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Q: XML command line tool postgres I have an XML files to read and load into database daily at night (cron)
So i planed to do this in a batch.
Is there any command line tool to :
1. Create a postgres schema using an XSD file?
2. Transform an XML file into SQL commands for postgres?
Any other solution is welcome.

A: You can generate SQL commands to import your file using xmlstarlet.
Here is an example.

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Motherboard matters
Patricia Gestoso charts women's battle for fair access to leadership positions in technology.
I've now been working for over 15 years as a Head of Services in the tech industry. Throughout my career, I've strived to support other professional women with the determination to see workplaces reach gender equity during my lifetime.
The pandemic has wrecked that hope in the tech sector even though it is thriving financially. The reason? Tech hasn't seen the opportunities to challenge practices such as unpaid care work and the revered 40-hour workweek that keep women away from leadership positions. Instead, it has brushed off the problem with platitudes: flexible working… work from home… hybrid working…
This lack of questioning is the product of the pervasiveness of patriarchy, exceptionalism, and meritocracy in technology, which hinder the deep transformation required to upend the status quo. These characteristics are part of its DNA and have long stayed under the radar of most people, including myself.
When I started in software, I wasn't particularly uncomfortable in a sector where you must work much harder to progress in your career if you are not simultaneously white, heterosexual, able, and male. I've been an immigrant all my life, so I was used to being "the other" and to have to prove myself over and over.
Then, in the early 2010s, Anne-Marie Slaughter wrote Why Women Still Can't Have It All and Sheryl Sandberg published Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. In different ways, those powerful women sent the message that women didn't have the same opportunities as men to get to the top and that imbalance had to be fixed.
Around that time, I was promoted. I quickly noticed that often I was the only female senior manager in projects and meetings. The smart and promising women that I had met years earlier had come back from maternity leave to unappealing part-time jobs, without access to the plumb assignments that lead to career progression.
The motherhood penalty revealed to me systemic patterns where before I'd seen only coincidences.
The tipping point was when I joined a group of professional women working in various industries and at all career levels. Our honest conversations about men stealing ideas, the harmful effects of unconscious bias, or the motherhood penalty revealed to me systemic patterns where before I'd seen only coincidences. That prompted me to create the first employee-led group focused on fostering gender equity at my company. The group's positive impact was recognised with the 2020 Women in Tech Changemakers UK award. I also spearheaded other initiatives to grow diversity and inclusion in other organisations. I also discovered that power asymmetry was not a bug but a feature embedded since the birth of tech.
In the 1930s, women were hired to solve mathematical problems that were considered at the time as repetitive work. Some of those calculations were as complex as estimating the number of rockets needed to make a plane airborne or determining how to get a human into space and back. When computers took off in the 1960s women became programmers while men focused on the hardware which was regarded as the most challenging work. As programming gained status during the 1980s, men pushed women out of those jobs. That prompted a sharp increase in the salaries of software developers and institutionalised patriarchy and the gender pay gap.
Historically, tech has approached these issues by "fixing women." For example, women in the sector are coached to develop stereotypical male leadership traits. In the past decade, tech leaders have promoted the abdication of responsibility for solving gender inequalities and charged women with mitigating the damages. For instance, female executives are expected to act as role models on top of their full-time jobs. This can go all the way from agreeing to be the company's speaker at STEM events to sponsoring the female employee network.
This transfer of responsibility is also alive and well in start-up tech businesses. A venture capitalist shared with me his view that the key to increasing the funding received by women's businesses was that they were mentored by successful female founders. I replied that those top performers were often overburdened by the demands of paying back to society and that men could also mentor women. Later that day, he asked me to mentor a woman with a promising business idea that he was trying to help. He introduced us via email mentioning my interest in supporting her and inviting us to connect. His "helping" was done.
In recent years, the most popular software development approach, Agile, has become a staple of the business jargon. The origin of this methodology can be traced back to 2001 and 17 software developers unhappy about what they considered excessive planning and documentation practices. They came up with their own set of rules: The Agile Manifesto.
The rationale is that tech is special and its regulation is counterproductive and stifles innovation.
But Agile is more than a project management approach. It buttresses tech's deep cultural belief in exceptionalism, the idea that our sector is inherently different from and even better than, all the others. This helps to explain how we allow tech companies to go fast and break things while we impose strict regulations on the food and drug industries. The rationale is that tech is special and its regulation is counterproductive and stifles innovation.
The debates about the ethical use of artificial intelligence (AI) are perfect examples of how this sector dodges the rules applied to other industries. For example, I recently met with other professionals to discuss future trends in support software. Everybody was very excited about the use of AI tools such as sentiment analysis to improve the user experience. Then, I brought up the proposal for regulating those applications released by the European Union a month earlier. The participants – who were unaware of the document – quickly asserted that the Directive had nothing to do with support. In summary, norms are for others.
This framework conveniently disguises the dearth of opportunities for under-represented groups as being the result of a lack of intelligence and skill.
And the most pernicious cultural tenet in tech is its self-proclaimed meritocracy. How do we heal a system that considers itself virtuous? The idea that tech is inherently fair is rooted in its connection to logic and mathematics which commonly translates as objectivity and reason. This framework conveniently disguises the dearth of opportunities for under-represented groups as being the result of a lack of intelligence and skill.
Can we extricate patriarchy, exceptionalism, and meritocracy from tech? Yes, we can but it'll need an overhaul of its vision, mission, and purpose. It'll need humility.
What does that mean in practice?
First, it means moving away from methodologies that could foster power asymmetry between creators and users. Instead, we should adopt systems- thinking and multi-stakeholder co-creation practices for the development of products, services, and workplaces.
Second, it means recognising that the financial success of our sector relies on innovations funded by governments and products purchased by customers. Hence, paying taxes that are commensurate with tech business profits is not philanthropy but a fair contribution to society.
Finally, abiding by the same rules and regulations imposed on any other sector with the potential of affecting billions of lives. Only then, will tech be able to deliver on Google's "Don't be evil" promise.
System map of the factors accounting for the low representation of women in leadership positions in tech companies.
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Q: Get a value from associated Doctrine Entity I have ManyToMany Association between Entities "Consultant" and "Status"
which defined as follows:
@ORM\ManyToMany(targetEntity="Status", inversedBy="consultant")
  @ORM\JoinTable(name="consultant_status",
  joinColumns={
  @ORM\JoinColumn(name="consultant_id", referencedColumnName="id")
  },
  inverseJoinColumns={
  @ORM\JoinColumn(name="status_id", referencedColumnName="id")
 }
)

when I try(on Doctrine postUpdate event) to get an id from Status, with the following way:
...
$entity = $args->getEntity();
if($entity instanceof Consultant){
 $status_id= $entity->getStatu()->getId();
}
...

I get:

Call to undefined method Doctrine\ORM\PersistentCollection::::getId()

Does anybody know what I do wrong?

A: As Consultant and Status are in a ManyToMany relation, getStatus() will return a Collection object with all the status related to this Consultant.
To loop throught all your statut just use foreach
foreach($entity->getStatu() as $statut) {
                        ^^^
                        //you might have a typo here
    $statut->getId();
    //other stuff
}


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"Hafez and Goethe", "Vars" to screen at Archaeology Channel Intl. Film Festival
April 21, 2020 - 18:13
TEHRAN – The Iranian documentaries "Vars" and "Hafez and Goethe" will be competing in the Archaeology Channel International Film Festival in the United States, the organizers have announced.
The festival is scheduled to take place in Eugene in the U.S. state of Oregon from May 13 to 17.
Due to complications from the COVID-19 outbreak in Oregon, the festival's playlist will be available from May 13 to help viewers around the world see the films selected for screening.
Directed by Javad Vatani, "Vars" is about Veresk Bridge, an over 80-year-old bridge in northern Iran, which played a key role during World War II as it was used by the Allies to deliver aid to the Soviets in their fight against Hitler.
Two screenings have been arranged for the film at the Sheffer Recital Hall and the Shedd Institute on May 15 at 7:19 and 8:12 pm.
Produced at Iran's Documentary and Experimental Film Center (DEFC), "Hafez and Goethe", which has been directed by Farshad Fereshteh-Hekmat, explores the impacts of Hafez and Goethe, two of the most prominent poets of all time.
It takes a closer look at how Hafez, a Persian poet writing in the 14th century, came to have a strong impact and influence on Goethe, a German poet writing in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Hafez's influence is best explored through Goethe's invaluable collection of poems called "West–Eastern Diwan." This collection can be seen as an early example of the blending of Western and Eastern cultures in art.
The Sheffer Recital Hall and the Shedd Institute will screen the film on May 16 at 1:50 and 3:08 pm.
The DEFC announced on Tuesday that the Iranian film expert Bahman Nurai, who is also the director of the Trade Department of the center, has been selected for the jury of the festival.
The festival intends to showcase the wonderful diversity of human cultures past and present in the exploration of our place in history and in our world, as well to promote the genre and the makers of film and video productions about cultural heritage, the organizers said.
Photo: Iranian actor Nasser Aqai portrays German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in the docufiction "Hafez and Goethe" by Farshad Fereshteh-Hekmat. (DEFC)
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Q: Group Concat columns based on previous records I am facing quite a difficult query in my next report. I have a few clues, but can't seem to wrap it up in the right query. I have tried using Group_Concat over a Concat of the numbers, but I don't get the desired result.

Exchanging shares in Full Ownership, Freehold and Usufruct (Google Translated these terms)

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*Person A buys 100 shares, numbers 1 - 100 in Full Ownership

*Person A sells Full Ownership (FO) of 20 shares, numbers 81 - 100

*Person A buys Freehold (FH) of 20 shares, numbers 81 - 100

*Person B buys Usufruct (US) of 20 shares, numbers 81 - 100

*Person A buys Full Ownership (FO) of 100 shares, numbers 201 - 300

Situation after these transactions:

*

*Person A: 180 shares in Full Ownership, numbers 1 - 80 & numbers 201 - 300

*Person A: 20 shares in Freehold, numbers 81 - 100

*Person B: 20 shares in Usufruct, numbers 81 - 100

-- In the database these transactions will be stored as:

+----+-------------+-----------+------------+------------+------------+------+
| ID | Shareholder | Quantity  | IsPurchase | NumberFrom | NumberTill | Type |
+----+-------------+-----------+------------+------------+------------+------+
| 1  | Person A    | 100       | true       | 1          | 100        | FO   |
| 2  | Person A    | 20        | false      | 81         | 100        | FO   |
| 3  | Person A    | 20        | true       | 81         | 100        | FH   |
| 4  | Person B    | 20        | true       | 81         | 100        | US   |
| 5  | Person A    | 100       | true       | 201        | 300        | FO   |
+----+-------------+-----------+------------+------------+------------+------+

--> The desired output of my query is the following:

+-------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------------+------------+------------+
| Shareholder | Shares_FO | Shares_FH | Shares_US | Numbers_FO     | Numbers_FH | Numbers_Us |
+-------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------------+------------+------------+
| Person A    | 180       | 20        |           | '1,80;201,300' | '81,100'   |            |
| Person B    |           |           | 20        |                |            | '81,100'   |
+-------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------------+------------+------------+

What I have so far is everything except the share numbers. I use CASE WHEN on the Type column to SUM the shares into the columns FO, FH and US. When IsPurchase is false, i subtract the number of shares. So all of that is working. I'm only missing the last three columns.
Code snippet of the summing.
SELECT Shareholder,
    SUM(CASE WHEN Type = 'FO' THEN
            CASE WHEN IsPurchase THEN Quantity ELSE -Quantity END
        END) AS Shares_FO,
    SUM(CASE WHEN SRI_ID = 'FH' THEN
            CASE WHEN IsPurchase THEN Quantity ELSE -Quantity END
        END) AS Shares_FH,
    SUM(CASE WHEN SRI_ID = 'US' THEN
            CASE WHEN IsPurchase THEN Quantity ELSE -Quantity END
        END) AS Shares_US

Many thanks in advance!


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Dell's Visor is a gorgeous VR headset, but Windows Mixed Reality still needs polish
Posted by Hayden Dingman
on September 07 2017
For nearly three years now, virtual reality on the PC has been a two-company game. Oculus and HTC, the Rift and the Vive. Sure, we've had others come and go—Razer's OSVR headset, for instance. But in general, it's been a two-headset market.
Next month we'll have seven.
On October 17 Microsoft will preside over the largest VR roll-out in history, overseeing the release of Windows Mixed Reality headsets from Dell, Lenovo, Asus, Acer, and HP, alongside the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. Microsoft's goal is to bring its titular "Mixed Reality" to the masses—theoretically a spectrum of augmented and virtual reality tech, though these initial headsets are...well, just VR headsets, really.
So what's it like? I went hands-on with the Dell Visor at PAX West last weekend, giving me a chance to draw conclusions not just about Dell's product but this launch as a whole. In short: Expect confusion.
Generation 1.5
Let's talk about Dell's Visor first.
It's a sleek headset. Clad all in white, it definitely looks more "finished" than the Vive, though I still think the Rift's design has a slight edge. Dell also lifted some of the best ideas from Sony's PlayStation VR headset or Microsoft's own HoloLens, eschewing the bulky straps seen on the Rift and Vive in favor of a welding helmet-style ring. The Visor is beautifully balanced, resting effortlessly on your head and gently cinching in place.
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The front also flips up out of the way like a welding helmet—again, similar to PlayStation VR. It's a great feature, regardless of origin. If you want to take a drink, check your phone, use your mouse, or whatever, you simply lift the screen part of the Visor up out of the way. No need to take the whole headset off or awkwardly try to peep out the bottom edge.
The Visor's ventilation is better than it is for both the Vive and Rift. Dell's PAX demo had me playing through Superhot VR, which is a fairly active game. I was ducking, kneeling, squatting, leaning, and so on to evade enemy bullets, but the lenses never fogged up, nor was my face covered in sweat afterward. It gets hot, but air channels near the nose and in the center of the forehead help keep you slightly cooler than the competition does.
At 1440x1440 resolution per eye, the Visor has a slight edge over the Vive and Rift's 1080x1200 per eye, though in actual use the difference is harder to tell. The Visor will also run at 90Hz, same as the Rift and Vive, though I've heard other Windows MR headsets will target 60 frames per second instead. What that experience will be like and how Microsoft will surface that information to potential buyers, I have no idea.
So far so good, though, right?
Achilles heel
Which brings us to tracking. This is where Microsoft's reference design (which all these headsets are based on) starts to fall apart.
Both the Rift and Vive utilize external base stations of some sort for tracking. With Oculus, these are cameras that plug straight into your computer and analyze the position of the Rift and the accompanying Touch controllers. With HTC, Vive's tracking is done by the headset and controllers themselves—the wall-mounted base stations are just dumb boxes that blast lasers into the room.
Regardless of method, the results are the same: fast and highly accurate tracking. Base stations are vulnerable to occlusion (when all stations lose sight of an object at the same time) but it's otherwise extremely reliable.
Microsoft doesn't use base stations. Instead, Microsoft claimed to have perfected markerless inside-out tracking. You'll notice there are two cameras on the front of the Dell Visor. That's what does the tracking, and there are similar cameras on every Windows MR device. When you put on the Visor it asks you to look left, right, down, and up, then uses this information to track the world around you.
It works okay.
Let me start with the biggest issue: The controllers. Because the Rift and Vive use external base stations, the controllers are tracked independently from the headset. If you put your arms down at your sides, your arms don't just cease to exist. You can hit that incoming tennis ball without looking at your racket. The racket's still there.
Not in Microsoft's world though. Turns out when your trackers are on the headset, everything you do needs to be in sight of the headset.
Okay, not quite. There's some sort of software projection going on, so when your hands go out of sight of the headset they still "exist." As Dell explained to me though, the longer they're out of sight of the cameras the less accurate that estimate gets.
If you want to know why this is problematic, well, play Superhot VR. If you're not familiar, Superhot VR is a game where enemies only move when you move. Thus when playing on the Vive or Rift you'll often grab objects from outside your field of view, so as to keep an eye on the enemies shooting at you. On the Dell Visor and, presumably, other Windows MR headsets? Not so much. In order to grab objects reliably I was always forced to look at what I was grabbing.
This isn't a huge deal for many of the Windows Mixed Reality applications Microsoft is touting—day-to-day productivity, education, et cetera. But it's a total wash for gaming purposes.
It's prone to confusion, too. I've had my Vive set up for over a year with no major issues. Within 10 minutes of calibrating the Dell Visor, I'd started to creep slowly but surely into the air, until eventually my character was floating eight feet above the floor. The headset just had no idea where I was, and had somehow concluded we'd moved that far above our initial point on the PAX show floor. Needless to say, we hadn't.
Now, the PAX show floor is hardly ideal conditions to demo inside-out tracking, and the more charitable side of me is willing to give some benefit of the doubt. In a quiet home environment, surrounded only by static furniture and the odd pet? Perhaps it works a lot better. Still, it was indicative of how far markerless inside-out tracking has to go before Microsoft can really say it's "perfected."
My last complaint, and it has nothing to do with the hardware: The Windows 10 store.
Microsoft has said that Steam VR support will come to these headsets sometime post-launch, but when they arrive in October your only option will be to grab software from the Windows 10 store. That's going to be an extremely small cross-section of VR titles, and will require developers to add not just Windows Mixed Reality support but also (I assume) repackage their programs as universal Windows apps. It also requires you, as the end user, to use the not-so-great Windows 10 store.
When Steam VR support is added, this whole raft of Microsoft headsets might look more appealing. At launch, though, I'm unconvinced. The price of the Dell Visor with controllers is $449, which is surprisingly close to the Oculus Rift's current $500 price tag—and at that point, why not just buy a Rift? You'd get a stable platform with an existing library of software, plus built-in headphones, more accurate position tracking, and more ergonomic controllers.
Dell's Visor isn't even the most expensive model. That honor will probably go to Asus. Wasn't the whole point of these headsets to bring VR to the masses? Because that's not happening at these prices. To be fair, you'll be able to buy Acer's Windows Mixed Reality by itself—sans controllers—for $300. But controllers are such an integral part of the VR experience that you won't want to skip them.
I'm skeptical. I think Dell's done a swell job of adapting Microsoft's reference design. The Dell Visor is attractive, well-balanced, and comfortable, coming in slightly below the current Oculus Rift price and providing 90 percent of the same experience.
That last 10 percent is important, though. I don't have high hopes for the accuracy of Microsoft's markerless tracking or the VR-hotspot prospects of the Windows 10 store. I hope I'm wrong—I hope this is the dawn of a new era in VR. But my gut tells me this raft of headsets is going the way of Steam Machines.
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Joshua Redman (saxophone), Brad Mehldau (piano), Larry Grenadier (bass), Brian Blade (drums), Laura Frautschi (concertmistress), Avril Brown, Christina Courtin, Karen Karlsrud, Ann Leathers, Katherine Livolsi-Landau, Joanna Maurer, Courtney Orlando, Yuri Vodovos (violin,) Vincent Lionti, Daniel Panner, Dov Scheindlin (viola,) Stephanie Cummins, Eugene Moye, Ellen Westermann (cello,) Timothy Cobb (bass,) Pamela Sklar (flute,) Robert Carlisle (french horn), Conducted by Dan Coleman.
Creating his own take on the classic jazz-with-strings album was the initial impetus for Joshua Redman's Walking Shadows, a collection of ballads, both vintage and contemporary, that can be as eloquently moody and restless in feel as they are hauntingly beautiful and serene. With his friend and frequent collaborator, the pianist Brad Mehldau, on board as producer—the first time Mehldau has assumed that role for a project other than one of his own—Redman has retooled a familiar formula. The jazz-with-strings concept serves as a starting point, as foundation and inspiration, for Redman's exploration of an ambitiously eclectic set of tunes performed in a variety of configurations. The strings themselves are an active, emotive presence on the six songs in which they are featured and their absence on other tracks only seems to heighten the drama of those more austerely arranged compositions.
Redman and Mehldau culled material from the best of the Great American Songbook, including "Easy Living," "Lush Life," "Stardust," and "The Folks Who Live on the Hill." But they also looked much further afield, reframing pieces from J.S. Bach (the Adagio from his organ Toccata in C) to the Beatles ("Let It Be"), from a soulful John Mayer number ("Stop This Train") to the angular rock of New York indie stalwarts Blonde Redhead ("Doll Is Mine"), plus a few original tracks from Redman and Mehldau. While the songs required an individualized approach, Redman and Mehldau managed to artfully fit them all together to form a kind of seamless narrative, an often brooding and melancholic one that seems to unfold, as the Macbeth-derived album title suggests, between the light and the dark.
Redman cut Walking Shadows last September at Avatar in Manhattan with Mehldau on piano, longtime friends and collaborators Larry Grenadier and Brian Blade on bass and drums, and 15 orchestral players. James Farber engineered and Dan Coleman, who had previously worked with Mehldau on his 2010 Highway Rider release, served as conductor. Along with Mehldau, Coleman contributed string arrangements, as did composer Patrick Zimmerli, who'd written and arranged for Mehldau's 2011 Modern Music duo-piano disc. The tracks were recorded live in the studio, the string parts included, making for an exciting, albeit high stakes, session that required both great attention to detail and plenty of improvisatory daring.


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María Elena "Lina" Romay (16 de gener de 1919 - 17 de desembre de 2010) va ser una actriu i cantant mexicana. Va ser filla de Porfirio Romay, que aleshores treballava en el consolat de Mèxic a Los Angeles (Califòrnia, Estats Units). Va aparèixer en imatge real al curtmetratge de dibuixos animats "Señor Droopy" (1949).

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Heikki Kovalainen - 12th: "It was a wicked race, really absolutely fantastic for me, Jarno and the whole team. We decided to start with the soft tyre, which was a little bit of a gamble, and then stayed out during the safety car. The target was to build up enough of a gap to allow me to pit without losing places to the guys behind and we did that, though it was very close with Jarno when I came out. On the harder tyre the car just felt brilliant - I had a huge amount of grip from the second set and it was a lot of fun to push for the rest of the race. Our pace was amazing - we were only lapped once and at this kind of circuit, where we needed to perform, we could not have done any more. An amazing day for the whole team, and now we're another big step closer to that tenth place, which is obviously the main aim of the whole season."
Jarno Trulli - 13th: "What a great day for the whole team, just fantastic. I'm really pleased for everyone with the result, and congratulations to Heikki as well on a great race. I had a really good start and came in under the safety car to switch to the primes. I came out behind Yamamoto and immediately attacked him - I got past him pretty quick and then went after Heikki. We both had a strong run to the end, and even though I had another hydraulics issue in the last couple of laps, I managed to get the car home which was obviously the main objective."
Mike Gascoyne, Chief Technical Officer: "A really fantastic result for the team today. 12th and 13th places are our best positions of the season so far, and I'm delighted for everyone that we had such strong performances from both cars today. Qualifying went very well this morning - we were just under a second ahead of the other new teams, and we carried that through to the afternoon. We had always planned to stop just one car if there was an early safety car, and that was the car ahead. When the safety car came out Jarno was in front so we pulled him in and put him on the primes. Unfortunately it took him a few laps to pass Yamamoto, and that really hurt his race strategy, and that, combined with the blue flags, meant Heikki stayed ahead of him on track. Despite that, it was a great race from both drivers. We had a small hydraulics issue on Jarno's car at the end, but it didn't slow him down and he was able to maintain 13th place. I want to say congratulations to the whole team for such a strong performance all weekend - this really was a job well done."
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There will be places around the Interweb today "Keeping it Peel". It may be 6 years since the legendary DJ passed away but it must be 26 years since I last listened to a Peel radio programme from start to finish. In fact I think I can even recall the day. I'd made a rare visit to London and was driving north up the M1 so I was a captive audience. And I'm pretty sure it wasn't midnight, or even dark. Was his show on at 8pm/9pm at some point in the 1980s ?
It's all well and good playing new music all the time but there has to be some quality control. He was lucky enough to receive a constant supply of free new records (and cassettes from unsigned bands) in the post. He must have had many many thousands of shiny black flat plastic round things with holes in the middle. I'm sure at some point he must have held a record ?? There is an old saying that everyone who bought the VUs first LP at the time of its release went on to form a band of their own. I have a saying that half of John Peel's audience consisted of people who had sent him demo tapes and were waiting to see if he'd play them. In the days when the BBC held a monopoly of the airwaves there weren't many other outlets. After the late 1970s the majority of the records he played did absolutely nothing for me. Although he may have seemed endearing when he played records at the wrong speed, if said record was by The Aphex Twin how would the audience even know ? Personally I always thought The Fall were vastly overrated and I even think I could come up with 100 singles that are better than "Teenage Kicks". (Sorry if that offends someone but isn't the whole idea of a Blog meant to be a place where you can voice your own opinion ?). Over the years I think Johnny Walker has shown the best taste in music. Over the last decade Radio 3's "Late Junction", Bob Harris and Mark Lamarr have produced the most entertaining radio shows around the midnight slot. But I do commend Peel for being an early champion of the genre known as Dub though. Along with his Producer John Walters he did enable 100s of young bands to get into a studio for a Peel session, most of which seem to be available from various sources. I think John Peel's best broadcasting was in his later years for Radio 4's "Home Truths" (and thinking about it, John Walters was an under-rated and overlooked broadcaster who should have spent far more time in front of a microphone rather than standing in the background).
Here is Peel playing a record in July 1992
Talking of things Peel I would love to replace my long lost copy of "There is some fun in going forward" which was the final LP release on John Peel's Dandelion label. It was a compilation LP which I believe sold for 99p. There was a picture on the back of Peel in the bath with someone who may well have been the pig ? (his not particularly flattering nickname for Sheila). I know there is an expensive CD version (with extra tracks) available but I still like LPs. They're collectible and some of them are pieces of art. And compilation LPs were a relatively cheap way to hear music from bands I wasn't familiar with (stuff like "Picnic", the two CBS LPs entitled "Rock machine turns you on" and the fabulous "The house that Track built" spring to mind).
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Hermes con el niño Dioniso es una escultura griega de mármol con una altura de 213
centímetros que se encuentra en el Museo Arqueológico de Olimpia. Su autoría se atribuye al escultor Praxíteles del período clásico final o bien, según otros autores, se trataría de una copia del  de un original del mismo artista del 350-330 a. C. Se encontró en el año 1877 entre las ruinas del templo dedicado a Hera donde servía como ornamentación. Se trata de una obra escultórica exenta, inspirada en la mitología griega.

Los conceptos de perfil griego, nariz griega y curva praxiteliana han pasado a ser un modelo de belleza clásica dentro del arte de la escultura.

Descubrimiento
El estado griego firmó con Alemania, en 1874 un acuerdo para la exploración arqueológica en Olimpia. Las excavaciones realizadas por un equipo alemán empezaron en 1875 bajo la dirección de Ernst Curtius. El 8 de mayo de 1877 fue encontrada en las ruinas del mismo templo de Heraeum donde lo vio Pausanias.

Se trataba de una escultura corpórea desnuda (cabeza, tronco, piernas y el brazo izquierdo) que representa un joven apoyado en un tronco de árbol cubierto con un paño de tela. Se encontraba protegido por una gruesa capa de arcilla, aunque en un estado de conservación excepcional.

Se realizaron aún otros seis descubrimientos diferentes de piezas que faltaban, en otras campañas de excavaciones, hasta conformar el grupo escultórico como se encuentra en la actualidad expuesto. A la figura de Hermes le faltaba el antebrazo derecho, dos dedos de la mano izquierda, las dos piernas a partir de las rodillas, el pie izquierdo y los atributos sexuales; al niño Dioniso le faltaban los brazos (excepto la mano derecha que la tiene descansando sobre la espalda de Hermes) y la punta del pie derecho. Finalmente, no se consiguió localizar gran parte del árbol y del pedestal.

Autor

Praxíteles (en griego antiguo Πραξιτέλης) fue uno de los grandes escultores griegos, que vivió y fue un representante destacado de la escuela ática durante la parte central del siglo IV a. C. Fue un escultor reconocido en su época y también posteriormente los romanos eran conocedores y admiradores de su obra. Su biografía es bastante desconocida; en este sentido las fuentes son incluso contradictorias.
Perteneció a una dinastía de escultores: su abuelo, había trabajado con Fidias en la Acrópolis de Atenas. Praxíteles (llamado como su abuelo) era hijo del también escultor Cefisodoto el Viejo del que nos ha llegado una escultura original el grupo de Irene y Pluto llamado de La paz y la riqueza, obra en la que puede haber cierta inspiración para el Hermes con el niño Dioniso.

Praxíteles nació alrededor del año 400 a. C. También se sabe que trabajó en Atenas, donde tenía un taller y que era de la misma época que Lisipo y Escopas de Paros, con los que formó el trío de escultores más representativos de la segunda fase del clasicismo.

Se cree que mantuvo relaciones con la cortesana tespia Friné, que habría hecho de modelo para su escultura la Afrodita de Cnido. Plinio el Viejo sitúa su apogeo artístico después de la 104.ª olimpiada (esto es, en 364 a 361 a. C.) y señala que Eufránor fue un escultor contemporáneo suyo.
Pocas son las obras que se pueden considerar originales de Praxíteles y se mantienen dudas sobre su autoría: Hermes con Dionisio niño está considerada generalmente como obra original del artista.

Datación y debate sobre su autoría

Desde su descubrimiento la obra se considera que es la misma representación de Hermes con Dioniso niño que vio Pausanias en el templo de Hera en Olimpia:«... las que he enumerado son de marfil y oro, y algún tiempo después ofrendaron otras en el Hereon: un Hermes de piedra que lleva a Dioniso niño y es obra de Praxíteles...»( Descripción de Grecia, V, 17, 3). Georg Treu, uno de los descubridores, escribió con entusiasmo: «No conozco de entre todas las obras de arte que he visto, ninguna que permita compararla. No hay duda que se trata de un original de Praxíteles». Y Ernst Curtius, otro arqueólogo escribió a su hermano con motivo del descubrimiento diciéndole que era: «La gloria coronada de todos los hallazgos hechos en Olimpia».

El grupo escultórico tiene un gran virtuosismo técnico y la característica «curva praxiteliana»: una suave curvatura en la cadera de Hermes, que se consigue al apoyar el brazo en un tronco de árbol. La expresión de su rostro es nostálgica y con aspecto amanerado propio de Praxíteles, la flexibilidad, el aire juvenil del dios y el tratamiento de los músculos, sin duda, se acerca al Apolo Sauróctono del museo del Louvre, como también sucede con el Sátiro en reposo en los museos Capitolinos, y la Afrodita de Cnido en el Palacio Altemps en Roma. Sin embargo es el único ejemplar de este tipo a diferencia de las numerosas copias que existen del Sátiro en reposo y de la Afrodita de Cnido.

Por otro lado, el autor romano Plinio el Viejo (Historia Natural vi, 66) atribuyó a Cefisodoto el Viejo (que posiblemente fue padre de Praxíteles) una escultura de Hermes con Dioniso niño, pero de bronce. Plinio no menciona ninguna de mármol.

A favor de la tesis praxiteliana, o al menos, de que se trate de un segundo original griego de los clásicos, se ha presentado como prueba el material: aunque todos los ejemplares conocidos son de mármol de Olimpia pentélico, el Hermes es de mármol de Paros.

Se ha informado que la cabeza del pequeño Dioniso es parecida a la de las estatuas de Dioniso niño encontradas en Braurón y datadas del fin del siglo IV a. C. o principios del siglo III a. C.: Hermes es, por lo tanto, un original del

Pero algunas peculiaridades estilísticas parecen incompatibles con una datación del  Así pues, contrariamente a las esculturas habituales de la época, el cabello se realiza mayoritariamente, mediante el trépano; el cincel solo se utiliza en algunos puntos. Sin embargo, puede ser una innovación de Praxíteles. Así mismo, el acabado del tronco del árbol está realizado con un cincel plano y no con la gradina que era una forma inusual en el . El diseño de las sandalias es más habitual en el periodo helenístico que en la época clásica. Finalmente, el pulido de la estatua es característico de los mármoles del periodo imperial romano. Es posible que los resultados de la acción del pulido, sea un estudio aplicado como preparación para recibir la pintura, del tecnicismo del cual, se sabe relativamente poco.

Toda esta serie de elementos ha llevado a proponer otras autorías en lugar de la de Praxíteles. El Hermes podría ser obra de un escultor de la época helenística próxima a la romana. La adjudicación praxiteliana sería debida a un error o confusión de Pausanias. Carls Blümel, propone una solución que permite el testimonio de Pausanias y una adjudicación tardía; Hermes es el trabajo de un «Praxíteles» pero es, de hecho, un escultor del , la firma del cual se encontró en las excavaciones de Pérgamo.

Sigue la controversia por lo que concierne a la datación de la obra, que en 1877 fue encontrada en las excavaciones realizadas por un equipo alemán en Olimpia, en las ruinas del mismo templo donde lo vio Pausanias, pero que algunos rasgos estilísticos parecen de época posterior por lo que, algunos expertos, opinan que es una copia del  de un original de Praxíteles del

Tema
Según relatos de la mitología griega, Dioniso es el hijo del dios Zeus y Semele, una mortal, hija de Cadmo, rey de Tebas. La esposa del dios, Hera, celosa por los encuentros, le sugirió a esta que dejara su relación con Zeus, pero, al no lograr su propósito, decidió que lo mejor sería castigar a la joven amante. A este respecto, Hera le dijo que, en verdad, estaba siendo engañada, pues su verdadero amante no era Zeus, sino un hombre normal y corriente que se hacía pasar por la divinidad aprovechándose para ello de su ingenuidad. Ante esto, y si quería estar segura, debería pedirle que este le diera alguna prueba de su poder e inmortalidad.

Dicho esto, Sémele no dudó en ir a pedirle a Zeus que le demostrara todo su poder, y este, feliz porque a esas alturas ella ya estaba embarazada, le prometió que le daría todo cuanto ella deseara. Ella, perseguida por las palabras de Hera, le imploró que se le apareciera en todo su esplendor y, aunque el dios trató de persuadirla para que pidiera otra cosa, no encontró el modo de convencerla. Siendo esto imposible y, al parecer, como ella le pedía a Zeus mostrarse en toda su magnificencia, los rayos y el fuego que este desprendía acabaron por incinerar a Sémele; entonces el dios que sabía que Semele estaba embarazada, le extrajo el feto que llevaba dentro suyo y se lo cosió en su pierna. Al cabo de seis meses, según el mito, nació Dioniso, es por esta razón por la que se conoce a Dioniso como «el dios nacido dos veces». Recién nacido fue confiada su custodia a Hermes, también hijo de Zeus, para protegerlo contra Hera y llevarlo para su cuidado a Atamante y su esposa Ino. Es posible que esta escultura se realizara como una alegoría de la paz entre los habitantes de Elis, que tenían a Hermes como patrón y Arcadia, que tenían por patrón a Dioniso.

Consideraciones técnicas
El grupo está tallado en un bloque de mármol de Paros de la mejor calidad. Hermes mide entre 210 y 213 centímetros, y la obra completa con la base unos 370 centímetros. El pie derecho de Hermes está unido a un trozo de zócalo, que tiene agujeros que no encajan en la corona de la base, lo que hace pensar que refleja los cambios realizados en la estatua en algún tiempo. Otras partes del grupo están igualmente separadas, y el tronco del árbol se adosa a la cadera de Hermes por la colocación de un puente.

El rostro y el torso de Hermes se muestran con un perfecto pulido, casi brillante «al que han contribuido», comenta haciendo broma John Boardman, «generaciones de limpiadoras del templo». Sin embargo, en la espalda tiene las marcas de los golpes de raspa y del cincel y en el resto de la escultura sólo está pulida de manera parcial.

En los cabellos, desde su descubrimiento, se aprecian pequeñas huellas de cinabrio, un compuesto de sulfuro de mercurio de color rojo, que probablemente no es un color real, sino una preparación para el dorado. El color se encuentra en las correas de la sandalia del pie original, que también presenta restos de dorado; además, la sandalia tiene un dibujo de Heracles, que fue realizado en pintura, y que nace en el motivo tallado de las correas entre los dedos del pie. Los ojos y los labios eran probablemente de color rojo.

En la escultura se han hecho esfuerzos para una restauración de la máxima calidad y respetando la obra original. Así, en la versión que se conserva en el museo de Olimpia, Hermes no tiene los atributos clásicos de llevar un petasos en la cabeza, o bien de ir calzado con sandalias aladas. Que llevara un ornamento de una corona de hierba parece lo más probable. Con la mano izquierda sujetaba otro atributo: probablemente un caduceo. En general, el brazo derecho en alto de Hermes que le falta, ha sugerido diversas interpretaciones. Parece que el grupo es la representación del episodio mitológico de Hermes cuando llevaba a Dioniso a las ninfas de la montaña Nisa. A lo largo del camino, Hermes, para distraer al pequeño Dioniso, agita un objeto con la mano derecha. Por lo tanto, se supone que Hermes llevaba en la mano un instrumento musical, o también podría ser que sujetara un racimo de uva.

Conclusiones
 La estatua se encontró en el mismo lugar donde la describió Pausanias. El testimonio de Pausanias nos asegura que la estatua se encontraba en el Templo de Hera en Olimpia en el pasado, es decir, ya en el . La cita, entre otras grandes obras de la época clásica, pero el Heraion también alojaba estatuas romanas. Por lo tanto no se sabe con seguridad si se encontraba desde el
 Si se hace un trazo de arriba a bajo, una línea muy flexible en forma de S divide las figuras. A pesar de las dudas de si la escultura de Hermes con el niño Dioniso es la obra original o una copia, sin duda, conserva los rasgos fundamentales de las obras de Praxíteles. Este escultor introdujo un dinamismo nuevo en la disposición de las figuras que quería representar; los rasgos principales son el soporte intenso que le da a una de las piernas, que al sobresalir la cadera hacia un lado, crea un contorno en forma de S o contrapposto.

 Árboles, telas y otros elementos parecidos se usan como soporte para las figuras de mármol, y se incluyen en el diseño en lugar de ser extraños a él. Se destaca un movimiento en el cuerpo, de detrás hacia adelante, y la colocación de un brazo sobre el objeto, normalmente a su derecha, que representa un árbol o paños, con el que consigue evitar que la figura sea excesivamente rígida. La composición de Hermes con el niño Dioniso, está influida por la efectuada por Cefisodoto en La paz y la riqueza, en la que el peso de las dos figuras se apoya sobre el tronco de un árbol.
 Las caras aparecen en una vista de tres cuartos. El ligero movimiento de las cabezas siempre tienen una causa justificada, una razón de ser, como el mirar hacia algún otro tema de la escultura, como, por ejemplo, al lagarto en el Apolo Sauróctono o hacia Dioniso en Hermes con el niño Dioniso; este recurso cierra la representación en la propia narración del sujeto, sin necesidad de hacer participar al espectador que observa la escultura. Sólo la anécdota que sugiere, invita a participar y a adivinar el motivo de esta representación.
 El pulido y el policromado. Sus estatuas estaban policromadas; parece que su pintor preferido fue Nikias. El tratamiento dado a las superficies de sus esculturas es de una gran delicadeza, y el pulido del mármol se destaca por el virtuosismo de su realización, imprime en sus obras una nostalgia casi religiosa.
 Praxíteles conocía perfectamente el material del mármol, sus obras representaban siempre adolescentes bellos con una dulzura y detalles de gestos opuestos a la escultura atlética del siglo precedente, sus esculturas presentan la voluptuosidad y una sensualidad refinada, sus personajes se presentan con carácter triste y blando. Representó a las divinidades como seres mortales, llegando a atreverse con la representación de una diosa desnuda la Afrodita de Cnido.
 Praxíteles, junto a Lisipo y Scopas es el gran representante del clasicismo tardío. Sus obras desprenden una sutil belleza , un particular tratamiento de las formas y ha dejado para la historia del arte la curva praxiteliana, en la que el cuerpo pide un punto de apoyo donde el cuerpo le obliga a arquear la cadera.

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 Dossier: Praxitèle, un maître de la sculpture antique, Museo del Louvre (en francés)
 , Excavaciones en Olympia por E. Curtis, F. Adler y G. Treu (1879)

Esculturas de Praxíteles
Mitología griega en la escultura antigua
Ninzzo Dioniso
Dioniso en la escultura antigua
Culto de Hermes
Culto a Dioniso
Desnudo (género artístico)
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Annual bluegrass weevil adults resistant to pyrethroids show resistance to or increased tolerance of insecticides from several other insecticide classes.
Jan 2019 | Olga S. Kostromytska, Ph.D.; Shaohui Wu, Ph.D.; and Albrecht M. Koppenhöfer, Ph.D.
The annual bluegrass weevil (ABW), Listronotus maculicollis, is a serious and expanding pest of golf course turf in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States and in southeastern Canada. ABW larvae can cause severe damage to tees, fairways, collars and greens. ABW is one of the most difficult turfgrass insect pests to manage in North America because several generations are present in a single year and multiple life stages are present concurrently (and with increasing asynchrony) during the growing season (3).
Chemical control has been an important strategy in ABW management. In the 1980s, pyrethroids started to be widely used because they can effectively control ABW adults, thereby preventing oviposition and subsequent damage. As a result of excessive pyrethroid use, many courses started to observe a decrease in the efficacy of this strategy by the 2000s. Resistance to pyrethroids was first reported from southern New England (5). In a recent survey of the area affected by ABW, insecticide-resistant ABW populations were thought to be present on 19% of participating golf courses across the area and, more regionally, on up to 55% of courses on Long Island, N.Y. (4).
The only adulticide available as an alternative to pyrethroids is chlorpyrifos (Chlorpyrifos, multiple manufacturers), an organophosphate that is less effective than pyrethroids (1, 2) and is troublesome from a toxicological and environmental standpoint. All other alternatives are larvicides, including the diamides chlorantraniliprole (Acelepryn, Syngenta) and cyantraniliprole (Ference, Syngenta), the spinosyn spinosad (Conserve and MatchPoint, Dow AgroSciences), the oxadiazine indoxacarb (Provaunt, Syngenta), and the organophosphate trichlorfon (Dylox, Bayer) (1).
However, according to field studies, the efficacy of most insecticides against pyrethroid-resistant ABW populations seems to be reduced (1, 2). This is not surprising, as pyrethroid resistance in ABW seems to be, at least in part, due to enhanced enzymatic detoxification (6), a rather nonspecific mechanism that breaks down active ingredients before they can reach their target sites in the organism.
Efforts continue in the development of more sustainable management practices, such as plant resistance, biological control and improved ABW monitoring. Meanwhile, careful measures need to be taken to prevent the development of resistance to new chemistries and to synthetic insecticides in new populations, and to effectively manage already-resistant populations. Hence, the main goals of our study were to determine the degree and scope of ABW resistance, determine existing cross-resistance patterns, and confirm laboratory observations under more realistic greenhouse conditions.
Adult ABWs were collected from populations at different golf courses in New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, southeastern New York and southwestern Connecticut during 2014 and 2015. Based on a preliminary petri dish test and consistently decreased pyrethroid efficacy as observed by the superintendents of the respective golf courses, the populations appeared to be highly susceptible to pyrethroids at three collection sites and tolerant of or resistant to pyrethroids at various levels at seven sites (see Table 1).
Adults from the overwintering generation were collected from overwintering sites on golf courses around late October. For two to six months, they were kept in containers on moist sand in an incubator (10 hours light at 43 F [6 C]: 14 hours dark at 39 F [4 C]). Overwintered (collected around late April) and spring-generation (collected around early July) adults were collected from fairways or greens. Before being used in experiments, adults were kept in containers on moist sand in incubators (14 hours light at 72 F [22 C]: 10 hours dark at 57 F [14 C]) for at least one week and provided with cutworm diet and annual bluegrass (Poa annua) clippings as food.
Technical-grade active ingredients (a.i.) (> 95% purity) of insecticides from six chemical classes with different modes of action (Table 2) were dissolved in acetone to be used in topical and feeding assays. In the greenhouse trial, the formulated commercially available products Talstar Pro (a.i. bifenthrin, FMC), a pyrethroid, and Dursban 50W (a.i. chlorpyrifos, Dow AgroSciences), an organophosphate, were used.
Topical bioassays with technical-grade active ingredients dissolved in acetone were conducted to determine adult susceptibility to the major insecticide classes used for ABW control. Two susceptible populations (HF, PB) and the seven resistant populations were tested.
Based on preliminary testing, six concentrations per active ingredient were selected for each population. Overwintering generation adults were treated with 1 microliter pure acetone or insecticide solution applied dorsally to the intersegmental membrane between the prothorax and the elytra with a syringe connected to a microapplicator. Treated adults were placed in petri dishes (3.5 inches [9 cm] in diameter) lined with one moistened (1 milliliter tap water/dish) filter paper (10 weevils/dish). Poa annua (three sprigs) was provided as food. Dishes were placed in an incubator (16 hours light at 70 F [21 C]: 8 hours dark at 57 F [14 C]).
For each dose of each active ingredient, there were two dishes with males and two with females. Mortality was evaluated at 24, 48 and 72 hours after treatment. Weevils were considered dead if no movement was observed after probing.
Adults from the HF population and the PB (LD50 0.005) and HP (LD50 0.011) populations were highly susceptible to bifenthrin. No control failures have been reported from these three locations, where frequency of pesticide applications was relatively low. Therefore, these populations were used for susceptible contrast in most of our assays to calculate resistance ratios.
Adults from all other locations, where difficulties in controlling ABW with synthetic insecticides had been reported, demonstrated moderate to high levels of resistance to bifenthrin, ranging from an RR50 of 31 (GB) to an RR50 of 343 (LI). The LD50s for λ-cyhalothrin (0.001-0.363 microgram/insect) were, on average, about half of those for bifenthrin and followed a very similar pattern with respect to resistance levels (RR50s = 18-324) (Figure 1).
The populations that showed resistance to bifenthrin also had significantly higher LD50s for chlorpyrifos (RR50 range = 3.3-15.3), spinosad (RR50 range = 2.5-7.7) and clothianidin (RR50 range = 4.2-9.7) compared with the most susceptible population (Figure 1). However, the RR50s were much lower than for the pyrethroids. The LI population also was clearly the least susceptible to chlorpyrifos and spinosad, but for populations at the other locations, the ranking of resistance levels followed a pattern different from that for the pyrethroids.
Mortality from indoxacarb and chlorantraniliprole in the topical assays was too low (≤20%) to allow calculation of LD50s. Therefore, feeding assays were conducted to determine resistance levels of ABW populations to these active ingredients. Clothianidin is systemic and has demonstrated higher toxicity if ingested. Therefore, clothianidin, which showed relatively low toxicity in the topical assay, was also included in the feeding assays.
Two susceptible (HP, PB) and five resistant (GB, CN, EW, JC, LI) populations were tested. A small disc (0.16 inch [4 mm] diameter, 0.04 inch [1 mm] thick) prepared from cutworm diet was placed in the middle of each petri dish (3.5 inches [9 cm] diameter) lined with one moistened (1 milliliter tap water/dish) filter paper. Diet discs were treated with 10 microliters of acetone or active ingredient solution in acetone. Ten adults starved for 24 hours prior to assays were introduced per dish. There were three dishes for each of five concentrations (ranging from 0.1 to 30 milligrams a.i./milliliter) of each insecticide for each ABW population. Mortality was assessed at 24, 48 and 72 hours after weevil introduction.
In the feeding assay, chlorantraniliprole was not toxic enough to cause significant ABW mortality even at the highest rates, and the data were thus not presented. Pyrethroid-resistant populations showed significantly increased tolerance to indoxacarb, with the highest RR50 for LI (9.7) and the lowest for GB (2.8) (Figure 2). Toxicity of clothianidin was similar to that observed in the topical assay, except that the LC50s at the most susceptible (PB) and most tolerant sites (CN) were three and two times, respectively, higher in the feeding assay than in the topical assay (Figures 1, 2).
Five concentrations of bifenthrin (Talstar, range 0.003-60 pounds a.i/acre [0.003-67.2 kg a.i./hectare]) and chlorpyrifos (Dursban, range 0.003-15 pounds a.i./acre [0.003-16.8 kg a.i./hectare]) were tested against spring-generation adults from two susceptible (PB, HP) and five resistant (GB, CN, EW, JC, LI) populations.
This sprayer system was used in the greenhouse assays.
Ten adults were introduced into each pot with P. annua established from seed in pasteurized sandy loam soil mixed with sand. After two hours, treatments were applied using a Generation III Research sprayer at a spray volume of 80 gallons/acre (756 liters/hectare). Treatments were lightly watered in with 0.05 inch (1.3 mm) irrigation. Pots were covered with ventilated lids and left in the greenhouse. After 72 hours, pots were submerged in lukewarm water to extract the adults. Three replications were arranged per treatment.
LC50s for formulated bifenthrin and chlorpyrifos were comparable to results obtained in the topical assay with technical-grade active ingredients. Populations HP and PB were highly susceptible. RR50s were the highest for the LI population (503), intermediate for the EW, JC and CN populations (41-63), and lowest for the GB population (7.7). For chlorpyrifos, the LI population had the highest RR50 (28), with RR50s for the other resistant populations ranging from 3.9 to 13 (Figure 3).
At the standard field rate of 0.1 pound a.i./acre, bifenthrin provided 60% control of the susceptible PB and HP populations, but only 11% control of the moderately resistant GB population (Figure 3). Even at 3.0 pounds a.i./acre, bifenthrin provided only 42%-53% control of the resistant CN, EW and JC populations and no control of the highly resistant LI population.
Chlorpyrifos provided 73%-89% control of the pyrethroid-susceptible PB and HP populations at the standard field rate of 1.0 pound a.i./acre, but was ineffective (3%-14%) against the pyrethroid-resistant populations except for the JC population (48%) (Figure 3). At 6.0 pounds a.i./acre, chlorpyrifos provided 42%-86% control of the pyrethroid-resistant populations.
This study expanded the geographic range of confirmed pyrethroid resistance in ABW adults from southern New England (5, 6) to include the New York metropolitan area, New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania.
Moreover, we observed two to three times higher resistance ratios (RR50) and LD50s in the topical assay than had been observed previously (5). The study clearly showed cross-resistance not only within the pyrethroid class, but also to several other chemical classes, albeit at lower levels than for the pyrethroids.
Several of the tested insecticides (spinosad, indoxacarb, clothianidin, chlorantraniliprole) had low toxicity against ABW adults in the topical assay. We suspected that the route of exposure is important for, at least, clothianidin and chlorantraniliprole. Clothianidin and chlorantraniliprole have mostly systemic activity and low contact activity, which could explain their low toxicity against ABW adults in the topical assay. However, even in the feeding assays, toxicity was low for clothianidin and indoxacarb and not significant for chlorantraniliprole. These compounds are recommended as larvicides for ABW management. For a better understanding of cross-resistance patterns with these compounds, larval assays should be developed and conducted.
The study showed that the resistance levels determined using the topical assay under optimal laboratory conditions were consistent with those made under more realistic conditions in potted grass in the greenhouse with formulated products. In the field, several routes of exposure could contribute to the compound toxicity: through direct exposure to the spray or through feeding on contaminated grass. However, insects could avoid the chemicals or could be sheltered in the thatch, which could lead to either overestimating or underestimating resistance levels. Because the conditions in our greenhouse assays were similar to typical field exposure, the greenhouse assay should be a reliable validation tool.
The geographically widespread and often high degree of pyrethroid resistance and especially the cross-resistance patterns observed in this study emphasize the need for rethinking ABW management. The limited number of currently available and effective active ingredients — especially adulticides — suggests that heavy reliance on insecticides, particularly broadcast adulticide applications, is not sustainable. Moreover, the efficacy of several ABW larvicides is also reduced, although to a lesser degree (2). Alternative management strategies, such as cultural control and biological control, need to be further explored and adapted to the high standards of the golf course environment.
This research was funded by GCSAA and supporting GCSAA chapters and associations (Connecticut AGCS, GCSA of New Jersey, Greater Pittsburgh GCSA, Hudson Valley GCSA, Long Island GCSA, Metropolitan GCSA, Mountain & Valley GCSA, New Jersey Turfgrass Association, and Pocono Turfgrass Association), the USGA, the New York State Turfgrass Association, the O.J. Noer Research Foundation, the Tri-State Turf Research Foundation, the Rutgers Center for Turfgrass Science, and the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Hatch Multistate projects 0206130, through the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, Hatch Multistate project NJ08295.
This article was based on a paper, "Cross-resistance patterns to insecticides of several chemical classes among Listronotus maculicollis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) populations with different levels of resistance to pyrethroids," written by O.S. Kostromytska, S. Wu and A.M. Koppenhöfer and published in 2018 in Journal of Economic Entomology (111:391-398).
Topical toxicity assay in the laboratory with technical-grade active ingredients and greenhouse tests with formulated products showed a wide range of pyrethroid resistance levels among adults of ABW populations.
Resistance ratios (RR50s) compared with the most susceptible populations were as high as 343 in laboratory tests and 503 in greenhouse tests.
Pyrethroid-resistant adults also showed elevated levels of tolerance to insecticides from several other classes, but their resistance levels to pyrethroids were greater.
Koppenhöfer, A.M., O.S. Kostromytska and S. Wu. 2018. Pyrethroid-resistance level affects performance of larvicides and adulticides from different insecticide classes in populations of Listronotus maculicollis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Journal of Economic Entomology 111:1851-1859.
McGraw, B.A., and A.M. Koppenhöfer. 2007. Biology and management of the annual bluegrass weevil, Listronotus maculicollis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Pages 335-350. In: M. Pessarakli, ed. Handbook of Turfgrass Management and Physiology. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fla.
Ramoutar, D., S.R. Alm and R.S. Cowles. 2009. Pyrethroid resistance in populations of Listronotus maculicollis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from southern New England golf courses. Journal of Economic Entomology 102:388-392.
Ramoutar, D., S.R. Alm and R.S. Cowles. 2009. Pyrethroid resistance mediated by enzyme detoxification in Listronotus maculicollis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from Connecticut. Journal of Economic Entomology 102:1203-1208.
Olga S. Kostromytska is an Extension assistant professor in the Stockbridge School of Agriculture, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass. Shaohui Wu is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Tifton, Ga. Albrecht M. Koppenhöfer is an Extension specialist in the Department of Entomology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.


It's new release time at Joy Clair and I had fun creating with one of the newest sets - Christmas Cocoa. Consisting of stamps, the possibilities are endless.
I used Spellbinders dies to create small cards (about 4" square) that could also double as gift tags.
I folded cardstock an placed the die over the fold so I would have a card. To achieve the full design of the die, I die cut another layer to add on the card, then die cut 2 smaller panels. The cups were stamped in the center of the white panels using Memento Gray Ink.
I also stamped the marshmallows with gray ink and fussy cut to fit in the cups. Next I stamped the candy canes in black ink, then fussy cut them and inserted them behind the marshmallows in the cups.
A touch of red on the candy canes really makes these cards pop don't you think? One of the included sentiments was stamped, die cut and added to the corners with foam adhesives.
Love your Hot Cocoa cards! They look yummy!!
They are fun and cute Cocoa cards, Steph.
These are really cute and I L*O*V*E this set.
These cocoa cards are so cute and I love that you used very little color!
Great cards. :) This set is a favorite for sure.
Great set of cards! Love that cup and toasty feel to your creations with the new set!
Absolutely adorable.... this Christmas Cocoa set is one of my favorites!
these mini cards are just lovely. I love the simple colour palette. My favourite set is Born is the King.
Your Cocoa Cards are Yummy!
Love, love this set and how you have used it! This set along with Born is the King are my favorites. Thanks for sharing.
These are so cute....would be darling attached to cocoa holiday gifts. Thanks for sharing. Joy Clair is starting November off right!
Love your cards. The candy cane is perfect.
This is such a sweet set of cards !
Super fun set, love the colors you chose.
These hot cocoa cards could be used all winter. So cute!
Adorable cocoa cards, love this new set.


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World Tree is set up at our new location in Longmont, Colorado. We have invested heavily in upgrading equipment to kick manufacturing capabilities to the next level. We now have two CNC machines, a dedicated composite manufacturing room, and new processes. This means we can make more skateboards, keep quality control even tighter, and maintain a very healthy environment for our workers. We are also now set up to mill skateboard cores from raw timber, which means we have even more control of the building process than ever. We have made some recent advances in our building methods which will help to set apart what we make at World Tree from the rest. We are looking forward to growing this vision and bringing more people on board this year. We are focusing our skateboard manufacturing in on upper echelon skateboard construction and design, with a goal of building the worlds most advanced and high-performing downhill skateboards. Some very high-tech projects are currently in the works for Pantheon Longboards and Ouray Skateboards.


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Fr. Louis Boyer Applauds "the End of Catholicism"
Fr. Louis Bouyer was a former Lutheran minister who entered the Catholic Church in 1939. He was a co-founder of the progressivist review Communio and a perito at Vatican II. In 1969 he was chosen by Paul VI to be part of the team of 30 theologians who would initiate the International Theological Commission (ITC).
He wrote a large work on spirituality, ecumenism and liturgy.
In the concluding chapter of his book La Décomposition du Catholicisme [The Decomposition of Catholicism], he anounces the death of Catholicism, which he understands as the militant characteristic of the Catholic Church.
Top right is a facsimile of the book's frontispice; at right, photocopies of the Portuguese text. Below, we present our translation.
"As for what is called 'Catholicism,' a word that only appeared, if I am not mistaken, in the 17th century, if it is understood as the artificial system forged by the Counter Reformation and hardened by the repressive blows against Modernism, then it is very good for this system to die.
"There are even strong probabilities that it is already dead, even though we have not fully realized it."
(A Decomposição do Catolicismo, Lisbon: Sampedro Editora, 1969, pp. 215-16).
Card. Ratzinger takes a Position against Scholasticism
Card. Suenens Rejects the Church as a Perfect Society
Card. Congar Defends 'Collegial' Papacy, Rejects the Pope as Vicar of Christ
Fr. Chenu Deliberately put Contradictions in the documents of Vatican II
Fr. Schillebeeckx Explains Democratic Essence of Communio in the Church
Fr. Ratzinger Defends Rahner's False Theory of the 'Anonymous Christian'
Declaration of Resistance to the Vatican Ostpolitik
How a Catholic Should act in Face of Bad Popes
The Crisis in the Church and the Message of Fatima
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Month June 2018
The Powerful Root of Practical Love
June 29, 2018 June 29, 2018 thechristiansreport
Devotional by John Piper
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. (1 John 3:14)
So, love is the evidence that we are born again — that we are Christians, that we are saved.
Sometimes the Bible makes our holiness and our love for people the condition of our final salvation. In other words, if we are not holy and not loving, we will not be saved at the judgment day (e.g., Hebrews 12:14; Galatians 5:21; 1 Corinthians 6:10). This doesn't mean that acts of love are how we get right with God. No, the Bible is clear again and again as Ephesians 2:8–9 says, "By grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not of works, so that no one may boast." No, when the Bible says that we are saved by faith but that we must love people in order to finally be saved, it means that faith in God's promises must be so real that the love it produces proves the reality of the faith.
So, love for others is a condition of future grace in the sense that it confirms that the primary condition, faith, is genuine. We could call love for others a secondary condition, which confirms the authenticity of the primary and essential condition of faith which alone unites us to Christ, and receives his power.
Faith perceives the glory of God in the promises of future grace and embraces all that the promises reveal of what God is for us in Jesus. That spiritual sight of God's glory, and our delight in it, is the self-authenticating evidence that God has called us to be a beneficiary of his grace. This evidence frees us to bank on God's promise as our own. And this banking on the promise empowers us to love. Which in turn confirms that our faith is real.
The world is desperate for a faith that combines two things: awestruck sight of unshakable divine Truth, and utterly practical, round-the-clock power to make a liberating difference in life. That's what I want too. Which is why I am a Christian.
There is a God of Grace who magnifies his own infinite beauty and self-sufficiency by fulfilling promises to helpless people who trust him. And there is a power that comes from prizing this God that leaves no nook or cranny of life untouched. It empowers us to love in the most practical ways.
Devotional is excerpted from Future Grace, pages 257-259
By John Piper. © Desiring God Foundation. Source: desiringGod.org
Used with permission.
Our Assurance
June 16, 2018 thechristiansreport
"And I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish." John 10:28
The Christian should never think or speak lightly of unbelief. For a child of God to mistrust God's love, His truth, His faithfulness, must be greatly displeasing to Him. How can we ever grieve Him—by doubting His upholding grace? Christian! it is contrary to every promise of God's precious Word that you should ever be forgotten or left to perish. If it could be so, how could He be true who has said, "Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, they may forget—yet will I never forget you." What were the value of that promise, "The mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but My kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall the covenant of My peace be removed, says the Lord who has mercy on you."
Where were the truth of Christ's words, "I give unto My sheep eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand. My Father, who gave them Me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of My Father's hand." Where were the doctrines of grace? They would be all disproved—if one child of God would perish. Where were the veracity of God, His honor, His power, His grace, His covenant, His oath—if any of those for whom Christ has died, and who have put their trust in Him, should nevertheless be cast away?
Banish those unbelieving fears which so dishonor God. Arise, shake yourself from the dust, and put on your beautiful garments.
Remember that it is sinful to doubt His Word wherein He has promised you that you shall never perish. Let the eternal life within you express itself in confident rejoicing.
Our Groanings
J. C. Philpot
Today's Daily Portion
"I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself." – Jeremiah 31:18
The spiritual feeling of sin is indispensable to the feeling of salvation. A sense of the malady must ever precede, and prepare the soul for, a believing reception and due apprehension of the remedy. Wherever God intends to reveal his Son with power, wherever he intends to make the gospel "a joyful sound" indeed, he first makes the conscience feel and groan under the burden of sin. And sure am I that when a man is laboring under the burden of sin, he will be full of groans.
The Bible records hundreds of the groans of God's people under the burden of sin. "My wounds stench and are corrupt," cries one, "because of my foolishness. I am troubled–I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long" (Psalm 38:5, 6). "My soul," cries another, is full of troubles, and my life draws near unto the grave" (Psalm 88:3). "He has led me," groans out a third, "and brought me into darkness, but not into light" (Lam. 3:2). A living man must cry under such circumstances. He cannot carry the burden without complaining of its weight. He cannot feel the arrow sticking in his conscience without groaning under the pain. He cannot have the worm gnawing his vitals without groaning of its venomous tooth. He cannot feel that God is incensed against him without bitterly groaning that the Lord is his enemy.
Spiritual groaning then, is a mark of spiritual life, and is one which God recognizes as such. "I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself." It shows that he has something to mourn over; something to make him groan, being burdened; that sin has been opened up to him in its hateful malignancy; that it is a trouble and distress to his soul; that he cannot roll it like a sweet morsel under his tongue, but that it is found out by the penetrating eye, and punished by the chastening hand of God.
Listening to Faith
June 8, 2018 thechristiansreport
Faith told Moses that worldly pleasures were 'pleasures of sin'. They were mingled with sin, they led on to sin, they were ruinous to the soul, and displeasing to God. It would be small comfort to have pleasure while God was against him. Better suffer and obey God, than be at ease and sin.
Faith told Moses that these pleasures after all were only for a 'season'. They could not last; they were all short-lived; they would weary him soon; he must leave them all in a few years.
Faith told him that there was a reward in heaven for the believer far richer than the treasures in Egypt, durable riches, where rust could not corrupt, nor thieves break through and steal. The crown there would be incorruptible; the weight of glory would be exceeding and eternal, and faith bade him look away to an unseen heaven if his eyes were dazzled with Egyptian gold.
Faith told Moses that affliction and suffering were not real evils. They were the school of God, in which He trains the children of grace for glory; the medicines which are needful to purify our corrupt wills; the furnace which must burn away our dross; the knife which must cut the ties that bind us to the world.
Ryle, J. C.. Holiness (p. 123). Heritage Bible Fellowship. Kindle Edition.
God's Loving Kindness
June 4, 2018 June 4, 2018 thechristiansreport
"The kindness and love of God our Savior." Titus 3:4
How sweet it is to behold the Savior communing with His own beloved people! There can be nothing more delightful than, by the Divine Spirit, to be led into this fertile field of delight. Let the mind for an instant consider the history of the Redeemer's love—and a thousand enchanting acts of affection will suggest themselves, all of which have had for their design—the weaving of the heart into Christ, and the intertwisting of the thoughts and emotions of the renewed soul with the mind of Jesus.
When we meditate upon this amazing love, and behold the all-glorious Kinsman of the Church endowing her with all His ancient wealth, our souls may well faint for joy. Who is he who can endure such a weight of love? That partial sense of it which the Holy Spirit is sometimes pleased to afford, is more than the soul can contain; how transporting must be a complete view of it! When the soul shall have understanding to discern all the Savior's gifts, wisdom with which to estimate them, and time in which to meditate upon them—such as the world to come will afford us—we shall then commune with Jesus in a nearer manner than at present. But who can imagine the sweetness of such fellowship? It must be one of the things which have not entered into the heart of man—but which God has prepared for those who love Him. Oh, to burst open the door of our Joseph's granaries, and see the plenty which He has stored up for us! This will overwhelm us with love.
By faith we see, as in a glass darkly, the reflected image of His unbounded treasures—but when we shall actually see the heavenly things themselves, with our own eyes—how deep will be the stream of fellowship in which our soul shall bathe itself! Until then our loudest sonnets shall be reserved for our loving benefactor, Jesus Christ our Lord, whose love to us is wonderful, passing the love of women.


The new pavillion includes four changing rooms, a function room, a large kitchen area and a treatment room that can be used by local services such as the local GP.
Club chairman John MacRitchie said it was the culmination of five years of hard work and an extraordinary effort by the club and the community.
"When the plans and the costings started coming together the scale of the project and the sums of money involved were quite daunting but there was pretty well unanimous agreement that it was what the club needed.
"What we have now is one of the best facilities in the sport and with the new season starting next week these are exciting times at Balgate. My hope is that it will help to inspire the younger generation and encourage more people to get involved with the club".
MacRitchie is fulsome in his praise for the fund raising effort which achieved the financial target.
He said "Club volunteers have raised over £100,000 which is a marvellous effort from a relatively small community. At times I was doubtful that we would ever reach our target but we persevered and once we got momentum the target came closer and closer".
While community involvement was important the contribution from the funding bodies proved to be crucial. The support came from ,Sportscotland.The Leader Project, The Highland Council, The Robertson Trust, Garfield Weston, The Gordon and Ena Baxter Foundation, Ann Gloag and local businessman Iain Stewart.
The club's existing facility will be converted into a store.
MacRitchie said: "We were reluctant to demolish the old building - it has been there since the eighties and has served us well. It was built, brick by brick, by club volunteers so there is a big emotional attachment to it".
Lord Lovat the Club chieftain will cut the ribbon ahead of an invitational match against age-old local rivals Beauly.
The opening ceremony is scheduled for 1:00 pm with the main event on the pitch starting at 1:30 pm.
Earlier in the day there is mini tournament for children featuring some of the local clubs before a challenge match between the ladies teams of Lovat and Inverness takes place.
The main match is preceded by a clash between Lovat reserves and Caberfeidh reserves. That match is scheduled to throw-up at noon.


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