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Watermark Adds Matinee Performances of 'Blithe Spirit'
August 5, 2016 Edward Staskus Leave a comment
Watermark Theatre is pleased to announce that two more performances of Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward will be added to the summer schedule.
Wed August 17th at 1:30PM
Sat August 27th at 1:30PM
Tickets for Blithe Spirit are selling so well that the company has decided to add two matinee performances to meet the high demand for this much loved comedy.
Directed by Alan Kinsella and starring Gracie Finley, Daniel Briere, Bryde MacLean, Suzanne Roberts Smith, Leah Pritchard, and Joshua Browne, the production has received universally positive reviews since opening earlier this summer.
"'Blithe Spirit' best comedy on P.E.I. Come to Watermark Theatre's production to enjoy fun, fun and more fun" – The Guardian
"(Gracie) Finley was clearly enjoying herself, and so were we—she was flat-out wonderful." – The Buzz
"If you're looking for some cerebral comedy with a splash of slapstick, Blithe Spirit is the show for you." – ONRPEI.COM
Researching his new novel, Charles Condomine invites the implausible medium Madame Arcati to his house for a séance. Arcati unwittingly summons the ghost of Charles' dead wife Elvira who soon makes a play to reclaim her husband, much to the chagrin of Charles' new wife Ruth. One husband, two feuding wives and a whisper of mischief in the air – Noel Coward at his comedic best!
Photo Credit: Bryde MacLean and Gracie Finley. Photographer was Mike Viau.
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A Prism For Your Soul
The Glass Menagerie is 1,000 points of light being refracted into a kaleidoscope of emotion. It will give you many feelings, big and small. You may have feelings that you don't know where they come from and you possibly never will. The performances are so raw they will reach you on a cellular level instead of an emotional one. Basically, The Glass Menagerie may break your heart into a million tiny pieces lying on the floor of the Watermark Theatre. You may not be able to mend it until you've had a good cry in your car after the show.
In Watermark Theatre's 9th season Robert Tsonos, in his 1st year as Artistic Director, introduced this classic written by Tennessee Williams who wrote his first play as a teenager in 1935. Williams was a cutting edge playwright & most widely recognized for winning two Pulitzer Prizes, with "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1947) and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1955). This play, I'm told, is partly autobiographical based on his college years in St. Louis providing him with a time & place for his first masterpiece.
Tsonos also took time to thank the interns that are part of the company this season as part of their Mentorship Program. We were talking with one of the stage hands during intermission who was grateful to get some hands-on experience through this program. Another example of how much this theatre continues to care about giving back to the next generation of talent. According to the program: This is a great set for learning. The theatre is small enough to be nurturing & large enough to have processes & policies in place to keep an intern safe.
In the early moments of the first act, Gracie Finley (raised in Charlottetown, trained in London, England, Ms. Finley is best known for playing Anne Shirley at the Charlottetown Festival from 1968 to 1974 and again in 1984 and 1985, being the first Islander to play Anne. She has had numerous roles at The Watermark including The Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland, the Nurse in Romeo & Juliet, & Lady Markby in An Ideal Husband) pranced around the stage cleverly decorated with antique furniture (compliments to set designer William Layton who created a convincing depression era St. Louis atmosphere on this unique in-the-round stage) as she reminisced about her younger days of entertaining her multitudes of callers. In a most intense performance, she plays a mother who is extremely worried about the future for her daughter & feels as though something has got to give for better or worse. Finley in my opinion is the face of Watermark this year & gets my vote for MVP of this company.
Leah Pritchard (who has worked throughout the Atlantic provinces & helped lead Watermark Theatre's youth theatre conservatory for the past two summers) plays Laura, a china doll of a woman who has a penchant for collection glass trinkets. In the grips of the shyness of her character often loses her composure. She displays convincingly that she lives with a disability & very low opinion of herself. I had high expectations of Pritchard's portrayal of the sensitive, delicate Laura and I was not disappointed. Similarly, Gracie Finley did an outstanding job in her interpretation of the aged Southern Belle Amanda Wingfield. The play was the perfect vehicle for both performers and they pulled out all the stops.
Daniel Briere (who has spent the last 3 seasons at the Stratford Festival of Canada. Recent credits include Hamlet (Shakespeare Bash'd), Antony & Cleopatra, & Romeo & Juliet (Stratford Festival) makes an appearance as the much anticipated dinner guest, and Laura's high school crush, Jim O'Connor. He is charismatic and dapper, and everything Laura deserves. The scene where Laura and Jim sit on the floor talking may be my favourite part of the show. This is where we see Laura turn into the ethereal, beautiful creature she has the potential to be. And the kiss was pretty spectacular as well.
Rounding off the cast of four, Joshua Browne's (who has worked at IFT Theatre, Circlesnake Theatre, Theatre Gargantua & more) portrayal of Tom Wingfield is an excellent case study in how raw emotion can be conveyed just by standing still. I'm not sure what method Browne used to master the 1,000-yard stare Tom adopts, during critiques of his character by Amanda, who accused him of being as eloquent as an oyster, but it was effective. And universal. I felt scenes much like that one, between mother and son, were being played out in households all over the world in a million different languages. Often times getting poetic, the young low-wage warehouse worker spoke of magicians, late night travels, & a thirst for adventure. I must admit I was a little surprised to see him smoking on stage, but I later learned it was actually an e-cig, which is apparently acceptable indoors.
I'm not sure how much information to give about the much anticipated second half, for fear of spoilers, but it may not incorporate the ending audiences were hoping for. However, it could be the ending we needed in order to realize how invested we've become in the characters.
Robert Tsonos, who directed the play and is doing great so far as Duncan MacIntosh's successor as Artistic Director for the Watermark Theatre this year did an amazing job in leading the cast and crew to create something, I hope, they will always be proud of. After the show, I think I heard Tsonos's voice crack as he invited the audience to a reception. He seemed to be quite moved by the performance, and rightly so. Unfortunately, I couldn't stay at the reception for long. I had to go to my car and cry.
This, much like other classics over the years in Rustico, is not light theatre, although there are plenty of laughs scattered throughout the script. The lesson I took from this play is the harsh reality present early in the Twentieth Century still holds true today that if we can't believe in ourselves we simply cannot expect anyone else to & I can totally relate to that scenario, as I'm sure many others in the audience probably could at some point in their lives. Bottom line: Great show all around. If it is not the ending audience members are hoping for, they can read A Pretty Trap by Tennessee Williams. That oughta cure what ails them!
Review by Kimberley Johnston and PL Holden. Used by permission. Originally posted on http://www.onrpei.ca.
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Blithe Spirit Transcends Time and Space
Director Alan Kinsella could help a cucumber sandwich achieve its fullest theatrical potential. I know this because I played witness to the managerial marvel at the Watermark Theatre in North Rustico Friday night. What he was able to do with a misbehaving wooden table during a séance was pretty impressive as well. With such direction, it is no small wonder the cast and crew of Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward pulled off a transcendent performance on opening night, July 15th.
The show was written in 1941 but the set, lights, and music were done in such a way the show could have been set in any decade. The play is no doubt British but, with some imagination and talent, it could take place in any village or city. That's the joy of life, death and jealousy. The themes transcend both time and space.
Watermark stalwart Gracie Finley set the standard in her exuberant portrayal of Madame Arcati, a vivacious medium who unwittingly turns Mr. and Mrs. Condomimes' lives upside down by granting Mrs. Condomine the Former, Elvira, a visit of indeterminate length. Mr. Charles Condomime is at first rattled by the sojourn of the free-spirited spectre and quickly becomes comfortable with the idea of being an 'astral polygamist'. Charles is played marvellously by Daniel Briere who has a wide repertoire of facial expressions, reminiscent of Rowan Atkinson of Black Adder fame. Briere and Suzanne Roberts Smith (Elvira) play off each other nicely and make the relationship between Charles and Elvira quite believable and, oddly, not creepy.
Enter Ruth, Mrs. Condomime the Current, played by PEI native Bryde MacLean. Understandably, Ruth is not happy with the new living arrangement but she keeps a stiff upper lip. For a little while, anyway. MacLean's portrayal of Ruth was fun to watch. It was exquisitely executed and made more visually arresting by MacLean's resemblance to Anne Hathaway. Her presence was made ever more magnetic with the outfits put together by costume designer Kathryn Sherwin. MacLean's absence for part of the show was very remarkable as I was excited to see what she would be wearing next.
Joshua Browne makes the most of his time on stage, as Dr. Bradman, who takes Madame Arcati's jabs like a champ. I'm anxious to see Browne play Tom in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams on July 16th.
Leah Pritchard returns to the Watermark this year to work double duty in this piece; first as Edith, the ready-to-serve maid who may be more than she appears and, second, as Dr. Bradman's chatty better half. I very much look forward to Pritchard's portrayal of Laura in The Glass Menagerie. With Pritchard's easy beauty, light complexion and nuanced performances, Laura may be the role she was born to play.
Robert Tsonos had a very successful first opening night as the new artistic director. Tsonos is no stranger to the Watermark stage and seems very eager to take on new responsibilities. In addition to his artistic director duties, of which I'm sure there are many, Tsonos will be directing The Glass Menagerie. Tsonos is making great strides in making the Watermark a community-integrated space. The theatre acts as a fine gallery for local artisans, serves local beer, and hosts a mentorship theatre program and teenage conservatory to foster the next generation of theatrical professionals.
Bottom line: If you're looking for some cerebral comedy with a splash of slapstick, Blithe Spirit is the show for you. It's playing now until August 27th at 7:30 p.m. on selected dates with one matinee on August 10th starting at 1:30 p.m.
Review by Kimberley Johnston. Used by permission. Originally posted on http://www.onrpei.ca.
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Briere Joins Watermark Cast
April 11, 2016 Edward Staskus Leave a comment
Daniel Briere has joined the 2016 Watermark Theatre acting company. Trained at Mount Royal College in Calgary and The National Theatre School in Montreal, he has spent the last three seasons at the Stratford Festival of Canada.
Recent credits include: Hamlet (Shakespeare Bash'd), The Diary of Anne Frank, Antony and Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliet (Stratford Festival), Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Shrew! (Storefront Theatre). TV/Film credits include: Reign, Rookie Blue, Murdoch Mysteries, The Bridge.
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The arts could benefit health finds landmark WHO report
By Nicola Lathey
The World Health Organization (WHO) has published a Health Evidence Synthesis report this week that has gathered evidence from a wide range of studies showing arts being beneficial to health. The WHO report suggests that all forms of art including visual arts, performing arts, literature etc. could be helpful in providing support in treatment and prevention of non-communicable diseases, neurological conditions and mental illnesses.
For the purpose of the study the researchers classified arts into five categories including performing arts such as singing, dancing, acting etc., visual arts such as painting, pottery, knitting, crafts, design, photography etc., literature including poetry, prose reading, writing, attending literary festivals etc., culture including visiting galleries, museums, art symposiums, music conferences etc. and online arts including digital arts, design and animation.
The team at the WHO Regional Office for Europe included over 900 publications and reviews in scientific journals that included over 3,500 studies. The language chosen for the studies were English and Russian and time duration of the studies chosen for this analysis were between January 2000 and May 2019. All kinds of studies were included in the report. Some were case reports of individual cases, some were pilot studies, some were randomized controlled trials, some were small scale studies while others were longitudinal cohort studies that included large populations across nations.
Dr Piroska Ostlin, WHO regional director for Europe, in a statement said, "The examples cited in this groundbreaking WHO report show ways in which the arts can tackle 'wicked' or complex health challenges such as diabetes, obesity and mental ill-health. They consider health and well-being in a broader societal and community context and offer solutions that common medical practice has so far been unable to address effectively." Authors of the study wrote in conclusion that evidence reveals that arts have a significant impact on "both mental and physical health."
Among performing arts, waltzing lessons were found to be helpful for people with chronic heart failure by providing them with necessary aerobic exercise. Among other non-communicable diseases arts as therapy could benefit patients with asthma, respiratory diseases, heart disease and cancers, write the researchers.
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New integrations with Team and other applications are designed to promote use of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), as new research shows employees who have clarity around goal setting are make for more motivated employees.
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Microsoft announced new features for Viva Goals designed to make it easier to accelerate the adoption of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) through enhanced integration with Microsoft applications such as Teams and Planner, as well as new analytics capabilities that aim to help business leaders better understand how employees are engaging with goals.
Research commissioned by Microsoft and undertaken by Forrester found that 47 per cent of leaders said poorly structured goal setting reduces employee motivation.
Additionally, 50 per cent of employee respondents said that having more clarity around their goals gives them a greater sense of purpose and motivates them to work harder, a sentiment echoed by 60 per cent of leaders that were surveyed.
New research from Forrester and Microsoft shows employees who have clarity around goal setting are make for more motivated employees.
However, while 78 per cent of the survey respondents said they fully understand their personal goals at work, only 63 per cent said they understood what their team's goals were, with clarity around company goals dropping to 39 per cent.
In order to improve the level of understanding and foster a greater sense of cohesion around goal setting, Microsoft has announced it is enhancing Viva Goals integration with the company's Teams collaboration software.
This will allow leaders and employees to receive notifications around OKR activity, bring goal-setting into conversations, and create, edit, and make check-ins to OKRs directly in a Teams chat.
In addition, Viva Goals will also integrate with Microsoft Planner, Power BI, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Excel bulk import, and Microsoft Project — meaning that Viva Goals can be directly accessed from inside those apps.
Viva Goals language capabilities, meanwhile, will be expanded to a total of 37 languages. Currently, the software supports 10 Tier 1 languages, defined by Microsoft as localised language versions that are shipped to the most important target markets.
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A new analytics feature has also been introduced to Viva Goals, designed to help accelerate OKR deployments by providing leaders with a "holistic dashboard view" of metrics such as total users, teams and OKRs, active users, and check-ins.
This will enable leaders to better understand how employees are engaging with goals and see how many have been achieved.
Finally, Microsoft has rolled out EU data residency to Viva Goals, meaning that EU-based or multinational customers can store their data in EU data centers, while new updates using Azure Active Directory (AAD) allows Viva Goals admins to set up Conditional Access policies ensuring the "right users have access to the right data."
New identity updates also include AAD identity federation using 3rd party identity solutions OKTA and Google.
In a blog post announcing the updates, Vetri Vellore, corporate vice president for Microsoft Viva Goals, said that providing a successful goal-setting experience helps employees to work independently, take ownership of their goals, and be motivated day to day.
The clearest way to ensure that there is a shared understanding of the goals, he wrote, "is by using a transparent goal-setting and management process that everyone has access to, which may also be one of the biggest challenges for businesses today," he wrote.
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is a Japanese writer known for her off-beat fiction, poetry, and literary criticism. She has won numerous Japanese literary awards, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, the Yomiuri Prize, and the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature. Her work has been adapted for film, and has been translated into more than 15 languages.

Early life and education
Kawakami was born in Tokyo in 1958 and grew up in the Takaido neighborhood of Suginami City. She graduated from Ochanomizu Women's College in 1980.

Career
After graduating from college Kawakami began writing and editing for NW-SF, a Japanese science fiction magazine. Her first short story, "Sho-shimoku" ("Diptera"), appeared in NW-SF in 1980.
She also taught science in a middle school and high school, but became a housewife when her husband had to relocate for work.

In 1994, at the age of 36, Kawakami debuted as a writer of literary fiction with a collection of short stories entitled Kamisama (God). In 1996 Hebi wo fumi (Tread on a snake) won the Akutagawa Prize, one of Japan's most prestigious literary awards. It was later translated into English under the title Record of a Night Too Brief. She received the Tanizaki Prize in 2001 for her novel Sensei no kaban (The Briefcase or Strange Weather in Tokyo), a love story about a friendship and romance between a woman in her thirties and her former teacher, a man in his seventies. After the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Kawakami rewrote her debut short story "Kamisama" ("God"), keeping the original plot but incorporating the events of Fukushima into the story.

In 2014 the film Nishino Yukihiko no Koi to Bōken, based on Kawakami's 2003 novel of the same name and starring Yutaka Takenouchi and Machiko Ono, was released nationwide in Japan. That same year Kawakami's novel  was published by Bungeishunjū. Suisei  won the 66th Yomiuri Prize in 2015, with selection committee member Yōko Ogawa praising the book for expanding the horizon of literature. In 2016 Kawakami's book , a collection of 14 short stories published by Kodansha, won the 44th Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature.

Writing style
Kawakami's work explores emotional ambiguity by describing the intimate details of everyday social interactions. Many of her stories incorporate elements of fantasy and magical realism. Her writing has drawn comparisons to Lewis Carroll and Banana Yoshimoto, and she has cited Gabriel García Márquez and J. G. Ballard as influences. Many of her short stories, novel extracts, and essays have been translated into English, including "God Bless You" ("Kamisama"), "The Moon and the Batteries" (extract from Sensei no kaban), "Mogera Wogura",  "Blue Moon", "The Ten Loves of Nishino"., and People in My Neighborhood.

Awards and honors
1996 Akutagawa Prize for Hebi wo fumu (Tread on a Snake)
1999 Murasaki Shikibu Prize for Kamisama (God's Bear)
2000 Itō Sei Literature Prize for Oboreru
2000 Woman Writer's Prize for Oboreru
2001 Tanizaki Prize for Sensei no kaban
2007 57th MEXT Minister's Award for Literature
2012 Man Asian Literary Prize shortlist for The Briefcase (Sensei no kaban)
2014 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize shortlist for Strange Weather in Tokyo (Japanese; trans. Allison Markin Powell)
2015 66th Yomiuri Prize for
2016 44th Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature for
2019 Medal with Purple Ribbon

Film adaptation
 2014 Nishino Yukihiko no Koi to Bōken

Selected works

References

External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20070927045659/http://www.parisreview.com/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5482
http://thegodofbears.blogspot.com/2008/10/god-of-bears.html
 Hiromi Kawakami at J'Lit Books from Japan
 Synopsis of Manazuru at JLPP (Japanese Literature Publishing Project)
 Review of "Strange Weather in Tokyo", Booklover Book Reviews (English)

1958 births
Living people
Akutagawa Prize winners
Yomiuri Prize winners
Japanese women novelists
Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon

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Льодовиковий рельєф — форми земної поверхні, які утворюються внаслідок діяльності покривних і гірських льодовиків у сукупності з талими льодовиковими водами.

Розрізняють:
 екзараційні форми, утворені в корінних породах («баранячі лоби», «кучеряві скелі» — на рівнинах, троги, карри, ригелі — в горах),
 льодовиково-акумулятивні (моренні рівнини, горби, гряди та ін.),
 флювіогляціальні (зандрові рівнини, флювіогляційні тераси і ін.).

Рельєф материкових зледенінь
До цього типу рельєфу належить сучасний рельєф, сформований під льодовиковими щитами та поблизу їхньої периферії: Антарктичним, Грендланським, Північно-Канадським, о-вів Ісландія, Шпіцберген, Нова Земля, Франца-Йосифа. Максимальна потужність льодовикових товщ 3–4 км. Підльодовиковий рельєф вивчають методами сейсмічного зондування, які дають змогу побачити під товщею льоду гірські вершини, рівнини, жолоби. Таким чином складені карти корінного ложа Антарктиди (А. П. Капіца, 1968) й островів із льодовиковими куполами на них. До рельєфу материкових зледенінь зачисляють також рельєф плейстоценових зледенінь, поширений на рівнинах півночі Канади, Росії, у Патагонії, Скандинавії, Прибалтиці, Білорусі та на півночі України.

Льодовиковий рельєф за морфогенетичними ознаками поділяють на екзараційний (льодовикової ерозії, денудації) й акумулятивний. Територію, яка зазнала впливу льодовика та його талих вод, за переважанням тих чи інших форм поділяють на зони: льодовикової екзарації, акумуляції і воднольодовикову.

Форми екзараційного рельєфу материкових зледенінь: баранячі лоби, кучеряві скелі, пасма (сельги) та западини льодовикової обробки, фіордові і шхерні береги морів. Елементами екзараційного рельєфу є штрихи та борозни на поверхні виходів корінних порід на шляху руху льодовика.

Форми акумулятивного рельєфу материкових зледенінь: ози, ками, друмліни, моренні горби та пасма. На етапах осциляції і наступання льодовика утворювалися напірні та морени видавлювання, а в інтергляціальні й інтерстадіальні етапи під час відступання льодовика — кінцеві морени. Танення мертвого льоду призводило до утворення абляційних морен. Морена (від франц. moraine, вперше описана у Французьких Альпах) — це невпорядкована суміш суглинків, супісків, пісків, гравію, гальки, валунів у різному співвідношенні між собою.

Воднольодовикові форми рельєфу: долинні, вододільні зандри та зандрові рівнини, складені піщаним матеріалом, а також прильодовикові озера, в яких накопичувалися особливі відклади — стрічкові глини.

Дослідження давніх материкових зледенінь

I. Визначення часових проміжків зледенінь
1. Кількість, вік і тривалість льодовикових періодів.

2. Кількість, вік і тривалість льодовикових стадій (стадіалів, осциляцій, інтерстадіалів).

3. Особливості розвитку рельєфу від наступання першого до відступання кінцевого льодовикового покриву.

4. Палеогеографічні обстановки інтергляціальних та інтерстадіальних відрізків часу.

Для з'ясування цих аспектів виконують детальні польові дослідження морен і міжморенних горизонтів, їхньої потужності, літологічного і гранулометричного складу, найменші відміни яких виявляють льодовикові і міжльодовикові епохи та стадії. Виконують стратиграфічне розчленування четвертинної товщі, використовуючи методи оцінки вивітрілості матеріалу морен: чим вивітріліший, тим морена старша. Досліджують залишки організмів, які дають інформацію про періоди похолодань-потеплінь. Виконують споро-пилковий аналіз, який дає змогу реконструювати ландшафтну обстановку минулого, уточнити відносний геологічний вік різних міжльодовикових товщ.

Детально вивчають форми й елементи рельєфу, які дають уявлення про такі фази зледеніння:

1) наступання льодів. Відбувається активна руйнівна робота льоду, перенесення уламкового матеріалу, затягування в тіло льодовика і перетирання в ньому підстильних відкладів, формування шару мореновмісного льоду. Відбувається розчленування льодовикового покриву на великі потоки відповідно до особливостей рельєфу, які він прорізає;

2) стаціонарне положення. Характерне досягнення граничних меж поширення і тимчасова стабілізація льодовикового краю. Прихід дорівнює витратам льоду. Йде активна акумулятивна діяльність. Виникають гляціодислокації та системи паралельно-грядового рельєфу крайових зон, льодорозділювальні міжлопатеві височини та зони фронтальної акумуляції;

3) відступання льоду. Відбувається зменшення маси льоду внаслідок його танення та випаровування (абляція), омертвіння периферії льодовикового покриву. Панує руйнівна діяльність талих льодовикових вод. На комплекси рельєфу, створені активним льодом, накладаються форми, типові для пасивного і мертвого льоду.

II. Характеристика зони льодовикової екзарації охоплює
1) площу поширення льодовикових денудаційних форм, площу їхніх скупчень;

2) середні та максимальні розміри форм (довжина, ширина, висота);

3) особливості морфографії, чіткість форм і виразність морфологічних границь, крутість різноорієнтованих схилів;

4) орієнтацію видовжених форм;

5) породи, якими складені екзараційні форми, їхні літологічні відміни і вплив на морфологію форм рельєфу;

6) наявність штрихів і борозен на поверхні корінних порід — їхні параметри, орієнтація на елементах форм і в межах мезорельєфу (на підвищеннях, схилових поверхнях, у пониженнях), співвідношення з орієнтацією форм рельєфу. Штрихи та борозни засвідчують напрям руху льодовика;

7) зламаність поздовжнього профілю рік (наявність порогів, водоспадів), складність обрисів гідрографічної мережі в плані, які свідчать про нерівномірність льодовикової ерозії;

8) обриси берегової лінії озер у котловинах випахування, сліди давніх берегових ліній та ознаки нерівномірних піднять за їхнім положенням.

Застосовують методи польових експедиційних пошукувань, а також методи дистанційних досліджень поширення і видозмін форм.

III. Вивчення зони льодовикової акумуляції передбачає такі аспекти
1. Види льодовикових акумулятивних форм досліджуваної території та закономірності їхнього поширення.

2. Морфометричні параметри форм.

3. Особливості поперечного профілю — симетричний чи асиметричний, крутість схилів.

4. Характер вершин чи гребенів.

5. Орієнтування видовжених форм і простягання в плані — дугоподібне, прямолінійне, суцільне, переривчасте.

6. Петрографічна характеристика морени, якими складені акумулятивні форми. Порівняння петрографічного і мінералогічного складу морени та корінних порід, яке дає підставу з'ясувати звідки насувався льодовик.

7. Різниця у літологічному складі морени по вертикалі, вздовж простягання шарів і на різних елементах рельєфу.

8. Виділення кінцевоморенних і пагорбів стадіальних морен, які характеризують етапи скорочення льодовика, відміни у їхньому складі.

9. Колір морени.

10. Гранулометричний склад з відображенням результатів на кумулятивній кривій і у вигляді діаграм. За переважаючими компонентами виділяють морени валунні, щебенисті, піщані, супіщані, суглинисті.

11. Різниця гранулометричного складу вздовж розрізу, яка допомагає виділити різні типи морен — донну, внутрішню абляційну тощо. Для камів переважання піщано-гравійного матеріалу означає флювіогляціальне походження, а піщано-глинистого стрічкового — на лімногляціальне.

12. Включення валунів: насиченість (кількість на одиницю ваги чи об'єму породи), розміри, форма, обкатаність, петрографічний склад, орієнтування довгої осі (відображають на розідіаграмі). Часто валуни витягнуті довгими осями вздовж напряму руху льодовика, мають форму праски з відполірованою плоскою гранню. У донній морені валуни більш відшліфовані, мають борозни виразної орієнтації. У внутрішній абляційній морені — менш шліфовані, поганої орієнтації. Валуни та льодовикові брили допомагають розв'язати питання про кількість зледенінь, центри зародження, напрям руху і місця зупинок льодовикових потоків.

13. Характеристика міжморенних горизонтів. Бувають інтергляціальні, інтерстадіальні та міжосциляційні. Представлені комплексом перигляціальних відкладів — флювіогляціальних, лімно-гляціальних, кріосоліфлюкційних. Охоплюють нижній, середній і верхній підгоризонти, які характеризують перехід від похолодання до потепління, власне потепління (міжльодовиковий період) і початок наступного похолодання. За складом — це тонкозернисті відклади з включеннями органогенного матеріалу.

14. Наявність корінних чи четвертинних порід в основі напірних морен, ознаки в них гляціодислокацій.

15. Для озів — текстурні особливості відкладів. Також означують їхнє радіальне (поздовжнє) чи маргінальне (поперечне до руху льодовика) поширення.

16. Для друмлінів — наявність корінного ядра в основі, їхній генезис — внаслідок танення і перевідкладання уламкового матеріалу в тріщинах льодовика чи внаслідок повторного наступу льодовика, перетворення раніше сформованого горбисто-моренного рельєфу.

17. Характеристика западин, котловин та улоговин, які сформувалися внаслідок нерівномірного відкладання морен, танення брил мертвого льоду, ерозії талих вод. 18. Морфометрія дольодовикового рельєфу (палеодолини, ерозійні останці).

Маючи дані про контакти морени та корінних порід складають палеотопографічні карти, на яких відображають особливості дольодовикового рельєфу. З'ясовують ступінь успадкованості існуючого сучасного рельєфу з давнім дольодовиковим, сліди повного розмиву чи часткового перетворення внаслідок нерівномірної льодовикової акумуляції. У польових експедиціях досліджують морфометричні риси рельєфу та геологічну структуру. Виконують буріння для з'ясування потужності морен, характеру крівлі корінного ложа чи підстеляючих четвертинних відкладів. У лабораторних умовах методами електронної мікроскопії, спектрального, мінералогічного, геохімічного аналізів визначають генетичні, динамічні та інші особливості формування відкладів. Термолюмінісцентним, ізотопним чи іншими видами методів виконують датування відкладів. На підставі топографічних карт, матеріалів дистанційного зондування визначають площу і характер поширення льодовикових форм, їхнє висотне положення, а на підставі палеогеографічних карт — потужність і границю поширення давнього льодовикового щита.

Див. також
 Рельєф

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Література

 Методи геоморфологічних досліджень: навч. посібник / Галина Байрак. — Львів: ЛНУ імені Івана Франка, 2018.

Льодовиковий рельєф


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Home International Asia India's top court decriminalises adultery in landmark judgement
India's top court decriminalises adultery in landmark judgement
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India's top court on Thursday decriminalised adultery in a landmark judgement aimed at upholding the right to equality and freedom, scrapping a law first brought in under British colonial rule in 1860.
In a unanimous judgement, the five-member bench of the top court struck down a law that meant a man who had sex with a married woman without getting her husband's permission could be charged and face up to five years in jail if convicted.
"Adultery cannot and should not be a crime. It can be a ground for a civil offense, a ground for divorce," Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra said while reading out the judgement.
It is the second landmark judgement in the personal sphere in India this month. Three weeks ago, the Supreme Court scrapped a colonial-era ban on gay sex.
Appearing for India's Hindu nationalist government, Additional Solicitor General Pinky Anand had argued last month that adultery should remain a criminal offense to ensure the sanctity of marriage.
While very few people have been sentenced for adultery in recent years, the threat of charges has often been used in matrimonial disputes to put pressure on women, lawyers said.
"Physicality is an individual choice," Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, one of the five-member bench, said in the ruling. The law was based on the concept that a woman loses her individuality once she is married, he said, adding, "adultery is a relic of past".
Petitioner Joseph Shine, a businessman, had challenged the constitutional validity of the adultery law, saying it discriminates against both men and women.
By exonerating wives of adultery if done with the consent of their husbands, it discriminates against women, and amounts to "institutionalised discrimination", the petition said.
Shine's lawyer, Kaleeswaram Raj, said that "there is no empirical evidence that decriminalising adultery threatens the sanctity of marriage", adding around 80 countries do not consider extramarital affairs to be illegal.
"The judgement has unequivocally said the state has no business to interfere in aberrations in relations within a family," Raj, a senior lawyer in the Supreme Court, told Reuters.
Raj said the law has been widely misused even if it has rarely ended up in a jail sentence.
Whenever there are matrimonial discords or claims for maintenance, belligerent husbands have used "malicious prosecution on the ground of adultery", Raj said.
"In such cases, wives are helpless. They are out of the judicial process. They cannot defend themselves and the stigma the prosecution casts on them will last forever and that in itself is a punishment as far as the women are concerned."
The court has said, however, that the judgement is not to be understood as a license to have extramarital relations.
"Decriminalising adultery is not licensing adultery," Justice Chandrachud observed while hearing the case.
Many Asian countries uphold adultery as a crime. In the United States, adultery is still considered a crime in some states.
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Ethan divorced Uma in 2005 after five years of marriage before getting remarried to his wife Ryan Hawke three years later. The couple have two young daughters, Clementine and Indiana.


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Q: Vectorisation of numpy.linalg.lstsq I have two sets of points (A1, A2, B1, B2) for which I want to calculate the affine transformation (from A1 to B1, from A2 to B2).
Using numpy.linalg.lstsq this is very straightforward for a single case:
A1 = [[100   0   0]
      [  0 100   0]
      [100 100   0]
      [  0   0 100]
      [100 100 100]]

B1 = [[160   0   0]
      [  0 160   0]
      [160 160   0]
      [  0   0 160]
      [160 160 160]]

A1 = np.hstack([A1, np.ones((A1.shape[0], 1))])
B1 = np.hstack([B1, np.ones((B2.shape[0], 1))])
affine_transformation = np.linalg.lstsq(A1, B1, rcond=None)[0].transpose()

I want to vectorise this to calculate it for multiple sets of points without a loop. I would like to end up with something like this:
pts_a = np.array([A1, A2])
pts_a = np.pad(pts_a, ((0, 0), (0, 0), (0,1)), mode='constant', constant_values=1)
pts_b = np.array([B1, B2])
pts_b = np.pad(pts_b, ((0, 0), (0, 0), (0,1)), mode='constant', constant_values=1)
affine_transformation = np.linalg.lstsq(pts_a, pts_b, rcond=None)[0].transpose()

Any help is much appreciated!

A: I sorted it by using this:
 affine_transformation = np.asarray([np.linalg.lstsq(pts_a[i,:,:], pts_b[i,:,:], rcond=None)[0].transpose() for i in range(pts_a.shape[0])])

Is there a more efficient way?

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A tale of two databases: India's R&D dilemma(2005)
10/12/2008 Blogs (Articles)India, research data base, science policyRajesh Kochhar
A tale of two databases: India's R&D dilemma
Source: SciDev.Net
Without reliable long-term data in a uniform format, it is impossible to evaluate ongoing research and development (R&D) activities, launch new initiatives or make international comparisons with any confidence.
Yet in India — and many other developing countries — data compilation is such a haphazard process that we have no clear picture of national R&D.
Since 1973, the Indian government's Department of Science and Technology has been responsible for creating a reliable database on the availability and deployment of scientific and technical resources.
The latest (2000-1) edition of the department's valuable Research and Development Statistics is based on a national survey carried out in the fiscal year 1998-99, and was published in May 2002.
The database has two parts. One consists of information taken from government records. This material, dealing mainly with funding, is intrinsically very reliable.
From it one can learn, for instance, that India's R&D expenditure rose from 0.16 per cent of gross domestic product in 1958 to 0.91 per cent in 1987, before declining. In 1998 it stood at 0.81 per cent.
The data also shows where the money comes from and which sectors it is spent on.
In 1998-1999, about 80 per cent of Indian R&D spending came from the government. Of this, 32 per cent was spent on military research, 21 per cent on space research, and 12 per cent on atomic energy. Agriculture received 12 per cent, and ten per cent was allocated to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.
Similarly useful information can be found in the records of the Indian patent office; in 1998-99, a total of 1,800 patents (645 of them Indian) were granted.
This is all very useful but the complications begin to arise with the second part of the R&D database, which deals mainly with scientific output.
It is based on replies to questionnaires sent out by government agencies such as the Department of Science and Technology and the government's University Grants Commission (UGC).
The problem is that there is no indication of how complete the survey is. The data, presented as though it were complete, can be misleading or confusing.
A case in point is the number of engineering and technology doctorates awarded in 1977 — a year for which independent statistics are available.
The UGC says 152 doctorates were awarded, but the CSIR says there were 289. However, a committee appointed by the government in 1978 to review education and research carried out a head-count and reported 329 doctorates — more than double the UGC figure.
Different editions of Research and Development Statistics disagree about data, as do different government sources.
For the year 1989, the number of engineering and technology doctorates varied from 238 to 586 depending on which government source is consulted — all four disagree. There is similar confusion in the case of science doctorates, although the spread is smaller: the quoted figures for 1987 range from 2,591 to 3,038.
Publishing puzzle
The ambiguity extends to efforts to determine how many research papers India produces every year. For an answer, one must turn to foreign databases — sources that obviously mainly serve the needs of the countries that have created them.
In 1998, India produced 1.57 per cent of the world's total research papers published in journals listed by the Science Citation Index (SCI). By 2002, its share had increased slightly, to 1.79 per cent.
During the same period, China moved from 1.90 to 3.68 per cent; and Brazil, more modestly, from 1.03 to 1.49 per cent. Germany, the UK and France show a marginal decline in their share while the United States and Canada show a small rise.
But of the 3,500 SCI journals, only ten are Indian. More broad-based than the SCI is the Web of Science database, yet this only includes about 50 Indian journals — a tiny fraction of the 2,000-plus scientific periodicals published in 2000.
Alternatively, one could consult subject-specific databases and add up the numbers — an exercise that produces a total of 52,120 Indian papers for 1999.
The problem with this approach, however, is that it creates overestimates, because the same papers can appear in different databases, such as those for agriculture and life sciences.
In any case, a common trend discernible in all these databases is that Indian publication output has remained stagnant for at least 15 to 20 years. But in the absence of a national database on R&D publishing, this conclusion has become controversial.
If data compilation remains a desultory and sporadic exercise, vital questions will remain unanswered. How are universities performing in comparison to research institutes? Where do physical sciences stand with respect to applied biology? What is the profile of authors with respect to gender, age, social and educational background, national and international collaboration?
And without those answers, a true picture of the state of science in India will remain elusive. This situation has kept alive misleading myths, such as the one stating India has the third largest scientific and technical manpower in the world.
Are there any other models India could use? In South Africa, all information on research publications is collated at government level. The system works because incentives for individual authors as well as awards of research grants are linked to research output.
But in India, where salary and job security are guaranteed with no link to performance, such a system is unlikely to work.
Better by design
However, this makes India ideally placed to launch its own centrally organised system. Since most research in India is carried out in state-owned and funded institutions, the government could decree that a reliable, complete and continually updated database be created. It could be made mandatory for all heads of institutes/universities to submit authenticated quantitative and descriptive information in a prescribed format every year.
This information would then go to a central agency staffed by qualified people capable of compiling the information and publishing it in an annotated and user-friendly format, say every two years.
To build up accurate regional and international R&D portraits, other countries could follow either the South African or this proposed Indian model. And if similarly placed countries could agree first on a standard format, allowing national databases to be collated, the ideal would be reached.
Rajesh Kochhar is director of the National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, New Delhi, India.
Read more about research and development in SciDev.Net's research and development dossier.
SciDev.Net: http://www.scidev.net/Opinions/index.cfm?fuseaction=readOpinions&itemid=396&language=1
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If you wear glasses, you're among the world's fortunate few.
According to the World Health Organization, 90 percent of the 285 million people worldwide with poor vision live in low- or middle-income countries where a pair of glasses could cost a year's salary. College third-year Janice Guzon is trying to change all that.
So Guzon got to work. At age 15, she cofounded EYEsee, a nonprofit organization that aims to redistribute to those in need the 4 million used glasses that North Americans throw away each year. Five years later, EYEsee has donated more than 31,000 glasses to people in Haiti, Cambodia, the Philippines, and Uganda. In January, her project helped her win Glamour magazine's inaugural Top 10 College Readers' Choice Contest.
EYEsee's success is the result of many passionate volunteers and partner organizations as well as Guzon's dedication. One such partner is PeopleWeaver, a nonprofit organization seeking to improve the social and economic status of impoverished women. Jeanne Ratzloff, president of PeopleWeaver, first contacted EYEsee in 2011. She wanted to take glasses with her on a visit to the Kyangwali Refugee Settlement in Uganda, where PeopleWeaver focuses most of their efforts.
Ratzloff's wish is coming true. Glamour's contest helped spread the word about both Guzon and EYEsee. Roughly 200,000 people voted for Guzon, and the contest started new conversations about how to help people around the world. Guzon plans to use her $1,500 prize and the increased public interest to launch EYEsee Vision Centers this year. These global health centers will provide year-round ophthalmological service in remote, impoverished areas.
In addition, Guzon has set the ambitious goal of collecting 12,000 pairs of glasses in this year's campaign. Guzon isn't afraid to dream big—and to make those dreams a reality. She embodies a belief among many students in the College, that great ideas are meant to be put into practice. As a public policy and sociology double major, Guzon finds that her nonprofit and academic careers constantly intersect.


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Q: array_replace alternatives for earlier version of php? I'm looking to use the array_replace function but the version of php I'm running doesn't support it. I was wondering if anyone new of any alternative ways of doing this?
The version of php I'm running is 5.2.17
I have an array and I just want to replace elements with another array where the keys match.
I'm not able to update the version of php on the server btw :(

A: You mean something like this?
$array;
$replacement;
foreach ($array as $key => &$value) {
  if (array_key_exists($key, $replacement)) {
    $value = $replacement[$key];
  }
}

or just
foreach ($replacement as $key => $value) {
  $array[$key] = $value;
}

or maybe even
array_merge ($array, $replacement);

(I currently don't see any difference in the behaviour of array_merge() and array_replace() ...)

A: If you want a real backport of this function you can use this code:
http://www.php.net/manual/fr/function.array-replace.php#92549
if (!function_exists('array_replace'))
{
  function array_replace( array &$array, array &$array1 )
  {
    $args = func_get_args();
    $count = func_num_args();

    for ($i = 0; $i < $count; ++$i) {
      if (is_array($args[$i])) {
        foreach ($args[$i] as $key => $val) {
          $array[$key] = $val;
        }
      }
      else {
        trigger_error(
          __FUNCTION__ . '(): Argument #' . ($i+1) . ' is not an array',
          E_USER_WARNING
        );
        return NULL;
      }
    }

    return $array;
  }
}

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One of my customers had a problem when using one certificate on IIS 7. This certificate once been used on IIS 6 and it works fine. This means there is no problem with the certificate itself.
There was no problem using other certificates in the drop down list. Using CertUtil command to verify the certificate, we got error s like the Encryption test failed for the certificate imported.
The problem is due to Administrators group doesn't have permission to access the private key file which is under "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys". By default, administrators group and system account have full control for this folder. This was resolved by giving administrators group full control to this folder.
Solution for me was to delete the ssl cert and re-import it, marking it as re-exportable during the import wizard. Try this before changing permissions on the MachineKeys folder.
Making the SSL Cert exportable resolved it for me when I ran into this problem.
Same issue for me on IIS 7.5 while renewing a certificate, but I retried later and it disappeared by itself… the only actions I performed was: re-import the old certificate, update bindings to the old certificate, restart IIS site.
After that I re-tried to change bindings to the new certificate and no error appeared.


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Toronto residents demand action after popular four-star hotel becomes homeless shelter
TORONTO -
Their phones are full of photos and videos of things they say have become a daily occurrence in their Toronto neighbourhood.
Used needles, piles of garbage, human waste on the street.
Some residents of The Esplanade say these things they encounter far too frequently. Things that they say have only been an issue since February, when the city opened a temporary homeless shelter at 45 The Esplanade.
For years, the building had operated as the Novotel, a four-star hotel, welcoming tourists and travellers from around the globe. But during the pandemic, it was leased by the City of Toronto, for use as a temporary homeless shelter.
"My first thought was, the homeless have to live somewhere," long-time resident Laura Ormesher told CTV News Toronto. "I was sympathetic to them, but it has been an absolute nightmare."
Romie Skeat, who's lived in The Esplanade since 1988, says the neighbourhood has changed dramatically since the shelter opened.
"The most significant change I would say is the fact that I am no longer comfortable when I am walking home," Skeat said, adding she doesn't leave her home much anymore due to fears for her own safety.
Other residents, fearful to speak publicly, show pages of notes, detailing hundreds of incidents, from fist fights, to aggressive encounters, to open drug use and overdoses on the street. Incidents that draw police and paramedic visits to the street almost day.
"It's also brought quite a number of other people to the area that are looking to either piggyback on the drug dealing that's going on around the 45 The Esplanade site, or to try and get in to 45 The Esplanade," resident Fred Cowans told CTV News Toronto.
Residents say while the problems outside the facility are obvious, there also appear to be problems inside the hotel as well.
Photos posted to a community Facebook page show a room that appears to have been trashed, with furniture broken and carpet ripped up.
Another photo shows a room with excessive garbage being cleaned by two people in protective clothing. Other photos show a smashed toilet, and a vandalized door.
Homes First, the organization tasked with operating the facility, declined to confirm the authenticity of the photos, citing privacy concerns, however the wall decor, carpeting, and drapes, match photos available on the hotel's website.
According to documents on the city's website, the city is paying at minimum $615,000 a month to rent 205 rooms, with an option to pay more to rent as many as 254 rooms.
The document also says that the city will cover the cost of all damage and repairs to the hotel, and will continue to pay rent for as long as it takes to do so.
Residents say they have been approaching Homes First, their local councillor, and the mayor's office for months with their concerns.
So far, they say no action has been taken. Homes First declined CTV News' request for an interview.
In a statement, Kallan Lyons, the organization's Communications Supervisor wrote: "At our shelter sites, we have community liaison committees working with and addressing the concerns of community residents from the areas in which the shelters are located. At The Esplanade, there are security guards working alongside community safety teams, paid duty officers and increased police patrols, all of whom work together to support the community to feel safe."
But several residents say they don't feel safe.
"I'd like to feel that my safety and my comfort are given equal priority and I don't," Skeat said. "Right now I feel that as a taxpaying citizen I'm shovelled to the back."
CTV News Toronto asked Mayor John Tory about the issues on The Esplanade during a COVID-19 press conference on Wednesday.
The mayor described trying to balance the care of the city's most vulnerable while at the same time maintaining the stability of neighbourhoods and residents.
"I thank the people who live in those neighbourhoods for the fact that they have accepted and welcomed the fact that we needed to take care of those people in a different way because of the effects of the pandemic and some of the health requirements."
Tory promised to meet with residents of The Esplanade to address their concerns.
"I will take it upon myself to review all of the input that has come to my office but also more importantly have a conversation with some of the members of that community to understand those concerns better."
But the mayor wouldn't confirm whether or not the current lease, set to expire on December 31st, would be extended. Some residents fear that lease could be extended until April of 2022, meaning a temporary situation could last a lot longer.


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The 1983 Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship was the fourth edition of the Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship, the quadrennial international men's field hockey championship of Europe organized by the European Hockey Federation. It was held in Amstelveen, Netherlands from 18 to 28 August 1983.

The hosts the Netherlands won their first title by defeating the Soviet Union 8–6 in penalty strokes after the match finished 2–2 after extra time. The defending champions West Germany won the bronze medal by defeating Spain 3–1.

Preliminary round

Pool A

Pool B

Classification round

Ninth to twelfth place classification

9–12th place semi-finals

Eleventh place game

Ninth place game

Fifth to eighth place classification

5–8th place semi-finals

Seventh place game

Fifth place game

First to fourth place classification

Semi-finals

Third place game

Final

Final standings

References

Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship
EuroHockey Nations Championship
EuroHockey Nations Championship
International field hockey competitions hosted by the Netherlands
Sports competitions in Amstelveen
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The cinereous tinamou (Crypturellus cinereus), also known as brushland tinamou, is a type of ground bird found in swamp and lowland forests in northern South America. They have some localized names that have been used by the indigenous people such as in Amazonas where they are called inambu-pixuna, and in Par, Brazil where they are called nambu-sujo. Also, throughout their range they are called inhambu-preto. Cinereous tinamous have been around for many centuries. They are part of the oldest families of the world today and have fossils discovered dating back tens of millions of years. Their quick reflexes play a role in their ability to survive.
The cinereous tinamou is a monotypic species. All tinamous are from the family Tinamidae, and in the larger scheme are also ratites. Unlike other ratites, tinamous can fly, although in general, they are not strong fliers. All ratites evolved from prehistoric flying birds and tinamous are the closest living relative of these birds.Gmelin originally placed this bird in the Tetrao genus, as Tetrao cinereus, which is indicative of its apparent, but incorrect, closeness to the other game birds.
Crypturellus is formed from three Latin or Greek words. Kruptos meaning covered or hidden, oura meaning tail, and ellus meaning diminutive. Therefore, Crypturellus means small hidden tail. The term cinereous describes its colouration.
The cinereous tinamou is a shy and secretive Tinamou. It is approximately 29-32cm (11-13in) in length, and the male bird weighs around 435 grams (15.3oz) and the female of the species weighs 549-602 grams (19.4-21.2oz).
It is colored similar to the Berlepsch's tinamou in that it is dark brown to sooty brown or brownish black in coloration. It tends to be a tad more brown than the Berlepsch's tinamou. It is recognized by its smoky-grey with reddish-brown crown and nape. The feather shafts on side of its head are white, which shows through on occasion. Their color helps them blend with the environment making it harder for predators to detect them. The under parts of the bird are only slightly paler than the body, and the legs appear a dull orange to yellow. They have a light-colored eye ring. Their bill has a dark upper mandible and a yellow lower mandible. In general, their bill is very similar to the Berlpesch's tinamou's except it trends smaller and thinner. The females are generally slightly larger in size then the males.
The cinereous tinamou is diurnal. When they are frightened or surprised they usually run off very quickly. Their instincts have adapted to act quickly since they live their lives on the ground and have to flee quickly to avoid predators so they are rarely seen by humans. They have a tendency to walk or run rather than to fly. They are capable of flight, but it is unusual and short. While the cinereous tinamou may only be in flight for a short duration, their flight is strong and direct. They tend to occur either alone or in pairs, and generally do not travel in groups.
The cinereous tinamou is specially known to be easy to hear, but very difficult to see. It has a loud distinctive whistle heard mainly at dawn and dusk. Their whistles have a unique pitch and last almost two seconds between each whistle. Their whistles are mostly heard at dawn and dusk, and are monosyllabic. The bird is very capable of projecting its voice to seem like it came from another direction so hearing them and finding their exact location is very difficult. The call between the males and females are similar but not identical to the human ear. Their space between calls shortens as time progresses, so as to appear as to be speeding up in frequency.
The breeding season of the cinereous tinamou is year-round due to the perfect climate that they live in; however there is a period of preferred mating, which is August through October, except in Colombia, where it is in June. Like the majority of the tinamou family, the males practice simultaneous polygyny and the females practice successive polyandry. To initiate courtship, the males will usually call out to attract the females. It is believed that the courtship ritual is similar to that of others in their family. This courtship ritual involves the male lowering their chest to the ground. While doing this, they will stretch their neck forward and raise their posterior. It is believed that this serves a dual purpose, in that it appears that they are larger and thus more attractive to the females, and that they are larger and more dangerous to other males.
The cinereous tinamou nest is less a nest and more just a location on the forest floor, sometimes made of some leaves laid on the ground. They do choose a sheltered location, usually near a tree. The female will lay about two eggs in season. These eggs appear salmon violet colored, and are considered very colorful. Over time, the eggs will change color to a dark or sometimes milk chocolate color.
The young of cinereous tinamous are capable of moving around when they are hatched to the point that they can almost run as soon as they-re hatched. They are dark brown with a reddish speckling.
The food habits of the cinereous tinamou depend on the season and habitat although they are mostly herbivorous, with a heavy focus on fruit, similar to other members of Crypturellus. In the summer their diet consists of small fruits, seeds, and small invertebrates. The majority of the invertebrates that they eat are ants, mole-crickets, and pentatomids. In the winter time they usually eat a wide variety of seeds or berries collected on the ground, with a focus on the acai berry. They are considered a benefit to the nature for insect pest because of their large insect consumption. When the cinereous tinamou is young it is more dependent on insects than when they become adults. The cinereous tinamou does not scratch for food, but instead looks under leaves or uses its bill to dig.
The cinereous tinamou is a sedentary species.
The cinereous tinamou lives in a lowland rainforest or swamp forest, up to 700m (2,300ft) altitude. They also live in second growth forest, along with bushy areas with scattered trees.They have been known to take advantage of coffee and cocoa plantations and, on occasion, will utilize savanna. They prefer to live near streams or thick swamp woods. Their preferred habitat is thick, dark, and dense. They are abundant, within the upper Amazon, in the varzea.
This species is native to southern Colombia, southern Venezuela, Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana, northern and western Brazil, eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru, and northern Bolivia. Within Brazil, it occupies the Amazon Basin south to Mato Grosso and east to Par.
The IUCN classifies this tinamou as Least Concern, with an occurrence range of 5,920,000km2 (2,290,000sqmi). It is considered the most common tinamou in Suriname, and is considered uncommon in Peru. The threat to its existence is similar to that of all forest birds, and that is deforestation and fragmentation of the remaining habitat. It is believed that it loses 14.1-17% of its habitat over 3 generations.
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Q: Who in marvel plays a cello? Brett asks a great question, about scarlet witch and her supposed cello playing ways. I'm just wondering if it isn't her that is referenced as the cellist, who could it be from the main marvel universe?
edit: I don't feel the question will get the answer's I'm after and I expect that this question is better posed to get answers.

A: As I answered in the question you link to, the one who is known for playing the cello is Kate Bishop.
Playing the cello is listed as one of Bishop's abilities in the marvel.wikia:

Cellist: Can play the cello.

The following quote from here: confirms it:

[Kate fires an arrow at Kang.]
Hulkling: Quick question? Have you ever used one of those before?
Kate Bishop: Every summer at Interlochen National Music Camp. I also play the cello.

A: May not be relevant but Agent Colson has a former lover, Audrey Nathan (played by Amy Acker), who plays the cello in Agents of Shield. It's the woman referenced in Avengers.


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Q: Configuring grub-pc. Как с этим бороться? (фото в вопросе) Взял VDS погонять на тестовом периоде тут: https://proxmox.flynet.pro
Написал скрипт для установки нужного мне ПО: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yarkovaleksei/vds-install-script/master/install.sh
Подключаюсь по SSH к серверу, выполняю команду:
root@vpshost:~# curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yarkovaleksei/vds-install-script/master/install.sh | bash

Начинается установка и в консоли вылазит вот это (скриншот консоли):

И трындец... На клавиши консоль не реагирует. Что это и как бороться?

A: можно отключить полностью взаимодействие программы dpkg с пользователем, установив переменной окружения DEBIAN_FRONTEND значение noninteractive.

в применении к вашему случаю, можно либо добавить в начале скрипта команду:
export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

либо предварить каждый вызов программ dpkg/apt* установкой этой переменной. примерно так:
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get ...
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt ...
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive aptitude ...
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive dpkg ...

A: Попробуй добавить в скрипт эти строки:
echo 'grub-installer/only_debian boolean true' | debconf-set-selections
echo 'grub-installer/with_other_os boolean true' | debconf-set-selections

И запускать его внутри tmux.


What is the 'interbank rate'?
Wiki » Economics » What is the 'interbank rate'?
The interbank rate for exchanging currencies is the rate at which large banks make large currency transactions, typically worth millions or billions of pounds. It is seen as the most competitive rate which most closely represents the value of one currency against another.
The interbank rate is found by taking the mid-point between the selling price of a currency and the buying price of a currency. Typically, banks have enjoyed large profits by taking a spread on this price: always charging a percentage, say 2.5%, above the spot price when they give customers a conversion rate. Some companies then might charge an additional conversion fee. If you take out money abroad, you might also have to pay another fee to the bank that runs the ATM. All in all, this means that the average person gets an exchange rate that is very far from the interbank rate – sometimes as much as a 12% mark up just to spend their own money in a different currency.
As a result, many new financial firms are offering lower rates. Glint gives you currency transactions (pounds, dollars, euros, gold) at the interbank rate plus a fee of just 0.5% per transaction.


During the 19th century, many magnificent English landscape gardens were located within traveling distance from the center of London; because these British gardens were accessible by steamboat, omnibus or steam railroad, an English garden tour became a popular public attraction. The gardens were undulated with carriage drives around and through the grounds; with broad graveled walks in various directions, opening long vistas through well grown trees.
Some trees stood in rows, but were generally irregularly planted with plenty of room for the full development of each and every tree. With these English garden photos, you will see magnificent gardens, such as Kew Gardens, with numerous varieties of trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants were plainly labeled. These photochrom color images provide a English garden photos tour of glorious 19th century gardens sprinkled throughout Great Britain. At some English landscape gardens, such as Kew Gardens, numerous varieties of trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants were plainly labeled.
This series of English garden photos, featured at the Library of Congress, provides a glimpse of these magnificent landscaped treasures. Kensington Gardens, one of the Royal Parks featured in this English garden pictures series, has 275 acres of formal avenues of magnificent trees and ornamental flower beds. The English garden is located at Kensington Palace, the choice of William III and Mary II for their London home. Queen Victoria was born in Kensington Palace and lived there until she became queen in 1837. Queen Victoria commissioned the Italian Gardens and the Albert Memorial. Outside Kensington Palace stands a statue of Queen Victoria sculpted by her daughter, Princess Louise, to celebrate 50 years of her mother's reign.
Our next stop on this English garden tour is the Valley Gardens in Harrogate, England -- listed as an English Heritage Grade II and cover 17 acres. They are famous for their mineral springs. Their noted historical structures, such as the Sun Pavilion and Colonnades still stand.
Bournemouth, on our English landscape gardens photos tour, is a seaside resort in southern England. The city dates from 1810 but did not grow rapidly until the railway reached Bournemouth in 1870. In 1880, the population of this resort town was near 17,000, and then more than tripled by 1900. During the late Victorian era, Bournemouth was famous for its glass Winter Gardens, built in 1875 and the Theater Royal built in 1882. Another attraction was the Pleasure Gardens laid out in the 1870s.
Kew Gardens, known today as the Royal Botanic Gardens, are located on the River Thames in southwest London, England. Kew Gardens was originally a private fruit and vegetable garden belonging to the Prince of Wales, the father of George III. The dowager princess of Wales, the mother of George III, began to improve it as a botanical garden and pleasure ground about 1760. Kew received additions from time to time, so that by the late nineteenth century it contained 270 acres. Kew Gardens became public in 1810 but suffered a decline from 1820-1840.
In 1840 the English landscape gardens were presented to the nation as a royal gift and placed under the control of Her Majesty's office of public works. Seating arrangements add coziness of an indoor living-room to the charms of a Victorian style garden. Decorate your outdoor living area with Garden & Veranda Furniture styles from the past, featuring wrought iron table and bench designs. Under Queen Victoria's patronage, Kew Gardens flourished and by the late nineteenth century, the Garden was said to be one of the finest and most complete botanical collection and arboretum in the world.
The land for the Victorian Borough Gardens, located near the center of Dorchester, was purchased in 1895. The center structure shown in the English landscape gardens is still used today.