pathway (the pacemaker). The mechanism of tachycardia is similar to that seen in patients presenting with the Wolff‐Parkinson‐White : Sorin Lazar, Henry Huang, Erik Wissner.
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"What Is A Pacemaker: A Cardiologist's Guide For Patients and Care Providers" lives up to its name. It is intended to give patients and care givers an understanding of what a pacemaker is, its indications, functions, warnings of potential complications.
Its texts are supported by diagrams, photos and x-rays to enhance understanding/5. This is a very comprehensive book that covers all aspects of living with a pacemaker.
It's indepth and thoroughly written for healthcare providers, yet easy for patients to understand. The illustrations are well done and really help to explain the complexity of how a /5(38).
This is a very comprehensive book that covers all aspects of living with a pacemaker. It's indepth and thoroughly written for healthcare providers, yet easy for patients to understand.
The illustrations are well done and really help to explain the complexity of how a pacemaker works. 2 people found this helpful/5(38). A 'Dummy' book on cardiac pacing would appeal to nurses, cardiology technicians, medical students and pacemaker companies for training their staff.
We started with the assumption that the reader would know the principles of electrocardiography as in Dubin's book but nothing about cardiac pacing. a pacemaker. Certain types of medical equipment may affect how a pacemaker works. • Tell airport security that you have a pacemaker.
A pacemaker is a small device that helps your heart beat more regularly. It does this with a small electric stimulation that helps control your heartbeat. Your doctor puts the pacemaker under. A pacemaker can, based on pre-programmed algorithms, change its settings.
For example, a DDD can switch to DDI if there is atrial fibrillation. The pacemaker makes continuous analyzes of atrial activity to assess whether it needs to change settings. Magnet effect. Placing a magnet on the pulse generator will affect its functions.
Modern pacemakers are built to last. Still, your pacemaker should be checked periodically to assess the battery and find out how the wires are working. Be sure to keep your pacemaker checkup appointments. What is a pacemaker book such appointments: Your doctor will make sure your medications are working and that you're taking them properly.
Background Worldwide more than 3 million people have cardiac pacemakers. Overnew pacemakers are implanted each year, with most of these devices in patients over the age of Although pacemakers were once primarily used to treat bradyarrhythmias (e.g.
heart block), more recently, patients with subvalvular stenosis, and atrial fibrillation may qualify for pacemakers.
Additionally, [ ]. A slow heartbeat is one reason why you may need a pacemaker to monitor your heart rate and stimulate your heart to pump more quickly. While not all heart conditions or irregular heartbeats are treated with pacemakers, there are some signs to indicate who needs a pacemaker.
Read and inform an electrocardiogram of a patient with a pacemaker is much more complex than write: "pacemaker rhythm". As in a standard electrocardiogram (read how to read and electrocardiogram), the first thing to observe is the baseline heart rhythm. Ignore for a moment the pacing spikes and concentrate on the baseline rhythm, in how the heartbeat is generated.
After your pacemaker insertion, you will have a follow-up appointment so your doctor can check the incision and placement of your pacemaker. After the checkup, your pacemaker can be monitored by phone. A programming device over the pacemaker area sends signals over the phone line.
Pacemaker syndrome is most commonly seen in the setting of a single chamber device with ventricular sensing and pacing lead. Since there is no atrial sensing lead to guide the ventricle, the ventricle contracts at the programmed rate regardless of the timing of atrial contraction.
Pacemaker Insertion is a Surgical Procedure. A pacemaker insertion is a surgical procedure that lasts for a few hours, barring no complications. It must be completed in either a hospital or an outpatient facility, depending on your health and your doctor's recommendation.
A pacemaker is a small but very sophisticated electronic device that is implanted under the skin to help regulate the heartbeat. Specifically, pacemakers are most commonly used to treat several cardiac arrhythmias that produce bradycardia—a heartbeat that is too slow.
A cardiac pacemaker (or artificial pacemaker, so as not to be confused with the natural pacemaker of the heart), is a medical device that generates electrical impulses delivered by electrodes to cause the heart muscle chambers (the upper, or atria and/or the lower, or ventricles) to contract and therefore pump blood; by doing so this device replaces and/or regulates the function of the.
A LEADLESS PACEMAKER OPTION. Micra™ is 93% smaller than traditional pacemakers. 1 It is the size of a large vitamin capsule and has a battery that typically lasts between 8 and 13 years. 2,3 Unlike a standard pacemaker, it is implanted into the heart through a vein in your leg and does not require a lead.
The Micra device's miniaturized size and minimally invasive approach leaves no. Pacemaker Rhythms are aptly named due to the locus of stimulation coming from an artificial impulse generator called a pacemaker.
The most common pacemakers may deliver an electrical impulse to the right atrium, right ventricle or both. Pacemakers and magnets. Placing a magnet over a pacemaker will set it to pace at bpm regardless of the underlying rhythm.
Placing a magnet over an ICD will turn off the shock function and is good emergency measure if a patient is being repeatedly shocked or if the patient is dying.
It does not disable the pacing : Dr Matthew Jackson. Pacemakers help to deal with abnormal heart rhythms.
Pacemakers can be both permanent and temporary. Temporary pacemakers are used to treat short-term heart problems while long-term pacemakers are used to control long-term heart rhythm problems. A person generally takes 1 month to recover from the surgery.
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If you are considering a pacemaker to help your heart beat as it should, then you probably have many questions. Your medical team will be able to answer all of your questions with information tailored to your specific situation. The editors of this website are doctors and nurses themselves, so they have compiled a list of questions that patients often ask them about pacemakers.Pictured is the Micra pacemaker next to a traditional pacemaker.
About the size of one of Mary Lou's calcium pills, "this new one" was the Medtronic Micra, the world's smallest pacemaker. In clinical trials at the time of Mary Lou's procedure, Micra was approved for use in the United States on April 6, Pacemaker is a playful way of making peace with your writing goals.
You set a word count goal, chip away at it day by day and finish on-time! You can approach your writing target in various ways to suit your style: Steady - write the same amount of work every day.
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