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I am reminded of Richard Dreyfuss's discussion of civics and the fact that, "It is ok...to be dissenters...we owe ourselves and the United States that we will pass off to our children to relearn the tools of reason, logic, clarity, dissent, civility, and debate...the nonpartisan basis of democracy, and without them we can kiss this thing goodbye." I am reminded that Democracy isn't a state, but a process. It's more of a mechanism than endpoint, move a verb than noun. Democracy isn't something we did, but something we are doing, and we have to keep doing it or we will lose it, and Naomi Wolf has forewarned us in, "The End of America." So we need to know how to disagree.
I would be remiss if I didn't take the opportunity to note the catastrophic effect the neocon Bush administration has had on our ability as a nation to engage in civil discourse. He's a uniter, fellow patriots, and we are united, indeed, in how bitterly we are divided. I liked Kos' "With Us or Against Us" piece:
Reasonable people, including progressives, can disagree on many of the big issues we face today -- from which candidate to support in the primary, to whether impeachment is the best way to hold this administration accountable, to the merit of gun control or free trade agreements, to how to handle immigration, to whatever else faces our nation.And together, we should be holding our misleaders accountable, and talking about the things we agree about, and also, the things we disagree about.
The opportunity to speak one's dissent is something I find myself valuing in new ways. Last year, a family member lost his larynx in a battle with cancer; talking politics with family hasn't been the same. I miss his voice, even though I disagreed with his election predictions.
Speaking of unruly voices in America...
It was Wesley Clark who said that, "We need an America where debate and dissent and questioning your leaders and holding them accountable is the highest form of patriotism."
And it was J. William Fulbright who said that, "In a Democracy, dissent is an act of faith."
And it was Ari Fleischer who said that, "People just have got to watch what they say and do."
I guess I'm not so good at watching what I say and do...
I appreciate the following depiction of America. It reflects the challenges of our inclusiveness as we struggle together, as we recognize our failings, and keep trying to fix them, daring to believe we might actually pull it off. A wild mix of everyone and everything, together, trying to make it work, a little like some of our threads.
A dream, yes, but a crazy dream that just might work.
"Keep working."
"Keep working."
TAGS: America, Roy Zimmerman, Civics, Dissent, Democracy, Debate


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SC suspends election tribunal verdict on NA-125, PP-155Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday suspended the decision of an election tribunal which ordered re-election in Lahore's NA-125 and PP-155 constituencies.
Last week, the tribunal had found irregularities in NA-125 and PP-155 after which the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had denotified the Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique. The tribunal had annulled results of the NA-125 election and ordered a re-poll on the seat won by Rafique as well as PP-155.
Read: ECP denotifies Saad Rafique
However, today a three-member bench of the apex court headed by Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali suspended the tribunal's order when hearing a response to a petition submitted by Khawaja Saad Rafique who was declared victorious during the 2013 general elections from NA-125 constituency.
In his plea, the Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) leader contended that the election tribunal's decision did not explicitly state that he was involved in rigging.
In its short order, the tribunal had said grave irregularities were found in the record of seven polling stations of NA-125 inspected by the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra).
Take a look: I'm being punished for Returning Officers' failure: Saad Rafique
The application further said that the tribunal's decision had said that there were only seven polling stations that showed discrepancies which were not linked to him.
The apex court subsequently suspended the tribunal's decision for re-election in NA-125 and PP-155 constituencies and accepted Rafique's petition for hearing.
The court summoned all election records from the tribunal and adjourned the hearing for four weeks.
"We will fight the case on merit and we are certain we will get justice," said Rafique while speaking to media representatives after the hearing. "It was highly painful for me to be accused of dishonesty."
"I am hopeful that if we have not done anything wrong, then the truth will become evident," the PML-N leader further said.
Speaking to media personnel outside the Supreme Court, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said that the apex court's suspension of an election tribunal's decision to order re-election in Lahore's NA-125 and PP-155 constituencies is only a "stay for a month".
Imran alleged that the PML-N government was pretending that the irregularities carried out in NA-125 and the laws broken by presiding officers and returning officers were "just for amusement" and not to benefit Saad Rafique.
Imran also commented on the PML-N's denial of the report by National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) revealing it had not been able to verify the thumb impressions of more than 93,000 votes polled in the constituency of National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq.
Imran said his party has submitted an application requesting the 93,000 votes be issued to them since his party has "paid Rs2.6 million for the verification of the votes".
Imran said his party would scrutinise every vote and match with CNICs associated to them to ascertain if the CNICs were valid.
According to Nadra's report, "there were 93,852 used counterfoils which Nadra could not process through its Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) because of poor quality of fingerprints of the voters affixed on them. However, CNIC numbers mentioned on such counterfoils having poor quality thumb impressions were valid CNICs."
Read: '93,000 votes' thumbprint in NA Speaker's constituency unverified'
Imran said of the 73,478 votes authenticated by the AFIS, some 15,000 were bogus votes.
Rafique and Mian Naseer Ahmad, both of whom belonged to PML-N, had won the 2013 general elections from Lahore's NA-125 and PP-155 constituencies respectively.
The one-page statement released by the tribunal last week had said that the ballot bags had been opened with a sharp object and the records had been tampered with.
Read: Election tribunal orders re-election in NA-125, PP-155
Rafique had secured 123,416 votes whereas his contender Hamid Khan had obtained 84,495 votes from NA-125 constituency.
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf's (PTI) Hamid Khan had challenged Rafique's victory, alleging that the PML-N candidate had rigged the elections, and a large number of bogus votes were cast in his favour.
He had requested the tribunal to declare the election null and void and announce re-election in the constituency.
The tribunal's ruling had come months after PTI's sit-ins in Islamabad over alleged mass scale rigging in the 2013 elections.
NA-125 is among the four controversial constituencies — the other three being NA-110 (Sialkot), NA-122 (Lahore) and NA-154 (Lodhran) — where PTI had demanded for voters' thumbprint-verification in the hope of finding a solution that might be acceptable to all concerned.


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CORUSCANT (GNS) - The Galactic Empires ongoing joint operations against piracy and terrorism continued today with the arrest of an Eidola Pirate, Adam Diggins, formerly of the New Imperial Order.
The Imperial Navy has been conducting anti-piracy operations which resulted in the successful arrest of Adam Diggins," Zee Wolf told our correspondent; a GNS reporter embedded with the Imperial First Fleet. "He has promised us Teniel Djos 'ire'. Which, as we sat in the Fleets Imperial Star Destroyers, rather made us all smile."
The arrest of the Eidola Pirate joins a list of Imperial enemies which Galactic Empire security forces have rounded up in the past ten days, including Owen Von Ismay (Chancellor of the NAO), two NIO High Command members, other members number well into double figures and an NIO Rear-Admiral.
"This marks a new phase in the relationship of the Galaxy with pirates," Wolf told GNS. "Their days of glory will begin to fade now as we turn our resources on them. A potentially crushing new trade initiative coming soon, which will make Galactic trade almost completely secure, will further marginalize them and ongoing investigations by DII and INQ, and military operations by TFD and the Navy, will increase the squeeze still further."
Supporters of the Galactic Government are finding it increasingly easy to find evidence for the Empires renewed effectiveness as a superpower able to combat terrorism, which it sees as the CEC-Tenloss-NIO Axis of Evil, and piracy, in the form of Eidola and sporadic opportunist crime. "Work still needs to be done to demonstrate our capacity as an economic power," explained Wolf. "Stand by for news on that; the Emperor has some very exciting revelations to make in forthcoming days."
Concern has been raised by some outlets, including - unusually - the Coruscant Times, that Diggins assistant, Mara, is being held without charge and may be at risk of abuse. "Nonsense," smiled Wolf. "She is in very safe hands. The Emperor himself has been entertaining her."
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Stable propagation of mechanical signals in soft media using stored elastic energy
Edited by Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, and approved June 27, 2016 (received for review March 24, 2016)
Advances in nonlinear mechanics have enabled the realization of a variety of nontraditional functions in mechanical systems. Intrinsic dissipation typically limits the utility of these effects, with soft polymeric materials in particular being incompatible with meaningful wave propagation. Here we demonstrate a nonlinear soft system that is able to propagate large-amplitude signals over arbitrary distances without any signal degradation. We make use of bistable beams to store and then release elastic energy along the path of the wave, balancing both dissipative and dispersive effects. The soft and 3D printable system is highly customizable and tunable, enabling the design of mechanical logic that is relevant to soft autonomous systems (e.g., soft robotics).
Soft structures with rationally designed architectures capable of large, nonlinear deformation present opportunities for unprecedented, highly tunable devices and machines. However, the highly dissipative nature of soft materials intrinsically limits or prevents certain functions, such as the propagation of mechanical signals. Here we present an architected soft system composed of elastomeric bistable beam elements connected by elastomeric linear springs. The dissipative nature of the polymer readily damps linear waves, preventing propagation of any mechanical signal beyond a short distance, as expected. However, the unique architecture of the system enables propagation of stable, nonlinear solitary transition waves with constant, controllable velocity and pulse geometry over arbitrary distances. Because the high damping of the material removes all other linear, small-amplitude excitations, the desired pulse propagates with high fidelity and controllability. This phenomenon can be used to control signals, as demonstrated by the design of soft mechanical diodes and logic gates.
Soft, highly deformable materials have enabled the design of new classes of tunable and responsive systems and devices, including bioinspired soft robots (1, 2), self-regulating microfluidics (3), adaptive optics (4), reusable energy-absorbing systems (5, 6), structures with highly programmable responses (7), and morphological computing paradigms (8). However, their highly deformable and dissipative nature also poses unique challenges. Although it has been demonstrated that the nonlinear response of soft structures can be exploited to design machines capable of performing surprisingly sophisticated functions on actuation (1, 2, 9), their high intrinsic dissipation has prevented the design of completely soft machines. Sensing and control functionalities, which require transmission of a signal over a distance, still typically rely on the integration of stiff electronic components within the soft material (10, 11), introducing interfaces that are often a source of mechanical failure.
The design of soft control and sensing systems (and, consequently, completely soft machines) requires the ability to propagate a stable signal without distortion through soft media. There are two limiting factors intrinsic to materials that work against this: dispersion (signal distortion due to frequency-dependent phase velocity) and dissipation (loss of energy over time as the wave propagates through the medium). Dispersion can be controlled or eliminated through nonlinear effects produced via the control of structure in the medium (12). For example, periodic systems based on Hertzian contact (13⇓–15), tensegrity structures (16), rigid bars and linkages (17), and bistable elastic elements (18) can behave as nondispersive media, with the nonlinearity of their local mechanical response canceling out the tendency for the signal to disperse at sufficiently large amplitudes. However, dissipation is still an overarching problem. Structures designed to propagate elastic waves are typically built from stiff materials with low intrinsic dissipation (e.g., metals) and excited with small-amplitude excitation (to avoid plastic energy loss). This approach minimizes, but does not eliminate, dissipation. In soft, highly dissipative media, the problem is further exacerbated, and there is no robust strategy currently available to propagate signals in these systems.
Here we report an architected medium made of a highly dissipative, soft material that overcomes both dispersive and dissipative effects and enables the propagation of a mechanical signal over arbitrary distances without distortion. A stable mechanical signal can be transmitted over long distances through a dissipative medium only if additional energy is continuously supplied during its propagation. To achieve such behavior, we use bistable elastomeric beams that are capable of storing elastic energy in the form of deformation and then, stimulated by the wavefront, releasing it during the propagation of the wave, without the need of any external stimulus. Dissipation allows stable wave propagation by balancing the elastic energy release. The damping intrinsic to the soft materials removes all signals except the desired transition wave, which therefore propagates with high fidelity, predictability, and controllability. Furthermore, as observed for nondissipative (18) or minimally dissipative systems (19) made from stiff materials, a series of interacting bistable units can transmit nondispersive transition waves. By contrast, the proposed architecture is capable of propagating stable waves with constant velocity over arbitrary distances, overcoming both dissipative and dispersive effects, despite the soft, dissipative material of which it is composed. Together, these effects enable the design of functional devices such as soft mechanical logic elements. The ability to 3D print soft mechanical logic enables a higher degree of customizability and tunability relative to previous examples of mechanical logic (15, 20⇓–22).
System Architecture
The fundamental building block of our system is a bistable element (formed by two tilted beams) connected to a horizontal element with linear response, all made of elastomeric material (Fig. 1A). The tilted beams have aspect ratio (with mm), whereas their inclination angle is determined by their end-to-end distance d. The horizontal coupling elements are designed to have a linear mechanical response (Fig. 1B), with their morphology selected to achieve a range of effective stiffnesses (an important parameter for determining the dynamic behavior of the system, as described later and shown in Fig. S1). Systems comprising up to 100 building blocks arranged to form a one-dimensional chain (Fig. 1A) are fabricated with high fidelity using direct ink writing, an extrusion-based 3D printing method (23). In this approach, viscoelastic inks are extruded through a fine deposition nozzle that undergoes programmed translation to create 3D structures layer by layer (24⇓–26). Direct ink writing is particularly well suited for producing our structures because narrow features with tunable aspect ratios can be readily fabricated by locally varying the print velocity. Here we used a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) ink and followed the processing steps outlined in Materials and Methods. After printing, a stiff support structure is infilled adjacent to the soft architecture to ensure uniform morphology of the soft elements along the length of the system and to enable precise control of the end-to-end distance d, which defines the beam orientation and the resulting mechanical response of the bistable elements. Additionally, a small copper cylinder is press fit in the middle of each bistable element, which serves both to add a concentrated mass at each node and to provide contrast for optically tracking the wave propagation during subsequent experiments.
We start by characterizing the static response of both the bistable elements and the connecting horizontal elements. The force–displacement curve in Fig. 1B shows the linear response of the horizontal elements. In particular, for the element shown in Fig. 1A, with a zigzag morphology of length 10 mm, width 5 mm, and thickness 5.4 mm, we measure a stiffness N/m. Note that the value of k can be significantly altered by choosing different connector geometries or different extrusion rates during printing (Fig. S1). In contrast with the linear response of the connecting elements, the bistable elements, each composed of two tilted beams, are characterized by a highly nonlinear response with a regime of negative incremental stiffness (see the region with negative slope in Fig. 1C). The associated instability leads to a rapid shape change that has been studied in the context of both natural (27) and synthetic systems (28⇓⇓–31). The associated potential energy, (defined such that and calculated by first fitting a fifth-degree polynomial to the measured force–displacement data and then integrating), is characterized by two local minima at and (Fig. 1C), corresponding to the two stable states shown in Fig. 1D. The stable configuration at is characterized by an energy state higher than that of the undeformed one (at ). Therefore, similar to a phase transition, the transition between the two stable states involves a net change in stored potential energy, which, depending on the direction of the transition, either absorbs energy (5) or releases stored potential energy. In this work, we demonstrate that the release of energy associated with this transition can be exploited to overcome dissipation and to propagate a mechanical signal over arbitrary distances, enabling the design of soft and highly tunable devices, such as the mechanical logic elements demonstrated later.
Response Under Large-Amplitude Excitations
Although the architected medium does not enable propagation of small-amplitude elastic waves over long distances due to the intrinsic damping of the polymer (Fig. S2), moderate- and large-amplitude excitation can lead to a very different response. If the bistable elements are initially set to their lower-energy (undeformed) stable configuration ( in Fig. 1C, corresponding to the top image in Fig. 1D), displacing an element even to large amplitudes does not lead to a transition wave due to the energetically unfavorable (energy-absorbing) transition of each element (19). Therefore, because small-amplitude linear modes also disintegrate because of dissipation (Fig. S2), there exist no stable modes of energy transport when the elements are in the low-energy state. However, if the bistable elements are initially set to their higher-energy (deformed) stable configuration ( in Fig. 1C, corresponding to the bottom image in Fig. 1D), a sufficiently large displacement applied to any of the bistable elements can cause the displaced element to transition states, producing a nonlinear transition wave that propagates indefinitely outward from the point of initiation with constant speed and shape. This is due to both (i) an equilibrium between dispersive and nonlinear effects of the periodic structure (18) and () a release of energy that equals the effects of dissipation as, stimulated by the wavefront, each of the bistable elements along the chain transitions from its higher- to lower-stable energy state (i.e., from to ).
Experimental Results
To characterize the propagation of such nonlinear waves experimentally, we used a high-speed camera and tracked the location of each bistable element along the chain as a function of time (Movie S1). Because at the wavefront the bistable elements transition from one stable configuration to the other, we monitor the displacement of each unit relative to its two stable configurations ( and ). For the ith unit we therefore introduce two normalized distances[1] being the position of the ith bistable element along the chain. In Fig. 1E we visualize the propagation of the nonlinear wave by showing for each unit its normalized distance from the nearest stable configuration[2]at different times. If , the ith element is in either of its two stable configurations, whereas indicates that the unit is passing through the energy barrier separating them. The experimental data of Fig. 1E clearly show that at the wavefront, a few bistable units (in this case, about four) are undergoing a change from one stable state to the other at any given time and that the transition sequentially propagates through the elements along the chain (Movie S2). We also find that this transition wave propagates with a constant shape, clearly indicating that both dispersive and dissipative effects are overcome in the structure.
The speed of the nonlinear wave can be obtained by monitoring the evolution of the normalized distance for each bistable unit during the entire experiment, as in Fig. 2A. Because in this contour map the blue and red colors indicate bistable units in the high-energy and low-energy stable configurations, respectively, the sequential change of each of the elements along the chain from one stable state to the other is evident. Furthermore, the constant slope of the boundary between the pretransition (blue) and posttransition (red) regions reveals a constant propagation velocity (in this case, m/s). Note also that the pulse width for any time can be extracted from the map by taking a horizontal slice of the plot (i.e., a fixed time) and measuring the number of bistable elements in the midst of transitioning between solid blue and solid red (approximately four elements in width).
Another unique aspect of this system is that the propagation velocity and pulse shape are the same (within the margin of error) whether the wave is initiated in compression or tension, as revealed by comparison of the contour plots reported in Fig. 2A (for compression) and Fig. 2B (for tension). In both cases, the transition wave propagates with a constant velocity (3.4 m/s) and pulse width (approximately four elements). The propagation of rarefaction pulses is a rare find and thus a noteworthy feature of this system. Although compressive nonlinear solitary waves have been observed in nonlinear periodic systems as in, e.g., Hertzian contact-based chains (12, 32, 33) as well as in macroscopic nonlinear chains using magnetic connectors (19, 34), rarefaction pulses have not been found in those, due to the lack of stiffness in tension, among other reasons. Finally, we note that the transition wave can also be initiated at any intermediate location along the chain, in which case a compressive pulse travels in one direction and a rarefaction pulse travels in the other direction, both propagating outward from the point of initiation (Movie S3).
Numerical Results
We additionally characterized the transition wave propagation using a 1D mechanical model, in which the position of the middle of the ith bistable element is governed by[3]where V is the quasi-1D on-site potential of each bistable element, γ is a linear damping parameter, and k is the connector spring stiffness. For a detailed discussion of the continuum limit and the energetic requirements for stable wave propagation, see ref. 35. The linear damping model is a leading-order approximation to the complex dissipative nature of elastomers. The bistable potential V is numerically computed by nonlinear finite-element simulations of a quasistatically deforming, corotational, linear elastic beam in 2D (36). We validated the numerical force–displacement curves by comparison with the experimental data shown in Fig. 1C (see Fig. S3 for a comparison). To simulate the response of the system under large-amplitude excitations, initially, all nodes are placed in the high-energy configuration. The first node is then excited by displacing it from the high-energy stable point to the low-energy one, and the system response in time is solved using a Newmark-β scheme. The only unknown model parameter, γ, was determined by fitting experimental wave speed data for a particular combination of geometric parameters ( N/m and mm, as defined in Fig. 1D; see Fig. S4 for the comparison between experiment and simulation). With all model parameters thereby determined, we examined systems with different combinations of geometric parameters. As an example, Fig. 2 E and F show simulated compression-initiated and tension-initiated pulses, respectively, which show excellent agreement with the experimental data discussed earlier (Fig. 2 A and B).
Control of Wave Propagation
The results reported so far were obtained for a system with connecting elements of stiffness N/m and bistable beams with aspect ratio and constant end-to-end distance d. However, both the width of the pulse and its propagation velocity can be greatly changed by manipulating either the nonlinear response of the bistable elements or the stiffness k of the linear coupling elements. Although changes in k require fabrication of new units with different morphology (Fig. S1), we can take advantage of the high deformability of soft materials to tune the nonlinear response of the bistable beams by applying small lateral loads to change the beam end-to-end distance d. With the demonstrated excellent quantitative agreement between numerical and experimental results, we used our simulations to systematically investigate the effects of the parameters d and k on the behavior of the propagating wave. First, the bistable on-site potential for different d values was determined by analogous quasistatic 1D displacement-controlled simulations of an individual bistable element. The force–displacement curves obtained in this way were subsequently integrated to determine the on-site potential, and an eighth-order polynomial fit was used as an approximation for . The results reported in Fig. 3A for four representative values of d show two key features. First, d has a large effect on the energy barrier separating the two stable configurations, which is reflected also in changes in the peak forces during transition. Second, d strongly affects the displacement necessary to obtain snap-through (from the high-energy state back to the low-energy state) and thereby to initiate the transition during wave propagation. Experiments were performed in which defined displacements were applied quasistatically to a bistable element for different values of d (Fig. S5), confirming these trends.
Using these values for the on-site potential , simulations were subsequently performed to predict the wave characteristics for different connector element stiffnesses, k, and end-to-end distances, d. The wave speed (which is computed by tracking the point of maximum particle velocity) increases monotonically with increasing k (Fig. 3B). However, the effect of d on the wave velocity is more complicated. The wave velocity is highly sensitive to changes in d when d is small but much less sensitive when d is large. The associated width of the transition wave was also noted, defined as the number of nodes that simultaneously have displacements between 10% and 90% of the transition displacement. The results reported in Fig. 3C indicate that the pulse width increases with increasing k, showing the same trend as the velocity. For a constant connector stiffness value k, d does not have an effect on the width for lower stiffnesses but shows a similar variation as the velocity for higher stiffnesses. Experimental measurements of systems with different values of d and k (Figs. S6–S8) match these numerical results (Fig. 3) with excellent quantitative agreement, confirming the validity of our simulations.
The trends for velocity (Fig. 3B) and width (Fig. 3C) contours show a correlation with the energy barrier for different d values as shown in Fig. 3A. For a constant interconnecting element stiffness, the d values corresponding to high-energy barriers show lower velocity and width. This is because when the energy barrier is high, each element needs to absorb more energy to overcome the barrier, thereby causing a slower transition rate and therefore a lower wave speed and vice versa. Consequently, the energy barrier is the most important criterion in determining the transition speed and width of the displacement profile.
Because the N bistable elements that constitute a particular pulse are not simultaneously in morphologies that place them in the peak of their individual energy barriers, the total pulse energy barrier, , is calculated as[4]where V and N are determined from the simulation results (Fig. 3 A and C, respectively) and the values are approximated by distributing them equally between and (i.e., ). Fig. 3D shows this total potential energy barrier (), associated with the transition events of the individual bistable elements from their higher-energy state () to their lower-energy state (). As expected, as the number of elements in the pulse (N) and the energy barrier for the individual elements increase, so does the total energy barrier required to initiate the pulse along a given portion of the chain because the total energy barrier is the sum of the transient barriers of the individual elements undergoing transition at a given time.
Tunable Functional Devices
Having demonstrated that the energy barrier for a transition wave to propagate can be controlled by tuning d and k, we now demonstrate how functional devices can be designed by carefully arranging the linear and nonlinear elements along the chain. To this end, it is critical to note that the pulse propagates independent of its initial conditions, so that it can be manipulated through entirely local geometric changes. This can be understood as a result of the high damping of the system, in which only the specific signal compatible with the local geometric parameters is able to propagate an appreciable distance.
For example, an accelerator can be designed by applying different values of d spatially along the length of the system to achieve a controlled variation in velocity. This can be done without fabricating a specifically graded system because the deformable architecture allows different values of d to be applied along the length of the system. The experimental results reported in Fig. S7 for a chain where d is ∼14.5 mm at one end and about 19 mm at the other show an evident change in slope of the interface between the pretransitioned and posttransitioned states (blue and red, respectively), indicating a variation in pulse velocity (the slope of the interface is inversely proportional to the speed). In particular, we observe a change in the wave speed by more than a factor of 6 from the left end of the chain to the right (0.8–5.2 m/s). The velocity can be seen to continually vary along the length of the chain, but at each location it matches the expected velocities from Fig. 3B.
Further, a mechanical diode can be designed as a heterogeneous chain with soft linear horizontal connecting elements (corresponding to a low-energy barrier) in one region and stiff ones (corresponding to a high-energy barrier) in another region. As an example, in Fig. 4 we show results for such a system set to mm composed of 25 bistable elements with soft connecting elements ( N/m) and 25 bistable elements with stiff connecting elements ( N/m). As shown in Fig. 3D, propagating pulses in these two distinct portions of the system are associated with very different energy barriers. When a pulse is initiated in the soft region ( N/m), where it possesses a small width (∼4 units) and a resulting low-energy barrier ( = 0.2–0.3 mJ), it is unable to continue propagating when it reaches the stiff region ( N/m), where a wide pulse (∼20 units) and high-energy barrier are encountered ( 1 mJ). As a result, the pulse freezes indefinitely at the soft–stiff boundary, with the wave energy that has not already been dissipated being stored in the elastic deformation of the local structure (Fig. 4 A, Center, and B and Movie S4). In contrast, a pulse initiated in the stiff region readily propagates through the soft region as well (Fig. 4 A, Bottom, and C and Movie S5), although a kink in wave velocity is observed at the transition between stiff and soft (a result of the change in k; Fig. 4C). The fact that the wave velocity rapidly changes at the boundary is a manifestation of the system's insensitivity to initial conditions. Also, note that the large-amplitude wave is essentially insensitive to any fabrication-induced imperfections in the system.
As seen above, the final equilibrium wave profile of the system depends on the internal equilibrium between the energy generated by the transition and the energy dissipated by the material damping and is therefore not dependent on the initial conditions. The latter only affect the transient time needed for the pulse to achieve its equilibrium configuration. Indeed, integration of Eq. 3 under the assumption of a smooth, stable propagating wave form shows that the total kinetic energy per mass, E, transported by the pulse and its velocity v are related by (19), where denotes the potential energy difference between the two stable points. The initial conditions (as well as the connector stiffness k) do not affect this scaling law.
Using similar principles, more complicated functional devices can be designed, such as mechanical logic gates (Fig. 5). One can define the high-energy state of the bistable element ( in Fig. 1D) as logical state 0 and the low-energy state ( in Fig. 1D) as logical state 1 and then design systems that predictably control pulse propagation in accordance with the energy barrier relationships in Fig. 3D. For example, the bifurcated chain in Fig. 5 was designed with a fixed value of k everywhere (80 N/m), corresponding to the left of Fig. 3D, with the two input chains set to mm. When the end-to-end distance of the tilted beams in the vertical output chain, , is small (e.g., mm), the energy barrier is sufficiently high that both input chains must have been activated by propagating transition waves to continue propagation through the output (Fig. 5B), behaving as a soft mechanical logical "and" gate (Movie S6). However, the very same system becomes a logical "or" gate when is increased sufficiently (e.g., to mm), as in Fig. 5C. In this case, because the energy barrier of the output chain is smaller (less than 0.1 mJ), if either of the input chains has propagated the transition wave, the wave will propagate through the output chain (Movie S7). Similar behavior can be obtained by other combinations of beam geometries and linear connectors, using Fig. 3D as a guide.
We have designed, printed, and demonstrated a system that enables the propagation of a signal without distortion through soft, dissipative media over arbitrary distances. The soft medium damps out linear waves, leaving only the desired transition wave. The precisely architected system makes use of beam-based units exhibiting asymmetric bistabilities to achieve the propagation of nonlinear transition waves in which the dissipation inherent to the polymer is overcome by the local release of elastically stored energy during the transition of the individual bistable units from a high-energy to a low-energy configuration. The medium thereby undergoes a phase transition as the wave pulse propagates through it. The wave pulse itself locally stimulates the release of the stored elastic energy as it propagates. Although we have used beam pairs as a simple way to produce the (1D) asymmetric bistable potential that we use to store elastic energy along the path of the wave, other higher-dimensional arrangements of beams (5) and shells (31) would also exhibit asymmetric bistability and could therefore also be explored as alternative architectures for the phenomenon studied here.
Due to the intrinsically unidirectional transition from the high- to the low-energy state that each individual bistable unit undergoes during propagation, an external source of energy must be provided to reset the bistable elements to their higher-energy state if additional propagation events are desired [which, for example, could be provided pneumatically or via chemical reactions, as has been demonstrated in other soft autonomous systems (37)]. The high quality of the printed elastomer ensures that the system can be reused in this manner indefinitely, with a consistent response from cycle to cycle.
The soft system has the advantage of facile tunability (e.g., changing d) and control over wave speed, pulse width, and pulse energy, with pulse propagation independent of the initial conditions. Additionally, the linear coupling springs between the bistable units exert a large effect on pulse width and energy. A simple mechanical model was shown to accurately capture the wave characteristics and guide the design of functional soft logic devices, such as diodes, "or" gates, and "and" gates. This form of logic could be harnessed to introduce some level of feedback and control in truly soft autonomous systems (i.e., without the use of rigid electronics that introduce materials mismatches that can lead to failure). It is also unique in that the system undergoes relatively large-amplitude shape changes during its function, so that the process and output can be easily visualized. As discussed in our previous work (5), the mechanical response of the beams is scale-independent, and the elastic nature of the mechanism ensures a mechanical response that is independent of rate and loading history. Our findings can therefore be adapted to other scales and contexts.
Materials and Methods
The polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) structures were produced using direct ink writing, an extrusion-based 3D printing approach (see Supporting Information and ref. 5 for more information). The soft architecture was connected to rigid epoxy supports, with the lateral distance between these supports, d, controlled by acrylic braces (thereby affecting the morphology of the soft architecture). Copper cylinders were press fit into the printed structure to enable optical tracking of periodic points along the structure. Measurements of the transition waves were made using a high-speed camera (Phantom v7.1), allowing the output of the positions for each element i for all time []. The quasistatic mechanical data were obtained using an Instron 5566 in displacement control.
The structures were produced using direct ink writing, an extrusion-based 3D printing method, followed by an infilling step. A viscoelastic polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) ink was used for 3D printing. This consisted of a shear-thinning PDMS material, Dow Corning SE-1700 (85 wt %), with a lower-viscosity PDMS additive, Dow Corning Sylgard 184 (15 wt %). The viscoelastic yield properties are tailored (see supporting information in ref. 5 for rheological characterization) to ensure that the uncured ink both flows readily during printing, yet maintains its shape until it is permanently cross-linked in a subsequent curing step ( C for 30 min). This material was extruded through a tapered nozzle (200 μm inner diameter tapered nozzle from Nordson EFD) during programmed translation of the nozzle over a fixed substrate (PTFE-coated aluminum). Ink extrusion was controlled via fixed pressure (Nordson EFD Ultimus V pressure box), with the nozzle precisely positioned using a custom 3D positioning stage (Aerotech). After printing and curing of the PDMS ink, two regions parallel with and adjacent to the functional region of wave propagation were infilled with epoxy (Momentive Epon 828) to prevent undesired structural bending that would make measuring the response of the system difficult. The lateral distance between these rigid supports, d, is defined by acrylic braces of precise dimensions, which were made using an Epilog Laser Mini cutting system. The acrylic braces also serve to elevate the soft structure (via the epoxy supports) without contacting it, to eliminate any interactions between the wave pulse and the table surface. A cylindrical copper rod (3.175 mm diameter) was cut to pieces of 5.17 mm length (giving a mass of ∼0.47 g), which were press fit into the printed structure to enable optical tracking of periodic points along the structure. The top surfaces of these copper cylinders were painted with flat white paint to produce excellent light contrast for visualization of the transition wave propagation.
To achieve a range of effective stiffnesses k, several different geometries were designed for the linear coupling elements that connect the individual bistable elements to one another. As shown in Fig. S1, we measured stiffness values ranging from 30 to 2,100 N/m (as measured with a commercial quasistatic test system, Instron 5566, in displacement control at a displacement rate of 2 mm/min). Additional intermediate values can be obtained by varying the translation speed of the printhead during the printing process.
Small-Amplitude Excitation.
To characterize the dynamic response of the system, we considered small-amplitude excitations with white noise up to 5 kHz generated by an electrodynamic shaker (model K2025E013; Modal Shop) directly connected to one end of the sample. We monitored the propagation of the mechanical signal using two miniature accelerometers (352C22; PCB Piezotronics) attached to both ends of the chain (Fig. S2A). Spectra were obtained for three different chain lengths (6, 15, and 50 bistable units in length) and were determined to be independent of d. The rigid epoxy supports were held apart at fixed distances by acrylic braces. These ensured that the morphology of the soft structure remained in a controlled configuration during the dynamic tests. The acrylic braces were in turn glued to steel laboratory stands on an optics table, to minimize undesired vibrations. As expected for a soft, dissipative material, the transmittance spectra [defined as the ratio between the measured output and input accelerations, ] clearly indicate that small-amplitude excitations are rapidly dissipated due to the strong damping intrinsic to the material (Fig. S2B). In fact, at frequencies above 550 Hz, all energy is essentially dissipated before traveling through only six bistable units (independently of the direction of transmission or the state of the bistable elements). For longer distances (50–100 repeating units), even lower frequencies (100 Hz or less) show a drop of at least 20 dB through the structure, meaning that no more than about 1% of the input acceleration is measured at the output for these low frequencies. These results confirm that the material from which the medium is architected is intrinsically highly dissipative and does not enable propagation of small-amplitude elastic waves over long distances.
Measuring Transition Waves.
Measurements of the transition waves were made using a high-speed camera (Phantom v7.1). For systems with low wave speeds (usually N/m and v on the order of a few meters per second), a 500-Hz recording rate was used. For higher-speed systems (usually N/m and v between 10 and 20 m/s) a higher recording rate of 1,000 Hz was used. Two halogen floodlights were positioned to provide sufficient lighting for the high-speed camera to record the experiments solely with light reflected from the sample. After recording the wave experiment with the high-speed camera, custom code in MATLAB was used to track the locations of each bistable element, allowing the output of the positions for each element i for all time, .
Control of Wave Propagation.
Although the results reported in Fig. 3 were obtained numerically, we also experimentally characterized the propagation of large-amplitude waves in systems characterized by different values of k and d.
First, to validate the numerical predictions for the on-site potential, we performed quasistatic 1D displacement-controlled experiments for different d values on an individual bistable element. The experimental results reported in Fig. S5 show a convincing agreement with the numerical results (Fig. 3A).
Next, we experimentally investigated the effect of d and k on both wave velocity and pulse width.
To explore the effect of d on the wave behavior, we tested the propagation of a transition wave through a system in which different values of d were assigned for the different experiments (Fig. S6). This can be done without fabricating a new sample for each experiment because different values of d can be achieved by applying a defined lateral displacement ( and 18.6 mm in Fig. S6). Comparison between the experimental results shows an evident change in slope of the interface between the pretransitioned and posttransitioned states (blue and red, respectively), indicating a variation in pulse velocity (the slope of the interface is inversely proportional to the speed). In particular, we observe a change in the wave speed from about 1.9 to 3.4 m/s for mm and mm, respectively, in a system for which N/m. In contrast, it is apparent that the pulse width is not significantly affected by d, as the number of bistable elements in the midst of transitioning between solid blue and solid red remains approximately constant as a function of time.
The stiffness of the linear connecting elements, k, also greatly affects the pulse propagation. Fig. S8 A and B show data for an experiment conducted on a system with stiff and soft connecting elements (2,100 N/m and k = 80 N/m, respectively; Fig. S8C, Insets). First, by comparing the slope of the boundaries in Fig. S8 A and B, it is evident that the stiffness of the connecting elements affects the pulse velocity. In fact, we find velocities of ∼18 and 3.4 m/s for N/m and N/m, respectively. Moreover, k strongly affects the pulse width (i.e., the number of bistable elements that at any given time are simultaneously in the process of transitioning between stable states). This is evident in Fig. S8C, where we compare experimental snapshots of for the two systems and observe widths of ∼25 and 4 elements for N/m and N/m, respectively.
Computation of the On-Site Potential.
One bistable beam element consists of two inclined beams with a mass placed at the center. Because the mass is rigid compared with the compliant beams, it is assumed that the force on the mass by the bistable structure is produced solely by the deformation of the beams. Due to the symmetry of the structure, the quasistatic deformation of only one tilted beam was modeled with appropriate boundary conditions. The beam was modeled using slender corotational beam finite elements (36) whose one-dimensional stretching and bending deformation are governed by a nonlinear Neo-Hookean material model with an initial slope of MPa. Results of an example simulation are shown in Fig. S3A. The undeformed beam is first subjected to an initial vertical precompression according to the d value. The boundary node B is then displaced horizontally from one stable point to another in displacement control and the resulting force required is recorded. The force–displacement function obtained in this way is fit with a seventh-order polynomial. The force–displacement polynomial is validated by comparison with the experimentally measured force–displacement curve for mm, as shown in Fig. S5B; note that the computed forces are multiplied by 2 to account for the force of one bistable element containing two tilted beams. This simulation was repeated for different d values to compute .
The mass at each node was 0.419 g, with k ranging from 50 to 2,500 N/m and d ranging from 14.5 to 19.0 mm with mm corresponding to the undeformed state, and the dissipation parameter of 0.08 N.s/m optimized by matching the computational and experimental velocity at = (80 N/m, 17.5 mm) (see Fig. S4 for the comparison of experimental and simulation results by which the dissipation parameter was determined).
We thank Drs. Sicong Shan, Farhad Javid, and Daniele Foresti for valuable assistance. K.B. and J.A.L. acknowledge support from the Harvard Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) through Grant DMR-1420570. K.B. acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) through Grant CMMI-1149456 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program. N.N. and C.D. acknowledge support from the NSF under Grant CMMI-1200319. D.M.K. acknowledges support from the NSF through CAREER Award CMMI-1254424.
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Author contributions: J.R.R., C.D., D.M.K., J.A.L., and K.B. designed research; J.R.R. and N.N. performed research; J.R.R. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; J.R.R., N.N., C.D., D.M.K., J.A.L., and K.B. analyzed data; and J.R.R., N.N., C.D., D.M.K., J.A.L., and K.B. wrote the paper.
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(English) Generating GST Bill / GST Invoice in Tally.ERP 9
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Invoices are a vital instrument for any business. At Tally, we very well understand that you need to raise different types of GST bill/invoice and this may seem a bit daunting in the GST regime since you are getting used to the new system. Not to worry!
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As a registered business, when you sell taxable services or goods then you issue a Tax Invoice.
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a) Single rate GST bill/invoice: In order to generate a Single Rate GST Invoice in Tally.ERP 9, you need to define tax at item level. Based on the selection of specific item, Tally.ERP 9 will automatically charge respective tax. Make sure that the accounting group/ledger which is chosen in this transaction does not have any defined tax rates. Else, Tally.ERP 9 will first pick rates at accounting group/ledger level, rather than at item level rates.
b) Multi rate GST bill/invoice: Similarly, to generate a Multi Rate GST Invoice, you can define the tax details at each item level. The moment you select those specific items, Tally.ERP 9 automatically selects respective tax rates and generates the invoice.
For 'Inclusive of tax items', you can enable the option 'Allow entry of rate inclusive of tax for stock item' under F12 configuration in sales invoice and generate an inclusive of tax invoice.
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For Example: In GST, along with the supply of steel bars; transport, freight, packing, insurance or labour charges will also get taxed at the same tax rate as that of the steel bars.
In Tally.ERP 9, make a service ledger and define tax details for the service. For the goods, you can define tax details at stock item level. ERP 9 automatically detects the place of supply from the party ledger, tax details from the item level as well as the service ledger; it computes tax based on these details and generates the Tax Invoice.
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- Exempted goods or services: Let's assume that you have sold some exempted goods and services. In Tally.ERP 9, you can set taxability as exempt in two ways. You can do this either in the GST details screen at master level of the exempted goods/services, or while passing the entry you can select the applicable nature of transaction from the tax classification details as Sales Exempt. Tally.ERP 9 will consider the transaction as an exempted sale and generate the Bill of Supply.
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Advance receipt: To create an advance receipt in Tally.ERP 9, go to the receipt voucher section and press Alt +V to mark the transaction as an advance receipt.
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Not surprisingly these days, the headlights appear to house LED clusters as the primary front-end lighting. White accent strips (that turn orange and act as indicator lights when the signals are activated) are positioned on the top of each headlight.
This is the first look we've seen of the rear-end. The taillights are shaped in a similar fashion as the existing C7 Corvette and it's likely to make it into production, given that the taillight design elements feature a pair of vertical bars connecting with a horizontal one. This pattern repeats a number of times, four to be exact just on the rear end—two times on the driver's side and another couple of times on the passenger side, which is also similar to the current C7.
We love the aggressive look of the front fascia, but don't get too attached to the look because it might not be wearing part of the front bumper. It's hard to tell because the camouflage does a good job disguising the actual shape.
Expect the official release later this year or early 2020.
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Dereck Downs became a victim of the numbers game in Connecticut.
Not necessarily thrown to the wolves but certainly thrown from the Wolves.
His landing spot?
With the defending champions of the National Lacrosse League, as the Calgary Roughnecks have welcomed the young sniper with open arms after being acquired in an early January trade from the New England Black Wolves.
"Definitely not upset with the move," said the 24-year-old Downs. "I had a call from my coach in New England and let me know there was an opportunity for me in Calgary and that he was happy for me to get me to a team that was giving me an opportunity to play. I got the call from Calgary, and they welcomed me with open arms.
"And, of course, I was looking forward to coming to a championship team and seeing what I could do for them."
Roughnecks fans will get a chance first-hand to see what Downs can do for them when he makes his home debut with his new crew Saturday night against the Halifax Thunderbirds (5-0) at the Saddledome (7:30 p.m., B/R Live).
"Right away, I heard it where I was going, and that was kind of exciting," said Downs of joining the 2-3 Roughnecks. "A championship team, and I knew some of the guys already."
Downs came to Calgary in exchange for third-round picks in the NLL Entry Draft of 2020 and 2022.
Loads of shooters on the left side was the reason why he was deemed expendable by the Black Wolves.
That's despite shooting the lights out in his rookie NLL season last year. The 24-year-old Torontonian, who was a fifth-round pick, 59th overall, by the Black Wolves in 2018, tallied 23 points — including 16 goals — in 15 games.
But this season, he only saw action in one game with the Black Wolves — counting one goal and one assist — prior to the trade.
"We had a lot of talent on the left side," said Downs of life early this year with the Black Wolves. "We were all hurting for playing time. So I knew something was going to happen. I didn't know it was going to be me, but it ended up being me.
"I don't regret coming to a team like this. It's a good opportunity for me. I'm happy for that. It's a good fit for me."
His debut with the Riggers proved that last week in Upstate New York.
Downs scored two goals — both in the second quarter — to help stake the Roughnecks to their largest lead of a contest that they eventually dropped 13-12 to the host Rochester Knighthawks.
Loss aside, the Torontonian showcased his wares on both tallies, fighting through defenders — with his long hair flowing out from his helmet — to pop a couple of gritty goals from in tight.
"That's definitely one of the strongest parts of my game — I like to take guys one-on-one to the net," Downs said. "I can usually beat most of my defenders.
"I don't know if I was surprised by my first game necessarily," Downs continued. "I was hoping I was going to come out of the gate hot, and I was hoping I was going to be able to help the team right away. So I'm definitely pretty happy with that performance.
"I'm really not your standard fundamentally sound kind of player. I definitely have a little bit more of a flair to most of my goals. So sometimes my creativity will show through in my play."
What showed immediately was the kind of mettle and finish that will likely make him a fan favourite — right in line with what the Roughnecks brass expected of him when they made the deal.
"Maybe my hair," said Downs with a chuckle when asked why Calgarians will fall in love with him. "I bring a lot of energy and that edge to the team."
They need both right now — need his finish, too — with all the trials and tribulations that they've met early this season.
Offensive superstar Dane Dobbie remains out of the lineup, with Saturday marking the fifth contest he'll miss due to a six-game suspension.
And fellow sniper Jesse King is likely to miss the game against the Thunderbirds due to injury. He was unable to suit up for last week's loss, as well.
So the Roughnecks certainly need Downs' size and scoring touch immediately.
"This is definitely a high-scoring team," said Downs, a 6-foot-3, 220-lb. left-handed shooter. "We're definitely going to put up some numbers. And I'm happy to step in and fill some gaps and be a part of that.
"It's been a smooth transition, other than that first loss. It was a close game. And we'll get it figured out."
Saturday's game is only the second road tilt for the undefeated T-Birds on the season.
Meanwhile, the Roughnecks have yet to win at home in two previous tries.
"Both sides have high-powered offences, so it could be a high-scoring game," Downs added. "Definitely the offence is going to be a big key in that. If we can clean up a few things — offence included — we should be on the right side of the board this game.
"We're definitely contenders — we can compete with anybody in this league."


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The Carver Museum, Cultural and Genealogy Center participates in Austin Community College's "Citizenship Across Communities: The Big Read." In April, ACC will present a series of events at various locations designed to promote the reading and discussion of the award-winning book "Citizen: An American Lyric" by Claudia Rankine. Visit Bir Red's Facebook page for more information.
Our King: How African American Artists Depict Iconic Champion. The George Washington Carver Museum, Cultural & Genealogy Center will conclude its January-April series of programs, Fifty Years since King, with a slide illustrated presentation on April 4 at 6:30 p.m. Bamidele Agbasegbe Demerson, the manager of the Carver, will explore how African American artists have portrayed Dr. Martin Luther King in paintings, sculptures, and more over the course of five decades since the time of his assassination. Among the many artists featured in the slide illustrated presentation are the compelling images by Elizabeth Catlett, John Wilson, Geraldine McCullough, Jon Onye Lockard, and Faith Ringgold, to name a few.
Folktales' Black Women's Literary Society Book Club, a group of black women reading African America authors, meets Friday, April 20, 6 – 8 p.m. The April book is "An American Marriage" by Tayari Jones.


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A partition relation for Souslin trees
Author: Attila Máté
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 268 (1981), 143-149
MSC: Primary 03E05; Secondary 04A20
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1981-0628450-1
MathSciNet review: 628450
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Abstract: The aim of these notes is to give a direct proof of the partition relation Souslin tree , valid for any integer and any ordinal . This relation was established by J. E. Baumgartner, who noticed that it follows by a simple forcing and absoluteness argument from the relation , which is a special case of a theorem of Baumgartner and A. Hajnal.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1981-0628450-1
Keywords: Infinite game, partition relation, Souslin tree
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Right after the release of Division 2 in March 2019, players around the world have started their hunt for some of the rarest items – guns, equipment, clothing. You name them.
With the highest item tier being Exotic, players are already on the hunt to look for the latest Exotic BTSU Datagloves that have just been released in the game. In this guide, we're going to take a look at the Exotic BTSU Datagloves, their stats, talents, and how to obtain them!
What are BTSU Data gloves?
The unique thing about Exotic items is that each of them carries a story.
Designed by the Black Tusk Special Unit (BTSU), a significant enemy faction that appears at the endgame, these gloves hold more than you think.
With these Data Gloves, you can gain an edge over your enemies in combat by infusing the data of chosen status effect along with your provided set of skills.
The nature of the Data gloves makes them more useful the more focused you are on a skillset. So, before thinking about farming for these Exotic gloves, you should already have a specific skill build.
With that out of the way, let's take a look at how the BTSU Data Gloves can significantly enhance your skills!
- The first one is Elemental Gadgetry, which makes skills with status effect gain a 50% effect duration and skill haste.
- The second skill is Energy Infusion, which means when a status effect is utilized, the gloves get infused for 60 seconds, allowing you to have increased damage, healing, and repair.
- The final skill is Charged Proxies, which gives you the power to affect enemies with your infused status effect when with a radius of 6 meters.
- Affected enemies result in 50% damage or more.
As you can see, BTSU Data Gloves are very skill-oriented. Unlike guns, these exotic gloves require you to have a set of skills before being able to utilize them to the fullest potential.
Due to the complex nature of the gloves, some players might find it to be not worthwhile as the gloves are only useful if you have advanced skills.
However, if you are someone who is a master or on your way to becoming one, the BTSU Data Gloves are definitely made for you. Next, we're going to discuss how you can obtain them
Where and how to get the gloves?
When initially released, only a few people have reported having obtained them. However, as the number of people who have claimed this Exotic piece increases, it's safe to say that we know where to get them – Camp White Oak.
What you would need to do is play the Camp White Oak story mission, on any difficulty level. During the process of playing, you will have a chance to obtain the item by either killing the final boss, Galveston. Or, if luck is on your side, the gloves will be dropped by a common mob!
However, if you do not have a season pass to play the Camp White Oak mission story, do not worry. You still have a chance to get the Datagloves by killing the final boss in the Invasion Heroic Mission.
Unlike the Camp White Oak method, getting the gloves by playing the Invasion Heroic Mission is deemed to be more difficult. With the calculated drop rate at 25%, it's significantly lower than that at Camp White Oak.
Aside from the powerful perks, the glove is a valuable asset to have. With the additional alluring design, once equipped, they create a bright blue aura that is sure to let everyone in your team knows who the real badass is!
So, what are you waiting for?
With this complete guide that includes all the information you need to know about the gloves and how to get them, we hope you'll be able to get your hands on one. Prepare yourself with the best skill build and claim the Exotic BTSU Data Gloves!


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Rio SEO among Inaugural Award Winners being featured in a Free Webinar
SAN DIEGO, June 18, 2014 – Four of the Local Search Association's inaugural "Ad to Action" award winners will come together for a free webinar July 22, focusing on what it takes to be named best-in-class when it comes to local advertising and marketing.
Rio SEO, with its award-winning local SEO automation and local listing management software, was recognized for its Local Listing Manager™ solution, which delivers unlimited optimized local business data via both bulk feed and API (application programming interface) to the major search engines, data aggregators, social networks, and Internet Yellow Page directories.
As to why Rio SEO won the award in the Business Listings category, one of the judges, vSplash's Neal Polachek, noted that consumers are often frustrated by the inaccuracy of Internet directories.
"The Rio SEO solution prevents these inaccuracies and helps multi-location business customers get accurate business information out to the Web," Polachek said.
Andrew Shotland, another judge and founder of LocalSEOGuide.com, sees Rio SEO as "a one stop shop" for syndicating business listings to all the major data aggregators, while also providing direct feeds to local search sites.
"From an SEO point of view," Shotland said, "Rio SEO's solution improves search rankings with constantly updated information to the engines."
Bill Connard, vice president of local search solutions at Rio SEO, will be joined by three other 2014 award winners during a free webinar moderated by the Local Search Association on Tuesday, July 22.
During the webinar, representatives from Rio SEO, The Search Agency, Sightly and Search Influence will discuss their winning solutions in the Business Listings, Implementation, Video and Social Media categories. The webinar is free and participants can register at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/215032641.
In its first year, the award program was developed by the Local Search Association to celebrate the best local advertising solutions. The 2014 Ad to Action award winners were announced in April at an event in Huntington Beach, Calif., featuring Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
"It was a thrill to meet 'The Woz' at the ceremony," Connard said. "I was even more delighted to see that the judges recognized the value of optimized local listing information, which is so crucial to local SEO. Our local listing solution helps businesses provide trusted, accurate and constantly updated information across search engines, mobile apps, directories, maps and Yellow Page websites, while providing the added SEO benefit of links back to their sites."
In addition to this award, Rio SEO was previously recognized as "the only leader" in The Forrester Wave™: SEO Platforms, Q4 2012, in which the firm was singled out as "the best fit for discovery marketers who want to optimize their content across multiple discovery platforms, not just search engines."
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Today was AMAZING. And to think I had to start the day with a pep talk from Todd because I was feeling discouraged. My awesome day kicked discouragement's ass.
I was not dreading the actual items on my To-Do list today, I was just dreading the amount of energy I knew it would take for me to complete all of the items. I was actually looking forward to each individual item, I just wish I hadn't scheduled them all for the same day, an oversight on my part (this is why I do not agree to plans or meetings without my schedule in front of me) but one that was not correctable so I had to buckle down and prepare myself for an exhausting day.
Good news though, it only got better. As I checked each item off my list the day got better and better.
The first thing on my schedule for the day was my volunteer shift at Hospice. I start my shift around 8:15, I like to arrive early to settle in and get caught up on any changes from the week before. A half hour into my shift the director of bereavement walked over looking for me, she needed help on some things that are backlogged for them so I agreed to help. It took my entire shift but I completed the task for her and apparently took a sizable burden off her shoulders, I hadn't realized how behind they had gotten. Half way through my shift my main contact at the bereavement center walked over and we talked for a bit. Apparently the bereavement department has a colleague out for an undetermined amount of time and the intern who has been working there is finished as of this Friday. They need help. I offered to start coming on Wednesdays to assist in anyway I can, they immediately took me up on the offer. Next Wednesday I will go through training and when I am done I will be responsible for making the 1 year follow up bereavement phone calls. I am excited for the new opportunity to learn and grow.
My shift ended at 1 and I went straight into a meeting with one of the Hospice social workers. I mentioned recently how I made a connection with this social worker while working one of my volunteer shifts and in doing so we agreed to meet and talk today so as to get to know one another better. As I did not know her role in the organization I just saw this as another opportunity to network and looked forward to speaking with her. When I got into our meeting today I realized this was maybe a bit more than networking.
The social worker mentioned when we first started talking a few weeks ago that she had been wanting to meet me and learn more about me, I didn't think anything of those comments because I had been wanting to meet her and get to know her as well as a contact for the future possibly. Apparently she a supervisor at Hospice and she supervises teams of social workers who work in the field (as well as those who work in the IPU I think). Anyway, she is a bit higher up on the ladder than I realized and she explained that she had been hearing good things about me and had taken notice of me. Wow. People are talking about me. That was something for me to take in. I guess it makes sense but I had never thought about it.
She complimented me multiple times on my attitude and professionalism. She said I seemed very wise for my age and how impressed she was by me. And we even talked about me possibly having a future with Hospice when I finish school completely. I walked out of that meeting feeling stunned and elated. I had no idea I had made such an impression at Hospice, I am so thankful for that. I also had no idea that she even knew who I was or was keeping tabs on my work with the company. It was a very validating 45 minutes and I am overjoyed that it came about in the first place. It goes back to what I was saying about organic networking, good things happen when you allow things to happen naturally.
So after my meeting with the social worker I had to scramble out of there and over to campus where I had a meeting with a classmate and a professor to discuss next steps in the community work my classmate and I are doing together. My classmate and I met last week at the cafe located on the hospital property near my house to discuss what we think our next steps should be, today was just to bring our professor up to speed and get much needed expert advice about our plan of attack.
We were relieved to discover that all the suggestions the professor had for us about next steps were exactly what we had discussed together last week. We are clearly on the right path (thank goodness). While in our professor's office the head of the entire social work program at UCF walked by and our professor brought her in to introduce us. Our professor explained why we were meeting and the work we planned to do along with explaining what work we had already done. The director then asked to e provided with a copy of our original paper for her review and so she can give us notes for our continued work. We (my classmate and I) were thrilled and also a bit terrified. Thrilled because WOW, Yes please! Terrified because someone really important wants to critique our work, do we really think this paper is up to par? The plan is to revise the document one last time to make sure we are not going to embarrass ourselves sharing it with her and then meet with her to drop it off and discuss everything. How exciting!!
As the meeting continued after the directors departure our professor started talking to us about the possibility of publishing our findings down the road. I think we both looked at her like deer in the headlights. Publish? Scary. Again I started thinking will anything we come back with be good enough to publish? Our professor stopped us in our self-deprecating tracks though. She not only thinks we should consider publishing our work and findings but that we both need to be thinking seriously about doctoral degrees. That was a holy shit moment for me.
A lot of the things that were discussed today in my multiple meetings were not even on my radar. Working for Hospice in the future, publishing my work, becoming a doctoral student. I am just sitting here in undergrad trying to make the grade and make a difference. And I am doing both of those things rather well I guess. The idea that there is more though and I am capable of it frightens and excites the hell out of me. If you had told me two years ago when I was entering back into college that I would be here now doing these things, standing on the precipice of something that could be bigger than my dreams even initially allowed.. I wouldn't know what to say accept Wow, I never knew what I was capable of.


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If you've been struggling with meal prep and find that it takes too long to get dinner on the table, you may be using the wrong tools for the job. Although the right gear alone won't instantly make you a great cook, it will set you up for success so you can work faster and more efficiently.
How do you know if your kitchenware is working against you? Common culprits that can slow you down or produce inferior results are knives, cutting boards, mixing bowls, whisks, spatulas, and cookware—essential tools in any kitchen. Often, it's the size of the item that's the issue. For instance, a small paring knife may be less intimidating for some cooks, but its blade is too short and narrow for chopping an onion as quickly as you can with an 8-inch chef's knife. A tiny cutting board may be easier to clean than a big board, but it doesn't give you enough space to chop effectively, and as a result you'll end up sending bits of vegetable flying across the counter. Likewise, an 8-inch-diameter bowl is too narrow for you to whip cream without splattering it across your kitchen and tiring your arm out in the process.
The shape and the quality of materials also affect your cooking performance. A fish spatula—with its slightly flexible, beveled blade and its ergonomic shape—can flip an egg or pancake better than a rigid plastic spatula. A silicone whisk is flimsier than a metal one and clings to the sides of a bowl, making it harder to mix ingredients. And a thin single-ply pan will heat unevenly and can scorch your food, whereas a good-quality tri-ply pan (which has a layer of aluminium sandwiched between two layers of stainless steel) won't. Remember, your tools should work for you, not the other way around.
In the above video, Wirecutter kitchen writers Lesley Stockton and Michael Sullivan demonstrate how the size, shape, and quality of your gear can affect your performance in the kitchen—and they offer a few simple ways to shave minutes off your meal-prep time.


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Haley Reinhart debuting single on Wednesday's "Idol"?
By Sean O'Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: Haley Reinhart looked shocked when Ryan Seacrest revealed that Lauren Alaina was moving on to this week's "American Idol" finale … but she didn't look as sad as some might have expected.
We think we know why.
Reinhart's parents are telling folks that their daughter's circling a record deal and "has already recorded a single and plans to debut it on the season 10 finale this Wednesday," THR notes.
"She likes the song she's doing, and we hope you like it too," Haley's mother told fans who recently gathered to support Relay For Life. As for Reinhart's runner-up finish, the Reinharts are proudly stating, "No. 3 is pretty darn good," primarily because "you don't have to be so tied to [19 Recordings and Interscope Records] that way."
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