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Native Vines of the Prairie
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Native Vines, no Prairie Garden is complete unless you have at least one native vining plant from your region.
The Prairies and Great Plains once formed the heart of North America. Tall grasses. trees, shrubs and other plant life were destroyed for farming on a scale never before seen.
Millions of acres of habitat and wildlife were wiped out along with wildlife.
Still, small pockets of native habit still exist. Little parks and preserves. Some parcels were deemed unworkable, while some people had the foresight to know the importance of native species.
While Switch grass, Indian grass and others get the headlines, native vines play an important roll for your wildlife habitats and prairie gardens as well.
Rambling, climbing, clinging clumps of plant life that form thick patches for a slew of wildlife species.
Plants that offer food in the way of nectar for pollinators. Fruits, berries, and seeds provide food for birds and just about every furry creature that roams the vast lands.
Brambles provide places to nest and offer protection from predators.
Whether you have a small prairie garden or a large expanse of habitat, your work isn't finished until you have at least one native vine growing in your Prairie or Great basin Gardens.
Even Poison Ivy offers food and protection.
Weather conditions can drastically vary from season to season, not to mention with locations so picking the right native vines may be a challenge for you.
With the help of this page, I have found some of the most desirable vines for your Prairie gardens and habitats. While some aren't for the small garden, others will do well for you.
I have written down hardiness zones for these plants as a guideline and you may want to check other regions for options.
There aren't as many native vines for the Prairies and Great Plains as there are for the East and southeast, but you do have several of natives to look into, just remember to look at hardiness zones first.
Apois tuberosa or americana
Common Name: Ground Nut
Zone: 3 to 9
Plant Type: Vining
Native Range: Eastern 2/3 of the United States and Ontario and Quebec, Canada
Height: 15 to 20 feet
Spread: 4 to 6 feet
Bloom Time: Late Spring/Early Summer Mid Summer
Bloom Color: lavender/Maroon in rare occasions purple.
Sun: Sun to Partial Shade Light Shade
Water: Medium
Maintenance: Medium
Tubers or ground nuts are edible.
The Ground Nut is a native vining plant to the United States and it's remnants have been found in archaeological digs of Native American campsites in southern New England that go back 9,000 years.
This plant is a climbing vine that develops pinkish-lavender and maroon flowers which form in clusters that are attractive to hummingbirds and butterflies.
Flowers are fragrant and attract other pollinators as well.
This plant may be considered a protected species; check before digging or gathering seeds.
Suitable for growing in containers.
Aristolochia tomentosa
Common Name: Dutchman's pipe
Family: Aristolochiaceae
Native Range: Southeastern and South-central United States. Expanded plantings into The Northeast and West to Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas and possibly Iowa and Nebraska.
Spread: 5 to 10 feet
Bloom Time: May - June
Bloom Color: Greenish yellow
Sun: Full sun to part shade
Maintenance: Low
Dutchman's pipe vine, a native that is growing in popularity.
Showy flowers attract butterflies. Host plant to Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly. Expansion of this plant has expanded the range of this beautiful butterfly as well.
Easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Prefers rich, moist soils. Intolerant of dry soils. If needed, cut back in late winter to control growth. Grows well from seed.
This species of Dutchman's pipe is a woody, deciduous, and twining that typically occurs along streams and in moist woods. It is typically seen in the wild climbing trees or shrubs and can rapidly grow to 20-30' tall. Features large, heart-shaped, densely-overlapping leaves (4-8" long) which can quickly cover an arbor or trellis with deep green foliage.
Commonly called Dutchman's pipe because the unusual, 2" long, yellowish-green, curved-trumpet flowers (each flaring at the calyx mouth to form three brownish-purple lobes) superficially resemble Dutch smoking pipes. Although the flowers make interesting conversation pieces, they are usually hidden by the dense foliage and are somewhat inconspicuous.
Flowers give way to ribbed, tubular seed capsules (to 3" long) which mature to a grayish-brown in September.
The leaves, young stems and flowers of this native are hairy (tomentose as the species name suggests). Very similar to A. macrophylla which is native to eastern North America, except A. macrophylla is basically glabrous (smooth). Aristolochia is a larval plant for the Pipevine swallowtail butterfly.
No serious insect or disease problems.
Can provide dense cover for sun porches, verandas, pillars, posts, trellises, arbors, fences or walls. Has been popularly used for many years to screen front porches. good selection for a butterfly garden.
Bignonia capreolata
Common Name: cross vine
Family: Bignoniaceae
Native Range: Native to Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas plus Southern portion of the northeast and well established into the deep south. Possible to grow in some northern regions., into southern Ontario with winter protection.
Bloom Color: Orange-red
Easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Tolerates full shade, but best flower production occurs in sun.
Prune after flowering if needed.
Above ground stems are not reliably winter hardy throughout USDA Zone 5 where they may die to the ground in severe winters (roots are usually hardy therein and will sprout new growth the following spring).
In colder areas, it is best to plant this native climber in a protected location and apply a winter mulch. Established plants may send up root suckers which should be removed if spread is not desired.
Cross-vine is a vigorous, semi-evergreen, woody native, which climbs by tendrils. It is grown primarily for its orange-red, trumpet-shaped spring flowers and for its ability to rapidly cover structures with attractive foliage.
In the wild, it typically grows 35-50' (less frequently to 70') and is often found climbing up the trunks of tall trees or sprawling along the ground. In cultivation, it usually grows shorter.
Foliage remains evergreen in the South, but turns reddish-purple in fall with subsequent leaf drop in the coldest areas of its range.
Fragrant, trumpet-shaped, orange-red flowers (to 2" long) appear in spring. Flowers are followed by greenish, pod-like seed capsules (to 7" long) which mature in late summer and persist into fall. A cross section of stem reveals a marking resembling the Greek cross, hence the common name.
Campsis radicans
Common Name: trumpet creeper
Native Range: Southeastern United States and beyond as it is naturalized throughout Most of the United States and Canada.
Spread: 5 to 20 feet if running up a pole.
Bloom Time: July and August
Bloom Color: Orange, scarlet
Maintenance: High
A fast growing native with flowers that attract hummingbirds.
Will naturalize and take over if not kept in check.
The problem with this native climber , is usually not how to grow it but how to restrain it. Trumpet creeper blooms on new growth, so early spring pruning will not affect the flowering.
Must be grown on sturdy structures because mature plants produce considerable weight.
This is an extremely aggressive plant which suckers profusely from underground runners and freely self-seeds. It is not wise to plant near house or other structure where the plant can grow under and rip off siding from your home or garage.
Will form impenetrable colonies in the wild which can choke out many plants that get in its way.
Radicans means stem-rooting in reference to the aerial rootlets.
A good plant for Woodland gardens and naturalized areas. Provides quick cover for fences, arbors, trellises, walls or other structures in the landscape.
Also may be grown along the ground to camouflage rock piles or old tree stumps.
A good climber for hot, dry sites. Needs lots of room. Excellent for hummingbird gardens.
Easily grown in most soils. Best in lean to average soils with regular moisture in full sun. Foliage grows well in shade, but plants need good sun for best flowering
Celastrus scandens
Common Name: American bittersweet
Plant Type: Vine
Native Range: North America
Bloom Color: Greenish-white to yellow
Sun: Full sun
Do not confuse this American gem with the invasive Oriental Bittersweet (C. orbiculatus ).
Bittersweet berries attracts birds and other wildlife and the vines offer protection and nesting.
Fall and winter interest.
Easily grown in most soils.
Best in lean to average soils with regular moisture in full sun. Lean soils help restrain growth. Will grow in part shade, but needs full sun for best flowering and subsequent fruit display.
Prune in late winter to early spring. Mature vines require little pruning other than removal of dead or excess growth.
These native are primarily dioecious (separate male and female plants), (although some have a few perfect flowers and newer cultivars are on the market that eliminate the need for male and female plants.)
Female plants need a male pollinator to produce the attractive fruit that is the signature of this vine.
Unfortunately, some nurseries do not sell the vines as male or female (as is commonly done with hollies). Generally one male plant is needed for 6-9 female plants. Female plants may be vegetatively propagated to create more female plants.
This plant may be grown on structures or allowed to ramble along the ground. It is generally best to avoid growing up small trees or through shrubs because this plant grows rapidly and can girdle trunks and branches causing damage and sometimes death.
American bittersweet is a deciduous twining woody plant that is best known for its showy red berries that brighten up fall and winter landscapes. This species is native to central and eastern North America. It is often seen growing along the ground, over and through low shrubs or circling trees in the wild.
Fruits split open in fall to reveal scarlet fleshy berry-like seeds (arils). Fruits are poisonous if ingested, but are considered to be quite tasty by many birds.
A native plant for woodland gardens, naturalized areas. Provides quick cover for fences, arbors, trellises, posts, walls or other structures in the landscape. Also may be grown along the ground to camouflage rock piles or old tree stumps.
Common Name: woodbine
Family: Ranunculaceae
Native Range: Eastern two-thirds North America, including the Great Plains and Prairies.
Bloom Time: August - October
Bloom Color: White
Water: Medium to wet
Plant will naturalize. Showy fragrant white flowers in late summer through early fall.
Easily grown in average, medium to wet, well-drained soils in full sun to part shade. This species will thrive and bloom in considerable shade. Blooms on current year's growth. May be pruned back hard (to 8-12" from the ground) to strong leaf buds in fall after flowering or in late winter to early spring.
A native vine that needs adequate supply of nutrients during the growing season to support rush of growth. Can spread aggressively by self-seeding and suckering.
Woodbine is a fall-blooming native vine that is somewhat similar in flower to the introduced species Sweet autumn clematis (C. terniflora), but lacks the tough, leathery leaves of the latter.
It is native to eastern North America, where it typically occurs in moist low woodland areas and thickets bordering streams, ponds and fence rows.
A vigorous, deciduous, twining native vine with a rampant growth habit. If given support, it will climb rapidly with the aid of tendrilous leaf petioles to 20'. Without support, it will sprawl along the ground as a dense, tangled ground cover. Features sweetly aromatic, 1.25" diameter, pure white flowers (each with 4 narrow petal-like sepals) in axillary panicles from late August to October in a profuse bloom which typically covers the foliage.
This is a dioecious native vine, with the pistillate flowers giving way to attractive, plume-like seed heads (hence the sometimes common name of old man's beard). Compound green leaves, each with 3-5 oval to elliptic sharply-toothed leaflets.
No serious insect or disease problems. Can be somewhat aggressive spreader.
Perhaps best in woodland and native plant areas where it can be allowed to scramble along the ground, over shrubs and along fences. Also may be grown on trellises, arbors, or posts. If grown through large shrubs, growth should be monitored to insure that the shrub is not overwhelmed.
Other native vine species of Clematis is C. occidentalis or purple clematis, western blue virgin's-bower.
Clematis ligusticifolia Nutt.
Common name: Western white clematis, Virgin's bower, Pepper vine, Hierba de chivo
Native Plant: native to Western U. S. ans Canada.
Family: Ranunculaceae (Buttercup Family)
Native Range:From the Prairies and West.
Height: to 20 feet.
Water: Medium to low
A strong, woody or semi-woody climber to 20 ft. or more. The wide clusters of creamy-white blossoms, from leaf axils on the upper portions of the plant, occur in such profusion they impart a white color to the whole mass of growth.
These are followed by light-catching, silky seed plumes. Deciduous leaves are pinnately compound with 5-7 leaflets.
This species' traditional name, Pepper Vine, referred to the acrid, peppery taste of the stems and leaves, which Native Americans chewed as a remedy for colds and sore throats.
It is said that the crushed roots were placed in the nostrils of tired horses to revive them.
Caution is advised: The genus is known to have poisonous species.
Small birds and rodents use the canopy for cover and nesting.
Few pest or problems with this native plant.
Ideal for the xeriscape gardening and erosion control
Lonicera sempervirens
Common Name: trumpet honeysuckle
Family: Caprifoliaceae
Native Range: Eastern and central United States. This native has found favor in gardens of the Great Plains and Prairies of North America
Bloom Time: May - June and intermittently throughout the growing season
Bloom Color: Scarlet/orange with yellow inside
A native plant with attractive flowers attract hummingbirds, butterflies and other pollinators, showy fruits offer food for birds
Easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soil in full sun. Tolerates shade, but the profuseness of flowering is inversely proportional to the amount of shade. Adapts to a wide range of soils. Prefers moist, loamy soils. Blooms primarily on previous year's stems, so prune to shape after flowering.
Trumpet honeysuckle is a vigorous, deciduous, twining native which typically grows 10-15' (less frequently to 20') and is one of the showiest of the native vining honeysuckles. Large, non-fragrant, narrow, trumpet-shaped flowers are scarlet to orangish red on the outside and yellowish inside.
Flowers appear in late spring at stem ends in whorled clusters. Flowers give way to small red berries which mature in fall and are attractive to birds.
Oval, bluish-green leaves on this native plant are glaucous beneath. This native vine is evergreen in the warm winter climates of the deep South, hence the species name of sempervirens (meaning "evergreen" in Latin). Although probably not indigenous to many parts trumpet honeysuckle has escaped cultivation and naturalized in some areas.
Best grown on trellises, fences, arbors or pergolas.
Lonicera dioica (limber or wild honeysuckle) is a more wild form of native vine honeysuckle that is used for larger habitats.
moderate moisture; woods, forests; in rocky soil.
Parthenocissus quinquefolia
Common Name: Virginia creeper
Family: Vitaceae
Native Range: Eastern two-thirds United States and Canada into Mexico.
Bloom Time: May - August
Bloom Color: Greenish white
Fruit attracts birds, foliage has attractive fall color and fall color and the showy fruit lasts into winter.
Easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade.
Tolerates full shade and a wide range of soil and environmental conditions.
This native vine is a deciduous, woody vine that is found in open areas in ravines, rich woods and valleys. A vigorous tendril-climber that needs no support and typically grows 30-50'. Adheres to flat surfaces (e.g., brick, stone or wood walls) via adhesive disks at the tendril ends.
Compound-palmate leaves (usually 5 leaflets, with each leaflet to 6" long) emerge purplish in spring, mature to dull green in summer and change to purple to crimson-red in autumn.
Fall color can be quite attractive on this native vine. Clusters of small, greenish-white flowers appear in the upper leaf axils in late spring to early summer, but are generally hidden by the foliage. Flowers give way to dark blue to black berries which are attractive to birds. Closely related to and once included in the genus Ampelopsis.
No serious problems. Mildews, leaf spots, canker and wilt are occasional problems. Also susceptible to a number of insect pests including beetles, scale and leaf hoppers.
Once attached to the side of a building or home, it becomes difficult to remove and will damage painted surfaces and leave residues.
A host plant for Silver-spotted Skipper (Epargyreus clarus) butterfly.
Common Name: wild passion flower 'Maypop'
Native Range: South and South Central United States, growing native in the southern Plains states of Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and east.
Height: 6 to 8 feet
Bloom Time: July - September
Bloom Color: White with purple crown
Very attractive flowers attract butterflies. This native vines is a host plant for Passionvine swallowtail butterflies.
Fruits are edible.
Grow in average, medium moisture, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade.
It will tolerant of drought.
Roots appreciate a loose mulch. Although this species is the hardiest of the native vine passion flowers, it is not reliably winter hardy throughout USDA Zone 5 and may not survive extremely cold winters (I have grown this in Michigan with winter protection). It is best to plant in a protected area. Can be easily grown from seed.
Passion flower is a rapid-growing native with tendril-climbing This plant may woody in warm winter climates and herbaceous (dies to the ground) in cold winter climates. A native of the Southeastern U.S. including and up to Indiana and Illinois, where it typically occurs in sandy soils, low moist woods and open areas.
Features three-lobed, dark green leaves and showy, 2.5" diameter, fringed flowers having white petals and sepals and a central crown of pinkish-purple filaments.
Flowers bloom in summer and are fragrant. Fleshy, egg-shaped, edible fruits called maypops appear in July and mature to a yellowish color in fall. Ripened maypops can be eaten fresh off or made into jelly. Maypop is also a common name for this vine.
No serious insect or disease problems for this native vine. Roots can spread aggressively.
May be used on trellises, arbors, walls or fences. The unique flower and edible fruit make this vine an extremely interesting plant for the garden.
V. aestivalis (summer grape)
Vitis riparia, also commonly known as River Bank Grape or Frost Grape, is a native vine of America, climbing or trailing vine, widely distributed from Quebec to Texas, and Montana to New England.
It is long-lived and capable of reaching into the upper canopy of the tallest trees. It produces dark fruit that are appealing to both birds and people, and has been used extensively in commercial viticulture as grafted rootstock and in hybrid grape breeding programs.
Mature native vines have loose, fissured bark, and may attain several inches in diameter. Leaves are alternate, often with opposite tendrils or inflorescences, coarsely toothed, 5–25 cm (2–10in) long and 5–20 cm (2–8in) broad, sometimes with sparse hairs on the underside of veins.
The inflorescence is paniculate 4–15 cm (1.5–6 in) long and loose, and the flowers are small, fragrant, dioecious, and white or greenish in color. Wild grapes blooms in May or June and produces a small 6–15 mm blue-black berry (grape) with a bloom, seeded, juicy, edible, vinous in flavor, lacking the "foxy" characteristics of Vitis labrusca, but usually quite sour and herbaceous.
This plant has a wide range and may deviate considerably in detail from the above general description. White berries, perfect flowers, large clusters, large berries, and sweet fruit are among the known variations. However, some observers consider such variations as evidence of natural hybridization with other species of grapes.
V. riparia has the largest geographical range of any of the North American Vitis species. It is present across nearly the entire eastern half of North America, excepting the far south and the most western portions of the great plains. Variants of the species have been observed as far north as Riding Mountain National Park in Manitoba, Canada and as far west as Montana, Nebraska, and North Dakota.
In the wild, the vine thrives along exposed areas with good sun exposure and adequate soil moisture, such as riverbanks, forest clearings, fence lines and along road sides. The species has adapted to a variety of soil chemistries.
If you don't have the time to maintain wild grapes, they are bes left in nature, large habitats, hedges and fence rows.
Other native vines for the wildlife habitats would be Smilax spp: or common name of Greenbrier.
Several species of Greenbrier are native to the Prairies and Great Plains.
Though not a particularly attractive plant, Greenbriers offer food and protection for several species of birds and animals.
Woody or Herbaceous and many are endangered species. These natives need male and female flowers to pollinate.
There are 20 native species in North America north of Mexico. They are climbing flowering plants, many of which are woody and/or thorny. Common names include catbriers, greenbriers, prickly-ivys and smilaxes. Occasionally, the non-woody species such as the Smooth Herbaceous Greenbrier (S. herbacea) is called "carrion flowers" for the unpleasing oder they emit.
The different species of Grenbriers play an important roll in nature, as all of them offer food for pollinators, fruits and berries for birds, small mammals and even larger creatures that forage on fruits.
The thick growing plants also offer prtoection and nestiong sights for many species of birds in your habitats.
One last plant of some interest.
Menispermum canadense L.
Common name: Canadian moonseed
Family: Menispermaceae
Menispermum canadense is a woody vine, climbing on adjacent plants or running along the ground if nothing is available to climb on. The leaves are simple, alternate and usually shallowly lobed.
Fruits are blue drupes 6-10 mm diameter with a single large flattened seed suggesting a crescent moon (and thereby providing the common name).
The fruits are reported to be poisonous with potentially fatal consequences. The fruits are roughly similar to those of our Vitis riparia (frost grape) and wild food foragers should be very careful to distinguish between the two, and to refrain from eating wild fruits if they are not absolutely sure of the identification.
Because of this, it is not a highly recommended plant for gardens where kids live near.
It is hardy to zone 5. It is in flower from June to July, and the seeds ripen from October to November. The flowers are dioecious (individual flowers are either male or female, but only one sex is to be found on any one plant so both male and female plants must be grown if seed is required)The plant is not self-fertile.
The plant prefers light (sandy), medium (loamy) and heavy (clay) soils. The plant prefers acid, neutral and basic (alkaline) soils. It can grow in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade. It requires moist soil.
Ideal for large areas where birds and small mammals can feed and find refuge.
Vines may not be for you and your gardens, but they play an important roll in nature and it is important that you know what vines are native and what roll they play in your habitats and gardens.
You may want to see what vines other regions may offer or look into a good native plant source in your area.
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Asda Recalls Corned Beef Range After Traces Of Bute Drug Found
09/04/2013 04:39pm BST | Updated April 10, 2013
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Asda is recalling all corned beef from its budget range after traces of veterinary drug phenylbutazone were found in some batches.
The Food Standards Agency said "very low levels" of the painkilling medicine, known as bute, were detected in the Asda Smart Price Corned Beef.
Customers who have bought the 340g tins, with any date code, have been urged not to eat the corned beef but to return it to the supermarket.
Asda withdrew the product on 8 March after it was found to contain more than 1% horse DNA. Bute was detected in some samples, at the level of four parts per billion (4ppb), when further tests were carried out.
The corned beef is the only meat product in which bute has been found, according to the FSA.
Bute had been discovered in horse carcasses in February however, with the highest level found being 1900ppb.
The FSA said no other Asda products are thought to be affected and that customers who bought the corned beef should contact the supermarket for a refund.
They said that while animals treated with bute should not enter the food chain, the risk of damage to the health of anyone who had eaten such meat is "very low".
Chief Medical Officer Professor Dame Sally Davies previously said: "Horse meat containing phenylbutazone presents a very low risk to human health.
"Phenylbutazone, known as bute, is a commonly used medicine in horses. It is also prescribed to some patients who are suffering from a severe form of arthritis."
She said the levels of bute previously found in horse carcasses meant a person would have to eat up to 600 burgers, containing 100% horse meat, every day to come close to consuming a human's daily dose of the drug.
Dame Sally added: "In patients who have been taking phenylbutazone as a medicine there can be serious side effects but these are rare. It is extremely unlikely that anyone who has eaten horse meat containing bute will experience one of these side effects."
Horse carcasses in the UK need to have a negative bute test before they can enter the food chain.
In a statement on the Asda website, the supermarket said it was also recalling tins of Chosen By You corned beef.
"The tinned Chosen By You Corned Beef (340g) product, also withdrawn in March, has not tested positive for phenylbutazone," the statement read.
"However as a precaution it is also being recalled as it is made in the same factory."
Asda claimed to have taken "an extremely cautious approach since the very beginning" and had carried out more than 700 tests so far, "moving swiftly to remove any products" when they had any concerns.
The supermarket added: "The FSA has reassured us that the quantities we've found pose a low risk to human health."
Shadow environment secretary Mary Creagh said the discovery of bute in the corned beef was "worrying".
The Labour MP said: "It is deeply worrying that bute, a drug banned from the human food chain, has been discovered in one brand of corned beef.
"This product was withdrawn from sale on 8 March yet has only been formally recalled now, after testing positive for bute, meaning people could have unwittingly been eating meat containing this drug for the last month.
"This exposes the weaknesses in the government's handling of the horsemeat scandal where products were withdrawn but in some cases not tested either for horsemeat or bute. The interests of the consumer should have been put first."
In a separate development today, the FSA said that two more beef products had been found to contain horse DNA as part of the UK-wide sampling they had undertaken.
The FSA confirmed results for four of the remaining five samples tested under the programme, adding that all five products had already been removed from sale.
Neither of the two samples containing horse DNA at or above the 1% threshold for reporting - a burger bought from Nefyn Pizza and Kebab House in Gwynedd and manufactured by the Burger Manufacturing Company and a beefburger bought from Pig Out in Walsall and manufactured by King Fry Meat Products - were found to contain bute or pig DNA.
There is one result yet to be reported.
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Art, Literature and Environmental Justice
Fri 5 Feb 2016, 18:30 - 20:00
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The role of arts in the fight for environmental justice in West Africa and beyond
Just over twenty years ago writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight Ogoni activists were executed by the Nigerian military government for their campaign against the exploitation of the Niger Delta by Shell. A panel of artists Sokari Douglas Camp and Michael McMillan, designer Jon Daniel and artist-campaigner Suzanne Dhaliwal discuss the role of the arts in the fight for environmental justice in West Africa and beyond. The event is chaired by curator David A Bailey, MBE.
In association with Platform London
David A Bailey MBE is a photographer, writer, curator, lecturer and cultural facilitator who lives and works in London. His practice is focused on the issues that relate to black representations in the areas of photography, performance and artists' film. One of his main concerns is the notion of diaspora and black representation in art. He co-curated the groundbreaking exhibitions Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance with Richard J Powell at the Hayward Gallery in 1997, and Back to Black: Art, Cinema and the Racial Imaginary with Petrine Archer-Straw and Richard J Powell at Whitechapel Art Gallery in London in 2005. From 1996 to 2002, he was Co-Director of the African and Asian Visual Artists Archive (AAVAA) at the University of East London. From 2005 to 2009, he was Senior Curator of Autograph (ABP), and from 2005 to today he is the Curator at Platform for the Remember Saro-Wiwa Living Memorial.
Sokari Douglas Camp was born in Nigeria and has represented Britain and Nigeria in national exhibitions as well showing in more than 40 solo exhibitions worldwide. Her public artworks include Battle Bus: Living Memorial for Ken Saro‐Wiwa (2006), a full-scale replica of a Nigerian steel bus, which stands as a monument to the late Niger Delta activist and writer. In 2003 Sokari was shortlisted for the Trafalgar Square Fourth Plinth. Her work is in permanent collections at The Smithsonian Museum, The Setagaya Art Museum in Tokyo and the British Museum. She was awarded a CBE in recognition of her services to art.
Jon Daniel is a British-born, award-winning creative of African Caribbean heritage. In a career spanning over twenty-five years, he has worked as an art director for many of London's leading advertising agencies; co-founded and served as Executive Creative Director with two creative companies; writes a regular monthly column called '4 Corners' for Design Week; and has also begun to forge a reputation in the cultural arena as an artist, curator and collector.
Suzanne Dhaliwal is an activist and campaigner, working on indigenous rights and mining issues. She has worked with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders Canada raising awareness about the impacts of mining on the mental health of indigenous communities impacted by mining in Colombia. She has been connecting environmental justice struggles in the Arctic, Tar Sands and Nigeria specifically around Shell's human rights violations, most recently with London campaign group Platform. Since 2011 she has developed anti-oppression and creative action trainings to support the development of a creative-inclusive environmental movement grounded in anti-oppression principles.
Michael McMillan is a London-based writer, playwright, artist/curator and scholar. His work includes: The West Indian Front Room (2005-06), No Colour Bar: Black British Art in Action 1960-1990 (2015-16), Rockers, Soulheads & Lovers: Sound Systems Back in Da Day (2015-16). He has an Arts Doctorate from Middlesex University 2010, and is currently an Assoc. Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the London College of Fashion, UAL.
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UFO: Aftershock est un jeu vidéo de tactique au tour par tour sur PC, développé par Altar Interactive et édité par  en 2005.

Le jeu s'inspire plus particulièrement du premier jeu de la série, UFO: Enemy Unknown (1994), plutôt que de son prédécesseur direct, UFO: Aftermath.

Synopsis
Le jeu se passe en 2054, soit 50 ans après les évènements de UFO: Aftermath, en supposant que les humains aient décidé de laisser les Réticuliens continuer leur projet vis-à-vis de la Biomasse. Pendant cinquante ans, une grande partie de l'humanité a vécu dans l'espace, dans une immense station spatiale nommée Laputa. Ignorant leur passé, et pour certains même leurs origines, un incident sur la station les obligent à quitter leur foyer et à renouer des liens avec leur passé, obscur.

Déroulement du jeu
La mission du joueur est d'identifier, localiser et neutraliser la menace extraterrestre pour permettre à la Terre de se remettre de l'invasion et de se reconstruire.
Les territoires sont conquis au moyen de missions tactiques constituées d'une escouade de soldats recrutés et équipés par le joueur.

Les phases de combat se passent en temps réel, avec un système permettant d'ajuster ou de mettre en pause la vitesse d'avancement. Les phases de stratégies résident dans la gestion de son équipe, la recherche, le développement, la diplomatie, et la planification des attaques. Par contre, à l'opposé de ces prédécesseurs, il n'y a pas de phases d'interceptions aériennes.

Le jeu est notoirement bugé, et cela même après la mise à jour 1.2 qui résout les bug les plus importants.
Un patch 1.3 fait par des fans est disponible sur le site officiel du jeu.

Les développeurs ont réalisé une suite UFO: Afterlight, utilisant le même concept sur Mars.

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Meet Tactical Haptics' New Transformable VR Controllers
By Kevin Carbotte 2018-01-11T01:42:03Z
Tactical Haptics's transforming VR controller lets you wield a sword, use a two-handed weapon and drive a car without leaving VR.
LAS VEGAS — Tactical Haptics revealed a VR peripheral that can be reconfigured for different game mechanics on-the-fly, so you can switch among wielding a sword, using a two-handed weapon and driving a car, all with the same controller and without leaving VR.
Tactical Haptics' twin controllers in pistol mode.
Tactical Haptics designed the new VR controllers to support the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive. The controllers don't work on their own, but pair with the peripherals from each platform to extend the capabilities of the existing input systems. The model that Tactical Haptics is showing off at CES features slots to mount the Oculus Touch controllers. The company also created a model for the Vive, which features mounting points for Vive Trackers.
This isn't the first time we've heard about Tactical Haptics. In late 2016, the company secured $2.2 million to fast-track the development of its force feedback system that "applies in-hand shear force to create compelling physical feedback." The company later demonstrated a prototype controller at GDC 2017 and announced a plug-in for Unity developers could use to add support for the company's proprietary haptics system.
MORE: Best VR Headsets
Tactical Haptics' latest controller design uses the company's force-feedback technology, which can simulate inertia, elasticity and impact forces in your hands. But we already knew that Tactical Haptics was building that technology.
The exciting surprise is the company's new modular-controller configuration system that lets you change the controller's function on-the-fly. Several companies are working on haptic gloves for VR, including HaptX and Dexta Robotics. Tactical Haptics is the only company we know of that is building controllers that adapt to the needed game mechanic.
Two Tactical Haptics controllers joined in the gamepad configuration.
The Tactical Haptics controllers are quite large compared to the compact Touch controllers, but in this case, that's a benefit. The extra mass of the controller provides mounting points where you can mate the two devices to form a variety of different controller configurations.
The base configuration for the Tactical Haptics controllers features two separated motion controllers that you can use for hand interactions and single-handed weapons, such as pistols, or a sword and shield. When the game calls for a two-handed interaction, such as holding a rifle or driving a car, you can fuse the two controllers together to better match the input device with the interaction.
The controllers feature an array of mechanical fasteners that hold the controllers together in several configurations. You can join the two controllers together in the center to form a makeshift gamepad, or you can attach them at the top to create a V-shaped controller that can simulate a steering wheel or flight rudder. You can also attach them from front to back to create a two-handed rifle peripheral.
The Tactical Haptics controllers in the form of a machine gun.
Tactical Haptics said there are two versions of the modular motion controllers. One features slots to attach Oculus Touch controllers. The other has mounts for HTC's Vive Trackers. Each controller features a variety of inputs, including grip buttons on the handle, two face buttons for your thumbs, a thumbstick for navigating menus and triggers for grabbing and shooting.
Tactical Haptics created a game called Colony Defense to demonstrate the capabilities of the new controllers. Colony Defense is a first-person strategy game in which you must protect a space colony from invading insects.
To start the game, you must "build" your turret by attaching the two controllers. Tactical Haptics said that the Colony Defense demo is a "work in progress" but it "nicely demonstrates the potential for reconfigurable controllers."
While we're sure that Colony Defense does its job to demonstrate the potential, we can't help but imagine playing a game like Grand Theft Auto in VR with these controllers. That kind of game would really highlight the need for a controller that can adapt as you play.
Tactical Haptics didn't mention a release date, and the company didn't discuss pricing. In fact, it seems the company is abandoning the consumer market in favor of the location-based entertainment business.
Imax is already using the Tactical Haptics controller for the Justice League VR experience, and Tactical Haptics said that it is "seeking partner opportunities with high-profile LBEs as well as manufacturing partners while at CES" as part of its "near-term refocusing on location-based entertainment."
Hopefully, we'll eventually see a consumer model hit the market.
Image credits: Tactical Haptics
This article originally appeared on Tom's Hardware.
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The first commercially available hot sauce was introduced in 1807.
The oldest surviving brand is Tabasco, introduced in 1868.
The United Kingdom is home to two of the hottest peppers in the world, the Naga Viper and the Infinity chili.
A chili pepper's "hotness" is measured by the Scoville Scale - the higher the rating a pepper has on the scale, the more capsaicinoids it has and the more intense the chili flavor it has.
India is the world's largest producer and consumer of chili peppers.
Probably many of you knew these facts before, but I found it a fun search. While I'm not a fan of Tabasco, it is amazing how long that brand has been around.
So I guess I'll have to add some hot sauce to dinner! The kids have already decided they want spaghetti for tonight's dinner, so we'll experiment with Hott spaghetti and maybe some Hott garlic bread. I'll put NW Elixirs Hott Sauce on the table as a condiment for the spaghetti sauce, and add Verde Hott to the garlic butter before we toast the bread. I'll let you know what everyone thinks next time.
Leave me some comments on how you are going to celebrate Hot Sauce Day! I'd love to hear some creative ideas to try out myself.
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Q: Calling "sysctlbyname(...)" with "hw.machine" flag in iOS9 Following WWDC 2015 session "703 Privacy and Your App", there is changes using sysctl. And now there we will no longer be able to call kern.proc, kern.procargs, kern.procargs2 and see data from any other processes then one's self. It's a quite legit privacy hardening by Apple.
Can anyone confirm that calling sysctlbyname(...) with hw.machine to fetch exact device name is allowed in iOS9 and not affected by restriction mentioned above?

A: Yes,I have tested it Using Xcode7 beta5 in iPhone5(iOS9 beta5 installed,not simulator).
+(NSString *) getDeviceModel {
    size_t size;
    sysctlbyname("hw.machine", NULL, &size, NULL, 0);
    char *model = malloc(size);
    sysctlbyname("hw.machine", model, &size, NULL, 0);
    NSString *deviceModel = [NSString stringWithCString:model encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
    free(model);
    return deviceModel;
}

And the returning value is "iPhone5,2".So I thought the device name is not affected by restriction on the "sysctl" function.

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A different kind of geek parade now descends upon Austin as SXSW Edu wraps up and SXSW Interactive revs up. I'm overlapping between the two events to welcome our MCDM Flip The Media SXSW team, connect with some friends at a Starbucks Speed Pitch session, and to attend an O'Reilly Media Mini Tools of Change for Publishing conference tomorrow.
I like Dr. McGonigal's work, but I'd rather get ideas about K-12 educational reform from people who've actually taught K-12.


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Q: accessing a jpg which is not in the web folder through PHP I recently found a youtube video that talked about accessing a PDF in a web browser. It was interesting because as I suspected I could access a PDF most anywhere on the system (given permissions) and pass it along via PHP to a web browser.
I do not want his to become a security discussion so please abstain from security comments!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4a6QJSGL28
The code looks something like this
$file="/home/kodi/Pictures/scans/test.pdf";
$filename="test.pdf";

header('Content-type: application/pdf');
header('Content-disposition: inline; filename="'.$filename.'"');
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Accept-Ranges: bytes');
@readfile($file);

So I tested and it works then I tried this
$file="/home/kodi/Pictures/scans/test.jpg";
$filename="test.jpg";

header('Content-type: application/jpg');
header('Content-disposition: inline; filename="'.$filename.'"');
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Accept-Ranges: bytes');
@readfile($file);

Oddly enough this did NOT display in a web browser, but several seconds later, my preferred app for downloaded jpgs opened and there was the file . It had downloaded instead of opening in browser.
I have been working on a LAN app that can access users folders on the server through PAM authentication and have been using base64 encoding, however I felt that if I could reduce the overhead of base64 images (30%) , conversions and literally converting each image in a list to display links to them, the system would load faster. This would definately be a better way but everyone says that this kind of thing does not work! The proof that there is hope that it will work ios in the file I downloaded from the web server that was in a user folder.
Any ideas how to make it work with jpgs?

A: Your content type is incorrect, it should be image/jpeg, instead of application/jpg


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Q: How to use do.call to add elements to a ggplot object? Objection
I would like to use do.call to combine a list of layers e with a main plot g.
My intention is to use annotation_custom(ggplotGrob(x)) objects (where x is an independent ggplot object)
to overlay a main plot with.

*

*e: objects of class LayerInstance/Layer/ggproto

*g: object of class gg/ggplot
Simplified problem
This simplified example uses a list e of calls to geom_* functions:
library(ggplot2)
# data
d <- data.frame(a = 1:3, x = 1:3, y = 1:3)
# main plot
g <- ggplot(d, aes(x, y, label = a))
# plot elements
e <- list(geom_point(), geom_text())

Undesired solution
To combine the plot g with all elements in e, I could use single elements (which works) as in:
g + e[[1]] + e[[2]]

But my intention is (for automation reasons) to use do.call.
Problem
Using do.call with + and a list of g and es fails:
do.call(`+`, c(list(g), e))
# Error in .Primitive("+")(list(data = list(a = 1:3, x = 1:3, y = 1:3),  :
#   unused argument (<environment>)

Question
How can I use do.call, the + method and my list of g and es correctly?

A: I don't think you need do.call for this. do.call uses the list you provided to run it as arguments within the function. + only takes 2 arguments though. If you want to chain calls with +, Reduce would do the job with the same call.
Reduce(`+`, c(list(g), e))

Output:

A: what's wrong with just g + e ?

A: This also works:
do.call(`+`, c(list(g), list(e)))


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Sex hormone-binding globulin and risk of type 2 diabetes in women and men
N Engl J Med. 2009 Sep 17;361(12):1152-63. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa0804381. Epub 2009 Aug 5.
Eric L Ding 1 , Yiqing Song, JoAnn E Manson, David J Hunter, Cathy C Lee, Nader Rifai, Julie E Buring, J Michael Gaziano, Simin Liu
1 Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA.
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa0804381
Background: Circulating sex hormone-binding globulin levels are inversely associated with insulin resistance, but whether these levels can predict the risk of developing type 2 diabetes is uncertain.
Methods: We performed a nested case-control study of postmenopausal women in the Women's Health Study who were not using hormone therapy (359 with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes and 359 controls). Plasma levels of sex hormone-binding globulin were measured; two polymorphisms of the gene encoding sex hormone-binding globulin, SHBG, that were robustly associated with the protein levels were genotyped and applied in mendelian randomization analyses. We then conducted a replication study in an independent cohort of men from the Physicians' Health Study II (170 with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes and 170 controls).
Results: Among women, higher plasma levels of sex hormone-binding globulin were prospectively associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes: multivariable odds ratios were 1.00 for the first (lowest) quartile of plasma levels, 0.16 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.08 to 0.33) for the second quartile, 0.04 (95% CI, 0.01 to 0.12) for the third quartile, and 0.09 (95% CI, 0.03 to 0.21) for the fourth (highest) quartile (P<0.001 for trend). These prospective associations were replicated among men (odds ratio for the highest quartile of plasma levels vs. the lowest quartile, 0.10; 95% CI, 0.03 to 0.36; P<0.001 for trend). As compared with homozygotes of the respective wild-type allele, carriers of a variant allele of the SHBG single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs6259 had 10% higher sex hormone-binding globulin levels (P=0.005), and carriers of an rs6257 variant had 10% lower plasma levels (P=0.004); variants of both SNPs were also associated with a risk of type 2 diabetes in directions corresponding to their associated sex hormone-binding globulin levels. In mendelian randomization analyses, the predicted odds ratio of type 2 diabetes per standard-deviation increase in the plasma level of sex hormone-binding globulin was 0.28 (95% CI, 0.13 to 0.58) among women and 0.29 (95% CI, 0.15 to 0.58) among men, a finding that suggests that sex hormone-binding globulin may have a causal role in the risk of type 2 diabetes.
Conclusions: Low circulating levels of sex hormone-binding globulin are a strong predictor of the risk of type 2 diabetes in women and men. The clinical usefulness of both SHBG genotypes and plasma levels in stratification and intervention for the risk of type 2 diabetes warrants further examination.
2009 Massachusetts Medical Society
Biomarkers / blood
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / blood
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / genetics*
Linear Models
Linkage Disequilibrium
Multivariate Analysis
Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide*
Postmenopause / blood
ROC Curve
Sex Hormone-Binding Globulin / analysis*
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Sex Hormone-Binding Globulin
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U.S. Senators Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) sent a letter to Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor Loren Sweatt, urging the Department of Labor (DOL) to delay enforcement of the respirable crystalline silica rule for general industry. The letter was signed by eight other Republican senators, and asks that OSHA extend the enforcement deadline an additional 180 days from the June 23, 2018, compliance date.
The letter outlines the senators' concerns, based on input from constituents and impacted stakeholder groups, about additional burdens and regulatory costs on general industry and small manufacturers in particular. It also requests that the DOL work with small businesses to improve their compliance efforts as it works to develop and finalize guidance documents.
J. J. Keller's Crystalline Silica Training addresses critical information workers must be aware of regarding the dangers of respirable crystalline silica.


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White Houses Releases AI Bill of Rights Blueprint
By MedTech Intelligence Staff
On Tuesday, October 4, the White House released a Blueprint for an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Bill of Rights geared toward protecting the American public as the use of AI and machine learning expands throughout industry and online.
Against a backdrop of growing concern surrounding biased data and rights to privacy and informed consent, the White House has released the "Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights" that lays out five principles and associated practices to protect the American public against potential harm. "Among the great challenges posed to democracy today is the use of technology, data and automated systems in ways that threaten the rights of the American public," read the White House statement introducing the blueprint. The statement cites the use of algorithms in hiring and credit decisions that exacerbate unwanted inequities and discrimination, as well as unchecked social media data collection as just some of the concerns facing the country, while also recognizing the significant benefits brought about through the use of automated systems in agriculture, emergency preparedness and health care.
"This important progress must not come at the price of civil rights or democratic values," the statement reads. "The President has spoken forcefully about the urgent challenges posed to democracy today and has regularly called on people of conscience to act to preserve civil rights—including the right to privacy, which he has called 'the basis for so many more rights that we have come to take for granted that are ingrained in the fabric of this country.'"
The blueprint includes five principles that lay out individual's rights and signal potential regulatory frameworks to guide the design, use and deployment of automated systems to protect those rights. They include, in part:
Safe and Effective Systems: You should be protected from unsafe or ineffective systems.
"Automated systems should be developed with consultation from diverse communities, stakeholders, and domain experts to identify concerns, risks, and potential impacts of the system. Systems should undergo pre-deployment testing, risk identification and mitigation, and ongoing monitoring that demonstrate they are safe and effective based on their intended use, mitigation of unsafe outcomes including those beyond the intended use, and adherence to domain-specific standards … Independent evaluation and reporting that confirms that the system is safe and effective, including reporting of steps taken to mitigate potential harms, should be performed and the results made public whenever possible."
Algorithmic Discrimination Protections: You should not face discrimination by algorithms, and systems should be used and designed in an equitable way.
"… Designers, developers, and deployers of automated systems should take proactive and continuous measures to protect individuals and communities from algorithmic discrimination and to use and design systems in an equitable way. This protection should include proactive equity assessments as part of the system design, use of representative data and protection against proxies for demographic features, ensuring accessibility for people with disabilities in design and development, pre-deployment and ongoing disparity testing and mitigation, and clear organizational oversight …"
Data Privacy: You should be protected from abusive data practices via built-in protections and you should have agency over how data about you is used.
"… Designers, developers, and deployers of automated systems should seek your permission and respect your decisions regarding collection, use, access, transfer, and deletion of your data in appropriate ways and to the greatest extent possible; where not possible, alternative privacy by design safeguards should be used. Systems should not employ user experience and design decisions that obfuscate user choice or burden users with defaults that are privacy invasive. Consent should only be used to justify collection of data in cases where it can be appropriately and meaningfully given. Any consent requests should be brief, be understandable in plain language, and give you agency over data collection and the specific context of use; current hard-to-understand notice-and-choice practices for broad uses of data should be changed …"
Notice and Explanation: You should know that an automated system is being used and understand how and why it contributes to outcomes that impact you.
"Designers, developers, and deployers of automated systems should provide generally accessible plain language documentation including clear descriptions of the overall system functioning and the role automation plays, notice that such systems are in use, the individual or organization responsible for the system, and explanations of outcomes that are clear, timely, and accessible. Such notice should be kept up-to-date and people impacted by the system should be notified of significant use case or key functionality changes … Reporting that includes summary information about these automated systems in plain language and assessments of the clarity and quality of the notice and explanations should be made public whenever possible."
Human Alternatives, Consideration, and Fallback: You should be able to opt out, where appropriate, and have access to a person who can quickly consider and remedy problems you encounter.
"You should be able to opt out from automated systems in favor of a human alternative, where appropriate .. You should have access to timely human consideration and remedy by a fallback and escalation process if an automated system fails, it produces an error, or you would like to appeal or contest its impacts on you. Human consideration and fallback should be accessible, equitable, effective, maintained, accompanied by appropriate operator training, and should not impose an unreasonable burden on the public. Automated systems with an intended use within sensitive domains, including, but not limited to, criminal justice, employment, education, and health, should additionally be tailored to the purpose, provide meaningful access for oversight, include training for any people interacting with the system, and incorporate human consideration for adverse or high-risk decisions."
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Prior to design verification of packaged products, consider the following process-related elements.
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Susan Alpert, M.D. is president of SFA Consulting, LLC. She previously served as senior vice president, chief regulatory officer at Medtronic and was responsible for all of the company's global regulatory efforts. Prior to joining Medtronic, Alpert served as vice president of regulatory sciences for C.R. Bard, Inc. She also previously worked at FDA where she held a variety of positions in the Centers dealing with drugs, devices and radiological health, and foods, including six years as the director of the Office of Device Evaluation.
Alpert is a microbiologist and a pediatrician with a specialty in infectious diseases and has practical experience in laboratory research and clinical trials. She serves on the board of advisors for the Medical Technology Leadership Forum and the board of the Women Business Leaders, or organization of women leaders in the health care sector. She also serves on the Executive Committee of the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative, one of the public/private partnerships working with FDA to streamline the development of medical products.
Dr. Christopher Joseph Devine is the president of Devine Guidance International, a consulting firm specializing in providing solutions for regulatory compliance, quality, supplier management, and supply-chain issues facing the device industry. Devine has 32 years of experience in quality assurance, regulatory compliance and program management. He is a senior member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ), a member of the Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS), and a member of the Project Management Institute, and resides on several technical advisory boards. Devine received his doctorate from Northcentral University, with his doctoral dissertation titled, "Exploring the Effectiveness of Defensive-Receiving Inspection for Medical Device Manufacturers: A Mixed-Method Study." Devine holds a graduate degree in organizational management (MAOM) and an undergraduate degree in business management (BSBM).
Mark Leimbeck is the principal of UL Solutions Risk Management Practice. He has served as a subject matter expert and advisor in a number of functional areas, including risk management, quality management, project management, software application development, and engineering. During his career, Leimbeck has led and supported the implementation of various corporate improvement and development programs including quality system and regulatory compliance programs, new product development, IT systems and enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation, and quality/lean Six Sigma process improvement projects. Leimbeck continues in a subject matter and advisory role, and participates in international, national and industry-based standards and guidance development committees. He holds a B.S. E.E.T. from Southern Illinois University and an M.B.A from the University of Chicago.
Stephen Wilcox, Ph.D., FIDSA is a principal and the founder of Design Science (Philadelphia), a 30+ person firm that specializes in optimizing the usability of products, particularly medical devices for clients including many major multinational corporations. Wilcox is a member of the Industrial Designers Society of America's (IDSA) Academy of Fellows. He also served for several years as Chair of the IDSA Human Factors Professional Interest Section.
Wilcox also serves on the Advisory Boards of the Industrial Design Department of Philadelphia University and the School of Design of Carnegie Mellon University, on the Human Factors Engineering Committee of AAMI, and on the ISO/IEC committee ("Working Group 4") that wrote the standard, IEC/ISO 62366. He holds a BS in psychology and anthropology from Tulane University, a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Penn State, and a Certificate in Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has won a number of design awards, has guest edited the journal Innovation several times and has served as a judge for a number of product design award competitions.
Wilcox has given hundreds of invited addresses to various organizations, has published more than 70 articles in professional journals, and is the current Editor in Chief of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society journal, Ergonomics in Design. His book, Designing Usability into Medical Products (CRC/Taylor & Francis), co-authored with Michael Wiklund, was published in 2005.
Alberto Velez is a consultant for Chimera Consulting North America, LLC. Velez is a recognized expert in organization development for combination products with more than 12 years of experience in applying CGMP concepts to more than 35 combination products in new product development, manufacturing and quality systems. He is a frequent speaker on combination products topics at industry meetings and has more than 30 years of varied experience in medical device and combination product quality assurance, FDA readiness, product development and organizational effectiveness in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. Velez has applied the CGMP's/QSR's to several different divisions in the Johnson & Johnson family of companies as well as other smaller medical device companies. He has also led R&D teams to develop and launch new technologies in endoscopic surgery and enteral feeding. His educational background is in chemical engineering, industrial engineering and quality engineering.
John Pracyk, is a rare Neurological Surgeon with an uncommon blend of business and medical expertise. This sophisticated futurist is recognized as a national thought leader in the design, development, and management of collaborative care delivery based on his history of healthcare program build-outs and medical administration successes. An accomplished writer and platform speaker, he is a frequently requested keynote speaker at prestigious organizations such as the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, The Barrow Neurological Institute, and Stryker Performance Solutions.
Having completed a healthcare-focused MBA from the nation's preeminent physician-only degree program, with a Master's thesis on competitive strategy and service-line development, Dr. Pracyk is a proactive innovator who inspires teams to surpass organizational goals, exceed patient care metrics, and enable transformational change. Healthgrades acknowledged him with their honor roll distinction.
His career to date has been characterized by three key elements: First, his ability to foster multidisciplinary consensus and collaborative care; second, his grasp of competitive strategy as a program architect; and third, his ethics-driven approach to medicine. While recognizing that revenue generation drives business, Dr. Pracyk balances business necessities with patient care and market realities. In 2016, Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices appointed him Franchise (Worldwide) Medical Director for Spine.
Patrick Caines is director, quality & post-market surveillance at Baxter Healthcare where he is responsible for the company's global post-market surveillance and associated quality systems. Caines has 20 years' experience in quality systems and compliance for both medical devices and clinical diagnostics and served as director, corporate post-market surveillance at General Electric Healthcare and Boston Scientific, and director of worldwide customer quality at Johnson and Johnson. Caines began his career as a hospital-based clinical laboratory scientist and held faculty appointments at the University of Windsor and Wayne State University. He holds a Ph.D. in clinical biochemistry from the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada as well as an MBA from St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York.
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import kbfcli

class TestRun(object):
    def test_run(self):
        kbfcli.run_kbf_client([])

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Mario Palanti (20 september 1885 - 4 september 1978) was een Italiaanse architect, die gedurende zijn carrière vele belangrijke gebouwen in Argentinië en Uruguay heeft ontworpen. Hij werd geboren in 1885 te Milaan en studeerde architectuur aan de Brera Academie en de Technische Universiteit van Milaan. In 1909 vertrok hij samen met Francesco Gianotti naar Buenos Aires met de opdracht het Italiaanse paviljoen te ontwerpen voor de Exposición Internacional del Centenario.

Gedurende de daaropvolgende twintig jaar werkte hij aan beide kanten van de Río de la Plata. Hier werkte hij voor rijke cliënten in voornamelijk Montevideo en Buenos Aires. Zijn stijl was gebaseerd op een interpretatie van de jugendstil en de wederopstanding van de renaissance. Hij was verantwoordelijk voor het ontwerp van onder meer het Palacio Barolo en Hotel Castelar, beiden gelegen aan de Avenida de Mayo. Ook ontwierp hij het Palacio Chrysler (tegenwoordig bekend onder de naam Palacio Alcorta), dat een testbaan voor auto's op haar dak had. In Montevideo ontwierp hij onder meer het Palacio Salvo.

In 1930 verhuisde Palanti terug naar Italië. Hier werkte hij aan meerdere projecten, die echter nooit gerealiseerd zijn. Hij werd gekroond tot
Commandeur in de Orde van de Italiaanse Kroon. In 1978 stierf hij in zijn geboortestad Milaan. Zijn lichaam werd gelegd in het Civico Mausoleo Palanti, dat hijzelf ontworpen had en onderdeel is van de Cimitero Monumentale di Milano.

Galerij

Italiaans architect


The makers of Baahubali The Conclusion are currently busy in canning some important sequences at Ramoji Film City. After a break, the entire film unit is back again to shoot for the climax of the film. The climax of Baahubali part 2 is expected to be the biggest challenge for the makers as they have continuously revealed the same. Finally< Rajamouli roped in a Hollywood Fight Choreographer to can the climax fight sequences.
Prabhas, Rana, Tamannah, Anushka, Satyaraj, Nasser, Ramya krishna and others are expected to take part in the climax shoot happening at Ramoji Film City right now. The film unit has united for a common screening of the first part of the film to build energy and confidence.
The actors have undergone training in some of the fight scenes and the film unit rehearsed some key scenes in advance to be ready for the magnum opus schedule. A whooping amount has been invested as a budget for this climax shoot. The film Baahubali 2 is expected to release on 14th April 2017.


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Each input item of hitois, the function "translate" is always present.
Translation if people are participating in the hitois, can be registered by anyone.
For example, to your profile, others can register a translation.
If there is a translation of English to profile, and to display the screen in English, profile will be displayed in English.
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When you sign in to hitois, link "Settings" to your site will be displayed. The setting screen appears when you click, you can change the main language.
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\section{Container Bundles}

\subsection{ESCRIPT Bundles}

The key feature of mad is ability to create single-file bundled web sites.
Thus making dream to boot simpler than node.js come true.
This bundle target is ready to run on Windows, Linux and Mac.

To make this possible we implemented a zip filesytem inside escript.
mad packages priv directories along with ebin and configs.
You can redefine each file in zip fs inside target
escript by creation the copy with same path locally near escript.
After launch all files are copied to ETS.
N2O also comes with custom cowboy static handler that is able to
read static files from this cached ETS filesystem.
Also bundle are compatible with active online realoading and recompilation.

E.g. you main create a single file site with:

\vspace{1\baselineskip}
\begin{lstlisting}
    # mad bundle app_name
\end{lstlisting}
\vspace{1\baselineskip}

app\_name shoul be the same as a valid Erlang module, with app\_module:main/1
function defined, which will boot up the bundle. This function could be like that:

\vspace{1\baselineskip}
\begin{lstlisting}
     -module(app_name).
     main(Params) -> mad_repl:sh(Params).
\end{lstlisting}
\vspace{1\baselineskip}

\subsection{BEAM ERTS Releases}

As you may know you can create OTP releases with
reltool (rebar generate) or systools (relx). mad creates releases boot
script with systools and pack tra by itself.

\vspace{1\baselineskip}
\begin{lstlisting}
    # mad release beam sample
\end{lstlisting}
\vspace{1\baselineskip}

\subsection{LING Unikernels}

Sample rebar.config for your application you want to go unikernel:

\vspace{1\baselineskip}
\begin{lstlisting}
    {deps_dir,"deps"}.
    {deps, [{ling,"master"},{sh,"1.9"}]}.
\end{lstlisting}
\vspace{1\baselineskip}

Now you should build LING/posix:

\vspace{1\baselineskip}
\begin{lstlisting}
    $ mad dep
    $ cd deps/ling
    $ ARCH=posix make
\end{lstlisting}
\vspace{1\baselineskip}

Now pack vmling.o, your OTP apps and rest static to single-file LING bundle with VM inside.

\vspace{1\baselineskip}
\begin{lstlisting}
    $ mad release ling mad
    Ling Params: []
    ARCH: posix_x86
    Bundle Name: mad
    System: [compiler,syntax_tools,sasl,tools,mnesia,reltool,xmerl,crypto,kernel,
             stdlib,wx,webtool,ssl,runtime_tools,public_key,observer,inets,asn1,
             et,eunit,hipe,os_mon]
    Apps: [kernel,stdlib,sh,mad]
    Overlay: ["crypto.beam","9p.beam","9p_auth.beam","9p_info.beam",
              "9p_mounter.beam","9p_server.beam","9p_tcp.beam","9p_zero.beam",
              "disk.beam","disk_server.beam","embedded_export.beam",
              "goo_export.beam","goofs.beam","hipe_unified_loader.beam",
              "inet_config.beam","kernel.beam","ling_bifs.beam","ling_code.beam",
              "ling_disasm.beam","ling_iops.beam","ling_iopvars.beam",
              "ling_lib.beam","net_vif.beam","os.beam","prim_file.beam",
              "user_drv.beam","os_mon.beam","dets.beam","filename.beam",
              "maps.beam","unicode.beam","zlib.beam"]
    Bucks: [{boot,"/boot",2},
            {os_mon,"/erlang/lib/os_mon/ebin",1},
            {crypto,"/erlang/lib/crypto/ebin",1},
            {kernel,"/erlang/lib/kernel/ebin",90},
            {stdlib,"/erlang/lib/stdlib/ebin",85},
            {sh,"/erlang/lib/sh/ebin",6},
            {mad,"/erlang/lib/mad/ebin",43}]
    Initializing EMBED.FS:
    Mount View:
     /boot /boot
    /erlang/lib/os_mon/ebin /os_mon
    /erlang/lib/crypto/ebin /crypto
    /erlang/lib/kernel/ebin /kernel
    /erlang/lib/stdlib/ebin /stdlib
    /erlang/lib/sh/ebin /sh
    /erlang/lib/mad/ebin /mad
    Creating EMBED.FS C file: ...ok
    Compilation of Filesystem object: ...ok
    Linking Image: ok
\end{lstlisting}
\vspace{1\baselineskip}

Run it:

\vspace{1\baselineskip}
\begin{lstlisting}
    $ rlwrap ./image.img
    Erlang [ling-0.5]

    Eshell V6.3  (abort with ^G)
    1> application:which_applications().
    [{mad,"MAD VXZ Build Tool","2.2"},
     {sh,"VXZ SH Executor","0.9"},
     {stdlib,"ERTS  CXC 138 10","2.2"},
     {kernel,"ERTS  CXC 138 10","3.0.3"}]
\end{lstlisting}
\vspace{1\baselineskip}

\subsection{Docker-compatible RUNC Containers}

Creating runc-complatible container is simple:

\vspace{1\baselineskip}
\begin{lstlisting}
    # mad release runc sample
\end{lstlisting}
\vspace{1\baselineskip}

\subsection{Makefiles with OTP.MK}

OTP.MK is a tiny 50 lines Makefile that allows to start your set
of application using run\_erl and to\_erl tools from OTP distribution.
We use that way in poduction. This is the best option also in
development mode because all directory structure is open and mutable,
so you can reload modified files and perform recompilation on the fly.

It uses the original code to fast resolve dependencies into the right
boot sequence to start. If you want more powerful Makefile-based erlang
package management you may take a look onto ERLANG.MK by Nine Nines.

\vspace{1\baselineskip}
\begin{lstlisting}
    # make console
\end{lstlisting}
\vspace{1\baselineskip}


28mm Dark Ages Wargaming and Hobby Craft blog!
I wanted some figures with a bit of story behind them to go along with my standard Vikings, so took at look at the fabulous figures over at Gripping Beast and grabbed their VIG11 Save us O Lord set containing a praying monk, a viking axing the monk and carrying a torch, a viking carrying a chest and a viking with a torch and a hapless dog.
These superb figures scald up perfectly amongst the rest, which is no surprise as most of mine are the gripping beast plastics.
The monk in this set then spurred me on to a new idea- a scenario for Saga in which rival war bands compete to kill and enslave as many of the the Lord's flock as they can, all the while trying to show their fighting might in true Viking fashion. The scenario "Bash the Bishop" will be up soon.
So thats a vicar looking guy, two cowled monks and a monk carrying a holy cross.
This contains a senior monk in a chainmail hauberk, a hooded monk drawing a knife from his robes and two junior monks in fighting poses. Two swords, an axe and three shields are supplied to arm your holy warriors.
This set was a pair and included the Bishop, his crook, and his attendant who looks particularly shady and greedy, with his hood up and gripping his Bible close.
I also bought some figures from Redoubt Enterprises. I had only recently heard of this company but I am really impressed by what I recieved.
In their RX28 pack, which can be found in the renaissance extras, you receive 9 monks- one of which is a dead casualty.
These come in a range of poses- one is carrying a cross staff, one is kneeling, one is carrying a candle, one a box etc. the detail is amazing across the lot.
They are slightly larger than the gripping beast monks but are still realistic when ranked up or in a large rabble.
....but as you can see here they mix well in large groups.
Overall I'm thoroughly impressed with both companies figures and am glad I opted to buy from a range of producers, despite the minor scale difference.
I've got some Perry Miniatures monks coming in the post at the moment so will see how they scale up next.
I would never have thought of dragging the Redoubt monks in with GB Dark Age stuff! I've got quite a lot of Redoubt stuff in my ECW armies and I knew they were big. This is really handy to see a comparison with GB stuff! Thanks!


Size 12 oz. 32 oz.
Fiebing's Silicone - Lanolin Saddle Oil is a blend of leather oils, silicone, and lanolin compounded for leather articles subjected to rugged outdoor use. The Lanolin in Fiebing's Silicone - Lanolin Saddle Oil keeps leather soft through repeated wetting and drying and helps restore dried-out leather to its natural state. The Silicone in Fiebing's Silicone - Lanolin Saddle Oil repels water and penetrates deeply to coat each leather fiber. Do NOT use on Suede.
Directions to use the Fiebing's Silicone - Lanolin Saddle Oil Aerosol Can shake can well. Remove cap and pointing nozzle away from you, press valve down, holding can of Fiebing's Silicone - Lanolin Saddle Oil as nearly vertical as possible and approximately 6 inches from the object. Spray Fiebing's Silicone - Lanolin Saddle Oil on fiber side of leather in short spurts allowing time to penetrate between spurts. On leather items where fiber side of the leather is not reachable, spray smooth finished side but clean surface first before applying Fiebing's Silicone - Lanolin Saddle Oil. Please follow directions on the can.
Directions to use the Fiebing's Silicone - Lanolin Saddle Oil Jug clean leather and apply Fiebing's Silicone - Lanolin Saddle Oil allowing to penetrate freely. Rub briskly with soft cloth. Please follow directions on can. Fiebing's Silicone - Lanolin Saddle Oil may permanently darken light colored leathers. Please follow directions on the jug.


This classic wooden shoe captures the essence of Holland. Use this wooden shoe to add that classic touch to your Dutch costume by using the tie shoe to hold together the handkerchief around your neck or as a unique napkin ring holder.
Approximate Dimensions (Length x Width x Height): 3.25x1.25x1.5"


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Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria
The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, welcomed the release of human rights activist and journalist Mazen Darwish.
The issue of freedom of the press and media, as well as arbitrary detention of political and human rights activists, remains an important component of the Geneva communique.
"I am aware of reports that many more journalists, human rights and political activists remain in detention often without access to legal and medical services," Mr. de Mistura said.
"I strongly urge the Syrian government to take further steps and release all those detained or charged for their exercise of the freedom of expression, which is a fundamental human right."
He added that, "we should all strive to reach a sustainable political solution in Syria on the basis of international human rights standards and freedoms."
Within the framework of the Geneva Consultations, Deputy Special Envoy for Syria Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy met today with representatives of the Syrian civil society, including Mr. Zedoun Al Zoubi and Mr. Tawfik Chamaa of the Union of Syrian Medical Relief Organizations. They briefed Mr. Ramzy on the escalating armed conflict and deteriorating situation on the ground, including the dire conditions of medical facilities, as well as on the work of Syrian civil society organizations. They also shared perspectives for a political solution and discussed ways how the civil society could contribute to efforts in reaching a political solution to the Syrian conflict.
In the framework of the Geneva Consultations, the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, met today with Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East and Supreme Head of the Universal Syrian Orthodox Church, who presented his views about the peaceful future of Syria and its various communities.
"It is very important that the voices of the religious leaders and their communities be heard and taken into account as we search for peace in Syria. Their representatives have an essential to role play in promoting peacemaking and reconciliation in the Syria of tomorrow", Mr de Mistura said after the meeting.


The best home inspectors in Barnstable MA perform inspections to the MA Home Inspector Standards of Practice. Homes for sale in Barnstable MA should have a home inspection. Home buyers should receive a brochure, Home Inspectors Facts for Consumers Sheet, from the seller or seller's agent.
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