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Q: CSS pulsating dots with text inside them I'm trying to add text inside a pulsating dot.
Here's my current HTML (data inside h4 and p tags is dynamic)

two lines title

two lines of text

And here's my CSS (scss) (https://jsfiddle.net/24cdn65x/):
.pulsating-circle {
    position: absolute;
    left: 50%;
    top: 50%;
    transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);
    width: 232px;
    height: 232px;

    &:before {
        content: '';
        position: relative;
        display: block;
        width: 150%;
        height: 150%;
        box-sizing: border-box;
        margin-left: -25%;
        margin-top: -25%;
        border-radius: 150%;
        background-color: #ccc;
        animation: pulse-ring 1.25s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) infinite;
    }

    &:after {
        content: '';
        position: absolute;
        left: 0;
        top: 0;
        display: block;
        width: 100%;
        height: 100%;
        border-radius: 232px;
        background-color: #ccc;
        animation: pulse-dot 1.25s cubic-bezier(0.455, 0.03, 0.515, 0.955) -.4s infinite;
    }
}

The problem is that I'm not being able to properly locate the text inside the div.
I've tried wrapping the pulsating circle on a relative div and also the content inside the pulsating circle inside a relative div.
Here's an example of what I'm trying to achieve

I hope someone can help me

A: Just give the text div a z-index of 1 and an absolute position:

.pulsating-circle {
  position: absolute;
  left: 50%;
  top: 50%;
  transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);
  width: 232px;
  height: 232px;
}

.pulsating-circle:before {
  content: '';
  position: relative;
  display: block;
  width: 150%;
  height: 150%;
  box-sizing: border-box;
  margin-left: -25%;
  margin-top: -25%;
  border-radius: 150%;
  background-color: #ccc;
  animation: pulse-ring 1.25s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) infinite;
}

.pulsating-circle:after {
  content: '';
  position: absolute;
  left: 0;
  top: 0;
  display: block;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  border-radius: 232px;
  background-color: #ccc;
  animation: pulse-dot 1.25s cubic-bezier(0.455, 0.03, 0.515, 0.955) -0.4s infinite;
}

.text{

   position: absolute;
    top: 68px;
    left: 90px;
    z-index: 1;
}

@keyframes pulse-ring {
  0% {
    transform: scale(0.33);
  }
  80%, 100% {
    opacity: 0;
  }
}

@keyframes pulse-dot {
  0% {
    transform: scale(0.8);
  }
  50% {
    transform: scale(1);
  }
  100% {
    transform: scale(0.8);
  }
}

test title

text text

A: Alright, this is what I came up with. Looks to be completely dynamic, as long as you don't put in an insane amount of copy. Setting the parent div pulsating-circle to position:relative, and simply aligning it via margin will give you way more leeway when trying to center your text. After this, you can put your content in its own div and set its position to absolute, therefor using the parents height as the determining factor.

test title that cant test title that cant

texttext text text text text

.pulsating-circle {
  position: relative;
  margin: 0 auto;
  margin-top: 100px;
  width: 232px;
  height: 232px;
}

.first-text {
    position: absolute;
    right: 0;
    left: 0;
    text-align: center;
    z-index: 2;
    font-family: sans-serif;
    color: white;
    display: inline-block;
    top: 50%;
    transform: translateY(-50%);
}

https://jsfiddle.net/yjtqenz0/16/
Sorry for the jumbled properties!

A: If you need to use the html you have then you can do this:

Here is a Header

two lines of text two lines of text

.pulsating-circle {
    position: absolute;
    left: 50%;
    top: 50%;
    transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);
    width: 232px;
    height: 232px;
    border-radius: 232px;
    background-color: #ccc;
    animation: pulse-dot 1.25s cubic-bezier(0.455, 0.03, 0.515, 0.955) -.4s infinite;
}

.pulsating-circle h4{
  position: absolute;
  top: 25%;
  left: 30%;
  z-index: 1;
}

.pulsating-circle p{
  position: absolute;
  top: 40%;
  left: 30%;
  width: 150px;
  z-index: 1;
}

https://jsfiddle.net/wpybjdks/

A: Are you expecting like this:

body {
  position: relative;
  margin: 0;
  height: 100vh;
  background: linear-gradient(180deg, white 50%, #f2f2f2 50%) no-repeat;
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: center;
}

.pulsating-circle {
  position: relative;
  width: 232px;
  height: 232px;
}

.pulsating-circle div {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  align-items: center;
  height: inherit;
  color: white;
  justify-content: center;
  position: relative;
  z-index: 2;
}

.pulsating-circle:before {
  content: '';
  position: absolute;
  display: block;
  width: 200%;
  height: 200%;
  box-sizing: border-box;
  margin-left: -50%;
  margin-top: -50%;
  border-radius: 150%;
  background-color: #00BCDA;
  animation: pulse-ring 1.25s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) infinite;
}

.pulsating-circle:after {
  content: '';
  position: absolute;
  left: -25%;
  top: -25%;
  display: block;
  width: 150%;
  height: 150%;
  border-radius: 232px;
  background-color: #00BCDA;
  animation: pulse-dot 1.25s cubic-bezier(0.455, 0.03, 0.515, 0.955) -0.4s infinite;
}

@keyframes pulse-ring {
  0% {
    transform: scale(0.33);
  }
  80%,
  100% {
    opacity: 0;
  }
}

@keyframes pulse-dot {
  0% {
    transform: scale(0.8);
  }
  50% {
    transform: scale(1);
  }
  100% {
    transform: scale(0.8);
  }
}

Two lines title

Two lines of text

A: Here's a version that allows for some dynamic text and centers the h4 and p vertically/horizontally. I added a class to the inner div (.inner) to target it a little easier in the CSS.
A fiddle to play with:
https://jsfiddle.net/fgyovexw/

.pulsating-circle {
  position: absolute;
  left: 50%;
  top: 50%;
  transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);
  width: 232px;
  height: 232px;
  text-align: center;
  z-index: 1;
}

.pulsating-circle:before {
  content: '';
  position: absolute;
  display: block;
  width: 150%;
  height: 150%;
  box-sizing: border-box;
  margin-left: -25%;
  margin-top: -25%;
  border-radius: 150%;
  background-color: #ccc;
  animation: pulse-ring 1.25s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) infinite;
}

.pulsating-circle:after {
  content: '';
  position: absolute;
  left: 0;
  top: 0;
  display: block;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  border-radius: 232px;
  background-color: #ccc;
  animation: pulse-dot 1.25s cubic-bezier(0.455, 0.03, 0.515, 0.955) -0.4s infinite;
}

.inner {
  position: relative;
  z-index: 5;
  top: 50%;
  left: 50%;
  transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
  width: 140px;
}

.inner>h4 {
  margin-top: 0;
}

.inner>p {
  margin-bottom: 0;
}

@keyframes pulse-ring {
  0% {
    transform: scale(0.33);
  }
  80%,
  100% {
    opacity: 0;
  }
}

@keyframes pulse-dot {
  0% {
    transform: scale(0.8);
  }
  50% {
    transform: scale(1);
  }
  100% {
    transform: scale(0.8);
  }
}

long text here for title content

text text text text text and more text

A: you can use this example:

.pulsating-circle {
  position: absolute;
  left: 50%;
  top: 50%;
  transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);
  width: 232px;
  height: 232px;
  text-align: center;
  z-index: 1;
}

.pulsating-circle:before {
  content: '';
  position: absolute;
  display: block;
  width: 150%;
  height: 150%;
  box-sizing: border-box;
  margin-left: -25%;
  margin-top: -25%;
  border-radius: 150%;
  background-color: #ccc;
  animation: pulse-ring 1.25s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) infinite;
}

.pulsating-circle:after {
  content: '';
  position: absolute;
  left: 0;
  top: 0;
  display: block;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  border-radius: 232px;
  background-color: #ccc;
  animation: pulse-dot 1.25s cubic-bezier(0.455, 0.03, 0.515, 0.955) -0.4s infinite;
}

.text {
  position: relative;
  z-index: 5;
  top: 50%;
  left: 50%;
  transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
  width: 140px;
}

.text > h4 {
  margin-top: 0;
}

.text > p {
  margin-bottom: 0;
}

@keyframes pulse-ring {
  0% {
    transform: scale(0.33);
  }
  80%, 100% {
    opacity: 0;
  }
}

@keyframes pulse-dot {
  0% {
    transform: scale(0.8);
  }
  50% {
    transform: scale(1);
  }
  100% {
    transform: scale(0.8);
  }
}

test title

text text

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El Ateneo de la Juventud Mexicana, también conocido como Ateneo de la Juventud y más adelante como Ateneo de México, es una asociación cultural que surge en México a principio del siglo XX, organizando reuniones intelectuales y debates públicos. El Ateneo logra aglutinar a una generación de jóvenes intelectuales quienes, en el ocaso del porfiriato, adelantan una serie de críticas al positivismo, ideología que por décadas permearía la labor gubernamental del grupo conocido como los científicos. Mediante una serie de conferencias y diferentes esfuerzos culturales, los ateneístas, activaron una nueva conciencia reflexiva en torno a la educación. La agrupación se fundó el 28 de octubre de 1909, llegó a tener cerca de cien miembros, y sobrevivió hasta 1914. En el año 2011, se refunda bajo el nombre de "Ateneo Nacional de la Juventud, A.C."

Antecedentes

Durante los últimos años del porfiriato, Justo Sierra pugnó por la creación del Ministerio de Instrucción Pública y Bellas Artes, Porfirio Díaz accedió a su petición y lo nombró responsable del mismo, de esta forma, el sistema educativo se encaminó hacia la modernidad. Paralelamente un grupo de jóvenes lectores de Platón, Kant, Walter Pater, Friedrich Nietzsche, Émile Boutroux, Henri Bergson y de José Enrique Rodó deseaban un cambio del sistema, pues consideraban que las humanidades habían sido relegadas por la corriente positivista apoyada por el grupo de Los científicos del gabinete presidencial.

En 1903 y 1904 se realizaron conferencias en la Escuela Nacional Preparatoria en las que participaron, a manera de lecturas literarias, Jesús Urueta, Amado Nervo y Luis G. Urbina. Este hecho influyó a los futuros ateneístas, que publicaron sus trabajos, en la Revista Moderna de México y en la Savia Moderna.

En febrero de 1907, en el marco de la celebración del primer aniversario de la Sociedad de Alumnos de la Escuela Nacional Preparatoria, se celebró una velada literaria. En esta ocasión, asistieron el ministro Justo Sierra y el director Porfirio Parra. Destacó el discurso de "Alocución", de Alfonso Reyes Ochoa, el cual hablaba de la necesidad de equilibrio entre lo material y lo espiritual, haciendo una crítica a la corriente positivista a quien veía como una fórmula para reducir la conducta de las personas a fórmulas algebraicas. Durante ese año se realizó una manifestación en honor a Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera y el arquitecto Jesús T. Acevedo fundó la Sociedad de Conferencias. De esta forma, las reuniones se celebraron periódicamente en el Casino de Santa María; participaron Alfonso Cravioto, Antonio Caso, Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Rubén Valenti, Jesús T. Acevedo y Ricardo Gómez Robelo.

En marzo y abril de 1908, las conferencias se pronunciaron en el Conservatorio Nacional de Música añadiendo interpretaciones musicales de Alba Herrera y Ogazón, Alberto Usrúa, Aurelio M. López, Manuel Tinoco y Carlos del Castillo. Participaron Antonio Caso, Max Henríquez Ureña, Genaro Fernández MacGregor, Isidro Fabela y Rubén Valenti. Se realizó una manifestación a la memoria de Gabino Barreda y al apoyo de la Escuela Nacional Preparatoria; participaron el médico y político Francisco Vázquez Gómez, Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Ricardo Gómez Robelo y Alfonso Teja Zabre. En el Teatro Virginia Fábregas participaron Alfonso Cravioto, Rubén Valenti, Rodolfo Reyes Ochoa, Diódoro Batalla e Hipólito Olea. En el Teatro Arbeu, Antonio Caso, el poeta Rafael López y Justo Sierra.

Fundación

El 28 de octubre de 1909 se fundó el Ateneo de la Juventud, sus reuniones se celebraron de forma cotidiana en la Escuela Nacional de Jurisprudencia. Las conferencias fueron patrocinadas por el secretario de Instrucción Pública Justo Sierra y el subsecretario de Bellas Artes Ezequiel A. Chávez. Hacia principios de 1910 eran miembros de la Ciudad de México, escritores, músicos, pintores, arquitectos, ingenieros, abogados, médicos y estudiantes, y entre ellos destacaron: Jesús T. Acevedo, Roberto Argüelles Bringas, Antonio Caso, José Escofet, Isidro Fabela, Nemesio García Naranjo, Ricardo Gómez Robelo, Carlos González Peña, Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Alfonso Reyes Ochoa, Mariano Silva y Aceves, Alfonso Teja Zabre, Julio Torri y José Vasconcelos Calderón; entre los residentes externos estaban Max Henríquez Ureña, Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Ricardo Arenales, José Santos Chocano, Efrén Rebolledo y Diego Rivera. A finales de ese mismo año, se incorporaron Enrique González Martínez, Antonio Mediz Bolio y Martín Luis Guzmán. A iniciativa de Justo Sierra, se fundaron la Escuela Nacional de Altos Estudios y la Universidad Nacional de México.

El Ateneo de la Juventud llegó a tener cerca de cien miembros, vivió hasta 1914. En septiembre de 1912, con un esfuerzo común de los integrantes del Ateneo, se creó la Universidad Popular Mexicana.

Visión
Los miembros del Ateneo llamaron a dotar a la educación en México de una visión más amplia, que rechazara el determinismo biológico del racismo y que encontrara una solución al problema de los costos de los ajustes sociales generados por grandes procesos de cambio como la industrialización o la urbanización.

No solo eso. Frente a la posición oficial del gobierno de Porfirio Díaz y los científicos, llamados así de manera despectiva en el habla popular mexicana, José Vasconcelos y la generación del Ateneo promovieron una crítica de la visión única del pensamiento filosófico positivista y determinista. La generación del Ateneo propuso la libertad de cátedra, la libertad de pensamiento y, sobre todo, la reafirmación de los valores culturales, éticos y estéticos en los que América Latina emergió como realidad social y política. Aquí es importante destacar que una de las características más importantes del porfiriato es justamente el de su desdén por lo nacional mexicano, su fascinación con lo europeo, lo francés, lo italiano, lo alemán o, si nada de esto era posible, lo estadounidense, como única alternativa viable para alcanzar el progreso.

Antonio Caso, Alfonso Reyes, Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Ricardo Gómez Robelo y José Vasconcelos, junto con los demás integrantes del Ateneo de la Juventud, sentaron las bases para una ambiciosa recuperación de lo nacional mexicano y de lo latinoamericano como una identidad que, además de real, fuera viable en el futuro, y sobre todo que no dependiera, como en los hechos ocurrió con el modelo de desarrollo del porfiriato y otros experimentos latinoamericanos similares como la República de los Coroneles en Brasil, de la destrucción de lo nacional, de lo local, de lo latinoamericano como vía única para progresar.

Ateneo Nacional de la Juventud, A. C.

En 2009, cien años después de su fundación primigenea,  el Ateneo de la Juventud se refunda bajo el nombre de Ateneo Nacional de la Juventud AC., con la participación de jóvenes de las principales universidades públicas y privadas de la Ciudad de México. En 2011, se consolida como una asociación civil apartidista y sin fines de lucro, la cual busca, desde entonces, el empoderamiento de la juventud mexicana en la vida pública, cultural, académica y política de México.

Continuando con el legado del Ateneo de 1909, esta asociación se ha convertido en un núcleo relvante de incidencia juvenil, reconocido por miembros de la sociedad civil, del gobierno mexicano y organismos internacionales.

Bajo iniciativa de José Luis Gallegos Quezada, el Ateneo Nacional de la Juventud comienza como un colectivo juvenil que realizaba talleres culturales gratuitos dentro de la Casa del Adulto Mayor en la alcaldía Iztacalco de la Ciudad de México. Aquella primera etapa se caracterizó por la realización de encuentros intergeneracionales donde jóvenes y adultos mayores interactuaban en torno a talleres culturales como círculos de lectura, creación literaria, declamación, oratoria y ajedrez.

En 2009, la agrupación emprendió la primera edición de la Escuela de Formación Humana, cursos dirigidos a jóvenes de entre 15 y 21 años integrado por talleres de filosofía, apreciación artística, ética, oratoria, asertividad y derechos humanos. Apegada al ideario del Ateneo de la Juventud de 1909, la Escuela de Formación Humana tuvo por objetivo dotar a los participantes de una formación humanista y complementar de manera crítica su formación académica.

En 2011, el Ateneo se constituyó como una asociación civil bajo la cual se continúa con el mismo proyecto, conformada principalmente por estudiantes de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México y de otras instituciones públicas de la Ciudad de México.

Promoción de la filosofía y las humanidades
El Ateneo ha realizado programas encaminados a la difusión de la filosofía y las humanidades como herramientas para hacer de los jóvenes ciudadanos críticos que cuestionen su entorno. Con este propósito, se desarrolló "Filosofía a las Calles", serie permanente de conferencias en torno a temas filosóficos que reflexionan sobre el significado de la justicia, la libertad, el amor, entre otros temas de carácter universal. Las conferencias son impartidas por jóvenes universitarios de carreras afines a las humanidades, quienes a través de un lenguaje sencillo logran ejemplificar grandes conceptos de la filosofía en experiencias cotidianas.

La primera conferencia de Filosofía a las Calles data del 17 de febrero de 2011, en el Pasaje Zócalo-Pino Suárez del Metro de la Ciudad de México. Bajo el tema "¿Filosofía para qué?", José Luis Gallegos, Rogelio Laguna, Jorge Alberto Reyes, Óscar Zoletto y Samuel Rodríguez expusieron los propósitos del proyecto. Desde entonces, el objetivo del programa es "liberar a la filosofía de su encasillamiento académico y permitirle volver, según su origen socrático, al corazón de la polis".

Revista cultural

El Ateneo Nacional de la Juventud ha tenido a lo largo de su vida diversos proyectos editoriales, todos inspirados en los proyectos literarios del Ateneo de la Juventud de 1909, la revista Savia Moderna, por ejemplo. Un primer esfuerzo por construir una revista literaria fue Ágora Ateneísta (2009), un pasquín de 10 páginas que incluía cuentos de miembros de la asociación acompañados por textos de miembros del Ateneo de 1909.

Años después, daría vida a Symposium (2017-2018), una sección literaria anidada en la página de noticias TMPosmodernos. La tercera revista del Ateneo se llamó Entre Líneas y tuvo una vida efímera de un par de artículos en línea bajo la dirección de Julio Sastre.

De manera actual, la revista oficial del Ateneo ha adoptado por nombre Interliteraria y cuenta con secciones que llevan por título el nombre de miembros del Ateneo de 1909: Ensayo Literario: Alfonso Reyes, Poesía: María Enriqueta Camarillo, Política: José Vasconcelos. Interliteraria ha buscado consolidarse como un puente generacional entre escritores consagrados en México y nuevos talentos. De manera reciente, la escritora Elena Poniatowska entrevistó a los miembros de la revista para conocer los afanes literarios de una nueva generación.

Referencias

Bibliografía

Enlaces externos

Ateneos
Sociedades literarias de México
Juventud en México
Organizaciones fundadas en 1909
Organizaciones desaparecidas en 1914
México en 1909
Cultura de Ciudad de México

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Tehran exhibition reveals city's hidden Warhol and Hockney treasures
Paintings collected with help of Iran's last queen, Farah Pahlavi, and safeguarded in museum basement, on show for first time
It is the finest collection of modern art anywhere outside Europe and the US, boasting works by Jackson Pollock, Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol, Edvard Munch, René Magritte and Mark Rothko.
But the pieces have been stacked in the basement of Tehran's Museum of Contemporary Art for more than 30 years, gathering dust in storage. Censors in Iran classed some as un-Islamic, pornographic or too gay, and they have never been shown in public. Others have been displayed only once or twice.
But now a number of the collection's paintings are on show for the first time in Tehran as part of the museum's Pop Art & Op Art exhibition, featuring works by Warhol, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, Victor Vasarely, Richard Hamilton and Jasper Johns.
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More than 100 pieces from the museum's remarkable collection are on display, according to Mehr, along with a series of works from Mexico that have been dedicated to the museum in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Mexican revolution and the 200th anniversary of the country's independence.
James Rosenquist, Jim Dine, Larry Rivers and RB Kitaj are among other artists whose works are in the exhibition, which runs until mid-August.
Iran's unique hidden treasure was bought before the Islamic revolution, under the supervision of Farah Pahlavi, the former queen of Iran, who fled the country with the late shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in 1979.
The 38-year reign of the shah, self-proclaimed kings of kings, came to an end after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned from exile to Tehran receiving a hero's welcome and founded the Islamic republic.
The collection includes Pollock's Mural on Indian Red Ground, considered to be one of his most important works and estimated to be worth more than $250m, as well as important pieces by Picasso, Van Gogh, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, Whistler and Marcel Duchamp.
There are even pieces by artists whom the former empress met in person, including the Russian-French painter Marc Chagall and the English sculptor Henry Moore. The collection is thought to be worth more than $2.5bn.
Speaking to the Guardian, Pahlavi explained that the collection was bought during Iran's 1970s oil boom. "Our oil revenue had significantly increased and I spoke to [the shah] and Amir-Abbas Hoveyda [then prime minister], and told them that it was the best time to buy some of our ancient works both internally and from outside.
"I thought how good it would be to have a museum where we could put the works of our contemporary artists. Later I thought, why shouldn't we include foreign works. This is how it all started … at that time our curators and collectors were mostly interested in traditional art and not so much in the modern art."
Pahlavi's interest in western art is believed to derive from her education in France.
Kamran Diba, an Iranian architect and a cousin of the queen, was commissioned to design the museum in the heart of the capital and later selected the works with help from various people, including the presidents of Christie's and Sotheby's.
Pahlavi said: "I was very worried for the fate of those paintings during those events [at the time of the revolution], I was worried that the revolutionaries would destroy them. But fortunately the museum staff protected them in the basement.
"Some years ago the director of the museum showed some of the pieces and made a catalogue listing the works. I'm happy that people have realised what was hidden there for years."
Between 1997 and 2005, during the mandate of the former reformist president Mohammad Khatami, when restrictions on art were temporarily relaxed, Alireza Samiazar, then head of the museum, struggled to secure permission for the first display of some of the works.
In 2005, to the dismay of the regime's hardliners, a large number of the paintings were brought out for an exhibition. That show sparked controversy. Francis Bacon's Two Figures Lying on a Bed with Attendants, with seeming homosexual content, was deemed inappropriate and removed from the exhibition. However, many contentious works survived the censors. Andy Warhol's portraits of Mick Jagger and Marilyn Monroe are in Tehran and his paintings of Mao Zedong have been put on display in full for the first time in the pop art exhibition.
Despite the contempt of Tehran's rulers for western art, the collection has been safely guarded – bar a Warhol portrait of Pahlavi herself, which, she said, had been cut with a knife.
In 1994 the museum exchanged one of its many remarkable paintings – Woman III, by the Dutch-American expressionist Willem de Kooning – for a rare illuminated volume of Shahnameh, an ancient Persian poetry book, which belonged to the American art collector Arthur Houghton, because the painting had shown too much nudity in the eyes of the authorities.
The swap infuriated many, including Pahlavi. "If they were really interested in Shahnameh, couldn't they pay $6m and keep De Kooning's painting? The US businessman David Geffen, who bought the painting for some $20m, sold it for $110m few years ago. The De Kooning exchange is the sole exchange they've done so far and I hope it remains the last one."
Of the many ironies surrounding the artwork is the fact that Iran's powerful Guardian Council, a group of clerics, intervened a decade ago to forbid the selling or exchange of the works because, they said, trade in un-Islamic and pornographic works was prohibited.
Ali Amini Najafi, an Iranian art critic based in Germany, said: "The works in the collection are not randomly or arbitrarily chosen, it is clear that people involved in selecting them had a consistent plan to pick relevant and significant samples to depict the evolution of modern art and also to make sure that all movements from impressionists to pop art are represented.
"This collection was gathered at a defining moment of our history when Iranians were taking distance from their traditional past and were showing curiosity with modern art."
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Samsung has launched a new smartphone which features a slider design and triple auto-rotating camera array. The new Samsung Galaxy A80 design facilitates an expansive all-screen appearance without notches or cutouts. Overall this is just one of the attractive features of this premium-midrange smartphone.
With regard to the star attraction of this smartphone, the auto-rotating camera and slider design, Samsung says it was inspired by the 'Era of Live' an evolution from the 'Era of the Selfie'. It goes on to explain this is a trend in people who increasingly use their smartphone for sharing live interactions - and the high quality rotating camera facilitates users sharing the world around them.
As you slide the mechanism open, the smartphone's camera auto-rotates to face you. There are three lenses in the A80's rotating array; a 48MP f/2.0 main camera, an 8MP f/2.2 ultra-wide (123°) camera, and a 3D depth camera. Camera hardware is aided by advanced processing and software which facilitates super steady video, and optimised scenes (30 types recognised), and more features and effects.
The impressive camera array is complemented by Samsung's 'New Infinity Display'. This minimal bezel screen is of the AMOLED type and has a diagonal of 6.7-inches. An in-screen fingerprint reader is present. Samsung's choice of screen is an FHD+ model, which is 1080 x 2400 pixels to be precise. For a 6.7-incher the handset is pleasingly compact at 165.2 x 76.5 x 9.3mm. On the topic of physical characteristics, Samsung says the Galaxy A80's smooth curves are designed for ease of use and holding comfortably for long periods.
Inside you will find an Octa Core (2.2GHz Dual + 1.8GHz Hexa) processor, 8GB of RAM, plus 128GB of storage. Samsung has fitted a generous 3,700mAh battery that supports fast charging at 25W. On the software side Android 9 Pie comes pre-installed and Bixby (with button or voice summoning) is there for your convenience too.
The Samsung Galaxy A80 will become available in Phantom Black, Angel Gold with pink reflections, Ghost white with blue reflections. It will become available from 29th May but pricing is yet to be revealed.
Samsung also launched the more conventional teardrop-notched Galaxy A70, which will become available from 26th April. You can check out infographics which nicely sum up both the A70 and A80 here.


ABC's "Fresh Off the Boat," in its short run, has given viewers the requisite holiday-themed episodes -- Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. But on Tuesday, the comedy, which chronicles a Chinese American family's journey in adapting to suburban Florida in the mid-1990s, is going beyond the hallmarks with an episode that centers on Chinese New Year.
As the first network sitcom to focus on an Asian American family in more than 20 years, "Fresh Off the Boat" is able to explore the significance of the holiday and traditions (e.g. red envelopes containing money, cleaning one's home or cutting one's hair before the New Year) in a compatible way, Wang said.
Khan said plans for dedicating an episode to focus on the holiday began once producers learned there would be a second season. And there is hope to bring it back.
"For as long as we are on the air, I would like this to be a part of our storytelling," Khan said.
"Fresh Off the Boat" isn't the only series in recent years that has tried to venture outside of the traditional TV holiday and cultural fixtures. The CW's "Jane the Virgin" gave viewers a flashback to Jane's quinceañera, a Latino tradition of celebrating a girl's 15th birthday.
Wang is just hoping the episode brings some awareness.


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Q: Walker or wp_get_nav_menu_items VS jQuery Self wondering question
I have a menu configuration like so (as an example) :

Home

About

            Links

Menu

Lk 1

Lk2 2

Lk 3

holder

As you can see, only any
 that has children will get a particular output.
Using wp_nav-menu :
wp_nav_menu(array(
    'theme_location' => 'menu',
    'container' => 'nav',
    'container_class' => 'nav-wrapper',
    'menu_class' => 'main-nav',
    'depth' => 2
));

We can get each of the main menu-item, but to output the
 that has children, we would have to write a custom Walker or use the wp_get_nav_menu_items function.
I couldn't get the output as intended...
But any function will not be less than 3 lines of code while in jQuery I just did it with 2 lines :
$('ul li:has(ul) > a').addClass('subnav-trigger').wrapInner('');
$('ul li ul').prepend('
Menu
').append('
holder
');

My self question and for others :
Should I make it work with a custom Walker or a WP function ?!
If yes, why lose time and bytes while in jQuery it's only 2 lines of code ?!
Thanks in advance for all of your response(s).
Of course, I'll be more than grateful to see the Walker or any other function for this
 that have children, but the question is more important for me to understand the purpose if I really should go here the WP way instead of the jQuery way.
Thanks again, SYA :)

A: As you know, walker is server side method while jQuery is client side method. You need to choose what will be the best in any situation.
If you don't use a dedicated Walker for each menu, default WordPress Walker will run so why don't use your own and adapt it via jQuery for the different support target ?


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Analysis: Payment by results - can it work for charities?
The government is bullish about paying for services by results. Andy Hillier hears contrasting views about it from sector leaders and offers two case studies and ten do's and don'ts
The first publicly funded payment-by-results scheme is believed to have begun in 1863, when government funding of Victorian schools was determined partly by the strength of their exam results. It was abandoned after 30 years for being excessively bureaucratic.
This has not dampened the present government's enthusiasm for PBR, which is now used in contracts by six Whitehall departments. Last week the Prime Minister, David Cameron, said he wanted PBR to feature strongly in a big increase in work with offenders by the private and voluntary sectors.
In the past few months, however, more charities and not-for-profit organisations have raised concerns about PBR contracts. A National Council for Voluntary Organisations survey, for example, found that seven out of 10 charity subcontractors feared that their PBR contracts to deliver the government's Work Programme were at risk of failure, citing problems ranging from lack of referrals to non-payment.
Doubts about PBR were also examined in a recent discussion paper from the Charities Aid Foundation, Funding Good Outcomes: Using Social Investment to Support Payment by Results. It suggested improvements in financial support for charities delivering PBR contracts, including more up-front payments and allowing potential investors more time to scrutinise contracts.
Steve Kerr, policy officer at London Voluntary Service Council, a representative body for community groups in the capital, believes that too many PBR contracts place unrealistic demands on voluntary sector providers. In the summer, two LVSC members closed down partly because of PBR contracts - Red Kite Learning, an education and employment charity, and Eco-Actif Services, an employment-based community interest company (see case study below). Kerr says both struggled to raise the working capital to fund their work for a year or more until they received full payment.
"Organisations understand the policy driver behind PBR and the need to get value for money," he says. "But in simple terms, you're only getting the money back months, if not years, after you've delivered the programme. Under the Work Programme, subcontractors receive their first payments after six months, and it can take up to two years for charities to recover all their fees. Most charities don't have the level of reserves to run that sort of contract."
The sheer complexity of PBR contracts also deters many small and medium-sized organisations from bidding. The contracts come in many forms: in some, results determine less than 25 per cent of the value of a contract; in others it is nearly all the value. The way success is determined can also vary widely: some contracts have a set of clearly defined targets; others have an array of complex indicators, over which the provider might have little control. "Boards of trustees are understandably wary of taking on such contracts because they don't fully understand the level of risk involved," Kerr says.
Simon Antrobus, chief executive of Addaction, a national drug and alcohol treatment charity, says the sector should not be too deterred by PBR. His charity has been delivering PBR contracts for local authorities and other agencies for the past three years. "In the main, it has been fine," he says.
He believes the Work Programme is unusually complex and the success of PBR should not be judged by it. But he says service commissioners do need to think carefully about the structure of PBR contracts, and that Addaction has more than once turned down the chance to bid for them. "When we've looked into the details, they don't stack up because they're placing unrealistic outcomes on staff or on service users," Antrobus says.
Evan Jones, head of community services at St Giles Trust, a charity that works with ex-offenders, says it has been stung by PBR. Speaking at the Third Sector Payment by Results workshop this month, he said St Giles had bid successfully for a programme for getting young people into work, but made mistakes when tendering. "We underestimated the time it took to get young people into work," he said. "As a result, no one won - we had to reduce staff to cut our costs and the project didn't produce the expected results."
The charity, which is piloting the government's social impact bond scheme at HMP Peterborough, has learned to be more business-minded. "We've managed to get clauses taken out of contracts when we've realised they're unworkable," he said. "We now spend quite a lot on legal advice to check the detail. We used to just sign contracts, but not any more."
PBR contracts have also had unintended consequences on St Giles staff, said Jones: "We've found that staff were rushing some conversations with clients because they were conscious of hitting targets." Antrobus of Addaction also says that PBR contracts, if not managed properly, can focus staff on results and put pressure on them to deliver "unrealistic outcomes".
Kerr of the LVSC says that access to finance remains a barrier. "Funders such as Big Society Capital exist, but it's not working well at the moment for delivering PBR," he says. "Trying to find a bank or other lender to support this type of work is really hard."
Ben Jupp, a director at Social Finance, a not-for-profit organisation that has helped to arrange finance for third sector organisations delivering PBR contracts, told the Third Sector workshop that finance was available, but charities should engage funders right at the start - social funders would naturally be wary of investing in organisations already in difficulty, he said.
"There's a difference between seeking social finance before you enter into a PBR contract and seeking finance halfway through the process because you did not read all of the small print and are running out of funding," he said.
Kerr believes that if charities are working as subcontractors, as in the Work Programme, the prime contractor should offer financial assistance. "The primes will generally have the financial muscle to help their subcontractors by providing up-front payments," he says. "At the moment, we're seeing small and medium-sized charities facing the same amount of risk as the prime contractors, which is not what we were expecting."
Karl Wilding (right), head of policy, research and foresight at National Council for Voluntary Organisations, is also concerned about the level of risk under PBR. "We seem to be transferring the risk from those who are most able to bear it, such as local authorities, to charities that are least able to bear it."
He stresses that commissioners need to consider alternatives to PBR. At the moment, he says, the trend is for contracts to have an element of PBR, even though there's little evidence to show that it delivers better results or value for money. "Public policy can be a bit herd-like," says Wilding.
"PBR has its place, but there still needs to be a place for grants. In many cases, standard contracts would be appropriate."
Jupp of Social Finance believes PBR contracts can help effective third sector organisations to thrive in the current economic climate, but adds that they must analyse the detail and think through the implications. "PBR is like a strong medicine," he told the Third Sector workshop. "It can help shift the way a service operates, but if it's not rightly applied then there are all sorts of nasty side-effects."
THE DO'S AND DON'TS OF PBR CONTRACTS
Advice from expert speakers at Third Sector's recent PBR workshop
1. PBR contracts tend to work best when the results can be judged on a small number of clear indicators. Always question contracts that are based on numerous complex indicators.
2. Don't be afraid to negotiate with commissioners if you think the terms of the contract are unrealistic - many commissioners are still learning about how to structure PBR contracts and should take on board any criticisms.
3. Make sure that you have the processes in place to record your outcomes accurately before you enter into a PBR contract. Invest in staff training and the necessary recording tools if you need to improve the way you measure performance.
4. Work out carefully how long it will take to achieve the desired outcomes and whether you will need to raise additional finance before you enter into a PBR contract.
5. Work out what your monthly cash flow will be over the terms of the contract and establish what would happen if you received only the minimum payment. And don't be tempted to bid too low to win contracts.
6. Approach social funders as early as possible - preferably while putting together your bid - if you require additional finance to undertake a PBR contract.
7. Always get a legal adviser to read through the terms of the contract before you agree to sign. It's worth setting aside money for legal advice or trying to set up a pro-bono arrangement with a legal firm.
8. If you're working as a subcontractor, don't be afraid to ask the prime contractor to amend its terms or ask it for financial support if you're struggling to hit targets or maintain your cash flow.
9. PBR contracts can encourage staff to concentrate on outcomes, rather than delivering a high-quality service. Make sure that you monitor staff to avoid any unintended consequences.
10. Don't sacrifice your values. If you think that a PBR contract is forcing your organisation to work in a way that's harmful to beneficiaries or goes against your objects, speak up and consider walking away from it.
Case study: 'We couldn't be rescued'
In July, Eco-Actif Services, a community-interest company delivering employment programmes, in Sutt on, Surrey, went into liquidation after it was unable to secure sufficient working capital.
The company, which had a turnover of more than £700,000 and employed 14 staff, was involved in the delivery of the Work Programme and the Families Programme, two payment-by-results schemes.
About 30 per cent of its costs were covered up front in the two programmes, with the remaining 70 per cent paid based on its results.
Towards the end of last year, it started to run out of money and approached social lenders for a loan to help it cover its r unning costs until its next results-based payments came through. But it was unable to attract investment. Anna Burke (right), the former managing director of Eco-Actif Services, says: "At the time, our prime contractor, A4e, was being investigated and there were fears that we would not get our money from it - so we were considered too high a risk by investors. Payment by results didn't close us, but it made it impossible for us to be rescued."
She says she doesn't oppose the use of payment by results, and that it's right that organisations are held accountable. But she believes that commissioners need to be realistic when drawing up contracts. "We previously delivered payment-by-result contracts where we were paid 70 per cent of the costs up front and 30 per cent based on our results," says Burke. "We managed to do well under that arrangement."
Burke also believes that more financing needs to be made available to not-for-profit organisations delivering PBR contracts. "I honestly think that unless something is done only the bigger players in the field will have the capacity to deliver PBR contracts," she says.
Case study: 'It's working well, but more up-front funding would be better'
Penrose, a not-for-profit company that works with former offenders, has been awarded a PBR contract by Lewisham Council to help keep repeat offenders out of prison.
The scheme is part of the Justice Reinvestment Model, a Ministry of Justice pilot programme running in Greater Manchester and the London boroughs of Croydon, Hackney, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark between July 2011 and July 2013.
Under the contract, Penrose must keep 300 repeat offenders, of whom 150 have to have come directly from prison, out of prison for a year. The organisation does this by providing support to offenders, including help to find accommodation and overcome any addiction problems.
Penrose receives a core payment towards its service costs and a separate payment for every offender who stays out of prison and remains in its programme. The amount varies according to the offender, the complexity of their case and their offending history. If it fails to meet its targets, it must fund the difference.
Gill Arukpe (right), chief executive of Penrose, says the system is working well. Since July 2011, it has hit its target of keeping 300 offenders out of jail for a year, of which 152 had come from prison. "Working this way seems to help to incentivise staff and helps our beneficiaries," she says. "One chap who has been through the programme is in his late 30s and has hardly worked. Since he's come out of prison we've helped him to move areas and reduce his drug use, and so far he's not reoffended."
But she admits PBR contracts present a cash-flow problem for third sector providers. "If PBR is going to remain the funding style of the future, it would be more manageable if the funds were paid up front with a contractual arrangement to claw them back at the end of the contract or at the review date if key targets are not met."
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Section 60 stop and Search powers authorised in Southampton
Officers in Southampton will be able to stop and search anyone in the Mansel Park, Green Park, St James Park, Shirley High Street, Warren Avenue, Coxford Rd, Olive Rd, Regents Park, Lords Hill District Centre and surrounding areas tonight (9 October), after Section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 has been authorised.
This emergency power has been implemented following an incident of serious violence that took place last night (8 October), where 5 or 6 people with mopeds were reported to have approached a 31-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman walking on Tangmere Drive and stab the man. The woman also received injuries and reportedly had her phone stolen.
The 31-year-old man was taken to Southampton General Hospital with serious yet not life-threatening injuries.
We're treating this incident as racially aggravated as it was reported the group verbally abused the man before attacking him.
A 16-year-old boy from Southampton has been arrested on suspicion of robbery, GBH and possession of Class B drugs. He remains in police custody at this time.
Anyone who witnessed the incident or has any information as to who may have been involved, should call us on 101 quoting 44200391172. Alternatively people can call Crimestoppers 100% anonymously on 0800 555 111.
While the investigation is ongoing, officers on the ground have been authorised to use Section 60 powers.
Section 60 can be implemented in areas where either serious violence has occurred or police believe serious violence is about to occur and gives officers the power to stop and search anyone in a designated location, without the restrictions of normal stop and search.
Officers will be looking to apprehend those looking to cause serious violence and carrying offensive weapons or bladed articles.
The threshold to implement a Section 60 power is very high and we have it as a tactic to keep communities safe.
As a result, officers patrolling the area defined in the map will be able to stop and search anyone in the area between 6pm tonight (9 October) and 5.59pm tomorrow (10 October). The power can be reviewed at that time and extended if appropriate.
Police Sergeant Rob Morant said "Section 60 is an emergency tactic. We do not suggest that it is a long term solution to weapon related crime, however following the serious assault that took place last night and concerns raised by the community, this is our response.
"We know that some will think this inhibits our ability to catch offenders, however it is important communities are informed we are taking action. It is also helps prevent another incident of serious violence occurring. Tackling offenders is important to us, but we want them to prevent them from offending to begin with.
"We are also telling you because it is national Best Use of Stop and Search guidance to inform you as to why you may see an increased police presence and that we are using enhanced powers."


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An electroencephalogram is a test that detects electrical activity in your brain. Electrodes are attached to your scalp and is one of the main diagnostic tests in diagnosing and treating epilepsy.
A lumbar puncture (spinal tap) is a minimally invasive test that removes a small amount of spinal fluid to record the opening pressure, look for signs of infection, multiple sclerosis, and cancer.
Routine EEGs only record brain activity for 20-40 minutes. A seizure may occur every 3-6 hrs and a regular EEG may not record infrequent seizure activity.
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