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The PhotoBook Review
#010, Spring 2016
Publisher Lesley A. Martin in conversation with Antonio de Luca
Lesley A. Martin: Antonio – tell me a little bit about your background and how you came to be a designer and art director .
Antonio de Luca: I studied classical graphic design at the OCAD University in Toronto. It was a formal 2-D and 3-D training, pre-computer. Silk-screening, guache, hand-lettering. It was an applied arts school, but one that a number of well-known conceptual artists, like General Idea, came out of.
Do you think that having that kind of training has been useful to you—is still useful to you?
It has allowed me to keep a haptic connection to the type of work that I do. I'm interested in work that has a tactile soul. In German, haptic means the soul of texture not just the sense of touch. It's the soul. A lot of books that I've done with SPBH possess some haptic sensation to the work. I originally got into art school as a painter, not as a designer. But I was also being groomed as an artist representative so early on I began to learn the idea of art and commerce. School by day and evenings, all-nighters, and weekends at an agency called Reactor Art and Design. Through that work, I got my first job as a junior designer at a newspaper. It was a real "fake it till you make it" situation.
Because you hadn't been trained for that specific job or the design tools?
I was trained, but I needed way more hours on the software to really handle a daily and a weekly. What I really relied on was my training at Reactor. The woman who hired me, Friederike Girst explained that I didn't have to really design the whole weekend section of 48 pages that I was working on—all I needed to do was to art direct it. And because I had connections with this whole catalog of illustrators or conceptual artists that the agency I had been working for represented, I just reached out to that community and started to commission work.
You do both hands-on design and creative or artistic direction. What is the difference between those roles.
They're not so different – I'm a designer at the end of the day. If the designer doesn't show up, I'll just do it. Creative direction is really about empowering people's personalities and making them feel that they are part of the creative process. It's about allowing them to see a reflection of their own interests, their own beliefs, their own rhythms within the work. And then it's about managing monies. That's a really big thing. Later, when I was hired as creative director at The Walrus, for example, we had a very limited budget—yet somehow we made stories happen. I was sending people to Kabul outside the Green Zone. I sent Rita Leistner into a mental institution to seduce the warden and hopefully to get the keys to the institution so she could make pictures of the women there. I sent Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin to Hotel Rwanda and asked them just to photograph flower bouquets because I thought perhaps they possessed some of the aura of the atrocities (which too place there) within their compositions – just crazy things.
Your work as a creative director, in part, seems to be about marshaling resources then – whether it's money or people or ideas, especially while working at big monthly & weekly publications like The Walrus and Saturday Night, Canadian publications akin to Harper's and The New York Times Magazine. What led you to take the turn toward designing photobooks?
I had been working with photography quite a bit, mostly photojournalism. I ended up moving to New York around 2007 and took an apartment in Brooklyn on Kent Ave., where a bunch of Magnum photographers lived. I would end up looking at Chris Anderson's work and commenting. Alex Majoli, Stanley Greene, Paolo Pellegrin—they all came through the doors. It was the Bush era. There was war going on. There were a lot of correspondents coming through. Writers who were really disturbed. Photographers who were exhausted from what they had seen. And that made for these intense conversations. Even if I wasn't working on someone's book, I'd get involved in conversations about whether the books they were working on were too big or too long– how many should be printed; where were they printing it. This was exactly the creative community that I had left behind in Canada, and which I wanted to put myself back into somehow.
Would you say you were able to engage in those conversations through the design you were doing? How did that lead you to work for SPBH? I know that SPBH didn't originally set out to become a publisher. ...
I thought maybe by eliminating all the advertising and the publisher and the distribution – eliminating all of that might help and that it would be a way of having an intimate discussion with the photographer and their work—through the book format.
Around that same time, I was introduced to Bruno Ceschel. We came from a similar, frustrated, editorial past and thought there should be something that we could work on together. I remember saying to Bruno from the very beginning that we should take our own advice and self publish—or just publish—if we're encouraging other people to do so. Bruno never really wanted to become a publisher. And rightly so. If you really want to do it, you really have to go in and do it full force.
But hasn't SPBH ended up as a publisher, in fact? And not just of Self Publish Be Naughty, or of limited-edition books but of "proper" photobooks like Fire in Cairo and Dalston Anatomy.
Incrementally. It wasn't as though we started out making those type of books. Originally we didn't want to make the type of books we're making now.
What type of books is that? How would you describe them?
We wanted things not to have a front, a middle, and a back. We didn't want it to be structured like what we see now in, in truth, in the books that we're making.
Let's take Matthew Connor's Fire in Cairo as an example. It has a very disorienting beginning, middle, and end. You don't really know where you should begin and where you end.
That is quintessentially a great photobook, but I don't think we would have thought about making that type of book at the beginning. The disorientation you're talking about was done consciously—and that effect was even more extreme in earlier designs I did. Matthew asked us to pull it back, to make it a little bit calmer, I guess. Which I think was probably right.
What triggers your entry point into a body of work that you're presented with? Where do you start in thinking about the design and shape of it?
I view pretty much view all the books I do as cinema. And the concept with Matthew's was essentially based on static shots that you see all the time in film. It's a slow zoom, closer and closer, and then next thing you know you're full frame and the viewer didn't even realize it. I also thought about Matthew's work as pure fashion.
Is it not also about revolution? I see this body of work in direct conversation with Matthew's earlier work from the Occupy movement—it's political. How do you reconcile that with fashion?
The revolution is there, for sure. But there were all of these other images that dealt with attire, and smoke and light and the textures and the postures of people. I would love to see him shoot a really high-end fashion campaign and take those sensibilities and apply it to that. I found that particular work – at least the work leading up to the scenes of revolution— very dreamy. It feels like you're floating through Cairo. A lot of that had to do with the edit, which was a combination of Bruno and Matthew's efforts – it's really brilliant.
How do you negotiate those different roles and ideas – the editor, the photographer, the designer? How do those come together in your process?
They're clearly defined. We trust one another's task. We play that game where everyone lays the photographs out on the table. It has to start in the physical dimension; we cut out everything and lay it out in this dimension – not inside the phone or computer. We don't design the book on a computer. Never. The computer is more like a production tool. Making a book is more about making things with your hands and about holding something in your hands.
This leads very nicely to the work you're currently doing, which is the complete opposite – you're the lead product designer for the New York Times online which means ... what, exactly?
Designing what the New York Times looks like online. And art directing or creating experiences – virtual experiences that only exist in the virtual world. The type of artwork I'm commissioning will never be seen printed on a piece of paper. The intimacy of book making really satisfies my hunger for print; but I also come from the newspaper world, which offers the opportunity to be part of a daily zeitgeist.
Tell me a little bit more about some of projects you're currently working on for the Times – for example, the project that was ongoing during Black History Month, in which previously unpublished images from The New York Times picture morgue were shown contextualized, and open for reader comments.
That's part of a section that I'm art directing called Race/Related. We're going to begin having discussions with America about race online. It's really about presenting a forum – a platform – for the public to have these discussions about themselves.
You've described this to me as working with a feedback loop – a triangulation between an editorial team, the audience, and the material. I feel like this also takes us back to Self Publish, Be Happy—because that's about a community and its input as well. You designed the recent Self Publish, Be Happy manual. How does that encapsulate the world of Self Publish, Be Happy that Bruno and you created?
That book intentionally really feels like our studio in London. Not only because it represents the SPBH book collection and experience, but even the table that the books are photographed on is the same table we photograph everything on. It's the space itself.
Would you say that there's a SPBH look? Where does it come from?
It comes from the collective. There are a lot of people that make up SPBH. People assume that it's a small group of people putting it together, but in fact it's huge. We don't just reach out to the Facebook & Instagram community for the sake of promotion; we actually ask them to come help us make things. We have parties together, we go out together, we dance together. I don't think SPBH could be what it is if it weren't for all of the people who have been there along the way. SPBH is not only a publisher. It's also an organization that promotes a lot of different skill sets and platforms.
You and Bruno are the designers-slash-creative directors-slash-editors of a community.
We interchange those roles. Bruno's a great art director, I'm a great editor. You know, a lot of SPBH's initial work established that idea of the feedback loop I'm applying at the New York Times now. Take a project like Self Publish Be Naughty. That publication was pre-Kickstarter; early crowd-sourcing. We emailed people and posted on Facebook asking people to send us their naughty pictures. We received almost 7,000 photographs. Bruno came to Amsterdam, where I was living at the time, and the design happened in one afternoon. For the typography I wanted to use a really basic font, Arial Narrow. I've always wanted to design a magazine or book just using Microsoft Word. The design philosophy of SPBH Editions is kind of like that. I practice a default design philosophy. The less options you have, the more creativity comes out of it. I think certain familiarities occur when the public sees something they also see on their own interfaces. "I know that!"
They feel a certain amount of empowerment that they can do something like that too.
Yes, it becomes a call to action. It tells people to just get on with it. The first success story for a self publisher is that you take the leap of faith to make something and materialize it into this physical realm. We were somewhat shocked by the success of Self Publish Be Naughty. The idea of that book reminds me of what people are talking about now with The Life of Pablo, the new Kanye West album, where the unfinished is the new finished. That book played on all of those themes, where you were allowed to take the book apart, change the sequencing. Every book is different—they all went out to different people with a different order. You could remove pictures. They could be thrown away, or put up on your wall. The idea of that book came from the question "How do we look at a book now?" Even now, when I commission artwork for the Times, I say that the incomplete is the new complete. Let's somehow make it transparent, or at least show the public that this piece of work might have flaws, it's not quite complete. SPBH is like that. Everything's pretty honest. Establishing yourself with an open philosophy encourages people and attracts them to be a part of it.
The PhotoBook Review is a publication dedicated to the consideration of the photobook—focusing on the best photography books being published, from the coffee-table book to the handmade artist's edition, and on creating a better understanding of the ecosystem of the photobook as a whole.
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Exploring the recognition of Indonesian V-Legal Documents in China
The Research Institute of Forestry Policy and Information at the Chinese Academy of Forestry (CAF) carried out a study in 2018-2019[1] to explore the recognition of Indonesian V-Legal Documents in China. The study was foreseen in the 2018 work plan of the Bilateral Coordination Mechanism (BCM) on Forest Law Enforcement and Governance, which frames the collaboration between the EU and China on combating illegal logging and associated trade globally. The study built on a series of workshops facilitated by the EU FLEGT Facility in China. Agus Sarsito, a former chief Indonesian negotiator of the Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) between the EU and Indonesia on forest law enforcement, governance and trade (FLEGT), participated in these events. He introduced the Indonesian timber legality assurance system (SVLK) to Chinese stakeholders, including CAF, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, and China Customs.
Under its VPA framework, Indonesia issues V-Legal Documents for its timber shipments to non-EU markets. The study aimed to identify the steps China could take to recognise Indonesian V-Legal Documents as proof of legality for timber and timber products that it imports from Indonesia. Indonesia issues V-Legal Documents building on the same procedures as those followed to issue FLEGT licences. Exports without valid V-Legal Documents for products listed under the Indonesia-EU VPA are considered illegal by Indonesia. In the absence of Chinese legislation on the legality of imported timber, CAF explored short- and long-term steps, as well as challenges and opportunities that the recognition would bring. Below are the key findings from the study.
About this briefing
Keywords: vpa china indonesia svlk bcm flegt licences
Country/Region: China, Indonesia, Asia
Authors: EU FLEGT Facility
Publish date: 24 February 2020
Benefits of China's recognition of V-Legal Documents
It would simplify due diligence for Chinese companies that exercise it and reduce the risk of illegal timber exported from Indonesia and imported into China. Chinese companies exporting to regulated markets would be in a better position to fulfil their market requirements.
It would promote legal trade between China and Indonesia, and between China and international markets. It would also increase the supply of legal forest products in China, whose forest industry partially and increasingly relies on imports.
It would set a precedent that would support FLEGT, in particular Indonesia's efforts on timber legality, and act as an incentive for other VPA countries to make progress in the implementation of their Agreements.
Challenges to the recognition of V-Legal Documents in China
The key challenge to the recognition of V-Legal Documents as proof of legality is the absence of Chinese legislation on the legality of timber imports. Companies importing timber into China are not required to have a due diligence system. Furthermore, China lacks the policy, enforcement capacity and data-sharing infrastructure that would be needed to implement the recognition of V-Legal Documents.
China and Indonesia signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on combatting illegal forest products trade in Beijing in 2002. The MoU could contribute to creating a favourable policy environment for the recognition of V-Legal Documents. However, the implementation of the MoU would require concrete actions by the two Governments.
Warehouse at the harbor
Furniture products are packed in warehouses ready for export to the foreign market.
Source: Murdani Usman, CIFOR
Short-term options for the recognition of V-Legal Documents
Chinese companies that export to regulated markets could make the presentation of V-Legal Documents a requirement in their due diligence system for timber imported from Indonesia.
Third-party certification bodies that provide verification services to Chinese operators that export to regulated markets could make the presentation of V-Legal Documents a requirement for verifying legality of timber exported from Indonesia.
The two major timber industry associations in China could recognise V-Legal Documents as proof of legality of timber exported from Indonesia in their voluntary timber legality standards.
Long-term options for the recognition of V-Legal Documents
China and Indonesia could sign a timber trade agreement specifying that Indonesian products covered by the EU-Indonesia VPA and entering China would have to be accompanied by valid V-Legal Documents. The trade agreement would provide a basis for China Customs to verify that timber imports from Indonesia are accompanied by V-Legal Documents.[2]
Building on the agreement between China and Indonesia, V-Legal Documents could be recognised as evidence of legality in a future Chinese timber legality system. The recognition would trigger disciplinary measures for companies that import without V-Legal Documents.
China and Indonesia could also develop a due diligence manual for Chinese enterprises importing from Indonesia to raise awareness about Indonesian laws and reduce compliance costs.
Suggested next steps
Carry out a pilot project to understand how Chinese companies could integrate V-Legal Documents into their due diligence system by demanding V-Legal Documents from Indonesian suppliers and verifying that the documents match the shipment. The results of the pilot could be captured in a technical document that would help industry associations to recognise V-Legal Documents in their timber legality standards. The pilot would also explore the feasibility and potential challenges of supervision by Government authorities, including Customs. A first pilot is foreseen under the 2019 BCM work plan for Chinese imports of Indonesian plywood and/or furniture.
Facilitate the cooperation between Chinese and Indonesian industry associations to promote bilateral trade in sustainable forest products.
Strengthen the cooperation between the Chinese and Indonesian Governments in the implementation of their MoU. The BCM could support trilateral cooperation (EU-China-Indonesia) on legal timber trade by serving as a platform for information exchange, learning and technical support.
Raise awareness among Chinese companies about SVLK and V-Legal Documents through seminars and workshops.
[1] The study was carried out before China amended its Forest Law in 2020 and included Article 65 prohibiting the purchase, transport and processing of illegal wood.
[2] Currently, China Customs does not check whether the timber and timber products entering China are legal because China does not have relevant legislation in place (with the exception of legislation implementing the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora).
This publication has been produced by the Chinese Academy of Forestry in cooperation with the EU FLEGT Facility. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of the authors and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of funding organisations.
About the EU FLEGT Facility
The EU FLEGT Facility supports the European Union, its Member States and partner countries in implementing the EU FLEGT Action Plan. The European Forest Institute has hosted the Facility since 2007. The Facility has its headquarters in Barcelona, Spain, with additional offices in Joensuu, Finland, and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Ready For Villareal & Remembering Don Alfredo
Karim looks…determined.
Los Blancos take on Villareal at El Madrigal tomorrow. They had their final training today joined by Castilla's Aguza and Rubén Yáñez.
That's a rather awkward position you've gotten yourself into, young man.
FROM REALMADRID.COM
Ancelotti: "Cristiano is the best, he has character and plays like a leader"
by Javier Garcia
"Villarreal are a quick, dynamic team and it will be a difficult game," added the coach.
Carlo Ancelotti analysed his side's upcoming encounter at El Madrigal as he faced the media. The coach, who confirmed the absences of Coentrão and Pepe, had words of praise for Real Madrid's opponents: "Last year we found life difficult against Villarreal. They're a quick, dynamic team and are well-organised in their play."
"It will be a difficult match and we'll look to do everything we can. The opening stages of the match will be important; we need to start aggressively and with intensity like we did against Deportivo. I'm not going to give the line-up because we have a training session and afterwards I'll decide."
"It's something that's very good to have within the team. It makes the players train better so as to try to be in the team. At a big team, competition is necessary. We have a lot of matches and the same eleven players can't always play. It would be a problem if there were a player who did not respect the coach's decisions. In this squad there are no problems, the players are all very disciplined and respectful."
Goals for and against
"The teams that have a better chance of winning trophies are those that are solid on the pitch. Not conceding goals is a good sign. At the end of last year we were solid and that's why we won trophies. Looking for defensive solidity works to our advantage."
"I came up against him when I was in charge at Milan. Thinking about how to stop him isn't easy. It's better to think that he isn't going to be playing, so as to feel calmer. He's the best in the world, without doubt. Marking the best player in the world isn't easy. We are lucky enough that he plays in our team. He has character, desire and he plays like a leader."
"Scoring goals will never be a problem for this team."
"We have to do everything we can to keep Cristiano in this physical and mental condition. That will help us to win trophies. I don't believe what is being reported about Cristiano leaving, it's nonsense. He's happy here, he's motivated and the club and the fans are delighted with him. It's nonsense."
Bale returns to Villarreal
"Now he has the experience that he didn't have last year. He's well integrated within the team and is used to the style of play. He is very important for everyone and this year he can surpass what he did last year."
The goalkeepers
"Playing with one goalkeeper at home and another away from home is not being contemplated. Keylor played the other day so as to give him minutes. Iker and Keylor get on well, I don't know if they go out to dinner, but they respect one another."
"I have very good attackers and good goalkeepers. I want to be supportive to all my players. I then have to choose a line-up, but I don't think it's fair to give a table of the best and the worst. I think that if Iker plays it's because he's the best."
Alleged negative comments from Keylor about Vecchi
"What has been published makes no sense. Vecchi is the best goalkeeping coach in the world. He has more experience than anyone else. It's a lie and it's crazy."
"Benzema shouldn't be worried if a team-mate scores; he should be happy. This team has a lot of goals in it and Karim doesn't have pressure on him to score goals. He has to help the team to play better and look for attacking solutions."
"I haven't spoken about this with the players. They feel good when we have control and possession. And they aren't comfortable when we lose the ball."
The following players were called up:
Goalkeepers: Casillas, Keylor Navas and Pacheco.
Defenders: Ramos, Varane, Nacho, Arbeloa, Carvajal and Marcelo.
Midfielders: Modric, Kroos, Isco, Illarra, James, Bale and Aguza.
Forwards: Ronaldo, Benzema and Chicharito.
There's also a video from yesterday's official portrait session.
Last night a memorial mass was held for Alfredo Di Stefano at the Iglesia de los Sagrados Corazones, which is next to the Bernabeu. In attendance were Iker, Sergio, Arbeloa, Florentino, Hierro and Butragueño along with former RM players Santamaría, Zoco, Gento, Pachín and Martín Vázquez.
Seems to me that people in Spain are much more casual about attending what I w0uld consider as a formal occasion in casual clothing. Is this true, Spanish watishistas? Maybe I'm old skool, but I wouldn't go to a memorial service or even church in jeans just as a matter of respect. Sigh. Well, at least Arbeloa wore a tie. And the most important thing is that they were there to pay their respects.
Tags: Alfredo Di Stefano, Alvaro Arbeloa, Call Ups, Carlo Ancelotti, Emilio Butragueno, Fernando Hierro, Florentino Perez, Gento, Iker Casillas, La Liga, Martín Vázquez, Meet the Press, Pachín, Santamaria, Sergio Ramos, Training Day, Villareal, Zoco
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6 Responses to "Ready For Villareal & Remembering Don Alfredo"
hkreizinger September 26, 2014 at 8:11 pm #
I hate to ask this, but I got dropped into an independent living center (not my idea!) and they have basic cable. Do you or anyone know whether I can watch the match or any RM matches streaming online? You cannot believe how frustrated it is when you cannot do anything about it. They don't allow us to add anything to the cable thing. Thanks for your help.
headbandsandheartbreak September 26, 2014 at 8:14 pm #
MGEF has a list of stream sources here. I use this: http://megustaelfutbol.tumblr.com/livestreams
PS shortly before the game MGEF posts direct stream links so check back.
mygypsyspirit September 26, 2014 at 11:25 pm #
http://ifirstrowus.eu/ is what I use. I don't have the channel that plays the Real Madrid matches, so I'm constantly streaming
Muchisimas gracias!!
realmadridlookbook September 26, 2014 at 9:18 pm #
I was wondering the same this about dress code at formal events- I remember Callejon wearing jeans and a polo to Perez's wife's funeral two years. I thought it was odd, but I guess its the norm (at least for footballers??)


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How to Apply for a Spouse Visa for Australia from United States in 2023
A spouse visa, also known as a partner visa, allows individuals from United States to live and work in Australia with their partner who is an Australian citizen or Australian permanent resident. Applying for a spouse visa as a American Citizen can be a complex process. This article is to help you make a Spouse Visa application for Australia from United States.
There are two types of spouse visas to Australia as a American Citizen:
The temporary Partner visa (subclass 820) is a provisional visa that allows individuals from United States to live in Australia while their permanent Partner visa (subclass 801) is being processed.
The permanent Partner visa (subclass 801) allows individuals from United States to permanently live in Australia.
Eligibility for a Spouse Partner Visa for Australia from United States
Steps to Apply for a Spouse Visa for Australia from United States in 2023
The first step in the application process is to submit a sponsorship application by the Australian citizen or permanent resident (not the United States applicant). This application must be lodged online with the Department of Home Affairs. Once the sponsorship application has been approved, the applicant from United States can then proceed with making their Spouse Visa application to Australia.
The American applicant will need to provide evidence of their relationship with their partner, such as photos, emails, and other documents to prove and evidence the history of the relationship. The Americanapplicant will also need to provide evidence of their health and character. This includes a police clearance certificate from all countries where the applicant has lived for 12 months or more in the past 10 years, and a medical examination.
Australia Partner Visa Fees and Timeframe for United States Citizens in 2023
The American applicant will also need to pay a visa application fee and a second installment fee, which will vary depending on the applicant's circumstances.
The processing time for a spouse visa application from United States is currently 11 months in 2023.
Applying for a spouse visa to Australia from United States can be a complicated process. The requirements include providing evidence of the relationship with the partner, passing the character and health requirements, paying the visa application fee and second installment fee. The processing time for the visa can take several months.
The spouse visa, also known as the partner visa, allows American Citizens to live and work in Australia with their Australian partner.
The application process for a Spouse Visa for Australia from United States involves two stages: first, the sponsorship application, then the visa application.
To be eligible for a spouse visa, the applicant and their Americanpartner must be in a genuine and ongoing relationship and must pass the character and health requirements.
The Americanapplicant must provide evidence of their relationship such as photos, emails, social media and phone records.
The processing time for a spouse visa applicant in United States can take 11 – 18 months to process.


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This past weekend I had some friends over for dinner and served artichoke bottoms stuffed with mushrooms as a first course. The artichoke bottom is layered with a mushroom and artichoke duxelle, topped with breadcrumbs and Parmesan cheese, baked and served with a beurre battu. I had some of the duxelle leftover and was able to enjoy it this morning on wine bread miche toast. Have a beautiful Tuesday!!
Below is the recipe for the duxelle itself. If you want the full recipe just send me a message and I would be happy to share.
Cut stems from artichokes and trim leaves with scissors. In a large pot of boiling salted water, cook artichokes until just tender, approximately 30 minutes. Drain well and when artichokes are cool enough to handle remove all the leaves and place in a bowl. Using a teaspoon, scrape the edible portion or meat from each leaf and place in a bowl.
Heat olive oil and 2 tablespoons butter in a large skillet. Add chopped mushrooms and cook over medium heat until most liquid is gone, about 8 minutes.
Add finely chopped shallots and flour and cook, stirring to incorporate for an additional 1 minute.
Add the cream and the artichoke meat, scraped from the leaves.
Stir in the egg yolk, parsley and optional bread crumbs. Mix well to combine thoroughly and season will salt and pepper to taste.
This will stay for several days refrigerated in an airtight container or can be frozen for later use.


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Dans la grammaire de certaines langues flexionnelles et des langues agglutinantes, le datif est un cas grammatical. C'est principalement le moyen d'expression du complément d'objet indirect d'attribution, celui qui indique en faveur de qui un acte est accompli, mais le datif exprime une variété d'autres rapports syntaxiques aussi, en fonction de la langue considérée. Dans les langues flexionnelles dépourvues de déclinaison, comme le français, c'est un nom avec une préposition (en français à), qui correspond au nom au datif, ex. Pierre donne une pomme à son frère.

 Forme du datif dans quelques langues

Dans les langues à déclinaison, qu'elles soient flexionnelles ou agglutinantes, les cas sont d'ordinaire exprimés par des désinences, avec des différences entre langues flexionnelles et agglutinantes quant au caractère de ces morphèmes.

Dans une langue agglutinante comme le hongrois, par exemple, le datif est exprimé par une désinence qui lui appartient en exclusivité, étant la même pour tous les mots de nature nominale (noms, adjectifs, pronoms, numéraux, avec une particularité pour le pronom personnel), soit qu'elle est ajoutée directement au radical du mot ou après un autre suffixe. La désinence du datif est -nak/-nek, avec ces deux variantes, utilisées conformément aux règles de l'harmonie vocalique. Cette désinence peut être ajoutée directement au radical, ex. Kinek telefonálsz? « À qui téléphones-tu ? ». Pour obtenir un mot au pluriel et au datif, on ajoute au radical d'abord le suffixe du pluriel, puis la désinence du datif : gyermek « enfant » + -ek → gyermekek « enfants » + -nek → gyermekeknek « à des enfants ». Si le mot au datif est un objet possédé, il reçoit d'abord le suffixe qui exprime la personne du possesseur, puis la désinence du datif : Jó barátomnak tartalak « Je te tiens pour un bon ami à moi » (barát « ami » + -om → barátom « mon ami » + -nak).

Dans le diasystème slave du centre-sud, qui comprend des langues flexionnelles (le bosnien, le croate, le monténégrin et le serbe, abréviées BCMS), qui ont une déclinaison relativement bien développée, le datif n'est pas exprimé par une seule désinence, mais par plusieurs, en fonction du genre et du nombre, et ces désinences ne sont pas seulement celles du datif. Voici par exemple les désinences de datif des noms et des adjectifs des classes de déclinaison qui comprennent le plus de mots aves ces désinences :
 -u pour les noms masculins et neutres au singulier et pour les adjectifs de forme brève au masculin et au neutre singulier : jelenu « à un cerf » ou « au cerf », kolu « à une/la roue », zelenu « vert » ;
 -ima pour les noms masculins et neutres au pluriel (désinence commune avec les cas instrumental et locatif) : jelenima « à des / aux cerfs », kolima « à des / aux roues » ;
 -i pour les noms féminins au singulier : ženi « à une/la femme » ;
 -ama pour les noms féminins au pluriel (commune avec l'instrumental et le locatif) : ženama « à des / aux femmes » ;
 -ōm(e) pour les adjectifs de forme longue, au masculin et au neutre singulier (commune avec le locatif) : zelenōm(e) ;
 -ōj pour les adjectifs aux féminin singulier, formes longue et brève (commune avec le locatif) : zelenōj ;
 -īm(a) pour les adjectifs au masculin, neutre, et féminin pluriel, formes longue et brève (commune avec l'instrumental et le locatif) : zelenīm(a).

En roumain aussi il y a une déclinaison, mais elle est relativement réduite par rapport à des langues comme BCMS. Parmi les noms et les adjectifs, seuls les féminins ont des désinences de datif, les mêmes au singulier et au pluriel, et communes avec les cas génitif et nominatif au pluriel : unei/unor case « à une/des maison(s) », unei/unor flori « à une/des fleur(s) », unei/unor cafele « à un/des café(s) ». De plus, la désinence -e se trouve au neutre pluriel aussi, et -i au masculin et au neutre pluriels aussi. Le datif se distingue mieux grâce aux articles qui déterminent les noms, bien que les formes de datif de ceux-ci soient elles aussi communes avec le génitif : unui pom « à un arbre », unor pomi « à des arbres », unui scaun « à une chaise », unor scaune « à des chaises », unei case « à une maison », unor case « à des maisons », pomului « à l'arbre », pomilor « aux arbres », scaunului « à la chaise », scaunelor « aux chaises », casei « à la maison », caselor « aux maisons », etc.

Les formes de datif de certains pronoms présentent des ressemblances, mais aussi des différences par rapport aux formes des noms et/ou des adjectifs. Dans les langues mentionnées ici, les pronoms personnels présentent une situation à part. Leurs formes de datif sont complètement différentes de celles de nominatif, ce qui les rapproche des formes correspondantes dans les langues qui ont perdu la déclinaison mais en gardent des vestiges. Exemples à la première personne du singulier :
 roumain : eu « moi, je » – mie « à moi », îmi « me » ;
 BCMS : ja « moi, je » – meni « à moi », mi « me ».

En hongrois, la forme de nominatif à cette personne est én, mais le datif se forme de la variante -nek de la désinence générale du datif, plus le suffixe possessif de la première personne du singulier -em, ce qui donne nekem « à moi », procédé par lequel on forme le datif de tous les pronoms personnels, par ajonction des suffixes possessifs des diverses personnes : neked « à toi », nekünk « à nous », etc.

Emploi du datif

Sans adposition

Le datif est tout d'abord le cas du complément d'objet direct d'attribution, sans être le seul moyen d'exprimer cette fonction. Ce type de complément sans adposition (préposition ou postposition) est celui des verbes dits « attributifs », comme donner, prêter, louer, lire, etc. Exemples :
  I-am dat colegei tale cărțile de spaniolă « J'ai donné les livres d'espagnol à ta copine  » ;
  pokloniti haljinu sestri « faire cadeau d'une robe à sa sœur » ;
  Csillának adtam egy könyvet « J'ai donné un livre à Csilla ».

Le COI ci-dessus est proche quant au sens à celui subordonné à des verbes au sens apparenté à celui de « s'adresser » :
  Le-am spus studenților că examenul va fi greu « J'ai dit aux étudiants que l'examen serait difficile » ;
  zahvaliti dobročinitelju « remercier le bienfaiteur » ;
  Kinek telefonálsz? « À qui téléphones-tu ? ».

Certains adjectifs, surtout en fonction d'attribut du sujet, peuvent également avoir un COI au datif :
  Obiectul acesta îi este folositor medicului? « Cet objet est-il utile au médecin ? » ;
  biti odan prijatelju « être dévoué à son ami » ;
  Zsófiának fontos minden nap zongoráznia « Il est important pour Zsófia de jouer tous les jours du piano ».

Le datif peut aussi avoir un sens possessif. En latin, le datif possessif exprime le possesseur sujet logique de la phrase : Mihi liber est « J'ai un livre » (littéralement « À moi livre est »). Le roumain a hérité du latin des vestiges de ce datif dans des expressions verbales comme mi-e foame « j'ai faim », mi-e milă « j'ai pitié », mi-e sete « j'ai soif », etc.

En roumain et en BCMS il y a une construction possessive avec le pronom personnel conjoint au datif équivalente de la construction avec un adjectif possessif :
  Unde ți-e soțul? « Où est ton mari ? » (litt. « Où t'est le mari ? ») ;
  Đe su mi naočare? « Où sont mes lunettes ? » (litt. « Où me sont lunettes ? »).

Il y a encore un type de datif possessif en roumain. C'est celui d'un pronom personnel ou réfléchi conjoint en fonction de complément du nom, comme dans les exemples În zadar copacii crengile-și plecau / Și zăpada-n cale-mi pe rând scuturau « C'est en vain que les arbres penchaient leurs branches / Et secouaient tour à tour la neige sur mon chemin » (litt. « … branches-se … chemin-me ») (Vasile Alecsandri).

En hongrois, la construction possessive du type mihi liber est est générale : Gyulának két húga van « Gyula a deux sœurs » (litt. « À Gyula deux sœur est »). Il y a encore une construction avec le datif possessif dans cette langue : apámnak a háza « la maison de mon père ».

Le datif appelé « éthique » indique une personne intéressée de façon affective dans le procès exprimé par le verbe, et le mot à un tel datif n'a pas de fonction syntaxique, mais seulement stylistique :
  Pe unde mi-ai umblat până acum? litt. « Par où tu m'as déambulé jusqu'à maintenant ? » ;
  Da si ti meni živ i zdrav! litt. « Que tu me sois vivant et bien portant ! » ;
  Csukja be nekem ezt az ajtót! « Fermez-moi cette porte ! ».

Le datif sans adposition a d'autres emplois encore, qui ne se retrouvent pas tous dans les langues mentionnées ici.

En roumain, le mot au datif peut encoire avoir la fonction de :
 complément circonstanciel comparatif : Comportamentul tău e asemenea comportamentului unui copil de cinci ani! « Ton comportement est comme celui d'un enfant de cinq ans ! » (litt. « … semblable au comportement… ») ;
 CC de lieu : a se opri locului « s'arrêter sur place ».

En BCMS, le datif peut aussi :
 exprimer le but d'un déplacement : krenuti svojoj kući « partir pour sa maison » ;
 exprimer la personne qui doit faire quelque chose : Što nam je činiti? « Qu'est-ce que nous devons faire » (litt. « Quoi à nous est faire ? »);
 être présent dans des serments (datif appelé emphatique) : Duše mi! « Par mon âme ! ».

En hongrois, le datif peut encore :
 exprimer une fonction à laquelle est destiné un animé ou un inanimé : Jó lesz titkárnőnek « Elle fera une bonne secrétaire » ;
 participer dans une construction dite de thématisation : Szépnek szép « Pour être belle, elle est belle » ;
 exprimer le sujet de verbes et expressions verbales impersonnels : Máriának haza kell mennie. « Il faut que Marie rentre » ;
 exprimer l'attribut exprimant l'état du sujet : Ica fáradtnak látszik « Ica semble fatiguée ».

Avec adposition

En roumain, le datif est exigé par trois prépositions synonymes :
Am obținut aceste rezultate datorită ajutorului tău « J'ai obtenu ces résultats grâce à ton aide » ;
Am ajuns acasă mai devreme grație bunăvoinței dumneavoastră « Je suis arrivé(e) plus tôt chez moi grâce à votre bienveillance » ;
Mulțumită eforturilor voastre am ocupat locul întâi « Grâce à vos efforts, nous avons occupé la première place ».

En BCMS aussi il y quelques prépositions qui régissent le datif :
Svi su se okrenuli ka gradu « Tous se sont dirigés vers la ville » ;
Zaputio sam se prema izlazu iz dvorane « Je suis parti vers la sortie de la salle » ;
Postupili su nasuprot njegovoj želji « Ils ont procédé contre son souhait » ;
Uprkos velikoj vrućini bili smo na igralištu « Malgré la grande chaleur, nous étions sur le terrain de jeu » ;
To bijaše protivno njegovoj volji « C'était contre sa volonté ».

En hongrois il y a très peu de postpositions construites avec le datif :
Bartóknak köszönhetően mindenki hallott a magyar zenéről « Grâce à Bartók, tout le monde a entendu parler de la musique hongroise » ;
A dolgok elképzeléseinknek megfelelően alakultak « Les choses ont évolué conformément à nos prévisions ».

Notes et références

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Rangers Vs. Lightning: More Of The Same
Notes from the Rangers Game 3 loss to the Lightning.
By Joseph Fortunato@JoeFortunatoBSB May 21, 2015, 8:52am EDT
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- You can very easily say the New York Rangers got what they deserved, again, after playing "stupid and selfish" hockey as their captain said after Game 2 again in Game 3 on Thursday night.
- You're always going to be in trouble when your best players make mistakes or don't play their best. Ryan McDonagh and Dan Girardi? About as bad as those two have played this postseason both individually and as a pair. Henrik Lundqvist gave up a super soft overtime goal that very simply can't go in (more on this in a bit, though). Rick Nash had his worst game of the playoffs. Martin St. Louis getting booed every time he touched the puck didn't seem to make much of a difference at all. Derick Brassard still took some bad penalties and the team's defense as a whole was atrocious. Chris Kreider almost deserves his own paragraph for how bad of a game he played -- proving that sometimes being physical is a bad thing.
- But again, it starts at the top. There is no excuse for how poorly McDonagh played last night, there just isn't. Girardi is not a shutdown defender -- his spectacular play against the slower Washington Capitals is probably because how how much slower they were, Tampa is a much faster team and they have no issues running through him. The penalty kill was horrific even if Tampa makes it seem like they're just good at breaking it open. And deep defensive communication? Good luck finding any of that.
- I really do get the sense that we're where we were last series against Washington with Alain Vigneault. It's remarkably clear to everyone involved that Girardi isn't quick enough to handle the triplets. So why not move Marc Staal to that line and then move Girardi to Steven Stamkos so that he has someone he can focus on directly? Again, these are the little adjustments that need to be made this deep in the playoffs. The Lightning are a very good hockey team. They need to be treated as such.
- The power play has looked fantastic in this series. It's too bad the penalty kill has completely dropped off the table.
- In the same line of thinking, the offense finally erupts for five goals, seems to bail out the defense but then the defense drops the ball. So it goes.
- Positive Outlook: The Rangers, despite losing these past two games, can easily hang with the Lightning. The Rangers played terrible in Game 2 and could have won that game scoreline be damned, and they were better but still nowhere near good enough in Game 3 and they lost in overtime.
- Negative Outlook: It seems really, really daunting to have to beat the Lightning in three of the next four games. Makes Game 4 a must win, with all the pressure sitting on the Rangers shoulders.


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Q: Add number to incrementing list on button click in JavaScript not working Ok so in my code I'm supposed to enter a number between 4 and 15. Then I click a button to add it, Once that happens the number will be added to the total number of ages and to one of the leagues I have created (it should be incremented by 1, for example, if I enter a 12 it will be 1 if I enter 12 again the total will say 2). When I try and run the code it does nothing.

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Although the association of Internet addiction (IA) with self-regulation has been widely observed in previous studies, its variance with age remains poorly understood. Using dual models of self-regulation, we aimed to test the effects of effortful control and impulsivity on IA and to explore the effect of the interaction between age stage and self-regulation on IA. In this study, 4313 students nested in 100 classes were surveyed using the Internet Addiction Test (IAT), the Dual-Modes of Self-Control Scale (DMSC-S) and a demographic questionnaire. Hierarchical generalized linear models (HGLMs) were then used to test our assumptions. The results indicated that the IA prevalence rate among the surveyed adolescents was 10.9%, and IA was found to be negatively related to the effortful control trait and positively related to the impulsivity trait. Compared with primary school students, middle school students were more likely to be Internet addicts; however, the prevalence of IA among college students was comparable to that among middle school students. A slopes-as-outcome model showed that the association between IA and effort control was stronger among junior high school students than among students in other grade levels, but no grade differences were found in the slopes for impulsivity. We integrate our results with the findings of previous studies and discuss possible theoretical implications.
GB/T 7714 Wang, Ligang,Tao, Ting,Fan, Chunlei,et al. The association between Internet addiction and both impulsivity and effortful control and its variation with age[J]. ADDICTION RESEARCH & THEORY,2017,25(1):83-90.
APA Wang, Ligang,Tao, Ting,Fan, Chunlei,Gao, Wenbin,&Wei, Chuguang.(2017).The association between Internet addiction and both impulsivity and effortful control and its variation with age.ADDICTION RESEARCH & THEORY,25(1),83-90.
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Dimensionality reduction and feature selection are very important tools for any machine learning library, which help in compression and visualization of high-dimensional data, and improving the performance of supervised/unsupervised learning algorithms. In this talk, we will discuss the parallel implementation of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) using the Parallel Block Basic Linear Algebra Subsystem (PBblas) library. Additionally, we will discuss the ECL implementations of some feature selection algorithms for the HPCC Systems platform.
Shah Muhammad Hamdi is a Ph.D. student (3rd year) in the Department of Computer Science of Georgia State University. He works in Data Mining Lab (DMLab) under the supervision of Dr. Rafal Angryk. His research interests are machine learning, data mining and deep learning, more specifically, finding interesting patterns from real-life graphs and time series data. His research finds applications in the fields of solar weather analysis and neurological disease prediction. Before joining the DMLab for the Ph.D., he worked one year as a Lecturer in Computer Science in Northern University Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He received his Bachelor degree in Computer Science in 2014 from Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET), Rajshahi, Bangladesh.
The training process for modern deep neural networks requires big data and large amounts of computational power. In this talk, Robert will cover what he implemented during his summer internship. Combining HPCC Systems and Google's TensorFlow, Robert created a parallel stochastic gradient descent algorithm to provide a basis for future deep neural network research and to enhance the distributed neural network training capabilities in HPCC Systems.
Robert Kennedy is a first year Ph.D. student in CS at Florida Atlantic University with research interests in Deep Learning and parallel and distributed computing. His current research is in improving distributed deep learning by implementing and optimizing distributed algorithms.
Aramis's project will make it easy for anyone in robotics around the world to ingest data from common robotic sensors into an HPCC Systems platform for use in data analysis. In this Tech Talk, Aramis will be speaking about his work on the autonomous agricultural robot and implementing new packages for the Robotics Operating System to interface with HPCC Systems for big data analysis.
Aramis Tanelus is a programmer and senior at American Heritage High School where he is the lead programmer for the Advanced Robotics Team. He works with the ROS operating system collecting data from robots developed by the team and turns it into actionable output to help with robotic tasks. He currently is an intern in Boca Raton working on a project to develop software interfaces between robotic sensors and the HPCC Systems platform.
The communication backbone of HPCC Systems connects all the different components and worker nodes in a way that each task in the system is accomplished quickly and seamlessly. The built-in "Message Passing" library in HPCC Systems is designed to handle these communications among dissimilar components and perform non-trivial communication patterns among them. In this part of the tech talk, we will explore how this library currently operates and how we can introduce a different implementation such as an existing popular library called MPI.
Saminda Wijeratne is a Masters student in the Department of Computational Science and Engineering of Georgia Institute of Technology. His area of research is High Performance Computing in Distributed clusters and AI areas such as ML and Neural networks. His adviser is Dr. Srinivas Aluru professor and co-Executive Director in Georgia Tech IRI in Data Engineering and Science. Saminda was a senior software engineer for 3 years in the industry at WSO2, an open source technology provider which offers an enterprise platform. He obtained his Bachelor of Computer Science from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.


The Steigers had built several other pieces of equipment for the farm, including two self-propelled swathers, a rock picker, and a 60-foot weed sprayer. The 24-year-old Douglass reasoned they could build their own four-wheel-drive tractor using used parts and a hand-built frame for about $10,000.
"We knew that if we could find the axles and the engine we wanted, we could build it," Maurice Steiger told the Grand Forks Herald in 1958.
Douglass went to E. O. Peterson, the president of the Union State Bank in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, and presented his options to the banker. He explained to the banker he could either buy a Wagner for $24,000 or build a tractor using a hand-built chassis and used parts for about $10,000. According to Douglass, the banker said, "I think you should try to build one," and he set up the Steiger family with a loan.
The shop where the machine was built was the former dairy barn on the Steiger farm, which had been converted to a shop after they sold off their cattle. In the photographs of the shop that appeared in local newspapers, the walls were covered with light paneling or sheetrock, and the space was barely large enough to fit the tractor.
The Steigers went to work on the project in the fall of 1957. They scrounged used parts from mining equipment used on the Iron Range of northeastern Minnesota. For this first machine, some of the tooling equipment was improvised. John used a sledge hammer and a blacksmith forge to heat and bend an adapter ring that went between the engine and bell housings on the transmission. They used an electric 9-inch angle grinder to smooth down the weld seams for a cleaner finish. The engine was a diesel that had been used in an HD-14 Allis-Chalmers crawler. New tires and hydraulic components were purchased to finish the tractor.
According to Drache, they finished the machine in 57 days during the winter of 1958, and the material cost added up to $9,200. The tractor would become known as Steiger #1. Sometime much later, a Case IH employee dubbed the machine "Barney," and that moniker stuck.
The lurid green paint color that first appeared on Steiger #1, incidentally, has a fair amount of lore surrounding it. A popular myth is that the family mixed the cans of paint they had on hand and used it. Douglass Steiger said the paint was selected because it was a bright color that was not being used in the agricultural industry. The green shade, he said on multiple occasions, was in-spired by the color used by construction equipment maker Euclid.
The only part of the drive mechanism that was custom-built was the power divider—the rest of the components were off the shelf (or salvaged from used machines). Steiger #1 had roughly 220 flywheel horsepower and could handle as much as three sets of five-bottom plows.
Steiger #1 allowed John to work the family's 5,200 acres of owned and rented land. "A farmer just cannot understand what a four-wheel-drive will do until he has driven one; it is so much more efficient," Douglass said.
The innovation displayed on the Steiger farm, whether in tractors or even just shop machinery, was remarkable. The Steiger #1 was worked hard for many years, was restored in 1975, and eventually retired to the Bonanzaville Museum in West Fargo, North Dakota.
Clifton Johnson did the math and was shocked at how long and hard that home-welded machine worked. "That old big one, I calculated it had been two and a half times around the world with plows behind it," he said.
The Steiger men saw a problem, and they pursued a solution with fearless mechanical skill.
MaJeana Steiger Hallstrom said the entire community recognized their talent. "People kind of knew that if they went to one of those guys, they would be able to find a way to solve the problem," Hallstrom said.
Douglass Steiger and Clifton Johnson with a 1960s era barn-built Steiger 1700.


65-year-old Gordon Sumner, better known as British singer sting, for the first time in five years come to Russia in the framework of the world tour. Performance artist to be held October 3 at the capital sports complex "Olympic". The organizers have already announced that the Russian fans will hear old hits Englishman in New York, Russians and others.
In addition to songs from solo career, sting will perform hits of the band the Police, lead singer of which was a musician from 1976 to 1984.
Moscow sting the last time was in 2012 and their last album of the artist "57th & 9th" was released in November of 2016, so that the audience can listen to a lot of new songs.


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By Jane E. Brody . New York Times April 15, 2019
Following a fracture, patients should have a bone density test, evaluation of calcium and vitamin
D levels and, in nearly all cases, medication to protect against further bone loss.
Just as lightning can strike the same target more than once in a given storm, hip fractures can and do happen again to the same person. Yet, more often than not, people who fracture a hip do not get follow-up treatment that could prevent another fracture.
Studie s have shown that after a hip fracture is repaired, patients often fall through the cracks, leaving them at risk of a recurrence. The surgeon's job ends with fixing or, more likely, replacing the broken hip. It's then up to the patient's personal physician to recommend and prescribe measures to help prevent a second fracture.
However, the typical 15-minute office visit is often focused on current medical issues, like diabetes and high blood pressure, rather than on a possible future problem, albeit one that can be life-threatening. In many cases, experts say, practicing physicians don't even know which of their patients have had a hip fracture.
Anyone who breaks a hip, unless from a severe trauma like a car accident, is considered at high risk for further fractures, including breaking the other hip. To reduce the risk, orthopedic experts recommend that following a fracture, patients should have a bone density test, evaluation of calcium and vitamin D levels and, in nearly all cases, medication to protect against further bone loss.
Even without a bone density test, Dr. Douglas C. Bauer, internist at the University of California, San Francisco, wrote in an editorial in JAMA Geriatrics last July, "There is almost universal agreement that individuals with documented hip or vertebral fracture have established osteoporosis, indicating that they are at high risk of future fracture, and appropriate drug therapy should be routinely offered."
In an interview, he said, "Every patient with a reasonable life expectancy who has a hip fracture should be offered treatment."
Dr. Bauer was reacting to what he called "really depressing, shocking data" revealing that only a small — and steadily declining — fraction of hip fracture patients are being treated with medication that might forestall future broken bones.
"Things aren't getting better, they're getting worse, despite the fact that there are quite a large number of treatments that have been proven effective and are now inexpensive," he said.
The distressing evidence comes from a national study of 97,169 patients who fractured a hip from 2004 through 2015. Published in JAMA Geriatrics, the study, by Dr. Rishi J. Desai, an epidemiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and co-authors showed a continuous decline in patients who started taking osteoporotic medications after the fracture, from 9.8 percent of patients in 2004 to a dismal 3.3 percent in 2015.
The decline in initiating treatment with any of the many medications known to reduce fracture risk is widely attributed to the outsize publicity given to the very rare risk of jaw necrosis and an uncommon fracture of the femur among patients who take bone drugs for many years. Yet the risk of a second hip fracture is far greater than either of these side effects, Dr. Bauer said. (The Food and Drug Administration just approved a new and different drug, Evenity, which builds bone, but it may have its own risks, this time a small increase in the chances of having a heart attack or stroke. Also, it is very expensive and may not be covered by insurance, and licensed only for postmenopausal women with a high risk of fracture.)
In Dr. Desai's study, treatment rates among those who broke a hip were even lower for men than for women, although men are nearly as likely to break another bone, including the other hip. In general, without preventive treatment, 15 percent to 25 percent of patients who suffer an osteoporotic fracture will experience another one within 10 years.
And with people living longer, hip fractures are increasingly likely. A report, published last year in the journal Osteoporosis International, revealed that, after a decade of declining rates of hip fractures, since 2012 the rates have plateaued in the United States, most likely because so many older adults, and their doctors, have turned their backs on bone-protecting medication. Among people enrolled in Medicare alone, Dr. Desai and co-authors wrote, this plateau "may have resulted in more than 11,000 additional estimated hip fractures between 2012 and 2015."
The side effects associated with bone drugs "have gotten more hype than they should have," Dr. Desai said in an interview. "People worry about them and with preventive therapy, they don't see the benefits right away."
However, Dr. Bauer wrote, "hip fractures represent only the tip of the iceberg; timely evaluation and consideration of drug treatment are appropriate for many other individuals at high risk of fracture."
Many people at risk of breaking a bone because of osteoporosis are reluctant even to take vitamin D and calcium, nutrients critical to forming healthy bones. In a new national study reported recently by Dr. Spencer Summers, an orthopedic surgeon at the University of Miami, to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, fewer than one person in five known to have osteoporosis met the daily recommended intake of both vitamin D and calcium.
More than 10 million Americans have osteoporosis, and another 44 million are at increased risk of developing it. Osteoporosis, which means porous bones, is a chronic, progressive disease of increasingly fragile bones that can break from a relatively minor insult, like falling from a standing height.
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How Reddit was conned by its own April Fools' prank
A boring video goes viral as a hoax, but not in the way it was supposed to
By Drew Grant
April 1, 2011 10:02PM (UTC)
Web pranksters get taste of their own medicine.
I'm just about ready to have April 1 be over. Maybe pulling pranks on people used to be fun, but that was before the Internet came along and decided that today would be the day that finding any real news would take you twice as long thanks to all these "joke" stories on reputable sites. Thanks for making our jobs that much easier today, Internet! (ABC, I am especially mad at you for making me think "Mr. Sunsheen" was a real show you were going to air.)
And I'm not the only one who is pissed today: Members of the user-generated links site Reddit.com ended up getting hustled by their own yearly "April Fools video" stunt. The concept was simple: find the most boring YouTube video possible that employs Google AdSense, and then get a bunch of people on the forum to up-vote it and pass it along to their friends. In terms of Internet pranks, this one is fairly innocuous and well-intentioned, since the goal is to raise some money for one lucky YouTuber whose video would never otherwise be seen by more than four or five people.
This year, the video that was nominated by a forum member was called "Testing Out My New Wallet." It was uploaded two days ago and already has 300,000 views. It is literally just as boring as you'd imagine.
The only problem? It turns out that YouTube account holder Boojamon is actually a Reddit forum member who knew about the prank and had his friend nominate his own video as a way to get some quick money from the unsuspecting hoaxsters. It was a double-cross! When the Redditers caught on, they got very angry and immediately picked a new video to make popular, "Cast on for Double Knitting I," which is also very boring and quite a bit longer.
Why should you care about any of this? Well, every time you wonder how Rebecca Black's video got 60,000,000 views or some talking babies end up dominating the Internet for a week, it's usually thanks to the people who spend their days finding new and interesting links and posting them on Reddit, Digg and 4Chan. Even though you only hear of the sites when they spawn something like the anti-Scientology group Anonymous, their main function is actually to act as a big "Going Viral" portal for those who have time to wade through all the gibberish and in-fighting on their back-channel forums. Even Reddit's header is a good clue to its function: "The voice of the internet -- news before it happens."
So it is a little unnerving that even those Web tastemakers over on Reddit can end up getting conned on their very own video prank. It proves that the communal influence of an Internet forum isn't infallible. And if it turns out that sites like Reddit can be gamed, then who will become the authority on cute cats and adorable baby videos? Believe me, we can't leave the Matrix just yet: We're still watching stuff.
Drew Grant
Drew Grant is a staff writer for Salon. Follow her on Twitter at @videodrew.
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German menswear label WORMLAND has released their spring-summer 2012 campaign titled "Human Nature". Top male model Canadian Matt Gordon and female model Polly Brown were the stars of this campaign and shot by fashion photographer Tony Kelly. The series of witty pictures were accompanied by a short film.
The film plus some making-of videos can be viewed at the label`s in house WORMLAND TV, Facebook, Google+ and YouTube.


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Q: @Valid and Binding Result for Data from DB I am using Spring validation(JSR 303) in one of the web apps.I have no issues when a user submits data and spring validation works pretty neat.But I have a scenario where I have to fetch data from a service and validate it and then bind them to my view.(something non-form validation).How can  I use @Valid in this case or does it have to be done differently?
Here is a sample code,i started with
    @RequestMapping(value = "/{id}", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public ModelAndView getView(
        @PathVariable("id") final String id, @User user,
        HttpSession session) {

    User user=  getUser();

   BindingResult result = new BeanPropertyBindingResult(user, "user");

   validator.validate(user, result);

   if(result.hasErrors()){
       logger.log(Level.ERROR, "Errors");
   }

  ModelAndView view = new ModelAndView ("home");
  view.addObject("user",user );
  view.addAllObject(result.getModel());

   return view;

A: As far as I understand you need to inject default org.springframework.validation.Validator into your controller (if @Valid works you should be able to do it)
@Autowired
Validator validator;

run validation manually as follows
User user = ...;
BindingResult result = BeanPropertyBindingResult(user, "user");
validator.validate(user, result);

and merge results into ModelMap (declare it as argument of your method) as follows
model.addAllAttributes(result.getModel());


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Stories from the construction of the Laie Temple
byKeepapitchinin | Jun. 29, 2011
Opinions & Features
In 1915, Joseph. F. Smith, nephew of the late Prophet and acting President of the Church, was in Laie on church business. It was at least his fourth trip to the remote Pacific islands, located about a week's journey by steam ship from San Francisco. He had been in Hawaii from 1854–1857 while a teenager as a missionary. A few years later, in 1864, he was sent there again as part of a delegation from the Church to straighten out the debacle being conducted by Walter Murray Gibson at the Palawai settlement. And, finally, he lived in Laie from 1884–1891 while in exile to evade federal prosecution for polygamy (at the time the Hawaiian Islands were a sovereign kingdom, outside of the formal jurisdiction of the United States).
It's said that after a church gathering held on Tuesday, June 1, 1915, President Smith asked his companions Elder Reed Smoot and Presiding Bishop Charles W. Nibley to accompany him on a private stroll nearby to take in the evening air. From the vantage point they would have enjoyed as they left the chapel, the sky would have been dark overhead, with few lights in the country village just down the hill below.
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Following the pattern that emerged during the holiday season, brands have been turning their attention toward Instagram and away from parent company Facebook when crafting their social strategies for the Super Bowl, according to social marketing firm Unmetric.
Unmetric analyzed Super Bowl-related activity by U.S. brands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram from 2012 through 2018, and it found that brands begin posting about the Big Game as early as September, largely with a focus on giveaways.
The majority of posts, however, occur from mid-January through early February.
In its examination of the 100 most engaging Super Bowl posts by brands in 2018, Unmetric found that Instagram posts with images tallied four times more interactions than Facebook posts and 79 times more than tweets.


· The peanut butter gang was founded when seven people gathered in 1990 to make sandwiches to assist Pentecostal Minister Sister Celeste feed 600 homeless people on the street outside the NY Port Authority Building. Other people discovered what we were doing and established groups and joined in to help by making sandwiches and wash up kits. Today there are over 20 peanut butter gangs of making an average of 15,000 sandwiches and 2,300 wash up kits every month. Volunteer drivers deliver these items weekly to twenty outreach centers on Long Island and New York City.
· The Hospitality Too Soup Kitchen was started in 1992. Volunteers from all walks of life work together to provide hot meals to an average gathering of 230 people every Saturday from 11 AM to Noon.
· Every Saturday the Hospitality Too Food Pantry provides take home groceries to approximately 50 families. The groceries are the equivalent of 10 meals for each person which is roughly 2,000 meals per month.
· Our clothing team provides clothes (both new and used) to our guests every Saturday. As part of their work they also collect and give away toys which seems to make a big hit with our younger guests.
· Every Sunday a dedicated team provides meals and other key goods to about 50 people living in the woods in Huntington Station.
· Our harvesters travel to bakeries, supermarkets and other food purveyors to 'harvest' breads, cakes, pies and other items throughout the week. This enables us to give out at least 1,000 bags of bread and cake to our guests every month.
· Every other Saturday our pet food group comes and provides cat and dog food to between 35 and 45 people.
· Sandwich and wash-up kit deliveries happen on both Saturday and Monday. Sandwiches and wash-up kits are continuously coming in from other groups and we store them and distribute them twice a week. These deliveries are across Long Island and including a delivery to Harlem in NYC. On average we deliver 40 – 50 boxes of sandwiches and 20 wash-up kits every week. The boxes of sandwiches average about 70 sandwiches per box and the wash-up kits contain 20-25 individual kits in each.
· On Saturday the teams arrive between 8:00 AM and 8:30 AM and all the preparations begin. At 9:00 AM we begin our sandwich making activities (making hundreds of sandwiches in one hour). By 10:00 AM we wrap up the sandwich making and we move on to celebrating birthdays and preparing the room for our guests.
· We invite our guests to come in at 11:00 AM. At that time all the activities kick into high gear. Hot food is served, pantry goods are provided, clothing and take home breads and cakes become available and every other week pet food is distributed.
The first mission package was sent in 1996 to Africa by boat. Our generous sponsors pay for the postage of the packages. Inside each package there is a letter with the names and addresses of the sponsors. The missionaries always send a thank you note to the sponsors and frequently send photos and other poignant stories. The packages are sent to Niger, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Philippine, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Kenya, Brazil, Mexico & India. In 2017 we sent the 2000th mission package. All of which have been sent through the generosity of donations and postal sponsors.


Dexter, we saw your post at the Club. Here's hoping your wishes come true for all the homeless cats.
There's some very good news from PAWS that we put on our blog today.
Sorry I haven't visited in awhile.
I get a little catatonic in the winter.
I have ssen your post in TCC , it was purrfect wishes you have !
We went over a saw your gorgeous Christmas card. It's really very heartwarming.


....and maybe even something new about yourself!!!
....and, sometimes that takes stepping entirely out of our comfort zone.
Happy, happy Tuesday, Sweet Reader!!!
Your women series has been so fun and enlightening. Thanks for all the time and studying you did for this! I've gained a greater appreciation for these priceless women and their examples (even the naughty ones have a lesson to teach us)!
What will your next series be?


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Q: Return only numbers from a column with numbers and text Hello again stackoverflow. My question should be fairly simple; How do you return a series of numbers from a mixed column of numbers and text?
I have something analogous to;
Text
5
Text
1
Text
Text
4

What I want from this, in another worksheet, is;
5
1
0     (if two rows of text are next to each other, I'd like to return 0)
4

Thanks for any assistance.
This spreadsheet lists containers and their contents. The first text in the series is an identifying marker. The second is how many items are in the container, the third is a smaller container within the first (I don't care how many items are in that one, just if it is present or not).
Column A  (Sheet1)
Box
5
Bag
Box
1
Bag
Box
Bag
Box
4
Bag

The input is copy/pasted from a program and cannot be altered. What I want to do is, on another spreadsheet, say; Box has 5 pieces, 1 bag. Represented as;
Row 1 (Sheet2)
 Box 5 1

A: The easiest way I can think of doing this would be to use the column NEXT to this column and have the following formula (assuming your data starts in cell A1):
=IF(ISNUMBER(A1),A1,IF(NOT(ISNUMBER(A2)),0,""))

Then drag that formula down the length of your "helper column" and then filter it for non-blanks.
Hope this is a good enough answer for what you're trying to achieve...

A: Sub Boxes_and_stuff()

Dim j As Byte
Dim ThisPage As Worksheet, TargetPage As Worksheet
Dim NewBook As Workbook

Set ThisPage = ThisWorkbook.ActiveSheet
Set NewBook = Workbooks.Add   ' or you can address an existing file with workbooks.open(filename)
Set TargetPage = NewBook.Worksheets(1) ' you can also decide the sheet where you want to write your values (here by default is the first excel's "tab")

j = 1 ' cells' scanner

Do Until IsEmpty(ThisPage.Cells(j, 1))

    If ThisPage.Cells(j, 1).Text = "Box" Then
    ' if "Box" is found scan cell below to find bags or numbers

            If ThisPage.Cells(j + 1, 1).Text = "Bag" Then TargetPage.Cells(1 + j, 1) = "Box 0 1" ' if only a bag is found
            If ThisPage.Cells(j + 1, 1).Text = "Box" Then TargetPage.Cells(1 + j, 1) = "Box 0 0" ' if nothing is inside a box and another box comes next (I'm assuming that "0" items will never show)

            If IsNumeric(ThisPage.Cells(j + 1, 1)) Then ' if a number shows...

                If (ThisPage.Cells(j + 2, 1)).text = "Bag" then '... the next can be bag
                    TargetPage.Cells(1 + j, 1) = "Box " & ThisPage.Cells(j + 1, 1) & " 1"
                Else '...or not
                    TargetPage.Cells(1 + j, 1) = "Box " & ThisPage.Cells(j + 1, 1) & " 0"
                End If

            End If

    End If

j = j + 1

Loop

End Sub


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Disgusted to read that the ingredient list on her daughter's play make-up included colours, synthetic dyes, talc, mineral oil, parabens, preservatives and other toxic ingredients, Natalia Michael decided to create her own range for her daughter. Never did she think it would lead to a blossoming business.
No Nasties Makeup are Australian manufacturers of all natural face paint, hair chalk and pretty play makeup sets. We are wholesalers and retailers and all of our items are handmade in Sydney. We will be expanding into a few other ranges in the coming year too!
I suffer from 43 medium to high grade allergies and made the switch to all things natural about 4 years ago now when my health really took a dive. I started looking into what my family were eating and drinking at first and moved to organic foods and natural treatments for our health and home.
I then made the switch to all natural cosmetics and started to research and learn more and more about additives and the more I understood, the more alarmed I was at what I had been using topically in my cosmetics and toiletries products.
We are an Australian made and owned business and all of our products are handmade made from all natural ingredients which are gentle on sensitive skin.
Our colour palettes are age appropriate with bold and bright colours for face paint and hair chalk and pretty, shimmery pastels for pretty play makeup. Our gift worthy packaging is made from 100% recycled card and gorgeously eye catching.
Taking time to get everything perfect before launching! This has included educating myself, making test products and liaising with manufacturers for packaging and ingredients.
Educate yourself! The more you understand about the ingredients or additives in products, the easier it becomes to scan ingredients quickly. You will soon realise that many of the "natural" products on the shelf are actually topped off with chemicals and unnatural preservatives.
What you find may really surprise you! Also, look for natural alternatives to products you use often and if you can't find them, reach out to all natural retailers and ask if they can source it for you.
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Loving Jihad, Hating Jews & Infidels: A New York mufti tells (video)
Last year Philadelphia-born Mufti Muhammad Ibn Muneer told his faithful:
'that a martyr killed fighting for Allah holds the highest status of martyrdom, and that Muslims should never apologize for speaking the truth about Jihad, the Jews, and the Christians. Ibn Muneer explained that while there are different types of martyrs in Islam, one should not confuse any of them with the martyr who was killed in battle, who holds the highest status of martyrdom. He warned the audience not to treat lesser forms of Jihad, such as seeking knowledge and giving da'wa, as if they are equal to fighting for the sake of Allah.
Ibn Muneer said that when a Muslim makes a comment about Christians or Jews, such as saying that the Jews have earned Allah's wrath, he may face repercussions such as being called an extremist or terrorist. He explained that some people might say that videos on those topics should be taken down or made private, but that there is no need to apologize for the truth, and he asked: "What's next?... When does it stop, the neutering of the Muslim?" He also said that trying to remove Jihad from the Quran and the Sunnah is like "removing sweetness from honey." He added: "Your feelings have no value [or] worth in light of the Quran and Sunnah. If you don't believe and understand that, then maybe Islam is not the religion for you."...' [Emphasis added]
Here he is again. last year and this, telling his faithful how to deal with Jews and "kuffars".
To quote the uploader, Memri.org:
'In a Q&A session uploaded to the Hadith Disciple YouTube channel on January 31, 2018, New York cleric Mufti Muhammad Ibn Muneer said that there are different ways of dealing with different types of Jews.
He cited the Islamic principle of Al-Bara Wal-Wala (disavowal and loyalty), which he says is, as "explained by Ibn Al-Qayyim and many others... simply summed up as loving the Muslims and hating the non-Muslims... Buddhist, Hindu, this, that, so on and so forth."
He underlined that if his Jewish neighbor is "trying to do me physical harm... I have the right to defend myself."
He continued: "Look at history" when Jews and Muslims lived together and "the Muslims ran the country [and] the Jews were the minority.... The moment there is oppression" – that's "a whole different story."
In a Q&A session uploaded a year later, on January 31, 2019, he expanded on the subject, saying that a Muslim cannot maintain a close relationship with infidels with whom he had been friends prior to accepting Islam and that Muslims cannot treat non-Muslim as friends.
They may be treated with respect and friendliness in order to invite them to Islam, he said, but only a pious Muslim is worthy of a close, trusting friendship.
He added that it may be Islamically impermissible to wear soccer jerseys that have the names of non-Muslims or that contain symbols of something other than Islam, and that buying designer clothing might be supporting homosexuals or people who are bombing Muslims in Palestine.' [Emphasis added]
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hR24Fxz8zc)
Labels: Islam and Infidels, Islam and Jews, Islamic extremism in the United States, Islamic Jihad, Mufti Muhammad Ibn Muneer