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Turns Out $1.5 Million Painting Punched by Boy May Be Fake
Is it really worth anywhere near $1.5 million?
Brian Boucher, August 27, 2015
The painting in question.
Photo: via Focus Taiwan
Mario Nuzzi, Composizione con vaso di fiori, oil on canvas.
Photo via the artnet Auction Price Database.
When a 12-year-old boy tripped and accidentally punched a hole in a painting this week at an exhibition at Taipei's Huashan 1914 Creative Park, video of the incident went viral.
Questions have now arisen about who created the painting, according to an article in Taiwan's Apple Daily. While initially, the painting was said to be by Italian Renaissance painter Paolo Porpora (1617-1673), the new report says the painting may, in fact, be by artist Mario Nuzzi (1603-1673), a contemporary of Porpora.
artnet's Price Database shows what appears to be the painting punched by the boy attributed to Nuzzi, titled Composizione con vaso di fiori.
Nuzzi's work failed to find a buyer in May 2012 at the auction house Casa d'Aste Della Rocca, in Turin, Italy, where it carried an estimate of €25,000-30,000 (about $28,000-34,000 in today's dollars). This, in turn, casts doubt on the painting's supposed $1.5 million value.
Organizers of the exhibition, "The Face of Leonardo, Images of a Genius," which gathers 55 paintings ranging from the Italian Renaissance to the 20th century, say that the floral still life is the work of Porpora.
However, area curator Sean Hu has cast doubt on its authenticity.
"There are too many questions," said Hu, of Hu's Art Company, in Taipei, to Agence France Presse. "No one knows if the paintings are genuine or fake." Hu's website indicates a number of exhibitions he has organized; his training includes education in mass communication at Fu Jen Catholic University and an MA in art administration from the City University of New York's Fashion Institute of Technology.
If the paintings are genuine, Hu says, why are they not subject to stringent environmental conditions?
"From a professional's perspective, if the paintings are so old and expensive, they should not have been exposed to an environment without constant temperature and humidity," he said.
The head of TST Art of Discovery, which co-organized the show, stands by the attribution.
"Of course [the two paintings] are different," David Sun told a reporter from the Catholic News Agency (CNA), who indicated that Sun was "clearly exasperated." Sun declined to elaborate but said, "We welcome any visitor who questions the painting to ask the professionals and our art appraiser at the exhibition venue." CNA indicates that by appraiser, he means exhibition curator Andrea Rossi.
Rossi has said that since the damage was accidental, and because the painting is insured, the boy's family will not be held liable. Area restorer Leo Tsai is currently at work repairing the damaged canvas.
Boy Punches Hole Through $1.5 Million Painting
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Jorge Santos Lafauci (n. Buenos Aires, 3 de noviembre de 1943) es un profesor de literatura, licenciado en comunicación y letras, conductor radial y periodista de espectáculos originario de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Ocupó el cargo docente en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Cursó sus estudios secundarios en el Colegio Juan Martín de Pueyrredón del barrio de San Telmo.

Trayectoria
Tiene más de 40 años de trayectoria. Comenzó su carrera en el diario Crónica, escribiendo noticias sobre el mundo del espectáculo, tiempo después fue jefe de redacción. Ha sido presidente de la Asociación de Periodistas de la Televisión y la Radiofonía Argentinas. Director de varias revistas en Argentina y México, entre ellas TV y Novelas y la revista Eres de Editorial Televisa. Participó en varios programas de televisión, entre ellos Bailando por un sueño, de Argentina, donde fue jurado en la 1ª, 2ª, 3ª, 4ª y 5ª etapa. En 2007 fue elegido para participar como juez representando a Argentina en el Primer campeonato internacional de baile en México.

Polémica internacional

El periodista suscitó una polémica internacional mientras oficiaba de juez argentino en el Primer Campeonato Internacional de Baile, al afirmar que los mexicanos son "las personas más feas del mundo". "Son los más feos, los mexicanos, no lo vayas a sacar, pero los únicos lindos están en la tele", dijo Lafauci en voz baja a la cámara del Canal 13 de Argentina. Las imágenes de Lafauci hablando de esta manera se transmitieron primero en el programa argentino Este es el show.

Lafauci, después de negar los dichos y ante la evidencia, ofreció disculpas al pueblo mexicano, primero en el programa mexicano La oreja, y luego ante el conductor televisivo Adal Ramones, en el Primer Campeonato Internacional de Baile, las que fueron aceptadas por el conductor, en nombre del pueblo mexicano.

Programas de Televisión

Referencias

Periodistas de Argentina
Porteños
Jurados de Bailando por un sueño
Licenciados en Letras de Argentina

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IC 80 ist ein Galaxienpaar im Sternbild Walfisch am Südsternhimmel. Das Galaxienpaar, wobei die beiden elliptischen Galaxien auch als IC 80A und IC 80B klassifiziert sind, ist schätzungsweise 709 Millionen Lichtjahre von der Milchstraße entfernt. In vielen Katalogen sind die Kategorisierungen der Objekte in dem Himmelsareal nicht einheitlich, da sich bei dieser Position eine Vielzahl an Galaxien befinden.

Das Objekt wurde am 31. August 1892 vom französischen Astronomen Stéphane Javelle entdeckt.

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Q: Plotting bar charts for multi level groupby dataframe Using the groupby method
    df = Al[['Connection Name','UAS-RS', 'SES-RS', 'OFS-RS', 'ES-RS', 'BBE-RS', 'Date', 'Alarm Type']]
    cols = ['Connection Name', 'Date', 'Alarm Type']

    df.mask(df == 0, np.nan).groupby(cols)[['UAS-RS', 'SES-RS', 'OFS-RS', 'ES-RS', 'BBE-RS']].count()

I got the following table:

The initial table had the this king of structure:
       | ConName |   Date   | Alarm | ETH1 | ETH2 | ETH 3|
       | AR21    | 25-01-19 |  AL1  |   1  |   0  |   3  |
       | AR22    | 25-01-19 |  AL2  |   0  |   0  |   1  |
       | AR23    | 26-01-19 |  AL1  |   1  |   1  |   0  |
       | AR21    | 26-01-19 |  AL2  |   0  |   1  |   0  |

The problem
I want to build barplots for each connection name depicting distribution of features between two Alarm Types.
What I get:

The desired output:

My last code for building plot only for one connection name:
for date in df[df['Connection Name']=='AR-CY18 A2.5G-RTA33']['Date']:
    df.mask(df == 0, np.nan).groupby('Alarm Type')[['UAS-RS', 'SES-RS', 'OFS-RS', 'ES-RS', 'BBE-RS']].count().plot(kind='bar',stacked=True,subplots=True)

Also, the problem is, that the script builds multiple plots by date (I interrupted kernel on the 77th plot) with the identical output.
What am I doing wrong? unstacking (unstack().plot.barh()) also didn't help.
Any clues are welcome.

A: It looks like you are trying to produce a plot for each (date, conName). Here's what I would do:
for (dt, con), d in df.groupby(['Date','ConName'], group_keys=False):
    fig,ax = plt.subplots()
    d.groupby('Alarm')[['ETH1','ETH2']].count().plot.bar(ax=ax)
    ax.set_title(con)

Output will be several plots like this, where 2 is the conName:

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Climate concerns are at the core of an intensifying barrage of protests against Trump and his administration. In the face of the Orwellian nightmare of this government, the only sane response is resistance. There is no avoiding the fact that Trump's first 14 months in office have been an unprecedented disaster. Little more than one third of Americans approve of Trump and he is considered by experts to be the worst president in American history. Common sense dictates that Trump's rule must be challenged at every turn.
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The 6th annual RBSNY will take place on March 26 - 27, 2018 at the Marriott, Brooklyn Bridge in New York, USA. Responsible business professionals from North America's leading brands come together to discuss the impending paradigm shift and transformational change to business, industry, and society. The Responsible Business Summit is USA's premier sustainability and Communications conference. They bring together the leading B2B and B2C companies to share their latest ideas and strategies. The 2018 sustainability conference will bring together the leading minds in responsible business to debate the key issues and opportunities in responsible and sustainable business. RBSNY is the only place in North America addressing the need to create genuine change to business, transform industries to last and create a long-term, positive impact on the environment and society.
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USA.com / Maine / Hancock County / Aurora, ME / 04408
04408 zip code is located close to the center of Maine. 04408 zip code is part of Hancock County. 04408 zip code has 118.33 square miles of land area and 13.32 square miles of water area. As of 2010-2014, the total 04408 zip code population is 195, which has grown 10.80% since 2000. The population growth rate is much higher than the state average rate of 4.21% and is lower than the national average rate of 11.61%. 04408 zip code median household income is $60,938 in 2010-2014 and has grown by 116.67% since 2000. The income growth rate is much higher than the state average rate of 31.05% and is much higher than the national average rate of 27.36%. 04408 zip code median house value is $164,100 in 2010-2014 and has grown by 155.61% since 2000. The house value growth rate is much higher than the state average rate of 75.89% and is much higher than the national average rate of 46.91%. As a reference, the national Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation rate for the same period is 26.63%. On average, the public school district that covers 04408 zip code is much better than the state average in quality. The 04408 zip code area code is 207.
Population Density: 1.48/sq mi, rank #415
Median Household Income: $60,938 at 2010-2014—116.67% increase since 2000, see rank
Median House Price: $164,100 at 2010-2014—155.61% increase since 2000, see rank
Time Zone: Eastern GMT -5:00 with Daylight Saving in the Summer
Land Area: 118.33 sq mi, rank #44
Water Area: 13.32 sq mi (10.12%), rank #54
County: Hancock County
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V22 Biscuit Factory, F Block, 100 Clements Rd, London, SE16 4DG.
Installations by Owen Bullett / Jess Flood-Paddock / Matt Golden and Natsue Ikeda / Alistair McClymont / Daniel Pasteiner are available to see all day.
Films by Tom Price / Florian Roithmayr / Mark Titchner will be available to view continuously 12 – 6 and 9 pm onwards.
Jour Mal Jour Nal launch with a screening by Joseph Walsh at 7 pm.
Performances by Doug Fishbone / Martina Schmücker and Robert Luzar / Tom Woolner and a reading by Katrina Palmer will run from 8 pm.
Please see www.arthousefoundation.org for more details.


Schaumburg, Illinois (USA)-During the recent GIFA show in Duesseldorf, Germany, both Hunter Automated and its partner Maus reported successful exhibition of their machinery and related equipment.
Sandra Selwan, marketing manager for Maus (Padua, Italy), said the booth traffic was excellent throughout the show and that many current and potential customers visited. At the booth, Maus displayed its SAM multi-axis grinding system for gate and riser removal on metal castings. Owing to the offline programming station and rotating worktable, the SAM system from Maus enables cost-effective and high production rates. Also present at the booth were managing director Roberto Sammartin, sales manager Claudio Cossalter and the new North American sales manager, Carlo Canevese. Maus markets its machinery and related systems through Hunter Automated in North America and other select regions globally.
Meanwhile, at the Hunter (Schaumburg, Illinois-USA) booth, which was immediately adjacent to the Maus booth, activity was brisk throughout the event. Hundreds of metalcasters from dozens of countries around the world visited and, in several cases, consummated deals with Hunter, the global leader in matchplate molding systems and mold handling lines for green sand casting.
Working the booth were company president Bill Hunter, sales vp Kevin Purdy, sales manager Dean Martin and most of the global agent network Hunter, as well as representatives from the other manufacturing locations besides Chicago, namely, Brazil and China. As Purdy noted, "The strategy we've employed of manufacturing our machinery around the world, in key market areas for the foundry business, has proven both cost effective and customer-friendly." Hunter also partners with Space' and Versatile, all manufacturers of foundry equipment, in addition to Maus.
During the show, Hunter also inked deals for other representatives in the global foundry market. Details of these new arrangements will be forthcoming shortly, according to Hunter management.
Also a show highlight at the Hunter booth, they welcomed Ms. Janice Weiner, U.S. Consul General, along with Klaus Jonas, Communications Specialist for the U.S. Department of Commerce and representatives from the Messe Duesseldorf show management team, Eva Rowe and Ryan Klemm.
As announced at CastExpo 2010, just concluded in Orlando, Florida this week, Maus SpA (Padua, Italy) has signed an agreement with Hunter Automated Machinery Corporation (Schaumburg, Illinois) to represent the Maus line of grinding machines and related equipment to the foundry markets in the U.S., Canada and Australia, effective immediately.
This announcement was made by Maus CEO, Roberto Sammartin, and Hunter President, Bill Hunter.
Maus is a major supplier to the world foundry market of surface grinding and riser cutoff machinery, as well as automated work cells and complete transfer lines. The U.S. operation of Maus is based in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Hunter Automated Machinery is likewise a longtime leading supplier to the foundry market, having pioneered automated matchplate molding machinery for sand casters. Today, through various affiliate and representative agreements, Hunter also brings a broad line of automated mold handling, core resetters and sand prep testing equipment to foundries worldwide. Hunter operates facilities in the U.S., Brazil, China and Italy.
For Maus, Hunter will provide sales and service representation, as well as test cutting and machine utilization studies for metalcasters, with an initial Maus grinding machine from the industry standard-setting SAM line installed in the Hunter headquarters, near Chicago. Maus will continue to supply technical assistance and application engineering from its existing Virginia Beach tech center.


Books Boxes Bronzes, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin 2002.
We experience life awake or asleep. These Boxes Books Bronzes are 'Sleep Art': the dreamlike pictures of arbitrary color collections. Inside the body of the boxes, the bronze casts are about unaware dreamless sleep.
This installation, Boxes Books Bronzes, inside the dreamy vitrine world of the Chester Beatty Library during the winter months of 2003 preceded the exhibition of the wakeful Arbitrary Color Collections at ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst on the island of Ishøj, Copenhagen.
White ink on black board, 18″ x 15″, 2002.
The Puck, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 1980.
The inkwell and the nib.
Synchronised intermittantly to the stream of words from a tape loop, rectangles of light projected on the ceiling from the carousel beneath the floor of the gallery where the river Poddle flows. This babble of words, descriptive of ideas under the ground where the river Poddle flows. I was born at the junction where it enters the Camac river.
Graphite drawing for 'Puck', 17″ x 13″, 1980.
To create a work of art which involved various different ways of seeing, and ironically, ways of not seeing e.g. when viewing this flowing way of seeing one cold not simultaneously view the other painting etc. in their spacial ideas.
By placing things out of context, i.e. painting on the outside which would normally be inside and a butterfly, albeit a photograph, which is of the outside world, inside. Having words for the movement of a river from its source to its final entrance into the sea going from the top of a pillar down and the reverse also.
Blue Room, Orchard Gallery, Derry, 1980.
As you play them, on the blue guitar'.
— Wallace Stevens, The Man with the Blue Guitar, verse VI.
'The artist has merely to be more keenly aware than others of the harmony of the world, of the beauty and ugliness of the humab condition to it, to communicate this acutely to his fellow-man'.
— Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Prize Lectuure, 1970.
The room: between the main gallery and the 16th century city wall. The doorways: boarded up to make two pictorial 'portrait shaped' rectangles which could be used for entry and exit through the room. The room, painted blue inside, made a 'body' of blue light. The rectangle 'picturing' the City wall and the decaying yard illuminated by the sun opposes the other artificial and timeless space of art. The artificial light and the tape-looped sounds from my studio in Dublin superimposed acoustically over the room.
Three blue chairs in the room encourage rest and contemplation.
Indico, Triskel Art Centre, Cork, 1979.
Indico was made in the low ceiling granary in Cork. The deep wall and small aperture window, (suggestive of the 'given' condition of planar painting, i.e. the small rectangle on/in the 'ground' of a larger one) created a positive-negative-positive-negative dynamic.
The 'marvel' of this piece was the real 'view' of the city appearing; revealed as it were, by the box like painting which fitted exactly to the proportions of the hole in the wall, i.e. the window.
Cork (Indico), Triskel Art Centre, Granary Store, 1979, graphite wash.
Pillbox/Loophole: 'simple form/complex experience'. Based on the army 'pillboxes' around Belfast from where guns were aimed at the passer by.
These photographs were taken with a Zorki Russian camera while holding my breath for several seconds.
This gallery was fire-bombed shortly after the exhibition.
Graphite wash and photograph on Waterford paper, 32″ x 22″, 1979.
V.E.I.L., David Hendricks Gallery, Dublin, 1979.
V.E.I.L., two layers of polypropylene, wood, speakers, microphones at the David Hendricks Gallery, Dublin 1979.
Using a room with two doors and two windows, I inserted a wall of fabric in the middle, dividing it in two: one side dark and unlit, the other bright and lit. On the lighter side I built a wooden floor and placed microphones underneath it. The footsteps were played back from speakers in the dark side enhancing the reflexive feeling of one's presence.
I made this piece in relation to 'Folded/Unfolded', 1972, where the paint flows through the canvas weave. In this piece, I imagined the observer 'flowing' between the two sides of the plane itself.
Sketch for V.E.I.L., 1979, graphite wash on water color paper, 10″ x 8″.


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Asia Square Tower IMI Hydronic Engineering ensures optimal indoor climate for Singapore's Asia square tower
When MGPA wanted to increase HVAC efficiency systems to address stringent indoor climate and temperature requirements for the development's Tower 1, they set out to find a partner with the know-how and capability to enable precise temperature control with optimized efficiency. As such, IMI Hydronic Engineering proved to be the partner with the perfect solution.
The Asia Square Tower is a £633 million twin-tower, mixed-use development at Marina Bay, Singapore, one of the key financial centres in the region. It comprises a 305-room five-star Westin Singapore Marina Bay Hotel on the 32nd to 46th levels, 190,000m2 of Grade A office space and 5,600m2 of retail space.
With many mixed-use development buildings, it is essential that care is taken to balance out what can be differing indoor climate requirements between the hotel, retail and office spaces of the building while delivering excellent energy efficiency. At the same time, Singapore's equatorial marine climate meant that the comfort of the interior environment for residents, visitors and building employees was highly important.
A meeting between IMI Hydronic Engineering and consulting engineers AECOM and Meinhardt provided the company with an in-depth understanding of the customers' indoor climate and temperature objectives for the 43-storey Tower-1.
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IMI Hydronic Engineering began with a thorough analysis, measuring differential pressure, flow and temperature inside the chilled water system. IMI Hydronic Engineering' proven TA Select 4 hydronic calculation software was then used for hydronic calculation and component selection for a complete system solution in order to minimise energy use and provide accurate temperature control at individual room level.
Through a combination of high performance STAF and STAD balancing valves, STAP and DA516 differential pressure controllers, as well as pressurisation maintenance systems Compresso and Pleno, IMI Hydronic Engineering provided the ideal solution which delivered outstanding efficiency and increased indoor climate comfort.
Asia Square has achieved both the Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design Core & Shell (LEED-CS) Platinum certification by the US Green Building Council and Green Mark Platinum Award by the Building and Construction Authority of Singapore, making it one of Asia's greenest buildings.
With the indoor climate and temperature requirements of Tower 1 successfully met, hydronic distribution systems from IMI Hydronic Engineering have also been specified for the development's 46 storey Tower 2, which, to be completed in 2013, boasts a Westin hotel, 72,465m2 of Grade A office space and 3,717m2 of retail and F&B space.
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Gross area 246,700 m2
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Since perhaps the late 19th century, students at the University of Oregon have shared a weak joke: �Have you taken freshman math? Yes in Deady.� Clunk.
Recent controversies on campus could, mercifully, end this undergraduate witticism � that is, if Deady Hall (which houses the math department) and Dunn Hall, too, are renamed in deference to the humane values of the university. Both the joke and the honorific designation are, indeed, cringingly outdated.
�Yes indeedy� now produces an eye roll, but memorializing the names of Deady and Dunn on two UO buildings represents something more serious � a university endorsement of their lives and legacies. The names are an ongoing affront to those who reject their records of racist ideas and actions, which offend not merely those groups directly victimized by discrimination and violence (African-Americans, American Indians, Catholics and others), but all Oregonians committed to democracy, equality and opportunity.
As a historian who has taught at the UO for 27 years, I am particularly gratified by the new attention we are paying to our past and our recognition that history matters. Ironically, until recent events (inspired by the activism of African-American students) I suspect that few on campus would have been able to produce a single biographical fact about either Deady or Dunn.
But our current self-examination and efforts to create a campus that is just, inclusive and designed to promote the success of all students, faculty and staff has produced an unprecedented historical investigation. Professors Quintard Taylor, David Alan Johnson and Marsha Weisiger, in an impressive and definitive scholarly report commissioned by UO President Michael Schill, have illuminated the historical records of Deady and Dunn. We owe them a debt of gratitude. But now what do we do with this information?
Public memory is the collective sense of the past that matters to us all � it�s the history that ordinary people carry around with them, the big stories that we share that explain our world, help ground our collective identity, and offer guidance and shape our aspirations.
Public memory is less a matter of how the past determines the present than on how present concerns affect what we remember, how we remember it, how we value it and how we deploy its lessons in our lives.
Such �presentism� is not only unavoidable but essential, because the past itself is too vast to recreate in full and because our world changes and we must adjust to it.
The historical record shows that Judge Matthew Deady was a lifelong racist who supported the institution of slavery, staunchly advocated black exclusion from Oregon, and, though he accepted the logic and necessity of emancipation in the wake of the Civil War and followed the letter of the law as a judge, he never disavowed his racist views or worked publicly to promote racial equality. His efforts to dampen violence against Chinese denizens and Chinese-Americans are commendable; they complicate but do not ultimately redeem his historical reputation or his status as a fitting icon for Oregonians.
Deady Hall was built in 1876 but did not carry the Deady name until 1893, a decade of heightened ethnocentrism as native-born white Americans reacted fearfully to unprecedented urbanization, industrialization and new waves of immigration, and as the American South (with the complicity of the North) restored white supremacy based on Jim Crow. The timing of the so-called old building�s renaming was likely significant, as it is now.
Dunn Hall is one of several housing units within the Hamilton Complex, an undergraduate residence hall named for formerly illustrious (now obscure) UO faculty. Frederick Dunn, a UO classics professor in the early 20th century (and the exalted cyclops of the Eugene klavern of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s) was thus memorialized and celebrated posthumously beginning in 1962 when Hamilton opened.
In the tumultuous 1960s, Dunn�s racist record should already have disqualified him from such an honor, and presumably his obscurity from then until about 2015 explains his name�s endurance among the Hamilton residence units. Removing the name now would not challenge �history� or threaten sacred UO tradition.
The deletion of both names from university buildings need not be a �token gesture,� but could instead serve as a symbolic down payment for more consequential university actions. Plaques or displays reckoning with the likes of Deady and Dunn would be more, not less, effective adjuncts to buildings that proudly bear respectable names.
Allowing the names Deady and Dunn to persist is no longer tenable. And to do nothing is in fact to do something � something wrong � to act defiantly, in the face of clear historical evidence. It is to avow and acclaim nefarious ideas, actions and programs at odds with our university�s mission, against which some fought bravely in the 19th and 20th centuries, and which, indeedy, have no place in 21st-century Oregon or the United States.


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and those wonderful geeks from Penny Arcade Expo 2008 (PAX08) playing magic the gathering.
All of this has led to one course of action. To change in a bold way.
and that gave me a lovely view from seattle, 19 floors above the streets.
I think Seattle is a pretty nice place. There is lots of culture for sure… maybe too much? Only had internet for a moment, on my way to mount Rainier by way of an Oil Change!
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Heated Flax Pillow Massage is a type of thermal therapy bodywork in which the massage therapist works "through" heated flax pillows to achieve myofascial release and pain management. The massage generally includes gentle stretching, relaxing slow strokes, and deep compression. The heat exuded from the flax pillows allows the therapist to work deeper into the muscle tissue to decrease pain sensations to the brain, accelerate healing, support immune system health, improve mobility, flexibility, and comfort. Thermal therapy is typically used to assist with arthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic pain, computer strain, Fibromyalgia, frozen shoulder, headaches, hip and sciatica pain, low back pain, mid back and shoulder pain, shin splints, and more.
This massage is performed on a massage table with the guest fulling clothed, so it is also great for anyone who has limited mobility or modesty concerns. Please wear comfortable loose fitting or "yoga" type clothing.


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Denham Capital backs LatAm renewables via investment in Ceiba Energy
Solar park in Mexico. Author: Presidencia de la República Mexicana. License: Creative Commons, Attribution 2.0 Generic.
Private equity firm Denham Capital has committed to investing USD 250 million (EUR 224.7m) in Ceiba Energy, a Latin America-focused owner and developer of power generation assets, according to a joint statement on Monday.
The investment will support Ceiba's initiatives to develop, build and acquire renewable energy and low-carbon projects across Latin America, where its track record extends to over 50 power projects, the two companies said.
Targeting countries such as Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Chile, Panama, and Peru, Ceiba seeks markets with which its team is familiar with and are characterised by stable legal framework. It is committed to growing its operations through a combination of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and brownfield and greenfield development, according to the statement.
For its part, Denham expects to further grow its investment portfolio in Latin America and becoming a leading investor in local renewable and natural gas-fired power generation assets.
(USD 1.0 = EUR 0.90)
Ecopetrol unveils 26-MWp self-supply solar farm in Colombia
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Captivating location in the heart of Medina yet private setting makes Mallards Cove a grand choice for purchasing a condo! Ease of highway access makes commuting easy. Nearby you will find alluring Medina highlights such as Square South Street, the impressive Medina Square Courthouse and brilliant Medina Firehouse! The Square Gazebo is an attractive sight to see, especially during holidays when Medina goes to great lengths to decorate this fabulous town. With plenty around to explore and see, Mallards Cove caters to those looking for affordable yet luxury and maintenance free living. Why rent when you can own today! Call one of our Medina specialists today and find out more information!
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package ru.sash0k.bluetooth_terminal.activity;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.AlertDialog;
import android.bluetooth.BluetoothAdapter;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;

import ru.sash0k.bluetooth_terminal.R;
import ru.sash0k.bluetooth_terminal.Utils;

/**
 * Общий базовый класс. Инициализация BT-адаптера
 * Created by sash0k on 09.12.13.
 */
public abstract class BaseActivity extends Activity {

    // Intent request codes
    static final int REQUEST_CONNECT_DEVICE = 1;
    static final int REQUEST_ENABLE_BT = 2;

    // Message types sent from the DeviceConnector Handler
    public static final int MESSAGE_STATE_CHANGE = 1;
    public static final int MESSAGE_READ = 2;
    public static final int MESSAGE_WRITE = 3;
    public static final int MESSAGE_DEVICE_NAME = 4;
    public static final int MESSAGE_TOAST = 5;

    BluetoothAdapter btAdapter;

    private static final String SAVED_PENDING_REQUEST_ENABLE_BT = "PENDING_REQUEST_ENABLE_BT";
    // do not resend request to enable Bluetooth
    // if there is a request already in progress
    // See: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=24931#c1
    boolean pendingRequestEnableBt = false;
    // ==========================================================================

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle state) {
        super.onCreate(state);
        getActionBar().setHomeButtonEnabled(false);

        if (state != null) {
            pendingRequestEnableBt = state.getBoolean(SAVED_PENDING_REQUEST_ENABLE_BT);
        }
        btAdapter = BluetoothAdapter.getDefaultAdapter();
        if (btAdapter == null) {
            final String no_bluetooth = getString(R.string.no_bt_support);
            showAlertDialog(no_bluetooth);
            Utils.log(no_bluetooth);
        }
    }
    // ==========================================================================

    @Override
    public void onStart() {
        super.onStart();
        if (btAdapter == null) return;

        if (!btAdapter.isEnabled() && !pendingRequestEnableBt) {
            pendingRequestEnableBt = true;
            Intent enableIntent = new Intent(BluetoothAdapter.ACTION_REQUEST_ENABLE);
            startActivityForResult(enableIntent, REQUEST_ENABLE_BT);
        }
    }
    // ==========================================================================

    @Override
    public synchronized void onResume() {
        super.onResume();
    }
    // ==========================================================================

    @Override
    public synchronized void onPause() {
        super.onPause();
    }
    // ==========================================================================

    @Override
    protected void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) {
        super.onSaveInstanceState(outState);
        outState.putBoolean(SAVED_PENDING_REQUEST_ENABLE_BT, pendingRequestEnableBt);
    }
    // ==========================================================================

    /**
     * Проверка адаптера
     *
     * @return - true, если готов к работе
     */
    boolean isAdapterReady() {
        return (btAdapter != null) && (btAdapter.isEnabled());
    }
    // ==========================================================================

    /**
     * Показывает диалоговое окно с предупреждением.
     * TODO: При переконфигурациях будет теряться
     *
     * @param message - сообщение
     */
    void showAlertDialog(String message) {
        AlertDialog.Builder alertDialogBuilder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
        alertDialogBuilder.setTitle(getString(R.string.app_name));
        alertDialogBuilder.setMessage(message);
        AlertDialog alertDialog = alertDialogBuilder.create();
        alertDialog.show();
    }
    // ==========================================================================
}

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 * GET home page.
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var temp_model = require('../models/temp_model');

exports.index = function(req, res){
	temp_model.getAllValues(function(err, data){
		console.log(data);
		res.render('index', {
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USCIS and the Department of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Department of State, has added the Czech Republic, Denmark, Madagascar, Portugal, and Sweden to the list of countries whose nationals are eligible to participate in the H-2A and H-2B Visa programs for the coming year. The notice listing the 68 eligible countries published on Dec. 16, 2014 in the Federal Register.
The H-2A and H-2B Visa programs allow U.S. employers to bring foreign nationals to the United States to fill temporary agricultural and nonagricultural jobs, respectively. USCIS only approves H-2A and H-2B petitions for nationals of countries the Secretary of Homeland Security has designated as eligible to participate in the programs. USCIS may approve H-2A and H-2B petitions for nationals of countries not on the list if it is determined to be in the interest of the United States.
USCIS Approves 10,000 U Visas for 6th Straight Fiscal Year
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has approved the statutory maximum of 10,000 petitions for U-1 nonimmigrant status (U visas) for fiscal year 2015. This marks the sixth straight year that USCIS has reached the statutory maximum since it began issuing U visas in 2008.
Each year, 10,000 U visas are available for victims of certain qualifying crimes who have suffered substantial mental or physical abuse and are willing to help law enforcement authorities investigate or prosecute those crimes. A U visa petition requires certification that the victim has been helpful to law enforcement.
Although USCIS has reached the statutory cap of 10,000 U visas, it will continue to review pending petitions for eligibility. For eligible petitioners who cannot be granted a U-1 visas solely because of the cap, USCIS will send a letter notifying them that they are on a waiting list to receive a U visa when visas become available again. The letter will also inform the petitioners of options available to them while they are on the waiting list. Petitioners and qualifying family members must continue to meet eligibility requirements at the time the U visa is issued.
USCIS will resume issuing U visas on Oct. 1, 2015, the first day of fiscal year 2016, when visas become available again.
Congress created the U visa program to strengthen the law enforcement community's ability to investigate and prosecute cases of domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, and other crimes, while also offering protection to victims. More than 116,471 victims and their family members have received U visas since the program began in 2008.
Executive Action on Immigration
On November 20, 2014, the President announced a series of executive actions to crack down on illegal immigration at the border, prioritize deporting felons not families, and require certain undocumented immigrants to pass a criminal background check and pay taxes in order to temporarily stay in the U.S. without fear of deportation.
These initiatives include:
– Expanding the population eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to young people who came to this country before turning 16 years old and have been present since January 1, 2010, and extending the period of DACA and work authorization from two years to three years
– Allowing parents of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents who have been present in the country since January 1, 2010, to request deferred action and employment authorization for three years, in a new Deferred Action for Parental Accountability program, provided they pass required background checks
– Expanding the use of provisional waivers of unlawful presence to include the spouses and sons and daughters of lawful permanent residents and the sons and daughters of U.S. citizens
USCIS and other agencies and offices are responsible for implementing these initiatives as soon as possible. Some initiatives will be implemented over the next several months and some will take longer.
Over the coming months, USCIS will produce detailed explanations, instructions, regulations and forms as necessary. While USCIS is not accepting requests or applications at this time, if you believe you may be eligible for one of the initiatives listed above, you can prepare by gathering documents that establish factors such as your:
– Identity;
– Relationship to a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident; and
– Continuous residence in the United States over the last five years or more.
For more information, contact us at 978-905-9992.
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Can Compression Stockings Enhance Your Leg Health?
The answer to this question is absolutely! But only in a limited manner and only while you are wearing them. However, before we explore how and why this is the case we must first explore the underlying issues associated with venous insufficiency or venous reflux disease.
Venous reflux is often caused by the reduced ability of the veins to move blood back toward the heart. Veins have valves that keep blood moving in one direction back towards the heart. Problems begin to occur when a valve no longer works properly. This allows blood to flow backward in the vein. The backup of blood results in higher pressure in the veins below.
This high pressure may strain the wall of the veins, causing them to enlarge. The high pressure causes more valves to fail with time. The enlarged veins also make the valves below function less efficiently. This results in the varicose veins getting larger or the development of new varicose veins.
Other signs include swollen ankles and leg discomfort from standing or sitting for long periods of time. This slows the flow of blood, reduces the amount of oxygen supplied to the legs and allows fluid to accumulate. Over a period a time in more severe cases, skin discoloration or venous ulcers can occur in the ankle area.
Compression therapy, when applied in a gradient manner, counters the high pressures that can develop in the legs. Gradient compression socks or stockings help improve the blood flow by compressing the veins and making the valves in the veins work more efficiently.
This is done by delivering the highest level of compression at the ankle and gently decreasing this pressure up the leg. Improving blood flow helps the wearer experience immediate relief from tired, aching legs.
Gradient compression leg wear is available in different compression levels to meet the therapy needs of the wearer. Men and women who suffer from chronic venous disease should consult a physician to determine the compression level that is most appropriate for their needs.
Maintaining leg health is a life long activity. The regular use of compression garments helps to counter the damaging effects of high pressure in the veins. It also helps improve circulation. Taking steps to improve blood flow helps reduce the chances of developing chronic venous disease and helps manage varicose veins.
If wearing the compression stockings are merely controlling your symptoms and these symptoms reoccur once the stockings are removed, then you should visit a vein specialist for a more permanent solution to your vein issues.