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STEAM Ambassadors Meld Art, Science for Community Children
CSUSM students and STEAM ambassadors Tarah Durham (left) and Leah Amparan hand out arts kits as part of a free distribution event last month. Photo by Andrew Reed
For two hours on a Saturday morning in mid-October, cars streamed on to a Cal State San Marcos campus that has been eerily quiet for months because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The cars were filled with parents, with schoolchildren, with teachers. One by one, they pulled into Craven Circle, stopped in front of stations that had been set up for the occasion and picked up brown paper bags that didn't contain food but, in the words of one participant, might as well have been Happy Meals for the joy they delivered.
The bags were art kits packed with materials and projects to help kids, many of them from underserved schools, get the art fix that largely has vanished from their lives in this new world of remote education. During the two-hour period, about 500 kits were handed out to people from the community at no charge.
"The kids were so excited. The parents were so grateful," said Christiane Wood, a CSUSM literacy education professor, who took part in the distribution. "And the teachers, there were several who told me, 'You have no idea, learning in this virtual environment is so hard. This is such a wonderful thing you're doing.' "
The art kit distribution served as the kickoff event for a new program at CSUSM called STEAM Ambassadors. STEAM is the common educational acronym STEM – science, technology, engineering and math – sandwiched around the word "art," and the term has gained currency in recent years as research accumulates on the importance of integrating art into the highly popular STEM disciplines.
The STEAM ambassadors are a group of seven students – five of them are pursuing their teaching credential in the School of Education, two are undergraduate arts and science students – who are working to implement STEAM curriculum in local K-12 schools under the direction of Lucy HG Solomon, a professor of art, media and design.
"Through this project, we are trying to encourage students to see themselves as both a scientist and an artist," said Leah Amparan, who graduated from CSUSM in the spring with a bachelor's degree in liberal studies and is now in the multiple subject credential cohort. "Being a STEAM ambassador is a great way to connect with other like-minded people and be able to share our knowledge and love for the arts and sciences with other students."
The art kit distribution was organized, in part, by School of Arts professor Merryl Goldberg (left) and School of Education professor Christiane Wood. Photo by Andrew Reed
The genesis of the STEAM initiative was last spring, when music professor Merryl Goldberg decided to let several of her students become arts ambassadors as part of an independent study assignment through her Art=Opportunity program. Embedded at the Vista Academy of Visual & Performing Arts, the students would report to the school one day a week and either assist teachers with their art classes or teach a lesson on their own.
When COVID-19 shut down the school in March, the arts ambassadors shifted online, creating a public Facebook group dedicated to sharing art for students and their families. Every week or two, they would post a new challenge topic and select an artist to showcase on the Art=Opportunity website.
Around the same time, in May, the Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation out of San Francisco awarded Goldberg a $25,000 grant to expand the fledgling program and incorporate science into the curriculum. Thus did the arts ambassadors morph into STEAM ambassadors.
"There are a lot of folks who believe that the arts are fluff," Goldberg said. "But the research clearly shows the importance of arts in terms of creating empathy, imaginative thinkers, people who work well with each other, people who can solve problems. The arts give students those skills, and we want parents to understand that this is a pathway, this is a career, this is a lifelong marker that's going to help their kids."
While the STEAM ambassadors were devising social media challenges last spring, Goldberg and Wood – who facilitates professional development for Art=Opportunity – began to brainstorm other ways they could help the local community amid the pandemic. They eventually partnered with the New Children's Museum in San Diego on the art kit concept, borrowing lesson plans from the museum and enlisting the STEAM ambassadors to build the science component.
Solomon came on board in the fall as the faculty coordinator, and she oversaw the process of the students turning nascent thoughts into reality in a matter of weeks.
"They are this lightning storm of ideas," Solomon said. "You can see how they cross-pollinate with one another when they're trying to come up with ways to allow kids to access their own creativity and confidence in art and science."
As an example, one of the projects in the art kit involves making a butterfly out of household materials. Grafting a science element on to that, the STEAM ambassadors came up with information and a series of activities about pollinators and habitats, including in the bag seeds of wildflowers and milkweed. And in a sign of how sustainability is foundational to CSUSM's mission, the students even made a bookmark with instructions for how to craft an origami bat (which is also a pollinator) out of the paper bag itself.
"The students are so creative, imaginative, dedicated and invested in what they do," Goldberg said. "For the ones who want to become teachers, I think they're going to be the best teachers ever."
The STEAM ambassadors are hoping to assemble and distribute a second art kit during the spring semester, and they're also developing art and science curriculum materials that they can test out in local schools, either in person or virtually.
It's just the sort of specialized instruction that Tarah Durham didn't receive while she was growing up in Murrieta. The CSUSM teaching credential student says she wasn't really exposed to the arts until high school, when she took a dance elective that greatly helped her to express some of the emotions she was feeling.
Now she's a STEAM ambassador, imparting to young students knowledge and experiences that she wishes had been a part of her childhood.
"So many students are taught to shy away from STEAM, but we know that teaching it can help students understand themselves and others more," Durham said. "It can help them find passions and make school more enjoyable."
STEAM Ambassadors
These are the seven CSUSM students who are representing the university this school year as part of the STEAM Ambassadors program.
Leah Amparan, School of Education teaching credential student
Amy Brunolli, School of Education teaching credential student
Tarah Durham, School of Education teaching credential student
Kodie Gerritsen, Art, Media and Design major
Nancy Meza, School of Education teaching credential student
Raelene Pellos, physics major
Gianina Provencio, School of Education teaching credential student
About 500 art kits were handed out to members of the local community. Photo by Andrew Reed
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Озеро Могильне () — озеро на острові Кільдін, розташованому неподалік від Кольського півострова, Мурманської області. Його максимальна глибина — 16-17 метрів, площа — близько 100 000 м², максимальна довжина озера 562 метри, максимальна ширина — 275 м. Від Баренцевого моря озеро відділене природною дамбою, що складається з гальки, гравію, піску і валунів. Утворилася ця перемичка в IX—XI ст. до н. е., а вік сучасного озера дорівнює приблизно 1000 років. Ширина дамби-перемички не перевищує 70 метрів, а її висота трохи менше 6 метрів. Дамба водопроникна — через неї в озеро надходить солона вода з моря, але як не дивно — рівень води в озері на 30-45 см вище, ніж в морі.

Але надходить у Могильне і прісна вода — опади, талі і ґрунтові води. Здавалося б, при такому розкладі озеро повинно бути слабосоленим, непридатним для життя ні морських видів, ні прісноводних. Але все не так просто. Солона і прісна вода в ньому не змішуються, а знаходяться у певній рівновазі. Є в озері ще два шари, які відокремлені один від одного.

Кілька придонних метрів озера — не вода, а мул. Гниюча органіка настільки багата сірководнем, що в ній не живе тільки декілька видів бактерій. Наступний шар утворений сіркобактеріями. Вони активно поглинають сірководень і не дають поширитися смертоносному газу у всій товщі води. Бактерії (їх там не менше трьох видів) забарвлені. Тому шар, утворений ними, має ніжний рожевий відтінок. Над рожевим шаром — морська вода. У ній мешкають, природно, морські організми, в основному, це полярні медузи, морські зірки і рачки, а також різновид морської тріски, яка розвинулася в цих дивовижних умовах і відрізняється від своїх родичів, що живуть в «нормальному» середовищі. Найвищий шар товщиною близько 5 метрів — прісний. Вода в ньому прозоро-зелена. Тут живе 13 видів прісноводних коловерток, 21 вид рачків і деякі інші дрібні тварини.

Реліктове озеро відоме ще з XVI століття, а активно вивчати його почали в 1804 році. Але до цих пір багато загадок Могильного не піддаються вирішенню. Зараз озеро вважається пам'ятником природи федерального значення, але фахівці з WWF б'ють на сполох — в Могильне досі скидаються промислові відходи, охоронних заходів не проводиться, на берегах озера процвітає браконьєрство.

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Range Distance Requirements for Large Antenna Measurements for Linear Aperture with Uniform Field Distribution
Sergey P. Skulkin,
Dr. Sergey P. Skulkin
National Research University
Victor I. Turchin,
Dr. Victor I. Turchin
Institut of Applied Physics RAS
Nikolay I. Kascheev
Dr. Nikolay I. Kascheev
Gain reduction on measurement of distance and on sizes of test and probe antennas are discussed. We consider only the case of linear antenna with uniform field distribution. The analysis is based on time-domain (TD) physical optics (PO) method of field calculation [1]. We show that in determining the level of the side lobe there are two competing effects: (i) the decrease in the amplitude of the signal in the direction of the side lobe and (ii) reducing the maximum signal level in the direction of zero-angle. We show the optimal measurement distance with respect to the acceptable small errors of antenna gain. It is shown that optimal relation β=b/a is about ~0.4 (a and b are the sizes of the antenna under test and the probe antenna). For this optimal relation, the well-known far-field distance criterion R0=2D2/λ can be reduced by 2 times (D is the diameters of the antenna under test and λ is wavelength). Note that when b is optimal, the errors in determining of the sidelobe levels are also small and do not exceed 0.5 dB.
Sergey P. Skulkin Victor I. Turchin Nikolay I. Kascheev , "Range Distance Requirements for Large Antenna Measurements for Linear Aperture with Uniform Field Distribution," Progress In Electromagnetics Research M, Vol. 48, 87-94, 2016.
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Jan Pospieszalski: "PiS' behaviour in the face of the pandemic weakens the government's electoral base"
Poland – Interview with Polish conservative journalist Jan Pospieszalski: "There is a healthy minority in the Polish parliament that has been able to effectively block segregationist laws while mocking them and showing the absurdity of the proposed solutions."
Jan Pospieszalski is a well-known television journalist in Poland, but his weekly show was suppressed by public television last April because of its editorial line, which was considered too critical of the Morawiecki government's policy against the Covid pandemic.
Olivier Bault spoke with him on 2 February, the day after the Sejm voted against a bill supported by a group of Law and Justice (PiS) deputies and the Morawiecki government to make weekly Covid-19 tests mandatory for all employees in companies.
Olivier Bault: Do you think that Poland is heading towards the introduction of a vaccine pass like in France or Italy?
Jan Pospieszalski: I don't think so. When I see what happened to the segregation laws and then to the proposed "whistleblower" law that aimed to force all employees of companies to test themselves weekly, I am hopeful that we are not. All these bills have been abandoned or struck down, one after the other. Fortunately, there is a healthy minority in the Polish parliament that has been able to effectively block segregationist laws while mocking them and showing the absurdity of the proposed solutions. I therefore hope that any ideas that go even further in restricting our freedoms and inalienable civil rights will share the fate of the previous ones. I think that the climate in Poland today is not conducive to the introduction of Covid passports or any other type of vaccination certificate. That said, the vaccination mandate for certain professions is a cause for real concern.
Olivier Bault: You are talking about the bills that have been pushed, fortunately with no success, by the government and some PiS MPs. The Sejm has just rejected this new draft law which was to make weekly testing mandatory in companies. It provided that an employee who became ill with Covid-19 could claim compensation from any other employee in his or her company who had come to work without a negative test. Moreover, it was the voivode, that is, the government's representative in the province, or voivodship, who was supposed to decide on the damages payable by an employee without a negative test to the one who got infected. On the day the bill was discussed, a demonstration took place in front of the Sejm. You participated in it. What was the prevailing mood among the demonstrators?
Jan Pospieszalski: I was there, indeed. Despite the unfavourable weather, there were over a thousand people. We were standing tightly packed, as the police cordon was constantly pushing us back on the narrow sidewalk in front of the Sejm building. The mood was serious, and at the same time very combative. There were MPs from Konfederacja [an alliance of nationalists and libertarians, with 11 deputies in the Sejm, ed.] and representatives of various freedom-loving groups. We had a sense of unity, as there were voters from Konfederacja and voters with Catholic-patriotic sensibilities. I was very moved by the speech of a representative of the movement "We defend the Polish uniform". This young soldier, speaking on behalf of the police and uniformed services, made an impassioned plea for support for soldiers who do not want to take the vaccine product and who are now being discriminated against.
Olivier Bault: What about the self-proclaimed defenders of democracy who demonstrated in the streets during the first years of the PiS governments? Were they not there with you to defend our freedoms?
Jan Pospieszalski: It is indeed paradoxical: the movement that claimed to defend our Constitution and the rule of law in Poland has disappeared while the law and individual freedoms are being so obviously violated today. There were no women shouting "my body, my choice" either. Just over a year ago, they were able to mobilise thousands of demonstrators under this slogan.
Olivier Bault: With its rhetoric blaming unvaccinated people for each new wave of the pandemic, isn't PiS partly attacking its own voters? The highest proportion of non-vaccinated people is in the eastern voivodships, where PiS gets the most votes in elections.
Jan Pospieszalski: Yes, it is a bit of a paradox. In my opinion, PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński's usual survival instinct is failing him in this case. It appears that this man, who seemed to understand and feel society's mood so well, has become a member of the Warsaw intelligentsia who no longer understands much, as he stands against the circles that led him to electoral victory in 2015. For it was precisely the electorate of national Poland, of Catholic Poland, of Poland's small towns and villages, of conservative and traditional Poland that ensured the victory of Jarosław Kaczyński's party. Today, these regions – the Lublin and Kielce regions, but especially the Lower Carpathian and Lesser Poland voivodships – have the lowest percentage of vaccinated people and, looking at the infection statistics, this is also where you have the lowest number of infected people. This shows that the popular wisdom that made them reluctant to take the vaccine has had a positive effect. This may be one of the reasons why the epidemiological threat is lowest in these areas.
PiS has lost its ability to listen to society, which used to give it a good feel for the electorate's mood. In the last two years, since the announcement of the pandemic, something strange has been happening with this party, and it is difficult to understand. What it is doing is certainly counterproductive and greatly weakens the current government's electoral base.
Olivier Bault: Nationally, just over half of Poles have chosen to receive the Covid-19 vaccine, which is significantly less than in most European countries. Why is there so much resistance to this vaccine in Polish society? This phenomenon is also visible in other societies in Europe, but it is not as pronounced in most cases.
Jan Pospieszalski: I must say that I have not analysed this in detail and it is difficult for me to answer this question. Perhaps it is because of a spirit of contradiction or a feeling of freedom. There have also been concerns about the ethical aspect of how these vaccines have been developed. The knowledge that they are produced from cell lines derived from abortions has weighed heavily in the decision of many Poles. On top of that, there is a kind of mistrust. At first we saw this pandemic as something terrible, but after only a few weeks it became clear that the radical restrictions introduced by the government were disproportionate to the real threat. There were not many deaths, people were getting the disease, but it was usually mild. More and more people rubbed their eyes in amazement at how we had allowed ourselves to be subjected to harsh discipline and restrictions that soon proved to be absurd.
We came to realise the inadequacy of this entire narrative based on four principles: first, Covid is a deadly disease and there is no cure; second, the disease is determined by the PCR test, not by symptoms; third, the only way to defeat the pandemic is through non-pharmaceutical means such as physical distancing, masks, disinfection, and lockdowns; fourth, vaccines will be our salvation. Each of these dogmas appeared to be less and less true. It seems to me that the Poles are acting with common sense and in a less ideologised way.
Moreover, we should not forget that there are still many people who remember communism and remember the narrative served by a totalitarian state, the false propaganda based on fear, on dividing people, on turning people against one another.
Because of this, in Poland a number of people have maintained a common-sense approach to the media. We have this experience of totalitarian communism behind us, many remember it and are more sceptical of what the government and the media say. When the myths fell one after the other, when the dogmas were proven false, I think a large group of people came to the conclusion that since we had been deceived, since the government had said false or absurd things on so many subjects, they might not be right about vaccination either.
What is dramatic is the price that the Polish people has paid for these experiments. I am referring to the considerable number of excess deaths. This issue weighs heavily on the government camp.
Olivier Bault: Why have there been so many excess deaths, in your opinion?
Jan Pospieszalski: It is not in my opinion. We have unequivocal calculations on this subject. We have the statistical data compiled by Marek Sobolewski, from Rzeszów University of Technology, as well as two reports by Dr Pawel Basiukiewicz, head of the Covid Department at the Grodzisk Mazowiecki Hospital. They are specialists in the analysis of medical data obtained from official sources such as the Central Statistical Office (GUS) or the Ministry of Health.
The degree of disorganisation of health services and primary care, based on the fundamentally false assumption that the greatest danger to a physician is that a patient may be ill and therefore must be isolated and diagnosed by telephone, is totally unacceptable. People have observed this, they have experienced the inconveniences associated with this mode of operation. I am talking about the closure of medical centres, telephone consultations, the closure of hospital services to prepare them to receive the huge wave of people sick from Covid that never happened. Hospitals were indeed flooded with a wave of patients, but this happened later as a result of the disorganisation and chaos in the health services. The quarantine and self-isolation imposed on people were particularly difficult to live with. All it took was having got close to a person who was not even necessarily infected, but who had a positive PCR test result, and suddenly several people, for example a doctor, nurses, etc., were sent to forced isolation. Healthy people were confined to their homes for many days. And this is still the case today. Today, in Poland, about one million healthy people are locked up in their homes.
This chaos, combined with the telediagnosis system and the assumption that Covid is not treatable, that one must wait for eventual recovery or worsening of the disease and only take fever-reducing drugs, has had disastrous results. People who were really sick with Covid symptoms were not treated, they were not examined by doctors, and they were not prescribed an X-ray or a CT scan. For the patients who were then taken by ambulance to pneumology wards, there was often nothing left to do. They were placed on ventilators, and only a small portion of them survived this medical procedure.
As a journalist featuring on television shows, I have asked many questions myself. For example, in October 2020, six months after the pandemic was declared, I asked Professor Robert Gil, chairman of the Polish Society of Cardiology, how many surgical operations his hospital had performed in the whole of 2019, and he replied: "Over three thousand". "And how many have you done this year?" And he said to me: "a little over six hundred". So I asked him: "Well, in that case, where are the other patients? Have they suddenly and miraculously regained their health? Where are the people who used to come for heart attacks, for bypasses, for stents, for major cardio-surgery?" Professor Gil replied in desperation: "I don't know where these patients are."
Unfortunately, we now know that many of them are in the cemetery.
This shows the degree of disorganisation of specialised medical care. In October 2020, I spoke on my show with the national consultant for clinical oncology in Poland, Professor Maciej Krzakowski. He, too, warned that such a drastic reduction of tens of percent in the number of oncological operations was bound to result in a massive number of deaths. And that is what has happened. In the whole of 2020 in Poland, 75,000 more people died than in previous years. The average annual number of deaths between 2017 and 2019 was about 410,000. In 2020, there were 480,000. Of these excess deaths, only 26,000 were Covid-related (patients who died from Covid or died with Covid). The others died for other reasons, such as being taken to the hospital too late after an accident. I personally know the story of a motorcyclist who, after a serious road accident, was taken to a hospital that turned out to be for Covid patients only. He was transported 30 kilometres to another hospital, but he did not survive the trip.
Many people have died before they could even get help. Unfortunately, to date, I do not see any particular reflection on the part of the Ministry of Health or the people responsible for this chaos and disorganisation of health care in Poland, which would lead them to beat their chests and acknowledge: "We have made a mistake." They continue to impose these idiotic isolations, quarantines, etc.
Olivier Bault: Your long-running and very popular talk show was pulled from public television in April of last year for criticising the government's policy on the Covid-19 pandemic. To date, it has still not been allowed back on the air. Is this censorship?
Jan Pospieszalski: It cannot be called otherwise, especially since it is not an isolated case where a journalist's programme is terminated because he or she does not want to follow the only correct editorial line, the one imposed from above. I tried to be honest with our viewers and true to the mission of journalism, which is to seek to know the world better and to be the voice of the unheard. After those first shows, when people saw that I was saying something a little different from the government propaganda, I gained the trust of a lot of people and they wrote to us. When I was thrown out, everyone knew that it was not because I had made a terrible mistake or broken any ethical rules, but because I had given a voice to those doctors, experts and scientists who had been silenced until then. These were specialists who looked at Covid realistically, who questioned the dogma and challenged the fact that Covid could not be treated, precisely because they were treating it themselves. There are antiviral drugs that are effective if given in the early phase of the disease to block the development of the virus. And in case of additional intervention by a doctor, examining and auscultating the patient and administering an antibiotic if necessary, it turned out that Covid wasn't so bad. These doctors talked about it on my shows. They also questioned the second dogma, that only PCR tests can determine who is ill and who is not. For them, diagnosis based on symptoms was more important.
Olivier Bault: TVP management criticised your show for being biased because there were no voices in favour of the government's policy in this area. But you recently leaked text messages in which the head of the Prime Minister's medical council refused to participate because he "does not want to discuss with the proponents of the flat earth theory (even if they are right)". So it was the government that did not want to participate in an honest discussion on television?
Jan Pospieszalski: Yes, this incident illustrates their attitude very well. And it was not just anyone, because it was the chief advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland, Professor Horban. He was talking about the doctor who first announced that he had an effective drug, amantadine hydrochloride, which gives very good results if given in the early phase of the infection. This was said by Dr Włodzimierz Bodnar. When Professor Andrzej Horban learned that Dr Bodnar would be present, he reacted by saying that he "does not want to discuss with the proponents of the flat earth theory", "even if they are right". So he actually acknowledged that Dr Bodnar was right.
By their attitude, those people have proven that their goal is not to care for patients. This is a very serious accusation, but I have irrefutable evidence. One of the pieces of evidence, indirectly, is this text message, but there are other statements and documents that show that what these people wanted was not to care for the patients.
Olivier Bault: So what is it they wanted?
Jan Pospieszalski: I have no idea. That as many people as possible became infected so that vaccines could be sold? I don't know, this is pure speculation. One can only assume that the huge profits of pharmaceutical companies may be one of the reasons. Health Minister Adam Niedzielski himself said it very well in an interview with the weekly magazine Wprost on 5 September last year: we have to be careful about the third dose, because we do not know whether it is in the interest of the patients or the pharmaceutical companies.
In my opinion, this conflict-of-interest element and the contacts of those who decided on the Polish policy against the pandemic should be closely examined. What were their real relationships with the pharmaceutical companies and why was this vaccination policy adopted in such a reckless manner, while rejecting all treatments? The other problem, and I have checked this myself, is that of the 17 members of the Prime Minister's Medical Council, there were no pulmonologists and no cardiologists. Most were virologists and infectious disease specialists. The Medical Council, which was suddenly created and worked alongside the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, thus acquiring enormous influence on Poland's social, economic and epidemiological policies, was first of all incompetent because essential medical specialties were not represented in it, and secondly it acquired enormous influence on our lives, closing and opening stores, closing churches, restricting cultural life, demolishing health care, and destroying education by imposing remote learning on children. And since these people have been given such enormous powers, it would be appropriate to check who they are and also whether and how they may have contacts with interest groups or with the services of other countries, and so on.
Olivier Bault: However, if we look back, compared to other European countries, Poland is one of the countries where civil liberties have been least restricted and where the economy has suffered the least. Perhaps these poorly crafted bills proposed by the Law and Justice party are intended to keep the liberal and left-wing opposition busy, as it is lobbying very hard for the introduction of full health segregation and lockdowns with each new wave?
Jan Pospieszalski: I appreciate that. I have had conversations with German friends who have told me how the restrictions have awakened an inner policeman in people.
People watch and discipline each other, and this is particularly visible in Germany. In this context, Poland appears to be an oasis of freedom, but there are reasons for this. The involvement of people, the commitment of various freedom-loving circles, the awakening of the Poles' instinct to revolt and also the enormous heroic activity of those independent doctors who have been prosecuted, brought before the chambers of the medical association, who are subject to disciplinary proceedings, all this has given wings to all those who love freedom and are attached to patriotic and republican traditions.
And that is positive. What lie ahead, however, are the delayed consequences of the pandemic. Even assuming that the restrictions are lifted and that infections start being treated from the start and not just on ventilators, the consequences ahead will remain enormous, if only because of the lost school years for children who have been forced to stay at home sitting in front of computers.
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Olivier Bault
Olivier Bault is a Frenchman who has been living in Poland since the early 1990s. He is the Warsaw correspondent of both the Visegrád Post and the French daily newspaper Présent. As an independent journalist following Polish and European current affairs, he also writes for the Polish weekly Do Rzeczy and for Remix News.
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package compute;

/* A sample script showing how to handle default values when communicating
   with the Compute Engine API. */

// [START compute_usage_report_set]
// [START compute_usage_report_get]
// [START compute_usage_report_disable]

import com.google.api.gax.longrunning.OperationFuture;
import com.google.cloud.compute.v1.Operation;
import com.google.cloud.compute.v1.Project;
import com.google.cloud.compute.v1.ProjectsClient;
import com.google.cloud.compute.v1.SetUsageExportBucketProjectRequest;
import com.google.cloud.compute.v1.UsageExportLocation;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException;

// [END compute_usage_report_disable]
// [END compute_usage_report_get]
// [END compute_usage_report_set]

public class SetUsageExportBucket {

  public static void main(String[] args)
      throws IOException, InterruptedException, ExecutionException, TimeoutException {
    // TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.
    // TODO(developer): Create a Google Cloud Storage bucket.
    // bucketName: Cloud Storage Bucket used to store Compute Engine usage reports.
    // An existing Google Cloud Storage bucket is required.
    String project = "your-project-id";
    String bucketName = "your-bucket-name";
    String reportNamePrefix = "custom-report-name";
    setUsageExportBucket(project, bucketName, reportNamePrefix);
    getUsageExportBucket(project);
    disableUsageExportBucket(project);
  }

  // [START compute_usage_report_set]

  // Set Compute Engine usage export bucket for the Cloud project.
  // This sample presents how to interpret the default value for the report name prefix parameter.
  public static void setUsageExportBucket(String project, String bucketName,
      String reportNamePrefix)
      throws IOException, InterruptedException, ExecutionException, TimeoutException {

    // bucketName: Cloud Storage Bucket used to store Compute Engine usage reports.
    // An existing Google Cloud Storage bucket is required.
    // reportNamePrefix: Prefix of the name of the usage report that would
    // store Google Compute Engine data.
    try (ProjectsClient projectsClient = ProjectsClient.create()) {

      // Initialize UsageExportLocation object with provided bucket name and report name prefix.
      UsageExportLocation usageExportLocation = UsageExportLocation.newBuilder()
          .setBucketName(bucketName)
          .setReportNamePrefix(reportNamePrefix).build();

      if (reportNamePrefix.length() == 0) {
        // Sending an empty value for reportNamePrefix results in the
        // next usage report being generated with the default prefix value "usage_gce".
        // (see,
        // https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/projects/setUsageExportBucket)
        System.out.println("Setting reportNamePrefix to empty value causes the "
            + "report to have the default value of `usage_gce`.");
      }

      // Set the usage export location.
      OperationFuture<Operation, Operation> operation = projectsClient
          .setUsageExportBucketAsync(SetUsageExportBucketProjectRequest.newBuilder()
              .setProject(project)
              .setUsageExportLocationResource(usageExportLocation)
              .build());

      // Wait for the operation to complete.
      Operation response = operation.get(3, TimeUnit.MINUTES);

      if (response.hasError()) {
        System.out.println("Setting usage export bucket failed ! ! " + response);
        return;
      }
      System.out.println("Operation Status: " + response.getStatus());
    }
  }
  // [END compute_usage_report_set]

  // [START compute_usage_report_get]

  // Retrieve Compute Engine usage export bucket for the Cloud project.
  // Replaces the empty value returned by the API with the default value used
  // to generate report file names.
  public static UsageExportLocation getUsageExportBucket(String project) throws IOException {

    try (ProjectsClient projectsClient = ProjectsClient.create()) {
      // Get the usage export location for the project from the server.
      Project projectResponse = projectsClient.get(project);

      // Replace the empty value returned by the API with the default value
      // used to generate report file names.
      if (projectResponse.hasUsageExportLocation()) {
        UsageExportLocation usageExportLocation = projectResponse.getUsageExportLocation();

        // Verify that the server explicitly sent the optional field.
        if (usageExportLocation.hasReportNamePrefix()) {
          String reportNamePrefix = usageExportLocation.getReportNamePrefix();

          if (reportNamePrefix.length() == 0) {
            // Although the server explicitly sent the empty string value,
            // the next usage report generated with these settings still has the default
            // prefix value "usage_gce".
            // (see, https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/projects/get)
            reportNamePrefix = "usage_gce";
            System.out.println(
                "Report name prefix not set, replacing with default value of `usage_gce`.");
          }
        }
        return usageExportLocation;
      } else {
        // The usage reports are disabled.
        return null;
      }
    }
  }
  // [END compute_usage_report_get]

  // [START compute_usage_report_disable]

  // Disable Compute Engine usage export bucket for the Cloud project.
  public static boolean disableUsageExportBucket(String project)
      throws IOException, InterruptedException, ExecutionException, TimeoutException {

    try (ProjectsClient projectsClient = ProjectsClient.create()) {

      // Initialize UsageExportLocation object with empty builder to disable usage reports.
      UsageExportLocation usageExportLocation = UsageExportLocation.newBuilder().build();

      // Disable the usage export location.
      OperationFuture<Operation, Operation> operation = projectsClient
          .setUsageExportBucketAsync(SetUsageExportBucketProjectRequest.newBuilder()
              .setProject(project)
              .setUsageExportLocationResource(usageExportLocation)
              .build());

      // Wait for the operation to complete.
      Operation response = operation.get(3, TimeUnit.MINUTES);
      ;

      if (response.hasError()) {
        System.out.println("Disable usage export bucket failed ! ! " + response);
        return true;
      }

      // Wait for the settings to be effected.
      TimeUnit.SECONDS.sleep(15);
      // Return false if the usage reports is disabled.
      return projectsClient.get(project).getUsageExportLocation().hasBucketName();
    }
  }
  // [END compute_usage_report_disable]

}

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Jonathan Agassi Saved My Life | Movie review
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Cantering around the self-destructive world of successful international gay porn star Johnathan Agassi, Israeli filmmaker Tomer Heymann's latest project Johnathan Agassi Saved My Life provides an intimate and unflinching look into the life of its subject, showcasing his struggle with self-image and addiction; the close relationship he shares with his mother; and the dysfunctional history with his estranged and emotionally-distant father. A well-rounded and fully three-dimensional character study, this documentary never falls short of being just as fascinating as Agassi himself.
Heymann's film is set within the landscape of the gay porn and escort industry, and the director could have easily fallen into the trap of focusing too heavily on the excessive nature and decadence of the environment, which would have severely detracted from the human connections that serve as the feature's foundation. However, while these moments are still present in the piece, the filmmaker employs them brilliantly as a visual representation of Agassi's destructive hedonism, creating a counterpoint to the subject's personal issues and fractured familial bonds, which are conveyed through honest conversations. All this is presented alongside a clever soundtrack that echoes meaning from one scene to the next, ensuring a consistent narrative drive.
The fly-on-the-wall approach to the direction is especially effective. Acting as more of a silent observer than documentarian – but intervening and ask questions when necessary – Heymann makes no attempt to cover-up the artifice with fancy tricks; everything we need to know about Agassi is laid bare in front of the lens. At times, what we see is even shocking – one sequence depicting the aftermath of heavy drug use is especially hard to swallow, and Heymann wants us to see every second of it. Curiously, however, there's a notable absence of time scale. Whether this is an intentional choice to emphasise linearity or a simple oversight, some tangible reference to time wouldn't have gone amiss. Likewise, discussions of broader issues of sexuality and queerness that are mentioned but never pursued come across as dead weight, slowing down the feature's otherwise air-tight pacing.
Away from the drug use, porn and eccentricity of Agassi himself, this film isn't intended as a warning of fame's corruption or a tale of redemption, but as a chronicling of one man's downfall from the pedestal which he has placed himself upon. To this end, Heymann has achieved a brazen and infatuating character study that will leave you wanting to know what happened next.
Jonathan Agassi Saved My Life is released digitally on demand on 18th November 2019.
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