Your Tyche, glad that good things are said of my voice, will sing later, not now. I prefer to sing only as and of the lovely. By no means do even gods get their way Now, as appointed spirit of the city sworn to some honesty on some occasions to some people, I whisper to you of other things. We are confidents, you and I, about this my Antioch, about more than what you have already learned, yet of much less than you will learn over time.
As the four women look at me, I look at them. Mine is a downward look for, after all, I am on a pedestal and they are dirt beneath me. The women cannot hear me. Were they women deeper in potential or given wider experience, they might sense me better, for immortals to be known at all they must reveal themselves to others who have made themselves ready. History shows we do that only slowly, in increments of understandings, disclosures, and elaboration, yet because of our otherworldly nature and habitat we remain, even after revealings, or indeed sometimes because of them, mysterious.
We must also be practical. If we are not revealed and thereby named in awe whatever the name, there will be no worshippers nor those who fear us. There will be none to bring us offerings, nothing to pay the priests who polish and adorn us, nothing to hire the sculptors who fashion us in marble or bronze the better that the majority of folk, those who have difficulty in conceiving of other than the concrete, will in finding us embodied know we are real.
I am a limited goddess although as I told you I once I was much the greater. In my present domain all gods lesser and somewhat greater are varied in power, aspect, locale and means by which we are apprehended. All of us, at least until this last millennia, have lived and acted, been characterized by uncertainty. Immense power is required for certainty, certainty of any kind, whether by observations and counting, logic, insight and theory, or as for what gods themselves can do. There must also be, in the capacity to appraise the revelations and experience that become us, significant powers of others in conceiving of our nature. There must be the capacity to receive, imagine, construct. This varies with people and their place and time. There will also be capacities for near endless error, varying with credulity, vanity and wish.
In a city which trades in ideas and names of gods, there will be as in all trade, deceit, profit, guile and cunning. Error is easy enough in conceiving the gods, but it is grossly compounded by fraud. How that is checked depends on how sound a people are, their clarity, science, and limits to madness and vanity. We have now in Antioch a philosopher who holds that because a man or woman can think it, name even a non "it" a name, or imagine it, that is proof the whatever product of mind is externally real, or capable of being real, that is, in some way objectified. Were this man an artist who sought through his own work to show his proofs, I, since as the Muse of Music I am also artist, would approve. I would approve even his failures if they grew out of his discipline and talent. Were this same man a scientist, building on his conceptions mathematical, however cosmic, but consistent in logic and inference, as did the Elean and following Greeks so beautifully, I could only admire him. Music is kin to mathematics and its order, beauty and reality in this and its own world. But this philosopher who expounds no boundaries, consistency, regular substance or proofs, is himself proof of one, vanity. People flock to hear him. They are transported by their own vanity. The philosopher earns well from that. He is not then unrealistic. At home in concealed luxury, which does not befit a philosopher, he approves his own vanity with a smile. He is better off than his bilked audiences, for his smile know the difference between a public fool and his private self. I, Tyche, smile a bit at his audaciousness, but wish his mind were better applied to other than outrageous fraud. In Antioch we are too full of fraud, for when a people have an appetite for vanities, there will always be stalls in the marketplace selling satisfactions.
In revealing myself it is to teach you Antioch. In your hearing me, however much I am metamorphosed, learn to experience without skepticism and allow yourself awe for thereby you may learn to live intimately with the savoring presence of the gods.. Much is imaginable, much of that may be real. Do not fear its intensity, allow yourself the apprehension of the timeless, the immortal.. Understand this Syria, within it our Palestine, as the great marketplace congregating immortals. Our trade has been in gods sent and received from Egypt, the Fertile Crescent, Greece, India, -for our Seleucid kings inherited from Alexander's conquests the goods of India including thoughts on deity and cosmos, and, ever so important, small Judea, so rich in produce of the mind. These are the cultures of creation and Creator. These places constitute the workshop of and for deity, these places for the labor and manufacture of their understanding.
I, Tyche, have too narrow a range to sing of creation and all it embraces. No music nor lyric has that reach. But hear me, we are here the work of deity. At this time in Antioch our people are fertile in conceptions, that real and spiritual geography which maps the contemplation, sometimes the response of the gods.
No song then now from Tyche, but two of the women seated below her could be heard. Both were coughing, one softly, persistently, with occasional blood speckled foam. It was not a good sign. All knew that. She or her daughter would have to give an offering to Asclepius who heals when he can, or to the healing twins, Pollux and Castor. A bad sickness was theirs, not only because it caused pain, bothered those about, but, in reducing the ability to work, cost money. Everyone in these families would be hungrier, that itself spreading pain and weakness. As for the tending Asclepius who must receive his votive offerings, here as elsewhere a sickly city assures the priests of the Asclepiad are fat and sleek. The god protects his own. The priests do not suffer the coughing diseases. Asclepius has his own temples, a place underneath them for the ill to sleep. The ill are sure to be visited in the night, tended at day, whether the visitor is , the god himself or one his priests, once is not sure, the god. If it is but the priest, he might have him the god within him. The god, the priest, discerning is difficult in the candlelight under a temple, one makes sacred signs over the sick, sings chants. Some will be cured until their proper time to die. Asclepius is good because he never brings illness. He is not a cursing, or greedy god.
It is regrettable that in our modern times he has become weak; one going to him now is much less likely to recover. Even so it can yet be observed objectively that those who attend the god, receive his herbs and priestly ministration in the spirit of faith are more likely to live than others similarly ill who are not so attended. Excluded of course, those who could afford Greek or Roman physicians. Nevertheless the rule: death in Antioch comes readily. Long life is a blessing that money as well as the gods deliver.
Three of the four women were fated for early deaths which could not be postponed. Crones now at 35 or 40, only one would reach age 50. For most like them there was no hope for succor no matter how long or hard they worked, sweeping, stocking, lifting, never near to the cash, two of them in a retail stalls somewhere behind the marble columns lining the grandest street in Empire That Street of Herod and Trajan probably begun by King Antiochus, made marble by Herod, extended by Caesar Augustus, then Tiberius, just now completed by Trajan. What a promenade! A double row of 3200 columns. 35 feet wide, three miles long, coming from where the Silk Road entered the city, that road to the entire east.. The crossing avenue led northeast across the Orontes Bridge into the palace, where now Trajan, returned from Parthian conquests, was staying.
The crossings roads formed a tall, pillared covered square, a mall if you will, near the muses, bronzed Calliope there atop her columns in the elaborated carved large, flower floating pool in the entrance to the tiered open hillside theater given to Antioch by Julius Caesar himself and next to it that pool where the fountains made music, around which sat the four unsmiling women. Nearby I, Tyche sat on a rock representing Mt. Silpius, which overlooks the city. In this embodiment of myself, bronze sculpted 400 years ago by famous Eutychides, I wear a crown and in my arms hold a sheaf of grain. I am far the lovelier muse. The women will give their meager offerings to my priests waiting on the steps of my temple. Priests tend to be a hungry lot.
Yes, a goddess must have her priests and adoration. She must receive petitions and offerings, lest she be wrathful or, unnourished, disappear. In return a goddess must prove her worth. My presence is acknowledged when I appear in dreams, or for those chosen for the hearing, singing my song. I do not often speak of such matters as now I have, but the strange circumstances of our meeting here, you and I, are remarkable, even magical, just as you rightly sense. I lend myself to such wonder, as I trust you also shall. Without wonders what are either of us?


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Help! I just got charged $10 for Extra data ! What do I do ?
Around 30% of Australians have been charged $10 or more in the last month for data.
The $10 charge gives you 1GB of extra data to use.
The 3 main phone companies in Australia have a consistent charging mechanism in their SIMO ( Sim Only ) plans. The 'extra data charging scheme they have was introduced in 2013 under Optus 'My Plans' tariff update. Under the current arrangement, when users exceed their included data allowance, they are automatically charged $10 extra and provided an additional GB of data.
Remember, this can happen more than once in a month. You could end up with a bill of $10, $20 or even more for extra data in a single 30 day period.
Above : Source : WhatPhone Listing 7th September 2017.
When you take out a $30 postpaid plan, you might think you're signing up to an agreement under which you pay $30 per month. Not necessarily! Part of all postpaid agreements is a contract with your phone company that they will charge you for any services outside the core of your agreement with them, automatically. The $30 per month is actually the minimum you will pay, per month for the service you take out. They will clearly state this on their website if you look for it! Your plan will include a data allowance. In the Optus example, above, a $50 Minimum Monthly Spend will get you 6GB per month at the moment. Extra data, international calls, and other services outside your allocation will also be charged for separately.
When you've used up your 6GB, you will be charged $10, automatically, on top of the $50 Minimum Monthly Spend for an extra GB of data.
Our survey also revealed that many people had been on their phone plans for a long, long time. Too busy to update their SIM, many are stuck with data allowances from years ago.
Here's an example: Optus' $50 SIM Only plan currently includes 6GB of data. In the event a user gets to 6GB of data and uses a little more, they are charged $10 and given one more GB of data.
This situation only applies to Postpaid services of course. Properly managed, prepaid plans have a 'hard stop.' With prepaid, when the user reaches their chosen credit limit, the data service stops until the service is recharged.
The $10 is a warning. It happens because, over time, your data use is increasing.
Help ! I've been charged $10 extra – what can I do?
You have two options when it comes to the $10 extra monthly charge for data. You can pay it, and/or you can 'move up a plan.' Our research (below) shows that you are ALWAYS at least as well off moving up a plan. You are usually much better off increasing your minimum monthly spend by $10 than waiting until you get charged an extra $10 per GB.
It's worth noting that you can usually move up a plan and return to your original spend later if you want to.
Moving from a $30 per month minimum spend to a $40 per month minimum spend on Telstra prepaid gives you 1.5GB of data.
Moving from a $30 per month minimum spend to a $40 per month minimum spend on Vodafone SIM Only ( SIMO) gives you an extra 1.5GB of data.
You can 'move up a plan' (increase your minimum monthly spend) either by giving your telco a call or by logging in to your self-service account. Here is one example: Optus.
The $10 extra charge is far better to the way they used to charge for data. There have been far fewer incidents of bill shock since it was introduced. Before Optus implemented this solution, (and everyone else copied them) 'out of bundle' data charging used to cost around 10 cents per MB with most phone companies. That doesn't sound like a lot but it's about $100 per GB of data – ten times more than you pay now.
In some ways, that's the problem. The $10 fee is a small charge which most people ignore. However, with data usage increasing every month, our advice is to confront the situation head on. If you see the $10 charge come through once, you are likely to see it again in the future. If you have been charged $10 extra this month, consider it a warning from your phone company.
Considering prepaid plans, under which this $10 charge is almost unheard of is a viable solution. Prepaid plans are often overlooked as a result of people's prejudice when, in fact, for many, they are the ideal option.
And, if you keep getting the $10 charge for 1GB of extra data, just move up a plan. You will get at least 1GB, and often 5GB or more extra data (see graphs above) if you do so.


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Six de Koonings Discovered in a Storage Locker—But How Do We Know They're Real?
By Noah Charney • 07/26/18 1:50pm
Willem de Kooning's Pastorale, up for sale at Christie's in Hong Kong in November, 2016. ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP/Getty Images
TV shows like Container Wars and Storage Wars are dedicated to investors examining storage containers from a distance and offering serious cash, otherwise blind, to bid on ownership of the contents. Every once in a while there is a jackpot, a Eureka moment that turns a few thousand dollars in to 10 or even a 100 times that amount. So it seemed like a real-life version of this TV farce when, last week, art dealer David Killen told the New York Post he'd found six works by Willem de Kooning in a storage locker in New Jersey he'd just bought for $15,000. Though he'd had a chance to see inside the container, there were about 200 works, many in boxes, and he was told that an auction house had already passed. So Killen said he didn't think much would come of the purchase.
Among an otherwise unremarkable jumble that once had been property of art conservator Orrin Riley, there were some large boxes labeled "De Kooning." Inside were six works apparently by one of the most prominent (and highest selling) artists of the Abstract Expressionist movement. De Kooning paintings have sold for as much as $66.3 million. Here were six, not to mention what appeared to be a nice painting by Paul Klee.
This was the sort of once in a lifetime moment that blind bidders can only dream of. In 2006, a painting by fellow abstract expressionist, Jackson Pollock, was bought at a thrift store for $5. It was later valued at $50 million. At a yard sale at a Louisiana trailer park, a woman bought what looked like a Picasso for $2. It was valued at $2 million, but was handed over to the FBI, as it looked like a work registered as having been stolen. As recently as 1958, Leonardo's Salvator Mundi, thought then to be a 19th century pastiche, sold for 45 GBP. It is now the world's most expensive artwork, bought for the Louvre Abu Dhabi for $450.3 million.
So there are precedents for stumbling on lost masterpieces that can make your fortune, and Killen already has plans to auction them off at his eponymous Manhattan gallery over the next six months. But how will potential buyers determine whether these de Koonings are really, well, de Koonings?
In this case, all evidence points to their authenticity, but shifting their value from the thousands into the millions requires a careful process.
They were found in a box labelled "de Kooning," but they are not signed. That said, a signature is not really proof of anything, since signatures are among the least-reliable ways to authenticate an artwork—works were not regularly signed until the 19th century, and signatures can be far more easily be forged than a whole artwork. Then where to turn to authenticate these paintings, and possibly transform a $15,000 storage locker into a bonanza worth tens of millions?
In the world of art authentication, there are three main categories to which hopeful owners may turn.
The first is connoisseurship, which is an intrinsic knowledge of an artist's work that is possessed by a handful of renowned experts specializing in that artist. The problem with this is that it is always a matter of opinion, even if that opinion is well-educated. You can often find experts with equally impressive pedigrees who cannot agree on certain works. Connoisseurship has long been the default way to authenticate art, dating back for as long as art has had sale value, but there are too many slips between cup and lip for it to feel like a failsafe.
There is also the possibility of conflicts of interests, and clever forgers and confidence men have figured out ways to hoodwink even established experts. Consider, for example, the famous case of Han Van Meegeren who, in the 1940s, forged paintings by Vermeer that did not look anything like any paintings anyone had ever seen by Vermeer, but which appeared to fulfill a hypothesis of a lost early period of Vermeer's work that Abraham Bredius, the world's leading Vermeer scholar, had theorized.
It was a trap set by Van Meegeren for one man to fall into, but that one man happened to be the world's premiere Vermeer expert. When Bredius thought that he had found a painting that finally made plastic his controversial theory, he leaped upon it with enthusiasm and refused to back down from his estimation that not only was this a Vermeer, and not a forgery or derivative work, but it was one of the finest Vermeers he had ever seen. Experts can and do err with nerve-wracking frequency.
The other two categories for authentication are provenance research and forensic testing. Forensic testing is very good at spotting anachronisms that may appear in a work of art that suggest that it cannot be from the appropriate period (for instance, forger Wolfgang Beltracchi was caught when he used Titanium White paint in a work that predated the invention of that paint). However, forensics are very bad at indicating authorship, helping to show only the period in which a work was made, not the hand that made it.
Forensics, in the case of recent artworks like those by De Kooning, are not as useful. A work made in the 1950s or 60s would be simple to forge, in material terms, because it is easy to get canvas and paints from just a few decades ago. This means that scientific testing is unlikely to be particularly revelatory, aside from the hope that perhaps a De Kooning fingerprint might be found on the work, for example.
Willem de Kooning photographed in his studio by an unknown photographer. Smithsonian Institution Archives
And so we turn to provenance research, which looks at the documented history of an object to see if there is a historical record of an object that could match the description of what has recently been found. This hopefully-a-de Kooning discovery is new enough that provenance research has not been made public. But the first stop would be to look at de Kooning's catalogue raisonné, which seeks to be the definitive encyclopedia of all of an artist's work, lost and accounted for.
There might be references in a diary or a contract or a letter or an image in the background of a photograph that references these lost works and gives credence that they might be authentic, because they fit into the biography of the artist. In this case, The Willem de Kooning Foundation, which monitors the artist's legacy, does not offer an authentication service, so David Killen turned to the opinion of a connoisseur. He hired Lawrence Castagna, a specialist who knew de Kooning and his wife, and who is, theoretically, in as good a position as any to determine authenticity, based on the look and the vibe that these objects give off.
If that sounds rather unscientific, it's because it is. Art authentication is rarely an exact science, particularly in that almost mystical realm of connoisseurship, of one expert claiming to know their field so well that they could distinguish authorship simply by looking at something. More often than not, this is in fact the case, and experts prove their mettle. But they can also be fooled, as I chronicled with frequency in my recent book, The Art of Forgery. However, my more recent book, The Museum of Lost Art, is the story of numerous works once lost but almost miraculously found again. So for every handful of questionable discoveries, like a lost "Michelangelo" crucifix that almost no experts thought was by Michelangelo, there are a few true rediscoveries of once-lost works, sometimes even masterpieces, that offer hope in situations such as this one.
Castagna has claimed that the paintings are, beyond doubt, by de Kooning. The story of the storage locker and its owners seems to fit well enough, in terms of potential provenance, to make this possible. So far, it looks as though David Killen has truly hit the jackpot. It almost makes me want to start watching TV shows about people bidding on storage containers. Almost…
Filed Under: Arts, Visual Art, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Paul Klee, Art Auctions, Picasso, Johannes Vermeer, Abstract Expressionism
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Figlio di un sarto russo emigrato in Francia, s'impose quale stilista della Novelle Vogue alla fine degli anni cinquanta, quando, dopo aver aperto la sua maison di moda nel '58, lanciò la moda unisex e safari. Fu il primo stilista a lanciare la spallina sotto le giacche e fece del "jeans" un abito di alta moda.

Ha anche vestito numerose star del cinema internazionale, come Brigitte Bardot e Alain Delon. All'indomani della morte, il presidente francese Nicolas Sarkozy ha reso omaggio al "poeta dell'alta moda", ricordando il merito di Lapidus di "democratizzare la moda".

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Carol Morris is the site manager for Burney Health Center and the Fall River Valley Health Center. Carol has been involved in the healthcare of the Intermountain Area since 1976 when she worked in the lab at Mayers Memorial Hospital for high school work experience. Since then, she worked at Dr. Zahn's office and Intermountain Family Practice Group and joined Mountain Valleys Health Centers in 2002. She has been married to her husband, Bill, since 1979 and has 3 great kids–Susan, John, and Robin. She truly loves living in and being part of the Intermountain community. Over the years, she has been very involved in community organizations, such as the youth soccer league and the high school booster club. She is proud to be part of the wonderful team of people who work at Mountain Valleys Health Centers and looks forward to many more rewarding years to come!


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require 'google/protobuf'

require 'google/cloud/video/stitcher/v1/events_pb'

Google::Protobuf::DescriptorPool.generated_pool.build do
  add_file("google/cloud/video/stitcher/v1/companions.proto", :syntax => :proto3) do
    add_message "google.cloud.video.stitcher.v1.CompanionAds" do
      optional :display_requirement, :enum, 1, "google.cloud.video.stitcher.v1.CompanionAds.DisplayRequirement"
      repeated :companions, :message, 2, "google.cloud.video.stitcher.v1.Companion"
    end
    add_enum "google.cloud.video.stitcher.v1.CompanionAds.DisplayRequirement" do
      value :DISPLAY_REQUIREMENT_UNSPECIFIED, 0
      value :ALL, 1
      value :ANY, 2
      value :NONE, 3
    end
    add_message "google.cloud.video.stitcher.v1.Companion" do
      optional :api_framework, :string, 1
      optional :height_px, :int32, 2
      optional :width_px, :int32, 3
      optional :asset_height_px, :int32, 4
      optional :expanded_height_px, :int32, 5
      optional :asset_width_px, :int32, 6
      optional :expanded_width_px, :int32, 7
      optional :ad_slot_id, :string, 8
      repeated :events, :message, 9, "google.cloud.video.stitcher.v1.Event"
      oneof :ad_resource do
        optional :iframe_ad_resource, :message, 10, "google.cloud.video.stitcher.v1.IframeAdResource"
        optional :static_ad_resource, :message, 11, "google.cloud.video.stitcher.v1.StaticAdResource"
        optional :html_ad_resource, :message, 12, "google.cloud.video.stitcher.v1.HtmlAdResource"
      end
    end
    add_message "google.cloud.video.stitcher.v1.HtmlAdResource" do
      optional :html_source, :string, 1
    end
    add_message "google.cloud.video.stitcher.v1.IframeAdResource" do
      optional :uri, :string, 1
    end
    add_message "google.cloud.video.stitcher.v1.StaticAdResource" do
      optional :uri, :string, 1
      optional :creative_type, :string, 2
    end
  end
end

module Google
  module Cloud
    module Video
      module Stitcher
        module V1
          CompanionAds = ::Google::Protobuf::DescriptorPool.generated_pool.lookup("google.cloud.video.stitcher.v1.CompanionAds").msgclass
          CompanionAds::DisplayRequirement = ::Google::Protobuf::DescriptorPool.generated_pool.lookup("google.cloud.video.stitcher.v1.CompanionAds.DisplayRequirement").enummodule
          Companion = ::Google::Protobuf::DescriptorPool.generated_pool.lookup("google.cloud.video.stitcher.v1.Companion").msgclass
          HtmlAdResource = ::Google::Protobuf::DescriptorPool.generated_pool.lookup("google.cloud.video.stitcher.v1.HtmlAdResource").msgclass
          IframeAdResource = ::Google::Protobuf::DescriptorPool.generated_pool.lookup("google.cloud.video.stitcher.v1.IframeAdResource").msgclass
          StaticAdResource = ::Google::Protobuf::DescriptorPool.generated_pool.lookup("google.cloud.video.stitcher.v1.StaticAdResource").msgclass
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

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J Virol. 2019 Jun 14;93(13). pii: e00282-19. doi: 10.1128/JVI.00282-19. Print 2019 Jul 1.
Aerosol Transmission of Gull-Origin Iceland Subtype H10N7 Influenza A Virus in Ferrets.
Guan M#1, Hall JS#2, Zhang X1, Dusek RJ2, Olivier AK3, Liu L1, Li L1, Krauss S4, Danner A4, Li T5, Rutvisuttinunt W5, Lin X5, Hallgrimsson GT6, Ragnarsdottir SB7, Vignisson SR8, TeSlaa J2, Nashold SW2, Jarman R5, Wan XF9.
Department of Basic Science, College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, USA.
United States Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Center, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Department of Population and Pathobiology Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, USA.
Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Viral Diseases Branch, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.
University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Southwest Iceland Nature Research Centre, Sandgerdi, Iceland.
Sudurnes Science and Learning Center, Sandgerdi, Iceland.
Department of Basic Science, College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, USA wan@cvm.msstate.edu.
Contributed equally
Subtype H10 influenza A viruses (IAVs) have been recovered from domestic poultry and various aquatic bird species, and sporadic transmission of these IAVs from avian species to mammals (i.e., human, seal, and mink) are well documented. In 2015, we isolated four H10N7 viruses from gulls in Iceland. Genomic analyses showed four gene segments in the viruses were genetically associated with H10 IAVs that caused influenza outbreaks and deaths among European seals in 2014. Antigenic characterization suggested minimal antigenic variation among these H10N7 isolates and other archived H10 viruses recovered from human, seal, mink, and various avian species in Asia, Europe, and North America. Glycan binding preference analyses suggested that, similar to other avian-origin H10 IAVs, these gull-origin H10N7 IAVs bound to both avian-like alpha 2,3-linked sialic acids and human-like alpha 2,6-linked sialic acids. However, when the gull-origin viruses were compared with another Eurasian avian-origin H10N8 IAV, which caused human infections, the gull-origin virus showed significantly higher binding affinity to human-like glycan receptors. Results from a ferret experiment demonstrated that a gull-origin H10N7 IAV replicated well in turbinate, trachea, and lung, but replication was most efficient in turbinate and trachea. This gull-origin H10N7 virus can be transmitted between ferrets through the direct contact and aerosol routes, without prior adaptation. Gulls share their habitat with other birds and mammals and have frequent contact with humans; therefore, gull-origin H10N7 IAVs could pose a risk to public health. Surveillance and monitoring of these IAVs at the wild bird-human interface should be continued.IMPORTANCE Subtype H10 avian influenza A viruses (IAVs) have caused sporadic human infections and enzootic outbreaks among seals. In the fall of 2015, H10N7 viruses were recovered from gulls in Iceland, and genomic analyses showed that the viruses were genetically related with IAVs that caused outbreaks among seals in Europe a year earlier. These gull-origin viruses showed high binding affinity to human-like glycan receptors. Transmission studies in ferrets demonstrated that the gull-origin IAV could infect ferrets, and that the virus could be transmitted between ferrets through direct contact and aerosol droplets. This study demonstrated that avian H10 IAV can infect mammals and be transmitted among them without adaptation. Thus, avian H10 IAV is a candidate for influenza pandemic preparedness and should be monitored in wildlife and at the animal-human interface.
H10N7; aerosol droplet; alpha 2,3-linked sialic acids; alpha 2,6-linked sialic acids; avian influenza virus; glycan receptor binding; gull; influenza A virus; pathogenesis; transmission
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10.1128/JVI.00282-19
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Il XIX campionato nordamericano di pallavolo femminile si è svolto dal 6 all'11 settembre 2005 a Port of Spain, a Trinidad e Tobago. Al torneo hanno partecipato 8 squadre nazionali nordamericane e la vittoria finale è andata per la quinta volta, la terza consecutiva, agli Stati Uniti.

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Survation Panel
The General Election 2015 & The Polls – What Happened?
The general election result came as a surprise to most commentators, not least those in the opinion polling industry. As a result, the industry set up the BPC/MRS Inquiry into the Performance of the Opinion Polls at the 2015 General Election, chaired by Professor Patrick Sturgis, which is investigating why the final result was so different from most of the published voting polls in the final week of the campaign. What follows is Survation's own report on what we think were the main causes of this discrepancy in relation to our polling, which has been submitted as evidence to the Inquiry.
Summary of the Polling
The table below shows the final voting intention polls from all companies, contrasted with the actual election result at the bottom. The top three rows reflect the results of the three different styles of voting intention question we asked in our final online poll for the Daily Mirror – a 4 party prompt, a 4 party prompt asking people to think about the candidates standing in their constituency and, at the top, the "ballot prompt" where candidates were all shown a replica of the exact ballot paper they would face in the polling booth, complete with all candidate names, party descriptions and logos shown in candidate alphabetical order.
As can be seen, all of these questions in our final online poll, as with all other BPC pollsters, failed to predict the UK vote share percentages for Labour and the Conservatives correctly.
Across all companies and modes, the average error was very similar, in particular regarding the gap between Labour and the Conservatives.
There were, however, some parts of the election that these final polls did predict well. Most companies had vote shares for the Liberal Democrat, UKIP and Green parties pretty close to what they ended up with. Meanwhile in Scotland, as shown by the chart below, Survation's regular polls since January have consistently predicted results very close to the final results of SNP 50, Lab 24, Con 15. Survation's final Scottish poll had results for all parties within 1.6 points of their eventual vote shares, well within margin of error.
This suggests that there was something fundamental about the nature of the race in England & Wales, particularly in relation to the Conservative-Labour gap, that led the national polling to fail to predict the outcome, rather than a wider flaw that would have made all polling useless.
One possible explanation, if we believe there may have been a late swing and differential turnout in England & Wales as a result of concerns about the SNP's influence in a hung parliament, is that such concerns would not have existed for most in Scotland, who would by and large have been relatively unconcerned by a possible Labour-SNP deal post-election given that three quarters of the Scottish electorate voted for one or those parties.
Given that telephone and online polls all failed to predict the Conservative-Labour gap nationally, but both telephone and online polls have produced similar results in Scotland, it does not appear that there is a modal effect across the industry.
However, looking at the first table above, it can be seen that fieldwork dates may be significant – most final published polls began fieldwork three days or more before the election. The only exception is Survation's telephone poll on the evening of May 6th. This poll – the only poll conducted entirely on the eve-of-election, was not published until the morning after the election due to being ready too late to carry in physical newspapers or broadcast and a concern at the time that the poll looked like a rogue outlier. Raw SPSS data for this poll were shared with BPC President Professor John Curtice at 7am on 8th May.
Survation Telephone Poll on 6th May: Method
Sample Frame Data
35,000 records prebalanced by age, sex, and region. Younger people (18-34) and 35-54, harder to reach groups, were over-represented in the sample with excess data. A combination of both landlines and mobile numbers were used, with mobile numbers prioritised. Not random digit dialling, but a random stratified sample of pre-known demographics.
The poll was conducted May 6th 2015 from 3pm to 9pm by phone. We had 31 callers calling between these hours from our in-house call centre.
The poll used the ballot prompt method, where callers confirmed the postcode and constituency of the respondent. The caller then referred to the list of candidates for the constituency, prompted in ballot order. The caller supervisor monitored the age, sex, and region targets throughout the fieldwork period. This enabled them to ensure any hard to reach groups were specifically included.
Data were weighted by age, sex, region, 2010 past vote, and likelihood to vote.
That said, the reasons for why this poll was not published are less important than what the poll itself shows. Conducted by telephone using a random stratified sample of lifestyle data, selected based on pre-known demographics in order to be nationally representative, this poll had a single voting intention question with all candidate names prompted in each respondent's constituency in ballot order. This poll produced vote shares for Labour and Conservatives to within 0.6% of what they actually received.
This suggests a few things:
It was not "impossible" for polls to accurately predict the election ahead of time, suggesting polling methods are not completely broken or without value. It should also be remembered that the exit poll which contradicted previous polling was itself a "poll" – supporting the inherent usefulness of polling as a practice even as it undermined the results of previously published polls.
Survation's ballot paper prompt question appears to have worked well when it was the only question asked, as here. However, where we asked it as the third in a series of voting questions (as in our online GB poll) it may have exaggerated the respondents' propensity to pick a different party from their original choice, or even to pick a party at all if in fact they were undecided and likely in the event to not vote.
The fact that the exit poll and the final Survation telephone poll saw the Conservatives doing better, whilst earlier published polling did not, suggests that people may have decided to act differently in the last 24 hours of the campaign, compared with how they had previously told pollsters they expected to.
Possibility of Late Swing?
This therefore raises suggestions that there might have been a "late swing" right at the end of the campaign (for these purposes, we include people deciding not to vote as a component of "late swing", as we are exploring all changes in voting behaviour including the decision not to vote, though others have categorised this separately under "differential turnout").
There are a couple of other reasons to think that this might have occurred. Firstly, a Survation poll for the Mail on Sunday the week before the election highlighted public concerns about the possible outcome of the election. With all indications pointing to a hung parliament at the time, the public were very concerned that the election would result in some form of Labour-SNP deal – something which, as the chart below shows, voters from all parties were concerned about. Well under half even of Labour voters UK-wide thought such an outcome would be "legitimate", whilst among UKIP and the Liberal Democrats, concern was even higher.
Most people instinctively did not want a hung parliament despite being repeatedly told it was the outcome they should expect. 43% of the public in our pre-election Mail on Sunday poll went so far as to say there should be another general election in the case of a hung parliament, to try and produce a clearer result.
Might these concerns about the outcome they were heading towards have been enough to prompt voters to change their behaviour? For UKIP or Liberal Democrat supporters to "lend" their votes to the Conservatives in order to avoid this looming threat of supposed chaos?
A second piece of evidence comes from the 8th May poll conducted by Survation for the Mail on Sunday directly after the election. 31% of voters told Survation they made up their mind who to vote for "in the final few days" of the campaign, including 17% who said they made up their minds "On the day" itself. These figures are similar to those found in an Ashcroft poll in which 33% said they made up their minds "in the last week" or less.
Recontact Study
To test this hypothesis in more depth, we conducted a recontact study of 1,755 of the respondents from the 4,000 who completed our final online poll for the Daily Mirror. They were recontacted online between 19th and 26th May.
Given the difference between the figures in the final poll for the Daily Mirror and the ultimate results of the election, we were interested to find how to what extent those people we interviewed on the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before the election had changed
their minds come polling day.
The results of this recontact work show that 15% of people who expressed a voting intention in our Daily Mirror poll conducted during the week of the election say they ended up behaving differently to how they had originally told us they intended to vote – either voting for a different party or not turning up to vote at all.
The four main types of behaviour that were observed were as follows:
Labour voters not turning out and, to a lesser extent, switching to the Conservatives
UKIP voters switching to the Conservatives
Liberal Democrat voters switching to the Conservatives or not turning out
Undecided voters splitting fairly equally between Labour and Conservatives
With the exception of the last of these four, all other shifts were to the net benefit of the Conservative Party. Conservative voters themselves turned out in high numbers and were very unlikely to change their mind (as were SNP voters). The total effect of this was equivalent to a 1.4% swing from Labour to the Conservatives – not as much as actually shown in the election, but accounting for a significant proportion of the difference between the final Survation pre-election online poll and the election result.
The full breakdown of observed shifts are shown in the table below:
The net changes between when people were interviewed in our final online poll and how they report actually having voted are as follows:
Con: +2.2%
Lab: -0.4%
LibDem: -0.8%
UKIP: -0.7%
SNP: -0.3%
Others: +0.0%
Applying these swings to the published first voting intention in our final online poll gives the following results, which is what we would expect to have shown had our final online poll been conducted on election day using the same sample and method.
(Difference compared to actual election result shown in brackets)
Con: 35.1% (-2.7)
Lab: 32.3% (+1.1)
LibDem: 8.0% (-0.1)
UKIP: 15.2% (+2.3)
SNP: 4.7% (-0.2)
Other: 4.3% (-0.9)
As can be seen, this would have brought the final poll significantly closer to the actual result, but with some differences still unaccounted for, particularly the Conservative figure still being around 2.5 points too low and the UKIP figure still being around 2.5 point too high. Overall, this suggests "late swing" or changed behaviours account for 40% of the discrepancy observed between our final online poll and the actual results.
Analysis conducted by the British Election study and a very similar recontact study by TNS-BMRB referred to at the first public meeting of the Inquiry also lend some support to these conclusions.
Additional Factors
We now need to consider what could account for the remaining discrepancy. It is unlikely that any single factor was responsible but there are certain plausible hypotheses to suggest.
First we must consider the possibility that UKIP voters are generally over-represented, and Conservative voters under-represented, on online panels. Certainly online polls have consistently generated higher UKIP vote shares than telephone polls in recent years and Survation's own final telephone poll on 6th May actually had UKIP two points too low, compared with our final online poll which showed them three points too high.
UKIP supporters were consistently down-weighted in Survation's pre-election online polls, while Conservative voters were up-weighted, mainly via income weighting. In theory weighting should correct for any imbalances in panel composition, but in practice it appeared that it did not go far enough. Survation have identified some changes that can be made to our income weighting, taking more into account different household sizes, which would slightly help improve the degree to which more affluent respondents are up-weighted.
A possible explanation is that the political upheaval since 2010 meant that weighting to 2010 vote or historic party ID targets was not an effective proxy for political views in 2015, as it did not capture which 2010 Conservatives were still voting Conservative and which had now switched to UKIP, or whether there were enough of the different types of 2010 Liberal Democrat voters.
In theory, if this was a large cause of the problem, this should now be corrected for through weighting by 2015 vote, unless of course the next parliament sees as many dramatic and complex inter-party shifts in support as the last one.
Non-Voters and Turnout Modelling
The other factor that must be considered is non-voters. Despite expectations that turnout would exceed 70%, in fact it only saw a marginal one point rise on 2010 to 66%. Parties other than the Conservatives suffered disproportionately from lower than expected turnout, particularly the Liberal Democrats.
Survation have identified some changes we can make to the way we weight people who did not vote in the previous general election, both in terms of their rim weight and in terms of their likelihood to vote weight. Together with the changes to income weighting above, these measures would have increased the Conservative vote share by about one further percentage point.
More broadly, there is a clear discrepancy between how likely respondents said they were to vote and how likely they actually were to later report having voted. The below chart shows the respondents' expressed likelihood to vote (in grey) versus their propensity to later reporting having voted (in green).
Although some observations are based on small sample sizes (particularly middling numbers), we can clearly see that the correlation between expressed likelihood to vote and propensity to later report having voted was not linear.
Voters divide into four broad groups – those who are very likely to vote, those who have a high probability of voting, those who are unlikely to vote and those who say they will not vote. Within these groups the likelihood to report having voted does not vary significantly. At the same time, the proportion who reported having voted clearly exceeded actual turnout, suggesting that either panellists were exaggerating their voting activity (a possible danger in online panels where respondents over-claim to have done things to avoid a feared screen-out in which they are disqualified and not paid for their time), or else that our raw online sample was significantly short of non-voters (something already mentioned above and which we hope to correct for by changing our weighting to properly weight up less politically active respondents). From all this analysis we are reviewing how we weight likelihood to vote in future.
Summary of Conclusions
Clearly, such large discrepancies in the polls are unlikely to be explained exclusively by one factor alone. However, our research suggests that the late-swing of voters to the Conservatives, and the low turnout amongst those intending to vote for other parties, accounts for approximately 40% of the total gap – the largest single factor.
Other potential contributing factors that we can identify include weighting effects outlined above, in particular the way in which non-voters are included in our rim weight and the way in which we weight by income, which has previously not properly reflected the number of high income households in Britain. The ineffectiveness of 2010 vote weighting / party ID weighting has also been discussed, along with the hope that this should (at least for the time being) be improved with using 2015 vote weighting. These weighting factors could account for another 20-30% of the total discrepancy between our final online polling and the result.
Finally, we cannot rule out the presence of what we here choose to call "tactical Tories". These are not necessarily the same as the "shy Tories" who historically have been long term embarrassed Conservative supporters, but rather people who genuinely did not like the Conservative Party but, however begrudgingly, "lent" them their vote in 2015 to avoid an unstable hung parliament that they had been told to fear. Understandably, particularly given the Conservative majority government that resulted, such people might be reluctant to later admit what they had done in the election.
That is not to say that such respondents necessarily lie to pollsters, but there is always a significant minority of those who refuse to disclose their voting intentions even whilst answering the rest of the survey. 45 respondents to our re-contact survey refused to say how they had voted, most of whom had also respondent refused or undecided in our pre-election survey. Based on the "soft refusal" system of weighting, these would have been allocated back a factor of their 2010 vote (if disclosed) in our final pre-election poll, but of course if the reason such respondents were now undecided or refusing to answer was because they were considering a tactical vote for a different party from usual, such a method would have been ineffective.
In general it is unlikely that supporters of all parties are equally likely to refuse to disclose their voting intentions. Had around half of the refusals in our recontact study been "tactical Tories" it would have explained all of the remaining discrepancy in the results. This is an area that requires further research, but if it can be established that supporters from certain parties are generally more likely to be refusing voting intentions, then either weighting, sampling, or question design will need to be adjusted in order to correct for the effects this will have on published voting intentions.
Going forward, Survation are looking to continue to improve our online polling methods as they relate to income, the participation of non-voters, the capturing and weighting of "refused" voters and the ways in which we ask our voting intention questions, prompting candidate names in our first question wherever possible and fair to do so.
The one point which is at least partly outside our control as pollsters, of course, is swing or turnout effects that manifest very late in a campaign, after fieldwork has been conducted. In general, where elections or referenda are important, pollsters should aim to complete their final polls as close to the final day as possible. However, pollsters are not think-tanks or academic institutions – we depend often on media clients to commission and then publish our findings.
Our final telephone poll was not commissioned by any client – it was Survation's own idea, as with the Scottish independence referendum where we produced a telephone poll the day before the referendum as a check on our own online method, which was in the event published online by the Daily Record at 11pm on 17th September 2014. In the case of the general election, the result of our telephone poll were available too late on the Wednesday evening to carry in any print or broadcast media.
In general the lesson for those who conduct, report on and draw conclusions from polling is this: reporting of polls commissioned by the media who have deadlines for physical print and the restriction of reporting polls near polling day itself for broadcast clients given regulatory restrictions, makes the commissioning and publication of a late poll intended to capture a potential late swing very challenging. There are lessons here for the media in how they commission, report on and interpret polling, as well as lessons for pollsters themselves. These are all matters which the Inquiry will doubtless be looking into further and Survation will be offering our full cooperation to Professor Patrick Sturgis and the rest of the Inquiry panel in their investigation.
Note: A version of this report was presented by Damian Lyons Lowe to the first public meeting of the BPC/MRS Inquiry into the Performance of the Opinion Polls at the 2015 General Election on 19th June. Slides from the presentation can be seen here.
Patrick Brione
Director of Research 2012-2016
Damian Lyons Lowe
Damian leads Survation's research offering, co-ordinating tech, social science & academic innovation to solve challenges. Damian has over 20 years of work experience within leading research environments including technology, healthcare, financial services and political science. He most enjoys co-ordinating the work of experts in their fields to provide genuine insights to commercial & non-commercial customers and friends to try to solve the challenges that exist within business and civil society.
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Die Pilze aus der Familie Rötlingsverwandten (Entolomataceae) sind eine sehr artenreiche Gruppe mit mehr als 350 Vertretern in Mitteleuropa.

Eine eindeutige Bestimmung der zahlreichen Arten, insbesondere in der Gattung Rötlinge (Entoloma), ist ohne Hilfe eines Lichtmikroskops kaum möglich. Wichtige Unterscheidungsmerkmale sind meist spezielle Oberflächenstrukturen der Sporen, die Beschaffenheit der Hutdeckschicht (Huthaut), die Verteilung von Farbpigmenten (z.B. ob in Vakuolen, als Inkrustationen der Hyphenwände etc.), die Form von Zystiden (wenn vorhanden) oder das Vorhandensein oder Fehlen von Schnallen. In dem komplizierten Aggregat rund um den Mehl-Räsling (Clitopilus prunulus-Aggregat) ist beispielsweise das Auftreten oder Fehlen von metachromatischen Hyphen (violette Reaktion mit Brillantkresylblau) ein wichtiges Merkmal.

Die ökologische Amplitude der Vertreter der Rötlingsverwandten reicht von saprobiontischen Totholz-Bewohnern bis hin zu obligaten Mykorrhizapilzen.

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Zu den Rötlingsverwandten zählen:
 Rötlinge (Entoloma) mit eckigen Sporen
 Räslinge (Clitopilus) mit warzigem Sporenornament, wobei die Warzen zu Längsreihen verschmelzen und so im Lichtmikroskop wie Längsrippen wirken; die Sporen von Clitopilus reticulosporus haben zudem Warzen, die die Längsreihen quer verbinden, sodass das Sporenornament im Lichtmikroskop netzig erscheint
 Tellerlinge (Rhodocybe) mit grob-warzigem Sporenornament und einem schnallenlosen Hyphensystem
 Gattung Rhodophana – ähnlich wie Tellerlinge (Rhodocybe), aber mit Schnallen
 Gattung Clitocella mit fast glatten und dünnwandigen Sporen (Sporenwand schmaler als 0,5 µm, Sporenwand mit sehr kleinen, im Lichtmikroskop schwer zu erkennenden Ecken)
 Gattung Clitopilopsis – ähnlich wie Clitocella, aber Sporenwand verdickt

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17 New Zealand Animals You Haven't Seen Before (PHOTOS)
Some New Zealand animals on this list are now extinct but have famous roots in our history.
A few of the animals are not endemic to New Zealand but are often found here and rarely elsewhere.
Like the Colossal & Giant Squid (worldwide), Morepork Owl (also in Australia)
Prior to man's arrival, New Zealand was a sanctuary of Giant birds and insects.
6 New Zealand Animal World Records
The World's tallest bird the Moa at 3.2m (10.49ft) tall.
The World's heaviest parrot at 4.4 - 8.8 lbs.
The World's biggest Eagle with 75mm (2.95 inches) talons the size of Tiger claws.
The World's heaviest insect the Giant Weta.
The World's oldest Reptiles the 200 Million-Year-Old Tuatara.
The World's biggest earthworms up to 1.4m (4.59ft) long.
You get the picture.
The last inhabited place on earth was full of giant, tiny, and some truly unique prehistoric animals.
Let us take a look at 17 unique animals New Zealand has to offer.
1. The Rare White Kiwi
via GIPHY Manukura the only known white kiwi in New Zealand.
Manukura is a rare white kiwi bird - she was the only known white kiwi in the world!
She was born on May 1st, 2011 at the Pukaha National Wildlife Centre in the North Island of New Zealand.
She is not an albino with her beautiful white feathers, but, instead a pure white, making her a very rare progeny of 2 parents carrying a specific white feather gene.
Since Manukura there have been more white chicks found in the reserve but sadly died before reaching a month old by predation from animals such as wild cats, stoats, or ferrets.
Kiwis are on the brink of extinction without our help.
In 1998 there was around 100,000 kiwi left and in 2015 they were estimated to have declined to around 70,000.
Around 1,400 die each year from introduced wild predators and sadly its believed 95% die before reaching the breeding age of 3-5 years old.
With their late reproduction cycle and rapid decline, it is hard for conservationists to keep the Kiwi alive.
There is an extensive Nationwide effort to protect our defenseless and flightless birds from introduced predators.
2. The South Island Giant Moa - World's Tallest Bird (EXTINCT)
Moa reenactment with Maori warriors to show their true size comparison.
Moa were the biggest land animals in New Zealand when people first arrived in the 13th century.
They are superlative birds, and the South Island Giant Moa was the biggest of them all.
Females were quite a lot bigger than the males standing at 2m (6.56ft) tall and around 250kg (551lbs) with males only standing around 1.4m (4.59ft) tall and 90kgs (198lbs).
Adult females were able to reach foliage at heights of 3.6m (11.8ft) making them the tallest bird species known.
All nine types of Moa showed a unique trait among birds with no trace of any wing bones.
They were the prey of the Giant Haast Eagle the World's biggest eagle which roamed New Zealand at the same time.
Sadly, both the Moa and Haast eagle were extinct within a few centuries of human arrival around 600 years ago.
Imagine going for a walk in the forest to come across these behemoths looking down on you through the bush.
I am sure watching the Moa clambering their way to full power and speed would have been a loud and powerful experience.
3. The Haast Eagle - The World's Biggest Eagle (EXTINCT)
IMAGE © COLIN EDGERLEY Illustration of a Haast Eagle Hunting a Moa. With a Maori hunter in the foreground with a NZ Wood Pigeon.
New Zealand was home to both the largest and heaviest eagle that's ever been found.
Weighing a terrifying 17.8kgs (39.2lbs) with a wingspan of up to 3m (9.8ft) and standing around 90cm (35.43 inches) tall.
They roamed New Zealand as the largest predator among the giant prehistoric fauna.
Near-complete skeletons show they had wings the size of giant eagles, legs and bills stronger than any living vulture, and feet and talons the size of tigers.
Their rear talon measured up to 75mm (2.95 inches) in length and was used to grab and crush their prey.
This eagle specialised in the largest prey available being able to take down an adult South Island Giant Moa (up to 3.6m (11.8ft) and 249kg (551lbs)
The Haast eagle became extinct 500-600 years ago, around the same time that New Zealand's Moa species became extinct after the arrival of man.
4. The Giant Parrot (EXTINCT)
Artists recreation of the Giant NZ parrot Heracles against an 8cm Wren. Image credits: Brian Choo Flinders University.
A parrot that stood around 3ft tall and weighed 15 pounds.
This newly discovered extinct parrot, dubbed Heracles inexpectatus, crushes the current living record of kakapo (4.4-8.8lbs).
Little is known about this new species as only 2 leg bone fragments were found.
If the giant parrot was anything like the rest of the New Zealand parrots they would have been one loud and squawky bird.
5. The NZ Giant Centipede
Image of the Giant Centipede from New Zealand
This creepy-crawly can grow up to 25cm (9.8 inches) long.
They are fast movers and have a painful venomous bite.
Another example of gigantism – a feature of many New Zealand native species.
Without any mammals, large flightless invertebrates (such as wētā and centipedes) occupied the niche which in other landmasses small mammals (such as rats, and mice) exploited.
6. The Tuatara - World's Oldest Reptile
The Tuatara of New Zealand is a living dinosaur.
Like Yoda of the Animal Kingdom at over 200 million years old.
These guys have seen a fair share.
The word Tuatara in Māori means 'Spiny Back'.
Since 1985 they have been fully protected.
They may look like a lizard but they are not.
Tuatara is a sole survivor of a lineage of reptiles as old as the first dinosaurs over 200 million years ago.
Living a very long life span of over 100 years old.
They come with some interesting prehistoric traits and adaptations including the third eye and being able to remain active in near-freezing temperatures.
7. The Southern Royal Albatross
The Southern Royal Albatross ('toroa' in Māori) is one of the giant great albatross species.
With wingspans of 3m+ (9.8ft) and weighing around 9kgs (19.8lbs) they are one of the biggest birds flying the oceans.
They also have a long lifespan reaching up to 40 years.
The Royal Albatross is endemic to New Zealand, and the majority of the breeding population can be found on the subantarctic Campbell Island, with a smaller population on the Auckland Islands.
8. Giant Wētā Bug - World's Heaviest Insect
Photo: Mark Moffett ( American scientist feeding a carrot to the heaviest ever recorded giant weta on New Zealand's Little Barrier Island.)
Video of Weta Returning From The Dead Frozen In Ice.
There are 11 species of giant NZ wētā.
These remarkable giants have one of the most incredible adaptations in the animal kingdom.
The wētā have developed special proteins that do not let ice crystals form in their cells protecting them from freezing in ice.
So essentially they have a special power allowing them to be completely frozen almost indefinitely and then defrosted and thawed-out almost automatically reanimated back to life.
Watch the video above to see this remarkable adaptation of survival in action.
The largest species can be up to 10cm (4 inches) in body length excluding the antennae and legs.
Usually weighing around no more than 35g (1.2 oz) one female in captivity reached a weight of 70g (2.47 oz) making it the heaviest insect in the world.
The largest and heaviest species of the giant wētā is the Little Barrier Island Giant Weta with one specimen in 2011 reported at 71g (2.5 oz).
9. Giant & Colossal Squid (Architeuthis dux/Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni)
The Giant Squid is not endemic to New Zealand however, the South Island of New Zealand seems to be a Giant Squid hotspot.
Numerous giant squid ranging in sizes have been caught and washed ashore. Ranging in size from 4m - 5.2m long.
Images of the Colossal Squid on display at the Te Papa Museum in Wellington, below.
EMPTY007/FLICKR (CREATIVE COMMONS) Colossal Squid Display, Te Papa Museum, Wellington. Specimen caught by the San Aspiring.
In 2007 the San Aspiring caught a Colossal Squid with 10-inch eyes (largest in the world) the size of soccer balls, razor-sharp beaks, and teeth/hook covered tentacles.
It is believed the Colossal Squid is the biggest and heaviest squid species in the World, even bigger than the Giant Squid.
4.2m (13.7ft) Giant Squid washed up on the beach of the South Coast of Wellington.
Kaikoura 2003 7m (23ft)
A giant squid found at South Bay, in Kaikoura.
With a 19cm (7.48 inch) diameter eye and 2m (6.56ft) long body, you wouldn't want to tassle with this beast of the deep.
The longest tentacle was 5m (16.4ft) in length.
10. The Giant Carnivorous Powelliphanta Snail
Giant Carnivorous Powelliphanta Snail from New Zealand Source: Department of Conservation Photo: Kath Walker
Like something out of a horror movie this giant NZ snail is packed with 6000 teeth, has disgusting table manners and grows to the size of a man's fist.
Be warned you will never look at snails the same.
Get a rare up-close view of one of these carnivorous snails sneaking up on a worm.
Within a matter of seconds, the snail goes from being a placid looking slow slug to a 'ferocious predator' as it suffocates an earthworm folding it in half and eating it like spaghetti.
11. The Fantail (Pīwakawaka)
FANTAIL IMAGE © Dennis Knight
The Fantail is one of the most common native birds you will see when walking around the native bush.
They almost seemingly dance through the air when they fly.
Known as dart flyers their fanned tail allows them to easily change direction quickly.
Many people talk about how fantails are friendly, curious (often flying around you), and even how they sometimes accompany you on walks.
12. The Kea - Most Intelligent Parrot In The World
The Kea is one of the funniest, brave, and most intelligent birds in the world.
These character packed gorgeous parrots are found in the forested Alpine areas in the South Island of New Zealand.
Travelers are often warned about the rubber on their car, especially around the windows and front wiper blades being torn to shreds by these guys.
You can't leave anything unattended, they're brave and not afraid and will walk right past you to nab your lunch.
Often getting amongst it with everyone, these little guys are awesome to see being their cheeky selves.
13. Māui Dolphin - The World's Smallest Dolphin
MAUI DOLPHIN IMAGE © WWF New Zealand/Facebook
Looking like a mini orca whale but in fact, these are the Māui dolphins the world's smallest dolphins found only in New Zealand.
With only an estimated 63 individuals left these gorgeous dolphins are extremely endangered and on the brink of extinction. They plummeted in numbers from 1500 in the 1970s due to setnets been widely introduced into the New Zealand waters.
They can grow up to around 1.5m long and weigh up to 50kgs.
Found exclusively on the West Coast in the North Island of New Zealand.
14. World's Biggest Earthworm (Spenceriella Gigantea)
Ti Point Reptile Park worker with a giant NZ earthworm that was found after heavy rainfall.
New Zealand is home to giant earthworms that glow in the dark and can grow up to 1.4m long and over 1cm thick.
Very rarely seen as they prefer to live a couple of meters below ground in their tunnels.
But every now again when there is heavy rainfall this colossal worm escapes to high ground to avoid drowning.
The 'glow in the dark' trait is from bioluminescence and it is said that they are so bright you could read a book sitting next to one.
15. The Moorepork (Ruru)
New Zealand's last surviving native owl.
You might be wondering what a weird name where did that come from?
Well just listen to the video above to hear these sweet little owls call their own name.
They are called Ruru in Māori, the indigenous language of New Zealand.
16. The Huhu Grub
The Huhu Grub is the baby larvae of New Zealand's biggest beetle the Huhu Beetle (Prionoplus reticularis).
They are often eaten as a bush delicacy by frying or BBQing over a campfire.
Huhu Grubs are known to taste like buttery chicken with the texture of peanut butter.
Image of a Huhu Larvae About to Be Eaten © Thomas Sibley
17. Pāua Sea Snail
New Zealand Pāua also know as (abalone) in other countries is unique to New Zealand.
The shells are brilliantly colorful and often used in jewelry.
They have an oval-shaped shell with a large muscular foot that is used to cling to the rock surface.
Surprisingly they have eyes, tentacles, mouth, and gills which they breathe through.
Bonus: Bruce The Rugby Playing Sheep
It's not only the people of New Zealand that love Rugby but also our funny furry friends!
Meet Bruce the rugby playing sheep from New Zealand.
New Zealand animals are exotic, weird, and unique in so many ways. New Zealand had no land mammal predators prior to man's arrival allowing insects, birds, and other creatures to become gigantic.


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Karwa Chauth, an important festival for married women, is celebrated grandly. Let us explore some easy recipes for Karva Chauth.
Karwa- Chauth is a very popular festival, celebrated by married women almost across India. It involves the tradition, where the women keep a fast for the long life and prosperity of their husband. Married women begin their fast from the morning of karva chauth and stay without food and water throughout the day. They break their fast by receiving the first bite of food and water from their husbands, after seeing the moon, offering prayers and worshipping it. This is a very special moment in their life, which signifies the love, dedication and commitment of a wife for her husband. To make this moment more festive, a variety of special dishes are prepared and consumed by everyone.
Indian festivals are never complete without a long list of delicacies and karwa chauth is no exception. There are various mouth watering recipes that can be cooked on this day and enjoyed after the fast. Apart from the regular food, there are lots of other special delicacies that are prepared. No doubt, these are much more enjoyable then regular food. Some of the popular Karwa chauth recipes are aloo chana chaat, golgappe, aloo dahi wale, papri chaat, imli ke chatni, poori bhaji, methi ki puri, ragada patties and batatyachi kachori. These are so easy and quick to make that you might not feel like waiting till karwa chauth to enjoy their mouth watering taste.
The preparation of aloo chana chaat varies from place to place. It greatly depends upon an individual's taste and likings. However, it surely is a dish that is liked and preferred by people of all age groups. Aloo chana chaat, most of the times, becomes the first choice for starters, as it is very easy and simple to make.
People love to eat chaats and when you can prepare it at home; there can certainly be no other better option. Aloo dahi wale is no exception to this, being liked by most of us. The dish requires little preparation work and has a finger licking taste. It can be prepared anytime, with most of the ingredients easily available at home.
Tamarind sauce is very delicious condiment, which is quite easy to make as well. The best advantage of the sauce is that it can be used to spice up all kinds of food items. It can be served with snacks, chaats, samosas, dahi vada and pakoras. Tamarind sauce is tangy and spicy, making your tongue and mouth come alive.
Methi Puri is one of the mouth watering Indian recipes that can be prepared on the occasion of karva chauth. It is not only delicious to eat, but very nutritious as well. Methi Puri is a very popular recipe, which is prepared with fenugreek leaves and other spices. These are stuffed in wheat flour ball and then fried.
If you are bored of eating sweets and want to spice up your celebration, what can be a better option than golgappe? It is known by different names in different regions, the most popular ones being panipuri, puchka and gupchup. Golgappas are easily available in restaurants as well as on the roadside.
Papri Chaat is a mouth watering North Indian fast food, relished by most of the people. It can be found easily on the roadside food carts all over India, apart from fast food outlets. Comprising of a snack, it is made from crispy wafers, to which is added a delicious combination of potatoes, seasoned yogurt, chilies and chutneys.
Poori Bhaji is a very famous dish that can be found gracing an Indian meal on almost all festive occasions. Be it a puja, party, picnic, family gathering or a holiday afternoon, poori bhaji marks its presence on each and every occasion. It is the popular Indian meal served with spicy potato vegetable.
Ragada patties, if prepared properly, are known to form a complete meal. They require very less cooking time, especially if everything is planned in advance. They can also be said to make one of those tasty chaat dishes that are exploding with flavor. Ragada patty is a nutritious dish that is very simple to make.
India is a land of festivals and celebrations. These festivals are incomplete without varieties of food. Karwa chauth is a festival dedicated to the long life of husband and holds an important place in the heart of Indian women. In order to make it more special, the food should also be appropriate.


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Aleksander Barkov ou Aleksandr Aleksandrovitch Barkov - en  - (né le  à Tampere en Finlande) est un joueur professionnel finlando-russe de hockey sur glace. Il évolue au poste d'attaquant. Il est le fils d'Aleksandr Barkov.

Biographie

Carrière de joueur
Formé au Tappara où son père Aleksandr jouait, il commence sa carrière dans la SM-liiga avec l'équipe première le . Il devient alors le deuxième plus jeune joueur de la ligue après Jesse Joensuu de l'Ässät (15 ans). Il inscrit lors de ce match son premier point, une assistance, le record du championnat finlandais. Trois jours plus tard, il marque son premier but face à l'Ässät devenant à seize ans, un mois et deux jours, le plus jeune buteur de l'histoire du championnat de Finlande. Il est sélectionné par le Lokomotiv Iaroslavl en deuxième position lors du repêchage d'entrée dans la KHL 2012. Il est choisi en deuxième position par les Panthers de la Floride lors du repêchage d'entrée dans la LNH 2013.

Il marque son premier but dans la Ligue nationale de hockey avec les Panthers le  contre les Stars de Dallas.

Carrière internationale
Il représente la Finlande en sélections jeunes. Le , à seize ans et quatre mois, il devient le deuxième plus jeune joueur de l'histoire à marquer un but lors d'un Championnat du monde junior après le Kazakh Viktor Aleksandrov. La Finlande l'emporte sur la Slovaquie 8-5.

Statistiques
Pour les significations des abréviations, voir statistiques du hockey sur glace.

En club

| 2011 || Tappara || TE || 1 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || - || - || - || - || -
|-
| 2011-2012 || Tappara || SM-Liiga || 32 || 7 || 9 || 16 || 4 || - || - || - || - || -
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| 2012 || Tappara || TE || 7 || 3 || 1 || 4 || 4 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0
|-
| 2012-2013 || Tappara || SM-Liiga || 53 || 21 || 27 || 48 || 8 || 5 || 0 || 5 || 5 || 2
|-
| 2013-2014 || Panthers de la Floride || LNH || 54 || 8 || 16 || 24 || 10 || - || - || - || - || -
|-
| 2014-2015 || Panthers de la Floride || LNH || 71 || 16 || 20 || 36 || 16 || - || - || - || - || -
|-
| 2015-2016 || Panthers de la Floride || LNH || 66 || 28 || 31 || 59 || 8 || 6 || 2 || 1 || 3 || 2
|-
| 2016-2017 || Panthers de la Floride || LNH || 61 || 21 || 31 || 52 || 10 || - || - || - || - || -
|-
| 2017-2018 || Panthers de la Floride || LNH || 79 || 27 || 51 || 78 || 14 || - || - || - || - || -
|-
| 2018-2019 || Panthers de la Floride || LNH || 82 || 35 || 61 || 96 || 8 || - || - || - || - || -
|-
| 2019-2020 || Panthers de la Floride || LNH || 66 || 20 || 42 || 62 || 18 || 4 || 1 || 3 || 4 || 2
|-
| 2020-2021 || Panthers de la Floride || LNH   || 50 || 26 || 32 || 58 || 14 || 6 || 1 || 6 || 7 || 2
|-
| 2021-2022 || Panthers de la Floride || LNH || 67 || 39 || 49 || 88 || 18 || 10 || 2 || 5 || 7 || 4
|-

| 596 || 220 || 333 || 553 || 116 || 26 || 6 || 15 || 21 || 10

Au niveau international

| 2012 || align="left"| Championnat du monde junior || 7|| 1|| 3|| 4|| 0|| 0||align="left"| Quatrième place
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| 2012 || align="left"|Championnat du monde moins de 18 ans || 7|| 1|| 2|| 3|| 27|| 0|| align="left"| Quatrième place
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| 2013 || align="left"| Championnat du monde junior || 6|| 3|| 4|| 7|| 6|| +2||align="left"| Septième place
|-
| 2014 || align="left"| Jeux olympiques || 2|| 0|| 1|| 1|| 2|| +3|| align="left"|  Médaille de bronze
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| 2015 || align="left"| Championnat du monde || 8|| 4|| 3|| 7|| 4|| +3|| align="left"| Sixième place
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| 2016 || align="left"| Championnat du monde || 9 || 3 || 6 || 9 || 2 || +3 || align="left"|  Médaille d'argent
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| 2016 || align="left"| Coupe du monde || 3 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || -1 || align="left"| Éliminé au premier tour

Trophées et honneurs personnels

Ligue nationale de hockey
2017-2018 : participe au  Match des étoiles (1)
2018-2019 : remporte le trophée Lady Byng
2020-2021 : remporte le trophée Frank-J.-Selke
2022-2023 : participe au  Match des étoiles (2)

Références

Voir aussi

Naissance le 2 septembre 1995
Joueur international finlandais de hockey sur glace
Joueur russe de hockey sur glace
Choix de premier tour au repêchage d'entrée dans la KHL
Choix de repêchage du Lokomotiv Iaroslavl
Joueur du Tappara
Choix de premier tour au repêchage d'entrée dans la LNH
Choix de repêchage des Panthers de la Floride
Joueur des Panthers de la Floride
Joueur de hockey sur glace aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 2014
Médaillé de bronze olympique finlandais
Attaquant de hockey sur glace
Joueur d'un Match des étoiles de la Ligue nationale de hockey
Gagnant du trophée Lady Byng
Gagnant du trophée Frank-J.-Selke


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As noted above, GTBIF just announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2018, showing total revenue for the fourth quarter of 2018 increased 237% year-over-year to $20.8 million, and fourth quarter sequential growth was 21%, with total revenue for 2018 increasing 278% year-over-year to $62.5 million.
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Q: Django static url auto prefixes I've seen quite alot of questions & answers on this topic, but none helped me.
So, the problem is: none of static files are served till i manually add '/' before any adress in adresses in html.
And i always get double static files folder prefix on adresses, like this: 'content/static/content/static/js/my.js'
The last problem, that i CANT get over, is this image cropping field isnt working, i assume becouse it cant get right image url, becouse of double prefix written above. I cant fix it, becouse the mechanism is written inside the https://github.com/jonasundderwolf/django-image-cropping. Is there a way to change this django behavior? In the redactor field i had same problem, but i fixed it with manually overwriting save() method, changing the url of uploaded images so they begin to be displayed, but it doesnt work automatically and i cant understand why.
Help please.
I tried {% static 'some_file' %}, sometimes its working, sometimes not, so its not a solution.
So, my django project structure is this:

*

*project

*

*content

*

*templates

*static

*etc

*project

project/urls.py:
from django.conf.urls import include, url
from django.contrib import admin

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
    url(r'', include ('content.urls')),
    url(r'^redactor/', include('redactor.urls')),
]

from django.conf.urls import patterns
from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns

urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()

settings.py:
INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'content',
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'redactor',
    'pure_pagination',
    'django_cleanup',
    'image_cropping',
    'easy_thumbnails',
)

from easy_thumbnails.conf import Settings as thumbnail_settings
THUMBNAIL_PROCESSORS = (
    'image_cropping.thumbnail_processors.crop_corners',
) + thumbnail_settings.THUMBNAIL_PROCESSORS

STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static/")

STATIC_URL = '/content/static/'

STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder',
)

STATICFILES_DIRS = (
    # Put strings here, like "/home/html/static" or "C:/www/django/static".
    # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows.
    # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths.
    os.path.join(
        os.path.dirname(__file__),
    ),
    "C:/Work/Snejana/magazine31.01.2016/content/static/upload_images",
    "C:/Work/Snejana/magazine31.01.2016/content/static",
    "C:/Work/Snejana/magazine31.01.2016",
)

one model from content/models.py:
class Author(models.Model):

    class Meta:
        verbose_name = 'Автора'
        verbose_name_plural = 'Авторы'

    author_name              = models.CharField(max_length=200, verbose_name=u'Имя автора')
    regalias                 = models.CharField(max_length=200, blank=True, verbose_name=u'Регалии')
    description              = RedactorField(blank=True,
                                             verbose_name=u'Описание автора',
                                             redactor_options={'lang': 'en', 'focus': 'true'},
                                             upload_to='content/static/upload_images/',
                                             allow_file_upload=True,
                                             allow_image_upload=True)
    photo_full               = models.ImageField(upload_to="content/static/upload_images/",
                                                 verbose_name=u'Фото',
                                                 default=None,
                                                 blank=True,
                                                 null=True)
    photo_thumbnail          = models.ImageField(upload_to="content/static/upload_images/",
                                                 verbose_name=u'Фото маленькое',
                                                 default=None,
                                                 blank=True,
                                                 null=True)
    publications_of_author   = models.ForeignKey('Publication', blank=True, null=True, verbose_name=u'Публикации автора')
    cropping1 = ImageRatioField('photo_full', '600x400')
    cropping2 = ImageRatioField('photo_thumbnail', '100x80')

And last one, admin.py:
class AuthorAdmin(ImageCroppingMixin, admin.ModelAdmin):
    fieldsets = [
        ('Информация об авторе', {'fields': ['author_name', 'description', 'photo_full', 'photo_thumbnail','cropping1', 'regalias'], 'classes': ['collapse']}),
    ]
    readonly_fields = ('photo_thumbnail',)
    inlines = [AuthorsPublicationsInline]

    class Media:
        js = ['http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js', 'js/collapsed_stacked_inlines.js',]

A: Your upload_to attributes should not include the prefix; they are relative to MEDIA_ROOT.
photo_full = models.ImageField(upload_to="upload_images/", ...)

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In the extremely rare event I cannot get this title to work on your system I will take it back for a full refund. All I ask is minimal assistance from you during the troubleshooting process.
In Normality, your objective is to assume the mantle of Kent, a seemingly affable slacker and resident of the city of Neutropolis, a dismal burg where ominous black clouds perpetually block the sun and a strict behavioral code is enforced upon residents which strictly prohibits acts of creativity, individuality or any other behavior that would otherwise cause a person to deviate from the established standards of "normal" behavior. Naturally, Kent is one of the few free-thinkers left in this society and throughout the course of the story, your job is to unravel the machinations of the evil dictator of Neutropolis and liberate the denizens of the city from his oppressive grasp, bringing back sunlight and anarchy to the masses.
While this doesn't necessarily sound like a particularly light-hearted premise, Normality is a strictly tongue-in-cheek adventure, with Kent functioning as essentially a stoner version of Harrison Bergeron. However, unlike the best comedic adventures (e.g., Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, Sam & Max) the humor in Normality isn't especially clever or subtle and in most cases operates on the same level as the average sitcom—the jokes are numerous, obvious and not particularly funny, but not bad enough to change the channel. That having been said, while the humor for the most part misses the mark, the story is fairly entertaining and managed to maintain my interest throughout the game.
Perhaps the greatest strength of Normality, though, lies in its puzzles. These are primarily inventory-based and, while not terribly difficult, should provide a decent challenge to most gamers. Although I question the logic behind a few of the solutions, the answers to most of the puzzles are fairly intuitive and should avail themselves to most gamers with the application of a little logic or, at most, a little tenacity.
The game's interface is handled primarily via a menu accessed by right-clicking the mouse (similar to Full Throttle), which hosts the standard complement of adventure gaming actions (talk, use, examine, etc.). As a nice touch, these are alternately available via keyboard shortcuts. Navigation, likewise, can be handled via mouse or keyboard. The controls are easy to learn and understand, and if you've played any 3D action games, you are halfway there.
In the end the game is a little short, but not annoyingly so. The puzzles range from very simple to somewhat difficult. You cannot die in the game, and I have always liked that in an adventure. Overall, the game is a lot of fun, and if you don't mind the game being a little on the short side, I recommend this game highly.
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