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Michael Shank Racing with Curb/Agajanian ready to take on the 12 Hours of Sebring
Mar 16, 2015, 4:02 PM
Michael Shank Racing with Curb/Agajanian is eager to take on the iconic circuit with its new Honda-powered Ligier JS P2.
Pataskala, Ohio – As the IMSA TUDOR United SportsCar Championship stages Round 2 of the championship at Sebring International Raceway this weekend with the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Fueled by "Fresh from Florida", Michael Shank Racing with Curb/Agajanian is eager to take on the iconic circuit with its new Honda-powered Ligier JS P2.
Michael Shank Racing's No. 60 Tire Kingdom machine will make its 12 Hours of Sebring debut with full-season pilots John Pew and Ozz Negri. Justin Wilson will join the duo for the event which also marks Round 2 of the Tequila Patron North American Endurance Cup.
We're thrilled to have Justin (Wilson) back with us for this race.
Mike Shank
Wilson, who won the 2012 Rolex 24 At Daytona with the team, ran with Michael Shank Racing in last year's Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring when the squad debuted at the track in the inaugural season of the TUDOR Championship. His experience in P2 machinery (ALMS at Sebring in 2002 & 2004, 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2004) combined with the countless laps he's driven in IndyCar testing at the track makes Wilson a stout addition to the Sebring line-up.
Following an encouraging fifth place finish in the 24-hour season-opening race at Daytona, the Michael
Shank Racing team anticipates a positive outing at the 3.74-mile airport road course which will favor the high downforce of the P2 car.
With 17 corners at the bumpy, airfield-based circuit, the high-downforce P2 package could pay dividends for the Michael Shank Racing machine, which scored the pole and showed strong potential in the car's race debut at Daytona.
The team recently spent two days testing the No. 60 Tire Kingdom Ligier JS P2 at Sebring International Raceway and learned a lot about the car and the tough circuit which is one of the most physical tracks on the 2015 calendar. The Shank squad worked through different set ups and took away valuable data in preparation for the classic 12 Hours of Sebring.
"We are very much looking forward to getting back to it at Sebring," said Team Owner Mike Shank, who recently added his 10,000th follower on Twitter and launched an all-new motorsports television show in Columbus. "We're thrilled to have Justin (Wilson) back with us for this race. He's one of the best in the business and he's been a good friend of the team for many years. This is a very physical track and all three drivers – John (Pew), Ozz (Negri) and Justin (Wilson) - have been training hard to be at their best for this 12 hour race. We found out even more about this car when we tested at Sebring a few weeks ago so we're excited to see what we can do here this weekend."
Michael Shank Racing kicked off the Sebring festivities over the weekend with an appearance at the local Sebring Tire Kingdom store. The No. 60 Tire Kingdom car is on display for Tire Kingdom customers and sportscar fans at the store located on 340 US Hwy 27 N in Sebring, Florida through Tuesday at 8PM.
On track action begins on Thursday, March 19 with three practice sessions including a 1 hour and 30 minute night practice. Friday will feature a morning practice as well as a 15 minute qualifying session in the evening.
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Agostino dei Musi, known as Veneziano (Venice ca. 1490 – after 1536 Rome)
The Procession of Silenus, after Raphael or Giulio Romano), ca. 1520-25
7 7/16 x 10 3/16 inches
Chatsworth House, Peak District, Derbyshire © Alamy Stock Photo
Formerly in the Chatsworth collection, this seductive print by Veneziano brings to life Virgil's story of the drunken Silenus.
The engraver and draftsman Agostino Veneziano arrived in Rome by 1516. There he began to produce numerous prints after the drawings of Raphael and his students, possibly even working directly in the workshop of Marcantonio Raimondi (ca. 1480–ca. 1534), the most influential translator of the master's work into engraving. Veneziano abandoned Rome for Venice at the time of the Sack of Rome in 1527, not returning until 1531. During this period, he also visited Florence and Mantua where he engraved prints after Giulio Romano (ca. 1499–1546), Raphael's foremost disciple.
The composition, based broadly on a scene described in the sixth Eclogue of the Mantuan poet Virgil (6:13–28), shows the cheerfully drunken Silenus (the tutor of Bacchus, known as much for his wisdom as for his love of drink) riding an ass on which he is supported by two fauns. He is preceded by a dancing bacchante playing cymbals, another carrying a basket of grapes on her head, and a hairy satyr who assists an amorino in encouraging a goat to jump through a hoop. Most of these figures, in addition to the leopard seen at right, appear to be freely based on the relief of an early Roman sarcophagus front (now at Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire, England) which, in the sixteenth century, was kept in the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore. This or a similar sarcophagus frieze is thought to have provided the source for a drawing by Raphael or possibly Giulio Romano (both since lost) on which the engraving is based. ❖
anchor in circle (similar to Briquet 495)
Bartsch, vol. 14, p. 192, no. 240
William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth (Lugt. 718-719)
by descent, Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire (1920-2004)
Trustees of Chatsworth Settlement
London, Christie's, 5 December 1985, lot 69
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Guilty Pleasure: Detectorists
This BBC drama-comedy is well worth your time
Detectorists is a two season BBC Four show written by, directed by and starring Mackenzie Crook. Also featuring Toby Jones, the show is a gentle drama-comedy set in the English countryside. Think Everybody's Gone to the Rapture and you are on the right lines. The show is an enigma for me personally. I love science fiction, explosions, epic fight scenes and high drama. However, this show manages to tick precisely none of my normal favourites. After all, whoever thought that a show about metal detector hobbyists in the fictional Essex town of Danebury. However, something really hits home with the show. The quality of writing, the serenity of the show and the plot really make for compelling viewing.
What you got? - Detectorists: Episode 1 Preview - BBC Four
The writing is some of the best quality I have seen from the UK. Acknowledging the difference between telling and showing, Crook has managed to perfectly balance the script and the direction, continually communicating with the viewer with the minimum words possible. What results is a peaceful drama which is rich in story but light in exposition. A glance between characters is enough to tell you what they are feeling in most cases, where in other cases the previously established relationships combined with the accessible storylines allow the viewer to do the leg work. The characters are also well developed, with each one having a rich story and temperament. It is easy in story-driven shows to compensate by making the characters more like caricatures of what they were intended to be. Detectorists does not suffer from this, and instead, uses understatement as a weapon, allowing the viewer to see some very real people, doing real things. Relating characters to people you know is easy, making them feel closer to you.
The comedy is very BBC Four, and anyone expecting 30 minutes of laugh track will be seriously disappointed. The show is real, displaying a mundane hobby, in a sleepy village with some quite outwardly dull characters. The DMDC (Danebury Metal Detecting Club) meetings provide some of the greatest laughs, where the group of detectorists meet to discuss their finds (normally ring pulls and toy cars) and plan the future. However, the height of comedy in this show comes in the interactions between Andy (Mackenzie Crook) and Lance (Toby Jones). The experience of these actors shines through as their sedate conversations about life and the minutiae of metal detecting hold some comedy gems. Some of them take a while to land, which only serves to make them hit harder. A sideways glance, an eye roll or a one word retort can really make a scene. The ability of the writing and the performance to turn some incredibly serious subjects into comedy always impresses me.
A final important mention needs to go out to what is by far one of the most important factors in the show. The setting is absolutely key. This show wouldn't work the same way if it was set in woodland or on a beach. The real world town of Framlingham in Suffolk plays host to Danebury and its surroundings. Danebury is colourful without being too garish, loud with the sounds of nature without being deafening and is genuinely peaceful – a perfect place to exercise your detecting hobby. Seeing the vistas open up at the start of an episode really brings you into the show from the outset, washing away stresses and relaxing you into a pleasant summer's day. The sound of the environment is used to perfect effect, with the beautiful sounds of nature washing over the normal day to day life of the characters. However, when that noise turns to quiet, the silence is deafening, playing just as much of an important role. This is all compounded by a perfectly paced and ideally toned soundtrack.
Detectorists for me is the perfect guilty pleasure. BBC Four does not normally cater for my demographic, but something about this show hits the mark in each and every way. It makes for a perfect 30 minutes of immersion without being too serious. You feel part of their world, concerned with the details of permissions to detect and which type of detector is best. It romanticises detecting so well, I even considered spending out to buy a detector (which would no doubt sit in my shed). With season one available on Netflix now and season two available on the BBC Store, I fully recommend this show to everyone. Now, time to go and dig for gold…
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On 7 June, UNU-IAS and Viet Nam's National University of Civil Engineering co-organized a workshop to disseminate the Water and Urban Initiative (WUI)'s findings in Hanoi. The workshop aimed to: i) share with stakeholders the final simulation results of the project's Hanoi case study and ii) discuss how the city can better address future risks of flood and water quality deterioration, and ultimately contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. The workshop also provided an opportunity to discuss challenges and solutions amongst a wide range of stakeholders to ensure the implementation of WUI's findings in the wastewater and flood management in the city of Hanoi. The workshop brought together practitioners and experts including from the Ministry of Construction (MoC), Department of Science and Technology (DoST), and Viet Nam Water Supply and Sewerage Association (VWSA) as well as from various universities such as Hanoi Architectural University and Hanoi University of Water Resources.
Tran Thao Huong (Head of the Department of Sewerage at MoC) opened the workshop by stressing the significance of addressing urban water management in Hanoi. UNU-IAS researchers have indicated the level of improvement for water quality and flood risk to be expected by 2030 if the city implements their master plan. Moreover, their research findings also suggest priority areas and additional measures to mitigate the impact of flooding and water quality deterioration.
Tran Thanh Son (Dean of the Hanoi Architectural University) raised the issue of financial applicability of measures in the master plan. UNU-IAS Project Director Junko Nishikawa emphasized that WUI is currently developing a tool to calculate the future GHG emissions from the planned sewerage systems and estimate effects of reduction in GHG emissions by implementing low-carbon technologies. This tool could be used to apply for funding through the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) or Green Climate Fund (GCF). WUI also has demonstrated the willingness of Hanoi residents to contribute to the measures (e.g. wastewater treatment plant) to improve water quality.
In the context of climate change, Tran Duc Ha (Director of the Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering) stressed the usefulness of the evidence-based data, particularly important as some aspects of the plans may require adjustments. Towards the end of 2017, all results of the case study and the related tools will be available online.


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Rome is the ideal travel destination for any family, even more so for a family from the same country as the pope, Argentina.
This family of four came to Rome from Buenos Aires to see Pope Francis up-close in the General Audience.
"Being Argentinian is special, because we've seen the pope up close. But the magical thing is the people, how the people love him. It's something so awesome you cannot explain it."
The youngest in the family was so excited about the moment, she said she was speechless upon seeing Pope Francis.
"What did you feel when you saw him?"
"I was so nervous and I was very happy."
The oldest daughter, Delfina, admitted that she refused to take out her cell phone, to truly enjoy the moment.
"There are already many pictures and videos of the pope, so I wanted to live the experience without my cell phone. I did not record him and I enjoyed it more that way".
"I was excited and a little shocked because I never imagined that I could meet the pope. I was also nervous."
Their trip is a total of 25 days. They've already visited relatives in Rome, the snow, several cities in Italy. Then they will travel to Spain where they will visit more relatives. It's a trip full of sights and family reunions.
"The places leave an impact; they are unforgettable. It is something you carry inside and you will never forget. It has a lot of history, it's something unique."
It's a trip full of emotions, new places and familiar moments they will forever remember as the trip "in which they met the pope".


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Oscar Gold 2019 – Original Score
Bill	Oscars	 February 14, 2019 6 Minutes
The Original Song category carries the suggested caveat that the nominated numbers be considered within the contexts of their respective films. The Original Score category, however, outright requires it. Because, you know, that's the point.
One of the cool bits about this category is the way it's evolved over the years. It actually currently sits alongside a seldom used 25th category, for Original Musical. It's one of the weird specificities of the Academy rulebook. Technically, Original Score is only meant for the incidental music cues and orchestral score. Some choral accompaniment is allowed, but this category has nothing to do with individual lyrical songs whatsoever, so an entire soundtrack full of songs performed by the cast wouldn't necessarily even be eligible. That's why a film like A Star is Born isn't nominated in this category.
However, in Original Musical, that's where a film like that would be able to clean up. That is, of course, if A Star is Born would admit it's a musical. The category was officially reinstated in 2000, but it has not yet been presented in its current form, as the Music Branch of the Academy has not determined there to be enough eligible films in a given year. This year might have been the closest we've gotten to it, though, as A Star is Born certainly qualifies, as does one of the nominees in this category. You could probably have thrown in a musical cartoon like Smallfoot as well, just to round things out. I do hope it gets awarded sometime in the future, though, if nothing else than to bridge the gap between honoring one song and an entire orchestral soundtrack.
For those interested, all five nominated scores are available on YouTube. You can find playlists of each one, separated track by track, theme by theme. They're all worth a listen, and if you've seen the associated films, you can place each scene just by listening to the cues, even if you didn't notice them when viewing the actual movies. It's pretty cool.
This year's nominees for Original Score are:
Black Panther – Ludwig Göransson
The incidental score of the year's biggest film is a masterful blend of classical orchestral music and indigenous themes. There's heavy usage of pipes and drums, to go along with sweeping strings and bass. When you watch the film, it keeps a perfect position in the background of all the major affairs, rising only when the occasion calls for it, like seeing modern Wakanda for the first time.
There's also a really cool bit of electronic hip hop infusion when it comes to Michael B. Jordan's excellent Killmonger villain. Like the characters in the classic "Peter and the Wolf," every major player here has his or her own pervading theme, and with Killmonger, it's an aggressive, semi-computerized bass line. Sometimes it can be a little obtrusive, but so too is Killmonger as a character, so it works. Out of context, I wouldn't care for it, as I'm really not a fan of artificial music, especially in an orchestral piece. But in the context of Killmonger, the ultimate disruptive force in Wakanda, it's note perfect. Göransson has already won a Grammy for this soundtrack, and for his collaborative work with Childish Gambino. Suffice to say, the man knows how to work rap beats.
BlacKkKlansman – Terence Blanchard
Blanchard is a living legend in the jazz community. He's the artistic director of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, and he's been performing and composing for almost 40 years, which is about the number of films he's scored. Still, this is somehow his first nomination in this category, despite multiple collaborations with Spike Lee.
His score here represents the polar opposites of the leading characters. For basically everything involving Ron Stallworth, the themes used are a mixture of jazz, funk, and a little bit of stylized disco. For everything involving David Duke and the Klan, you have marching music, representing the rigid, imperialist, and militaristic intentions of "The Organization." It's a wonderful juxtaposition that sets the mood perfectly. And if you've seen the movie (and if you haven't, what the hell?), you can literally place each scene as you listen.
If Beale Street Could Talk – Nicholas Britell
I got to meet Nicholas Britell when I saw this movie back in December. The Landmark Theatre did a post-show Q&A with Britell, the producers, and the two lead actors. Someone in the audience spoke up to him about the way he creatively let the score flow as transitional material between scenes, occasionally resolving into a record playing a classical jazz musician like John Coltrane or Cole Porter. He gushed momentarily, super stoked that someone noticed it.
Independent of the film, the score is a wonderful fusion of jazz, Delta blues, and Gershwin influences, at times feeling like a version of "Rhapsody in Blue" for the black community. There are some heavy strings that sometimes feel modulated and distorted for dramatic effect, but for the most part it works. The important thing is that it all feels very intimate, because the characters in the film are very much in your face, and you have to feel comfortable with that amount of closeness. Britell's score accomplishes that admirably.
Isle of Dogs – Alexandre Desplat
Over the last 15 years, Alexandre Desplat was taken his rightful place among the all-time greats of film composition, alongside legends like John Williams and Howard Shore. It took until his seventh nomination to finally notch his first win in this category, for his masterful work on The Grand Budapest Hotel. He's also the reigning champion, having won last year for The Shape of Water. This is his third collaboration with Wes Anderson, and the two have a wonderful working rapport.
Like Black Panther, the score is a mixture of classical orchestration and native themes, though here the focus is more on Japanese strings and percussion than anything else. It takes a lot of effort to make the hero's journey compelling from a musical standpoint, and Desplat had the additional challenge of making sure not to sound derivative or parodic. Ludwig Göransson has a bit of leeway in this regard because he has bona fides in the rap community. But Desplat has no such built-in connection to Asian music, which is why you hear people screaming about cultural appropriation where none existed. It's not a mark against the soundtrack for me. If anything, my biggest criticism was that the score was too short. I would have loved to hear twice as much music as there actually was. I know that's kind of hard in a 90-minute movie, and you always want to leave your audience wanting more, but in this case, I don't think it'll lead to a repeat victory.
Mary Poppins Returns – Marc Shaiman
Marc Shaiman has carved out a nice little niche scoring films that are, for the most part lighthearted, fun, and crowd-pleasing. Look at his filmography, and you won't see too many indie or prestige films. And yet, this is his sixth nomination in this category. He's made a lot of friends in Hollywood, and I'm sure they'd all love for him to succeed, especially because he's an Oscar shy of the elusive EGOT cycle.
Sadly, though, if he were to win here, I'd be pretty pissed, and it would be a clear gift from his friends than for an actual, merit-based achievement. The score starts out promising enough. It even has an opening Overture, just like the classic film musicals of the 60s. It's like he's trying to, I don't know, mimic them or something? But even in that overture, you see where things are going, as he introduces several themes and stanzas either directly referencing or flat out ripping off the songs from the first Mary Poppins. As the score continues – and again, we're ignoring the lyrical songs here and only counting the underlying orchestration – it's all just a slightly altered clone of the original. The performance is competent. The orchestra itself doesn't suck or anything, but as I've mentioned many a time when it comes to this film, it doesn't have an "original" bone in its body, and the soundtrack is just another indicator.
I think this happened once or twice last year, and now it's happened for the first time in this cycle. See that alphabetical listing of the films as I broke them down? Yeah, that's the list for me.
My Rankings:
2) BlacKkKlansman
3) If Beale Street Could Talk
4) Isle of Dogs
5) Mary Poppins Returns
Next up: The Documentary Branch has already pissed me off once. Will they do it again? I mean, probably. It's Documentary Short!
Join the conversation in the comments below! Which score gets your vote? Did the Golden Globe-winning score for First Man get snubbed? Isn't glockenspiel a fun word to say? Let me know!
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Q: Does "all points rational" imply "constant" for this  "cubic" curve over an arbitrary field? Let $\mathbb{K}$ be an arbitrary field with a subfield $\mathbb{F}$ of index 2. Let $a,b\in\mathbb{K}[X]$ be univariate non-vanishing polynomials over $\mathbb{K}$ of degree $\leq 3$ each. Edit: Due to how this problem arises, one may assume that $a,b$ have no common zeros and at least one has degree exactly 3. However, I am also interested in what happens without this extra assumption, but instead the assumption that $char\mathbb{K}\neq2$. The latter to avoid the counterexamples described in the comments.
Consider the set of points $T:=\{(a(x),b(x)) \mid x\in\mathbb{K}\}$, a subset of $\mathbb{K}^2$.
Prove (or give a counterexample) for the following:

Claim: Assume every point $T$ is projectively equivalent to a point in $\mathbb{F}\times\mathbb{F}$ (i.e. for every $x\in\mathbb{K}$ we have $a(x)=b(x)\cdot f_x$ for some $f_x\in\mathbb{F}$). Then either $\lvert\mathbb{K}\rvert=4$ or 9, or all points in $T$ are projectively equivalent (that is, $T$ is contained in a one-dimensional $\mathbb{K}$-subspace of $\mathbb{K}^2$); put another way, $a/b$ is a constant.

Since we assumed $a,b$ to have no common zeros, we can think of this in terms of projective coordinates. Then the question becomes: If all points on the curve $T$ are $\mathbb{F}$-rational, does this imply that $T$ consists of a single point?
For finite fields, this can be shown using a simple counting argument (had to check the field with 9 elements manually, and found an exception over the field with four elements). It is also not hard to see that the condition of the claim implies that $a,b$ must have coefficients in $\mathbb{F}$.
For $\mathbb{K}=\mathbb{C}$ and $\mathbb{F}=\mathbb{R}$ I have an argument involving the topology and metric of these fields. For the general case, I tried various approaches, and one of them might still work out (but all my ideas seem at some point to end up in heavy, uninsightful and simply ugly computations)...
But I keep wondering if this isn't a problem that somebody with a better background in number theory or algebraic geometry or something like that could quickly solve with "standard" methods.... so before I keep going on with my little knowledge, I though it best to ask here for any pointer or even solutions :).

Lastly, here is one thing I was trying, but couldn't quite complete. It's quite possibly a dead end, so you may not want to get yourself overly distracted by it :): Pick $\alpha\in\mathbb{K}\setminus\mathbb{F}$. For each $t\in\mathbb{K}$, define a polynomial $p_t(x):=a(x+t)b(\alpha+t)-a(\alpha+t) b(x+t)$. They all have $\alpha$ as a zero. And (up to some rescaling), the coefficients of $p_t$ are in $\mathbb{F}$ by hypothesis.
Now if any of the $p_t$ vanishes everywhere, then all do, and $a/b$ is constant. So assume the $p_t$ do not vanish. Then every $p_t$ is divisible by the minimal polynomial of $\alpha$, and so has degree 2 or 3. Indeed, looking at the coefficients, for at most three $t$ can $p_t$ have degree 2, so for almost all it has degree 3, and is divisible by the minimal polynomial of $\alpha$. This sounds quite improbable to me (but that proves nothing, only that I lack imagination ;). So we could now compare several of the $p_t$, and try to derive a contradiction, but this (at least in the naive ways I tried) quickly gets very messy, uninsightful and ugly ;).

A: This isn't an answer but I think it's progress. It started off by thinking of restriction of scalars but I've translated it down to a rather more mundane point of view.
Let me call the fields $K$ and $F$ to save some typing.
Let me first deal with the finite field case. My understanding of the question as it currently stands is that we have a morphism $t:\mathbf{P}^1_K\to\mathbf{P}^1_K$ of degree exactly 3, with the property that the image of $\mathbf{P}^1(K)$ is contained within $\mathbf{P}^1(F)$ and we want to show that $F$ has size 2.
The case $F$ finite is easy to deal with. The pre-image of an $F$-point has size at most 3, so if $q$ is the size of $F$ then $q^2+1\leq 3(q+1)$ and we quickly deduce $q\leq 3$ and we deal with the case $q=3$ by hand.
Now for the case $F$ infinite. My understanding is that we can assume that the characteristic isn't 2. So we can write $K=F(\sqrt{d})$ for some $d\in F$, not a square. Let me now think of $K$ as a 2-dimensional vector space over $F$ with basis $[1,\sqrt{d}]$ and let's translate the question into a messy algebra one.
We see $a(x+y\sqrt{d})=L+M\sqrt{d}$, where $L$ and $M$ are $F$-linear combinations of the six polynomials $x$, $y$ [real and imag parts of $x+y\sqrt{d}$], $x^2+dy^2, 2xy$ [this comes from $(x+y\sqrt{d})^2$ and $x^3+3dxy^2, dy^3+3x^2y$. Similarly $b(x+y\sqrt{d})=N+P\sqrt{d}$.
We are given that for all $x,y\in F$ we have $L(x,y)+M(x,y)\sqrt{d}=f(x,y)(N(x,y)+P(x,y)\sqrt{d})$ with $f(x,y)\in F$ (forget the finitely many points where $f$ has a pole), and we deduce that $L(x,y)P(x,y)=M(x,y)N(x,y)$ for all $x,y\in F$. But $F$ is infinite and this implies that, as polynomials in $x$ and $y$, we have $LP=MN$ identically. This is a piece of information that wasn't clear before.
This means that we can base change our entire situation to the algebraic closure, and replace $F$ with $\overline{F}$ and $K$ with $\overline{F}\oplus\overline{F}$, and (calling these new rings $F$ and $K$) we now have maps $\mathbf{P}^1_K\to\mathbf{P}^1_K$ which are defined over $K$ and such that the image of $\mathbf{P}^1(K)$ is in $\mathbf{P}^1(F)$.
[Note: it's at this point that I'm assuming $K/F$ separable.]. Now I want to say "and now we should be done because of alg geom" but in fact what I mean is "and now someone else will have to take over because I have to clear up the kitchen".

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Q: I've seen increasing references to the Health at Every Size (HAES) approach to treating eating and body-image issues. That's not my clinical specialty, but is this framework relevant to my work?
A: When I look back on my 35 years of practice, I recognize important, overarching paradigm shifts that have changed the way we work with clients. Becoming trauma informed, even if we don't specialize in trauma, and no longer pathologizing people who identify as LGBTQ, are just two examples that come to mind.
Similarly, a paradigm shift around weight and wellness is occurring in our field with the Health at Every Size (HAES) framework. Societal norms regarding weight, health, and eating affect every client we work with, regardless of body size. We're inundated every day with messages from family, friends, colleagues, media, and even doctors and mental health professionals that prioritize weight over well-being; promise health, happiness, and success to those who can conform to a certain ideal; pressure people to pursue thinness and fear fat at all costs; presume that people have control over what they weigh; pose as health promoting, even as they harm; and promote fat shaming and weight stigma. We call these negative messages the six P's of diet culture.
While therapists often support the pursuit of weight loss as an act of self-care, overwhelming evidence indicates that dieting almost always leads to negative physical and emotional consequences. By becoming HAES informed, you can support people of all sizes when it comes to respecting and taking care of their bodies without inadvertently causing harm.
In the early 2000s, many of us who reached the same conclusions about weight and well-being came together to figure out how to combat these societal pressures. We knew that the vast majority of people who diet gain the weight back, and that the human body adapts to these periods of deprivation by raising its set point and becoming heavier over time. We witnessed the universal feelings of shame induced by diet failure and the toll it took on people from all walks of life.
We also observed, or experienced ourselves, that while many people practiced positive self-care related to food and other areas of their lives, they didn't necessarily lose weight. Given the lack of evidence to show that weight loss can be sustained over a two- to five-year period, and research showing that weight cycling actually leads to poorer health outcomes, was it reasonable, fair, or even ethical to demand that people diet to fit society's standards?
At its core, HAES is a weight-inclusive philosophy, which seeks respectful treatment for people of all sizes, offering a path for wellness beyond weight. It focuses on teaching people to eat in accordance with hunger and satiety cues that are in line with the body's natural needs, rather than the rigid prescriptions of a diet. It also encourages physical activity for pleasure and health benefits, rather than the pursuit of weight loss. But beyond individual behaviors, it helps people understand broader social-justice issues related to body size, including weight bias, stigma, bullying, and discrimination.
The biggest concern people express about the HAES movement is that by countering diet culture and weight stigma, we're somehow disregarding people's health. But that's far from true. According to research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, people in the "overweight" category of the Body Mass Index (BMI) have the longest lifespans, and people in the "normal" category have the same mortality rate as those in the lower end of the "obese" category. In fact, people who fall into the "obese" category of BMI and are fit have half the mortality rate of people who are thin and sedentary. Using BMI to assess health status is actually wrong about 50 percent of the time.
It's a myth to interpret HAES as suggesting all higher-weight people can be healthy. Health is a continuum, and people at both higher and lower weights can be healthy and unhealthy. Studies show that behaviors such as maintaining fitness can improve health regardless of whether weight is lost. HAES encourages people to take care of their bodies: if weight changes occur, that's a side effect, but not the goal. The HAES philosophy contends that people of all sizes deserve to pursue—and have equal access to—resources that support their bodies in achieving optimal health as they define it.
Most clinicians would support this philosophy in theory, but when I ask therapists in my trainings to assess their attitudes toward thin and fat, I often find them unaware of the weight biases they carry and how these beliefs affect all types of treatment. At a recent workshop, for instance, Jonathan realized that even though he'd never express his judgments about someone's fatness out loud, he still thinks them—and he wondered if his clients could pick up on that. Eva shared that while she doesn't judge her clients, she's very hard on herself. As she explored countertransference issues, she acknowledged feeling jealous of her thinner clients.
Carla revealed that she works in an eating disorder center where staff frequently describe food as "good" or "bad." She knows this diet mentality is counterproductive to the goals of eating disorder treatment, but as a higher-weight therapist herself, she feels uncomfortable challenging her colleagues, and even eating around them. Naming these beliefs and attitudes, along with the understanding that this is an ongoing learning process, is part of the shift toward becoming a HAES-informed professional.
Anita came to me after terminating with her previous therapist, whom she'd been seeing for help with her anxiety. Over the course of their work, she'd revealed her struggle with overeating and her goal of losing weight. In response, he'd suggested that she cut out high-fat foods, such as butter, and stop bringing them into her home. Fine, Anita thought, I'll do that. But over time, her bingeing increased, her therapist grew disappointed, and she contacted me to figure out what to do next. This is a typical scenario, where therapists, with the best of intentions, reinforce unhelpful beliefs about eating and weight that are woven into diet culture and almost always backfire.
Instead, as a HAES-informed therapist, I helped Anita develop the ability to eat when hungry, tune into what she was hungry for, given a wide variety of foods to choose from, and stop when satisfied. Through mindfulness techniques and building her support network, she learned to manage her anxiety better without reaching for food. She started swimming regularly and wearing clothes that made her feel attractive and comfortable. As she practiced and sustained these positive, healthful behaviors, her weight stabilized. And as we talked about the ways she'd internalized weight stigma, she became increasingly more accepting of her larger body.
The trouble for Anita was that outside of our sessions, she was bombarded with cultural messages indicating her size was a problem. At family dinners, relatives talked about their latest fad diets and urged her to try them. When Anita went out with friends, they bemoaned their own body sizes, even though they were smaller than her. Even Anita's doctor confused her by suggesting it would be a good idea to lose weight, despite her excellent cholesterol, blood-pressure, and blood-sugar readings. Like many clients, she found herself in a bind: to shed pounds, she'd have to under-eat or over-exercise—behaviors she knew were considered unhealthy in eating disordered clients.
Together, Anita and I brainstormed strategies that would help her manage the weight stigma she was encountering. When family and friends started talking diets, she redirected the conversation to topics like travel and work. She also found the courage to give her doctor an article about the HAES approach. Whether it's in our clinical work or personal lives, a HAES lens means that we no longer send messages that weight loss trumps well-being.
In this sense, it's critical to support clients in advocating for themselves so they can meet their needs and live fully in the world. Heidi was a higher-weight woman in recovery from binge eating disorder, whose body size exacerbated her knee problems. From a HAES perspective, I helped her role-play how she'd approach the new orthopedic doctor she'd be visiting the following week.
"You can see I'm fat," she began, "I know my weight may affect my knees, and I know that you see people with knee problems who aren't fat. My weight may not change, so I want to be given the same treatment you'd give them." While the doctor did tell her that some weight loss might help, he didn't demand it, shame her, or withhold treatment. Instead, he offered alternative interventions that helped her walk with much less pain. She was thrilled to be able to follow through with plans to visit her relatives and hike some beautiful nearby trails. She felt so empowered that she signed up for a yoga teacher training and now plans to offer plus-size yoga to give higher-weight people a safe place to practice.
With greater understanding in recent years about different types of privileged statuses and systemic structures that unfairly affect people in marginalized groups, the HAES framework continues to evolve in its efforts to heighten awareness of the role that bias and oppression play in a person's health. Data shows that a person's zip code, for example, is more predictive of their health than BMI.
It may seem counterintuitive, but adults with greater body satisfaction across the weight spectrum report more positive health behaviors and have better health status regardless of BMI. Because the terms overweight (over what weight?) and obesity (which implies sickness) contribute to weight stigma, HAES-informed people use more neutral terms, such as higher weight or large to refer to body size. In fact, the word fat has been reclaimed by many in the size-acceptance movement as a neutral or positive descriptor, similar to how queer is now used as a positive identity within the LGBTQ community.
Paradigm shifts are difficult. They require us to look deeply at our own attitudes, biases, and values—and how they match up with the research and our clients' lived experiences. Of course, we all know someone who lost weight and kept it off, but we need to recognize that this is the exception, rather than the norm. We all have clients who feel it's imperative to lose weight in order to live a good life, and many of us struggle with weight concerns ourselves. There's nothing easy or comfortable about this.
Hopefully, we can all agree that respecting people of all body sizes and ending fat shaming is good for everyone. If clients share that they come from a HAES perspective, we can support them without thinking they're giving up and not taking care of themselves, and without judging character based on body size. Given the massive failure of the traditional weight-focused model, becoming HAES-informed offers a way to avoid being complicit in our clients' experiences of diet failure, shame, and weight stigma.
Judith Matz, LCSW, is coauthor of Beyond a Shadow of a Diet: The Comprehensive Guide to Treating Binge Eating Disorder, Compulsive Eating, and Emotional Overeating and The Diet Survivor's Handbook: 60 Lessons in Eating, Acceptance and Self-Care. She's a speaker and trainer with a private practice in Skokie, IL. Contact: judmatz@gmail.com.
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A very powerful and insightful piece! Matz has a wonderful grasp of the issues. One if my favorites: "Data shows that a person's zip code, for example, is more predictive of their health than BMI." Priceless!


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Absolutely none of these features are available on Jive. This app is useless for helping me do business with my customers. They are trying to build their own app but god knows how long until anything would be available. Jive needs to license a 3rd party app, preferably the old RC app until they get theirs up to some functional usefulness. They won't do anything unless enough people request it so I ask that anybody reading this review request jive find a good 3rd party app until theirs is well developed.
Oh and their fax is weak. they recommend sending no more than 4-5 pages and tell me that faxes could take 5 min to an hour to make it to the client. That is next to useless. Too many customers can be weak on technology, particularly older and only use faxes or have to wait for their kids to get home to help them with email. Contracts and reports are often much more than this, much more. Many government offices won't use email because they can be hacked and require faxes to send them documents.
Jive says I should accept this because it's a free service. They may not have a separate charge for it but they are charging in their other fees. No business does anything at a loss. Again, they should make their fax more robust and efficient or license a 3rd party fax service that can handle the workload.
Another bad thing about their fax, it works via email. It is cumbersome. You have to remember all sorts of information to put into the send to and subject. If your fax needs a cover sheet you still have to attach it. you have to attach these to the email and send the email that is very limited in what it can handle and can take as much as an hour to send to your client or receive. It would be better set up to have a functional desk top app where you click on a fax icon and just fill in a cover sheet, attach whatever you need to attached and send and one that works faster. Failing having it available in the app, at least have this in one of their portals. If you send the email with a message the recipient will never receive it, only the attachments are faxed.
Jive is like so many other tech companies, including RC and Vonage. They make it convenient for them and forget what their customers need. They will consider your ideas and suggestions but only if enough other requests come in. Jive has the telephone basics right and seem like a good company but one that needs a lot of improvement to be truly functional for real business use. They're worth a try but among the first things you should do with them is request the implement 3rd party fax and desktop apps until they get their own up to a level of usability.
On the great side of Jive, their tech support is 24/7/365, lacking in other providers, and their support so far has been great. Their pricing is more reasonable. But how important is the pricing if it's lacking too much in other key areas?
Just to be clear, I will never go back to Ring Central, their service and support are terrible. I'm not a big fan of Vonage either. If Jive can become more functional, initially by deploying 3rd party desktop app and a more robust 3rd party fax service, they have a lot of potential. Everyone I've spoken to there is awesome, particularly in support.
The more people who ask for these improvements, the more likely they are to request them. Ask them to find the Ring Central desktop app that RC no longer uses and if they deploy it, you'll love it. I believe if enough of us ask for it, they'll get it for us.
Oh, and they also force us to use the Google Chrome Browser. I'm a fan of neither Google who saves all our information nor of the Chrome browser. Again, a tech company making things easy for themselves, not caring about what their customers want or need. They should be able to work with all browsers.


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I have been rather shocked recently by the grammatical errors made by some well-known authors. Do they not take any notice of the green wavy line that appears when grammar is suspect?
A well known author, whose book I have recently finished has used 'I' when they should have used 'me'. This author said 'The two parents looked at Daniel and I.' This should have been 'The two parents looked at Daniel and ME.' If we forget Daiel for the moment, I am sure this author would not have written 'The two parents looked at I.', so why does it change because there is another person?
This is a common mistake, I know, but surely an author should know, and if not, then the editors should pick it up. This is merely one mistake. Others are the use of 'who' when it should be 'whom', 'which' instead of 'that' and the use of 'was' instead of 'were' after a conditional or wish. ('I wish I were', not 'I wish I was', 'If he were going' not 'If he was going'.
I know that many people would think I am being rather pedantic, but surely we should expect correct grammar from our authors even if we ourselves are not perfect. In my own writing I try to obey the rules of grammar as I learned them at school, which includes not beginning a sentence with a conjunction. Obviously you can't use a word that joins 2 sentences as the start of one, but that does not stop most authors, even to the extent of beginning paragraphs with them!


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Competition review recommends outlawing jump up clauses
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The Harper Competition Review has recommended making awards and industrial agreements subject to sections 45E and 45EA of the Competition and Consumer Act (CCA).
Section 45E of the CCA prohibits a person (an employer) from making a contract, arrangement or understanding with an organisation of employees that contains a provision restricting the freedom of the employer to supply goods or services to, or acquire goods or services from, another person. Section 45EA prohibits a person from giving effect to such a contract, arrangement or understanding.
The Review found a conflict between the objective of sections 45E and 45EA and the regulation of awards and industrial agreements under the Fair Work Act.
While the ACTU proposed exempting workplace approved under the Fair Work Act from the provisions, employer representatives proposed that sections 45E and 45EA be amended to include awards and industrial agreements.
The Review has recommended that sections 45E and 45EA of the Competition and Consumer Act be amended in line with employer proposals except to the extent they relate to the remuneration, conditions of employment, hours of work or working conditions of employees.
Professionals Australia CEO Chris Walton says that jump up clauses are an important mechanism for securing equivalent pay and conditions for contractors and ensuring their engagement does not undermine the pay, conditions and security of employment of the permanent workforce.
"Outlawing jump up clauses means a business could bring in workers through a labour hire firm to do the same job as an existing worker on lower wages and conditions than had been agreed in an enterprise bargain and would undermine wages and job security. They ensure fairness and a level playing field."
Under the Fair Work Act, clauses which qualify or restrict the employer engaging contractors are not permitted. However terms that require the employer to consult before engaging contractors and that require the employer to afford contractors the same terms and conditions as employees are permitted. In August 2012, a Full Bench of the Federal Court hearing an appeal by the Australian Industry Group in the ADJ Contracting case backed the right of unions to negotiate workplace agreements that afford contractors the same terms and conditions as employees, blocking a third attempt by employers to have the clauses declared unlawful.
Jump up clauses are a critical mechanism for providing equivalent rights and protections for independent contractors and for protecting the integrity and security of employment of the permanent workforce. Jump up clauses in conjunction with strong sham contracting penalties in the Fair Work Act are fundamental to protecting workers from unscrupulous employers who try to avoid their employment obligations. On this basis, Professionals Australia holds the strong view that jump up clauses should continue to be retained as permitted matters and that workplace agreements should be exempted from the provisions of sections 45E and 45EA.
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Families on the frontline of America's greatest public health crisis unexpectedly turning toward hope
NEW YORK, Nov. 9, 2022 – National nonprofit Partnership to End Addiction announces the launch of its new documentary, "Untreated & Unheard: The Addiction Crisis in America," streaming exclusively on Pluto TV, the leading free streaming service. Produced and developed by Paramount's in-house branded content studio, this documentary tells the unheard stories of the addiction crisis in America through the lens of families whose lives have been forever changed by addiction.
"Untreated & Unheard: The Addiction Crisis in America," currently available on-demand on Pluto TV, will have its linear premiere on the Pluto TV Documentaries channel on Wednesday, November 9 at 8pm ET.
"Overdose deaths are at an all-time high. This documentary transports viewers beyond the 'doom and gloom' statistics into the living rooms of individuals and families touched by this disease – families who didn't know where to turn when their loved one was struggling with substance misuse," said Creighton Drury, CEO of Partnership to End Addiction. "Thankfully, this documentary makes it clear that families should never have to navigate addiction alone, in isolation. Partnership to End Addiction exists to fill this gap – to provide answers, direct support and hope for families impacted by this dreadful disease."
The film follows individuals and families impacted by substance use disorder, like Tonia Ahern, a mother from New Jersey, who has worked tirelessly for over a decade to educate, support and empower families, while also advocating for better and more integrated systems of addiction care. As many as 20 million Americans have a substance use disorder and yet only one in 10 are able to access care.
"Addiction is a disease that people rarely talk about openly and honestly. Our culture has made those struggling with substance use disorder and their families feel ashamed and left in the dark," said Ahern, who volunteers as a parent coach at Partnership to End Addiction. "Despite my best efforts, Rory faced barrier after barrier and ultimately lost his life to a substance use disorder when the systems of care failed him repeatedly. I'm honored to be part of this documentary because I believe it will help change the negative narrative and reduce stigma."
The film also features prominent addiction experts, including Nora Volkow, M.D., Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and Fred Muench, Ph.D., President of Partnership to End Addiction. Portions of the film are also available on CBSNews.com. The documentary was made possible through the active participation and leadership of Horizon Media. Bill Koenigsberg, CEO and founder of Horizon Media, serves on the board at Partnership to End Addiction and enabled the production of this compelling documentary.
"So many people, in some way, are affected by drug addiction. Whether individually, a relative, a friend, or a colleague, no one is immune – but everyone can take the necessary action to ensure we begin to address the issues without stigma," said Koenigsberg. "The unfortunate shame associated with drug addiction gave rise to the 'untreated and unheard' title of the documentary. We have a collective responsibility to make sure this story – the often muted stories of those living through addiction and how they are helping their loved ones – is no longer unheard and begins to inspire many more to hope and triumph."
For families with a loved one struggling with a substance use disorder, you can find free tools, help and hope at drugfree.org/get-support/.
About Partnership to End Addiction
Partnership to End Addiction is a national nonprofit uniquely positioned to reach, engage and help families impacted by addiction. With decades of experience in research, direct service, communications and partnership-building, we provide families with personalized support and resources — while mobilizing policymakers, researchers and health care professionals to better address addiction systemically on a national scale. For more information, visit drugfree.org.
About Paramount
Paramount Global (NASDAQ: PARA, PARAA) is a leading global media and entertainment company that creates premium content and experiences for audiences worldwide. Driven by iconic studios, networks and streaming services, Paramount's portfolio of consumer brands includes CBS, Showtime Networks, Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, Paramount+, Pluto TV and Simon & Schuster, among others. Paramount delivers the largest share of the U.S. television audience and boasts one of the industry's most important and extensive libraries of TV and film titles. In addition to offering innovative streaming services and digital video products, the company provides powerful capabilities in production, distribution, and advertising solutions.
About Pluto TV
Pluto TV, a Paramount Company, is the leading free streaming television service delivering hundreds of live linear channels and thousands of titles on-demand to a global audience of 72 million monthly active users. The Emmy® award-winning service curates a diverse lineup of channels, in partnership with over 400 international media companies, offering a wide array of genres, languages and categories featuring movies, television series, sports, news, lifestyle, kids and much more. Pluto TV can be easily accessed and streamed across mobile, web and connected TV devices. Headquartered in Los Angeles, Pluto TV's growing international footprint extends across three continents and over 30 countries and territories.
About Horizon
Horizon Media, Inc, the largest U.S. media agency according to AdAge Data Center 2022, delivers data-driven business outcomes for some of the most innovative and ambitious brands. Founded in 1989, headquartered in New York, and with offices in Los Angeles and Toronto, the company employs 2,400 people and has media investments of more than $9 billion. Horizon Media's fundamental belief is that business is personal, which drives its approach to connecting brands with their customers and engaging with its own employees resulting in industry-leading workplace satisfaction levels (Glassdoor). The company is consistently recognized by independent media outlets for its client excellence and has earned several "Best Workplaces" awards reflecting its commitment to DEI and the life and well-being of everyone at Horizon Media.


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Ten-year-old "Ninja Israel" Fan Diagnosed with Cancer Receives Encouraging Birthday Messages from Show Participants
Participants from the "Ninja Israel" television show are stepping up to provide encouragement to young patients at Ruth Rappaport Children's Hospital, and even sent birthday wishes to a ten-year-old fan who is currently receiving cancer treatment at Rambam Health Care Campus.
Celebrating Itai Zuckerman's birthdat at Rambam. Photography: Rambam HCC
Itai Zuckerman, a ten-year-old from the northern Israeli town of Zichron Yaacov, is a die-hard fan of the "Ninja Israel" television series, Israel's version of "American Ninja Warrior". Until recently, Itai spent most of his time training and trying to meet the challenges offered by the popular program, with the hope that he would someday become a competitor.
Approximately a month-and-a-half ago, during one of his ninja training sessions, Itai was badly injured in a fall. Suspecting a fracture, he was rushed to the nearest HMO, where he was referred to the Cheryl Spencer Pediatric Emergency Department at Rambam Health Care Campus. During standard testing, Itai's doctors noticed something suspicious, which later turned out to be a difficult and unexpected diagnosis – Itai had Ewing's Sarcoma, a type of bone cancer. "The discovery was quite surprising," explains Dr. Mordechai Oz, a senior physician in the Joan & Sanford Weill Division of Pediatric Hematology – Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation in Rambam's Ruth Rappaport Children's Hospital. "Because of the fall, we discovered the cancer and caught it at a relatively early stage."
Since being diagnosed, Itai has been has been in and out of the children's hospital for treatments, tests, and appointments, and the staff has become like an extended family. When Itai celebrated his tenth birthday during another hospitalization recently, the staff decided to surprise him and organized an unusual event: a birthday party with members of his immediate family by his side, relatives on Zoom, and special greetings from some particularly important guests.
Sitting in the Greidinger Hall movie theater in Ruth Rappaport Children's Hospital, a video was displayed on the movie screen in which prominent "Ninja Israel" competitors appeared one after the other, congratulating Itai on his birthday and sending him good wishes.
"Hi Itai Zuckerman, this is Guy Davidov, a Ninja Israel participant," the video opens, followed by encouraging words from Harel Dodson, another competitor. "I want to wish you complete recovery, and hope that you will come through everything feeling strengthened." Other participants joined in and offered the happy youth numerous blessings and best wishes, with some also inviting him to join them for training after his recovery.
Itai could not hide his excitement as he saw the competitors address him personally, sending him encouragement and congratulations. "Thank you for the blessings," he said shyly and kept smiling. "It's very exciting," explained Ronit, Itai's mother, at the event and added, "Thank you to everyone who sent their greetings. We really appreciate it and feel supported. Itai is a boy who is a ninja at heart and is waiting to get on the track. He is excited by every wish and every strong person who offers such good wishes to him, so thank you very, very much."
Behind the project are "Ninja Israel" contestants, Trevor Galor and Yair Schechter, who decided to leverage the challenges of dealing with the ninja track and the values derived from it to strengthen children and teenagers who need it. As such, the connection to the children at Ruth Rappaport Children's Hospital was quick and natural. These days, more children who are being treated at Rambam are expected to receive messages of encouragement from the contestants of "Ninja Israel".
According to Tamar Shochat, the administrator at Ruth Rappaport Children's Hospital, this is an empowering connection that contributes to everyone involved. "We have created a project in which the Ninja participants welcome our children who are struggling with serious and life-threatening chronic diseases. We thought it would be right for these individuals who are engaged in acts of strength, ability, perseverance, and the desire to reach a certain goal, to connect with our children and give them the inspiration and strength to keep going, to provide the support and love they need, and to show our young heroes that it is possible to beat everything."


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Rua das Pedras é um conhecido logradouro de Armação dos Búzios, município do estado do Rio de Janeiro, no Brasil. O calçamento é constituído por pedras no estilo pé-de-moleque, cortadas verticalmente, que lhe dão nome.

A via se destaca pela grande concentração de restaurantes, bares e lojas de luxo por onde circulam muitos turistas, principalmente estrangeiros, durante todo o ano. O movimento se intensifica na alta temporada, sobretudo em feriados como o Carnaval. Na rua se localiza o Clube dos Pescadores de Búzios, inaugurado na década de 1950.

Ligações externas
Rua das Pedras em tempo real no sítio toembuzios.com

Geografia de Armação dos Búzios

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