"At the international and national level, we think this is probably the most detailed attempt to date to measure what governments are doing in response to plastic pollution, though admittedly incomplete," said co-lead investigate next step would be to try to work with modelers and others to estimate how much of an effect these observed government responses will have on the problem."
"Obviously, we already have a lot of plastic in the environment out there," Diana said. "What are the ways that policy can help us to manage this plastic, to produce it more responsibly, and to dispose of it in more responsible manners?"
—even if it doesn't show up in the ocean—i" he said"
While governments are increasingly responding to at least some types of plastic pollution, another question remains: Have those efforts worked?
"Most of the studies we reviewed evaluated the effectiveness of plastic bag fees, taxes, and bans," Diana said. "But bags are only one type of plastic. Many of our clothes, household items, packaging, and so many other objects are made of plastic, all of which produce microplastics and nanoplastics."
"The U.N. Environment Assembly has said that they would like to see a global monitoring of responses at all levels to this problem and progress in addressing it," Virdin said. "This provides a tool for the U.N. to more systematically track how governments are responding."," said Tom Dillon, Pew's vice president for environment, following the release of the report. "."
"China is undoubtedly a pivotal driver in the global plastic pandemic, but the country also could hold important keys to addressing it," Fürst said. "nd throughout the country we're seeing new and innovative policies and technological advancements to mitigate the plastic pandemic."
"As new information on COVID-19 transmission emerges and the pandemic passes, we would expect local government responses in the U.S. to change," the quartet wrote. "U.S. municipalities have the opportunity to reassess risk and refine best practices for preventing COVID-19 and reducing the use of single-use plastic bags."


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Hi there, my darlings! For those of you who follow me regularly on Instagram, you may have noticed that I test, review and often fall in love with a lot of fine fragrances. This hasn't been anything new in my life, I get my obsession with fragrances from the mothership. She seems to have passed down that love to both my sister and I--all three of us have a thing for ALWAYS smelling good! Most people have a signature fragrance or two...we have a signature fragrance arsenal! Personally, I feel that fragrance is one of the most potent tools in a woman's arsenal for not only enhancing her mood but for setting the scene. There's always that one fragrance that will instantly cheer me up or a couple that I reserve for exclusively for special occasions. One brand that never seems to let me down when I need a particularly delicious scent is Estee Lauder! I mean, HELLO, Pleasures! Over the years, I have found their fragrances not only to be unique in their individual scent bouquets but also quite irresistible! Today, I'll be sharing my thoughts on two fragrances from Estee Lauder's Modern Muse collection, courtesy of Octoly.
This one is the sexier, more sophisticated cousin of the the original. The floral bouquet is richer, more intense, more satisfying for me personally. I love the notes of Rose and Raspberry with the hints of pink pepper and patchouli making it bolder and more noticeable. I have worn this out on a couple of occasions and gotten loads of compliments. While I like both versions of Modern Muse, this one has inched its way to being my favorite! If you like a bold, heady floral, you definitely must try this oneModern Muse on Estee Lauder's website HERE. You can also purchase them at Ulta, Sephora, Macy's, and anywhere else fine fragrances are sold across the US.
Estee Lauder is a global brand available in over 39 countries around the world!
Do you have a favorite Estee Lauder fragrance?It almost sounds like the original is the summer version while Le Rouge is for cooler temps. I'm sure both would be great to have.
I have the original Modern Muse. Sounds like I should have held out for the Rouge edition.
The blend of lovely extravagant fragrance Heidi Klum Face Cream in perfume makes the sweet kind of fascination which regularly means character of suppleness and appeal.


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... it's always a little weird to put the 'before' and 'after' side by side. It's what I call the 'Sistine chapel' effect
(When Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel were restored, the world was shocked by the difference. After removing centuries of dirt, grime and yellowed varnish the colors were vivid and more pastel and the overall effect was much lighter and less somber than we had grown accustomed to.)
Digital technology makes possible the 'restoration' of printed and photographed examples of popular culture and history that otherwise are destined to decay into oblivion . The original paper and inks of magazines, books etc. cannot be restored. 'Collectors', many of whom have streams on Flickr, are bound and obligated to show their pieces in 'original' unretouched form.
Digital restoration is a tricky business. The need is to 'remove' the effects of wear and tear and fading without losing site of the original style, look and intentions of color and detail. There are not many people who have the skill, the time and the dedication to do this- and do it for the love of it without compensation.
Another interesting example of what we think the past looked like and what it really was, is the phenomenon of our thinking of old photos as being faded and brownish in color. Of course that is a result of their aging and the instability of silver- chemical based photography. The past was just as vivid and detailed as the present.
I am always learning- and my goal remains to show these pieces of history as close to the way they looked when they were not yet 'history'- but a part of living contemporary culture.
I believe, from my own experience, this provides a dynamic insight and a further chance to 'stand in the shoes' of those who have gone before.
Finally- the surest from of preservation is reproduction and dissemination. Computers and the Internet make this possible. What was once a few examples, hidden away and decaying can now be reborn a million times over and seen worldwide. Restored and preserved for generations to come!
x-ray delta one's favorite photos from other Flickr members (3,144)
NASA's Marshall... No real name given
holmesk2 No real name given
carolina.rbm No real name given
Car Ads 13,306 photos, 421 members
Movie posters and pictures... 1,447 photos, 64 members
Vintage Magazines 63,392 photos, 3,334 members
1970's 21,511 photos, 1,247 members
Cold War Jets and Bunkers 5,158 photos, 195 members
The Second World War 5,747 photos, 340 members
Women’s Work 653 photos, 123 members
The Cinema Film Poster 1,802 photos, 164 members
Cold War Air Power 7,896 photos, 143 members
New Deal Post Office Murals 3,590 photos, 137 members
WPA 1,209 photos, 245 members
The FABULOUS FIFTIES - 1950s - Moderate Filter 12,368 photos, 925 members
Mid-Century Illustrations 654 photos, 108 members
Classic Movie 7,310 photos, 193 members
The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (That Never Came) 780 photos, 36 members
HOLLYWOOD SPOTLIGHT 18+ (moderate safety filter) 11,576 photos, 520 members
Mid-Century Modern: The Architecture 1,106 photos, 47 members
Mid-Century Modern: The Advertisements 849 photos, 118 members
vintage paperback 33,075 photos, 1,017 members
Pulp Fiction 9,436 photos, 1,473 members
Older Automobile Magazine Ads 8,853 photos, 495 members
Espionage & Action Art Gallery 11,619 photos, 477 members
Nostalgic Airline Ads (1950's - 1980's) 738 photos, 155 members
Mid-century Space Illustration 1,270 photos, 261 members
Atomic Living 14,529 photos, 646 members
Science, Technology, History 63,350 photos, 1,585 members
Cold War Aircraft 36,358 photos, 693 members
WW2 38,465 photos, 1,485 members
Ads Through the Ages 49,949 photos, 749 members
Fabulous Fifties Heaven (1950-59) 29,508 photos, 1,092 members
My Favorite Ads - Vintage Only 37,249 photos, 753 members
retro america 24,842 photos, 624 members
vintage fashion photography and illustration 4,866 photos, 551 members
Airship 2,963 photos, 541 members
The Art of Science 8,266 photos, 814 members
1960's 21,745 photos, 1,137 members
Cutaways-It's What's Inside That Counts! 1,696 photos, 394 members
Illustration 562,185 photos, 34,136 members
World War 1 and World War 2 Posters 892 photos, 144 members
Movie posters 9,593 photos, 583 members
*atomic age* 7,310 photos, 1,024 members
OUTERSPACE 3,112 photos, 378 members
MODERNISM 31,687 photos, 2,450 members
Mid-Century Modern 24,344 photos, 1,756 members
Science Fiction Unleashed 41,723 photos, 3,146 members
Movie Land 22,072 photos, 350 members
Wedge Heels & Wartime - Forties in Print [VINTAGE] 7,512 photos, 863 members
Cover of a Magazine 10,080 photos, 1,343 members
Space Exploration 20,542 photos, 2,621 members
Far-Out Outer Space 6,261 photos, 337 members
"This entire photostream is the most incredible treasure trove.
It's like Mr. Vaughan takes a trip with his personal time machine into old drugstores, book shops, and grabs magazines, pulp fiction, etc. from the early to mid 20th century and brings it back for all to enjoy.
I'm 61 and don't remember some of the incredible detail that's presented here"
"So glad x-ray delta one came back from the flickr pause many of us took. Amazing stuff Sir! I love it all!"
"You have a wonderful stream with a surprising variety - war and propaganda posters, sci-fi and advertising, movie screencaps, comics pages and many many more. Here is a great sense of the past behind these images. And, of course, these American 50's "dream come true" cars, I like them all very much.
Thank you for sharing your collection with us."
"Quite the impressive collection of material regarding all things printed! A most valuable resource of 20th century commercial artwork! Simply great!
Keep up the great work x-ray!"
"An impressive assemblage of images. You are a collector with a good eye for telling details. Long may these images endure."
"Hi - I am new to these photo-sharing sites - maybe 2 or 3 weeks - and i can already tell that yours is the class act of the bunch. Comparing it to others, the question arises: why would one post images on a sharing site, and then disable downloading? If the images are your own artwork or photography, I get that... but sourced ads and photos? Now, when i am in the galleries and I see one of those names, I scoot right past with a vague distaste for that person. Your images are obviously culled with care, and nicely filtered and prepped (I do photoshop and have scanned many items from books and magazines, and have seen and mitigated the miore associated with offset and multi-plate printing). And you most always have a size or three larger than the so-called "1024" size, where most users top out.
My apologies for being so long-winded, but you need to know that your efforts are appreciated by some of us out here on a deeper level than the standard "Wow, Neat-O" of the majority of users...
I have never before considered a 'blog' but now there are ideas floating around in my head.. Thanks for being such an inspiration and please keep it up.
Gratefully, James Propst (Mercury 7)"
"I have to be careful where I am when I access the images from x-ray delta one & the flow of comments they generate - if I do so at public library computer terminals, people wonder why that person over there is laughing so much.."
Walter P Q says:
Thank you for this unmatched, superb graphic material. I’m an art director and love all the spectrum – from Syd Mead to old Revell boxes, from Gemini Program to Kubrick; I’m also a big fan of American classic ad illustration . It has been a meditative pleasure to circulate through those virtual shelves full of interesting and amusing graphic material.
In other hand… about your collection that came from old “Macho magazines” - You, The Fenriswolf, Hello Chicago, Hydra Five, Barry Fackler, Steven_M61, Michael Paul Smith, Skipgoforth, Sir Basil Birchbottom, Era 51, Axeman 3d, The unrequitedTV, DEM’s book shelves…
…all of you are better than Monty Python.
I haven’t laughed like this in many years. Mort Kunstler and all the pulp culture will never be the same after you and your friends. I’ll always think – “What those guys will say about this? “
Thank you for turning that mountain of stupidity and bad taste into a renewed pleasure. You must be in TV, as a debate group of pulp or contemporary art.
"...His collection is amazing, his restorations impeccable, his admiration for Rockwell admirable ( be careful what you say there! ), but his bottomless well of patience in regards to the ne'er do well's that flock to and opinionate on his stream that is his most sterling quality. Think of the owner of the corner garage, surrounded by the neighborhood know-it-all's...that's James..."
"He posts a lot of pics. It's fun to look at many of them. They often make me laugh and sometimes I learn something."
"You have one of the most intriguing collections on Flickr. I've been following your photo stream for a while and have never been disappointed. Thanks for the great stuff, looking forward to seeing more!"
"An absolutely wonderful collection. I'm not sure what's better: The images that James posts or the brilliant commentary that they generate. So, it's a good thing that they don't make us choose."
"GRANDISSIMO!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE YOUUUUUUUUUU!!!"
"One of my favorite photostreams on Flickr. This collection is truly educational, interesting and fun to peruse. Thank you!"
"Back in the late 50's and early 60's I looked for these magazines all the time. My parents thought I I had a sex problem or worse. . .I enjoyed the art on the covers. That is when I began to collect the covers and file them away under different topics. They were a great source of information and ideas while at college. In the early 70's they were lost in a fire and water damage from thr water used to extingush the fire. While living in Monterey CA from 1976 to 2002 I again began to collect different magazines in many of the book store. Thanks for your collection. They do come in handy for a source of information and interest."
"Thank you for all these nice pics. Your collection is really great and retro SF pics still make me dreaming as if I was a child."
"You are such a flickr badass in my eyes. Thanks for all of the work you put into your stream. It really is appreciated."
"I, as do many others appreciate the time and effort that X-ray Delta one has put into his photostream. A slice of Americana. This site is a great time capsule. Very progresive and optomistic. The ad's from the past looked toward the future. The ad's of today looked towards the past.This is exemplified in this photostream.Thanks"
"James just GETS IT. His scans are top-notch in quality, easy access, and his range of images and appreciation for cool stuff is tremendous."
"wow x-ray what a truly amazing collection,since stumbling onto it i have spent hours marveling, in fact i now check for new posts everyday.your sets come from a time when men dared to dream and ads and art had a real richness that is sorely missing these days,although i was born in 76' i have always had an interest in yesteryear especially the 50's and atomic/cold war material. funny now that we are living in the era that a lot of your old sci-fi art and ad's depict i find myself thinking more and more it really was better in the good ole days.keep up the good work. s.s"
"Thank you for all these images. When I was a kid I was living in Rome (Italy) and I remember my mother bringing home all US magazines and Searrs catalogues on which me and my brother were dreaming. We were cutting off the magazines all our desires and from time to time my father who was a pilot was bringing home from the US one of our dreams.
Thank you for making me feel like a kid.
"Thanks for the awesome collection. I love creating 1950s-1960s inspired designs and happen to have some projects that require such designs so researching some inspiration has been easy through your flickr."
"Esta galería es impresionante. Me paso largo tiempo cada día disfrutandola. Yo residí en EE.UU. desde el año 1958 hasta finales de los 60 y la nostalgia me embarga. Enhorabuena por esta idea de publicar todo este material. Gracias, muchísimas gracias."
Michael Paul Smith says:
" I find myself visiting x-ray delta one every day.
It's a blast from the past, a daily nostalgic boost, a sigh for the future that never happened and a rush of OMG! I remember that!, all rolled into one.
It's a little slice of heaven, right here on Flickr."
"As a "Mid-Century Person"(,which sounds better than the previous: "Old Guy"),I want to thankJim for posting all these wonderful memories of the times I have lived in.
I can see Jim has put forth a lot of effort and thought and energy into his wonderful photo stream, and believe me,many people love what he has done.
Keep up the good work Jim....I'm lovin' it!"
"As the actress Simone Signoret once wrote, "Nostalgia Ain't What It Used To Be."
But x-ray delta brings alive, with tongue firmly in cheek, an era which is fun to re-visit. An age in which anything was possible, women were impossibly glamourous, everything was clean and streamlined - and good design ruled."
Adventures of the Blackgang says:
"From Maritime Monday on gCaptain:
BOYS AND THEIR TOYS: Cold War Kitsch is all the rage on X-Ray Delta One’s CRAZY ABOUT THE COLD WAR flickr set See Also: Retro Tech, we love PROPAGANDA, Motorola Future, YESTERYEAR- pre WW2, and many others. It’s a celebration of We Like Ike Chic that approaches Bacchanalian proportions. A veritable baby-boomer nostalgia cream dream. Oh, he has a blog, too.
Thoth, God of Knowledge says:
"If you're looking for the best of the best on flickr look no further! X-ray Delta One always has something new and interesting to boggle at. Subscribe to his photostream feed with your RSS reader of choice and prepare to never be bored.
For graphic designers, pop historians, artistic folks and anyone who likes interesting bits and bobs he has assembled 1,215 wonderful works (as of this writing), all available watermark-less and as large as he can get them! Retrofuturism, popluxe, all stripes of Americana, Rockwell, World War propaganda, cult film posters - all there for the discerning eye!
The one thing to wonder about is how he crams so much awesome stuff into so little time: his account was made July 2009 - that's over 8 high quality and gorgeous images a day!


What a look, dear readers. The mosaic-like tiles in all those metallic shades of crimson; the ridiculously flattering black stripes; the badass strappy shoes that call back to the stripes in the dress perfectly.  She plays by her own deliciously unpredictable rules.
This was my Spring 2014 red carpet prediction for Diane Kruger; though it’s a touch too long on petite Nicole Richie, it’s still a fabulous and incredibly unusual look. The boldly colored stripes in the skirt remind me of Hailee Steinfeld’s amazing dress from the 2011 SAG Awards (one of my favorite looks in red carpet history), and I think the shape of that crop top is really interesting. The floral embellishments on the shoulders bring some romance and softness to an otherwise modern look.
I’ve grown weary of peplums over the last few months, but at least model Joan Smalls gives us a new, two-textured take on the ubiquitous trend. And honestlytrend, this olive green color is a delight on her. And the asymmetrical cut looks positively flawless on her.
The perfect balance of princessy and pure sex. That iced blue color and the delicate, feminine draping give things a romantic vibe, even with the keyhole in front, but the cut-outs on the side were a delicious, sexy surprise.
I love how much Pharrell loves Lanvin. It makes me really happy, even when his too-short pants tend to ruin an otherwise supremely fierce look. The gray jacket is darling, but the blue shoes? Those would be works of art, if his bare ankle wasn’t exposed.
Ms. Nyong’o continues her streak of red carpet excellence, this time juxtaposing her sweet, youthful dress with hard, fierce accessories. The boxy clutch and the truly stunning straps on those shoes? Perfect styling choices. This woman continues to wow me more and more with every look.
 Crystal Renn makes it work, of course, but few others could.
I’ll say it, dear readers: I am OVER Rooney Mara and any monochromatic looks that make her look like she’s wearing a cocoon. This has gone on way, WAY too long. No matter how interesting or surprising something is when you’re wearing it for the first time, by the eight thousandth time, we’re really, REALLY over it.
Love the dress. The matching navy satin accessories are better worn with a bridesmaid’s dress than a red carpet cocktail dress, but my love of print and color outweighs my distaste for matchy-matchiness. Oh, and can my hair look like that all the time, please?
I’m calling it now – I’m officially over Natalie Portman in anything black, white, and Dior. Of the twelve designer looks she’s worn since March, eleven of them have been Dior, and seven of those looks have been black or white. For the love of God, Natalie, branch out a bit. It’s not that you don’t look good in monochromatic Dior – it’s that you’d look good in anything, so take some goddamn risks for a change.
YUM. I know sexiness is in the eye of the beholder, and People Magazine isn’t an authority on literally anything, but I’ll never understand how they landed on Adam Levine for this year’s “Sexiest Man Alive.” Not when Idris Elba exists and wears Burberry and is UNSTOPPABLY SEXY, for God’s sake.
Maybe I shouldn’t write posts first thing in the morning, because I feel like I’m starting every sentence with, “I’m tired of [insert starlet’s incessant love of wearing the same thing over and over again here].” So let me pause for a few more sips of coffee before I continue this rant.
 Especially when she’s wearing what is probably my favorite Gaga outfit in months, if not years.  The proportions are kind of a mess, because Gaga is 5’1″ and wearing eight-inch heels, which can be hard to make work with a skirt that hits at the mid/lower calf, like this one does. But the pearl-covered platforms, the stuffy, almost Victorian-feeling suit, the gloves – all of them are insanely fabulous and perfectly Gaga. But the “I’m trying so hard to be hideous because THAT’S ART” hair and makeup? I just can’t take it anymore, dear readers.
Scarlett, you’ve been on the red carpet for something like fifteen years. Why are you dressed like a tween WB star who hasn’t learned how to style herself/hire the right people to style her yet? She doesn’t look terrible, just very, very confused about how to dress. And at this point in her career, there’s no excuse for that.
Fashion-wise, I’m trying to be on Lena Dunham’s side, but it’s hard when she wears things that don’t even come close to fitting her. It’s not like she’s buying this off the rack and wearing it that night, like us normal people – she has the option of getting things tailored to her. So why she refuses to do so and instead wears the world’s least-flattering, droopiest bodice is beyond me.
 It’s just plain sloppy, and painfully overworked, and it’s not remotely flattering. There’s something very 1970s about the styling, and not in a new-and-improved way. Just in a sad-lady-at-a-disco way.
Call me when you wear a trend that didn’t get worn to death three years ago, okay, Rosie? For such an obscenely beautiful woman, she makes some painfully ordinary fashion choices.
YOU’RE TWENTY-FOUR YEARS OLD, FOR GOD’S SAKE.
First rule of faux-nude dresses: they absolutely CANNOT get wrinkled. Because they’re supposed to look like your skin, and so any wrinkles in the dress look like wrinkles in your body, which can be a bit off-putting on a 24-year-old starlet. But wrinkles aside, I still think there’s nothing saving this dress. The way it’s shredded into strips on the sides just looks kind of dingy and sad, especially since the length is about a foot too long on her. The silly putty shoes were a boring choice, and this faux-woodland-creature aesthetic just doesn’t work on Lily.
I don’t know where to begin, dear readers. The square, napkin-like sleeves? Awful. The “look, it’s my thigh! Isn’t that fascinating!” skirt? Awkward and ill-fitting. And the green satin shoes? Has she gone completely insane?
Lupita Nyong’o is going to be ALL OVER March Fabness.
Re: my all-time favorite looks: nearly all of them end up in March Fabness, but in addition to that, every December I do a “best of the year” post – which reminds me, I should probably start working on that! I haven’t discussed red carpet fashion that pre-dates my blog, but maybe when awards season comes again I’ll do a Best of the Oscars through the ages, or something like that!


A versatile 6-1 guard, Citron was all over the court for Coach Ivey, ranking in the team’s top 4 in points, rebounds, assists and steals. Citron not only made the first waves for the ACC Freshman of the Year, but also the 6th woman. She has an impressive average of 12.3 points off the bench – the second most on the team. Plus, she’s already a four-time ACC freshman of the week winner.
Finally, Citron was phenomenal from the charity strip, shooting 91.4%, which leads all ACC players and ranks 15th in the nation. She is 32 for 35 on the year.
Then there’s Olivia Miles. She has a double-digit scoring average (12.0), leads the NATION in assists (7.8) and happens to be the team’s best 7.0 boards/game as a playmaker. Those numbers put Miles in an elite club because she and Caitlin Clark of Iowa are the only two in the country with an average of at least 10p/7r/7a.
The highest attendance average for a freshman at ND was 4.5 by Mary Gavin in 1984-85.
– a near triple-double at UConn .
Against Pitt on December 19, Miles became the fourth Irish player to record a double-double of 20+ points and 10+ assists – the other three were Skylar Diggins-Smith, Marina Mabrey and Jackie Young. Miles had a career-high 21 points, 11 assists, six rebounds and six steals.


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I send this again, since the former post involved a period at a top of a line
and was cut intermediately.
I have several questions on your construction of S-matrix.
> Contrary to earlier expectations, it seems that one cannot assign
>explicit Schr\"odinger equation with S-matrix although the
>general structure of the solutions of the Virasoro conditions
>is same as that associated with time dependent perturbation theory
>and S-matrix is completely analogous to that obtained as
>time evolution operator $U(-t,t)$, $t\rightarrow \infty$ in
>the perturbation theory for Schr\"odinger equation.
Does this mean that your former equation
>i\frac{d}{dt}\Psi&=& H\Psi\per , \nonumber\\
>H &\equiv& k\left[-P_T^2 - L_0(vib)-L_0(int)\right]\Psi\per .
is wrong or cannot be derived by the former note?
>\Psi&=&\Psi_0 + \frac{V}{E-H_0-V+i\epsilon} \Psi \per .
(This is equation (1) of your note.)
>Since ordinary Schr\"odinger equation is consistent with the scattering
>matrix formalism avoiding elegantly the difficulties with the
>definition of the limit $U(-t,t)$, $t\rightarrow \infty$, it
>is natural to take this form of Schr\"odinger equation as starting
>point when trying to find Schr\"odinger equation for the 'time' evolution
>operator $U$. One can even forget the assumption
>about time evolution and require only
>that the basic algebraic information guaranteing
>unitarity is preserved. This information boils down to the Hermiticity
> of free and interacting Hamiltonians and
>to the assumption that the spectra
>non-bound states for free and interacting Hamiltonians
It is known that to consider the limit as \epsilon -> 0 in the Schrodinger
equation (1) of your note is equivalent to considering the time limit as t ->
\infty of exp(-itH). So you cannot avoid the difficulty: Below I will try to
The Schrodinger equation (1) in your note should be written as:
\Psi = \Psi_0 - V ((E+i \epsilon)-H)^{-1} \Psi,
\Psi = \Psi_0 - ((E+i \epsilon)-H)^{-1} V \Psi.
The reason we consider two equations is that the fractional expression in
your note has two interpretations, since the relevant factors are operators,
hence they are noncommutative in general. Also the sign on the RHS (right
hand side) should be minus if the definition of H is H = H_0 + V.
We write z = E+i\ep, where \ep = \epsilon > 0 and E is any real number.
In case (1), the equation is equivalent to
(I - V (H-z)^{-1} ) \Psi = \Psi_0.
(H - z - V) (H - z)^{-1} \Psi = \Psi_0,
(H_0-z) (H-z)^{-1}\Psi = \Psi_0 (1)'
(H-z)^{-1}\Psi = (H_0-z)^{-1}\Psi_0 (1)"
\Psi = (H-z)(H_0-z)^{-1}\Psi_0
= \Psi_0 + V(H_0-z)^{-1}\Psi_0 (1)'''
by H = H_0 + V.
Thus if \Psi_0 is a given fixed state function, \Psi depends on z = E+i\ep,
and it should be written as a function of z:
\Psi = \Psi(z).
Note that these hold only when \ep > 0, NOT for an infinitesimal number \ep
because the inverse (H-(E+i\ep))^{-1} does not exist for \ep = 0 in general.
\Psi_0
= (I - (H-z)^{-1} V)\Psi (2)'
= (H-z)^{-1} (H-z-V)\Psi
= (H-z)^{-1} (H_0 - z)\Psi.
This is rewritten:
\Psi(z) = (H_0-z)^{-1} (H-z) \Psi_0. (2)"
If we transform \Psi_0 and \Psi to
\Phi_0 = (H-z) \Psi_0,
\Phi = (H-z) \Psi,
the equation (2)" becomes
\Phi(z) = (H-z) (H_0-z)^{-1} \Phi_0. (2)'''
This has the same form as that of (1)''' at least formally (i.e. if we
neglect some topological properties).
Thus the relation between \Psi_0 and \Psi reduces to the equations
(1)'-(1)''':
f(z) := (H-z)^{-1}\Psi(z) = (H_0-z)^{-1} \Psi_0. (1)"
Now note that for \ep > 0, (H-z)^{-1} = (H-(E+i\ep))^{-1} is given by a
Laplace transform of the unitary propagator exp(-it(H-(E+i\ep))):
(H-(E+i\ep))^{-1} = i \int_0^\infty exp( -it(H-(E+i\ep)) ) dt,
i.e. with z = E+i\ep
(H - z)^{-1} = i \int_0^\infty exp( -it(H-z) ) dt.
A similar formula holds for the unperturbed (free) Hamiltonian H_0.
Thus (1)" is written as
f(z) = i \int_0^\infty exp( -is(H-z) ) \Psi(z) ds
= i \int_0^\infty exp( -is(H_0-z) ) \Psi_0 ds
= i \int_0^\infty exp( -is(H_0-E) ) exp(-\ep s) \Psi_0 ds,
when \ep>0.
Taking the Fourier transform of both sides of (5) wrt E, we obtain for t > 0
\int_{-\infty}^\infty exp(-itE) f(E+i \ep) dE
= \int_{-\infty}^\infty exp(-itE) \times
i \int_0^\infty exp( -is(H_0-E) ) exp(-\ep s) \Psi_0 ds dE
= 2 i \pi exp(-itH_0) exp(-\ep t) \Psi_0.
The treatment of the LHS requires some other arguments, but now let us assume
it gives a result like (6):
the LHS = 2 i \pi exp(-itH) exp(-\ep t) \Psi (7).
Then your equation (1) for \ep = 0 is equivalent to considering the time
dependent limit:
\Psi = \lim_{t -> \infty} exp(itH) exp(-itH_0) \Psi_0.
This formula is not exact, by the approximation that replaced \Psi(z) by
\Psi. But another argument can show that to consider the limit of (1) as
\epsilon -> 0 is equivalent to considering the limits
W_+ = lim_{t -> + \infty} exp(itH) exp(-itH_0).
W_- = lim_{t -> - \infty} exp(itH) exp(-itH_0).
These are called wave operators. The scattering operator is then given by
S = (W_+)* W_-
= lim_{t -> \infty} exp(itH_0) exp(-2itH) exp(itH_0).
Note: Your definition of scattering operator as the limit of U(t,-t) = exp
(-2itH) does not exist. It just oscillates forever. To eliminate the
oscillation and get a convergence needs to compare its behavior to the free
evolution exp(-2itH_0). This is the definition of wave operators.
S-matrix is a Fourier representation of S:
S^ = FSF^{-1}, F being Fourier transform.
Time independent method or stationary method looks simple but it involves the
limit as \ep -> +0 or -0 of the resolvent (H-E-i\ep)^{-1}, which corresponds
to the limit t -> +\infty or -\infty of the unitary propagator exp(-itH).
There are technical differences between the two, which might make treatments
possible in one method but not in the other. But the idea is the same in
>Unitarity of the S-matrix
>follows automatically, when scattering solutions are properly normalized
>and provided that free and interacting Virasoro generators
>$L_0$ can be regarded as Hermitian operators. Potential
>difficulties are caused by the fact that normalization constants
>can diverge: this is indeed what they do in quantum field field
>theories typically.
Even if normalization constant does not diverge, it is usually a hard task to
prove the unitarity of S-matrix. Physicists' conclusion is merely a guess,
not a proof. Also the Hermiticity of Hamiltonians is not enough to assure
the arguments are valid. It usually requires us to prove that the
Hamiltonians are self-adjoint in the first place at least.
Note: Hermiticity (or symmetricity) requires H to satisfy
H^* is an extension of H,
while self-adjointness requires
H^* = H.
These two are the same in the finite dimensional Hilbert space, but the
difference is crucial in the infinite dimensional Hilbert space.
There are many other neglects of rigorous arguments in physicists' guess.


I am a creative artist- in the purist way, passionate, conflicted, restless, dissatisfied, demanding, believing and compassionate; also I have a highly developed sense of humour.
I like well-made art, considered and well-conceived, well executed, the history of art and a lot of self-discovery. I don’t like labels, when I reflect on a work of art, it depends on me: the value I find. I like dialogue, so that as an observer I always gain knowledge about myself through my journey through a work, a journey into an alternative -where I represent the point of sensibility; if Rodin or Picasso relates to a figure their way, it permits me to relate in my way. I am interested in Permission at the moment. I feel practically self-developed.
Could you say what sculpture is, according to you?
At present I use clay, plaster, steel, stainless, bronze and, of course, stone, I’ve made sculpture with water, glass, sound, shadow, air, performance- sculpture is an activity.
Since my arrival to Israel I have become more aware of the Holocaust; it seems to me that as an event it is very active and behind many understandings in this country. In England, the concept of Sho’ah is hidden within numerous other layers, while here it occupies a significant dimension.
My coming to Israel did not much benefit my career, but that since my arrival here I have been very involved in teaching, and my ability to successfully convey my knowledge of sculpture to my students supports me. I can say that I feel that the language of sculpture is international. And I can say that being an artist and British in Israel has taught me about myself, my art, as well as about life in the broadest possible terms, sometimes too much so.
Also importantly for me to understand what it is to be a “Jewish Artist”, to discover a somehow alternative aesthetic, not based on the Greek archetype but on the “agreement to differ”, and where “wisdom of heart” is a central concept to art.
I opened “create – A – space” in 1999, primarily for myself, and in order to teach sculpture as I think it “should be done”, that is, in an independent and creative setting- different and exceptional. I wanted to create a space optimally equipped for myself and that would provide a place to work. A pragmatic but imaginative space, a school by necessity.
More than 200 people have studied sculpture in the studio and created some truly good work, imaginative, challenging and important work; it’s a privilege to facilitate that. The students evolve and interact with diversity, individuality, integrity and all in the world of sculpture and drawing; they work in clay, plaster, metal, stone and more. The studio is truly thrilling, creative and exciting, definitely not mediocre, not the usual kind of place.
It’s ready when it creates its own sound. It is complete when it is sold, like a wheel; it needs to go 361 degrees in order to move forward, to create movement.
Is there an artist with whose work you identify and who provides you with inspiration?
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Imagine Everything By Joshua Fields Millburn
Imagine your life a year from now. Two years. Five.
Imagine living a healthier life, one in which you don’t just look better, you feel better. Imagine a life with higher standards. Imagine a life with less clutter, less stuff, fewer distractions. What would it look like?
Imagine your life with less—less stress, less debt, less discontent. What would it feel like? Now imagine your life with more—more time, more contribution, more elation.
Imagine better, more interesting relationships. Imagine sharing meals and conversations and experiences and smiles with people who have similar interests and values and beliefs as you. Imagine growing with your peer group and your loved ones.
Now imagine cultivating your passion until you can’t imagine a day without pursuing it. Imagine creating more than you consume. Imagine giving more than you take. Imagine a consistent commitment to growth. Imagine growing toward your limits and then past your limits and waiving back at your previous limits with a smile.
Imagine still having problems, but better problems, problems that fuel your growth and excitement, problems you want to face.
Imagine getting everything out of the way so you can love the people closest to you. Imagine the myriad ways you can show your love, not just say it, but really show it. Imagine holding hands and exchanging hugs. Imagine making love with the man or woman you love, unencumbered by the trappings of the noisy world around you, fully in the moment, two bodies, flesh and hearts as one.
Imagine real success. Imagine making your priorities your Real Priorities. Imagine feeling lighter, freer, happier.
What you’re imagining is a meaningful life. Not a perfect life, not even an easy life, but a simple one. There will of course still be hardships and pain and times when slipping back to the old passive world is appealing, but you won’t have to, because the real payoff is worth the struggle.
“Imagine Everything” is an excerpt from Everything That Remains, a memoir that will be published in January 2014. Twitter: @ETRbook.
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Oil pulling and oral health.
Oil Pulling is such an interesting process and subject. Aside from all the magical and mystical healing attributed to it what I really notice most from doing it is that it cleans and freshens my mouth more than anything I have used or tried before, and for me that is a good enough reason for me to continue to do it often.
The general outline/guidelines for doing the process is to take 1 tablespoon of raw organic coconut oil and to swish it around your mouth and in and out of your teeth for at least fifteen minutes. After this period spit the oil out into the sink and rinse your mouth with fresh water, DO NOT swallow the oil as it supposedly contains all the toxins from your mouth.
What I like to do is to add in a few more bits and bobs to take it to the next level. What you will require to do so is the following:
1 tsp of bobs red mill baking soda (baking soda, NOT baking powder)
4 sprays of Ancient Minerals magnesium oil
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The Paradox Of Our Age:
~ the 14th Dalai Lama.
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My work is based upon a particular approach to the observed, dynamics of the human body. The body is not my subject but its physicality is my source of sculptural invention. I do not seek the literal, the allegorical or the metaphorical. I want to go beyond external appearances or associations to create a particular and unique heightened experience of the physical, fully expressed in three dimensional space.
I have been working with steel for forty years. I have never been daunted by the material but have always wanted to shape it and build with it myself.  I work directly with the material in the studio with no preconceived idea of what the sculpture should look like.
I continually try to rethink the relationship between my source; the material and the construction of the sculpture, to approach it with different emphasis each time.
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-2 tbsp of organic hibiscus flower
-750ml of spring water
-2 tbsp of Organic black chia seed
-3/4 dropper full of SweetLeaf  Chocolate and Raspberry
Make tea by bringing the spring water to just below boiling point and pouring over the hibiscus flowers. Leave to steep over night. In morning strain the tea to remove the flowers and then add the chia and the stevia. Screw lid onto the jar and give it a good shake. Leave chia to soak for half an hour until it becomes gelatinous and then it is ready to drink. Alternatively it can be refrigerated for an hour or two and drank cold as an iced tea.
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Life can often leave you feeling a bit lost for purpose, perhaps even empty inside, but there’s a great way to regain your clarity on what matters in this world: go traveling. Bronze sculptor Bruno Catalano has created an fascinating series of sculptures called “Travellers” which depict people setting out on their journey with suitcase in hand and the center of their bodies missing. It’s as if that hole is their lost self, and they’ve set out to rediscover it.
Catalano, a native of southern France, has cleverly cast the sculptures to balance from their feet, up through the suitcase and its often delicate handle, to the arm and torso above. Even at a close distance the effect is striking and easily convinces the eye. But what makes his work really stand out is the placement of each piece and the resulting background that shows through its empty center. Be it snowy hillsides or sweeping seascapes, it’s as if these travelers are finding themselves in the scenery that surrounds them.
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Durer, “Sane judgement abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetuated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence. Now this sole reason why painters of this sort are not aware of their own error is that they have not learned geometry, without which no one can either be or become an absolute artist.”
Becoming a painter is first about understanding form. If one is under the misconception that it is about observing and copying shapes alone they will never totally grasp the geometry that underlies the surface. Durer as well as his contemporaries knew that painters constructed from a knowledge base that included a great deal of geometry. Seeing as an artist is about learning to see the world broken down into its most elemental components. We have to convert the Norm into Form. It is this visual information that allows the artist to translate nature into the visual language. Learning to see is learning to see the natural universal as geometry and form. Because Geometry forms the natural universe.


What’s remarkable is not that neo-liberalism, as well-watered (and shall we also say, well-fertilized?) as it is, lives; what is remarkable, intellectually, is how difficult it has been to resuscitate institutionalism, post-Samuelson. Oliver Williamson and Public Choice theory are like some withered, crabbed pines at the edge of a vast, empty desert. Economics clings to mathematical idealism and what was referred to, in another recent post, as the two-step of “â€œtwo-step of terrific trivialityâ€, aggressively venturing “rational-behavior” explanations of an epistemologically very weak kind for all kinds of observed behavior (see Freakonomics), and then retreating into the hard-shell of only minor tweaks to the high-rationality of perfect and complete information, to do foundational theory.
are Italy and Greece mirror images of the Anglophone syndrome, where the consumer base was maintained in the face of productivity decline not though house flipping and paper profits, but public debt? If so, then we are putting too much weight on neoliberalism as the manifestation of market encroachment, as opposed to understanding a number of different phenomena including neoliberalism but also public debt burden as reflecting absence of broad-based growth drivers, margins that have been exhausted (e.g. labor force participation) and pressures of international tradeâ€”to which different countries have responded in different ways.


TORA has appointed Alex Findlay as the New York-based Director of Sales of thprovider.
As Director of Sales, he will leverage his 15 years of experience in financial products and sales to focus on bringing TORA’s integrated suite of trading technology to US based customers.
Alex Findlay will replace Mark Moran, who left the comprany earlier this year to launch his own venture, Peak6recruiters.
Alex Findlay joined TORA from State Street, where he worked as a sales and relationship manager for the FX Connect product, first in London and then in New York.
Prior to that, he worked at Bloomberg as Technical Account Manager for clients of the B-PIPE Enterprise Market Data feed. He had previously worked as a market analyst at Thomson Reuters.
Both OEMS and PMS cover all kinds of asset classes and instruments across equities, fixed income, derivatives and FX. The firm has recently been acquired by the London Stock Exchange Group, which will allow it to broaden its reach.
TORA is headquartered in San Francisco and has over 250 employees across offices in London, Tokyo.


LAKEWOOD, NJ – Neutrik's IP65 rated opticalCON® has taken to the road with LiveWire Remote Recorders. Neutrik's opticalCON is being used in LiveWire's mobile broadcast truck, to record live concerts in cities throughout the U.S. opticalCON, a ruggedized and dirt protected fiber optic connector system that offers water jet and dust protection features needed for mobile and outdoor connections, was the perfect choice for LiveWire for the company's mobile connectivity needs.
LiveWire's mobile broadcast truck is a 32' long air-ride trailer, with a machine room, control room, and voiceover room. Equipped with 5.1 surround sound monitoring, the truck can provide up to 96 tracks of Protools|HD® for recording concerts anywhere in North America.
Using two 500' cables and one 1000' cable, purchased through SF Marketing, Neutrik's Canadian distributor, LiveWire uses the cables to run 96 microphone lines to the mobile truck from the stage. Each cable has a redundant backup line, so there are two connectors at each end, a major feature for LiveWire because of the need for added reliability when recording live.
Another advantage to fiber optic cable is the ability to run long cable lengths without sacrificing sound. "Because the microphone pre amps are on stage, we're running cables 500 feet, 850 or 1,000 feet if we're doing a stadium gig," continues McClement. "We used to experience signal degradation on our old analog snake runs longer than 300 feet. Since we've installed Neutrik fiber optic snakes running from the SSL Stageboxes back to the truck, there's no signal loss.
With its ability to seal the connector against dust and protect it against water jet, Neutrik's opticalCON is the ultimate in waterproof connections for the broadcast market. The s by .
opticalCON comes pre-a which can be ordered at almost any length, uses conventional LC connectors and has a Push-Pull locking mechanism. Colored labeling plates are also included to help identify the fiber mode.


October 14, 2019 by Archon's Den
’19 A To Z Challenge – O
All that changed in 1986, when Disney Studio released the animated movie, The Mouse Detective, with a cute little female mouse named Olivia Flaversham, and impressionable young mothers began naming their daughters Olivia. More recently, the Disney Channel compounded the interest by offering an animated series named Elena of Avalor. It’s an historic magic story-line, with a young female named Olivia, as assistant to a wizard. As a result, in 2018, the name Olivia was the 3rd most common girls’ name in The United States, and the 2nd most popular in Australia.


Life Health 09 Dec 2020 The healing touch
Simple gestures of touch like hugs, handshakes or even a pat on the back have immense power
A few years back, when Dr Johnsey Thomas, consultant lifestyle psychologist at Aster Prime Hospital, Hyderabad, was consulting patients, a little girl, about 8 years old, came and sat on his lap.
The incident strengthened his long-held belief in the power of positive gestures of touch. “When a father lovingly pats a child on the head or back and says you did a good job, or when a parent hugs a child who is feeling low, it can completely change a person. Such gestures have a huge impact on a person’s mental well-being,” he elaborates.
From the moment you’re born, the first language of communication you understand is touch.
“The first minute of our life begins with touch. When a child is born, we advise mothers to cuddle their babies. This is known as kangaroo care and is vital for the child,” explains Dr Vasant R, Chennai a range of benefits of positive touch. Tiffany Field, director oftouch, has linked touch, in the form of massages, to benefits such as improved sleep, reduced irritability, weight gain and increased sociability among infants. Tiffany’s research found that pre-term new-borns who received just three fifteen-mio ten days gained forty-seven per
Need for society
Dr Sagar also points out that as children’s regular schedules have been disrupted and are nowtheyte. “Quarantine and isolation may also lead tof in many children,” he adds. “Parents should utilise this opportunity and spend quality time with their children on a regular basis. Physical expressions such as hugging, gentle touch etc. convey the parent’s affection to the child and instil a sense of security in children during these difficult times. Parents have to readily reciprocate similar expressions from their children,” he advises.
Dr Thomas understands that in the current work-from-home scenario, people miss out on social interaction. “In addition, many family members spend time with their gadgets, rather than with each other, which affects their mental health cannot replace real life. Many who spend all their time in the virtual world find it difficult to navigate through the real world,” he points out. “In the current situation, it becomes even more imperative to spend quality time with family members. Getting up together, eating together, taking walks together are all important for the feeling of well-being.”
Benefits of positive touch
The Touch Research Institute located in has shown the following benefits of touch
Pre-schoolers falling asleep sooner and sleeping longer
Improved control of asthma
Improved behaviouon-task and social behaviours in children with autism
Decreased glucose levels and better compliance with diet in children with diabetes


Emily Bruns had never met Abby Finkenauer before, but she had followed the US Senate candidate’s career closely.
“I have been a fan since she was in the Iowa House and then followed her in [Congress],” said Bruns, a social studies teacher at Mason City High School.
Bruns got her chance to meet Finkenauer when the former congresswoman stopped by Mason City Brewery for a campaign event on Sunday.
Finkenauer, 33, is one of three Democrats—the others are former Admiral Mike Franken and Dr. Glenn Hurst—running in the June 7 primary in hopes of taking on US Sen. Chuck Grassley in the fall general election.
Although Bruns has been a fan of Finkenauer’s legislative career—which began in 2014 when she won a seat in the Iowa House at age 25—the school teacher was still undecided on which candidate to support in the primary.
What Bruns sees in Finkenauer is also how the candidate presents herself on the trail. The Cedar Rapids resident and rural Dubuque County native is the youngest candidate and the only woman among the five Senate hopefuls, and Finkenauer doesn’t shy away from the contrast.
“In 2018, I became the youngest woman in history to flip a seat from red to blue and we took back the US House of Representatives,” was one of a few Finkenauer lines that drew applause from the brewery crowd.
Finkenauer highlighted how she tried to use her position in Congress to advocate for women, especially for overlooked subject areas.
“I don’t know if anybody here knows what endometriosis is, but it’s a condition that affects one in 10 women and I happen to have it,” Finkenauer said.
To her amazement, Finkenauer said endometriosis was among the lowest funded areas of there was no congressional caucus dedicated to it.
“There’s a caucus for literally everything in Washington, DC—like for big cats, right—I mean for every condition and yet there was not for endometriosis,” she said.
Finkenauer shared her story during a pre-pandemic March 2020 House floor speech and went on to co-found the bipartisan House Endometriosis Caucus to raise awareness and increase research toward the cause.
Her Mason City stump speech also focused on the contrasts between her and Grassley, who started his legislative career in the Iowa House when Finkenauer’s former school secretary mother, Deb, was three years old.
“We have got to retire Chuck Grassley because 47 years in Washington, DC, is just too dang long for anybody, I don’t care who you are,” Finkenauer said.
Were she to win the primary and general election, Finkenauer has vowed to serve only two six-year terms before walking away from Washington.
“If you can’t get it done in 12 years, what are you even doing there and why,” Finkenauer said, another line that drew applause.
Finkenauer took a few questions from the crowd including one on whether or not she would debate Grassley—“Oh, any chance I get. I cannot wait”—before leaving the brewery and Mason City.
After a short lunch break in nearby Clear Lake, Finkenauer’s last event of the day was a walking tour of downtown Britt with Mayor Ryan Arndorfer and City Administrator Elizabeth Ibarra.
Britt has a population of a little more than 2,000 people and is famous for hosting the National Hobo Convention and being home to the National Hobo Museum, but what Arndorfer wanted to showcase were things he and others appreciated about their community.
With the notable exception of Dollar General, which moved to a new store closer to Highway 18, most of the storefronts in downtown Britt were filled. Britt Foods, the local grocery store, is owned by Arndorfer’s sister and brother-in-law, a common occurrence in the Hancock County community.
“That’s what I love, is that a lot of our businesses are family owned,” Arndorfer said.
Finkenauer and Arndorfer also talked politics during the tour.
“I used to be a Republican,” Arndorfer confessed to Finkenauer.
While the mayoral office is nonpartisan, Arndorfer is a rural Democrat i71.3% of the vote in the 2020 general election. The Britt native moved back to Iowa after 20 years in Chicago.
The possible overturning of Roe v. Wade: “Women will die,” Finkenauer said.
Both of them on voting for Grassley in the past: “I voted for Grassley more than once,” Arndorfer said. “Yes, we joked we were going to set up a former Grassley voter confessional everywhere go,” Finkenauer said.
Another topic they discussed was infrastructure, which is why Arndorfer said he supports Finkenauer. Finkenauer servedin Congress and sponsored or cosponsored multiple bills related to the subject.
“We need someone like you there,” Arndorfer said. talk about infrastructure. Any small-town mayor, that’s going to be the No. 1 issue they fight over.


The Huffington Post is one of the outlets focusing on the parents. An article about Interfaith prayer for peace today reads, “Sanity must prevail. Inertia cannot take over,” wrote Robi Damelin, in a July 10 editorial in The Huffington Post. Damelin, who lost her son, David, to the conflict in 2002, concluded, “We must come out and demonstrate to the powers that be. Stop the violence. As part of the Parents Circle-Family Forum, Damelin meets with Palestinian and Israeli families who have all lost children in the conflict."
Joint Jewish and Muslim Fast and Prayer Against Violence in Washington, DC : In the past month the Jewish and Muslim communities have been shattered by the terrorist killings of four boys: Naftali Fraenkel, Gilad Shaer, Eyal Yifrah, and Muhammed Abu Khdeir.
In response, Jewish and Muslim clergy of the DC area are joining together as part of an international effort by religious leaders to pray for an end to the violence. On Tuesday, July 15th the Jewish and Muslim calendars are united in a day of fast: the fast of 17 Tamuz, and the fast of Ramadan. For both traditions for self repair, communal purification, and repentance. As we join together we hopea “peak day” - a day in which each man and woman Please join Maharat Ruth Friedman and Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld of Ohev Sholom: The National Synagogue, Rabbi Etan Mintz and Chava Evans of B'nai Israel Congregation, and on Tuesday, July 15th at 5pm in Lafayette Square in Washington, DC to offer prayers for peace and comfort. Leaders and med. Please contact Maharat Friedadd your congregation's name to the list of co-sponsors.


State Budget Could Plug Centro’s Deficit
The New York state budget certainly looks upbeat for Centro
News regarding the annual, the public bus system that serves four Central New York counties. State legislators and Gov. Andrew Cuomo hammered out a tentative deal announced March 30, including a $30 million grant earmarked for Centro’s operating expenses. Lawmakers will vote on the budget later this week, but it‘s not yet a done deal.
The proposed trims in Syracuse that have received the most publicity include: all bus service on Sundays and holidays; late-night service (the final routes on weeknights would be the 9 p.m. departures from the Syracuse hub, 6 p.m. on Saturdays); ending midday service for routes 82 (Baldwinsville) and 462 (Manlius); and 30-day unlimited ride passes being restructured into passes with a fixed number of prepaid rides.
The transit system helduts in Rome, Oswego, Syracuse, Auburn, Utica and Fulton. A handful of Rome’s citizens turned out at the March 9 hearing, including Carol Marziale, a retiree who has depended entirely on Centro’s bus service to go shopping, to her doctor’s appointments and the bank. “I came here not just for myself, but on behalf of all the other seniors and disabled people who need Centro buses to get around,” she said at Rome City Hall.
Marziale was also keen to offer suggestions for other possible cuts that could save money: “A lot of times, it will just be me and the driver on a bus. They could use smaller buses during the less-busy times of the day. That would waste less gas.”
Marziale also worried about her discounted senior rate of 50 cents, half of the standard $1 adult fare in Rome. However, Centro is absolutely not considering eliminating the discounts for seniors and disabled passengers. “For every person who would say that that’s OK, there’d be far more people who would say, ‘Don’t you dare raise the price.’ There’s no majority opinion on any of these subjects,” Kobliski said.
Julius L. Lawrence, a minister at the Metro Harvest Assembly of God Church, noted that he and many members of his church use Centro transportation. “I open up the church on Sunday morning,” he said, “and if there’s no buses on Sunday, that’s a problem.” Lawrence is also critical of Centro’s communications with the public regarding the cuts: “Centro’s been using emails and stuff, but a lot of people don’t have email, especially people who ride the bus.”
Despite bouts of March madness from area bus riders, Centro’s money woes seem to be on the mend for now, as long as state lawmakers agree. “I’ve been here 38 years, and I’ve never seen such a positive response from the Senate and the Assembly in terms of their philosophical reaction to the problem.” Kobliski said before the proposed budget was announced. “The last big push will be to reconcile with the governor’s office.”
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Hannah Montana is an American teen sitcom that was created by Michael Poryes, Rich Correll, and Barry O’Brien, and aired on Disney Channel for 4 seasons between March 2006 and January 2011.…
March 24, 2006 –January 16, 2011
When did Hannah Montana develop into well-known?
March 24, 2006Fifteen years in the past, on March 24, 2006, Disney Channel premiered its latest TV collection: Hannah Montana. Starring a then-little-known actress and singer, Miley Cyrus, and her well-known father, Billy Ray Cyrus, the present opened to the very best rankings within the channel’s historical past, with 5.4 million viewers.
Why was Hannah Montana Cancelled?
Hannah Montana got here to an finish after Miley Cyrus felt like she wanted to maneuver on. She was 18, and the the function simply didn’t really feel proper for her anymore. … I used to be grown up,” Miley instructed ELLE in 2019. That doesn’t imply Hannah Montana received’t ever get the reboot therapy.
How a lot cash did Miley Cyrus make off of Hannah Montana?
Her father is actor and nation music singer Billy Ray Cyrus — who additionally served as her on-screen dad within the “Hannah Montana” collection. The present made her well-known, but it surely definitely didn’t make her wealthy, as she reportedly earned simply $15,000 per episode.
Everybody cherished her squeaky clear pop star picture. She was the whole lot, in a tweeny Disney star approach. This morning, Hannah was brutally murdered by her alter ego, Miley Cyrus.
Are Miley Cyrus and Emily Osment associates?
Miley Cyrus and Emily Osment have reconnected over time
While the BFFs stopped being so shut in 2009, they let their friendship prevail over their misunderstandings (by way of Elite Daily). Apparently, time healed their wounds as a result of, in May 2013, Osment reached out to Cyrus by way of Twitter.
Does RICO know Miley is Hannah Montana?
Trivia. In this episode, Rico falls aside as a result of he did not know Miley was Hannah Montana. While in He Could Be the One, he and Jackson sing about Miley’s tough determination, which concerned her secret.
Was Hannah Montana a real story?
Unsourced materials could also be challenged and eliminated. Miley Ray Stewart is the fictional major character within the Disney Channel tv collection Hannah Montana, portrayed by Miley Cyrus.
Are Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez associates?
Cyrus started by introducing Gomez as an previous good friend. She talked about that it’s been years since they’ve had an opportunity to attach and he or she knew they’d speak for a very long time. When Gomez did be part of the Instagram stay she instantly returned the love.
What occurred to Lilly from Hannah Montana?
After Hannah Montana ended its four-season run in 2011, the actress went on to voice characters on animated applications like Family Guy and Rainbow Brite and seem on reveals resembling Mom, Young & Hungry, Cleaners and The Kominsky Method.
Who is Miley’s mother?
Why did Jake cheat on Hannah Montana?
They tried thus far and Miley even instructed Jake of her “Hannah secret”. However, Jake’s movie star perspective irritated Miley and the 2 broke up. … In ‘It’s the End of Jake as We Know It,’ it seems that Jake was dishonest on Miley after a bandmate/good friend of Oliver’s took an image of Jake with one other woman.
Why Are Selena and Miley not associates?
“They haven’t been close friends since they were teenagers, so they haven’t really been there for each other during many of their public struggles,” the supply stated. “They’ve always been pleasant when they’ve seen each other but haven’t been close for many, many years.”
What occurred between Francia Raisa and Selena Gomez?
Selena and Francia famously fell out in October 2018 after Francia “called out” her good friend for her “unhealthy choices”. It got here after Francia donated a kidney to the Rare Beauty founder, who underwent a transplant in 2017 following problems from the autoimmune illness lupus.
In the top, Miley chooses Jake leaving Jesse upset and heartbroken. Then within the Season 4 episode, “Been Here All Along”, Jesse returns and requested Miley out on a date since she broke up with Jake in “It’s the End of the Jake As We Know it” and he or she fortunately accepted.
How previous is Jake Ryan now?
38 years (September 2, 1983)Jake Ryan/Age
Did Cody Linley and Miley Cyrus ever date?
In the previous, Cyrus has confessed her crush on the 18-year-old, who performs her love curiosity on TV present Hannah Montana. … But Linley insists he and Cyrus are simply good associates: “She came over, and Miley, my roommate and I all painted. We splatter-painted. Right now, we’re just very close friends.”
Who is aware of Hannah Montana Secret?
Oliver Oken – Miley’s good good friend, and Lilly’s boyfriend. He turns into a well-known singer in Season 3, impressed by Miley. Roxy – Hannah’s bodyguard, and one of many solely individuals who knew her secret earlier than she instructed the world. She even helped select the Hannah Montana wig.
What is Hannah Montana actual identify?
Miley Ray CyrusMiley Cyrus, in full Miley Ray Cyrus, unique identify Destiny Hope Cyrus, (born November 23, 1992, Franklin, Tennessee, U.S.), American singer and actress whose efficiency on the tv present Hannah Montana (2006–11) and its associated soundtrack albums catapulted her into stardom.
Who is Hannah Montana boyfriend?
Jake RyanHannah Montana/Significant othersCue Jake Ryan (Cody Linley), a teen dreamboat who simply so occurred to be a well-known actor. Linley was solely 16 when he was forged as Miley’s on-again/off-again boyfriend on Hannah Montana.
How previous was Miley Cyrus in Hannah Montana pilot?
The casting administrators requested her to learn for Hannah Montana, which she did, however they thought she was too younger for the function. She ended up touchdown the function anyway and by the point the present premiered in early 2006, Cyrus was 13 years previous.


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'Regularly finding time to hear real examples of your charity's impact has a powerful effect on a fundraising team's mojo. But this rarely happens by chance!It requires a deliberate decision to solve the challenges to find and share these stories…If you find a way to do this, it boosts both morale and results.'
And in today's session, I'm talking again to my colleague, Ben Swart. Ben, how are you?
Ben, I know that for Bright Spot, you do various training days, and one of the most popular ones is our influence and storytelling day that you do in-house for fundraising teams. And also, you do sometimes sessions to help organizations get access to their great content, to hear from the frontline, so to speak, of amazing things are happening. And the other day you were mentioning one of those organizations you worked with had just some really amazing examples they were sharing. Could you just share with our listeners, what one of those was that moved you?
And then immediately after that, I spoke to one of their colleagues who in April, 2020 suffered bleeding on her brain. And it actually meant that she ended up being rushed hospital, was put into a coma. And one of the main things that charity does is it helps people in different countries who've suffered from life-altering incidences or have disabilities. It helps them to recover, and she in 25 minutes, Rob, told us the story of what it was like to wake up in that hospital bed and to not be able to move any part of her body because the bleeding on the brain had affected, fundamentally altered the way her…
Thank you Ben for sharing those examples, and it puts me in mind of some conversations I've had with fundraising directors in the past where they say, "Yeah, I totally get it Rob. On the one hand, of course it makes absolute sense. We need to help our fundraisers get access to the mission, but I think you can only do so much. There's an extent to which people need to take responsibility, don't you think?"
The bigger picture is I interviewed Max about why it was that his team was so high achieving for three years running?And basically for three years running his community team on his patch had raised pretty much double what the average was on the other patches. And one of his clear answers to me was, "It's that access to the front line." And what's interesting about this is on the one hand, you may be listening thinking. "Who's got time to do whole extra days volunteering rather than raising money?" And I would say, who's got time not to?
And Max said…I think this was three or four years ago, there were floods in Yorkshire. Was it Hebden Bridge and surrounding areas?There were stating floods that really caused loads of damage to people's lives. And Max said to me that, "Which community fundraiser is going to raise more money if they have to go and do a talk to a rotary club, or if they push to try and get a meeting with some other group or association, or try and get a meeting with an independent school?"
I wonder, the listeners may well be thinking, "Of course, if only there were volunteering opportunities in my charity, of course, I would do those if I could, to help me experience more of the frontline or more of the why of our charity, but the truth is in my charity, it doesn't exist. It's not practical." So what have you found in terms of other means we can follow through on this idea, either as a leader setting more things up for our team, or as a fundraiser on their own, who wants to build this into their working week or month?
And she actually arrived late to the meeting, excited and full of energy because she'd just come from a storytelling, story sharing meeting, because following our course, she said, "We used to have two internal meetings every week, heavily based on strategy, on team priorities. And after the course, we realized we got so much more energy. It changed our state and we had more convincing examples when we found stories. What if we changed the second one to an external meeting only meeting?And I don't mean we're meeting donors. What I mean is we have to share something that we heard externally from our team. We have to share a donor meeting that we had. We have to share the impact that we had on a particular beneficiary."
What we're going to do is just have one item on the weekly team meeting agenda, just five or 10 minutes, that is about the sharing of any story, anyone has heard this week about the difference our charity has made. And the simple act of changing that process, changing what that agenda looks like as a default has…
Absolutely. And I guess the thing is that if the only time you're thinking about it is in that meeting, you might struggle. The tumbleweed will fly after you've asked the question. What we are noticing is you're helping yourself get into the habit that you'll notice these real examples are everywhere. The next time you speak to a donor, you'll realize there's one there. The next time you walk to the water cooler and hear a practitioner, you'll see there's ones that…
On the other, it's noticing these stories are all around you, that your Chief Executive said it once when they were in a speech, when you were an event, it was there. You noticed a parent talking about it outside the school gates. You saw it in your supermarket. These examples are everywhere and it's about…
So I got an excited message Rob, a few weeks ago, which I told you about, a direct message from someone saying, "Ben, if you got 15 minutes for me to speak to you today, I've got something to share with you." I didn't know what it was and he called me. It was someone who I trained in storytelling and he was telling me that one of the stories that he shared on the day was with a particular woman, and it was a really powerful story. And he knew he had a pitch coming up and actually, because of our content, he'd reframed the pitch Rob. So it had more stories in it than before, but he wanted to make sure he got her story right, and had thought through what life was like beforehand. So he dropped her a note and said, "Can I have a chat to you just to check the story again?"
He said, "And I know it was because of things she told me the day before that she put into that story," and that isn't the first time that someone has excitedly got in touch with me from hunting out someone who shared with them a story earlier, and trying to get back to the source of the story and say, "Can you just tell me a bit more about it?What happened?" I've got people who've excited…
And so for me, tactic number two is maybe you did hear a story once. Maybe someone has told you something somewhere, "Be brave and get back in touch with them, and don't just email them, call them and try and get to the heart…Can you tell me that story again and understand a bit…?
That's exactly it, Rob. And what I've even found is that if I share a story first, an example that I'm really looking for, the type of example I'm looking for, that sets the frame for what I'm expecting from them. If I just ask them, "Do you have any stories or real examples?


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This is very useful if you xrefed big images. The palette reloads the xrefed images too often which makes it slow even on powerful computers. The classic xref manager is much faster.
The new xref manager is so irritating. I am glad this is an option - I changed my shortcut file as well


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They like our new delivery approach. I presented outcome-based services, and they support our direction to lower TCI and TCO with A2O, and leverage pre-assembled content from RDS's and engineered services, deployed on HEC …all to accelerate implementations and reduce risk. In fact, they want our partners to adopt the same methods!


PALM BEACH GARDENS, FL—Labor Finders tand based in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida announced that Sandra King has joined the company as its new Accounts Payable Lead.
Prior to joining Labor Finders at its corporate location in Palm Beach Gardens, FL, Sandra worked for several companies in South Florida including the non-profit Zoological Society of Palm Beacheh University in West Palm Beach, FL. She also has decades of experience in finance which she utilizes for Labor Finders handling expense reporting, invoice processing and as an administrator for Concur Payables and Concur Expenses.


A multiyear lawsuit over a fundamental issue of homeowner association property owner’s rights to records inspections reached the New Mexico Supreme Court for review on July 22. I am the plaintiff in the case against the Sierra Los Pinos Property Owners Association board of directors.
The first of its kind in New Mexico, the Homeowner Association Act affects approximately 275,000 New Mexico HOA property owners, and the dispute is over what records can be inspected. The outcome will turn on whether the definition of the word “includes” restricts or does not.


Physics game Angry Animals is another Angry Birds style physics-based shooting game. Launch fun angry animals with your slingshot to cause structures to collapse onto the evil aliens.
Fun retro physics platformer, explore the snail world to find new abilities, weapons and save all the snails in this mix of action and RPG game.


take a look? I tried configuring it as a switch, but the command I use to try to turn it on (copied from the first one) does not work and status stays off.
can you please check what I did wrong? i tried to look in the pyqwikswitch library, but cannot still understand what code would turn the switch on...
<issue_comment>username_0: i recreated the branch from upstream/dev so it will be mergeable. will now work on completing to 100% coverage
<issue_comment>username_0: ok. now at 100% coverage. ready for review
<issue_comment>username_1: Impressive test coverage so farsolr-exporter in Docker?
username_0: Hi, I'm somewhat new to Docker and was hoping to explore the "solr-exporter" feature for Prometheus (https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/7_3/monitoring-solr-with-prometheus-and-grafana.html). I can't locate "contrib/prometheus-exporter" within the container. I'm running this on MacOSX. The solr Docker instance is running fine and I can use the Admin Console run a query but I'm not sure how I would navigate to this "./bin/solr-exporter".  Any advice would be great, thank you! -susan
<issue_comment>username_1: solr-exporter is in the image:
solr@d9cbc40481f6:/opt/solr-8.5.0$ find . -name '*exporter*'
./contrib/prometheus-exporter
./contrib/prometheus-exporter/bin/solr.cmd
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so you could run it with something like:
docker network create mysolr
# start solr
docker run -it --name mysolr --network mysolr solr
# run a separate container for prometheus-exporter and point it to solr
docker run -it --network mysolr solr:8 bash -c "set -x; cd contrib/prometheus-exporter; ./bin/solr-exporter -p 9854 -b http://mysolr:8983/solr -f ./conf/solr-exporter-config.xml -n 8"
It depends a bit on where/how you want to deploy it. If you don't want to use networks, and you're on a Mac you could do:
docker run -it -p 8877:8983 --name mysolr2 solr
docker run -ithost.docker.internal:8877Found it, I wasn't in the rightrogrammatically
username_0: Hhat functionality for? Maybe we can find a different way or merge this with different use cases?
<issue_comment>username_0: sorry. forgot to close this. i found a workaround with Linkerd service mesh
username_0: Currently, I'm working on the project that uses `nginx-ingress` in the `AKS cluster` - in-cluster ingress, and I read through some of the articles and news that with the `Azure Cloud platform` we can use `AGIC` to improve the performance of the application - [Application Gateway vs In-cluster Ingress]/).
When I worked with `nginx-ingress`, and if we want to make it works correctly with Linkerd, then I need to inject `Linkerd` sidecar into it. I need to [configure some of YAML]on the ingress as below


Anti-corrosion marine coating self-heals in sunlight
by Alex Brinded
A research team from Sun Yat-sen University, China, has made an epoxy-based coating that they claim can heal itself in sunlight in less than two minutes.
Corrosion protection mechanism of the self-healing coating © Zhifeng Lin, Weihua Li
Corresponding author on the study, Zhifeng Lin, explains, 'The coating can be repaired by artificial heating or in natural sunlight because the ferric oxide we add in the coating can convert sunlight energy into heat.'
The team reports that the coating is heated to 70°C in 200s under simulated solar irradiation, with the photothermal effect of the iron oxide black nanoparticles exceeding tetradecanol's melting point of 37.6°C.
'The self-healing of this coating is based on the phase transformation of low-melting-point materials. The higher the temperature it obtains, the faster the self-healing speed,' Lin says. 'In this paper, we measured that the coating can repair microcracks in less than two minutes under the sun. The reason why we study microcracks is that microcracks usually occur on the surface at the initial stage of coating failure.'
Lin shares, 'At present, we have studied the microcracks in the coating, but in the experiment, we use a knife to prepare scratches on the coating surface, and make the scratches penetrate the substrate surface. During the process of illumination, the temperature rise of the surface causes the repair material to partially melt to repair the crack. We think that this repair can reach the interior of the defect. Of course, this still needs further research.'
Lin continues, 'Although the coating we studied can repair the microcracks, if it is used in the sunlight for a long time, the sunlight will also have a negative effect on the coating. Therefore, from the very beginning, we considered how to adjust the content of ferric oxide and phase change materials, so that the protective performance of the coating during normal service would not be affected and the micro-cracks could be repaired when they were generated.'
Reportedly, the coating prevents the infiltration of oxygen, water and chlorine, and shows good stability and protective performance even after immersion in 3.5wt.% sodium chloride solution for 168 hours.
Lin adds, 'The purpose of immersing the coating in sodium chloride solution for testing is to conduct an accelerated simulation test of the coating, and to obtain electrochemical signals. Our target application environment of the coating is the marine atmosphere environment.'
The coating was prepared with 0.1g of iron oxide black nanoparticles, 2g of epoxy resin, 0.86g of amine curing agent and different masses of tetradecanol, specifically 0.15g, 0.5g, 0.7g and 1g – so that the proportion of iron oxide particles was ~3wt.%. The wettability of the coating has been found to increase with the addition of the tetradecanol.
'At present, we have only tested the performance of the coating in our local area – Zhuhai – which has a hot climate and sufficient sunshine, and we have obtained a good result.
If we want to put the coating into practical application, we must consider the different sunshine intensities,' says Lin.
'We believe that this coating can be applied to marine atmospheric engineering structures, such as oil platforms, offshore wind power, and sea-crossing bridges…Microcracks generated in the early stage of coating failure are often not detected, but these areas have sufficient sunlight, so they are suitable for the promotion and application of this kind of sunlight-based self-healing coating.'
Alex Brinded


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Sometimes tunic dress at Czarina Kaftans are also needed and they usually save these dresses to be used again as stitching and designing takes a lot of time and money. It is important to concern on the outfits as those are too considered when choosing the best drama and performances. It is fascinating to see the budding generation joining hands with such events as they help them to develop their skills and abilities. What is being mainly taught is to act accordingly and to act naturally. Especially by stage and street dramas they are trained to address a crowd and to get the attention.
It can be seen that many drama students read cultural books and articles about drama, ancient days, fashion, food and all the social aspect to develop their knowledge on speech and drama. These are known as extracurricular activities and are well recognized in the society.
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When you take a screen shot, one pixel on your screen is represented by one pixel in the image file. This is great.
Apply any colour corrections you may need (levels, curves etc).
To print at high quality, you may know or have heard that 300DPI (or higher) is often the target resolution. There's several aspects at play, with regards to screenshots.
300DPI+ for a photo is great. This assumes you don't want to see the pixels the photo is made from.
300DPI+ for a screenshot may not be great. This is because most computer screens are in the 100 to 140DPI range. When you look at a computer screen, you often can see pixels. Don't be afraid of pixels from screenshots when you print, either.? No. Because you don't mind seeing pixels.
If you're after a glossy product screenshot and you don't want to see pixels, then your best bet is to recreate the screenshot at a higher resolution. It doesn't sound like that's what you're after though.