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RFC 674 - Procedure call documents: Version 2
<GJOURNAL>31484.NLS;1, 12-DEC-74 04:32 XXX ;;;; Title: Author(s): Jonathan B. Postel/JBP; Distribution: /NAG( [ ACTION ] ) NLG( [ ACTION ] ) NSW( [ ACTION ] ) PI( [ ACTION ] ) ; Sub-Collections: NIC NWG SRI-ARC NAG NLG NSW PI; RFC# 674; Clerk: JAKE; Origin: < NETINFO, RFC674.NLS;2, >, 11-DEC-74 17:58 JAKE ;;;;####; NWG/RFC# 674 JBP 11-DEC-74 18:04 31484 Procedure Call Protocol Documents Request for Comments 674 Jon Postel NIC 31484 Jim White SRI-ARC 12 December 1974 Procedure Call Protocol Documents Version 2 1 As many of you may know SRI is part of a team working on the National Software Works project. In the course of our work we have developed a Procedure Call Protocol to be used between the modules which make up the NSW. We are interested in your comments on this protocol. Please foreward your remarks to either: 2 James E. White (WHITE@SRI-ARC) or Jon Postel (POSTEL@SRI-ARC) 2a Augmentation Research Center Stanford Research Institute Menlo Park, California 94025 2b (415) 326-6200 x2960 (White) or x3718 (Postel) 2c This note announces the release of the second published version of several National Software Works (NSW) and Procedure Call Protocol (PCP) documents. Version 2 is SUBSTANTIALLY different than Version 1; it and all intermediate, informally distributed PCP documents are obsoleted by this release. 3 Each of the following documents is available on-line in two forms: as an NLS file and as a formatted text file. The Journal number (e.g. 24459) refers to the former, of course, and the pathname (e.g. [SRI-ARC]<NLS>PCP.TXT) to the latter, accessible via FTP using USER=ANONYMOUS and PASSWORD=GUEST (no account required). Let it be emphasised that files indicated by pathname of the form [SRI-ARC]<NLS>name.TXT are ASCII text files not NLS files. 4 The specifications are contained in the following documents: 5 HOST (24581,) "NSW Host Protocol" 5a This document describes the host level protocol used in the NSW. The protocol is a slightly constrained version of the standard ARPANET host to host protocol. The constraints affect the allocation, RFNM wait, and retransmission policies. 5a1 NWG/RFC# 674 JBP 11-DEC-74 18:04 31484 RFC 674; PCP Announcement Pathname: [SRI-ARC]<NLS>HOST.TXT 5a1a PCP (24459,) "The Procedure Call Protocol" 5b This document describes the virtual programming environment provided by PCP, and the inter-process exchanges that implement it. 5b1 Pathname: [SRI-ARC]<NLS>PCP.TXT 5b1a PIP (24460,) "The Procedure Interface Package" 5c This document describes a package that runs in the setting provided by PCP and that serves as a procedure-call-level interface to PCP proper. It includes procedures for calling, resuming, interrupting, and aborting remote procedures. 5c1 Pathname: [SRI-ARC]<NLS>PIP.TXT 5c1a PSP (24461,) "The PCP Support Package" 5d This document describes a package that runs in the setting provided by PCP and that augments PCP proper, largely in the area of data store manipulation. It includes procedures for obtaining access to groups of remote procedures and data stores, manipulating remote data stores, and creating temporary ones. 5d1 Pathname: [SRI-ARC]<NLS>PSP.TXT 5d1a PMP (24462,) "The Process Management Package" 5e This document describes a package that runs in the setting provided by PCP and that provides the necessary tools for interconnecting two or more processes to form a multi-process system (e.g. NSW). It includes procedures for creating, deleting, logically and physically interconnecting processes, and for allocating and releasing processors. 5e1 Pathname: [SRI-ARC]<NLS>PMP.TXT 5e1a PCPFMT (24576,) "PCP Data Structure Formats" 5f This document defines formats for PCP data structures, each of which is appropriate for one or more physical channel types. 5f1 Pathname: [SRI-ARC]<NLS>PCPFMT.TXT 5f1a 1 NWG/RFC# 674 JBP 11-DEC-74 18:04 31484 RFC 674; PCP Announcement PCPHST (24577,) "PCP ARPANET Inter-Host IPC Implementation" 5g This document defines an implementation, appropriate for mediating communication between Tenex forks, of the IPC primitives required by PCP. 5g1 Pathname: [SRI-ARC]<NLS>PCPHST.TXT 5g1a PCPFRK (24578,) "PCP Tenex Inter-Fork IPC Implementation" 5h This document defines an implementation, appropriate for mediating communication between processes on different hosts within the ARPANET, of the IPC primitives required by PCP. 5h1 Pathname: [SRI-ARC]<NLS>PCPFRK.TXT 5h1a EXEC (24580,) "The Executive Package" 5i This document describes a package that runs in the setting provided by PCP. It includes procedures and data stores for user identification, accounting, and usage information. 5i1 Pathname: [SRI-ARC]<NLS>EXEC.TXT 5i1a FILE (24582,) "The File Package" 5j This document describes a package that runs in the setting provided by PCP. It includes procedures and data stores for opening, closing, and listing directories, for creating, deleting, and renaming files, and for transfering files and file elements between processes. 5j1 Pathname: [SRI-ARC]<NLS>FILE.TXT 5j1a BATCH (24583,) "The Batch Job Package" 5k This document describes a package that runs in the setting provided by PCP. It includes procedures for creating and deleting batch jobs, obtaining the status of a batch job, and communicating with the operator of a batch processing host. This package is implemented at the host that provides the batch processing facility. 5k1 Pathname: [SRI-ARC]<NLS>BATCH.TXT 5k1a RJE-MODEL (24655,) "The NSW Remote Job Entry Model" 5l 2 NWG/RFC# 674 JBP 11-DEC-74 18:04 31484 RFC 674; PCP Announcement This document discusses the process of utilizing a batch processing facility to complete a programming task in the NSW environment. This same activity in another environment might utilize a remote job entry system. 5l1 Pathname: [SRI-ARC]<NLS>RJE-MODEL.TXT 5l1a LLDBUG (24579,) "The Low-Level Debug Package" 5m This document describes a package that runs in the setting provided by PCP. It includes procedures for a remote process to debug at the assembly-language level, any process known to the local process. The package contains procedures for manipulating and searching the process' address space, for manipulating and searching its symbol tables, and for setting and removing breakpoints from its address space. Its data stores hold process characteristics and state information, and the contents of program symbol tables. 5m1 Pathname: [SRI-ARC]<NLS>LLDBUG.TXT 5m1a TBH (24656,) "NSW Requirments on Tool Bearing Hosts" 5n This document discusses the environment needed in the tool bearing host and the interfaces to the operating system components by various PCP packages. 5n1 Pathname: [SRI-ARC]<NLS>TBH.TXT 5n1a BOXES (24584,) "Black Boxes in PCP" 5o This document describes the transliteration of the black boxes defined by Millstein and Warshall into the setting provided by PCP, especially the File Package and the Executive Package. 5o1 Pathname: [SRI-ARC]<NLS>BOXES.TXT 5o1a The document on the Host level protocol, HOST, is a suggestion for some restrictions on the regular ARPANET host protocol for use in NSW, this topic has little impact on the remainder of the NSW protocols. The reader is urged to begin with the major Procedure Call Protocol documents. 6 The document on PCP is the place the interested reader should start. It gives the required motivation for the Protocol and states the substance of the Protocol proper. 7 3 NWG/RFC# 674 JBP 11-DEC-74 18:04 31484 RFC 674; PCP Announcement The reader may then proceed to the next three documents: PIP, PSP and PMP. The latter has the most relavence to the casual reader; the programmer faced with coding in the PCP environment should read all three. 8 The three documents PCPFMT, PCPHST, and PCPFRK specify low level details of the communication formats and are of interest only to PCP implementers. 9 The documents EXEC, FILE and BATCH describe procedure packages to be implemented as appropriate to provide the services of the accounting/status/usage statistics subsystem, the file subsystem or batch processing subsystem respectively. 10 The document RJE-MODEL describes how a user would utilize various tools in the NSW in the process of carrying out tasks he might in the absence of NSW achieve using a remote job entry system. This should be read with the document on BATCH. 11 The LLDBUG package specifies a debugging package that operates in the PCP environment. 12 The document called BOXES describes a mapping between the PCP mechanisms and the File Package procedures and the Black Boxes needed by the Works Manager. 13 The document TBH speaks to the requirements placed on the Tool Bearing Host. This document indicates how and where various PCP packages interface to an operating system. 14 4 User Contributions:Comment about this RFC, ask questions, or add new information about this topic: |


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What's the Real National Debt? $211,000,000,000,000
The national debt is at $14.5 trillion, but the real debt is the $211 trillion in unfunded liabilities.
The national debt is the United States' current outstanding debt obligations. Though the current debt is quite high, discussion of the current debt avoids the real issue that Standard & Poor's attempted to raise with its downgrade of the nation's credit rating.
The current level of debt is large, but manageable. The levels of future debt are where the real problem lies and where policy solutions need to be addressed.
The U.S. government has made promises that it will be unable to keep under current policies. The two biggest drivers of the nation's unfunded liabilities are Social Security and Medicare. The retirements of Baby Boomers, increased life spans and increasing costs of health care are rapidly driving up the costs of these programs. The revenue for these programs, from payroll taxes, do not cover the costs of these programs. They must be paid for, therefore, through other taxes or by borrowing money.
Current unfunded liabilities for Social Security, the amount the program is projected to cost minus the projected amount that will be raised through the Social Security payroll tax at current levels, is about $15 trillion.
Current unfunded liabilities for Medicare are much higher. The amount the program is projected to cost minus the projected amount that will be raised through the Medicare payroll tax at current levels is about $80 trillion. Medicare's prescription drug benefit adds another $20 trillion in unfunded liabilities.
The unfunded liabilities do not, however, stop there. The U.S. government also has unfunded liabilities in retirement benefits for federal workers, health and retirement benefits for active-duty military personnel, and state and local government obligations.
So what is the real debt? What is the amount that the U.S. government has promised to pay minus the amount it is expected to collect in taxes? Laurence J. Kotlikoff, professor of economics at Boston University, estimates that number at $211 trillion.
"That's the fiscal gap. That's our true indebtedness," Kotlikoff told NPR.
To deal with the true debt, therefore, Congress must deal with the two biggest drivers of the true debt: Medicare and Social Security.
Reforming these programs has proven difficult because the beneficiaries of these programs, the elderly, represent a large voting bloc, and they vote in high numbers. On the other hand, those who have the most to lose because of unfunded liabilities, the young, do not vote in high numbers.
Reforming Social Security and Medicare is also complicated by the pervasive misinformation regarding these programs. Many of these programs beneficiaries believe, for instance, that they are only getting out of the program what they put into it, in the form of payroll taxes while they were working. This is not true. Most beneficiaries will get much more out of Social Security and Medicare than they ever put into them in their lifetimes.
One popular reform idea is to reduce the rate of growth of these programs. Opponents of this reform idea complicate matters what they accuse reformers of "cutting" the programs. Beneficiaries wrongly assume that they will see a reduction in benefits when, actually, their benefits will continue to grow, even faster than inflation under some reform proposals.
So, what will it take to cover the nation's unfunded liabilities? "What you have to do is either immediately and permanently raise taxes by about two-thirds, or immediately and permanently cut every dollar of spending by 40 percent forever," Kotlikoff said.

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TV5's Kanta Pilipinas Updates
Breakout and breakthroughs at SM City Batangas the last on-ground audition
The last streak may just be it. TV5's newest and biggest singing reality search Kanta Pilipinas held its last on-ground auditions April 20-21 at SM City Batangas. The last opportunity to get approval from Inspirational Diva Ms. Jamie Rivera, award-winning musical arranger/composer Mr. Jimmy Antiporda and Talent Manager Ms. Maristel Sempedro was quite tough with more than 247 aspirants. Ms. Nini Matilac, Head for TV and Film of Futuretainment Inc., joined in selecting the best talents for the show. Like what they have done in Cagayan De Oro, Cebu, Davao, Baguio, Iloilo and SM North auditions, hopefuls were given tips and suggestions on how to improve their performances and what best to do next time they try to audition in other contests and programs. Since looks are not enough to get in any singing reality shows, those who failed auditions in previous on-ground auditions determined to try their luck on the last on-ground auditions at SM City Batangas. Some aspirants who followed the judges' suggestions and criticisms made it and some did not despite the long travel from other regions. With four audition judges arguing on points to consider for each contestants who tried luck on stage, the decisions were sometimes unanimous and magnanimously split. A blind choir singer traveled all the way from Quezon City and wowed the judges while a girl from Zamboanga made the judges awe at her performance. There were also groups and performances who were so great on the first day and failed to get in the final list on the call-back auditions. Wrong choice of songs and missing soul in performances made some aspirants cry on stage but grateful for the experience after. Just when the crowd was set to leave the audition came a beautiful lady from Quezon City who wowed the judges with her appearance and voice quality. The last on-ground auditions drama continued with the call-backs from where 48 in the list cut down to 29. The judges found it difficult to eliminate some contestants whose voice quality was compared to those seen in international singing reality searches. Audition Judge Mr. Jimmy Antiporda provided some contestants piano musical arrangement to those with wrong choices for the last chance to get the approval of the judges. Some made it and some did not. What will happen next? The excitement continues as the next firsts of Kanta Pilipinas will unveil next week! Don't miss your last chance to get in TV5's biggest and newest singing reality search. Online auditions deadline is until April 26, 2012 so keep submitting your entries. Kanta mo, Kwento mo Kapatid! Soon on TV5! For more updates, like the Facebook Page of Kanta Pilipinas at https://www.facebook.com/ KantaPilipinas and follow us also on Twitter @Kanta_Pilipinas.
Hair-raising songs and stories loom TV5's Kanta Pilipinas auditions in CDO, CEBU and DAVAO
Set to conquer the Summer Capital of the Philippines tomorrow and the following weeks (IloIlo, Manila and Batangas), TV5's Kanta Pilipinas continues to scour the country in search of the next big star able to make the nation sing.
The Dream from Cagayan De Oro
With 180 registrants last Feb. 24, 2012 in SM City Cagayan De Oro reaching the cities of Iligan, Misamis and Cagayan, 76 hopefuls were called back and only 37 passed the judges'. Filipino pop songs became the favorite rendered on the stage with many who rendered the Grammy Award winning songs of Adele and Whitney Houston, hopefuls came from different communities and barangays. Inspirational Diva and audition judge Ms. Jamie Rivera was excited to listen to the stories of the Cagay-anons. Award winning Cross Genre Composer, Arranger, Producer Mr. Jimmy Antiporda raised eyebrows asking a couple who sang on the stage. "May conflict ba yan?" relating to the girl singer and pianist boyfriend as he was alluded in the same shoe with Ms. Jamie Rivera in the past. Ms. Maristel Sampedro became the comic relief throwing funny comments at gays impersonating Whitney Houston on the stage. What astounded the judges and onlookers was the ex-convict contestant who vented denouncing his past as a former member of the Akyat-Bahay gang. There was also one with 11 siblings living in different parts of Mindanao hoping to be reunited with dreams through Kanta Pilipinas.
Cebuanos wow TV5's Kanta Pilipinas judges
Fun and more fun of TV5's Kanta Pilipinas' call for the nation continued in Cebu last March 2, 2012. Hosted by Jhai'Ho, the event center of SM CITY CEBU filled the mall with 424 registrants and more than a thousand onlookers and mall-goers when TV5's Kanta Pilipinas began the auditions. Audition Judges Ms. Jamie Rivera, Erickson Raymundo and Mr. Vehnee Saturno entertained the crowd with their comments and reactions. Interesting songs and stories unveiled like a girl from Surigao who won a local contest in her province was sponsored by the Mayor to go to Cebu to audition so she can fly to Manila to look for her Dad whom she never met. The humble dream to be reunited with the father was referred as "Taong-Grasa". Ms. Jamie Rivera tried to enliven the spirit of the sobbing participant, "Kung ang tatay mo taong grasa, alam ko kung ano ka (Baby Oil"? which the mob appreciated. Cornerstone Talent Management Center Head Mr. Erickson Raymundo pushed the inspiration more with his comments, "Bigay mo na lahat ng Kaya mo, Buwis Buhay na ito". Another pupil-dilating story was a girl who has Retinitis Pigmentosa (a rare disease suffering from loss of sight at night), a girl born with hairlip but can now sing and a girl who want to give honor to her island (referring to Siargao). From the 424 registrants, 51 hopefuls were called back the next day and only 16 passed to get to Manila.
Judges awe at Davaoeños
Adele and Whitney were still the national anthem among contestants along with other standards and OPM pop songs like Angeline Quinto's Patuloy ang Pangarap in SM CITY DAVAO last March 10, 2012. Hosted by the perky and lively Jhai Ho, TV5's Kanta Pilipinas in SM CITY DAVAO became the talk of the town especially after the last calamity struck in the province. Giving hope to all Davaoeños, Ms. Jamie Rivera, Mr. Jimmy Antiporda and Mr. Erickson Raymundo enjoyed the performances of Davao hopefuls. From the roster of 378 registrants coming from the cities of GenSan, Cotabato, Sarangani and other outskirts, 46 contestants were given another chance to get the judges' attention the next day. There was one welder who stood out despite his looks rendering an unforgettable performance and a farmer who dreamt of having his own land. Stories of broken families and living with stepfather were cognizant to the other contestants' sorrows except for an interesting unemployed young man who makes a living out of singing earning his talent from his disabled grandfather. Ms. Jamie Rivera had a hard time choosing who will go to the next level after consecutive outstanding performances of the hopefuls. At the end of the second day call-back auditions, 22 hopefuls from Davao made it in the list of eliminations.
The call for the nation to sing continues in SM CITY BAGUIO tomorrow and SM North EDSA on March 30. TV5's Kanta Pilipinas on-ground auditions will commence on April 20, 2012 in SM City Batangas. Don't miss your chance to shine with #Kanta_Pilipinas
The looks and the talent soar in Baguio
TV5's newest singing reality search, Kanta Pilipinas held auditions at the Summer Capital of the country, Baguio City. The nationwide search for the country's biggest talent brought more crowd witnessing the Ilocanos take the stage with formidable and truly exceptional celebrity judges, award winning Cross Genre Composer, Arranger, Producer Mr. Jimmy Antiporda, Power belter Ms. Bituin Escalante and Cornerstone Talent Management Head, Mr. Erickson Raymundo. Powerful songs sung and interesting stories unfolded with more than 193 registrants who tried and participated. Perky and crowd-attraction Jhai'Ho opened the program with dynamic song and dance boosting more confidence of the contestants. Compared to the former auditions, the hopefuls in Baguio did not choose Adele's songs and stuck to standards and classics. Onlookers and mall-goers were drawn to the stage as many hopefuls look truly exceptional and pleasing. Was the looks enough to get the vote of the judges? Ms. Bituin Escalante was teased in the middle of the auditions to sample what would be "giving all you've got" performance. Singing while sitting, more audience were thrilled and captivated at our country's power belter's rendition of Alicia Key's "If I Ain't Got You". Distinct and unforgettable stories that inspired the songs of the hopefuls include a battered teenager who would hide in different places of the house all the time. An interesting twin was astounding with the song and the story sharing how their father had always taken their income in singing. Battery stories continued with one who is always hand-cuffed by the father getting inspiration and passion to sing from the struggles. The stories behind the songs brought the others to the next level. From a batch of 193 registrants, 43 were called back and only 16 was given the recognition to compete with the nation when Kanta Pilipinas begins airing on July. Was the looks or the drama enough to take them to the next step? Will they be fortunate to compete for the final list? These and more we have all to look forward with Kanta Pilipinas which will be airing on TV5 soon!
The discerning exceptional performances from Iloilo
TV5's Kanta Pilipinas brought the Filipino pride, musical tourism set to promote the country's local talents in the City of Love, Iloilo last March 23-24, 2012. If it was so easy for the contestants in other regional audition venues to come to the stage and bring the house down with their confidence, the Ilonggos were so nitpicky and conservative supporting the hopefuls who had more talent than stories. This time, the country's considered RnB Siren Ms. Arnee Hidalgo joined our panel of judges, Cornerstone Talent Management Head, Mr. Erickson Raymundo and award-winning cross genre composer, arranger and producer Mr. Jimmy Antiporda selecting the country's top local performers in SM City Iloilo. The songs took over the stories with more outstanding performances of Ilonggos on the stage. One of the most unforgettable hopeful was a young teenager who sang a Jovit Baldivino's "Too Much Love Will Kill You' dedicating the song to his girlfriend who died of leukemia. Another hopeful from Boracay composed his own songs and a product of broken family who longs for his father's love with his songs. The inspiring stories that created more color and passion to the song wowed the judges in Iloilo. From among the few registrants, almost half were called back the following day and the final list from Ilonggo were 16 lucky hopefuls who will vie their chances in Manila soon. Were the stories more powerful than the songs? We have too much to look forward with TV5's Kanta Pilipinas as more performances will unfold in the upcoming auditions set on March 30 at SM City North EDSA and April 20 in SM City Batangas. The excitement continues with the country's biggest and newest singing talent search that's truly Filipino, Kanta Pilipinas, soon to be airing on TV5! Let the song uplift the nation with Kanta Pilipinas! We all believe that Filipinos are the best singers in the world! Tara na! Kanta mo, Kwento mo, Kapatid #Kanta_Pilipinas!


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For much of the nation, March has come in with a leonine roar.
Are these late-season snow shows examples of climate change? "No," says weather historian Jim Fleming of Colby College. "The polar vortex is a natural and variable stratospheric event. One of its anomalies hit Russia and Central Europe in winters past. This year it is our turn."
Uncomfortably numbed by seemingly endless snow and ice and near-zero temps, we can take some solace in knowing that earlier Americans dealt with wicked winter weather as well.
Here from history are five stultifying storms that occurred after March 1:
1) The Great Blizzard of 1888 paralyzed New York — city and state — and the entire East Coast, according to the Atlanta Constitution of Tuesday, March 13 of that year. Nature's assault was an admix of rain and snow and gales and extreme cold. It came in on a Sunday afternoon and intensified overnight. A train from Baltimore to Washington "was obliged to creep its way through a network of telegraph poles and wire and stop frequently to clear the track of fallen trees and scattered timber." In the nation's capital, streets flooded, then froze. Streetcars were blocked by fallen telegraph wires. Electric lights failed; gaslights faltered. The Western Union telegraph company in Washington sustained its worst damage to date. In New York, fewer than 15 shares were sold on the stock exchange – the lowest volume recorded up to then. City hotels were crawling with folks from the suburbs. Elevated trains were halted for the first time. People abandoned their wagons. At the corner of Broadway and Fulton streets, a woman froze to death. By storm's end, The New York Times reported, more than 400 people had died.
2) The 1894 Widespread Blizzard – according to a harrowing New York Times story — occurred in mid-March. The vast and vicious snow show swept across the Western United States. In Portland, Ore., the Post Office predicted it would take days to distribute the backed-up mail. Trains between North Platte, Neb., and Cheyenne, Wyo., were stymied by six feet of snow. In Brush, Colo., a reporter noted that "the most severe storm of the winter has prevailed here for 36 hours." And West Superior, Wis., lost all of its telephone, fire warning and police patrol communications when wires were blown down by severe winds.
3) The 1930 Freak Blizzard dumped more than 19 inches of snow on Chicago. As the two-day storm abated, the Chicago Tribune of March 26, 1930, reported: "in the blinding snow which obscured the city like a cloud of steam, four men died: two under automobiles, one of a fall on glassy pavement, and one of the exertion of struggling through drifts." Tens of thousands of workers were hired to clear the streets and rails.
4) The Spring Snowstorm of 1968 surprised Memphis, Tenn., and the mid-South on March 21. There was rain in the forecast. The high was expected to be 45, the low 34. Then came eerie evening clouds, plummeting temperatures and snow upon snow upon snow. According to Fox News in Memphis, it snowed for 21 straight hours – eventually totaling more than 17 inches.
5) The 1993 Storm of the Century. The mid-March superstorm, says meteo-historian Jim Fleming, "threw everything it had at the eastern third of the USA, from blizzards to tornadoes. From Alabama to New England, there were hurricane winds, record cold and over 40 inches of snow on each of seven states from a single weather system. All of the interstate highways and even secondary roads were shut down or inaccessible, and for the first time ever, every major airport on the east coast was forced to close." For more than a week, millions of homes were without power. Total damages: $3 billion. Total deaths: 270.
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July 28, 1997
According to Larry Esposito of the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, the ring, known as the Adams ring, was formed when a comet collided with a tiny moon. The impact of the crash dispersed matter from the two bodies into a ring of particles orbiting Neptune.
Esposito estimates that the splintered moonlet was less than 6 miles in diameter and at least 300 times smaller than Neptune's largest moon, Triton.
The Adams ring lies roughly 37,000 miles from Neptune's center and is comprised of material varying in size from small moons to specks of dust, he said. The largest amount of material resides in four arcs of densely packed matter that are connected by a sparse ring of finer dust particles.
Esposito's model shows that the arc structure seen in the Adams ring results from such factors as the collision and aggregation of ring fragments, the pull of Neptune's tidal forces, gravitational effects caused by one of the planet's moons, Galetea, and the chaotic motions of the particles in the ring.
Esposito presented his latest findings at the American Astronomical Society's annual Division of Planetary Sciences Meeting July 28 to Aug. 1 in Cambridge, Mass.
Soon after the Adams ring was formed, its fragments began to reassemble, said Esposito, a professor in the astrophysical and planetary sciences department. This clustering of material is countered by Neptune's tidal forces and the gravity of Galetea, which lies just inside the Adams ring's orbit.
Galetea's gravity causes the ring's particles to "resonate," or synchronize with the motion of Galetea, he said. Particles resonating with Galetea interact only with fragments in their own arc, slowing the aggregation process.
If the motion of the ring particles were purely random, the ring would be uniform around the planet, Esposito said. Instead, the ring is "clumpy," a result of the chaotic diffusion of particles within the ring that allows them to jump unpredictably from one arc to another.
Esposito's model predicts the ring material will come together to reform the original moonlet within the next 10,000 years, and the moonlet will likely be struck by another comet within a million years. The ring images from Voyager 2 probably represent an intermediate stage in the process of the moonlet's reassembly.
"The likelihood of Voyager 2 having the good fortune to view this arc structure is similar to the chance of seeing Old Faithful erupt while driving through Yellowstone Park at 60 miles per hour," he said. Recent results by CU's planetary rings and moons research group "emphasize the major role that chance events played in the history of the solar system," said Esposito, who has spent more than 15 years working on planetary rings.
"This is slow science," he said. "The pictures sent to Earth by Voyager created instant excitement, but understanding the complicated story behind the images takes considerably more time."
Thorough testing of the new Adams ring model will require another NASA mission to Neptune, Esposito said. In the meantime, he will continue his computer simulations of the Adams ring.
Esposito was an investigator on two CU-Boulder instruments that flew on Voyager and is an investigator on two CU instruments on Galileo. He also is the chief scientist on an ultraviolet spectrometer slated for launch on NASA's Cassini Mission to Saturn in October 1997.


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Asus launches 16:9, 17.3-inch F70 notebook
But it's not the world's first, after all
Continuing the tradition of reinventing its Asus laptops, the Taiwanese manufacturer today announced a F70 laptop that it calls the "world's first 17.3-inch 16:9 notebook".
HP might have something to say about that, with its HP Pavilion dv7-2045ea and Compaq CQ71-100 laptops already sporting 16:9 17.3-inch displays.
Asus goes on to claim that the F70 has a LED backlit, Full HD (1080p) screen, before admitting in its specs that the display has 1600x900-pixel resolution.
At least we can all agree that its 'Infusion styling' is unique in apparently being "reminiscent of the Aurora Borealis" - few other laptop manufacturers have tried to associate their product with an unreliable electromagnetic phenomenon that looks lovely but achieves very little.
Rebounding elastic fingers
Other features of interest could be a HDMI output for, er, watching its DVDs (there's no Blu-ray option) on a big telly, SRS surround sound from Altec Lansing speakers and a 'chiclet' keyboard that "offers a rebounding elasticity", which sounds rather fun.
If you can't wait to tinker with the F70, Asus's own Express Gate technology can boot up Skype, web, music or email functions in a flash and there's also a 1.3MP webcam on board.
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With such a big screen, it comes as no surprise that the F70 weighs in at hernia-inducing 3.9kg with battery (no life figures quoted).
The F70 starts at around £860 for a 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB, 320GB, Vista Home Premium configuration, rising to £960 for a 2.26GHz chip and half a terabyte hard drive. It's available now.
--- Update --
Apparently, the F70 was the first 16:9 17.3-inch laptop when it was showcased in January, but Asus held off launching it until product was in the shops. So that's that cleared up then.
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St. Blair: Sybille's Reign
Young Adult Paranormal/Supernatural
By E.W. Skinner
Coming - November, 2015
Sequel to: ST. BLAIR: CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT
Twenty-four hours earlier the world was a pristine, productive, demon-free society and Sybille Malone an unknown Region One Fabric Counsel designer.
Global Good's curator and guardian of banished relics warehoused in the Arctic Region, Eston Cote, needs to act fast. As Global Good's North Quad leader, he must prepare his colleagues in the other three Quadrants of the world for something they have never known... warfare.
Celestial warfare. A fight for souls.
Eston has discovered Sybille's connection to a chain of supernatural events that not only caused planetary earthquakes, but unleashed the Holy Warrior St. Michael the Archangel and his enemies. Michael's sole mission is to defend Sybille's calling, slaying the hounds of hell who threaten to possess the citizens of her world.
Divinely foreseen and journaled by 21st century teenager St. Blair, Sybille's only hope of reining in the evil she unleashed on September 14, 2202, is to follow the directives of Blair and the saints before the demonic possessions outnumber the innocents.
Emily had a goal when she was 15, she would have a daughter named Marquel and write a novel titled "Marquel." She accomplished both and more.
Emily was a protege of the late master of the pulps or paperback originals, Harry Whittington. Emily interviewed Whittington during her days as a feature writer for the Clearwater Sun daily newspaper and its weekly division. They became friends and he taught her how to plot and gave her approval of the original outline and sample chapter for "Marquel" shortly before he died in 1989.
After Whittington passed away, Emily challenged herself to write as her mentor did and wrote a chapter a day and finished the novel "Marquel" in 52 days. For more details on the novel's history read: http://www.thefilmmom.blogspot.com/2012/10/why-book-trailer-now.html
Fast forward, a second daughter, Blair is born and Emily and husband Tom focus on raising their family. Both daughters are now grown and work in Hollywood. So this might be an example of art imitating life or the reverse?
A devoted Catholic, Emily is rekindling her love for writing and has just completed the movie script for "Marquel" and a young adult paranormal appropriately named after her youngest child, "St. Blair: Children of the Night."
When Emily isn't working as a marketing consultant or writing, she enjoys antiquing/thrifting and producing short films. Emily is the proud Executive Producer of Blair Skinner's film "Relative Eternity," a 2012 LA Shorts Film Festival selection, Sunscreen Film Festival selection and Short Film Corner Festival de Cannes selection. Written, directed and edited by Blair Skinner, "Relative Eternity" is on snagfilms.com for your viewing pleasure.
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ENGL 101 with a grade of "C" or better.
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Interview: 'Generation Me' Talks Texting, Careers, And Narcissism
LatestThis year's college graduates are supposedly deluded about their job prospects and devoid of empathy — probably because technology has rotted their brains. To find out if this was true, I decided to ask one: my brother.
My brother Danny graduated this month with a degree in philosophy, and in between looking for jobs, he agreed to talk to me over the "Me-Me-Me MySpace generation"-approved medium of instant messenger (I tried to Facebook chat with him, but I couldn't figure out how to save our chat because I am old). Over the course of our hourlong conversation (which I've cut down a bit), I learned that my brother may not be a narcissist, but he does spend a lot of time on Facebook — and though he may be part of the "why-worry generation," he worries about this too. Below, the highlights of our chat:
On technology:
me: first up: how much do you use facebook?
danny: mulitple times a day, i probably check it 5 to 6 times a day, depending on how bored i am
me: ok — do you update your status regularly (you can tell i dont check it frequently, because i have no idea)
danny: hahaha, no not really, the status thing is kind of weird because you sort of have to talk about yourself in the third person, i only use the status update for posting cool links to music videos or songs or to talk about how good the lakers are
me: haha ok — so do you have a twitter?
danny: no i dont and ive actually never even been to a twitter page, the whole followers thing seems really weird to me also haha
me: ha wow ok — it is weird to me too and i do it daily
how much do you text, would you say?
danny: way too much, i couldnt tell you how many texts i send per day but i know the last phone bill had like $170 in text charges lol
me: ha wow
danny: its hard not to text because thats like the primary form of communication with all of my friends
but i have to cut down because dad was not happy lol
me: yeah i bet 🙂
me: so do you think technology (ie fb, texting but also internet in general, even video games) has influenced how you see the world?
danny: ya so much its kind of scary, and i see it in all of my friends too especially those with iphones who can go on facebook on their iphone because then they can be connected to it 24/7
its definitely changed the way i like read the news and communicate with people
me: can you think of a specific example of how it's changed those things?
danny: hmm
me: like has it shortened your attn span or stuff like that?
danny: well its changed in both good and bad ways, like its great to be able to keep in touch with a ton of old friends through facebook and to see what they are up to and to see all their pictures and movies and stuff, but i definitely spend much more time on my computer and i usually have like 5 or 6 windows open with facebook, news, email, fantasy sports, etc.
yes its definitely shortened my attention span, i dont spend much time on any one web page im constantly surfing through different things much faster than i used to
and whenever i get home usually the first thing i do is go on my computer and check email, facebook, fantasy stats, and the most up to date news and blogs and stuff
so i feel more connected to technology and dependent on it
me: that makes sense
(i do that stuff too a lot of the time, and am definitely kind of freaked out when i don't have internet)
danny: like yesterday my cell phone died and i felt really weird without it and both [his girlfriend] and mom and dad thought i had died or something
me: hahaha
danny: and it really annoyed me that they freaked out so much when my phone had been dead for only like a few hours
it made me feel way too dependent on it
On careers:
me: ok so to switch gears a little bit to career stuff: what kind of jobs are you looking for right now?
danny: thats a tough question because i haven't really started looking as much as i should, i still have to finish my resume and such, but i really want to find something that i am happy doing and that could lead to good opportunities down the road
i would prefer an office job or something like that over retail or serving food tho, not that those jobs are bad or that i wouldnt do them but i think it would be cool to work at business or advertising or something
i also have a lot of friends in la who are going into the entertainment industry and ive always been into making music so if i could find something in that area that would be awesome but that could also be kind of unstable and hard to establish myself in
ultimately tho if i dont find something good i may go back to school and get a masters so i could teach and do something with my philosohpy degree
me: cool, sounds like you have a lot of ideas
so, what do you expect in terms of work-life balance? like, are you willing to work really long hours to get ahead?
or is it important to you to have a job w more flexibility/shorter hours
danny: obviously i cant be too picky at the moment but for my career i would want something with more flexibility because being able to have a social life and to spend time with my friends and go out and do things, that stuff is more important to me than making a ton of money
me: makes sense
danny: but making enough money to live comfortably is also important to me
On the future:
me: so are you optimistic about the future? of, say, the world and also your personal future?
danny: hmm, im not always optimistic, often after reading the news and seeing whats going on in the world politically and economically i get very pessimistic about both the future of the world and my own personal future
i worry that there could be more wars, more serious wars, and more economic problems in the future
On narcissism:
me: ok sorta weird question: do you think the world would be a better place if you were in charge?
danny: haha at times i feel like i could run the world better than the people that actually do it because they seem to do really illogical and immoral things but then realisitically i know that i could never weild that much power and deal with the stress that they must have
me: ha me too
so that question was actually from a test for narcissism, which people say is on the rise in college students — do you think people your age are more or less self-centered than older people, or the same?
danny: hmmm, my gut reaction was to say that people my age are more self centered
but i think thats natural because were at that point where we have to figure out what to do with the rest of our lives
so we spend a lot of time thinking about our own lives and maybe less about other important issues in the world
not to say that there arent a lot of people my age who aren't self centered because i know there are
but i think it is natural for people my age to be that way, sort of absorbed in their own life trying to figure everything out
On Generation Me:
me: if you had to describe your generation in one sentence, what would it be?
danny: my generation is at a really interesting point in history where we could go [on] to change the world in a lot of great ways or we could get lost in our technology and superficiality
Final thoughts:
me: ok last thing: what's the most important thing you learned in college?
danny: hmm its a tie between two things i hope thats ok: first, learning to question everything that i hear and not accept anything as truth without critically thinking about it, and second, just learning how to socialize and connect with people and how to make friends in the world
me: those are good things, its fine that there are two 🙂
danny: cool
me: ok thanks, that was really helpful!
danny: ya i hope i wasnt too long winded or not detailed enough
The most important thing I learned in my interview: we can speculate all we want about Generation Y/worry/whatever, but if we want to know what's going on in their heads, the best way to find out is to ask them. Even if you have to do it over IM.
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From Students, Less Kindness For Strangers? [NYT]
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Maldive, Airport plans leave Kulhudhuffushi families in the dark over relocation
Families whose homes will be demolished to make way for an airport in Kulhudhuffushi have yet to be told about relocation plans.
A list of 18 houses was circulated on social media, but the government has not contacted the residents or told them about a formal plan for relocation and compensation. Speaking to the Maldives Independent , which went door to door in the area, 15 families confirmed they had not received any relocation information. The remaining four properties are currently unoccupied. The Maldives Independent estimates around 80 people live across the properties.
Work has already started on the controversial airport project on the island after fast-tracked environmental regulatory processes . President Abdulla Yameen will officially inaugurate the project on November 12.
Developing an airport on Kulhudhuffushi, the main population hub in the northern atolls, was a campaign pledge he made in August 2013.
"We saw the list of the houses being passed around on Facebook or Viber. Then we heard about it on the news. But no one in a position of authority from the government or the council contacted us to date," said 51-year old Ali Ismail from Daisy Villa , the most densely populated property on the list with nine family members.
It was the same story in the other 13 houses. Some people have checked noticeboards outside shops, the council and schools for information. Others have asked the council, but all are uncertain about the future.
"They pledged this (airport) in 2013," said Ali Ismail. "Now they promise to finish the airport in 18 months. All we do is worry about this. Living without knowing what's going to happen is hard. We have to think about it every time we want to build this house. We added two extra rooms and built an outer wall this year. We have to live, don't we? If there's more people in the house, we'll need to add rooms. We've spent for this out of our own pockets. We barely get by."
Last week council president Abdul Latheef Hassan told the Maldives Independent that families affected by the airport reconstruction could get in touch with any concerns or complaints they had.
"We didn't know about that," said Shareefa Hassan.
"We shouldn't have to go to the council for information. They have to come to us," said another resident Fathmath Abdul Rahman.
People have accepted the relocation despite having lived at the airport site for more than 20 years. But the hope is for adequate compensation.
"Our concern is the first thing they should do when building an airport is to decide on compensation and where they're going to give land from. They haven't asked for our opinion at all. They can't just decide without asking," said 27-year old Mohamed Ali. "I heard the council walked around to decide which houses to move, but they didn't even enter this house. If they're compensating, they should know what they're giving it for."
"We want an equal compensation. The government can do whatever it wants, but it shouldn't be aniyaaveri (cruel) . We don't mind which land they move us to," said Abdul Sattar, aged 47. "There is no problem taking these houses if they're building the airport here, otherwise we'll be its backyard."
"This project is a government project, so only the government can provide information regarding it," said Abdul Latheef Hassan. "We have not received any official word on when they're going to do it.
"It's most likely that the families are compensated with money and land, but not houses," he added. "It's the government's decision in the end. They will have to talk to the families and decide."
Officials from the Housing Ministry visited the houses once in 2014 to identify "rooms and toilets" for compensation.
The island council also said it was unclear whose mandate the airport project falls under. Regional Airports, under the Tourism Ministry, is currently in charge of the project.
But the council coordinated with the Housing Ministry for a preliminary survey in 2014 about which homes were to be relocated.
Housing Ministry officials were unavailable for comment.


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The little chapel at Schoenstatt has had a long history. It is first mentioned on 28 September 1319 in a document which stated that Guda von Castorf, the prior's servant, had given three vineyards to the Chapel of St Michael for the better support of a chaplain, and that Holy Mass may be celebrated in the chapel every day. The Chapel of St Michael is the cemetery chapel of the ancient Schoenstatt convent, so its first foundations date from the middle of the 12th century.
The Founding Document of Old Schoenstatt bears the date 24 October 1143. Augustinian Sisters from Lunnich on the River Mosel were sent to the convent in Vallendar, which was being built, by the Bishop of Trier. The religious life was flourishing at the time, not least because of the Crusades.
The convent grew rapidly. A Basilica was built next to the convent buildings, and in 1226 the Archbishop of Trier even had to admonish the convent at Schoenstatt not to accept more than 100 nuns, because the buildings were becoming overcrowded. Even though the convent had been endowed with many properties to secure the support of the nuns, yet it had reached the limit of its possibilities.
A document of 1143 gave the nuns the right to have their own cemetery. This opened up a new source of income. Whoever could afford it could be buried near the convent for a corresponding fee. In return the Sisters promised their prayers for the departed. It was for this purpose that the cemetery chapel was built and dedicated to Michael the Archangel.
The convent as such was dedicated to "Our Lady". The second patron was St Barbara. The nuns possessed one of her relics. So the convent was also known as "St Barbara". Besides the relic of St Barbara, there were a number of other relics, but they are not reflected in the name of the convent. It was "modern" to honour relics and the Crusaders brought many from Palestine.
However, the changing times did not spare the convent at Schoenstatt. The wars and confusion of the 15th and 16th centuries led to a decrease in the number of the nuns even in this flourishing convent. Besides this, the nuns lost their outward protection, because the Westerwald nobility became Protestants. The outward decline went hand in hand with a decline in the spiritual life. The last nuns left the convent in 1567. They went to Koblenz, where they took up residence in a recently vacated convent.
In 1567, as the result of a letter of 30 September from the Archbishop and Elector Jacob III von Eltz, all the property of the Schoenstatt convent was sold by Trier, and the last Sisters moved from Schoenstatt to Koblenz. The whole property, which was then called the "Schoenstatt Cloister Farm", was endangered for the next centuries and led a chequered existence.
During the Thirty Years' War the convent buildings were occupied by the French and Swedish troops (as was Vallendar), and completely destroyed in 1636 as they withdrew. Only two towers of the Basilica, some foundation walls of the convent buildings and the chapel survived this destruction. After this the owners and use of the cloisters changed repeatedly in the course of time until the arrival of the Pallottine Fathers in 1901.
In 1681, the Chapel of St Michael was rebuilt by the current owner and industrialist, Bertrand von Marioth. He did so in memory of his parents. Thy had come from Belgium, his mother having been born into the de Tornaco family. The carved Baroque altar, which was brought into the chapel after it had been re-built, and parts of which have been preserved until today, shows the Marioth and de Tornaco family coat of arms. The Chapel of St Michael again became a cemetery chapel. Holy Mass was celebrated there on Sundays and holydays. The only condition was that the parish priest of Vallendar might not be burdened with this task.
Various sources state that the chapel was again destroyed during the Wars of Liberation. Father Shulte contests this:
"During the Wars of Liberation in 1813/14 a section of Bluecher's army found itself nar Vallendar before it crossed the Rhine. The soldiers probably used the Chapel of St Michael as a storage place, so also destroyed it inside. However, it is probable that it was not destroyed, as is reported here and there, because if this had happened, an important part of the former wooden altar would not have remained."
Summing up the events of the 19th century, Fr Schulte has this to say:
"From 1823-1825 a community of heirs divided the whole property into a number of plots that ended in various hands.
A family built his simple dwelling and a few modest farm buildings on the former church square near the ancient towers.
In the Hillscheid Valley a number of smaller factories were built along the brook. These existed until into the 20th century.
The rest of the ancient convent buildings, along with the Chapel of St Michael und the surrounding land reaching up to the Wambach Valley were bought by Peter Demond from Hoehr. He leased the "Old Convent Mill" on the Wambach to a distant relation, Johann Georg Flesch, who ran an oil mill there for a number of years. It is here that margareta Flesch was born on 24 February 1826. She later became Sr Rosa, the founder of the Waldbreitbach Franciscan Sisters.
A pipe factory made use of the main buildings for 40 years. Then the Grey Sisters tried to make a foundation there, but were driven away during the Prussian "Kulturkampf".
A Miss Wolter built a boarding school for young ladies on the grounds of the old convent pond. She called it the "Marienau", and it existed until 1919."
The Grey Sisters (1869-1889) mentioned above used the chapel of St Michael to store wood and coal. This clearly presupposes that the room was intact and protected against the weather.
When they left, the Grey Sisters offered to sell their house to Mr Dorsemagen from Wesel. He took up residence there with his family and seven children.
Fr Schulte reports:
"Finally Mr Karl Dorsemagen bought the old manor house; he furnished it again as a dwelling and in the final decade of the 19th century spent a lot of money on laying out the area around the Chapel of St Michael as a beautiful garden and park. In 1900 he was forced to sell the property again. The Pallottine Fathers in Limburg were happy to buy it from him."
In a letter dated 1940 to the Sisters of Mary, Mrs Karola Huisgen, nee Doresemagen, wrote about the time her family spent there. Her father had found the beautiful property in a rather desolate state and tirelessly set to work to create 'a little Paradise' for his family. The chapel was also renovated and used as a private oratory, particularly in May and October. Mr Dorsemagen furnished it accordingly. According to his instructions Mr Gelhard, a joiner from Vallendar, made an altar in the Gothic style and pews. Three narrow pews with room for three people were put up on each side of the aisle.
The family placed a Lourdes statue on the altar, but they took it with them when they moved to Bonn in 1900. This move took place because of the children. The boys were to go to University and the girls, in keeping with Mrs Dorsemagen's special wish, were to be given a better introduction to society.
The windows were given simple leaded windows. Two old photos show that there was no bell in the bell tower. It is uncertain when one was installed. Once it had been installed, it was rung by means of a wire, which was replaced in 1921 by a rope.
A special feature given to the chapel by Mr Dorsemagen was a unique priedieu that could serve as a communion rail.


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Combined measurements of Higgs boson couplings reach new level of precision
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The Higgs boson, discovered at the LHC in 2012, has a singular role in the Standard Model of particle physics. Most notable is the Higgs boson's affinity to mass, which can be likened to the electric charge for an electric field: the larger the mass of a fundamental particle, the larger the strength of its interaction, or "coupling", with the Higgs boson. Deviations from these predictions could be a hallmark of new physics in this as-yet little-explored part of the Standard Model.
Higgs boson couplings manifest themselves in the rate of production of the Higgs boson at the LHC, and its decay branching ratios into various final states. These rates have been precisely measured by the ATLAS experiment, using up to 80 fb–1 of data collected at a proton-proton collision energy of 13 TeV from 2015 to 2017. Measurements were performed in all of the main decay channels of the Higgs boson: to pairs of photons, W and Z bosons, bottom quarks, taus, and muons. The overall production rate of the Higgs boson was measured to be in agreement with Standard Model predictions, with an uncertainty of 8%. The uncertainty is reduced from 11% in the previous combined measurements released last year.
The measurements are broken down into production modes (assuming Standard Model decay branching ratios), as shown in Figure 1. All four main production modes have now been observed at ATLAS with a significance of more than 5 standard deviations: the long-established gluon-gluon fusion mode, the recently-observed associated production with top-quark pair, and last-remaining weak boson fusion mode, presented today by ATLAS. Together with the observation of production in association with a weak boson and of the H→bb decay in a separate measurement, these results paint a complete picture of Higgs boson production and decay.
Physicists can use these new results to study the couplings of the Higgs boson to other fundamental particles. As shown in Figure 2, these couplings are in excellent agreement with the Standard Model prediction over a range covering 3 orders of magnitude in mass, from the top quark (the heaviest particle in the Standard Model and thus with the strongest interaction with the Higgs boson) to the much lighter muons (for which only an upper limit of the coupling with the Higgs boson has been obtained so far).
The excellent agreement with the Standard Model, which is observed throughout, can be used to set stringent limits on new physics models.
The measurements also probe the coupling of the Higgs boson to gluons in the gluon-gluon fusion production process, which proceeds through a loop diagram and is thus particularly sensitive to new physics. In the Standard Model, the loop is mediated mainly by top quarks. Therefore, possible new physics contributions can be tested by comparing the gluon coupling with the direct measurement of the top quark coupling in Higgs boson production in association with top quarks, as shown in Figure 3.
The excellent agreement with the Standard Model, which is observed throughout, can be used to set stringent limits on new physics models. These are based on possible modifications to Higgs couplings and complement direct searches performed at the LHC.
- Combined measurements of Higgs boson production and decay using up to 80 fb−1 of proton-proton collision data at 13 TeV collected with the ATLAS experiment (ATLAS-CONF-2018-031)
- ICHEP2018 presentation by Nicolas Morange: Measurements of Higgs boson properties using a combination of different Higgs decay channels
- ICHEP2018 presentation by Tancredi Carli: Highlights from the ATLAS and ALICE Experiments
- ICHEP2018 presentation by Giacinto Piacquadio: Higgs Boson Measurements from ATLAS and CMS
- See also the full lists of ATLAS Conference Notes and ATLAS Physics Papers.


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Kiss have postponed tonight's (Aug. 26) scheduled performance in Burgettstown, Penn. after singer Paul Stanley tested positive for COVID-19.
In a message posted to social media, the group noted that "everyone on the entire tour, both band and crew, are fully vaccinated." Kiss further explained that "the band and their crew have operated in a bubble independently to safeguard everyone as much as possible at each show and in between shows. The tour also has a COVID protocol safety officer on staff full-time that is ensuring everyone is closely following all CDC guidelines."
Stanley himself took to Twitter to calm fans' concerns, while also shooting down rumors that he was hospitalized with heart problems.
"PEOPLE!!! I am fine!," the frontman confirmed. "I am not in ICU! My heart allows me to do 26 miles a day on my bike! I don't know where this came from but it's absolute nonsense."
While the Burgettstown concert was the only tour date immediately affected, the band said that "more information about show dates will be made available ASAP."
In a follow-up tweet, Stanley noted that he "had been sick with flu-like symptoms and was tested repeatedly and was negative. As of late this afternoon I tested positive. The crew, staff and band have all tested negative once again."
Kiss resumed their End of the Road farewell tour on Aug. 18, following a 17-month break due to the pandemic. The group only completed four shows before Stanley's positive test.
In a conversation with UCR, bassist Gene Simmons noted the challenges facing bands as they tour amid the pandemic.
"Backstage, we're not doing any meet and greets. Obviously, we're giving up a pretty penny, because fans pay a premium to come up and take photos and stuff. That's gone," he explained. "We are not allowing roadies or anybody else to be anywhere backstage unless they're vaccinated and the masks are on the whole time."
Simmons further endorsed vaccinations and mask wearing to help control the virus' spread. The outspoken rocker also made it clear that he has no time for anti-vaxxers. "I'm not worried -- and it's unkind to say this -- I'm not worried if an idiot gets COVID and dies," the rocker bluntly admitted. "I'm worried he takes other people with him. Who didn't have a choice."


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BEST FISH ON BET: How does the possibility of a huge mine affect people who have been fishing in Bristol Bay for centuries? That's the focus of "We Can't Eat Gold," a documentary film by Joshua Tucker and Giovanna Marcantonio, showing at 3 p.m. today at Kachemak Bay Campus, Pioneer Hall. Copies of the film are available.
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