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Step wheel saves on centre-pivot irrigation costs
Two farmers designed and built a centre pivot wheel that won't deteriorate in the sun and can't go flat or burst.
It's always bothered Mr. Ampie Venter from Orania in South Africa that a centre pivot irrigation system's tyres are forever being damaged by the sun.
"The tread of the tyre is still in top condition when it starts to crack from sun and water exposure. What actually happens is that the tread forms tiny cracks through which the sprinklers force water. It weakens the rest of the tyre until it can't carry the load anymore and bursts. Millions are wasted every year on replacing these wheels that get burnt in the African sun," says Ampie.
To prevent this, he and a Mr. Piet Potgieter, a retired engineer, designed a special step wheel for pivot points. In reality the 'wheel' consists of 12 rectangular containers welded together in a wheel form. The containers run flat on the ground like the chains of a caterpillar, so that it doesn't form a ditch. This is different to rubber tyres, which force the ground to the outside and creates a deep ditch that causes flooding on angled surfaces.
The wheel is designed in such a way that it fits the hub of any brand or model of centre pivot. The two halves of the wheel are bolted onto the hub so that the farmer won't have to replace the hub. The step wheel also prevents the damage that might be caused if a tyre bursts in the night and the irrigation system goes off course or falls over.
Ampie says building the prototype for the wheel was much cheaper than a rubber tyre. Because the wheel moves so slowly, aluminium or stainless steel can also be used, which would make it lightweight and durable.
Contact: Ampie Venter – ampieventer@gmail.com.


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Q: Derived functors via derived categories I got stuck in the proof of III.6.8 of Gelfand, Manin: Methods of Homological Algebra which essentially asserts the existence of a right derived functor of a left exact functor in a category with enough injectives. More precisely (slightly changing the notations of Gelfand, Manin in order to simplify my point):

Theorem: Let $\mathcal{A}$ be an abelian category which has enough injectives. Let $\mathcal{B}$ be another abelian category and $F:A\rightarrow B$ a left exact functor. Then $F$ admits a right derived functor $RF$.

There is a construction of a functor $RF$, but I do not understand why it has the universal property of a right derived functor.
In the proof, a right derived functor is defined as follows: Let $\mathcal{I}$ be the full subcategory of $\mathcal{C}$ of injective objects of $\mathcal{C}$. If we consider the diagram
$$
\require{AMScd}
\begin{CD}
K^{+}(\mathcal{I})@>>>  K^{+}(\mathcal{A})@>>{K^{+}(F)}> K^{+}(\mathcal{B})\\
@VVQ_{\mathcal{I}}V @VVQ_{\mathcal A}V @VVQ_{\mathcal B}V\\
D^{+}(\mathcal{I})@>>\psi> D^{+}(\mathcal{A})@. D^{+}(\mathcal{B})
\end{CD}
$$
 We the vertial arrows are the canonical localisation maps. We can prove that $\psi$ is an equivalence of categories with quasi inverse $\phi$ and by the universal property of the localization there is an arrow $\overline F:D^{+}(\mathcal{I})\rightarrow D^{+}(\mathcal{B})$ making the big rectangle commute. Now we can define a right derived functor of $F$ by $RF:=\overline F\circ\phi$. It is exact and there is a natural transformation $\epsilon_{F}:Q_{\mathcal B}\circ K^{+}(F)\rightarrow \overline F\circ Q_{A}$. So far so good.
I see why for every functor $G: D^+(\mathcal{A})\rightarrow D^+(\mathcal{B})$, every natural transformation $Q_{\mathcal B}\circ K^{+}(F)\rightarrow G\circ Q_{A}$ factorises over $\epsilon_{F}$, but why does it do uniquely so?

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Slayer Show No Mercy Cover Art: The Real Story
by Vintage Heavy Metal December 18, 2018 June 15, 2021 Albums
Dec. '83: 5 Months Before Metallica Released Kill 'Em All, Slayer Unleashed Their Debut Album Show No Mercy.
Slayer aren't just known for their menacing music. The Show No Mercy artwork is simply considered "Badass".
While the artwork of the discography to follow goes down as the most controversial and bloodcurdling in heavy metal history.
Here we'll look back at striking cover art that was actually painted a close friend's father. That close friend was also a Slayer roadie.
This all-important debut sleeve art came across to some as a striking mishmash of the sublime and the ridiculous. The Slayer pentagram logo is given due prominence, this genre-defining visual stamp piercing the eye with iconic intensity. Then there's the hairy-legged cartoon Baphomet in a leather Speedo.
The powerful stance of the Baphomet on Slayer Show No Mercy was based on a photo taken of Tom Araya during a live performance.
"I remember showing his dad pictures of how we stand onstage to base that Baphomet creature on, to get the aggressive part of what we stood for. And that's how it came out!" – Kerry King
Baphomet is a deity that the Knights Templar were accused of worshiping and that subsequently was incorporated into occult and mystical traditions. The name Baphomet appeared in trial transcripts for the Inquisition of the Knights Templar in 1307.
In addition to upping the speed metal ante, Slayer Show No Mercy was one of the first thrash records to include such blatantly Satanic imagery and lyrics: "I am the Antichrist It's what I was meant to be Your God left me behind And set my soul to be free Watching disciples Of the satanic rule Pentagram of blood Holds the jackal's truth Searching for the answer Christ hasn't come Awaiting the final moment The birth of Satan's son"
Watch Slayer Perform The Antichrist With Jeff Hanneman Live in Belfort, France – 2003
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Interestingly, though, the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language makes the case that infinitives and other non-noun-phrase complements of verbs should not be treated as direct objects. They are complements, yes, but not direct objects. If you accept that analysis, then I suppose you could argue that the constituency is correctly shown in the original diagram, as it is parallel to the way an infinitive is drawn when it is the complement of another part of speech (as in "eager to please"). The only problem with that argument is that other diagrams in the book stick to the traditional analysis. Further, the CGEL's analysis of constituency runs contrary to many other aspects of Reed-Kellogg diagramming, and if you're going to start to import ideas from modern linguistics, R-K diagrams would require massive revisions in many other aspects. In short, I doubt very much that this particular diagramming decision was intentional.
I find these problems interesting not so much for their "gotcha" value as for the light they shed on the utility of Reed-Kellogg diagrams. Here we have a diagram of a sentence that is not particularly complex, one that presents no real interpretive difficulties within the Reed-Kellogg system. Presumably the book's author, her sentence diagramming consultant, Gene Moutoux, and perhaps an editor or two looked the diagram over, and yet no one caught these fairly glaring problems.
I can only conclude that no one who scrutinized the diagram before it was published really thought deeply about the assertions it was making as to the sentence structure. Once the diagram was drawn, once the diagrammer's immediate job of parsing was complete, it ceased to become a serious statement of grammatical structure and became a kind of geeky, abstract artwork, intended to be admired for its peculiar arrangement of lines.
Here, for those of you who are interested, is a corrected diagram that follows the usual R-K rules. For those of you who find such diagrams aesthetically displeasing, I challenge you to create your own, more graceful diagramming system.


At Kerry Guided Tours, we pride ourselves on bringing you the hidden Ireland that other tours overlook. On our Tour of North Kerry we will travel along the roads less traveled, where you will discover the tranquil beauty and remote parts of "The Kingdom" that few tourists visit.
Having collected you at your accommodation, this adventure begins in the county town of Tralee, home of the Rose of Tralee festival. We then travel along the quiet back roads, where you will see the farming and rural life of the real Ireland as it has carried on for centuries.
On this Tour of North Kerry you will experience beautiful scenery, fine beaches, ruined castles and cathedrals, pretty villages, and plenty of history and culture.
The fishing village of Fenit (An Fhiannait in Irish, meaning 'The Wild Place') is the birthplace of Saint Brendan, who is believed to have set sail from Kerry in a simple boat and discovered America before Columbus.
The village of Ardfert is dominated by a majestic cathedral, evidence of its historic role as the ecclesiastical capital of Kerry for many centuries.
Framed by an endless, sandy beach, the charming village of Ballyheigue is home to an iconic castle and a holy well that attracted pilgrims for centuries. It is surrounded by the wild beauty of Kerry Head.
This medieval 15th-century fortress stands guard outside the village of Ballylongford.
For a small town, Listowel produces more than its fair share of literary heavyweights. Among them are some of Kerry's great writers and storytellers, including John B. Keane and Bryan McMahon.


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Q: Add Time to a TDateTime I would like to add seconds to a TDateTime variable, so that the result is the top of the minute.  For example, if it's 08:30:25, I want change the TDateTime variable to store 08:31:00.
I see that TDateTime has a Decode function, which I could use.  There isn't, however, an encode function to put the altered time back into a TDateTime variable.

A: There sure is, at least in the recent versions - see the DateUtils unit, especially all the Recode* routines and EncodeDateTime. The DateUtils unit is already available in Delphi 2010, perhaps even in earlier version.

A: Using DateUtils it's possible to do it like this:
Uses
  DateUtils;

var
  Seconds : Word;

Seconds := SecondOfTheMinute(MyTime);  // Seconds from last whole minute
// Seconds := SecondOf(MyTime); is equivalent to SecondOfTheMinute()
if (Seconds > 0) then
  MyTime := IncSecond(MyTime,60 - Seconds);

A: Theory
The TDateTime data type represents number of days since 30 Dec 1899 as a real number. That is, the integral part of TDateTime is an amount of whole days, and the fractional part represents a time of day.
Practical
Therefore, your problem could be solved using simple arithmetics:
var
  Days: TDateTime;
  Mins: Extended;  { widen TDateTime's mantissa by 11 bits to accommodate division error }

begin
  Days := Date + StrToTime('08:30:25');
  Writeln(DateTimeToStr(Days));

  Mins := Days * 24 * 60 ;  // compute minutes
  Mins := Math.Ceil(Mins);  // round them up
  Days := Mins / (24 * 60); // and back to days
  { or as simple and concise expression as: }
  // Days := Ceil(Days * MinsPerDay) / MinsPerDay;

  Writeln(DateTimeToStr(Days));


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North Korean missile launch over Japan called a 'first step'
North Korean officials are celebrating the launch as part of something much bigger - Vietnam Mobiography via Flickr
North Korean officials have noted the launch as part of a larger operation in the Pacific.
by Jack Duffley
August 30, 2017 at 8:15 AM August 30, 2017 at 8:15 AM
North Korea's recent missile launch has been described by North Korean media as the "first step" to a larger Pacific operation. Not only was the launch itself a massive cause for concern, North Korea remains smug in its apparent political dreams of domination of its neighbors. No longer is Pyongyang messing around with simple, often broken missile tests; now they have begun to flaunt their capabilities for destruction.
The launch
On August 29th, 2017, at about 6 AM local time, North Korea launched a ballistic missile that would end up flying directly over the middle of Japan.
The unprecedented launch has begun to put some truth into the bold claims of the capabilities of North Korean missile technology.
This launch came on of the heels of a North Korean threat on the American held island of Guam, about 1600 miles south of Japan. The seemingly empty claim was made earlier this month. Now, it looks like this threat, unfortunately, has some teeth.
North Korea's Decree
While the UN has swiftly condemned the launch, North Korea is proud of its apparent achievement. The BBC cited KCNA, as quoting leader Kim Jong-un, who "said that, "like a real war", the latest drill was the first step of the military operation of the KPA [Korean People's Army] in the Pacific and a meaningful prelude to containing Guam.'"
North Korean news claimed that their leader, Kim Jong-un, witnessed the launch himself.
As with most North Korean reports, its leader is portrayed as the main organizer of its actions. the confident leader allegedly has more launches planned for the same region in the near future. Needless to say, this launch certainly is not the end of the greater issue.
The coming storm
The launch came at a time where tensions in the Pacific are at the highest that they have been in recent memory.
Given President Trump's strong anti-Pyongyang stance, the launch may be the signal for a much larger conflict to come as Donald Trump explicitly said that there would be "fire and fury" if threats continued. This time, rather than just words, lives may truly be at stake. Until these incrementally more aggressive launches cease, tensions will continue to rise towards their boiling point.
If action is not taken soon, this storm may truly be a tremendously damaging one for North Korea, its neighbors, and the United States alike. Violent conflict is creeping closer and the fear of North Korean aggression is becoming more and more real. One can only hope that senseless violence will not be the answer.
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Gregory Kaidanov () est un grand maître américain du jeu d'échecs d'origine ukrainienne né le  à Berdytchiv en Ukraine.

Biographie
Il est né en Ukraine mais déménage avec sa famille à Kaliningrad en Russie dès 1960.

Son père lui apprend à jouer aux échecs alors qu'il est âgé de 6 ans. À 8 ans, il participe à un groupe d'étude sur les échecs dans la maison des pionniers.

Il participe à son premier tournoi majeur à Moscou en 1987, au cours duquel il gagne contre Viswanathan Anand. Il obtient le titre de maître international la même année et celui de grand maître l'année suivante.

En 1991, il émigre aux États-Unis avec son épouse et ses deux enfants.

En 1992, il remporte successivement le World Open à Philadelphie puis l'Open des États-Unis.

Il est l'entraîneur principal de la US Chess School fondée par Greg Shahade.

En 2002, il remporte l'Open Aeroflot. EN 2008, il est  du Gausdal Classic.

Parties remarquables

 Gregory Kaidanov - Viswanathan Anand, Moscou 1987, 1-0
 Gregory Kaidanov - Evgeny Bareev, ch URSS 1987, 1-0
 Mark Taimanov - Gregory Kaidanov, Belgrade 1988, 0-1
 Benjamin Finegold - Gregory Kaidanov, Open de Chicago 2003, 0-1

Notes et références

Liens externes

 biographie sur le site de la fédération américaine
 Gregory Kaidanov Site personnel

Joueur américain d'échecs
Joueur soviétique d'échecs
Grand maître international
Naissance en octobre 1959
Naissance en RSS d'Ukraine
Naissance à Berdytchiv

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Rui Horta began his dance studies at the age of 17 at Gulbenkian Ballet. He studied, danced and taught contemporary dance in New York, a city where he lived for almost 10 years, having than returned to Portugal where he was a leading force in the development of a new generation of portuguese dancers and choreographers. In 1990 he was invited by Dieter Buroch to start S.O.A.P., a residence company at the Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt. With SOAP he has created works that toured extensively all over the world at the most important theatres and festivals, such as the Joyce in New York, the Hebbel in Berlin, the Harbour Front in Toronto, the Spyral Hall in Tokyo, la Maison de la Dance in Lyon or the Thêatre de la Ville in Paris, that has presented and co-produced his work for over a decade. He was awarded prizes such as the Grand Prix du Concours de Bagnolet, the Bonnie Bird Award, the German Producers Prize, the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Letres from the French Ministry of Culture, the Acarte prize by the Gulbenkian Foundation, the Almada prize from the Portuguese Ministry of Culture, etc. As a teacher he was a guest in some of the most important schools in Europe such as the Laban Centre, the Conservatoire National de Paris, the Conservatoire National de Lyon, etc. In 2000 he returned to Portugal (Montemor-o-Novo), where he established a cross-disciplinary research and residency centre, O Espaço do Tempo, in an old monastery of the 16th century, today a main production art centre in his country. His pieces continue to tour regularly in the international dance circuit and as a free lance they are in the repertoire of renowned dance companies such as the Cullberg Ballet, the Netherlands Dance Theatre, the Ballet du Grand Thêatre de Genève, le Ballet de l'Opèra de Marseille, the Gulbenkian Ballet, the National Ballet of Portugal, Random Dance, Ballet Goteborg, Carte Blanche, etc. Rui Horta is also a very active light, set and new media designer, as well as opera director, having staged works such as Stravinsky's Rakes Progress at Theatre Basel, John Adams Flowering Tree at the Gulbenkian Foundation and Luis Tinoco new opera Paint Me. His work has recently been labeled as German Dance Heritage. In the present moment he is touring Danza Preparata, a solo for the italian dancer Silvia Bertoncelli on the Sonatas and Interludes from John Cage performed life by Rolf Hind, and he has a new group piece that had premiered in Dresden, at the Hellerau.
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John Cage Sonatas and Interludes Rui Horta
choreography, set and light design Performers
Silvia Bertoncelli dancer
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In collaboration with Gulbenkian Foundation, KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen, Salzburg Biennale, Guimarães European City of Culture 2012, Musica Strasbourg and Romaeuropa, with the support of Réseau Varèse
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of John Cage's birth, Casa da Música has invited me to create a work based on the Sonatas and Interludes, a reference work of Cage for prepared piano. It was a challenge I could not turn down. Cage's influence is essential to the history of dance, not only for his long collaboration with Merce Cunningham, but mainly for the importance of his theoretical reflections and consequent repercussions in the history of choreography.
Danza Preparata is a solo for a "prepared body" in dialogue with a prepared piano. The Sonatas and Interludes are wonderfully played by Rolf Hind, a highly acclaimed performer of Cage's works for prepared piano. From our first encounters on, it became obvious our mutual enthusiasm about this project. We only missed a "prepared body"... and
that was "lent to me" by the experienced and wonderful Italian dancer Silvia Bertoncelli, an interpreter of irreproachable technique and artistically multitalented.
In the Sonatas and Interludes, a group of 20 short pieces, the piano requires precise preparation (clearly detailed in the score), being invaded and contaminated by all kind of objects placed in between the strings, the hammers and the dampers, such as a large number of screws, bolts, rubber and plastic pieces, giving the piano a unique and amazing sound quality.
In the same way that the piano preparation is precisely detailed in the score, the composition itself also dives into a specific atmosphere related to the influence that Indian music and philosophy on the development of Cage. On the other hand, the methodology of Cage's composition that frequently was based on improvisation and then in the selection of the most relevant elements, has always established a familiar ground, similar to my own creative methodology.
John Cage's relation between music and movement is of special interest to me since the notion of randomness and counterpoint has always offered me a great deal of freedom. Therefore, with each new listening to the Sonatas and Interludes, I kept discovering new information and new perspectives. A great intimacy is also present throughout the work, which, even in the epic moments, never disappears. There is always an introspective and poetic element that, somehow, always translates into serenity. And there is, in Cage's work, still another fascinating quality: the silence, the pause and the suspended time between the notes, that consigns to that same silence an extraordinary density, as well as a unique space to express the body in motion. Music is present but never omnipresent. A space for active listening
Silvia Bertoncelli
Silvia Bertoncelli got her training in ballet and contemporary dance in Verona, Bruxelles and Paris. In 2002 she enrolled at the dancer's education of the Academy Isola Danza in Venice, directed by Carolyn Carlson.
She danced in various companies: Compagnia Naturalis Labor, Compagnia Ersiliadanza, Compagnia Arearea, Compagnia Lubbert Das, Cie Blicke, Compagnia Abbondanza Bertoni.
In 2009 she began dancing for the Rui Horta Dance Company in the production As lágrimas de Saladino. During this production she met the choreographer Annabelle Bonnéry who invited her to join the Cie Lanabel in France for her project in 2011.
Since 2003 she has presented her works as a choreographer as well as a dancer winning internationally acclaimed awards, such as: Festival Percorsi d'Autore in Venice and at the Choreographic Contest inRovereto during the Festival Oriente-Occidente.
Rolf Hind
Rolf Hind's career has blossomed over twenty-five years in a multitude of directions - establishing him now as a major force as soloist, composer, recording artist, chamber musician, pedagogue, collaborator and concert planner.
His work as a recitalist has taken him to many of the leading new music festivals in Europe - by way of Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House and tours of Korea, Taiwan and Cuba. Rolf has worked with many leading conductors, including Ashkenazy, Knussen, Rattle, David Robertson and Andrew Davis and appeared at the BBC Proms seven times. Orchestras he has worked with include the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Munich Philharmonic, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Malmo Symphony, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Remix Ensemble Casa da Música and many appearances with the London Sinfonietta, the LPO, RPO, the BBC Symphony and all the other BBC orchestras.
The roster of composers who have worked with Rolf or written for him reads like a who's who, and includes Tan Dun, John Adams, Helmut Lachenmann, Unsuk Chin, Elliott Carter, George Benjamin, James McMillan amongst many others.
An interest in new dance has resulted in various collaborations and in 2012, he and the leading Portuguese choreographer Rui Horta will collaborate on a large-scale tour of a work using the prepared piano music of John Cage. Cage will also feature in many of Rolf's recital programs during the 2012 anniversary year.
Other future highlights include a performance of Unsuk Chin's Piano Concerto (written for Rolf) in Amsterdam with the Netherlands Radio Orchestra in October 2011, and the Dutch premiere of Rolf's piano concerto, Maya-Sesha also with the Radio Orchestra under James McMillan in spring 2012.
...this outstanding homage to Cage's 100 birthday this year,s was the highlight of the opening weekend at the Herrehnhausener Kunstfestpiele.
(klassikinfo.de/Robert Jungwirth, 17.09.2012)
...that this piece, full of meaning in content and music, can be put into dance movement and still is not getting to much – only this, is already a miracle.
...music and movement completed each other to very own stories of flourish and retrieve, of fight and yield. (DrehPunktKultur, Barbara Krüger, 12.03.2013)
Choreographer Rui Horta confronted this music with precise movement sequences, full of detail. In Silvia Bertoncelli, he found a dancer that is able to transform its virtousity and come close to the score. Music in a "chat with the body".
(Salzburger Volkszeitung, Christoph Lindenbauer, 12.03.2013)
Horta comes up with his least aesthetically pleasing yet most innovative work.
His lightning design cut through the white square mat on the floor, directing Bertoncelli ́s space and trajectory, and in turn, speed and freedom.
(londondance, Germane Cheng, 31.10.2012)
The aleatory, the silence and the coincidence, the active principles of composition developed by Cage and Cunningham, translated with perfect stage intelligence in this unforgettable duet.
(Derniers Nouvelles D'Allsace, Veneranda Paladino, 01.10.2012)
The work never looses it ́s intimacy, even during the most epic moments . One aspect of great fascination is the silence, the pausing, and the suspended timing in dialogue with the music. A space for active listening and at the same time a place for freedom for the moving body...
...one can feel a real passion for Cage and it ́s prepared piano.
(Corriere della Sera/Roma, Marco Andretti02.10.2012)
The choreography of Rui Horta on the wonderful Sonatas and Interludes, position itself as a study on the possibility of movement in the presence of a strange body, a challenge for the performer. The question with most relevance stays the same: "When becomes a body strange to itself?"
The gestures of the dancer Silvia Bertoncelli are so many, so diverse and so unpredictable, that question the concept of unnaturalness.
Horta avoided the use of technology and created a performance without time, but bringing the spirit of Cage of the "total artist"... (La Republica, 07.10.2013, Frederico Caapitoni)
Link Full Version
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Hierarchy of Clouds
Direction, light design, stage: Rui Horta Choreography (in collaboration with the dancers): Rui Horta
Dancers:
Filipa Peraltinha André Cabral Teresa Alves da Silva Luís Marrafa Silvia Rijmer
Phil Sanger Silvia Bertoncelli
Production manager: Technical direction: Tiago Coelho Touring: Magda Bizarro, Rita Mendes
Co-production:
Hellerau / Europäisches Zentrum der Kunste (Dresden) Centro Cultural Vila Flor (Guimarães) Culturgest (Lisboa)
Artistic residency:
O Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-Novo) Centro de Residências de Candoso (Guimarães)
Premiere:
October 3rd , followed by a second presentation on the 4th – Hellerau / Europäisches Zentrum der Künste | Dresden (DE).
Further dates:
10th and 11th – Culturgest | Lisboa (PT)
18th – Centro Cultural Vila Flor | Guimarães (PT) 24th – Teatro Virgínia | Torres Novas (PT)
25th – Quartel das Artes | Oliveira do Bairro (PT)
1st and 2nd – Teatro Principal | Zaragoza (ES)
8th – Cine-Teatro Curvo Semedo | Montemor-o-Novo (PT) 22nd – Teatro Paco Rabal | Madrid (ES)
Inhabited space, negotiated by seven bodies, seen not only as territory, but above all as an imaginary place that impels the crossing of boundaries and the breaking of limits. A space that only makes sense if inhabited and ritualized by movement, the language of gestures being the key to open the door into a space that, trough choreographic language, becomes a "place". A question hoovers over the piece: why do we always want to be somewhere else and which hierarchy prevails in the choosing moments? Nevertheless, the answer, precise as a score, escapes narrative and is inhabited by poetics that go beyond cognitive understanding, dance's deepest experience. I called it the Hierarchy of Clouds.
6 o'clock in the morning, Germany, on my way to Frankfurt airport. My young Turkish cab driver has already tried all kind of strategies in order to start a conversation... the worst part is the music... a third rated version of some kind of boys band singing in a terrible English "baby you're breaking my heart". I have already asked him twice to lower the volume. At the third attempt he finally agreed... A body in Frankfurt and a soul in Istambul.
I think of my profession, and of this immense privilege that as artists we have, of claiming the theatrical space, transforming it, inhabiting it, and lending it a new identity. A space that
Why do we always want to be somewhere else?
becomes inhabited, tattooed and therefore a "place". A place where we enter each time the house lights are turned off, and from which we exit as soon as they are turned on again, revealing a real world that kept on running in a parallel timeline to the theatrical experience.
The lights are shut, and there we go into this empty and expectant space, waiting to be inhabited, such as an empty lot waiting to be occupied by a building, a garden, maybe an utopia. I particularly like this idea of Garden. A forest domesticated by humans, a slice of the world where everything combines in perfection, conducted by the human hand. Wild space domesticated. Mankind / Control freak. Poetics.
Let us return to space. Why this civilizational obsession of always controlling it? Hunting territory, polis Atheniensis, medieval town, renaissance town, 20th-century urban construction, human utopias transformed into inhabited spaces filled with all kinds of hideaways, spaces of redemption, retreat and salvation. But always spaces of an enormous symbolism, products of our endless imagination and where theatre stands as the most schizoid of all. Why is space of such relevance to us? Is it because it has always been there before "we arrived"? Or simply because it is the blank space where we inscribe our stories (and our history)? If each human culture characterizes itself by the heterotopias that it invents, than, theatre, is probably the most powerful of all.
In the air, somewhere between Frankfurt and Lisbon, at 11,000 meters, enclosed in a room that transports me at full speed into another country. Two simultaneous slices of time. The space in- between, so similar to the theatrical experience. The suspension of disbelief, of time, and the expectancy of the conclusion, of a new port, a new arrival.
Lisbon. Another cab driver that awaits me and asks / where do you come from? / I come from Germany / that's where I wanted to be / why? / earn good money / it is bad here / they are the clever ones / it is cold there but it is good / I have a cousin there / he makes good money... A body in Lisbon and a soul in Frankfurt.
Let us once more inhabit that empty lot and lend it a soul. Transform it into a place.
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Use the Object Beams like M Beams 21, Joist Beam 21, I Joist 21 ?
Would a person even need the Beam Tool since we have so many object Beams already?
I only have the Joist Beam 21 in the AUS library and this has the background fill.
The problem with objects is they don't interact (trim) with each other or other elements.
So no mitred corners or trimmed columns or holes punched in walls automatically.
+1 essential vote from me!
This one is easy...it's time.
It never occurred to me that I'll be needing this background fill for a BEAM usually we can do a workaround like put fills, but most of the times the changes are really spot on and you really want to save time if you know what I mean.
Also this post started at 2007 and they have never addressed this?
Toronto is a concrete town and so the convention for concrete structure framing plans from our structural engineers shows them on the underside of the current storey - not above.
Placing "beams" using the "Beam" tool is brought with workarounds in order to have them display properly in the various plan forms we output for documents. Fills would help, but more control over the floors they are visible on would be a boost as well.
Sloped Beams also need additional parameters for input: the same ones as roofs please: rise/run AND %.
I agree really necessary in France too.
ArchiCAD 23 is coming out soon hopefully they have manage to add this functionality to it. It's really annoying having to spend too much time adding fills to complex profiles of beams specially when your about to do construction drawings that needed to be represented correctly.


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Interview with Jason Isaacs (Green Zone) Matt Damon reunites with his Bourne director Paul Greengrass for the new action thriller Green Zone. Set in Baghdad, Damon portrays Roy Miller, a warrant officer who helps a senior CIA officer in the search for...
Interview with Jason Isaacs (Green Zone)
Matt Damon reunites with his Bourne director Paul Greengrass for the new action thriller Green Zone. Set in Baghdad, Damon portrays Roy Miller, a warrant officer who helps a senior CIA officer in the search for weapons of mass destruction. Miller is based on real-life Army chief warrant officer Richard (Monty) Gonzales, whose Mobile Exploitation Team was charged with finding WMDs during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. British actor Jason Isaacs, a longtime friend of Greengrass, stars in Green Zone as an American soldier who executes government orders that may not be in the best interest of his country.
Tribute's Bonnie Laufer caught up with Isaacs in New York to find out what it is about Paul Greengrass' directing style that everyone loves and whether it was difficult being mean to his co-star Matt Damon, even if it was just for his role. He also mentioned how sad he is about wrapping up the Harry Potter series, in which he plays the evil Lucius Malfoy!
Cast: Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Brendan Gleeson, Amy Ryan, Khalid Abdalla, Jason Isaacs
Director: Paul Greengrass
Producer(s): Lloyd Levin, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Greengrass
Screenplay: Brian Helgeland
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SPOT Global Phone
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Most people are used to instant communication wherever they are. Backcountry explorers know cell coverage almost always isn't available once we're off the beaten path. That's not all bad. Getting away from it all is one of the reasons we go into the outback. Getting away from it all is great, until an emergency happens. A catastrophic vehicular failure can leave us far from help and being able to communicate when medical emergencies arise can mean the difference between life and death.
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Coombs' Antiglobulin, Indirect is a topic covered in the Davis's Lab & Diagnostic Tests.
Indirect antiglobulin test (IAT), antibody screen.
Bladh, Mickey Lynn., and Anne M. Van Leeuwen. "Coombs' Antiglobulin, Indirect." Davis's Lab & Diagnostic Tests, 7th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2017. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Davis-Lab-and-Diagnostic-Tests/425404/all/Coombs__Antiglobulin__Indirect.
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Egyptian ambassador wins seat in UN International Law Commission - Daily News Egypt
Egypt Egyptian ambassador wins seat in UN International Law Commission
Egyptian ambassador wins seat in UN International Law Commission
Last week, Egypt also won a seat on the Human Rights Council
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Egypt won a seat in the International Law Commission at the UN after Egyptian ambassador Hussien Hassouna won the elections that took place in New York on Thursday, according to a Foreign Ministry statement released Friday.
One-hundred and forty-seven voted in favour of Egypt, while only 97 votes were required to win the seat. Eleven other countries were competing against Egypt for the seat.
In the statement, the ministry said: "This reflects upon Egypt's great position internationally, and the confidence of the international community in Egypt's competency and expertise, particularly in the field of international law."
Topics: UN
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Mayor of New York warns Trump over illegal immigrants
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Q: Properties of timelike congruences in flat spacetime I'd like to learn about (or confirm) certain properties of congruences, concerning some presumably rather simple cases, namely of timelike congruences in the setting of flat spacetimes $\mathcal S$. Therefore I have here three closely related questions:
1.
Are there at least two (or more) distinct timelike congruences, each covering a given 1+1 dimensional flat spacetime region, which are not disjoint (but which have at least one curve in common) ?
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Are there at least two (or more) distinct timelike geodesic congruences, each covering a given 1+1 dimensional flat spacetime region, which are not disjoint (but which have at least one curve in common) ?
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Are there at least two (or more) distinct timelike geodesic congruences, each covering a given 2+1 dimensional flat spacetime region, which are not disjoint (but which have at least one curve in common) ?
Proofs or examples should be given preferrably in terms of the spacetime intervals $s^2 : \mathcal S \times \mathcal S \rightarrow \mathbb R$ whose values may be presumed given for flat spacetime region $\mathcal S$ under consideration.

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*Yes. Consider a 1+1 spacetime with metric $ds^2=dt^2-dx^2$. In congruence A, the curves are $(t,x)=(t,x_0)$, with one curve for each value of $x_0$. In congruence B, the curves are $(t,x)=(t,x_0+v|t|)$ with $v=x_0/(1+|x_0|)$. If a smooth congruence is desired, we can smooth out the kinks at $t=0$ without changing the basic idea. The two congruences share the same $x_0=0$ curve.

*No. In flat spacetime in the usual coordinate system, geodesics are straight lines. In a plane, the straight lines in a congruence must all be parallel so they don't intersect.

*Yes. Consider a $2+1$-dimensional spacetime with metric $ds^2=dt^2-dx^2-dy^2$. In congruence A, the geodesics are $(t,x,y)=(t,x_0,y_0)$, with one geodesic for each value of $x_0$ and $y_0$. In congruence B, the geodesics are $(t,x,y)=(t,x_0+vt,y_0)$ with $v=y_0/(1+|y_0|)$. The two congruences share the same $y_0=0$ geodesics.


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No rear vision for these Straight Arrows
Written by Patrick Emery on 08 April 2019 .
Straight Arrows.
Straight Arrows
Tote Hotel, Melbourne
I'm not a big fan of the rose-coloured 1960s discourse. Sure, the music's great, the anti-establishment political rhetoric is inspiring and the fashion iconic. But the 1960s gave the world Nixon and the first incarnation of Reagan the politician, Engelbert Humperdink outsold Hendrix and it was mainly rich white kids (especially men) who had the socio-economic stability to drop out – because they could drop back in again anytime they wanted to.
The 1960s is a mythical idea, not a corroborated historical construct. We want to believe what it was like, because it's not like that now. Revisionism. Nostalgia. Self-deluded idealism. There was good shit going on, but there's good stuff going on now. There was plenty of bad, square and nasty stuff going on then, too. More so than the good stuff.
Banangun sounded like they'd crawled straight out of a '60s documentary. Maybe a Nuggets Acid Rock compilation. I hadn't heard of them before tonight, though later on it was pointed out to me that their main man is Nick from The Frowning Clouds, and then everything made sense.
But apart from the '60s reference points, Bananagun weren't like The Frowning Clouds. For a start, there's a dancing percussion entourage: rudimentary tambourine, wooden block (or is it a plastic surrogate these days), maracas plus a djembe down the front.
Every song was a pastiche of everything good about acid rock. Licks that speared through your cerebral cortex, chord changes that fucked with your frontal lobe, enough psychedelic sonic events to turn on the dullest public servant on the planet. This was the best 60s psychedelic revival collage I've seen since, well, the last best psychedelic revival I've seen. It's old, but new and spell-binding.
I can't remember the last time I saw Straight Arrows play live. Maybe about five years ago, maybe even longer when they burst out of Sydney with a flurry of Eddy Current Suppression Ring-like garage rock energy. Back then they were a band that grabbed you by the short and curlies and pinned you up against the wall, bashing your ears with sonic images of Pacific North-West attitude, pill-popping Memphis teenagers and counter-cultural European garage rock aesthetic.
And the moment they kicked in to gear tonight, it was clear they'd lost nothing in those intervening years. Owen Penglis looks and behaves the same as he did then, he's just a bit older. And so is the band. Red cordial infused garage pop excitement, spiked hooks sharp enough to provoke an occupational health and safety warning, bug-eyed harmonies. Oh, and a set of matching khaki boiler suits, part Devo, part Dexy's Midnight Runners, all class.
Angie Bermuda isn't there anymore, and that's a damn shame, but these things happen to bands and besides, her solo stuff is killer anyway (and Circle Pit was always entertaining, if inherently volatile).
The set splits evenly across the band's first and third albums, including the 90-second explosive opener "Headache", the new single "Buried Again", the spiked pop "21st century" from the latest album "On Top!", "Mind Control", "Something Happens", "Bad Temper" and "Something Happens" from the 2010 debut album "It's Happening", plus "Petrified" from 2014's "Rising". It's all good, so fresh, so happening, so now, man, what's your problem, are you a square?
They could have played another three, four, five, 10 songs and we would've been happy. But they didn't, and we're the lesser for it. The 1960s is dead. Long live the '60s.
Tags: straight arrows, the tote, owen pengilis, banangun


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Q: How to sort vertices according to edge types OrientDb? I'm quite new to OrientDb and I'm trying to figure out how to sort vertices according to a more complex schema than I am accustomed to...
In my (simplified for StackOverflow) database, I have a bunch of Containers. Each Container can be associated with any number of Items. There are also PriorityMappings, each of which specifies a Priority level (High, Medium, Low) per existing Item.
What I'd like to do is to retrieve a list of Containers sorted by the highest Priority of all of the associated Items according to a specified PriorityMapping.
My example schema is as follows:
CREATE CLASS VItem EXTENDS V;
CREATE CLASS VContainer EXTENDS V;
CREATE CLASS VPriorityMappings EXTENDS V;

CREATE CLASS EItem EXTENDS E;
CREATE CLASS EItemPriority EXTENDS E;
CREATE CLASS EItemPriorityLow EXTENDS EItemPriority;
CREATE CLASS EItemPriorityMedium EXTENDS EItemPriority;
CREATE CLASS EItemPriorityHigh EXTENDS EItemPriority;

CREATE VERTEX VItem SET Name = "Item 1"; // @rid #34:0
CREATE VERTEX VItem SET Name = "Item 2"; // @rid #35:0
CREATE VERTEX VItem SET Name = "Item 3"; // @rid #36:0
CREATE VERTEX VItem SET Name = "Item 4"; // @rid  #37:0

CREATE VERTEX VPriorityMappings SET Name = "Priority Mappings 1"; // @rid #50:0

CREATE EDGE EItemPriorityLow FROM #50:0 TO #34:0;
CREATE EDGE EItemPriorityLow FROM #50:0 TO #35:0;
CREATE EDGE EItemPriorityMedium FROM #50:0 TO #36:0;
CREATE EDGE EItemPriorityHigh FROM #50:0 TO #37:0;

CREATE VERTEX VContainer SET Name = "Container 1", Count=2; // @rid #42:0
CREATE VERTEX VContainer SET Name = "Container 2", Count=1; // @rid #43:0
CREATE VERTEX VContainer SET Name = "Container 3", Count=5; // @rid #44:0
CREATE VERTEX VContainer SET Name = "Container 4", Count=0; // @rid #45:0
CREATE VERTEX VContainer SET Name = "Container 5", Count=3; // @rid #46:0

// -- No items for Container 1
// -- Container2 > Item1(Low) & Item4(High)

CREATE EDGE EItem FROM #43:0 TO #34:0;
CREATE EDGE EItem FROM #43:0 TO #37:0;

// -- Container3 > Item1(Low) & Item3(Medium)
CREATE EDGE EItem FROM #44:0 TO #34:0;
CREATE EDGE EItem FROM #44:0 TO #36:0;

// -- Container4 > Item2(Low)
CREATE EDGE EItem FROM #45:0 TO #35:0;

// -- Container5 > Item3(Medium) & Item4(High)
CREATE EDGE EItem FROM #46:0 TO #36:0;
CREATE EDGE EItem FROM #46:0 TO #37:0;

and here it is in graph form :

So in this example, the desired outcome would be Containers 2(High), 5(High), 3(Medium), 4(Low), 1(No Items)
I could achieve this as follows using SQL but I can't wrap my head around transposing this to OrientDB.
-- 4/ join calculated overall container priorities, use for ordering
select c.*
from container c
inner join (
    -- 3/ create pivot tabe of sum of each priority level per container
    select container_id,
        count(case when priority = 'HIGH' then 1 end) as high,
        count(case when priority = 'MEDIUM' then 1 end) as medium,
        count(case when priority = 'LOW' then 1 end) as low
    from (
        -- 2/ apply priorities to all Container Items
        select c.id as container_id, ci.item_id, item_priorities.priority
        from container c
        left join container_items ci
        on c.id = ci.container_id
        left join (
            -- 1/ determine priorities for each Item according to specified priority mapping
            select mi.item_id, mi.priority
            from "mapping" m
            inner join mapping_items mi
            on mi.mapping_id = m.id
            where m.id = '#50:0'
        ) as item_priorities
        on item_priorities.item_id = ci.item_id
    ) as container_item_priorities
    group by container_id
) as container_priorities
on container_priorities.container_id = c.id
order by container_priorities.high desc, container_priorities.medium desc, container_priorities.low desc;

Thanks in advance!

A: Would this query be useful to you?
SELECT *, !highPriorityItemCount, !mediumPriorityItemCount, !lowPriorityItemCount FROM (
    SELECT
        *,
        out("EItem").in("EItemPriorityHigh").size() as highPriorityItemCount,
        out("EItem").in("EItemPriorityMedium").size() as mediumPriorityItemCount,
        out("EItem").in("EItemPriorityLow").size() as lowPriorityItemCount
    FROM VContainer
    ORDER BY
        highPriorityItemCount DESC,
        mediumPriorityItemCount DESC,
        lowPriorityItemCount DESC
)

It returns VContainer instances in order depending on:

*

*How many high priority items it has

*How many medium priority items it has

*How many low priority items it has

I don't know the background of your model, but it might be easier to let the priority levels be their own Vertices and instead use some kind of HasPriority edge which can be linked.
Container --HasItem--> Item --HasPriority--> Priority

Or with your naming convention perhaps something more like:
VContainer --EItem--> VItem --EPriority--> VPriority

It would probably also be easier to use some sortable number inside the VPriority class which you could project in the query to sort on.
The query could then be something simpler like:
SELECT *, max(out("EItem").out("EPriority").priorityLevel, null) as priority
    FROM VContainer ORDER BY priority DESC

This query example would not take the number of occurrences into account though, but I'm not sure if that is of importance.


Can you imagine a life without cars and other transport vehicles? Well, ever since life has become so fast, there is hardly anyone who can do without the cars and other transport vehicles in London. But owning car does not help if you are not skilled in driving it around the roads of London. Apart from learning how to drive around, you must also obtain a valid license. Thus it is needless to say that when you are looking for a place of repute to learn proper driving skills, you must consider GP training in New Malden, London.
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Henrik Vibskov, presented the autumn-winter 2019/20 collection in Paris. Agriculture has inspired this collection. Reflections about how various ways of growing the food we eat every day, whether it's in the city or in the countryside affect our life and the planet, encourages us to rethink and develop new methods.
The idea of farming, nature and technology was the inspiration for the development of the collection.
Voluminous silhouettes with details of binding layers together and prints and embroidery which remind of flowers, fruit, vegetables, endless fields, and the long human arms in the agriculture. Humor with a slight touch of melancholy and a reminder of the importance of environmental awareness is present.


So I have made my first AC power shield design for the Arduino.
* the on/off high voltage circuitry in the middel of the board, with a safety distance of 2-5mm to all the low voltage parts. On the prototype I have covered all the high voltage parts with heat resistant kapton tape, to make it fumble finger safe.
* opto-coupler with mini triac is operating between the high and low voltage section. Optocoupler MOC3041 has zero-detection. Optocoupler MOC3020/21 (no zero-detection) can be used if light show control effects are needed.
* easy selection of which pin on the Arduino controls the on/off function (J4).
* on-board temperature sensor LM335 making it possible to incorporate a temperature safety system/switch when operating higher loads, so an override OFF operation can be made if the chip/board becomes too hot. Without additional cooling of the Triac should probably not control more than max. 3 Amp loads, where as the Triac it self (BT138) is a 12Amp design, and BT139 is a 16Amp design. With higher than 3Amp loads one should however use better cooling. As much as 20W cooling could be needed.
* on-board NTC connector. If used to control a reflow oven, one needs a temp sensor that can go as high as 270 *C. By not mounting the 10uF (C2), another LM335 can be used for external low level (<100*C) but easy temp sensing.
* the design should be single sided PCB, so its easy to make a copy yourself.
* all drilled holes can be 1mm as its easy to get drills at that size at any hardware store, so its easy to make a copy yourself.
* all wires are at least 1mm thick, so its easy to make a copy yourself.
When I have tested a prototype further, I'll make the .pdf files available, so its easy to make your own copy on a PCB.
hmm, cant post links or pictures in the first post.
Looks like a nice design and of course very useful. However I've never been a fan of mixing high voltage AC and digital logic physically onto the same circuit board, especially when it's a standard Arduino shield type and keeping in mind the broad variation in experience that the Arduino population includes.
I would rather the high voltage section be mounted separately with proper safety coverings, etc. The use of optical couplers does cover the electrical safety aspects but not the physical separation requirements.
In the refinery I worked on we were required to use separate field conduits and junction boxes for control wiring and components (24v and under) and power voltages (120vac and higher). Just too many chances for worst problems when human error enters the picture as it always will from time to time.
* the control connector follows the same scheme as servos. I'll make a shield so its easy to control many units using this kind of connector. Sort of like RoboDuino. I am thinking of stuff like temp sensors, relays, buttons and maybe more.
could you use this shield to drive nixie tubes? (usually around 120-150v)?
Nixie tubes are normally DC, while you can turn on DC with a triac you can't turn it off.
If I were to do this... I would have all the low voltage parts on the shield and then use a single wire pair to control an SSR in a remote box that is totally enclosed.
Sounds good to me but I have sometimes problems understanding the PCB files and therefore prefer to see the circuit in the design. Would you make that available to the community? I am about to work on something like this for my home automation project. It shall switch on / off the light in my garden and manage magnetic valves (which is a different design). I am still thinking about a board to interface with various actors and sensors.
@jog_baer70: Sounds like a very interesting project. About schematics, I do not yet have a program that I find easy to use, but when I do, I'll gladly share.
This design originates from some time in the 1980's.
New technology using MOS designs has been made available, as SSR's - I'll be looking into these new designs. One major advantage to SSR MOS designs are that you no longer loose 1.2W per Amp over a Triac. The triac design has the advantage of being relatively low-cost to implement.
Anyone has some SSR recommendations?
As you can see, there is a shield and a separate AC board.
The PDF file should print so its optimal for PCB production. Let me know how it works out. If need be, I can make you a PCB, as we have PCB production facilities at my hacker space: http://labitat.dk.
The bottom part of the pdf print is a guide that should make it easier to couple drilled holes with correct placement of parts.


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The Carrizo Plain National Monument, a remote basin northwest of Los Angeles and halfway between Bakersfield, has the largest display of spring wildflowers in California. The wildflower display usually starts in late March, peaks in mid-April, and ends in mid-May.


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A majority of Fox Point-based Asset Development Group has been sold to California investment firm West Partners. [caption id="attachment_165292" align="alignright" width="374"] ADG operates manufactured home communities.[/caption] Asset Development Group, which has 120 full- and part-time employees, owns and operates 53 manufactured housing communities in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Michigan. Its consumer brand is Home Source One. ADG, founded in 1986, also offers insurance brokerage, tenant home financing and leasing and home brokerage help to residents of its communities. The company has $24 million in annual revenue. West Partners makes controlling interest investments of between $10 million and $100 million in privately held firms with strong management teams in growing markets. Jim Reitzner remains minority owner and chief executive officer at ADG, and all of its employees will remain on board in the transaction. He declined to disclose the percentage or sales figures for the majority stake. "One of the key considerations was our ability to access expansion capital," Reitzner said. "West Partners gives us basically an unlimited capability to expand the portfolio and the footprint from basically a Midwest to possibly a national scope." While specific communities have not been determined, ADG is evaluating acquiring new properties in the Midwest and the West regions. With the new ownership and expansion plans, ADG is in the process of moving from 5,500 square feet of leased space at 8050 N. Port Washington Road to almost 10,000 square feet it recently purchased at N86 W14041 Beacon St. in Menomonee Falls. The company is investing $300,000 in renovating the space and plans to move in by the end of April. It will have room to hire more employees in the new space. "We have the capability to take on existing locations and manage additional properties with our existing staff," Reitzner said. "However, we are going to be increasing the acquisition side of our business going forward and so we'll add additional staff in that department." Milwaukee-based Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc. advised Asset Development Group in the transaction, terms of which were not disclosed. "Manufactured housing is an attractive niche in the U.S. residential market, serving the growing need of affordable housing. We are excited to partner with a capable and experienced management team led by Jim Reitzner that shares our dedication to creating value over the long term," said Art McGill of West Partners.


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This Week in Sex: Study Says Most Young Women Unfazed by Risk of Sexually Transmitted Infections
Apr 20, 2018, 1:56pm
Martha Kempner
Just call them the Young and the Invincible. In other news, a survey asks about sex while menstruating. And in Norway, teen traffic-circle sex is considered a problem—for drivers.
A new survey finds that young women aren't concerned that they will contract STIs like chlamydia and gonorrhea. Shutterstock
This Week in Sex is a weekly summary of news and research related to sexual behavior, sexuality education, contraception, STIs, and more.
Young People Still Feel Invincible Against STIs (and Don't Get Tested)
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are rising among young people, with more than half of new cases occurring among those who are between the ages of 15 and 24. A few years ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that one in four young women had an STI. And yet, a new survey finds that young people feel invincible and aren't concerned that they will contract STIs like chlamydia and gonorrhea.
Quest Diagnostics, a network of medical labs across the country, surveyed 3,400 women in this age group and found that only 39 percent of those who were sexually active had used a condom the last time they had sex. But most of them (nine in ten) did not feel vulnerable to chlamydia or gonorrhea infection.
The survey also found that only 56 percent of sexually active young women surveyed had ever gotten tested for STIs. The relationship between young women and their health-care providers may be to blame for the low rate of testing. Many young women (27 percent) said that they were embarrassed to talk about sex with their providers, 27 percent admitted not telling their providers the truth about their sexual history, and only 28 percent of them had asked providers for STI tests.
But providers are falling down on the job as well. Despite knowing that young people are at high risk for STIs, only half of participants (51 percent) said a clinician had asked them whether they wanted an STI check.
Deborah Arrindell, vice president for health policy at the American Sexual Health Association, told Rewire.News, "Open, honest conversations about sexual health between young people and their providers and parents are essential. Getting tested and treated for STIs is no big deal. But not getting tested—especially when so many STIs don't have any symptoms—is like just waiting for avoidable problems."
The CDC recommends that all sexually active women younger than 25 be tested for both chlamydia and gonorrhea at least once a year.
Survey Asks About Sex and Condom Use During Women's Periods
There are so many euphemisms for menstruation—the nonspecific "that time of the month," the cutesy "a visit from Aunt Flo", and the unappealing "on the rag"—that it's pretty clear we're not all that comfortable talking about our periods.
The subject of sex during our periods is even more taboo. But the people at Clue, a Berlin-based fertility app and website, want to change that. They partnered with researchers at the Kinsey Institute, a sexual health research organization in Indiana, to ask women what they think about sex during their period and what they do when "surfing the crimson wave."
The survey included 95,000 people in more than 200 countries. To be included in the survey, respondents had to have menstruated in the past three months.
The research found that only 15 percent of women engage in their normal sexual behavior during their periods. About half of women (49 percent) avoid any genital contact during that time, 41 percent report avoiding contact with their own genitals and focusing on their partner's pleasure instead, and 21 percent avoid all sex including nongenital behaviors. Genderqueer and nonbinary women were more likely to engage in their normal sexual behavior during their periods (21 percent).
The survey also found that condom use declined during a woman's period. Among respondents who were having vaginal intercourse, 64 percent reported using a condom when they were not bleeding, but only 49 percent said they used a condom during their periods as well. Overall, those surveyed did not seem concerned about pregnancy or STIs during their period: Thirty percent of those who didn't use a condom during their period said they were less concerned about pregnancy at that time, and one in three said they were unconcerned about STI transmission during that time.
Clue and the Kinsey Institute point out that these assumptions are based on misinformation. A woman can get pregnant during her period.
Moreover, STI acquisition rates are actually higher during menstruation than they are during other times of the month. They explain: "During certain times of your cycle, including your period, the changes in your immune function and vaginal environment may make it more likely you'll contract an STI/HIV if you're exposed." They go on to say, "If you get a period and have sex with people with penises … always use a condom with an untested partner, especially on your period."
Rife With Bias, Texas Pamphlet on Minors' Abortion Access Comes Under Fire
The Texas Department of State Health Services redesigned a pamphlet designed to explain judicial bypass—the process by which minors can get a judge's permission for an abortion in lieu of parental permission—to pregnant teens. The pamphlet, aptly titled "So You're Pregnant, Now What?," is required by statute to include information about alternatives to abortion and information about health risks of abortion.
But advocates in the state say the new version is far worse than the original.
A number of organizations including NARAL Pro-Choice Texas and Jane's Due Process have sent letters to the department, pointing out errors that they claim are based on ideology and not science. The organizations point to manipulative language (such as referring to all fetuses as babies and all pregnant women as mothers) as well as inaccurate and incomplete information.
In its letter, NARAL Pro-Choice Texas notes that the revised brochure lists death as the first risk of abortion procedures and says that this is misleading because "abortion is one of the safest outpatient procedures and far safer than childbirth, which carries a risk of death 14 times higher than abortion." In addition, the pamphlet discuss links between abortion and breast cancer, mental health issues, and future infertility. All of the claims run counter to scientific research which has found no link between abortion and any of these outcomes.
The letter, signed by Alexa Garcia-Ditta, the organization's director of communications and policy, states: "Informed consent is a vital component of ethical health care, but this booklet does not contribute to a patient-centered decision making process. It is misinformation intended to coerce minors and perpetuate fear and stigma. This booklet has been influenced and driven by political ideology, not medicine or science, and we believe that pregnant minors deserve better than this."
In a similar letter, Tina Hester, executive director of Jane's Due Process, a legal referral and advocacy organization whose purpose is to ensure appropriate legal representation of pregnant teenagers, explains that the pamphlet provides inaccurate and incomplete information about judicial bypass itself. For example, while the pamphlet repeatedly refers to "your parents' consent," suggesting teens need permission from both parents, the law only requires one parent to consent. Moreover, the pamphlet never mentions that nonparent legal guardians and managing conservators can also provide consent. Hester says that these errors harm the young people they serve, many of whom are not in contact with one or both of their biological parents.
Carrie Williams, a spokesperson for the health department, told the Austin Chronicle that the department is reviewing and considering the comments and will post the final draft of the brochure when it has finished.
No Teen Sex Near Traffic Circles, Says Norwegian Roads Department
If you needed further proof that Europeans have an entirely different attitude toward teenage sex than Americans, look no further than the latest campaign by Public Roads Administration of Norway.
The government agency recently warned graduating high school students to avoid sex on "roundabouts" during a monthlong celebration of the end of their studies. Students celebrating their accomplishment are known to drink heavily, party a lot, and sometimes challenge social norms, hence the need for the warning.
The fact that this is an accepted and not hidden aspect of teen life is itself a notable difference between Norway and the United States, but we here at This Week in Sex were most struck by the rationale behind the new no-sex-in-traffic-circles campaign.
Terje Moe Gustavsen, the head of the Public Roads Administration explained: "Everyone understands that being in and around roundabouts is a traffic hazard. It may not be so dangerous for someone to be without clothes on the bridge, but drivers can get too much of a surprise and completely forget they are driving."
We cannot imagine Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao saying anything about teen sex. But if she did, we're betting it would have more of an abstinence-only message. Something like "Sex in rotaries before marriage will inevitably lead to pregnancy, STDs, and death." Definitely a billboard in the making.