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Wesleyan Hunger Banquet to Be Held April 12
by Lauren Rubenstein • March 31, 2017
Fred Ayers '17 helps a patron gather a ration of food at Amazing Grace. The pantry serves an estimated 3,000 individuals, or 1, 075 households each month. Ayres also leads the Hunger and Homelessness group at Wesleyan.
On April 12, the Hunger and Homelessness student group in the Office of Community Service will once again host the Wesleyan Hunger Banquet, an interactive simulation of global poverty rates. Attendees are placed into an income bracket at random and then provided a seating arrangement and meal indicative of that income level.
The event will take place in Woodhead Lounge from 5-7 p.m. Anthony Hatch, assistant professor of sociology, assistant professor of science in society, assistant professor of African American studies, will serve as MC, and Ron Krom of St. Vincent de Paul will speak at the event.
"The Wesleyan Hunger Banquet is a simulation of the magnitude of global poverty and hunger that allows attendees to visualize and grasp its severity," said Fred Ayres '17, who leads the Hunger and Homelessness group and is involved in organizing the banquet. "Through sharing a meal with others, attendees will also learn about the misperceptions and solutions that surround income inequality. Students involved in current initiatives to ameliorate hunger and homelessness will share how others can get involved."
Tickets will be sold in Usdan University Center April 7-12, and can also be purchased at the door. No RSVP is required. Proceeds will be donated to Amazing Grace Food Pantry, and the group aims to raise over $500.
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Q: Is assuming the gluing axiom for any pair of sections equivalent with gluing arbitrary collections of sections? In Griffiths and Harris the gluing axiom for sheaves is given as

For any pair of open set $U,V$ and sections $\sigma\in\mathcal{F}(U)$, $\tau\in\mathcal{F}(V)$ s.t. $\tau|_{U\cap V}=\sigma|_{U\cap V}$ there exists a section $\rho\in \mathcal{F}(U\cup V)$ with $\rho|_U=\sigma$, $\rho|_V=\tau$

On wikipedia (and other places) the axiom is given as

If $\{U_i\}$ is an open covering of an open set $U$, and if for each $i$ a section $s_i \in \mathcal{F}(U_i)$ is given such that for each pair $U_i,U_j$ of the covering sets the restrictions of $s_i$ and $s_j$ agree on the overlaps: $s_i|_{U_i\cap U_j} = s_j|_{U_i\cap U_j}$, then there is a section $s\in \mathcal{F}(U)$ such that $s|_{U_i} = s_i$ for each $i$.

To me the definition on wikipedia seems a lot stronger. The Griffiths and Harris axiom allows gluing of a finite number of section that agree of overlaps, but I don't see how to generalise it to an arbitrary amount of sections.
Any insight in whether or not these formulations are equivalent and if not why Griffiths and Harris would chose their formulation over the seemingly more common wikipedia formulation.

A: No, these formulations are not equivalent in general. As an example, consider $\mathbb N$ with the discrete topology, and consider the 'sheaf' of functions with values in $\mathbb C$ that are zero almost always. More precisely, for every $U \subseteq \mathbb N$ we define
$$\mathcal F(U) = \{f: U \to \mathbb C: f(n) = 0\textrm{ for all but finitely many $n \in U$}\},$$
with the natural restriction maps. I'll leave it for you to verify (although it is not hard to see) that this gives a sheaf in the sense of Griffiths and Harris but not in the sense of most others. Incidentally, the reason why Wikipedia and most authors do not call the above a sheaf is that the defining property (being zero almost everywhere) is not a local property.
An important case in which the two formulations are equivalent is when the topological space is Noetherian. In that case every open subset is compact so we can always reduce to a finite cover. Noetherian spaces appear a lot in algebraic geometry, so perhaps Griffiths and Harris mean to only study sheafs over those spaces (I don't have the book, so I can't check).
Edit: This MathOverflow post suggest that the definition in Griffiths and Harris is just an error.

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【Introduction】:Recently, to better understand the unique needs of the Chinese tourism market, Tel Aviv Global have decided to t
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Q: RQ concurrency with supervisord? All, I'm attempting to 'force' RQ workers to perform concurrently using supervisord. My setup supervisord setup seems to work fine, as rq-dashboard is showing 3 workers, 3 PID's and 3 queue (one for each worker/PID). Supervisord setup is as follows (showing only worker 1 setup, 2 more workers are defined below this one):
[program:rqworker1]
command = rqworker 1
process_name = rqworker1-%(process_num)s
numprocs = 1
user = username
autostart = True
stdout_logfile=/tmp/rqworker1.log
stdout_logfile_maxbytes=50MB

The issue is when I send 3 jobs concurrently, the total time to run is x3 that of a single task (namely, total time is linear with number of tasks, this scales to x4,x5, etc..). It seems no concurrency is available. I also implemented a primitive load-balancing by sending new jobs to the queue with minimum started+queued jobs, that works fine (jobs are observed to be spread evenly among queues).
Why would this setup not allow concurrency?
Any considerations regarding the setup i'm missing?
Note that rq-gevent-worker package (which worked great earlier w.r.t. concurrency/RQ) is no longer available as I migrated to PY3 and gevent itself is not yet supported on PY3. But this gives my a clue that concurrency is possible.

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Modifying my comment from above into an answer...

Using supervisord to run multiple rqworker processes in parallel is an intended pattern in python-rq, so don't be concerned that you're "forcing" it. You actually have the right idea.
On the other hand, writing your own load balancing algorithm is an anti-pattern: that's exactly what python-rq does for you.
If you want to split up work between three workers, then they should all listen to the same queue. Try removing two of your supervisor config blocks, and in the one block that remains, change numprocs to 3. If you submit three jobs rapidly to that queue, you should see three workers executing concurrently.


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Concern over emergence of referral fees once will-writing and estate work is reserved
Scott-Moncrieff: risk of wasteful use of resources
The regulation of will-writing and estate administration needs to be drawn widely to ensure that the referral fee culture that has prevailed in personal injury does not emerge in private client work, the Law Society has warned.
Responding to the Legal Services Board's (LSB) final consultation on making will-writing and estate administration reserved legal activities ahead of making a formal recommendation to the Lord Chancellor, the Law Society urged the LSB to reconsider its decision not to include powers of attorney and setting up and administering trusts within the work that is reserved.
"When an activity becomes regulated, there is an incentive for referral fees to be used to provide regulated providers with work captured by unregulated providers and for unregulated providers to undertake and charge for (possibly through the referral fee) unreserved work done in connection with the will," the society said.
"An analogous situation occurs at present in respect of personal injury work where many claims handlers undertake significant investigatory and other preparatory work prior to selling the claim to the solicitor. Such work may be wasteful or inadequately performed. The society's view is that the scope for such activity should be limited as far as possible through a wide definition of reserved activities."
The society also highlighted anecdotal evidence that some unregulated providers are preparing probate papers and then getting the executors of an estate to give them a power of attorney so that the unregulated provider can deal with the Probate Registry and gain control of administering the estate. It said such arrangements need to be stamped out by the new rules.
The Law Society also called on the LSB to reverse its decision not to passport the Solicitors Regulation Authority into regulating the new activities. The current plan is that as well as any new regulators, existing regulators will have to apply for specific designation to oversee will-writing and estate administration.
The society argued that this would needlessly delay the introduction of regulation, which is slated for 2015, adding: "The LSB has only recently approved the SRA's move towards outcome-focused and risk-based regulation, which are key elements of the proposed regulatory approach for will writing and estate administration services. To impose another hurdle on solicitors who are already regulated is an unnecessary bureaucratic hurdle."
It also expressed concern at the prospect of several different regulators of this work. "Unless there is consistency in the regulatory approach and uniform standards, there is a real danger that will writers will flock to the regulator whose arrangements are cheapest and least onerous."
Law Society president Lucy Scott-Moncrieff said: "Plans by the LSB to make will writing and estate administration services reserved activities are a major boost for consumers, but a multiplicity of different regulators and the possibility that existing regulators might have to amend the existing satisfactory arrangements would be a wasteful use of resources and time as well as cause confusion for firms and clients."
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The Wild Within an Interview with Steven Rinella
by Kevin Paulson | Jan 17, 2011 | Pro-Staff Blog
Steven Rinella has long been an outdoor writer we have been watching from the sidelines. His work in various publications around the country and in publications that are not mainstream hunting publications has been inspiring to us including the New York Times, O The Oprah Magazine, Outside Magazine and more. His two books American Buffalo:In search of a Lost Icon and The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine have done extremely well and we are inspired by his Op Ed piece in the New York Times Locavore: Get your Gun.
Steven has been tapped to host a new show on the Travel Channel and we have enjoyed the first two episodes of The Wild Within. The show takes a gutsy look at Steven's quest to become a better outdoorsman and provide the nourishment to his family and friends whether that is in Alaska or racing down the river in a hand made Buffalo Bull Boat. The show is inpiring and provides an honest real look at hunting and food collection for the modern man or at least what it could be.
How did you get started with your passion for the outdoors?
I started fishing and hunting very early. I was fishing at three years of age, hunting small game at seven, and trapping muskrats, mink, and raccoon when I was ten. My main influence was my father. He fought in WWII (he had me when he was fifty) and when he came home from the war he was really stir-crazy and he found an outlet through archery. Back then guys were just beginning to rediscover bowhunting, and he traveled a fair bit hunting black bear, wild boar, deer, all with a recurve. When my brothers and I were kids, he'd set up extra tree stands above his stand and my brothers and I would sit up there with him. Then my oldest brother turned twelve and I started sitting with him in his stand. I was nine. When my middle brother Danny turned twelve I started sitting with him in his stand. I sat my own stand when I was twelve and on opening day I missed a fork-horn buck with my bow at about twelve yards. I was utterly hooked on big-game hunting by then. I've been hunting big game heavily since then.
Growing up in Brooklyn, where did you hunt with your family?
I've only lived in Brooklyn a few years, since I was married in 2008. I was born in Michigan in 1974, in a rural community called Twin Lake. I moved to Montana after college and stayed out there for eleven years and then moved to Alaska briefly. My two brothers, Matt and Danny, live in Montana and Alaska, respectively. I hunt with both of those guys where they live, and then we travel a fair bit as well. Now we have a cabin in Southeast Alaska, and we hunt and fish up there together. I'd like to get involved with hunting in New York, but the only thing I've hunted there so far are squirrels on my buddy's dairy farm. His place gets loaded with Canada geese in the winter, but his mom doesn't want me hunting them. Which is a shame, because goose confit is one of my favorite wild game preparations. Hopefully she'll read this and realize that she needs to change her mind. Please, Mrs. Chase – let me hunt those geese!
What has been your most exciting hunt?
A few years ago I hunted wild buffalo in the Wrangell Mountains of south-central Alaska, where I had to take raft down the Copper River and then pack in from there a few miles on foot. I killed a buffalo after a long, arduous hunt, and then the work really started. I had to move five hundred pounds of meat along with the skull and hide out of mountains on my back. That's a total of about seven hundred pounds. In the meantime, I had a pair of grizzlies take a strong interest in my project. They stalked around the kill site, backtracked along my trail, and left tracks in the snow about thirty inches away from where I was caching the butchered meat. I got awfully paranoid after a few days of this, and it honestly started to affect my psychological state. I chronicled this adventure, as well as the dramatic history of the buffalo, in my book American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon.
What motivated you and your brothers to purchase the camp at Saltery Cove?
About a decade ago my brother Danny, who's an ecologist at the University of Alaska, was doing some work on Prince of Wales Island. He and his team hired a local named Ron Leighton to drive them around in his landing craft on an end of the island where there are no roads. They did a lot of fishing and shrimping together and became friends. A year later, I went out and stayed with Ron on Saltery Cove when I was working on my first book, The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine. We stayed in touch, and within a year or so a piece of property on the cove came up for sale. The land included a shack, a stack of rough-cut lumber, a Lund skiff, a few outboards, a lot of rusty tools. We've been sinking time and money into that place ever since.
What do you think the biggest threats are to the world of hunting?
Access to land and habitat loss due to development are the biggest threats to hunting. Restrictive gun laws are definitely troublesome, as are hunting regulations that aren't based on sound science (such as the wolf debacle in Montana and Wyoming, and Yellowstone's buffalo situation) but loss of access and habitat worry me the most. Put simply, we need to stop building trophy homes and subdivisions on top of our hunting lands.
What motivated you to begin a career in writing?
My original plan was to be a mountain man, but I was a couple hundred years too late for that. Then I wanted to be a professional fur trapper, but the markets tanked so bad that you couldn't make any money at it. From then on, I figured I'd make a career out of trapping nuisance cougars, coyotes, and wolves for the government, but then I'd have to join the political storm of being a federal predator trapper. So I somehow settled on the idea of becoming an outdoor writer. I've written about a lot of other stuff as well, such as food and travel, but outdoor writing has been my bread and butter for my entire career.
What are your favorite outdoor books and authors?
I love the writer Duncan Gilchrist, who died about six or seven years ago. He has a classic called Hunt High. We used to joke that it meant to hunt while smoking weed, but he means hunting the high alpine country. What sets him apart was that he was a stylist and not just an expert. That man could write. I also love John McPhee, who isn't exactly an outdoor writer but he's close to being one. His Coming Into the Country is a great book about Alaska, with plenty of hunting in it. Mainly, though, I enjoy reading accounts and autobiographies from explorers, particularly those that spent a lot of time hunting with indigenous peoples. One of my favorites is My Life with the Eskimo, by Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Also The Oregon Trail, by Francis Parkman. And The Heart of the Hunter by Laurens Vanderpost.
How did The Wild Within come about?
The show came about through my writing. I get contacted a fair bit by production companies and networks who want to explore ideas, and I eventually hit on the right group of people. The Wild Within is made by Zero Point Zero Productions, and I love those guys. As long as I do TV, it'll be with them.
What can we expect to see in the series?
Lots of meat, and lots of excitement. Just to name a few things, I make a boat from a buffalo hide in Montana and take it down the Missouri. I get shocked by an electric eel and bowfish for piranha in Guyana. I get fitted for tweeds and hunt red deer in Scotland. I scour the Alberta bush for moose and then float the meat down a river that's as full of slush as a daiquiri. Stay tuned!


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Q: U-SQL Intellisense from Alias If I use an Alias in U-SQL the intellisense doesn't prompt me for anything.  For example,
@query =
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  SELECT PropertyOne
    FROM @query;

In this case the intellisense will work.  But in the example below it will not.
@intellisense_test =
  SELECT q.PropertyOne
    FROM @query AS q;

This creates a problem when doing anything but simple queries.  Does anyone know a work around for this?

A: This is the typical "SQL" problem for intellisense. Since the intellisense parser is only able to use the bindings already seen, it does not know in the SELECT clause what the FROM clause contains. I asked them to check if there is a way to look ahead to the FROM clause in the SELECT case, but for now unfortunately it does not.

A: I found a work around to this when I had several joins in my FROM clause.
If you write the alias immediately followed by a square bracket intellisense returns the field list from the alias table.
For example:
@intellisense_test =
  SELECT q[PropertyOne]
FROM @query AS q;

This works when writing the statement and is handy for speed of typing. However, you will need to go back and add the dots between alias and field or you'll get a compile error. This is also easily done when doing a vertical highlight with the mouse by holding the ALT key.
Not perfect, but it's a valid work around.
Hope this helps.


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With census nearing, Massachusetts looks to avoid further setbacks
BOSTON — Massachusetts has seen its political influence wane in recent decades as populations have shifted, so officials are working to ensure that it doesn't lose any more ground in the census next year.
Three of the last four U.S. census counts have ended with Massachusetts losing a congressional seat after its population grew at a slower pace than in other parts of the country. In 1980, the state had 12 representatives in the U.S. House; it now has nine. That also means less clout in presidential elections, as the state's Electoral College vote has dipped from 14 when Ronald Reagan was first elected to 11 in the last two national elections.
While there is little chance of Massachusetts gaining back any of its lost representation in Washington, state officials and advocacy groups are expressing confidence that the state at least won't be forced to give up any additional seats when the national count happens in 2020.
Yet nothing is being taken for granted, and officials note the state faces a number of potential challenges, including a population that includes many immigrants, elderly and college students.
Among the concerns raised is that the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration could make many immigrants fearful about cooperating with the federal census.
As for the students, though they may come from other states and go home between semesters, those who spend the better portion of the year in Massachusetts are supposed to be counted as residents. Often, they are not.
To mark the one-year countdown to National Census Day, Secretary of State William Galvin has invited state and local officials to meet in Framingham on Monday to outline strategies for ensuring that all Massachusetts residents — or as many as possible — are properly counted. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh plans to host a similar event in his city that day.
"I can't overemphasize the importance to our political and economic future," said Galvin, a Democrat, noting that the results of the census also determine levels of federal aid that the state and local communities receive in critical areas such as transportation, education and public health.
Current estimates suggest the state has about 6.9 million residents, Galvin said, an increase from the official 6.54 million count in 2010. The challenge, he said, is to make the estimate stand up when the counting actually begins.
About 1 million people living in the state were not born in the U.S., Galvin said. About half of those are naturalized citizens, while the rest are non-citizens including some living in the country illegally. Because of what he calls an "extremely hostile" climate toward immigrants, "people are much more suspicious about telling the government anything, especially the federal government."
A push by the administration to add a citizenship question to the census has been blocked by the courts for now, but the U.S. Supreme Court is reviewing the legality of such a move and could issue a ruling in the coming months.
When the U.S. Commerce Department announced the plan to add a citizenship question, it said the Justice Department asked for it and it would improve enforcement of a 1965 law meant to protect minority voting rights.
But critics say a citizenship question could further complicate efforts to get an accurate count in states like Massachusetts with more diverse populations. They argue it might lead some noncitizens to assume, incorrectly, that they are not eligible to be counted and so would not bother filling out questionnaires.
Several private and nonprofit organizations have already begun efforts to ensure an accurate count, in part by convincing residents that information they provide census-takers is safe because of federal rules limiting the use of the answers to demographic data only.
"They are not asking for Social Security numbers," said Katie Campbell Simons, project consultant for the Massachusetts Census Equity Fund. "It's less information than what people put on social media on a daily basis."
The organization has raised more than $1 million so far, money that will be distributed as grants to local canvassing groups around the state, especially in urban areas, Campbell Simons said. Galvin is also requesting funds in the state budget to help with census preparations.
Framingham was chosen to host the statewide kickoff event, Galvin said, because it typifies many of the challenges cities face. More than 25 percent of its population is foreign born and the city also has a sizeable student presence.
"The census determines the resources that come to Framingham, and I want to make sure that everyone is counted," said Mayor Yvonne Spicer.


Tidal Echoes presents an annual showcase of writers and artists who share one thing in common: a life surrounded by the rainforests and waterways of Southeast Alaska.
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'Towards the end of last century, John Smith, the then laird, who was a West India proprietor and merchant in Glasgow, built a plain square house in lieu of the old residence of his forefathers; and soon after his death, James Smith, his son, built the present house, which includes part of the old one, from plans furnished by his cousin, James Smith, then younger of Jordanhill, and there has been no alteration since. The property of Craigend has been added to by purchases at various times. James Smith died in 1838, and was succeeded by his son John Smith, who sold the estate in 1851.' Old Country Houses of the Old Glasgow Gentry XXVI Craigend Castle
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In the past few years Chicago has become a hot spot for upstart classical-music ensembles specializing in the work of new composers and worthy but obscure pieces from the past. Some of these groups are adventurous in more than their repertoire choices: last year, for instance, Fulcrum Point presented George Antheil's Ballet Mecanique (1924) with a lineup that included three giant airplane propellers. (Not everybody is so faithful to the original staging.) Tonight another of the city's most interesting groups, Fifth House Ensemble, will perform Olivier Messiaen's chamber-music classic Quartet for the End of Time (1940) in the Adler's Sky Theater, against a backdrop of dazzling celestial images from the planetarium's vast collection.
Yesterday Eight Forty-Eight host Alison Cuddy spoke with the ensemble's Adam Marks and the Adler's Marvin Bolt about this compelling collaboration. Now I've got a tough choice to make about what concert to see tonight: I could bask in the planetarium's air-conditioning and soak up this multisensory barrage, or I could head to Millennium Park to sweat through the undoubtedly excellent new collaboration between Malian kora player Toumani Diabate and a group of great local jazz players calling themselves the Chicago Transilience Ensemble.


We continue to position BP for the new oil price environment, with a continued tight focus on costs, efficiency and discipline in capital spending. We delivered strong operational performance in the first half of 2017 and have considerable strategic momentum coming into the rest of the year and 2018, with rising production from our new Upstream projects and marketing growth in the Downstream.
Underlying replacement cost (RC) profit* for the second quarter was $0.7 billion.
Second-quarter operating cash flow, excluding Gulf of Mexico oil spill payments*, was $6.9 billion. Including these payments, operating cash flow* for the quarter was $4.9 billion.
Upstream major projects on track; two new projects sanctioned in quarter; significant gas discoveries in Senegal and Trinidad announced; $753 million exploration write-off, predominantly in Angola.
* See definitions in the Glossary on page 32. RC profit (loss), underlying RC profit, cash flow excluding Gulf of Mexico oil spill payments, organic capital expenditure and net debt are non-GAAP measures.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. ― The University of Arkansas System has been awarded nearly $60,000 in federal funds to aid the study of at least 345 sets of American Indian human remains in its possession.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that the National Park Service's award was announced last week. The grant money will be used for documentation, consultation and repatriation of remains in the University of Arkansas Museums Collection. The university will also place them in "culturally appropriate storage," the Park Service said.
While the University of Arkansas Museum closed its exhibit hall in 2003 to cut costs, it has retained its vast collection of items in storage.
According to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990, federally funded colleges and museums are required to conduct an inventory of any American Indian cultural items they possess, including human remains, funerary objects and sacred objects. Those inventories are then listed and tribes are entitled to reclaim items that belonged to their ancestors.
"We've been needing to do this project, and we're really glad to get the funds so that we can," said Curator of Collections Mary Suter.
University officials will consult with leaders of the Osage, the Caddo and the Quapaw tribes. The tribes are based in Oklahoma, but once lived in Arkansas. Osage officials declined to discuss the grant, and leaders from the other two tribes did not respond to requests for comment.
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using the Dalai Lama issue to interfere in China's internal affairs,"
foreign ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said.
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independence from China, but for the rights of the Tibetan people," she said.
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Naoya Hatakeyama was born in 1958 in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Hatakeyama, a student of Kiyoji Otsuji, completed graduate studies at Tsukuba University in 1984. Since then, Hatakeyama has been based in Tokyo, a city which has served as a model from which he has developed a body of work concerned largely with the relationship between nature, the city and photography. In addition to his participation in numerous solo and group exhibitions, Hatakeyama's photographs are found in public collections including the National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka; the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; the Swiss Foundation for Photography, Winterthur; la Maison EuropEéenne de la Photographie, Paris; and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
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