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Hilderstone Best Kept Village
The Best Kept Village competition is run by the Community Foundation for Staffordshire.
The aim of the competition is to improve village environments and encourage the local community to keep their villages neat, tidy and attractive. It is also hoped that the competition will foster a community spirit.
"The Best Kept Village Competition is primarily about community involvement, caring for the environment, pride in the village and that indefinable element – tender loving care (TLC)." Organisers notes on judging.
The Competition started in 1956, Hilderstone took part from 1962 to 1984 reaching the semi-finals three times and the final twice. In 2009 after many years of not entering the competition, Hilderstone took part once again and received a Highly Commended certificate. Since 2009 the village has continued to improve year on year, coming Second in the small village category in 2012. It is hoped that with the continued support of volunteers, Hilderstone can come first!
The Hilderstone Best Kept Village needs local volunteers to weed, litter pick, water the flower boxes, clean benches and notice boards etc in the main public areas of the village. The Parish Council pays for some regular maintenance work (grass strimming, varnishing and repairs to notice boards, benches and bus shelters), but as its budget is limited, the volunteers ensure that the village is kept in the best possible condition. As private front gardens are also judged in the competition, all villagers can help by keeping these well maintained and weeding the pavements in front of their properties. The pavements are sprayed twice per year, but in a rural area this is not enough to keep the weeds at bay!
The village is judged once May, once in June and if it gets through to the final, it will be judged again in July, although photographs and evidence of village activities through out the year can be submitted as supporting evidence. The village is not given the dates of judging. It is important however that work continues for as much of the year as the weather will permit, so that Hilderstone remains 'A Village to be Proud Of' and one that we all enjoy living in.
If you are interested in becoming a Best Kept Village Volunteer please contact the Parish Clerk in the first instance. Contact details can be found on the contacts page of this website.
Hilderstone's Women's Institute
Hilderstone WI was established in 1934. Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month at 7:30pm in Hilderstone Village Hall. For more information contact Pat Saul on 01785 812580
Hilderstone is a small rural village in the heart of Staffordshire. It is situated between the county town of Stafford and the city of Stoke-on-Trent, about 5 miles from Stone.
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3-D Model Helps Blind Jax Library Patrons Avoid Bathroom Yuck Factor
WJCT News | By Michelle Corum
Published February 4, 2016 at 8:20 PM EST
Two Jacksonville Public Library employees are hoping to help blind patrons feel more secure about visiting the building's restrooms.
Imagine going into a public bathroom, and you don't know where the soap dispensers or the stalls are. Elisha Zuaro of St. Augustine can identify with that. She's without sight and has to use her hearing to figure things out.
"I try to walk in and listen to see, 'OK, let me hear where the sink is, where someone's running water—or I listen for the toilets' flushing; you know, to kind of orient myself."
Sometimes, people living with blindness resort to feeling their way around, an unappetizing thought in a public restroom. But two library employees hope to prevent that. Chris Eaton and Luis Terrone made a 3-D miniature restroom blueprint that's mounted at the men's and women's restroom entrances.
The idea began at the library's 10th anniversary celebration, where there was a 3-D printing demonstration. Visitors from Florida State College at Jacksonville's Vision Education & Rehabilitation Center told special-needs librarian Eaton that perhaps the printer could create a floor-plan map of the restrooms.
Eaton consulted Luis Terrone of the library's E-services department, who showed off the model at a recent Braille competition.
"3-D printing, it's all about proto-typing, and this is the proto-type of the bathroom," he explained.
For visually impaired restroom users, feeling the model tells them where the sinks and handicapped stalls are. Future iterations could even have tiny stall doors to show which way they open.
"Now, with it being a teeny door, because of its usage in a public place, thousands of hands will touch this. So, right now it's PLA plastic, which is a biodegradeable plastic," Eaton says.
He says the plastic model is just another bit of information the library is giving people.
"We'd like to see it happen all over our public buildings. The applications for 3-D printing are limitless," he says. "This is a good start and should this be something the city wishes to pursue as part of our commitment to ADA accessibility in public buildings."
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The 3-D restroom model shows stalls on the left and sinks on the right.
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"I've not experienced one of these models before, and I really appreciate it. You know, there's nothing worse than feeling insecure about going to the bathroom," she says.
The library is considering making a stainless steel version that would be more clean and sturdy.
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The defence and Crown agreed last week to extend the preliminary hearing to eight days from six in February to determine if there's enough evidence to warrant a trial.
Sandeson was charged on Aug. 20, four days after Samson was reported missing in Halifax.
Police have said the two men knew each other.
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Honnold climbs to avoid the dips and flatlands
"Yes. I think I gravitate towards being a somewhat depressed person. Or—I don't know actually. I'm sort of just flat…I feel like I don't have any of the highs. I kind of go from level, to slightly below level, to back. It's all pretty flat…Sometimes you just feel useless, you know? But in some ways I embrace that as part of the process because you kind of have to feel like a worthless piece of poop in order to get motivated enough to go do something that makes you feel less useless. But then ultimately that still doesn't make you feel any less useless, so you just have to keep doing more."
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Hippocampus maps relationship of scenes?
Aya Ben-Yakov and Richard Henson found that the hippocampus responded most strongly to the films at the points that independent observers identified as the end of one event and the beginning of a new one. The researchers found a strong match between these event boundaries and participants' hippocampal activity, varying according to the degree to which the independent observers agreed on the transition points between events. While watching the two-hour long Forrest Gump, hippocampal response was more strongly influenced by the subjective event boundaries than by what the filmmaker may consider a transition between scenes, such as a change in location.
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Victoria Is an Insane 138-Minute Movie Filmed in One Continuous Take
I think one of the least important things you need for making a film whether you're an an actor or director is your brain. One of the most important things is your intuition and to get into the flow and really understand. That's what makes a film radiate. Your brain get come in the way so that you're controlling everything and eliminate mistakes, so that all of a sudden your job as a director is to always make everything clean. At the same time, [shooting in a one-take format] was a great, amazing gift: losing a lot and winning way more. It was still a very close call. I know the actors loved all three takes we did, but in my world only the last one is a film.
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The underwhelming results for "Vacation," written and directed by Jonathan M. Goldstein and John Francis Daley, follow poor turnout for R-rated summer comedies like "Entourage," "Magic Mike XXL" and "Ted 2." Released in March, the R-rated "Get Hard" did only modest business, especially for a Will Ferrell vehicle. "Hot Tub Time Machine 2," which also carried an R rating, bombed in February. That run has left Hollywood scratching its head. What's happening? And what does it mean for R-rated comedies in the pipeline? Start with quality. Most of the comedies that have missed the box-office mark also received largely negative reviews from critics. ("Vacation" generated reviews that were 76 percent negative, according to the website Rotten Tomatoes.) Notably, the two recent R-rated comedies that have succeeded — "Trainwreck," starring Amy Schumer, and "Spy," with Melissa McCarthy — both received excellent reviews.
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The more you dig into the technology and the more you learn it, you are going to get ideas you would never have thought of without knowing your technology. The kind of shots you can get from an iPhone that you cannot get with any other camera. Use it. GoPros: use it. Be inspired by it. Try things. It's digital. Get another memory card, for God's sake.
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It's brilliant. It's perfect. […]Let's take the obvious off the table here - there are marketing liabilities to this script. It's long, it's claustrophobic, it's talky[…]Doesn't matter. We release this over Christmas, let the award buzz and word of mouth buoy it to where it needs to go. While there are a bunch of reasons to try to revise it […]it would topple the elegant house-of-cards-ness of it […]t's a mediation on Jobs himself. It's one of his early computers - closed end to end. […]I kept begging for someone to walk outside, for some daylight[…]But Sorkin is so brilliant with the structure. […]Just when Jobs lets up, the script finally breathes for the first time. It's really spectacular. […]but I'm a sucker for layered, thoughtful filmmaking. Sure it's got a marketing issues but I think it also has the panacea for those - I believe it will be brilliant. I do think the one thing that can hinder that is if it's too long. […] That's the other thing - this can't be without a star playing Jobs and can't be done by just anyone. Obviously. The script is a prefect 10 but in the wrong hands it grosses mid 30's.[…]while tricky - people deserve this kind of movie and in some weird way we have a responsibility to take these kinds of risks. Not to make it seem like we're saving lives - but I actually think that. This is the kind of film that makes me thankful for movies and they're few and far between these days.[…]It's exciting.
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Why not work with Angie Jolie?
I'm not destroying my career over a minimally talented spoiled brat who thought nothing of shoving this off her plate for eighteen months so she could go direct a movie. I have no desire to be making a movie with her, or anybody, that she runs and that we don't. She's a camp event and a celebrity and that's all and the last thing anybody needs is to make a giant bomb with her that any fool could see coming.
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Emily: I really thought my dad was the hero. Not that he wasn't heroic, but I thought he killed the shark basically single-handedly and then swam home. Ben: I had just seen Jaws last year when my mother had said, "Oh, look, Jaws is on. My favorite part is when dad kills the shark." And I was like, "Dad didn't kill the shark." And, she was like, "Shut up, Ben. I was married to him. He killed Jaws." And so we watched it and, of course, he doesn't kill Jaws. And she was like, "Oh, wow, I guess he doesn't kill Jaws. I've been telling people I've been married to Roy Scheider, I guess."
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I was making a documentary about the filming of the movie and its effect on the city, how it, for example, locked off entire blocks of downtown Chicago from public access. […] There were three types of filmmaking happening all at once, I then realized: a multimillion-dollar global Hollywood blockbuster, my modest independent documentary, and the dozens of amateur videos all being created in an instant. […] I also realized that everyone in their own way was making their own version of Transformers, based on the small privileged glimpses they had of this massive production. I started to notice these videos popping up on YouTube, and not just from Chicago, but from Utah, Texas, Detroit, Hong Kong. After a weekend of keyword-spelunking through the caves of YouTube, I emerged with 355 videos that documented the production. In a sense, the documentary of the making of Transformers had already been made, in 355 pieces. Now it was a matter of figuring out how the pieces fit together.
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Shortly after we relocated from Dallas to Manhattan in 1995 and moved into a 250-square-foot apartment in the West Village, we saw Michael Mann's "Heat" on opening night. It knocked us out. Jen said she found that closing shot in the weeds at the airport — Pacino holding the dying De Niro's hand while Moby's "God Moving Over the Face of the Waters" droned and the runway lights flashed — to be as beautiful and mysterious as the end of "2001: A Space Odyssey."
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ANDINA: HUAYNO, CARNAVAL AND CUMBIA-THE SOUND OF THE PERUVIAN ANDES 1968-1978.
dereksmusicblog ♦ October 20, 2017 ♦ 1 Comment
Label: Tiger's Milk Records/Strut.
Five years ago in 2012, award-winning Peruvian chef, DJ, restaurateur and art collector Martin Morales cofounded Tiger's Milk Records with former Soundway Records label manager and PR guru Duncan Ballantyne. The nascent Tiger's Milk Records' raison d'être was to release Peruvian music. This was something that Martin Morales had always been passionate about.
Martin Morales was born in Peru, and lived in the coastal city of Lima until he was a teenager. After leaving Peru, Martin Morales spent some time traveling before he eventually settled in London, where he started a new life.
Soon, Martin Morales was introducing Londonders to the delights of Peruvian food. This was something that Londoners embraced, and nowadays Martin Morales is the proud owner of four award-winning London restaurants which are part of his company Ceviche. It also owns an art gallery and Tiger's Milk Records. Martin Morales has come a long way since he first set foot in the Britain, and earlier in 2017 won a GQ Food & Drinks 2017 Innovator of the Year award. However, he's not turned his back on his native Peru
Still, Martin Morales regularly journeys between London and Peru in search of new recipes and inspiration for future projects. The other thing that Martin Morales searches during these journeys to his homeland is the Peruvian music he's so passionate about. A favourite destination for Martin Morales is the Andes.
This is an area that dubstep producer and DJ Mala is familiar with, and featured on his 2016 album Mirrors. It was released by Giles Peterson's Brownswood Recordings. This was a coincidence as it was Giles Peterson who had introduced Martin Morales to DJ Mala two years previously.
The pair struck up a friendship, and DJ Mala became Martin Morales' musical guide when the pair journeyed to Peru in search of new and exciting music. During this journey, DJ Mala told Martin Morales about Peru's illustrious musical history, and introduced him to all manner of hidden musical treasure. Since then, Martin Morales has made many more journeys to the Andes where he's spend some of his time searching for the music he's some passionate about. This music Martin Morales wants to introduce to a new and wider audience.
His vehicle for doing this, is the label he cofounded with Tiger's Milk Records Duncan Ballantyne. It's released a number of critically acclaimed albums and compilations, including Peru Maravilloso: Vintage Latin Tropical and Cumbia, Peru Bravo: Funk, Soul and Psych From Peru's Radical Decade, Peru Boom (Bass, Bleeps and Bumps from Peru's Electronic Underground) and Kanaku Y El Tigre's 2015 debut album Quema Quema Quema. However, Tiger's Milk Records latest releases Andina: Huayno, Carnaval and Cumbia-The Sound Of The Peruvian Andes 1968-1978 allows Martin Morales to combine his passion for Peruvian music and food.
Tiger's Milk Records latest compilation is Andina: Huayno, Carnaval and Cumbia-The Sound Of The Peruvian Andes 1968-1978, which was compiled by Martin Morales, Duncan Ballantyne and Peruvian crate digger Andres Tapia del Rio. Andina: Huayno, Carnaval and Cumbia-The Sound Of The Peruvian Andes 1968-1978 will be co-released by Tiger's Milk Records and Strut on the '20th' of October 2017. This is perfect timing.
Earlier this month, on the '5th' of October 2017, Martin Morales has just released a new cookbook Andina: The Heart of Peruvian Food: Recipes and Stories From The Andes. The music on Andina: Huayno, Carnaval and Cumbia-The Sound of the Peruvian Andes 1968-1978 is the perfect musical accompaniment when trying one of Martin Morales' recipes. Food just like music, is one the award-winning chef's passions.
Martin Morales has strong connection to the Andes, and remembers his visits with affection. "Growing up in the coastal city of Lima, it was my grandmother who kept our family's connection to the mountains alive. Our visits to her home high up in the Andes in the province of La Libertad and the fascinating eighteen hour trips we made to reach her passing through villages and towns, sounds and flavours, imparted in me a strong sense of the Andes' traditions, creativity and rich artistic textures." There's also the various types of music that provided a soundtrack to life in the Andes, including a variety of hybrids which seemed to be in a state of constant flux.
That was the case between 1968 and 1978, which Tiger's Milk Records' latest compilation covers. Andina: Huayno, Carnaval and Cumbia-The Sound Of The Peruvian Andes 1968-1978 features seventeen tracks that made their debut on Peruvian labels like Iempsa, Sono Radio and El Virrey. They're part of what's a tantalising taste of the music that provided the soundtrack to life in the Andes between 1968 and 1978. This the compilers are keen to point out, isn't a definitive overview of Andean music. That would be impossible. However, it's the perfect introduction to Andean music…and more.
There's also contributions from several artists who were based in the coastal city of Lima. This is fitting, as it was where one of the compilers Martin Morales grew up, and spent the formative years of his life. Maybe some of the songs on Andina: Huayno, Carnaval and Cumbia-The Sound Of The Peruvian Andes 1968-1978, which is eclectic compilation will be a reminder of the music that provided the soundtrack to his youth?
The seventeen songs on Andina: Huayno, Carnaval and Cumbia-The Sound Of The Peruvian Andes 1968-1978 showcase the various different genres and musical hybrids that were around during this ten-year period. That is the case from throughout the compilation.
Andina: Huayno, Carnaval and Cumbia-The Sound Of The Peruvian Andes 1968-1978 opens with a track from Los Demonios Del Mantaro who were from the Mantaro Valley in Junin. Their debut album La Chichera Y Otros Exitos featured La Chichera. It finds Los Demonios Del Mantaro seamlessly fuse Peruvian cumbia and huayno sounds. It's a similar case with Los Compadres Del Ande's Todos Vuelven, Los Bárbaros del Centro's La Celosa and Los Walker's De Huánuco's Todos Vuelven. It was originally recorded by César Miró in 1943, but Los Walker's De Huánuco reinvent this musica criolla song, and take in a new direction as they combine cumbia and huayno. In doing so, they create another track that sets the bar high for the rest of the compilation.
Many songs on Andina: Huayno, Carnaval and Cumbia-The Sound Of The Peruvian Andes 1968-1978 feature Peruvian cumbia where groups add a tropical, Colombian style with Andean huayno rhythms and rocky electric guitars. This includes Los Bilbao's Zelenita del Año 2000 where a shimmering guitar sets the scene for what's without doubt one of the highlights of the compilation. There's a hesitancy to the electric guitar on Descarga Huanuqueña's Los Jewelees as it teases the listener. Soon, the guitar wah wahs as percussion, bass and later drums provide the perfect accompaniment to this piece of musical treasure. There's plenty more hidden gems and musical treason on Andina: Huayno, Carnaval and Cumbia-The Sound Of The Peruvian Andes 1968-1978.
Among the hidden gems is Peruanita's Recuerda Corazón where percussion accompanies an accordion and impassioned vocal. It gives way to Los Bárbaros Del Centro's Loca Loquita where a braying, blazing horn plays a leading role in this captivating fusion of disparate styles. This is followed by Los Compadres Del Ande's cumbia single El Lorcho, where percussion and violins create an filmic backdrop on this irresistible reminder of from the Ande's musical past. Manolo Avalos' Rio de Paria is also a charming reminder on an earlier musical age, and a welcome addition to the compilation.
The same can be said of Lucho Neves Y Su Orquesta's Caymeñita, where the bandleader's pounding piano combines with percussion and stabs of brassy horns. They create a soulful call to dance that made its debut on the Lucho Neves Y Su Orquesta's album Lima De Noche, which was released the Sono Radio label, which was based in Lima. Just like in the Andes, music was constantly evolving between 1968 and 1978.
Many of the bands that feature on Andina: Huayno, Carnaval and Cumbia-The Sound Of The Peruvian Andes 1968-1978 were playing their part in reinventing traditional Peruvian music. An example is Los Sabios del Ritmo's Cholita, which was originally recorded in the criollo style. When Los Sabios del Ritmo covered the song, they decided modernise it by adding an Andean rhythm. In doing so, this totally transformed this traditional song. To do this, Los Sabios del Ritmo saw the song with fresh eyes, and the Afro-Peruvian original took on a Quechua-styled, Afro-Colombian sound. It's one of many examples of how new generation of Peruvian artists and bands were combining traditional Latin American and African influences.
Other songs take Peruvian music in very different directions. This includes Alicia Maguiña Con Mario Cavagnaro Y Su Sonora Sensación's Perla Andina. It's a cumbia which features a magnificent big band arrangement on what's essentially an homage to the Andes.
Another genre of music that was popular in Peru between 1968 and 1978 was folk music. A reminder of this is Huiro Y Su Conjunto's Cumbia en los Andes. However, there's also another type of folk music that popular in Peru during this period. It can be recognised by atmospheric sounds that come courtesy of wind instruments and plucked harps, as artists marry huayno and carnaval. That is what Conjunto Kori Cinta de Huancavelica does on Toyascha. There's a sadness is her voice as she delivers the lyrics in Quechua, while a harp accompaniment. This beautiful, ruminative sounding song brings Andina: Huayno, Carnaval and Cumbia-The Sound Of The Peruvian Andes 1968-1978 and ensures it ends on a high.
Andina: Huayno, Carnaval and Cumbia-The Sound Of The Peruvian Andes 1968-1978 is a lovingly curated compilation that was compiled by a triumvirate of Peruvian musical aficionados, Martin Morales, Duncan Ballantyne and Peruvian crate digger Andres Tapia del Rio. They carefully selected the seventeen eclectic tracks that were released between 1968 and 1978, when music in Peru was constantly evolving. That was the case in the Andes, where the majority of the songs are from. Others are from Lima, where Martin Morales was born and spent his formative years. Now, though, he's based in London which is also home to Tiger's Milk Records.
It was founded five years ago, and on the '20th' October 2017, Tiger's Milk Records and Strut will co-release Andina: Huayno, Carnaval and Cumbia-The Sound Of The Peruvian Andes 1968-1978. It's the first in a series of compilations of releases that Tiger's Milk Records plan to release. Future compilations will focus on music from the Amazon and the coast of Peru. That is something to look forward to. Especially if these compilations are the quality of Andina: Huayno, Carnaval and Cumbia-The Sound Of The Peruvian Andes 1968-1978.
It's no exaggeration to say that Andina: Huayno, Carnaval and Cumbia-The Sound Of The Peruvian Andes 1968-1978 is one of the finest releases from Tiger's Milk Records. This is the perfect way for Tiger's Milk Records to celebrate their fifth anniversary. Many record labels often don't last five years. However, Tiger's Milk Records consistently release quality compilations and artists albums. The emphasis seems to be on quality rather than quantity. This is a philosophy that has served Tiger's Milk Records well, and is sure to do so in the future
Tiger's Milk Records is also part of Martin Morales London-based company Ceviche, which owns four award-winning restaurants and an art gallery. Recently, Martin Morales has added another string to his bow, when he published a new cookery book Andina: The Heart of Peruvian Food: Recipes and Stories From The Andes earlier this month. This is the perfect opportunity for those outside of London to try some of the Martin Morales' award-winning recipes. The perfect soundtrack to such culinary adventures is Andina: Huayno, Carnaval and Cumbia-The Sound Of The Peruvian Andes 1968-1978, which features a myriad of musical treasures and hidden gems.
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How nice to read that there are others in Europe, than I who knows Cumbia. I bought many LP: s when travelling in Peru, Ecuador and Colombia n the 70s.
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Column: Ross Chastain Stays Busy While Chasing NASCAR Trucks Series Playoffs Berth
June 29, 2019 raceproweekly Syndicated Columnist: Holly Cain
Column By: HOLLY CAIN / NASCAR – JOLIET, IL – Ross Chastain smiled widely when asked Friday how his multi-win,playoff-brink of a season in the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series has gone. But he insists he's been too busy to bask in the spotlight or soak in the accolades coming his way.
And there have been plenty of both.
Chastain's victory last weekend at Gateway put him in a more solid position to earn a shot at the truck series championship. With the win, the 26-year-old only needs to break into the top 20 in the points standings to earn the chance to compete for the season title. He entered Friday night's Camping World 225 at Chicagoland Speedway (9 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) only 38 points below 20th-place Josh Reaume in the standings. And neither Reaume nor 19th place Cory Roper are entered in the Chicagoland race.
Chastain won earlier this season at Kansas Speedway but hadn't declared his truck series championship intention yet so it didn't count toward a truck championship eligibility. He won two weeks ago at Iowa, but his truck was disqualified and the victory wasn't allowed to count toward his championship effort. It inspired instead of deterred him, however, and he answered with another win last week at Gateway.
So this weekend, Chastain's only looking forward even if there's little time to enjoy the view. He is entered in all three races at Chicagoland – Friday's truck race will be his 40th start among the three series this season, most of any driver in NASCAR's top three divisions. He's also set to compete in Saturday's Xfinity Series and Sunday's Monster Energy NASCAR Cup races.
And Chastain says he wouldn't have it any other way.
"Definitely,'' Chastain said. "I had three hours of truck practice yesterday then today I'll have an hour of Xfinity (Series) practice then 10 minutes later I'll be qualifying a truck, so that will help me in the truck for sure. It's the sensation of speed for me.''
Next week Chastain returns to his home state for the annual July stop at Daytona International Speedway. He'll visit a children's hospital in St. Petersburg on Monday and then head over to his home in Alva on the Southwest Coast near Fort Myers. Yet as his star brightly rises in the NASCAR world, Chastain insists his profile hasn't changed much – at home or at the race locales he visits.
He's still the humble, driven competitor who is seizing the opportunity he's earned.
"We're hustling and now is the time more than ever I have to prove I want it,'' Chastain said.
JUSTIN ALLGAIER FEELS THE LOVE FROM HOME TRACK
Justin Allgaier, of Riverton, Illinois, returns to his home state a celebrated competitor. … and a very busy man.
"This is my home track,'' Allgaier said during a Friday media availability. "It's also my home track but also [my sponsor] Brandt's home track and they bring a lot of customers and employees so it's always unique because you're trying to find that balance.
"Add in family and friends and all the guests Brandt brings, as much as I love coming home, it is hard because you do put a lot of expectation on yourself. You put a lot of pressure. You always leave the weekend like someone got shorted, so that's probably the hardest part for me. But this is such a great facility and we love coming here.''
Allgaier, who won in 2011 and 2017, is one of only two former Chicagoland race winners in Saturday's field – joining fellow two-time winner and reigning Cup champion Joey Logano, who is making his first Xfinity start of the year.
That same victory magic can't come soon enough this season. Allgaier is ranked fourth in the points standings, but is winless on the season. The top-three ranked drivers – Tyler Reddick (three wins), Christopher Bell (four wins) and Cole Custer (three wins) – have hoisted the vast majority of the 14 trophies this season. Those three drivers – Reddick then Custer then Bell – were fastest in opening Xfinity Series practice at Chicagoland.
By this time last year, Allgaier had two trophies already – winning at Dover and Iowa. He would go on to win at the Mid-Ohio and Elkhart Lake (Wisc.) road courses and top it off with a victory at Indianapolis Motor Speedway; the best season victory output of his nine-year Xfinity Series fulltime career.
This year, Allgaier has been productive and close. His No. 7 JR Motorsports Chevrolet has earned eight top-10 and seven top-five finishes – a championship setup most any other season. He led 138 laps at Bristol, but crashed out. He answered by leading 86 laps the next week at Richmond only to finish third. He has three runner-up finishes (at Daytona and back-to-back races at Dover and Charlotte).
"It's interesting to me because we fired off the season and obviously we had some good runs, but we weren't as fast as we'd like to be,'' Allgaier said. "That's probably the one thing that's really hard to put your finger on, when you're off a little bit. It's like what area are you off because there's about ten thousand things you could do differently.
He could only smile when comparing identically intense efforts between 2018 and 2019, producing such different results.
"Last year was crazy because everything we did was right. Even when we didn't have the fastest car, we could win the race. That's probably the hardest part.
"That's been the interesting part, it couldn't have been more opposite from last year,'' Allgaier added. "That being said though, we were great in the regular season and terrible in the playoffs. So we've been steadily working on our program and if you look week in and week out the three JRM cars have gotten better and better. … I'm excited for the playoffs and I think we can be a championship-winning car.''
NEW OPPORTUNITY, GOOD VIBE FOR JEFFREY EARNHARDT
Jeffrey Earnhardt has been all smiles and positive vibes this Xfinity Series season and Friday afternoon he remained optimistic and grateful for more opportunity awaiting him.
The 30-year-old grandson of the late seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Dale Earnhardt has scored major career milestones even in a part-time season. He earned his first Xfinity Series top 10 with a sixth-place showing at Atlanta Motor Speedway in March and his first top five, a third-place finish at Charlotte in May. He has three top 10s in six starts this season and earned the outside pole position at the season-opening Daytona race. He has started top 10 in five of the six races he's competed in.
Five of Earnhardt's previous starts have come in Joe Gibbs Racing Toyotas. This week he'll drive the No. 81 XCI Racing Toyota for the second time this season – and is splitting starts between the two teams.
"It's been huge,'' Earnhardt said of the results this year. "In my opinion it's every driver's dream to be able to drive for Joe Gibbs Racing and also with Xtreme Concepts Racing and them having the support from Joe Gibbs. It's incredible.
"You go out every weekend knowing you're racing for a win when before, a good day was racing for 25th you know, and you're trying to take care of the car. Now, if you don't leave it all out on the track they get mad at you.
"It's been a change, but it's been a good change. It's exciting to have the opportunity to showcase my talents because people start to doubt you and wonder if you can drive or not when you're in bad equipment. There's tons of drivers out there well-talented who may never get the opportunity to compete in good equipment just because of circumstances. So I'm very fortunate and thankful for the opportunity I've got. I just really want to capitalize on it and get that win this year. I know we've been close and had some good runs but I really want to put it all together and put the car in victory lane."
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The Festival of Firsts art program got off to a glittering start at the Holiday Inn, Hoylake with more than 70 attendees taking in the work of some star-studded names.
Feted artists, the Singh twins (pictured above) were among the audience as the Preview of the Mothers Exhibition launched – one of the many attractions at this year's Wirral Festival of Firsts. The Exhibition is now on show at Holiday Inn, Hoylake until the 8th July. Admission is free.
Amrit and Rabindra Singh are British born twins of Indian origin, who have become world famous for depicting their home city of Liverpool and other scenes in the traditional Mughal miniature painting style but on a grand scale. Their work has featured in shows all over the world.
Harry Pye – who according to The Guardian is "changing the face of British Art" – originally commissioned 100 notable artists to create works representing their mothers, and the Festival has been able to bring 50 of these to Hoylake for the Festival, including works by Grayson Perry, Bob and Roberta Smith, Vic Reeves, Chantel Joffe, Adam Dant, Neil Innes, Lee Maelzer and Mat Humphrey.
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Absolutely Super works on show. Many thanks to Barbara Singleton and her Team for bringing this Exhibition to Hoylake and all the hard work they have done to get Gallery Hoylake in the shops and the Art on the Prom.
Hoylake can be proud of their efforts and show yet again how Hoylake rises to a Challenge.Just like we have for years with such a talented Community.A real Art Showcase.


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My name is Nigel Marshall, and I am from Scholes.
I have had a lifelong interest in the Great War, and the people who served in it. My main area of interest centres around the Territorial Force Battalions of the West Yorkshire Regiment, and the formations they fought with, and that interest has, for the last thirty years, led to me returning time and time again to the battlefields and back areas of France and Belgium with which those men would have been so familiar.
My Grandfather, Frederick Louis Kilkenny served with the Leeds Rifles throughout the war, on the Western Front in France and Belgium and at home stations in Staffordshire and Ireland. I too wore the cap badge of the Leeds Rifles during my time as an Army Cadet. Lou Kilkenny's brother, Andrew Kilkenny, or Syd as he was known to the family, was in the Royal Engineers Signal Service, and served with the Northern Cable Company, a Leeds based Territorial Force unit, during the Great War and he served in Egypt and Palestine. Andrew died at Alexandria in Egypt on 22 November 1918. He is buried in Cairo War Memorial Cemetery. These men, with others, have been a constant source of inspiration to find out more about what that war was like, for them, and for others.
My interest in the Great War has led to me visiting the Western Front many times since the age of 19, and I have been proud to lay wreaths in memory of fallen Leeds Riflemen of the 49th (West Riding) Division at their memorial above Essex Farm Cemetery on the road out of Ieper to Boezinge in Belgian Flanders on numerous occasions. Although the division also served elsewhere on the Western Front during the war, this area of Flanders has a special draw for me as it was here that my grandfather served until his health deteriorated to the point where he was sent back to England in the summer of 1915, having reported sick while the battalion was in bivouac in the grounds of Elverdinge Chateau.
I was a Gunfitter with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. I spent most of my time in the Army with Armoured and Field Workshops, although I had attachments to the Life Guards of the Household Cavalry Regiment for their annual firing camps. I served at various locations in the UK and Germany with an operational tour of the Gulf in 1991 thrown in for good measure.
As well as visiting the battlefields as a private individual for my own enjoyment and personal study, I am a self-employed Battlefield Guide and Military Researcher. I am a member of the International Guild of Battlefield Guides, the European Tour Operators Association, The Western Front Association, and I am a founder member of the recently launched Great War Group.
The work I have done for people has attracted credited acknowledgement in various books and journals. If you have a soldier that you'd like me to research for you, or you'd like to visit the former battlefields of the Western Front, please feel free to make contact to discuss your requirements.
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Former Marlin Justin Wayne Sentenced To 4 Years In Prison For Con Involving Drug Addicts' Urine
Barry Petchesky
PublishedNovember 2, 2018
Justin Wayne was a bust. The fifth overall pick in the 2000 MLB draft, Wayne appeared in just 26 games over three seasons with the Florida Marlins, putting up an ERA over 6 (but earning a World Series ring along the way). Wayne's post-baseball career was more successful, and more lucrative, at least right until he got busted for a bizarre insurance fraud which involved purchasing the urine of drug addicts.
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Thursday in federal court West Palm Beach, Fla., Wayne was sentenced to 46 months in prison, ordered to repay $3.8 million defrauded from insurers, and fined $20,000, after pleading guilty to health care fraud. His brother, Hawkeye Wayne, who never made it past the minor leagues, was apparently the brains behind the operation, and his sentence was more severe.
Both Waynes are cooperating with the government and expected to testify in an upcoming trial of doctors working at Reflections Treatment Center, one of a number of drug treatment facilities and sober homes operated by the notorious Kenny Chatman. Chatman is currently serving a 27-year sentence on charges of money laundering, sex trafficking and health care fraud; when women would come to his facilities for treatment, Chatman would keep them "in a state of impairment in order to 'pimp' them out."
One side hustle for Chatman was the sale of his patients' urine, and that's where the Waynes come in. The Waynes owned a drug testing lab, and as the Palm Beach Post so eloquently puts it, "the urine of drug addicts who have insurance is liquid gold to unscrupulous operator of labs." The Waynes paid Chatman for urine, ran unnecessary tests, and billed insurance companies at inflated rates, as much as $5,000 for a single drug screen.
Another Wayne brother, Ethan, has also pleaded guilty in the scheme and will be sentenced next month.
"I sincerely apologize to your honor, the government and the insurance carriers and anyone else I have harmed and for the shame I brought to my family," Justin Wayne said. "I'll spend the rest of my days making it up to them."
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VDOT expects construction on Skiffes Creek connector road to start spring 2020
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VDOT proposes the Skiffes Creek connector road would create a four-way intersection where Green Mount Parkway and Pocahontas Trail meet and then head north to link up with Merrimac Trail.
VDOT proposes the Skiffes Creek connector road would create a four-way intersection where Green Mount Parkway and Pocahontas Trail meet and then head north to link up with Merrimac Trail. (Jack Jacobs/Staff)
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The Virginia Department of Transportation has selected a route for the Skiffes Creek connector road and anticipates construction to kick off next spring.
A 1-mile, two-lane road that would connect Merrimac Trail (Route 143) and Pocahontas Trail (Route 60) in southeastern James City County, the Skiffes Creek connector road is intended to lessen traffic congestion and improve emergency evacuation and safety in the area.
The recommended route rose to the top of a pile among different options because of its lower cost compared to other semi-finalists in the process, few environmental impacts and public support for the route, said Claudia Walsh, a consultant hired by VDOT to assist with the project.
The project, which is expected to begin construction in spring 2020, has an approved budget of $50.5 million through the state's Smart Scale funding program.
The road is anticipated to be completed in October 2022, Walsh said.
Average weekday daily traffic on that area of Pocahontas Trail ranges from 9,700 to 16,100 vehicles per day. On Merrimac Trail, average weekday daily traffic runs between 15,000 and 19,800 vehicles per day in the study area.
VDOT whittled down potential routes for the road to a proposal that would create a four-way intersection where Green Mount Parkway and Pocahontas Trail meet. The road would then head north to link up with Merrimac Trail.
The other semi-finalist option would have connected Pocahontas Trail near BASF Drive to Merrimac Trail. That came with an estimated price tag of $49.5 million. The initial $41.7 million cost projection tied to the Green Mount Parkway proposal had been trimmed down to $40.8 million by the time a public hearing on the project took place at James River Elementary School on Wednesday.
Besides the $40.8 million earmarked for actual construction, $4.7 million is intended for right of way acquisition and $5 million for preliminary roadway engineering, according to an information sheet provided at the public hearing.
VDOT got started on study of the project in September 2017. During the following months and years, route alternatives were developed, studies conducted and public feedback was gathered at several public forums.
A June 2018 environmental study found that the proposed roadway would have few negative impacts on the surrounding area. No species that are threatened, endangered or special status are expected to be affected.
The project isn't expected to require any residential acquisitions or relocations. The project is likewise not expected to necessitate relocation of any businesses in the area.
For folks who would like to weigh in on the project, a public comment period continues until May 25. Comments can be emailed to John Harman at JohnG.Harman@VDOT.Virginia.gov.
Jack Jacobs, 757-298-6007, jojacobs@vagazette.com, @jajacobs_
Virginia Department of Transportation


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\section{Introduction}

Weak gravitational lensing has emerged as a powerful tool to probe cosmological models. Current measurements~\cite{Hoekstra:2005cs,Massey:2007gh,Benjamin:2007ys} already constrain the amplitude of density perturbations in the universe and the total matter density. Future surveys are projected to have the power to constrain the most important parameters describing both dark energy~\cite{Albrecht:2006um,Albrecht:2009ct} and dark matter~\cite{Hu:1998az,Abazajian:2002ck,Ichiki:2008ye,Kitching:2008dp}.

While the largest uncertainties in these projections are experimental systematics, a lingering concern is our ability to make predictions for basic quantities such as the two-point function to sub-percent accuracy so that theoretical systematics will not be an issue. A number of higher order corrections to the two-point function have been considered: the Born correction, source-lens coupling, reduced shear, and lens-lens coupling~\cite{Bernardeau:1996un,Schneider:1997ge,Dodelson:2005ir}. Here we study another effect which contaminates the power spectrum at the same level as these~\cite{Hamana:2001kd}: {\it lensing bias}.

Galaxies are selected in weak lensing surveys only if they are bright enough and large enough for their shapes to be adequately measured.  Lensing affects these criteria because galaxies too faint or small to make it into the catalog can be promoted into the sample if they are located in regions of large
magnification. This effect is inevitable as it is only possible to cut
on {\it observed} sizes and magnitudes, and cannot be eliminated by imposing
brighter magnitude cuts.

  To appreciate the importance of this effect, consider a cartoon universe in which all galaxies are just a little too faint to be included in the survey.  In this case, only galaxies behind regions of large magnification would be included, so one would be able to estimate shear only behind foreground matter overdensities.  The ensuing shear map would be a map of clusters! Of course, reality is much more complicated than this toy example, and many galaxies will be in the survey by their own merits.  Moreover, the sky-dilution from lensing will compete with the effect we just described, so whether matter overdensities are over-sampled or under-sampled depends on the galaxy population.   Nevertheless, it is clear
that the sampling of the cosmic shear field from a typical galaxy survey will
almost always be biased. In this paper, we derive this lensing bias and study
its effect on the shear power spectrum. We also discuss how it affects
other shear observables.

In \refsec{lbias}, we present and discuss the leading lensing bias corrections.
\refsec{results} then calculates the correction to the shear power spectrum,
while other shear observables are discussed in \refsec{other}. We conclude
in \refsec{concl}. The appendices contain a rigorous derivation of
the leading and higher order correction terms, and discuss why the higher
order terms can be neglected for the purposes of near-future surveys.

\section{Lensing bias and Cosmic Shear}
\label{sec:lbias}

This section describes the leading order lensing bias effects on cosmic
shear. For a rigorous derivation and treatment of higher order terms,
see Appendices \ref{app:exact} and \ref{app:projection}.
Let us consider a survey of solid angle $\Delta\Omega$ with
$N_{\rm tot}$ observed galaxies in total, so that the observed average number
density is $\bar{n} = N_{\rm tot}/\Delta\Omega$.

To first order, the {\it observed} galaxy overdensity $\d_{\rm obs}$ is given in
terms of the intrinsic galaxy overdensity $\d_g$ and the convergence $\k$
by \cite{paperI}:
\begin{equation}
\d_{\rm obs}(\v{\theta}) = \d_g(\v{\theta}) + q\:\k(\v{\theta}),
\label{eq:dobs}
\end{equation}
where $q=2\beta_f+\beta_r-2$,
and $\beta_f$ and $\beta_r$ are the logarithmic slopes of the flux and size
distributions,
\begin{equation}
\beta_f = -\frac{\partial \ln n_{\rm obs}}{\partial \ln f}\Bigg\vert_{\stackrel{f=f_{\rm min}}{r=r_{\rm min}}}; \ \  \beta_r = -\frac{\partial \ln n_{\rm obs}}{\partial \ln r}\Bigg\vert_{\stackrel{f=f_{\rm min}}{r=r_{\rm min}}}.
\label{eq:beta}
\end{equation}
In the following, $\d_{\rm obs}$ will always stand for the background galaxies
whose shear is measured, while foreground galaxy overdensities we correlate
with will be denoted with $\d^{\rm fg}_{\rm obs}$ for clarity.

In the weak lensing limit, cosmic shear can be described by a spin-2
field with two independent components, defined relative to fixed coordinate
axes $x,y$ ($\rightarrow \gamma_1$, $\gamma_2$), or with respect to the separation
vector $\v{\theta}$ ($\rightarrow \gamma_t$, $\gamma_\times$). In the following, we let $\gamma_a$ and $\gamma_b$ stand for
either of these decompositions. We work in the flat sky approximation throughout,
denoting positions on the sky with $\v{x}$.

Let $\gamma_a(i)$ be the shear component $a$ measured from galaxy $i$.
The standard estimator for shear correlation functions $\xi_{ab} \equiv \<\gamma_a\gamma_b\>$ is given by (e.g., \cite{MunshiEtal}):
\begin{equation}
\hat\xi_{ab}(\th) = \frac{1}{N} \sum_{ij} W^\theta(i,j)\, w(i)w(j) \gamma_a(i)\gamma_b(j),
\label{eq:xiest}
\end{equation}
where the sum runs over all pairs of galaxies $i, j$, and the normalization is
given by:
\begin{equation}
N = \sum_{ij} W^\theta(i,j)\,w(i) w(j),
\end{equation}
where $w(i)$ is the weight assigned to galaxy $i$, and the window function
$W^\theta$ picks out galaxies separated
by $\theta-d\th \leq |\v{x}_i-\v{x}_j| <\theta+ d\th$.   For the remainder
of the paper, we will set all weights $w(i)=1$, assuming that they
are determined by measurement errors and intrinsic ellipticities \cite{BJ02},
and are therefore uncorrelated with the cosmological signal. We also
assume that the shape noise is uncorrelated with the density field.

In \refapp{pixelest}, we consider pixel-based estimators. As shown there,
pixel-based estimators for the shear
correlation function are subject to a very similar bias to the galaxy pair-based
estimator above, provided that each pixel is weighted by inverse variance.

We wish to take the expectation value of \refeq{xiest}.  To do so, we
partition the survey volume into infinitesimal cells of equal solid angle $d\Omega$
so that the number of galaxies $n_{\rm obs}(i)d\Omega$ in cell $i$ is either 0 or 1
for all cells.  Given this partition, we can express \refeq{xiest} as:
\begin{equation}
\hat\xi_{ab}(\th) =  \frac{1}{N} \sum_{ij}W^\theta(i,j)\,n_{\rm obs}(i) d\Omega\, \gamma_a(i)\,n_{\rm obs}(j) d\Omega\, \gamma_b(j)
\label{eq:xihat1}
\end{equation}
where the sum is now over all cells.  The normalization $N$ can be similarly
rewritten.  Now, we have that $n_{\rm obs}(i)=\bar{n}\,(1+\d_{\rm obs}(i))$ where
$\d_{\rm obs}(i)$ is the fluctuation in the galaxy density field in cell $i$.
Inserting these expressions
into the above equation and taking the expectation value in the continuum
limit, we find (see \refapp{exact} for details):
\begin{equation}
\<\hat\xi_{ab}(\th)\> =  \< \frac{1}{\mathcal{N}} [1+\d_{\rm obs}(1)]\gamma_a(1)\:
[1+\d_{\rm obs}(2)]\gamma_b(2) \>,
\label{eq:xihat2}
\end{equation}
where we have denoted two positions separated by $\th$ on the sky with `1'
and `2'. The quantity $\mathcal{N}$ is defined in \refapp{exact} and comes from
the normalization by the observed
number of galaxy pairs.

The important point to note here is the fact that the non-uniform sampling
of source galaxies through $1+\d_{\rm obs}$ makes the estimator in \refeq{xiest}
sensitive not only to the shear but also to the source galaxy
overdensity {\it and} the lensing magnification.  Operationally
(with the caveat of higher-order corrections), the estimator
in \refeq{xiest} replaces the true shear $\gamma(i)$ by an
``observed'' shear:
\begin{equation}
\gamma_a^{\rm obs} \rightarrow \gamma_a (1+\d_{\rm obs}) = \gamma_a\left( 1+ \delta_g  + q\kappa\right).
\label{eq:gscaling}
\end{equation}
Hence, by expansion of \refeq{xihat2} we obtain the leading corrections:
\begin{eqnarray}
\<\hat\xi_{ab}(\th)\> &=& \<\gamma_a(1)\gamma_b(2)\> \nonumber\\
&+& \<\,[\d_g(1)+q\,\k(1)]\gamma_a(1)\gamma_b(2)\>
  + \<\gamma_a(1)\,[\d_g(2) + q\,\k(2)]\gamma_b(2)\> \label{eq:xiexp}
\end{eqnarray}
The correction terms are of two kinds: one involves correlations of
$\d_g\gamma_a$, i.e. intrinsic overdensities of background galaxies with shear by
mass fluctuations in the foreground.
For a sufficiently narrow redshift distribution of source galaxies,
this source-lens clustering is negligible, since the distribution of
sources and lenses do not overlap in this case. In case of the lensing
skewness and kurtosis, it was shown that the effect is small if the
width of the source redshift distribution is less than 0.15 \cite{Bernardeau98}.
Hence, if photometric redshifts are available, source-lens
clustering can be avoided.
We will not further consider source-lens clustering
in the main part of the paper.

The second type of correction in \refeq{xiexp} is due to magnification
and size bias and is of the form $q\cdot\k\gamma_a$. These corrections
can be significant, since they correlate the shear field with the {\it same}
foreground lensing field.
It is worth noting that the leading lensing bias corrections are of exactly the same form as the reduced shear correction \cite{Dodelson:2005ir,DodelsonZhang,Shapiro}: there, $\gamma \rightarrow \gamma (1+\k)$  perturbatively, whereas here, we have $\gamma \rightarrow \gamma (1+q\,\k)$. Hence, reduced shear corrections and lensing bias corrections should be considered jointly. The main difference is that the size of lensing bias corrections depends on the background galaxy sample via the parameter $q$. From now on, we consider both effects simultaneously, so that:
\begin{equation}
\gamma_a^{\rm obs} \rightarrow  \gamma_a\left [ 1+ (1+ q)\kappa \right ].
\label{eq:gammaobs}
\end{equation}

Note that the normalization $\mathcal{N}$ in \refeq{xihat2}
is relevant in canceling some higher-order
terms. In particular, one might wonder whether the term:
\begin{equation}
\< \d_g(1)\d_g(2)\> \<\gamma_a(1)\gamma_b(2)\>,
\end{equation}
which appears in the expansion of \refeq{xihat2} might be a significant
contribution. This term is however canceled through $\mathcal{N}$, since the
shear estimator is normalized to the number of observed galaxy pairs used in
the measurement (see also \refapp{projection}).
The contributing higher-order terms due to lensing bias which we neglected
in \refeq{xiexp} involve the shear 4-point
functions. We discuss these terms in \refapp{projection} and find that
they are suppressed by roughly two orders of magnitude
with respect to the cubic terms, i.e. they entail corrections at the level of
$\mathcal{O}(10^{-4})$ of the shear power spectrum.
Corrections of this magnitude are not expected to be of interest in the
foreseeable future, hence we neglect them for the remainder of the paper.

\section{Impact on the Power Spectrum}
\label{sec:results}

In this section, we present the results of a calculation of the leading
magnification effects on the shear auto-correlation, \refeq{xiexp}.
Specifically, we will consider
$\xi_\gamma \equiv \<\gamma\, \gamma^*\> = \<\gamma_1\gamma_1\> + \<\gamma_2\gamma_2\>$
for background galaxies at a fixed redshift of $z_s=1$.
The cubic corrections involve three-point functions of shear and convergence
It is much more convenient to calculate these in Fourier space where, in the
absence of B modes, the complex shear is related to the convergence as:
\begin{equation}
\gamma(\v{\l}) = e^{2i\phi_\l}\:\k(\v{\l}).
\label{eq:gk}
\end{equation}
Here, $\phi_\l$ is the angle of the $\v{\l}$ vector with the $\v{x}$-axis of
the coordinate system. Then, the shear power coefficients
$C^\k(\l)$ are defined as:
\begin{equation}
\<\gamma(\v{\l})\gamma^*(\v{\l}')\> = \<\k(\v{\l})\k(-\v{\l}')\> = (2\pi)^2 \d_D(\v{\l}-\v{\l}') C^\k(\l),
\label{eq:g2pt}
\end{equation}
and their relation to the real-space correlation function is given by:
\begin{equation}
C^\k(\l) = \int d^2\th\:\xi_\gamma(\th) e^{-i\,\v{\l}\cdot\v{\th}}.
\end{equation}
The calculation then proceeds exactly as
in the case of the reduced shear correction \cite{Dodelson:2005ir,DodelsonZhang,Shapiro}. In Fourier space, the multiplication in \refeq{gammaobs} turns into
a convolution:
\begin{equation}
(\k\gamma)(\v{\l}) = \int\frac{d^2\l_1}{(2\pi)^2}
\gamma(\v{\l}_1)\k(\v{\l}-\v{\l}_1) = \int\frac{d^2\l_1}{(2\pi)^2}
e^{i 2\phi_{l_1}} \k(\v{\l}_1)\k(\v{\l}-\v{\l}_1),
\end{equation}
where we have used \refeq{gk}. Then, the leading correction to the two-point
correlator \refeq{g2pt} is given by:
\begin{equation}
\d \<\gamma(\v{\l})\gamma^*(\v{\l}')\> = 2(1+q) \int\frac{d^2\l_1}{(2\pi)^2}
e^{i 2\phi_{l_1}} e^{-i 2\phi_{l'}}
\< \k(\v{\l}_1)\k(\v{\l}-\v{\l}_1)\k(-\v{\l}')\>,
\end{equation}
\begin{figure}[ht!]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=.48\textwidth]{DeltaCkappa.eps}
\end{center}
\caption{Relative size of the combined lensing bias and reduced shear correction
$\Delta C^\k(\l)$ on the shear power, for different values of the flux/size
count slope $q$. The curve for $q=0$ only shows the reduced shear correction.
A single source redshift $z_s=1$ was assumed.
\label{fig:dCkappa}}
\end{figure}

where the factor of 2 comes from the two permutations.
Using the definition of the convergence bispectrum,
\begin{equation}
\<\k(\v{\l}_1)\k(\v{\l}_2)\k(\v{\l}_3)\> = (2\pi)^2 \d(\v{\l}_1+\v{\l}_2+\v{\l}_3)
B^\k(\l_1,\l_2,\l_3),
\end{equation}
we obtain the correction to the shear power spectrum:
\begin{equation}
\Delta C^\k(\l) \equiv C^\k_{\rm corr}(\l)-C^\k(\l) = 2 (1+q)\int\frac{d^2\l_1}{(2\pi)^2}
e^{2i(\phi_{\l_1}-\phi_\l)} B^\k(\v{\l}_1,\v{\l}-\v{\l}_1,-\v{\l}).
\label{eq:dCkappa1}
\end{equation}
The imaginary part of \refeq{dCkappa1} vanishes, signaling that no B modes
are produced by these 3-point terms (see Appendix~\ref{app:b} for a treatment of the B-modes induced by the 4-point terms). The remaining real part is:
\begin{equation}
\Delta C^\k(\l) = 2 (1+q)\int\frac{d^2\l_1}{(2\pi)^2}
\cos 2\phi_{\l_1} B^\k(\v{\l}_1,\v{\l}-\v{\l}_1,-\v{\l})
\label{eq:dCkappa}
\end{equation}
Here, we have set $\phi_\l=0$ without loss of generality. The prefactor
$1+q$ in \refeq{dCkappa} sums up the reduced shear and lensing bias
corrections.

\begin{figure}[ht!]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=.48\textwidth]{DeltaCkappa-z.eps}
\end{center}
\caption{Same as \reffig{dCkappa}, except for different source redshift
distributions: the lines for $z=0.5$, $z=1.0$ and $z=1.5$ show the result
for single source redshifts, while the blue dashed line shows the result
for a broad redshift distribution $z=0-1.4$ expected for the full DES
galaxy sample \cite{Annis}.
\label{fig:dCkappa-z}}
\end{figure}

To estimate $\Delta C^\k(l)$, we adopt a flat $\Lambda$CDM cosmology with
parameters given by
$h=0.7$, $\Omega_m=1-\Omega_\Lambda=0.28$, $n_s=0.96$, $\sigma_8 = 0.85$.
We use \refeqs{Ckappa}{Bkappa} in \refapp{projection}
relating the shear power and bispectrum
to the matter power spectrum and bispectrum.
Further, we use the non-linear matter power spectrum according to \cite{SmithEtal}
together with the bispectrum fitting formula from \cite{SC}.
Our calculation of the reduced shear correction
agrees with that of \cite{Dodelson:2005ir,Shapiro} where it was shown to
match the results of ray-tracing through N-body simulations.

Figure \ref{fig:dCkappa} shows the relative magnitude of the cubic correction
$\Delta C^\k(\l)/C^\k(\l)$ from \refeq{dCkappa} for
a range of $q$ values from 0 to 2, for a fixed source redshift of $z_s=1$.
In \citet{paperI}, we consider a galaxy sample similar to the one
expected for the Dark Energy Survey
\citep[DES,][]{DES05}. Measuring the slope of the galaxy size and
magnitude distributions according to \refeq{beta} for
a range of magnitude and size cut values, we obtain $q\approx 1-2$
(see \cite{paperI} for details).

At $\l\sim 1000$, the cubic correction term reaches about 4\% for $q=2$,
which is larger than what one might naively expect
from perturbation theory.  This is because of a much larger weighting
of low-redshift contributions in the weak lensing bispectrum when
compared to the power spectrum (\refapp{projection}): the correction
\refeq{dCkappa} is
enhanced by the more strongly non-linear matter distribution at low $z$.

We show the effect of varying source redshifts in \reffig{dCkappa-z}.
The relative correction to $C^\k(\l)$ increases with redshift, although
the $z$-dependence is quite weak. We also consider a very broad
galaxy redshift distribution $dN/dz$ expected for the full DES
galaxy sample \cite{Annis}, spanning redshifts from 0 to 1.4.
Even in this case, the magnitude
of the effect is not affected significantly.

\section{Lensing bias corrections to other shear observables}
\label{sec:other}

While we chose the cosmic shear power spectrum as a representative example
to illustrate the magnification and size bias effects, it is worth considering
briefly the effects on other observables. In the following, we assume
values of $q=1-2$ as typical.

\subsection{Mean Shear}

Lensing bias (and reduced shear) do not affect the mean of the shear, or
convergence if the convergence is estimated from the shear. That is,
one might worry that, since regions of large $\kappa$ are preferentially
selected, the average value of the shear in all pixels in a survey might be
pushed to a non-zero value. This is not the case. Consider the estimator
for the convergence:
\begin{equation}
\kappa^{\rm obs}(\v{x})=\int \frac{d^2\l}{(2\pi)^2} e^{i\v{\l}\cdot\v{x}} \int d^2 x' e^{-i\v{\l}\cdot\v{x}'} \left[ \cos(2\phi_\l) \gamma^{\rm obs}_1(\v{x}')
+\sin(2\phi_\l) \gamma^{\rm obs}_2(\v{x}')\right]\eql{mean}
\end{equation}
where $\phi_\l$ is the angle between $\v{\l}$ and the $x$-axis, and $\gamma^{\rm obs}_a(\v{x})$ are the measured ellipticities. We have argued that inevitably
\begin{equation}
\gamma^{\rm obs}_a(\v{x}) \rightarrow \gamma_a(\v{x})\left[1+\delta_{\rm obs}\right]
\end{equation}
so contains quadratic terms such as $\gamma_a(\v{x})\kappa(\v{x})$. Symmetry though dictates that the means of these terms, $\langle \gamma_a(\v{x}')\kappa(\v{x}') \rangle$, in \refeq{mean} vanish: $\gamma_1$ is just as likely to be positive as negative so $\gamma_1\kappa$ averages to zero. The mean therefore of any
{\it linear} combination of the shear components remains zero in the presence of the corrections considered here.

\subsection{B-Modes}
\label{sec:Bmodes}

Cooray and Hu~\cite{Cooray:2002mj} pointed out that corrections to the Born approximation inevitably lead to non-zero B-modes. Lensing bias (and reduced shear) also produce B-modes; the Gaussian contribution to the spectrum is (see Appendix \ref{app:b}):
\begin{equation}
C^B(\l) = (1+q)^2 \int\frac{d^2\l'}{(2\pi)^2}
\sin(2\phi_{\l'})
C^\kappa(\l') C^\kappa(\vert\v{\l}-\v{\l}'\vert) \left[ \sin(2\phi_{\l'})+ \sin(2\phi_{\v{\l}'-\v{\l}})\right].
\end{equation}
Apart from geometric factors and the prefactor, this is of order
$l^2C^\kappa(l) \sim 10^{-4}$  smaller than the E-mode spectrum,
in qualitative agreement with the terms analyzed in \cite{Cooray:2002mj}.
While the factor of $(1+q)^2$ could provide a boost of order 10 to this
B-mode power spectrum, the amplitude is still likely too small to be detected
in upcoming surveys. Therefore, B-modes will continue to serve as excellent
checks of systematic effects. Note that on very small scales, the
non-Gaussian contribution from the trispectrum
might be significant. A calculation of this contribution is much more involved
and is left for future work.

\subsection{Galaxy-shear correlation}
\label{sec:galshear}

Following an argument analogous to the one presented for the shear-shear correlation function, we can derive the impact of lensing bias on the galaxy-shear correlation function.  The equivalent of \refeq{xihat2} for the correlation of a background shear $\gamma_a$ with foreground galaxies is:
\begin{equation}
\<\hat\xi_{ga}(\th)\> = \left \langle \frac{1}{\mathcal{N}'}\d^{\rm fg}_{\rm obs}(1)\:
[1+\d_{\rm obs}(2)]\gamma_a(2) \right \rangle,
\label{eq:xihatgk}
\end{equation}
where $\mathcal{N}'$ again is from the normalizing denominator in the estimator
defined in \refapp{exact}.
Expanding \refeq{xihatgk}, we obtain the
following corrections to the galaxy-shear correlation:
\begin{eqnarray}
\<\hat\xi_{ga}(\th)\> &=& \<\d^{\rm fg}_g(1)\gamma_a(2)\> + q^{\rm fg} \<\k^{\rm fg}(1)\gamma_a(2)\> \nonumber\\
&+& \<\,[\d^{\rm fg}_g(1) + q^{\rm fg}\,\k^{\rm fg}(1)]\,\d_g(2)\gamma_a(2)\> \nonumber\\
&+& q \<\,[\d^{\rm fg}_g(1) + q^{\rm fg}\,\k^{\rm fg}(1)]\,\k(2)\gamma_a(2)\>
\label{eq:xiexpgk}
\end{eqnarray}
Here, $q^{\rm fg}$ and $\k^{\rm fg}$ denote $q$ and convergence for the
foreground galaxies. The first line of \refeq{xiexpgk} shows the lowest order
contributions,
including the lensing bias of foreground galaxies \cite{ZiourHui,Bernstein08},
while the second line shows the corrections due to source-lens clustering
which we again assume to be small. Finally, the third line shows the
contributions due to lensing effects on the background shear. These
are again similar to the corresponding reduced shear correction,
apart from the factor of $q$.
In total, we expect
the lensing bias effects on the galaxy-shear correlation to be
of similar size as those on the shear autocorrelation (\refsec{results}),
and to scale similarly with redshift.

\subsection{Shear tomography}
\label{sec:tomo}

Measuring shear correlations between different
redshift slices allows for precise constraints on the expansion history
of the Universe and the dark energy equation of state, $w$. Using the Fisher matrix
technique, Shapiro \cite{Shapiro}
estimated the dark energy parameter biases incurred when neglecting
the reduced shear correction. Since the change to the shear-shear power spectrum
due to reduced shear and lensing bias scales as $1+q$, we expect the corresponding
parameter biases to increase by a factor of $2-3$ for $q=1-2$ if these effects
are neglected.
For example, for a DES-like survey (DETF Stage-III), we expect a biasing
of $w$ at the $2-3\,\sigma$ level for a flat $w$CDM model.

\subsection{Shear variance and aperture mass}
\label{sec:variance}

Apart from the correlation function,
shear auto-correlations are often measured
in terms of top-hat variance $\gamma_\theta$ and aperture mass
$M_{\rm ap}(\theta)$ (e.g., \cite{MunshiEtal,FuEtal}).
These estimators use window functions which weight angular scales in
different ways. White \cite{White05} showed that the reduced shear
correction has a $\sim 12$\% effect on the top-hat shear variance
even on large scales. This is because small scales contribute strongly
to the shear variance. Following the results of the previous section,
we expect this effect to be amplified by $(1+q)$ to a total of
$\sim 24-36$\% when including both reduced shear and lensing bias.
In case of the aperture mass, angular scales much smaller than the
filter scale are downweighted, so that
the effect on the aperture mass variance is smaller;
we expect a $\sim 10-25$\% correction for $\theta \lesssim 4\,$arcmin.

\section{Conclusions}
\label{sec:concl}

Estimates of cosmic shear suffer from lensing bias: the way one selects
galaxies to estimate shear is correlated with the shear field itself.
This correlation reflects the fact that cosmic shear and
magnification are due to the same foreground matter along the line of sight,
and magnification and size bias can scatter source galaxies into or out of
the galaxy catalog.

Lensing bias needs to be understood if lensing is to be used as a precision probe of the
dark sector. We estimated that neglecting lensing bias and its cousin reduced shear when interpreting the results of a DETF Stage III cosmic shear experiment
such as DES will
lead to estimates of the dark energy equation of state which differ from the true value by 2-3
statistical standard deviations. Thus, this is an important
systematic that needs
to be addressed. In fact, lensing bias is likely to pollute other lensing
measures even
more severely: piggy-backing on the calculation of \cite{White05} for reduced shear alone, we estimate
that lensing bias + reduced shear will affect shear variance and
aperture mass variance at the $20-30$\% level.
This could well be of importance to weak-lensing selected clusters, since
cluster finding and mass estimates from weak lensing are based on
estimators similar to aperture mass or top hat variance \cite{HamanaEtal2004,MaturiEtal2005}.
Lensing bias is also likely to be the most significant source of cosmological
B-modes in the shear field, at roughly $\sim 10^{-3}$
of the E-modes on small scales for the Gaussian contribution.

Correcting for these biases should not be too difficult: the perturbative
calculation presented here
has been shown to agree with simulations~\cite{Dodelson:2005ir}. While better
calibration is needed, this is clearly a
solvable problem, especially on large scales where baryons are not a factor.
Moreover, one can imagine calibrating from the data itself by varying size
and magnitude cuts to isolate $q$. Indeed, one possible application
of lensing bias is as a calibrator for multiplicative and additive shear
errors. We plan to explore this possibility in future work.

\acknowledgments
We would like to thank Chaz Shapiro for helping us in cross-checking our
calculations, and Jim Annis for providing the galaxy redshift
distribution from DES mock catalogs. In addition, we are grateful to
Wayne Hu and Andrew Zentner for helpful discussions.

This work was supported by the Kavli Institute for Cosmological
Physics at the University of Chicago through grants NSF PHY-0114422 and
NSF PHY-0551142, and by the US Department of Energy, including grants
DE-FG02-95ER40896 and DE-FG02-92-ER40699. LH acknowledges support by the
Initiatives in Science and Engineering Program
at Columbia University.  ER was funded by the Center for Cosmology and
Astro-Particle Physics (CCAPP) at The Ohio State
University, and by NSF grant AST 0707985.
ES is supported by DOE grant DE-AC02-98CH10886.

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